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Guest post by Obiajulum Ndubuisi, who is a tech enthusiast who loves exploring anything tech including gadgets. Have you ever asked your AI bot to do something and it gave you an unrelated answer or just didn't meet your expectations? It happens a lot, but the major reason could be that you didn't provide your AI bot with the complete details. This art of knowing just what to tell your AI and predicting the result is known as AI prompt engineering. AI Prompts To Achieve Your Desired Responses What Are AI Prompts? AI prompts serve as a means of communicating with generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, telling them what we need done through our questions, commands, images, audio files, code samples or other forms of text, and obtaining accurate and relevant outputs. Why Are AI Prompts Important? With a well-crafted prompt, your AI model will provide you with accurate and relevant outputs to efficiently solve complex problems. If you don't define your AI prompt properly, the large language model (LLM) output might be vague, misleading, off-topic, inaccurate or biased. How Do AI Prompts Work? Generative AI uses natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to decode and comprehend a user's message in an AI prompt. Whenever an AI model receives a prompt, it references the patterns it has learned from the training data, which is composed of large data sets to help ensure more accurate results. The AI model then weighs the possibilities, considering how different words and ideas relate to each other, and responds based on what it has learnt. From these results, the model fine-tunes its response, ensuring that it is relevant to the input. This is known as inference. What Can AI Prompts Do? Generative AI is used in almost every aspect of our lives, from our grammar checkers in word processors to our autocomplete in messaging apps. Here are some examples. Summarisation - You can copy and paste text on the AI platform and prompt it to give you only the necessary details. For example, "Hi ChatGPT, here is an excerpt of an article on the solar system [Copy-paste text here]. Can you summarize the most important points about the heavenly bodies including their time of rotation and revolution?" Classification - Provide the AI model with input and ask it to assign a relevant label or category. For example, "Here is a database of customer reviews for an e-commerce website. Classify the responses as 'Positive,' 'Negative,' or 'Neutral' and tally the responses for each category." Translation - You can also ask your AI chatbots to translate sentences into different languages. For instance, "Translate the phrase 'I love popcorn' from English to Korean." Text generation/completion - Your chatbots are also capable of generating stories, letters, emails, articles and any type of text you can think of. For example, "I am writing a cover letter for my first data entry job. Here are some bullet points about my accomplishments and educational background [insert here]. Generate a cover letter using these points." You can ask your chatbot to write the final paragraph of an email or story. "Once upon a time, in a town far away, there lived a small mouse named…" Question answering - AI chatbots also answer questions asked by users. They rely on their training data to supply relevant answers.For example, "What are the steps to creating a user flow for a UX design project?" Coaching - You can ask your chatbot to rate your work or offer suggestions on how to improve write-ups like letters or essays. Here is an example. "How would you improve the following script for a YouTube video about generative AI? [Insert copy here]." Image generation - Generative AI can generate pictures that look very realistic. The viral picture of the Pope in a puffy coat proves this. For instance, "Generate a picture of a mountain goat in a forest, surreal, fantasy, digital art." The Recipe For Effective AI Prompts Identify the goal: Know exactly what you want the AI model to ...

Inspired by Jen's ten lessons, this week, Pete goes through thirteen lessons around how to become a better communicator.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:Ask yourself, who's it for and what's it for?Concise is nice.Find your allies.You are not a news reader. (Translation: You are not a news anchor.)Fix your umm.Be where your feet are.Slides are not teleprompters.Have a purple cow.Tell stories.Be like a comedian.Don't be afraid of questions.Leverage Gen AI.Don't take yourself so damn seriously.To hear all episodes and read full transcripts, visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box O' Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos, and other interesting things that Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.com.Learn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

This encore episode is with Amy Scanlan, MD. It was, in fact, one of our most popular episodes of the past year. It is still just as relevant today in a slightly different way. It's interesting how things which were said maybe a year ago have shades of meaning which become evident as time goes on. So, I liked this show a lot in the second listen with the advantage of time passing. To read the show notes with mentioned links and a transcript, head over to our site. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. Complicating fact of current life, it's becoming increasingly obvious that in order to stand up a practice that can take advantage of value-based care payments—payments where primary care docs mainly at this time can get paid more and likely more fairly to care for patients well—you need a lot of infrastructure. You need data, you need tech, you need a team. Translation: You need money, maybe a lot of money, to invest in all of this. These are the external realities that hit anyone trying to do right by patients from every direction. But on the other hand (or maybe different fingers on the same hand), as Dr. Amy Scanlan says in this healthcare podcast, physicians are the backbone of this system. Dr. Scanlan talks in the interview today about the opportunity, and maybe the responsibility, that physicians have here for patients; but also the Eric Reinhart article comes up again about rampant physician moral injury (unpaywalled link with my compliments). Right now might be a great time to read something from Denver Sallee, MD. He wrote to me, and he wrote, “Like many physicians, I did not have much understanding of the business side of medicine, as I mistakenly thought as long as I helped take great care of patients that I was doing my job. More recently, it became apparent to me that by ceding the management of medicine to nonclinical administrators and to companies interested primarily in value extraction for the benefit of shareholders that I needed more education in order to truly help patients.” Today as aforementioned, I'm talking with Amy Scanlan, MD, who is chief medical officer of the clinically integrated network (CIN) that is the joint venture between Intermountain Health and UCHealth in Colorado. We talk about what it's like to be in the kind of messy middle of transformation to integrate care in a clinically integrated network, trying to figure out how to help physician practices and the CIN itself navigate the external environment in a way that empowers different kinds of practices at different points in their transformation journey that empowers physicians to be in charge, and considering clinical and financial outcomes (ie, the business of healthcare). Dr. Scanlan brings up four main factors to consider when plotting strategy from here to there. Listen to the episode or read the show notes to learn about the four factors. 06:35 How is Dr. Scanlan thinking about the transformation process and the shift to value? 09:16 “It is really trying to think about, how do we help practices get there?” 11:48 “The hard part is the in-between spaces.” 13:21 EP407 with Vivek Garg, MD, MBA. 14:12 “Team-based care done badly is really just a series of handoffs.” 15:52 “We have to get to that point where the culture of collaboration is more pervasive.” 19:58 “How do we as healthcare providers step in and solve this problem?” 20:06 Why do providers have a responsibility to step in and try to fix the healthcare system? 20:22 Article (unpaywalled) by Eric Reinhart, MD, PhD. 21:51 Why do physicians need to be accountable for the cost of care as well as outcomes? 23:38 Why does physician burnout give Dr. Scanlan hope? 24:26 What is the solution to changing fee-for-service incentives? 25:43 What are some of the challenges facing changing incentives? 27:16 Why is data so important? 28:54 EP393 with David Muhlestein, PhD, JD. 30:13 “It's important to understand that we are in the middle of this change.” 31:18 Dr. Scanlan's advice for those trying to stand up a CIN.  

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Husband and Wife cover Psalms 138 - 140Psalm 138: Thanksgiving for the LORD's Favor. Starts, "I will praise thee with my whole heart." This is part of the final Davidic collection of psalms, comprising Psalms 138 through 145, which are specifically attributed to David in their opening verses. We are sick of David, so this is super exciting news! One might even call it "Good News" — not to be confused with that whole evangelical Christian Good News. We mean ACTUAL Good News. Selah, David!Psalm 139: God's Omnipresence and Omniscience. Starts, "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me." According to some Bible enthusiasts, Psalm 139 was written by Adam, but that feels super unlikely given that Adam wasn't presented as a guy who liked to write stuff down. Psalm 139 is often used as a source of support for the LGBTQIA+ community, for we are each "fearfully and wonderfully made" according to the Bible, which means none of us is a mistake, regardless of our gender, outer identification, or sexual orientation. Translation: You are beautiful! And that's a fact. Psalm 140: A Prayer for Protection against Persecutors / Prayer for Deliverance from Evil Men. Starts, "Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man." More curses for bad luck and harm to befall evil men. This book has such a loving message. Wishing disaster and hardship unto your enemies is a very Bible methodology. Kisses! Join us on DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8RwwMrb5zKSkip the ads by joining Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/6331d364470c7900137bb57dThank you for stopping by Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists!Check out these links for more information about our podcast and merchandise:Our Homepage: https://sacrilegiousdiscourse.com/Help support us by subscribing on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sacrilegiousdiscourse Join Acast+ to enjoy our podcast adfree! https://plus.acast.com/s/sacrilegiousiscourse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, let me just cut to the chase here with very little preamble, and all of this is a setup to the interview that follows, although it is not really what the interview that follows is all about. A mentor of mine used to say, you can't legislate the heart. Let me also suggest you can't give someone in finance financial incentives and then expect them to not prioritize financial incentives. It stands to reason that if the healthcare industry is found to be quite attractive to those who are money focused, then do I need to say this? The money focused amongst us will, of course, do the whatever to the extent that they can make money. They aren't gonna be throwing their backs into quality or cost effectiveness or taking care of patients. They are throwing their backs into making money. Is anyone shocked? Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not a Pollyanna. And in this country, in order to run a healthcare business, you have to make money; otherwise, you'll go out of business. So, do well by doing good and all of that. But how much money is too much money? This is an important line to figure out because that's where you are doing well but you've stopped doing good—you've tipped into financial toxicity. You are taking more than the good you are doing, and the net positive becomes a net negative. But complicating fact of current life, it's becoming increasingly obvious that in order to stand up a practice that can take advantage of value-based care payments—payments where primary care docs mainly at this time can get paid more and likely more fairly to care for patients well—you need a lot of infrastructure. You need data, you need tech, you need a team. Translation: You need money, maybe a lot of money, to invest in all of this. And let me ask you this: Who has a lot of money in this country? Here's the point of everything I just said: These are the external realities that hit anyone trying to do right by patients from every direction. But on the other hand (or maybe different fingers on the same hand), as Amy Scanlan, MD, says in this healthcare podcast, physicians are the backbone of this system. Dr. Scanlan talks in the interview today about the opportunity, and maybe the responsibility, that physicians have here for patients; but also the Eric Reinhart article comes up again about rampant physician moral injury (unpaywalled link with my compliments). Right now might be a great time to read something from Denver Sallee, MD. He wrote to me the other day. He wrote, “Like many physicians, I did not have much understanding of the business side of medicine, as I mistakenly thought as long as I helped take great care of patients that I was doing my job. More recently, it became apparent to me that by ceding the management of medicine to nonclinical administrators and to companies interested primarily in value extraction for the benefit of shareholders that I needed more education in order to truly help patients.” Today as aforementioned, I'm talking with Amy Scanlan, MD, who is chief medical officer of the clinically integrated network (CIN) that is the new joint venture between Intermountain Health and UCHealth in Colorado. We talk about what it's like to be in the kind of messy middle of transformation to integrated care in a clinically integrated network, trying to figure out how to help physician practices and the CIN itself navigate the external environment in a way that empowers different kinds of practices at different points in their transformation journey that empowers physicians to be in charge, and considering clinical and financial outcomes (ie, the business of healthcare). Dr. Scanlan brings up four main factors to consider when plotting strategy from here to there: 1. Give practices the tools that they need to succeed—not what you think they need but what you've discerned they actually need because you've listened to them. 2. Many times, these tools will consist of some combination of data, tech, and also offering the team behind the scenes to help doctors and other clinicians help patients through what Dr. Scanlan calls the “in-between spaces”—the times between appointments. 3. Medical culture really has to change, and in two ways: doctors learning how to be part of and/or leading functional teams and building functional teams. Because there are teams, and then there are teams. Well-functioning teams can produce great results. Nonfunctioning teams, however, are, as Dr. Scanlan puts it, just a series of handoffs. And don't forget, handoffs are the most dangerous times for patients. The DNA of team-based care—real team-based care—for better or worse, are the relationships between team members, between physicians who work together, between doctors and patients, between clinicians and clinicians. So, fostering relationships, creating opportunities to collaborate and talk, is not to be underestimated. How do you re-create the doctors' lounge in 2023? 4. Getting out from underneath the long shadow of fee-for-service incentives, specifically the paradigm that only patients who get mindshare are the ones in the exam room. Value-based care, integrated care is as much contemplating the patients who don't show up as the ones who do. This is a really big mind shift, much bigger than many realize.   You can learn more by reaching out to Dr. Scanlan on LinkedIn.     Amy Scanlan, MD, serves as chief medical officer for the new joint venture CIN between UCHealth and Intermountain Health—a physician-led, clinically integrated network of more than 700 primary care providers from UCHealth, Intermountain Health Peaks Region, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and multiple independent practices along the Front Range. Dr. Scanlan trained as a family practice physician and has continued to practice for the past 25 years. She has worked as a physician-owner in a small independent practice and has held multiple leadership positions as part of large health systems. She has served on numerous health system committees spanning quality, innovation, recruitment, and credentialing. She is very familiar with value-based care models, having been part of an accountable care organization (ACO) practice for the past 15 years, as well as participating on an ACO Practice Performance and Standards Committee and serving on a local ACO board. She received a bachelor's degree with honors from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She obtained her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she received the Kiwala Award for Research in Family Medicine. Her residency was completed at St. Anthony's Family Medicine Residency program in Denver. She is currently board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) certified in diabetes.   06:33 How is Dr. Scanlan thinking about the transformation process and the shift to value? 09:14 “It is really trying to think about, how do we help practices get there?” 11:46 “The hard part is the in-between spaces.” 14:10 “Team-based care done badly is really just a series of handoffs.” 15:50 “We have to get to that point where the culture of collaboration is more pervasive.” 19:57 “How do we as healthcare providers step in and solve this problem?” 20:04 Why do providers have a responsibility to step in and try to fix the healthcare system? 20:20 Article (unpaywalled) by Eric Reinhart, MD, PhD. 21:50 Why do physicians need to be accountable for the cost of care as well as outcomes? 23:37 Why does physician burnout give Dr. Scanlan hope? 24:25 What is the solution to changing fee-for-service incentives? 25:42 What are some of the challenges facing changing incentives? 27:14 Why is data so important? 28:53 EP393 with David Muhlestein, PhD, JD. 30:11 “It's important to understand that we are in the middle of this change.” 31:16 Dr. Scanlan's advice for those trying to stand up a CIN.   You can learn more by reaching out to Dr. Scanlan on LinkedIn.   Amy Scanlan, MD, of @uchealth discusses real-world #clinicalintegration on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Peter J. Neumann, Stacey Richter (EP400), Dawn Cornelis (Encore! EP285), Stacey Richter (EP399), Dr Jacob Asher, Paul Holmes, Anna Hyde, Dea Belazi (Encore! EP293), Brennan Bilberry, Dr Vikas Saini and Judith Garber  

AAAAAAAAAA I hope you guys love this as much as I do!! I am so excited to be posting another song for all my followers, after all, it has been a while. (Btw this is an English + a little bit of Spanish song) Sorry about the quality though, you might not be able to decipher the Spanish lyrics because it's very hard to speak Spanish loudly into my mic. So to help you here is what I am saying. (only the Spanish part) Eres mi sol, mi luna y mi estrella. Tu amor es todo lo que necesita. Translation: You are my sun, my moon, and my star. Your love is all I need. Also also, this isn't about anyone in particular; it's kind of just how I want to feel about someone. Nevertheless, enjoy!

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-resident-contrarian-on-unfalsifiable I. Contra Resident Contrarian . . . Resident Contrarian writes On Unfalsifiable Internal States, where he defends his skepticism of jhana and other widely-claimed hard-to-falsify internal states. It's long, but I'll quote a part that seemed especially important to me: I don't really want to do the part of this article that's about how it's reasonable to doubt people in some contexts. But to get to the part I want to talk about, I sort of have to. There is a thriving community of people pretending to have a bunch of multiple personalities on TikTok. They are (they say) composed of many quirky little somebodies, complete with different fun backstories. They get millions of views talking about how great life is when lived as multiples, and yet almost everyone who encounters these videos in the wild goes “What the hell is this? Who pretends about this kind of stuff?” There's an internet community of people, mostly young women, who pretend to be sick. They call themselves Spoonies; it's a name derived from the idea that physically and mentally well people have unlimited “spoons”, or mental/physical resources they use to deal with their day. Spoonies are claiming to have fewer spoons, but also en masse have undiagnosable illnesses. They trade tips on how to force their doctors to give them diagnoses: > In a TikTok video, a woman with over 30,000 followers offers advice on how to lie to your doctor. “If you have learned to eat salt and follow internet instructions and buy compression socks and squeeze your thighs before you stand up to not faint…and you would faint without those things, go into that appointment and tell them you faint.” Translation: You know your body best. And if twisting the facts (like saying you faint when you don't) will get you what you want (a diagnosis, meds), then go for it. One commenter added, “I tell docs I'm adopted. They'll order every test under the sun”—because adoption means there may be no family history to help with diagnoses. And doctors note being able to sort of track when particular versions of illnesses get flavor-of-the-week status: > Over the pandemic, neurologists across the globe noticed a sharp uptick in teen girls with tics, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Many at one clinic in Chicago were exhibiting the same tic: uncontrollably blurting out the word “beans.” It turned out the teens were taking after a popular British TikToker with over 15 million followers. The neurologist who discovered the “beans” thread, Dr. Caroline Olvera at Rush University Medical Center, declined to speak with me—because of “the negativity that can come from the TikTok community,” according to a university spokesperson.   Almost no one who encounters them assumes they are actually sick. Are there individuals in each of these communities that are “for real”? Probably, especially in the case of the Spoonies; undiagnosed or undiagnosable illnesses are a real thing. Are most of them legitimate? The answer seems to be a pretty clear “no”. I'm not bringing them up to bully them; I suspect that there are profiteers and villains in both communities, but there's also going to be a lot of people driven to it as a form of coping with something else, like how we used to regard cutting and similar forms of self-harm. And, you know, a spectrum of people in between those two poles, like you'd expect with nearly anything. But it's relevant to bring up because there seem to be far more Spoonies and DID TikTok-fad folks than people who say they orgasm looking at blankets because they did some hard thinking (or non-thinking) earlier. So when Scott says something that boils down to “this is credible, because a lot of people say they experience this”, I have to mention that there's groups that say they experience a lot of stuff in just the same way that basically nobody believes is experiencing anything close to what they say they are. Granting that this is not the part of the article RC wants to write, he starts by bringing up “spoonies” and people with multiple personalities as people who it's reasonable to doubt. I want to go over both cases before responding to the broader point. II. . . . On Spoonies “Spoonies” are people with unexplained medical symptoms. RC says he thinks a few may be for real, but most aren't. I have the opposite impression. Certainly RC's examples don't prove what he thinks they prove. He brings up one TikToker's advice: In a TikTok video, a woman with over 30,000 followers offers advice on how to lie to your doctor. “If you have learned to eat salt and follow internet instructions and buy compression socks and squeeze your thighs before you stand up to not faint…and you would faint without those things, go into that appointment and tell them you faint.” Translation: You know your body best. And if twisting the facts (like saying you faint when you don't) will get you what you want (a diagnosis, meds), then go for it. One commenter added, “I tell docs I'm adopted. They'll order every test under the sun”—because adoption means there may be no family history to help with diagnoses. This person is using a deliberately eye-catching title (Lies To Tell Your Doctor) to get clicks. But if you read what they're saying, it's reasonable and honest! They're saying “If you used to faint all the time, and then after making a bunch of difficult lifestyle changes you can now mostly avoid fainting, and your doctor asks ‘do you have a fainting problem yes/no', answer yes!” THIS IS GOOD ADVICE. Imagine that one day you wake up and suddenly you have terrible leg pain whenever you walk. So you mostly don't walk anywhere. Or if you do have to walk, you use crutches and go very slowly, because then it doesn't hurt. And given all of this, you don't experience leg pain. If you tell your doctor “I have leg pain”, are you lying ? You might think this weird situation would never come up - surely the patient would just explain the whole situation clearly? One reason it might come up is that all this is being done on a form - “check the appropriate box, do you faint yes/no?”. Another reason it might come up is that a nurse or someone takes your history and they check off boxes on a form. Another reason it might come up is that everything about medical communication is inexplicably terrible; this is why you spend umptillion hours in med school learning “history taking” instead of just saying “please tell me all relevant information, one rational human being to another”.

Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā Chapter 8 Text 38 āmā nistārite tomāra ihāṅ āgamana parama-dayālu tumi patita-pāvana   TRANSLATION “You have come here specifically to deliver me. You are so merciful that You alone can deliver all fallen souls. Note: Due to some technical difficulties, Maharaja often gets disconnected.

In this archive episode, Dennis expounds on the nuances of searching a vehicle with probable cause after an arrest and a search incident that leads to arrest in a motor vehicle setting. Recorded on 07/19/2018. State v Eckel 2006 - There is no such thing as search of a vehicle incident to arrest. THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN A VEHICLE THAT HAS PC TO SEARCH. See State of NJ v Witt 2015 below. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13373502352381477276&q=eckel&hl=en&as_sdt=4%2C31&fbclid=IwAR3V1lVy04MfN4y8HaSoX8v7oNaopdzm2NtImdH8oagNrZcIiJCPha6j2_I (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13373502352381477276&q=eckel&hl=en&as_sdt=4,31) Also see Arizona V. Gant (2009) which replaced NY v. Belton (Belton Bright Line Rule).https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16930540025490515536&q=arizona%20v%20gant&hl=en&as_sdt=3%2C31&fbclid=IwAR07ktl6cAjsZ9LAW3f06FhqTroQoM_Mu0vB3FM-p6kgg3YxyRcJXmP4faI (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16930540025490515536&q=arizona+v+gant&hl=en&as_sdt=3,31) State v. William Witt 2015 - Significantly, we also made clear in Alston, supra, that merely because “the particular occupants of the vehicle may have been removed from the car, arrested, or otherwise restricted in their freedom of movement,” police were not required to secure a warrant. 88 N.J. at 234. Last, relying on Chambers, we emphasized that “when there is probable cause to conduct an immediate search at the scene of the stop, the police are not required to delay the search by seizing and impounding the vehicle pending review of that probable cause determination by a magistrate.” Id. at 234–35. (Translation: You don't need to call a judge and get a search warrant.) https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar_case%3Fcase%3D10598890643338692273%26q%3Dwitt%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D4%252C31%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ySCqfsxQmfnGQBl-STl2DFs8BY-Ct_i1cKBKhpYQXq6zuD8n4y39gI_Q&h=AT1d7eQPdhjbdxHhiQ10i4MIpGO_y5T937G9uzhznDcKt8O2pcKbsnmK9lYZ1pdDK_W85B72mGP3lJexeLa-hwV2Lu7X8Iq76sp3DtXu6gknzhNlzryKnplmL8CdDdiKl3saq882G7xqUFSyqQ&__tn__=-UK-R (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10598890643338692273&q=witt&hl=en&as_sdt=4,31) State of NJ v Irelan 2005 - This case ruled officers have the right to search a motor vehicle for open containers after an arrest for DWI. (1) the police may lawfully effect a custodial arrest of a motorist when there is probable cause of a DWI violation; (2) incident to the arrest, the police may search the person of the arrestee; and (3) a contemporaneous warrantless search of the vehicle is permissible We hold that these facts are sufficient to support a reasonable well-grounded suspicion that alcohol was consumed in the vehicle, and thus the vehicle contained open containers of alcohol. Therefore, the probable cause prong of the automobile exception is met. This will be allowed for CDS related DWI's as well. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9640666213244871786&q=irelan&hl=en&as_sdt=4%2C31&fbclid=IwAR2m6zphP5nu4GJQ1jZ7QnNg4AFW1BUF_N2F5YpvuV477DGKBSukpGy-0oI (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9640666213244871786&q=irelan&hl=en&as_sdt=4,31)

While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways.Audio narration by Ad-Auris.  Pranay was on this week’s The Seen and the Unseen discussing all things public policy with ace podcaster, writer and thinker, Amit Varma. India Policy Watch: Dilip Kumar And India  Insights on burning policy issues in India- RSJDilip Kumar passed away this week. You might wonder why should that matter to a public policy newsletter. Well, there are reasons. For one, he has featured more than once in our past editions where we have used his films to clumsily make broader points about the choices we have made as a nation. The other reason is great artists shape our collective identity and contribute to national consciousness. It is no surprise a lot of what has been written about Dilip Kumar this week has touched on this part of his legacy. I guess it will be in fitness of things for me to write one last piece on his legacy and how intertwined it is with our post-independent history. I’m not going to tread new ground here. If you go past the usual hyperbole about his ‘method acting’ ways and how he had to seek medical support to get over his ‘tragedy king’ persona, you will find the more serious commentators usually hold forth on three aspects of his career. First, how he was the embodiment of the Nehruvian ideal of India. Some went all the way to call him Nehru’s hero. Second, how his film ‘Naya Daur’ marked the high noon of India’s tryst with Nehruvian socialism. And third, how in his death we have lost the last link with an era that was marked by idealism and innocence. I think these are all relevant themes that should be brought up while discussing his legacy. But my reasons are a tad different from the popular narrative.Nehruvian IdealWhat did it mean to be the Nehruvian ideal of India in the years after independence? Nehru, Ambedkar and other members of the Constituent Assembly drafted the Indian constitution as a project of radical forgetting of our past. This, to them, was necessary to build a new India. But a radical forgetting of the past for a land as old as ours isn’t really an option. So, it was paired with the notion ‘reawakening from slumber’ which Nehru used in his tryst with destiny address. Nehru set the template for the reimagining of a new nation-state. Benedict Anderson reached a similar conclusion in his book Imagined Communities. Like we wrote in edition #62:Benedict Anderson defined the nation as a social community that’s imagined by people who believe they belong to it while being different from other such communities. Every newly formed nation has to define this imagination. And at that stage, it faces a choice. Or, as Anderson puts it, a paradox:“The objective modernity of nations to the historians' eyes vs. their subjective antiquity in the eyes of nationalists.”This is a tough ask especially for nations that are formed after a period of struggle. There’s a strong desire to start from a clean constitutional slate while paying homage to ‘subjective antiquity’ in areas outside the bounds of law and statecraft.  We concluded the following about the reimagination project of a newly formed nation:Newly independent nations like to make a new start that represents a break from the continuum of their history.Nations or communities that have a long history which can’t be wished away so easily use the trope of slumber and reawakening to represent the departure from the past.Historians are pressed into service to reframe history that shows the past events to be serving the nation-building or myth-making objectives of the present. To me Dilip Kumar was a Nehruvian ideal because he contributed significantly in mainstreaming this project of reimagination through cinema. His ‘natural’ style of acting, specifically his enunciation and dialogue delivery, were a marked departure from the theatrical or the singing style that was popular till then. Though Ashok Kumar and Motilal before him had started the trend, Dilip Kumar was a class apart. His style marked a break from how we watched and assessed a performance. Secondly, as much as he represented a new beginning, he also fitted the trope of reawakening. He was well read, he spoke on a wide-range of issues with acuity and he could quote from Indian, Persian or English literature with equal felicity. Lastly, as an artist, he contributed to the reframing of history and serving the myth-making objectives. His film persona of a sacrificing lover or son, his popularity among the masses who could see past his religion in the years right after partition violence and his social contributions (charities, supporting the troops etc) - they all contributed to the strengthening of the syncretic culture or the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb which was part of the reimagination project of Nehru. He was indeed the Nehruvian ideal. On Naya DaurI have written in edition #28 how Naya Daur is a fascinating film about the choice we made between the Gandhian ideal of a self-sufficient village economy that would reform itself organically versus the Nehruvian vision of a state-led modernisation programme that was inherently suspicious of a society rife with deep prejudices and discrimination. But many claim it to be a great example of Nehruvian vision. They have either not seen the film or have no idea what Nehruvian economics was all about. As I wrote then:……Naya Daur is, in fact, a stinging riposte to the Nehruvian state. It asks a fundamental question that had split even the Constituent Assembly – who should be the primary agent of change to modernise India? The state, the society, or the market? In siding with the society, Naya Daur seeks a rethink on the role of the state intervening in the lives of its people. We had a choice to make on how to modernise our society. Change from within or induce it from outside?….The enlightenment values of liberty, freedom and equality that philosophically underpinned the western democracies were difficult to root in the Indian intellectual or social context. Democracy, with equal rights to all citizens, was, therefore, an audacious gamble. But we chose that radical end.All that remained was what means should we adopt to change India?The market was quickly dumped as an option. The imperialist plunder that was seen as the handiwork of markets, the influence of Fabian socialism and the apparent miracle of central planning in the Soviet Union were enough to silence the pro-market voices. One would have assumed that the Gandhian vision centred on the society would have seen the market — that emphasises the merits of voluntary exchange between individuals — in more favourable terms. But that was not to be either.The society and the state, therefore, were the two poles around which the debates coalesced. We chose a top-down approach to change. Change will have to be driven as a programme of the state. That was Nehru’s central planning mantra.The statists won. Our constitution was to be more than a legal construct. It was to be a tool for social revolution engineered by the state. And, so began a schism in the Indian polity. The state was run by liberal-minded modernists who viewed the customs and traditions of the Indian society as impediments to progress. The common citizenry, on the other hand, viewed the rootless elite presiding over the state as a substitute of the colonial power who would ‘rule’ over them with, possibly, greater benevolence. At the heart of Naya Daur is a battle between human toil and the efficiency of the machine. Should a village accept a motorised bus or should it continue with horse-driven tongas?…..The usual last act drama ensues with man winning the race against machine. Dilip Kumar sums it up at the end when he claims the villagers aren’t against machines but want them in their lives on their terms. Let the society decide how it wants to change. Naya Daur was a film against the intervention of the state who would like to change the society from the outside. It was an anti-Nehru film in that sense.The role of the state has remained a principal axis of divergence in the Indian political discourse. These faultlines have greater salience today as the society questions the shibboleths on which the constitution and the modern India project was built. That favourite question of Amit Varma in his superb podcast The Seen and The Unseen – whether a liberal constitution was imposed on an illiberal society – is timely as the democratic mandate seems to offer legitimacy to the efforts of diluting the constitution.  Naya Daur was a huge commercial success. Not merely because the underdog won. Rather, it showed a mirror to the foundation of Indian society. The reflection we saw confirmed our biases. We weren’t as bad as the state made us out to be. Naya Daur has a message for the liberals who wring their hands in despair about the path India is going down today.The society isn’t the problem. Within it, possibly, lies the solution.  End Of An EraIt will be hard to argue with the passing away of Dilip Kumar we have lost something precious that linked us back to the years of hope and idealism post independence. But I would suggest that era had begun its decline from the 80s and was well and truly forgotten in the past decade. What remained was buried this week.So, what was this era about and what ended this week? I wrote about this and the notion of farz in edition #30:In his later years, Dilip Kumar often played an agent of the state (judge, police commissioner etc.) who would place his farz above everything else. In these roles, where he effortlessly blurred the lines between method acting and sky-high racks of piled up ham, Dilip Kumar would often shoot to kill or sentence to untold misery his own kin. Shakti, directed by Ramesh Sippy, is the prime example of this genre.  But I have always argued that the farz of agents of the state stems from their incentives. It often used to be at odds with their personal values.The state drove the agenda for change in society through the right set of incentives. Classic public choice theory at work.The foundational premise of modern India is that the state is ontologically prior to the society. The state should create legislation and structures that shape and change the society. Its agents who emerge from that society itself have the incentives to adhere to the philosophy of the state regardless of whether it aligns to their personal convictions.This created an unstable, yet desirable, equilibrium in India. The state was founded on values of equality, redistribution, secularism, fairness and social welfare. The society from where agents were drawn hadn’t fully accepted and internalised these values. So, you had free-market economists drafting socialist policies or an enlightened district magistrate who preached social equality at work but practised discrimination at home.But as the economy liberalised, the state lost its overbearing grip as the primary provider of employment and its ability to set the societal agenda. This had an unintended consequence.The liberalisation in the 90s led to the creation of a large middle class that didn’t depend on the state for its livelihood. This freed them from the incentives designed by the Indian state. The free-market incentives aren’t the same as that of the state. It rewards efficiency and value creation. For the middle class now, there was no need to live the dichotomous life their parents led – of having a professional code that was different personal code. Liberals are often surprised how well-educated professionals working for MNCs turn out to be bigots. The answer is simple. The state couldn’t change the society as it had expected. And, once the incentives from the state stopped mattering to the citizens, the mask dropped. You didn’t need the state for anything. So what use the code that it set?There’s no farz to adhere to because there’s no incentive. Further, the nature of the government running the state has also changed.You can argue the democratic mandate now is for the idea that the society is ontologically prior to the state. This changes the incentives for the agents of the state too. No longer do they have to align their ethics to that of the state. The state itself is being made to align its incentives to that of society. So, you have a scenario where both, those who depend on state and those outside it, have no conflict between their professional and personal codes. So, what has ended with Dilip Kumar? For new India, a great actor of the past whose films were slow and sad is no more. That’s about it. Life goes on.But what about for a generation and more who grew up believing the ideals of the Indian state as it was founded on? Those who invested in the idea of India that was shaped by Nehru? For them, the death of Dilip Kumar is a painful reminder of how things were, how they could have been and how far we are now from those ideals. Their loss is palpable. Like Shakeel Badayuni wrote in the Dilip Kumar sci-fi starrer Uran Khatola (1955):चले आज तुम जहाँ से, हुई ज़िन्दगी परायीतुम्हे मिल गया ठिकाना, हमें मौत भी न आयीTranslation:You have left this world today and we are bereft. You found your destination while we continue living in despair.If the content in this newsletter interests you, consider taking up the Takshashila GCPP. The certificate course is customised for working professionals. Intake for the 30th cohort ends on 22nd August. A Framework a Week: One Instrument, One TargetTools for thinking public policy— Pranay KotasthaneIn edition #9, I had identified multi-objective optimisation as the bane of policymaking in India. The key claim was that policies and institutions fail when they are laden with several objectives, resulting in a system that fulfils none. I had given three examples of instruments that fail this test in India —tax policy, traffic police, and MGNREGS.Turns out, a more elegant way to formulate this intuition is the Tinbergen Rule. It states that to successfully achieve 𝑛 independent policy targets at least the same number of independent policy instruments are required. A corollary of the Tinbergen rule is the assignment principle. Once a policy instrument has been mapped to a policy target, it becomes unavailable for pursuing other targets. The idea is simple in theory but tough to execute in practice. Forget governments, even smaller organisations burden one project with several targets. As Kelkar & Shah write in In Service of the Republic:Clarity of purpose is efficient for the principal and not the agent. It is our job, as policy thinkers, to hold the metaphoric feet of every agency to the fire, and hold it accountable for a narrow set of goals associated with a narrow set of powers. This principle results in a three-rule heuristic:Reduce the number of targets that the State is held accountable for.If #1 is not possible, increase the number of instruments or organisations, each responsible for a narrow set of targets.If #2 is not possible, coordinate policy instruments within the same organisation to achieve more than one target. The default mode of operation in India is jugaad i.e. #3. #2 requires increasing state capacity. #1 requires a radical reimagination of the State's role, which seems distant given how the welfare state continues to increase in scope across the world.PS: This is an excellent short paper on the need for administrative coordination even if the assignment principle is followed. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Article] Nirpal Dhaliwal in the Guardian on Dilip Kumar: “The actor, who has died at 98, gave expression to the intense cultural complexities raised as independence met modernity – with respect, depth and subtlety”. [Video] From Prasar Bharti archives: Dilip Kumar in an exclusive conversation with Noor Jehan. [Podcast] The next Puliyabaazi is with Disha Ahluwalia, an archaeologist, on recent findings of Indus Valley Civilisation artefacts. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa Chapter 2 Text 391 kṣetera pālaka tumi sarvathā āmāra sarva-kṣetre tomāre dilāma adhikāra   TRANSLATION “You will be the sole maintainer of My abodes. I authorize you to do this.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa Chapter 28 Texts 71-72 eteke ye kichu dravya āchaye tāhāra tomā’-sabākāra haya śāstra-paracāra eteke tomarā sabe āpane miliyā yena icchā tena kara mo yāṅa caliyā   TRANSLATION “You may all distribute the items He has left among yourselves. The śāstras declare that those items belong to you. So be satisfied, do as you...

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 37 Text 13 sa tvaṁ bhūdhara-bhūtānāṁ daitya-pramatha-rakṣasām avatīrṇo vināśāya sādhunāṁ rakṣaṇāya ca   TRANSLATION You, that very same creator, have now descended to the earth to annihilate the Daitya, Pramatha and Rākṣasa demons who are posing as kings, and also to protect the godly.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Chapter 37 Text 12 ātmanātmāśrayaḥ pūrvaṁ māyayā sasṛje guṇān tair idaṁ satya-saṅkalpaḥ sṛjasy atsy avasīśvaraḥ   TRANSLATION You are the shelter of all souls, and being the supreme controller, You fulfill Your desires simply by Your will. By Your personal creative potency You manifested in the beginning the primal modes of material...

How improving your movement can affect speed, agility, and more! You got an athlete who is slow as all hell. Maybe they can't get low enough in a cut, are slow at accelerating, or just stink at producing force. Is there a way to increase their athleticism? To do so we need one MAJOR KEY (DJ ZACLED) DJ ZACLED! (photo credit: Karen Roberts The stretch-shortening cycle. You know, that whole eccentric, amortization, concentric thang? What if you lost a piece of this cycle? What if you couldn't become eccentric in the spots you needed to because your hip mobility is broke AF?  Fortunately for you, we can apply many of the movement option concepts in the athletic realm, and get dope results in the process. Want to teach your peeps to be more explosive and dynamic in their sports? Then check out Movement Debrief Episode 129 below! Watch the video here.  If you want to watch these live, add me on Instagram. t Show notes Check out Human Matrix promo video here. Here are some testimonials for the class. Want to sign up? Click on the following locations below: October 3rd-4th, Ann Arbor, MI (Early bird ends September 6th at 11:55pm!) November 7th-8th, Charlotte, NC (Early bird ends October 11th at 11:55pm!) February 20th-21st, 2021, Atlanta, GA (Early bird ends January 17th at 11:55 pm!) May 1st-2nd, 2021, Minneapolis, MN (Early bird ends April 4th at 11:55pm!) May 29th-30th, 2021 Boston, MA (Early bird ends April 25th at 11:55pm!) Dickinson College in Carlisle PA (POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19) [Approved for 14 Category A CEUs for athletic trainers] Montreal, Canada (POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19) [6 CEUs approved for Athletic Therapists by CATA!] Or check out this little teaser for Human Matrix home study. Best part is if you attend the live course you'll get this bad boy for free! (Release date not known yet :( Here's a signup for my newsletter to get nearly 5 hours and 50 pages of content, access to my free breathing and body mechanics course, a free acute:chronic workload calculator, basketball conditioning program, podcasts, and weekend learning goodies. The seated box jump to a box is a great starting point for introducing both force production and absorption. The box basically allows you a tucked start, then minimizes the eccentric demands to allow for an effect jump. The Guide to Physical Therapy School - If you are interested in attending physical therapy school, want to pick the best place, and get the most out of it, this is the post for you. Sawbones - This is the website where I get all my bones in the Movement Debrief. If you want to learn how to stack, you'll want to check out this post. How to Improve Agility and Cutting Mechanics with Lunge Variations - This was an awesome video by Daddy-O Pops himself Bill Hartman where he outlines how to manipulate trunk rotation to improve your cutting skills. If you feel "stuck" in a hip, these are great variations. If you want to improve shifting into a hip to help with loading, then you could try this low-intensity move to acquire the skill. For a higher intensity variation, try this move, which can also bias some trunk rotation. To better explode out of a got, or to "get out" of the hip, this low-intensity variation is great. For a high-intensity variation, try this move. Lee Taft - Lee is THE GUY for all things agility training. You definitely want to check him out. If you want to peep a course review I did on Lee WAY back in the day, you can read that here. Derek Hansen - He is my go-to resource on all things sprint training. I reviewed a private course he did here. Agility - This is my compendium of several resources that are agility-related. Acceleration - This is my compendium of several resources that are acceleration-related. Elevate Sports Performance and Healthcare - This is the facility I work out of in wonderful Las Vegas. Brian Chandler - The owner of Elevate, and one of the top 50 coaches in Golf Digest. Has a vast experience working with elite golfers Brad Thompson - Our Strength and Conditioning director at Elevate. He's a beast at all things golf. Force Absorption and Production of Infrasternal Angles  Question: From the point of view of sports training, which ISA would be more efficient in generating force and which in absorbing it (Acceleration Vs Deceleration)? Why? Watch the answer here. Answer: The #majorkey is understanding what type of contractile action is needed to both generate and absorb force. Force absorption = eccentric Force production = concentric Absorbing force requires accepting the forces imparted on a body, and an eccentric contraction is needed for that acceptance. Whereas producing force requires going against the forces imparted on the body, thus a concentric contraction. Assuming no secondary compensations, there are certain infrasternal angles (ISA) that have greater eccentric ventral cavity bias, and some that have a concentric bias: Narrow ISA = eccentric bias = Force acceptor Wide ISA = Concentric bias = Force producer Now there is a HUGE (HYOOGE? SP) caveat to this: Assuming no secondary compensations. This is a poor assumption because it seems like all the fam nowadays have compensations left and right. You can have narrows that develop concentric biases that make force absorption whack, and you can have wides that develop weird eccentric biases that make their force production weaksauce. Moral of the story? Don't assume...fam. Alright, so we can't assume certain presentations will be good at anything, but are their useful heuristics to follow for improving absorption and production? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! There are some useful strategies that can get your force utilizing on point. Here's what I recommend: Improve force absorption by: Squatting High depth shifting Slow eccentrics Drop catches Reaching Improve force production by: Hinging Shifting OUT of shifts Move heavy shit Move shit fast plyometrics Pulling May the force be with you! Balancing PT school and outside learning  Question: How does someone who is interested in practicing PT similar to how I do stay relevant while in PT school? Watch the answer here. Answer: My biggest PT school regret (besides taking out too much in loans) is not mastering the basic sciences. Same with undergrad. Acquiring a black belt at the basics is going to make you a better consumer of research and concepts, and allow you to make better clinical decisions. I was having this great conversation with Bill the other day about this very topic. The issue with the way school teaches the sciences is there is no application, so you memorize a bunch of stuff, then fuggedaboutit. You need application. This is where learning stuff outside of school can be helpful, especially if you aren't seeing patients on the regular. Jokers like myself can help provide context to what you are learning in school. Why is that kinesiological concept important? We can show you why. Reduced hip explosiveness  Question: When working with an athlete in a transverse plane move, they feel "slower" on one side of the hip (left) compared to the other (right) side. Or if I have someone who feels "stuck" in a hip during sprinting or agility work, what do I prioritize and what drills do I like? Watch the answer here. Answer: You are dealing with one of two problems when you have someone struggle with getting into/out of hips: They cannot shift far enough into a hip to take advantage of the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC). They cannot produce enough force to quickly get out of the loaded position Before performing either of these actions, YOU MUST have the ability to stack. If you can't stack (don't talk to Zac), then you cannot adequately get the hips into a position to load OR explode. Translation: You slow AF, fam. So you basically have two qualities you need to work on: Work on shifting into the hip Work on shiting out of the hip If you need to shift into the hip, you'll want the sacrum to rotate towards the desired hip. Here is a great move to work on that. If you need to shift out of the hip, you'll want to sacrum to rotate away from the desired hip. Here is a great move to work on that. From here, it's simply a matter of progressing intensity. Stacking = posterior tilt?  Question: Is stacking promoting posterior pelvic tilt? Watch the answer here. Answer: To some degree, yes. The goal of the stack is to "align" the thoracic and pelvic diaphragm. Or in laymen's terms, make sure your top half is atop your bottom half. Most people compensate through an anterior pelvic tilt, so you need to posteriorly tilt your way to a stacked position. Realize that I'm not advocating for you statically walking around keeping a tuck 'til death do you part. The maneuver is used to improve your movement options big dog. Trunk rotation for the rotational athlete Question: I would love to hear about how you handle trunk rotation with the look for rotational sport athletes ie. golf, tennis. Watch the answer here. Answer: Not a whole lot changes from any other person. Sorry, you are not that special :( I'm just starting to get into working with more golfers, and colleagues and I have been applying the concepts discussed throughout this site. And boy oh boy, it's incredible how giving the same poop that we do to everyone else REALLY HELPS this population. Most people lack the stack, and this population it's especially so. I'm blown away daily by how many great golfers do so amazing with such little ability to legitimately rotate. As always, start with the stack. Once you have the stack down pat, you can start introducing some rotational-based activities. My early phase rotation can start within the first block. How do you do this? Two key moves: Single-arm pushes Single-arm pulls Carries All of these activities will allow for some degree of trunk rotation to occur, especially if you allow a big ole' arm swing on your carries. You can make any push or pull exercise more rotational in nature by alternating as well, such as this move. Once they've mastered the above moves, AND they can squat parallel, I would incorporate the shifting work discussed above. Then, they will be royalty of the rotation nation! Sum Up Those with an eccentric bias (narrow) will be better at force absorption, those with a concentric bias (wide) will be better at force production. Most people, however, stink at both. Master the basic sciences while in PT school, use outside learning to apply your knowledge gained. To better explode in/out of hips during sport, stack, then focus on shifting in and out of hips. Stacking uses a posterior pelvic tilt to attain the position, though a static posterior tilt isn't necessarily the goal. Improving trunk rotation involves first stacking, then driving rotation through pushes, pulls, and carries, followed by shifting.

Episode Notes Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VR1sJMtl8e9ph14hET7EA[“Hablamos Mañana,” by Bad Bunny]Maria: So now we're going to kind of touch on his music because he came out with the new album. Nat and I literally waited until midnight to hear it, but I also think we're not the only ones. Natalia: No.Maria: Everyone did. Everyone was waiting. Also, he released an album for the first time in 16 months yet, X100PRE stays relevant. I still listen to X100PRE every day.Natalia: X100PRE came out on Nochebuena. So in Latin America, Nochebuena is the day before Christmas and that’s celebrated more than Christmas Day. Maria: Yeah, the night of the 24th of December. Natalia: So what did I do? So I was in Mexico, but I was with all my cousins. I have a lot of cousins and they're like kinda running all over the place. So I locked myself in like a room. Plug my headphones in, listen to it, walked out, and was like wow. Merry Christmas. Best Christmas present I've received. Getting back to his new album.Maria: Yeah. Let’s get back into Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana. We kind of like decided that we're gonna touch on our personal favorites and then also the songs we think are going to be the biggest hits. Natalia: So this album is completely Latino. Unlike the last album where Bad Bunny had a song with Drake, this one features collabs with only Latin artists, but from all over Latin America. With Duki from Argentina, Pablo Chill-E from Chile, Sech from Panamá, and Daddy Yankee, who is an overall reggaeton icon. He sings Gasolina, which you've probably all heard.Maria: And he was also the inspiration for Bad Bunny to become an artist.Natalia: Bad Bunny is living his dream.Maria: So we're going to kind of like alternate and talk about our favorites. Natalia: So the first song in the album is “Si Veo a Tu Mamá”, which is like at the very beginning. The beat is very catchy. But some of you might have recognized it because he sampled a song called “The Girl From Ipanema”. And so that's why it might sound very familiar and I think it's so cool that he did that. It kind of shows how he can modernize it. And then also the lyrics. When he says, “Solo comparto memes, ya no escribo nada. Y no he borra’o tu foto, solo la puse en privada.” So that translates essentially to “Now I only share memes, I don't write anything anymore. I didn't delete your photo. I only put it on private”. And I think that really speaks to our generation.Maria: Yeah. Natalia: Because... Yeah, so the song is more melancholy and kind of sad...Maria: But it's also really happy. It's the one thing I’ll point out.Natalia: Which is very ironic. And it's great. Musically, great song. Maria: Yes. Okay. One of my favorites is “La Santa”, which is Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny’s collaboration on this album. I actually didn't think I’d like it as much, but the more I listened to the album, the more it stood out to me. I think more because lyrically I kind of really liked it. Like I saw this TikTok...Natalia: Oh no.Maria: About like this guy who was talking about how like Bad Bunny’s album is kind of like phases of a breakup.Natalia: Yes, I saw that TikTok. Maria: Yeah. And so like, I don't know. I feel like this is like one that's particularly like when you start realizing that you're catching feelings for someone but you're in denial. And I think it perfectly captures that feeling. Natalia: So, kind of going off of that. So, Bad Bunny...he kind of tells a story that's not – it's not chronological – but he tells a story throughout his album. So the next song I really like is “Pero Ya No”. And this is kind of at the end of the last phase of a relationship where it's like, I used to like you, you used to like me, but not anymore. And honestly, Bad Bunny has some really funny verses. When we were listening to this, like, the first time we listened to it fully, I laughed a few times. Maria: Oh, yeah.Natalia: This is one of the lines. He says, “A mí ya no me cachas, yo no soy un Pokémon”. (Translation: You can’t catch me anymore, I’m not a Pokemon.) And I just think that's so funny. Yeah. And it's kind of like at the end of the breakup when you finally move on, and it slowly turns more and more upbeat kind of to symbolize the moving on and freeing yourself from a relationship. Which I think is really artistic. Maria: So another one of my favorites is “Yo Perreo Sola”. Natalia: This is gonna be the hit.Maria: This is gonna be a hit.Natalia: It is a hit already. Maria: Like it's so good. I love this because this song really is like that... Natalia: This is like Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” but like in 2020.Maria: But also, this is the type of stuff Benito does where like he's a male but he's perfectly...Natalia: Supporting female empowerment.Maria: Yes.Natalia: But also, something Bad Bunny does a lot is he mentions some of his earlier songs.Maria: Yeah.Natalia: So like in this he says, “Ella está soltera antes que se pusiera de moda,” which means she was single before it was in style. This is to reference his song “Soltera” with Lunay.Maria: and Daddy Yankee. Natalia: But yes, that’s “Yo Perreo Sola”. And then just a side note, Maria and I have formed these opinions after listening to the album constantly for like, three days so our opinions will probably change by like the end of the week. Maria: Yeah.Natalia: Because that's just the type of people we are. When I first listened to this, I was like “Safaera” is definitely gonna be a hit. It's gonna be the big one. But I will say that one part in “Safaera” where he plays the jaws theme song. And I just think that's so funny. He’s so creative with his music. Maria: The thing with “Safaera” that makes “Safaera” unique is that he sampled so many songs into one song and it works. Like…Natalia: Yes.Maria: How? Natalia: So, moving on. There’s this one song we both really, really like. I think “25/8” or 25/8 has some of the best lyrics of the entire album.Maria: It really does. Natalia: My favorite one is “No e’ que sea antisocial, e’ que ustede’ dan mala vibra” (Translation: It’s not that I’m antisocial, it’s just that you guys give off a bad vibe). Which I personally relate to because when I don't like someone or like don't like a certain group of people, I will literally just shut off and not talk.Maria: Mm-hmm. Natalia: Like sometimes people think I'm quiet or shy. But no, that probably just means I don't like you. My friends know I talk a lot. Do I talk a lot?Maria: I don't think so…Natalia: Okay, well, I talk. Maria: Yes. Natalia: So like, yeah, if you see me and like I'm in a group setting with you and I don't talk, or like ignore you…Maria: Now you know!Natalia: Now you know, sorry, I just like exposed myself out there.Maria: I genuinely I love “25/8”. It's one of my favorite songs. And I like the lyric that goes, “Nunca seguidor, yo siempre he sido un líder” (Translation: Never a follower, I’ve always been a leader). Because Benito, –I told this to Nat – I genuinely don't like artists who try to flaunt like they're the best. But Benito has all my respect and he can do that.Natalia: He has the right to.Maria: He has the right to. Natalia: In this song he calls out like the hourly wage in Puerto Rico, which is $7.25, and he's like, this is not a liveable wage. And so I think this song really personifies and embodies all of Bad Bunny, like all he stands for, what he's accomplished, where he's going…. I think this is one of his best works. Maria: I agree. Like, this song is the song that to me stands out lyrically in the album. Natalia: And then we kind of already touched on “P FKN R”. This kind of ties back to “25/8”. He again calls out the government to like do something. And I think this ties also into his song “Ser Bichote” in X100PRE. So a bichote is someone in a barrio or in a neighborhood, who is a drug trafficker. But he is loved in that community because he brings money into the community and distributes it. Essentially, like a Robin Hood type of figure. And so he compares himself to that, but with music. And he does the same thing in “P FKN R”. He makes a lot of metaphors with him, music, and drugs, which I think is very impactful since Latin America is many times associated with drugs. Maria: So okay, these past few days after the album came out the only thing I hear whenever the dorm is silent is Nat going “Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow”. I don't know why meow? Natalia: I can't sing so I have to use other vocal-like…vocal-like...things. Maria: So she's imitating this part of the song where it goes “Pr pr pr pr pr”. Natalia: Which I think is really funny PR like when you make the sounds together I mean, sound and I just think that's so funny. So the next song on the album is “Hablamos Mañana”, which is so good. This is like where he starts out with, he goes and he says, “Yo hago lo que me da la gana” which is the name of the album obviously. He mentions it throughout the entire album, but this one's so good. He's like I do what I want. At the end it kind of goes into this heavy metal type of thing. So Bad Bunny is also very much influenced by pop-punk, like Blink-182. And Maria's laughing because she knows that I went – I skimmed the surface of an emo phase in middle school. Maria: You say it with such shame.Natalia: It was a dark time in my past. So this was just giving me flashbacks. Maria: Yeah, Nat loves this song. I personally...I still like it. I just don't think that it's like... I understand why he’s kind of closing off the album with the title of the album. So I get it. Natalia: It also gives me a lot of like early 2000s Latin Pop Music vibes. Maria: Yeah. Natalia: Also, Bad Bunny is so flexible in genre and voice.Maria: Yeah.Natalia: So there's a lot, before we get to the last song on the album, he has so many other songs that are not in his two albums – which you should definitely listen to. But like “Chambea” versus “Cual Es Tu Plan”.Maria: Yeah.Natalia: The sounds are completely different.Maria: He said in an interview once that he knows that his audience will literally – he could like do rock. People will listen to it. He can do reggaeton. People will listen to it. He could do whatever genre he wants.Natalia: Okay, “Cual Es Tu Plan” isn't even a genre. It sounds like elevator music with a reggaeton slow backbeat and it's so good. Maria: “Cual Es Tu Plan” is one of the best songs.Natalia: And also “Estamos Bien” is so completely different on his previous album from all the other songs he had on there.Maria: And I will go ahead and again “Otra Noche en Miami” – literally one of the saddest songs. But also such a good beat. You can jam to it. Natalia: Like “Otra Noche en Miami” and also “Estamos Bien” are very different from his usual pop reggaeton sounds, but “Estamos Bien” is actually one of my – it was on my Spotify Wrapped. That was my most listened to song in 2019. I love that song.Maria: Oh, you're bringing back the Spotify Wrapped.Natalia: I love that song. It got me through a lot of stuff. It's a great song. I love it. And now for the last song on the album.Maria: Which is “

Translation: You are my mother you are my father you are my relative you are my beloved friend You are the highest wisdom You are divine wealth You are the God of all Gods

FREE GUIDE LINK: https://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/Website: https://songwritertheory.com/Follow Me on Twitter: @josephNVadala Episode Writeup:1. You Used ClichesIf I hear one more song talk about “never getting older” I'm gonna punch my computer screen. For frame of reference, the screen cost me about $200. Worth it.Guess what? Something can be cold without being compared to ice. Also, things besides knives cut. I don't want to hear about being “cut like a knife”. Stop it.If you're on your knees, get up. Save the knees for your proposal. And not everything happens “tonight”. Just because you work all day during the week doesn't mean the daytime doesn't have some experiences to offer.Stop it. Stop. The. Cliches.2. You had Nothing New To SayWe don't need another basic breakup song. We've been “blessed” with Taylor Swift for years and years and years of that crap. Heartbreak is a great subject but have something new to bring to the table.It needs to be genuine to your experience, if you try to water it down so everyone can relate to every line, the magic is gone and you have reduced your song to “nothing new to say”.Translation: You made your song suck. Stop it.3. You Forced a RhymeLet me guess. The reason some lyrics make no sense whatsoever is that you felt you “need to rhyme”. Well, congratulations, you made your song suck. Stop forcing the rhyme. No one notices if it rhymes and no one cares.You know what they do care about? How much your song sucks after forcing the rhyme. Stop it.4. You Forced the Second VerseReally? You took all those months to write your song. You spent hours dwelling on 2 different interval options for some random riff no one cares about.And yet your second verse is a miserable hunk of junk that has enough metaphorical duct tape on it to surround the earth.Stop it. Rewrite and revise that verse until it's actually good. Not just “a bunch of words that vaguely fit the theme, syllables, and rhyme scheme of the first verse”.5. You Wrote a Vanilla and Forgettable MelodyDo you even remember your own melody? If it's never been a tune you desired to hum in the shower, why would anyone else want to? Do you have emotion? Good, then show it with your melodies.Dang. Nothing wrong with a little passion. In fact, if you have no passion, get out of music and stop ruining it.6. You Wrote a Chorus that Doesn't ShineYou know the sun? What does that do? It shines. If your chorus doesn't shine, no one wants any part of this song.Your chorus being a let down is like killing the main character in the first combat sequence. Does Batman die the first fight he has with the Joker? Nope. So, be a bro, save Batman, and write a chorus that shines.7. You Didn't Bother To Make Sure the Lyrics FlowedAre your lyrics more awkward than your first dance with someone you liked? Do the lyrics step on toes and not know whether to look at your partner or the wall? Do they even know if they should keep arm distance or come in tight?Stop it. The lyrics should flow. Not only should syllables be more or less the same, but the emphasis the melody puts on words or parts of words should make sense.8. Your Instrumentation Is ForgettableYou just had to just do block piano chords didn't you? Not that there's anything wrong with that per se. But having a riff once in a while wouldn't kill you. In fact, it would make your songs suck less.You know what's better than a full band making your song better? Your song kicking metaphorical butt with just you and your instrument tearing it up.9. You Tried Too Hard to Make the Song Something It Isn'tLet the song be the song. Don't force it to be a rock song because you're a “rock guy” and think you're too cool to write a song sans electric guitars turned up to 11. If you usually have a poppy and catchy chorus, but this song is about despair, DON'T FORCE IT TO BE A CONFUSING HAPPY SOUNDING CHORUS WITH DEPRESSING LYRICS.Stop. It.Let the song live. Let the song be what it needs to be.10. You Stopped at “Good Enough”You lazy bum. How dare you stop at “good enough”. Edit it AGAIN. Rework that guitar riff. Change up the chords a bit. Make the piano part shine.Don't settle.

FREE GUIDE LINK: https://songwritertheory.com/freeguide/Website: https://songwritertheory.com/Follow Me on Twitter: @josephNVadala Episode Writeup:1. You Used ClichesIf I hear one more song talk about “never getting older” I’m gonna punch my computer screen. For frame of reference, the screen cost me about $200. Worth it.Guess what? Something can be cold without being compared to ice. Also, things besides knives cut. I don’t want to hear about being “cut like a knife”. Stop it.If you’re on your knees, get up. Save the knees for your proposal. And not everything happens “tonight”. Just because you work all day during the week doesn’t mean the daytime doesn’t have some experiences to offer.Stop it. Stop. The. Cliches.2. You had Nothing New To SayWe don’t need another basic breakup song. We’ve been “blessed” with Taylor Swift for years and years and years of that crap. Heartbreak is a great subject but have something new to bring to the table.It needs to be genuine to your experience, if you try to water it down so everyone can relate to every line, the magic is gone and you have reduced your song to “nothing new to say”.Translation: You made your song suck. Stop it.3. You Forced a RhymeLet me guess. The reason some lyrics make no sense whatsoever is that you felt you “need to rhyme”. Well, congratulations, you made your song suck. Stop forcing the rhyme. No one notices if it rhymes and no one cares.You know what they do care about? How much your song sucks after forcing the rhyme. Stop it.4. You Forced the Second VerseReally? You took all those months to write your song. You spent hours dwelling on 2 different interval options for some random riff no one cares about.And yet your second verse is a miserable hunk of junk that has enough metaphorical duct tape on it to surround the earth.Stop it. Rewrite and revise that verse until it’s actually good. Not just “a bunch of words that vaguely fit the theme, syllables, and rhyme scheme of the first verse”.5. You Wrote a Vanilla and Forgettable MelodyDo you even remember your own melody? If it’s never been a tune you desired to hum in the shower, why would anyone else want to? Do you have emotion? Good, then show it with your melodies.Dang. Nothing wrong with a little passion. In fact, if you have no passion, get out of music and stop ruining it.6. You Wrote a Chorus that Doesn’t ShineYou know the sun? What does that do? It shines. If your chorus doesn’t shine, no one wants any part of this song.Your chorus being a let down is like killing the main character in the first combat sequence. Does Batman die the first fight he has with the Joker? Nope. So, be a bro, save Batman, and write a chorus that shines.7. You Didn’t Bother To Make Sure the Lyrics FlowedAre your lyrics more awkward than your first dance with someone you liked? Do the lyrics step on toes and not know whether to look at your partner or the wall? Do they even know if they should keep arm distance or come in tight?Stop it. The lyrics should flow. Not only should syllables be more or less the same, but the emphasis the melody puts on words or parts of words should make sense.8. Your Instrumentation Is ForgettableYou just had to just do block piano chords didn’t you? Not that there’s anything wrong with that per se. But having a riff once in a while wouldn’t kill you. In fact, it would make your songs suck less.You know what’s better than a full band making your song better? Your song kicking metaphorical butt with just you and your instrument tearing it up.9. You Tried Too Hard to Make the Song Something It Isn’tLet the song be the song. Don’t force it to be a rock song because you’re a “rock guy” and think you’re too cool to write a song sans electric guitars turned up to 11. If you usually have a poppy and catchy chorus, but this song is about despair, DON’T FORCE IT TO BE A CONFUSING HAPPY SOUNDING CHORUS WITH DEPRESSING LYRICS.Stop. It.Let the song live. Let the song be what it needs to be.10. You Stopped at “Good Enough”You lazy bum. How dare you stop at “good enough”. Edit it AGAIN. Rework that guitar riff. Change up the chords a bit. Make the piano part shine.Don’t settle. 

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Emily visits comedian, actor and certified podcast royalty Adam Buxton at his home in Norfolk to take his whippet poodle cross, Rosie, out for a walk. He talks about dealing with criticism and insecurities, an embarrassing incident back in the '90s, the changing dynamic of his partnership with Joe Cornish, and he and Emily do their best Louis Theroux impressions. Dog tip: Dogs do speak but only to those who know how to listen. Translation: You know it's 2017? Can we move on from this whole 'outside toilet thing' please? Discover more at www.thetimes.co.uk Music by www.richjarman.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At what is considered Jesus’ first time preaching to a large crowd, he starts his sermon with “Blessed are”. What does that mean? To be happy, be envied. So what instructions do we receive in the first four Beatitudes? “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Translation: You are blessed when you are at the end of your rope. As Pastor Ronnie puts it, you have two choices, Just Hold On or Let Go. God works in both situations, sometimes He tells us to Hold On, keep going through it, He’s got it! Other times He tells us to Let Go. He’s got this! And Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted? Listen to find out more.