Podcasts about All Directions

For this episode of MHD Off The Record's City in All Directions, we take you through Los Angeles City Council District 1 and spotlight places in the City of Los Angeles where you can eat, learn, and play! From hidden gems to community favorites, we're here to connect you with local spots, resources, and opportunities that enrich life across the city. So, if you're looking to eat a great meal, develop a new skill, or just have a good time, here, we explore how each LA City Council District shines in every direction. Council District 1 is represented by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. This district stretches across many neighborhoods including but not limited to Highland Park, Westlake, Chinatown, and Pico-Union. Known for its rich culture and history, District 1 is a hub for art, food, and community.Resources:District Website: cd1.lacity.govEat: Mama's International Tameles (also known as Mama's Tameles & Pupusas)Website: ordermamasinternationaltamales.comInstagram: @mamastamalesLearn: Audubon Center at Debs ParkWebsite: debspark.audubon.orgPlay: LA State Historic ParkWebsite: lastatehistoricpark.org

MHD Off The Record's 'City in All Directions' highlights the best places to eat, learn, and play throughout Los Angeles. From hidden gems to community favorites, this segment connects listeners with local spots, resources, and opportunities that enrich life across the city. For this episode of City in All Directions, we take a trip through Council District 3, represented by Council President Pro Tempore Bob Blumenfield. This district includes neighborhoods such as Woodland Hills, Reseda, and Canoga Park.Resources:District Website: cd3.lacity.govEat: Follow Your Heart Market & CafeWebsite: followyourheart.com/follow-your-heart-market-and-cafeLearn: Leonis Adobe MuseumWebsite: www.leonisadobemuseum.orgPlay: Lanark SkateparkAddress: 21816 Lanark St, Canoga Park, CA 91304

MHD Off The Record's 'City in All Directions' highlights the best places to eat, learn, and play throughout Los Angeles. From hidden gems to community favorites, this segment connects listeners with local spots, resources, and opportunities that enrich life across the city. For this episode of City in All Directions, we're heading to the Westside of LA to explore Council District 11, represented by Councilmember Traci Park. This district covers some of LA's most famous neighborhoods like Venice, Playa del Rey, Westchester, Mar Vista, Ladera, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Playa Vista, and Sawtelle.Resources:District Website: cd11.lacity.govEat/Learn: Sawtelle JapantownTsujita LA Artisan - www.tsujita.com/sawtelle-laSushi Tsujita - www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-tsujita-los-angelesIzakaya Sasaya - izakaya-sasaya.comJapanese Institute of Sawtelle - sites.google.com/sawtellegakuin.org/jisLearn/Play: Will Rogers State ParkWebsite: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=626Play/Learn: Electric LodgeWebsite: www.electriclodge.orgAddress: 1416 Electric Ave, Venice, CA 90291Phone: (310) 306-1854

MHD Off The Record's 'City in All Directions' highlights the best places to eat, learn, and play throughout Los Angeles. From hidden gems to community favorites, this segment connects listeners with local spots, resources, and opportunities that enrich life across the city. For our first episode of City in All Directions, we're heading to the heart of the San Fernando Valley to explore Council District 6, represented by Councilmember Imelda Padilla. This district covers a diverse range of neighborhoods, including Sun Valley, Panorama City, Arleta, and Lake Balboa.ResourcesDistrict website: Eat: El Carrusel BakeryWebsite: carruselbakery.comLocations in District:VAN NUYS14851 Victory Blvd Van Nuys, CA 91411(818) 988-3797ARLETA13923 Van Nuys Blvd Arleta, CA 91331(818) 896-7999Learn: Valley Relics MuseumWebsite: valleyrelicsmuseum.orgLocation in District:Van Nuys Airport7900 Balboa Blvd. Lake Balboa, CA 91406Hangar C 3 & 4Play: Sepulveda BasinWebsites:www.laparks.org/park/sepulveda-basin-sports-complex www.laparks.org/aquatic/balboalariverrecreation.org/sepulveda-basin-river-recreation-zoneengineering.lacity.gov/sepulveda-basin-vision-plan-final-plan-availablethejapanesegarden.com

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Jesus, Psychedelics and Unconditional Love With James Eschleman-Founder The Center of All Directions

Today's episode includes discussions of mental health and suicide. If you're in immediate danger or need urgent medical support, call 9-1-1.If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text 9-8-8. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.If you're experiencing family or gender-based violence, you can access a crisis line in your province or territory.Matt talks with comedian and mental health advocate, Big Daddy Tazz about talking about mental health on stage, testing out jokes and how his views of comedy have changed over time.Big Daddy Tazz's Website: https://bigdaddytazz.com/Matt Falk's Links: https://linktr.ee/mattfalkCould you leave us a review?Credit: Music: https://www.purple-planet.comMy guest today is a stand-up comedian and mental health advocate.For over 3 decades he's been entertaining audiences across the globe. He's done Telvisied Galas for the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy Festival in Montreal and The Winnipeg Comedy festival. He's played the Great Plains Comedy Festival, Calgary Funny Fest, The Moncton Comedy Fest and on and on.He's got a CTV Comedy Now special, numerous appearances on CBC, Global TV, The Comedy Network and Star TV.He's done the Debaters, Madly off in All Directions and Comedy Clubs all over from The Comedy Store in LA to Punchlines in Vancouver to Rumors Comedy Club in Winnipeg.For over 20 years he's presented the massive Big Daddy Tazz & Friends Comedy Night which brings together Hilarios comics and raises money for local charities.Notably, in 2008 he was the world record holder for longest stand-up comedy show at eight and a half hours.Last year he headed to Ottawa to receive the John Candy Award for his work in the fields of comedy and mental health.It's…BIG DADDY TAZZ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

LifeBlood: We talked about going on a psychedelic journey, what that means, how it works, who it's a good fit for, and what happens on that journey, with James Eshleman, Psychedelic guide at the Center of All Directions.        Listen to learn what you stand to benefit from a psychedelic experience! You can learn more about James at CenterOfAllDirections.com, Instagram, and LinkedIn Thanks, as always for listening! If you got some value and enjoyed the show, please leave us a review here: ​​https://ratethispodcast.com/lifebloodpodcast You can learn more about us at LifeBlood.Live, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook or you'd like to be a guest on the show, contact us at contact@LifeBlood.Live.  Stay up to date by getting our monthly updates. Want to say “Thanks!” You can buy us a cup of coffee. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeblood

The Godfather of Curiosity: Shaking The Paradigm . As a boy with dyslexia who loved to learn, reading was a struggle for me. However, I was fortunate to have grown up during the golden age of TV. . Watching shows that exposed me to new ways of thinking and understanding, I was able to feed my insatiable curiosity. . One of my favorite shows was the BBC1 science series "Tomorrow's World." Later, I came across the ten-part documentary series #Connections, broadcast on the BBC and PBS in the United States. . Connections traced the historical relationships between invention and discovery. Each episode chronicled a particular path of technological development. Connections was the most-watched PBS television series up to that time. It was followed by the twenty-part Connections 2 (1994) and the ten-part Connections 3 (1997) . Our esteemed guest, James Burke, and his partner created these shows. Professor James Burke has been a regular writer for Scientific American, Time, and a consultant to the SETI project. James is also the host of the upcoming series of Curiosity Stream, The 4th Connection. . James Burke is an award-winning science historian and documentary filmmaker. He was the BBC chief reporter on Apollo 11. For over fifty years, he has produced and hosted many TV series for the BBC, PBS, and Discovery. The Washington Post described him as “One of the most intriguing minds in the Western world.” However, I would describe him as the Godfather of my Curiosity. . Websites: James Burke BBC: https://tinyurl.com/JamesBurkeCollection Amazon Books: https://tinyurl.com/JamesBurkeBooks . Part 2) How Cheaper Booze Birthed the Industrial Revolution Going in All Directions at Once   Facilitating Cultural Awakenings   Inventing Yourself   Yesterday's Fame   The Necessity to Examining Paradigms   The Omelette Universe   Neurons, Dendrites and Infinite Possibility   Looking for Anomalies   How Cheap Scotch Catalyzed the Industrial Revolution   . Dov Baron's brand new course has just been released on coursifyx.com/belonging ------------- Titled: "CREATING A CULTURE OF BELONGING." The course is separated into eight sections that will take you by the hand and walk you through exactly how to create a culture of belonging. Because: CREATING A CULTURE OF BELONGING MAXIMIZES PERSONAL AND CORPORATE SUCCESS. Get Ready to strap on the tanks and Dive Deep into, What it Takes to Create a Culture of Belonging in your organization! Curious to know more? coursifyx.com/belonging .  "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" #videopodcast #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #emotionsourcecode #neuroscience #emotional #meaning #emotional #logic #culture #curiosity #humanbehavior #purpose Are We Fixated on Solving Problems That No Longer Exist

Delivered by Father Peter Tukan, SDB from Salesian Don Bosco Gerak Boleng in Labuan Bajo, Diocese of Ruteng, Indonesia. Isaiah 4: 2-6; Rs psalm 122: 1-2.3-4a.4b-5.6-7.8-9; Matthew 8: 5-11 GOD'S CALL IS HEARD FROM ALL AROUND   The theme for our meditation today is: God's Call is Heard from All Directions. The parish priest's homily at Mass on the first Sunday of Advent highlighted the theme of self-preparation. In conclusion, the Pastor said that ultimately there are two groups of people who respond to God's call to prepare themselves. Those who prepare themselves are those who truly and wholeheartedly welcome the Lord. Meanwhile, those who don't prepare themselves are those who don't do it wholeheartedly.   After Mass there was a discussion in a family. The mother shared a good news to the whole family. Her husband and children almost believed that Mother's plan was to prepare for the Christmas celebration at home, the guests who would be invited, and then the New Year celebration for the entire extended family. But it turned out that the good news from mother was beyond all of their expectations. The news will not dampen their family's joyful celebration.   The good news was regarding one of their close neighbours, consisting of a husband and his wife and three children, who had decided to join the Catholic Church. The mother, who is also the activist of their local parish, will help the family with catechumen registration and subsequent preparations as necessary. What a good news comes at the beginning of Advent! In particular, today our readings proclaim that all corners of the world are listening to the voice of God's call, and they are following it.   In a narrow view, those who are usually expected to listen to God and obey it are those who already believe and are registered as members of the Congregation or the Church. This is the same as children who are required to obey and love their parents. Expecting such an attitude from children outside one's own family and even strangers is clearly impossible. The book of the prophet Isaiah clearly describes that a group of chosen and surviving people are the successors who defend the glory of God's house.   In the house of God Christ reigns supreme as the glorious king, king of all people. The Lord Jesus perfected that call to everyone on earth. He was sent by the Father to everyone, and not just to a few. So foreigners and unbelievers like the centurion in Capernaum also found a place in God's heart. In fact, he represents humanity from all corners of the earth who hear and come to meet God. This officer of the temple reminds us all that in this Advent period we diligently listen and come to God to receive blessings from Him.   Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O God, We pray and hope that by celebrating the first Sunday of Advent, we will continue to actively make preparations to welcome the solemnity of Christmas. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with you ... In the name of the Father... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/media-la-porta/message

In 1916, Mourning Dove gave an interview that described the book she had written as soon to be published, but it turned out to still be years away. Part two covers the years it took to get that book published, and her life after it.  Research: American Folklore Society. “Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket).” https://notablefolkloristsofcolor.org/portfolio/mourning-dove-hum-ishu-ma-christine-quintasket/ Arnold, Laurie. “More than Mourning Dove: Christine Quintasket—Activist, Leader, Public Intellectual.” Montana The Magazine of Western History, Spring 2017, Vol. 67, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26322854 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “Mourning Dove's Voice in ‘Cogewea.'” Wicazo Sa Review , Autumn, 1988, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Autumn, 1988). https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409273 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “The Evolution of Mourning Dove's Coyote Stories.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer/Fall 1992, Series 2, Vol. 4. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/20736610 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “The Evolution of Mourning Dove's Coyote Stories.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer/Fall 1992, Series 2, Vol. 4. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/20736610 Brown, Anna Kathleen. “Reviewed Work(s): Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove and Jay Miller; Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography by Jay Miller.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 3, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20736517  Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. “Texts by and about Natives: Commentary. 9. Christine Quintasket (Mourning Dove or Humishuma).” University of Washington. https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Texts%20by%20and%20about%20Natives/Commentary/9.html Johnson-Roehr, S.N. “Christine Quintasket.” JSTOR Daily. 10/10/2022. https://daily.jstor.org/christine-quintasket/ Karell, Linda K. “'This Story I Am Telling You Is True': Collaboration and Literary Authority in Mourning Dove's ‘Cogewea.'” American Indian Quarterly , Autumn, 1995, Vol. 19, No. 4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1185559 Kennedy, Kara and Sarah Werner. “Cogewea's Blog: An Analysis of One of North America's First Novels Written by a Female Indigenous Author.” 7/31/2010. https://cogewea.wordpress.com/ Lamont, Victoria. “Native American Oral Practice and the Popular Novel; Or, Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western.” Source: Western American Literature , Winter 2005, Vol. 39, No. 4. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43022337 Miller, Jay. “Mourning Dove: Editing in All Directions to "Get Real".” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer 1995, Series 2, Vol. 7, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20736849 Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame. “Michael Pablo 1844-1914, Charles A. Allard 1852-1896.” https://mtoutdoorhalloffame.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Charles-Allard.pdf Mourning Dove. “Coyote Stories.” Edited and illustrated by Hester Dean Guie, with notes by L.V. McWhorter (Old Wolf) and a foreword by Chief Standing Bear.” University of Nebraska Press. 1934 (Reprinted 1990). Mourning Dove. “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.” Edited by Jay Miller. University of Nebraska Press. 1990. Nisbet, Jack and Claire. “Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) (ca. 1884-1936).” HistoryLink.org. 8/7/2010. https://www.historylink.org/File/9512 Spokane Spokesman-Review. “Colville Indian Girl Blazes Trail to New Conception of Redmen in Her Novel, ‘Cogewea,' Soon to be Published.” 4/9/1916. https://www.newspapers.com/image/566560963/ Strong, Robert. “5 – The Uncooperative Primary Source: Literary Recovery versus Historical Fact in the Strange Production of Cogewea”. Keshen, Jeff, and Sylvie Perrier. Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity - Sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2005. (pp. 63-72) Web. http://books.openedition.org/uop/1064. The Hill County Sunday Journal. “Kinnikinnick; What Was It? It Answered For Tobacco But Some Claim It Wasn't. “ 9/25/1928. https://www.newspapers.com/image/958129012 S. President. “Executive orders relating to Indian reservations : from May 14, 1855 to July 1, 1912.” Washington. 2012. https://archive.org/details/cu31924097621753/page/n206/mode/1up See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mourning Dove was an activist, ethnographer and novelist, and one of the first, if not the first, Indigenous women in the U.S. to publish a novel. Part one covers the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and her early career. Research: American Folklore Society. “Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket).” https://notablefolkloristsofcolor.org/portfolio/mourning-dove-hum-ishu-ma-christine-quintasket/ Arnold, Laurie. “More than Mourning Dove: Christine Quintasket—Activist, Leader, Public Intellectual.” Montana The Magazine of Western History, Spring 2017, Vol. 67, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26322854 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “Mourning Dove's Voice in ‘Cogewea.'” Wicazo Sa Review , Autumn, 1988, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Autumn, 1988). https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409273 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “The Evolution of Mourning Dove's Coyote Stories.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer/Fall 1992, Series 2, Vol. 4. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/20736610 Brown, Alanna Kathleen. “The Evolution of Mourning Dove's Coyote Stories.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer/Fall 1992, Series 2, Vol. 4. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/20736610 Brown, Anna Kathleen. “Reviewed Work(s): Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove and Jay Miller; Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography by Jay Miller.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 3, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20736517  Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. “Texts by and about Natives: Commentary. 9. Christine Quintasket (Mourning Dove or Humishuma).” University of Washington. https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Texts%20by%20and%20about%20Natives/Commentary/9.html Johnson-Roehr, S.N. “Christine Quintasket.” JSTOR Daily. 10/10/2022. https://daily.jstor.org/christine-quintasket/ Karell, Linda K. “'This Story I Am Telling You Is True': Collaboration and Literary Authority in Mourning Dove's ‘Cogewea.'” American Indian Quarterly , Autumn, 1995, Vol. 19, No. 4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1185559 Kennedy, Kara and Sarah Werner. “Cogewea's Blog: An Analysis of One of North America's First Novels Written by a Female Indigenous Author.” 7/31/2010. https://cogewea.wordpress.com/ Lamont, Victoria. “Native American Oral Practice and the Popular Novel; Or, Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western.” Source: Western American Literature , Winter 2005, Vol. 39, No. 4. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43022337 Miller, Jay. “Mourning Dove: Editing in All Directions to "Get Real".” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Summer 1995, Series 2, Vol. 7, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20736849 Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame. “Michael Pablo 1844-1914, Charles A. Allard 1852-1896.” https://mtoutdoorhalloffame.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Charles-Allard.pdf Mourning Dove. “Coyote Stories.” Edited and illustrated by Hester Dean Guie, with notes by L.V. McWhorter (Old Wolf) and a foreword by Chief Standing Bear.” University of Nebraska Press. 1934 (Reprinted 1990). Mourning Dove. “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.” Edited by Jay Miller. University of Nebraska Press. 1990. Nisbet, Jack and Claire. “Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) (ca. 1884-1936).” HistoryLink.org. 8/7/2010. https://www.historylink.org/File/9512 Spokane Spokesman-Review. “Colville Indian Girl Blazes Trail to New Conception of Redmen in Her Novel, ‘Cogewea,' Soon to be Published.” 4/9/1916. https://www.newspapers.com/image/566560963/ Strong, Robert. “5 – The Uncooperative Primary Source: Literary Recovery versus Historical Fact in the Strange Production of Cogewea”. Keshen, Jeff, and Sylvie Perrier. Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity - Sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2005. (pp. 63-72) Web. http://books.openedition.org/uop/1064. The Hill County Sunday Journal. “Kinnikinnick; What Was It? It Answered For Tobacco But Some Claim It Wasn't. “ 9/25/1928. https://www.newspapers.com/image/958129012 S. President. “Executive orders relating to Indian reservations : from May 14, 1855 to July 1, 1912.” Washington. 2012. https://archive.org/details/cu31924097621753/page/n206/mode/1up See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we've discussed all season on Utilizing Edge, innovation is coming from all directions, including hardware, software, and applications. This special crossover episode of the On-Premise IT and Utilizing Tech podcasts features Edge Field Day delegates Brian Knudtson, Ned Bellavance, and Jody Lemoine discussing their perspectives about edge innovation with Stephen Foskett. The primary drivers at the edge are integration, efficiency, and connectivity, as well as the unique needs of the applications there. Starting with hardware, customers are headed in two directions, with more enterprise availability features deployed in some locations and less-capable hardware in others, both in terms of compute and networking. At the software level, most edge infrastructure is hyper-converged, meaning that multiple layers of the stack are integrated in software and managed as one. Although intended as an application platform, Kubernetes is being deployed as a packaging abstraction and distribution solution at the edge. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Edge Innovation is Coming from All Directions

As we've discussed all season on Utilizing Edge, innovation is coming from all directions, including hardware, software, and applications. This special crossover episode of the On-Premise IT and Utilizing Tech podcasts features Edge Field Day delegates Brian Knudtson, Ned Bellavance, and Jody Lemoine discussing their perspectives about edge innovation with Stephen Foskett. The primary drivers at the edge are integration, efficiency, and connectivity, as well as the unique needs of the applications there. Starting with hardware, customers are headed in two directions, with more enterprise availability features deployed in some locations and less-capable hardware in others, both in terms of compute and networking. At the software level, most edge infrastructure is hyper-converged, meaning that multiple layers of the stack are integrated in software and managed as one. Although intended as an application platform, Kubernetes is being deployed as a packaging abstraction and distribution solution at the edge. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Edge Innovation is Coming from All Directions

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Baba Here Love and Marcus Rummery discuss The One, Terence McKenna, underground comics, Neem Karoli Baba, homosexuality, the gay agenda and more. It is all applied to our spiritual awakening. “Allen Ginsberg is a very close friend of mine, and for a long time, because Allen was being very much publicly gay in his writings and his writing at work, I questioned whether that was my role too. I saw along the way, because of my drug history, that I was identified by many people as being a “druggie.” I began to see that every one of these roles and labels was both a way of having a feeling of comfort in a group identity, while also being a defining concept in my own mind. I see people who have labels in their mind of who I am. I found it a little too complicated to have any labels at all.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम I AM THE ONE I AM SHIVA

Today's poem is Everything Lies in All Directions by Hua Xi.

It's hard to predict how personality traits will affect behavior in new situations.We don't have a good grasp of the difference between a “new situation” and “a variant of an old situation.”Small differences in the situation (like recent good luck) can make a big difference in how traits like “helpfulness” are expressed. So you'll probably need to try it and see ("probe-sense-response"), rather than assume you can find out enough to predict ("sense-analyze-respond").Summary sources:John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, 2005. (This is focused on questions in the philosophical idea of "virtue ethics". Unless you care about that, this is mostly a place to find primary sources.)Walter Mischel, "Toward an Integrative Science of the Person", 2004Also cited or used:Theodore Newcomb, The consistency of certain extrovert-introvert behavior patterns in 51 problem boys, 1929. (Not available online. Link is to the University of Illinois Library copy. All hail interlibrary loan!)Alice M. Isen and Paula F. Levin, "Effect of feeling good on helping: cookies and kindness", 1972. (The pay phone experiment)John M. Darley and Daniel Batson, "'From Jerusalem to Jericho': A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior", 1973 (the seminarian experiment).John M. Digman, "Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model", 1999 Walter Mischel, Personality and Assessment, 1968David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone, "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making", Harvard Business Review, 2007. (I used this for quotes and claims about the Cynefin framework, which is pronounced "kuh-NEV-in", as it's a Welsh word.)Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions, 1998Miscellaneous: “Always try to get data that's good enough that you don't need to do statistics on it.”What 0.14 correlation looks likeCreditsTwo-slot postage stamp vending machine image courtesy the Smithsonian Museum. Public domain.

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss creating culture, the culture of specialness, realizing our divinity, the cosmic joke, gurus and relate all of it to our spiritual awakening. “It seems to me we are all traditionalists, we are all modernists, and we are all ‘cultural creatives.' To the extent that you bring it all into consciousness, you can feel the way it affects all of it.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम I AM THE ONE I AM SHIVA

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss astral beings, imaginary friends, insanity, infinity, Stanislav Grof, consciousness, spiritual emergencies, and more. All of the topics are related to our spiritual awakening. “It seems like a sort of strange path in the West, but my path involves my relationship to Maharajji, Neem Karoli Baba. The way I do that is that I just hang out with him all the time. I have an imaginary playmate in a way, I mean, he's dead. He dropped his body, yet he seems so alive to me, because I have invested that form in my mind as an emotional connection to that deeper truth. Because for me, Maharajji is the cosmic giggle. He is the wisdom that transcends time and space.“ - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif It's all One 1967 FOREVER ETERNITY NOW!!! BE HERE NOW

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. This episode is perfect cosmic-humor dharmic-flow divine-Lila. We discuss many topics and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. “In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.” Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif It's all One 1967 FOREVER ETERNITY NOW!!! BE HERE NOW

A small town in Alberta thinks solar panels give off radiation and won't allow an important fast charger be built. But a small Saskatchewan Co-op embraces electrifcation and kindness! Link to video version of the commercial we made for the Riverbend Co-op in Davidson, Saskatchewan to thank them for support electric vehicles. Small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets in Toronto. The upcoming Tesla Cybertruck will work as a boat for short periods of time. My first repair to my 10 year old Nissan LEAF The green community that survived Hurricane Ian and kept the lights on India's home-grown ten thousand dollar EV And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are on track to where they need to by by their 2030 benchmark for global warming Brian and I welcome the long-awaited 3rd party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream! Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript Yesterday, the governor announced that all new cars purchased in New York State will be zero emission cars, which is what lawmakers in California mandated in our state last month. This will take effect starting in 2035, if we make it to 2035. And while it's never going to be the same when a cabbie's yelling you to go F yourself from a Nissan Leaf, it's definitely for the best. Hello, and welcome to episode 133 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. I'm James Woodtingham. This week, small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. This in spite of the fact one powers Brian's $1700 expression machine. It was only 1400. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets. In Toronto, there is still a human in the passenger seat. Just as a courtesy so other drivers have someone to give the finger to. We reveal the stupidest place in North America, and it's not wherever Donald Trump is. The upcoming Tesla Cyber truck will work as a boat for short periods of time. If it floats, maybe it can toss a lifeline to the Tesla stock price. Oh, all that admora this edition of the a Clean Energy Show. Brian, we also have this week my first repair. My knees are leaf. It's ten years old. And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are back on track where they need to be by their 2030 benchmark for global warming targets. And Brian and I welcomed the long awaited third party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream. Wow. I can give it the charging long charging sessions with lots of ice cream. All right, so update on my house. We spray foam the ceiling in our kitchen, and it was, like, super messy and dusty for about a week, but the drywallers have finished, so that's now all sealed up, well, drywallers. They have to keep coming back and back over and over again, don't they? Yeah. They don't have to spend a whole day. They come, they do some mudding, they have to let it dry, and they come back and sand do a bit more mudding. So the whole thing took about eight days, which wasn't too bad, but the kitchen was kind of closed off with sheets of plastic, and so we had kind of limited access to our kitchen, which was annoying, but that's now all done. And then next week, they're going to do the other half where the living room is, and so it continues. So we'll have a very wellinsulated ceiling, which is great. Did you eat out a lot? We did a lot of door dashing and that kind of thing. What's your favorite during that time period? Bar burrito. I'm a big fan of bar burrito. What kind of food is that? Mexican burritos and tacos. So what specifically did you eat? I need to know. Ground beef burrito. Ground beef burrito. Classic. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too unusual. But you're Taco Time fan, but you like that. Tell me about that. Yeah, I think, Barbara, it's a little bit more like real food, really. TacoTime is very fast foody kind of thing. But how much more expensive would you say it was? Not 20%. Maybe I should try it. They have multiple locations or just one? No, multiple locations. Let's do it. Barbaros well, we could use a sponsorship on the show, too. Please reach out. Barbarito. Oh, I have another one. Milu. Vietnamese place. It's been here a while, but I just discovered it. Fantastic. Vietnamese vermicelli, noodle bowls. Love it. Amazing. I guess we both got the Bivalent vaccine. Is that what's yeah, I had a lot of side effects. I might still be feeling that after a week. It was mainly one day, but I kind of felt good the second day. But then when I actually did something and then when I mean did something, I mean, go to the fridge or something, I didn't have a lot of stamina. Like, it wore down fairly quickly. It's a good thing I wasn't employed or something. Yeah. So yesterday we had wonderful news because we've talked about the two cities in the province where we live is Regina and Saskatoon. They're two and a half hours away. My son is up there now, coming back on Friday, and he's going to school there. We make lots of trips. You make lots of trips. You make more trips than most people do out there. And it's a great, stupidly great city. It's just I don't know if I've told this story before, but the ones I was doing a madly off in All Directions, a CBC radio comedy series, a one off where I was guesting on stage at the Broadway Theater in front of 500 people with my comedy partner. And we naively. We both grew up in Regina, the sister city kind of, to that city. And we said, we're from Regina, and the whole place booed us. Why? Why would they do that? I had no idea that they hated us just because we have the center of government here. I mean, they have everything else. And my assessment of the situation is the people in Saskatoon have a rivalry with Vagina, but the Regina people don't care. I've always considered them superior. Why would they care? Why would they not just pity us now? They're much bigger. When I was a kid, they were smaller than us. That's right. So the halfway point is a town called Davidson, Saskatchewan, and it got a Tesla V, three supercharger stalls a few years ago, right? Two or three years ago. Yeah, about three years ago, which changed life for Tesla's. People like you could easily go to Saskatoon and top up for the hell of it, or use it in very cold weather when your range is reduced and give you security. It was one of the reasons I bought my Tesla. Was it made that trip by there was no third party charger there for three years. And we've been begging everyone online. I've been Tweeting A and W who says there's these cluster of different businesses. There Tim Hortons, the Esso station, which is one thing at a Dairy Queen, and then there's a across the street there's an ANW, which I sometimes go to. You've gone to the and w, sure you've gone. You've probably done everything there. But up the road there's a Coop gas station, and that's where the supercharger is. That's kind of the Prairie Gas Station, one of the brands that also run grocery stores. So they have that. But they just announced yesterday that they're getting the flow charges, which are 100 kilowatt. Before, these gas stations had different branded chargers, which are 50 kilowatt. And they were always broken, like always. Yeah, the Coop branded ones, yeah. So apparently these flow chargers are, I'm told by the EV Association, a lot more rock solid because it's something we talk about on the show all the time, is the reliability of charging non Teslas like non Tesla charging networks are terrible. And I hear that all the time, especially in the States. It's no different. So I naively expressed regret online yesterday that I wished it was at the place where I go, which is the AEW, and I don't go to the Tim Hortons, but it seems like I might because I enjoy the Tim Hortons donut shop in return. And I found out that the EV people have been trying really hard for years behind the scenes to do something, and I'm not supposed to talk about what went on, but I'm very happy that the co op is in charge. Right, but I also made a joke online when I said that. Why isn't that this other place? They said, Are you disappointed? I said, I'm not disappointed. The Coop responded to me and said, Are you disappointed? I said, no, but I will be reviewing your pizza. Clearly they said they welcomed it. Then they offered to give me free pizza. But is it a review if they give you a free pizza? I mean, is it an honest review if you get something for free? I mean, as a clean energy food critic, I should be going in there in disguise or something. That's just the way it is. Yeah. Okay, well, this is great. I should add, too. So Tesla has finally made the CCS adapter available for tesla vehicles in north America. So 99% of the time, if you've got a Tesla, you're going to charge. It a Tesla station, and there's lots of them, but other cars use the CCS connector, and the adapter is finally available in North America. So if I were stuck some time and the Tesla supercharger wasn't working, I could get this adapter and charge at the flow or charge at the co op or whatever. Anyway, I went to order one online and it said, oh, sorry, your car can't use this yet. We're going to do a retrofit next year. So cars built before a certain date are missing something that the CCS adapter doesn't work. So my car was built just before that date. So sometime next year there'll be a retrofit available and then I'll be able to buy one. So they didn't sell it to me. They're probably trying to control the number of these that go out, and since they know that my car can't use it, they wouldn't sell it. How old is your model? Three? It's about two and a half years old. Two and a half years. Wow. Time flies. It's a quarter of a decade, Brian. Yeah, it really has. Yeah, I guess we had just started the podcast, I think. Oh, right, that's true. There was a couple of months into the pandemic and they did a touchless delivery to you. But I'm not done with the Riverband co op in Davidson because I asked them. I was in a discussion with my son who's going through there on Friday. As I said, if they have fresh donuts, because the co ops are known for great donuts at grocery stores, especially in small towns, they're somehow better in small towns like that. Yeah, for sure. My wife's not right is maybe the best owner sake one outside of the gourmet shop. So anyway, I asked them if they did and they said no. But for you, though, I can say we are discussing it. We are discussing it at the highest levels in the boardroom of the Davidson coop, whether to bring in fresh baking from the grocery store inside town. And I said, well, give us a heads up when you're passing through. At least we could do is get some donors to the grass bar for you. And everyone is just so happy that because without the co op, we would not have charging in Davidson, there was no other possibility to do it. No one willing to do it. So this is incredibly important to EV adoption for people who not only live near there, but live anywhere else, or you're traveling through the province in that direction. And so I'm incredibly grateful to them. And Matthew Pointer from the Sask EV association says this is arguably one of the most important charging locations in the province. So, Brian, what I did, I made them a commercial. Okay? I made the Riverband coop in Davidson a commercial because they deserve it. And here it is. Come to the Riverband Coop gas bar in beautiful Davidson, Saskatchewan, conveniently located on scenic highway eleven. Enjoy our pristine citrus, citrus washrooms as you stop to charge your Tesla, one of our lightning fast superchargers. And for our nontech industry friends, we are pleased to announce 100 kilowatt flow chargers coming in January. If you're still driving a gasguzzler, be assure that we here at coop sell only talk to your gasoline made to the highest Canadian standards. While you're here, satisfy your cravings with fresh cut veggies and sandwiches lovingly made at our grocery store just for you. Or twist it up with a smoothie by mixing a slushy soft drink of your choice with ice cream. Why pee anywhere else? The River Band. Coop in Davidson. More than a gas bar to heavenly oasis on a long road home. This commercials have improved by riverbank Coop flow charges 23 no responsible price screen trips on your floor of the seats. Very nice. So there you go. Free commercial for the Riverband Coop. Put that online, too, in video form. Thank you, Riverband Coop, for being good people. Yeah. And Davidson, Saskatchewan, they still have a newspaper as of a couple of years ago, and they were having a contest to give away the newspaper. I don't know if you remember that I considered, yeah, and you're supposed to write a letter and whoever writes the best letter would get the newspaper. I don't know what ever happened with that. Maybe somebody knows. We'll have to Google. We have a lot of local people listening. Okay, another personal news. The Leaf I had to take in to get fixed because I determined for a long time now, almost a year, that I had this tire noise. And I thought it was because my original tires were wearing out, they were becoming bald, and I thought, okay, no trad, they're becoming noisy, bought new tires, but they were cheap. They were half the price of the tires that you're supposed to buy. And so I thought, okay, well, it's a bit better, but it's still pretty noisy, and then I get noisier noiser. So I determined through online sleuthing that it's my bearings, my wheel bearings on my front left wheel, and because it gets noisier when you steer in one direction than the other. So I did that. But there's no place my Nissan dealership doesn't service EVs. And I looked up on how to do this repair, and you do have to kind of take one of the EV motor drive components out of the wheel hub, because it's a whole not just the actual little tiny bearing, but whole hub of bearings that has to be replaced, any specialized torque tools in order to do this. And I considered it, but then I thought, no. And anyway, I got the price from a place called okay Tire on Park Street in Regina. Because they are certified, they actually sent their people away to the United States to get training in servicing EVs and hybrids. Whereas the one Nissan dealership we have here and even several around us don't do they're not certified to do TVs. Even though Nissan sells the Leaf for well, minecar is ten years old, and twelve years ago they started selling them. So it was frustrating, but I took it there on the advice of others, and I wasn't happy with how it went because it's $1,400 for the front two hubs. And I thought it was just one hub, but they say, oh, no, the other one's going to be making noise as well. And also they charge you, like, $200 just to diagnose things. Okay. Right. It could be $200 to diagnose it. But then they diagnose everything on your car and get a big print out to make sure that everything else is okay. And they don't need to spend money fixing it out of your money. So that's complimentary. But the diagnose the problem is up to $200. So it's just BS. And I hate dealerships, and I can't afford it. So I'm in a pickle because my kid, my youngest, is going on a trip, a school trip to Quebec because we sent the first one. And as soon as we send the first one somewhere and my wife, by the way, wanted to set up the Uruguay was it Ecuador or Ecuador? To the ecological things out there. And I said, we do this. It's twice as much as you think it is because we have to send the other kid. There's no way of not sending the other kid. It doesn't work that way. So whatever you do for one, you do for the other. And so we're doing that for her now, and we have to get her to raise money. But they don't raise very much. And it's got to be a hard, economical year. Bad timing. That's too bad. And I'm giving away free commercials to cooperate anyhow that's that the car is supposed to be done. The beautiful thing is I've lost the EV joy because it's noisy. It's not giving me the luxury. And I can't wait. I can't wait, Brian, to get that back. But I also have to get more work done on the later. It's all related to tie rods and ball joints and stuff like that. And they send you a little video clips, part of their app to do that, to show you the wiggle. It's always great when you can spend money and really notice a difference. Like, that at least makes you feel better about it. Like our ceiling in the kitchen, it costs a fortune to do that. And all it does is look like it's supposed to. All it does is look like a ceiling. You don't get any satisfaction of it suddenly somehow being better. Right. It just doesn't lease. Now, this is hopefully something that I will just fall in love with again. But I started to fall out of love with car ownership because it's been a long time since I had to deal with car repairs because we've bought new cars. And the Leaf I've had for five years, and I haven't done anything to it. Like, it's just there's no oil to change. There's nothing to break down. I did buy the new tires a year ago, but other than that, I haven't done anything. How many kilometers on it? About 115 or something like that. It doesn't have fast charging. It was a rock bottom price. So it's only been a city car for anyone. But my family has been asking me, how long do I think it's going to go? And I don't see it not going indefinitely. Like I said, I don't have any reason to believe it won't go indefinitely. But if you don't do the tie rods or something, then maybe the tires are going to wear out. Well, the car could crash, things like that. One of the wheels could go. I've seen people do this on the roads. The wheel just goes all the way to one way and you get it towed. I won't be using it on the highway, let's put it that way. So, yeah, it's frustrating. And I can see the joy of maybe a subscription service to a robot taxi one day where you pay $20 a month and you never have to worry about car repairs because that is the biggest pain in the butt. That's why people buy newer cars. No, that's the future for sure. I mean, yeah, that's so much simpler. I've been talking about the pipeline plane that flies over my house. And then we got into it and I mentioned that there was a crash 13, 2013. And then there was one between our last two episodes of our podcast. Well, curiously, there's been no pipeline plane since that crash. So I got to feel weird about that because I feel like I have a connection with them because I'm in the mespeedo floating in the pool. God knows we've had some intimate contact. You've never seen me in my Speedo. These people have, and now they're gone. They're perished. So I just feel or maybe they've rounded pipeline planes or I don't know. But on the other hand, on the flip side, who's looking at my pipeline to see if it's not being inspected? Yeah. So that's kind of concerning for me as well. So here's a bit of trivia for you. In the year my Leaf was made, 2013, 130,000 EVs were sold globally that whole year. Brian yeah. Now more than that are being sold every week in the world. And that road, of course, is expanding rapidly. That's fantastic. That's great to hear. So my Leaf is like almost I've seen it referred to in videos on YouTube now by car reviewers as kind of like the Model T of EVs because it was the first mass produced it was produced even before Tesla's Model S. It was really the first mass produced EV in the world. So it's iconic, maybe worse, something someday. And I wanted to get to some updates to some stories that we've covered in the past. And we were talking about hurricanes in Florida and Will Walker in Florida. He was happily charging his allelectric Chevy bolt at a gas station charger while all the gas pumps were roped off, not because of electricity. The gas station was on a gas? Yes. And you can't just snap your fingers and get more gas in when there's a hurricane. So these places and we found this in the maritimes of Canada when Hurricane Fiona went through a couple of weeks ago. Gas stations are out of gas because everybody wants their generator running and everything. Right. Well, this is another reason gas stations don't operate with electricity during these situations, but they often don't operate when they do have electricity because they are out of gas. But he had electricity there and he was happily charging away. So he says, I can't count all the times that people ask me about what do you do when the power goes out? So it's just a joke to people who own TVs. Yeah. The New York Times, Florida, the post hurricane here, Jerry Jewelsk waited for about 6 hours to fill up for cans of gas. He was frustrated. Where is all the fuel? He asked. Every gas station or filling station was supposed to, under Florida law, have a generator prepared to go at all times. But that did not happen. Wow. In a news conference a couple of Saturdays ago, mr. DeSantis, or Satan, as I like to call him, said 1.6 million gallons of fuel had been removed pardon me? Had been moved to southwest Florida. But he acknowledged that some stations may not have had the electricity to operate their pumps. I'm laughing if you're in Florida, I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the whole freaking idea and stupid things that happen. You need both. You need the fuel and you need the electricity. And on the electric car side, you just need the electricity. We've been talking about India a lot over the course of our podcast episodes, and we have concerns over the air quality and how great it would be for EVs to move in there. Well, Tata Motors, one of India's largest vehicle manufacturers, has announced a new Made in China pardon me, a new Made in India electric five door hatchback starting around $10,000 US. And it only has a 19.2 kilowatt hour battery with only 3.2 charging. That's kind of what my car is now. Started at 24. That's kind of your leaf range and charging speed. Look at this. It's supposed to have a range of 250 km. Yeah, well, I've made improvements since your car was made. Well, I'm thinking A is pretty darn light and it may not have an airbag and seatbelts or high tension steel or anything to protect the person. I don't know. I'm being kind of cynical about it. Yeah, but as we talked about, there's a lot of, like, two stroke engine vehicles in India. Small mopeds and motorcycles and stuff like that. And those things cause extra pollution. So if those kind of small vehicles, which is what this is going to sort of replace, can go electric, this will go a long way to improving the air quality in India. So for around 14, 500, US. Drivers can upgrade to a 24 kilowatt hour battery. That is what my car wasn't doing. But 315 range and 7.2 kilowatt charging, which is twice my car now. So that's I don't know, man. Maybe I should go to Indian, buy a car. Parts will be hard to get. Yeah. So driverless trucks in Toronto, we have reported on this before, but there's sort of more updates for it. So there are level four autonomous trucks, which began in August after the Ministry of Transportation approved them after a big audit. So this is Lablaws, the grocery chain from Canada, and they've got five routes going between Labs retail stores and a micro fulfillment center. So you can order your groceries online, go to this place, and pick them up. And this appears to be moving the groceries from the stores to this pickup center. So they've got five routes and five trucks. They are now driving fully autonomously. They do still have a human driver in the passenger seat. I'm not sure why he doesn't just sit in the driver's seat just in case they're showing off, but they say they have a safety record so far. This has been going on for quite a while now. And the person in the passenger seat is just there kind of as a courtesy. And also from feedback from the police department and the fire department, who said in case they need to pull the truck over, they wanted a human to interact with. And that does make sense. And of course, these are electric, and they can charge at sort of both ends of their trip, and that's what they do. And they're planning to expand this to something like 15 trucks in the near future. So, yeah, level four autonomous trucks. So this is Geofenced. They can only go on these specific routes. They couldn't just snap their fingers and expand this to other markets or other cities. They've carefully mapped out these routes. And the trucks take the same routes every day, but still quite remarkable that it is totally working. And they've driven tons of miles with these things, and 100% safe so far. Teller me surprised. I'm actually quite surprised by that, especially if you told me it was Los Angeles docks or something, I would believe you. But I'm surprised it's Toronto. Yes, Toronto streets can be kind of busy and crazy. That's an understatement. And some of the worst streets, worst traffic in North America. But you just start thinking about the math for this in terms of business. So not only are you saving on fuel because it's electric instead of gasoline or diesel, and then saving on the driver. And just imagine, as this slowly rolls out and expands, the amount of money that can be saved by so many businesses. Expect your grocery prices to go down, thanks to freedom of energy in the world like that. And I do use their service in our city. It's PC Express. How's that work? It works well. You order online, you pick up. We have had it delivered one time. All right. I have an update from the International Energy Agency and EVs are now at 13% of all new car sales globally this year. That's world market share. That's fantastic. I didn't know we were there yet. That is an inflection point, Mr. Stockton. We are toying with inflection rates here. It's doubled since last year, so that has not been happening. It's taken more than two years to double. A little bit more than two years. But now doubling in a year is not two years. So it's like 1718 months or something. Something weird like that. Like a year and a half. But now it's a year and we are on track. According to the IEA of reaching when they did the Paris Climate Accord, we need to do this, this and this to reach our climate targets. While the number of EVs on the road by 2030 was a checkpoint goal and they have saying that we are on track for it, in fact, we're better than on track. Areas not on track include improving the energy efficiency of building designs, developing clean and efficient district heating. That's when you hit like a heat. A neighborhood with one heating system phasing out coal powered generation. That's a little behind. Eliminating methane flaring, shifting aviation and shipping to cleaner fuels and making cement, chemical and steel production cleaner. That's from CNBC. Yes. So the transportation sector doing well. These other sectors, not so well. Yeah, but it's encouraging because we live in a place where there's so much cynicism about EVs that it's always good to see these stories. Yeah, that's great. All right, we have several Tesla stories this week. The first was, of course, they had AI day 2022, where they had a big presentation, basically a recruitment event. They're trying to convince people to come work for Tesla and work on their artificial intelligence stuff. They demonstrated the prototype of the Tesla bot. I didn't watch the whole thing because it was like three or 4 hours long. I watched a condensed 20 minutes version. So the robot doesn't do that much. So the stock market and casual observers were not for you. Was the robot more human than Elon Musk? Yes, it was okay. But I don't know if you had any thoughts about the Tesla bought. I do, and I did watch a lot of it. And I came away feeling pretty negative about Tesla and Musk and AI because there was nothing major announced. The robots didn't impress a lot of people because who's the company? I can't remember. The Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics. Who's been making those robots that flip and dance and they seem like years ahead. They're not humanoid, but do we need what is the need of having a humanoid robot rather than. Being creepy. I don't care what the thing looks like that does my dishes. It can look like a scorpion for all I care. Just do my dishes, you stupid robot, and answer my door and brush my teeth. Well, I think it's the same principle behind, like, what they're doing with selfdriving in the car. Like, the idea behind the Tesla selfdriving car is to replicate the humans. So humans drive with eyes in a brain. So Tesla's taking that approach with their car cameras and a computer eyes and a brain in the car. So my feeling would be that since the world is designed for humanoid form, that that's the most useful form for somebody who's going to do work. Well, are you going to test an FSD Beta Tesla robot in your home and hope it doesn't break your dishwasher handle? Sure, if they want to send me one, I'll take the interesting thing is they think that one day they'll sell them for $20,000. Seems low. I don't know. Does it? Brian, does the $35,000 model three seem low to you? That never happened. It was sold for, like, a couple of weeks, I think. Yeah, and very frustrating. Why announce these things? You have to have faith in their AI software for cars. We're not at that point yet. We're having a lot of faith because things are dragging on so slowly. It's just a super long process. So this stuff is potentially decades away. So what bothered me about the event was they invited all their Internet fanboys to it, so it became like a Tesla event. Oh, you're God, present your genitals. I wish to photograph them. This is stupid. I just hate that stuff. But the whole point of the event was to recruit because they want to bring on people to recruit. They need the best and AI people to develop this product. It's a recruiting day, so why invite all the fanboys? I guess you get some free advertising that way. But it just seemed I don't know, I'm pretty cynical about this, and I'm pretty cynical about Mr. Musk, who has decided, apparently, to buy Twitter. Yeah, it sounds like that's going through. Yeah, and I'm not happy about that. I'm not. I'm not happy at all. I mean, Twitter's not golden, but I need somewhere to go, Brian. I can't go on Facebook. It's not safe. It's killing the world. And now he's got to put what's his name back on there, the former POTUS. And why am I going to hurricane have killed him? Why is it killing his people? See him floating away on a piece of rock anyway? I don't understand. I'm worried. I'm worried about the world. And the world was quieter. It was quieter without him on it, and now he's going to be on it and all these horrible voices of conspiracy and BS. I don't know. I'm not happy with Musk. I mean, Musk is the guy I doubt for saving the world because he puts a cyber truck on stage, smashes the window, and suddenly Ford is releasing electric trucks a couple of years later. Right. I mean, they're in dealerships say they're at dealerships around our province, even a lot of them have moved here, I'm told. But kudos to Ford for actually making some vehicles because the Amaqui is like, I think, the number two selling electric vehicle in North America. No, there's actually some EVs in stock around us, and it's mostly like the Mustang and the F 150. So, yeah, the needle has moved. And I guess we're at 13%. We're at a near time where they say they have the stock and they don't actually have it. It's coming in. It's like it's coming into somebody who's ordered it. So unless somebody canceled their order and somebody did cancel their order for Chevy Bolt, but it was an older one and I didn't want to take it, people were pointing me towards that. But yeah, I'm told there's a year wait list, but I mean, even that's not bad for a truck. But I don't know. Megapack is arriving in Hawaii, and I just wanted to mention this, mostly because we had reported on the final shipment of coal going to Hawaii a few weeks ago. The last shipment of coal for their coal fired electricity plant, which they're going to close down. Well, it turns out at pretty much the same time, a whole whack of Tesla Megapack batteries were delivered to Hawaii. Hawaii's got an aggressive goal to get off fossil fuels. I think they've got some time. I think it was like 2045. They're going to be 100% green. I have a feeling they might be able to do it sooner than that. But they have tons of solar. Hawaii has the highest amount of solar deployed per capita, and they just need more batteries. And they are on their way to 100% clean energy, which is great. Yeah. You don't hear about non Tesla companies making power packs. I know they exist because they do exist. Yeah, they're putting some up around us. I don't know who's making them, though. We don't hear about who's making them. I don't know. I mean, the main battery makers are probably making them, like LG and what's the other one? Panasonic? Yeah. Or CATL. Yeah. I have heard other brands and their storage solutions, I just don't know off the top of my head. Well, that's something to look forward to. It's pretty cool that Hawaii can do that. And most people disregard batteries. I say this all the time. They poopoo them like you can't power. I know it seems far fetched because there's like thousands and tens of thousands and millions of little AA sized almost batteries, right? That power a grid. Come on. That's science fiction. But they are doing it and it works. And it meets the power fluctuations and saves them money. Instantly saves the money. If you're a casual observer, it probably seems absurd, but to the casual observer, I often hear hydrogen as the solution. But solar wind and batteries, as we often say, that's all you need. It is all you need. Not for maybe airliners and stuff like that, but for a lot of things. And the cybertruck musk has been talking about the cyber truck as well. Yeah, I guess, prompted by the recent hurricanes and flooding in Florida, that the cyber truck will travel temporarily as a boat for approximately 1100ft. Really? Yeah, it'll operate as a boat tweeted that's enough to get through a flooded underpass. Yeah. So we have seen this before, like with regular teslas and flooded underpasses that they can do fairly well getting through. We did a guy in the EV association who flooded his car in saskatoon and other claims, big fat insurance claim, battery gone, ruined his battery. So it's certainly and it's not an advertised feature, but this is now technically an advertised feature of the cyber truck that it can operate as a boat for a short period of time. So presumably they're just thinking about this more. I don't imagine they were thinking about it too much with the cars. But now that they know that the cars are fairly waterproof, they've, I guess, done a little bit of extra work and, you know, cyber truck will float for a while. Well, the rivian r 150 pickup truck, the all electric pickup truck from them, it was supposed to do a meter and a half of water, and they didn't say for how long, but they said anymore, and it floats. So they didn't want it to float floating back. Yeah, because then you lose control there. Yeah. Well, what do you do in the cyber truck? Do you take out a paddle? I mean, what do you do? I'm not sure, but they often show it with those big knobby tires. So it's possible the big knobby tires would give you a little bit of traction and steering. Give me the aqua tread when you're ordering tires, like summer all season and water. Well, there was that water aqua car. Somebody in town owns one from, like, in the 50s. Somebody made a car that works in the car? Yes. It's a convertible, right? Yeah, it's a convertible. Somebody in town owns one and every once in a while drives it in our local lake, which is saying a lot. You go down there, you're a dead person. Because it's nasty water. Yeah. So it has technically been done before. I don't know. Maybe they could add a little propeller on the back of that because that's what the aqua car has, like the one from the 50s. It has a little propeller at the back for one. Floating in the car. That would be an option, I suppose. Maybe you could outboard it to your trailer hitch or something and just sort of put a propeller on back there. Yeah, that would be great. Well, I wanted to talk about it over small nuclear reactors because CBC had an article on it and there's been well, there's always lots of stuff, and I'm always reading from people. I'm not against it. It's just not realistic. People love the new solutions. We'll solve climate change with this. This is great. I saw a video on it. I saw six videos on it. It's great. It's not great because they don't exist. You can't go to Walmart and buy one. You can go to Walmart and buy a solar panel. You can go to Walmart and buy a battery. You can go to Walmart and even buy a wind turbine in some stores. Come on. What we have is all we need. And I'm not saying other things aren't good, but if they cost ten times as much for one unit of electricity, and if you don't need them, then why are you wasting your time on it? Because our government, another government, and the Ontario government as well, are investing, and they're going to waste all our money in these damn things, putting money into it, and it's also just delaying climate action. Yeah. So here's something. This is Suzanne O'Donnell. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University also works with a coalition for responsible energy development. And she has been researching SMR specifically during the last two years. And she was asked, what do you think of Saskatchewan and your province looking at building a small modular nuclear reactor? She says there's a huge leap she says diplomatically, there's a huge leap between having a design for an SMR and then getting to the point of having an engineer design where you can actually apply for a license to build one. The most advanced design for an SMR in the US is called New Scale, and they've spent almost a billion dollars on the engineered design, and they just got a license to build it. It's another huge leap between building a prototype that might actually work in a laboratory to getting one that actually commercially works in the real world. Why then, she was asked, with four provinces be looking at them? And she says, I'd have to say that the decisions around SMRs, at the federal level and certainly at the provincial level, where they're all conservative provinces, are political decisions rather than based on science. From reading peerreviewed science in three different countries, canada, the US. And the UK. It really doesn't make any economic sense. However, what we have happening here is very, very powerful industry, the nuclear industry, that has a long history in Canada, and they have been lobbying like crazy to get these things off the ground, because unfortunately, nuclear power hasn't been very successful financially, especially lately. So in New Brunswick, the Point La Puerto reactor has been a financial disaster for the province, has put US $3.6 billion in debt. And that's what we have to look forward to in our province because of idiots. I don't want any more debt. I don't want to know we got enough debt. My God. But making stupid decisions because you want to put off the climate action and not make the woke left happy, then you gotta do what you gotta do and waste all taxpayers money and then you drive the provinces of the ground. So I'm mad about that. Mad, mad, mad. So it's just bad. I don't like it. Okay, so I've got a story here from CP 24, which is a news outlet in the Toronto area of Canada. I thought this, it reminded me of the Apple story that we mentioned a couple of days ago that Apple is working on software for their phones that will sort of calculate the cleanest time of the day to charge your phones. I don't know, there's just a lot of activity around smartening up the grid. And so what they're going to do in Ontario is pay some customers to run their air conditioning less as part of an investment in energy efficiency program. So they're going to have networked smart thermostats in people's homes that can literally be controlled remotely by the power utility. So when they have these days when the grid is strained and everybody's air conditioning is cranked up, if you've agreed to be part of this program, you have one of these smart meters, they're going to creep up the temperature in your house, take away some of your nice cooling airflow from your air conditioner. And if you've got enough homes in this program and enough people willing to do it, and they will pay you to do it, like there's an incentive to do it, they'll give you some money for this. They will just turn up your thermostat a couple of degrees and you'll use less electricity for your air conditioning. And the more of these kind of smart grid strategies we can come up with, the more we can weather these coming storms of power supply as we kind of transition over into all clean energy. Well, again, I'm surprised. I'm surprised that Ontario is doing that. And it's very interesting. It would be interesting to see how it goes, what they learned from that. It reminds me of the summer heat wave in California where they texted people or an emergency alert and they responded, and they responded in times when they turned down the power because they said, if you don't, then we're going to have a power outage. I would rather have some power and maybe a couple of degrees warmer in my house than no power at all. And that's another great tool to have. But just imagine if somebody at the California Power Commission just has a switch where they can just turn up everybody's air conditioning. Like just imagine how that would drop the power going to the grid, like instantly. I'm not sure what some people would like the government coming to their homes. But you get paid for it. But you get paid for it, so you're compensated for it, that's the thing. But this is kind of the future that when we talk about smart grids, we are also talking about homes where we can suck a little bit of juice out of your EV for ten minutes just to balance the grid. And you get paid for that more than what it costs you to put it in. So, yeah, there's all kinds of different things and if this is one of those methods, then cool. No, and there was some progress on that in the US. They introduced the Bidirectional Act, it was introduced in the US Senate to promote electric school buses feeding into the grid. So I don't think this is all kind of fully plat passed or anything, but as they expand to electric school busses, they're trying to work this into the infrastructure where all of these school buses can feed into the grid. So it's nice to have some actual legislation to support that. Coming up in the show is the lightning Round, where we speed through the week's headlines in fast format. Brian, I've got a surprise new segment for you this week. What it's called? The Tweet of the week. Oftentimes I see a great tweet that I'd like to highlight on the show. Yeah. This is until I leave Twitter next week, so it could be a very shortlived segment. Here it is. It says, you know, who isn't in denial about climate change? The entire insurance industry. There will be entirely uninsurable areas of the populous places near coast sooner than you think. This is from MMA, who works in the real estate industry and was reteeded by many of my climate follows on Twitter. It's something I think about a lot in Florida, of course, top of mind because of the recent hurricane, but Florida, so many low lying areas in Florida and you just got to wonder when the real estate prices are going to hit the wall and people are going to have to retreat it. That hasn't happened yet, as far as I know. But, yeah, certainly I think there is already some places that are uninsurable in flood prone areas and the insurance industry doesn't mess around. I know because my life insurance just went up last week, tripled for some reason, because they saw you eating a box of donuts and they're like, damn it, they heard me talking about Davidson Gas Station donuts and just bingo. So my other tweet that I was considering has something to do with a politician down there saying, well, we will rebuild. And the other person said, Why? Yeah, why would you rebuild a place that's destroyed by a hurricane? You think it's not going to happen again? I mean, these happening, they're happening more frequently and more importantly, more powerfully and slower moving and more damaging. The same hurricanes because of climate change. Brian, we got a whole host of feedback this week. Sometimes the mailbag empty, dust bunnies fall out, nothing there, you know? And then sometimes it just rains, rains feedback. So I wanted to dip into it. Here's an email, says, hey, guys, big fan of the show from Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA. Not all of us in mumf, Egypt, are as narrow minded as our former commander in Cheeto when it comes to the environment. I can't swear on the show. You see, if I swear on the show, I have to change it to explicit. That's a whole lot of paperwork. I can't do that. So I just got an email from my power company asking if I was interested in enrolling in a new program they are starting up, which seems to be a solar collective. Do you think these types of programs the page is very vague. Have a place in the future for those who can't afford or non solar friendly areas like us? Cheers to here in Mendez. Now, I looked at it and basically, if your household uses X amount of kilowatts per month, you pay extra to have solar, to have clean power. Now, this is something that we did here 1215 years ago in my old house. Yeah, I would pay for extra money for clean energy credits. And we had wind back then and only when basically still do for the most part, and a small amount of wind. And of course, they sold out. So they stopped the program. They couldn't do it anymore, or that was their excuse. But you could pay a little bit extra on your power bill every month and know that you were getting clean power. Right, but here's my point. Clean power is cheaper than regular power. Yeah, right. And they want to charge you. Shitloads, sir, I swore crap loads of money more. It's like $40 a month extra just to have clean power, which is cheaper to them than it is the coal power or whatever. Like in West Virginia, solar is going to be incredibly cheaper than coal. It's displaced coal as the cheapest form of electricity by far. So my question is, where will the solar facilities be located? So they plan to build, own and operate five solar facilities located within West Virginia on property owned by the power company or its affiliates. They include a 26 acre reclaimed ash disposal site, a 51 acre adjacent to the power substation, 27 acres of retired ash disposal site. This is all coal terminology that I'm not familiar with, even though we do have coal mines here. So, yeah, they're reclaiming all this land from coal and putting solar panels on it and then charging people extra. Do you have any thoughts on this? My thought is the typical. It says for little $2 a month, but nobody uses 50 month. And my garden shed used more than that. You're more likely to spend over $40 a month to have clean electricity for that money. I think there's places that will. Sometimes if they let you put solar on your roof, you can lease solar for your roof and for like the same price as electricity, you're not paying anything extra. And then eventually, I think you make extra money. Yeah, it's going to be different. In every province, state, every city, it's going to be different. I know around here there is one or two solar cooperatives, and that's mainly for people who live in apartment buildings. So you don't necessarily have access to a roof that you can put solar panels on. So a bunch of people can get together and spend like, $100,000 on a solar farm somewhere. And basically, you live in an apartment. You can buy a share in that, and just everybody owns a piece of the action, and it feeds into the grid, and you get your benefit from your share of the thing. Whether this particular one makes any sense, I don't know. But certainly people should look into this wherever they live. Well, shout out to Mornsburg, West Virginia. And Mr. Mendez. Thanks for writing us. We really appreciate it. So here's another one. Good evening, gentlemen. My name is Landon Yereski, and I discovered your show earlier this year as listening material while taking our newborn for walks to fall asleep, which is interesting, Brian, because I always wonder what people do when they listen to our shows. I remember my first podcast in the very early days of podcasting in the early 2000s. Somebody said that they listened to me on the subway in Australia, and it blew my mind. It's like, wow, there's somebody doing that to my little show. Like, wow. Yeah. Community and of course is a popular thing, but taking your newborn out for walks to fall asleep, hadn't thought of that one, you know? By the way, I listen to podcasts to fall asleep when I want to have a nap sometimes. Ours, it's not that they're boring. The more interesting they are, the more I can focus my mind on something and then drift off. Right. They can't be too boring. That works for me, too. Yeah, it's got to be something to focus my mind. So I have been listening weekly ever since. He says the content is fantastic. And given I also live in the same city you do, I find all the commentary very relatable. Now he says I'm a business owner, and that piqued my interest, Brian. So I Googled his name, and it came up with his LinkedIn page and found out that he owns my favorite pot shop, Wid w I ID it's actually on the other end of the city from me. They have a great online portal, okay. And they have a whole craft load of inventory of all kinds of different things. And you can order it and pick it up in your leaf you're cartastic. And little did I know that the pot shop that I've been supporting supports green energy. That's great. And we're always looking for sponsors. Remember, everyone got free beer. The first plug is free. Brian made a joke. Okay, so he's also a board member of the Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association, something I reference here a lot. And he says, I love to use the insight on your show to help align my business with sustainable goals and get insight for the association. A fellow board member recently sent me this article I thought would be a great discussion point on your show, and it is, from Airdry today. Now, Airdri is a little city north of Calgary, the big mega city of Calgary, Alberta. I wouldn't call it a mega city, but it's a big city. Millions of people, he says a Rocky Mountain. I think it's a great discussion that could be had regarding NIMBYism, which is I had to look that up. Not in my backyard ism and fudd. You want to explain what fudd is again? Fear, uncertainty and doubt. That is things that people put around misinformation and bad information about new technologies to discourage either investment or adoption. And especially in this changing world that people are uncomfortable with how fast things are changing. The fact that that municipality rejected tens of millions in investment and permanent jobs due to false information is astounding. Keep up the good work. Now, the story is about somebody who wanted to pull up a charging station, much like we were talking about, because it's between two major cities, calgary and Emmetton. Just like that corridor needs lots of charging with people going back and forth. Ours does between Regina and Saskatoon. And this town also ran into problems because they didn't want anything to do with the charging station. Now they claim the problem with the charging station. I'll read you an excerpt. Okay, this is from the story objections raised because they wanted to put a solar installation with it, which is a business decision for them, because you supply electricity for someone, you want the cheapest electricity wholesale, right? That is what it is. So you build a little solar farm for your charging station, for your highway supercharging station. But the objections raised were more to do with the solar than the EV chargers. Apparently. He says objections raised included potential noise concerns with the cooling plant associated with the proposed solar farm, which is absurd. A person's air conditioner in their home is less noisy than that, and it's certainly closer to people than that would be increased vehicular traffic on highway 72. The solar farm would have increased traffic. I guess people going to see the solar farm or people going to charge their EVs next one taking farmland out of production. This is something that is coming up a lot lately, which is of course, crap. If the farmer wants to take his damn farmland out of production, he can, or she can. But you could also do mixed use. Farmers don't use every square inch of their land. Sometimes they have little bits of land that they mold with garden tractors that they could put up a huge installation on. And some more speculative complaints about the potential radiation hazards of building such a facility in close proximity to people living in the area. Rocky View, County Alberta you are officially the stupidest place on earth. So is that like solar radiation? Like everyone's going to get a suntan? Is that what they're saying? If I knew, I'd be in pain. You think you've heard it all? You think you've heard all the stupidest things that were people get passed around on Facebook. It's just utter BS. And by the way, whenever there's somebody like this, whenever there's people like this, they're always racist. You know, if you're stupid in one way, you're probably a racist too. So screw you. Rocky View, County Alberta. Get off the planet. Go somewhere else. Elon's, got a place for you on Mars. Lots of radiation up there. And Brian, I hope you're sitting down because we've got a rare voicemail click from our speak pipe page. Can you believe it? What? I cannot believe it. I thought that we should stop doing the speak pipe because nobody was calling. Well, I crossed my mind too, but this is Sean in Ireland. Hi. It's Sean from Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. Just want to say we love the show, love listening to it every Wednesday when it comes out. There is two big announcements in Ireland in the last few weeks regarding solar. Is no planning permission needed. Now, if you have solar panels on your roof before, if you wanted solar panels on your roof, you have to get planning permission. And there's been houses where people put up solar panels didn't get planned permission. The government made them take them down. So now you don't need plan permission. And also they've announced that they are going to give schools free solar panels so school supplies, and if they're suitable, they will get the price of the solar panels covered 100% by the government. Thanks, that's fantastic. I mean, that's crazy, right? Why isn't everybody doing that? We often ask questions like that. Schools, perfect place for solar panels, but giving them to them and then what do they do with the savings? They can put more money to music programs and educating your damn children. Yeah. I will say the high school right next to me where I went to high school, they've actually had solar panels on their roof for about 20 years now. And it was because I think some students and maybe a teacher or two were interested in the technology and they realized it was a good learning experience. So it was about 20 years ago, so they would have been much lower powered solar panels. But still, they've been generating power over there for 20 years and educating kids, and they could probably. Look up the doohickies to see what the sun is doing and probably be aware that solar panels generate electricity and cloudy days, for example. Yeah. And so also, the other thing Sean brought up is we got to get rid of the red tape involved in installing solar clean energy of all kinds. This is a climate emergency. We got to move fast. We got to make all this stuff as easy as possible. Now, Sean, we're so thankful that we said that. We would wish you a happy birthday on your birthday. So let us know when your birthday is, and if not, happy birthday in advance. Thank you, Sean. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's lovely to hear your voice and we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at cleanenergy show@gmail.com or on Twitter. We're on TikTok for now. Clean energy pod. Is our handle there? Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel for special features. Leave us a voicemail like Sean did@speakpipe.com. Cleanenergyshow. It's time for the lightning round, Brian. We have to whizz through this one quickly and it's a fat one, so it's going to be a challenge to get through. This is a fast paced look at the week and clean energy news. California becomes the first state to commit to ending the sale of polluting heaters. All fossil fuel heaters are gone by 2030, not far from now. Right, that's fantastic. And California often sets the tone for the rest of the US on clean energy things, so hopefully other states follow suit. Clean Energy canada predicts 1840 people will be employed in the Canadian EV industry by 20, 30, 26 times what there was in 2020. And, you know, I think that number is more than the number of people in oil and gas. So that's just EVs. That's not clean energy in total. Yeah, that's just EVs. Time for a fast fact. According to the IEA, the International Energy Agency the International Energy Agency, only 50% of the worldwide market is now using Led bulbs. Outraged, are you? Wow. Yeah, I mean, I guess that makes sense. It does take a hell of a long time to change all the how many humans does it take to change all the light bulbs in the water? I could do them all. I'll start tonight. Come on, people. Unscrew those stupid incandescent bulbs and put in an Led from your local dollar store because they're cheap. And imagine how much energy will be saved once we do that. Well, you know, those old bulbs don't last very long, so it's not going to take that long. Would it last a year at best or something like that? It's not good. The Nordstream Pipeline, which is the one that they claimed was bombed or sabotaged, it stopped leaking, but not before emitting the equivalent of what UK cars consume in a year. And there are 1.8 million oil pipelines in the world, some of them apparently leak. Yeah. So this is the pipeline between Russia and Germany, which has been the site of much discussion and problems in the UK world. But, yeah, this is a leaking and even just in your home, right? Like if you have a gas cooktop that can leak and release pollutants and ruin the air quality in your house and contribute to all these problems. From Bloomberg. The United States utility scale solar is now about one third cheaper than gas fired power. Wow. Well, onshore wind is 44% less expensive than gas fired. This is onshore wind, which is notoriously more expensive than offshore wind. So solar and wind now present a deflationary opportunity for electric supply costs. Deflation something I like to hear. Let's hope the inflation rates come down. You know, I watched this video by an engineer, a wind engineer, talking about how big can wind turbines get offline? I love that topic. It's very in depth, but apparently there's a cost of the machine returns. But I might get to that in a bit. We'll see. Another fast fact in 2022 and 600 million people in Africa still don't have access to electricity. And I can go to the hardware store and buy a solar panel and power my camper and lights and stuff and phones. Much of those without power are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Research suggests that covering all of California's canals, which span roughly 4000 miles with solar panels could save up to 63 billion gallons of water. That's just putting them people say there's no place to put solar panels. You take up farmland, put them on the damn canals, safe water, billions of gallons of water. And I believe they have started at least one pilot project. So that's what it would look like if they did it all. That's amazing. Yes. And there's even some going on in Europe. And they said if you did that, you'd have like 13 nuclear reactors worth of peak output. So that's pretty cool. The two Chevy bulk variants set a quarterly sales record at 14, 700. GM says it will increase global production. This is interesting to me. So I'm following it to more than 70,000 units for the 2023 calendar year, which is almost double if it's 44,000 this year. So they're selling all the damn things and they've got to make more. Yeah, and presumably they've ramped up their battery supply, which is the other thing. So they presumably have enough batteries to do that, which is great. And for the regional leader, Post, our local newspaper, we have an oil ban. New York follows California in banning the sale of gas cars by 2035. That legislation is moving forward. So good to hear. World's largest wind solar hybrid complex. This is wind and solar in one piece of land is now 600. It goes online in India. It's the largest hybrid complex. Fairly big. Toyota president calls meeting California zero mission requirements difficult, even though in 2035, you can still have 20% of your new car sales from your company be long range PHEVs plug in hybrids. Yeah, well, it's not like Toyota is like a world leader in making cars or anything. No, I don't know how they could possibly do it. They don't want to. Tesla Giga, Nevada to receive recycled battery materials from Redwoods closed loop campus. That means, Brian, you could buy a Tesla and people say, oh, where did that battery come from? It was mine. While some of it might be recycled now already, and that's going to weigh go up in the future as more that's great. Yes, redwood is one of the big players in battery recycling started by one of the founders of Tesla. But, yeah, we were always worried about not having enough supply of batteries to recycle. But it's slow, but sure it'll come. It'll be a closed loop system one day. The Harris Ranch Tesla supercharger in California, that is the big one, the first one actually ever, and it's between San Francisco and Los Angeles, will have a 25 megawatt of solar installed. That is two, five times the solar farms they're putting in Saskatchewan. Okay, just for reference, at a very rural part of the I 500 stalls, that's 100 stalls, including some for towing. They're going to have some stalls. People are calling for that now that the trucks are out. So it's a halfway mark between La. And the Bay Area. So, yeah, cool. The EPA is doubling money for electric school buses, which you mentioned earlier due to overwhelming demand from all 50 states. Yeah, so the 50 states asked for money, and it was way more than they expected them to ask for. The state, the people, the school boards, the people, they want electric school buses, and they should because diesel bad for kids. Currently, only 1% of the country school buses are at electric. And you know what? I'm a little surprised that it's even 1% more than maybe I would have thought. And Brian, finally this week I'm going to end on good news from Asad Razuk, which I sometimes do, and good news on the climate fight that we could all use this week, ireland to put solar panels on every school. Okay, our caller already covered that. James, you didn't need to put that there, but we broke that news. India to go 50% renewables by 2030. Some more Indian news. We have listeners in India, so they're going to go 50% renewables. That's not bad for a country that said that maybe we can't because we want the middle class to expand and you guys have already had for 100 years, and we're a huge country, but, you know, things may be starting to move along there. That's great. That's our time for this week. Remember, clean energy show@gmail.com. We really appreciate you listening. Please subscribe to the show. So you get our shows every week. And we'll see you again next time. Next week. See you next week. Close Video.  

This is the first episode in our theme about legendary Motown artists of the 1960's and the music they were releasing in the 1970's. We start with the hit making machine known as The Temptations as we review their 1972 album "All Directions".

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss the doors of perception, psychedelic yoga, fasting, vibrations and much more. It's all related to our spiritual awakening. “What calming the mind is all about what meditation is for is to cool you out so you REMEMBER so you see how it all is” - Ram Dass (Remember Be Here Now) Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss the transitory, psychiatry, psychosis, Timothy Leary, healing trauma, and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. “It's the interesting way in which methods are traps. Krishnamurti is right to that extent; methods are traps because of the way in which you embrace the method.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Now, more than ever, we need leaders who can lead in all  directions. Leaders who can lead in ministry and in the  marketplace, during our very volatile, uncertain, complex,  and ambiguously changing times. Great partnerships  between leaders and coaches are critical in making the  world a better place.   Listen in as Kim and her guest, Jon Lockhorst, discuss a  coach-approach to leadership, and hear how to: • Overcome the challenges in leadership that stem from  learned skills, habits, and behaviors, so you can  acquire the mindset you need to lead in all directions. • Manage the different kinds of investments that come  with broader responsibilities in organizations, so you  can step into leadership roles with confidence. • Walk away with the awareness of life and leadership  coaching skills that help equip powerful leaders so  they can positively impact the world   About Jon Lockhorst   Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, keynote  speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new  book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers  Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to  develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no  one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before  launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus  year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He  has a Master's in Organizational Leadership and is  recognized by the International Coach Federation as a  Professional Certified Coach. He also serves as adjunct  faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit  Management at North Park University. Jon is a member of  the National Speakers Association and serves as  President-Elect of the Minnesota chapter. On a personal  note, Jon loves grandparenting and being “Papa” to his  four adorable littles, as he calls them.   Contact Jon and pick up a copy of Mission Critical  Leadership here: https://lokhorstconsulting.com

Host Jeff Crawford and Co Host Baba Here Love with first half the show with Ms. Anonymous and second half of the show with Marcus Rummery. This is the second anniversary of Giant Rock Podcast! We discuss Summer of 22 Pop Culture and other very interesting topics! Just Listen and Be Here Now Bio on Marcus -Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration.Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions.In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi.Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology.http://therummery.cahttps://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notifSupport the show

A fascinating intellectual debate is emerging in the world of decentralized identity. Today, Vitalik represents Soulbound NFTs, while Disco's Evin McMullen takes the side of VCs (verifiable credentials). From your credit history to your college degree, what is it that defines you? What does decentralized, trustless, digital identity look like? After listening to these two gigabrains hash it out, we're convinced that the real winner of this debate… is humanity. ------

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss cosmic humor, other types of humor, freedom of speech, culture, comedians, the cosmic joke, laughter yoga and relate all of it to our spiritual awakening. “Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

This week we welcome comedian - and by all accounts great golfer - Kevin Stobo to the show. Kevin has performed on a CBC TV gala at the prestigious “Just For Laughs” festival and “The Comedy Stampede”, as well as CBC radio's “Madly Off in All Directions”, and  the “Edmonton Comedy Festival”.  Kevin can currently be seen on Shaw TV's “Golf Tips” as well has headlining Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs, fundraisers and major corporate functions across North America.Follow us at:- @wheresthatbarcart- linkt.ree/wheresthatbarcart- @dpurcomic- @montymofoscott- @nickdurie- @ginalouisephillips- @comedyrecordsMusic by Devin BatesonThank you to Betstamp and Comedy Records

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss attachment to the guru, rational-materialism, the Amerikkkan psychosis, Neem Karoli Baba, oneness, everybody is the guru and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ “All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.” - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

A talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu entitled "Protection in All Directions"

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss astral planes, the Kali Yuga, and spiritual practices (sadhana). “I would really like to do sadhana, but...I'm a teacher now. If I could only finish being a teacher, I could do sadhana.” BALONEY! You're either doing sadhana or you're not. Sadhana is a full time thing that you do because there is nothing else to do. You do it whether you're teaching, or sitting in a monastery...whether you're lying in bed, going to the toilet, making love, eating...EVERYTHING is part of waking up.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

This episode is a special 'listener response' to episode 17's 'esoteric in art,' with guest Michael Carter. Michael is an artist and teacher living in Los Angeles, CA. He holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in CA, shows his work in live performances, gives lectures, and and exhibited works in both the U.S. and Europe.  Michael's personal interest in Theosophy plays a large role in his own research into the spiritual dimensions of abstract art.  This discussion includes Michael's personal opinions and research about the history of spiritual movements as they relate to the category of modern abstract art, as well as his own personal background as an artist and spiritual 'seeker.' We also discuss his essay regarding metaphysical art, where he explains his ideas about the two cateogories of art, and his own work with a pendulum. We also talk about Jack Burnham's ideas about kinetic art, then move to a discussion about the condition of the Theosophical movement today, including his own opinions about whether or not today's artists feel comfortable expressing their own spiritual questioning as it is reflected in their art. Plus much more!PROGRAM NOTESMichael Carter -website: HOME - Michael Carter StudioTwitter: Michael Carter (@MichaelKCarter) / TwitterInstagram: Michael Carter (@michaelcarter.studio) • Instagram-foto's en -video'sEssay "Form Following Spirit: An Investigation of Recent and Near-Recent Metaphysical Art" in Speculative Arts Research,  Issue Four, November 2021: SAR.04.pdf (speculativeartsresearch.com)The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985: The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 by Maurice Tuchman (goodreads.com)Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint: Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint :: Zeitgeist FilmsWebsite Lita Alberqerque: Lita AlbuquerqueJoseph Beuys: ‘Honey is Flowing in All Directions', Joseph Beuys, 1976 | TateJack Burnham -All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham's ‘Systems Aesthetics' – Tate Papers | TateRitual Aesthetics: Salt Flat and Systems – In Focus | TateJack Burnham (1931–2019) - Artforum InternationalDissolve into Comprehension | The MIT PressTheme Music: Daniel P. SheaOther Music: Stephanie Shea 

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery and Baba discuss Shamanism, Native American spirituality, psychedelics, spirit animals and more, relating it to our spiritual awakening. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ “Yet we are not a traditional culture like that of the Native Americans. Their deep reverence for their spiritual elders is similar to the way holy beings are woven into the fabric of spiritual life in India.” - Ram Dass --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery and Baba discuss psychedelics, yoga, the mind, psychology, science, tantra, sexuality and dreams relating it to our spiritual awakening. “When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.” - Neem Karoli Baba Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, the 1960's revolution, Maharajji, Ram Dass, psychedelic yoga and other topics related to our spiritual awakening. Let the podcast wash over you and don't get busy being identified with he or she who listens. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif “For many of us who have come into meditation through psychedelics, the model we had for changing consciousness has been of “getting high”. We pushed away our normal waking state in order to embrace a state of euphoria, harmony, bliss, peace, or ecstasy. Many of us spent long periods of time getting high and coming down. My guru, in speaking about psychedelics, said: “These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It's better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.”  For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.” - Ram Dass राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम (108 Ram) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss non-duality, determinism, spiritual powers, and others topics related to our spiritual awakening. Let the podcast wash over you and don't get busy being identified with he or she who listens. Where are you? Here! What time is it? Now! Are you a listener and am I a podcast host??? Come on

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery gets to the truth of why Baba Here Love left the co-host position of the giant rock podcast. https://giantrockpodcast.com We explore the death of Balki, so to speak, in a perfect strangers analogy and get into the nitty gritty of tantra yoga. In this humorous and perhaps mind blowing episode we relate all topics that come up to our spiritual awakening that is happening NOW. “All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.” - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji) Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery divinely dances through the art of conversation with our nutty host Baba Here Love aka nobody special. We discuss psychedelic medicine, gurus, western science, revolution and the transformation of society. “These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It's better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.”  For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Now, more than ever, we need leaders who can lead in all directions. Leaders who can lead in ministry and in the marketplace, during our very volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguously changing times. Great partnerships between leaders and coaches are critical in making the world a better place.   Listen in as Kim and her guest, Jon Lockhorst, discuss a coach-approach to leadership, and hear how to:   Overcome the challenges in leadership that stem from learned skills, habits, and behaviors, so you can acquire the mindset you need to lead in all directions.   Manage the different kinds of investments that come with broader responsibilities in organizations, so you can step into leadership roles with confidence.   Walk away with the awareness of life and leadership coaching skills that help equip powerful leaders so they can positively impact the world.     About Jon Lockhorst   Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He has a Master's in Organizational Leadership and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. He also serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management at North Park University. Jon is a member of the National Speakers Association and serves as President-Elect of the Minnesota chapter. On a personal note, Jon loves grandparenting and being “Papa” to his four adorable littles, as he calls them.   Contact Jon and pick up a copy of Mission Critical Leadership here: https://lokhorstconsulting.com/

In his talk Student Teacher Fugan examines how the first of the six Paramitas, generosity, functions in our Zazen and in our daily lives. Recorded Sunday July 25th, 2021. Podcast audio: The post Talk by Fugan Hoshi “Generosity Flows in All Directions” first appeared on The Village Zendo.

Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. Our listeners can download a free chapter of Mission-Critical Leadership at the first orange button on the web page for the book: missioncriticalleadership.com. They can also contact Jon with further questions at the second orange button on that page. 

This week we are joined by Jon Lokhorst, author of "Mission-Critical Leadership". Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, speaker, trainer, and author of the new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions. He works predominantly with finance and healthcare organizations to develop leaders everyone wants to follow and build teams no one wants to leave. As a result of his work, organizations increase employee engagement, reduce turnover, break down silos, and build flourishing leadership pipelines that produce future leaders from within. On a personal note, Jon loves grand parenting and being “Papa” to his four adorable littles. If you would like more information on Jon Lokhorst please visit https://lokhorstconsulting.com Please visit our website to learn more https://indiebooksintl.com Marketing With A Book Podcast Episode 27 Recorded 7/6/2021

Today on the podcast we have Jon Lokhorst, who is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He has a Master's in Organizational Leadership and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach. He also serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management at North Park University. Jon is a member of the National Speakers Association and serves as President-Elect of the Minnesota chapter. In this episode, Jon and Cindra discuss: The 4 directions of leadership How leadership skills are “power skills” Why the “mission-critical leader” is different from other perspectives on leadership The critical behaviors that someone needs to lead in all 4 directions His TIES acronym to use to develop your leadership skills HIGH PERFORMANCE MINDSET SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.cindrakamphoff.com/429-2-2-2-2-2/ FB COMMUNITY FOR THE HPM PODCAST: https://www.facebook.com/groups/highperformancemindsetcommunity FOLLOW CINDRA ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/cindrakamphoff/ FOLLOW CINDRA ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/mentally_strong TO FIND MORE ABOUT JON AND HIS WORK: https://lokhorstconsulting.com   Love the show? Rate and review the show for Cindra to mention you on the next episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-performance-mindset-learn-from-world-class-leaders/id1034819901

A plan is essential to a promoting your book, no matter the size of your budget. In this episode, Melissa and Dave interview Jon Lokhorst, a leadership coach, trainer, and keynote speaker. In a few weeks, Jon will be launching his new book, “Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions," into the world. Aspiring authors will benefit from his approach to book promotion, including his "one to one" and "one to many" strategy.

This short Special Edition says THANK YOU for listening - and also talks with Canadian recording artist Rose Reiter who has produced a song dedicated to The Unexplained - you'll hear the song... "All Directions"

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dennis Mckee of The Mckee BrothersThe roots of the McKee Bros. project go back to 70s Ann Arbor and Detroit, where Ralph McKee, inspired by his college roommate, guitarist Bob Doezema (now a Berklee professor who tours with Al Kooper), bought a cheap bass and a Silvertone amp and started to teach himself to play. After a couple of years of jamming with guitarist Grant Cherry and bongo player Pat “Doc” Roberts, Ralph began to play professionally with the eclectic All Directions band, playing funk, jazz, blues, fusion and rock in local clubs and occasionally backing touring artists, including the Drifters and jazz drummer/vocalist Grady Tate. Ralph and Doc picked out a set of bongos for Denis (11 years younger), who then also picked up alto sax in school band. The McKee Brothers,Bluer Than You,A Time Like This,The McKee BrothersThe McKee Brothers,Think It Over,A Time Like This,The McKee Brotherswww.makingascene.org,Dennis McKee,,www.makingascene.orgThe McKee Brothers,A Scene From Sunday,A Time Like This,The McKee BrothersThe McKee Brothers,Putt Putt Hustler,,The McKee Brothers 

In this episode Sam and Abby take a deep dive into One Direction's premiere album Up All Night. They discuss their favorite tracks, tracks they forgot about, and songs they would get saucy to. Fictional Sam and Niall look forward to a first date over pizza, with so many awkward questions. Who knew 14 year old Sam loved khaki so much? Follow us on Instagram @alldpodcast Follow Sam on Instagram @sam_dunni Follow Abby on Instagram @abs_dunnigan08 Tweet at us @alldpodcast Send us your thoughts or good dad jokes: alldpodcast@gmail.com

Monday. Pun-master Paul Marsh is on, All Directions for One Direction competition and the shredder is back in studio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fair City's Sean Doyle is on to play Poker Face, we're chatting cancelled holidays because of the Coronavirus and we have a winner for our place in the All Directions for One Direction. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Face touching, The Pint of Guinness World Cup and All Directions for One Direction competition details. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Things that kill your sex drive, Pint of Guinness World Cup and a finalist for the All Directions for One Direction competition. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FREEMAN DYSON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/freeman_dyson), emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. His books include Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Maker of Patterns. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-the-brain-is-full-of-maps

Last week I got to sit down and talk with one of my favorite musical groups, Weatherbox. The band was started in 2004 by singer/songwriter Brian Warren in San Diego, CA. They recently reunited after going on hiatus in 2016. Their current lineup consists of some new and familiar faces.This podcast was recorded at Brooklyn Bazaar, a day after the band played a sold out show upstairs with Person L, Fire is Motion, and the Sal Show. I’ve seen them a couple times in my life and this was for sure the best set I’ve seen.I’ve been a pretty geeked-out fan for about 10 years (still remember buying “American Art” on interpunk) so I tried to ask as many questions as I could about the band’s history and ethos.Their last album “Flies in All Directions” was released on Triple Crown Records in 2014. They’re currently working on some new music and recently dropped some live session videos produced by Shane and Jake’s session project, Half Way Home Sessions.

FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in addition to fundamental contributions ranging from number theory to quantum electrodynamics, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. His books include Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, Maker of Patterns, and Origins of Life. Freeman Dyson's Edge Bio Page. (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/freeman_dyson) Read the essay: https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-biological-and-cultural-evolution

Cette semaine, David (@vinylophyle sur Instagram) vous raconte l’histoire de Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone (1972) de The Undisputed Truth. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg est parue sur l’album des Temptations Gettin’ Ready en 1966. Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone est sur le troisième album de The Undisputed Truth, Law Of The Land (1973) et sur All Directions […]

While recognizing that quantum mechanics “demands serious attention,” Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished that the theory “does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One.” Aware that “there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself,” 94-year-old theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. To offer us a rare glimpse into scientific history, Dyson came to our stage to share his life story through a series of autobiographical letters and recount many major advances in science that made the field what it is today. Dyson met for a conversation with renowned speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson—and the pair were joined by moderator Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson and Stephenson delved into Dyson’s letters to relatives, which rendered a historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Dyson reflected on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, and the considerable demands of raising six children. Join Dyson and Stephenson for a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age. Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Freeman Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. His work unified the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga, and he went on to work on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology. He is the author of numerous books including Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Origins of Life. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of numerous works of speculative fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. His work includes books such as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, The Diamond Age, and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.. He has received multiple accolades for his books, including the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Diamond Age), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Quicksilver), and the 2009 Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (The System of the World). Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor since July 2012, is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections between matrix models, topological string theory, and supersymmetric quantum field theory, Dijkgraaf has developed precise formulas for the counting of bound states that explain the entropy of certain black holes. For his contributions to science, Dijkgraaf was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, in 2003. Recorded live at Meydenbauer Center Theatre on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. 

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This week So Soon, The Truth from Cardigan Records joins us via Skype. We talk about how the band formed and their current album Familiar Violence. We feature their current single Separation Anxiety and later on we play their song All Directions. Both songs from their album Familiar Violence. You can find their music on the major music streaming platforms. Follow their social media Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date. Subscribe to Cardigan Records YouTube channel to catch all of So Soon, The Truth's music videos.

July 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982: Elvis, The Incredible String Band, David Ackles, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Temptations, Van Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Costell x 2, Radio Birdman, Judas Priest

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"Life (Pt. 1)" by Dan Friel from Life; The title track from Anoxia by L A N D; "Dayz Up North" by Yung H33m from Abundance, Vol 6; "Physis" by Majeure from Union of Worlds; "Barrow in Furness (Open Thy Hand Wide)" by Philip Jeck from Cardinal; The title track from Glass Ceiling Universe by Apprentice Destroyer; "Shadow Hand" by Zombi from Shape Shift; "A Wind from All Directions" by Inventions from Maze of Woods; "Loving of Leaving (Instrumental)" by King Midas Sound and Fennesz from Edition 1; "Each Surface of Night" by Drew McDowall from Collapse; "Repletion" by Berber Ox from Lye.

"Life (Pt. 1)" by Dan Friel from Life; The title track from Anoxia by L A N D; "Dayz Up North" by Yung H33m from Abundance, Vol 6; "Physis" by Majeure from Union of Worlds; "Barrow in Furness (Open Thy Hand Wide)" by Philip Jeck from Cardinal; The title track from Glass Ceiling Universe by Apprentice Destroyer; "Shadow Hand" by Zombi from Shape Shift; "A Wind from All Directions" by Inventions from Maze of Woods; "Loving of Leaving (Instrumental)" by King Midas Sound and Fennesz from Edition 1; "Each Surface of Night" by Drew McDowall from Collapse; "Repletion" by Berber Ox from Lye.

This week we have Jamie Broadnax, the Black Girl Nerd herself, talking about her blog, podcast, and soon to be media empire, second up is Bashir Harrell who takes a moment to remind us that we're not in Kansas anymore, and last up is Kaitlynn McRae with a sonnet on what we leave behind. ---------------------- Episode 58 - Nerds, Directions, and Memories Editor/mixer -Michael Belancourt Narrator -Nizar Babul Contributors -Jamie Broadnax "Black Girl Nerds" -Bashir Harrell "All Directions" -Kaitlynn McRae "Things I've Learned" Music -Narration: コンシャスTHOUGHTS - Like U -Segment 1: saib. x nymano- au bord de l'eau., saib. - birthday jam. -Segment 2: saib. - spring. -Segment 3: (Koi)コイ。 - I Forgot The Tea Set At Home ---------------------- If you liked Jamie's segment, be sure to check out her website, Black Girl Nerds: http://blackgirlnerds.com/ If you liked Kaitlynn's segment, check out her other sonnets over at her blog, One Hundred Days: http://100daysofsonnets.blogspot.fr/ If you liked the music be sure to check out Michael Belancourt, Mr. Alexander, コンシャスTHOUGHTS, saib., nymano, and (Koi)コイ: http://soundcloud.com/enfinity http://soundcloud.com/mr-alexand-er http://consciousthoughts.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/thoughts-7 https://saibeats.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/saib_eats https://soundcloud.com/nymano http://pondofkoifish.bandcamp.com/ http://soundcloud.com/pond-of-koi-fish If you want to have your music featured on Comatose, send us an email at ComatosePodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @ComatosePodcast.

Kole, Ben, and David talk about CES, pick nits about Saints Row the Third, and applaud Dennis for getting an iPhone. Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in RSS Direct Download Episode List About DTR Facebook Page What’s on Your Mind? TF2 characters added to Saints Row. CES: Kinect for PC. CES: Project Fiona. Nothing coming out. The Year of the Backlog. What’cha Been Playin’? Dennis: Allied Star Police. Scribblenauts Remix. Infinity Blade 2. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. Ben: Saints Row the Third. Kole: Saints Row the Third. Uncharted 2. Links of Note Kinect Effect - YouTube Razer: Project Fiona Hypercritical 49: Pinching the Harmonica Hypercritical 50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions

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Hosted by Eric McClintock, Danton Berube, Brendan Farmer, and Mark Stewart. Listen Here: Download Here Aerosoft announces more details on: Aerosoft Flight Simulator 2012 Announced on Aerosoft forums on October 1st: Gentlemen, I will make this a short and sweet post. Last weekend we had a lot of meetings regarding the new possible simulator to be done by Aerosoft. Now first of all I got to state that we are NOT yet ready to say that there will be one. But I can say that the probability is a lot larger now. From 50% last week to 80% now. We are currently investing officially money in this project. We are currently using the unofficial name Aerosoft Flight Simulator 2012. A brilliant name if I say so myself, we got our name (Aerosoft) in it, we got what we intend to do (Flight Simulator) in the name and we even got the release year in it. I do not expect this name to be used for the release btw, but for now lets call it AFS2012, okay? Mathijs also mentions (Joking or not) Easter 2012 as a possible release date? Read all details, and participate here.   Related: Aerosoft Simulation4U Section Okay, not exactly brand new. But we just wanted to talk about the new Simulation4U section at Aerosoft. What are your thoughts? Avsim Chicago Social Chicago O'Hare Hilton on Saturday, October 10th, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. If you are under the age of 21 you must be accompanied by an adult. RSVP with Avsim for entry. Danton and Eric are also thinking about going... If you are going, let us know! Also: Avsim File Library now accepting uploads! Our tech team has been hard at work since the commencement of the AVSIM restoration to bring the website back to its previous state. We are happy to announce that as of today, our Library upload capability has been restored. Your uploads will go through the same process as before, approved and edited by the Library Managers ans then placed on our electronic shelves for your access. Thanks to all of our Library users for their patience. Let the uploads begin.... http://avsim.com $100 Hamburger: Palm Springs VOR We highly recommend downloading the full document here, you will find screenshots and sectionals! If you flew the two previous $100 Hamburger flights (Lost in Traffic, and the ZLA Swarm Event) you should now be a master of your COM radios and your Transponder. In this flight were going to learn how to use your NAV radios to navigate the airways using VORs. What is a VOR? (VHF Omnidirectional Range) I think this definition from the excellent website navfltsm.addr.com (Recommended by Danton) sums it up best:  The VHF Omnidirectional Range navigation system, VOR, was probably the most significant aviation invention other than the jet engine. With it, a pilot can simply, accurately, and without ambiguity navigate from Point A to Point B.  The widespread introduction of VORs began in the early 1950s and 50 years later it remains the primary navigation system in the overwhelming majority of aircraft.  The basic principle of operation of the VOR is very simple: the VOR facility transmits two signals at the same time. One signal is constant in all directions, while the other is rotated about the station. The airborne equipment receives both signals, looks (electronically) at the difference between the two signals, and interprets the result as a radial from the station.  The GPS, Global Positioning System, is making inroads onto the navigation scene and offers a flexibility unavailable with either NDB or VOR systems. However, it is supplementing these systems, not replacing them. What is a DME? (Distance Measuring Equipment) Aircraft use DME to determine their distance from a land-based transponder by sending and receiving pulse pairs - two pulses of fixed duration and separation. The ground stations are typically collocated with VORs, as shown in the picture above. In short, VORs allow you to navigate to a specific location, from anywhere as long as you are in range. DME’s tell you how far away you are from a particular VOR Point. The positives are pretty obvious over Dead Reckoning. Since a VOR transmits in ALL DIRECTIONS you can navigate to a specific geographic point from any direction. You are no longer relying on specific headings, and correcting your headings when you are off course. A DME is helpful, but not needed as we will learn in our flight.   A basic tutorial on how to tune to a VOR and navigate… First and Foremost… Select an aircraft you are comfortable with flying, and are fairly familiar with where the instruments are at and how to operate them. NAV Radio VORs are activated by entering the provided frequency into your Navigation radio (In this case, NAV 1 is just right of COMM 1, and NAV 2 right below NAV 1). The Navigation radios are activated  by clicking the “Nav 1” or “Nav 2” buttons. After tuning either of the NAV radios to a valid frequency, you will hear a Morse Code tone with the VOR’s station ID. These codes can be found on the sectional chart for that particular VOR. It is a great idea to tune the frequencies you will need while on the ground.   Omni Bearing Selector (OBS) After you have tuned your NAV 1 radio to the correct frequency, you will need to use your OBS knob (In the photo above, the lower left knob) to narrow on to the VOR, this is done by rotating the knob until the Arrow is pointing to your VOR. This process is done after takeoff past 1,000 feet, as VORs are only line of sight. ­­ Here is an example of a tuned OBS. In this case the VOR is facing 12 o’clock in front of my airport. This can face any direction, as long as the arrow is straight: You will follow the OBS similar to how you would follow your heading indicator.  You may need to keep on tuning the OBS while in flight, since your orientation may change. The goal is to keep the arrow straight. Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) If you aircraft has DME, and the frequency you are tuning has both VOR and DME capabilities, you will see the distance away from your VOR: In this case, we are 12.1nm from the VOR we are tracking. If the frequency does not have DME capabilities, you will not see any information here.  Our Flight If you were up with us during the Swarm 2009 Event, you will find this flight fairly familiar. We will be taking off from Van Nuys (KVNY) and landing at Palm Springs (KPSP). We will not be using any headings for this flight, instead you will be provided with VOR frequencies. You will need to key them in to your Navigation radio, and follow the VOR using the OBS Gauge. Cruise Altitude: 5,000-6,000ft Aircraft: A Single/Double Prop Aircraft that you know well Weather: Real World Weather (15 Minutes) -Depart: KVNY Runway 16R (Or Active Runway) -Fly EAST, POMONA (POM) VOR/DME – Frequency 110.4 -RIVERSIDE (RAL) VOR – Frequency 112.4 -Fly through Banning Pass (Slightly North after passing RIVERSIDE VOR) while tuning to PALM SPRINGS (PSP) VOR/DME– Frequency 115.5 -Land: KPSP Active Runway Flight Notes 1. Watch what happens when you get close to the POM VOR. You will notice that as you get closer, you will be fine tuning it more and more. Since you’re nearly on top of the VOR station, it will get very touchy when you are near it. At some point you will need to give up on fine-tuning the OBS knob and pass the VOR, I found the cutoff distance around 1.5nm or so away. When you pass the VOR, you will see your arrow flip, as the VOR is now behind you. Remember this behavior because the second VOR (RAL) does NOT support DME, so you will need to use the sensitivity of the OBS Arrow to determine how close you are to the VOR, and when you have passed it. 2. Through the Banning Pass, you will need to adjust your altitude as needed. 3. Near the PSP VOR in real life there are many Wind Turbines. If you look up the sectional, you will see the highest windmill is 1980ft MS Sectionals I would encourage everyone to use the tools we have recommended over the past months such as SkyVector.com and create their own flight map. However, here is one that you can use just to make sure you have the right idea when making your own. I’ve covered up the Headings that SkyVector puts in with their flight planning tool, as navigating using just headings would make this learning exercise worthless! This burger flight is designed to introduce you to the Nav Radios, the OBS, and the DME on your aircraft, and how to navigate using VORs, and how a VOR acts differently from a VOR/DME. When You're Done... Share your results in the forums!! Review: Aerosoft's Discus Glider X Product Information: Fully professional development (over 20 months). Ten high detail models (for example just the VC of the BT model has 146384 polygons, more than double of what FS2004 could compile) using all the FSX options. Highly advanced flight models that are accurate even in spins and other no standard attitudes. Over 100 non standard sounds (like flying with open windows, side slips, pending stalls etc) all triggered by FSX variables and conditions using Aerosoft Sound Control. Full working water ballast system. Two Static ports (with selector) to avoid problems when using the auxiliary engines. Dozens of non standard animations, up to elements that move under high G load. Very realistic flexing wings created with a new technology. All instruments accurate, including TEC and NETTO variometers. Not like this simplified gauges in the default glider in FSX. Real usable yaw string that will make coordinated flight a lot easier. All models include a highly realistic C4 Flight Computer that allows then pilot to calculate ideal speeds and routes. Includes a licensed copy of Winch X! . Designed with full support of Schempp-Hirth, SDI Variomers and the SOAR online glider community. Includes a FSX manual (English) and the actual 'real' manuals for the gliders and C4 Flight Computer (English and German) Click for more information on the Discus Glider X from Aerosoft. Written review by Eric: Introduction This product sparked our interest because at the time there were no payware gliders for FSX, so we were naturally intrigued when the Discus Glider X finally made its appearance. We are not extremely knowledgeable in Gliders, so we are all entering the Discus with fairly clean slates when it comes to how a glider acts, and how it should fly. As you would expect from any commercial payware, the installation process was very straightforward. Included is a copy of WinchX, a freeware program that improves FSX’s default winch system. Without WinchX you can not winch any aircraft with an engine, which poses a problem with towing two of the three discus models which have small onboard engines. WinchX installs automatically after Discus Glider X does, and no additional configuration is needed. Aerosoft also recommends two additional freeware programs, Cumulus X and Sim Probe which both improve the way FSX calculates thermals. It would have been really nice if Aerosoft were able to include these two programs the same way they did with WinchX – But this could be due to technical or licensing reasons. The install process for these two programs does require some configuration, but everything is outlined in their respective ReadMe files. The Model Three main models are included: B – A traditional glider with no motor. BT – A glider with a small motor included. You will still need to use something like WinchX to get airborne, but the motor can be deployed for getting you between thermals, or to get a little extra boost when you’re a little short from the airport. BM – A glider with a larger motor included. This motor is powerful enough to take off under it’s own power, and does not need a winch to get airborne. However, with WinchX you will get to your desired altitude much faster than using the motor. The documentation mentions that the “BM” model is very rare, and only 10 of these models were actually made. It should go without saying, but don’t expect much from either the BT or the BM motors... It is a glider after all, and the motors are only designed for getting you back to the airport in one piece. The motors are activated via a switch in the cockpit, and specific instructions must be followed to start the motor. These procedures are outlined in the product manual, and differ between the BT and the BM models. I found the flight model itself to be truly “as real as it gets”. A lot of attention was put into creating a realistic flight model, which is extremely important in a glider as you are relying on a true to life glide ratio, and control surfaces performing as they should. The Discus Glider X has been flown and real Discus pilots have verified the flight model. Testing the model, you can tell when the glider is performing well and when it isn’t. If you jerk the rudder left or right, you will almost feel the jerking motion in your chair as the glider violently jerks, and then side slips. It is a similar situation to the Ailerons and other control surfaces. One thing I would love to do if given the opportunity is to fly this model with a good quality force feedback stick. If force feedback is supported, it will nearly take the amount of realism over the edge... The model behavior is so well, it is a shame that when you feel the aircraft struggling you aren’t able to feel it in your joystick. The Sound I would normally put the sound under “The Model”, or just stick it in a sentence somewhere... But I think the attention to detail in the Discus Glider X is deserving of its own category. This model includes more than 100 non standard sounds. Going back to the previous section, when you make hard movements on the control surfaces, in addition to feeling it in the behavior, you can HEAR the glider slipping in the air, and it is all integrated perfectly with the aircraft model. Considering a glider is designed to be flown without an engine (BT and BM models can obviously be excluded) you aren’t listening to the buzz of an aircraft engine... You’re hearing the wind over the wings, and your rudder, ailerons, and elevator interacting with the air racing by. The combination of the excellent flight model, and the Aerosoft sound system is a perfect match. The Cockpit Believe it or not, a glider is a lot more advanced than you’d think! They can have sophisticated flight computers, and gauges not typically found in your standard C172. In addition to all of the instruments, the Discus Glider X features a fully functional ballast system. The model (B, BT, or BM) you choose dictates which virtual cockpit layout you get, and which gauges you get. But overall, you get the following gauges with the Glider X: Compass Airspeed Indicator Altimeter C4 Competition PDA/GPS TEC Variometer Electrical Netto Variometer Engine operation switch/Hobbs meter/RPM Meter Yaw String Without going into each and every gauge, I will just mention that they are all very well modeled, and look realistic in the Virtual Cockpit even zoomed and at high resolutions. The C4 Competition flight computer can surprisingly be a very complicated instrument; Aerosoft actually includes the actual manuals from the manufacture, which can be followed with this gauge. The last gauge I will touch on is the compass... I know you’re probably laughing right now, asking Who Cares! It’s a compass... But I think that such a simple instrument is usually overlooked in most payware models, and the one included in the Discus Glider X is phenomenal. The slight movements of the aircraft are reflected in the vertical and horizontal movements of the compass while in flight... And frankly I’ve never seen anything like it in FSX – You really have to see it to appreciate it. Documentation As with every Aerosoft product, the documentation is overall pretty good. It goes into the functions of most of the more advanced instruments and gauges with the model – Which for anyone not familiar with some of the specialized instruments for gliders will need to read to understand what their purposes are. Aerosoft provides basic “Getting Started” documentation – Which is about 15 pages of material not counting copyright and title pages. This is well labeled, and has many screenshots, which I found very helpful. Also provided are full flight manuals for the “B” and “BT” models, C4 Competition Flight computer, and WinchX. However, one item missing altogether in the “Getting Started” documentation is any information on the Water Ballast system. The Flight Manual probably includes information on this – But you will have to find it in the 177 pages. There is also very little information on the C4 Competition computer system in the “Getting Started” documentation, just a paragraph on what the computer is and its basic function. While the full manual IS included, it could be a little overwhelming for new pilots. There is also a pretty good Easter Egg in the documentation... Nice! Nitpicking... In my testing of the Discus Glider X, I did notice one item that could be improved on. This is in no way a deal breaker... But I think it should be mentioned.. Cabin reflections not in sync with what they should be! See below, the reflection looks great, right?   Now if I take out the GPS/PDA, the reflection does not show this change: ...Nothing major, but it would add a little extra bit of realism if the reflection textures were refreshed for major changes – Such as the PDA and the pilot (The pilot can be toggled off and on depending on your preference). I don’t expect a different set of reflection textures to be made for every single movement in the VC (Such as moving the throttle or ballast lever), but for major changes like those mentioned above, it would be a nice addition. Taking a couple steps back though, this model has been in development for 20 months, and the flight model was completely re- written several times... So if it comes down to putting extra time into the flight model, or the reflections, I would choose the flight model. But it would be a nice change to put in a service pack maybe? If you’ve made it this far though, and you’re interested in the Discus Glider X, don’t let this tiny bug get in the way. Overall... Overall, you have to ask yourself if you are a glider person or not. If soaring through the skies, riding the thermals with maybe a little bit of aerobatics tossed in sounds like a great time to you, then I would recommend the Discus Glider X without hesitation. If you have been interested in the default glider included with FSX, you will find this to be MUCH improved and a more realistic aircraft. After flying the Discus Glider X for a few days, I went back to the default glider included with FSX – The difference is night and day. After flying this model, the default glider feels completely disconnected from the control surface, and the cockpit to be very basic at best. I would recommend some great scenery to go with it though. A unique experience with a glider is that you have almost a full range of vision. Unlike a small GA aircraft like a C172, you don’t have the engine & prop in your vision, nor do you have the wings or passenger seat. You have uninterrupted vision from the front, side to side, and vertically. If you’re looking to explore a massive scenery expansion (Like Tongass Fjords, Switzerland Pro, Orbx FTX, etc) this glider is perfect to do that. You are able to get lower, slower, and closer than you can with any other aircraft out there. There are a few small things that in my opinion could be tweaked (Such as the basic documentation and the reflections), and would keep me from giving this a “Perfect” rating... But it is still 99% there. Pros: Top notch flight model Detailed, and real to life VC and instrumentation (No 2D Cockpit) WinchX is almost necessary, and included with this Sound system = Excellent Overall, good documentation is included No performance hit noticed, FPS friendly Cons: Basic documentation could have been more in depth about the C4 Competition, and does not mention ballast system at all. Reflection issue System Reviewed on: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 8800 512MB FSX & Windows 7 Thoughts from Danton... Soaring in Australia Eric, Brendan, and I take the Discus up for a joint flight around Ayres Rock in central Australia.  After winching up from the nearby airport, we circle around Uluru and then race back. 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Despite having an engine, I take advantage of thermals and ridge lift to gain the range I need for the journey. I start to get some sense of how the C4 computer works in conjunction with the GPS and a flight plan, at least to the point of estimating my altitude at my destination to know when I have climbed high enough. The Alps are beautiful, but I am glad my glider has an engine. 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I dump my water ballast and make my way towards the Salzburg airport. On final, however, I am a little high and fast, so I deploy my speed brakes. They do the trick and get me into the proper glide slope. When flying the Discus, I recommend following Aerosoft’s advice of setting the throttle level to control the speed brakes, giving you much finer control. 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Second, in the unfortunate event of a crash, even the non-motorized Discus B sometimes explodes in a fireball, causing you to wonder whether the ballast tank may have been filled with avgas (although the attached screenshot doesn’t really capture the occasionally huge conflagration). Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer var so = new SWFObject("http://www.db798.com/pictobrowserp.swf", "PictoBrowser", "600", "500", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("source", "album"); so.addVariable("userName", "fszone"); so.addVariable("names", "Misc"); so.addVariable("albumId", "5389708885392198337"); so.addVariable("titles", "off"); so.addVariable("displayNotes", "off"); so.addVariable("thumbAutoHide", "off"); so.addVariable("imageSize", "medium"); so.addVariable("vAlign", "mid"); so.addVariable("vertOffset", "0"); so.addVariable("colorHexVar", "FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("initialScale", "off"); so.addVariable("bgAlpha", "90"); so.write("PictoBrowser091007003634"); Recommendations Eric: VFR Sectional Chart Symbols Also IFR and IAP Chart Symbols Brendan: Carenado Stationair Panel Upgrade Danton: "Soaring with Flight Simulator X" Glider Resources Bman's Home Cockpit   A huge thanks to Bman from the forums for sharing his home cockpit setup with us, check out his entire post here. Danton is also thinking about using an LCD TV as a monitor for flight simulator, have you tried this, or have anything to say? Let us know!! Reminder: Mission Design Contest Just as a reminder, we are still taking submissions for the mission design contest, find out how to enter here.  

It's a healthy drink! A cup of laughter and silliness for you as we practice laughing as an excercise to improve your health! Deep breathe, stretch and play in All Directions with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl.

It's a healthy drink! A cup of laughter and silliness for you as we practice laughing as an excercise to improve your health! Deep breathe, stretch and play in All Directions with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl.

It's a healthy drink! A cup of laughter and silliness for you as we practice laughing as an excercise to improve your health! Deep breathe, stretch and play in All Directions with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl.

It's a healthy drink! A cup of laughter and silliness for you as we practice laughing as an excercise to improve your health! Deep breathe, stretch and play in All Directions with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl.

It's a healthy drink! A cup of laughter and silliness for you as we practice laughing as an excercise to improve your health! Deep breathe, stretch and play in All Directions with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl.

Tickle your bod and laugh in All Directions, with Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl! Have great LIFE everyone!

Wiggle your way into Wednesday with laughter exercises, deep breathing and a bit of stretching in All Directions! Miss Lafalot and Giggle Girl will help you begin your day positively!

Laugh and Tickle yourself silly, in All Directions! Join us for fun and laughter as we practise being thankful and joyful, for the health of it!