We've zoomed into a mountain range in Indonesia. The Grasberg mine is the largest mine for gold and the third largest for copper. The waste is let into the rivers. And if we go to the south, what we're going to see is the tailings building up, massive tailings destroying forest land. This is water you would not want to drink. We're rending visible something that humans have been doing to the planet, which we may not have realized because we think the world is too big for us to affect. We start to realize the world is actually quite small and we have a big effect. The Amazon River, which we've all discussed and concerned ourselves with is here. And we talk about deforestation on the Amazon being highly problematic and so on. But then take a look at where this is. It's the fringe. It's the outside edge, not along the river. That's being taken for soy production at massive scales over the last number of years. You start to see where this has occurred and you start to also see where the edges are. And these are protected areas for indigenous people. So the native peoples have moved in to the forest to get away from this edge. But without the protection and without boundaries, the human development has a habit of spreading. And it's really important for us to look at our future of our cities. And you can see in 1984 we have Dallas on the right, Fort Worth on the left. And let's play forward in time to 2015. Dallas and Fort Worth grow in every direction, but especially here in the north, where we can see farmland being replaced by suburbs, very low density suburbs. This causes intense pressure on the mobility, as you can imagine, highways and so on with this kind of land use pattern. You can actually jump and see the development of fracking, the natural gas extraction near Dallas. Look at this territory, since they discovered how to explode a shale horizontally and extract gas. And watch for the little tiny square white rectangles there. These are all hydraulic fracturing pads. These are drilling places. We explode the shale, extract gas, all those dots. If we see what we've done to the planet and already get resources, we realize if we could use them again, we can double the amount of resources without doubling the amount of damage on the planet. In the 32 years that we record, Seoul increased in population by almost a factor of two. But if you watch, it doesn't look like Dallas Fort Worth at all. You see almost no horizontal expansion. Instead, Seoul had a policy of densification to increase population in place. So Seoul built up instead of out. This is a really critical idea. It obviously makes the mobility more effective. It creates communities that are more interactive. But it also allows the agriculture on the periphery to be maintained. This is an important idea for so many reasons, one of which I think one of the biggest moves I'd like to see in urbanism is what I call the carbon positive city. Where instead of just saying we have a liability of atmospheric carbon, which we're reducing, if all we tell people is what we're not going to do, we're going to reduce our carbon by 20% by 2020, you're telling the children what you're not going to do. That's like getting in a taxi and saying, quick, I'm not going to the airport. And as we look at the fourth industrial revolution, AI, machines talking to machines, the question becomes a question of values, a question of relationships, the local, the global. But it underlying it all must be a notion of resources where with circular economy and cradle to cradle design, we see that we put the re back into resources. We've seen that China has almost doubled its production of electricity from solar just in the past year. What you're seeing here is a set of solar photovoltaic electricity generation that's more than 20 kilometers from north to south. We see these sorts of things springing up all over the globe. What is very interesting in Inner Mongolia, they're doing an experiment, which we're part of, which we're excited about. If you take the solar collectors and face them this way so they can rock into the morning and rock into the evening, we get four times as much energy. We lift them up above human head and they rock into the morning, they rock into the afternoon. They move a shadow from here to there every day and animals can graze under it, but all the grasses, native grasses come back. So it's as if it's a solar orchard, but all the animals can graze, the roots come back, the soil holds water, the carbon is sequestering, it actually becomes a positive carbon sequestration with water and air purification, providing jobs, high tech jobs in rural areas near cities where people can get real jobs, being in the countryside, working, growing food. We can make technologies that don't just reduce human negative impact, but start to increase human positive impact. So by redesigning, we move from reduce, reuse, recycle, which is nice but inadequate, to redesign, renew and regenerate and restore.


Today we're going to do a lab called solubility rules. The lab is about really creating your own solubility rules table that you have to memorize for your course. It is also about getting some experience with double replacement, precipitate type of reactions and getting experience with a topic that I know is difficult for most of you, which is writing net ionic equations. So here is the table that is in your lab description and if you look across the top, you'll see anions provided by solutions of sodium solutions such as sodium fluoride, sodium chloride, sodium bromide and so on. Going down the side of the table, you will see ket ions provided by nitrate solutions such as silver nitrate, ammonia nitrate, magnesium nitrate and so on. What we're going to do now is to mix one drop from each solution and see if we get a reaction. How do we know we get a reaction? Well, if the solution gets cloudy, that means we have produced a precipitate and that is a reaction for which you will need to write a net ionic equation. If, on the other hand, after mixing the two drops, the resultant drop remains clear, then you have a situation where the potential product is actually soluble in water. So that means there is no reaction and there is no net ionic to write. However, if there is a cloudy drop that results from the mixing of the two solutions, as I said earlier, that's a precipitate, but that also means that the product that was formed is insoluble in water. That's why you have a precipitate. There is another possibility. The solution, the mixing of the two solutions could yield a drop that is slightly cloudy. That is an indication that the product form is slightly insoluble in water. Let's proceed now with the first potential reaction. I'm adding right now a drop of sodium fluoride and to that I will add a drop of the solution containing the silver ion. As you can see, the drop has remained clear. What does that mean? That means that the potential product, silver fluoride, is soluble in water and no reaction has occurred. Let's go on to the chloride ion. I will now add the silver ion to it and notice what happened. Can you see that this solution is cloudy? Let me help you by seeing that by changing the background from white to black. Can you see the white precipitate? I want you to record, of course, that we have a precipitate, but I also want you to record the color. So to speed the process up, what I'm going to do now is add drops of the silver ion containing solution across the row and then start adding drops of the anion solutions and your job is to record what happens. This would be the iodide ion being added. Are you noticing the change in color? That means we have had a reaction. Now, let's see. This might be better to see with the white background. Okay, and now to add the sulfate ion, the white background, the chart. Okay, so do we have a precipitate with a sulfate ion? What about the carbonate ion? There? Okay. So just to help you through this process, it looks to me like we have precipitated in all mixtures, except for the fluoride ion and the sulfate ion. So let's go on to the next cation, the ammonium ion, and now I will add the anions. I think if you look across, it looks like they're all... I mean, there's no precipitate. There's no reaction. All the ammonium possible products are soluble in water. Okay? So now we'll go on to the next cation, magnesium, the fluoride ion. Let's see if you can see them with a black background. Now the calcium ion. Now here's what I want you to notice. First of all, I hope you can see that there are three precipitates here, but also, maybe this is a little hard for you to see. Look at the difference between this drop and the previous three. Those previous three are definitely clear. This looks slightly cloudy, but I can tell you by looking at it, I really don't see a precipitate. And that is an indication that calcium fluoride is slightly soluble or slightly insoluble in water. So now we'll take care of strontium. As you can see, it seems like we have precipitates here, but not here. Okay, we'll proceed to barium. I want to point out that the cation fluoride and strontium fluoride and barium fluoride could be... are slightly cloudy drops, which means that the products are slightly soluble or insoluble in water. So now we go on to zinc. As you can see here, we have precipitates in the last three. Let's go on to copper. By the way, we don't put a spot on the iodide block simply because there is a reaction. It does occur, but it's not a precipitate type of reaction. It's a redox reaction. Actually, that should have gone here. And actually, I put it on... I put the carbonate there as well, so I'm going to have to fix that. And I'm going to put the zinc sulfide combination on the outside here. As you can see, there is a precipitate form there as well. And this is the phosphate ion being at it, which also forms a precipitate. Okay, we're down to the last three, aluminum. As you can see, the lead ion produces precipitates with everything that's set for the chloride. So here's the last one, the iron-3 cation. Okay, so now we're down with the lab. Your job is to go to the instructions, answer the questions, create your own salubility rules table.


I'm Jack Seuss, Vice President of IT and CIO at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And I'm Cynthia Golden, Associate Provost at the University of Pittsburgh. Each episode we welcome a guest from in or around higher education technology as we talk about repositioning or reinforcing the role of IT leadership as an integral strategic partner in support of the institutional mission. Today, we're joined by Jackie Malcolm, Vice Chancellor of Information Technology and CIO at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Welcome, Jackie. Could you give us a brief overview of your career? What a great question. My career has actually taken a very interesting set of twists and turns. I'll go back to when I was a student at Drexel University, started out in design and merchandising for fashion, and I knew that is exactly what I wanted to do. Part of my journey in education at Drexel University was a co-op, and we had to go through and find a job and go through that entire process. And what I found was perhaps being in fashion wasn't going to be as lucrative as I thought it was going to be. So I wound up working for a company now, GlaxoSmith Klein in downtown Philadelphia, and I absolutely loved my experience there. I worked in their marketing department, more specifically in convention planning. And that actually speared this thought in my mind. I said, well, maybe it's not fashion, you know, maybe it's marketing. So I changed my degree and kind of moved on from there. And so that's where the marketing came in. Throughout my career, I have always worked in higher education except for corporate America. And I love the mission of higher education. And I have worked at large, small, medium, public, private, faith-based, as well as HBCU. So it kind of runs the gamut. And each iteration of that continued to help me understand that I absolutely love the mission of higher education. And so my career has spanned all of those different instances, but also has spanned sort of my portfolio. I've had marketing communications, I've had enrollment management, so that all, all inclusive of everything but student accounts as well as IT. And as I journeyed through my own educational experience, and I said, wow, you know, I'd really, I'd really like to do something different. So I was at Catholic University, had just gotten my doctorate in educational leadership. And I said, I think I'm ready for something different. And I'm chief marketing officer there. And I found this job that was the vice president of enrollment, marketing communications, as well as the CIO. And I said, wow, that job is for me because when I worked at the University of the District of Columbia, I wound up working in IT for varying reasons. That's where I landed as a marketing professional. And I had such great people around me who said, you can do this IT thing. And I was marketing a portal, an internal portal system. And I said, I'll give it a go. And I had lots of friends say, you can absolutely do this, do the marketing, the functional side, and then we as IT will manage the IT side through a number of different layoffs and other things. I became the person who wound up really being integral in building this portal system. I said, what in the world am I doing? But it was something that I found to push me. I found that I loved it. I remember that I got an opportunity to do a data center upgrade. And I found myself taking pictures of all the wires and like how clean it was. And I'm like, is this me? Really who I am? Because I'm a creative, right? And I've always been a creative person. I love the field of marketing communications and enrollment management. But this was sort of a new twist and turn. I have come across some absolutely amazing individuals who sort of poured their knowledge into me. And it's all hands on. And so I went to Buffalo State College and worked there for a number of years and got recruited to come to this job at Minnesota State. And it was one of those things where, and I think sometimes when we as women we say to ourselves, oh, I don't check all the boxes, so I'm just not going to go for it. And I said, I'm just going to go for it. I mean, what is there to lose? What I didn't know there was so much to gain. I am, you know, really honored to be able to be in this field of IT and to lead this pretty massive and significant project that we're implementing or we're implementing Workday as our ERP coming off of a homegrown system. It is massive change. It is transformational for this organization. And I'm looking forward to seeing where it's all going to go. We are implementing finance and HCM modules. And then hopefully here soon we'll be implementing the SUIT module. So lots of exciting work to come. Sticking with the career topic a little bit, Jackie, what you just talked about in terms of your career has a thread running through it of IT and communication kind of intersecting, whether you were talking about working in the IT department or enrollment or advancement. It seems like you've had options to lead in these areas. Maybe talk a little bit more about why you chose to lead in IT. I think where I am in my job journey really was to think about what can I push myself into that will push me or help me grow. I continue to see myself as a lifelong learner. And my goodness, as quickly as IT moves, you will be a lifelong learner. I just had a conversation with some of my staff the other day as we're working through this ERP implementation. And I said, my goal is to strive for perfection. But my goal is to also know that we usually don't get to that finite moment in IT. But that's something that we should continue to aspire to look for. Because what that helps is that continued level of innovation and growth. And so for me, it's important to utilize all of my skills that I've gained throughout my educational journey, but also just through me being a professional. And since you mentioned communications, I will always say, and I continue to say this today, my marketing and communications background, I use that probably more than I have ever in any other position within this position as Vice Chancellor of IT, I continue to write communications, I continue to write messaging, because we're maneuvering through pretty significant change management activities. And so I find that I always lean on those skills. And it just has never failed me. Absolutely never failed me. So whether it's I'm in an implementation, whether one of my offices has a particular communication that we need to send out, or whether it's I need to message something to the board or have a conversation with my Chancellor, that marketing communications piece is so helpful. And it helps you understand what your stakeholder base that you're talking to, because the way in which you message to them frequently will be very different. So it's a skill set that I'm so glad that I have. And it's one that I'll continue to hone and grow. And so that's where it all kind of intersects, right? It always intersects around that marketing communication space, which I'm grateful for. Well, and I agree with you wholeheartedly, that's something that we have to use all the time. And it's really critical. I'm chiming in. I think, Jackie, that you are the prototype of the future IT leader. And I say that because, you know, your journey as we move to software as a service, how we market, communicate, work on change management are the fundamental elements of success. It's less about, you know, how do you code? How do you pull things together? There is importance there. But, you know, these activities of how you communicate, how you work across different organizations, how you understand so much of what you're trying to do when you get to the student administration piece, especially coming from legacy is going to be built upon the fact that you understand enrollment management, you understand the processes and can be sort of talking the language that's there. And so I think, I really think it's interesting how you really are in a way perfect for this position. This system is relatively young as it pertains to systems. I came from the SUNY system and it goes from the largest, either third or fourth within the nation. And it is 33 institutions, 54 campuses. So it's significant in size. And we have about 340,000 students at the service at any given time. What I think is incredible about this, and you and I had a chance to talk is this idea that you have both community colleges and four-year schools as part of your system, thinking about how you can build the next generation system that works seamlessly across those two pieces is, I think, you know, one of the key elements of future of higher education. I would agree with you, Jack. And one of those things we think about is we think about workforce and how do we, you know, we are in public higher education, right? So we are really here to provide affordable, accessible education for economic viability of our communities very specifically. And so you think about where would a student want a journey? And they've got a lot of options within the system, which is great, right? So you can start with maybe an AA or an AS in a particular institution.  But part of the reason why we're entering into this ERP is still our students as they journey through our educational system can be themselves at any institution. That journey and the things that they interface with should be really synthesized and offering up the same processes, the same look and feel to make their journey just that much more easier. I think the beauty of technology is we have a wonderful opportunity to respond to what our consumers want. And I know some in the field of higher education say, oh, you said the word consumer, but they are, this is one of the largest purchases they'll make in their lifetime. And we need to treat them as such. And so I think you're right, Jack, in that we need to be looking at what folks are looking for, not what we choose to give them, you know, from a higher education perspective, we continue to hone into places like stackable credentials, right? What if I just want a micro-credential? But what if I want a stackable degree? Perhaps I've been out of school for 10 years and they were finished. And I want to come back. What does that look like from a workforce development perspective? I think we've got to be really creative. I think far gone are the days where we just offer two year and four year degrees while they will still, in my opinion, very much have a place in higher education. I think we need to get much more savvy about the offerings and creative around how do we offer quick credentialing for folks to either upskill, reskill, retool, move to a different discipline entirely, right? So I think we are at a wonderful crossroads in higher education to really get creative and innovative purposefully. Part of my thinking around that too is that's just how we respond and should be responding, but how do we create a sense of resiliency in our organization so that we're not just being responsive, but we really are there to ensure that we're there for our communities for time to come. Well, and building on that, I have sort of felt that the most important kinds of digital transformation are the hardest ones, which are how do we help transform our academic activities? Because we know that that requires a significant amount of change, it requires time, it requires a lot of conversation. And so it sounds like right now you're positioned to be in a spot to be sort of helping to guide and or at least be involved in a lot of those discussions across your system that's going to be wonderful. Absolutely. How big of a role is online learning playing in the change you're trying to affect? It's very big and I think what we know from higher education is that most of us, many of us, really weren't in the fully in the online game, right? And then this thing, COVID happens. And then all of a sudden, we realize, well, we actually can do this, we actually can move quickly. I think the main part for me as far as online education is making sure we truly are doing online education and responding as such and not sort of maneuvering into a more digital space to do these things. I have run the gamut with digital offerings quote unquote being we'll just do this class via email. Well, that's not online learning. You're not creating an experience for the student, right? Maybe 20 years ago. Exactly. And so I think that we need to understand that we have to kind of go back and understand how did we approach it during COVID? We know we can move quickly. We know we leaned upon our technology pretty heavily. We deploy new technology, both hardware, software, but how do we become intentional and thoughtful in using that technology and really deploy online learning? What do our consumers want to do? You know, somewhat fully online, somewhat hybrid high flex. And there are others who still want to come into the classroom. Jack had mentioned, we do have community colleges and technical colleges. There are some hands on pieces that they just really need to have. I just went to one of our campuses and saw an amazing and I believe it was like a diesel program, you know, really learning how to work on trucks and, you know, the trucking business is suffering right now. We're educating drivers and, you know, mechanics and inflexing them into the economy. But just imagine how difficult that was if you couldn't really get a feel for that engine or that gear shift right when you're trying to learn. And so there are those things that really require that hands on piece. However, they still use technology, right? We know most of those engines and things are run by electronics and other digital things. And so for me, I think that we'll continue to use our technology ecosystem to be able to support online learning, but really making sure that we're using that in support of what our students are looking for and not just to point what we think they're looking for. I also think, you know, working with industry with some amazing industry partners across Minnesota State and how do we use them to help us with our pedagogy and other other things? Understand what in the world do you want from a talent pool? Just asking those simple questions, you know, what are you looking for? What do you need? That is where we can really come in and deploy our skilled student body and really give them what they need and what they're looking for. So it's exciting. I think using technology for all of these things is incredibly exciting. So as you're talking about facilitating all of this change, I am sure that your past background in communication is helping you. So could you say a few words about the kinds of approaches you're taking in terms of change management? Right. One of my philosophies is communicate often and communicate in many different ways. I think what we have to know is that change is really scary for folks and sometimes people say, oh, sure, I don't mind changing them when it really has to happen. It's like, okay, but I'm actually fine with change as long as it's in not impacting me so everyone else can change. No problem. I'm on board. So I think really understanding that it's not just about sort of acknowledging that change needs to happen. It's acknowledging that we all have to be a part of that change. This is my first time working in a system office as opposed to a campus. Just always keeping my campus lens on to ensure that I am sensitive to what happens at the local level with our campuses. And so for me, it's thinking around, okay, I've been a campus CIO. What would I have needed from my system office? What is the communication type that I would have needed? I have a CIO advisory. So I meet with a subset of CIOs from our different sectors. That gives me a really great insight into what their needs are and how they need to communicate. Keeping them abreast of all things that are happening and when it's the best appropriate to communicate with them is also important. Through this ERP, we have a change management office. So it's sort of built into this project. Those resources then work with campus resources, change management resources that help to manage change. We do a number of surveying and talking to our campus resources, just kind of getting tone and temperature around readiness of this implementation. So change management, well, not just about communication. Communication is significant component of change management. But how we ready folks for what's to come is important as well. So we're deploying videos and we do what we call work at Wednesday where people can sign up and understand particular functionality. We have a newsletter. We've got Twitter, right? We've got all of these ways in which we communicate, which keeps us on our toes. And sometimes folks say, hey, would you not communicating enough? So we go back and we say, okay, what else can we do? So it's never ending, but certainly we want to be able to make sure our campuses are ready for this level of change. And so whatever they need to get that comfort level, we will absolutely do. And we'll always be in a concert and in partnership with our campuses. No, it's really interesting in thinking about, you know, change management and communication, because it really does at the end of the day get down to how do you find the right way to communicate to everyone? And it's always a little bit different. But, you know, you have to be really thinking multimodal, because one way is never going to hit enough people to be able to really share the answer, share the news. I wanted to ask a question. I remember you participating in the Diana Oblinger Innovation Forum. And you were on a panel talking about how advancing diversity within your IT organization really helped accelerate innovation. Can you talk about how you're putting that to practice in your ERP modernization project? I think as I continually think about how I diversify, you know, my organization, obviously being a female in IT is extremely important to me. I don't typically see a lot of myself represented across this industry.  I always speak about my journey. I support by mentorship in other ways, females in IT and absolutely always I'm grateful for our allies in this space. You know, a couple of things that I think is important is one really important is succession planning, right? How do we invest in current staff to get them ready for these leadership roles should they want them? I am always open to supporting and growing staff where they are or growing them into senior level roles if that is something that they want. So, the investment in professional development through areas like EDUCAUSE, right, are really, really exceptionally important. And so, I continually think about as we move through this ERP and need to really redo the way in which we're doing IT, how do we continue that upskilling to make an investment in them? How do we do really great succession planning? But then, how are we also thinking about the way in which we recruit our staff? And so, to your point, Jack, you know, as we think about the way in which IT is maneuvering, which is really less about the nuts and bolts in the programming, right, and more about the SaaS-based type of scenario, how do we get those who have a acumen for technology but are bringing some additional skills that typically technologists never really had to have. And we think about, I call it get from behind the monitor and becoming that partner, right, becoming that integrated CIO into the organization. My job is to influx ready talent. My job is to increase the different voices. Again, I come from a business background and moment marketing communications. That offers a level of diversity to ideation, to conversation, you know, how do we get those who come from non-stem degrees as we do our recruiting, you know, higher education, we're the producers of credentials, but we also like credentials as well. So sometimes we'll say, well, for this role, we need a four-year college degree. Well, do you? Do you really? Isn't it also equally just as good if I have someone maybe who's got 10 years worth of hands-on experience? So just looking at the way in which we're doing our recruiting is exceptionally important to make sure we can really diversify that pool. I look at diversity in many different ways, right? So it's different ethnicities and languages and genders, but it's also disciplines, right? It's also backgrounds, it's lived experiences. It's all of that. That can just bring some great ideas to the table. The other thing, the beauty of working in a system, you have 33 institutions where you can tap into talent. There's an amazing swath of talent within these organizations, within these campuses, that we get the opportunity to tap into. One thing we were doing was building a vaccination tracking system while we're during COVID. And one of our campuses says, hey, we're actually on our way to doing something like that. Would you want to leverage what we had? And we wound up building this application with them using the talent that this particular campus had. And so that's another way in which we can diversify the way in which we do our work is really understanding how do we tap into that talent in ways that are traditional and non-traditional and how we pay attention to the workforce. And like I said, in industry and what they need, the other interesting piece through this implementation, I am fully aware that some of my talent will get recruited out because we're sort of building talent for other organizations as our staff decides if they want to move on to another role. I hate to lose the people, but I hope that we've done our job in growing them professionally. So those are just some of the ways in which I'd like to make sure I'm fully aware of DEI within my organization. Minnesota State has a pretty robust DEI initiative going on called Equity 2030. And it really is our efforts to close the educational equity gaps. And I take it a step further and say I want to close the technology equity gaps as well, not only for our students and our faculty and staff, but just for our campuses as a whole. There are many facets to this diversity piece that I like to make sure I'm aware of. I think that we have conversation with our vice chancellor at the equity and inclusion. And that's my way of keeping myself educated and abreast of how I can use some strategies to diversify my organization. Thank you. So title of our podcast is the integrative CIO. When you think about that, what does it really mean to you, Jackie? And how do you work to make that real, that integration? For me, it means having to sit at the table, right? Frequently, we haven't as CIOs probably decade more ago. And you think about in higher education, we've got the advancement person, the HR person, you've got the president, right? You've got the student affairs person, the academic affairs person. And all of their work is supported by technology. But how frequently have we seen the CIO not at the table? Well, how are we having those conversations around how we leverage our technology and support of teaching and learning and supporting academics and supporting all that happens on a campus? How are we having those conversations without having an integral role in the room? And so in my mind, that's what really truly being an innovative CIO is being integrated into the business and being a part of that decision making process. Many are still not. And so I do have conversations with my colleagues who are not on cabinet or in those leadership roles and finding ways in which they can partner and have conversation with their colleagues, even if they don't sit on cabinet, get into those one-on-ones, have those conversations, be a good partner, a trusted partner, and one that people can come and get found advice from. I always say as we as CIOs trying to get to the table, being at the table, but making sure that your voice is heard, making sure that you really help them understand the importance of technology. And how do you do that in a way in which you can understand, they can understand the value piece that comes out of having me at the table. So for me, it's really been integrated into the business and being that business partner across the organization. What that translates into though is we become sort of these many experts in all of these different fields. And I need to be able to speak to the head of a moment around their funnel and their CRM that they're using and what that means. And I need to speak to the head of student affairs. And when they're thinking about orientation, what application are they going to use? And we were in COVID to do orientation online and how I deal with athletics and what I need to know about what division we're in, what technology we need. Right. And then I think of advancement and the technologies that they use to bring in and track donors and dollars. So I think about all the technology that's really needed for all of that. And I always say, how could you not have this type of role integrated, truly integrated into your business and be a part of the conversation and the decision making. So it's a unique opportunity. I am grateful that I am at the table. I have a chancellor who is exceptionally knowledgeable around IT, certainly enough to be dangerous, but I appreciate it because when I have conversations, he understands and knows where I'm coming from. I will also say that is usually not the more. And so you have to also be able to be that translator of business value and goals and be that translator of what that technology can do to help create success. And ultimately, in my mind, technology is one of the reasons why our students can be successful in what we do. So it's absolutely important. It's been a great enabler. Yes, absolutely. Frankly, I don't think there is an institution or a system making a bigger bet on technology than Minnesota State. And so the fact that they selected you, you're a key factor in their long term success because this project is really going to drive a tremendous amount of change in the way that they operate and function over the next decade. It couldn't be done without someone like you there. Any last comments that you have before we wrap up? I would say one thing in regards to the ERP and the level of change that Minnesota State is going through. I have the honor of leading this massive implementation. It is nice to know that I walked into this position with this sort of moving forward and always say kudos to Minnesota State for being this bold and courageous. This is big change and there's a lot writing on it and making sure we're successful. And I want to step out of this process and ultimately in saying we can be a thought leader in this space. I'd like to think that we are going to be change makers in the field of higher ed tech. We are the largest system maneuvering through an implementation of this type across the nation. It is significant and I fully understand that others are going to want to come knocking on our door and ask us a lot of questions because we do the same of other organizations. So I would say again it's wonderful to see a system of this size really ready itself for organizational change for digital transformation. It's exciting to be a part of this work. I come in here every day and sometimes I say I got chosen to do this work and like I said I'm so honored and grateful for it. Well we'll be watching. Yes. And rooting for you for your success. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. It has been a pleasure to have you as part of this podcast. Thank you so much.


Sometimes you hear the phrase, you know, two steps forward, one step back, and sometimes the spiritual journey seems like that, two steps forward, one step back, because if it's truly is when you really have that purpose and inspiration and you really do tune in and go for it, with your two steps forward, we kind of call it ego backlash, or sometimes ego whiplash. The ego goes from suspicious to vicious, the more loving you are. So when you really tune in and make bold steps and strides in the direction of your purpose, the ego will recoil that part of your mind that's afraid of being undone, and it's a major backlash or whiplash. And so, you know, in one sense, that's not necessarily how it has to go, but in many or most cases, that's the way that it seems to go. And so, once you start to experience that, which I had that experience a lot in my journey, which was quite a long journey, you just, every time you get that one step back, you learn to kind of just watch it, and observe it, and not react or conclude something because of the one step back. You just get better and better and better at that. I remember years ago, before the course came into my life, I remember I would do this with the universe where I would just, like, go through my thoughts and my frustrations, and I would just pray, and then I would turn on the radio, and I would just get the messages from the song on the radio. So, it was just as good as, like, the course is an oracle. And I remember one time, I just was so discouraged about my latest ego backlash, whiplash, viciousness, and I'm never going to get this, and it's throwing me back, you know, and this and this, and I remember this was back probably around, I don't know, around the 1980s. Billy Joel, the Stranger album, the words from the song The Stranger, don't be afraid to try again. Everyone goes sour every now and then.  But I would flip it on and I'd be like, oh, thank you, you know, but just having, don't be afraid to try again. Everyone goes sour every now and then. You've done it. I can't someone else. You should know by now. You've been there yourself. I'm like, okay, all right, got it. But it was a pep talk. So for me, it was like a burst of a little pickup. And I think, you know, that's what we have to do is we have to open ourselves to those reflections of witnesses. Because for most, it's there, you have to deal with this kind of backlash thing that happens in the mind. And the ego wants you to make some kind of conclusion. Like, look at you. Look at you.  You know, when you're in the one step back, it just feels like it's a thousand steps back. You might as well just be drowning and submerged under the water because that's how it feels. This just totally blocks the awareness of the miracles. Even if you go through this and you have lots of miracles, it will just block out those lots of miracles and just make it really dark and grim and pessimistic. And it's just the ego has a one track mind, like a broken record of just, you know, always trying to sabotage any sense of hope, any sense of progress, just always coming in there really, really hard. So that's one of the things that hopefully as you get deeper into your spiritual practice, you just, it's more of that light heartedness, that laughter we were talking about, where you can just start to watch it and not draw conclusions from it. Like, oh, here we go. Okay. All right. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. And then, you know, then we're going to move on now. We're not going to, we're not going to harbor these things. We're not going to just go through and grind them through the grinder and grind them and regrind them.  That's really why you have these teaching learning partners, these mirrors, these reflectors is not to harbor and hold on the grievances and the, and the snubs we were calling them earlier or the mistreatments and everything. You know, it's not at all what Jesus and the Holy Spirit are encouraging us to do. I remember there's a part that's just so poetic in the text of the course where Jesus says, dream softly of your sinless brother.  He's like, please, he's pleading. Dream, it's such a soft, dream softly of your sinless brother.  If I ever get my hands on and he, and here comes, dream softly of your sinless brother. You know, it's just like, it's not even close to that just grinding when I just want to rip somebody up and tear somebody up and just grind it through the grinder. You know, it's like, no, softly. I said softly, you know, you could just see how light that is. There's no way you could not even read that sentence with harshness, you know, dream softly with your sinless brothers.  It's encouraging. It's lifting you. It's just like, no, come up here. Don't, don't go down there. Just stay up here with me. So that's what we, we practice and we need those reminders and we need to remind ourselves that we need to be reminded and we need to remind others.  It's like memory is selective, just like perception is selective. And we actually have a choice of which memories we're going to remember. We're going to remember the memories of love or the memories of hurt, pain, grievances. The choice is there. It's just that with this linear trick of time and this causation thing, it's like the ego just points out its targets, you know, points out its enemies. And, you know, it's just, it just keeps replaying those characters over and over, even so sometimes the faces change, sometimes the circumstance change. You know, if you really step back, you could start to see this looping pattern like a groundhog day of the same kind of thought patterns just play out over and over and over, just with little slight variations of characters' names and changes, you know, to make it look just like it's happening fresh and new when it's the same old past just coming along, coming around again like that song. If you're willing to play the game, it'll be coming around again, coming around again.    You could just bask in it forever if you wanted it, it would just take you away into eternity but you keep dragging, dragging, dragging, these past memories as if they're still real and true. So we're just really getting practice when people come and we're tempted to react, when we're tempted to, you know, have a defense come up or become defensive in any way, it's just past thoughts in our mind that are just spinning around there again, you know, trying to get our attention. So, you know, that's the incentive is to just for us to really, really firmly join together in this and say, you know, we are not going to allow ourselves to get tricked by this yet again, another facet of the diamonds spinning around, it's the same thing, we have to become, start to see it's the same trick and we don't really have to keep falling for it. We're safe, we're actually very, very safe without having to fall for these defenses and get back into these spinning gyrations and everything, these dramas. You know, I always think of that, they talked about the Chinese curse, may you live in exciting times. And I always used to look at that as like, that's a curse, you know, it's such a positive word, exciting, exciting, exciting, but that's the Chinese curse, may you live in exciting times. It's more, don't get lured into the drama, don't get lured into a false sense of a sensationalism excitement that really just another distraction. You know, I love that part in the course workbook where, you know, it says some try to put by the sadness they feel with games that they play. And when Jesus says that in the course and I was like, I said to him one time, I said, what games? What games are you talking about? He said, do you really want me to tell you? I said, yes. And so he just, well, he just went on and on and on with the games and the distracted devices like, like he could just go on for hours. And then there's this and then there's this. Well, what that's life. And then there's this and then there's this. It's like all these tens and hundreds and thousands of games that are just generated as a ways to put by the sadness to keep push really keep the sadness pushed out of awareness.  You know, they their own each in their own way. They just said, yeah, Nietzsche, I mean, just you went on with all these existentialists. It was like, it's, it's just grim, it's dark, it's bad, it's everything and so this and and it's interesting that that they would have a whole branch of philosophers that would basically, which you take all the whipped cream and the icing and and all the ice cream and everything else off the glitz and you just, you just, you just skim off the whole top thing. Then you've got this black band of death, just the death wish in every angle you look at and it's like, I don't wonder there's made up so much whipped cream and banana splits and all kinds of things.


This mural brings education to our community. It brings education to the doorsteps of our community and highlighting some significant African Americans that contribute to society in a profound way.  And as we thought about the changing demographics of that area, several people came to mind who lived in the proximity of the North Main Area. One person was named Benjamin J. Mack. Mr. Mack once lived on Monticello Road. He once lived in an area called Ridgewood. Mr. Mack was a very active member of the Ridgewood Baptist Church, but he's probably best known as a staunch civil rights activist who developed a program in collaboration with a woman named Septima Clark of what was called Citizenship Schools. Deacon Mack and Ms. Clark recognized that African Americans were being deprived of the right to vote. And so they engaged in a campaign to prepare African Americans about the purpose of voting, how to register to vote, and then going out to vote. And so the mural on the Hyatt Park wall pays tribute to Benjamin Mack, a man who lived in that community. It pays tribute to Septima Clark, who Dr. King called the mother of the civil rights movement. And it also pays tribute to a pioneering journalist whose name was Lister Belt Middleton. Lister Middleton lived on the Hyatt Park area. He was the producer of a pioneering television show called For the People. And in that show, he showcased African American history. He showcased African history. And so now the young men and women who enter Hyatt Park will know more about the important roles of Benjamin J. Mack, Septima, Poinsett, Clark, and Lister Belt Middleton. It means a lot that the work that he did because he dearly loved his people. And he loved putting out the African and the African American history and getting the truth of that out to people. So to have this honor, to have him moralized like this means a lot to us. Long before the birth of this country, long before the birth of this city, the African American community has been actively involved in helping build the culture and the economy of Columbia, South Carolina. These murals tell that story. I love this mural in particular because of the role that Lister Belt Middleton played in my development as a young man. As a young man trying to understand his place and space in the world, he's a contemporary. He was a leader and educator. He's a strong man who made sure that we all understood the internal power that we all had. We were able to lift up the names of these ancestors, these community members that have been leaders here in Hyatt Park and celebrate Black history of Hyatt Park. It's a way of saying thanks also to people who have honestly touched other people's lives and seeking nothing in return. Helping to a lot of times make a difference in those people's lives. We're fortunate that we're able to add murals in city parks that are actually located within neighborhoods. And I think that it is important that murals and other forms of public art be added to neighborhoods because I think you can add so much to the character of a neighborhood and really represent what a neighborhood is all about. Showcase them and their identity as a community and also increase the amount of people that may be spread beyond the downtown area to seek out public art and hear the stories of Columbia beyond just the downtown core.


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Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city We're under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer This is the line-up Yeah, there's mr. Bormash. Oh, how do you do mr. Bormash still a little nervous lieutenant. I sure you are And we can sit right here This isn't exactly the kind of day. I want to remember need me lieutenant. I know thanks. I'll see you then. Goodbye, mr. Bormash. Oh, good-bye, Sergeant. I Wish I'd been at my place this afternoon when it happened. Yeah, so do I Mr. Bormash, we picked up a couple of men in the neighborhood that you might recognize now Just take your time Yeah Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered I'll call off a number the name in charge If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call his name At the end of each line when I ask for questions or identifications call out the number If you're sure or not too sure of a suspect hadn't held The officers who took your name will assist you there seated among you When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the washroom and dressed back in their jail clothes It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here The questions I asked these suspects are merely to get a natural tone of voice So do not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie Bring on the line All right boys, come on all the way over to the end of the stage That's it. Keep it moving all the way All right, turn now face front Hands to your sides and look straight ahead All right, number one Joseph Schmitts robbery Tell us where you live, Joseph now, Texas louder. I mean here in town speak up so the folks can hear you Mr. Bomech.  Yeah Well, tell us to make the caliber. Smith and Wesson 38 revolving you guys got a 38 Smith and Wesson No, that's the kind of gun you describe mr. Bomech. Yeah, I know but that isn't him How about orchid and they won't ever call you orchid punch him if they did Okay, number two saw green grand theft bottle Where do you live saw I live at 318 North Columbine apartment in how long have you lived there for all this Well, it's a pretty nice place all didn't you like it? I liked it a lot better in that cell block. I've been in for seven years When were you released? yesterday afternoon That's tough saw but you know how the state feels about out of it. Yeah, I know Okay, number three Kenneth Pritchard arm robbery What do you look Kenneth? Well, it's 63 Curtis three how long you've been in this no that isn't him either. That's November Where you arrested with anybody can't know What are your friends calling what? What do people call you? Kenny Anything else you mean do they call me orchid?  Didn't you say these Yeah Why is it the other man who has robbed isn't here tonight? He was killed mr.. My money Ben Just going upstairs. I had to be in court pretty soon.  Well for me stood and do us any good last night.  Oh Well, one of them is called Auckland They've robbed two loan offices and killed one man. We've got to stop them at $1280 bucks in four a day Hey, you want one no, thanks. Whoo-hoo boy, if I weren't a married man Hi, Mary, I made it married. Yeah This is a list of every small loan office in the city these two birds seem to like that kind of pickens best so Let's lay it out and have the cars keep an eye on them. Okay, anything else nothing till I finished at court That's time for coffee. I know thanks. I want to go down the hall for a minute. Okay. What time? Oh No district 47. All right, I'll pick you up there fine man. Hey, that new suit. Yeah, you like it. Yes, you're good Look, I'll see you Ben. Hey, Mary I That's new Ben. Hi, 10. I wonder if you hold it then hold it. All right, just fill this out right here last name first Oh It's pencil. All right, you better use this pen. I'm sorry. What was it then turn up anything in the monocle files for me? That was orchid wasn't it? Yeah, hold on Frank worked on it last night. I'm sure It was Guthrie in it. Yeah, oh Auto theft at Nixon isn't it a bill Nixon? Well, it's lieutenant now Thanks, when'd you get out Bill? Two weeks ago just came in to register like the losses all of us felons gonna do Getting along all right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing okay. Got a job Oh, I'm looking around three years away and the guy's got to look around a little bit You know I can kind of get used to things again. Yeah, but four possibilities been here They are Frank pulled a 510 and all of them for you. That's good. I take them upstairs later Look, I'd like a make-and-what on these ten guys here a loan office jobs Yeah, just like to check and see what they're up to these days this afternoon. Okay. Yeah, that's fine I have to be in judge bar's court right away. Okay, then I'll get someone right on. Thanks How's grip these days? Oh, he's good Say hello for me when you're saying for sure. I'll do that. Well Keep your nose clean, Bill. I'm sure you and Grebb taught me how to do that Lieutenant What directs that fact to be entered in the records of the court and declares bail here by forfeit it? Mr. Hall's your honor if mr. Brucery appears at any time within 90 days in this court and can Satisfactorily excuse his neglect to appear today. The court may vacate the order of forfeiture. I understand However the payment of any expense which may have been necessitated by reason of the failure of the accused to appear Will be liable with him if such forfeiture is not vacated within within this 90-day period Summary judgment for the amount of the bond is entered against the sureties and enforced in the same manner as a civil judgment Ben your honor my plan presented in his tree and in bruxury jambquail Haven't called yet. Just a moment with the lieutenant. Yes, your honor I don't see any reason for you to remain here. Do you mr. Hall? No, your honor Sorry to have tied you up this long. You can go. Thank you, your honor Hot shot came through five minutes ago a loan company in Bellwood got picked off same pair sounds like him There was some shooting again. Oh the office manager killed one of them Quines already here. Yeah Over here Happened about 1245 guy who owns the company was out getting a haircut and the office manager was in the place alone Rest out to lunch. Hey officer officer get these people back off the sidewalk and about their business The whole streets clogging up. Hello, lieutenant. Oh, hello, doc. Hi doc. Matt. How are you? Smoke yeah, thanks It's pretty good shot Shattered his spine lodging his heart office manager learned to shoot in the army anything on him bill full says John McCall to 18 West 7th this city Craig and Murphy went over. Mm-hmm Well, okay He's all yours doc. Thanks, Brad. All right, Sam. Come on. This is mr. Dodge the office manager Lieutenant Guthrie Sergeant Greb. Hello. I love us to dodge I never shot a man not even the war some water around here. I'll get it Is this the gun? Yes, I have a permit for you Summers I do yes Where'd you get it mr. Don? Is somebody calling my wife? Well, I picked the gun up in Italy when I was there. Yeah, I have a couch or something in here You want to lie down? Yeah, I think they get his other arm. Yeah, sure I Never shot anyone I suppose I should have called you people right away Well, how is that mr. Don? Both out in front before mr. Rutherford went out Something just told me there was stick up man. That's why I looked around the office For the gun here you are mr. Dodge Thank you, sir Thank you Then you got a good look at the other man well not too good a look really he made me turn facing the wall as soon as he came in He was a dark medium-sized father wore dark suit. I I did what they told me while they went through the safe But as soon as I heard them leave I got my gun and I ran out on the street. They fire back at you Yeah, well one of them did but I hit the one and He screamed and he ran a while and then he fell It's terrible. The other one didn't even look back. He just kept running down the alley. I saw him jump in a car, but I Didn't get the license told me was a dark sit-in Chevy. You're too old. I put it on the wire five cars are working the area It was pretty awful Man screaming like that even if he was a thief. I just yeah Well, you're relaxed mr. Dodge Somebody call my wife. She's on the way find a gun on McCall. Yeah 32 And the guy with a 38 still running around loose.  I haven't eaten since breakfast. Yeah, me too. It has been the whole works on the call. Oh good Ring the bell if you want. Okay Yeah, Matt, you take some yeah careful. I got Never used an alias. Oh, yeah, yeah one Johnston would call Well, that's original three arrests reconviction. He wasn't very good. Hey watch out for your cigar. Oh Not much here Just released six months ago. Yeah, give me some of those. Yeah Now which today? It have been 42 years old tomorrow Say, you know any of these offhand that Frank Kerr James Kerr Frank Mapelli No, not up and we're convicted with McCall last time. I'm set up Might be working together again Kennedy and Blake made out the last arrest sheet on McCall 1949 those guys why they never finish out a report Maybe we should get in touch with them. They'd rather talk than write I think Kennedy's at the business office now. I'm not sure. Hey, Ben Then they called them orchid. Huh? 1942 arrests nickname orchid McCall I wonder why that didn't get in the moniker file. I don't know Well, I guess this is about all we can do here. Oh, hi coin Gargant Murphy followed through on that address and McCall's wallet was a rooming house anything wife When they phoned it from the place I told him to bring her on down. Nobody's asked her anything yet She doesn't know what happened at the loan office. She's downstairs in 107 juvenile department. Yeah, she's only 15 years old Well, that's right This is sergeant Graham. Well, they said you wanted to talk to me. Yeah, what do you want to talk to me about? About your husband, Mrs. McCall Would you be more comfortable if you sat down? Am I arrested? No, no, I just want to ask you some questions here. Here try this I want a cigarette. Can I have one? cigarette oh Yeah, sure. Yeah If if you have him here, I have a right to see him and talk to him. I'm his wife How long have you been his wife? How must a month and you can't make me testify against him You only give testimony in a courtroom. We just want information. Well, I won't give you that either I want to see him.  Where were you married? Here in town at a justice of the peace. Oh, we had a nice wedding. Did your mother and father consent to it? No You're supposed to be 18 in this state to get a license July about your age. Yes, but do they put you in jail for being in love golly? Where's your home? 401 Firestone Street, St. Louis. What was your maiden name? Judy Hodges parents names Mr. Mrs. Albert Hodges. Well, let me see John. How did you meet John McCall at a dance at a dance here in town someplace at a dance hall How long ago? two months ago Meet many of his friends some well There was a man he called Sam and another one he called Bill Sam and Bill who Sam Granger and I don't know Bill's last name What golly? I don't know him at all What does Sam Granger look like Mrs. McCall just a man sort of tall and thin and what about Bill? I only met him once He came by one day last week with his girlfriend Well, was he tall short thin what? Well, I don't know It's just average about your height Did Bill drive a car? No, Sam. No, but Bill's girl did she had a car Last week when it was raining Bill came by and then they drove Johnny and I down town to a movie in it What kind of a car? I I think it was a Chevrolet black sedan black or dark blue. I don't know Thank you, Mrs. McCall. Are you sure you never heard Bill's last name? It was just Bill we got in the car and Johnny said this is Bill and Lena No last name on her either. No, where does bill live? Oh, how would I know? I just saw him at once when Johnny and I went to the movie. What does Lena look like? Oh, I didn't like her. She was almost 35. I think sort of dumpy and funny looking But Bill's a pretty nice looking guy. I thought he could do better than her Not very friendly, huh? No was Bill.  Of course. He told me he told me everything about himself What did he tell you? He said he'd been in prison for a while because of trouble with his draft He was in prison for stealing an audible bill You're lying to me. Well, we have it on our records here, Mrs. McCall We have no reason to lie to you Tell me Has Johnny been working any place since you've been married? No Well, how have you been living? He had some saved up from his job. Oh, he had been working. Yes, you know where No, he's a business representative. It represents people Do you know any of the people he represents? No Well, did he have an office here in town? He told me he closed it. You know where it was located? No Then he really hasn't worked since you've been married. I know look look. We're on our honeymoon We're going to Detroit next week Johnny doesn't like living here anymore. He's gonna open up an office there with Bill Yes, he said he and Bill were in business.  Yes I'm afraid your husband's been lying to you, Mrs. McCall. He's never been engaged in any legitimate business here in town You're the one who's lying John McCall has a police record as a hold-up man Been arrested several times in the last 20 years We think he's been working with another man recently holding up loan offices around town No, three days ago Johnny and his partner killed a man in a loan office We know it was him He wouldn't do anything like that. Let's think about it, Mrs. McCall the record Ways conducted himself his friends and the information about him. We've just given you He's lied to you from the very first look. I want to see him. I want to talk to him and tell him I don't believe anything you've told me Judy. I won't talk to you anymore. Not until I've seen him he's Johnny was trying to hold up a loan office today He was shot to death Matt, yeah Hold on to me kid. Come on. Take it easy. Hold on kid. Hold on Quiet yeah, Ben Why are her parents yet? Yeah, they called back long distance and I talked to him told me she ran away about six weeks ago They're flying here tonight Sounded like nice people Let's hope they are nice people. Oh, I guess I fell off. I guess you did No sense of you sticking around any longer. Let's go on home. Oh Molly's night out with her folks You want to go to a movie? Oh, gee, I'm sorry. No, no, no, no keep it. I'll use this one You have this too, yeah, that's what I had Benny sure does something to it. He sure does anything for mortal theft. Oh Yeah, they I got out a supplementary on that Chevy sedan sent this up 72 49s 3250s 2451s all reported stolen in the last month It may not be a stolen car after all man. R and I got those addresses on Frank and James Kerr and the Pelle Crockets are looking for him now and they didn't have anything on Sam Granger still looking. You're why the penitentiary Yeah, won't hear anything from them until morning. Go ahead. You're the closest charging grip It sure is hold on Guthrie, I Can't hear you Yeah, yeah, that's bad. Yeah, all right. I'll let you know Grantland University Division. I picked up a drunken woman named Lena Roberts It was all upset because a friend of hers named Bill Chambers borrowed a car and didn't bring it back He's at the West over hotel 128 there it is. I take it in here, man. Nobody And try the bell some place Try it again Bill Chambers live here chambers He's eating my supper and seen Said this came on after being off more than a month chambers now cheese in there 228 is key in what police? Oh No, he's out. Okay. Is he in trouble? I'll tell you about it later Somebody had cabbage. I thought you couldn't cook in these hotels. You don't have to cook it to smell it Delicate testing across the street must be at the end of the hall. Yeah Come on chambers Open up. It's a police. He's out the window. Come on. Let's break it down Watch it Matt. He's used that 38 before now. Look you keep busy here. I'll take the fire escape at the end of the hall All right, go on now all of you go back to your rooms.  Yeah, he's done Ben Yeah Say This is Ed Nixon We pulled him in no man. It's Bill Nixon, huh? 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When you have iodine deficiency and it's untreated for a long time, your neck can swell up and this problem is called goiter. But why? What has iodine got anything to do with your neck? Well, let's find out. We've already seen how your thyroid gland produces the two hormones T3 and T4. And if you look at their names, you can see that it's made up of three atoms of iodine triiodo and this is made up of four atoms of iodine. And so what happens if there's iodine deficiency in your body? Well, there will be deficiency of T3 and T4, there will be less of these hormones created. And because of that, the thyroid gland actually swells up and that's why your neck swells up giving you goiter. But why? Why does the thyroid gland swell up when it can't produce T3 and T4? Well, let's dig a little deeper. So imagine your body has iodine deficiency. What happens? Well, there is low levels of T3 and T4 and this is detected. The hypothalamus, which tells the pituitary gland, the master gland to do something about it. So the pituitary does something about the low hormone levels. It basically orders, orders, orders your thyroid gland to produce more of these. Now you may be wondering, well, how does it order? How does it communicate? We'll talk about that in a second. But at this point, it would have been nice if the thyroid could talk back and say, yes, I would love to, but there is no iodine in the body, there's nothing I can do about it. Unfortunately, no such communication exists. Therefore, what ends up happening is that it tells the thyroid to do this, the thyroid tries, but it doesn't, it can't manufacture T3 and T4 because there is not much iodine. And so then the pituitary detects that, hey, there's still low levels and continuously keeps ordering. It keeps on ordering the thyroid gland to keep on manufacturing T3 and T4. And because of this continuous ordering, the thyroid gland swells up. And this is where most of the explanation stops. But if you're like me, then this is not satisfactory, right? I mean, why is it that if you continuously ask or order the gland to keep on manufacturing T3 and T4, that it ends up swelling up? Like, what's exactly happening? For that, I dug a little deeper. I looked at the structure, exactly where these things are manufactured. What is the process? After going through all of that, I think, I think finally it all makes sense to me and I'm super, super excited to tell you what's happening. All right, so you ready? Okay. So bear with me. Let's quickly dig into the structure of the thyroid gland. So if you could look inside the thyroid gland, you will see stuff like this. There are a lot of things, but important parts for us are these circular looking things. These are given names. These are called the follicles. This is where the T3 and T4 is manufactured. But what exactly are they? Is that a cell? Like, are these cells? No, they're not. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the boundaries over here. There are dots. Those are the cells. And let me just zoom in to one of it. So I've zoomed in over here and you can see that the tiny dots are basically the dots over here. These are the cells of the follicles that are manufacturing T3 and T4. These are called follicular cells. Names are not important, but this is where the T3 and T4 are being manufactured. And then what about this stuff over here? Well, guess what? That contains all the raw material needed, raw material needed to manufacture T3 and T4. All right, now let's go back to our story. So T3 and T4 levels are down. The pituitary gland detects it. And remember we said we'll come back to this? Well, what it does really is that it secretes a hormone. This hormone is called the TSH. And you guess what it means? Well, it stands for thyroid stimulating hormone. I love such names because I know that this hormone is going to stimulate the thyroid gland. So it secretes the hormone into the bloodstream because in endocrine gland, it secretes into the bloodstream. And then this TSH, eventually, you know where it goes? It goes into the thyroid gland, but it actually goes and binds to the follicular cells. And when the TSH goes and binds to the follicular cells, the cells get activated to do two things. The first thing it does, and let's talk about a normal body first. The first thing it does is that it takes in the raw material that is needed to build this hormone and then it takes in the iodine from the blood and they react together to produce the required T3 and T4 hormones, which goes out of the follicle into the bloodstream. This is the first thing that it does. But there's another thing that TSH forces it to make. You know what? Well, the second thing is it has to replenish the raw material because if it didn't, then we will run out of the required raw material very quickly. So the second thing it does, it asks it to manufacture the raw material, the necessary raw material and push it back into that particular space. And so the raw material is replenished, everything is back to normal, the T3 and T4 are created, your body is working. But now imagine what happens when the iodine levels are low. Can you pause the video and try to connect all the dots and see what happens if you can now make sense of why the whole thing swells up? It has something to do with the second step. Okay, when there is no iodine, the first step doesn't happen because there is no iodine. There will be no chemical reactions taking place over here, no biochemical reactions taking place. So the raw material is not taken in, so it's not depleted. Yet the second step happens, the cells start manufacturing the raw material, anticipating that the first step would be happening, right? And because they're manufacturing and pushing into this, the follicles start swelling up. Does that make sense? It would have been nice if somehow, somehow this could have communicated the pituitary that, hey, you know what, there's a problem. Don't put, stop sending TSH because this is happening. But guess what? There is no way to send that communication. What ends up happening is that the pituitary continuously keeps sending TSH. As a result, the first step doesn't happen because there is no iodine, but the second step keeps on happening. The raw material that's inside that keeps on increasing, the pressure increases. As a result, the whole thing swells up. And as a result, eventually, if it's untreated, then depending upon how severe it is within a few weeks or within a few months, the whole thing swells up. And that's how you get quieter. So long story short, iodine is super-duper important in order to create these two thyroid hormones. So if you have low iodine, these hormones will not be created and you will have a lot of problems to begin with. But if your iodine deficiency problem is not solved, then when the TSH keeps stimulating the follicle cells, they keep on manufacturing more and more raw material, anticipating that iodine will come up, come in and, you know, react with it, but it doesn't. And as a result of that, the whole thing ends up swelling, causing goiter. This is the reason why we have iodized salts. That's why iodized salts is such a huge deal.


A lot of podcasters and people who use microphones in general love the microphones from Blue. They've been around forever with great quality microphones and they have the new Blue Ember they're very excited about and I'm here with Hillary Money who's going to tell us about it. Yeah so we're really excited at CES to launch Ember which is a XLR microphone for recording podcasts, maybe online YouTubes, blogs, even music. It's an XLR microphone so you're moving up into that more professional setup for $99.99 XLR microphone, holy cow. Now I'm looking at this and it is pencil thin is what I would call it, much thinner than a normal big girl mic as I would call it. Looks like it's made built about an inch and a half in diameter, little tiny thing. Let's turn it so the pretty logo goes to the front for Steve. So what do we need to know about this? So it is a condenser microphone so people who maybe aren't familiar that's a warmer richer studio sound versus a dynamic. It is a cardioid mic so it's directional to the front. It has really good off access rejection so you're going to reduce the room noise or background noise because it's a more precise pattern. Really other than that it's just plug and play with your audio interface. Great for multi mic setups so if you have a mixer, multi channel mixer, you can have Ember dedicated to a multi person podcast. At that price you could buy a whole bunch of them right by six for all your friends. So is this on the market yet? It is available for pre-order now, it will be available in retail in February. That's fantastic so if people want to find out about the Blue Ember mic where would they go? They go to BlueDesigns.com. Very good, thank you. Thank you.


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Within the Marxian tradition, not only is there the essentialism of rationalism and empiricism that Marx and others struggled against, but that's present within that tradition as well. But there's also this essentialist theory of society in which economics is deemed the most important cause. Marx and especially Engels had the following idea. They thought society could be decomposed into the following kind of metaphor. At the base of society, so let me draw this, at the base of society was economics. And the rest of society was built upon this base. So here was economics, the foundation of society, the ground for society, and up here was everything else which they called the superstructure, politics and culture. So politics and culture rest upon are caused by economics. You can see where this is going to go. In economics, there were two parts of the economy which were the ultimate cause of all of economics and the ultimate cause hence of the superstructure. In here, I'll put it down here, in the base there were two. One was relations of production and the other forces of production. Two aspects of the base determined the rest of the economy, the circulation, the markets and so forth, which in turn then determined everything else. You can see these are no minor causes. Relations of production had to do with who owns what. So the distribution of ownership over the means of production, the tools, the factories was the relations of production. The forces had to do with how we produced, the technology of society. So Marx and especially Engels argued that the interaction between the relations and the forces of production determines the economy, which in determines everything else. And this is called in the literature, economic determinism. Notice the adjective. There is an ultimate causation in society, which is that of economics. In everything else, the music that we play, the literature that we see, the advertising, the production and circulation of goods, is ultimately grounded in the relations and forces of production. That was so important that they put a label on this and it was called the mode of production. So the idea was that the mode of production is the ultimate cause. It's the essence of society. So if you understand how the mode operates, the relations and forces, you understand everything. That's a powerful theory. That's really modernism. You have now the two essential aspects in the tools with which and by which to figure out what is really going on. That's their modernist theory. Notice, however, that violates the dialectic, this notion of over-determination. Because we've found the ultimate causes. We've found the two essences, relations and forces. So even when Engels and Marx went to work in presenting this, it wasn't too long after they did this, if I remember correctly, Marx had just died. So someone writes Engels and says, they missed the Engels. As students of history, referring to Engels and Marx, I'm paraphrasing because I don't exactly remember it, but as students of history, you understand that the politics and culture of society shaped the mode of production. Causation goes that way, too. I mean, it would be silly to think that the mode of production, our relations and forces, are independent of the way we think, our laws and rules and so forth. And Engels writes back and says, you're right. I understand that what I think is this ultimate cause is itself caused ED. And he had to say that because Engels was a student of the dialectic. But then Engels answered that letter by saying, I understand this, but I think how this causation works is determined in the last instance by economics. And that's been called ever since determination in the last instance by economics. But this is a trick that Engels played because he defends, he accepts the critique that the mode of production is an effect of the superstructure. So he accepts that. But then he attacks it by saying that the way the superstructure causes the mode of production is itself caused by the mode of production. So to make a long story short, he's still affirming a kind of essentialism. And that problem, that economic determinism, has been a problem within the Marxian tradition ever since Marx and Engels presented it. So for the last 130 years, people have been struggling over this, and that's in your reading. And it has very, very important implications across the 20th century in these socialist experiments that were adopted starting with the Soviet Union, many of which, if not all of which, adopted this kind of economic determinism. The last part of this lecture, what I want to talk about, which I said would, is this few pages in which Marx presents his method that's in the assigned reading. So I want to talk about, because it's a good summary of how what we have done here before bears upon this. In this reading, Marx presents two kinds of concrets, the thought-concrete and the concrete-real. The wording is difficult here. The thought-concrete is a result of theorizing. So you think of people thinking, and they produce a theory of society. He calls that the thought-concrete. The concrete-real refers to reality, or the word that was used in his day, materiality. Marx theorizes the concrete-real as a totality, as a site of determinations emanating from political, economic, and cultural, and natural processes. Hence, he produces a particular thought-concrete of the concrete-real, which is, I'm going to use not his language, our language, which is an over-determined totality, which exists in contradiction. I'm using what we just talked about. That's the way Marx produces his thought-concrete of reality. So once again, reality is the site of these different determinations, which are pushing a bullet in different directions. Hence, it exists in change. One response to these contradictions, that's one response to the diverse determinations, which emanate from society for materiality on us, is our thinking. So the concrete-real feeds back and affects how we think. I mean, what do we have now? I mean, we put it together. We produce thought-concretes as human beings about how society and nature exists, how it impacts us, and so forth. So our thinking, our thought-concretes, which are a result of our thinking, help to create the concrete-real in two ways. Our thinking is part or our thought-concretes are part of the concrete-real. So to think and to change the way we think shapes the concrete-real because we are changing one aspect in the concrete-real, which is our thoughts, our theories. But it also changes everything else in the concrete-real because everything else is a complex effect of how we think. So to think and to change our thinking impacts society, or this concrete-real, in these two ways. It changes something out there. And it changes everything else out there because everything else interacts with our thinking. And hence, it creates impacts upon us. So we're left with the following idea. The ceaseless dialectic of life, what's this called? To change a thought-concrete, which don't forget what that is now, to change a particular theorization of the world, is to change the world in these two ways. And that change in the world feeds back to change our thinking. And you have this ceaseless dialectic of life in which thought-concrete and concrete-real shape one another. Neither one is independent of the other. Hence, neither one can serve as the essence of the other. And that's another attack on rationalism and empiricism. And that's the end of today's presentation.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2018 Ram 3500 Crew Cab Longbox Dually Laramie is stock number 12486Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck and ram headquarters. This 2018 Ram 3500 Laramie has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel. It's paired up with the heavy duty Icing Transmission, puts out 385 horsepower and 850 foot-pounds of torque. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop for the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go where to go inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood in this video. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Auto in the upper right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. Click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the polished aluminum rims and they are in excellent shape. And it has Nexon Rodian AT tires, these are LT 235 ADR 17s, they have just about all the tread left, I'd say at least 80 to 90%. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. Front fender is in excellent condition, I didn't see any dents or dings on that, it does have projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights, and factory fog lights. Front bumper is in great condition, it does have the front bumper parking sensors, the chrome trimmed grille, the hood is in very nice shape, and it comes with the cab lights up top. Passenger side front fender looks really good as well, and the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on that looks really good. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like the paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away, or even if you're close buying, just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Comes with the rock guards on the bottom of the dually tubs here. This back rim is in excellent condition as well, and the back tires have just as much tread as those front tires. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck as all the remaining factory exhaust. It looks really good under here. The only thing I will mention is there is just a little bit of a ding on the dually tub. It's almost not noticeable, but didn't want to point that out. Coming around to the back, the rear bumper is in great shape. No denser dings than that. Has the back of parking sensors full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent condition, and it comes with a soft tonneau cover. Believe that's probably a fold up tonneau cover. Comes with the spring and bed liner, the LED bed lighting, fifth wheel and goose neck prep package, as well as the seven pin wiring back here. And that spring and bed liner is in excellent shape. I like that they put the buttons back here so you can turn those lights off and on from the back of the truck. Used to always have to turn the cab lights on, or the cargo lights I should say, inside the cab. Coming down the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side. This box side is just about perfect, and this back room is in a very nice condition as well. Down the rest of this side of the truck, doors look really good. As the heated fold up tow mirrors, they have built in directional signals, they also fold in like so. Inside the Laramie package gives you the tan leather interior. Both of these seats are heated, both of these seats are cooled. You get the Laramie embossed backrest, no rips or tears on there, and it does have a memory driver seat. Lumbar, factory all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. These mirrors do power fold in. You can see that both sides are working nicely. The other thing I wanted to point out, it's got a window etched security on it, so each one of the windows in this vehicle, pieces of glass, has that number on it, so it's less attractive for a thief to steal. Get the Laramie animation at the beginning on the 7-inch LCD display, and you can see that this truck has 9,507 miles. You do get a digital speedometer compass and outside temperature display as well. You can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you want, and the instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Six-speed automatic ICEN transmission has the optional tap shift on there. This one has the 8.44C radio, AM, FM, and SiriusXM radio capabilities on here. It also has the factory navigation system. There's your Sirius trying to acquire signal.  Then you have your heated seats, cooled seats, and heated steering wheel buttons. You can also check out your backup cam or your cargo cam pretty much whenever you want. You have all your different apps on here, and I will note that it does have projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay and project your cell phone to the screen so you have a different navigation system or just want to play music or media on there. You can do that. We actually did demo on Android Auto if you want to check that out. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen. This one has the Alpine Premium Sound System. Turned out four-wheel drive, tactile climate controls, factory brake controller, heated cooled seat buttons, and heated steering wheel buttons down there. Stability control, tow haul, and factory exhaust brake. Front and rear parking sensors, 115-volt, 150-watt plug-in. Fastener side format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on that. This truck smells very clean inside. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And the headliner is absolutely perfect. Map lights up there, power side and rear window button, and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. You also get assist and SOS buttons in that rear view mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips, no tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Four sliding rear window, excellent condition back here. These seats fold up. You get a load floor, which is nice if you've got money boots or tools, put them on there. You're not going to get your seats or floor mats dirty. Or if you've got pads, excuse me, put both sides down and then they have a nice flat place to lay. And then you get the heated seat buttons back here. They're heated on the outboard sides and you get storage under there. And in-floor storage on each side with removable containers for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll start it up and then take a quick look under the hood. That's right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. 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