Podcasts about Ube

Join Jeremy Osterberger in this exclusive conversation with Tom Yura, president and CEO of UBE C1 Chemicals America and board chair of GBRIA (Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance). Tom breaks down UBE's $500M investment in South Louisiana, the first U.S. DMC/EMC production facility and the region's emergence as a clean energy and chemical manufacturing hub. Learn how UBE is working with local contractors, schools and organizations like GBRIA to build a skilled workforce, enhance safety through training and robotics and drive sustainable growth across Ascension Parish and beyond.  Learn more about UBE and GBRIA's economic development efforts in Louisiana. For more news on the renewable energy industry, manufacturing industry, oil and gas industry and more, visit: bicmagazine.com

Ube, the photogenic purple sweet potato from the Philippines, has been trending gradually in the United States. It got a boost recently when it made it onto the menu of the three Starbucks Reserve Roastery locations in Chicago, New York, and Seattle where it's added to a coconut cold foam and spooned over an Espresso Martini.Pat Cobe, senior menu editor of Restaurant Business, and Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, discussed the ube phenomenon, which also came up in Pat's conversation with the operators of Tous Les Jours, a Korean-based pastry concept that's growing quickly in the United States. Pat said they see ube and another trending Asian ingredient, matcha, as points of distinction for the brand.Speaking of trends and Korean food, Bret went to a preview of a collab between fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen and fine-dining Korean steakhouse Cote. Sweetgreen has collaborated with fine-dining chefs in the past, including Dan Barber of Blue Hill and Nancy Silverton of Mozza, and this new one features Korean sauces and marinades that are used in three limited-time offers: Two salads and a more substantial plate.The LTOs expand on Sweetgreen's introduction of steak last year—another trend in fast-casual restaurants. While chicken, always popular, is gaining even further traction at limited-service restaurants, Pat and Bret discussed how steak really shines as LTOs, including these new ones at Sweetgreen and the Steak Stroganoff at Noodles & Company, which was discussed during that chain's recent earnings call as a reason for the fast casual's relative success during the first quarter. Bret also sampled the returning Campfire menu at Cracker Barrel. It's become a harbinger of summer for the chain, which this year added a shrimp skillet with andouille sausage to the lineup. Bret also shared an interview with Indian chef Rasika Venkatesa, the former chef de cuisine of Mourad in San Francisco, who is now in New York City operating a series of pop-ups called Mythili, named for her grandmother. Venkatesa discussed her approach to cooking Indian food, and shared how she collected recipes from villagers from throughout the state of Tamil Nadu.

In this illuminating episode of "This is How We Create," host Martine Severin sits down with Ube Urban, a multifaceted creative leader who brings his Pacific Islander heritage to the forefront of his design practice and mentorship approach. Born in Hawaii with Japanese, Black, Native American, and Filipino roots, Ube shares his journey from island life to becoming a head of customer experience in corporate America. Through candid conversation, he reveals the challenges of maintaining cultural identity while navigating mainland expectations and professional environments where he is often "the only one." In this episode, you'll discover: How Ube's upbringing in Hawaii shaped his approach to organization, presentation, and identity The concept of "invisible work" in both design and cultural navigation Ube's framework for mentorship helps others discover and maintain authentic personal brands The struggles of cultural displacement and the pressure to compartmentalize identity in professional settings Why "authenticity" can be a complicated concept for those with multicultural backgrounds Ube offers valuable insights for creatives navigating multicultural identities, providing a compelling perspective on maintaining cultural roots while forging new professional paths. His story reminds us that true decolonization of design means embracing the full intersectionality of our experiences. Quotes from the episode: "When I came to the mainland, I was essentially this person kind of holding this gem... and then I had battle balloons over time and my shiny diamond turned into this rough rock." "Being in Hawaii, you're just like, 'This is who I am, this is who we all are.' I don't have to prove to you my existence or my family or pride. We all share that." "How can you control something that a corporation, an agency, or a company cannot control? That is the hardest part." Chapters   00:00 Introduction to Ube Urban and His Work 03:31 Ube's Background and Identity 10:07 Navigating Cultural Identity and Professional Spaces 16:49 The Journey of Self-Discovery 23:24 Transitioning from Hawaii to the Mainland 26:21 Ube's Framework for Authentic Branding 31:17 Questions for Self-Discovery 38:10 The Challenge of Individuality in a Conformist Society 46:08 Reflections on Growth and Future Generations CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST: Website: https://www.ubeurban.com/ Linkedin: ubeurban   Support the Show Website: Martine SeverinFollow on Instagram: Martine | This Is How We CreateSubscribe to the Newsletter: Martine's Substack This is How We Create is produced by Martine Severin and edited by Santiago Cardona.  

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we're continuing our conversation from last week on how to prepare for the bar exam as a 3L. Today we cover the differences between the UBE and state-specific exams, we emphasize the importance of adopting a growth mindset and avoiding burnout during bar prep, and we share practical advice on which law school classes are a "must" for the bar exam. In this episode we discuss: The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) versus state-specific exams The role your mindset plays in being successful on the bar Choosing the right classes for bar prep How to practice essays and performance tests effectively Avoiding burnout during the bar study period Resources UBE (MEE + MPT) Writing of the Week (WOW) Course (https://barexamtoolbox.com/ube-mee-mpt-writing-of-the-week-wow-bar-exam-course/) The Brainy Bar Bank: Streamlining Bar Study (https://barexamtoolbox.com/brainy-bar-bank/) NCBE: National Conference of Bar Examiners (https://www.ncbex.org/) NextGen Bar Exam (https://nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org/) Podcast Episode 1: Mindset – The Key to Success in Law School? (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-1-mindset-key-success-law-school/) Podcast Episode 63: Dealing with Self-Sabotaging Behavior in Law School (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-63-dealing-self-sabotaging-behavior-law-school/) Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 46: Should You Take Bar Classes in Law School, and When? (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-46-should-you-take-bar-classes-in-law-school-and-when/) Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 52: Avoiding Burnout While Studying for the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-52-avoiding-burnout-while-studying-for-the-bar-exam/) Writing Practice, From Week One Until the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/writing-practice-from-week-one-until-the-bar-exam/) Download the Transcript  (https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-486-preparing-for-the-bar-exam-as-a-3l-part-2/) If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-school-toolbox-podcast/id1027603976) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Law School Toolbox website (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/contact). If you're concerned about the bar exam, check out our sister site, the Bar Exam Toolbox (http://barexamtoolbox.com/). You can also sign up for our weekly podcast newsletter (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/get-law-school-podcast-updates/) to make sure you never miss an episode! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee

Spoštovani, te dni sem se srečal z obupanim človekom, ki je na begu pred Bogom. Ubežnika sem takoj začutil, kajti tudi sam pišem v srcu sramotilne spise, pamflete o Bogu, čeprav sem teolog. Včasih bi raje to ne bil, ker moram nositi masko, da ne bi bil glede Boga pohujšljiv. Upravičeno mi je očital, da je postala Cerkev luksuzni boutique elite isto mislečih z opranimi možgani, ki živijo v svojem sanjskem svetu, s čimer sem se strinjal. Moj sogovornik, znani intelektualec, je hotel privoščljivo dati Boga na žerjavico, češ naj se nebeški genialec znajde v realnem svetu. Trdil je, da je postal človek prezrel, da bi verjel v Boga, ki je nesposoben vzdrževati svoj pravljični svet in da je postala beseda Bog najbolj odbijajoča. Ni vedel, da ni tako prekletega kraja, kjer ne bi bilo Boga (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). Ponovil mi je tudi Camusove besede iz Tujca, da je življenje prekratko, zato malo časa, kar mu ga je še ostalo, ne želi potratiti z nekim smešnim Bogom, moralnim strahopetcem, ki se boji zlo kaznovati, da bi bil končno svet lepši. Mislil je, da bo Boga podvrgel sebi in ga ujel v mišelovki, ker ni dojel, da je Bog več kot predmet našega dokazovanja in se nam je sam razodel kot trpeči Bog, ker je vedel, kaj nas najbolj žuli. Jezus je učil, da Boga ni treba iskati, kajti kdor vidi njega, vidi Boga, s tem pa tudi trpljenje Boga Očeta. Krščanstvo je edina vera, v kateri Bog trpi, a mi je sogovornik filozofsko oporekal, da Bog ne more trpeti, ker bi s tem izgubil svojo popolnost. Razložil sem mu, da njegovo trpljenje ne posega v Božjo popolnost, saj je trpel Božji Sin, Bog pa ob tem kot Oče, in da trpljenje izraža naravo njegove ljubezni. Trpljenje je v bistvu Božje bitje, je ranjena ljubezen, kajti prava ljubezen je trpeča. Zato o trpljenju vedo največ tisti, ki globoko ljubijo (Hans Urs von Balthasar). Razumevajoče sem poslušal njegove iskrene, besne in borbene izbruhe bojkota; vedel sem, da v bistvu fanatično brani Boga, ne pa svojega ateizma. Boga ne more zrušiti nihče; zrušijo se lahko le napačni koncepti o njem. Dojel sem, da je umrl Bog njegove percepcije o njem. Ni mogel verovati, ker ni poznal pravega objekta vere, nekoga, ki mu lahko zaupa, ne pa nečesa, Boga – mašine. Dokler ne moremo zaupati absolutnemu, nimamo smisla, s tem pa tudi gotovosti, zadovoljstva, miru, izpolnjenosti in sreče. Vsak veruje pravilno le, če veruje s svojo svobodno voljo, kar sem pri sogovorniku upošteval. Končno mi je priznal, da človek lahko teoretično živi brez Boga, praktično pa ne. In da ni srečen, ker svoje življenje veže na stvari in ljudi, namesto da bi ga vezal na cilj, na smisel. Pogovor z njim je bil prijeten, kajti ni bolj nevarnega kot vera, ki si ne upa dvomiti. Bil sem mu hvaležen za iskrenost, ker sem vnovič spoznal, da ima krščanstvo največ svetlobe. Če ne morem zaupati Bogu, komu potem sploh še lahko?

Episode 494Schramm and Cash are joined by Ube from Queen City Roller Derby to talk about the season starting this week and playing for Team Philippines in the coming World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria.

Coming in at #10 on the 2024 Cigar of the Year Countdown is the Casa Cuevas La Mandarria Oscuro. La Mandarria Oscuro is the second blend by Casa Cuevas under the La Mandarria line.  The La Mandarria line is a lemon-to-lemonade story for Casa Cuevas Cigars. La Mandarria translates to “The Sledgehammer.” The inspiration for La Mandarria came from the devastating effects of a robbery in the company's warehouse earlier in 2019. A sledgehammer was used to break into the warehouse. Later that year, Casa Cuevas released the first La Mandarria. La Mandarria pays homage to how Casa Cuevas overcame the adversity of the robbery. La Mandarria was initially released in a Habano wrapper as a limited edition offering. A year later, La Mandarria became a regular production offering. Full Details: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-uBE

Coming in at #10 on the 2024 Cigar of the Year Countdown is the Casa Cuevas La Mandarria Oscuro. La Mandarria Oscuro is the second blend by Casa Cuevas under the La Mandarria line.  The La Mandarria line is a lemon-to-lemonade story for Casa Cuevas Cigars. La Mandarria translates to “The Sledgehammer.” The inspiration for La Mandarria came from the devastating effects of a robbery in the company's warehouse earlier in 2019. A sledgehammer was used to break into the warehouse. Later that year, Casa Cuevas released the first La Mandarria. La Mandarria pays homage to how Casa Cuevas overcame the adversity of the robbery. La Mandarria was initially released in a Habano wrapper as a limited edition offering. A year later, La Mandarria became a regular production offering.   Full Details: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-uBE

Today's crossword is a cause for celebration. First, it was a great crossword (no surprise there -- check out the podcast for the deets), and second, it was edited by Will Shortz, the long time editor of the NYTimes crossword who had a stroke earlier this year. But demonstrating his indomitable spirit, Will has returned to the editor's chair, for which we are grateful. [Not that Joel Fagliano wasn't doing a fabulous job -- he was -- but it's just good to see Will's name back up on the marquee.]Show note imagery: UBE tiramisu, which looks deeeeeelish!We love feedback! Send us a text...Contact Info:We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com.Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Samsung gaat diep door het stof: opnieuw komt het bedrijf met een winstwaarschuwing. De kwartaalcijfers zijn ook nog eens onder de verwachting, ondanks dat de winst bijna verdrievoudigd is. Deze aflevering hebben we het over deze historische verontschuldigingen van het bedrijf. Want Samsung zegt niet alleen het spijt me tegen beleggers, ook tegen klanten én medewerkers. De directie verwacht dat het de komende tijd minder wordt. We bekijken of Nederlandse chipbedrijven ook een zware periode tegemoet gaan. Bij Foxconn geen zorgen. Die bouwen de grootste fabriek van de wereld. Eentje voor superchips. Dat vindt Nvidia ook super, want zij hebben die speciale chips nodig voor hun servers. Verder hebben we het over luxe-aandelen. Die hadden twee onvergetelijke weken: de beurskoersen gingen omhoog en dat allemaal dankzij China. Maar vanwege datzelfde landen donderden de koersen van Kering en LVMH weer naar beneden. Ook hoor je deze aflevering meer over de toekomst van Google, het AI-effect op Uber ritjes en bespreken we de cijfers van PepsiCo. Die hebben geen last van de concurrentie van Coca-Cola, maar van hun eigen klanten!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Samsung gaat diep door het stof: opnieuw komt het bedrijf met een winstwaarschuwing. De kwartaalcijfers zijn ook nog eens onder de verwachting, ondanks dat de winst bijna verdrievoudigd is. Deze aflevering hebben we het over deze historische verontschuldigingen van het bedrijf. Want Samsung zegt niet alleen het spijt me tegen beleggers, ook tegen klanten én medewerkers. De directie verwacht dat het de komende tijd minder wordt. We bekijken of Nederlandse chipbedrijven ook een zware periode tegemoet gaan. Bij Foxconn geen zorgen. Die bouwen de grootste fabriek van de wereld. Eentje voor superchips. Dat vindt Nvidia ook super, want zij hebben die speciale chips nodig voor hun servers. Verder hebben we het over luxe-aandelen. Die hadden twee onvergetelijke weken: de beurskoersen gingen omhoog en dat allemaal dankzij China. Maar vanwege datzelfde landen donderden de koersen van Kering en LVMH weer naar beneden. Ook hoor je deze aflevering meer over de toekomst van Google, het AI-effect op Uber ritjes en bespreken we de cijfers van PepsiCo. Die hebben geen last van de concurrentie van Coca-Cola, maar van hun eigen klanten!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode of our "Quick Tips" series, we have a bar exam survival kit, consisting of five important things to think about while preparing to sit for an exam administration. In this episode, we discuss: Deciding when and where to sit for the bar exam Knowing your jurisdiction Doing thorough research Taking note of all the deadlines The MPRE and character and fitness requirement Resources: Private Bar Exam Tutoring (https://barexamtoolbox.com/private-bar-exam-tutoring/) NCBE: National Conference of Bar Examiners (https://www.ncbex.org/) Podcast Episode 53: What to Do If Your Jurisdiction Is Adopting the UBE (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-53-what-to-do-if-your-jurisdiction-is-adopting-the-ube/) Podcast Episode 194: Quick Tips – The MPRE (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-194-quick-tips-the-mpre/) Podcast Episode 198: The NextGen Bar Exam (w/Doretta McGinnis) (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-198-the-nextgen-bar-exam-w-doretta-mcginnis/) Podcast Episode 277: California Is Outsourcing the Bar Exam to Kaplan?!? (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-277-california-is-outsourcing-the-bar-exam-to-kaplan/) Bar Exam 101: Have You Met Your Deadlines? (https://barexamtoolbox.com/bar-exam-101-have-you-met-your-deadlines/) How to Handle the Character and Fitness Portion of the Bar Application Process (https://barexamtoolbox.com/how-to-handle-the-character-and-fitness-portion-of-the-bar-application-process/) Biggest Mistakes Applicants Make on Character and Fitness (https://barexamtoolbox.com/biggest-mistakes-applicants-make-on-character-and-fitness/) Download the Transcript (https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-283-quick-tips-bar-exam-pre-logistics/) If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on  Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-pass-bar-exam-less-stress/id1370651486) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Bar Exam Toolbox website (https://barexamtoolbox.com/contact-us/). Finally, if you don't want to miss anything, you can sign up for podcast updates (https://barexamtoolbox.com/get-bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-updates/)! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee

 In this episode, the hosts discuss updates and insights related to recent bar exam results for multiple states, including Florida, Georgia, Texas, California, and UBE jurisdictions. They highlight the challenges and successes among exam takers, particularly focusing on the pass rates and trends in the exams. Detailed information is shared about essay topics, multiple choice sections, and performance tests for each state's exam, particularly Florida and California. Concerns regarding California's February 2025 exam structure due to legal and logistical issues are discussed, alongside the potential implications of alternative legal licensure pathways. The episode also covers the benefits and details of the upcoming Bar Exam Bootcamp as a preparation tool, emphasizing the intensive personal coaching and study strategies it offers to candidates. Lastly, the hosts encourage continuous study and provide options for personalized coaching to support exam candidates. 00:00 Welcome Back and Overview 02:11 Florida Bar Exam Insights 11:20 Georgia Bar Exam Updates  12:27 Texas and UBE Exam Results 17:07 California Bar Exam Preview 19:44 California Bar Exam Updates and Challenges 20:21 Kaplan's Role and Legal Complications 22:22 Future of the California Bar Exam 25:33 Alternative Pathways to Licensure 27:16 Introducing Bar Maps: A Study Aid 29:47 Bootcamp: Intensive Bar Exam Preparation 35:19 Coaching and Support for Bar Exam Success 36:33 Final Thoughts and Encouragement Video Episode 478 Featured in this Episode: Oct 2024 Bootcamp BarMaps® From Celebration Bar Review Order PhotoReading For The Bar Exam™ New Multistate Nutshell Videos™ Do Something Different! FREE Webinar Free Consultation with Jackson  

We create the coolest cocktails... Wanna see? We have a twist on a Trinidad Sour, a cocktail featuring Angostura Bitters, Rye whiskey, lemon juice, and a house made Ube orgeat! Come have a taste! Chandler: Instagram.com/chandlerdoesjokes Bumblebearcomedy.com Twitter.com/jokesfortrees James: Twitter.com/WhatFunnyFriend Instagram.com/theartofgivingup Facebook.com/wasthatingoodtaste --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/was-that-in-good-taste/support

We began with an inside look with Jake Kahan, the Chef and Partner of Sam and Maggie's Dockside Grill, located in Pasadena, MD. Having owned properties under Rockcreek Management Co. at Fairview Marina, it was a life-long dream of Jake's father to own a restaurant.  Although neither Marc nor Jake have attended culinary institute, both father and son dove into owning a family-run restaurant business with a huge success!  Extending the awe-inspiring vibes with views of the marina, each week the team of family members work together, creating a new menu for guests to enjoy.  Sam and Maggie's offers latin and caribbean-inspired cuisines, along with cocktails that are just a seasonally inspired as their dining options.  If you're looking to host an intimate wedding, gathering, or simply wish to enjoy a delightful night out--tune in so you can taste what the best of Pasadena, MD offers! (https://www.samandmaggies.com)Patrick Kohr is a third-generation of ice cream aficionados, and his family's name might ring a bell for anyone visiting the East Coast.  Although related to the original Kohr's Bros brand, his mother (Eva) decided to break tradition and offer creative takes on ice cream flavors based on her Filipino roots. So they began offering takes on UBE ice cream, Mango, and other Filipino favorites at their Kohr Soft Ice Cream business, located in Little Egg Harbor, NJ.  The new flavors were a huge hit with locals, and now visitors to the non-traditional ice cream spot keep coming back for more of their small-batch ice cream, soft serve, and more!  You can hear more about Patrick and his family's Kohr Soft Ice Cream by tuning in to Food Farms and Chefs, or visit them in-person for a flight!  (https://www.facebook.com/KohrSoftIceCream/)Lastly, I chatted with my long-time friend, influencer, and owner of Cultinary Family Farms, Eric de Grandmont.  I first came across Eric while scrolling through my social media threads, little did I know that he and I would constantly cross paths by knowing the same friends, covering the same places, and subsequently being at the same place and time.  So over the years I've come to know Eric and some of his family members-each time learning more about him and what he does.  So, it only made sense to bring him on so all of you can learn about Eric de Grandmont and his family-owned business: Cultinary Family Farms.  Eric's family grows garlic and other produce on small plots of land in south jersey, eventually roasting & producing his Vampire Killer-a black garlic-forward pesto (nut free).  Find out what else Eric offers and how to purchase his products by tuning in, and be sure to check out his foodie adventures on Cultinary Road Trip (https://www.instagram.com/cultinaryroadtrip) and his family farm (https://www.facebook.com/CultinaryFamilyFarms/)

What if all Clevelanders were guaranteed a job? And that job offered a salary suitable enough to provide for their families? As it turns out, the idea of a jobs guarantee gained momentum in the 1940s with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights. Now, the City of Cleveland will become the first city in the nation to launch a $21 million Universal Basic Employment (UBE) pilot program. Put simply, it will provide 100 participants with a job guarantee of $50,000 for three years. It plans to launch in 2026.rnrnAs the second poorest major city in America, Cleveland is looking to reduce poverty and the need for public assistance by guaranteeing a well-paid job. As opposed to the more popular "Universal Basic Income" - made popular by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang - UBE works directly with employers to subsidize existing, or new wages for its employees.rnrnJoin the City Club as we hear from Councilwoman Stephanie Howse-Jones, Devin H. Cotten with Universal Basic Employment & Opportunity, and Ken Surratt with the United Way of Greater Cleveland on what exactly UBE is - and is not - and what we can expect to learn from Cleveland's UBE pilot program.

Ube is the hippiest food trend and we take a look at the festivals that's serving up this sweet potatoe; Plus we have the scoop on South Asian ice cream; Cantopop makes a comeback at Bar 929; Rice Blossoms modernizes Korean desserts; Plus Gone With The Dogs pet store.

OVP247 – Wein am Sonntag – Bodegas Cota 45 – UBE de ubérrima – Miraflores 2021

"Cuando tu propósito es grande, trabajar duro, ser disciplinado y mantener una buena actitud no te pesa. Esa dedicación te permite destacar y alcanzar tus metas.” – Daniel Pastrán (

The conversation explores the transformation of a remodeling company's culture through the implementation of the Ultimate Building Experience (UBE) program. The program focuses on teamwork, exceptional customer experience, and being an exceptional employee, with a reward system for outstanding performance. The impact of the program on team dynamics, communication, and recruitment is highlighted, emphasizing the shift from negativity to positivity and teamwork. The conversation also delves into the details of the UBE program, its rewards, and the positive outcomes experienced by the company. ----- Explore the vast array of tools, training courses, a podcast, and a supportive community of over 1,900 remodelers. Visit RemodelersOnTheRise.com today and take your remodeling business to new heights! ---- Takeaways The Ultimate Building Experience (UBE) program has transformed the culture of a remodeling company, fostering teamwork, exceptional customer experience, and exceptional employee performance. The implementation of a reward system for outstanding performance has positively impacted team dynamics, communication, and recruitment, shifting the company's culture from negativity to positivity and teamwork. The UBE program focuses on creating a career experience rather than just a job, emphasizing the importance of creating an environment that inspires employees to work for a career, not just a job.

This morning Lamont revealed that he went to a party and ate Ube cookies and loved them. Listen to Lamont & Tonelli Monday through Friday, 6-10am, on 107.7 The Bone. Get your Rock N Roll Fix at: 1077thebone.com Follow 107.7 The Bone on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok. Follow 107.7 The Bone on Apple, Spotify or Amazon Music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This morning Lamont revealed that he went to a party and ate Ube cookies and loved them. Listen to Lamont & Tonelli Monday through Friday, 6-10am, on 107.7 The Bone. Get your Rock N Roll Fix at: 1077thebone.com Follow 107.7 The Bone on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok. Follow 107.7 The Bone on Apple, Spotify or Amazon Music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of the Extra Mile Podcast for Bar Exam Takers, hosted by Jackson Mumey with guest Judge Tracey Dawson, delves into a comprehensive overview of the bar exam landscape for 2024. The hosts cover a variety of topics, including a review of the February 2024 exams, strategies for starting preparation for the July 2024 exams, an introduction to the upcoming live Bootcamp for Bar Prep in Denver, and updates on the Next Generation Bar Exam alongside changes to the current Legacy Bar Exam. Additionally, they introduce a new video critique program for exam writing practice. The podcast emphasizes the importance of early and effective exam preparation, offering insights into exam patterns based on feedback from recent tests across various jurisdictions, such as Florida, California, and UBE states. The episode concludes with discussions on alternative paths to licensure without taking the bar exam, as seen in Washington state, and a brief on the logistical and beneficial aspects of attending their live Bootcamp event. 0:00 Episode 462 00:19 Introduction and Overview 01:52 Deep Dive into February 2024 Bar Exam Insights 16:12 Exploring the Next Generation Bar Exam 23:40 State-Specific Bar Exam Updates and Changes 24:07 Exploring Alternative Paths to Legal Licensure 24:38 The Challenges of Non-Traditional Bar Licensure Programs 28:58 Preparing for the July 2024 Bar Exam 31:26 Introducing the Video Critique Service for Bar Exam Prep 34:35 Announcing the Upcoming Live Bootcamp in Denver 44:49 Closing Remarks and Q&A Session Updates Want to know what's keeping you from success on the bar exam? Take this FREE 60-second [QUIZ] What's Your #1 Bar Exam Mistake? [QUIZ] What's Your #1 Bar Exam Mistake? Video Episode 462 Featured in this Episode: LIVE Bar Prep Bootcamp! BarMaps® From Celebration Bar Review Calming The Chaos™ Mindset Coaching Order PhotoReading For The Bar Exam™ New Multistate Nutshell Videos™ Do Something Different! FREE Webinar Free Consultation with Jackson  

Emmy winner and founder/CEO of Sunda New Asian Billy Dec joins Lisa Dent to talk about his new location opening up in Fulton Market, more than 15 years in the food industry, Ube in a margarita, and Billy’s creative pursuits.

Dumayo ng Melbourne ang ilang miyembro ng Filipino Food Movement mula Sydney para tumulong sa paghahanda ng 'Around the World with Ube: a 5-course tasting menu' sa kaunaunahang Ube Festival sa Melbourne, 'Colour our world purple'.

The first Ube Festival in Melbourne focused on the purple yam or ube as the main ingredient of the five-course meal, 'Around the World with Ube: a 5-course tasting menu'. - Sentro ng hapag kainan noong nakaraang Ube Festival sa Melbourne ang ibat-ibang lutuing Pilipino may sangkap na ube sa 'Around the World with Ube: a 5-course tasting menu'.

Ube cake, ube lamington, ube macarons, ube donut, and ube latte – these are just a few of the Filipino desserts or sweets made in a bakery in Sydney. - Ube cake, ube lamington, ube macarons, ube donut at ube latte ilan lang ito sa desserts o panghimagas na tatak Pinoy na gingawa sa isang bakery sa Sydney.

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're talking about the format and scope of the NextGen Bar Exam, which will eventually replace the UBE. The first administration of the new bar exam format is scheduled for July 2026. In this episode, we discuss: Timeline for replacing the UBE with the NextGen Bar Exam The subject matters and skills that will be tested The three question types planned for the new exam What classes to take in law school to help you be better prepared for the bar Score portability of the NextGen exam to different jurisdictions A few sample questions from the NCBE website Resources: NCBE: NextGen Bar Exam Content Scope (https://nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org/pdfviewer/ncbe-nextgen-content-scope-may-24-2023/) NCBE: NextGen Bar Exam FAQs About Recommendations (https://nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org/faqs/) NCBE: NextGen Bar Exam Sample Questions (https://nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org/nextgen-sample-questions/) Podcast Episode 83: Honing Your Mindset for Bar Exam Studying (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-83-honing-your-mindset-for-bar-exam-studying/) Podcast Episode 198: The NextGen Bar Exam (w/Doretta McGinnis) (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-198-the-nextgen-bar-exam-w-doretta-mcginnis/) Download the Transcript (https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-248-considerations-for-the-nextgen-bar-exam-plus-questions-we-still-have/) If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-pass-bar-exam-less-stress/id1370651486) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Bar Exam Toolbox website (https://barexamtoolbox.com/contact-us/). Finally, if you don't want to miss anything, you can sign up for podcast updates (https://barexamtoolbox.com/get-bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-updates/)! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee

Dr. Lindsey Hughey // #ClinicalTuesday // www.ptonice.com  In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Extremity Division Leader Lindsey Hughey discusses a modern approach to carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), including when central findings are present. Lindsey discusses examination and treatment, including the use of the rehabilitation every-minute-on-the-minute style (rEMOM) exercise dose. Take a listen to the episode or check out the full show notes on our blog at www.ptonice.com/blog. If you're looking to learn more about our Extremity Management course or our online physical therapy courses, check our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab. EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION INTRODUCTION Hey everyone, this is Alan. Chief Operating Officer here at ICE. Before we get started with today's episode, I want to talk to you about VersaLifts. Today's episode is brought to you by VersaLifts. Best known for their heel lift shoe inserts, VersaLifts has been a leading innovator in bringing simple but highly effective rehab tools to the market. If you have clients with stiff ankles, Achilles tendinopathy, or basic skeletal structure limitations keeping them from squatting with proper form and good depth, a little heel lift can make a huge difference. VersaLifts heel lifts are available in three different sizes and all of them add an additional half inch of h drop to any training shoe, helping athletes squat deeper with better form. Visit www.vlifts.com/icephysio or click the link in today's show notes to get your VersaLifts today. LINDSEY HUGHEYGood morning, PT on ICE Daily Show. How are you? Welcome to Clinical Tuesday, my favorite day of the week. I am Dr. Lindsay Hughey from our extremity management team, and I am here to chat with you today about an ortho-cert approach to carpal tunnel syndrome. And what do we do when it's not just the carpal tunnel, when we also see some central symptoms? So I am going to unpack what a fitness-forward approach looks like, how we will use our manual therapy to modulate symptoms, and then what psychologically informed looks like for this condition when we think about combining all the courses from our OrthoCert and putting that all together in an integrative way, how we can approach this condition. and then I'll leave you with a couple rehab e-moms at the end, so stay for that. CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME OVERVIEW So first off, let's briefly review what the subjective and objective presentation with someone with carpal tunnel syndrome and then possible central considerations that are present as well. Think double crush is kind of a common medical term present. So for that CTS, that carpal tunnel syndrome, we'll see classic sensory anesthesias or paresthesias in those first three fingers and then possibly that radial half of the ring finger. There may be motor deficits in our first and second lumbricals, opponent's pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis. So think about in your objective exam, thub abduction and thumb flexion may be weak. We'll also see, from an objective perspective, locally we'll see a positive phalanx and tonels, and then our carpal compression test. Patients will complain of interruption in gripping and daily tasks. They may even drop objects or have to shake out their hand to ameliorate symptoms. Often symptoms are worse at night, and then when they first wake up in the morning, and then tend to improve as the day goes on. When we also consider there might be some central things going on, it's that person that not only complains of what I just told you and had objective exam findings, but they also say they have some numbness tingling along that C5, C6 dermatome. They may complain of some local neck tightness or achiness in that mid to lower cervical spine area. on exam, you will find a UPA or central PA will elicit those familiar symptoms when you're around C5, C6. In addition, that dermatome distribution will be impaired and then reflex changes in that biceps reflex might be abnormal compared to that uninvolved side and we really understand the whole clinical picture when we use a body chart right and we really listen to that subjective and dial in their ags and eases so you find out when all of that's on board that there's two things going on at the same time and here's where we'll need our ortho hats where we need to put into practice what we know in our cervical class and what we know from our extremity class. APPLYING FITNESS FORWARD So first off what is fitness forward? when that's one of our primary pillars. So what does that mean for this condition and in general? Well, we are going to approach the whole human in front of us. We know that this typically affects females later in that fourth and fifth decade. they are two times females are two times more likely than males to have this condition and so appreciate that in that decade that's either you know a career focused time or family focused or a mix of the two so consider the stressors for that human that may or may not be involved in that decade. And then we see some links to obesity as well. So thinking about the whole human holistically, we see worsening symptoms for those that have higher BMIs. So not only will we consider the whole human from a fitness forward perspective, but we're going to think about how can we attack local tissue getting irritability down. So think about local tissue in the hand and even in that C5, C6 area of cervical spine. And then we'll start with local treatment but then eventually we're already thinking about how globally will we make this human more resilient and robust in their grip strength and their overall upper quarter strength. So even day one when we're trying to just calm symptoms we're thinking fitness forward. How fit will you let me get you? We're gonna consider those system influence that I already mentioned, sex and possible stressors in life. We're gonna consider mindset, the physical activity levels of that human, because again, I said there's links to increased BMI and obesity. So we're dealing with an underlying systemic inflammation probably on board as well. We'll think about what's that sleep hygiene like? Are they getting the eight to nine hours of sleep? How's their diet and hydration? Are they getting half their body weight in ounces? Are they eating colorfully? That is all a part of fitness for it. So it's not just loading them up locally, globally, making tissues robust, but really we want a whole system-wide robustness. MANUAL THERAPY FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME And the way we'll first approach these humans is through symptom modulation, through our manual therapy techniques. This is how we'll really get trust and buy-in when we're dealing with carpal tunnel syndrome, or CTS, and then there's central possible involvement as well. double crush, whatever kind of terminology makes you comfortable. I tend to think labels limit. And if you've been to our extremity course, you know that. So symptom modulation locally first looks like bracing, actually. So an over-the-counter splint at night is first-line defense because that's when symptomatology is worse because we're sleeping in that phalanx position. And if there's worsening symptoms in the day, we'll even recommend a wearing schedule during the day. But we first start with night. We'll educate on any ags and easing postures, right? If moving in and out of postures is really important. We don't want someone hunched over like this all the time, and we also don't want someone being perfectly erect. So depending on their job and life and family functions, we'll give some advice there as well, as our education starts to dampen irritability and symptomatology. Our manual therapy perspective though, so here's our second pillar coming to play. is that we are going to target the CT junction and then an upper T spine. And we're going to use manipulation. You'll hear at our course that if you have any upper quarter symptoms and you have a pulse, you are going to get some kind of thoracic manipulation. for that neurophysiologic effect. So what you learn in your cervical and total spine thrust courses, you're going to bring forward here. And this is going to help dampen pain, not only centrally right in the cervical spine, but also we see pain dampening and increase motor output in our upper quarter when we use those techniques. So those will be our go-to techniques, prone CT junction, and then our upper T-spine manip. In addition, doing some lateral gliding for a pumping action in those higher irritability stages targeted at that C5, C6 area. Follow up for that will be some cervical retractions to get a pumping action centrally. And we may or may not combine that with some traction. a manual therapy perspective from extremity management local to those carpal bones and that wrist, we'll actually start doing some wrist mobilization. Extension's often a common impairment here, so we'll work into progressive extension, mobilizing those carpals, and we'll even do this nice soft tissue splay technique. If you've been to the course, you know, and if you're on the fence, you'll join us to learn this, but a splay technique to just open up right where that median nerve travels through where all of our flexor retinaculum is, it gets tight in there when there's inflammation on board. So just doing some soft tissue mobilization and splay. And it's interesting is this is a tech, the technique we teach is one that was actually used in that PTJ study in 2020 from De La Penas and crew, where they looked at four-year follow-up of those with carpal tunnel syndrome that did conservative care, which was only three bouts of PT, and this splay stretch was included in the 30 minutes of manual therapy that these folks got, and they compared this group to those that went on to get surgery, and they followed them over four years. What was similar about both groups is both groups got education and they got tendon and nerve glides. And what we saw is similar similarities. So meaning pain and function was the same whether you got surgery or conservative care, which lets us know that our conservative care, our manual therapy techniques like this splay technique can be a really powerful resource for our patients to modulate symptoms and to lower that irritability in their tissues. In addition, not only will we do some wrist extension mobs, do that splay stretch, but we'll also work locally at that thenar eminence. And we will target our wrist flexors with myofascial decompression, soft tissue massage, and or dry needling. So targeting wrist flexors, forearm pronators, and the thenar eminence anywhere where that median nerve could be compressed. So those are our manual therapy targets. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME Moving on to our next pillar, psychologically informed, how do we address psychological considerations for this human that has CTS and then symptoms along that C5, C6 dermatome with reflex changes as well? Well, we're going to have a conversation about lifestyle, about what we call meds health. Simply that is M is mindfulness, E is exercise, D is diet, and sleep. And this is a nice framework to address lifestyle behaviors. Now we might not address them all at once and we'll choose our education and dose it wisely, right? We don't want to fire hydrant lifestyle behavior modification to patients, but we do want to make sure all the pillars and how they're functioning are in the background of our mind. So consider M mindset. or mindfulness what we're thinking here is what can we give this human that's kind of stressed and in pain to just calm their system and one really great way to bring them into a more parasympathetic state is doing breathing so breathing in just five minutes a day physiologic sighing right, where you do that two inhalations through your nose and exhale has been found to be beneficial in reducing physiologic factors like heart rate and just calming our system. So consider that can be an easy thing to integrate into a patient's life that is stressed or maybe suggesting some green space, go out for a walk and or journaling if that is their thing. from an e-perspective, exercise, what I want you thinking about is just what's their physical activity like? Are they getting their 10,000 steps daily? Are they meeting the daily requirements of physical activity, which is 30 to 60 minutes every day, right? We want a total of 150 to 300 minutes a week. Is this human getting that activity? And if we consider some of the common profiles, which is obesity and being female in that later decades of life, we need to consider what is that like and how can we influence them to move more to help with this inflammatory state that's going throughout their body. D is diet, so education on what is your diet like? Are you eating enough protein to support healing and function? Can you reduce that sugar intake to calm inflammation? Can you eat colorfully, eating more plants, again, to help control inflammation? How's your hydration? Are you getting half your body weight in ounces? These are additive behaviors that we can help, always trying to add first and then take away if necessary. And then finally that final pillar, sleep. How is sleep hygiene? Talk to this human about maybe very dark in the room an hour before bed, no heavy big meals or your phone or TV. This can help just with quality of sleep. So consider that psychologically informed piece is so important. And you'll kind of notice that there's always a synergy between our pillars, right? You can't be fitness forward, right? And build up local tissue and global tissue robustness if you don't first symptom modulate through manual therapy, right? And our manual therapy needs to be excellent and executed well with the right dosage so that we can be effective in symptom modulation, which gives us this modulating window of opportunity to then load them better locally and then globally when we think about the upper quarter. And then the psychologically informed piece, we need solid education and lifestyle counsel to help this whole human, this whole system be more robust in their world. And that's why the trifecta and the synergy of the pillars is so important. USING THE rEMOM FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME I want to leave you with two rehab EMOMs inspired by exercises that we learn in our cervical course and then exercise that we prescribe in our extremity course. So, and if you want to write it down, feel free, but early in our care with high irritability, I would suggest a 12 minute rehab EMOM that looks like this. We're thinking about someone that has lots of numbness, tingling, lots of inflammation on board. All ADLs and IADLs are limited. their sleep sucks, right? They need a massive blood pump. Minute one, we're going to do a UBE, a salt bike, or echo, or rower, whatever the patient loves. Minute two, we're going to do tending glides because we see tending glides in some of our RCTs being superior than our nerve glides and helping create a local pump to our flexor tissues. Number three, minute three, is nerve glides, right? We're going to do a slider glider for that median nerve and even try to get that cervical spine involved. And then number four, we're going to do cervical retraction with or without traction. So we put that band on a secure surface and there's this traction environment where we're offloading the lower to mid cervical and then doing some pumping action cervical retraction. We'll do that three rounds and that's why it's a 12 minute rehab EMOM, early in care, high inflammation on board. I'm going to leave you one more EMOM, and then we'll call it a day for PTL Nice. But later in care, when irritability is dampened, right, and we more are at that lower irritability stage, there's no longer numbness and tingling symptoms. We're thinking about robustness of local and global tissue, and we're working on resilience, we want to layer in more volume and intensity. So we'll use that same structure, 12 minutes. Minute one, we're going to do grip training. So we are going to specifically target doing a spherical grip. So you would turn that kettlebell upside down and work on carries, which works on the whole upper quarter, arm at side or arm here. So we get that cuff firing up as well. And we'll work on that. You can even work on your tip grip or palmar grip as well to really target median nerve and the muscles that feeds. That's minute one. Minute two, we're going to do some wrist flexion and wrist extension exercise. Recommend rehab dose if you've been to one of our courses, you know, that's 8 to 20 reps 3 to 4 sets Anywhere from 30 to 80 percent intensity, right? You'll meet the patient where they're at minute two again just a repeat wrist flexion extension exercise and then minute three will be pronation supination and then finally minute four we'll actually do prone cervical retraction off the table to start building up robustness of the cervical extensors. These are just two examples of how when you take our ortho cert courses specifically our spine courses and then our extremity courses it's helpful to prepare you for management for something like cts when there's also that double crush right there's involvement um centrally and distally. SUMMARY Our author's cert, we would love you to be a part of it and learn more about it. If you're interested or the first time you're hearing this, check us out on ptlonice.com and it'll tell you all the courses required, total spine thrust, cervical, lumbar, extremity management, and testing for this is free. You just take those courses and you test out at the end. It's been a blast kind of talking to you about how we integrate our classes. From an extremity management perspective, class is coming up. Mark and I are both on the road this weekend, and there's still, there's one spot left in Mark's course in Fayetteville, North Carolina. There's lots of spots left in Burlington, New Jersey, if you want to join us. And then the following weekend, we're at it again. We will be in Highland, Michigan, and then Scottsdale, Arizona, and we have spots. So again, ptonice.com to check out OrthoCert, and then check out extremity management courses. Thank you for your time this morning and in listening to that OrthoCert approach to CTS. Happy Tuesday, everyone. And if you think about it, wish our CEO a happy, happy birthday. He'll love that. See y'all later. OUTRO Hey, thanks for tuning in to the PT on ICE daily show. If you enjoyed this content, head on over to iTunes and leave us a review, and be sure to check us out on Facebook and Instagram at the Institute of Clinical Excellence. If you're interested in getting plugged into more ice content on a weekly basis while earning CEUs from home, check out our virtual ice online mentorship program at ptonice.com. While you're there, sign up for our Hump Day Hustling newsletter for a free email every Wednesday morning with our top five research articles and social media posts that we think are worth reading. Head over to ptonice.com and scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up.

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The first bar examination in the United States was administered in oral form in the Delaware Colony in 1783, and in 1885, Massachusetts became the first state to employ a written version of the bar exam. Over time, the bar examination process has become more standardized, but there's no one test. One example of a standardized test is the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), created back in 2011, and first administered that year by Missouri and North Dakota. So what is NEXT in standardized tests? According to the National Conference of Bar Examiners' website, the NextGen Bar Exam, set to debut in July 0f 2026, will “test a broad range of foundational lawyering skills, utilizing a focused set of clearly identified fundamental legal concepts and principles needed in today's practice of law.” Will the transition from a standardized test like UBE to NextGen be an easy one? And what can law students & faculty expect? In this episode, host Craig Williams is joined by guest Dennis C. Prieto, an Associate Professor and Reference Librarian at ­Rutgers Law School, who served on the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen Content Scope Committee and is a member of the NextGen Tasks and Rubrics Advisory Committee. Craig & Dennis explore the specifics of the exam, how law students and faculty can transition to preparing for the new exam, and what students can expect from the exam in 2026. Mentioned in this episode:  NextGen Bar Exam From My Perspective: Essays on the NextGen Bar Exam and Legal Education By Dennis C. Prieto, Susan Landrum, Timothy J. McFarlin, and Wanda M. Temm

The first bar examination in the United States was administered in oral form in the Delaware Colony in 1783, and in 1885, Massachusetts became the first state to employ a written version of the bar exam. Over time, the bar examination process has become more standardized, but there's no one test. One example of a standardized test is the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), created back in 2011, and first administered that year by Missouri and North Dakota. So what is NEXT in standardized tests? According to the National Conference of Bar Examiners' website, the NextGen Bar Exam, set to debut in July 0f 2026, will “test a broad range of foundational lawyering skills, utilizing a focused set of clearly identified fundamental legal concepts and principles needed in today's practice of law.” Will the transition from a standardized test like UBE to NextGen be an easy one? And what can law students & faculty expect? In this episode, host Craig Williams is joined by guest Dennis C. Prieto, an Associate Professor and Reference Librarian at ­Rutgers Law School, who served on the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen Content Scope Committee and is a member of the NextGen Tasks and Rubrics Advisory Committee. Craig & Dennis explore the specifics of the exam, how law students and faculty can transition to preparing for the new exam, and what students can expect from the exam in 2026. Mentioned in this episode:  NextGen Bar Exam From My Perspective: Essays on the NextGen Bar Exam and Legal Education By Dennis C. Prieto, Susan Landrum, Timothy J. McFarlin, and Wanda M. Temm Correction: In the podcast, Professor Prieto mentioned 'NCBE member Beth Kennedy,' but the correct name is Beth Donohue. We apologize for any confusion and appreciate your understanding.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. APEX Express celebrates Filipino American History Month. Host Miko Lee is joined by guest Aisa Villarosa. They learn about the origin story of Filipino American History Month with Dr. Emily Lawsin and talk about the critical importance of ethnic studies with Dr. Dylan Rodriguez. We also get to hear music from Power Struggle's Aspirations album. More information from and about our guests Emily Lawsin Filipino American National Historical Society Dylan Rodriguez and his writing:  https://www.beyond-prisons.com/home/dylan-rodriguez-part-i-abolition-is-our-obligation https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/white-reconstruction-dylan-rodriguez-on-domestic-war-the-logics-of-genocide-and-abolition https://www.blackagendareport.com/cops-colleges-and-counterinsurgency-interview-dylan-rodriguez Musician Power Struggle and their collection: https://beatrockmusic.com/collections/power-struggle APEX Express Episodes featuring subjects discussed in this episode: 11.8.18 – Dawn Mabalon is in the Heart – entire show dedicates to Dawn 11.18.21 – We Are the Leaders – Labor features Gayle Romasanta on Larry Itliong book co-written by Dawn Mabalon   Show Transcript Filipino American History Month 10.26.23 [00:00:00] Miko Lee: Good evening and welcome to Apex Express. This is Miko Lee and I am so thrilled to have a guest co host this night, the amazing and talented Aisa Villarosa. Aisa can you please introduce yourselves to our audience? Say who you are, where you come from, and a little bit about yourself. [00:00:44] Aisa Villarosa: Thank you so much, Miko, and it's a joy to be with you and the Apex Express family. My name is Aisa, my pronouns are she, her, and I'm a Michigan born gay Filipino artist, activist, attorney with roots in ethnic studies organizing and teaching Filipino studies, in the wonderful Pa'aralang Pilipino of Southfield, Michigan. If you ever find yourself at the intersection of Eight Mile and Greenfield near Detroit, stop on by. [00:01:19] Miko Lee: Aisa, talk to me about this episode and what we're featuring in honor of the final week of Filipino American History Month. [00:01:28] Aisa Villarosa: I'd be honored to, Miko. We'll be doing a deep dive into Filipino American History Month today, including its origins and how the month acknowledges the first Filipinos who reached the shores of Morro Bay, California in 1587. We're going to be talking about what this month means in the context of today, how Filipinos are honoring the ongoing struggles for civil rights, for human rights, and we'll be talking to some personal heroes of mine. We'll also be talking about ethnic studies, which shares with new generations, these events and stories of Filipino Americans. [00:02:12] Miko Lee: Aisa, talk to me about ethnic studies. What is the background that we need to know? It's been a big part of our Asian American movement struggle with the fight for ethnic studies. give our audience a definition about what ethnic studies is and why is it important right now. [00:02:29] Aisa Villarosa: That's a great question, Miko. And I really love the definition of ethnic studies offered by the Coalition of Liberated Ethnic Studies. And they have said that this is essentially the knowledge, narratives, experiences, and wellness of Black, indigenous and people of color and their communities so that liberation of all peoples and relations are realized. And when we really break that down, this is the study of collective liberation. Part of why ethnic studies is so important is that this is really a root key to unlocking systemic change against hate. If it's taught in an intersectional approach, it really is a preventative tactic against racism. It's also rooted in storytelling. It's rooted in multi generational learning. And the best thing, in my opinion, with ethnic studies is we see the community as a living classroom. [00:03:32] Miko Lee: And , I know Ethnic Studies is part of your background. You came up as a student of Ethnic Studies. I came up in Women's Studies and Theater Studies not Ethnic Studies, but I took so many Ethnic Studies classes at San Francisco State that really profoundly shaped how I work and live as an activist and artist. Can you talk about how being a Filipino Studies student impacted you in your present day? [00:03:57] Aisa Villarosa: Absolutely. And oh, Miko, I feel like we would just be nerding out together in a theater or activism class. So thanks for sharing. Quite simply, I wouldn't be who I am without Ethnic Studies and the incredible folks behind this movement, including some voices that we'll be hearing from soon. It is encouraging that even in California, for example, ethnic studies was mandated in high schools in 2021. We are seeing a lot of progress across the nation with more and more school districts, more and more classrooms incorporating ethnic and Asian American, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian studies. And yet we also know that passing a law to teach ethnic studies is but one step and this isn't very well known, but ethnic studies is actually under attack. It's under attack from attempts to censor and limit the history and teaching, especially around colonization and militarization experienced by communities. And why this is really problematic is this sort of censorship can keep communities from finding one another, from finding that common ground, from seeing each other in their full humanity. [00:05:18] Miko Lee: Aisa there's so much going on in our world right now with what's happening in Palestine and Israel. And what does this have to do with the work of ethnic studies? [00:05:29] Aisa Villarosa: It has everything to do with ethnic studies, and right now we're seeing some targeting of students and activists speaking out for nonviolence, for a ceasefire, and an end to military occupation in Palestine, in Hawaii, across the world. And these activists and young folks are being targeted really, As Palestinian identity and people endure tremendous loss and mass displacement, why this matters is ethnic studies is living history and ethnic studies challenges us to take stock of moments where we can either be silent, or we can take action, including first steps to understand the history and the narratives behind these conflicts to really unpack the global impacts of colonization. It doesn't matter whether one is Filipino or Asian American or Black or Latinx or Indigenous or from any one of the countless communities living under the impacts of systemic violence and oppression. [00:06:36] Miko Lee: Thank you for sharing. I feel like we could do a whole series on why ethnic studies is so critical and important. But look forward to hearing from two people that are professors, educators, and activists and tell me who we're going to be talking with first. [00:06:51] Aisa Villarosa: We'll be talking first to Ate Emily Lawsin, a poet and an activist. She'll be sharing more about the establishment of Filipino American History Month. And then we'll be talking with activist and scholar Dylan Rodriguez, about Filipino American history in the context of today's struggles against white supremacy, military exploitation, and government violence. [00:07:16] Miko Lee: So let's take a listen to our interviews. [00:07:18] Aisa Villarosa: We are here tonight with one of my dearest mentors, heroes, big sister, a. k. a. Ate, Ate Emily Lawson. Emily, you have, over the course of your career, taught and made a difference in thousands of people's lives, including mine. For folks who are just getting to know you, can you share a little bit about your work and perhaps, you working on right now? [00:07:49] Emily Lawsin: My name is Emily Lawsin and I'm a second generation Filipino American, or pinay, as we say. I was born and raised in “she-attle” Washington and I'm the National President Emerita of the Filipino American National Historical Society or FANHS. I was on the board of trustees for 30 years no longer on the board, but still do supportive work for the organization. It's a completely volunteer run organization founded by Dorothy Ligo Cordova, Dr. Dorothy Ligo Cordova in 1982, I used to teach Asian Pacific Islander American studies and women's studies at different universities across the country in California and other states I was really blessed to be able to teach some of the first Filipino American history courses on different campuses and really utilize our FANHS curriculum in doing that. Now I work for four Culture which is King County's Cultural Development Authority, and I'm the Historic Preservation program manager there. I'm also a spoken word performance poet and oral historian [00:08:59] Aisa Villarosa: and for folks who have not had the privilege of watching Emily perform. You are a powerhouse. And a confession, I have inspirational post it notes around my laptop and I have one post it that says no more moments of silence. It's from a performance you gave, gosh, it was maybe sometime in 2008, [00:09:22] Emily Lawsin: yeah, that's awesome. Oh, thank you. [00:09:25] Aisa Villarosa: Yes. It's come full circle because I have remained a supporter of ethnic studies and part of why I am talking with you today is because October is Filipino American History Month and even breaking down every single word. In that phrase, there was a battle and a journey to even get the national recognition that y'all were able to get especially through your advocacy. So if you could tell the listeners maybe a bit about that journey and even for folks who are newer to the month, what is the difference between, say, heritage and history? [00:10:08] Emily Lawsin: Oh, that's awesome question. Thank you. Yeah, Filipino American History Month was really started by my Uncle Fred Cordova, Dr. Fred Cordova, who was the founding president of the Filipino American National Historical Society, or FANHS. He came up with the idea in 1991 and really wanted to recognize October as Philippine American History Month because the first documented landing of the first Filipinos in what is now known as the continental United States, specifically Morro Bay, California, happened on October 18th 1587. When Lizones Indios or Filipinos who were a crew and a slave slaves really on Spanish galleon ships were sent ashore off the coast of Morro Bay as like a landing party to scout out the area. If you actually look at a Instagram reel that our current FANHS President, Dr. Kevin Nadal made he tells you the history of, why October 18th, 1587 is important and it's not necessarily to celebrate that landing because people did die. But it's to commemorate and to remember that history and that memory where a Chumash Indupinos. Indigenous Filipinos Indupinos is what they call themselves too. They actually were instrumental in creating that moral based site as a historic marker for FANHS. That date is significant for Filipinos because of that first landing. And Then in the 1760s the first communities and families were created in the Bayou of Louisiana. Where these same crew folks or Filipinos jumped ship from those Spanish galleon and were called Manila Men by Marina Espina, who wrote the book Filipinos in Louisiana. Those families that jumped ship, created seven different villages in the bayous of Louisiana and intermarried with the local Creole communities there. Those families are now in their eighth and ninth generations. We wanted to recognize that history as being really the first Asian Americans in what is now known as the continental United States. Uncle Fred wrote the resolution for the FANHS Board of Trustees and they passed it in 1991 with the first observance nationally in 1992. Our FANHS chapters around the country started commemorating Philippine American History Month activities in October. It just grew from there. Institutions, schools, a lot of universities picked them up libraries city governments, county governments, state governments started picking up the resolution to honor our Filipino American history. We say Filipino American history, not heritage because we are a historical society, number one. But Number two, to recognize the history and the contributions of Filipinos to these United States of America. Not necessarily just Lumpia and dances and food. We are more than Ube. That's right. And there's nothing wrong with that. We're more than that, because Filipino American history is American history as well. And so then in the 2000s as our membership was growing And as our conferences were being more and more attended, a lot of our members in Washington, D. C. wanted to advocate and took up the charge from Uncle Fred, right? Uncle Fred asked them, hey, let's try to get this through Congress. And it went. For a few years and didn't necessarily pass as, as a history month until 2009. So 2009 we had representatives present the bill. We mobilized a lot of our members to call their Congress. People and it went through and then subsequent bills happened in 2011 and other years to officially recognize October as Philippine market history month. Barack Obama was the first White House celebration of Filipino American History Month. That meant a really big deal for us in FANHS that it was being recognized nationwide. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also issued proclamations resolutions this year. It's grown as our communities have grown, as our historical society has grown and it has expanded throughout the country and even in the curriculums. So we're really proud of that. [00:15:09] Aisa Villarosa: the success would not be possible, but for intergenerational solidarity, right? Almost being hand in hand with generations past and present and food, food is totally political Ate Em. So, so yes, calling, the great Dawn Maboulon, into the space, many Americans, are taught, unfortunately, by sort of the dominant structures that food is not political, but it's absolutely political, right? And I appreciate you sharing with the listeners the history behind the history, right? That this is both an accounting of the triumphs, the heartache, the fact that Many Filipinos use the term barkata, and when we look at the genesis of the word barkata, that term, which is almost like a friend that is really family, there's a spiritual bond there that was born of Spanish enslavement and colonization. So important that we ground the conversation in this. [00:16:09] Emily Lawsin: Yeah, and I thank you for bringing up my My Kumadre, the late Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. For the listeners who don't know, we consider her the queen and really was the foremost Filipino American historian of our generation. She passed away in 2018. Dawn was a incredibly gifted scholar was a very good friend of mine. Dawn was also a food historian, a labor historian a women's historian but she was also an activist she was a film producer she was a hip hop head she was a baker. the most incredible ube cupcakes you'd ever have. She was multi talented . Every day I think about how blessed we are to have known her, have her research still with us. I think, carries a lot of us who are close to her forward in the work that we do, but it also is continuing to teach younger generations now. You mentioned the intergenerational nature. That's totally what FANHS is. Dawn and I both came into FANHS as students. I came in as a high school student volunteering in Seattle and Dawn came in to our Los Angeles chapter. She was one of the founding student members of our Los Angeles chapter and then became a trustee and national scholar and was author of several books primarily her book on Little Manila in Stockton. Little Manila is in the heart. Since her death, I think a lot more young folks have mobilized and learned about her great activism to save Little Manila is not only in Stockton, but in other cities and towns all over the country to document Filipino American history through recordings, through music, through art. She's just inspired a whole, new generation because of the great work that she did. She wrote the landmark children's book on Larry Itliong one of the founders of the United Farm Workers Union. It was really the first illustrated children's book on Filipino American history. Gail Romasanta, our friend from Stockton was her co author and really wanted to thank Gail for Carrying forward Dawn's vision and publishing that children's book and her comadre, Dr. Allison Tintanco Cobales from San Francisco State University and Pinay Pinoy Educational Partnerships, created an incredible accompanying curriculum guide. Which a lot of us use at all different levels. The book is supposed to be for like middle school age students, but I assigned it for my college and university students. Because it was such a pathbreaking book. It's so informative and the accompanying curriculum guide really helps teachers and students, even families, engage with the material more and gives you discussion prompts and ideas as well. It is really an example of a researched children's book and grassroots effort to spread that knowledge around. After Dawn died we told Gail the publisher and co author, we're still going to do the book tour. I had promised Dawn that we would do that. I think it was like 20 cities across the country. It was amazing. It's really a testament to the intergenerational nature, the grassroots nature of FANHS. We run totally volunteer up until probably next year. Wow. Next year we'll probably hire our first staff person in 43 years. Because Auntie Dorothy Ligel Cordova has done it as a volunteer executive director. Oh my gosh. [00:20:16] Aisa Villarosa: Just a labor of love and also it's so important to build out the infrastructure so that that is good news. [00:20:23] Emily Lawsin: Totally labor of love. So if y'all are looking for a really worthy donation place, then that is it. Totally tax deductible. [00:20:32] Aisa Villarosa: And our listeners. can check out. We'll have some links related to this episode where folks can support you Ate Em as well as FAHNS. And as you were sharing, I kept thinking, some folks say art is our memory of love. But teaching is also an act of love. As you do as Ate Dawn Allison, so many have done are doing it is an act of love. And yet, Because of the violence of our systems we have book bans, we have attacks on ethnic studies still in 2023. How do you keep yourself nourished? [00:21:12] Emily Lawsin: Oh, such a good question. We had a penialism. Peniaism is a term that Dr. Allison Tintiaco Cabal has created, wow, 30 years ago now, or maybe less, maybe 25, I'm dating ourselves. She says peniaism equals love and pain and growth. That is so true. I believe in writing as my kind of outlet. Write for two reasons, love and revenge. Because what other reason would you write, right? So that's like a therapy outlet. To keep myself nourished, I'm really blessed to have a very loving partner and a very loving family. They nourish me. every day, literally feed me when I'm working late. But also with their love and their kindness and their brilliance. My two daughters are incredibly gifted and brilliant and just really blessed to have them. But also I think when I look at our community. Our Filipino American community specifically and how it's grown and changed through the years. Auntie Dorothy, when I was in college, was my professor and she used to say that our Filipino American community is built on many different layers. We have so many different generations that have immigrated over the years. And so every generation builds upon the other, the next generation. It's all these different layers. And I think that really helped me conceive of What it means to be in community with such a diverse Filipino American population. That education that knowledge has nourished me more than really anything else, because then I could. Always fall back to those teachings that Uncle Fred and Auntie Dorothy gave me. I was very blessed to have grown up on the Filipino Youth Activities Drill Team in Seattle that Uncle Fred and Auntie Dorothy co founded with other families, Filipino American families, as a way to keep Pinoy kids off the streets, right? It taught us our history and our pride, and gave me confidence in being Filipino, right? Being brown, being different. So that has constantly nourished me. My parents and their memory has nourished me because basically the work that we do, whether it's paid or not whether it's art, whether it's performance, whether it's history, writing, activism, or working for the man, making the dollar, whatever. To me, that's all fueled by the ancestors, and they literally plowed these fields before us, right? My uncles were farm workers. They were migrant farm workers. My mother was one of the first Filipino American women to work in the Alaskan cannery as an alaskera. You hear a lot about the Alaskeros or maybe you don't, I don't know. But she was one of the women and that is really. important to me. It's important for my children and others to, to know that history. If I remind myself that we're really doing the work of the ancestors then it's all worth it. It's all really worth it. [00:25:07] Aisa Villarosa: They say we don't know who all our ancestors are, but they know who we are. What you shared is also similar to Kapua, right? This concept that our identities are shared. So thank you for giving us your time and also just sharing what keeps you running on love in each moment. [00:25:32] Emily Lawsin: Absolutely. I just wanted to add a big thank you to you. I'm going to play the interviewer because I am the oral historian. I want listeners to know the good work that you've done. Since you were a student, a mentor activist yourself, an attorney working with youth and now working in the anti Asian violence movement, it's really important. In Philippine American History Month, it's not just about celebration. It is about commemorating the memories of those who've been killed. The memories of those who've passed I know you know about Joseph Aleto the Filipino American postal worker who was killed by a white supremacist on his work route a mile from my house. I was teaching at California State University, Northridge then, and the students said something incredible when they were organizing around that case. They said he was not in the wrong place at the wrong time, because people say that, right? When those kind of what they call random acts of violence happen, it wasn't random at all. He chose to kill Joseph Aletto because he looked like a person of color. He worked for the federal government. So the student at Cal State Northridge said, no, he wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was at his place, at his time, doing his job, just doing his job. The killer, the white supremacist, was the wrong person, at the wrong time. Joseph Aletto did not deserve to be killed like that. After he was killed, his memory was immediately ignored. And it wasn't until his family, his mother, Lillian, his brother, Ishmael, and his sister in law, Dina, stood up and said, “We will not have this happen to another family. We will not be ignored. ” they started a movement Join Our Struggle, Educate to Prevent Hate. And still love equality and tolerance and others, which is an acronym for his, the letters in his name. I totally supported that and love the Alato family for their activism to this day. So I want to thank you. For educating others in the work that you do now, you want to tell that because that's part of Philippine American history. [00:28:17] Aisa Villarosa: Thank you. And especially given our hard and painful moments right now thinking of. The pain felt by both Students and teachers of ethnic studies to many miles away the pain felt by Palestinians, right? There is a challenge and a duty that we have to both see the humanity in ourselves, but also bridge the shared struggles to humanize when we can because the stakes are too high. So thank you for reminding us of that. It was so beautiful to talk with you today. I hope listeners check out the links on our page and can learn more about Atta Emily Lawson's work and the work of FAHNS. [00:29:12] Emily Lawsin: Thank you, Aisa. I appreciate you. Mahal to everybody and Salama. Thank you. [00:29:20] Miko Lee: Aisa, I'm so glad that you're also sharing some music with us tonight. Can you tell us about the musician we're going to be hearing from? [00:29:28] Aisa Villarosa: Absolutely. I'm honored to introduce my friend and colleague, Mario, a. k. a. Power Struggle, who has been a behemoth in the Bay Area and global music and activism scene for many years. Power Struggle tells the story of The Filipino community, both in the Philippines, as well as connecting the dots to social justice and economic justice in the Bay Area and beyond. [00:30:00] Miko Lee: Coming up next is Cultural Worker featuring Equipto by Power Struggle. Welcome back. You are tuned into apex express, a 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPF. Be in Berkeley and online@kpfa.org [00:34:45] Aisa Villarosa: You were listening to Cultural Worker featuring Equipto by the Bay Area's own Power Struggle. I am here tonight talking to the incredible Dylan Rodriguez. Dylan, it is a pleasure to have you on the show with us. [00:35:01] Dylan Rodriguez: I've never been introduced that way. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. I decline. I decline all of the superlatives, humbled. I'm very humbled to the conversation. I'm grateful for the invitation. [00:35:12] Aisa Villarosa: Let me, I'll try that again. Here is Rabble Rouser Scholar extraordinaire Dylan Rodriguez. [00:35:18] Dylan Rodriguez: Yeah, troublemaking, troublemaking's good. Yeah, I'm down for that. [00:35:22] Aisa Villarosa: Dylan, I have to say most folks tuning in are based on the west coast, but you are gracing us with your presence from the east coast. So thank you. Thank you for being on late with us tonight. Can you tell the audience a little bit about yourself? Maybe starting with what do you do? [00:35:41] Dylan Rodriguez: I'm a professor at the University of California, the Riverside campus. This is now my 23rd year there. Despite multiple efforts, they have not been able to get rid of me yet. And I'm very proud to say that my primary vocation extends significantly beyond my day job. I think perhaps the most important part of What I would say I do biographically is that my life work is adjoined to various forms of collaborative attempts at radical political activity, speculative and experimental forms of organizing and community. I've been engaged in abolitionist Forms of practice and teaching and scholarship and organizing since the mid to late 90s. I'm interested in collaborating with people who are down with Black liberation anti colonialism opposition to anti Black racist colonial state. I've been involved so many different organizations and movements that I lose track, but I think that's, in a nutshell, what I'm about. [00:36:39] Aisa Villarosa: So you're in Your 23rd year the Michael Jordan year, and thank you for sharing with us. It sounds like you are a world builder Grace Lee Boggs often says that how can we build the future if we're not visioning it and working toward it. So thank you for everything you've been doing and In terms of in the classroom, can you talk a little bit about what you teach? [00:37:04] Dylan Rodriguez: I teach a variety of different classes that center the archives, the thoughts, the writing, the poetry, the art of radical revolutionary liberationists and anti colonial organizers, thinkers, and scholars. For example, this right now, for example, right now I'm teaching a graduate class in anti Blackness and racial colonial state violence. And we're reading a variety of people. I'm interested in, in the whole spectrum. of thought and praxis that is attacking the racist and anti Black and colonial state. I teach another class on the prison industrial complex and that's a class I've been teaching for more than 20 years and I teach it from in a in an unapologetically experimental abolitionist position. So I'm interested in stoking and supporting whatever forms of collective and collaborative activity are possible to at bare minimum to undermine The premises of this carceral regime that we all live under and I teach a bunch of other things too, but I think the overall trajectory that I'm interested in is some combination of radical autonomy revolutionary trajectory and also just. As I get older, I become less patient. So I'll say that I feel like a lot of the way I teach all the content what I teach now, whether it's in a classroom or somewhere else is increasingly militantly accelerationist I think that there is a place and a necessity for accelerating, militant opposition and confrontation with this unsustainable, genocidal, civilizational project that we all differently inhabit. I feel like it's an obligation to teach and work within an identification of that context. [00:38:47] Aisa Villarosa: What I heard you say is. You're less patient and it sounds like it's because we are running out of time. [00:38:53] Dylan Rodriguez: Yeah, we are living. I think we're outta time. I think we're outta time. I'm unprecedented times. Yes, we're out of time and mean as we have this conversation and as I've been saying to anybody that listen to me, these these last several days. We're in a moment of an actual unfolding genocide, and I'm not sure, I'm not sure that those who identify themselves as the left, particularly the North American and U. S. left, have an adequate sense of urgency and honesty about what it means to be in this historical moment. [00:39:26] Aisa Villarosa: I'd love for you to break this down. I wonder if at this moment, there are folks listening who are completely in agreement. There might be some other folks who perhaps are not sure what to think. And some of that, a lot of that is the impacts of colonization itself, right? We are trained to think small culturally, put your head down. You mentioned you teach anti Blackness and as someone who grew up in racially segregated Michigan with a Black and white and Filipino family, people used to joke that we were the United Nations of families. And yet we did not have the words to talk about anti Blackness. We did not. Unpack it in any sort of meaningful way. And we didn't consider what it meant for our Black family members. So for folks listening who are perhaps new to unpacking anti Blackness, unpacking the genocide in Palestine. Can you connect the dots a little bit? [00:40:33] Dylan Rodriguez: I can do so in a provisional way. I have no definitive answers for anybody who hears this broadcast or reads this transcript. So let me just start with that. I don't present myself as having answers really at all. What I have are urgent, ambitious and militant attempts. But let me just say that's where I'm coming from. I believe in experimentation. I believe in collective, collaborative. militant work that, first of all, identifies the very things you just did. So I want to just, first of all, reflect back to you how important, how courageous it is to just use the terms, right? To use the terms, to center the terms of anti Blackness, to focus on anti Blackness is so principled and it is also principled it is a principle and it is principled to focus on anti Blackness as a specific way in which to experience and confront and deal with the civilizational project that is so completely foundationally violent. To name what is happening right now in Palestine by way of the United States and its militarization support of the state of Israel as genocide. That takes some courage on the part of whoever says it, and I think it's a courage that is emboldened when it's a collective courage. So what I'll say about it as a provisional response as a partial response to what you said is that. I think everything that we do in relation to these dynamics to these forms of violence that are so foundational to the way in which the present historical tense is formed around us, meaning genocide of Palestinians displacement genocide apartheid against Palestinians, and this foundational modern structure of anti Blackness that naming those things, and then identifying how it is that it is not an option to develop it. It's principled, political, ideological, spiritual collective relationship, you have to figure out what your relationship is to those dynamics. You have no choice. What I have no patience for are those who would treat these things genocide in Palestine, the global logic of anti Blackness, as if it's somehow optional. As if it's somehow as if it's somehow elective that it's a volunteeristic kind of alternative to deal. You have no choice. You have to figure out, articulate, and hopefully you're doing this in collaboration with other people. You've got to figure out what your position is. And once you do that, things tend to map themselves out because you get pulled in and invited into projects and collective work that actually tends to be really emboldening and beautiful. So I'll say that like wherever you are, whether it's northern Southern California, whether it's I happen to be right now on the East Coast in the state of New Hampshire I live in Southern California. I think identifying those things is the first and most important courageous collective step. [00:43:18] Aisa Villarosa: And turning a little bit to ethnic studies, which we heard previously from Atta Emily Lawson about the power of ethnic studies and if done right, if taught in a liberatory way, it gives us the answers. It helps us bridge gaps that oppression wrought on us, and some would say that's dangerous. Can you share what you have experienced as An instructor as a scholar of ethnic studies in your long career, [00:43:54] Dylan Rodriguez: So first of all, shout out to Dr. Emily Lawson, one of my Thank you. youngest old friends. All respect and all empowerment to everything that she says. So I just I do my best to amplify whatever it is that she's done and said. So I come out of ethnic studies. I got my Ph. D. In ethnic studies. I'm one of the people who was humbled to be part of, I think, the new kind of the most recent revision and reification the newest chapter of ethnic studies, which people call critical ethnic studies. So I've been in, in the ethnic studies project for essentially my whole adult life. I'm now 49 plus years old, so it's been for, it's been a while that I've been involved. So ethnic studies, As far as what it does in the world, I'm going to go the opposite direction that some of my colleagues do, and I don't mean this to contradict them, this to compliment them. I think ethnic studies is productively endangering. I think it is constructively violent. I think ethnic studies is beautifully displacing. That's been my experience with it, and what I mean by those things is this. I'm convinced that if one approaches ethnic studies as something more than just an academic curriculum, if one approaches it as a way to reshape how you interpret the world around you, how you understand history, how you understand your relationship, both to history and to other people, that it should shake you to your foundations. It really should. And the reason I say that is because, for the most part, the ways in which people, especially in North America, are ideologically trained in whatever school systems they experience from the time they enter a language is to assimilate, to accept and to concede to the United States nation building project, which is empire, right? It's a continuation of anti Black chattel. It's all of these things, which we started this conversation with. It's all those things. So what ethnic studies does is it should shake you to your foundations by way of exposing exactly what it is that you have been. In some ways, literally bred into loyalty to so so when it shakes with your foundations, that's an endangering feeling. I've had it so many times in the classroom where I can sense it. I can. And sometimes students, the students who are the most, I think audacious will articulate it that way, right? And they will, they'll sometimes hold it against the teacher, right? Whether it's me or somebody else. And I'll say I feel like I'm being attacked, right? And you know what? I used to be defensive about that, but you know what? In probably the last 15 to 20 years, I tell them, you know what that's how you should feel. Because what's happening right now is that you're experiencing an archive and a history and a way of seeing the world that is it's forcing you to question Essentially some of the most important assumptions that have shaped your way of identifying who you are on this planet and in the United States and in relation to the United States and the violence of the United States. You've never thought about the United States as a violent genocidal anti Black nation building project. Now that we're naming that. Yeah, you know you're feeling a kind of violence through that and ideological violence you feel displaced by that you feel endangered by that. That's all right. That's all right because I'm here with you. You know I'm here with you and we're all in this. At the same time, and the point is to figure out what's going to be the right some people will just disavow it and they'll do their best to fabricate their own return to the point from which they started. And then a lot of other people will never be able to go back to that same place that is the beauty of what I understand to be the best of ethnic studies is it displaces people from this default loyalty to the United States nation building project it disrupts the kind of default Americanism. That seems to shape the horizon of people's political, cultural, ideological ambitions, and it says that there's got to be something on the other side of this that is liberatory, that's a different way of being in the world. That's the best of ethnic studies. And so I do my best to work within that lineage, within that tradition, within that ambition. [00:48:02] Aisa Villarosa: I am thinking about. Adrienne Marie Brown and folks who say subscribe to the Nap ministry, et cetera. And as we progress generationally, we, in some cases, get a more nuanced vocabulary for times to pause, times to recharge you know, COVID 19 name your thing. Is there room in this struggle knowing that essentially we're out of time, right? The timer is going off. Can we rest? And how can we find rest in each other? [00:48:46] Dylan Rodriguez: That's such a hard one. I'll be completely vulnerable with the people that are listening, reading, and experiencing my comments right now. I would be a hypocrite to say That I fully ascribe to any regime that is committed to self care, right? I'd be lying. I'd be lying. I feel like I'm mostly committed to trying to engage with whatever forms of possibility radical possibility are available at my best to the point of getting close to exhaustion and then stopping and taking a rest and just asking people to give me a break and people are very just so let me back up the people who I tend to collaborate with nowadays are incredibly generous. They look out for each other. They give me more of a break than I probably need or deserve. All right, so but I'll say at the very same time with what is. obsessing me is this kind of humble notion that I want to maximize whatever contribution I can make to advancing some form of a liberation and abolitionist and anti colonial and Black liberation project before I walk off the mortal coil. That's it. That's my contribution. I feel honored to be part of that. I don't expect to necessarily see the liberation, the revolution, the decolonization in my lifetime, it's not about that. It's not that narcissistic. I got over that many years ago. So I'll say that with all humility with all vulnerability to people here, and I don't prescribe it. I'm not saying anybody should be like me. To the contrary. I think the lesson that I've learned from a variety of comrades who are much more mature than I am in terms of understanding the limitations of doing work this way and people have exemplified. A version of collective self care that attacks the kind of neoliberal individualized notion of self care that frankly really gets under my skin. They have taught me what my friends at the what [Big Tree & Martine] and I'll send you the link so people can check them out. They're the co founders of Ujima Medics in Chicago. I quote them all the time on this. But they have talked to me more than once about the notion. Of collective and deep responsibility. So I think I would use the term of deep responsibility, rather than self care I would use the term deep responsibility as a way to understand what it means to be in community with people who will make sure that you take the time that you take the space to recharge and pause that people who will recognize your vulnerability and your exhaustion. And make sure that you're able to rest to the point where you will remain a warrior that's effective in this ongoing struggle. And warrior when I say warrior I mean that all different kind of ways, right? There's all different kind of warriors. So I think what Martine and Amika talk about is deep responsibility is the one I would really emphasize because I think it's a notion of collectivity and it means that we're actually looking out for each other. And what it means is that we are pushing each other to care. For ourselves and others are caring for us, maybe in a way. That is wiser than we are capable, than what we are capable of doing for ourselves. And I know, and again, with all humility and vulnerability, I feel like that's what I need from people around me is to be around people who believe in that form of deeper collective responsibility. I'm probably not capable of it, right? That makes me, I know that makes me a bad abolitionist, everybody, but but others have taught me that's my limitation. So I feel like that's where I'm at. [00:52:10] Aisa Villarosa: You're winning the. Award for most honest guest star on this show, Dylan. [00:52:17] Dylan Rodriguez: I have no choice. I have no choice. [00:52:20] Aisa Villarosa: How can people support [00:52:21] Dylan Rodriguez: you? Oh man I don't need support. I don't need support from people. I don't. I don't. I don't I feel like there's so many, there's so many collective organizations and What I'd rather do is if you wanna get in touch with me, I'm happy to do that. People hit me up. I'm on social media, like I'm on Instagram and Twitter. Just look me up. Dylan Rodriguez 73 on Instagram. Dylan at Dylan Rodriguez. On Twitter. I guess it's called X Now. I don't know, I'm gonna jump off those platforms at some point, but for now I'm still on 'em. Email. You can email me at Dylan Rodriguez, collaborate@gmail.com. So that's a cool way to get in touch. So I feel like I'm Profoundly privileged position. Again I get to participate in all different forms of collective work. I have plenty of support. So I don't want people supporting me. What I want people to do is figure out what kinds of collaborative collective collaborative and collective project around them that are seeking autonomy. That's what I want people to do. That's what I want you to support. I want you to support autonomous projects. For liberation revolutionary struggle. And if it if there's decolonization there as well autonomous projects that are not dependent on the state that are not dependent on the Democratic Party that are not dependent on nonprofit organizations, non governmental organizations that don't Rely on public policy reforms. If there are communities organizations around that are seeking to create autonomous forms of power. That's what I want people to support. I think that's what needs to be modeled. That is what is on the other side of this collapsing civilization. Are these forms of autonomy, the sooner that we can begin to participate and experiment and autonomous forms of community that creates autonomous forms of things like justice, freedom, security. You know what I mean? It's secure. Health security, food security, education security, recreation security, the security of joy, collective love, all that stuff. The sooner that we can figure out different models to do that there may be an other side to the collapse of the civilization, which could very well happen in the coming days. I think depending where you are right now, it might be happening now. So that's what I would ask people to do, would be to support something like that. And if not, instigate and create it. [00:54:28] Aisa Villarosa: So appreciate that. And earlier… Off the recording, you and I were talking about something doesn't need to last forever to be successful. There is a molting that is happening now, a shedding, if you will. And so for listeners who are beginning their journey, you've made them feel just a little bit less lonely. So thank you for being on the show with us tonight, Dylan. Do you want to close with any final words for the audience? [00:55:01] Dylan Rodriguez: Yeah first of all, thank you for inviting me. I hope we can do this again sometime soon. This is a beautiful few minutes I shared. I do not take for granted that people are listening to this and taking it to heart. So I think the closing words I would offer to anybody who is interested in being engaged with the historical record to which we are speaking. I would just ask you if you're not already involved in some form of collective creative work. Whether it's something you would call a social movement, whether it's formal organization or whether it's something else. I will just ask that everybody here that's listening to this, if you're not already involved in something that's collective that is collaborative and ideally that is radically experimental and willing to look beyond. The horizons that have been presented to you as the farthest possibility. I want people to speculate and to figure out what is beyond the horizons that have been presented to them as the limit. What is beyond that? And I'm talking to artists. I'm talking to poets, scholars, activists, organizers, whoever is here, people who are incarcerated, everybody who's here, like there are so many different traditions that we can attach ourselves to all those traditions are collaborative and collective. So please just be part of a collective. Be part of a collective and for whatever it's worth reach out to somebody who can help you facilitate joining a collective. That's why I left you on my contact information, because for whatever it's worth, if I can play a small role in that, I'm down to do it. You probably don't need me. You probably got somebody else in your life that can help you do that. But do something that is collective, collaborative, experimental. That's my that's what I would leave with people. Yeah, that's the last words I would leave with people. [00:56:38] Aisa Villarosa: Borders are meant to be broken. So thank you, Dylan, for expanding folks vision tonight. Thank you for inviting me. [00:56:47] Miko Lee: Thank you so much for joining us. Please check out our website, kpfa.org backslash program, backslash apex express to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. [00:57:11] Miko Lee: Apex express is produced by me. Miko Lee. Along with Paige Chung, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar, Anuj Vaida. Kiki Rivera, Swati Rayasam, Nate Tan, Hieu Nguyen and Cheryl Truong tonight's show is produced by me Miko thank you so much to the team at kpfa for their support have a great Night The post APEX Express – 10.26.23 – Filipino American History Month appeared first on KPFA.

This episode was sponsored by RangeMe. Go to rangeme.com/startupcpgI'm so excited today to learn from Twrl Milk Tea, a long time and very active member of the Startup CPG Community! We're joined by co-founder Olivia Chen, and Twrl was recently a Shelfies finalist for their Ube milk tea. Twrl Milk Tea makes the world's first canned milk tea made with pea milk and single-origin, non-GMO, organic tea, and they also make chewy cafe style boba toppings, which are the new sprinkles! Twrl is women & minority owned, and they were recently certified as a women-owned business by Women's Business Enterprise National Council. Twrl launched in 2021 and has accomplished so much in the last couple years that I can't wait to dig into.Listen in as Olivia shares about: How Twrl got started and behind the scenes of starting a new category Their recent retail launches with Central Market, Wegman's, and in just a week, nationwide with Sprouts, and tips for standing out to retailers Twrl's marketing, press, and event strategies and how they leverage unique moments like Pop Up Grocer and getting an advertisement in New York City's Times Square Their test with Costco and tips for testing your team's infrastructure and evaluating retail opportunities And more! Episode Links: Twrl Milk Tea website Twrl's Cookbook Zine: Boba is the New Sprinkle Olivia's LinkedIn Show Links: Transcripts of each episode are available on the Transistor platform that hosts our podcast here (click on the episode and toggle to “Transcript” at the top) Join the Startup CPG Slack community (15K+ members and growing!) Follow @startupcpg Visit host Jessi Freitag's Linkedin or website Questions or comments about the episode? Email Jessi at podcast@startupcpg.com Episode music by Super Fantastics RangeMe Links RangeMe website Listen to our episode (#108) with RangeMe founder, Nicky Jackson here

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PSA: Watch out if you're going hiking in the Evergreen/Conifer area. There is a sexual predator roaming the trails who has been getting more aggressive with each report. Kylie Jenner says she regrets getting her boob job. The USA Women's team tied the Netherlands last night. Jamie was terrified by the amber alert that was put out yesterday. Kevin Spacey has been found not guilty. Congress has hearings yesterday talking to a whistle blower who claims the government is covering up the existence of aliens. BJ wants to know if SMH Dil and Carson have some of the skills Boomer/Gen X needed growing up. Rest in Peace Sinead O'Connor. How Do you pronounce UBE. These are the most over rated places for tourist to go in Colorado according to Chat GPT. 

On the Season Five Finale Taste Test, Sigi and Jezzie break out Sans Rival and Ube  Chocolate Chip cookies to celebrate a milestone-100 full main episodes of The Halo Halo Podcast. Listen in as the co-host celebrate and marvel on their 5 year journey of creating and producing the mix of Filipino Canadian and pop culture life. From a friendship that started in 1999 to a five year creative plan conceived in August 2018, find out how their network has grown and what is on the horizon. Many thanks to our families, friends, loyal Halo Halo Podcast listeners and wonderful guests and guest co-hosts who have visited the virtual studios and joined us to elevate and celebrate others. See you in the fall for Season Six! XOXO Jezzie and Sigi

Today we are joined by Mr. Tradeblock himself @chriscataluna_ and @jayscastlefits as John is out yet again. Chris never disappoints with his pick up as he shows us some sneak peaks of some crazy heaters. In Newsies we discuss the new Rogers Musical and a New Balance 997r (John picked this). We got another non-park FOTW feature and we compare new Xmas parties in Land vs World. Chris tells us about his bad experiences with Rise of the Resistance in Recent Trips and Drips and Ruby has Ube-delicious Plant Based dessert for us! Ruby also has a Mad Lib for us and Matt ends the show for a question for the room!    Thanks for listening!  Follow Chris and Tradeblock!  @chriscataluna_ @tradeblock   Follow us!  @kicksatthecastle @weekends_with_walt @roobss @thedisneyhypebeast @jayscastlefits   Intro Music by @illsavino

Chris Howlett with Diamond Hill Builders set out to improve his team's attitude, create a better work environment, a craft the Ultimate Building Experience. In this episode, Kyle interviews Chris on his Ultimate Building Experience, or UBE, program and how it has transformed his company culture. Listen now for all the details! ----- Save time and money in your remodeling business with the Canvas app and their new Canvas Measurement Report. Download the Canvas App here and use the promo code RISE23 for $100 off your first scan!

This week in Asian American politics! Ron DeSantis mandates AAPI history be taught in schools but also bans the teaching of systemic racism in schools. Asian food is growing in popularity on social media, but what are the consequences of this? Are we about to see $15 Ube, $20 pork buns? South Korean adoptee Adam Crasper wins his case against the agency that mishandled his adoption and ruined his life Hawaiians are being priced out of Hawaii are are moving to Vegas Panda Express sponsors a post-doc fellowship at Ivy League UPenn and the internet goes wild!! -- WHAT'S POLITICALLY ASIAN PODCAST? Two Asians talking about politics and the Asian American community to get more Asians talking about politics! Join comedians Aaron Yin (he/him) and Gerrie Lim (they/them) for 45 minutes-ish each week as they discuss current topics and events related to Asian Americans through the lenses of history, class, and advocacy. Think John Oliver's show, but there's two of us, and we're Asian. -- CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Our memes are so good Asian people will mention them when they meet us in real life. Instagram: https://instagram.com/politicallyasianpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/politicasianpod Website: https://politicallyasianpodcast.com -- INQUIRIES: politicallyasianpodcast@gmail.com -- SUPPORT US ON BUY ME A COFFEE (currently fundraising for episode transcription services and a video editor): https://buymeacoffee.com/politicalasian -- MUSIC by Clueless Kit: https://soundcloud.com/cluelesskit Song title: live now -- ALGORITHM? Chinese American Politics, Korean American Politics, Japanese American Politics, South Asian politics, Asian American politics, AAPI politics, Asian American Political Alliance, Asian American leader, Asian American Protests 1960s, Asian American policy, Asian leftist, Asian American leftist, Asian American leftist podcast

This episode the guys talk about Taro vs Ube, Parenting and Raf's Cruise experience. They also touch on the Filipino Foods people leave out of their top 5, use of foil/glad wrap, April Fools Day and a whole lot more.Follow our patreon for our latest "Un-Tuli" Episode : https://patreon.com/thecheatcodersCheck out our merch, previous episodes and more on our website: https://thecheatcoders.comFollow us on all social media: @thecheatcoders

RECIPE CLUB IS BACK! The wait is over! Dave, Chris, Priya, Rachel, John, and Brian are back in the kitchen cooking your favourite recipes in brand new and exciting ways. Send in your recipe featuring any of the ingredients from our list to thefixer@majordomomedia.com for the chance to win an amazing prize at the end of the season. Spread the word and get cooking! Our Ingredients List: Barbecue Sauce, Breadcrumbs, Butter, Canned Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Chicken Wings, Coconut ,Coffee, Crab, Cream Cheese, Duck, Eggs, Flavored Vodka, Ground Beef, Hot Dogs, Instant Potato Flakes, Lemons, Maple Syrup, Soda, Sweet Potatoes,Tinned Fish, Ube, Watermelon, Wonderbread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maintaining authenticity is an important part of every creative's journey, especially as you move up the ranks and gain more experience. But does it come at a cost? That certainly came up during my conversation with the highly acclaimed designer Ube Urban. Ube defines a space that is unclear — the innovation space — but he's learned to wield that in his favor and now he's on the lookout for his next opportunity.Ube explained more about what he does, going in-depth with how he first got involved in design and how he works with brands. He also shared his story about growing up in Hawai'i, moving to California for college, and how his early entrepreneurial journey as a creative in San Francisco eventually brought him to Atlanta. We also spent some time talking about how he maintains his authentic self in an industry that often forces you into a box. Ube is so much more than his profession, and I think by the end of this conversation, you'll see that too!LinksUbe Urban's WebsiteUbe Urban on LinkedInFor a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.==========Donate to Selma Tornado ReliefWe are raising money for Selma Tornado Relief through United Way of Central Alabama to help serve victims of the tornado that tore through Selma, Alabama on Thursday, January 12th.Click or tap here to donate, or text SELMA to 62644. Send us proof of your donation, and we will match it 100% (up to the first $1,000 donated).Thank you for helping fund Selma's recovery!==========Donate to Revision PathFor 10 years, Revision Path has been dedicated to showcasing Black designers and creatives from all over the world. In order to keep bringing you the content that you love, we need your support now more than ever.Click or tap here to make either a one-time or monthly donation to help keep Revision Path running strong.Thank you for your support!==========Join The Tenth CollectiveAre you a Black designer looking for your next opportunity? Then you should join The Tenth Collective, an initiative from Revision Path and State of Black Design to connect Black professionals in the design and creative industries with companies committed to hiring Black candidates for design and creative positions. And it's 100% free.Members of The Tenth Collective will receive curated introduction requests from companies vetted by us, and you'll only be contacted when a company wants to speak to you.We know that looking for a new opportunity can be tough, especially during these times. Let The Tenth Collective help you out!Click or tap here to join The Tenth Collective today!==========Follow and SubscribeLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows. Follow us, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review!You can also follow Revision Path on Instagram and Twitter.==========Buy Our Merch!Grab yourself a t-shirt or a hoodie and show your support for Revision Path! 100% of proceeds go directly back into production for the podcast.Click or tap here for the Revision Path merch collection on Mon-Cherry.==========CreditsRevision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.Executive Producer and Host: Maurice CherryEditor and Audio Engineer: RJ BasilioIntro Voiceover: Music Man DreIntro and Outro Music: Yellow SpeakerTranscripts are provided courtesy of Brevity and Wit.☎️ Call ‪626-603-0310 and leave us a message with your comments on this episode!Thank you for listening!==========Sponsored by HoverWith over 400+ domain name extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, Hover is the only domain provider we use and trust.Ready to get started? Go to hover.com/revisionpath and get 10% off your first purchase.

Ube has quickly made a name for himself as a golf cinematographer creating videos for some of the biggest names and brands in golf. We had an awesome time learning about Ube the golfer and Ube the creative hopping around on topics including how he got started, his work with Wilson Golf, why he loves Nike blades, his experiences up close with PGA tour pro Tom Kim, and his favorite golf courses in California. Find Ube at @ubewolf or https://ubewolflabs.com/. As always, thanks for listening to the Tossing Clubs Podcast! Please subscribe, rate our podcast, and leave a review! Follow us on TikTok (@tossingclubs) or Instagram (@tossingclubs).

In this podcast, our analysts breakdown the New York Times predictions on how we will eat this year and how such trends fit into a changing food culture.Listen in to learn our thoughts on a diversity of topics that intersect with how we'll eat in 2023 including: Flavor of the year? Let's talk about all things brine.Regenerative agriculture: What does it mean to consumers … and industry?Crispy chicken skin snacks—snacking trends and global cuisines.The thrill of thrift: Frugality, inflation woes, private label and the thrill of the hunt at discount retailers.Tuber of the year: Ube, the brilliant purple and colorful fun food which we've seen it in a lot of different baked goods.Delving deeper into West African cuisine: African and specifically Nigerian cuisines and ingredients are beginning to mainstream.Vibe of the year—communal eating—and a return to shared eating and the third space.  Interested to learn more about consumer culture and changing eating habits? We have a wealth of insights on Consumer Meals, Eating Behavior & Occasions Reports & Research. Our most recent report in this area, Modern Approaches to Eating explores in-depth the spectrum of eating approaches that consumers pursue today, along with the attitudes, needs and goals that motivate them.