Emperors of Rome: Episode XXX Vitellius

Vitellius has been vocally gaining support amongst his troops in Germania, enough to take on Otho and become emperor himself.
August 3, 2015 at 2:40 AM
18.9 MB (Audio)

Emperors of Rome: Episode XXIX Otho

When Otho dispatches with his predecessor Galba and declares himself Emperor he quickly finds himself under siege from Vitellius in Germany.
July 27, 2015 at 2:05 AM
18.6 MB (Audio)

Emperors of Rome: Episode XVIII Galba

Rome descends into civil war and four contenders eventually vie for the rank of Caesar. The first to have any real success is an ageing governor and general from Spain, Galba.
July 12, 2015 at 8:30 PM
20.4 MB (Audio)

Emperors of Rome: Interlude Reading List II

As we delve into the civil war of Rome and reach the Flavian dynasty, we take the time to look at the sources and recommend some readings. A complete list will be available on Facebook.
July 6, 2015 at 9:08 PM
9.3 MB (Audio)

WelchCast: How to Practice Candor Without Being a Jerk

Jack and Suzy Welch talk with Jon Steinberg about the right way to share candid feedback with your boss, your peers and your reports — and why it’s so tough to do.


Get ahead with an MBA from Jack Welch.
Visit - http://gameon.jwmi.com - to learn more today.
July 6, 2015 at 5:00 AM
9.7 MB (Audio)

WelchCast: Fear and Fearfulness

Jack and Suzy Welch talk with Jon Steinberg about how fear can be both a paralyzing force and a productive force in your organization, in deal-making and in your own career decisions. Plus, a discussion of bench strength, gut instinct and why you should always try to fire yourself.


Get ahead with an MBA from Jack Welch.
Visit - http://gameon.jwmi.com - to learn more today.
June 29, 2015 at 5:00 AM
9.3 MB (Audio)

Emperors of Rome: Episode XVII Ovid

Ovid is one of the most well-remembered poets of the ancient world, most notably for his work the Metamorphoses, but to contemporary Romans he had his critics - in particular the Emperor Augustus.
June 28, 2015 at 10:55 PM
20.2 MB (Audio)

Malcolm vs. King

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Republic vs. Democracy

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1970s Lesson Plan

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Ian Hunter Interview, Speakeasy, Joe Elliot

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Killer Opener

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Public Speaking Tips to Hook Any Audience

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Why You Should Care "Moore"

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I'm going to imagine that for most of you history was a boring subject in high school and you had little interest in the topic. Pardon my French but as the lyrics of Paul Simon state: “when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all.”

Ask for audience response: how many of you agree with Paul Simon?

In any case, in addition to my favorite subject during high school, of course history, and I took the equivalent of eight years of history classes in four years: I was exposed to the best technology that the era had to offer.

Illustrate typing: then show typewriter slide.

Considering what was about to occur during the subsequent era of ubiquitous computing it was the most valuable class that I took in high school.

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Factoid to elicit interest.

My name is and I help companies analyze the past in order to better anticipate the future.

In today's talk I'm going to show you how critical cities in action are--in this case the Greater Philadelphia area--for technology development and commercial success.

Tell stories about individual people.

Theme: Cities in Action

What advantages did Athens have vs. Sparta?

What advantages did Rome have over its arch-rival, Carthage?

Reason

My reason for believing that cities in action are critical are to consider is that Athens outperformed Sparta. By providing more research resources Athens easily surpassed Sparta which was a slave holding city-state and it remained a more backward city.

Example

For example, Athens produced the most preeminent thinkers of the day including the best scientist, Aristotle.

Point of View

Athens achieved the necessary elements of scientific endeavor: a leisure class, intellectual interest, and preeminent education.

Story about Aristotle

Point of View

Rome needed an effective communication technique to defeat its enemies such as the Gauls, the Britons, and Carthage.

Reason

Julius Caesar created the Caesar cipher to effectively communicate with his subordinates to defeat the Britons.

Example

Rome vs. Carthage

The biggest rival during the rise of Rome in the Western Mediterranean was its arch competitor Carthage. What advantages did Rome have as a city in action over Carthage?

Ancient Carthage was, probably, roughly as diverse and multicultural as Saudi Arabia is today: A wealthy state with a small population, Carthage employed foreigners to do her nasty jobs and relied on foreign mercenaries rather than citizens to do her fighting. At the other, positive end of the spectrum of ancient states welcoming to foreigners and their ways was Rome. Romans imagined that their city had been founded from a flotsam of the accursed, exiles, and broken men. And loyal to those origins, Rome energetically split her citizenship into rights and ranks, and granted parts of it to her friends, who could eventually aspire to citizenship (National Review).

Although he never faced the Carthaginians Julius Caesar was one of the most preeminent Roman conquerors.

The story of Julius Caesar is an intensely dramatic one, which has fascinated generation after generation, attracting the attention of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, not to mention numerous novelists and screenwriters. Caesar was one of the ablest generals of any era, who left accounts of his own campaigns that have rarely--perhaps never--been surpassed in literary quality. At the same time he was a politician and statesman who eventually took supreme power in the Roman Republic; he made himself a monarch in every practical respect, although among the Romans he of course would never have taken the name of king or he would would have been killed (Goldsworthy, 1). In any case, he eventually was assassinated for fear he would become a permanent dictator.

The first well-known cipher, a substitution cipher, was used by Julius Caesar around 58 B.C.E. It is now referred to as the Caesar cipher. Caesar shifted each letter in his military commands in order to make them appear meaningless should the enemy intercept them.

Imagine that Cassandra and Julius wanted to communicate using the Caesar Cypher. First, they would need to agree on a shift, for example, three letters. So to encrypt her message Cassandra would need to shift three letters of her original message. Thus, A becomes D, B becomes E, C becomes F, and so on. This unreadable, or encrypted message, is then sent to Julius directly. Then Julius simply subtracts the shift of three letters in order to read the original message.

Incredibly, this basic cipher was used by military leaders for hundreds of years after Caesar.

Point of View Restated

In any case, the Caesar cipher led to an advance in cryptography in computing.

Why Carthage Failed and Rome Succeeded

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Margaret Hamilton, whose handwritten code saved the moon landing in 1969🚀, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today by Barack Obama at the White House. Her code helped in prioritising the importance task to perform first. She was one of many forgotten and over-looked women in the scientific community, but articles in recent years and social media support have (thankfully) made her name mainstream. She rocked NASA & coined the term "software engineering". In first picture she is standing next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo project.


Modern Advances in Tech vid

Science Marches On

Summarize

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7SLKYN4Xo

Which team, when Philadelphia is in action, will create the next big thing?

End with your beginning prompt.

One More Thing:

Who Will Create the Next Big Thing?

End with an inspiring story? Theodore Roosevelt?

Closing

End Bang

Yes

And that is why you should care "Moore."

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXVI Seneca the Younger

Seneca is best known as the the tutor and advisor of Nero, but he was a respected stoic philosopher, a writer of tragedies, and one of the richest men in the Roman empire.
May 17, 2015 at 10:07 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXV Livia

Livia is often known by association - the wife of Augustus and the mother of Tiberius - but she becomes a figure of power and influence in Rome in her own right.
May 4, 2015 at 4:11 AM
22 MB (Audio)

Emperors of Rome: Episode XXIV Cicero

Cicero was a self-made man who rose through the ranks of the Roman senate on the strength of his oration. This episode of Emperors of Rome looks at his life, his career and philosophy.
April 16, 2015 at 3:53 AM
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Peggy Noonan, Two Fierce Americas

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXII What An Artist Dies in Rome

Nero always seemed more interested in a playboy lifestyle than managing Rome, and this angered the people of Rome, the Senate and the military.
March 23, 2015 at 1:37 AM
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Ian Hunter, ATYD, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame Closing

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XXI The Great Fire of 64 C.E.

Nero’s biggest test as an Emperor came when a great fire tore through Rome in 64AD. What caused this fire and how Nero acted and reacted is a debate that academics continue to this day.
March 16, 2015 at 12:51 AM
13.8 MB (Audio)

iPad App Animation

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Mention

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World War II Lesson Plans

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History of Philosophy Without Gaps: Scotus

Peter hears about Duns Scotus’ epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.
November 6, 2016 at 1:00 AM
28 MB (Audio)

New Books in Politics & Sociey: Harcourt

The landscape described in Bernard Harcourt‘s new book is a dystopia saturated by pleasure. We do not live in a drab Orwellian world, he writes. We live in a beautiful, colorful, stimulating, digital world a rich, bright world full…
May 17, 2016 at 7:02 AM
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Judicial Watch on Mueller Attempt at a Coup

Web Version  |  Unsubscribe   Judicial Watch Statement on Mueller Report (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to the Muller special counsel report summary made public by Attorney General Barr today: The long, national nightmare is over and President Trump has been vindicated. The corruptly-created and constitutionally abusive Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. We’re pleased that AG Barr rejected Mueller’s attempt to smear President Trump with obstruction of justice innuendo by concluding that no such charges could be credibly sustained. Frankly, Mueller never had a valid basis upon which to investigate President Trump for obstruction of justice. Let’s be clear, neither Mueller, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department, nor the Deep State ever had a good-faith basis to pursue President Trump on Russia collusion. Russia collusion wasn’t just a hoax, it is a criminal abuse, which is why Judicial Watch has fought and will continue to fight for Russiagate documents in federal court. The targeting of President Trump served to protect Hillary Clinton and her enablers/co-conspirators in Obama administration from prosecution. Attorney General Barr can begin restoring the credibility of the Justice Department by finally initiating a thorough investigation of the Clinton emails and related pay-to-play scandals and the abuses behind the targeting of President Trump. Judicial Watch has long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and has pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits into the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump. Judicial Watch FOIA litigation exposed, for example:   The dossier-based Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting President Trump   FBI payments to Christopher Steele   FBI firing of Steele   Extensive DOJ (Ohr) collusion w/Steele, Simpson, Fusion GPS   No court hearings by defrauded FISA courts before warrants were issued   Anti-Trump bias by Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann   ###   Manage Email Subscriptions | Unsubscribe Judicial Watch, Inc. 425 3rd St Sw Ste 800 Washington, DC 20024 Judicial Watch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are received from individuals, foundations, and corporations and are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. judicialwatch.org

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Modern Science

The social practice we call science has had spectacular success in explaining the natural world since the 17th century. While advanced mathematics and other precursors of modern science were not unique to Europe, it was there that Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and others came up with theories that got modern physics and chemistry off the ground. In his latest book, Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2016), J.D. Trout mounts a spirited defense of the claim that the best explanation of the rise of science in 17th Century Europe is that Newton and others got lucky; among other serendipitous factors, they happened to come up with versions of preexisting ideas that were just right enough to explain just enough of the world, and that was enough to get the ball rolling.

Trout, who is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago, defends the scientific realist view that scientific theories are successful because they are by and large true, not just predictively accurate. He also sharply distinguishes the psychology of explanation–the Aha! feeling of understanding–from the truth of an explanation. On his ontic view of explanation, we can experience being satisfied with bad (false) explanations, and there are true theories we may never understand.
To download this interview file directly, right click here and select “Save Link (or ‘Target’) As…”
October 15, 2016 at 6:00 AM
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New Books in Religion and Society: Hinduism, Pariah Problem

The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation of Dalits (those subordinated populations once called untouchables). In The Pariah Problem: …
November 2, 2016 at 6:00 AM
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Religions of the Ancient Middle East: Paul

This inaugural episode in series 1 (Paul and his communities) uses incidental autobiographical references in Paul’s letters as an avenue into the study of Paul, his letters, and early Christian groups (approx. 27 minutes).
Podcast 1.1: Paul in his own words (mp3; archive.org page with various downloading options here).
Download audio file (podcast1Paulinhisownwords.mp3)
You may subscribe to this and subsequent episodes through iTunes or another podcatcher.
October 5, 2007 at 3:56 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode I Early Years of Julius Caesar

How do Caesar’s formative years shape his decisions in years to come and impact on the Roman Empire?

Dr Rhiannon Evans (Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) and host Matt Smith discuss what we know about Caesar’s early life, his entry into the military and his encounter with pirates.
March 28, 2014 at 12:15 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Q&A

We put out a call to the audience for questions and you responded! Here are our answers.
March 12, 2015 at 1:59 AM
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Soul Science

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Emperors of Rome: Episode XX Aggripina the Younger

Agrippina the Younger was well connected in Rome - the sister of emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, she was at the centre of power for many years - and some say she held it herself.
March 8, 2015 at 8:06 PM
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Christchurch Jihadi Islamist Mosque

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Philadelphia Mosque Child Marriages

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Democratic Socialism

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Learning Methodology Wars: ADDIE vs. SAM vs. AGILE

Learning Methodologies

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How New Zealand Mosque Exploited

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Best Websites for Free Online Content

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BBC4 In Our Time, Religion: The Salem Witch Trials

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692-3, centred on Salem, which led to the execution of twenty people, with more dying in prison before or after trial. Some were men, including Giles Corey who died after being pressed with heavy rocks, but the majority were women. At its peak, around 150 people were suspected of witchcraft, including the wife of the governor who had established the trials. Many of the claims of witchcraft arose from personal rivalries in an area known for unrest, but were examined and upheld by the courts at a time of mass hysteria, belief in the devil, fear of attack by Native Americans and religious divisions.

With

Susan Castillo-Street
Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emerita of American Studies at King's College London

Simon Middleton
Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Sheffield

And

Marion Gibson
Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at Exeter University, Penryn Campus.

Producer: Simon Tillotson.
November 26, 2015 at 6:35 AM
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Informational Interviews

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Obama Collusion with Clinton

In newly released transcripts, FBI witnesses assert that Obama’s Department of Justice deliberately refused to prosecute any crime against Hillary Clinton. The Washington Examiner reports:

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page testified last year that officials in the bureau, including then-FBI Director James Comey, discussed Espionage Act charges against Hillary Clinton, citing “gross negligence,” but the Justice Department shut them down.
Newly released transcripts from Page’s private testimony in front of a joint task force of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees in July 2018 sheds new light on the internal discussions about an investigation into Clinton’s emails. This goes back to the FBI’s “Midyear Exam” investigation, which looked into whether Clinton committed crimes when she sent and received classified information on her unauthorized private email server while serving as secretary of state.

Comey cleared Clinton of all charges in a press conference on July 5, 2016.
Page told the committee that the FBI “did not blow over gross negligence.” Responding to a question from Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, Page testified the FBI, including Comey, believed Clinton may have committed gross negligence. “We, in fact — and, in fact, the Director — because, on its face, it did seem like, well, maybe there’s a potential here for this to be the charge. And we had multiple conversations, multiple conversations with the Justice Department about charging gross negligence,” she said.

Beyond instigating the Russian collusion falsehood, Obama’s DOJ is now implicated in deliberate corruption to protect one of their own. Will justice be served?

Recycling

You may know that recycling is a widespread practice in Germany, but how exactly does it work? Mechthild Stein tells us what type of garbage goes in which bin, and also explains how different types of garbage are dealt with in Heidelberg.
April 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Prepositions

Yabla's own Diane reviews which prepositions are used when, and what case they require of the noun that follows.
April 19, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Fire Equipment Part 2

Volunteer firefighter Michael Morano shows us the equipment the fire department in Heidelberg uses to save car crash victims trapped in their vehicles.
April 3, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Fire Equipment

Volunteer firefighter Michael Morano describes the structure of the fire department in the city of Heidelberg and shows us the equipment on board a fire engine. He then discusses the advancements in technology that help put out fires quickly and efficiently.
March 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Apple Pancakes

Alina and Sabine show us how to make apple pancakes — German style!
March 13, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XIX - Nero the Youngest Emperor

At the age of 17, Nero is the youngest Emperor yet. Through influence and guidance he takes Rome through what is called ‘five good years’, but it isn’t going to last.
March 1, 2015 at 8:30 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVIII - The Life of Claudius

Claudius brings his own style to the emperor which makes him enemies in both his family and the senate.
February 16, 2015 at 3:14 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVII Claudius Conquers Britainnia

The new emperor Claudius has a strong grounding as a scholar, but little experience as a soldier. He turns his attention to a land that has remained virtually untouched since Caesar's time: Britannia.
February 9, 2015 at 12:07 AM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XVI Claudius the Unlikely Emperor

With Caligula's brief rule leaving the Julio-Claudians in a sorry state, there isn't much of the imperial family left to become emperor. The title goes to his uncle Claudius mostly be default.
February 2, 2015 at 1:54 AM
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TargetX, NACAC

Brian interviews Jeff Kallay, Co-Founder and Principal of Render Experiences and Derek Luther, Regional Vice President at TargetX on the Exhibit Hall Floor at the 72nd Annual NACAC Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
For more information about Render Experiences, visit http://www.renderexperiences.com.
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For Eric Hoover's article "The People Who Deliver Your Students" visit http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-People-Who-Deliver-Your/237819
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For more information about Dave Evans, Senior Admissions Representative at Harvard University, visit http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/10/17/from-sharecroppers-son-to-colleges-gatekeeper/
And finally, to get Brian's curated higher education news every day, visit http://www.targetx.com/industry
September 28, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, Chegg

Brian talks with Gil Rogers, the Director of Enrollment Marketing at Chegg. We talk about admissions technology, the Social Admissions Report co-developed by Chegg and TargetX, and how colleges who may not have a household name can break out and become recognized and considered for enrollment.
To download the Chegg/TargetX Social Admissions Report, go to http://edu.chegg.com/downloads
September 21, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, Embry Riddle

Brian talks with Bryan Dougherty, the Dean of Enrollment Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. We focus on the importance of student engagement from acceptance through to enrollment - or "yield" as it's called in higher ed.  Bryan shares how Embry-Riddle utilizes the SchoolsApp mobile platform to give these students the means of connecting with each other and with the institution.
To read more client success stories, visit http://www.targetx.com/casestudies
September 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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TargetX, University of Texas, San Antonio

Brian talks with Oscar Ferreiro about how he’s been able to automate various processes to help make the recruiting and admissions effort at UTSA more efficient. Brian also discusses the need to review business processes now that colleges have access to new, innovative technologies.
To learn more about TargetX's new Enrollment Process Consulting services, contact TargetX at sales@targetx.com. If you need assistance in assessing, redesigning and even coaching through all of the changes needed to be successful today, TargetX can help.  With new enrollment business process consulting services by TargetX, we can help you align your goals with your people and process with your technology more effectively than ever before.
If you’d like to learn more about the exciting change happening at other colleges across the country, you can download a variety of case studies, on the TargetX website at targetx.com/casestudies.
September 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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Conservatives, Republican Party, and Trump

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TargetX, Community College

Brian interviews two experts in the community college market, Fran Cubberley, Vice President of Enrollment Management at Delaware County Community College and Mickey Baines from Fourth Dimension Partners, specialist in adult-focused programs.
To register for an upcoming webinar provided by TargetX, visit targetx.com/webinars where you can also view previously recorded online events as well.
For more information on the 4 Disciplines of Execution mentioned in this podcast, visit the4disciplinesofexecution.com
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October 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM
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Brian Niles, TargetX

Brian interviews long-time higher education administrator, Jim Hundrieser, the Associate Managing Principal at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Jim's association helps colleges build stronger and more diversified business models, identify revenue opportunities, review current practices to streamline operations and embed these opportunities into institutional strategic plans. Jim also gives us the motivation to track our gratitude daily with an added twist.
If you’d like to learn more about the exciting change happening at other colleges across the country, you can download a variety of case studies, on the TargetX website at targetx.com/casestudies.
Also register for an upcoming webinar at targetx.com/webinars.
And make sure you like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Just search for TargetX on your favorite social network. Thank you again for joining us this week on the Add Drop podcast.
October 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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Doctorate Business Administration

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Is Harvard Racist?

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Harvard University’s admissions policy is proof that one can remember negative history, write about it in great and vivid detail, and still be doomed to repeat it. In the name of “affirmative action” and “diversity,” Harvard is doing to Asian-American applicants exactly what it once did to Jewish applicants: discriminate. Lee Cheng explains.

Can you imagine, in this day and age, an educational institution discriminating against a racial minority? Can you imagine what the outcry would be?

"You mean, you're preventing these qualified students from attending your college because of the color of their skin?!"

Well, you don't have to imagine it. It's happening. And at arguably the most prestigious college in America--my alma mater, Harvard.

The ethnic minority isn't blacks or Jews, as it was in years past. The target this time is Asian Americans.

And it's just as wrong.

After millions of dollars in legal fees, millions of records examined, and hundreds of hours of depositions and testimony, Harvard's once purposely opaque admissions policies have been laid bare.

It's not a pretty picture.

Here's what we now know:

Harvard Admissions rates student applicants in three main ways: 1) Academic performance; 2) Extra-curricular achievements; 3) "Personal qualities." That's fine, as far as it goes, if the criteria were applied fairly. But they're not.

Asian American applicants consistently score higher in the first two criteria--academics and extra-curricular activities, which can be objectively assessed--than white students, Latinos and African Americans.

So how does Harvard justify its Asian American quota? With the help of category three--"personal qualities," which include vague and largely subjective factors like "likability," "maturity," "integrity," and "effervescence."

According to Harvard's own internal reports, Asian American applicants are routinely and systematically marked much lower on this personality scale by Harvard admissions officers who almost never meet or interview applicants. But here's the kicker: the personality ratings given to Asian students by admissions officers are vastly different than the personality ratings Harvard gets from its own alumni interviewers, who actually meet the applicants in person. Alumni interviewers score Asian applicants as high as whites.

In other words, Harvard artificially and fraudulently downgrades Asians on "personality" to get the results it wants. And what Harvard wants is to suppress the number of Asian Americans admitted.
Based on the data that Harvard was forced to turn over, economist Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University concluded that with the same application profile in terms of test scores, extracurricular activities and personality factors, an Asian American male applicant would only have a 25% chance of admission--versus 32% if white, 77% if Hispanic, and 95% if black.

What's the real-life result of all this?

In 2013, Asian Americans made up 19% of the incoming freshmen class. According to Harvard's own Office of Institutional Research, if the personality factors had not been rigged, that percentage would have been 43%.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantees that "No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, or be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
Each year, Harvard takes hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government.

In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policies, deciding that race could be used as a "plus factor" to achieve diversity, but never as a quota. Yet, by placing strict limits on the percentage of Asian American applicants it will admit, racial quotas are exactly what Harvard is using.

One strongly suspects this quota system isn't limited to Harvard. In the last ten years, Asian American students have been limited to an 18-22% presence across the Ivy League. Or maybe that's just a coincidence.

Writing for the majority in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the Court "expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

With less than a decade to go, the Ivy League shows no indication that it's giving up on those racial preferences. Instead, these colleges have doubled down. Objective standards regarding admissions continue to be increasingly disfavored as the illegal goal of racial balancing is advanced. This racial balancing is justified by the left's desire to achieve "racial diversity"--its insistence on seeing every person only through the prism of race, as if the most important thing any of us has to offer is the color of our skin.

Not long ago, that was called "racism." It's still called racism.

It needs to end, once and for all--for the sake of deserving Asian American students, for the sake of Harvard's own integrity, and for the sake of the American principle that the rules must be the same for everyone.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts said it best: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

It's time we did just that. I'm Lee Cheng, of the Asian American Legal Foundation, for Prager University.

 Which of the following areas are Asian American applicants to Harvard routinely marked down on?

Academic performance

5. Extra-curricular achievements

   Personal qualities
6. Family wealth

7. Asian American students have been limited to a ______ presence across the Ivy League.
5%-9%
12%-16%
18%-22%
8. 30%-34%

9. Harvard admissions officers almost always meet and interview applicants in person.
True
10. False

11. Objective standards regarding admissions continue to be __________________.
increasingly disfavored
increasingly favored
raised
12. lowered

13. “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to _____________________.”
love everyone
create racial quotas for businesses and schools
level the playing field
stop discriminating on the basis of race

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References

• Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 68–78. Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68

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Constiturional Crisis

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Vajrayana Buddhism Nargarjuna

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Emperors of Rome: Interlude, Reading List 1

We’ve had requests for books to compliment this podcast series, so here’s a few suggestions. There’ll be a complete reading list available on our Facebook page.
January 26, 2015 at 4:43 PM
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Emperors of Rome, Episode XV: The Assassination of Caligula

Caligula's erratic rule has led to a fast erosion in popularity and support, and rumours of assassination come to head just four short years after he becomes emperor.

Dr Rhiannon Evans (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) and host Matt Smith look at downfall of this hated ruler of Rome.
January 18, 2015 at 11:43 PM
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Emperors of Rome: Episode XIV: The Madness of Caligula

Caligula is best known for his erratic and tyrannical behaviour, but were his reactions a result of deviance or madness?

Dr Rhiannon Evans (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) and host Matt Smith look at the literary sources on Caligula and the wrongs that they accuse him of.
January 11, 2015 at 5:06 PM
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Valentine Date MAGA Hat

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Die Nutellamaus: German as a Second Language

David hat eine schreckliche Entdeckung gemacht... In der Küche ist eine Maus! Eine Nutellamaus! Marie kann das kaum glauben, aber es gibt Beweise. Nur - Beweise wofür? In unserer fünfzigsten Episode gibt es wieder eine besonders einfach zu verstehende Geschichte für Anfänger der Stufe A. Viel Spaß beim Lernen!


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Der Dialog
David: Eine Maus! Wir haben eine Maus!
Marie: Eine Maus? Wie? Wo?
David: In der Küche! Die Maus ist in der Küche!
Marie: Wo ist sie? Hast du sie gesehen? Hast du die Maus gesehen - mit eigenen Augen?
David: Nicht direkt gesehen. Aber ich weiß, da ist eine Maus. Ich bin sicher, da ist eine Maus!
Marie: Wieso denn? Du hast sie doch gar nicht gesehen!
David: Es ist wegen der Nutella. Das Nutellaglas war neulich noch ganz voll, jetzt ist es leer. Jemand hat die Nutella gegessen. Die ganze Nutella!
Marie: Ich war’s nicht! Ich hab keine Nutella gegessen. Ich esse nie Nutella.
David: Genau. Die Maus hat sie gegessen. Es ist eine Nutellamaus, die unsere ganze Nutella isst!
Marie: Oh je.. wir haben eine Nutellamaus, das ist ja schrecklich...
David: Ja, das find ich auch schrecklich.
Marie: Genau, und es ist eine besonders schreckliche Maus.
David: Du meinst, die Maus ist besonders schrecklich?
Marie: Natürlich! Die Nutellamaus ist gigantisch, sie ist einen Meter achtzig groß und sie wiegt achtzig Kilo! Eine schreckliche, gigantische Riesenmaus!
David: Hä...?
Marie: Du bist nämlich die Nutellamaus!
DaZPod - einfach Deutsch lernen - learn German online
October 17, 2014 at 11:00 AM
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Ancient Rome Refocused: It's Good to be Queen

Zenobia, an original musical written by Bolingbrook’s Lorrisa Julianus and composed by Angela Salvaggione of Joliet.  Rob interviews Lorrisa who played the lead and Craig Engel, the director.

This production premiered at the Bolingbrook Performing Arts Center.

The show, which starred Julianus as the title character, is based on the real life of the warrior Queen of Palmyra (a metropolitan oasis in ancient Syria). In the story, a slave girl, torn between her vigilante master and the prince of Syria, is catapulted to royalty and threatens Rome’s terrifying emperor—her unknowing father.
March 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM
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Lock Her Up

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The History of English, Episode 8, Where Have All the Inflexions Gone?

The grammar of the original Indo-European language is compared to Modern English. We explore the word endings called ‘inflexions’ which were a prominent feature of the original Indo-European language.
August 5, 2013 at 9:45 AM
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The History of English: Episode 6, Indo-Europeans

A look at words used by the original Indo-Europeans and the clues such words provide to the identity of the first Indo-Europeans.  The etymology of modern English words is explored in relation to the original Indo-European words.
August 4, 2013 at 8:17 PM
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Harvard Discrimination Against Asians

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs has set February 13, 2019 as the date for closing arguments in the closely-watched Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard lawsuit.

New Books in Religion: Global Islam

The historical convergence of European imperialism and technological innovation in communication and travel made multiple social sites of intersection between the local and global possible. Nile Green, Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA, examines how these terrains of exchange transformed Islam during the modern period from roughly 1800-1940 in his book, Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam (Oxford University Press, 2015). Green sees religion as a tool for social power and explores various religious economies to determine how interpretations of Islam are negotiated and deployed. What he shows is that modern iterations of the tradition are often shaped not only by Muslims, but also Christians and Hindus. In these sites of exchange religious actors and institutions can be analyzed as entrepreneurs and firms, which effectively compete for their clientele. Religious entrepreneurial competition and innovation fostered by Muslim/Christian interactions in imperial contexts contributed to the Muslims’ adaptation of Christian missionary methods for their own proselytization purposes.
Overall, Green presents a world history of Islam that disrupts assertions of the unifying power of globalization on Muslims and illustrates the generative process within these terrains of exchange. In our conversation we discussed evangelical orientalism at England’s universities, Bibles and printing in Muslim societies, language-exchange, religious entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, traditions of Hindu-Sufism, and the construction of the first mosques in Detroit and Japan.

Kristian Petersen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His research and teaching interests include Theory and Methodology in the Study of Religion, Islamic Studies, Chinese Religions, Human Rights, and Media Studies. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kjpetersen@unomaha.edu.
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October 17, 2016 at 5:44 PM
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Recycling

You may know that recycling is a widespread practice in Germany, but how exactly does it work? Mechthild Stein tells us what type of garbage goes in which bin, and also explains how different types of garbage are dealt with in Heidelberg.
April 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Elgar, Du Pre, Barenboim

Elgar

Jacqueline Du Pré’s recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor is iconic. Clearly Du Pré had a special affinity for Elgar’s concerto.

She loved every note. No one played like her. There is something about the way she plays….between despair and joy.

Here she plays with her husband, conductor and pianist David Barenboim. Mr. Barenboim was once asked what it was like to accompany his wife. ”Difficult,” he replied. ”It doesn’t dawn on her sometimes that we mortals have difficulties in following her.” In the next few years, they performed throughout the world, both separately and as a duo.

New Books in Religion: Muller and the Sacred Books of the East

Arie L. Molendijk is Professor of the History of Christianity and Philosophy in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has written Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East (Oxford University Press, 2016) to study how this seminal series of translations had started a novel way of understanding religions through a comparative study of texts and how it led to the shaping of the Western understanding of Eastern faith-traditions. Molendijk critically analyzes this rise of “big science” and also discusses the problems inherent in this approach of “textualisation of religion.” He revisits the limitations of translation and questions the assumptions behind them. He also looks into the person of Max Muller, specifically his scholarly aspect.
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October 18, 2016 at 5:04 PM
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New Books in Religion: Irenaeus, Joseph Smith

At first glance, second-century bishop Irenaeus of Lyon and Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints don’t seem to have much in common. After all, Irenaeus saw himself as defending orthodoxy against innovation, that is, the historical continuity of the church, while Joseph Smith understood himself as restoring that which had been lost. However, as Dr. Adam Powell shows in his fascinating study, Irenaeus, Joseph Smith God-Making Heresy (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2015), they and their communities shared a great deal. Deftly combining theology and the social sciences, particularly ideas about heresy and the sociology of knowledge, Powell shows how Irenaeus and Smith managed the existential and physical threats to their communities by developing ideas of deification, which while different in that Irenaeus saw God as ontologically different from human beings and Smith did not, held out a similar present and future hope for their beleaguered communities.
January 22, 2016 at 2:15 AM
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Ritual Happiness

Ritual

Child Marriage

Child

Greece and Rome

Classical Orders

Athlete

Female Chariot

Long Jump

Sprinter

Vase Production

Amphora

Podcast: US Special Operations Command

US Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is divided up into the following. I will talk about each individual unit listed.
• Army: 75th Ranger Regiment, Special Forces (Green Berets), 160th SOAR (Night Stalkers)

• Navy: SEALs, and SWCCs (Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen)
• Air Force: Pararescuemen (PJs), Combat Controllers (CCTs)
• Marine Corps: Marine Force Recon
• Joint: Delta Force, DEVGRU, 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Intelligence Support Activity
For more information, read:
US Special Forces by Samuel Southworth
Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch
That Others May Live by Jack Brehm
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Military History Podcast is sponsored by Audible (visit audiblepodcast.com/militaryhistory for a free audiobook download)
May 4, 2009 at 2:29 AM
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Chinese New Year

A reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve to New Year's day where members of the family, near and far, get together for celebration. The New Year's dinner is very large and traditionally includes Chicken and Dumpling. Fish is included, but not eaten up completely (and the remaining stored overnight), as the Chinese phrase "Nian Nian you yu", or "Every year there is fish/leftover", is a homophone for phrases which could mean "be blessed every year" or "have profit every year", since "yu" is also the pronunciation for "profit".

Podcast: TCU Anthropology, Imperial Rome

Imperial Rome
October 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM
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Podcast: Introducing Religion for iPad, Initiation into a strict Sikh sect

Initiation into a strict Sikh sect
May 27, 2008 at 7:27 PM
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Islamists Convert to Jesus

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Podcast: TCU, Jennifer Lockett, Mythical Foundations of Rome

Mythical Foundations of Rome
September 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM
57.8 MB (Audio)

New Books Podcast: Buddhism Enlightenment

The words “Buddhism” and “enlightenment” are, at least in the West, tightly connected. “Everyone” knows that the goal–or at least one of the goals–of Buddhist practice is “enlightenment.” But what the heck is “enlightenment,” exactly? It’s a tough question, but Dale S. Wright takes it on in his aptly named book What is Buddhist Enlightenment? (Oxford University Press, 2016). Using a kind of Zen approach (my characterization, not his), Wright doesn’t slice and dice the concept in order to come up with some Platonic ideal of “enlightenment.” You won’t find any pithy definition of the idea in the pages of this book. Rather, you’ll discover a wide-ranging exploration of “Buddhist enlightenment”–what it has meant, what it now means, and what it might and even should mean in the future. Buddhists teach that everything is changing all the time, like it or not. So it is, Wright argues, with “Buddhist enlightenment.”
October 4, 2016 at 1:45 PM
27.7 MB (Audio)

Third Century Christianity

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Podcast: Scotus, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Scotus argues that morality is a matter of freely choosing to follow God’s freely issued commands.

Podcast: Catholic, Christian, Presence

Beginning with the Catholic doctrine of the literal, embodied presence of Christ, scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable. The gods really present, in the Catholic sense, were translated into metaphors and symptoms, and into functions of the social and political. Presence became evidence of superstition, of the infantile and irrational. History and Presence (Harvard University Press, 2016) confronts this intellectual heritage, proposing instead a model for the study of religion that begins with humans and gods present to each other in everyday life. These intersubjective encounters are always, Robert Orsi writes, an engagement with oneself and ones world in all modalities of being. Along the way, History and Presence examines Marian apparitions, the cult of the saints, relations with the dead, clerical sexual abuse, and a host of other events and encounters.

Robert Orsi holds the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago.

October 14, 2016 at 3:15 PM
22.7 MB (Audio)

Flight Night Samoa

Samoa

Flight night is a local production of live interviews at the airport. There are two flights weekly to and from Honolulu and mainland. The airport is the place to hang out. It's where you see who's leaving island and who's returning from a trip.

Ian Hunter, Oldest Son, Steve, October 2016, Horses Mouth

Alistair Talbot: Yup. My eldest, Steve, was born in 13 Fife Street; the rent was 3 quid a week.

Ian Hunter, YUI Orta Interview with Scott Muni and Mick Ronson

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Stock Market Prediction

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Religious Habit Mistakes

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World Religions Quiz

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