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Until the very last day, pollsters predicted the 2024 U.S. presidential election would be too close to call, with just a fraction of a percentage point separating Donald Trump from his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. Many observers predicted a repeat of 2020, when Trump refused to concede, resulting in riots on Capitol Hill. But as the votes rolled in on Nov. 5, 2024, it became clear Trump was on pace to win a resounding victory for the Republicans and a surprise second term in the White House. As of Wednesday night, Trump has been elected with 295 electoral collage votes, compared to Harris's 226, complemented by a victory in the popular vote. Trump's party also took control of the Senate and will likely control the House of Representatives, although those ballots are still being counted. Political science professor Donald Abelson of McMaster University in Hamilton had an eye-witness perspective of the final hours of the election from his perch in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, David Weinfeld, a Canadian-born professor of American Jewish history, was monitoring the election results from his home in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where he had previously been a volunteer canvassing for the Democrats. Abelson and Weinfeld joined The CJN Daily‘s Ellin Bessner shortly after Kamala Harris called Trump to concede defeat Wednesday. Together, they unpack what Trump's victory means for Jews, Israel, Canada and the world. Their take? While some pro-Israel advocates may be excited, Trump will almost certainly not be a reliable ally for Jews. What we talked about Read more about professor Donald E. Abelson in The CJN, and learn about his new books on U.S. politics, here and here. David Weinfeld has been a columnist for The CJN, and most recently was a guest panelist on The CJN Daily's Canada Day episode on why Canadian Jews feel vulnerable in a post-Oct. 7 world. Why the "Tree of Life" synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018 was a turning point for Jews in America and not in a good way, by David Weinfeld in The CJN archives. Credits Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner) Production team: Zachary Kauffman (producer), Michael Fraiman (executive producer) Music: Dov Beck-Levine Support our show Subscribe to The CJN newsletter Donate to The CJN (+ get a charitable tax receipt) Subscribe to The CJN Daily (Not sure how? Click here)
State of the State is the monthly roundup of policy and research for the state of Michigan from MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR). Arnold Weinfeld is the associate director for the institute. Charley Ballard is an economist at MSU. This month's guest is Kimberly Dodd, a veterinarian and virologist with extensive expertise in emerging infectious diseases. She is currently the director of the MSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, or VDL, one of the country's premier veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Pending board approval, Dodd has been recommended to serve as the new dean of Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, effective Aug. 1. Weinfeld, Ballard, and Dodd discuss the recent news of bird flu in Michigan.
Join Dr. Franco and Dr. Weinfeld as they discuss a cutting-edge device designed to elevate your cosmetic journey, The Nanocube. This advanced technology promises consistent results by processing patient fat into two specialized types, enhancing volume replacement and restoring youthful skin appearance like never before. Tune in to explore how our state-of-the-art approach can redefine your aesthetic goals with precision and innovation. Whether considering facial rejuvenation or seeking to reclaim a youthful glow, this episode unveils the ultimate solution you've been searching for. Take advantage of this transformative discussion! Embrace the future of beauty and schedule your consultation today to embark on a rejuvenating journey towards timeless radiance.
Dr. Weinfeld, an expert in surgical rhinoplasty transformations, and PA Gilbert who has mastered safe ultrasound liquid rhinoplasty techniques, discuss the best option for you. Whether you are dreaming of a smaller nose or easier breathing, a surgical rhinoplasty remains unmatched. Yet, liquid rhinoplasty can do amazing things, such as refining small dorsal humps and enhancing tip projection. Listen to this podcast to explore why each option shines and find your perfect fit. Tune in to learn more!
State of the State is the monthly roundup of policy and research for the state of Michigan from MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR). Arnold Weinfeld is the associate director for the institute. Charley Ballard is an economist at MSU. This month's guest is Kimberly Dodd, a veterinarian and virologist with extensive expertise in emerging infectious diseases. She is currently the director of the MSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, or VDL, one of the country's premier veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Pending board approval, Dodd has been recommended to serve as the new dean of Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, effective Aug. 1. Weinfeld, Ballard, and Dodd discuss the recent news of bird flu in Michigan. Conversation Highlights: (0:52) – What's in the latest jobs report and is the economy moving full steam ahead? (4:08) – Why don't many Americans believe the economy is doing so well? What are the political implications? Michigan will play a key role in the 2024 election. (15:07) – Where are we now with bird flu in Michigan? (20:56) – How is the state of Michigan involved? (22:53) – Is our milk supply safe? Pasteurization kills the virus. (24:07) – Is there any evidence of human-to-human transmission? Should I be worried that I'll get sick with avian influenza? “The risk to the public remains low. There will likely be additional restrictions in place at county fairs and petting zoos this summer.” (26:33) – This likely won't be the last pathogen we see. Talk about the mission and value of MSU's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Listen to “MSU Today with Russ White” on the radio and through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.
In this episode, our host and plastic surgery consultant Mavi Rodriguez is joined by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Johnny Franco. Together they discuss the following questions;- Should I lose weight before having plastic surgery?- Why does weightloss preparation improve plastic surgery results?- What are the risks of having plastic surgery with a higher BMI?- What are BMI limits for having plastic surgery?- What should come first: tummy tuck or liposuction?Dr. Johnny Franco provides valuable insights into preparing for surgery with weight loss, the impact of BMI on surgical risks, the complexities of combining liposuction with a tummy tuck, the importance of postoperative mobility, and the evolving approach to Brazilian Butt Lift surgery for individuals who have experienced significant weight loss.MEET DR. JOHNNY FRANCOOriginally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Dr. Franco is bilingual in English and Spanish. After graduating from Beloit College with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, and earning his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Dr. Franco served his residency in plastic surgery at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where he was chief resident from 2010-2011. There, he was chief resident from 2010-2011.In 2011, he completed additional training at Chan Gung Hospital in Taiwan with a focus on microsurgery primarily in cancer reconstruction, followed by a fellowship at Gent University Hospital in Belgium where he specialized in breast reconstruction and fat transfer.Today, Dr. Franco is a board-certified plastic surgeon with an impressive history of publications, presentations, and accolades, including the Merck Index Award and the Walter S. Haven Prize. He is an active member of:American Society of Plastic SurgeonsAmerican Society of Aesthetic Plastic SurgeonsAustin Society of Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeonsHe is currently Clinical Faculty at The University of Texas Dell Medical School. He also is a reviewer for the Aesthetic Journal and Annals of Plastic Surgery where he reviews the articles for publication from other plastic surgeons around the world.Dr. Franco in known across the U.S. for his exceptional care and stunning results, which are centered on the individual needs and attributes of his patients.Check his Instagram: Dr. Franco, Dr. Weinfeld, Dr. Arredondo & Dr. Chang (@austinplasticsurgeon) • Instagram-Fotos und -VideosSupport the showDo you want help planning your surgery? Book a discovery call with Mavi Rodriguez. Join our online community! Visit our website www.bigbuttsnolies.com Plastic Surgery Podcast (@bigbuttsnoliespodcast) • Instagram photos and videosWatch the episodes on YouTube
In this episode of Plastic Surgery Untold, join Dr. Arreondo, Dr. Franco, Dr. Chang, and Dr. Weinfeld as they discuss prophylactic internal bras. Discover the intricacies of this innovative technique, involving the addition of mesh to breast surgeries for internal support. Learn how the internal bra aids in supporting implants and breast tissue, facilitating weight redistribution and promoting the body's natural collagen production. The doctors share insights on how the mesh prompts the body to add a controlled layer of collagen, ensuring long-term surgical results. Tune in to understand the significance of this method, especially in the context of the weight loss revolution, where Ozempic breast is prevalent. Don't miss out on unraveling the secrets behind maintaining surgical excellence over time
In this episode of "Plastic Surgery Untold," Dr. Weinfeld, Dr. Franco, and Dr. Arredondo are joined by a surgical specialist in breast surgery, Dr. Heather King. The discussion revolves around a topic that combines aesthetics with reconstruction. Following a mastectomy, women often experience numbness in the chest, which can be both uncomfortable and potentially unsafe. Tune in to this podcast to explore a procedure that has a significant impact – preserving nipple sensation after a mastectomy.
Neste episódio recebemos Isay Weinfeld, para compartilhar um pouco da sua vasta vivência atuando como arquiteto e urbanista em diferentes cidades do mundo. Apoie o Caos Planejado. Confira os links do episódio no site. Episódio produzido com o apoio da Ospa.
Welcome to this episode of Navigating Now, where we're excited to have our first Forbes 30 under 30 member, Nic Weinfeld, the founder of Five to Sixty, a media production agency that's been making waves in the industry since 2015. Nic's expertise lies in creating short social videos, stills, and gifs that leave a lasting impression on today's audiences. Over the years, Five to Sixty has worked with some of the biggest names in the business, including Don Julio, Starbucks, Pepsi, Spotify, and Popeyes. Nic's collaborative spirit has also led him to partner with international advertising agencies like AKQA, GUT, Wunderman, and VaynerMedia. Nic's work has not gone unnoticed either. He has won the coveted Cannes Lions Mo Film award for his Coca-Cola broadcast commercial, and Five to Sixty's Pepsi Super Bowl Campaign was honored with a Gold and Silver Telly Award. One thing that sets Nic apart is his belief that every film has a story to tell, no matter how short or long. This perspective has allowed him to create engaging content that resonates with audiences of all kinds. We invite you to join us for an insightful conversation with Nic on this episode of Navigating Now. Check out Nic: Website: http://www.nicweinfeld.com/ FivetoSixty: https://www.5to60.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicweinfeld/?hl=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-weinfeld-18806018/ Email: nicweinfeld@gmail.com D Y F R E N T: ENTER IMAGINATION WITH GRACE OUR HOME: [http://dyfrentconsulting.com] LINKEDIN @DYFRENT CONSULTING
This episode of "Plastic Surgery Untold " focuses on Labiaplasty, a vaginal rejuvenation procedure. The doctors discussing this topic are Dr. Franco, Dr. Arredondo, Dr. Weinfeld, and special guest Dr. Mark Epstein from New York, who has been practicing for about 30 years. Some women may feel discomfort or self-consciousness due to having too much tissue in their vaginal area, and the surgery aims to alleviate their concerns and improve their quality of life. It's essential to note that there is no "normal" or standard appearance for the vagina. Every woman's anatomy is unique, and labiaplasty is about addressing specific concerns and desires of the individual patient rather than conforming to societal norms. During the episode, the doctors discuss different techniques they each employ when performing a labiaplasty surgery. Listen to this episode to learn more about labiaplasty surgery, and watch this video for a visual example from Dr. Epsiten: https://www.epsteinplasticsurgery.com/gallery/labiaplasty-65/#case-video
This week's Complicated Kids Podcast episode features special education expert, child advocate, and founder of the Weinfeld Education Group, Rich Weinfeld. Rich has spent nearly 50 years in education and thrives in helping advocate for those with developmental delays and learning disabilities find the right care. We talk about his process for gathering information about the clients he works with, what the collaboration with other professionals in the child's life looks like, the basis of his services, and what they seek to accomplish in The Weinfeld Education Group. We also talk about what 2E or twice exceptional means. Watch the video to find out more. To find out how you can work with Rich and his team of 15 amazing special education professionals, visit www.wegadvocacy.com.
In this episode of Plastic Surgery Untold, Dr. Weinfeld and Dr. Arredondo are thrilled to welcome special guests, Dr. Mark Albert from New York City and Dr. Paul Afrooz from Miami, Florida. Join us as these exceptional surgeons share their insights on various facelift techniques, with a focus on the renowned deep-plane facelift. Listen in as the surgeons discuss their personalized approach to each facelift procedure, tailoring it specifically to the unique needs of each patient. Recognizing that stressors and aging patterns vary, these talented doctors work tirelessly to deliver the best possible outcomes for each of their patients. Don't miss out on this conversation, where artistry meets innovation.
Join renowned plastic surgeons Dr. Weinfeld, Dr. Arredondo, Dr. Albert, and Dr. Afrooz as they delve into a captivating discussion centered around the transformative world of rhinoplasties. In this special episode of Plastic Surgery Untold, these esteemed experts from around the U.S. gather at the ASAPS meeting in Miami to explore a topic that resonates deeply with their passion and expertise. Recognizing the nose as the keystone of the face, the surgeons embark on an enlightening conversation that touches upon the intricacies of rhinoplasty surgery, shedding light on the benefits and considerations associated with closed and open rhinoplasties. Tune in to this exclusive episode of Plastic Surgery Untold with these expert rhinoplasty surgeons.
The Special Ed Strategist Podcast with Wendy Taylor, M.Ed., ET/P
Episode Brief: Rich Weinfeld lends us some of his expert knowledge and key insight to some of the current struggles that specifically male students are facing. We also get into strategies and best approaches for parents and professionals when supporting boys to be successful. Follow along as we discover some new things to think about when supporting boys in school.
Épisode 962 : hors-format en direct du Social Base Camp de Supernatifs, inauguré jeudi 20 avril !On a le plaisir d'inaugurer ce lieu avec une table ronde qui regroupe la nouvelle scène lyonnaise : Thomas Lateur, Chloé Weinfeld, Bart Lanzini, Bambi Bakbi. On a du très lourd !4 artistes passionnants pour parler création de contenu, réseaux sociaux, collaboration de marque et même IA. Cette épisode est une pépite que vous ne voulez pas manquer !. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com/. Ensemble, nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Ensemble, nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.
Jam packed with completely candid feedback, insights, and perspective on this year's conference.Recorded on location at the Screenverse penthouse in Nashville with Adam Malone (President and co-founder of Screenverse), David Weinfeld (CEO and co-founder of Screenverse) and COMMB President, Amanda Dorenberg.Connect with these great co-hosts:https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammalonehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dweinfeldhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-dorenbergLooking for your next job in OOH? Start here: www.oohired.com
Have you ever heard of a preservation Rhinoplasty? A preservation rhinoplasty preserves tissue and cartilage but changes the foundation of the nose. In a classic rhinoplasty, the dorsum is not preserved, but in a preservation rhino, we take little nibbles of bone and cartilage further toward the base of the nose, changing the support structure. The dorsum is gently repositioned to its support structures. In this procedure, the piezotome is a saw that decreases the amount of swelling and bruising and causes less trauma to the tissue. A good candidate for this procedure is someone who doesn't need a lot of change to their nose; for example, they have subtle over projection or a slight hump. The goal is to preserve as much natural tissue as possible. Listen to this podcast as Dr. Weinfeld, Dr. Franco, Dr. Micallef, and Dr. Arredondo discuss this fantastic procedure.
Rib Repositioning is a novel technique our doctors perform in Austin and San Antonio. In this week's episode of Plastic Surgery Untlold, board-certified plastic surgeons Dr. Franco, Dr. Micallef, and Dr. Weinfeld discuss this surgery. Rib Repositioning creates a snatched waist by making a small incision in the bottom two sets of ribs, called the floating ribs, which are not attached to the sternum. Our doctors use amazing tools such as a Piezotome to saw the bone while being safe and precise, as well as the ultrasound. This surgery is perfect for someone who feels square or does not have enough fat to shape their body, transgender patients, and more. Are you looking for a natural hourglass curve? Listen to this podcast!
In this week's episode of Plastic Surgery Untold, Dr. Franco, Dr. Arredondo, Dr. Weinfeld, and Dr. Micallef discuss HD lipo and total definition. This procedure is for both men and women and can be tailored to each patient's specific needs. This procedure highlights the body's natural anatomy and underlying muscle groups through precision liposculpting and possibly fat transfer. Whether the patient wants soft, moderate, or extreme HD Lipo, the docs can do it all while using the best tools, such as an ultrasound to be precise and safe, renuvion for skin tightening, and more. Listen to this episode if you are interested in hearing our docs talk about this amazing technique to create a natural and athletically enhanced look!
When The CJN Daily launched in May 2021, one of our first stories was about Jewish organizations urging community members to fill out their census forms. It was important, they said, because the 2016 census was so poorly designed that it didn't ask about religion—only ethnic origins—which left out Judaism, halving the number of Jews living in Canada. The latest census was different. Having taken the advice of Jewish community advocates, the census organizers gave Canadians the option of marking "Jewish" as their religion and their ethnic identity. Experts hoped the data would align with perceived trends in the Canadian Jewish population—which it has. The stats, released Oct 26, show that more than 335,00 people described themselves as Jews by religion—up nearly 6,000 from 10 years ago. And while it's only incremental growth, researchers like Morton Weinfeld, a sociologist and professor at McGill University, are optimistic about the key takeaways. Weinfeld joins the show to explain the meaning behind the numbers. What we talked about: Listen to the episode of The CJN Daily covering the census issue from May 2021 Look at the preliminary 2022 census numbers Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to support the show by subscribing to this podcast, please watch this video.
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Cornell UP, 2022), David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea—different ethnic groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole—and it grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize US society today. Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day
In this episode I am talking to Frank who went into hiding and had to take care of himself since he was 14 years old, after his parents were taken away.How did he survive?Tune in to listen to the clever idea that he had .
Welcome back Team. The Plastic Surgery Untold crew took some time off, again; but for good reason. Over the last few weeks we've been jetting across the country attending conferences and courses learning all the latest and greatest techniques in surgical and aesthetic procedures. Now we're back and ready to enlighten you with all the incredible information we all learned while we were away. In this week's episode we'll dive head first into the newest hot topic in breast augmentation, implant placement. Listen as Drs. Franco and Weinfeld share their thoughts on breast implant placement and what is the best choice for you. If you've been considering breast augmentation surgery, you will not want to miss this episode.
A culture of belonging includes diversity, the presence of differences in an environment, and inclusion, or making all community members feel included. Belonging is an outcome of those; it is a sense of acceptance, support, and inclusion in community. “When students and staff and families feel like they can bring their authentic selves, 100 percent who they are to that community, that truly turbo charges their contributions and results,” DiGioia-Weinfeld explained. Schools can measure how the community—including families, students, and staff members—feels about certain topics to identify blind spots. “When we measure an ask, we have a chance to check in if our assumptions are actually a reality for our stakeholders,” DiDioia-Weinfeld said. DiGioia-Weinfeld also suggests teachers write out student names and see if each one has a strong relationship with a teacher. “One of the biggest places to start is recognizing the difference between a positive relationship and an authentic relationship,” she stated. Positive relationships are beneficial but can be surface level, whereas authentic ones involve cultural backgrounds and more deeply knowing the person. “We tend to skip the relationship piece and just get right down to business. But it's about modelling the relationships with teachers,” she said. For more information on creating a culture of belonging, subscribe to Change Starts Here.
A culture of belonging includes diversity, the presence of differences in an environment, and inclusion, or making all community members feel included. Belonging is an outcome of those; it is a sense of acceptance, support, and inclusion in community. “When students and staff and families feel like they can bring their authentic selves, 100 percent who they are to that community, that truly turbo charges their contributions and results,” DiGioia-Weinfeld explained. Schools can measure how the community—including families, students, and staff members—feels about certain topics to identify blind spots. “When we measure an ask, we have a chance to check in if our assumptions are actually a reality for our stakeholders,” DiDioia-Weinfeld said. DiGioia-Weinfeld also suggests teachers write out student names and see if each one has a strong relationship with a teacher. “One of the biggest places to start is recognizing the difference between a positive relationship and an authentic relationship,” she stated. Positive relationships are beneficial but can be surface level, whereas authentic ones involve cultural backgrounds and more deeply knowing the person. “We tend to skip the relationship piece and just get right down to business. But it's about modelling the relationships with teachers,” she said. For more information on creating a culture of belonging, subscribe to Change Starts Here.
Welcome back Team! This week we tackle the other set of chubby cheeks as we discuss buccal fat pad removal. Buccal fat pad removal has become such a hot topic in the era of the Zoom Boom and facial aesthetics. Drs. Franco and Weinfeld discuss this amazing procedure which not only helps slim the face, but also creates nicely contoured cheeks to give you that modelesque face that would make Bella Hadid jealous. We also talk a little chin augmentation with Dr. Weinfeld and our resident Physician Assistant extraordinaire, G-berto.
This week our featured guest and Rhinoplasty expert, Dr. Adam Weinfeld, will be discussing all things related to a Revision Rhinoplasty. Dr. Weinfeld explains everything involved in helping patients get that picture perfect nose they always wanted but may not have gotten after their first rhinoplasty. And not to be outshone, G-berto and Dr. Franco get into the conversation discussing minimally invasive options that may not require surgery at all. This is definitely an episode you will not want to miss.
Uncertainty sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already pushed up the price of gasoline. Russia and Ukraine are major wheat and corn growers, and their conflict will raise prices at the grocery stores, said Charles Ballard, MSU economist and a member of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) podcast team.“There's already been an effect,” he said during the podcast recording. “I don't think that will be enormous.” With war-strangled supply disruptions and shortages, along with rising demand powered by economic stimulus checks, extra unemployment benefits, consumers are likely to find goods and services in short supply or delayed, Ballard said.This month's IPPSR State of the State Podcast features IPPSR Director Dr. Matt Grossmann and IPPSR Associate Director Arnold Weinfeld.Other highlights from the monthly internet broadcast produced in partnership by IPPSR, a campus center for policy education, political leadership development and survey research, and WKAR Radio:· Inflation, up 5.2% in January and the biggest annual gain since 1983, is likely to make a “negative dent” in President Biden's approval, Grossmann said. How large a dent depends on inflation's duration, how long inflation stays in the news and how strong public perceptions are in the wake of rising prices.· Retirees' effect on the economy looks under the public radar, Ballard observed. In the past 20 years, Baby Boomers, the generation of people born from 1946 to 1964, have hit retirement years. In the past months, workers wrung out by the pandemic have left jobs. “That contributes to the supply disruptions,” he said. “It contributes to higher prices.”· IPPSR's latest State of the State Survey (SOSS) shows an especially sour Michigan view of inflation and politicians. The latest survey, in December 2021, found that 70 percent of those responding to the survey expect the rate of inflation to rise; only 11 percent expect decline. In the 2020 survey, some 48 percent of SOSS respondents expected inflation's uptick, 12 percent foresaw downturn. “As we know, perception is everything,” Weinfeld commented.· Rising gasoline prices is a particular distaste, Grossmann said. “Voters notice those gas prices. “Voters take note and react negatively. Voters don't like it.” Historically, rising gasoline prices are related to declining voter favor not only for the president, but also for election losses for the president's political party.· Even Biden's Build Back Better initiative, addressing infrastructure and now before the U.S. Congress, came in for doubt in the State of the State Survey. When interviewers asked about Biden's Build Back Better plan, it was opposed 47 percent-30 percent, Grossmann said. When the plan's components were explained, it gained majority support from SOSS respondents.· In statewide politics, Michigan still favors Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the state's 2022 gubernatorial race and Democrats in congressional voting, Grossmann said. However, races should narrow as November draws nearer, he cautioned.· Tax cuts are on the table in Michigan's Legislature with budget surpluses, due primarily to federal economic stimulus, giving rise to proposals to cut taxes for individuals, corporations, retirees with pensions and certain 401(k) investments. · Resources are available now to pay down long-term debt, cut taxes and increase benefits, Grossmann said. During times of strong resources, decisionmakers can make changes “we then regret a few years later,” he added. Strong resources now don't mean “good times are here for good.”The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research is a part of the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. It specializes in policy education, leadership training and survey research. IPPSR is the home of the Michigan Political Leadership Program, the Office for Survey Research, State of the State Survey, Legislative Leadership Program, Rosenthal Legislative Internship Program, more than 60 affiliate faculty members, student policy fellows and major research databases on topics of interest to academic researchers, legislators, policy makers, elected leaders and journalists around the world. IPPSR's monthly State of the State Podcast is broadcast with the assistance of WKAR Radio along with radio stations on the air and over the internet, on SoundCloud and ITunes. You'll also find this edition of the State of the State Podcast on MSU Today with Russ White. Find IPPSR on social media @IPPSR on Twitter and Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) | Facebook on Facebook.MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on WKAR News/Talk and Sunday nights at 8:00 on 760 WJR. Find, rate, and subscribe to "MSU Today with Russ White" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.
Talkline With Zev Brenner with Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld discusses the fire set by an arsonist that destroyed his Chabad House in the Almaden neighborhood of San Jose California. A few days later the Chabad Center was vandalized. Rabbi Weinfeld talks about his attempts to rebuild bigger and better to service the growing Jewish Community in his area. This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.
HBO optó por abrirle espacio a una serie sobre arquitectura y los arquitectos que la edifican, desde un punto de vista muy personal, el director Emilio Maillé mantiene una charla con los que considera son grandes exponentes de la arquitectura latinoamericana, en el segundo episodio: Isay Weinfeld. El #PlantaLibreArmy comenta éste sexto y último episodio. ¡Síguenos y suscríbete! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfF7xZxvLk_aUINFqPn_TIQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantalibre.podcast/ Con: @mareaneon @edmundoteran @ursuloop @nosoyalan @lainter.mx @plantalibre.podcast un podcast de @portavoztv Apoya nuestro trabajo en: https://www.patreon.com/plantalibre
We started out with great ambitions on this week's episode of plans to discuss Brow Lifts AND Lip Lifts, but we quickly discovered that we had so much amazing information to share about Lip Lifts that we decided to make it an episode all of its own! Join us as Dr. Franco, Dr. Weinfeld and our crew of usual suspects discuss multiple approaches to obtaining THE Optimal Lip Lift.
You asked for it and we listened! We had such an incredible response from you, our listeners, to one of our recent episode about Surgical Facelifts with Dr. Adam Weinfeld, that we had to follow it up with our Nonsurgical Facelift options. Dr. Weinfeld and the Plastic Surgery Untold crew met up this week to discuss the non-surgical options for facial rejuvenation. In this week's episode, we discuss all the non-surgical and minimally invasive treatment options to obtain that youthful appearance.
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Advertising is hard - and a lot of companies, from startups to majors, have found out the expensive way that creating and running a screen network that's funded through booked ad spots is no walk in the park. There are lots of programmatic advertising options out there to make access to brand advertising easier for network operators, but a start-up called Screenverse is going down a different path - basically saying to a lot of companies that have screens: "You focus on what you're truly good at, and we'll take over the ad sales and management of your network." So in the same way that some solutions providers are the outsourced digital signage operating units for companies like QSR chains, Screenverse is doing the sales and related work for companies that happen to have a screen network as part of much larger businesses. A great example would be TouchTunes, which has 1,000s of digital jukeboxes in bars, with screens on them that support booked advertising. Screenverse now runs and sells the ad display side of the business, so TouchTunes can focus on what it is super-good at - music content curation, licensing and overall ops. The company was started by a couple of guys I have known for a long time in this industry - David Weinfeld and Adam Malone. While less than two years old, started just in time for a pandemic and nuclear winter for out of home advertising, Screenverse is making money and recently announced a quasi acquisition deal to bring on the sales experience and business ties of The Danaher Group, a boutique media sales run by Sue Danaher, who many industry people will know from her days running the DPAA. David and I go back to the days when we were consulting partners on The Preset Group. It was terrific to catch up, and get a better understanding of how his company fills what is a pretty obvious need in the market for companies that want to monetize the screens in their network, but struggle (or would struggle) trying to run ad sales and media operations within the walls of a company that otherwise knows very little about advertising. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT David, thank you for joining me. It's been a while since we've caught up. The first thing I wanted to ask is what you've been up to? Cause we've known each other for more than a dozen years and you've done a few things lately and then got into starting Screenverse. David Weinfeld: Yeah, absolutely. So prior to starting Screenverse, I had been working in different startups, largely in the digital, out-of-home, and digital signage space. Most immediately, I was at Vistar Media leading their global supply-side sales team, and that was an incredible experience, really being able to see across the whole of the landscape, building out their enterprise software business that included their ad server and player software and building that out and enterprise relationships with companies like Top Golf, RedBox, etc. But even as I was doing that and playing on a lot of the experience that I had in the industry, even dating back to our days at the Preset group, understanding that there continued to be this prevalence of networks that at their core weren't media businesses, and so they might've had thousands of screens in grocery or Walmart stores or in office buildings, but really weren't in a position to maximize the revenue that they could generate. They were seeing success by connecting to an exchange like Vistar, but I just saw so much more potential in the way in which they could monetize those assets, and as I started seeing that, I really got the idea for this vision of the business, Screenverse, playing on my time, working with you at the Preset group, consulting to major display manufacturers like Samsung and LG and others, but then really looking at the networks that I most enjoyed working with were networks that were just entirely new to the media side of the business, and as you and I both know, and most people listening to the podcast, there are so many stories that we can tell of the digital out-of-home networks that have come and gone. The skeletons of past networks that otherwise you would've thought, there's a foundation for success here, and sometimes it's the expectation of, if you build it, they will come, and the advertiser is just going to knock on our door, and what I've since learned is that's obviously not the case, and programmatic, there does open that door to a degree and create some of that opportunity, but really Screenverses exist to really blast that door wide open on behalf of our network partners, and so when I left Vistar pre-COVID, it was with a very clear vision of the business that I wanted to start. I was lucky enough to found the business with another great industry professional in Adam Malone, a friend who I've known for over 10 years, and in doing so, we built up a company whose entire focus is on ad management and monetization for digital screen networks and really taking networks like Pursuant Health and there are 4,600 screens in Walmart stores nationwide. Our partners at Corner Media, Touch Tunes, Touch Source, Paramount, Smartify, Spin, and others, and really being able to best package and position their inventory, no matter however a brand or agency wants to transact against it, whether that be through a direct IO or by way of a programmatic channel. If you had to do your elevator pitch, the 25 words or less of what all that you do, what would you say? David Weinfeld: Yeah, I would say that we turn our network operators' side business, which is bringing third-party advertising through their screens, to our main business. So that includes everything from ad operations, media packaging, CPM management, optimization of deal flow and management of their inventory, both through the direct and programmatic channels, in such a way that's going to maximize the revenue that they see from agencies, brands, and demand-side platforms. There are some analogous companies in the digital space. Some of those companies are Inc.'s 5,000 fastest-growing companies in 2019. There's a comany by the name of Freestar, who I really admire the way that they've grown and built their business. Cafe Media, Adpushup, are all examples of companies that exist to really demystify for publishers and companies, how to maximize their revenue generation and take advantage of existing technology. So we're not trying to reinvent the wheel. We're most certainly not trying to be a supply-side platform. But our goal is to be the best possible service layer, leveraging technologies like a Vistar or Place Exchange and others, and being able to build lightweight technology on top of that, whose entire purpose is to realize greater revenue and greater efficiencies in the sales and ad management process. So you've got companies who have screens associated with their business, for whatever reason, like during waiting rooms or in Touch Tunes that have digital jukeboxes that also have screens that you can sell ads on, but it's not their core business so effectively they can outsource all of that to you, to people who understand the game, understand the process and everything else, instead of trying to understand that internally and be a skunkworks and a business that spends 98% of its time on other matters, right? David Weinfeld: That's exactly right, and what I've seen historically is that it's very hard for those types of businesses to hire really strong and capable media salespeople, and for good reason, because they're not media businesses, and so they ultimately are challenged from the outset, whereas it's much better and actually a lot less costly and creates a lot more opportunity and potential against their inventory to bring in a company like Screenverse where that's our entire focus. I really like to think about companies and their capabilities. What can you be the best in the world? What is your superpower? Well, our superpower is monetizing digital screens in the physical world, and so if we have companies like Touch Tunes who are incredible in building out distributor relationships and building out the largest footprint of digital jukeboxes in the US and globally, or a company like Pursuant Health, who has kiosks in every single Walmart store nationwide for blood pressure, BMI assessments, and other major health assessments. That's what they're best at in the world, so let us manage the media business and the media side, and especially as programmatic becomes an increasingly important part of the digital out-of-home landscape, understanding the nuances of that channel and how best to navigate different SSPs and DSPs, agencies and the way in which they're transacting, whether direct or programmatic becomes really important. And it ensures that their inventory is getting in front of the right buyers and that they're seeing the greatest value from their inventory and by packaging partners together, we're able to create some really unique audience segments, such that, by itself, a network might not have the scale to get the attention of a major brand, like Starbucks or Unilever, but together complemented with other assets and other inventory, it tells a complete story. So a digital out-of-home network, in something like let's say waiting rooms or whatever, they could do direct sales themselves, but they're going to have to hire people to do that. They could get a rep shop, but they rep all kinds of things that might not even be digital, or they could think that they could just use programmatic, but the reality is programmatic isn't going to fill their inventory. So you need to have this hybrid and you either do it internally, or you go to somebody like your company, right? David Weinfeld: That's exactly right, and there are a lot of companies who really media or being ad supported is their core focus. So you have companies like Doctor's offices, patient points, or you have companies in gyms, Zoom media, right? Those are not our target partners because they already have in-house sales teams and the entire business is built on how do I monetize those assets? But we really look at companies that otherwise might be in similar environments. So we have a partner in a company called Touch Source that is one of the largest providers of office building directories and screens and major healthcare offices to the tune of 10,000 screens nationwide, whose superpower is building out these great solutions and interactive experiences and managing tenant databases and directory user experiences, but there is an advertising opportunity there, and one that in order for them to hire an in-house sales team and think through all the nuances of how they marry that against their existing business, is we formed a partnership with Touch Source, such that we can really manage and own that and act as a consultative partner, and we certainly work together to strategically think about which screens within their overall portfolio of 10,000 make the most sense to bring third-party advertising to, and we're not recommending or saying that, “Hey, our expectation is to light up advertising on all 10,000” but we are in the process and we're at a hundred buildings today, but our expectation is to be in the not too distant future at a thousand buildings, where you're talking about is a network that has multi-million dollar media sales potential in a post-COVID environment, and one that otherwise would have struggled to access those dollars, even by just connecting to programmatic pipes like a Vistar Media or Place Exchange. You still need people, even though it's technology-based and there are automated workflows, you still need people to manage these systems and there are still relationships at the core of the transactions that happen, and so that's really what we say, there's an opportunity to connect to an exchange and gather low-level dollars but you understand CPM, you understand the dynamics of the demand and supply within the ecosystem and what the competitive landscape looks like, and all of a sudden we became not just a cost center to our business, but we realized success in partnership with our network operators, such that it hopefully is an easy decision for them to work with us. Yeah, it's been interesting to listen to this because I admittedly didn't fully understand what Screenverse did, but now I do, and one of the reasons I understand it is I've lived it. Years and years ago, I started a network in the pedestrian corridor system underneath downtown Toronto. There's like miles and miles of walkways with retail down there and everything, and hundreds of thousands of people. Great media environment, in a lot of ways, but this is 2003-2004, and people didn't get it. So I needed professional salespeople to do that for me, and I tried doing partnerships with companies who were already digital out-of-home, and while they understood the pattern and everything else, they just weren't fully invested in it because they had their own product to sell, and at the end of a meeting, they went, “Oh, by the way, we have this thing too. I'm not quite sure what it is, but are you interested? No? Okay. Bye.” It just didn't work. You need somebody who's focused. David Weinfeld: Absolutely. It's really where opportunity meets execution. And the understanding and we're entering an environment and thanks to programmatic, and I really, especially the more time that I've spent on the demand side, I have a much greater appreciation for the work that Michael Provenzano and the earliest employees at Vistar did, and frankly, building out the programmatic market. But now that they have, and now that it's much more robust and it's still in its early innings, there is an opportunity for networks like that to get access to dollars that they otherwise would have been challenged to, but to do it entirely on your own and not understand the advanced capabilities or options that are available to you, it is essentially leaving dollars on the table and programmatic is all about minimizing loss and maximizing gain, and so if you can be in a position where you can bring in the right partner, and again, we're a partner. We don't physically own any screens. We haven't invested capital in building out screens. So we don't have any interests that could otherwise be muddied by bringing on additional networks. We curate the partners that we work with. We say more “No” than we do “Yes”, and it's really important that we think about how they fit within our portfolio, not just in the near term, but in the longterm and how our sales team, frankly, can be successful on their behalf because the last thing I would ever want to do is set unrealistic expectations, which I think can very easily happen, not just in this industry, but really any media space of well, I have this many millions of impressions that equates to this media value so I should generate a million dollars a month and that's nice on paper, and it's nice when you build out projections, but the reality tells a very different story. And one of the things that, myself, Adam, our team prides herself on as being very open and transparent with our partners and setting very clear expectations of this is what we believe your network is worth, this is what we believe that we can deliver in terms of value. Our hopes far exceed those numbers, but we also don't want to go into a relationship where the numbers far outweigh what we think the market can bear. We do have very high hopes, or as optimistic as I think anyone in this space around where digital out-of-home can grow and what it can become in the media mix. But the reality is that programmatic is still a small part of digital out-of-home spending, it's around 5-6% of our overall spending, and thanks to COVID in industry and out-of-home in the US that was approaching $9 billion, got knocked down to between $6-7 billion and is fighting its way back. But I've long believed that in order to unlock the greater demand and revenue that should be coming into out-of-home in general, it's going to be by way of digital buyers. It's going to be by way of buyers who understand that, layering in contextually relevant digital playspace like with a partner of ours, the bulletin who was in a high rise, residential apartment buildings in major cities in the US, layering that with targeted campaigns, it's hard to beat for a D2C brand like a GoPro or Hell Fresh, or Uber eats, but right now they're not really thinking about that within their total strategy. That of course incorporates Facebook and Google and Instagram and connected TV, and so if we can get any access to those budgets, we should become a much more important, incredible part of the total media landscape. Is there a distinction between endemic and non-endemic advertising at this point or is it all just like data flags? David Weinfeld: We really think about it on a network by network and kind of category of venues standpoint. So with the network, like Touch Tunes and, by way of our acquisition of the Danaher group and bringing on incredible talent in the form of Susan Danaher, former DPAA President, CRO at Ad Space (now Lightbox), SVP at Viacom, Victor Germaine, who was a VP at Screen Vision and major sales leader at GSTV and bringing those individuals into our business, but their specialization and where they really focus their energy were on vice categories naturally like beer and alcohol, who were endemic brands through the bar and restaurant category, just as much as you might say for an office building network. That would be B2B financial services or a retail-based network. Endemic brands are much more CPG-focused, but we do see also across all categories because we see a lot of otherwise non-endemic spend from insurance companies and others that you might not immediately connect with a bar and restaurant environment, but who make a ton of sense, just the nature of the audience. So it really depends upon the brand and agency and what their objectives are. If their objective is to really be where the product is sold, well that's why we do a lot of business with Anheuser-Busch and Heineken. But if you're also thinking about a brand that has a relationship by category adjacency, or just reaching that audience. So think about any of the brands like Uber, Lyft advertising in a bar or restaurant, or a brand like a USAA advertising in a Walmart location, the product itself isn't sold there, but certainly, the constituency that they're looking to reach, that they target by way of other channels are very present in those environments, and so we have a mix, but it really speaks to how we position different networks, and the reality is when you undertake a business like Screenverse, you end up having networks across a variety of categories. It's our responsibility and job then to figure out how best to package and curate that, not just for ourselves, but for the market et all. So we're not just going to an agency and presenting a disparate menu of offerings but we understand their client mix. We understand the way in which they buy and what their objective is. So we might just say, “Hey, for the types of brands that you represent, and the fact that you're looking to reach a millennial audience, then you're best suited reaching them in bars and restaurants or reaching them in high rise apartment buildings in cities like Chicago, New York, and DC” versus a brand like USAA, that's looking to reach a much broader population across the entire country, and that's where you start pushing them into inventory, like in Walmarts or grocery stores or convenience stores where they can segment potentially against an older demographic or certainly a broader segment of the overall population. So if I did a spreadsheet exercise of costs of taking ad sales and media operations, in-house versus outsourcing to Screenverse, how is that going to look? Is it going to be more costly to do it internally or more costly to do it through you guys? David Weinfeld: Yeah, so we actually, in many cases do this modeling with our partners and it's definitely more costly internally to make that happen. But the other aspect is even if the model shows that it might be less costly, by way of, “if I hire three people, I can build up this sales organization”, you have to look at it and say, what is the success you're going to yield? And that to me is even more important than just doing your cost exercise and saying, all right, I'm going to need two senior sellers and an ad operations person to build up any type of sales business unit, but that alone isn't really going to be successful and do those individual sellers. It's not an easy thing to find people that know the digital out-of-home space and know how best to navigate out-of-home agencies and digital agencies, and are they going to be equipped to really tell a story that's large enough to get your network noticed, but that's also why we look to have our model based on success, such that we're not a hard and fast cost against the business at the outset, but we see success when our partnerships see success. So ours is really a percentage of revenue-based model, such that it's not, you need to make this large upfront investment. We actually believe as much as you do in the potential of this, and we're going to invest a lot of time and energy upfront to get our team trained upon the inventory, to package the inventory, to leverage our relationships across the industry to tell your story and activate you on programmatic platforms if you haven't done so, help you build out those integrations, if you don't yet have them. And so there's a lot of nuances in that, but I would look really to what's the totality of success that a network could realize trying to go it on their own versus trying to partner with a company like Screenverse, and what we found with a lot of those partners is it becomes a very large challenge to try to do it on their own. And I give everyone the absolute best of lock-in and I support any network that wants to build out their own sales team and thinks that if it's core to your business and you can be the best in the world at selling your inventory, then you absolutely should be the ones to do it. But if it's something you're trying to do on the side, and it's really not part of your brand value, it's not part of your overall culture, overall story, I've seen that very hard and it feels like an extra appendage that doesn't necessarily fit within a company. What we can do is say, we're going to be here and consult you. You don't need to worry about becoming experts in this because guess what? We're thinking about this day in and day out, hour after hour, and we're going to meet with you regularly. We're going to provide you with updates. We're going to demystify the industry in a way that I'm hopeful that, even if we have a network relationship where after two or three years they go, you know what, you've helped us so much, we've actually now had the confidence and belief that we can do this in house, I still see that as a successful outcome because we delivered on the promise of helping them grow their business. I, of course, would love to be with our partners for 10+ years and really build out the highest level of success. But if they decide to bring that in-house, after we've helped them level up their understanding and connections with them, that's successful. Yeah. Everything you said is so spot on and I wanted to say something about cultural fit and you did, just cause I have seen that as well, where you see a media operation bolted onto the side of a very traditional company and I've watched it play out and it almost never works just because, as one person described it, we're the land of misfit toys, you just don't fit! David Weinfeld: What's funny too, and I look at it this way and I wake up every day energized by trying to change this mindset. But even if you look at out-of-home overall, so out-of-home is a marginalized part of the media industry. Overall, it really occupies sub 5% of total media spend. When you look across all channels, then within out-of-home, digital out-of-home is the minority of revenue. That's certainly changing and shifting in the US and other parts of the world. But then within digital out-of-home, digital place-based, this is very much the marginalized aspect then is looked at as a subcategory, knowing that digital billboards take up a lion's share of dollars. And so I wake up every single day excited because I'm in the area that is that diamond in the rough that has the greatest potential that is maybe being undervalued and underutilized, but it's growing, and it's in an area that I do believe in its efficacy and value, and there are so many studies and so many data points that I know you've read, and the readers of your blog that you published, that people have talked about on this podcast of the efficacy of marrying digital out-of-home with mobile, with social, with connected TV. I just believe in my heart of hearts and I know it's taken longer in many cases than a lot of people have expected. But I so directly believe that once more people start seeing those studies and realizing the results for themselves and leading into space and thanks to programmatic and DSPs, like the Tradedesk and Verizon media and EMOBI and Adelphic and others leaning in and ushering those digital buyers that have access to larger budgets into our space. That's really what's going to drive a sea change and that's what I wake up each and every day, knowing, we're nowhere near where we need to be or where we can be even as a company or as an industry overall. But boy, if I can be part in any way, shape, or form of ushering that forward for my team, my partners, the industry overall, that's what drives me because I look at it as if we can bring more revenue to our company that otherwise looked at advertising as this headache, or this is a tough thing to manage. But all of a sudden, by working with us, they're seeing seven figures of revenue and they're much confident with understanding, right? It can be hard when you look at programmatic and you see peaks and valleys of revenue and disparate spending come through, and it can be very confusing. But once you have someone that can walk you through the dynamics of how people are going in and spending and how we build deeper relationships with them and what's happening indirectly. Now all of a sudden you're part of a business that, maybe you're not driving the car, but you're a much more confident passenger. And when you're a much more competent passenger, the great news there is you're much more willing to then make investments and build out your network and build out your infrastructure, and ultimately that benefits the networks, it benefits the advertisers, it benefits the SSPs. It benefits the DSPs. And that's what really drove me to start this business and why, when I was at a company in this space, like Vistar that was innovating and driving change and was very successful, that I just felt this push, that there was an opportunity for someone with my background and experience and with Adam and now bringing on Susan Danaher and Victor Germaine and our larger team and the expertise that each of them brings to the table, we have the opportunity to really build a company that has staying power that can ultimately bring an enormous amount of value and also create some efficiencies for SSPs or create efficiencies for networks that they otherwise might have been challenged to find on their own. Are you bootstrapped? David Weinfeld: So we've raised a small friends and family pre-seed round of just around $400,000, but actually we'd been profitable in 2020. We officially incorporated the business at the end of April 2020. We were profitable in 2020, we're profitable today and, we're thinking about it what does raising funding against this business look like? And we look at it, not as a requirement, but as a mechanism to accelerate growth. You know the most important pillars of our business are great people and great network partners. So the deal you did with Danaher Group, it's probably more like a joint venture sort of thing in a lot of ways? Because obviously, you couldn't buy them out in the traditional sense of a private equity deal or something. David Weinfeld: Yeah. So I would definitely categorize it as more of an acquihire, and so really being able to bring those individuals in-house. Thanks to our growth and thanks to the revenue that we build, our equity has value. So there are definitely mechanisms within our partnership that involve that, and so that the Danaher group team that's now joined with Screenverse can participate in the success and growth, and that's really ultimately how we were able to put that together, and it was on the back of getting to know Sue for many years in this industry and really aligning on the vision. I had such admiration for the business she had built at the Danaher group and the importance of the relationship that she and Victor and their operations lead, Taylor had with touch tunes so much so that they were truly an extension of that company, and I said that's so much in line with the vision that we have for the partnerships that we form on the supply side at Screenverse, and we would love to bring your leadership, your knowledge, your experience into our business, and oh, by the way, we get an incredible network in the form of Touch Tunes, and we can just have that part of our overall growth and at a time where bars and restaurants have been challenged in light of COVID. But now that we're starting to come out and restrictions have all but been eased across the entire US, Los Angeles and California were the final metropolitan areas that had any restrictions on bars that have since been lifted and really say, “Hey, bars and restaurants are hopping right now”, and so if I'm going to double down on any piece of inventory, it's going to be in that segment. And if I'm going to double down on talent, it's going to be with people like Sue Danna, her Victor Germaine, and Taylor, and that team and their knowledge and so much of what they bring into our business is fueling growth, not just against Touch Tunes, but against all of our partners, and as we bring on additional sales directors, as we bring on additional operations, team members, it's really all geared toward how do we maximize success for the network partners that we work with and how do we ultimately build campaigns that are going to drive tangible results for those brands, such that they continue to invest, not just in us, but in digital out-of-home and digital place-based in general All right, David, that was terrific. We could have talked a lot longer, but I'm afraid we gotta wrap this up. Great to catch up with you. David Weinfeld: Yeah, it was absolutely great to catch up with you, Dave. You're someone who I have absolutely, in the past, love working with, who I have such great respect for in this industry. Thank you for having me on the podcast and really look forward to being able to continue having these conversations and sharing the growth story of Screenverse with you and your audience.
In this episode of Nonprofit Architect, Travis talks with Jaime Weinfeld, who founded JW Designs with the belief that all people should have access to the expert event, design, and photography services for all of life's special moments. Growing up in the special event industry, Jamie had the pleasure of viewing the good and bad in all aspects of these special moments. Jaime takes pride in working alongside clients planning the "best day ever" or simply capturing the moment your entire family is together again. Jaime shares tried-and-true tips, recommendations, and support that only comes with 15+ years of experience. Conversation Highlights: {01:07} What is JW Designs {04:37} Story of a successful event in May {10:03} Comparing theater experiences, in-person, and Virtual {17:08} How you can put together a successful virtual event {23:15} How to have an event everyone is talking about {24:30} An example of a terrible virtual event {28:30} How a virtual event is like a competition {30:36} Lead time recommend for marketing a virtual event {35:25} Social Media tools for making graphics Remarkable quotes: Thinking outside of the box, thinking through the box, thinking in a way that allows you to connect your story with those of your audience. They tell their friends, and it is free advertising for what you are going to do. In a virtual experience, you are not limited geographically, so you can invite people from all over the world. Zoom fatigue is a thing. They are they are wanting to do the same thing that they did last year, not because it is the best thing to do because they have already done it, and it is easy. Make an event that people want to go to, they are going to talk about afterward, that is going to sell out week after week. We had multiple people buy multiple tickets for different nights because every night was slightly different. Resources: facebook.com/jaime.weinfeld www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-weinfeld/ Jaimewdesigns.com jaimeweinfeld@gmail.com Bio: Jaime Weinfeld founded JW Designs with the belief that all people should have access to the expert event, design, and photography services for all of life's special moments. Growing up in the special event industry, Jaime had the pleasure of viewing the good and bad in all aspects of these special moments. She realized early on, an event and the moments they produce, should not be filled with stress but rather should be celebrated and captured in their most raw and unique form. Every moment is unique to the people celebrating it and Jaime strives to capture that in her images and feature that in every event she produces. Jaime takes pride in working alongside you, your organization, or your small business, during the entire journey, be it planning your "best day ever" or simply capturing the moment your entire family is together again. Jaime is there every step of the way and will provide you with tried-and-true tips, recommendations, and support that only comes with 15+ years of experience. Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect
In this episode of Nonprofit Architect, Travis talks with Jaime Weinfeld, who founded JW Designs with the belief that all people should have access to the expert event, design, and photography services for all of life's special moments. Growing up in the special event industry, Jamie had the pleasure of viewing the good and bad in all aspects of these special moments. Jaime takes pride in working alongside clients planning the "best day ever" or simply capturing the moment your entire family is together again. Jaime shares tried-and-true tips, recommendations, and support that only comes with 15+ years of experience. Conversation Highlights: {01:07} What is JW Designs {04:37} Story of a successful event in May {10:03} Comparing theater experiences, in-person, and Virtual {17:08} How you can put together a successful virtual event {23:15} How to have an event everyone is talking about {24:30} An example of a terrible virtual event {28:30} How a virtual event is like a competition {30:36} Lead time recommend for marketing a virtual event {35:25} Social Media tools for making graphics Remarkable quotes: Thinking outside of the box, thinking through the box, thinking in a way that allows you to connect your story with those of your audience. They tell their friends, and it is free advertising for what you are going to do. In a virtual experience, you are not limited geographically, so you can invite people from all over the world. Zoom fatigue is a thing. They are they are wanting to do the same thing that they did last year, not because it is the best thing to do because they have already done it, and it is easy. Make an event that people want to go to, they are going to talk about afterward, that is going to sell out week after week. We had multiple people buy multiple tickets for different nights because every night was slightly different. Resources: facebook.com/jaime.weinfeld www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-weinfeld/ Jaimewdesigns.com jaimeweinfeld@gmail.com Bio: Jaime Weinfeld founded JW Designs with the belief that all people should have access to the expert event, design, and photography services for all of life's special moments. Growing up in the special event industry, Jaime had the pleasure of viewing the good and bad in all aspects of these special moments. She realized early on, an event and the moments they produce, should not be filled with stress but rather should be celebrated and captured in their most raw and unique form. Every moment is unique to the people celebrating it and Jaime strives to capture that in her images and feature that in every event she produces. Jaime takes pride in working alongside you, your organization, or your small business, during the entire journey, be it planning your "best day ever" or simply capturing the moment your entire family is together again. Jaime is there every step of the way and will provide you with tried-and-true tips, recommendations, and support that only comes with 15+ years of experience. Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect
Check out this video preview of The Nonprofit Architect Podcast where Travis interviews Jaime Weinfeld. You don't want to miss the full episode, which will be released Tuesday, March 16th, 2021! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast using your favorite podcast player! i.e. Apple Podcast, Google Play, or Spotify Excited to announce we made Feedspot's Top 45 Nonprofit Podcasts! Check out the full list at https://blog.feedspot.com/nonprofit_podcasts/
Before talking with Hammersmith, Grossmann and Weinfeld discuss the implications of loosening mask restrictions, the recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, and the “enormous” influx of federal dollars into Michigan's state budget. The money is very helpful to Michigan communities in many ways, but Grossmann cautions that “the spigot is going to be turned off at some point.” Grossmann and Weinfeld also talk about the removal of Liz Cheney from her leadership role in the Republican party in Congress. Grossman explains why he thinks the move was less about Donald Trump and more about how people just don't like public internal squabbling in political parties. Hammersmith joins the conversation to discuss the progress of the redistricting commission. She and Grossmann emphasize that the maps must reflect communities of interest and the diversity of the state. “Communities of interest are identified in our Constitution as either cultural or historical groups or groups with shared economic interests, but they're not limited to those groups,” says Hammersmith. “We're listening. And we're asking those communities to come forward and talk to us. Obviously as 13 independent people on the commission we can't know everybody in the state and know where those communities are. They will self-identify, and we're looking forward to learning more about our state and learning about people who feel that they're better impacted when they're voting together as a group and a community of interest. “There are many ways to engage with the commission, and we want to hear from the citizens of Michigan.” MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM and AM 870 and streams at WKAR.org. Find “MSU Today with Russ White” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.
Check out this video preview of The Nonprofit Architect Podcast where Travis interviews Jaime Weinfeld. You don't want to miss the full episode, which will be released Tuesday, March 16th, 2021! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast using your favorite podcast player! i.e. Apple Podcast, Google Play, or Spotify Excited to announce we made Feedspot's Top 45 Nonprofit Podcasts! Check out the full list at https://blog.feedspot.com/nonprofit_podcasts/
Before exploring Carnahan's work, Weinfeld, Ballard, and Grossmann talk about the impact of the Derek Chauvin conviction and the likelihood that it increases the chances for federal legislation. They say some more modest reform legislation could pass in some states, but that federal action is unlikely. They talk about how important video was to the George Floyd case and what, if any, impact Chauvin's conviction will have on the economy and income inequality. On the economy of Michigan and the country in general, Ballard says we've climbed back much of the way – not all the way – from the devastating losses of a year ago and where the economy was in February 2020. Despite much of the good the federal stimulus dollars are doing for the economic recovery, Ballard sees himself as a “lone wolf” in voicing concern about the country's long-term debt, now north of $20 trillion. Grossmann and Ballard both talk about the impact of the infusion of federal stimulus funds and how long they will last. Are many Americans beginning to expect a check from the government every so often? In describing his research, Carnahan says that conspiracies are not a new problem. What's new is how the social media accelerate the spread of misinformation and make it more visible to a larger group of people. Carnahan also defines what he means when he says social media are good at sowing confusion and what “flooding the zone” means. “A lot of my research is primarily interested in how we go about trying to correct misperceptions once misinformation circulates,” says Carnahan. MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM and AM 870 and streams at wkar.org. Find "MSU Today with Russ White" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.
This month's guest is Dr. Jakana Thomas, an Associate Professor in MSU's Department of Political Science whose research focuses on political violence, how violence influences conflict resolution, and the determinants of a successful peace process - items that are no doubt on the minds of many Americans today.“The drop in the economy in Michigan and everywhere else was dramatic in April of 2020. Really, by many measures, April 2020 was the worst month in American economic history,” says Ballard. “We previously thought that the 100,000 jobs lost in Michigan in January of 2009 was really horrendous; in April of 2020 we lost 10 times as many. We lost about a million jobs. “I think there are a couple of things going on. One is the federal government has stepped up and has relieved the burdens in many ways. Another is that we have learned a lot of businesses have been able to continue to operate better than maybe we first thought in an online, remote environment. So the good news is that the budgetary situation for Michigan is not nearly as bad as we once thought.“The not so good news is that the recovery appears to have stalled out.” “Can we keep injecting federal money into the economy,” asks Weinfeld?“On the one hand, I think this is not yet the time to worry about balancing our budget because our economy is still in deep trouble. On the other hand, the federal deficit for the fiscal year that ended last September was more than $3 trillion. And now the total accumulated debt is pushing toward $22 trillion. So far, the world credit markets seem happy to gobble up that debt and we don't have to pay very high interest rates. I do worry that there will eventually be a day of reckoning. I hope that once we get past the worst of the COVID crisis, which I think we may well be able to do that by summer, then it will be time to have a serious national discussion for the first time in a long time about maybe paying our bills.“I think that the tax cuts that were passed three years ago were absolutely wrong-headed because introductory macro economics tells you that you should balance your budget or run surpluses when the economy is good leaving some room for deficits when the economy is struggling. But the tax cuts that went into effect three years ago meant that we were running a trillion a year even when the economy was doing well. That's a concern, but I feel like I'm kind of a lonely voice in the wilderness when I say that. Because in order to deal with it, you're going to have to cut some spending or you're going to have to raise some taxes.”Weinfeld asks Grossmann to reflect on the events of January 6th and how corporate America has seemingly taken a different tact with its philosophy on donations.“First it's too early to say on the donation patterns,” says Grossmann. “This is right after an election; this is not usually a high time for corporate PAC donations. Many of the businesses that have made announcements have just said they're not making donations for the next six months or doing some kind of pause. Overall, actually the data shows that corporate donations tend to moderate representatives. It's actually the individual contributions that are more likely to lead to more extreme representatives. It's not clear that those patterns are really going to change our polarized landscape.“On the stimulus, I just want to make sure everybody understands that although state and local government funding wasn't directly included in the December stimulus, Michigan is still vastly helped in its state government by that stimulus package. Not only is money that is for health and education likely to be fungible in the state budget as it was almost entirely in the last state budget, but we also benefit in terms of revenues from those higher unemployment benefits and from checks going to individuals. So those stimulus packages before really helped to alleviate what would have been big pain in the state budget.“Going forward, if we do get to that point that Charley mentioned where we start to see if not austerity, at least a turning off of the hose of federal money, we are likely to have postponed that potential pain in the state budget rather than gotten rid of it completely.”Weinfeld wonders whether Democrats and Republicans may or may not work together more closely in the wake of November's election. “It doesn't seem like it's so far,” Grossmann says. “We're a few days after the inauguration and already there's a dispute about even how to form the Senate committees. There's no evidence that there's Republican support for any of the initial legislative proposals that Biden put forward, either the immigration one or the stimulus proposal.“So there's a lot of talk about unity, but most of that was about being unified in values or against extremism or maybe toning down the culture war. There's not really a whole lot of sign that there's going to be bipartisanship when it comes to public policy. Democrats do now have full control and there are a lot of people who are going to want to use that full control to enact a lot of policies. We also know that the party out of the presidency tends to win the midterm election, and so they are going to see this as a fleeting chance that they have to potentially enact new policies.“Now at the state level research shows that the party out of power in Washington is more likely to move their states more ideologically in the opposite direction. So we will be looking for Republican states to actually move rightward under the Biden administration while Congress tries to take advantage of its couple years with Democrats in the majority.”“I think 2021 is going to be better than 2020,” Ballard adds. “But that's setting the bar really low. Certainly, the Trump administration never really took fighting COVID very seriously. They viewed it as a public relations problem, not a public health problem. It will be difficult for Biden's team not to do better. I think there's a decent chance that we will speed up the shots in arms rapidly. But since there are still bottlenecks in the system, I think it's probably summer or fall before we really start seeing major progress, and then it will take many months to put the economy together. Most economists say that 2021 will still be a rocky year and maybe we can look to 2022 to getting back to an economic more normal.”Grossmann welcomes his colleague from MSU's Department of Political Science, Jakana Thomas, to the conversation.“She's an international expert on terrorism and violence,” says Grossmann. “Jakana, talk about how you think we should see the attack on the Capitol in an international context.”“America is not really the only country to encounter many of these same problems,” Thomas says. “This looked very much like post-election violence that we would witness around the world in other countries. And post-election violence occurs often when people distrust the electoral process or they're unhappy with the outcome and so they engage in violence. A key point of focus here is a lack of trust in the institutions and specifically in the electoral process.“A colleague of mine notes that what we saw on display on January 6th is consistent with democratic backsliding, and this is kind of where you see a democratic state sliding closer and closer toward autocracy very slowly. Other colleagues say that there are clear indicators of some deep-seated trouble ahead for the United States, and some of the key factors that are going to cause some of these problems are the gross economic inequality and the growing polarization in our politics, and these can cause or lead to democratic erosion and breakdowns.“The events of January 6th were not necessarily a death knell to our democracy. It's not that this is a sign that our country is dying. However, it is a sign that there are some broader problems. And one of the problems that I focus on a lot in my research is the growing extremism and the growing radicalization that has led to violence in our country and the kind of violence that was on display on January 6th.“Some of those factors like polarization and inequality, they breed grievances that can fuel political violence. They can allow political entrepreneurs to seize this moment and say, ‘Look, we have a crisis that we have to solve that our government cannot solve.' One of the biggest things that I think Michigan really needs to focus on and look at is this growing radicalization among the population that's fueled and supported by militia activity around the Midwest and around the country more broadly. Groups like the Three Percenters, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys are concerning organizations and we know this because at least one Three Percenter was involved in the plot to kidnap our governor. “The Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters have been around since 2008 and 2009; they're not just harmless patriot groups that are protecting the Constitution. They're actually challenging our authority and they're threatening the democracy. Politicians have to somehow restore faith in our institutions. They have to combat this erosion of trust in our electoral process and the institutions more broadly.“Congressman Peter Meijer recently came out to denounce the violence and he's been trying to restore the faith in the process. I thought he said a couple of really interesting things. He mentioned that it was really important to help us move past this point that we have accountability for what happened, but also that politicians start to tell their constituents the truth. So not just to tell them what they want to hear, not necessarily just tell them what's politically expedient, but tell them the truth. And to some degree the truth that's important that would help combat some of this growing radicalization and this growing extremism is that our Constitution is not being undermined by government actors. Our elections are safe and secure for the most part. Our institutions are not beyond repair, and that means that people can continue to participate in participatory democracy in order to see real changes.“And most importantly for me is we do not need non-state actors like these militia groups to protect the government from its citizens or to protect the government from itself. A particularly troubling sign is after Meijer came out suggesting accountability, he's had to buy body armor and change his security routine because of this threat of violence. One thing that we really have to do is acknowledge that this is a problem that our country has. It was not an isolated event. January 6th is not the last time we are going to see violence. It's really important that we acknowledge that that was not just a fleeting moment. January 6th was not an aberration; this is potentially a sign of what might be coming if we don't take seriously the fact that we have armed non-state actors roaming the country, and for the most part, going unchallenged.“We saw terrorism and organized peaceful protests at the Capitol on January 6. Those two things coexisted at the same time, and it's really important to treat those actors separately, acknowledge that those were different sets of actors and the repercussions are different. We cannot come out forcefully and just denounce all the protesters and quash all right wing speech and protests because it happened to coincide with violence. That just feeds into this radicalization loop and this radicalization process.“What we know from around the world is that government repression is one key reason people become radicalized and take up extremist politics and take up violence. In order to avoid turning some of those peaceful protesters into violent extremists in the future, we have to make sure that we don't just crack down on their ideas and their beliefs and their speech just because we don't like it but recognize that just because they were there and just because they may have contrary beliefs, they're not necessarily complicit and guilty.“However, for those who are complicit and guilty of engaging in actual violence and insurrection, the government has a responsibility to crack down on those actors in order to deter further violence in the future. But again, lessons from around the country suggest that we can't treat those sets of actors the same. We can't treat the peaceful protesters as if they were rioters, and this is a job for law enforcement. They're going to have to do a really good job of discriminating between those who were actually violent and actually planning and orchestrating these violent events from those who participated in the violent riots and those who were just out to protest peacefully. Because they're not the same.“There are underlying grievances that have sparked people's anger that need to be acknowledged. Some of these things are legitimate, like economic inequality or the fact that people are hurting economically. Some of this is brought on by COVID, but some of this has been around for a really long time. This can be dealt with by actually governing, by responding to people's grievances that they have. These grievances allow violent actors to then appeal to people who otherwise would not be violent. These grievances make these political entrepreneurs say, ‘These problems that you're facing are beyond what the government can control and change. They're not interested in doing this. We, however, have the unique solution, and the solution is to take over the government.' If the government continues to ignore that the people who came out to protest might have some legitimate grievances toward the government, they allow these violent actors to recruit.“Another concern is that these violent actors are also feeding them lies that some of the politicians are also feeding them. They're painting a picture of a country that is not actually our country. They're painting this picture of a country where people can't go out and vote for their politicians anymore because elections are meaningless. They're painting a picture that there is no point in participating in the institution, and that there's no point in running for office anymore because you can't actually change things from those institutions.“It's also important for government actors, and specifically the ones who contested the results of the election to come out and say like Peter Meijer did that this is just not what's happening. This is just not the truth. The institutions are still what they've always been; they're still safe, and they're still secure. You can still participate. You can still change the balance in Congress. You can still change the local political landscape by participating in politics. This is not your only option. And it's very important that people see that there are other options out here other than violence.”What about the role of racial politics, Grossmann asks Thomas?“There has been some really interesting research on ethnic violence and ethnic politics that would say that these cleavages become salient when political actors make them salient,” Thomas continues. “These are cleavages that always exist and that can co-exist. “But when you have a political actor who comes and fabricates this conflict, people who are on these different lines are likely to buy into it. Unfortunately, political actors and trusted elites have a big role in stoking this violence and also quelling this violence as well. So around the world, we see often that there is ethnic conflict, but what we also see is there are a lot of people in countries where there's huge ethnic mixes, maybe where there were histories of contention, that can figure out how to live and coexist peacefully. So just because we have this polarization doesn't mean that it necessarily has to lead to conflict, but it only does when we allow politicians to stoke these tensions along these dividing lines, when they make these issues salient.“We need to find a way to make these issues less salient. They'll never go away, they're not going to go away in our country, but they may not play such a primary role in our politics. I guess one of the things that we can do, which sounds very naive, is to return to civility. Return to politics of respecting other people who have different beliefs, who are different than you and believe that they have a right to exist. They have a right to be in this country as well and have contrary opinions and we can disagree without going to war. It is possible for us to do that in this country and I think we're hearing this rhetoric that that is not possible. It is not possible to co-exist with these different viewpoints, but that's just not accurate. The rest of the world has been contending with these kinds of issues and has had to figure out a way to do that.”“It will be very interesting to watch in the years ahead, not just in the weeks and months, but in the years to come to see whether the polarization in our country accelerates or whether we can pull it back,” adds Ballard. “I'm cautiously optimistic that our democracy is sufficiently robust and that we'll get past this, too.”MSU Today airs every Sunday morning at 9:00 on 105.1 FM, AM 870, and however you stream at home. Follow and subscribe at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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At last report, the virus and associated illness COVID-19 raised the nation's unemployment ranks to 3.3 million people as manufacturing, retailers and offices sent employees home to layoff or to work remotely. Ballard calls the report “stunning.” As of mid-afternoon Friday, Michigan had reported 3,650 cases of Covid19 and 92 deaths due to the virus that has no proven cure and in the U.S. has caused some 100,000 cases of illness and 1,554 deaths. Health authorities are predicting a continued global increase for the foreseeable future, while seeking a preventative vaccine. MSU initiated online instruction for the remainder of the semester and postponed commencement as did schools and universities across the state. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued executive orders to keep the state's population in their homes and at a safe distance to prevent further spread of COVID-19. The podcast features political scientist Matt Grossmann, director of MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and podcast home, Ballard and Arnold Weinfeld, IPPSR associate director. “I don't think there's any doubt that the country is in a recession,” Ballard says. The coronavirus is a “nasty, nasty opponent,” he adds. One potential positive sign, Ballard says, the economy's relative strength before the coronavirus began its spread. The stock market had climbed to its highest levels ever in February and unemployment nationally was at one of its lowest points in decades. In the podcast, Ballard and Weinfeld cover the 2020 presidential election, increased confidence in President Donald Trump, state and federal disease controls, likely results of a $2 trillion economic stimulus, the Defense Production Act, civil liberties during a pandemic, and the virus' impact on online shopping and placemaking. “The race in the primary for the Democratic nomination to run for president is basically over,” says Grossmann. “The race is in a suspended animation pattern because we aren't having any primaries while we deal with the virus. The presidential race has receded from the news dramatically while the virus takes center stage.” IPPSR is a unit of MSU's College of Social Science. Its focus is on public policy education, political leadership education, and survey research. MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM and AM 870.
Today I'm joined by Jakub Cech from eesome in Slovakia. He's well known on the blog and has worked with architects like Rem Koolhaas and Isay Weinfeld. This session comes out after one year, in which Jakub took time off to create a collection of 30 images in his book Beautiful Computer Generated Images. This effort recently culminated with a new website and brand called eesome. In this session, we'll discuss how he started with CGI, Alex Roman, the phone call from Watson&Co. that made a big change and more. Teenage Passion Turned ArchViz Career Jakub's work on behance.net was noticed by a major American branding company when he was just 18 years old. He received a phone call from Watson&Co., created a rendering for them, and began working remotely for them. That was a turning point for the direction of his career, but he has always maintained the overarching goal of creating images that he likes. Jakub's Approach for Crafting Visualizations As someone who has only had three or four clients so far in his career, Jakub's approach to each client is understandably varied. The workflow starts with understanding the project and the type of people that are being targeted. He has discovered that understanding his client's perspective is essential to getting the best images created. He can spend up to eight months with a client in America, while a client in Slovakia may only require up to six weeks of non-stop work to produce the same images. While the approach may vary, the work that is done is always completed to his personal and unique standard of satisfaction. Working with a Branding Company Even though he's never worked in an office with multiple CGI artists, working with a branding company like Watson&Co. gave Jakub a different view of the overall process, from fonts and color to lighting and branding. While there, he worked with designers, graphic designers, web designers and more, and he calls his time there “very intense.” Interacting with multiple disciplines was very enriching for him, and helped to widen his point of view while crafting his images. All about Beautiful Computer Generated Images In comparison to the time spent on commercial projects, Jakub is working more now than ever. His decision to take time off from work to focus on a project that he believed in was inspired in part by Alex Roman. In our conversation, he shares his comprehensive goal of always creating images that he likes, as well as his desires for future collaborations. Key Takeaways [02:20] Jakub details his first encounter with 3D imaging, and the path it took him down. [8:25] Visualization became the subject of Jakub's work while he was still in high school. [20:00] Jakub's goals and challenges in the architectural visualization field. [22:17] An elevator pitch to a dream client. [24:58] Jakub's approach for crafting visualizations. [33:15] How working with a branding company enriched Jakub's view on the overall process. [38:20] Jakub's tool-set has a surprising component in it. [42:08] All about the Beautiful Computer Generated Images series. [48:16] Thoughts on VR and real-time technologies. [55:05] If still images alone aren't enough anymore, add this to your client offering. [57:40] How you can connect with Jakub. Main Quotes “I've always felt different a bit in terms of how I see things.” — Jakub Čech “My main goal was always to do a picture that I'm going to like.” — Jakub Čech “I like totally different elements in pictures than I think most people do.” — Jakub Čech “I always try to represent my own taste.” — Jakub Čech “I don't think still image is going to die … it's going to be there for ages.” — Jakub Čech Software Mentioned 3DS Max Corona Renderer V-Ray Name Dropping Watson&Co. Alex Roman Rem Koolhass Isay Weinfeld Sponsors AXYZ Design Quixel / Megascans
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