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In this episode of Lunch with Norm, Norm Farrar talks with Jon Derkits. He is a former Amazon marketplace executive, current 8-figure Amazon seller, and Chief Commercial Officer at Color More Lines. We'll be discussing what currently is working for Amazon sellers in 2024. In addition, Jon authors the widely popular Best@Amazon newsletter, a weekly newsletter for the Top 1% of Amazon Sellers. Jon started his career in M&A advisory with KPMG, spending 9 years serving Fortune 1000 companies, before joining Amazon, where he served as Head of 3P Marketplace for Consumer Electronics on Amazon Canada and worked directly with the top 1% of third-party Consumer Electronics sellers.  Join the Beard Nation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithnorm Sign up for our Newsletter - https://lunchwithnorm.beehiiv.com/   This episode is sponsored by Walmart Marketplace - Build, grow, and elevate your eCommerce business with one of the most trusted names in retail. Sell your products on Walmart.com. Learn more - https://marketplace.walmart.com/?utm_campaign=2024-US-MP-GEN-DB-LWN&utm_source=Lunch_With_Norm&utm_medium=Direct_Buy Make your profits bright this holiday season with Walmart Marketplace. Sign up today.  Join the Beard Nation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithnorm Sign up for our Newsletter - https://lunchwithnorm.beehiiv.com/   This episode is brought to you by Stack Influence: Send free products to Micro-Influencers using the platform Stack Influence which automates Micro-Influencer collaborations at scale (get thousands of collabs per month) and increase your Amazon growth, generate UGC, and boost up your brand awareness like never before.     Top Amazon brands like Magic Spoon, Unilever, and MaryRuth Organics have been able to get to #1 page positioning on Amazon and increase their monthly revenue as high as 13X in as little as 2 months. Pay influencers only with products (stop negotiating fees) Increase external traffic Amazon sales (get to top page rankings) Get full rights image/video UGC (build your brand with authentic content) 100% automated management (don't lift a finger to get influencer collabs at scale)    Don't believe it? Check out the results from the Blueland Micro Influencer campaign which generated a 13X ROI scaling up influencers on Amazon. After successfully raising investment on Shark Tank Blueland turned to Stack Influence to boost their Amazon sales and become a top selling listing using Micro Influencer marketing.   Increase your Amazon listings ranking for targeted keywords before the holiday season is upon us! Get 10% OFF signing up in October.     This episode is brought to you by Startup Club: Startup Club is the largest club on Clubhouse supporting the Startup ecosystem. Startup Club offers an exciting sense of belonging to established and aspiring entrepreneurs, startup businesses, and companies wanting to Learn, Connect, and Grow. Join us for conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, subject matter experts, and more. For more information visit https://Startup.club This episode is brought to you by Seller Basics: Seller Basics is the ultimate guardian for account suspensions, ASIN hiccups, and IP headaches. For only $99 per month, Seller Basics provides a dedicated team to safeguard your business. And that's not all! Gain access to free legal consultations with seasoned eCommerce attorneys. With no binding contracts, you can cancel anytime with just a month's notice. Consider Seller Basics your Amazon account's comprehensive health plan. For more information visit https://www.sellerbasics.com   *All conversations and information exchanged on the Lunch with Norm podcast or interaction on the Lunch with Norm Website is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. Do not confuse this with advice or direction with your business per se. Always do your own research before following advice from any podcast/website. Amazon's Terms of Service is always changing. Make sure you are following relevant up-to-date information.

In this episode of Lunch with Norm, Norm Farrar talks with Max Sinclair, the Founder of Ecomtent. Max and Norm will discuss new updates with RUFUS and Amazon Accelerate, and how ‘Agentic AI' are different from ‘Generative AI' such as previous Chat GPT and other LLMs?  

In this episode of Lunch with Norm, Norm Farrar talks with Chase Norlin to dive into cyber security and how to protect your online business. They discuss why should Amazon and eCommerce businesses care about cybersecurity and what is ransomware and how does it affect your online small business?   Make your profits bright this holiday season with Walmart Marketplace. Sign up today.  Join the Beard Nation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithnorm Sign up for our Newsletter - https://lunchwithnorm.beehiiv.com/   More about Chase... Chase Norlin is the CEO of Transmosis, a nationally recognized cyber security workforce developer that enables American workers to develop new careers in the rapidly growing information security industry. Transmosis is the creator of eSure.AI, a next-generation cybersecurity platform that protects consumers and small business from cyber attack with integrated financial liability protection. Norlin is a serial technology entrepreneur that founded the Internet's first online video sharing platform, video search engine, and photo sharing service.   This episode is brought to you by Stack Influence: Send free products to Micro-Influencers using the platform Stack Influence which automates Micro-Influencer collaborations at scale (get thousands of collabs per month) and increase your Amazon growth, generate UGC, and boost up your brand awareness like never before.     Top Amazon brands like Magic Spoon, Unilever, and MaryRuth Organics have been able to get to #1 page positioning on Amazon and increase their monthly revenue as high as 13X in as little as 2 months. Pay influencers only with products (stop negotiating fees) Increase external traffic Amazon sales (get to top page rankings) Get full rights image/video UGC (build your brand with authentic content) 100% automated management (don't lift a finger to get influencer collabs at scale)    Don't believe it? Check out the results from the Blueland Micro Influencer campaign which generated a 13X ROI scaling up influencers on Amazon. After successfully raising investment on Shark Tank Blueland turned to Stack Influence to boost their Amazon sales and become a top selling listing using Micro Influencer marketing.   Increase your Amazon listings ranking for targeted keywords before the holiday season is upon us! Get 10% OFF signing up in October.     This episode is brought to you by Startup Club: Startup Club is the largest club on Clubhouse supporting the Startup ecosystem. Startup Club offers an exciting sense of belonging to established and aspiring entrepreneurs, startup businesses, and companies wanting to Learn, Connect, and Grow. Join us for conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, subject matter experts, and more. For more information visit https://Startup.club This episode is brought to you by Seller Basics: Seller Basics is the ultimate guardian for account suspensions, ASIN hiccups, and IP headaches. For only $99 per month, Seller Basics provides a dedicated team to safeguard your business. And that's not all! Gain access to free legal consultations with seasoned eCommerce attorneys. With no binding contracts, you can cancel anytime with just a month's notice. Consider Seller Basics your Amazon account's comprehensive health plan. For more information visit https://www.sellerbasics.com   *All conversations and information exchanged on the Lunch with Norm podcast or interaction on the Lunch with Norm Website is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. Do not confuse this with advice or direction with your business per se. Always do your own research before following advice from any podcast/website. Amazon's Terms of Service is always changing. Make sure you are following relevant up-to-date information.

In this episode of Lunch with Norm, Norm Farrar sits down with Rachel Miller to dive into the real secrets of building a powerful marketing strategy without breaking the bank. They discuss how AI is changing the game for content creation and automation, making it easier for small businesses to reach their audience without spending on ads. If you're looking for practical advice on making your marketing more effective and efficient, this episode is packed with actionable insights you don't want to miss!   Make your profits bright this holiday season with Walmart Marketplace. Sign up today.  Join the Beard Nation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithnorm Sign up for our Newsletter - https://lunchwithnorm.beehiiv.com/   More about Rachel... Our guest is a proud mom to 6 kids and a collector of businesses. She is a Marketing strategist who supports small businesses in growing their audiences and sales, organically, without ads. Her marketing courses have had over 27,000 students and she regularly keynotes. Her most recent project is building, Pagewheel, because why should we “learn” how to market our businesses when AI with automations can market your business for you!   This episode is brought to you by Stack Influence: Send free products to Micro-Influencers using the platform Stack Influence which automates Micro-Influencer collaborations at scale (get thousands of collabs per month) and increase your Amazon growth, generate UGC, and boost up your brand awareness like never before.       Top Amazon brands like Magic Spoon, Unilever, and MaryRuth Organics have been able to get to #1 page positioning on Amazon and increase their monthly revenue as high as 13X in as little as 2 months. Pay influencers only with products (stop negotiating fees) Increase external traffic Amazon sales (get to top page rankings) Get full rights image/video UGC (build your brand with authentic content) 100% automated management (don't lift a finger to get influencer collabs at scale)    Don't believe it? Check out the results from the Blueland Micro Influencer campaign which generated a 13X ROI scaling up influencers on Amazon. After successfully raising investment on Shark Tank Blueland turned to Stack Influence to boost their Amazon sales and become a top selling listing using Micro Influencer marketing.   Increase your Amazon listings ranking for targeted keywords before the holiday season is upon us! Get 10% OFF signing up in October.     This episode is brought to you by Startup Club: Startup Club is the largest club on Clubhouse supporting the Startup ecosystem. Startup Club offers an exciting sense of belonging to established and aspiring entrepreneurs, startup businesses, and companies wanting to Learn, Connect, and Grow. Join us for conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, subject matter experts, and more. For more information visit https://Startup.club This episode is brought to you by Seller Basics: Seller Basics is the ultimate guardian for account suspensions, ASIN hiccups, and IP headaches. For only $99 per month, Seller Basics provides a dedicated team to safeguard your business. And that's not all! Gain access to free legal consultations with seasoned eCommerce attorneys. With no binding contracts, you can cancel anytime with just a month's notice. Consider Seller Basics your Amazon account's comprehensive health plan. For more information visit https://www.sellerbasics.com   *All conversations and information exchanged on the Lunch with Norm podcast or interaction on the Lunch with Norm Website is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. Do not confuse this with advice or direction with your business per se. Always do your own research before following advice from any podcast/website. Amazon's Terms of Service is always changing. Make sure you are following relevant up-to-date information.

In this episode of Lunch with Norm, Norm Farrar welcomes back Melissa Simonson. We'll be discussing how you can be your very own content creator for your brand. Make your profits bright this holiday season with Walmart Marketplace. Sign up today.  Join the Beard Nation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithnorm Sign up for our Newsletter - https://lunchwithnorm.beehiiv.com/   More about Melissa... Melissa, a seasoned eCommerce veteran, has transitioned from writing product descriptions in the early 2000s to becoming a viral content creator on TikTok. Her recent videos have landed her in major publications like People Magazine, Glamour, and Newsweek as she promotes healthy, organic alternatives through TikTok Shop. With a focus on sustainable products made from study-backed medicinal herbs, she's proving that even the most experienced in eCommerce can find a new calling. Now, she's on a mission to bring these innovative, natural products to the masses.   This episode is brought to you by Stack Influence: Send free products to Micro-Influencers using the platform Stack Influence which automates Micro-Influencer collaborations at scale (get thousands of collabs per month) and increase your Amazon growth, generate UGC, and boost up your brand awareness like never before.     Top Amazon brands like Magic Spoon, Unilever, and MaryRuth Organics have been able to get to #1 page positioning on Amazon and increase their monthly revenue as high as 13X in as little as 2 months. Pay influencers only with products (stop negotiating fees) Increase external traffic Amazon sales (get to top page rankings) Get full rights image/video UGC (build your brand with authentic content) 100% automated management (don't lift a finger to get influencer collabs at scale)    Don't believe it? Check out the results from the Blueland Micro Influencer campaign which generated a 13X ROI scaling up influencers on Amazon. After successfully raising investment on Shark Tank Blueland turned to Stack Influence to boost their Amazon sales and become a top selling listing using Micro Influencer marketing.   Increase your Amazon listings ranking for targeted keywords before the holiday season is upon us! Get 10% OFF signing up in October.     This episode is brought to you by Startup Club: Startup Club is the largest club on Clubhouse supporting the Startup ecosystem. Startup Club offers an exciting sense of belonging to established and aspiring entrepreneurs, startup businesses, and companies wanting to Learn, Connect, and Grow. Join us for conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, subject matter experts, and more. For more information visit https://Startup.club This episode is brought to you by Seller Basics: Seller Basics is the ultimate guardian for account suspensions, ASIN hiccups, and IP headaches. For only $99 per month, Seller Basics provides a dedicated team to safeguard your business. And that's not all! Gain access to free legal consultations with seasoned eCommerce attorneys. With no binding contracts, you can cancel anytime with just a month's notice. Consider Seller Basics your Amazon account's comprehensive health plan. For more information visit https://www.sellerbasics.com   *All conversations and information exchanged on the Lunch with Norm podcast or interaction on the Lunch with Norm Website is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. Do not confuse this with advice or direction with your business per se. Always do your own research before following advice from any podcast/website. Amazon's Terms of Service is always changing. Make sure you are following relevant up-to-date information.

Shoutout To The Man Dolf! Great conversation. Follow @RRCABANGAN.13X on Instagram to Keep Up With New Drops & Events Timestamps: 0:00 - Shoutout Dolf @RRCABANGAN 2:20 - The Origins Of The Brand "Anti" 4:30 - Covid Being A Blessing & A Curse 8:20 - Meaning Behind The "Anti" Name 10:20 - Taking A Step Back To Regroup 12:00 - "Not Everyone Will Like Your Designs" 14:30 - Original "Anti" Drop; Kid Cudi 16:30 - Appreciating Villains 18:00 - Selling Out First Drop; Continuing To Build 20:50 - Scottie Barnes Wearing "Anti" 21:45 - Cease & Desist From MLB 25:00 - High Quality Pieces 26:00 - Shoutout "Headless Forever" 28:00 - Organic Growth 31:45 - DJ Origins 39:20 - First Experience DJing At "Sari Not Sari" 41:30 - Being Humbled As A DJ 44:00 - Taking The Craft Seriously 45:00 - Humble Work 48:30 - Value Of Networking 50:30 - Carving Out Own Path 52:00 - Shoutout To The Toronto DJ Community 55:30 - Physical Demands Of Being A DJ 1:02:00 - Upcoming Events & Plans 1:03:30 - Shoutout Dolf - IG: @RRCABANGAN.13X Click the Below Links to Keep Up With New Versatile Vigilante content: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/VersatileVigilante/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/versatilevigilante Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/podcast/6rbWSYZP9asHUv431qHZfK/overview Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/versatile-vigilante/id1384221180?mt=2 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/VersatileVigilante

https://youtu.be/4VAyG-XPRbI Dave Fink is the CEO and Co-Founder of Postie, a marketing technology company that has transformed Direct Mail by enabling it to perform like a digital channel. We discuss the new age of direct mail marketing, why customers prefer direct mail over other marketing channels, and the benefits of testing everything in your business.   --- Resurrect Your Direct Mail Campaign With Dave Fink My guest is Dave Fink, the CEO and Cofounder of Postie. It's a marketing technology company that has transformed direct mail by enabling it to perform like a digital channel generating an over 13X return to its advertisers. Dave, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I have been looking forward to this. I'm very curious about how you did that. I long had a soft spot for direct mail, which I used extensively via my business fifteen years ago or longer now. It worked beautifully for a while, and then we moved over here to the States and it wasn't working very well. I always wondered why. I had a couple of ideas, but I saw it as a dying genre and you're reviving it. Can you tell me your story of becoming an entrepreneur, starting in the beauty industry with a couple of startups and then transitioning over to direct mail with Postie? How did that all play out? The synopsis version for the purpose of this conversation is that since about 1999, I had spent my entire career in the consumer internet space. I have had the fun and mental challenge of bouncing back and forth between marketing technology businesses and then consumer brands that relied heavily on marketing technology to provide an advantage. I have always been in the startup through rapid growth stage where efficiency matters, having some competitive advantage that allows your business to compete with much bigger and more established foundational businesses. It's mission-critical. At a relatively young age and early stage in my career, I learned that leveraging math, testing optimization, and data prediction in order to be very efficient with the way that you think about growth and scaling is an advantage that early-stage companies have. You touched on a number of topics there as we got started. One of those topics was direct mail or there are certain channels that are either not as utilized as they have been in the past. Our experience with the past years of building Postie, focusing specifically on the direct mail space, has suggested or enlightened us to the fact that that's not the case, but that is the case in two key company types. One of those company types are businesses that were created over the fifteen years or so in the digital era. Those businesses naturally were built on digital media channels. The technology and the innovation that has gone in those channels are remarkable. We all know that at this point. You had a bunch of relatively young and in some cases, inexperienced but very smart marketers that became quantitative at a very early age. They immediately jumped into the most innovative channels, which happened to be digital. They didn't move away from direct mail. It wasn't just the first channel that they went to. They didn't understand the systems that are required to make direct mail work. All along, this has been a $40 billion-a-year industry here in the US alone. It's still massive and highly effective. What we are trying to do is help by building innovation and technology that allows a channel to be managed no differently than you would manage any digital channel. We are trying to help marketers who did not grow up in a more analog world to be able to get the value out of the channel because it's so important right now as there have been consolidation and challenges on our core platforms like social and search. The reason I stopped here is because I want to make a note to myself. I wanted to ask questions that may be a little bit out of place here. In terms of the deliverability of direct mail,

In episode 50, Casey Clark, MBA, MA interviews Precious Williams - CEO of Perfect Pitches by Precious, 4X best-selling author, 13X national elevator pitch champion, and the "Pitch Queen", has been featured on "Shark Tank," CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence Magazine, the movie "LEAP." Her current clients include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NBCUniversal, Federal Reserve Bank, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, Harvard University, and more. She teaches people to slay the competition as a dynamic speaker and trainer. See just how she's thriving and helping others thrive in this episode!

We see practices selling at a range of 3.5-13X of EBITDA.  Where does that come from and what does it mean?

Ahh, election weekend in Australia.I’m still trying to decide if Labor won or The Liberals lost.What's clear is the country wants change and to move forward.Something I did find interesting is how much more informed the average voter is this election VS the last major election.The impacts of the last few years have certainly made Australians take voting and policy more seriously. (Which is a good thing)But more on that next week…In this episode:○ How does housing affordability affect Australian business owners?○ Green Metal mining - Mining boom 2.0○ What to do if your business can't support your wealth goals?○ How do you evaluate assets against each other to find the best option?If you prefer to listen to us discuss these topics, then check out the podcast on: https://linktr.ee/fullstackbusinessowner—————————WHAT HAPPENEDHousing affordability is at all-time lows in Australia.○ Not enough supply of new housing coming onto the market ○ Cost of building supplies keeps going up○ The government has a vested interest in house prices staying up as it generates a lot of tax revenue All in all, there is pressure coming from all angles pushing house prices up.In the past 2 years, the price of housing has far outpaced incomes.This is a trend that I don't see changing anytime soon…Why is this important to Australian business owners?One of the things that concerns me with housing affordability is that as people spend more of their income on housing, they typically spend less in the economy.This means less spending in businesses, like yours and mine.Which can really slow down the overall economy.However, I see some upside and opportunities that come with this.Something that I don't see anyone really talking about.As capital cities become less affordable, it will drive more people out of capital cities and into major regional areas. (which we are already seeing)Many highly talented workers who are leaving the capital cities are going to be looking for new jobs in those regions or they will have the ability to work from home.Plus they will be spending the money they make in those regional areas.This also means many businesses that were not viable in some regional areas due to population size will start becoming viable.Yep, hipster cafes will start popping up everywhere! I really think we could see regional businesses and the businesses that support the region's boom in the coming years.If your business has the potential to serve those regions or hire those people looking for new opportunities it could be your unfair advantage in the coming years.—————————WHAT HAPPENEDAustralian Mining boom 2.0 on the horizon with MASSIVE demand for “Green” resourcesAustralia is once again the lucky country.Turns out we have HUGE deposits of all the resources needed to take the world green.Yep… all the raw materials needed to build electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines.Demand for these resources is set to 13X in the coming years.I think we take for granted the amount of wealth created for Australia from mining.Much of our country's prosperity in the last 25 years has come from mining.Fun fact...Last financial year alone Australia did $300 Billion in mining exports.This is set to go SUBSTANTIALLY higher with the push to go greenWhy is this important to Australian business owners?Building a business with this type of economic tailwind behind you is a huge push!Nearly all businesses in Australia benefit from this economic backdrop.But.. let's take this a little further.The world is making a big shift towards green and you have the option to ride this wave.Think deeply about this.It’s not just the businesses in mining that benefit from this its the:○ businesses who support resources businesses ○ towns near the mines○ executives who buy new cars or go on more holidays○ businesses building green technology (batteries, solar panels, electric cars)This green shift will grease the wheels of many industries.—————————COMMUNITY QUESTIONWhat would you do if your business is not capable of supporting your wealth goals?In summary, you have to change!That might mean changing your current business or starting a new one. When I was 22 years old, I was a plumber making $100k a year.The problem was that $100k a year was never going to support my family nor give me the time to spend with them.I was terrified to change.I had a good income in a secure job.This build-up of pain eventually became so bad it was more painful to stay the same.I quit my job and went all-in on business, with very little experience.At the beginning of the change, it was a disaster.I lost money and felt like a failure.The number 1 thing that helped me though…Finding people who had done the thing and just modelling them.If your business can’t support your wealth goals, then find business owners in the same space who have achieved this and just start modelling.Shortcut the pain of trial and error by learning from someone who has done it.This is something I still do today!—————————COMMUNITY QUESTIONHow do you evaluate assets against each other to find the best option?First up this is not financial advice and only an opinion.SEEK THE SERVICES OF PROFESSIONALS, as we do not know your personal situation.Something that has changed me recently is how I think about evaluating assets against each other. I used to be very return focused.If I put $1,000 into “X” -vs- “Y”, what would the difference be?And I think many people start with that type of thinking.It's purely about the capital return.Today, I think of it more from a business point of view.What opportunities are best for my “wealth business”It's kind of like this.If you have a marketing agency and an opportunity comes up to buy another marketing agency.It might be a great opportunity because you know how to run that business + have the team and resources to leverage into that deal.However…If an opportunity comes up to buy a logistics business… not so much.Even if the logistics business is super-cheap, it is probably not the deal for you. My point.I'm playing to my strengths and you should too.—————————THOUGHTSWhat are we pondering?CharleyI'm currently in the stage of planning for a 2nd kid.What came as a surprise was the real cost per month, per kid, when you dig into the details.I had estimated it would be about $1,500 per month per kid.(Housing, food, clothing, entertainment, care/education)When I did the maths…It’s closer to $2,500 per kid. (WOW)This is one of those times I am incredibly grateful to be a business owner and have the option to earn more!GrantAfter spending some nights out with his network Grant has some growing concerns for the economy.Not in a “doom or gloom” kinda way.More about him looking to build up some cash reserves to make the most of unique opportunities that might present themselves in the coming year.—————————UPCOMINGNext episode….Be on the lookout for next week's newsletter as I will be covering how business owners will win/lose from the recent election results.I think you might be surprised by how much who is in government affects YOUR business.Episode Highlights:00:00 Welcome to Full Stack Business Owner01:24 How housing affordability affects business owners20:48 Australian Mining boom 2.0. Green metals31:01 Shoutout to the Full Stack Business Owner Community32:42 What if your business can't support your wealth goals?41:11 How do you evaluate assets against each other to find the best option?50:20 What Charley is thinking about55:37 What Grant is thinking aboutIf you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, tune in and share this podcast! 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This opening statement will immediately lose me about a quarter of the reading public, but someone has to say it:Boomers are to blame for at least half the world's current troubles.They plunged us into generational wars in the Middle East.They ditched the gold standard and skyrocketed inflation.They caused the Great Recession.They caused the current housing crisis and asset bubble.They approved and racked up $29 trillion in federal debt.They set the time bomb that is Social Security.They killed two-thirds of all wildlife on earth.They caused the climate change that's ravaging our planet.And they've been turning a profit from it the whole time.Don't believe me?Just Google any Fortune 500 and take a look at its board of directors, C-suite officers, and major shareholders.While I won't go quite so far as one author who argues compellingly that they are a generation of sociopaths who betrayed America, did you know that Boomers are statistically low on empathy? (Just wait ‘til the comments on this article roll in.) Blame the lead, asbestos, and hairspray if you must — but at least acknowledge the reality that:a.) life is hard for everyone, and b.) on average, no one has had it easier.Never has a generation extracted so much from a planet and the next generation. Their behaviors and policies are unlike any generation before or after them. They live by the code of “me first and damn the consequences.” Since they took control of Congress in the eighties, they've refused to invest in research and development, education, healthcare, crime prevention, or even basic maintenance to the nation's crumbling infrastructure.A writer for CNBC says Millennials will inherit $68 trillion from Boomers in the next eight years, but evidently, the not-so-sharp reporter forgot that there's a whole other generation between Boomers and Millennials.Also, quick newsflash: Boomers aren't leaving a cent to their Gen X kids. They're in amazing shape thanks to medical advances, so they're golfing and cruising far longer, and when they do eventually slow down, they'll burn whatever's left of their runway on wildly-overpriced old folks' homes and end-of-life care, eventually relying on their kids to cover the shortfall.The Me Generation took a free trip at the planet's expense and is hellbent on taking the rest of it with them.And you're paying for it.Here are the four big mechanisms by which they're forcing future generations to bankroll their ride into the sunset:1. EducationNot that you even needed a post-secondary education (only 12% went), but when Boomers went off to university, it literally cost pennies.Now, thanks to education inflation, students “need” a six-figure master's degree just to serve coffee for minimum wage.And those degrees will literally cost them a decade or more of debt servitude to pay off. The total US student debt is now at a staggering $1.75 trillion, and it's still climbing like an American Gladiator being shot with tennis balls.Did I mention that the federal student debt program somehow loses the government over $100 billion per year? Take a guess which taxpayers will be footing the bill…2. WorkWhen Boomers left college (or high school, or even grade school), they went straight to work at union jobs that enjoyed steady wage increases for the entire duration of their careers.Now, armed with several degrees and desperate to pay off their student loans, young people are reluctantly going to work for corporate socialists, money-losing zombie disruptors, multinational tax evaders, or predatory gig companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure they never have employee rights, all to enrich the shareholders of multinational predator corporations who continue to undermine worker rights and political democracy.3. HousingIn the Carey Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the protagonist goes exorbitantly over-budget and ends up building a house that cost a then-unheard-of 2.5 times his annual salary.That's Boomerdom in a nutshell.When Boomers bought their first houses, they only cost about two or three times their annual single-earner average income. Now that Boomers can't find ways to contribute to the productive economy, they've turned to real estate as a sure-fire way to extract wealth from productive young people, hoovering up Airbnbs, rental properties, and condos, enjoying skyrocketing property “values” thanks to purposefully-restricted supply.Now, as they get ready to make their exit, they expect “the kids” to pay absurd prices for crumbling housing stock, leaving the oldies cash-rich and the rest noosed for life.Meanwhile, young people are battling bloated consumer prices and crushing rent in all fifty states, forcing them to save more and for far longer, before eventually purchasing an outrageously overpriced house — fourteen times higher than what Boomers paid — by taking on a lifetime of bank debt.4. TaxesSocial Security is the biggest pyramid scheme (and ticking time bomb) in human history.Before Boomers, 32% of federal tax dollars were spent on investments. Today, forty percent of government spending gets incinerated by social insurance, retirement, health benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid. By 2030, entitlements will devour 61% of public funding, crippling the nation for generations to come.Boomer-controlled Congress forces contributing workers to pay for it mostly through payroll taxes, yet the fund is conveniently expected to run dry in 2034 when the median Boomer is dead.Guess who's going to enjoy massive, lifelong increases in taxation to fund the shortfall for Gen X, yet almost certainly end up with nothing left when it's time for them to retire at age 88?You.And even if you know how to evade taxes like a billionaire, they're already taxing you an extra 10+% another way: Through that wealth-robbing silent tax called inflation.You are their exit planIf you are under the age of forty, you are being systematically compelled to bankroll people over the age of sixty in more ways than you can imagine:You are expected to work for low wages at their companies.You are expected to hand over a huge portion of those over-taxed wages to rent their income properties.You are expected to turn a profit for the companies in their stock portfolio.You are expected to buy their overpriced houses when they decide to sell.You are expected to finance that massive purchase by paying them interest for much of your adult life.You are expected to shoulder the national debt they're so happily expanding by billions every day.You are expected to fork over a huge portion of your income as taxation to support their favored programs (including neverending wars and subsidizing their largest corporations.)You are expected to use a currency that they're constantly devaluing.You are expected to pay into the pyramid schemes to fund their retirements.No wonder Millennials are four times poorer than Boomers at their age.In all fairness…Some of the nicest people I know are Boomers. And some of Surviving Tomorrow's most committed readers are folks aged 60+ who are working hard to right the wrongs of their peers.And, sadly, there are millions of Boomers who've had genuinely horrible lives and have struggled to survive every single day of their existence. They know what it's like to be a Millennial, Gen Zer, or Gen Alpha(-er?)Life under Boomer corporatism is a hard struggle. I've witnessed it with my own grandparents and wife's grandparents. Old age care and the government literally bankrupted the four most beloved elders in my life.So I know it's not all Boomers that are to blame for exploiting the next generation. Society should have changed its systems to treat them far better, and it definitely needs to learn from the past and not repeat those same mistakes again on a 100+ million-person scale.Instead, what are Boomers leaving behind?The biggest national debt in human history, an unaddressed climate disaster, a Social Security insolvency crisis, and a nation enslaved in generational debt to multinational predator corporations. Well done, folks.Again, not everything can be blamed on Boomers — their parents invented the atomic bomb, after all. And my generation, Millennials, will have to answer for addicting a generation to hardcore pornography, time-devouring social media, and the addictive loneliness machine called the metaverse.We can fix thisAnd it's really not even that complicated:To fix education: Declare a student debt jubilee so they can spend that wasted money into the productive economy, then invest in education by extending publically-funded education through university… and reap a 13X return on investment for doing so.To fix work: Create a legit-living-wage-plus-benefits job guarantee so “the market” (aka democracy) forces predatory corporations to treat workers like human employees instead of dogs.To fix housing: Make homeownership permanently affordable by banning Airbnb, for-profit residential land-lording, and investment in residential real estate, plus smash the zoning boards and allow the private sector to construct tens of millions of affordable owner-occupied-only eco-homes.To fix taxation: Freeze tax increases and this insane money printing, get rid of almost all government services, and replace them with unconditional, asset-funded, universal basic income.But of course, none of this will happen because a literal dementia patient sits in the Oval Office, and Boomer-controlled corporations run Boomer-controlled Congress.Instead, Gen Z and Gen Alpha get to look forward to a lifetime of extreme student debt, demoralizing underpaid lifelong wage-slavery to enrich democracy-destroying corporate elites, completely out-of-reach homeownership, outrageous taxes, and wealth-destroying inflation.No wonder a growing number of young people hope older folks die miserable and impoverished— it's how they're being forced to live their entire lives. Get full access to Surviving Tomorrow at www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe

The night before the start of the 2021 TTPOA SWAT Competition....! We sit down with TTPOA Board members and two team members of the San Antonio SWAT Team.  San Antonio is a 13X winner of the competition and you'll understand why after you listen to this episode...  Good Luck to all teams... Stay Safe and Train Hard...!!!

Religion or one's spiritual practice are the center of one's understanding of themselves in relation to the world within which they live. It is indeed the essence of who are. And for better or worse contextualizes and informs our identity. The development of practices and/or rituals that seek to help us understand the relationship between humanity, nature, and the universe are both a science and an art. When exploring the contours and continuities of Africana radical traditions, religion and/or spirituality or spiritual practices are often explored in relation to Western European traditions, in many ways, intentionally. The project to situate mainstream denominational formations at the center of the Africana religious experience began as a retort to those who claimed that Africa had no religion—only fetishism (Pietz 1988, 105–123). More than this, it has operated to silence traditions that have fallen outside regnant post-Enlightenment understandings of religion as “faith”. This has meant that, for the better part of a century, religion has been deemed synonymous with Christianity, and the institutional Black Church, in the U.S, in particular (Pérez, 2014: 82). Yet, Africa, still flashes through. There have been calls to reevaluate the grand narratives of Eurocentric religious thought and entertain the viability of de-centering the Black Church (Pérez, 2014: 93). I mean, was it not Cécile Fatiman, a mambo, and Dutty Boukman, a houngan, presiding over a Vodoun ceremony that gave direction and energy to Africans to free themselves in Haiti? What about our maroon ancestors? In Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating Black ‘Cults and Sects' in African-American Religious History, Pérez argues that it is imperative to de-center the Black church in order to approach the heterogeneity and richness of lived religion…” (73). In relation to the Black radical tradition and Islam, specifically what's considered its unorthodox formations, little attention is given. Accordingly, narrow conceptualizations of Islam, or any spiritual practices of Africana peoples for that matter, marginalizes the impact of unorthodox communities. We miss the fact that Clarence 13X, Father Allah, a dissident follower of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, use the “Black God trope that 13X learned from El Shabazz to articulate their humanist worldview” (Collins, A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith's Embodied Black God Rhetoric, 2020). In the final analysis, a historical consciousness that does not inform a radical imagination that invents paths to an African future is counterproductive to liberation. Today, we will explore, contextually, Islam and the Black radical tradition. AWNP's, Dr. Tasneem Siddiqui is in conversation with Dr. Bilal Ware. Dr. Rudolph (Bilal) Ware is a historian of Africa and Islam. He is currently an associate professor at the UC-Santa Barbara, and the founding director of the Initiative for the Study of Race, Religion, and Revolution (ISRRAR). His first book, The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, explores the history of a thousand years of Quran schooling in the region. His research and teaching examines Muslim anti-slavery movements in Africa and the Atlantic World. His most recent book, Jihad of the Pen: Sufi Thought in West Africa, with co-authors Zakary Wright and Amir Syed, explores Sufi thought in West Africa. Dr. Ware is currently working on: Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in Islamic West Africa; and The First Atlantic Revolution: Islam, Abolition, & Republic in West Africa c. 1776. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples!

On the 139th Episode of #FlipDaScript, The Duo sits down with Allah B, Allah B is a 5 percenter who has been around since the beginning & takes us on his journey for 3 hours & IN THIS CLIP, he opens up about meeting Clarence 13X & being taught by him personally & being responsible for the Bronx & he also brings us to the night Mr 13X passed away, He tells us that government was sued by MLK family for taking part in his death #PRESSPLAY

从格力电器到老板电器来自泠然1608的雪球原创专栏主播：小陆大体算了一下，约30%的仓位在家电行业，其中主要是较重仓位的格力电器（000651.SZ）和较轻仓位的老板电器（002508.SZ），老板的持仓市值是格力的六分之一左右。今天，格力和老板联袂大涨。格力是因为混改落地，转让方选定高瓴资本且高瓴意向协同管理层一起。老板则是因为业绩造好，营业收入单季度重回双位数增长。其实老板电器的业绩市场应该早有预期，因为此前很多投资者调研活动中，公司已经明确表达了高负荷生产和销售向好的情况。这些我们不再赘述，分享一下买入它俩的过程中一脉相承的思考逻辑。2015年下半年，空调市场调整，格力业绩下滑，市场预期转向悲观、估值也下降将近一半。这个过程中我们认为格力长期竞争力没有问题买入格力。无独有偶，2018年初，因房地产市场冰封，厨电行业业绩下滑，市场对老板的预期悲观也给了我们机会。先介绍一下2018年之前的老板电器，2010年到2016年，老板营收长期保持25%-35%之间的增长率；为了匹配这个增长率，市场给予公司长期30X左右的市盈率。2017年第四季度和2018年第一季度，公司营收开始增速下滑到20%以下；与此同时，估值开始下滑到20X市盈率之下。老板一下子从成长白马沦为过街老鼠，股价走势上也从“戴维斯双击”变成了“戴维斯双杀”。但老板真的已经不行了吗？能在油烟机等厨电做到垄断的老板，真的没了品牌优势吗？我们的调研却是截然相反，老板在较高端市场依然制霸，且品牌形象深入人心。更重要的是，管理层对行业清晰的认识和稳健的战略决策也让我们安心。房地产调控带来行业短时困难，优秀的龙头公司会有能力率先走出困境；同时，充分利用老板的名声和品牌优势在精装和工程领域大举布局，叠加精装房本身大比例提升，老板有能力维持销售和行业地位。所以，我们在老板15X市盈率估值附近逐步左侧买入，公司最低跌到13X估值。在高增长阶段给予公司高估值的投资者和在公司短期困难给予公司较低估值的投资者是同一波人，他们的情绪转变给了我们机会。至于为什么我们老板持仓并不重呢？第一18年末格力、平安、银行、地产也出现较大幅度调整，我们倾向于保持重仓股在当时阶段的持股比例；第二老板最低13X左右估值，并不是十分低，没有给我们“黄金”机会。2019年初，老板出现大幅上涨，我们并没有太开心，因为我们还在等待验证我们思考逻辑的经营数据拐点。终于，这在2019年第三季度到来，单季同比，营业收入增速10%，扣非净利润增速22%。且精装领域和线上都维持较大优势，老板用了一年多时间完成了渠道变革，为未来打下良好的基础。接下来，公司还将面临较激烈的竞争，但我们知道公司的“护城河”没有问题。细究起来，格力和老板的买入逻辑如出一辙。高护城河垄断公司，在行业短期调整中因业绩波动市场压低其估值，然后业绩拐点后估值回升。以后还会有这种机会吗？肯定还会有很多。但请将对行业和公司的理解与深入研究放在首位，否则太容易“画虎不成反类犬”了。因为有更多公司，业绩下滑可能持续数年乃至更久作者：泠然1608链接：https://xueqiu.com/8007137536/134827549来源：雪球著作权归作者所有。商业转载请联系作者获得授权，非商业转载请注明出处。

从格力电器到老板电器来自泠然1608的雪球原创专栏主播：小陆大体算了一下，约30%的仓位在家电行业，其中主要是较重仓位的格力电器（000651.SZ）和较轻仓位的老板电器（002508.SZ），老板的持仓市值是格力的六分之一左右。今天，格力和老板联袂大涨。格力是因为混改落地，转让方选定高瓴资本且高瓴意向协同管理层一起。老板则是因为业绩造好，营业收入单季度重回双位数增长。其实老板电器的业绩市场应该早有预期，因为此前很多投资者调研活动中，公司已经明确表达了高负荷生产和销售向好的情况。这些我们不再赘述，分享一下买入它俩的过程中一脉相承的思考逻辑。2015年下半年，空调市场调整，格力业绩下滑，市场预期转向悲观、估值也下降将近一半。这个过程中我们认为格力长期竞争力没有问题买入格力。无独有偶，2018年初，因房地产市场冰封，厨电行业业绩下滑，市场对老板的预期悲观也给了我们机会。先介绍一下2018年之前的老板电器，2010年到2016年，老板营收长期保持25%-35%之间的增长率；为了匹配这个增长率，市场给予公司长期30X左右的市盈率。2017年第四季度和2018年第一季度，公司营收开始增速下滑到20%以下；与此同时，估值开始下滑到20X市盈率之下。老板一下子从成长白马沦为过街老鼠，股价走势上也从“戴维斯双击”变成了“戴维斯双杀”。但老板真的已经不行了吗？能在油烟机等厨电做到垄断的老板，真的没了品牌优势吗？我们的调研却是截然相反，老板在较高端市场依然制霸，且品牌形象深入人心。更重要的是，管理层对行业清晰的认识和稳健的战略决策也让我们安心。房地产调控带来行业短时困难，优秀的龙头公司会有能力率先走出困境；同时，充分利用老板的名声和品牌优势在精装和工程领域大举布局，叠加精装房本身大比例提升，老板有能力维持销售和行业地位。所以，我们在老板15X市盈率估值附近逐步左侧买入，公司最低跌到13X估值。在高增长阶段给予公司高估值的投资者和在公司短期困难给予公司较低估值的投资者是同一波人，他们的情绪转变给了我们机会。至于为什么我们老板持仓并不重呢？第一18年末格力、平安、银行、地产也出现较大幅度调整，我们倾向于保持重仓股在当时阶段的持股比例；第二老板最低13X左右估值，并不是十分低，没有给我们“黄金”机会。2019年初，老板出现大幅上涨，我们并没有太开心，因为我们还在等待验证我们思考逻辑的经营数据拐点。终于，这在2019年第三季度到来，单季同比，营业收入增速10%，扣非净利润增速22%。且精装领域和线上都维持较大优势，老板用了一年多时间完成了渠道变革，为未来打下良好的基础。接下来，公司还将面临较激烈的竞争，但我们知道公司的“护城河”没有问题。细究起来，格力和老板的买入逻辑如出一辙。高护城河垄断公司，在行业短期调整中因业绩波动市场压低其估值，然后业绩拐点后估值回升。以后还会有这种机会吗？肯定还会有很多。但请将对行业和公司的理解与深入研究放在首位，否则太容易“画虎不成反类犬”了。因为有更多公司，业绩下滑可能持续数年乃至更久作者：泠然1608链接：https://xueqiu.com/8007137536/134827549来源：雪球著作权归作者所有。商业转载请联系作者获得授权，非商业转载请注明出处。

Coach Micheal Burt has become the go-to business coach for top performers around the world. The 13X best selling author of power books such as “Million Dollar Follow Up,” and “Inside the Mind of a Monster,” Burt knows how to “inner engineer” people to win at the highest levels. With a deep methodology in coaching the whole person, this former Championship Women's Basketball coach retired at age 31 to create the coaching program Monster Producer which has quickly grown to over 700 participants around the world. You'll want to dig into this episode because we cover so many great strategies. One that was key for me was this idea of finding your unique ability. Start out by finding what you're passionate about it. Identify what things get you excited, which ones others can hear it in your voice and where you know that you've got something special. We dig into how Coach Burt applies this within his life and how it was key to him deciding what he'd dedicate his life to. Recommended Book: https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/1451639619/ Find out more at: https://www.coachburt.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/CoachMichealBurt https://www.instagram.com/michealburt Make sure to join the insider club by heading to https://theinvestormindset.com

Some artists paint. Some sculpt. Some glue things together, and Rick Styczynski - owner of 13X Studios - has unleashed a series of hand decorated hockey masks into the world, and boy- have they ever made a splash! His masks have garnered him deals with Kevin Smith, Kane Hodder, and a handful of other celebrities who have signed lucrative deals with Rick to create custom masks for their own brands. Today, Rick will dive into how he got started and how he grew his business so quickly!

Amazon EC2 P3 instances offer up to eight of the latest NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, with up to 13X the speed of previous generation GPU instances. In this session, learn from Airbnb how they use machine learning to make their services smarter and more engaging for their customers and how they are using P3 instances to dramatically lower training time of their machine learning models while optimize costs.

EAs have traditionally focused on the plight of factory farmed animals in the US. But there are many more globally: about 13X as many land farmed animals, and roughly 140X as many farmed fish. What can we do to help them? I’ll explore the opportunities in China, Brazil, India, and other major emerging economies. Source: … Continue reading EAG 2017 SF: Global Farm Animal Welfare Opportunities (Lewis Bollard)

OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis. SPONSOR Ads Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=cotememo&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=cotememo&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/). FRONTSIDE.IO – HIRE THEM! (http://frontside.io/cote) Do you need some developer talent? When you have a web project that needs the "A Team," call The Frontside (http://frontside.io/cote). They've spent years honing their tools and techniques that give their clients cutting-edge web applications without losing a night's sleep. Learn more at http://frontside.io/cote (http://frontside.io/cote) Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here's what I got today: Get 30% off OSCON (http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us), in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE. Get 15% off DevOpsDays Seattle (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/), May 12th and 13th, when you register with the code SOFTWARETALK. I'll be there staffing the Pivotal table and also giving an ignite talk. Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/attend/?summitId=10016), May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://youtu.be/x2ClCSW_sks). Agile and Beyond conference (http://agileandbeyond.com/2016/) OpenStack Coté's developer relations and marketing panel (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889) - see sample of questions (http://drunkandretired.com/post/143486274111/im-moderating-a-panel-tomorrow-at-the-openstack). Big name membership momentum from @alsadowski (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889) Also, 451 market-size estimates (https://twitter.com/cote/status/725374178191265792): 2013: $486m; 2015: $1.2bn; 2018E: $3.37bn Docker Survey out - #WhatDoYouMakeOfThat Get the PDF (https://goto.docker.com/rs/929-FJL-178/images/Docker-Survey-2016.pdf) Respondents are the HN set? - 511 respondents, 59% from software companies, 56% orgs less than 100 employees, 47% devs or dev managers 51% in production "survey respondents reported on average a 13X increase in frequency of software releases." "Because Docker makes it simple and easy to push software out, isolate issues and roll back, over 63% of organizations report a reduction in their MTTR which impacts overall software quality and customer satisfaction." Cloud about to get HUGE "CIOs report that 16.2% of workloads are currently running in the public cloud, and that in five years 41.3% of workloads will run in a public cloud. This suggests at least a 20% CAGR in public cloud workloads over the next five years. In our view, a near- tripling of the public-Cloud-based workload mix represents a monumental architectural shift, which shows no signs of abating and is likely to create a major ripple effect across the entire technology landscape." - "Amazon Seeing 'Momentous' Change of Guard as Public Cloud 'Booms,' Says JP Morgan" (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/04/14/amazon-seeing-momentous-change-of-guard-as-public-cloud-booms-says-jp-morgan/) How does Wall Street work, again? A Rolex-level of "failure" (https://500ish.com/a-flop-unlike-any-other-c15545c985b5#.skx53yiw9) Back of the Envelop podcast (http://thebackoftheenvelope.tumblr.com/) - where Ed used to teach Coté about how money works. Cisco OSpod podcast (http://www.nextcast.net/openstackpod-events/michael-cot-director-of-technical-marketing-at-pivotal-software-on-ospod-at-openstack-summit-austin-2016) Dan Lyons book (http://amzn.to/1Tz9y0b) - candy walls and HubSpot. Feedback & Follow-up Full Snack Developer: Old Bay Seasoning on French Fries (https://twitter.com/rlangford77/status/723662056117784576) - that is Coté's new God. Mesos is fleet management (https://twitter.com/ryan_maclean/status/723667528782737408). How's that one handle on the curves? Chapters in podcasts. I used Chapter app (http://chaptersapp.com/) and it was better than the half-ass results with Fission (https://rogueamoeba.com/fission/). But, still, the marks didn't line up perfectly. Computers - amiright? (Don't get me wrong: Fission is awesome, but: really?) We should be in Google Play Podcasts - can someone verify this before they EOL it? I heard that two people have used the code CF16COTE to register for the CF Summit. I'm going to believe they're from the listeners here and not my newsletter. HOW YOU LIKE MY CPM NOW?! They love us in Brazil! Recommendations Brandon: TICKR heart-rate monitor (http://amzn.to/1STPmZX). Matt: Public cloud (www.slideshare.net/mattray/why-not-public-cloud). Also: renting your house is hard. Coté: OH YEAH! (https://twitter.com/imgur/status/725459722241892352)

Join Sandy Warr as she takes a trip on the 13X, our spectacular bus ride between Brighton, Seaford and Eastbourne. It must surely be one of the most scenic bus routes in all of England!