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TTC - Discovering West Africa: Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon
Released 2/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 10 Lessons (4h 8m) | Size: 3.43 GB


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Explore West Africa with adventurer "World Wide Nate."

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In Discovering West Africa: Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, take a 10-episode tour across three West African countries with Nathan Fluellen, known as World Wide Nate, as your expert guide. Moving through the nations of Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon, you will join Nate and a mix of local artists, chefs, musicians, entrepreneurs, sportsmen, and other locals to see and experience what the region has to offer.

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TTC - Cooking Better with Science
Released 11/2022
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (5h 58m) | Size: 4.64 GB


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Cooking: Is it art or is it science? As the great culinary chefs worldwide tell their students, it is both.

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We all know people who seem to have been born with unique culinary talent they never use recipes and rarely employ measuring spoons but seem instead to have a preternatural understanding of flavor, texture, and aroma. These artists turn a bare pantry and a few leftovers into a meal beyond imagining; and although you were standing there the entire time, you still are not entirely sure how they did it.

Now, you can also master the skills of great chefs. With science and practice, you can become a culinary magician, astonishing your friends and family with your newfound knowledge and skill, creating dishes that nourish the body and feed the soul.

Enter the secret world of great culinarians with two experts, Sean Kahlenberg, Assistant Professor of Culinary Arts at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York, and Ted Russin, Acting Dean of the CIA s college of Culinary Science and Nutrition. In Cooking Better with Science, their joint expertise will guide you through the world of leveraging science to cook with greater finesse.

The Science of Pizza

Start by following your expert chef into the kitchen to make what seems like a very simple and ordinary dish: pizza. Deceptively simple in practice, making pizza involves complicated and fascinating science. Garnished with the colors of the Italian flag, the pizza Napoletana is the most quintessential of pizzas. According to legend, it was created for Queen Margherita of Savoy during her visit to Naples in 1889, and little has changed about this perfect pizza since. Topped only with simple tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil leaves, it has captured hearts and imaginations across Italy and around the world for generations.

With Chef Kahlenberg s savvy instruction, you will see how easy it is to turn fresh milk into curds that are heated and stretched to make mild, smooth, fresh mozzarella. Combined with basil and a simple, homemade pizza sauce, you have the perfect pizza toppings. Learn how Chef Kahlenberg makes pizza dough and explore the different ways you might make your own. Through step-by-step instructions, you ll see that it s easier and less time-consuming than you might think, and so, so delicious.

After making your pizza with Chef Kahlenberg, turn to the CIA s culinary laboratory where Dean Russin works his own magic. With a brief background lesson on proteins and covalent bonds, Dean Russin takes us through the paces in his lab to explore the science of stretch. Using a texture analyzer, discover how a culinary scientist performs an extensibility test, then learn a low-tech version that you can do right in your kitchen at home. You can choose just the right combination to create your ideal pizza dough through careful analysis of flour, sheer force, time, and consequent extensibility.

Most pizza dough requires the help of gluten and yeast to rise to chewy perfection, and we ll return to the lab to consider these critical components of pizza dough. While the gluten in dough determines the physical properties that allow dough to stretch as we mix, it is yeast that provides leavening and flavor. This single-celled fungus, usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer s yeast, acts through time and fermentation for bold flavor profiles and thick, chewy crusts. You ll learn the correlation between time and flavor to see why some restaurants keep their pizza dough in a cooler for up to five days before baking.

With the science of both gluten and yeast in mind, you can begin to experiment with your own dough, creating pizzas with bold flavors, textures, and aromas. As a bonus, your expanding understanding of gluten and yeast will inform your other baking, including a wide range of bread, from whole-wheat loaves to perfect naan.

A Perfect Chicken Dinner

What can I make tonight? Is there something easy, delicious, and savory that my family will love, but that is still great for guests and special events? Yes! Roasted chicken always rises to the occasion. Elegant enough for company, but inexpensive enough for every day, the humble chicken seems to do it all if you know how it s done. Chef Kahlenberg takes you to the kitchen to share the secrets of restaurant chicken. Learn to prepare your bird, from tying and seasoning to carving and serving. Discover what restaurants do to ensure that chicken is moist and evenly roasted; what sides pair well with chicken; and how to prepare those sides from scratch, including carrot pur e, broccoli, pan gravy, and sherry gastrique.

Once you understand how to create an unparalleled chicken dinner, turn your attention to the science that underlies the magic. How do we transform cold, raw chicken into a culinary delight of golden-brown skin and warm, juicy meat, bursting with flavor and aroma? Heat, enzymes, proteins, coenzymes, glycogen, anaerobic respiration, and resulting acid learn the metabolic processes from the muscle contraction of freshly butchered meat to its final transformation into perfectly cooked food on the table.

Learn all about the Maillard reaction, an essential reaction between proteins and sugars responsible for flavorful browning. Soon, you ll identify it everywhere: on the crust of bread fresh from your oven; on the surface of seared meat; and that crispy, browned chicken skin on your dinner table. Follow along as Dean Russin describes how Maillard browning works together with the proteins in flour to develop a flavor roux for your pan gravy, an insight into one of the most fundamental reactions in cooking.

Paella Mixta

Originally cooked and served in a wide, shallow pan called a paella, this essential dish of Spain traces its roots to the Spanish city of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast. The mixta, or mixed paella, combines short-grain rice, meat, seafood, sausage, and vegetables and is colored by vibrant yellow saffron. This is Spanish comfort food at its best. Let Chef Kahlenberg show you the essentials of paella: a base of slow-cooked vegetable sofrito, short-grain rice cooked into a pie in flavorful broth, seared meat, and vegetables lightly cooked to retain their color and texture. You will even learn the best way to cut an artichoke! Season your paella with a little salt and pepper, and garnish with chopped parsley. Call your family to the table and serve dinner straight from the pan, with a slice of lemon. Let this home-cooked fare bring you together, a fast favorite in every family.

When you have finished your meal and cleaned up (just one pan!), return to the lab to learn more about starch and vegetables, two critical components of paella. First, Dean Russin explores rice, the ideal vehicle for the carbohydrates that densely organize within each grain. Consider various rice types different processing and cooking methods and study each variety s sensory and nutritional attributes. Finally, explore heat and time in relation to vegetable moisture and consequent texture. You will learn how vegetables store water, how heat levels affect that storage, and the texture and flavor outcomes from different cooking techniques. Reflect on this new-found knowledge to better understand the method and ingredients in your paella mixta.

Eggs Three Ways

Not all eggs are created equal, nor are all egg dishes. The three recipes presented merge styles from around the world, but also challenge your knowledge about egg cooking as well as your understanding of chemistry and cookery! Eggs are simple, but their presence in cooking is pervasive and vital. Join Chef Kahlenberg in the kitchen to learn how to prepare a divine and rustic tortilla espa ola, a light and savory Gruy re and Parmesan cheese souffl , and a world-class salmon benedict with creamy b arnaise sauce. Whether served for brunch, dinner, or anything in between, all three recipes are sure to please the most discerning palates. If you once considered yourself more an aficionado of food rather than an artist of cuisine, these three dishes represent a graduation into the culinary majors.

Most store-bought eggs appear uniform in size and shape. This appearance is deceptive. Different eggs, often of different ages, possess a pH ranging from seven for the newly laid to nine or even nine and a half in eggs that are a few weeks old. Return to the lab to witness experiments that will expand your understanding of egg texture and viscosity and how they are affected both by the pH of the egg and the presence of potatoes and oil in our tortilla espa ola.

Texturally, a b arnaise sauce and a souffl could not be more different. Incredibly, they are both made of eggs. In our final episode, learn that the integration of either lipids, in the case of the b arnaise, or air, for the souffl , determines their structure. Keep your souffl from collapsing and your b arnaise sauce from breaking by getting a deeper understanding of the nature of eggs.

Bring Your Expertise Home

Whether this is your first cooking course or your one hundred and first, you will be charmed and inspired by the deft instruction of our culinary experts. These lessons provide new and intriguing opportunities for cooks to grow across the spectrum of skill and interest. Join Chef Kahlenberg and Dean Russin as they introduce you to delicious recipes and the science that makes the recipes possible.

What Will You Learn?
See first-hand, the secrets and science that make the perfect pizza, roasted chicken, paella, or egg dish

Discover what makes great food great

Experiment with common kitchen ingredients to understand the genius of a well-made meal

Make better decisions in the kitchen by understanding food science

Learn the science behind your favorite foods and discover how to get restaurant-quality results

Cultivate the art of cooking and the practice of science with two charming experts from The Culinary Institute of America

Learn six recipes that will have your friends and family asking for seconds every time

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TTC - Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome
Released 3/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 15 Lessons (8h 35m) | Size: 7.24 GB


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While ancient history is full of larger-than-life figures, the famed Carthaginian military commander we know as Hannibal has taken on a particularly mythic quality. His story is woven together with hearsay, embellishment, and extremely limited source material...

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While ancient history is full of larger-than-life figures, the famed Carthaginian military commander we know as Hannibal has taken on a particularly mythic quality. His story is woven together with hearsay, embellishment, and extremely limited source material. Nevertheless, Hannibal defined a critical period in Roman history and ancient history, more broadly plowing across the Italian peninsula with a cadre of foot soldiers, elite cavalry, envoys, and even elephants. His army laid waste to many strategically important cities; utilized intelligence networks to deter powerful Roman allies along the route; and triumphed in key skirmishes against formidable Roman generals and the impressive armies they commanded, triggering wave after wave of public outcry and panic back in Rome.

But when we peel back the legend, what s left? What do we know and what can we accurately say about the famed Hannibal Barca? Where did he and his family come from, and why did they and their fellow Carthaginian countrymen war repeatedly with Rome? How did the Carthaginian army manage to devastate the Italian peninsula so thoroughly in the Second Punic War? And perhaps most importantly why did Hannibal and his army ultimately fail in their long and impressive fight against Rome?

Answer these questions and more in the 15 lectures of Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome, which detail the legendary Carthaginian commander s historic conquest of Rome from Italy to Iberia. Eve MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University, will be your expert guide. Together, you will travel back to antiquity and explore a time during which the future of the Roman polity was increasingly unclear, and the Barcid family commanded politics in the powerful port city of Carthage. You will survey the world that Hannibal was born into and came of age in, paying close attention to politics, culture, and society in Carthage and Rome in the age of the Punic Wars. Then, you will turn to the conquest itself, tracking Hannibal and his impressive army across the Alps and into the Roman heartland. And, finally, you will assess the aftermath: What became of the famous Hannibal, his once-powerful homeland, and Rome after the dust of combat and conquest had settled?

Hannibal s World

While the course centers on Hannibal and his remarkable incursion into Italy and Iberia, it also deals with his world a complex social and political ecosystem both like and unlike our own. You will begin with the rise of Carthage, a powerful port city-turned-empire that dominated the Mediterranean. From there, you will

Learn about the founding of Carthage by the Phoenicians and study its later ascent;
Get to know the prominent local figures that came before Hannibal, such as his father, Hamilcar Barca, a skillful military tactician and fighter in his own right;
Understand the factors that led to Carthage s initial collision and conflict with Rome;
Reconstruct the first of three Punic Wars, a military conflict that would shape the young Hannibal s life; and
See how Carthage contended with Hannibal s many victories on the Italian Peninsula alongside grave and sustained losses in Iberia and North Africa.
You will also head west to explore Rome before Caesar and Augustus, zeroing in on the state of its military and its politics in the age of Hannibal. As you study the First and Second Punic Wars from the Roman point of view, you will dive into how ordinary and elite folk alike reacted to one particularly skilled Carthaginian s threats to Rome s control of the Italian Peninsula. You will venture on an exploration of wartime culture and way of life in the Roman capital and be introduced to the cast of characters involved in Rome s war against Carthage, including commander Flaminius and the influential Scipiones family.

That s not all, though. In tracking Hannibal s movements across Italy and Carthage s incursion into Iberia, you will also get to explore the city-states that dotted the ancient world from Capua to Syracuse. This tour will help you paint a picture of each polity s culture, politics, military, and way of life. As you investigate the fragile allegiances that connected each to Rome or to Carthage, you will also see how partnerships broke down and how war between two great Mediterranean powers remade life wherever it reached. Ultimately, you will emerge with a much fuller and more detailed picture of what Hannibal s world was truly like.

The Man, the Myth, the March

You will spend the most time, however, getting to know Hannibal himself how he grew up, what he is most famous for, and what became of him and his homeland after the conclusion of one of the most impressive and important military conquests in history. In Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome, you will dive into many facets and events of Hannibal s life, including

Childhood. Hannibal grew up in a city at war with Rome, and, as a teenager, he even accompanied his father and brothers on military expeditions westward. See how Hannibal s childhood and upbringing primed him for a life of not only military service, but also long-term conflict with Rome.
Family. Hannibal s father and brothers were important military strategists and commanders in their own right. Get to know the Barcid family and their important contributions to the First and Second Punic Wars.
Politics. Legend says that Hannibal s hatred of Rome often blinded and ultimately betrayed him in the Second Punic War. Determine how true that was and examine how Hannibal navigated fragile political partnerships with former Roman allies, tense political situations within Carthage, and peace negotiations with an increasingly desperate but very stubborn Rome.
Military Leadership. Hannibal s army a diverse cadre of foot soldiers, cavalry men, and even elephants that triumphed against so many odds is legendary. Explore what it was like to be a foot soldier in Hannibal s army and see how the group weathered the challenges that faced them.
March across the Alps. Hannibal s march defined his military career. Track the young Carthaginian general as he moved across treacherous terrain to get a better sense of what the famed march looked like and what it came to represent.
Reputation. At this point, Hannibal is more myth than he is man. Evaluate what Hannibal s contemporaries thought of him in his own time and see how fact often blended with fiction to create Hannibal Barca s now-legendary reputation.
In just 15 lectures, you will understand why Hannibal was able to win great victories and control parts of the Italian peninsula for so long, yet eventually he lost the war with Rome. Along the way, you will become familiar with the ancient world and its customs, politics, notable figures, and way of life. And you will emerge with a greater, more nuanced, more informed portrait of one of the most important military figures in world history.

What Will You Learn?
Find out how Hannibal consistently defeated Roman armies in the field, even though he was usually fighting from the position of an underdog

Explore how this great leader of a lost city nearly brought the Romans to the brink of ruin

Review Hannibal's life from his early career and rise in Spain to his exile in the Near East

See how Hannibal s victory at Cannae over the Romans has long been described as the perfect battle, and one that set the tone for military tactics for many centuries afterwards

Discover how Rome s victory over Hannibal brought out the best in the Romans and began the process of creating the powerful Rome we remember today

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TTC - Field Guide to North American Wildlife
Released 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons ( 5h 36m ) | Size: 4.68 GB


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Wildlife is all around us in North America: in the air, on land, underwater. Not only are these animals astounding and fascinating to see, but they re also more important to our survival than most of us realize.

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There s a fantastic array of native mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates that populate the North American continent. Consider

Wild Native Bees, of which there are approximately 4,000 species that have existed in North America for millennia;
American Alligators, whose bite is the force equivalent of the weight of two concert grand pianos; or
Wild Salmon, who travel as far as 1,800 miles up North American streams to spawn.
And those are just three of the many remarkable species out there. Some of them you may not know as well as you think you do, and others you ve probably never heard of. All of them play an important role in our ecosystem. As human activity takes a heavy toll on the natural ecosystems we depend on, it s more important than ever to understand native species and why their survival is so imperative.

In Field Guide to North American Wildlife, join author and television host David Mizejewski, a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation, for a fascinating 12-lecture course that focuses on 12 wild animals found throughout North America. You ll meet a two-foot-long salamander that breathes through its skin. You ll follow a single monarch butterfly on its astounding 3,000-mile journey from southern Canada to central Mexico. You ll discover how black bears may offer key insights into human health, and so much more. This course is a chance to experience the beauty and wonder of these incredible animals and to learn why safeguarding their future is so crucial to our own.

Incredible Insights into Incredible Animals

Your experience of Field Guide to North American Wildlife will be like a virtual zoo that you can tour at your leisure. The 12 fascinating animals featured in this course reveal great insights into the animal kingdom that will have you appreciating these animals in entirely new ways. A few of the species you ll meet include

Monarch Butterflies: In most cases, the monarch butterfly only lives in its adult butterfly form for a few weeks, just long enough to complete the reproductive process. The generation of monarchs that migrates, however, is an important exception to this rule. These monarchs live some eight times as long as the generation that preceded theirs. And as small and delicate as they are, they re strong enough to fly from southern Canada all the way to their wintering grounds in Mexico.
Leatherback Sea Turtles: These turtles can maintain a body temperature of around 79 degrees Fahrenheit despite the conditions around them something no other living reptile can do. How? Rather than generating heat metabolically via internal core body functions, leatherbacks generate it kinetically through the constant pumping of the muscles that power their massive flippers. Because of this, some leatherbacks can even be found north of the Arctic Circle.
Screech Owls: One way to spot these tiny, elusive owls is to look for mobbing songbirds. When a group of songbirds locates a screech owl (or any owl, for that matter), they ll gather all around it, alarm calling and swooping close to the owl. When songbirds mob like this, they re trying to scare off a potential ambush predator by letting it know that its cover has been blown. Screech owls, however, tend to be indifferent to these mobs if they aren t actively hunting.
Salamanders: An underappreciated group of animals, salamanders are actually some of the most common and numerous types of vertebrate wildlife in many of our ecosystems. In fact, if you added up the biomass from salamanders in many eastern forests, it would equal the biomass of all the other vertebrate wildlife of all species living in that forest. So why are salamanders so infrequently seen by most people? Because they live in places out of sight to us, including underwater like where the giant hellbender salamander lives.

Wild Tales of Struggle and Survival

David can tell you plenty about these animals (and does), but what makes Field Guide to North American Wildlife such a fascinating learning experience is that he also gives you a sense of what it s like to be one of these wild animals.

A powerful way to help people appreciate wild animals, and the challenges they often face in coexisting with us, is to show people what the world must look like through their eyes. Admittedly, we can t know exactly what animals think and feel; but through the imaginative power of storytelling, we can learn their point of view about some of the things they experience.

Each lecture of the course includes a fictional story based on the real-life behavior of the animal species, explaining its behavior, habitat, and daily struggles for survival. Among the characters you will meet are

Chanifir is a red wolf who s recently left her family pack and followed the impulse to find a mate and, with him, claim a territory and establish a new pack.
Zenya is a blue orchard mason bee who flees her habitat in a brush pile and sets out gathering mud to build a nesting tunnel in an old log.
Mauchy is a black bear who wanders through a New Jersey neighborhood in search of things to eat and finds himself face to face with humans.
Taya is a javelina whose encounter with unleashed dogs illustrates how this incredible animal tries to defend itself from danger.
By the end of Field Guide to North American Wildlife, you ll feel like you ve finished an adventure into the wild. More than that, you ll come away with a newfound appreciation of, and concern for, our planet and the many incredible varieties of life that step across its soils, swim through its rivers and seas, and soar along its breezes.

What Will You Learn?
Learn how to spot red wolves in the wild based on their tracks and kill remains

Discover the reasons why wild salmon are so important for land ecosystems

Explore ways you can play a part in helping horseshoe crabs survive as a species

Consider the reasons why Virginia opossums have greatly expanded their range

Find out what you should, and shouldn t do, when you encounter a black bear

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TTC - Mindfulness for the Workplace
Released 10/2022
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (4h 50m) | Size: 4.06 GB


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Picture this: You were up late with a sick child last night and overslept your alarm by 30 minutes, this morning. You dash into work 45 minutes late and your anxiety is through the roof, but you give it your best effort to act calm on the outside. You re aware that your boss is fuming, and your teammates are disgruntled because you were key to the discussion

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After the meeting, you walk outside to decompress, only to be inundated with texts from both work and home. You implode as you weigh your impossible choices. Life is running away from you, and you can t remember the last time you felt in control of anything.

If you relate to any part of the scene above, you aren t alone. In a survey from the nonprofit advocacy group Mental Health America, 83% of today s workers are experiencing signs of burnout, with demands of the work domain spilling over into demands of the personal life domain.

By learning the simple and accessible techniques provided in Mindfulness for the Workplace, you can find respite from life s inevitable frustrations and create a better work experience with practical, evidence-based solutions from our expert Wendy Quan author, entrepreneur, and pioneer in workplace mindfulness.

As Wendy makes clear, mindfulness is not a way to zone out, be blissful, or avoid life s challenges; nor is it about passive acceptance of your difficulties. It s a tool to lean into life s ups and downs in a conscious, healthy way. The potential benefits are many, including effective stress management and more enjoyment of life.

Wendy discovered and used mindfulness and meditation as a primary source of strength to get through a series of devastating crises in her life. Stunned by its effectiveness, she now trains and certifies others to do the same in the workplace.

With this insightful and engaging 12-lesson course, you will pick up tools to create a better experience for yourself at work and in life, no matter what your current circumstances are or what the future might hold.

Find Calm and Composure in Any Situation

But what exactly is mindfulness? And is it the same as meditation? If you re picturing people sitting cross-legged on the floor with blank minds and chanting with blissful smiles on their faces, you may misunderstand what mindfulness practice looks like.

While meditation is integral to creating mindfulness, it has nothing to do with emptying your mind. Rather, you can think of it as a pause button in your day, a time to concentrate on your breath, an image, or a word.

There are many types of meditation styles employing several techniques such as visualizations, imagery, and even moving meditations such as walking, tai chi, and yoga. This course focuses on a secular, non-spiritual approach that anyone from any walk of life can incorporate.

Five key traits of mindfulness will be reiterated throughout the lessons in a practical, applicable way. Those traits are

Presence Placing yourself in the present moment and not worrying about the past or future.
Awareness Noticing what you are experiencing within you and around you.
Non-judgment Not getting caught up in a stream of likes and dislikes and recognizing when you are judging.
Being with what is Accepting that your situation is happening, so you can move forward.
Kindness Both toward yourself and others, an excellent way to check your words and actions is to ask yourself Is it kind? Is it true? Is it helpful?
Learn Simple Techniques Anyone Can Do

Throughout the course, expert Wendy will guide you to try different breathing and thinking techniques that have the potential to immediately decrease your stress and increase your awareness.

An example of a simple and direct technique you can employ when facing tough interactions is the S.T.O.P. technique

S Stop what you're doing

T Take a breath

O Observe what's going on in and around you

P Proceed to your next action with intention

These methods are simple and easy and can be done anywhere, even in the presence of others. The only rule you need to keep in mind is to let go of your expectations and judgment for each session. There is no right or wrong here, only your experience. In fact, the best way is to approach your practice as a beginner every time.

How to Deal with Difficult People

This course will equip you to handle one of the biggest sources of frustration for many: other people. Researchers estimate that unresolved conflicts are a factor in at least half of voluntary departures from jobs.

Even if you have a decent handle on your inner composure, you cannot control the actions and behavior of others. However, you can control your reaction to them, which changes how you feel. Wendy demonstrates how infusing your interactions with mindfulness can completely transform your experience with difficult people.

Your Life Is an Adventure

Life is amazing. And then, it's awful. And then, it's amazing, again. In between the amazing and the awful, life can be ordinary, mundane, and routine. But we are here to engage in the human experience.

What most of us don't always understand is that we have the power to make this experience a great one for ourselves, if we can rise above our day-to-day struggles to see that they are just part of life and eventually will pass.

When you integrate mindfulness practice into your daily routine, you'll begin to recognize life as an adventure, so that you don't rush through it and wonder later where all the years went.

Here are a few of the benefits you may get from cultivating mindfulness

Reductions in stress, anxiety, and depression;
Increased resilience;
Fewer negative and ruminating thoughts;
Lower blood pressure and rewiring your brain in healthy ways; and
Clearer thinking, better decision-making, and more creativity.
Many people find that mindfulness makes such a big difference in their lives that they often feel called to spread this knowledge to others. Knowing this, Wendy also devotes a lesson from this series to lay out ideas and best practices for setting up your own mindfulness group and then shares mistakes to avoid.

With our inspiring series Mindfulness for the Workplace, Wendy will equip you with every tool you need to reduce stress, handle people better, and have a better work-life balance, even if your workload stays the same.

You, too, can be empowered to transform your life by simply pausing during your day to focus and breathe.

What Will You Learn?
Discover the five key traits of mindfulness and how they can help you find calm and composure in any situation

Learn how to infuse your interactions with mindfulness to completely transform your experience with difficult people

Find out how to integrate mindfulness practice into your daily routine, so you can recognize life as an adventure

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TTC - Assessing America s National Security Threats
Released 1/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (4h 43m) | Size: 3.91 GB

The United States faces significant dangers and opportunities in the coming century. Malicious actors have harnessed new technologies such as drones, missiles, and offensive cyber weapons to threaten and, in some cases, attack America and its allies

The United States faces significant dangers and opportunities in the coming century. Malicious actors have harnessed new technologies such as drones, missiles, and offensive cyber weapons to threaten and, in some cases, attack America and its allies. Jihadist terrorist organizations are pursuing more destructive capabilities and are growing in strength as the United States disengages from protracted counterterrorism operations abroad. Since the end of the Cold War, US foreign policy and national security strategy have suffered from strategic narcissism the tendency to define complex challenges and opportunities abroad only in relation to the United States and to underappreciate the interests, emotions, and aspirations that drive and constrain rivals, adversaries, and enemies.

Former US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster designed and delivered the 12 lectures of Assessing America s National Security Threats. A retired US Army lieutenant general; military historian; and expert in international relations, international security, and diplomacy, H. R. McMaster has packed this course with compelling histories, striking firsthand accounts, and contemporary case studies. Together, you will examine the risk of nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula. You will investigate the threats in new security domains like space and cyberspace, as well as how hostile actors like Russia and China operate within them. You will explore how Afghanistan and Pakistan sit at a global epicenter of jihadist terrorism. You will dive into the ideologies that drive Iran s theocratic dictatorship and its aggression toward the United States, Israel, and Israel s Arab neighbors. Ultimately, this course is designed to help restore strategic competence through the study of history and a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities we face as well as the policies and strategies needed to secure a peaceful and prosperous future.

In Assessing America s National Security Threats, you will discover real solutions to complex problem sets and viable alternative strategies designed to overcome challenges, take advantage of opportunities, and build a better future for generations to come. Ask and answer these questions: How can the United States best protect itself from malware and other cyberattacks? What does strategic competence even look like? And does the private sector have a role to play when it comes to maintaining advantages in defense technologies, combating human rights abuses, and countering aggression abroad? Assessing America s National Security Threats is as concerned with developing and implementing sound strategies as it is with describing and understanding complex challenges and opportunities, a distinctive feature of this groundbreaking course.

Detailing Danger: America and Its Adversaries

Assessing America s National Security Threats uses history, contemporary affairs, and firsthand experience to help you thoroughly investigate and understand present-day security problems. Reconstruct the events some recent, some ancient that have shaped the world that we live in. Assess the logic behind foreign policy approaches to arms control and nuclear nonproliferation, war, humanitarian disasters, cyber warfare, and more. And take notes as H. R. McMaster details his own experiences in national security, from the White House to battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq, painting a holistic picture of how foreign policy and national security strategy are developed at the highest levels of government and implemented overseas.

Assessing America s National Security Threats rejects strategic narcissism and emphasizes strategic empathy an effort to understand challenges and opportunities from the perspective of others. Each lecture examines the factors that drive and constrain rivals, adversaries, and enemies. In 12 sharply organized, innovative lectures, you will explore the internal politics, ideologies, and socioeconomic conditions of states, including

China. Understand why China has made such enormous investments in space and cyberspace and what drives the Chinese Communist Party s effort to perfect its technologically enabled security officer state.
Russia. Explore how dictator Vladimir Putin consolidated power in Russia and investigate how the Kremlin sows dissent abroad and undermines confidence in democracies.
North Korea. Consider why the Kim family regime in North Korea is so intent on developing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, and how its ambitions threaten the security of its neighbors South Korea and Japan and the security of the United States and other nations around the world.
Iran. Investigate the roots of Iranian aggression toward Britain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and its other Arab neighbors, and understand how Iran s four decades of proxy wars relate to its nuclear ambitions and the ideology of the Iranian Revolution.
Pakistan. Understand why Pakistan finances terrorist groups while posing as an ally of the United States. Explore the effect that Pakistan s support for the Taliban and other terrorist organizations had on security within its own borders and in Afghanistan.
From the Korean peninsula to Eastern Europe, get to know the historical and contemporary figures relevant to the most important geostrategic competitions of this century. Dive into the events that have shaped the course of international affairs across the world. Explore the tools that malicious actors use, both within and beyond their own borders, to undermine democracy, sow confusion, and fund terror. And examine multifaceted, global threats that are not specific to states, such as terrorism, cyber threats, and climate change. In just 12 carefully crafted lectures, you will emerge with a more complete picture of the forces and factors that will shape our future.

Moving Toward Strategic Competence

With a clearer understanding of threats and opportunities at hand, explore American responses past, present, and future. How have previous administrations responded to war in Vietnam, terrorism in the Middle East, and aggression from North Korea? And what can we learn when we break down the decisions, probe the logic that drove them, and evaluate the successes and failures of American foreign policy across decades? Assessing America s National Security Threats not only walks you through the policy decisions, military campaigns, and treaties that have defined the last 50 years, but it also equips you with the tools to judge whether they made America a safer place.

This course makes a grounded projection into the future. H. R. McMaster has years of experience under his belt, from participating in Gulf War military campaigns to advising the president of the United States on matters of national security. You will have the extraordinary opportunity to construct foreign policy solutions with one of the world s foremost foreign policy experts and to see what diplomacy can and should look like from his point of view. General McMaster will help you explore alternative approaches to US relationships with Iran, Afghanistan, China, and others. You will also learn how to apply terms like strategic narcissism, strategic empathy, and strategic competence to modern foreign policy making. And you will see how we can interrogate hardened but ineffectual approaches to national security threats and instead move toward a strategy that is well-informed and historically minded.

You will finish the course with a portrait of the national security threats facing the United States today, and a deep understanding of how those threats developed. You will judge for yourself the successes and failures of American foreign policy, from Vietnam to the wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine, and be able to talk intelligently about new aspects of national security like climate change, energy security, space, and cyberspace. And you will be able to develop your own approach to foreign policy and national security to overcome challenges, take advantage of opportunities, and build a better future for generations to come.

What Will You Learn?
Dig into the history, scope, and scale of America s most pressing national security threats

Work with former U.S. National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster to understand the threats facing the United States today

Dive into history to better understand the motivations, goals, and world views of adversaries of the U.S.

Investigate American foreign policy, both past and present

See how to reframe strategy and construct sound policy in light of specific challenges like climate change and Russian misinformation


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TTC - A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Released 2/2023
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (6h 11m) | Size: 5.1 GB


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Satchel Paige. Josh Gibson. Jackie Robinson. These all-star baseball players conjure up an image of the golden age of the game, as well as a time in America when the world was dramatically divided by race. Most of us know the story of Robinson breaking the color barrier to become the first Black major league player, but the history leading up to that dramatic moment is a powerful story of athletic prowess, business development, and cultural change

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A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball is your chance to delve into this fascinating history. Taught by Professor Louis Moore of Grand Valley State University, these 12 scintillating lectures take you onto the field, through the locker rooms, and into the smoky back rooms of the business world in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and other great American cities.

Although little is known about the game before the Civil War, the story of Black baseball players, teams, leagues, and businesspeople mirrors the social history of America from the 1850s through World War II. For instance, you might be surprised to learn that in the era of Reconstruction, baseball was an integrated sport. The game was particularly important for Black Americans working for self-determination and you could often find pickup games at Juneteenth celebrations in the 1860s and 1870s.

But as Reconstruction gave way to Jim Crow, so, too, did an infamous gentleman s agreement segregate baseball into white and Black teams hampering athletes but opening doors to Black businesspeople seeking economic success around the game. Among other topics, Louis introduces you to

Legends like Bud Fowler, Rube Foster, and Gus Greenlee who took their knowledge of the game and applied it to the business of ball;
The best teams in Black baseball, such as the Philadelphia Pythians and the Kansas City Monarchs;
Classic games such as the first Black World Series and the perennial favorite East-West Classic; and
Some of the best players to ever set foot on a baseball diamond, including Oscar Charleston, Moses Fleetwood Walker, Larry Doby, and many others.
From the creation of Negro Leagues to players who became stars, and from cross-town rivalries to the struggles of breaking the color barrier, the hidden history of Black baseball is one of the greatest sports histories ever recorded. A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball gives you a fast-paced survey of this magnificent story.

Play Ball! Reconstructing the Origins of Black Baseball

As America s pastime, baseball has symbolized many things: the spirit of competition; the good cheer at friendly neighborhood gatherings; the mobility of a growing nation; and the autonomy of individual players, managers, and owners to assert their independence and find a place in the American economy.

For Black Americans newly emancipated after the Civil War, baseball was a perfect vehicle to prove their merit in a nation transformed. Although the game was integrated in the Reconstruction years, you can find a foreshadowing of segregation in the manner in which late-19th-century media covered the sport.

As Louis lays out, only Black media covered Black games. One of the first box scores ever recorded was the 1859 matchup between the Henson Club of Jamaica Long Island and the Unknowns of Weeksville, Brooklyn. The only reason we know about this game is thanks to the Weekly Anglo-African newspaper.

Despite the lack of fanfare, Black ball quickly moved from a regional activity to a national game, with teams all over the country.

Batter Up! Building the Leagues of Their Own

The promise of equality in Reconstruction soon gave way to the passage of Jim Crow and segregation laws. In baseball, white team owners quietly laid out a gentleman s agreement in the 1880s never to allow a Black man to play in the major leagues leading to a parallel history of Black and white baseball, with segregated fields and segregated teams.

Within this tragic story, however, Louis shows the innovations and resilience of Black ball players and businesspeople. In this course, you will meet people like Bud Fowler, one of the best players in the nation who led an early effort to create a professional Black baseball organization in the late 19th century.

In the early 20th century, Andrew Rube Foster Black baseball s first true superstar built a successful team based on his style of play ( small ball ). He then went on to create the Negro National League, which served as both a way to solve the economic challenges of owning a baseball team and a symbol of Black social and economic progress.

Soon, thereafter, rival Ed Bolden created the Eastern Colored League, and the two Black baseball leagues lifted up the game but faced challenges during the Great Depression.

Grand Slam! The End of an Era

As you will discover throughout this survey, the story of Black baseball reflects the larger history of America. When the Depression clobbered the nation, league owners and team managers struggled to make ends meet. Players had to forego paychecks.

Yet time and again, Louis draws out a story of triumph over tragedy. Out of this era rose some of the greatest players in the game, including Josh Gibson (commonly referred to as the Black Babe Ruth ), Satchel Paige (one of the most successful and famous players in the Negro Leagues), and Oscar Charleston (manager and first baseman extraordinaire).

Following the Depression, World War II changed everything, highlighting the color line in America s pastime and the equal worth of Black citizens. With urging from the Black press and the undeniable talent in the Negro Leagues, white major league owners recognized integration was inevitable.

Louis explores the story of Jackie Robinson and then Larry Doby breaking through the color barrier changing baseball forever. It was truly an end of an era, and a triumphant finale to A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball.

What Will You Learn?
Learn about the origins of Black baseball during the Civil War

Trace the rise of the Negro Leagues in the late 19th century

Explore how economic interests drove the story of Black baseball

Study the great teams and players from the Civil War to World War II

See how the history of Black baseball mirrors the history of America

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TTC - Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World
Released 6/2023
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 10 Lessons ( 3h 25m ) | Size: 3.23 GB


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Close your eyes and imagine a world without convenience. No cars. No air conditioning. No social media. No ease whatsoever. Sure, life would be a million times harder and more dangerous without advanced medicine and technology...

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Close your eyes and imagine a world without convenience. No cars. No air conditioning. No social media. No ease whatsoever. Sure, life would be a million times harder and more dangerous without advanced medicine and technology. But we d also avoid the maladies that plague developed societies today diseases of immobility, processed foods, even loneliness. To be sure, if we lived just a little more like the ancients, there s a good chance we d be happier, less distracted, more balanced, and in tune with ourselves.

But what does that entail, exactly? How can we apply advice and techniques that have survived over centuries to rediscover what it means to be human? Can fasting, walking, and spending time with nature really make us feel better? What are flow states? How do relationships or lack thereof impact physical health? And what can the healthiest and happiest communities out there today reveal about the secret to good living?

Answer these questions and more with the 10 episodes of Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World. Sit in on a series of expert interviews moderated by artist and inspirational speaker Prince EA. You ll

Examine blue zones where people are the healthiest and live the longest to figure out why their inhabitants live so well;
Discover the health benefits of walking and intentional grounding;
Deconstruct your diet so you can eat better and feel better overall;
Figure out how to build and maintain lasting, meaningful relationships;
Discover flow states, forest bathing, tantra meditation, and grateful thinking;
And so much more.
Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World takes a fun, interactive, hands-on approach that goes beyond listening and taking notes. Through carefully designed homework assignments delivered to you at the end of every episode, you can start to build good habits from the second you press play. Hit key goals and benchmarks as you move through the course. Test out meditation techniques, walking exercises, and specific diet plans. And walk away with a real sense of what works and what doesn t for you. Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World doesn t hand you a one-size-fits-all approach but, instead, provides you with the requisite knowledge and tools you will need to build a simpler, more balanced, de-convenienced life.

From Old Worlds to Blue Zones

Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World looks backward so you can look forward to a healthier, happier, and more balanced life. Focus on the ancient world and the people who inhabited it. How did they live? And more importantly, what did they think, write, and say about the way they lived? Across 10 episodes, you ll dive into and become inspired by Chinese, Indian, Native American, Egyptian, and Greek philosophies. You ll get to know famous thinkers like Socrates, Seneca, and Luther Standing Bear. And you ll discover a range of old techniques that have powerful modern applications.

That s not all, though. While this series is all about looking to the ancients for inspiration, you ll also have a look at some contemporary communities known as blue zones that are vibing and thriving according to ancient wisdoms in Italy, Japan, and even California. See what makes them tick, from the foods they eat to the relationships they have with each other, to the habits they practice every day. Explore the cutting-edge research that s centered around and inspired by them. And learn with both ancient and contemporary communities as your reference point to begin a process to improve your life for the better.

Ancient Wisdom from Modern Experts

Prince EA, though front and center throughout the course, won t be the only expert you ll get to meet. You ll sit down with a range of professionals from sociologists to athletes who talk to you about topics they ve spent their lives thinking about and studying. Learn from some of the best, brightest, and most experienced people about how you can

Live an active lifestyle. Twenty-first century lifestyles are extremely sedentary but worry not. Walking a little bit more each day can do wonders. Talk to Francis Sanzaro about intentional grounding techniques to see how you can not only walk more but walk meaningfully and holistically as well.
Eat better. It s not just what we eat; it's how often, too. Chat with Shawn Stevenson about the benefits of fasting on a molecular and physiological level before trying to work out which fasting program makes the most sense for you.
Connect with nature. The only jungles that surround us nowadays are made of concrete. Yet, nature and more importantly, a strong connection to it can be a special space. Reconnect with Francis Sanzaro to learn about forest bathing, a popular Japanese stress relief technique.
Improve performance. You can half the amount of time it takes to master a skill if you ve entered a flow state. Discover what it means to be in the flow chemically and neurologically by talking to expert Steven Hotler, a human performance researcher at the Flow Research Collective.
Build meaningful relationships. Few things matter more than the relationships we have. Discover the importance of social contact and, conversely, the danger of isolation, before learning about the psychology behind social connection across all stages of life from Marisa G. Franco.
Think more positively. Negativity once key to human survival can do a lot of damage to body systems today. But it doesn t have to be this way. We ve got a lot to be thankful for: relationships, careers, health, nature. Discuss with Dr. Christine Carter the social and personal benefits of gratitude.
Relax. Meditation is all the rage right now, but it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. Sit down with Dr. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati to discuss tantra meditation specifically, utilizing her academic and personal experiences with the power of this ancient relaxation technique.
Get to know the people working on the psychology of relationships, the runners connecting with the natural worlds around them, and the neuroscientists testing and retesting flow to measure human performance. In Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World, this diverse group of experts helps you help yourself by providing a roadmap to experience life the way it ought to be experienced, with no distractions.

What Will You Learn?
Explore the evolutionary biology, history, and philosophy behind the steps we take and learn an intentional grounding technique

Investigate different types of diets and examine the history of intermittent fasting

Ponder how ancient views of love and companionship have endured over time, and find out how we can forge and maintain quality friendships

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TTC - America s Great Trails
Released 10/2022
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 6 Lessons (2h 41m) | Size: 2.22 GB


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What would make someone leave everything behind and walk hundreds or thousands of miles on rough terrain? Hiking is not just a physical journey but, perhaps more important, an internal one

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What would make someone leave everything behind and walk hundreds or thousands of miles on rough terrain? Hiking is not just a physical journey but, perhaps more important, an internal one. Millions of travelers each year partake in this outdoor ritual on some level, whether for a day, a weekend, or many months, to immerse themselves in a special culture that has birthed unique traditions such as trail names, trail magic receiving or giving small acts of kindness and forging unforgettable bonds with kindred spirits along the way.

Now's your chance to sample life on six of the most spectacular wilderness trails in North America from the comfort of your own home. Guiding you through the visually arresting course America's Great Trails is expert Mick Davie journalist, Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, and avid outdoorsman. Mick will take you on an adventure through the rugged heart of the continent, revealing its most closely held secrets in six stunning episodes.

The Wild West

Mick begins with one of the most iconic, visually diverse trails on the planet: the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Declared a National Scenic Route in 1968, this extraordinary route stretches 2,650 miles from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada. Completing this trail can be a life-changing event. On the PCT, you will brave every extreme of landscape and climate imaginable, from desert to glacier and everything in between. At the heart of this trail is the El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite rock face taller than any human structure ever built.

Called the A-to-Z trail because it starts in Arches and ends in Zion, the remote and challenging route of cliffs and canyons of the Hayduke Trail is the elite hiker's dream. Its 812-mile route links six National Parks, including the Grand Canyon. Hiking the Hayduke is not as easy as saying your ABCs. Some of the fascinating details that Mick highlights in this course

It was founded 25 years ago by two hikers, Mike Cornella and Joe Mitchell, to thread together multiple parks.
It has been described by National Geographic Adventure magazine as the greatest hike in the United States.
It begins at Arches, a museum of geological wonders featuring more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, rocks, and strange formations carved naturally over millions of years.
Several famous movies have been filmed along the trail, such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Thelma and Louise.
If you're inspired to tackle the Hayduke Trail, you're in for a great adventure but be prepared and build up your stamina by completing some of the other trails first.

Ocean Views and Unfinished Business

A difficult and relatively new trail, the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNW) has much less inland hiking. Instead, you hike along saltwater bays, islands, and even the ocean. With a fantastic range of wildlife habitats along the way, from wolves to whales, this trail has excitement galore for any nature enthusiast, especially one who prefers solitude you can go for days seeing more bears than people.

When you undertake the 1,200-mile journey of the PNW, you will cross

Seven mountain ranges,
Seven national forests,
Three states, and
Three national parks.
The Continental Divide Trail (CDT) arguably the most rugged, remote, and hazardous of them all boasts 3,100 miles and an ominous origin story involving a cook bludgeoning a trail builder to death for criticizing his cooking. The CDT is known as the "wild child" of the trail family, since it is only 70% fully completed, with lots of road walking and off-trail travel involved. Designated as a National Scenic Trail in 1978, a map created by the Forest Service is available. Maps are also available of the ever-changing route forged over the years by trailblazing thru-hikers who made their way with compass and map and published their paths in guidebooks, articles, and online.

Journey to the Past

The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a relatively short, mild trail from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland. At just 150 miles long, the hike is not a test of endurance on wild and impossible terrain; rather, it is more a trip into America's past, with urban landscapes and wide, well-kept paths easy for hikers and perfect for bikers.

From the very first step, the GAP oozes history, spanning the story of the country's founding and the dawning of the Industrial Age to the region's rebirth, providing a destination for more than a million adventure enthusiasts every year. It boasts historic towns and attractions such as Ohiopyle, an 18th-century settlement, and "The Ruins Project," a mosaic museum.

The Appalachian Trail (AT) is known to be the most social hiking trail in the United States, although there is enough solitude on the trail if that's what you're seeking. In terms of name recognition, the AT is as well-known as Mount Everest. The "twin" to the Pacific Crest Trail in the west, it is one of the most established and famous trails of them all. Traversing over 2,100 miles through 14 states, the AT attracts over 3 million hikers, yearly.

Mick will make its history come alive as he shares incredible stories of the human spirit connected to it, including the experiences of

Grandma Gatewood, the first woman, at age 67, to complete the trail;
Bill Irwin, the first blind person to thru-hike it with his guide dog; and
Thomas Jefferson, who famously stood on Jefferson's Rock in 1783.
More so than for any other National Scenic Trail, it is close to civilization at many accessible points, making it the perfect trail for you to escape the city's grind, while opening yourself to connecting with kindred spirits hiking the trail.

Do you feel the call of the wild?

Whether you're curious to learn more about America's breathtaking natural beauty or you re at a point where you need inspiration for adventure, America's Great Trails will be an abundant feast for all of your senses. Be inspired as Mick guides you to rediscover your connection to the natural world and the joy and wonder to be found in exploring it. His joyful enthusiasm and deep knowledge of these trails will make even the most reluctant hiker curious to visit these amazing places even if it s just from the comfort of your own home.

If you're lucky enough to traverse these natural wonders, you will experience a unique phenomenon. After the arduous journey, a strange feeling washes over you, one that early pioneers who walked these same trails must have had: the realization that you have not conquered nature, nor tamed it. You've lived in it, communed with it, adapted to it, and slowly started to understand it. And in doing so, you have begun to understand yourself.

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TTC - Where Our Food Really Comes From
Released 4/2023
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 8 Lessons (3h 14m) | Size: 2.6 GB


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It s dinner time, and you re making grandma s famous lasagna. The ingredients in front of you include things like high-quality noodles, jarred tomato sauce, sweet Italian sausage, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and more, and it all came from your local grocery store nothing too fancy

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It s dinner time, and you re making grandma s famous lasagna. The ingredients in front of you include things like high-quality noodles, jarred tomato sauce, sweet Italian sausage, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and more, and it all came from your local grocery store nothing too fancy. You trust the brands you bought, after all, and the supermarket you went to, and the recipe your grandmother passed down. But what do you actually know about the products you brought home? Where did the meat, the sauce, the cheese come from? Where do these ingredients fit in a larger global food supply chain? And what would grandma s lasagna require if it were to be prepared at a professional venue like a college cafeteria where they feed thousands of people items like lasagna every single day?

Get to the bottom of these questions and more with Where Our Food Really Comes From, an eight-lecture course that explores the history, design, technology, and labor behind the foods you know and love. Certified Master Chef Brad Barnes will be your guide. He is a published author and strategic food business development consultant who has worked with a range of food service establishments to develop wholesome yet practical menus, procure quality food products, and service diverse clientele. He has firsthand experience not just as a chef but also as a consultant and a culinary leader deep in the weeds of the food business. No one is better equipped to talk about how food gets grown, delivered, processed, and consumed.

With Brad at the helm, see how food products are cultivated on farms, ranches, and fisheries throughout the world. Explore the intricacies of the food industry, moving from its delicate supply chain to the fascinating psychology behind its most sophisticated marketing tactics. Learn about your own power as a consumer, generated through the choices you make and the opinions you choose to vocalize. Dive into food service, a broad and vibrant sector that encompasses fine-dining, senior living centers, hospitals, and college dormitories. Analyze the modern grocery store and why it works the way it does. And see how we can contend with problems facing the modern food industry in the 21st century, from food insecurity to food waste.

Making, Manufacturing, Marketing

In today s world, food rarely comes directly from the farm to your table. Enter the modern food industry, an intricate and well-coordinated web of growers, ranchers, fishers, packers, truck drivers, manufacturers, and inspectors that stretches across whole continents. While certainly not a perfect system, this international conglomerate of machines, farms, and labor does a pretty good job at feeding large segments of the world s population.

Where Our Food Really Comes From breaks down how each part of the food distribution web works together to deliver food to your local grocery store, hospital dining hall, or favorite restaurant. In just eight lectures, discover what it takes to grow and transport food products like tomatoes and fish. Study the economics behind growing, producing, and marketing food at such a large scale. Explore how food brands utilize customer data to bring you to products you know and love. And figure out where exactly you fit into the process as a consumer; a customer; and an eater, most of all.

But you won t do this work uncritically. Our modern food industry as efficient as it is does not and sometimes cannot adequately feed everybody. As you examine this amazing-but-flawed system, Brad will help you zero in on the many problems that come with the way we currently grow and distribute food, such as

Malnourishment and Food Deserts. What groups lack access to good, nutritious food, and why? And how can the least fortunate places acquire, access, and afford healthier products?
Environmental Disaster and Food Waste. What can we do to limit food waste and promote a greener way of procuring food? What role can universities, nonprofits, and the government play in solving this distinct problem?
Labor Exploitation. How much work goes into picking, transporting, and preparing our food? What can we as a collective do to ensure that food workers and cooks are treated and compensated fairly?
As you will discover, you have a role to play in all of this, too. Brad will show you how you can empower yourself as a consumer, the ever-important end piece in the greater global food supply chain. He will teach how to navigate a growing assortment of food labels. And he will illustrate you can use your voice to bring our modern food system into the 21st century where sustainability, worker justice, strong public health, and consumer activism matter more than ever.

Food s Final Destination

Once food is grown, processed, and distributed, it has to be sold to us either as a retail product or part of a prepared dish at a restaurant. Brad examines both, presenting a sharp and thorough exploration of how the food retail and food service industry tick, in both theory and in practice. He starts with retail, carefully deconstructing the anatomy of a grocery store from the frozen aisle to shelf slots, paying special attention to how human psychology informs its layout and the sales it offers. He then helps you evaluate three major retail strategies to see how supermarkets attract new and retain current customers. He shows how retailers use customer data to refine and reform their marketing strategies.

Then, turn your attention to food service, a diverse industry that spans everything from five-course fine dining to army mess halls. With a trained master chef and food consultant as your expert, dive into the mind of a chef to see how it all works behind the scenes. Ask and answer: How can we distinguish between different kinds of food service establishments the local diner, the hospital cafeteria, the grocery store hot food bar? What kinds of skills are important when it comes to running a professional kitchen? Do factors like location, clientele, ingredient availability, and community preferences affect a menu at a restaurant? And what are the new trends in food service, and who pioneered them?

In the end, Where Our Food Really Comes From is more than just a detailed sketch of our modern food industry. It approaches the system fairly and humanely, highlighting its strengths as well as its weaknesses. It shows us that there are people powering our food, from farmers to truck drivers to seasoned chefs like Brad. And it illustrates that we are not passive but active and engaged participants who can work to make sure our food industry is ethical, just, and sustainable.

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TTC - A Brand Called You
Released 3/2023
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 22 Lessons (4h 48m) | Size: 3.92 GB


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What do you want to be when you grow up?

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Most of us spend a lot of our childhoods and early adulthood being asked this deceptively simple question. While some people seemed to have a solid idea of their future from a young age, many of us simply didn t have an answer and some of us still don t, no matter our age or level of success. And while many of us were asked what we wanted to be, even if we knew our general direction, the path to get there was often a mystery. Whether you are pursuing your dream or still haven t figured out what that dream might be, one thing is certain: Ultimately, everything starts first from your heart and then you can work outward to discover and achieve your goals.

In the 22 engaging lessons of A Brand Called You, graphic designer and educator Debbie Millman teaches you the techniques to sell yourself in a way that is meaningful, honest, and authentic because you do have to sell who you are to get where you want to go. From her own experiences in the design world, Debbie will help you develop the tools to articulate who you are, what you are doing, and what you want. She also will provide you with guidance on how to make your dream become a reality. With her honest and relatable style, Debbie will show you how to market yourself without selling out.

Know Thyself

Before you can achieve your goals in the wider world, you need to know what you want and what it might take to get there. Your career, like your life, is a journey and not a destination. Fame, power, and influence are often objectives, yet they are goals that never remain stagnant and rarely last very long. With this in mind, Debbie outlines why you need to have a positive mindset, stay curious, and allow yourself room to continually grow into your talent and embrace new possibilities.

Part of knowing who you are and what you want is knowing what you don t want, as well as acknowledging your own limitations. And as you are progressing through your journey, it is important to remember that not every limitation is a hindrance and that some positive elements can even hold you back. For example, you will consider some of the essentials of success that are more complex than they first appear

Knowledge. Not knowing something is not necessarily a limitation Every time you acknowledge what you don t know, you open the door to a learning opportunity that can help you along the way.
Confidence. A lack of confidence is not a hindrance once you realize that it is not actually confidence that you need It s courage. You will not walk into every situation feeling like you know exactly what to do, and that s okay.
Harmony. While no one wants to feel stressed or uncomfortable in interviews or collaborations, you need to be wary of false harmony, where the situation is not going well, but no one is acknowledging the negative mood taking shape.
Failure. While failure may seem like the opposite of success, in many ways it is a step toward it. Failing is an inevitable part of the process of honing a craft or learning a new skill. Failing can present valuable lessons, while also testing your dedication to your ultimate goals.
These, and other principles, are often cast as purely positive or purely negative. Yet, as Debbie highlights, there are many dimensions to every aspect of branding, and it is crucial to balance presenting yourself in the best possible light with sincerity and trustworthiness.

The Personal and the Practical

After you have spent some time considering the personal and internal aspects of branding and communication, you will then see how to bring your best self into real-world situations. With a better idea of what you want and who you are, you will then implement what you have learned to do

Create a meaningful mission statement to guide your endeavors;
Craft a strong r sum and cover letter;
Get the interviews you want and present your best self;
Promote yourself and your work with integrity;
Set big goals for your career and your future; and more.
This fusion of the personal and the practical makes A Brand Called You a unique entry in the ever-expanding world of career guidance and self-help. Building a career and a pathway for success however you may personally define achievement is about more than following an outline or checking items off a list. By approaching your goals with a look at yourself first, you can better understand not only what you want to accomplish, but also how best achieve your desires without sacrificing integrity, honesty, or self-respect.

What Will You Learn?
Find out the truth about what it takes to get a job that you love

Gain tools to articulate who you are, why you are here, what you want, and how you can make that happen

Discover techniques to sell yourself in a way that is meaningful and honest and authentic, without selling out or selling your soul

Learn tactics to help you get out there

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TTC - Tibet History, Culture, and Religion
Released 5/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lessons (8h 48m) | Size: 7.3 GB


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There are few regions that have been more misunderstood by the West than Tibet. It is still often portrayed in the West as the Shangri-la that was described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, one of the earliest references to Tibet in English-speaking culture

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There are few regions that have been more misunderstood by the West than Tibet. It is still often portrayed in the West as the Shangri-la that was described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, one of the earliest references to Tibet in English-speaking culture. It is often envisioned as a mystical place full of happy, meditating monks and carefree nomads who use Tibetan singing bowls for healing and comfort and The Tibetan Book of the Dead to guide their journey from this life. But while the singing bowls are now ubiquitous in Tibetan tourist shops, scholars can find no original connection to Tibetan culture. And The Tibetan Book of the Dead that influenced so many Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, from Carl Jung to the Beatles? Scholars, today, describe it as not Tibetan, not a book, and not about death.

In Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion, Professor Constance Kassor, will show you the real, multi-dimensional Tibet and its people who live on the Roof of the World, the highest and largest plateau on Earth. In 24 fascinating lectures, you will learn how Tibet s history was shaped by kings and kingdoms, power struggles, religion, traditions, and wars and peace. Today, geopolitical struggles, modernism, and the exile of its religious leaders form an existential threat that few other regions face: This is the real Tibet.

What Is Tibet?

Unlike most regions, even a definition of Tibet depends on who you ask. Is it an independent country with its own long history? Is it a region of the world that has been under Chinese influence for centuries? Is the whole of Tibet contained in the current Tibetan Autonomous Region created by China in the 1950s? Or does Tibet include the entire plateau, northern side of the Himalayas, and the areas formally annexed into China? What about the current Tibetan leadership in exile in Dharamsala, India? What are the legitimate borders of Tibet and who has the authority to say what they are?

These and many other questions are examined in Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion as Professor Kassor takes you through the varied and complex history of this fascinating region. As you learn about the complicated political and cultural dimensions of Tibetan history, you will engage with the region and its people, including

Lifestyles. Many Tibetans have lived as nomads for thousands of years, playing an important role in the creation of the Silk Road about two centuries before the Common Era. Today, many are nomads, farmers, or have combined the two although the Chinese government has made these lifestyles more challenging.
Food. Given that vegetables are so difficult to grow at such altitude, meat and animal products are the most important dietary staples. You ll learn about yakmo milk, butter, cheese, and yogurt, and the national delicacy of momo dumplings.
Festivals. The one holiday that is celebrated almost universally by Tibetans is Losar, the Tibetan New Year. Although it has traditionally been two weeks of celebration, it has recently been used as a time to protest Chinese authoritarian rule. While protests per se have been outlawed in Tibet, Tibetans protest quietly by not celebrating the holiday.
Tibetan Buddhism

More than 2,500 years ago, a prince named Siddhartha Gautama lived in today s northern India and Nepal. Raised with every luxury, he left his palatial life as a young man to pursue the spiritual life, searching for a way to rid the world of suffering. Eventually, he became enlightened, and, for the rest of his life, he taught the philosophy he had discovered. He was known as the Buddha, the Awakened One. Today, more than 500 million people follow his teachings and practice Buddhism worldwide.

Buddhist teachings made their way to Tibet, influencing nearly all aspects of Tibetan life. Tibet s alphabet and grammatical system are derived in part from Buddhist-influenced scholasticism in India. Over the centuries, Tibetan Buddhism developed a distinct tradition all its own, reflecting the influences of India and China, as well as the area s Indigenous religious traditions such as B n.

To better understand the importance of Tibetan Buddhism in the history and culture of the entire region, Professor Kassor will lead you through topics such as

The Great Dharma Kings. Buddhism flourished when Tibetan kings encouraged and supported the practice. Those who are most remembered for helping to establish Tibetan Buddhism are Songtsen Gampo, Trisong Detsen, and Ralpachen. But these men were not gods, and you will learn how the dissemination of Buddhism was influenced by their earthly loves, scholastic interests, and the specific teachers they chose to bring from India.
The Practice of Merit. Merit is a type of spiritual good fortune that can help Tibetan Buddhists along their religious path both in this life and the next. Two of the most common merit-making activities for Tibetan Buddhists are circumambulations, walking around holy places, and prostrations.
Sutras and Tantras. Tibetan Buddhist teachings and practices can be divided into sutras, instructions that can be taught to any practitioner, and tantras, philosophically complex, esoteric teachings that are usually only shared with highly trained and skilled meditators.
The Dalai Lama

Even most people with little real knowledge of Tibetan history or religion are familiar with images of Tibet s long-time leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Although he humbly describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk by the name of Tenzin Gyatso, his role in Tibetan history, even world history, reveals a man who came to be the political and spiritual leader of his people at a very difficult and challenging time. In Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion, you will learn about the significant role he has played with respect to

The Government of Tibet. The fourteenth Dalai Lama assumed his office as the formal leader of Tibet at age 15 in 1950, just one month after the People s Republic of China sent troops into Tibet to peacefully liberate the country. In 1959, the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans were given asylum in India, and the Dalai Lama began leading the Tibetan government in exile.
World Peace Efforts. As leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama proposed a Five-Point Peace Plan for Tibet that was rejected by China. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long-time, non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.
Future Dalai Lamas. In 2011, the Dalai Lama formally transferred his political leadership to a democratically elected leader, while retaining his spiritual leadership. Since China has formally outlawed the practice of reincarnation, it is unclear whether Tibet will see a 15th or subsequent Dalai Lamas.
With Professor Kassor as your guide, you will gain an understanding of the very real issues facing Tibet today, as opposed to the Tibetan stereotypes the West has often clung to. Will Tibet survive through the 21st century and into the future? At this time, the future is uncertain; this course will help you understand what is at stake.

What Will You Learn?
Encounter Tibet's tulku tradition of reincarnation and the 14 Dalai Lamas, who've served as Tibet's spiritual leader since the 15th century

Examine the Dalai Lama s exile from Tibet, his Middle Way approach toward autonomy, and Tibet s stalemate with the Chinese government regarding a potential peace agreement

Trace how the Dalai Lama s rise to worldwide fame framed the issue of Tibetan independence in the world spotlight

Discover the most recently established Buddhist tradition in Tibet and see how it has done a great deal to update Tibetan Buddhism in ways that are compatible with a modern, global society including advancing women s rights

Explore some important areas of Tibetan artistic culture poetry, music, and dance from both traditional and modern perspectives

Dive into some of the basics of Buddhist history and doctrine and discover what makes Tibetan Buddhism unique

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TTC - How to Create Comics
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From political cartoons and the newspaper funny pages to emotionally resonant biographies and multi-volume superhero epics, the scope of comics is a broad one. While many people may still hold onto the outdated idea that comics are silly or childish, the truth is comics comprise a multi-billion-dollar industry with an immense, world-spanning fanbase of all ages and from all walks of life. Whether you consume them as syndicated strips on cheap newsprint or as serialized arcs in glossy, collector s edition volumes (often labeled graphic novels ), comics have something to offer everyone.

Comics in the US began in earnest at the tail end of the 19th century, with the first newspaper comic strip in 1896. However, if you look back to political cartoons and other forms where text and image collide, you could actually say comics have been around, in one form or another, for centuries. Since the early 20th century, iconic characters like Superman and Captain America have leapt from the pages of comics and onto the screen, culminating in comic books as the source material for some of our most successful films, television shows, and video games. Comics have also proven to be an ideal form for memoirs, biographies, historical narratives, and other more serious literature, with many titles becoming bestsellers and even finding their way into college curricula.

So, how are comics made? What are the rules of the medium? How would a writer or an illustrator or both begin creating their own comics? These and other questions are what you will explore in the 12 inspiring lessons of How to Create Comics. Taught by Peter Bagge, a cartoonist and award-winning comics creator, these lessons will show you how comics are made and why they have become so enduringly successful. Like any wide-ranging and long-lived medium, comics creators put certain technical and creative tools to use when they produce their stories. You will get a firsthand look at how these tools are used and how digital tools have changed the comics landscape. Whether you want to create your own comics or simply better understand the medium as a fan, this course will give you the tools and the insight to see how comics work and to start you on your way to creating your own stories.

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TTC - Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
Released 5/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 16 Lessons (6h 21m) | Size: 5.3 GB


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The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the development of writing and literacy are in the span of human history. But writing is, in fact, a very recent phenomenon if we take a step back and look at the big picture of human development. Even if we simply limit our view to the existence of language, writing still occupies a small segment of time. Writing in its earliest forms, particularly, is very different than what we are familiar with today.

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The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the development of writing and literacy are in the span of human history. But writing is, in fact, a very recent phenomenon if we take a step back and look at the big picture of human development. Even if we simply limit our view to the existence of language, writing still occupies a small segment of time. Writing in its earliest forms, particularly, is very different than what we are familiar with today.

So, when and where did writing first emerge? Why did early humans find it necessary to record their thoughts in a visual medium? How did cultures that had relied solely on spoken language for thousands of years create symbols that could carry meaning? And how did all the many scripts and systems that developed over the centuries lead us to the 26-letter alphabet of the English language?

Embark on a journey to the very beginning of writing as a tool of language and see how the many threads of history and linguistics came together to create the alphabet that forms the foundation of English writing. Your guide is Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University and in the 16 lectures of Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet, he will help you navigate the complex linguistic and cultural history behind one of our most crucial tools of communication. With his trademark humor and conversational style, Professor McWhorter makes this larger-than-life history as entertaining as it is enlightening.

The Birth of Writing

If humans lived for tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of years as a species with spoken language yet without writing, why was writing developed? We may speak about writing and literacy in lofty terms today while simultaneously taking it for granted but the truth is the earliest writing systems came about for limited uses that would gradually expand over time. The earliest known form of writing, cuneiform, began as a simple way to keep accounts, before it developed into a more abstract system of symbols that represented sound. Egyptian hieroglyphics likely took their inspiration from Mesopotamian cuneiform and were a hybrid of pictograms (symbols directly representing tangible things) and phonetic complements (symbols that represented sounds).

These early systems show the progression of writing from directly representative to a more abstract form that used symbols for sounds rather than objects or ideas, though neither ever progressed to a full alphabet-based system. Hieroglyphics did, however, likely influence the creation of the earliest known alphabet, which would in turn greatly shape the way languages like Aramaic and Greek would build their writing systems and influence languages around the world.

As Professor McWhorter shows you the development and evolution of writing systems, you will go on a sojourn across continents and through time to see how many seemingly unrelated languages share elements that can be easy to miss. With this foundation in place, you will be ready to embark on a fascinating journey through the creation of the English-language alphabet and see how the many threads of writing development can converge in unexpected ways.

Know Your ABCs

To better understand the development of the alphabet, you will look at multiple aspects of language, both as it is written and as it is spoken. Professor McWhorter breaks down his examination of the alphabet by focusing on letters in an order he believes is most crucial to understanding their historical and linguistic roots, highlighting the key elements you need to trace the origins and gradual transformations of these deceptively simple symbols. As you follow along, you will have the opportunity to consider the answers to some of the big questions of language, such as

If the shape of a letter is completely abstract and has nothing to do visually with the sound it represents, how do letters come to look the way they do?
Why do the sounds letters make change over time? Why do things like vowel shifts happen while the symbols effectively stay the same?
Why does the alphabet have a set order when the order is effectively arbitrary? How was the order established and why does it stay the same over time?
How are some letters able to represent completely different sounds based on their placement in a word? Why does a letter like C exist when we already have S and K to make its respective sounds?
What can writing systems teach us about the history of the people that developed them? What traces of culture and geography can we uncover when we look at the evolution of the written word?
How did punctuation first develop?
These and other questions highlight not just how arbitrary or abstract much of our language use is, but they also help us understand the development of language itself and its connection to the culture and social conditions of its origins. The only way to truly understand why our writing systems operate the way they do is to look at where they come from and how they have been altered again and again as they have converged, transformed, and branched over time.

A History in Letters

So, what does the development of the alphabet tell us about language? Aside from the simple pleasure of understanding the roots of one of our most used tools of communication, the origins of the alphabet highlight a key element of language: connection. As peoples and cultures have encountered one another over the centuries, their languages have deeply influenced each other both directly and indirectly.

Very few writing systems were built from the ground up and in isolation. Instead, nearly every script was inspired and influenced by others, revealing the ways humans have always influenced one another across the ages. Language barriers certainly exist, and yet the thousands of languages spoken and written around the world share ancestors and key features that can be traced through every era. From the very beginning of its development, writing has had the unique dual role of recording history on the page and encoding it within its own symbols and structures.

As you will see throughout Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet, the alphabet is not the result of careful planning and perfect efficiency. Rather, it is the product of a multiplicity of human interactions and chance encounters, from trade and migration to slavery and war, and everything in between. Some letters have straightforward origins, while others have gone through spectacular and unpredictable transformations. As you trace the movements and evolutions that helped shape the writing we use today, you will have the opportunity to see language in a whole new way, one that connects us in ways you may have never realized.

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TTC - The World of Beer: Tastes of History, Science, and Culture
Released 7/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (7h 6m) | Size: 5.91 GB


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There s a lot more to beer than just what s in your can, bottle, or glass. With every sip, you partake in a complex ritual that goes back thousands of years, to the earliest moments in human civilization.

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Beer has been with us for millennia, and will likely be with us for another millennia, still. And while beer has always been and always will be primarily about enjoyment, your enjoyment of your favorite IPA or stout, or mass-produced light lager, expands when you see human culture through the lens of beer.

Have you ever wondered

How early humans first came upon the idea of brewing beer?
Why particular styles of beer emerged where and when they did?
What happens, at a scientific level, during the beer brewing process?
How politics and social mores have influenced how we consume beer?
What global brewing trends we can expect to see in the near future?
These and other questions are at the heart of The World of Beer: Tastes of History, Science, and Culture. J Jackson-Beckham, the Founder and Principal of Crafted for All, has crafted an engaging, immersive, and highly interactive series that takes a look at subjects from history and mythology to botany and marketing to economics and religion, all through the lens of beer. In 12 lessons, this Certified Cicerone (think the beer-world equivalent of a sommelier) invites you to taste the incredible diversity of brewed beverages through a case of beer from around the world. Designed as the perfect beer and knowledge pairing, each lesson features one to two tastings that encapsulate a different aspect of beer s myriad importance.

Instead of asking what the great wide world can teach us about beer, Jackson-Beckham asks: What can beer teach us about the great wide world? Find a comfortable seat, a clean glass, and discover the fascinating answers for yourself.

Learn the Best Way to Enjoy Beer

Before you, ahem, hop around the world and across time with this one-of-a-kind beer adventure, Jackson-Beckham teaches you the basics on how to properly taste all the amazing beer you ll encounter. (The guidebook that comes with this course includes a full list of the beers you ll sample, as well as suggestions on where to purchase them.)

You ll learn and get to practice the four sensory markers that define different styles of beer

Appearance, which relies on everything from the color and clarity of the beer to the structure of the foam that tops your glass;
Aroma, which you notice when you pour the beer into your glass, when you take a whiff up close, and when you breathe out after your first sip;
Mouthfeel, or how the beer feels when you hold it in your mouth and then swallow, and which captures characteristics like carbonation, fullness, and alcoholic strength; and
Flavor, the main event that reveals which of five basic tastes the beer satisfies: bitterness, sweetness, sourness, and occasionally saltiness and savory-ness.
And here s a fun fact about beer drinking (just one of many you ll find in every lesson): Never, under any circumstances, put your glassware in the freezer. Freezing coats your glass with microscopic ice crystals that greatly accelerate decarbonation. Not only do frozen glasses lead to prematurely flat beer, but an ice-cold beer numbs your taste buds which makes for a bland, unenjoyable sensory experience.

Beer History in a Glass

What makes The World of Beer: Tastes of History, Science, and Culture such a unique way to learn about this famous beverage is that Jackson-Beckham uses different beers all of which you get to taste alongside her as a gateway to deeper lessons about where beer comes from, how it s made, how it s been incorporated into ancient mythology and modern politics, and where it may go in the future.

These unique beers run the gamut of appearances, aromas, mouthfeels, and flavors. Here are just a few of the many beers you ll learn about in this series, and what they tell us about the role of beer in world culture. If you choose to drink alongside Jackson-Beckham, it will be the best homework you ve ever had.

India Pale Ale (IPA): IPAs are the best-selling style of craft beer in the United States, and highlight the power of hops. Historians believe it wasn t until the sixth century AD that hops began to appear in beer. The Benedictine nun Saint Hildegard of Bingen hypothesized the bitterness of hops as having useful preservative effects on beer and she was right.
Doppelbock: This classic German beer has its roots in monastic traditions. During the so-called Dark Ages, monasteries took up brewing on a large scale, including St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland, which became the first truly large-scale brewery in Europe. The brewing operations alone involved hundreds of monks, servants, and students.
Cream Ale: Homegrown American beer styles were pushed to the margins during Prohibition, but some, like the cream ale, survived. This style emerged in the 19th century as a competitive alternative to German-brewed lagers and combines established English ale traditions with the crispness and lightness of the (then new) lager craze.
Rauchbier: One style of beer in which you can clearly taste the importance of geography in beer brewing is Rauchbier, or smoked beer. Still made in places like the Schlenkerla brewpub in south-central Germany, these beers are probably one of the few ways you can get a sense of the smokiness most pre-medieval European beers would have had.
Whether you re learning about the first written records of beer from ancient Mesopotamia, the influence of alewives on popular conceptions of witches, the rise of English pub culture and multinational brewing corporations, or even recent brewing trends like minimally invasive fermentation, this course will captivate you with every lesson and every sip.

The World of Beer: Tastes of History, Science, and Culture is proof that beer is more than just a beverage. It s a veritable time machine.

What Will You Learn?
Learn the step-by-step method for evaluating the sensory aspects of beer

Examine what archaeology reveals about how beer was first brewed and enjoyed

Discover how beer brewing adapted to sweeping political and economic changes

Explore the role beer played in social rituals, from folk songs to popular games

Take a closer look at how modern breweries are changing the brewing landscape

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Masterclass - Painting a Baja Fairy Duster
Video: .MP4, 1920x1080, 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 kHz, 2ch | Duration: 1h 54m Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 2.28 GB

In this Masterclass, I'm painting a Baja Fairy Duster from start to finish. This started out as a commission to create a bookmark for Desert Survivors Nursery in Tucson. I decided to record the entire process so that I could show you how I painted it. The flowers of the Baja Fairy Duster are an eye-catching shade of bright red that is a hummingbird magnet. In this illustration I painted the flower buds, the full flower, the spent flower and the seed pods - basically the entire flower-cycle.
I painted this in Acrylic Gouache, but the technique is 90% the same whether you are using Traditional Gouache, Casein, Acrylic or Acryla Gouache.
After finishing the painting, I scanned it and brought it into Adobe Photoshop so I could crop it, add text and prepare it for export to the Printers to make the printed bookmarks. I give you a brief glimpse into this process, although a full blown lesson is Photoshop is best left for its own freestanding class.

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MasterClass - Alexis Ohanian Teaches Building Your Startup
Released 2/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Subs | Duration: 16 Lessons (2h 17m) | Size: 6 GB


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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian teaches you how to turn an idea into a startup. Get the advice he s shared through his VC fund, Seven Seven Six.

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That was only the start: From growing billion-dollar companies to championing female founders, Ohanian shaped culture. Now he wants to lead tomorrow s innovators. Learn how to turn an idea into a startup with advice Alexis has shared with other entrepreneurs through his VC fund, Seven Seven Six.

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TTC - Understanding Cognitive Biases
Released 1/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lessons (10h 51m) | Size: 9.06 GB

As you read this sentence, your brain has just processed about 20 million bits of information. In fact, every second of every day, your brain processes about 11 million bits. And yet, that astonishing number just isn t enough to get you through your day. Consequently, your brain takes some shortcuts and it s those shortcuts, called heuristics, that make it all work.

Some shortcuts are completely benign and helpful such as your ability to recognize your child even if half his face is in shadow or your ability to imagine tomorrow even though you will never actually see it. But other heuristics are faulty and can bias your decision-making inappropriately. In Understanding Cognitive Biases, you will learn how to recognize these biases for what they are, counteract them when necessary, and even use them to your advantage in some instances.

In 24 fascinating lectures, Dr. Alexander B. Swan uses examples from psychology experiments, history, politics, movies, TV, comics, social media, and more to illustrate dozens of cognitive biases that affect us all. You re not alone in your sometimes irrational judgments and interpretations of events or people. But you can learn how to make better decisions no matter what shortcuts your brain wants to take!

How Many Biases?

Although it might come as a shock, research shows that each of us has close to 200 biases. Unlike a prejudice, which usually means a preconceived negative opinion about a group or class of people, you can be biased in favor of something or against it. For example, you might be biased toward healthy foods, the color blue, or a certain type of music. We each have our own preferences that are unlikely to cause any negative effects in our decision-making.

The shortcuts of cognitive biases, however when the brain fills in gaps of solid, reliable information with a lot of guesswork for efficiency s sake can lead to errors of memory and judgment, and can cause faulty decision-making with unintended, even dire, consequences. For example, take confirmation bias. This tendency to consider only information that confirms our existing beliefs can cause us to make incorrect assumptions about the cause of a coworker s behavior, misinterpret experimental data, or even make disastrous engineering decisions resulting in injuries ... or worse.

In this course, you will explore the causes of confirmation bias, our use of stereotypes, our predisposition toward the status quo, and many more biases, including some you may have never heard of

Pareidolia. This is our tendency to perceive meaning from vague and random stimuli. Our brains are primed to find patterns, especially faces. In 1976, when the Viking 1 spacecraft photographed the Cydonia region of Mars, many people s pareidolia caused them to see a face in the landscape that became associated with a supposed Martian civilization.
Cryptomnesia. This is a tendency for a person to believe they created a particular thought or idea when the actual source was a memory. This occurs when your brain makes a source monitoring error storing a memory without storing its source. One of the most famous examples of cryptomnesia is Helen Keller s publication of The Frost King; although she was sure her book was an original work, it was not.
Reactance. Remember back to your teen years when you wanted to do the opposite of whatever you were told to do? Although you didn t know it at the time, you were exhibiting reactance bias, the tendency to act in ways that are opposite to the rules in place, especially when you believe your freedom will be curtailed. One of the problems with this very common bias is that your reactance could lead you to do something unsafe; sometimes, the rules are there for a reason.
Unraveling the Bias

If these cognitive biases are such an ingrained aspect of our brain functioning, can we have any control over them? Absolutely. In Understanding Cognitive Biases, Dr. Swan will discuss many tactics you can and should use to avoid the consequences of unchecked cognitive biases. These include

Increasing Your Awareness of Biases. We need to be aware of cognitive biases and recognize them when they show up. It s amazing how easy it is to identify cognitive bias when it s exhibited by someone else, but it s much more difficult to recognize it in ourselves. However, this is an important first step in fighting off faulty reasoning and associated outcomes.
Slowing Down. Humans use dual process thinking. We have fast, automatic, and heuristic processing to keep us moving efficiently from one thing to the next, which is where most of our cognitive biases show up. But we can also access slow, deliberate, logical processing if we want to. Are we motivated to look for solid, valid information outside our own belief system, even if it takes a bit of effort? Or are we content to just confirm our own worldview, whether or not it s accurate?
Journaling. For those who journal, and those who have been wanting to try this wonderful habit, writing down some of your activities, thoughts, and concerns can be a great way to combat cognitive bias. For example, journaling during a multi-day vacation can help unravel the peak-end bias that affects how we retain memories; having group members journal their individual experiences and thoughts can help work against groupthink; and journaling every day can also help prevent the creation and maintenance of false memories.
Using Cognitive Bias to Accomplish Your Goals

Some of the heuristics your brain uses to make up for its slow processing can also be used to help you reach your goals. These include

Testing Effect, Generation Effect, and Spacing Effect. Understanding how to use these memory phenomena to your own benefit can help improve your studying and learning and increase memory retention.
Observer Bias. The next time you re trying to teach someone anything at all, you can certainly use the cues of observer bias where we see what we expect rather than what is necessarily there to improve response and learning.
Status Quo Bias. While this bias can sometimes work against us by making us afraid of change, we can also use it to examine situations closely and choose the status quo when it really is to our benefit.
Dr. Swan leaves the course asking one final and impactful question. Once you understand how many cognitive biases work in our lives (biases that sit quietly in the dark ), their evolutionary causes, and their many potential negative impacts, where do you want to go from here? Do you want to allow the status quo bias to keep every other cognitive bias in place or, with your new knowledge, do you want to begin working on strategies to mitigate and reduce their impacts? The choice is yours.


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MasterClass - Karla Welch Teaches Building and Owning Your Personal Style
Released 2/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Subs | Duration: 8 Lessons (1h 20m) | Size: 3.51 GB


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Renowned celebrity stylist Karla Welch teaches you how to find your personal style and create a strong, versatile wardrobe that s uniquely you.

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From styling stars like Justin Bieber and Tracee Ellis Ross to creating her own clothing line, Karla Welch has spent almost 20 years honing her creative process while pushing the boundaries of fashion. Now she s teaching how you can let your individuality shine through your wardrobe. Learn to identify your personal style, bring it to life, and make a statement without saying a word.

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MasterClass - Brandon McMillan Teaches Dog Training
Video: .MP4, AVC, 960x540, 24 fps | Audio: English, AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch | Duration: 2h 58m | 2.28 GB

The Emmy-winning host of Lucky Dog, Brandon McMillan is an expert trainer dedicated to building relationships between humans and animals. In his MasterClass, Brandon shares his simple, effective training system to help you develop trust and control with your dog. From using commands like sit, stay, and down to fixing barking and digging, you ll learn how to improve your dog s behavior and create a lifelong bond.

Brandon McMillan is a master animal trainer. From working with animals for film and television to training dogs to perform specialized tasks to assist disabled veterans, he has dedicated his life to improving relationships between animals and humans. On his hit show Lucky Dog on CBS, Brandon demonstrates his training system, which he has simplified to the 7 Common Commands. With his personal mission to rescue dogs from shelters and rehabilitate them for a life with a family, Brandon has become a powerful voice for animal advocacy and activism.

In this online class, you ll learn about:

Variables That Make Your Dog Unique
Trust & Groundwork for Training
Training Foundations & the 7 Common Commands
Signaling Commands & Leash Techniques
Sit
Down
Stay
No
Off
Come
Heel
Behavior: Housebreaking
Behavior: Door Dashing
Behavior: Digging, Chewing, Barking

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