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Welcome to The Legacy Warriors Podcast! Highlighting and breaking down the two best feeder leagues to the big show, LFA and Cage Warriors. THIS PATREON IS FOR THE FIGHT LINK DATABASE, NOT MY PICKS/BETS/WRITE UPS.

Jeff 'Chalkx' Fox and Daniel 'Gumby' Vreeland are back in your earholes with their Cage Warriors 186 betting guide! England's top MMA promotion, Cage Warriors, sets up shop in London this weekend for a Hardwick-centric fight card. Both Hardwick brothers will defend their titles on Friday, and the rest of the fight card isn't too shabby either. The boys got your picks, plus - listen to find out which fighter called Jeff a "pussy"!  Time Stamps:0:00 - Intro7:52 - Tariq Pell vs Ermil Xhaferi10:41 - Jawany Scott vs Jonny Touma16:44 - Will Currie vs Eli Aronov20:29 - Nik Bagley vs Keweny Lopes25:47 - Harry Hardwick vs Javier Garcia Exclusive SGPN Bonuses And Linkshttp://linktr.ee/sportsgamblingpodcastFollow The Sports Gambling Podcast X/Twitter - https://x.com/GamblingPodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportsgamblingpodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gamblingpodcastFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/sportsgamblingpodcastFollow The Sports Gambling Podcast HostsSean Green - http://www.twitter.com/seantgreenRyan Kramer - http://www.twitter.com/kramercentricGambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER CO, DC, IL, IN, LA, MD, MS, NJ, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) Call 1-800-327-5050 (MA)21+ to wager. Please Gamble Responsibly. Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS, NV), 1-800 BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-270-7117 for confidential help (MI)

Jeff 'Chalkx' Fox and Daniel 'Gumby' Vreeland are back in your earholes with their Cage Warriors 186 betting guide! England's top MMA promotion, Cage Warriors, sets up shop in London this weekend for a Hardwick-centric fight card. Both Hardwick brothers will defend their titles on Friday, and the rest of the fight card isn't too shabby either. The boys got your picks, plus - listen to find out which fighter called Jeff a "pussy"!  Time Stamps:0:00 - Intro7:52 - Tariq Pell vs Ermil Xhaferi10:41 - Jawany Scott vs Jonny Touma16:44 - Will Currie vs Eli Aronov20:29 - Nik Bagley vs Keweny Lopes25:47 - Harry Hardwick vs Javier Garcia Exclusive SGPN Bonuses And Linkshttp://linktr.ee/sportsgamblingpodcastFollow The Sports Gambling Podcast X/Twitter - https://x.com/GamblingPodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportsgamblingpodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gamblingpodcastFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/sportsgamblingpodcastFOLLOW The Hosts On Social MediaJeff Fox - http://www.twitter.com/jefffoxwriterDaniel Vreeland - http://www.twitter.com/gumbyvreelandShow - http://www.twitter.com/sgpnmmaGambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER CO, DC, IL, IN, LA, MD, MS, NJ, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) Call 1-800-327-5050 (MA)21+ to wager. Please Gamble Responsibly. Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS, NV), 1-800 BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-270-7117 for confidential help (MI)

Raja Hadji-Touma, Partner at Corsair Capital and Head of European Buyouts, discusses Corsair's focus on asset-light businesses in financial services, technology, and business services. He explains Corsair's thematic approach to identifying trends and opportunities, emphasizing hands-on value creation, digitization, and scaling businesses through operational and strategic improvements. Insights and Highlights Specialization and Evolution Corsair Capital, originally part of JP Morgan, began as a solution to recapitalize troubled financial institutions after the U.S. Savings and Loan crisis. Over time, the firm shifted focus from capital-intensive businesses to asset-light services and technology within the financial services ecosystem. This evolution allows Corsair to focus on operational efficiency and scalable growth, targeting sectors like insurance distribution, fund administration, and B2B payments. Value Creation and Hands-On Approach Corsair prioritizes active value creation by establishing clear 100-day and long-term strategic plans with management teams. Their approach involves operational improvements, talent development, and technology enhancements. With a focus on institutionalizing businesses, Corsair utilizes operating partners to assess organizational needs, streamline go-to-market strategies, and execute M&A strategies for growth. Market Trends and Opportunities The firm targets fragmented markets, especially within insurance distribution and B2B payments, leveraging consolidation opportunities to scale businesses. Raja highlights the impact of AI and automation as key trends driving efficiency and new investment avenues. Corsair also sees regulatory requirements as growth catalysts, creating demand for compliance-related services and technologies. Sector Focus: Building Platforms in Niche Markets Corsair focuses on mid-sized businesses with EBITDA between $5-20 million, scaling them to $50-70 million through buy-and-build strategies. The firm emphasizes recurring revenue models, high cash flow conversion, and resilience against economic cycles. Their thematic approach allows them to identify promising sectors and proactively source deals, often in bilateral settings. Outlook and Strategic Growth Despite slower deal flow in 2024, Corsair remains optimistic about the next six to nine months as private equity adjusts to market conditions. With strong sector tailwinds, such as digital transformation and regulatory compliance, Corsair continues to back businesses positioned for long-term value creation and consolidation opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Juliette Touma, Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller discuss their new book Daybreak in Gaza with Clint Borgen. Jayyab Abusafia is also coauthor of Daybreak in Gaza but wasn't able to attend this interview. Book Description:"This was Gaza. A place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now pulverised and devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught. Today, as its heritage is being destroyed, Gaza's survivors preserve their culture through literature, music, stories and memories. Daybreak in Gaza is a record of that heritage, revealing an extraordinary place and people. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers across the generations offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza's cultural landscape and the breadth of its history. This remarkable book humanises the people dismissed as mere statistics and portrays lives full of joy and meaning. Daybreak in Gaza stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction, and as a testament to the people of Gaza."Purchase Daybreak in GazaEmail Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

durée : 00:58:44 - Le Cours de l'histoire - par : Xavier Mauduit, Maïwenn Guiziou - Le 24 novembre 1974, une partie du squelette fossilisé de "Lucy", une australopithèque vieille de 3,2 millions d'années, est mis au jour en Éthiopie. Des paléoanthropologues se penchent sur cette découverte pour raconter quand et comment la bipédie est apparue dans la lignée humaine. - réalisation : Thomas Beau, Cassandre Puel - invités : Gilles Berillon Archéo-préhistorien et paléoanthropologue, directeur de recherches au CNRS au sein du laboratoire Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique; Sandrine Prat Paléoanthropologue, directrice de recherche au CNRS et au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Send us a textOn Inside Geneva this week we talk to the people behind a new book about life in Gaza, told through the words of those who live there. “People are actually travelling in the middle of a war, in the middle of Gaza at midnight – the peak of the risk, if you like – to get somewhere where they can get a better internet so they can actually talk to us,” says Mahmoud Muna, editor of Daybreak in Gaza. This book, edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia, is about history, culture, food, music and life. “It's not a football game. This is about our humanity and it's about being able to sympathise with people wherever they are. This is not about taking sides. It's about whether we're human or not,” says Touma. “This book does not give voice to the voiceless. The people of Gaza, like people everywhere, have voices. The point of this book is not to give a voice; the point of this book is to amplify the voices of the people who are not being listened to,” continues Teller. In this episode, we also ask why human rights groups are uneasy about the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan. “Dozens have been arrested in the months leading up to COP29, including 16 journalists, other society activists, and NGO leaders. There is still time for Azerbaijan to set the record straight, and they should release them. The UN should engage with Azerbaijan to ensure that it does so,” says Giorgi Gogia from Human Rights Watch. Tales from life in Gaza, climate change, and human rights. Catch this and more in the latest episode of our Inside Geneva podcast.Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/Host: Imogen FoulkesProduction assitant: Claire-Marie GermainDistribution: Sara PasinoMarketing: Xin Zhang

En dehors de la Kédoucha (sainteté), il y a d'autres énergies et éléments de vie qui existent et se regroupent sous le nom de Klippa (écorce). Certaines proviennent de la Touma (impureté) et se nomment les Chaloch Klippot Hatméot. Et d'autres font partie de la catégorie "Permis" sans être Kadoch pour autant : la Klippat Noga.

This Monday Lisa Dettmer  we will look at the security of our election system with our guests Emily Levy and Marilyn Marks who are working to make our election system more transparent and secure.  While happily the polls show support for Harris as  stronger than Biden's were and gaining on Trump  in swing  states there are still ways the Republicans are  working hard to manipulate  this election.  MSNBC has recognized that the Republican's are planning election manipulation especially in swing states and has been covering problems with concerns about potential certification delays  a lot recently, but around the country election systems that are not verifiable and transparent are in jeopardy of being hacked or subverted and this is especially true  in In Georgia which is an essential swing state , and where the ‘Biggest Election Breach' in History Has Gone Uninvestigated. Recently the non profit non partisan paper NOTUS covered this breach writing “It's been more than three years since a team of Republican officials engaged in a covert operation to illegally access a rural Georgia county's electronic elections system and appear to have made off with sensitive computer information — after briefing Donald Trump on aspects of that plan in the White House .Yet no one — not the feds, not state elections officials, not even local law enforcement — has ascertained exactly what happened in Coffee County, Georgia, a rural patch of the politically deep red American South.”  And this is only the tip of the ice berg of election fraud possibilities in Georgia and many other states including California that don't have a way to verify votes or have enough poll workers to make sure the system works fairly”. .  So today we talk to two women who are working on voter transparency.     Emily Levy is the Executive Director of Scrutineers.org, a progressive, nonpartisan online community dedicated to fair, transparent, accessible, and secure elections.  An activist for over 50 years, Emily has been a leader in the election transparency movement dating to 2004 and specializes in helping members of the public understand election technology and security issues and to become active in the movement And Marilyn Marks is the Executive Director of Coalition for Good Governance, a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to transparent government and evidence-based elections. Marilyn is the driving force behind the much-watched Curling v. Kemp lawsuit against Georgia's election officials to rid the state of unverifiable, touch screen electronic equipment. And You can get more information from Marilyn Marks about her work in Georgia around election transparency at Marilyn@uscgg.org and for the group go to https://coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/  If you want to weigh in with Georgia's State Election Board to encourage a transparent verifiable election in Georgia, let Marilyn know and she will send you some recommended messages. You can hear the show live at 94.1FM or at www.kpfa.org where the show is streaming and will be available afterward to stream and download at Women's Magazine's archives at kpfa.org    And  we will  talk to  Aida Touma-Sliman who  is a Feminist Activist, Israeli Palestinian Politician and Palestinian Citizen of Israel  Touma-Sliman is a member of the Israeli Knesset representing Hadash which is the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), and an Arab-Jewish party. She was first elected in 2015 and served as the first Arab chair of the Knesset statutory Committee for the Status of Women and Gender Equality till 2022. MK Touma-Sliman was the first woman to serve in the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and is Co-founder of the  International Women Commission for Just Palestinian-Israeli Peace. She is also a secretary member of the World Peace Council. Aida  was suspended from the Knesset last year  for criticizing the Israeli military assault on Gaza.  Despite endless attacks by the mainstream Jewish media and right wing politicians in Israel Touma-Sliman recently initiated in the Knesset  a special session   titled “Recognition of a Palestinian State – Why Now? In order to begin discussion of a two state solution for Palestinians for which she and her supporters were verbally attacked by right wing Knesset members. But still she keeps on fighting for peace for Palestinians. The post Aida Touma-Sliman on Palestine and Gaza and Emily Levy and Marilyn Marks on Election Transparency appeared first on KPFA.

Tea friends, welcome back to Teatime with Jesse! On this episode, we have Nick Touma ( @nicktguy ) that guy on Youtube that makes candy art. If you ever wondered what it takes to get to over 1 million subscribers on Youtube, well, for this guy it was lots of trial and error, plus over 70lbs of candy! We talk about what it takes to be a content creator, getting started, understanding your audience, and walking a mile in candy shoes. Content creating is really a whole journey. Anyway, of course we have some tea! Try Three Treasures Chen Pi (Mandarin Peel) White Tea: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/three-treasures-chen-pi-mandarin-peel-white-tea Pre-order our Oolong Sampler Box: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/jesse-in-taiwan-mystery-tea-drop Join Jesse's Tea Club: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/jesses-tea-club-subscription-service 4:00 Big puff (Tea pet) 6:07 NickTGuy's Youtube Journey 7:27 Growing up and changing interests 08:26 Setting intentions with Youtube 9:38 TikTok vs. Youtube 10:58 TikTok as a slot machine 11:53 The start of NickTGuy candy art 13:23 The journey of the tea flavor 11:26 The Starburst ball 14:08 “That thing took over my life forsure” 13:14 Steeps and tea journey 15:29 Phone addiction 21:48 Context and content, 23:34 Shift in content 29:48 Can't pour from empty cup 35:06 Sister Ai's red tea cake 44:00 Starting out as a content creator 44:30 The hidden cost of time investment 48:32 The barrier of entry to create 50:24 Creativity is sharing your perspective 53:13 Be yourself 55:00 The channel is the movie 55:16 Series content 55:35 Using charmander to defrost someone 57:28 Art's value is deemed by the limitations 59:44 Bringing people into your world 1:01:39 What's art vs. commodity? 1:05:43 If you wanted to you would 1:07:29 The moment you sell too hard, you lose the audience 1:08:21 Taking a break from content 1:09:25 Output vs. quality 1:13:03 Lightning round 1:13:24 Passion and work 1:13:42 Stop caring about other people's opinions 1:14:04 Dream project made of candy 1:14:52 What's it like meeting Mr. Beast 1:17:43 Anything for the shot #contentcreation #youtubejourney #jessesteahouse #teatimewithjesse #looseleaftea #gongfucha #kungfutea #chinesetea #chineseteaculture

Thousands of families in Gaza were once again on the move on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders in Khan Younis.The UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA continues to assist people across the embattled enclave where “no place is safe” after 10 months of war, according to Communications Director Juliette Touma.She spoke to UN News's Abdelmonem Makki about UNRWA's work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported a shocking rise in the number of youngsters killed since October.Ms. Touma began by speaking about how a UN convoy was hit by heavy shooting while heading to Gaza City on Sunday. 

Ito-koku and Na-koku were the next two countries on the path of the Wei envoys noted in the Gishiwajinden.  They likely refer to the areas known today as Itoshima and Fukuoka, so what do we know about these places in the Yayoi period, and how is it that by the 3rd century Yamato seemed to have taken the foremost position on the archipelago and not one of these other countries, where wet paddy rice agriculture and other continental technologies first arrived in the archipelago. For more see our podcast blog post at: https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/itoandna Rough Transcript Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua, and this is Gishiwajinden Part Five: Ito-koku and Na-koku This episode we are finishing up our Gishiwajinden Tour, focusing on our journey to Ito-koku and Na-koku, or modern day Itoshima and Fukuoka. We'll talk about what we know from the records of these two areas in the Yayoi and early Kofun periods, and then look at some of the later history, with the development of the Dazaifu, the build up of Hakata and Fukuoka, and more.  A key thread through all of this will be our discussion about why it was Yamato, and not these early states, who eventually became paramount.  If this is where things like wet paddy rice agriculture started, and they had such close ties to the continent, including sending a mission to the Han dynasty, why did the political center shift over to Yamato, instead?  It is certainly something to wonder about, and without anything written down by the elites of Na and Ito we can only really guess based on what we see in the histories and the archaeological record. We ended our tour in Na for a reason: while the Gishiwajinden—the Japanese section of the Wei Chronicles—describes the trip from the continent all the way to Yamatai, the locations beyond Na are largely conjecture.  Did ancient travelers continue from Na along the Japan Sea coast up to Izumo and then travel down somewhere between Izumo and Tsuruga to the Nara Basin?  Or did they travel the Inland Sea Route, with its calmer waters but greater susceptibility to pirates that could hide amongst the various islands and coves?  Or was Yamatai on the island of Kyushu, and perhaps the name just happens to sound similar to the Yamato of Nara?  Unfortunately, the Wei Chronicles have more than a few problems with accuracy, including problems with directions, meaning that at most we have some confidence in the locations out to “Na”, but beyond that it gets more complicated.  And even “Na” has some questions, but we'll get to that later. Unlike the other points on our journey, we didn't stay overnight at “Ito-koku”, , and we only briefly stayed at Na—modern Fukuoka, but I'll still try to give an account of what was going on in both places, and drawing on some past visits to the area to fill in the gaps for you.   Both the Na and Ito sites are believed to be in the modern Fukuoka prefecture, in Itoshima and Fukuoka cities.  Fukuoka prefecture itself actually spans all the way up to the Shimonoseki straits and includes the old territory of Tsukushi—Chikuzen and Chikugo—as well as the westernmost part of Buzen, the “closer” part of the old land of “Toyo” on the Seto Inland Sea side of Kyushu.  When it comes to locating the country of Ito-koku, we have lots of clues from current place names.  The modern Itoshima peninsula, which, in old records, was known as the country of Ito, and was later divided into the districts of Ito and Shima.  Shima district, at the end of the peninsula, may have once been an island—or nearly so.  It is thought that there was a waterway between the two areas, stretching from Funakoshi bay in the south to Imazu Bay, in the north, in Fukuoka proper.  Over time this area was filled in with deposits from the local rivers, making it perfect for the Yayoi style wet rice paddy agriculture that was the hallmark of the growth in that period.  And indeed there are certainly plenty of Yayoi and Kofun era ruins in the area, especially in eastern reaches of the modern city of Itoshima, which reside in the valley that backs up to Mt. Raizan.  There you can find the Ito-koku History Museum, which tells much of the story of Ito. The Weizhi, or the Wei Chronicles, note that Ito-koku had roughly a thousand households, with various officials under their own Queen, making it one of the few Wa countries that the Chroniclers specifically noted as being a “kingdom”, though still under the nominal hegemony of the queen of Yamatai or Yamateg.  If you continue eastward along the coast from Itoshima, you next hit Nishi-ku, the Western Ward, of modern Fukuoka city, which now continues to sprawl around Hakata Bay.  Nishi-ku itself used to also be known as “Ito”, though spelled slightly differently, and you can still find Ito Shrine in the area. So was this part of Ito-koku also? It's very possible.   Na-koku, or the country of Na, was probably on the eastern edge of modern Fukuoka, perhaps around the area known as Hakata down to modern Kasuga.  Much like in Karatsu, this area features some of the earliest rice fields ever found in Japan – in this case, in the Itazuke neighborhood, just south of Fukuoka airport.  The land here is mostly flat, alluvial plains, formed by the rivers that empty out into Hakata Bay, another great area for early rice agriculture. Locating the country of Na is interesting for several reasons.  For one, unlike all of the other Wei Chronicles sites we've mentioned, there is no clear surviving placename that obviously matches up between “Na” and the local area.  It is a short enough name that it may simply be difficult to distinguish which “Na” is meant, though there is a “Naka” district in Kasuga that may show some promise.  There certainly is evidence for a sizeable settlement, but that's much more tenuous than the placenames for other areas, which remained largely in use in some form up to the modern day, it would seem. The name “Na” shows up in more than just the Weizhi, and it is also mentiond in the Houhan-shu, or the Record of the Later Han, a work compiled later than the Weizhi, but using older records from the Late Han dynasty period.  There it is asserted that the country of Na was one of the 99 some-odd countries of Wa, and they sent an embassy to the Later Han court, where they received a gold seal made out to the “King of Na of Wa”.  We talked about this in Episode 10: The Islands of the Immortals: That seal, made of gold, was seemingly found in the Edo period—1784, to be precise.  A farmer claimed to have found it on Shika island, in Hakata Bay, which is quite prominent, and connected to the mainland with a periodically-submerged causeway.  The description of the find—in a box made up of stones, with a large stone on top that required at least two men to move it—seems like it could have been an old burial of some kind.  The island certainly makes sense as an elite burial site, overlooking Hakata Bay, which was likely an important feature of the lifeways of the community.  While there have been questions about the authenticity of the seal, if it is a forgery, it is quite well done.  It looks similar to other Han era seals, and we don't really have a way to date the gold it is made of.  Without the actual context we can't be quite sure. This certainly seems like pretty strong evidence of the country of Na in this area, somewhere – probably not on the island itself, then close by.So unless something else comes along, I think we can say that this is at least the vicinity of the old country of Na.  Okay, so now that we've talked in general about where these two places were, let's go back and look at them in more detail. The Ito-koku site is just up the coast from where we stayed for Matsuro-koku, in Karatsu, which all makes sense from the position of the Chronicles in that it says the early envoys traveled overland from one place to the other.  Of course it also says they traveled southeast, which is not correct as the route is actually northeast.  However, they had traveled southeast from the Korean peninsula to Tsushima and then Iki and Matsuro, so that direction was well established, and this is an easy enough error that could have been made by the actual envoys or by later scribes, as it would be a one character difference. For Ito-koku, as with Matsuro-koku, we have no large, reconstructed sites similar to Harunotsuji on Iki or Yoshinogari, further inland in Saga prefecture, where we have an entire, large, so-called “kingly” settlement.  There is evidence of settlements, though, both near the major burial sites as well as around the peninsula.  And as for those burial sites, well, Ito has a few, and they aren't merely important because of their size.  Size is often an indication of the amount of labor that a leader must have been able to mobilize, and so it can be used to get a general sense of the power that a given leader or system was able to wield, as they could presumably turn that labor to other users as well. However, it is also important to look at other factors, like burial goods. What kind of elite material was the community giving up and placing with the deceased? That is the case with the first site we'll discuss, the Hirabaru burial mound.  At first glance it isn't much—a relatively unassuming square mound, about 12 by 14 meters, and less than 2 meters in height.  It was discovered in 1965 by a farmer who started digging a trench to plant an orchard and started pulling up broken pieces of a bronze mirror, one of the first clues that this was someone important.  They later found various post holes around the site, suggesting that it was more than just an earthen mound, and as they excavated the site they found pottery, beads, mirrors, and more. Let's start with those post-holes.  It looks like there was at least one large pillar set up due east of the burial.  We don't know how tall it was, but it was likely of some height given the size of the pillar hole—I've seen some estimates that it could have been up to 70 meters tall.  A tall pole would have provided visibility, and it may also be significant that it was east, in the direction of the rising sun.  We know that the ancient Wa had a particular connection with the sun, and this may be further evidence of that.  There are other holes that may be a gate, and possible a storehouse nearby, presumably for various ritual items, etc.  Suddenly, even without knowing exactly what was there, we start to see a picture of a large, manmade complex that seems to be centered on this burial and whomever is there. On top of that, there was a mirror in the tomb that was larger than any other ever found in Japan at that time—certainly the largest round mirror of that period.  It is not one of the triangular rimmed mirrors that Yamato is known for, but may have been part of another large cache brought over from the mainland.  About 40 mirrors in total, many of them very large, were found buried in the tomb, some of which appear to have been broken for some reason.  Furthermore, the large mirrors appear to fit within the dimensions given the Great Mirror—the Yata no kagami—housed at the sacred Ise Shrine.  There is a document in 804, the “Koutai Jingu Gishiki Chou”, detailing the rituals of Ise shrine, which describes the sacred mirror sitting in a box with an inner diameter of 1 shaku, 6 sun, and 3 bu, or approximately 49.4 centimeters, at least using modern conversions.  The same measurements are given in the 10th century Engi Shiki.  So we can assume that the mirror in Ise, which nobody is allowed to actually see, let alone measure, is smaller than that, but not by much, as the box would have been made to fit the mirror, specifically.  It isn't like you can just grab a box from Mirror Depot.  The mirrors found at Hirabaru Mound measure 46.5 centimeters, and have a floral pattern with an eight petaled flower on the back.  Could this mirror be from the same mold or the same cache, at least, as the sacred mirror at Ise?  At the very least, they would seem to be of comparable value.   In addition, there were many beads, jars, etc.  Noticeably absent from the burial were swords and weapons.  Based on this, some have argued that this was the burial of a queen of Ito-koku.  There is evidence that this may be the case, but I don't think the presence of weapons, or the lack thereof, is necessarily a good indicator. After all, we see in the old stories that women were also found wielding swords and leading troops into battle. So it's dangerous to make assumptions about gender based on this aspect alone. I wonder if the Hirabaru tomb assemblage might have more to do with something else we see in Yamato and which was likely applicable elsewhere in the archipelago: a system of co-rulership, where one role might have to do more with administrative and/or ritual practice, regardless of gender. This burial assemblage or mirrors and other non-weapons might reflect this kind of position. The Weizhi often mentions “secondary” or “assistant” positions, which may have truly been subordinate to a primary ruler, or could have just been misunderstood by the Wei envoys, who saw everything through their particular cultural stratification.  In a similar fashion, early European explorers would often name people “king”—from the daimyo of Sengoku era Japan to Wahunsenacawh, known popularly as “Powhatan” for the name of his people, on what would become known as North America.  That isn't to say that these weren't powerful individuals, but the term “king” comes with a lot of Eurocentric assumptions and ideas about power, stratification, etc.  Is there any reason to believe that the Wei envoys and later chroniclers were necessarily better at describing other cultures? And of course we don't have any physical remains of the actual individual buried there, either. However, there is a good reason to suggest that this may have been a female ruler, and that *is* because of something in the Weizhi, which specifically says that the people of Ito lived under the rule of a female king, aka a queen, using a description not unlike what is used for Queen Himiko.  In fact, Ito gets some special treatment in the record, even though it isn't the largest of the countries.  Let's look at those numbers first: Tsushima is said to have 1,000 households, while Iki is more like 3,000.  Matsuro is then counted at 4,000 families, but Ito is only said to have 1,000, similar to Tsushima.  Just over the mountains and along the Bay, the country of Na is then counted at a whopping 20,000 households, so 20 times as many.  These numbers are probably not entirely accurate, but do give an impression of scale, at least. But what distinguishes Ito-koku in this is that we are told that it had a special place for envoys from the Korean peninsula to rest when they came.  It makes you wonder about this little place called Ito. Hirabaru is not the only kingly tomb in the area.  Walk about 20 to 30 minutes further into the valley, and you might just find a couple of other burials—in particular Mikumo-Minami Shouji, discovered in 1822, and Iwara-Yarimizo, which includes artifacts discovered in the 1780s in the area between Mikumo and Iwara as they were digging a trench.  Based on evidence and descriptions, we know that they pulled out more bronze mirrors and other elite goods indicative of the late Yayoi paramounts. In these areas they have also found a number of post holes suggesting other buildings—enough to perhaps have a relatively large settlement. As noted earlier, we do not have a reconstructed village like in Harunotsuji or Yoshinogari, given that these are private fields, so the shape of the ancient landscape isn't as immediately impressive to people looking at the area, today.  The apparent dwellings are largely found in the triangle created between two rivers, which would have been the water source for local rice paddies.  The tombs and burials are found mostly on the outskirts, with the exception of the kingly burial of Mikumo-Minami Shouji.  This is also interesting when you consider that the later Hirabaru mound was situated some distance away, raising a bunch of questions that we frankly do not have answers for. The area of these ruins is not small.  It covers roughly 40.5 hectares, one of the largest Yayoi settlements so far discovered.  Of course, traces of other large settlements—like something in the Fukuoka area or back in Yamato—may have been destroyed by later construction, particularly in heavily developed areas.  This is interesting, though, when you consider that the Weizhi only claimed some 1,000 households. There are also other graves, such as various dolmens, across Ito and Shima, similar to those found on the peninsula, and plenty of other burials across both ancient districts.  And as the Yayoi culture shifted, influence of Yamato can be seen.  While Ito-koku clearly had their own burial practices, which were similar to, but not exactly like, those in the rest of the archipelago, we can see them start to adopt the keyhole style tomb mounds popular in Yamato. During the kofun period, the area of Itoshima built at least 60 identified keyhole shaped tombs, with a remarkable number of them from the early kofun period.  Among these is Ikisan-Choushizuka Kofun, a large, round keyhole tomb mound with a vertical stone pit burial, estimated to have been built in the latter half of the 4th century.  At 103 meters in length, it is the largest round keyhole tomb on the Genkai coast—that is to say the northwest coast of Kyushu. All of these very Yamato-style tombs would appear to indicate a particular connection between Ito and  Yamato—though what, exactly, that looked like is still up for debate.  According to the various early Chronicles, of course, this would be explained because, from an early period, Yamato is said to have expanded their state to Kyushu and then even on to the Korean peninsula.  In particular, the Chronicles talk about “Tsukushi”, which is both used as shorthand for the entirety of Kyushu, while also indicating the area largely encompassing modern Fukuoka prefecture.  On the other hand, this may have been a sign of Ito demonstrating its own independence and its own prestige by emulating Yamato and showing that they, too, could build these large keyhole tombs.  After all, the round keyhole shape is generally thought to have been reserved, in Yamato, for members of the royal family, and Ito-koku may have been using it similarly for their own royal leaders.  It may even be something in between—Ito-koku may have recognized Yamato's influence and leadership, but more in the breach than in actuality.  Afterall, until the standup of things like the various Miyake and the Dazai, we aren't aware of a direct outpost of the Yamato government on Kyushu.  The Miyake, you may recall, were the ”royal granaries”, which were basically administrative regions overseeing rice land that was directly controlled by Yamato, while the Dazai was the Yamato government outpost in Kyushu for handling continental affairs.  On top of a lack of local control in the early Kofun, the Weizhi appears to suggest that the Yamato paramount, Himiko, was the “Queen of the Wa” only through the consensus of other polities, but clearly there were other countries in the archipelago that did not subscribe to her blog, as it were, as they were in open conflict with Yamato.  This all leads into something we've talked about in the main podcast at various times, but it still bears discussing:  How did Yamato, over in the Nara Basin, become the center of political life in the Japanese archipelago, and why not somewhere in Kyushu, like ancient Na or Ito?  While we don't entirely know, it is worth examining what we do and some of the factors that may have been in play.  After all, Kyushu was the closest point of the main Japanese islands to the mainland, and we see that the Yayoi culture gets its start there.  From there, Yayoi culture spread to the east, and if we were to apply similar assumptions as we do on the spread of the keyhole shaped kofun, we would assume that the culture-givers in the west would have held some level of prestige as groups came to them to learn about this new technology, so why wasn't the capital somewhere in Kyushu?  We likewise see other such things—Yayoi pottery styles, fired in kilns, rather than open fired pottery; or even bronze items brought over from the continent.  In almost every instance, we see it first in Kyushu, and then it diffuses eastward up to the edge of Tohoku.  This pattern seems to hold early on, and it makes sense, as most of this was coming over from the continent. Let's not forget, though, that the Yayoi period wasn't simply a century: by our most conservative estimates it was approximately 600 years—for reference, that would be roughly equivalent to the period from the Mongol invasions up to the end of the Edo period, and twice as long as the period from Mimaki Iribiko to the Naka-no-Oe in 645, assuming that Mimaki Iribiko was ruling in the 3rd century.  So think about all that has happened in that time period, mostly focused on a single polity, and then double it.  More recent data suggests that the Yayoi period may have been more like an 1100 to 1300 year range, from the earliest start of rice cultivation.  That's a long time, and enough time for things in the archipelago to settle and for new patterns of influence to form.  And while Kyushu may have been the first region to acquire the new rice growing technology, it was other areas around the archipelago that would begin to truly capitalize on it. We are told that by the time the Wei envoys arrived that the state of Yamato, which we have no reason not to believe was in the Nara Basin, with a focus on the area of modern Sakurai, had approximately 70,000 households.  That is huge.  It was larger than Na, Ito, and Matsuro, combined, and only rivaled in the Weizhi by Touma-koku, which likely referred to either the area of Izumo, on the Japan Sea coast, or to the area of Kibi, along the Seto Inland Sea, both of which we know were also large polities with significant impact in the chronicles.  And here there is something to consider about the Yayoi style agriculture—the land determined the ultimate yield.  Areas with more hills and mountains are not as suited to wet rice paddy agriculture.  Meanwhile, a flat basin, like that in Yamato, which also has numerous rivers and streams draining from the surrounding mountains into the basin and then out again, provided the possibility for a tremendous population, though no doubt it took time to build. During that time, we definitely see evidence of the power and influence of places like Na and Ito.  Na sent an embassy to the Han court—an incredible journey, and an indication of not only their interest in the Han court and continental trade, but also their ability to gather the resources necessary for such a journey, which likely required some amount of assistance from other, nearby polities.  Na must have had some sway back then, we would assume. Meanwhile, the burial at Ito shows that they were also quite wealthy, with clear ties to the continent given their access to large bronze mirrors.  In the absence of other data, the number and size of bronze mirrors, or similar bronze items, likely only useful for ritual purposes, indicates wealth and status, and they had some of the largest mirrors as well as the largest collection found for that period.  Even into the stories in the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki we see how mirrors, swords, and jewels all are used a symbols of kingship.  Elite status was apparently tied to material items, specifically to elite trade goods.  Assuming Yamato was able to grow its population as much as is indicated in the Weizhi, then by the 3rd century, they likely had the resources to really impress other groups.  Besides things like mirrors, we can probably assume that acquisition of other goods was likewise important.  Both Ito and Yamato show evidence of pottery shards from across the archipelago, indicating extensive trade networks.  But without any other differentiating factors, it is likely that Yamato, by the 3rd century, at least, was a real powerhouse.  They had a greater production capacity than the other states listed in the Weizhi, going just off of the recorded human capital. And this may answer a question that has been nagging me for some time, and perhaps others:  Why did other states acquiesce to Yamato rule?  And the answer I keep coming back to is that it was probably a combination of wealth, power, prestige, ritual, and time. For one thing, wealth: Yamato had it.  That meant they could also give it.  So, if Yamato was your friend, you got the goods, and you had access to what you need.  You supported them, they could help you with what you needed.  These transactional alliances are not at all uncommon, and something I think most of us can understand. There is also power—specifically military power.  With so many people, Yamato would likely have been a formidable threat should they decide that violence was the answer.  That said, while we read of military campaigns, and no doubt they did go out and fight and raid with the best of them, it's expensive to do so.  Especially exerting control over areas too far out would have been problematic, especially before writing AND horses.  That would be costly, and a drain on Yamato's coffers.  So while I do suspect that various military expeditions took place, it seems unlikely that Yamato merely bested everyone in combat.  Military success only takes you so far without constant maintenance. And so here is where I think prestige and ritual come into play.  We've talked about how Yamato did not exactly “rule” the archipelago—their direct influence was likely confined to the Kinki region for the longest period of time.  And yet we see that they influenced people out on the fringes of the Wa cultural sphere: when they started building large, keyhole shaped kofun for their leaders, and burying elites only one to a giant mound, the other areas of Japan appear to have joined in.  Perhaps Yamato was not the first to build a kofun for a single person, but they certainly were known for the particular shape that was then copied by so many others.  But why? We don't know for certain, but remember that in Yamato—and likely the rest of the Wa cultural sphere—a large part of governance was focused on ritual.  The natural and what we would consider the supernatural—the visible and invisible—worked hand in hand.  To have a good harvest, it required that workers plant, water, harvest, etc. in the right seasons and in the right way.  Likewise, it was considered equally important to have someone to intercede with the kami—to ensure that the rains come at the right time, but not too much, and a host of other natural disasters that could affect the crop. And if you want to evaluate how well ritual works, well, look at them.   Are you going to trust the rituals of someone whose crops always fail and who barely has a single bronze mirror?  Or are you going to trust the rituals of someone with a thriving population, multiple mirrors, and more?  Today, we might refer to this as something like the prosperity gospel, where wealth, good health, and fortune are all seen as stemming from how well one practices their faith, and who's to say that back in the day it wasn't the same?  Humans are going to human, after all. So it makes sense that one would give some deference to a powerhouse like Yamato and even invite their ritualists to come and help teach you how it is done.  After all, the local elites were still the ones calling the shots.  Nothing had really changed. And here is where time comes in.  Because over time what started as an alliance of convenience became entrenched in tradition.  Yamato's status as primus inter pares, or first among equals, became simply one of primus.  It became part of the unspoken social contract.  Yamato couldn't push too hard on this relationship, at least not all at once, but over time they could and did demand more and more from other states. I suspect, from the way the Weizhi reads, that Yamato was in the early stages of this state development.  The Weizhi makes Queen Himiko feel like something of a consensus candidate—after much bickering, and outright fighting, she was generally accepted as the nominal paramount.  There is mention of a male ruler, previously, but we don't know if they were a ruler in Yamato, or somewhere else, nor if it was a local elite or an earlier paramount.  But not everyone in the archipelago was on board—Yamato did have rivals, somewhere to the south (or north?); the directions in the Weizhi are definitely problematic, and it may refer to someone like the Kuma or Kumaso people in southern Kyushu or else people that would become known as the Emishi further to the east of Yamato. This lasted as long as Yamato was able to continue to demonstrate why they were at the top of this structure.  Theoretically, anyone else could climb up there as well, and there are certainly a few other powerful states that we can identify, some by their mention and some by their almost lack of mention.  Izumo and Kibi come to mind almost immediately. The Weizhi makes it clear that Himiko's rule was not absolute, and part of her reaching out to the Wei in the first place may have been the first attempt at something new—external validation by the continent.  A large part of international diplomacy is as much about making people believe you have the power to do something as actually having that power.  Getting recognition from someone like the Wei court would further legitimize Yamato's place at the top of the heap, making things easier for them in the long run. Unfortunately, it seems like things did not go so smoothly, and after Himiko's death, someone else came to power, but was quickly deposed before a younger queen took over—the 13 year old Toyo.  Of course, the Wei and then the Jin had their own problems, so we don't get too many details after that, and from there we lose the thread on what was happening from a contemporary perspective.  Instead, we have to rely on the stories in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, which are several hundred years after the fact, and clearly designed as a legitimizing narrative, but still present us something of a picture.  We don't see many stories of local elites being overthrown, though there do seem to be a fair number of military campaigns.  Nonetheless, even if they were propped up by Yamato, local elites likely had a lot of autonomy, at least early on, even as they were coopted into the larger Yamato umbrella.  Yamato itself also saw ups and downs as it tried to figure out how to create a stable succession plan from one ruler to the next.  At some point they set up a court, where individuals from across the archipelago came and served, and they created alliances with Baekje, on the peninsula, as well as with another polity which we know of as Nimna.  Through them, Yamato continued to engage with the continent when the dynastic struggles there allowed for it.  The alliance with Baekje likely provided even more legitimacy for Yamato's position in the archipelago, as well as access to continental goods. Meanwhile the court system Yamato set up provided a means for Yamato to, itself, become a legitimizing factor. Hierarchical differences in society were already visible in the Yayoi period, so we can generally assume that the idea of social rank was not a new concept for Yamato or the other Wa polities.  This is eventually codified into the kabane system, but it is probably likely that many of the kabane came about, originally, as titles of rank used within the various polities.  Yamato's ability to claim to give—or even take away—that kabane title, would have been a new lever of power for Yamato.  Theoretically, other polities could just ignore them and keep going on with their daily lives, but if they had already bought into the social structure and worldview that Yamato was promoting, then they likely would have acquiesced, at least in part, to Yamato's control. Little by little, Yamato's influence grew, particularly on those closer to the center.  Those closer, and more affected, started to listen to Yamato's rules about kofun size and shape, while those further on the fringes started to adopt Yamato's traditions for themselves, while perhaps maintaining greater independence. An early outlier is the Dazai.  It is unclear whether this was forcibly imposed on the old region of Na and nearby Ito, or if it was more diplomatically established.  In the end, though, Yamato established an outpost in the region early on, almost before they started their practice of setting up “miyake”, the various royal granaries that appear to have also become local Yamato government offices in the various lands.  The Dazai was more than just a conduit to accept taxes in the form of rice from various locals—it was also in charge of missions to the continent.  Whether they were coming or going, military or diplomatic, the Dazai was expected to remain prepared.  The early iterations were likely in slightly different locations, and perhaps not as large, but still in roughly the area near modern Fukuoka and Dazai.  This was a perfect place not only from which to prepare to launch or receive missions from the continent, but also to defend the nearby Shimonoseki straits, which was an important entryway into the Seto Inland Sea, the most direct route to Naniwa and the Yamato court. The first iterations of direct Yamato control in Tsukushi—modern Fukuoka—claim to have been focused largely on being a last point to supply troops heading over to fight on the peninsula, not unlike the role of Nagoya castle on the Higashi-Matsuura peninsula in the 16th century.  Over time, though, it grew into much more.  The Weizhi, for its part mentions something in the land of Ito, where there were rooms set up for envoys from the continent, but the Dazai was this on steroids. Occasionally we see evidence of pushback against Yamato's expansion of powers.  Early on, some states tried to fool the envoys into thinking that they were Yamato, perhaps attempting to garner the trade goods for themselves and to take Yamato's place as the interlocutor between the Wa polities and the continent.  We also see outright rebellions—from Iwai in Kyushu, in the 6th century, but also from various Emishi leaders as well.  The Iwai rebellion may have been part of the impetus for setting up the Dazai as a way to remotely govern Tsukushi—or at least help keep people in line.  For the most part, though, as time goes by, it would seem that Yamato's authority over other polities just became tradition, and each new thing that Yamato introduced appears to have been accepted by the various other polities, over time.  This is likely a much more intricate process than even I'm describing here, but I'm not sure that it was necessarily a conscious one; as the concept of Yamato as the “paramount” state grew, others ceded it more and more power, which only fed Yamato's self-image as the paramount state.  As the elites came under the Yamato court and rank system, they were more closely tied to it, and so Yamato's increased power was, in a way, passed on to them as well.  At least to those who bought in. By the 5th century, we know that there were families sending people to the court from as far away as Hi no Kuni in Kyushu—near modern Kumamoto—and Musashi no Kuni in the east—including modern Saitama.  All of that said, while they may have subordinated themselves to Yamato in some ways, the various polities still maintained some independent actions and traditions.  For example, whatever their connection to Yamato, the tombs at Itoshima also demonstrate a close connection to the peninsula.  The horizontal entry chamber style of tomb—something we saw a lot in Iki, and which seems to have been introduced from the continent—started to become popular in the latter half of the 4th century, at least in the west of the archipelago. This is well before we see anything like it in Yamato or elsewhere, though it was eventually used across the archipelago.  Itoshima appears to have been an early adopter of this tomb style, picking it up even before the rest of the archipelago caught on, making them the OG horizontal chambers, at least in Japan. Ultimately, the image we have of Ito-koku is of an apparently small but relatively influential state with some influence on the cross-strait trade, with close ties to Yamato. The history of the region seems a bit murky past the Kofun period.  There are earthworks of an old mountain castle on Mt. Raizan that could be from the Asuka period, and in the 8th century the government built Ito castle on the slopes of Mt. Takaso, possibly to provide some protection to the Dazaifu, which was the Yamato outpost in Kyushu, and eventually became the main administrative center for the island.  It seems, then, that whatever power the country of Ito may have once had, it was subsumed by the Dazai, which was built a little inland, east of the old Na territory.  Furthermore, as ships grew more seaworthy over time, they could make the longer voyages straight to Iki or Tsushima from Hakata.  For the most part, the area of the Itoshima peninsula seems to have been merely a set of districts in the larger Tsukushi and then the Chikuzen provinces.  The area of Na, meanwhile, which is said to have had 20,000 households in the 3rd century—much larger than nearby Ito—was completely eclipsed by the Dazaifu after the Iwai rebellion.  After the fall of Baekje, the Dazaifu took on even greater administrative duties, and eventually took over all diplomatic engagement with the continent.  They even set up a facility for hosting diplomatic envoys from the continent.  This would come to be known as the Kourokan, and they actually found the ruins of it near the site where Maizuru castle was eventually built in what is now Chuo-ku, or the central ward, of Fukuoka city. From the Heian period onwards, the Harada family eventually came to have some power in the area, largely subordinate to others, but they built another castle on Mt. Takaso, using some of the old Ito Castle earthworks, and participated in the defense of the nation during the Mongol invasions. The Harada family rose briefly towards the end of the Sengoku Period, pushing out the Otomo as Hideyoshi's campaign swept into Kyushu.  They weren't quite fast enough to join Hideyoshi's side, though, and became subordinate to Kato Kiyomasa and eventually met their end during the Invasions of Korea. The Ito district at some point after that became part of the So clan's holdings, falling under Tsushima's purview, along with a scattering of districts elsewhere, all likely more about the revenue produced than local governance.  In the Edo period, there were some efforts to reclaim land in Imazu bay, further solidifying links with the Itoshima peninsula and the mainland, but that also fits in with the largely agricultural lifestyle of the people in the region.  It seems to have remained largely a rural backwater up into modern times, when the Ito and Shima districts were combined into an administrative district known as “Itoshima city”. Meanwhile, the Dazaifu continued to dominate the region of modern Fukuoka.  Early on, worried about a Silla-Tang alliance, the Yamato state built massive forts and earthworks were built around the Dazaifu to protect the region from invasion.  As the Tang dynasty gave way to the Song and Yuan dynasties, however, and the Heian court itself became more insular, the Dazaifu's role faded, somewhat.  The buildings were burned down in the 10th century, during the failed revolt of Fujiwara no Sumitomo.  The government never rebuilt, and instead the center of regional government shifted to Hakata, closer to the bay. Appointed officials to the Dazai were known as the Daini and the Shoni.  Mutou Sukeyori was appointed as Dazai Shoni, the vice minister of the Dazaifu, in the late 12th century.  Though he had supported the Taira in the Genpei wars, he was pardoned and made the guardian of Northern Kyushu, to help keep the region in check for the newly established Kamakura Bakufu.  He would effectively turn that into a hereditary position, and his family became known as the “Shoni”, with their position eventually coming to be their family name.  They would provide commendable service against the Mongol invasion, and eventually became the Shugo Daimyo over much of western Kyushu and the associated islands, though not without pushback from others in the region. Over time, the power of the Shoni waned and various other daimyo began to rise up.  The chaos of the Sengoku period saw the entire area change hands, back and forth, until Hideyoshi's invasion of Kyushu.  Hideyoshi divided up control of Kyushu, and Chikuzen, including the areas of Hakata and modern Itoshima, was given to Kobayakawa Takakage.  Hideyoshi also began to redevelop the port of Hakata.  After the battle of Sekigahara, Kobayakawa Hideaki, Takakage's adopted son and nephew to the late Hideyoshi, was transferred to the fief of Okayama, and the area of modern Fukuoka city was given to Kuroda Nagamasa, creating the Fukuoka Han, also known as the Kuroda Han. Nagamasa would go on to build Maizuru Castle on the other side of the Naka river from the port of Hakata, creating two towns with separate administration, each of which fell under the ultimate authority of the Kuroda.  Hakata, on the east side of the river, was a city of merchants while Fukuoka was the castle town, and largely the domain of samurai serving the Kuroda.  The Kuroda would remain in control of the Fukuoka domain through the Edo period, and only lost control at the very start of the Meiji, as the domain system in general was dissolved. Over that time, Hakata remained an important port city, and the samurai of Fukuoka were known for maintaining their martial traditions. In the Meiji era, samurai from the Kuroda Han joined with other Kyushu samurai, rising up during Saigo Takamori's rebellion.  Later, it would be former samurai and others from Fukuoka who would form the Gen'yosha, an early right wing, nationalist organization that would greatly influence the Japanese government heading into the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. But that is getting well into more modern territory, and there is so much else we could discuss regarding the history of this area, and with any luck we will get to it all in time.  For now, this concludes our Gishiwajinden Tour—we traveled from Kara, to Tsushima and Iki, and then on to Matsuro, Ito, and Na.  From here the envoys traveled on to Fumi, Toma, and then Yamato.  Fumi and Toma are still elusive locations, with various theories and interpretations as to where they were.   For us, this was the end of our journey. Next episode we will be back with the Chronicles and getting into the Taika era, the era of Great Change.  There we will really see Yamato starting to flex its administrative muscles as it brings the various polities of the archipelago together into a single state, which will eventually become known as the country of Nihon, aka Japan. Until then, thank you for listening.  If you like what we are doing, tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts.  If you feel the need to do more, and want to help us keep this going, we have information about how you can donate on Patreon or through our KoFi site, ko-fi.com/sengokudaimyo, or find the links over at our main website, SengokuDaimyo.com/Podcast, where we will have some more discussion on topics from this episode. Also, feel free to reach out to us at our Sengoku Daimyo Facebook page.  You can also email us at the.sengoku.daimyo@gmail.com.  Thank you, also, to Ellen for their work editing the podcast. And that's all for now.  Thank you again, and I'll see you next episode on Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.

In Gaza, the recent spate of schools hit in ongoing Israeli bombardment threatens the futures of a “whole generation” of children in the embattled enclave, the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said on Wednesday.In an interview with UN News, UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma explained that for the 600,000 children in Gaza who've been unable to go to school since war erupted on 7 October, the longer they stay out of school, the harder it is for them to catch up on their education.For some, there are additional grave concerns that they are at risk of exploitation such as child labour and child marriage – “but also recruitment into armed groups and recruitment into the fighting”, Ms. Touma told Daniel Johnson.

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A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 2 (Parts 1-2) Welcome back to "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this episode, we're diving into the exciting beginning of Chapter 2 from "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we continue to explore the complex world of Touma Kamijou and Index. In Chapter 2 (Parts 1-2), we explore: Introduction to New Characters: Meet key new characters who add depth and intrigue to the story. Discover their roles and how they intersect with Touma and Index's journey. Unfolding Mysteries and Plot Twists: The plot thickens with unexpected twists that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Unveil new mysteries that deepen the overarching narrative and hint at future conflicts. Character Development and Interactions: Delve into the evolving relationships between existing characters. Examine how new interactions and confrontations shape their personalities and motivations. Blending of Science and Magic: Explore the unique interplay between scientific and magical elements in the story. Discuss how these elements create a rich, multifaceted world that captivates readers. Building Tension and Stakes: Feel the rising tension as Touma and Index face new challenges and threats. Analyze how these escalating stakes impact the characters and drive the story forward. Discussion Points: Speculate on the significance of new characters and their potential impact on the story. Analyze the narrative techniques that keep the plot engaging and dynamic. Discuss the balance between scientific and magical elements and how they enhance the story. Explore the character development and how new interactions reveal different facets of their personalities. Whether you're a devoted fan or a first-time reader, this episode offers thoughtful analysis and engaging discussions to deepen your appreciation of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to delve into the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 4 Welcome to another exciting episode of "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this installment, we dive into Chapter 4 of "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we uncover the next phase of Touma Kamijou and Index's journey, filled with suspense, intrigue, and new discoveries. In Chapter 4, we explore: Unforeseen Challenges: Encounter the unexpected obstacles that Touma and Index face as they navigate their perilous world. Analyze the innovative solutions and quick thinking required to overcome these challenges. Character Interactions: Delve into the evolving dynamics between Touma and Index, and how their relationship grows under pressure. Meet new characters that add depth and complexity to the storyline. Mysteries Unraveled: Uncover crucial information that sheds light on the mysterious forces at play. Discuss the implications of these revelations on the broader narrative and future plot developments. World-Building Details: Explore new aspects of the intricate world Kazuma Kamachi has created, blending magic and science seamlessly. Examine the unique settings and their significance to the story's progression. Themes and Motifs: Continue our discussion on the recurring themes of power, morality, and the intersection of magic and science. Analyze how these themes are further developed through the characters' experiences and choices. Discussion Points: Speculate on how the new challenges will shape Touma and Index's journey. Analyze the introduction of new characters and their potential impact on the storyline. Discuss the balance of suspense and action, and how it keeps readers engaged. Explore the ethical dilemmas presented in this chapter and their relevance to the characters' development. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, this episode offers in-depth analysis and engaging discussions to enrich your reading experience of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 3 Welcome back to "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this episode, we're delving into the thrilling Chapter 3 of "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we continue our journey with Touma Kamijou and Index, unraveling the complexities of their world. In Chapter 3, we explore: Intense Confrontations: Witness dramatic confrontations that escalate the tension and stakes for our protagonists. Analyze the strategies and powers used in these encounters, highlighting the blend of magic and science. Character Development: Dive deeper into Touma's character as he faces new challenges and moral dilemmas. Explore Index's backstory and her evolving relationship with Touma, shedding light on her mysterious past. Revelations and Mysteries: Uncover significant revelations that add layers to the overarching plot. Discuss the mysteries that deepen and hint at future conflicts and resolutions. World-Building: Explore the rich world-building elements that make "A Certain Magical Index" unique. Examine how the author weaves scientific principles with magical lore to create a captivating universe. Themes and Motifs: Discuss the recurring themes of power, sacrifice, and the clash between science and magic. Analyze how these themes are portrayed through the characters' struggles and decisions. Discussion Points: Speculate on the implications of the new revelations and how they might impact the story moving forward. Analyze the narrative techniques that keep readers engaged and invested in the characters' journeys. Discuss the balance between action and character development and how it enhances the storytelling. Explore the philosophical and ethical questions raised by the characters' choices and the world's structure. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, this episode offers in-depth analysis and engaging discussions to enrich your reading experience of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 2 (Parts 3) Welcome back to "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this episode, we're diving into the exciting beginning of Chapter 2 from "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we continue to explore the complex world of Touma Kamijou and Index. In Chapter 2 (Part 3), we explore: Introduction to New Characters: Meet key new characters who add depth and intrigue to the story. Discover their roles and how they intersect with Touma and Index's journey. Unfolding Mysteries and Plot Twists: The plot thickens with unexpected twists that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Unveil new mysteries that deepen the overarching narrative and hint at future conflicts. Character Development and Interactions: Delve into the evolving relationships between existing characters. Examine how new interactions and confrontations shape their personalities and motivations. Blending of Science and Magic: Explore the unique interplay between scientific and magical elements in the story. Discuss how these elements create a rich, multifaceted world that captivates readers. Building Tension and Stakes: Feel the rising tension as Touma and Index face new challenges and threats. Analyze how these escalating stakes impact the characters and drive the story forward. Discussion Points: Speculate on the significance of new characters and their potential impact on the story. Analyze the narrative techniques that keep the plot engaging and dynamic. Discuss the balance between scientific and magical elements and how they enhance the story. Explore the character development and how new interactions reveal different facets of their personalities. Whether you're a devoted fan or a first-time reader, this episode offers thoughtful analysis and engaging discussions to deepen your appreciation of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to delve into the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

Den 1 juni går FCR 20 av stapeln på ABB Arena i Västerås. Galan har beskrivits som "FCRs egna UFC 300" vad beträffar kvaliten och storleken/betydelsen på matcherna och arenan. I huvudmatchen återvänder Västerås egna Tobias Harila och i delade huvudmatchen gör Alexander Lööf likaså. Inför dess så har vi med oss någon som kan lika mycket om och är lika stor del av svensk MMA som bokstaven "M", Sebastian Vendel Martinez.   Rondvilan finns även här : Rondvilan YouTube Rondvilan Instagram Rondvilan TikTok   Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:13 Damarkani vs Kovac 07:00 Fungula vs Swärd 10:45 Keti vs Amaev 13:47 Stålberg vs Reiz 19:23 Andersson vs Söderberg 24:03 Faal vs Niebrzydowski 28:02 Suotama vs Eriksson 32:34 Berggren vs Toniste 36:40 Nasrutdinov vs Liparteliani 40:38 Husseini vs Farag 45:30 Milic vs Kalandadze 47:57 Makaev vs Hakkinen 52:13 Lööf vs Tyschenko 58:00 Touma vs Yousofi 1:02:55 Harila vs Kirtadze   1:10:44 Lyssnarfrågor 1:11:10 Tankar om Aldin Reiz? 1:12:33 Steg närmre UFC för Touma? 1:14:05 Sebbes främsta amatörprospekt? 1:15:21 Bästa med att jobba med FCR? 1:18:56 Dröm match på FCR? 1:22:21 Vad kan media/svenska galor göra bättre? 1:26:23 Varför lämnade SVM Maximum sports? 1:29:43 Bästa vatos locos på Redline? 1:29:57 Sebbe blir utbjuden på fika 1:31:38 Vid vinst mot CM, acceptera Alis utmaning? 1:32:05 Sebbes predictions för UFC 302 1:39:23 Skåne + FCR = sant

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 4 Welcome to another exciting episode of "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this installment, we dive into Chapter 4 of "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we uncover the next phase of Touma Kamijou and Index's journey, filled with suspense, intrigue, and new discoveries. In Chapter 4, we explore: Unforeseen Challenges: Encounter the unexpected obstacles that Touma and Index face as they navigate their perilous world. Analyze the innovative solutions and quick thinking required to overcome these challenges. Character Interactions: Delve into the evolving dynamics between Touma and Index, and how their relationship grows under pressure. Meet new characters that add depth and complexity to the storyline. Mysteries Unraveled: Uncover crucial information that sheds light on the mysterious forces at play. Discuss the implications of these revelations on the broader narrative and future plot developments. World-Building Details: Explore new aspects of the intricate world Kazuma Kamachi has created, blending magic and science seamlessly. Examine the unique settings and their significance to the story's progression. Themes and Motifs: Continue our discussion on the recurring themes of power, morality, and the intersection of magic and science. Analyze how these themes are further developed through the characters' experiences and choices. Discussion Points: Speculate on how the new challenges will shape Touma and Index's journey. Analyze the introduction of new characters and their potential impact on the storyline. Discuss the balance of suspense and action, and how it keeps readers engaged. Explore the ethical dilemmas presented in this chapter and their relevance to the characters' development. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, this episode offers in-depth analysis and engaging discussions to enrich your reading experience of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

Podcast Episode Description: A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapter 1 (Part 7) Welcome back to another episode of "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this installment, we dive into the thrilling continuation of Chapter 1 from "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Join us as we unravel the next segment of this captivating story and explore the intricate details of Touma Kamijou's world. In Chapter 1 (Part 7), we explore: Continued Exploration of Touma and Index's Relationship: The dynamics between Touma and Index grow more complex as they navigate the challenges posed by the intersecting worlds of magic and science. Touma's protective instincts kick in as he starts to understand the gravity of Index's situation and the dangers she faces. Deeper Insights into the Magical Realm: New revelations about the magical underpinnings of Index's predicament. An introduction to key magical concepts and entities that will play crucial roles in the unfolding narrative. Rising Tensions and Imminent Threats: The sense of urgency heightens as Touma and Index encounter new adversaries and obstacles. The looming threat of powerful magic users and their intentions toward Index. Character Development and Emotional Stakes: Moments of introspection and emotional depth as Touma grapples with his newfound responsibilities. Index's vulnerability and resilience are showcased, making her plight all the more poignant. Discussion Points: Analyze the evolving relationship dynamics and character development. Discuss the blending of scientific and magical elements and their implications. Explore the narrative techniques that build suspense and keep readers engaged. Speculate on future plot developments based on current revelations. Whether you're a long-time fan of the series or a newcomer, this episode offers in-depth analysis and engaging discussions to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

Podcast Episode Description: A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Final Chapter Welcome to a thrilling conclusion of "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this special episode, we delve into the final chapter of "A Certain Magical Index" Volume 1 by Kazuma Kamachi. Get ready for an action-packed and emotional journey as we wrap up the first volume of this captivating series. In the Final Chapter, we explore: Climactic Showdown: Witness the epic confrontation between Touma Kamijou and the formidable forces he faces. Analyze the strategies and tactics used in this intense battle. Character Resolution: Examine the growth and development of key characters throughout the volume. Discuss the resolutions and changes they undergo as the story reaches its climax. Unveiling Secrets: Uncover the remaining mysteries that have kept readers on the edge of their seats. Discuss the revelations and their impact on the overall narrative. Themes and Reflections: Reflect on the recurring themes of power, sacrifice, and the blurred lines between magic and science. Analyze how these themes are brought to a poignant conclusion in this chapter. Setting the Stage: Speculate on what the future holds for Touma and Index as they move beyond Volume 1. Discuss potential plot directions and new challenges that may arise in the next volumes. Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Don't forget to subscribe and stay tuned for more light novel adventures as we continue to explore new worlds, characters, and stories! final chapterChatGPT

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Chapters 2-5 Welcome back to "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this episode, we continue our thrilling journey through "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi, covering Chapters 2 to 5 of Volume 1. The story picks up pace as we delve deeper into the lives of Touma Kamijou and Index, unraveling the mysteries and challenges they face. In parts 2-5 of chapter 1, we explore: 2: Touma's growing connection with Index and the deepening mystery surrounding her. The introduction of magic's impact on their world, as Touma learns more about Index's plight and the danger she faces. The conflict between Touma's scientific understanding and the magical reality he is now part of. 3: The appearance of Stiyl Magnus and Kaori Kanzaki, two powerful magicians with their own agendas. The tension between magic and science intensifies, as Touma must navigate the complexities of both realms to protect Index. The first major magical battle, showcasing Touma's abilities and the stakes of their conflict. 4: Index's past and the true nature of her memory problem are revealed, adding depth to her character and motivations. The emotional and physical toll of the ongoing battles on both Touma and Index. The development of trust and camaraderie between Touma and Index, as they rely on each other to survive. 5: The climactic confrontation with Stiyl and Kaori, pushing Touma to his limits. The resolution of immediate conflicts, but with hints of greater challenges to come. The establishment of Touma's role as Index's protector, setting the stage for future adventures and battles. Join us as we: Analyze the evolving relationships between the main characters and their development. Discuss the themes of trust, sacrifice, and the clash between science and magic. Examine the intricate world-building and how Kamachi blends real-world elements with fantastical concepts. Explore the narrative techniques used to build suspense and keep readers engaged. Whether you're revisiting the series or experiencing it for the first time, this episode offers deep insights and lively discussions to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of "A Certain Magical Index." Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

A Certain Magical Index - Volume 1: Prologue and Chapter 1 Welcome to "Read with Me Light Novel"! In this episode, we're starting an exhilarating journey through the world of "A Certain Magical Index" by Kazuma Kamachi. Today, we'll be delving into the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Volume 1, setting the stage for the epic tale that intertwines science and magic in a modern world. In the Prologue and Chapter 1, we explore: Prologue: The introduction to Academy City, a futuristic metropolis where science reigns supreme. The mysterious Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a girl with photographic memory who holds the contents of 103,000 forbidden magical texts. The intriguing contrast between science and magic, laying the groundwork for the conflicts and alliances to come. Chapter 1: The life of our protagonist, Touma Kamijou, an ordinary high school student with extraordinarily bad luck and a unique power in his right hand, Imagine Breaker. The first encounter between Touma and Index, leading to a fateful bond that will drive the story forward. A glimpse into the dangers and mysteries that lie ahead, as magic and science collide in unexpected ways. Join us as we: Dive into the richly detailed world of Academy City and its inhabitants. Analyze the characters' motivations, personalities, and the dynamics between them. Discuss the overarching themes of science versus magic and the ethical dilemmas they present. Explore the narrative style and how Kamachi sets the tone for the series with suspense and intrigue. Whether you're a longtime fan of the series or new to the world of "A Certain Magical Index," this episode is packed with insights and discussions that will deepen your appreciation for the story. Stay Connected: Email: read.with.me.light.novels@gmail.com Facebook: A Certain Magical Index Fan Page Instagram: Read with Me Light Novels YouTube: Read with Me Light Novels Spotify: Read with Me Light Novel Podcast Apple Podcasts: Read with Me Light Novel on Apple Podcasts Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes as we continue to explore the magical and scientific adventures in "A Certain Magical Index"!

Pourquoi le fait de ne pas manger Cachère a-t-il une incidence uniquement sur les âmes juives en les rendant "impures" et pas sur les nations ? Le fait de consommer des aliments impurs, donc interdits pour les Juifs, aurait-il une influence spirituelle exclusivement sur eux ? Faut-il en déduire que ce qu'un Juif mange impacte sa conscience, qui impacte à son tour sa lucidité, et donc à terme, son lien avec Hachem ? Qu'entend-on au juste par Touma et pourquoi utiliser ce terme pour des aliments non Cachères ? Pourquoi l'entêtement, l'indifférence ou l'inconscience sont-ils associés à de l'impureté ?

Terouma Le Fer, Touma Ou Kedousha by Rav David SHOUSHANA

What does the Gaza war mean for Israel's Arab population? Stephen Sackur speaks to Israeli politician Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian Arab member of Israel's parliament.

Au Tchad, la question du transport interurbain demeure une préoccupation majeure. Pour tenter de pallier ce problème, un groupe des jeunes opérateurs économiques tchadiens, avec l'appui de quelques institutions financières telles que la Banque commerciale du Chari, a décidé de lancer une compagnie aérienne privée de transport de passagers pour desservir différentes villes du Tchad comme Amdjaras, Sarh, Abéché et autres. Son premier vol a eu lieu au début de ce mois de novembre à Ndjamena.  De notre correspondant à Ndjamena,Voyager coûte de plus en plus cher. En transport public avec le bus, l'aller-retour Ndjamena-Abéché a par exemple presque doublé depuis la crise du Covid, passant de 40 000 à 70 000 FCFA. Pour éviter ces augmentations et les longs trajets sur de mauvaises routes, certains passagers préfèrent voyager par la voie aérienne. Christophe revient d'Abéché à bord de la nouvelle compagnie Royal Airways. Il indique avoir payé 78 000 FCFA. Pour à peine plus qu'un trajet par la route, il s'est épargné une journée entière sur les routes cabossées : « En quelques minutes, je suis allé gérer mes activités et puis je suis rentré, c'est vraiment avantageux. Quand je prenais la route, j'ai toujours eu des problèmes, de plus ça coute cher. »Le directeur de cette nouvelle compagnie aérienne n'est autre que l'ancien patron de l'aviation civile au Tchad. Brahim Dadi s'est lancé dans l'aventure avec cinq appareils : « Notre pays est très vaste. Il y a des régions inaccessibles pendant une saison et d'autres difficilement accessibles par la route. Nous avons un seul credo, c'est satisfaire nos clients : partir à l'heure et partir même si ce n'est qu'avec deux passagers. À lire aussiTchad : la reprise d'activité des aéroports perturbée par un appel à la grèveUne compagnie aérienne à fonds privésPar le passé, d'autres compagnies aériennes ont proposé des vols internes. Air Tchad, Toumaï, Tchadia Airlines. Des expériences qui n'ont pas fait long feu à cause de la mauvaise gestion et des ingérences politiques. Mais Brahim Dadi n'entend pas répéter les mêmes erreurs. « D'abord, nous sommes partis sur la base des échecs tirés des compagnies aériennes disparues. Le premier facteur qui a fait que ces compagnies aériennes ont coulé, c'est à cause de la contribution de l'État. Nous, nous avons voulu créer une compagnie à capitaux totalement privés pour se départir de l'influence politique qui fait que les compagnies ne puissent plus résister », explique-t-il.Le conseiller à la présidence Ali Abderaman Haggar estime que toutes les conditions administratives et techniques sont réunies pour permettre à cette nouvelle compagnie - soutenue par les autorités de la transition - de satisfaire les voyageurs. Même si cet observateur averti soulève des défis persistants dans le domaine du transport aérien tels que les approvisionnements en carburants et surtout la ponctualité et la garantie d'assurer le transport sur une longue période.À lire aussiTchad : un accident entre deux bus fait plusieurs dizaines de morts

On this episode of Frankly Speaking, we hear from Juliette Touma, the Director of Communications at UNRWA, to ask about the impact of the fuel blockade on their operations, whether Israel has any justification for targeting a civilian hospital, and how aid agencies are grappling with the staggering loss of 103 colleagues in what has become their deadliest conflict to date.

More than 800,000 people have fled to UN emergency shelters in central and southern Gaza, Juliette Touma of the UNRWA told Conflict Zone, adding that number exceeded her agency's "worst case scenarios." Touma says the coming winter will exacerbate already desperate circumstances in Gaza. Her agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees, has had more than 100 staff members killed in the conflict.

Three thousand Palestinians have been killed and at least 600,000 people have fled the northern Gaza Strip heading south after Israeli military warnings. Despite the exodus south Israeli air forces are striking Southern Gaza saying they are targeting Hamas positions. Israel has blocked supplies of food, water, fuel, and electricity since the deadly Hamas attacks on 7 October. A spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health says in another update that because of power cuts and a scarcity of fuel, hospitals in the territory have "entered a stage of virtual collapse". Israeli troops are still stationed around Gaza's border ahead of a planned ground invasion. US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to hear about its plans for a ground attack in Gaza. Juliette Touma is the communications director at the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency for Gaza. Touma spoke to Corin Dann.

Nine months after the events on Kua Tal Touma, Captain of The Defiant has been bulk hauling raw ore from a nearby asteroid belt. In a rare turn of events she receives contact from her sister about the existence of a map that could show the location of the hidden prison planet holding her ex-crewmate Sul Trel'Marion.== CAST ==Game Master - https://twitter.com/little_red_dot Malik - https://twitter.com/unMadeGaming Tamir - https://twitter.com/gnomedic Sul - https://twitter.com/inwhat123 Tal - https://twitter.com/StitchedByArasEditing by @unMadeGamingVoid is an unMadeGaming production. If you would like to learn more about the world of Void and get some behind-the-scenes looks at some upcoming projects, please join Patreon at Patreon.com/uMGPodNetwork. Thank you for joining us on this epic space journey, and we'll see you next time on Void.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/void-coriolis-actual-play--5804384/support.

In this episode of "Thinking Outside the Box," Gavin Rubinstein sits with real estate agent Charlie Touma to discuss his success in the Surry Hills market. They delve into Charlie's journey in real estate, his connection to the Ray White Group, and his strategies to write millions of dollars in gross commission. They also explore becoming a "digital mayor" and building a strong profile. Tune in to hear Charlie's insights and experiences as a trailblazer in his field. Key Moments. [00:01:18] Becoming the digital mayor. [00:03:20] Legends of the game. [00:05:06] Discipline and standards of excellence. [00:09:55] Discipline and success in real estate. [00:12:08] Challenges in real estate. [00:14:29] Becoming the digital mayor. [00:17:14] Marketing oneself effectively. [00:19:30] Listing presentations in different markets. [00:23:11] Negotiation as a skill. [00:25:26] Stick to your structure. [00:27:15] Belief and confidence. [00:30:09] Buyer work and strategy. [00:32:18] Suitability over affordability. [00:34:46] Three hours of prospecting. [00:36:54] Balancing me and the business. [00:41:23] Mindset and continuous improvement. [00:43:12] Balancing work and family.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

⚖️ Halacha du Daf Sous l'égide Rav Israel Abib, dafhayomi.fr diffuse les chiourim de daf hayomi dispensées par la Yechiva Ohavei Toretekha (Tocqueville Paris / Raanana). Rav Israel Abib dirige les institutions Yeshiva Ohavei Torateha (Tocqueville Paris - Raanana) ainsi que le site dafhayomi.fr Retrouvez tous les chiourim de Rav Israel Abib (Paracha, Education, Moussar, Hagim... )sur la chaîne suivante

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Kristen grew up in Ft Collins and began her love of photography as a yearbook photographer in Jr High.  She moved to the Houston/Galveston area for college and remained there until 2021.  Her sister and parents live in Conservatory Green and she had fallen in love with the neighborhood on family bi-annual visits. Their move was sparked by Covid and the desire to be closer to family, live the outdoor lifestyle Denver has to offer and raise their kids in this amazing community. Her husband kept his job and works remotely while traveling back to Houston a week out of the month.     After having a successful branding and headshot photography business in Houston when she moved to Denver, she had to start again, from square one.  Building up new clientele from scratch has been a challenging and rewarding experience at the same time.  She is meeting tons of new people in the neighborhoods' amazing networking and mom's groups as well as the  Central Park Business Association (CPA).    She loves meeting neighbors, learning their stories and sharing them trough personal branding photography.  She strives to be s go-to headshot &  branding photographer for not only Central Park, but all of Denver.   www.kgothamphotography.com

Today we talk to feminist  Palestinian Israeli Knesset Member Aida Touma-Sliman  about the new right wing government coalition in Israel that is even getting zionist liberals in Israel and the U.S. concerned whether Israel can even maintain its  façade of Democracy.  much like the Trump election shook people here the new Netanyahu right wing govermnent coalition is bringing a wide range of people out into the streets in Israel/Palestine shocked by the latest elections in Israel and its former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coalition with the extreme right . To find out more about what is going on on the ground in Israel/Palestine my co-host Dov Baum and I talked to Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Sliman. She was the co-founder and general director of “Women Against Violence” – a Palestinian women's organization that was responsible, among other things, for  the creation of the first battered women's shelters in the Palestinian community in Israel. Touma-Sliman was the first woman to serve in the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and is Co-founder of the International Women Commission for Just Palestinian-Israeli Peace. Touma-Sliman has been one of the strongest voices representing the Palestinian community in Israel and a strong  opponent of the Israeli occupation. She has been an outspoken critical voice against the Israeli settlements and the violent attacks on Gaza. MK Touma-Sliman has also played a prominent role in the development of the feminist movement in the Palestinian community in Israel and is regarded as one of the leaders of the Israeli feminist movement as a whole. And to help me in this interview I am joined by Dov Baum, who is an Israeli  feminist activist and scholar who has taught about militarism and the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli and U.S. universities, and is currently the director of American friends service committee's Economic Activism Program here in the Bay Area. The post Conversation with Aida Touma-Sliman about Israel/Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

 For the full show notes of this episode visit website https://treesmendus.comVerla's new book Optimize Your Heart Rate: BalanceYour Mind and Body With Green Space. Verla's previous book Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic IllnessDr. Tselios is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology at McMaster University since 2021. He completed his basic training and PhD in Greece and came to Canada in 2014 where he worked as a post-doc fellow with the University of Toronto Lupus Clinic. His main clinical and research interest is the field of autoimmunity and systemic lupus erythematosus, particularly the cardiovascular complications of the disease. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is currently developing the McMaster Lupus Clinic and Lupus Ontario/Anne Matheson Lupus Biobank in Hamilton.Time Stamps in minutes of our conversation:2:00 I started looking after lupus patients in 2008 in Greece, and was offered an opportunity to do a PhD in lupus to become the medical director the lupus clinic ...and there, I fell in love with lupus patients and the process of the lupus disease. 4:21 My published research caught the attention of the Toronto Lupus Clinic run by  doctors Touma   and  Gladman who were collecting data on lupus patients since 1971. This clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital at the University Health Network is one of the largest lupus clinic in the world, was a great environment for me to gain expertise in lupus. I worked there since  2014 and it was a great experience. I stayed there for 6  years. 5:00 I stayed there for 6  years as a post doc. Then I was hired at McMaster University in the Division of Rheumatology at Hamilton Health Sciences. My main goal is to develop a new Lupus Clinic for south western Ontario and this Biobank, if we want to talk about it further is about collecting samples for further lupus research. 6:00 Heart involvement and lupus: In the past lupus has been so agressive that it leads to often leads to death. But most people do significantly better now. So our patients will survive but the arteries can stiffen as the years go by (atherosclerosis) and as we get older.8:00  Lupus patients are 50% more likely to have a heart attack than people without lupus. 8:22 I started investigating this in my research with the Toronto Lupus Clinic cohort. As you dig deeper into research sometimes you find things that you would never expect. 8:60 The heart conduction system is about the heart pumping blood to every part ofFor peer reviewed research on how your time spent in green space can change your mindset, balance your nervous system and your heart rate please go to my website https://treesmendus.com and check out my books Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness and Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space

Anna and Amber work their way up the trunk of our shared evolutionary tree, tackling the thorny issues of identifying our earliest mammal, primate, and hominin ancestors. We learn about the early development of bipedal walking, and really struggle (as usual) with the question of deep time, but this week it escalates to wondering how anybody knows anything. All we know is, we didn't come from no monkey.To learn more about what we discuss this week, check out: These Rodent-Like Creatures Are the Earliest Known Ancestor of Humans, Whales and Shrews (LiveScience)Human Evolution Timeline Interactive (Smithsonian Institution)New faces of Aegyptopithecus from the Oligocene of Egypt (Journal of Human Evolution)Sahelanthropus: "The femur of Toumaï?" (John Hawks Weblog)Femur findings remain a secret (Nature)Geology and Paleontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash Valley, Afar Rift, Ethiopia (Nature, via ResearchGate)The life history of Ardipithecus ramidus: A heterochronic model of sexual and social maturation (Anthropological Review, via ResearchGate)Ardipithecus ramidus and the evolution of language and singing: An early origin for hominin vocal capability (HOMO)Evolution: The First Four Billion YearsFetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins (Nature)Why Pregnant Women Don't Tip Over (New York Times)

Il peut crâner. Même si c'est son fémur et ses cubitus (un os de l'avant bras qu'on appelle aujourd'hui ulna) qui ont fait tout le boulot, Toumaï marche la tête haute. Découverts en 2001 sur un site de fouilles tchadien, les os de Toumaï ont fait trembler l'abre généalogique d'homo sapiens. Vieux de 7 millions d'années, il serait le plus ancien des préhumains. Dans notre histoire, il se place après que la branche qui donnera naissance au genre Homo se soit séparée de celle des chimpanzés. Mais, ce que le crâne n'a pas permis de dire, son fémur s'est chargé de l'affirmer, 21 ans plus tard : alors que les paléontologues ont longtemps cru Toumaï quadripède, une nouvelle étude révèle qu'il se était certes à l'aise à quatre pattes, mais qu'il était également arboricole et bipède ! Notre invitée Rachel Mulot, cheffe du service enquête de Sciences et Avenir, a suivi toute l'histoire. Bonne écoute !

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Want to know a simple way to show appreciation to everyone in the school community? Listen now and learn how Jad Touma and the Children's House Montessori School use good communication to make everyone in their school community feel happy, valued, and heard, resulting in positive outcomes. #SchoolSuccess #SchoolSuccessMakers -- Every week on The School Success Podcast, digital marketing agency owner Mitchell Slater interviews school leaders and game-changers in the education sector. Never miss an episode and follow The School Success Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you enjoy podcasts. This podcast is powered by Slater Strategies, a marketing agency committed to helping schools grow their enrollment and connect better with the families in their communities. Find out more at https://schoolsuccessmakers.com. Highlights of the Episode [01:57] I think the biggest piece with that is that these children get this opportunity [03:48] it's all about the history of how language came to be [06:08] we are a Montessori Preschool in Arlington, Virginia [08:37] teachers become robots or robots become teachers in some way [10:59] I wish I could say that 1000 person weightless was something [12:01] mission based upon the different demographics and the different needs [14:06] weren't sure if they were going to be 100% in person [16:20] most of them do almost 100% of their work [18:18] parents to communicate back and forth [19:47] we really value over communicating [21:26] Picture says 1000 words [23:19] I think all schools are dealing with and trying to figure out it [25:02] Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, get a fuller experience [28:21] happy staff, happy children, happy parents [30:26] So that's the biggest piece of be one thing if we're having them [32:55] those are stepping stones to getting to your community building event [34:43] So she graduated in the first class in 2000 2000 [36:59] But the biggest thing is that we have to keep moving forward YouTube Video Podcast Link: https://youtu.be/XZahw69CXow

RSR host Fred Williams is joined by Brodie Leitch to manhandle the Smithonian and their deceptive ape-men articles. When you google the word 'evolution', you'll be inundated with the infamous 'march of progress' illustration in various forms. Polling shows that these illustrations convince more Americans of evolution than any other method. Fred and Brodie first discuss the myth and illusion behind the so-called 98.6% similarity between chimps and humans. Even if true, mathematics long ago showed that even a 1% difference is impossible to achieve through natural selection and random mutation. The evolutionist' sleight of hand is further exposed when considering that they are only comparing select parts of the genome, and when taking indels into account the difference drops to 87%. Two Smithsonian alleged ape-men, Toumai and Millennium Man, based on only a handful of fossil fragments, are easily shown to be merely apes that even plenty of secular scientists acknowledge are simians that have nothing to do with so-called human evolution. First 2 of 5 ape-men article rebuttals... 1. Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï) Type Specimen: TM266-01-060-1/Chimp “Sahelanthropus tchadensis” (pronounced: “sah-he-lan-thruh-puhs cha-den-sis”, nicknamed: “Toumaï” or “Hope of Life”) consists of only 9 skull fragments, was “discovered” in Chad, West-Central Africa in 2001 and is allegedly “one of the oldest known species in the human family tree.” According to an article from the Smithsonian, Sahelanthropus “had a combination of ape-like and human-like features.” Despite the fact that the “first (and, so far, only) fossils of Sahelanthropus are nine cranial specimens” they claim that “the skull (specifically the foramen magnum) provides scientists with evidence that Sahelanthropus walked upright.” According to their article: “The foramen magnum (the large opening where the spinal cord exits out of the cranium from the brain) is located further forward (on the underside of the cranium) than in apes or any other primate except humans. This feature indicates that the head of Sahelanthropus was held on an upright body, probably associated with walking on two legs.” However, according to CARTA (The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny) “posterior drift of the foramen magnum occurs in nonhuman primates through the resorption at the posterior end of the cranial base and deposition at the anterior end.” In other words, when an ape is born, the large opening in the base of the cranium is at the center of the skull, but as the chimp grows, the opening naturally moves toward the back of the skull. CARTA concludes that: “foramen magnum orientation is not a good indicator of the orientation of the neck during habitual locomotion” Which explains why the Smithsonian was still asking (in the same article): “What was their primary form of locomotion?” The position of the foramen magnum as well as the “small canine teeth,” “short middle part of the face,” “small brain, (even slightly smaller than a chimpanzee's)” “sloping face,” “very prominent brow-ridges,” and “elongated skull,” indicate that the skulls are those of juvenile chimps, not ape-men. 2. Orrorin tugenensis (Millenium Man) “Orrorin tugenensis”, (pronounced: “Oh-roar-in, too-ga-nen-sis”) which translates “original man” in the Tugen region, and was nicknamed “Millenium Man”, consists of only 14 fossil fragments (allegedly from at least 5 individuals) which were discovered at four different sites (Cheboit, Kapsomin, Kapcheberek, and Aragai) in the Tugen Hills region of central Kenya. The fossils include a few limb bones, jaw fragments and isolated teeth. The Smithsonian claims that “Orrorin is at the base of the human family tree, and… walked upright on two legs.” Keeping in mind that these bold claims are based on 14 bone fragments, the (alleged) evidence that these bones belonged to a bipedal (upright walking) creature, according to the same article, comes from the femur:  “The most important fossil of this species is an upper femur, showing evidence of bone buildup typical of a biped” and “the upper part of this femur (BAR 1002'00), is similar in size to those of other large apes. But the angled part more closely resembles that of modern humans. It formed a strong bridge with the hip to support the body's weight, suggesting Orrorin tugenensis walked upright.” They claim that the femur formed a strong bridge with the hip, but don't have any of the pelvis. It's also worth noting that one of the most unique parts of this femur is the greater trochanter, [pronounced: “trow-kan-tr”] but the greater trochanter, as reported by the journal “Nature”: “is broken away slightly above it's root.” So one of the most significant parts of this “ape-man” is not a part that they have, but a part that is absent. To make matters better (for creationists) this part of the femur is not absent due to anatomical structure, but due to damage and decay of the bone. Along with the problems posed by creationists, many evolutionists have criticized this alleged “human ancestor”. Soon after the initial publication of the fossils, Dr. David Begun of the University of Toronto commentedthat the fossil fragments representing “Orrorin” could not reveal whether it was “on the line to humans, on the line to chimps, a common ancestor to both, or just an extinct side branch." Dr. Begun later stated that “the evidence for bipedalism in Orrorin is ambiguous.” In 2011, “Live Science” reported that: “Though they've been hailed as remnants of some of our earliest hominin ancestors, paleoanthropologists Bernard Wood of George Washington University and Terry Harrison of New York University say they're probably just non-hominin ape bones.” Dr. Harrison, also stated (in a separate article) that: “It does not make sense to interpret the anatomical features of Orrorin tugenensis as a biped that could climb trees. I see it as a good arboreal, [tree dweller] quadruped [walks on 4 limbs] that has a package of features like [those found in] Australopithecus.” The Australian Museum reports that: “some features of the leg bones are found in non-bipedal primates, suggesting that this species may not be bipedal. At the moment the evidence is inconclusive.” In fact, this evidence is so inconclusive that the Smithsonian asks (in the same, previously-mentioned article): “Is Orrorin a direct human ancestor to Homo sapiens?” And “Did Orrorin routinely walk on two legs?”    

RSR host Fred Williams is joined by Brodie Leitch to manhandle the Smithonian and their deceptive ape-men articles. When you google the word 'evolution', you'll be inundated with the infamous 'march of progress' illustration in various forms. Polling shows that these illustrations convince more Americans of evolution than any other method. Fred and Brodie first discuss the myth and illusion behind the so-called 98.6% similarity between chimps and humans. Even if true, mathematics long ago showed that even a 1% difference is impossible to achieve through natural selection and random mutation. The evolutionist' sleight of hand is further exposed when considering that they are only comparing select parts of the genome, and when taking indels into account the difference drops to 87%. Two Smithsonian alleged ape-men, Toumai and Millennium Man, based on only a handful of fossil fragments, are easily shown to be merely apes that even plenty of secular scientists acknowledge are simians that have nothing to do with so-called human evolution. First 2 of 5 ape-men article rebuttals (courtesy of Brodie Leitch): 1. Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï) Type Specimen: TM266-01-060-1/Chimp “Sahelanthropus tchadensis” (pronounced: “sah-he-lan-thruh-puhs cha-den-sis”, nicknamed: “Toumaï” or “Hope of Life”) consists of only 9 skull fragments, was “discovered” in Chad, West-Central Africa in 2001 and is allegedly “one of the oldest known species in the human family tree.” According to an article from the Smithsonian, Sahelanthropus “had a combination of ape-like and human-like features.” Despite the fact that the “first (and, so far, only) fossils of Sahelanthropus are nine cranial specimens” they claim that “the skull (specifically the foramen magnum) provides scientists with evidence that Sahelanthropus walked upright.” According to their article: “The foramen magnum (the large opening where the spinal cord exits out of the cranium from the brain) is located further forward (on the underside of the cranium) than in apes or any other primate except humans. This feature indicates that the head of Sahelanthropus was held on an upright body, probably associated with walking on two legs.” However, according to CARTA (The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny) “posterior drift of the foramen magnum occurs in nonhuman primates through the resorption at the posterior end of the cranial base and deposition at the anterior end.” In other words, when an ape is born, the large opening in the base of the cranium is at the center of the skull, but as the chimp grows, the opening naturally moves toward the back of the skull. CARTA concludes that: “foramen magnum orientation is not a good indicator of the orientation of the neck during habitual locomotion” Which explains why the Smithsonian was still asking (in the same article): “What was their primary form of locomotion?” The position of the foramen magnum as well as the “small canine teeth,” “short middle part of the face,” “small brain, (even slightly smaller than a chimpanzee's)” “sloping face,” “very prominent brow-ridges,” and “elongated skull,” indicate that the skulls are those of juvenile chimps, not ape-men. 2. Orrorin tugenensis (Millenium Man) “Orrorin tugenensis”, (pronounced: “Oh-roar-in, too-ga-nen-sis”) which translates “original man” in the Tugen region, and was nicknamed “Millenium Man”, consists of only 14 fossil fragments (allegedly from at least 5 individuals) which were discovered at four different sites (Cheboit, Kapsomin, Kapcheberek, and Aragai) in the Tugen Hills region of central Kenya. The fossils include a few limb bones, jaw fragments and isolated teeth. The Smithsonian claims that “Orrorin is at the base of the human family tree, and… walked upright on two legs.” Keeping in mind that these bold claims are based on 14 bone fragments, the (alleged) evidence that these bones belonged to a bipedal (upright walking) creature, according to the same article, comes from the femur:  “The most important fossil of this species is an upper femur, showing evidence of bone buildup typical of a biped” and “the upper part of this femur (BAR 1002'00), is similar in size to those of other large apes. But the angled part more closely resembles that of modern humans. It formed a strong bridge with the hip to support the body's weight, suggesting Orrorin tugenensis walked upright.” They claim that the femur formed a strong bridge with the hip, but don't have any of the pelvis. It's also worth noting that one of the most unique parts of this femur is the greater trochanter, [pronounced: “trow-kan-tr”] but the greater trochanter, as reported by the journal “Nature”: “is broken away slightly above it's root.” So one of the most significant parts of this “ape-man” is not a part that they have, but a part that is absent. To make matters better (for creationists) this part of the femur is not absent due to anatomical structure, but due to damage and decay of the bone. Along with the problems posed by creationists, many evolutionists have criticized this alleged “human ancestor”. Soon after the initial publication of the fossils, Dr. David Begun of the University of Toronto commentedthat the fossil fragments representing “Orrorin” could not reveal whether it was “on the line to humans, on the line to chimps, a common ancestor to both, or just an extinct side branch." Dr. Begun later stated that “the evidence for bipedalism in Orrorin is ambiguous.” In 2011, “Live Science” reported that: “Though they've been hailed as remnants of some of our earliest hominin ancestors, paleoanthropologists Bernard Wood of George Washington University and Terry Harrison of New York University say they're probably just non-hominin ape bones.” Dr. Harrison, also stated (in a separate article) that: “It does not make sense to interpret the anatomical features of Orrorin tugenensis as a biped that could climb trees. I see it as a good arboreal, [tree dweller] quadruped [walks on 4 limbs] that has a package of features like [those found in] Australopithecus.” The Australian Museum reports that: “some features of the leg bones are found in non-bipedal primates, suggesting that this species may not be bipedal. At the moment the evidence is inconclusive.” In fact, this evidence is so inconclusive that the Smithsonian asks (in the same, previously-mentioned article): “Is Orrorin a direct human ancestor to Homo sapiens?” And “Did Orrorin routinely walk on two legs?”    

I had the honor of speaking to Knesset Member Aida Touma-Suleiman in this episode. We chatted about feminism, political and social activism, elevating other women, and Ra'am. We also talk about the importance of intersectionality for understanding oppression and the challenges facing the Palestinian community and its leadership in Israel. Finally, Aida argues that peace should focus on bringing human security to everyone.

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With no end in sight in the violence between Israel and Gaza, Arab-Israeli lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman joins Bianna Golodryga, standing in for Christiane Amanpour, to discuss the latest developments in the ongoing conflict. She says Israeli Acting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own personal crisis is influencing his actions. Then Haaretz columnist Noa Landau calls out Israelis across the political spectrum for ignoring Palestinian voices in Israel and the occupied territories. Turning to the U.S., Representative Pramila Jayapal, who was the first South Asian American woman in the House, talks about the importance of political representation and how the pandemic has impacted Asian American identity. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Please listen to our new episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Rayah Touma Sawaya. In this episode, we discuss her book, Solace: A Legacy of Care, which is a collection of short stories discussing the importance of listening to patients because each one of them has their unique story to tell. Rayah's book shows that the field of Medicine is an art as much as it is a science. It is a must-read for all students going into their third year of medical school and for residents-in-training. You can find it on: amazon through the kindle app, and also buy it in paperback.   https://www.amazon.com/Solace-Rayah-I-Touma-Sawaya-ebook/dp/B08MTV6TCS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=solace+rayah&qid=1615937825&sr=8-1

Cuando llegas  a un momento de tu vida donde realizas que las cosas deben de cambiar, es aterrador y no sabes por donde empezar. Nuestra invitada nos cuenta su experiencia de absoluta sanación y cambio. Su experiencia puede ser tu inspiración.  Encuentra a Meche Touma en Instagram: @kindkunda_lini

Sly Gittens will be speaking with Jacqueline Touma, Strategic Technology Alliance Marketing Director at ServiceNow. She will be sharing her experiences and recommendations about getting established in the IT field. **Jacqueline Touma opinions expressed are solely her own and do not express the views or opinions of ServiceNow** How I built this: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this HBR IdeaCast: https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-ideacast The subtle Art of Not Giving A F**K: https://amzn.to/3iVvzrg The Punk Rock HR Podcast - Let's Fix Work: https://laurieruettimann.com/podcast/ ✦ SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss more tech tutorials and tech career tips videos:: http://bit.ly/SlyGittensYouTubeChannel ✦ LinkedIn Profile ➜ https://www.linkedin.com/in/slygittens/ ✦ Instagram Profile ➜ https://www.instagram.com/sly_gittens/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app