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In this edition of Spirits Speak, Exploring the Afterlife we will explore all the aspects of heaven. We will begin by asking question of our spirit guide, then channel Saint Peter the Disciple who will speak of how Jesus described heaven in his ministries, then Steve Jobs the founder of Apple Corporation and an Agnostic who will talk about his passing and in the final segment of the show we will channel Jesus and he will speak of his heaven. Please tell your friends about this special show. Tell your friends and join us on Tuesdays on the VoiceAmerica Variety network at 9:00 am Pacific time. You can email questions or suggestions to analyzingtheafterlife2023@gmail.com for future shows. All of our past shows are available on VoiceAmerica or our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@onestrohm. Please tell your friends!

In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D uses a memorandum from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coupled with other sources, to examine the nature and breadth of U.S. technological and cultural hegemony and how this hegemony relates to the American Empire as a whole.Jumping in to the video, Double D recaps some of the discussion from the previous two episodes, before starting an analysis of the Plaza Accords and the Fairchild Agreement. Citing an article from Los Angeles Times, printed in 1987, he outlines how Japan was outcompeting the United States semi-conductor and microchip companies. A realization that lead U.S. corporations, in conjunction with the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community, to hobble Japanese financial markets as well as their high-tech industries; forcing them to open up their markets to U.S. industrial competition as well as financial speculation.Double D also outlines the various other ways the United States engages in protectionism. He insists that the "free-market" is an egregious lie, and shows how increasingly U.S. tech firms amount to nothing more than financialized conglomerates. Using Apple as an example, he explains how Apple does not manufacture products, provide research and development, or ship their own products; rather third party corporations do all the productive work, while Apple Corporation receives "rent" on their intellectual property.Double D goes on to explain how the same scheme used to hobble Japanese competition is being weaponized once again in the ongoing trade war with China. He highlights the recent barring or condemnation of Chinese firms such as Huawei or TikTok. He scoffs at rhetoric around this trade war, where the U.S. claims "the protection of democracy" or ensuring "national security" around these bans, noting that the situation really constitutes protectionism for American corporations which are increasingly no longer innovative or competitive on the global stage. He points out that this "high-tech economic war" has higher stakes for the U.S. Empire beyond controlling global markets, acknowledging that much of the recent "Chip War" rests on the fact that U.S. military hegemony is rooted in having access to cheap microchips as well as other tech commodities which are essential for military hardware and AI.Moving on, Double D attempts to provide some analysis which shows the conjunction between U.S. technological hegemony and its global surveillance state; noting the ties between the Intelligence Community and Tech Giants such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google. He goes on to outline the history of the U.S. surveillance state, noting the revelations brought about by Edward Snowden, as well as recent leaks which show that the United States has been spying on its European Allies, including French Presidents and Chancellor Angela Merkel.Ending the discussion on technological hegemony, Double D begins to analyze cultural hegemony. He begins by describing the "culture industrial complex." That is the relationships between Hollywood, Mass Media, the Intelligence Community, and the political class; and how this industrial complex is used to instill "cultural hegemony." Next he plays a brief video outlining Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony, which explains how the dominant ideology of the ruling class is trickled through stories and images to become a "common-sense", that the majority of people will never question. Double D relates this to U.S. political culture as well, explaining how the same process, the same "spectacle" is played out via mass media. He ends the video by playing a brief explainer-visualizer that outline the principles of Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", which shows on the mass media corporations act as a filter through which all political discourse must be sieved.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and comment; together we can beat the algorithm

Would you like to know more about death and what comes next? This week on Spirit Speak, Analyzing the Afterlife, we will us my gift of spirit communication to investigate what happens when you die. It is our belief that knowledge of what happens upon death can help you face the inevitable without fear. We will begin by channeling the Archangel, Azrael, often referred to as the angel of death. He helps the soul in passing. Then we will channel with Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Corporation, an agnostic. Our final guest will be Robin Williams, famous actor and comedian who committed suicide after being diagnosed with a devastating and terminal illness. He will tell us about what happened upon his passing. Please join us at 10:00 am MDT on the VoiceAmerica Variety Network. Please tell your friends about our show, they will thank you for it. All of our past shows are available on VoiceAmerica or our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@onestrohm.

This week on the show – What band made history by playing a show on all seven continents in one year?  Approximately how much does the Apple Corporation make in one minute? Who is the oldest men's clothier in the USA?   Listen, laugh, and learn with Nick and Roy.  ** Brought to you in part by Manmade Boxer Briefs for Men.

Il mese di aprile del 1968 è un unicum nella storia dei Beatles. Si trovano pochissime notizie sui loro movimenti, i loro spostamenti. Sono rientrati dall'India e tutto sembra tacere. Poi, come dal nulla, il 19 aprile la Apple Corporation lancia quella che oggi chiameremmo una call per nuovi artisti. C'è qualcosa che stride e che i giornalisti tentano in ogni modo di tirare fuori dai Beatles. A cosa ha portato la meditazione? Ad aprirsi senza vergogne, nel pieno ‘68, al capitalismo? No, rispondono i Beatles. La Apple sarà una vera e propria factory creativa: elettronica, film, musica, finanziamento di nuovi talenti.

Judy shares her story about being the first woman manager in the Apple Corporation, moving up the ranks as a woman executive in the 80's, overcoming agoraphobia and the greatest insights that have helped her continuously thrive through all the decades, leading to even more new adventures in her 70's. Judy Roseth Burrell began her career with Apple Computer in 1979 as the Director of Operations before moving on with other big name companies in corporate America as an EVP of Sales and Operations. She left corporate America to begin her consulting, training and executive coaching business, The Roseth Group, which has been successful for over 37 years. At 75, Judy is still going strong, having recently completed her Masters in Wine and enrolled in French classes.  www.rosethgroup.com (Executive Coaching website)The Wine Diplomate (winedplomate@gmail.com (Wine Workshops)

We will see what lessons we can learn from two American entrepreneurs who were remarkable mavericks. Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) was the brilliant but irascible founder who led Apple Corporation to incredible sucess. Phil Romano (born 1940) is a controversial restaurateur who has founded a series of successful restaurant chains.

Welcome back to our 3rd installment in the Preparing Plans That Win Series. We are learning the tools that strengthen the Goals, Visions and Plans you will be reaching toward as you plan for the new year. So far in the series, we've learned about The Prerequisites of Planning Success (Episode 15), How To Stick the Landing and remain on track with your plans even when unexpected pain and disappointment occurs (Episode 16). This week's Episode 17, we are STRENGTHENING THE CORE which are your values, the central, innermost essential part for everything connected to it and relying on it! What does an apple, a baby's learning to crawl and The Apple Corporation all have in common? And what does any of that have to do with planning? Join me on the show, airing Mon, 12/28 to discover success tool #3 for making plans that achieve lasting success. And of course help me get the word out by sharing Monday's show or any of the series with your team, family, neighbors, or followers. Look for the FREE DOWNLOAD with Monday's episode. A sample of the full planning guide available for purchase in January 2021!! Ok, enjoy!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/indrealetice/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/indrealetice/support

Welcome back to our 3rd installment in the Preparing Plans That Win Series. We are learning the tools that strengthen the Goals, Visions and Plans you will be reaching toward as you plan for the new year. So far in the series, we've learned about The Prerequisites to planning success (Episode 15), To Be or Not To Be, a look at how to remain on track with your plans even when unexpected pain and disappointment occurs (Episode 16). Absolutely listen to those if you haven't already! This week's Episode 17, we are STRENGTHENING THE CORE which are your values, the central, innermost essential part for everything connected to it and relying on it! What does an apple, a baby's learning to crawl and The Apple Corporation all have in common? And what does any of that have to do with planning? Join me on this episode to discover success tool #3 for making plans that achieve lasting success. And of course help me get the word out by sharing this series with your team, family, neighbors, or followers. I've included a FREE DOWNLOAD with this episode that has a list of core values and a few questions to work through to get you started on our discussion. You can access for FREE at bit.ly/corevaluesjam. The full planning workbook will be available for purchase January 2021!! Ok, enjoy the show! Leave your feedback, questions or inquiries for speaking at bit.ly/contactindrea. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/indrealetice/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/indrealetice/support

Anthony Flanagan is Founder and Chairman of Boulevard Properties. Mr. Flanagan has been involved in hundreds of developments, as well as individual projects exceeding $10B in value. He is a leading expert in the development of large-scale properties that integrate the mixed-use “whole living” concept. His leadership in emerging urban trends has resulted in product success such as: Santana Row in San Jose, CA and Treasure Island in San Francisco, CA. He approaches every opportunity with a global perspective fully utilizing his extensive experience in North America, Europe, Russia and Asia. A strong believer in the Apple Corporation's approach to product design, he leads with inspirational vision through to a carefully crafted result. The emphasis is on the user, a one-of-a-kind experience, authenticity, and excellence in product development. His approach has consistently realized superior profitability, asset sustainability, and user gratification.

The novel coronavirus threatens life, business, and the economy. 11 years of U.S. economic expansion could end soon. (**The entire episode transcript is below. You can read along as you listen.) Closed businesses mean that supply chains are disrupted. This could make it difficult for flippers and value-add apartment projects. Travel, hospitality, and leisure business troubles mean that short-term rentals like AirBnB will have high vacancies.  Short-term rentals cater to business travelers and vacationers - both vulnerable in this downturn. Long-term rentals are better positioned. As long as people are alive, they need a home. Mortgage interest rates have hit their lowest rate EVER since they’ve been tracked in 1971. The Fed made a 0.5% emergency rate cut. Expect more cuts. This punishes savers and rewards borrowers. Stocks recently fell more than 20% from their recent high; that's the definition of a bear market. Coronavirus’ effects are fast-moving and no one really knows the future. This is uncharted territory. With this in mind, I’d expect real estate to fare better than other asset classes. Also expect: Stronger: dollar, bonds, gold.  Weaker: many stocks & businesses, short-term rentals, oil, silver.    The unemployment rate will likely rise; I discuss what this means for your tenants. Low mortgage interest rates can be locked in for 30 years, outlasting the coronavirus pandemic. Check out our two new property providers in Orlando and Des Moines: getricheducation.com/orlando and getricheducation.com/iowa __________________ Resources mentioned: Properties, with two new markets: www.GREturnkey.com Recommended Coronavirus resource: Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel Mortgage Loans: RidgeLendingGroup.com QRPs: text “QRP” in ALL CAPS to 72000 or: TotalControlFinancial.com By texting “QRP” to 72000 and opting in, you will receive periodic marketing messages from eQRP Co. Message & data rates may apply. Reply “STOP” to cancel. New Construction Turnkey Property: NewConstructionTurnkey.com Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith’s personal Instagram: @keithweinhold   Complete episode transcript:   Welcome to Get Rich Education. I’m your host, Keith Weinhold. The coronavirus, COVID-nineteen, has infected humans and financial markets too.   This creates both problems and opportunities for you, the investor. Today, on Get Rich Education.   Welcome to GRE. From Uruguay to the Ukraine to the UAE to the USA and across 188 nations worldwide, this is Get Rich Education. I’m your host, Keith Weinhold.    Yeah, you’re back in that abundant place, where your QUALITY OF LIFE exceeds your cost of living.   The novel coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) that began in Wuhan, China in November of last year when it transferred from animal to human is poised to affect the economy of every world nation and every U.S. state.   It's not SARS or Zika.   This transmits easily and it is perhaps 20x more deadly than the common flu.   Some experts believe it's the worst outbreak in America since the Spanish flu of 1918.   That was the worst pandemic of the 20th century.   And you know what, it didn’t have to be this way ... with coronavirus.    As my chief informant on the matter, Dr. Chris Martenson says, it didn’t have to be this way.   Often placing the economy ahead of human life, health organizations and governments have often done a DEPLORABLE job of handling this, often understating the threat.   The World Health Organization was even reluctant to acknowledge that the coronavirus is a global pandemic … which it surely has been for a long time. Well, they only acknowledged that five days ago.   Well now that agencies weren’t preparing people sooner - coronavirus is poised to threaten even more people - which in turn, will make the economy even worse than if the threat had just been accurately represented in the first place.   I’m going to focus on coronavirus’ likely effects on real estate and the other financial markets shortly.   But let’s - you and I - outline this together first.   The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms for most people, like a fever and cough …   … but it can progress to serious illness including pneumonia, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems.    The World Health Organization says mild cases last about two weeks, while most patients with serious illness recover in about three to six weeks. Based on what I said earlier, consider the source there.   My heart goes out to the victims of this - past, present, and future.   The most credible source that I follow thinks that the virus will reach its peak in the U.S. 1 to 3 months from now.   I've followed this story closely since January and if you receive our Get Rich Education newsletter, you’ve known for a while that my favorite source of TRUSTWORTHY coronavirus information was and still is: the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel, which Chris Martenson hosts.   In fact, I’ve mentioned that resource in our GRE newsletter for you twice - the first time was back on February 6th.   So if you get the Get Rich Education Newsletter, you’ve had plenty of time to get in front of this.   You know, it’s interesting. I had Chris Martenson on the show here earlier this year and we talked about “The Fed” printing money. That was right before coronavirus literally went viral.   Before I tell you about the affects on your real estate - both good and bad - let’s establish a baseline here.   Coronavirus is threatening because it has a substantially higher R-naught value than the flu.    If the R-naught value is greater than 1, that means that one infected person will spread the virus to MORE THAN one person then the disease can spread.   The way a virus dies out is for it’s R-naught value to be less than 1. Then, one infected person, on average spreads it to fewer than one person.   Well, the common flu has an R-naught value of about 1.3.   Coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) is believed to have an R-naught value of more than 3 and maybe even more than 6. So it spreads easily.   It spreads asymptomatically - and that’s bad.    There’s no vaccine available - and most believe it’ll take a while to develop one.   And, you can find resources elsewhere on how to prevent the spread like social distancing, avoiding gatherings, and lots of handwashing.   But because this is an investing platform and I don't have a degree in pathology or epidemiology, and much of what I just told you there, I learned myself in the past month or two …   Let me now get into my lane: how do I think coronavirus will affect your money and your real estate?   Well, it probably already has.   Businesses are closing. Colleges have suspended classes. Many events are being cancelled or postponed.    SXSW in Austin, Texas was one of the first major EVENTS to be cancelled in the U.S. March Madness basketball won’t have any crowd there.   We’ve got an entire country - Italy - that’s essentially shut down.   When businesses close and more people work from home, this disrupts supply chains.    That COULD include less supply of sheet rock or faucet handles or whatever - and affect value-add properties because so much building material comes from China.   It could be a tougher time to be a flipper then if you’re about to start a rehab or if you’re in the middle of a rehab.   If you're upgrading an apartment building, that could slow things down. You need materials.    This may or may not create disruptions for turnkey property providers. We’ll see.    You’re in a better position if you’re a prospective turnkey buyer waiting on a rehab - maybe that’ll create a delay until your property is ready. Maybe it won’t.   China accounts for nearly 30% of world manufacturing.   But importantly, they also make component goods for finished products.   An American car can't be finished if it doesn't have the battery and exhaust system from China.   Virtually every major car company has a component made in China.    Now, I see conflicting reports of whether some previously closed Chinese businesses have really come back online or not. We need to learn more there.   Travel, hospitality, and leisure businesses are already hurting.    Now, where hospitality meets real estate, we’ve got hotel rooms, Bed & Breakfasts and short-term rental platforms like AirBnB and VRBO.   Like I’ve said before, and not too long ago on the show at all - is that these short-term rentals are not very recession-resistant.   That’s because short-term rentals cater to two main groups of people - business travelers and vacationers. That’s who occupies those properties.   Well, what are business travelers and vacationers doing right now? They are postponing travel or cancelling travel left-and-right due to coronavirus concerns.   How great would you feel about owning AirBnBs right now?   Short-term rentals like AirBnBs are not as recession-resistant as long-term rentals.   Just a couple, three months ago, it probably sounded different to you when I mentioned that short-term rentals aren’t very recession-resistant.    Because perhaps you were still feeling good about our 11-year-long economic expansion.   But those same words probably sound and feel different to you now that some think that a coronavirus-induced recession could even be imminent - though that remains to be seen.   Also, expect big hits to: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electronics.   Apple Corporation is so dependent on Chinese manufacturing for their iPhone. That’s the bad news.   Now, let’s talk about the good news.   Mortgage interest rates have hit all-time lows - yes, lower than their lows that they hit in 2012, shortly after coming off of the Great Recession.   All-time lows - as long as Freddie Mac has been tracking them - which is since 1971. They’ve never been lower than they are now.    Today, you can get a rate in the low 3s for primary residences, I’ve even heard of a few people closing 30-year fixed amortizing loans for less than 3%. Just astoundingly good.   And of course, investor loans are often about ¾% higher than those.   The Fed has been pumping tens of billions, even hundreds of billions into the system lately … for bank liquidity.   The Fed's emergency interest rate cut of 0.5% two weeks ago is first time we've seen such a move since 2008.    That 2008 cut was in the wake of The Great Recession - that was the Lehman Brothers emergency one-half-of-one-percent cut.   Just a quick economics primer if you’re a new listener - lower interest rates for loans stoke the economy because they make you more willing to borrow & spend.   Interest rate cuts help the investor class like you, and not poor people. That’s just the truth behind who cuts actually help. It’s you!   It helps the Get Rich Education listener - you again - even more because we’re such strong proponents of responsible and sensible borrowing here.   Now, note that lower rates don’t help contain the diseas. If your grandparent gets sick, Jerome Powell’s decisions aren’t going to help that.   Right, how low would rates have to be to get you to travel to China or Italy tomorrow?   By the way, after the rate cut, President Trump was not satisfied with the amount of easing and cutting.   “More easing and cutting!” is what he tweeted following the central bank’s announcement.   But realize, of course, that long-term mortgage rates don’t move on that Fed Funds rate. The Fed controls the short-term rate - though there’s generally still a correlation there.    Long-term mortgage rates - like the ones that you really care about for real estate - they move with bond yields.   Now, bonds are like the boring can of beans or soup in the finance world - they’re safe and they’re stable.   Vigorous bond-buying makes bond prices go up and makes bond yields go down.   So this strong bond-buying … this safe have ... has dropped the 10-Year Treasury Note yield below 1% for the first time ever … and it’s fallen substantially below 1% in just a fantastic fall off the table.   OK, so they’re below 1% - and that’s a rate that was unthinkable just a few months ago.    Do you know what the average spread is between this bond yield and the 30-year mortgage rate?   On average, mortgage interest rates hover 1.8% above this rate, so you can see how low we could be going.   I think that the historic spread will widen, but despite the fact that we now have record - I mean all-time record low mortgage rates, there’s a good chance that they’ll go a little lower yet.   This is great for your new real estate buys. Refinance activity is surging right now.   But back to short-term rates that the Fed influences - more cuts there seem imminent too.   The next one could happen at the Fed's regularly scheduled meeting, which happens tomorrow and the next day.   So you’ll hear an announcement from The Fed this Wednesday about their rate cut decision.   The Fed loaded up with dry powder in 2018 when they raised rates, so that they can lower them at a time like this.   Every time they cut the rate like this, it punishes savers and rewards borrowers.   No one knows if rates will go negative - and only a few places in the world have those right now: places like Japan, Denmark, and Switzerland. We’ve never had them in America.   U.S. stock market investors are getting killed with all this uncertainty. Indices are whipsawing with volatility.   Fear pushes stocks around, but not RE. The U.S. stock market dropped 3% in just minutes when a report came out that in CA, a large number of people were exposed to coronavirus, but weren’t.    Last week was the first time that major stock indices dipped into bear market territory. That’s defined as a 20% loss from a recent high.   There was one recent trading day - just one day - where the S&P dropped 7%, triggering a circuit breaker, which paused trading for everyone for 15 minutes.  Yeah, now we’re talking about all these automatic fail-safes. When the stock market loses so much, so soon, there’s a pause in trading. By the way, the way it works is that if the S&P had declined 13% in a day, trading would’ve paused another 15 minutes.  20% in a day, and everyone would have gone home for the day. That’s how it works. Yeah, they put those circuit breakers in place after 1987’s Black Monday, when the market fell between 22 and 23%.  Stock drops are always sickening,l and if you’re within 5 years of retirement, stock drops are really scary. I’ve told you before that I haven’t owned any stock, mutual fund, or ETF since 2014 and that’s still true today. Being in something stable like real estate has rarely felt as good as it has lately.   And you know something, “volatility” is a funny word.    It seems like “volatility” used to mean something that changes rapidly, and anymore, it’s morphed into something that only means a change for the worse.   Warren Buffett says, "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."    I believe that. I’d even say that - not just the stock market - but just that, “MARKETS OVERALL are devices for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”    Real estate investors like us are more patient. There’s no flash-selling in real estate. It might take you 30, 60 days or more to sell a property … or to buy a property.   I’d expect to see a stronger U.S. dollar because the world views it as a safe haven asset.    I expect this to be a nice tailwind for real estate too, because the world views U.S. real estate as a safe haven asset in times of uncertainty.   Gold should be strong with coronavirus concerns. That’s easy to say, since gold is the classic safe haven asset.   But remember that gold might not APPEAR stronger to Americans if the dollar strengthens.    That’s how it works. Because if gold goes up 10% and the dollar also gets 10% stronger, well then it takes just as many dollars to buy the gold.   The dollar-denominated gold price would look the same then.   I’ve read that a number of experts predict silver prices to rise on coronavirus concerns, but then I don’t see any sound rationale for them thinking this.    I disagree. I would NOT expect silver to rise.   That’s because silver has more industrial use than gold and more industrial slowdown is expected.   Let's talk more about your income properties in this coronavirus environment.   Though I'm speculating now, what if your tenant is required to self-quarantine at home and they lose their income?   This is not far-fetched.   Washington state officials were really some of the first in the U.S. to recommend that workers stay at home when they suggested that Seattle-area residents work from home.   More & more people can work from home today than anytime in modern history.    But when we’re talking about your tenants, it's unlikely that all of your tenants will lose substantial income.   Now, there are some positions where people can’t work from home so well, like mechanics, janitors, chefs and wait staff, sure. Let’s consider that ...    The current unemployment rate is 3.5%.    I’m really speculating here, but if 1 in 10 of your tenants is both laid off & without income, that’s a 10% increase in unemployment. That would be huge.   That would be like the unemployment rate going from 3.5% all the way up to 13.5% - which seems unfathomable!   And yes, realize that if 1 in 10 people were laid off it wouldn’t exactly make the 3.5% unemployment rate shoot up to 13.5%. It doesn’t exactly work that way with how it’s calculated.    But, I think you get my point.   If 1 in 10 of your tenants were both laid off and without employment, that would be massive. So keep that in perspective. Even 1 in 10 would be a lot.   Last week, Trump floated the idea of a payroll tax cut, which I don’t think would do much of anything to help - and also, extending paid leave which seems more helpful.   Companies, especially those in the service sector, are under pressure to provide paid sick leave to workers who may not be in a financial position to take time off.    Wal-Mart and McDonald’s put in safeguards for their employees.   Congress might step in. A bill has been introduced that would require companies of all sizes to provide paid sick leave.   Could your overall rental income go down? Maybe, though you have to speculate quite a bit to even think that 1 in 10 would go without an income. So that’s a maybe.   But does your mortgage interest rate go down? Definitely. It already has.   What about you?   If you lose your job, you need multiple income streams ... from places like your rentals.   And if 9 out of 10 … or 10 out of 10 of your tenants still have jobs, you probably still have that income stream because you set up your life for multiple income streams if you’ve been listening to this show & acting.   What about you - what about your job? Well ...   The lower your financial freedom, the higher the risk.   The more income streams you’ve built, the better off you are.   What about your job? The lower your financial freedom, the higher the risk.   Another benefit of a paid sick leave movement gaining momentum, is that “When people gain access to paid sick leave, the spread of the flu decreases.”    Because they’re more likely to stay home then. So that makes paid sick leave seem like more of reality.   It’s important in this situation that when you have people who have symptoms and don’t feel well, that they do not go to work and spread diseases to slow the infection rate and buy time for public health officials to develop a vaccine.   Let’s look at oil prices - because that’s a substantial input to inflation and oil is a real proxy for what’s going on in the economy. Oil prices have crumbled faster than a Nature Valley Granola bar. And that’s even before a coronavirus-induced slowdown.  What’s happened, is that with President Trump in the White House and the Republican Party controlling the Senate, environmental activists have shifted their focus from pressuring the government to pressuring the private sector instead.  Since JPMorgan is such a big financier of the fossil fuel industry, activists have really turned up the heat on them and other big banks to stop financing oil projects. That’s significant - on top of a slowdown in the economy - if fewer goods need to be produced and shipped, it uses less energy and then there’s less demand for oil. Low oil prices are generally good for consumers but bad for producer countries.    In the U.S., low oil prices are not good for real estate in areas like west Texas, parts of Louisiana, and Alaska.   But, of course, there’s the flip side of all this. At some point, low stock and oil prices mean that bargain hunters come in to float the market again at some point.   In fact, billionaire investor Sam Zell recently made remarks that oil looks like a “buy low” opportunity. So let’s look at the bottom line - real estate is still quite well-positioned as long as you’re in residential, long-term rentals that you bought for cash flow. Elsewhere: Bonds win, gold wins, the US dollar wins, many business sectors - like the ones I mentioned - lose, stocks lose, oil loses, and silver loses.   Of course, let me qualify all that by telling you that that’s my outlook and that we don’t have any recent precedent for anything else like the coronavirus. No one REALLY knows. That’s my take. --------   If you happen to be a new listener to the show, you may not know much about me. I’ve authored many written articles for both Forbes and the Rich Dad Advisors.   Business Insider recently wrote two stories about me and Get Rich Education - and how I’ve helped everyday people create financial freedom through real estate investing.    That’s what I do here!   I’m a current member of the Forbes Real Estate Council.    But maybe the more important things I can tell you are that I’ve been the host of this show every week - and I mean EVERY week continuously since 2014 - you can count on me to keep showing up here.   I own three real estate trademarks. In 2017, I authored an international best-selling book on how real estate makes ordinary people wealthy.   And perhaps the most important thing I can tell you is that I invest right alongside you, from the exact same providers that we talk about here.   Though I travel pretty well, I’ve lived my entire life in the United States, dividing this life of mine between two states - Pennsylvania and Alaska.   I have spent the last 2-and-a-half weeks visiting four countries - the United Arab Emirates, Oman, India, and Sri Lanka. Though I’m a real estate guy, I have a degree in geography so I like to travel.   One of the coolest things I did is sandboarding on a sand dune in the Arabian Desert there in the United Arab Emirates.  I couldn't find another interested person, so I did that activity all by myself. Going high in the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was a “must” while we were there. Muscat, Oman has some surprisingly beautiful sights, and buildings, and mosques that we toured. Really clean-looking there in the nation of Oman. Immersing myself in Indian culture is something that was really novel to me - the food, the way that - the women especially in some of these outlying provinces like Goa and Kerala, India - the way the women dress in such colorful outfits ... just if they’re walking to the market to buy some guava. Such an exotic feeling there. The coolest thing that I did is visiting the world's largest slum. It’s called Dharavi and it’s in Mumbai, India. It's just sooo different from my world.  There are actually bustling little businesses inside the slums there - from plastic recycling to pottery. And the Indian people were so welcoming - even in the slums - which was just amazing to me. As I like to say, seeing poverty enriched me.  :o) I’ve got more on coronavirus and your money straight ahead. A fair bit of what I’ve discussed here about coronavirus and your money and your real estate, is material that I sent in our wealth-building Get Rich Education newsletter about 12 days ago. The newsletter is a nice, written supplement to the podcast. Of course, you can unsubscribe at any time - but very few do. My wealth-building newsletter is something that you can subscribe to … for free … at GetRichEducation.com   You’ll be glad you did. You’re listening to Get Rich Education. _____________________________________   Welcome back to Get Rich Education. I’m your host, Keith Weinhold.   It’s unknown whether coronavirus will tilt the economy into a recession or not. It’s too soon to know. I’ll keep you updated on that here, of course.   For you, I think it helps to listen to a perspective that’s invested through a recession before.   I’ve been investing directly in real estate since 2002 - which was before the Great Recession.   I made a major income property purchase in 2007 - which was just within that recession (in fact, I mentioned that four-plex purchase last week on the show).   And I kept buying in 2010, as the recession wound down - and in 2012.   Well, what’s the common thread there? It’s that I continued to prosper because I bought for cash flow first.   It’s that I bought in multiple geographic markets for diversification - a recession-resilient strategy.   Residential rentals that were leased to long-term tenants.   People need a place to live. And as long as they're alive, a virus is not going to change that.   But see, a virus might mean people stop using vacation rentals and stop taking business trips and stop going to the mall and stop going to the office to work.   We’re talking about HOMES. Well, we could soon have more people working from … home.    Not office, not retail, not short-term rentals. They all look vulnerable now.   And by the way, that doesn’t mean I’m a permabear on those asset types. There’s always opportunity. But recession-resistence just isn’t one of their qualities.   I’m not saying short-term rentals never make an ounce of sense or anything like that.   Some companies are basically using the coronavirus as an experiment for that moment when “working remotely could broadly replace working in-person.”   Some people think that time is coming.   This can ACCELERATE THE - you’re seeing the acronym “WFM” around a lot more now -    the “work from home” movement. As people get more used to using workflow software and using platforms like Slack or Trello from home because they HAVE to, you know, when coronavirus passes - and it will - some might ask, now why return to an office all?   With each passing day, the camp of people believing that this is all fear-mongering loses troops.   We’ll see if the peak for coronavirus will be that 1-3 months from now like some experts predict. That’s the latest I’ve heard from credible sources. But again, we really don’t know.   That’s why I like to focus on things that we do know. So let’s focus on what we do know now:   The coronavirus threat will pass sometime. We just don’t know when. But it will pass.   A second thing we know is that people will continue to need a home - a place to live.   And thirdly, mortgage interest rates have hit their lowest level in American history.   So with those being the things that we DO know - this can be QUITE an opportunity to not only lock up investment property buys at historically low rates, but potentially, do that cash-out refinance of your existing home if you think that that’s in your best interest.   Procrastinators often aren’t rewarded. But, hey, maybe you are this time with rates being this low - or maybe you really weren’t because you had dead equity accumulated in one place for too long.   With borrowing rates underneath the basement, a lot of homeowners are racing to lock in cheaper loans.  I think we could see low to mid 3% rates on investment properties, and below 3% on primary residences. Mortgage refinancing applications have more than doubled in volume from the same time last year - that’s according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. And industry records are being shattered. Bloomberg reported that :  The country’s No. 1 mortgage lender, Quicken Loans, recently had its busiest day for mortgage applications in its 35-year history. United Wholesale Mortgage approved a single-day record of $2.5 billion in loans.  These stories are all over the place. The thing is, to process this flood of applications you’re going to need a lot of people. So the mortgage industry is on a hiring spree to take advantage of the gold rush. Our preferred mortgage provider is doing a lot of volume now as well - RidgeLendingGroup.com - that’s R-I-D-G-E. Just calculate your ROI just from principal reduction alone at these low rates. It’s pretty remarkable.  I think that the thing that you need to remember is … that long-term thinking. "Investing should not be about a MOMENT; it should be about a PROCESS OVER TIME.” Some of the classic problems with GETTING STARTED in real estate are ones that I’ve helped solve for you here.   I think that Problem 1 for people is that they feel like it costs a small fortune to GET started.    Problem 2 is FINDING the property. Often times, it’s because properties in your area don’t make sense with your 20% down payment and 80% loan.   I’ve really helped solve both of those problems.    By selecting investor-advantaged markets, with down payment & closing costs you can get started with as low as … about $18K - and they’re in areas where the numbers make sense … all at the website … GREturnkey.com   In fact, at the top of the page there, there’s that 8-step flowchart where I walk you through the process.   You start by getting pre-approved for a mortgage - I even suggest where - and then reading an investor due diligence report …   … all the way through to viewing properties, making an offer, getting your third-party inspection, appraisal, signing your Management Agreement, Closing on the Property … and then the really good part - years of owning and collecting the rent.    It’s rarely been easier - though the process still takes time & you need to supply your mortgage loan underwriter with plenty of documentation.   That’s all outlined at the same place where I buy my property: GREturnkey.com   What about some current highlights over there?   Well, it’s a great time to invest in Florida for a lot of reasons - you’ll find providers in Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville.   Our Orlando provider was recently added - they’re now - and they have NEW CONSTRUCTION - yes, newly-built, never-before occupied - single-family homes and duplexes … and they’re in locations from the Space Coast to The Villages, through Orlando, and nearly out to Tampa.    We’ve got another new provider on the page if you’re looking for more cash flow and less appreciation than what you’d typically get on new construction, and that is in … Iowa.   Yeah, I’m proud to introduce the Des Moines, Iowa market to you today.    It’s a model of midwestern stability and Des Moines has an MSA population of 600 to 700,000 people.   Des Moines has seen an average 3.6% appreciation over the last twenty years. I think of it as a cash flow market.   A lot of times, you might be buying for, say a 4 or 6 or 8 or 10% cash-on-cash return today.    If you have a little more patience and you want to potentially double your CCR, then, rather than the turnkey model - where you buy a property that’s already renovated - you might prefer the BRRRR model.   That stands for Buy – Renovate – Rent – Refinance – and Recycle Model - recycling your money to re-use right away.    That BRRRR model is suited to Baltimore, Maryland - within commuter distance to Washington, D.C. at just a fraction of the price.   All those markets - including the new turnkey markets with inventory TODAY in Orlando and Des Moines, plus the Baltimore BRRRR market, plus that 8-step flowchart that helps serve as a roadmap for you are all in one convenient place - all on one page - at GREturnkey.com   Market uncertainty is a short-term phenomena.   But when you lock up these lowest mortgage interest rates in American history - they can last you 30 years.   When the dust settles from any current news, you know what, you’ve still going to have your mortgage rate.   Stay safe. Enjoy these historically low mortgage interest rates … I sure am. Take action at GREturnkey.com   I’m Keith Weinhold and I’ll be back next week to help you build your wealth. Don’t quit your daydream!  

You will be entertained with this episode of the Miracle Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram podcast. Host John Haggard talks to Brad Billingsley about the new and award-winning 2020 Jeep Gladiator. In this episode: Brad’s Foolproof Hunting TipsJeep Gladiator AwardsWhat Sets the 2020 Jeep Gladiator Apart From Its CompetitionThe “Jeepers”, “Jeople”, and the Jeep LifestyleThe Jeep Owners Club in TennesseeUpcoming EventsHow to Reach Brad Transcript John Haggard 0:02 Welcome to the Miracle Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Podcast where in each episode, you’ll be able to learn the best ways to purchase, lease, service, maintain, accessorize, and sell your vehicle for the highest resale value possible when you’re ready to do that. We do also discuss vehicle model details, also the latest technology. The cool things that you would want to know that make driving a new vehicle, just a great experience compared to just a few years ago. I’m your host, John Haggard. As always, you can find show notes and a transcript along with the links to content that we talked about right on our website MiracleCDJ.com, and also on Apple Podcast, Google Play Podcast and on Spotify. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review on any of those platforms and share we would really appreciate that. Alright, today’s episode we have the honor of bringing back Brandon Billingsley with us. Brad is from Miracle CDJR commercial and fleet sales department. Brad, excited to have you back. Brad Billingsley 1:04 Absolutely. I’m glad to be back on. John Haggard 1:06 When we talked late last year, I know that you do love to hunt, so assuming you got some hunting done in December? Brad Billingsley 1:14 I definitely went out in the field quite a bit, but more on the guide role. I did not personally take any animals this year but I was on successful hunts, one with my cousin and another with a niece, another first time honors. So that was a bunch of fun. John Haggard 1:32 Alright, so you are a trainer as well then? Brad Billingsley 1:35 Yes, absolutely. John Haggard 1:37 So if you were going to give a hunting tip to someone who’s always wanted to hunt, but has never really had a guide like you, would there be one or two things you would say “Hey, if you don’t get anything else, right and you want to hunt, you need to know this.” Brad Billingsley 1:52 Yeah, play the wind right. Always keep the wind in your face. John Haggard 1:56 Always keep the wind in your face. That’s interesting. So for a non-hunter, why is that? Brad Billingsley 2:04 The human scent. So it’s tough to eliminate human scent and a lot of game animals will spook if they smell humans, keeping the wind in your face allows you not to spook animals as easily by them smelling you. Keep them upwind up here. John Haggard 2:23 That makes total sense. That makes total sense. So today we’d like to talk about the Jeep Gladiator, the new 2020 Jeep Gladiator. A brand new vehicle for Jeep and believe it came out last year, is that right? Brad Billingsley 2:36 It did. They took what they called the launch edition orders early spring, early summer, and then they started rolling in for inventory towards the fall, winter month of last year. John Haggard 2:52 Okay, and I do see that the Gladiator has been making a lot of news recently. Several awards, like Four Wheeler awarded it Truck of the Year and something. Tell us a little bit about the awards and what people were excited about? Brad Billingsley 3:06 Yeah, definitely. So Four Wheeler, in particular, did many, many hours, different tests, from zero to 60. But they focused a lot on the off-road capabilities of this Jeep Gladiator. And compared it to several other models. I don’t have a list of all of those in front of me but I know like the Silverado, the F150 even some full-size trucks of ours were even in the running for that. And the Jeep Gladiator did prevail. It did come out on top as well with the North American Truck of the Year award this year also. So both of those are really huge for the Jeep Gladiator. John Haggard 3:51 Alright, so 2020 North American Truck of the Year. And these people are they call themselves as I understand it, they’re about 50 Expert jurors from print media, television, digital outlets, and radio across the United States and Canada. Right. So how did that come about? Any idea? It’s interesting that those people would say, “Hey, here’s the deal!” Brad Billingsley 4:13 Yeah, it’s you know, they’ve reported coming out, especially within the last few years. All of these third party, these are individuals that are coming out and just doing peer reviews on particular vehicles, which is great, especially when we’re on the winning end of that. But yes, that’s another one that did many, many, many hours test drives in different roles, different anything from off-road to everyday driving, all of that is taking into account with these awards. So it’s a big thing that Jeep Gladiators came out on top, not just once but on two separate occasions. John Haggard 4:57 Now would this be the biggest news for Jeep in, you know, the last three or four years, the Gladiator? Brad Billingsley 5:03 Yeah, the Gladiator is created a lot of hype. It has been longly anticipated. They have waited for this for many years, they had to aftermarket kits that you could do for previous models but that was very pensive. So now coming from the factory-built this way, it is definitely still got quite a bit of hype behind it with these awards being put out that that this is icing on the cake for sure. John Haggard 5:34 All right, so could you give us just an overview of exactly what the Gladiator is, and you know what other vehicles might be similar to it just for people who are not really sure? Brad Billingsley 5:47 Yeah, absolutely. So, obviously, it’s got a lot of similarities to our Wrangler. And a lot of people are mistaken by calling it a Wrangler truck. It is actually a truck, it is on the ramp chassis or the ramp brain. And it does you know, aesthetically it does look a lot like the Wrangler, the doors come off, tops come off, windshield lays flat, gives you that open-air driving experience the Jeep is known for. But in addition to that, in the mid-size truck category, we’re best in class but thought tow capabilities with our max tow package. Of course, all the Gladiators rated, it’s hard to overlook, you know the removable doors removable top. That is something that definitely sets us apart from the others involved in these third party testings as well. John Haggard 6:46 So you don’t find other brands, or do you, wear side doors come off tops come off. Brad Billingsley 6:52 Not any longer, no. We own the market on that. Used to be you know, you had your older internationals scout that, you know, some can take their tops off. The Broncos used to incorporate that as well but again the Broncos not out any longer. But the Wrangler has always been that open-air driving experience. We have not gone anywhere. And it is still very much a Wrangler like the old wheel is used to be, windshields lay flat, doors will come off, tops come off, making sure to have a very fun driving experience. John Haggard 7:33 Pretty cool, really. And do you find it when people come in and they see the Jeep Gladiator are they saying to you, “Well, you know, I’m looking at maybe something over here that Chevrolet’s got.” Or is it so different? I guess so distinct that there’s really I don’t want to say there’s no competition because there’s always competition to something but do people generally if they’re looking at a Gladiator is either that or nothing else? Brad Billingsley 7:57 Yeah, it’s actually pretty much 50/50. It’s got a lot of attention for having the highest rating in the mid-size truck category. But at the same time, it is so different from other trucks in that category, the Tacoma, the Canyon, the Colorado, Rangers, all of those are just your typical you know midsize trucks. But with the Gladiator you can tow 7,600 pounds and have no roof and no doors on headed to you know, a camping trip or to the beach or wherever you may be. So that just again adds to the driving experience as well. John Haggard 8:39 And if we talk about the Jeep brand, itself, the lifestyle, how could you – what about that lifestyle? What is it about the Jeep buyer, the Jeep owner that’s different from people who own trucks other you know, that aren’t that. Brad Billingsley 8:55 Yeah, yeah, we actually call those people Jeepers or Jeople. John Haggard 8:59 Jeepers, did you say Jeepers? Brad Billingsley 9:00 Yeah, Jeepers or Jeople. Yeah, it is definitely a lifestyle you know you got the tradition of the Jeep Wave, anybody in a Wrangler waves to all other Wranglers you know. That’s a big tradition. I mean you’ve got you know, your seven-slot grill lifestyle, the circle lights with the seven-slot grill that Jeep is known for, you know. But Jeepers are a vast community. There’s the off-roaders, there’s the overlanders, and there’s the people that just like to ride on the beach with the doors off, tops off. These jeeps are it gotta fits for just about any type of lifestyle. So the Jeep lifestyle is definitely a real thing for sure. John Haggard 9:47 Brad, we heard a few months ago that Apple Corporation removed the Jeep emoji from its emojis and the Jeep owners seem to be really happy about that. Jeep celebrated they put out the hashtag #ThisIsNotJeep. What was all that about? Brad Billingsley 10:03 Yeah, yeah. So when you would type in Jeep on your iPhone or your Android and then emojis pop up in your predicted there, it would pop up with with a I think the best way to describe that would be like a minivan or something along the lines of a regular SUV which the Jeep, in most cases is the Wrangler, is not that at all, you know? If it was going to pop up with an emoji, Jeep owners want to see that seven-slot grill I was talking about and those circle headlights or even the square headlights, from a Jeep YJ owners for the older body styles there. But that that is kind of the Jeep thing. You know, they don’t want to… they want to save the Jeep brand or the seven-slot grill when you type in an emoji for Jeep. Or at least have it look more like a Jeep Wrangler, rather than a minivan. John Haggard 11:02 I hear you, yes! Is there anything I didn’t ask you about the Jeep Gladiator that you would want people to know? Brad Billingsley 11:11 Hey, you know, definitely just come in get your hands on one out there. Here’s the keys, we can do a test drive, you know? The Jeeps, anything from the Sport S with the max tow, or if you want something fully functional in an off-road setting, the Rubicon is a great fit. If you want something just that looks good and it’s comfortable going down the road then we have Overland. They are very popular and for good reason. You know, every month we’re selling multiple Gladiators every month. The hype has not died on those. People are loving and getting great feedback from Gladiator owners. And that would be my biggest thing. If you’re questioning or looking at that mid-size truck category or just looking for something new and fun in general, then definitely come see me and let’s talk about the Gladiator. John Haggard 12:11 So what would you say as you look out to 2020? What are you most excited about Brad? Brad Billingsley 12:17 I’m excited about the growth of Miracle Chrysler as a whole. We’ve got a lot of exciting things coming up before this year. I’m going to be posting some more Jeep events once the weather gets a little better. I’m going to host our second Mopar event. And we’re talking now about possibly hosting even a Miracle Chrysler trade show this year. So a lot of big things are happening incoming that I can’t wait for that. I’ve got to be patient. We got to make this – make everything fit just right. So definitely be on the lookout for those things. And like I said, we’ve had several of the Jeep events. We have a massive turnout for that with our Jeeps and Wrenches Jeep club that we sponsor as well as other Jeep clubs that kind of come on board with that as well let’s open that up and everybody, donors or not. So that is definitely something I’m going to hammer out and getting, getting a bunch of hype created about for this spring. John Haggard 13:23 Now if somebody wants to connect with Jeep owners, maybe someone who does not yet own a Jeep, are there some websites, user groups, friend groups where people can go? Brad Billingsley 13:36 Yeah! We sponsored a Jeep club called Jeeps and Wrenches and they are on Facebook. They have a Jeeps and Wrenches fan page, where anybody is welcome. I think they’ve got over 5,000 or 6,000 followers on that page, but some lifelong Jeepers as well as some newcomers. And it’s just a large community all through Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, Kentucky. Other states as well have Jeeps and Wrenches, but they are very happy with newcomers. They are happy to answer questions, there’s no judgment there. They just like seeing more and more people getting involved with the Jeep lifestyle. So I would highly recommend Jeeps and Wrenches. John Haggard 14:25 And spell that out, if you will, for the folks just so they can get it. Brad Billingsley 14:28 Yeah, it’s Jeep, J-E-E-P, and Wrenches, W-R-E-N-C-H-E-S. And that is on Facebook. They also have jeepsandwrenches.com, which is their official website. They do have memberships available which gives you some discount here at the dealership as well, as well as other third party companies but they are an absolute God’s standard of a Jeep club that we’ve had the pleasure of doing business with for many years now. John Haggard 15:06 So Brad, if somebody wants to get ahold of you to find out more or, you know, come drive a Gladiator, whatever it might be, what’s the best way to get in touch with you? Brad Billingsley 15:17 So I am very active on Facebook. I have a Facebook market page marketplace page of my own. That is brad@miraclescdj. Also, you can find me on Facebook Brad Billingsley. I’m on Instagram, it’s b_billingsley615. I basically live here at Miracle Chrysler. You can always just swing by and most of the time you can catch me. If I’m not here, they can definitely get you in touch with me without a problem. John Haggard 15:52 Right, man. Great to talk to you again will be looking forward to the Mopar event and the trade show that you said it’s coming up a little bit later on this year. We’ll talk to you some more about that. Brad Billingsley, everybody. He’s the commercial and fleet sales at Miracle Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Gallatin. So, remember you can find show notes and a transcript along with links to content that we talked about right on our website. Here it is miraclecdj.com. We’re also on Apple Podcast, Google Play Podcast and on Spotify. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review on any of those platforms and share. I’m your host John Haggard, and we will see you next time!

This week on DMT, Sam and Jack run through a ton of topics like dealing with the Apple Corporation, Kangaroo fights, Football of course, movie news and more - Don't Miss This!

Hugh Hewitt talks with former NATO Commander Admiral James Stavridis about the Iranian attack on American forces in Iraq. Hugh Hewitt asks Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney for her perspective on the Democrat candidates' perplexing non-response regarding the Iranian attack on American forces in Iraq. Hugh Hewitt talks with Texas Senator Ted Cruz about the impeachment trial of President Trump now before the Senate. Mike Gallagher and Cully Stimson, of the Heritage Foundation, talk about Apple Corporation’s refusal to unlock phones for law enforcement. Dennis Prager talks with Daniel Hannan, European Parliament member, about the January 31st exit by the UK from the EU and the promise that holds. Dennis Prager and Caroline Glick talk about President Trump’s Middle East Policy and reaction to the death of Iranian General Soleimani. Larry Elder talks about the media reactions to the news emanating from the Middle East.

This week on DMT, Jack and Sam go through their exceptionally busy weeks, Sammy's Soapbox has a bone to pick with the Apple Corporation, Jack's Picks for the Super Bowl are locked in, and they say farewell to the late great HBO show, Silicon Valley who's finale aired this week. Lots of fun, Don't Miss This!

Every student learns at their own pace and at their own level. With recent visits from Apple CEO, Tim Cook and Ivanka Trump, there are some incredible things going on in The Wilder School district. Jeff Dillon and the Wilder School District is truly innovating education through disruption. Jeff Dillon is the Wilder School District Superintendent and Principal. This episode, we go behind the scenes with Jeff and dive into all that is being accomplished in Wilder. Make sure to buy tickets to the movie their students made airing at the Egyptian Theater in Boise on December 15th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wizard-of-oz-premiere-tickets-83253452317 Jeff Dillon was raised in Wilder, Idaho on a small farm. Attended Holmes Elementary for kindergarten through sixth grade then transferred to Greenleaf Friends Academy and graduated in 1984. He then went to Washington where he earned his undergraduate degree in Behavioral Science from Northwest University. He has served many communities as a Pastor and Youth Pastor for 17 years. Following his passion for teaching, he returned to school and in 2001 he received his Masters degree in Teaching from Heritage University and taught Middle School Science and Reading in a Title 1 District. Most recently, Mr. Dillon has successfully led his team to a partnership with the Apple Corporation in being identified as an Apple ConnectED school district. This partnership has brought to the District a commercial upgrade in technology infrastructure, professional development for all staff, iPads for all students PreK-12, and internal controls to support and monitor all devices 24/7. This increased technology has allowed the district to lead the state in innovation, offering success for every student in providing a district wide personalized competency-based education environment. In 2016 Mr. Dillon was invited to the White House for a conversation with Leading Districts in Innovations in Personalized Learning. In addition to his leadership within the District, Jeff is the Chairman for Idaho Association of School Administrators Legislative Priorities Committee; member of the AASA Personalized Learning Cohort; AASA Collaborative; AASA Rural Superintendents Steering Committee; Strategic Advisory Committee; Board-Savvy Superintendent; Co-owner of a consulting company, Rural American Resources for Education; and is a national education leadership speaker. Most recently Jeff has presented at the Idaho Title 1 Conference, Global MindED Education Conference and the Atlantic Education Summit in Washing DC. As the school district looks forward to the release of their full length movie, please come out and support! It took a small army of young voice actors from Idaho schools to perform the 15 roles for the animated characters for The WonderGrove Wizard of Oz! Students auditioned for the roles, the casting team chose the voice actors, then the actors memorized their lines, rehearsed and brought each character to life with a quality performance.They created the beautiful backgrounds and animated the characters. We'll look forward to sharing, Dorothy, a sixth grader, worried about going to middle school, with our audience. Come, bring your children and follow the yellow brick road with us, at The Historic Egyptian Theater . Buy tickets to the movie their students made airing at the Egyptian Theater in Boise on December 15th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wizard-of-oz-premiere-tickets-83253452317 Follow along with our podcast by subscribing and connecting here: https://www.bvadev.com/podcast

The poor today are always working long hours in menial jobs to pay off something that is continuously breaking down. In many ways they are being punished for being poor.   If you have a hot jug, fan heater, hairdryer, juicer, toaster, vacuum cleaner and other consumer white ware - with a bit of luck you may get two to three year’s life out of them - and then they are off to the landfill.    This interview of Rex Weyler, is one of the original Greenpeace activists - when it was more a volunteer organisation - and they were true Rainbow Warriors - tells of the continuous battle on bringing humankind to become accountable and responsible for the wanton abuse and use of the earth’s critical resources.    This below is Rex’s most recent article ‘Its a waste world’ that was printed in Greenpeace Magazine https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/23747/its-a-waste-world/ A popular bumper sticker in the United States – typically seen on large vehicles, with giant wheels and vibrating chrome muffler pipes – reads: “My carbon footprint is bigger than yours.” This appears as a banner for the culture of extravagant indulgence. And wherever consumption is encouraged and admired, waste follows. The world’s rich cultures are all wasteful, and not just because of excessive fossil fuel use. Even our modern electronic devices represent a massive waste stream. Last year, electronic waste reached an all-time record of 65 million tonnes. Planned Obsolescence   Used bulb lamps collected by Greenpeace volunteers during the clean up at Bokor Island conservation area on Thousand Islands. © Dhemas Reviyanto / Greenpeace Even modern LED light bulbs, for example, do not last as long as incandescent bulbs made a century ago. One carbon filament light bulb, at a fire station in Livermore, California, is still burning continuously after 120 years. Building things that last, and consuming modestly, used to be common human values. But that all changed with the advent of contemporary business models and modern marketing. In 1924, three companies – Dutch Philips, German Osram, and US General Electric – formed a cartel, Phoebus, to shorten the life of light bulbs. Making light bulbs that could last 100 years limited their sales growth. They agreed on a thousand-hour standard, about three or four months of normal use, the historic beginning of planned obsolescence. During World War I, the U.S. Treasury Department launched a frugality campaign to save resources for the war effort. Merchants, however, opposed the initiative. According to Giles Slade in Made to Break, US stores displayed signs such as, “Beware of Thrift,” and “Business as Usual.” New York retailers formed the “National Prosperity Committee,” with slogans like, “Full Speed Ahead!” and “Clear the Track for Prosperity!” During the global economic depression in 1932, New York manufacturers circulated a pamphlet: “Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence,” the first known printed use of this phrase. An article in Printer’s Ink journal warned that the idea of durability was “outmoded,” claiming that, “If merchandise does not wear out faster, factories will be idle, people unemployed.” Paul Mazur, a partner at Lehman Brothers, declared that obsolescence, designing products to fail or wear out, was the “new god” of business philosophy. In 1950s America, advertising firms learned that they could sell products not based on function, quality, or durability, but on novelty. Products were sold as “new,” “modern,” and “innovative,” whether or not the “innovations” offered any genuine value. The throwaway fashion industry was born on the notion that clothing “styles” allegedly changed every year, and that to appear “modern,” one must repeatedly buy new clothing. Ad agencies convinced popular journals to publish fashion sections to inform, or manipulate, the public regarding the latest styles. Thus, the idea of well-made, durable products died away in rich nations, replaced by products that break, wear out, become obsolete, or go out of fashion. This trend has now seized the modern electronics industry. E-waste and the cost of high tech   A small child sitting among cables and e-waste in Guiyu, China © Greenpeace / Natalie Behring Since the 1980s, computers and electronic devices have made lives in rich countries more convenient and entertaining. Some observers expected that modern electronics would also make society more “efficient,” that computers would save paper and other resources. Those hopes, however, encountered what is known in economics as the “rebound effect“: Efficiency often leads to more resource use, not less. Human enterprise now uses six times more paper than we used at the dawn of the computer age, six times more lithium, five times more cobalt, more iron, copper, and more rare earth metals. Mining for these minerals tends to be ecologically destructive and exploitive of human labourers. Due to increasing demand and low rates of electronics recycling, mining companies are now proposing strip mines on the ocean floor, a practice that ocean biologists say would permanently damage unique and biodiverse ocean ecosystems. As computer chips got smaller, more powerful, and more energy efficient, the material and energy intensity of those chips increased exponentially. Since our computers require so little energy to operate, we may believe they are “efficient,” but we are measuring the wrong metric. To understand the high cost of high tech, we must consider the embodied energy built into our devices, our telecom infrastructure, server networks, and data centres. We also have to consider the sheer growth of consumption and the acceleration of waste. According to Statisa, about 4 million cell phones are sold every day, over 1.5 billion per year. About 250 million computers are sold each year. The average lifetime of these devices is now about two and a half years. Manufacturers design in obsolescence, changing critical parts and marketing more fashionable, “improved” devices. We may marvel at social media and connectivity, but this level of consumption leaves behind a massive, toxic, and destructive waste stream.   Discarded computer monitor casings in a lagoon in Ghana. © Greenpeace / Kate Davison Apple Corporation has become notorious for designing smartphones, tablets, and laptops that are difficult to repair or upgrade. These policies are not an accident or a necessity of technological advance. They are marketing decisions, designed specifically, like the three-month light bulb, to sell more products. Between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported. According to Jason Koebler at Motherboard, “Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.” Apple designs products with proprietary parts that cannot be easily repaired and the company has actively lobbied against right-to-repair legislation in the US. According to a Repair.org study, both Apple and Sony have blocked environmental electronics standards that would support repair, upgrade, and recycling. However, Apple Corporation is not alone. According to a 2017 Greenpeace report, other consumer electronics companies are lagging far behind. Although Apple has made progress in the use of renewable energy they are “moving in the wrong direction,” along with Microsoft and Samsung, by shortening the useful life of devices. Samsung, Amazon, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi receive failing grades in every category, using toxic chemicals and dirty energy, making short-lived products that are difficult to recycle, and hiding the data about their practices. On the other hand, HP, Dell, and Fairphone are leaders in producing products that are repairable and upgradable. Electronic waste has now reached over 65 million tonnes per year. Computers, screens, and small hand devices comprise about 22% of that waste, 14 million tonnes annually. According to a 2014 UN Report, Europe produced the highest per-capita electronic waste, over 15 kilograms per person every year. Asia generated the most e-waste, 16 million metric tonnes, followed by the Americas, 11.7 million tonnes per year. Since 2014 those volumes have increase by about 50%. System Change As with most of our ecological challenges, there are solutions, but the response requires more than marginal change. According to Deishin Lee, at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, “most waste is generated on purpose,” built into modern business models. Lee criticizes “output-oriented,” production systems that only consider the product. “Every output-oriented process,” she writes, “is designed to produce waste.” We can overcome this by shifting to input-oriented production, considering the value of all resources, how to conserve, and how to use resources effectively, with a minimum of waste.   Smartphone repair © RIcardo Padilla Roman / Greenpeace Economist Tim Cooper, at Nottingham Trent University believes that a transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.” In his book, “Longer Lasting Products,” Cooper suggests the change could be accomplish with economic policies to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. Quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources. Cooper calculates that when consumers spend less on throwaway products, they will spend more for other services and investments. In “Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, describes how we could reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education. The 2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products. Growth swamps efficiency Everything we build requires energy. Wasteful practices waste energy. Although we are witnessing an unprecedented effort to develop renewable energy, we are failing to keep pace with growth in demand. Unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure. The following chart – prepared by Canadian energy engineer David Hughes, using data from the 2019 BP Energy Review – shows the annual growth in renewable energy compared to the annual growth in electricity demand. A great deal of this demand is due to wasteful manufacturing and sales practices. Two-thirds of the growth is met with fossil fuels. Furthermore, this only accounts for electricity. 83% of the world’s energy consumption is non-electric.   The only year that renewable energy growth exceeded demand growth occurred in 2009 during an economic recession. This chart reveals two critical pieces of our waste and energy challenge: (1) Renewable energy growth is not keeping pace with total energy demand, and (2) The way to turn this around is to end the expectation of endless economic growth. Some companies, such as Fairphone and Patagonia, have business models that account for slowing growth. The idea that we should keep businesses growing by creating waste is no longer valid – and never was. We can employ more people by building quality products and repairing them. To reverse the trend of wasteful production, biodiversity collapse, carbon emissions that cause global heating, and general ecological overshoot, humanity has to embrace modest consumption and put an end to the era of extravagant indulgence.   References and Links “E-waste World Map Reveals National Volumes, International Flows,” StEP Initiative, 2013, Quoted in Greenpeace E-Waste report, 2016.E-waste: The Escalation of a Global Crisis, TCO certified“Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America,” Giles Slade, Harvard University Press, 2007; and excerpts at Google Books.“A Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, Ecology Today, 2012.Guide to Greener Electronics 2017, Greenpeace Reports, October 17, 2017“Overcoming the culture of waste” Deishin Lee, MIT, Sloan School of Management, 2017.Power-hungry gadgets endanger energy efficiency gains, review of The International Energy Association analysis, John Timmer, 2009, ARS Technica.The Global E-waste Monitor, 2014: UN University, 2014.“Electronic Waste (E-Waste): How Big of a Problem is it?” Rubicon, 2018Facts and Figures on E-Waste and Recycling, Electronics Takeback Coalition, 2014“The monster footprint of digital technology,” Kris de Decker, Low-Tech Magazine,“Electronics Standards Are In Need of Repair,” Mark Schaffer, Repair.org, August 2017.“Apple is against your-right to repair i-Phones New York state records confirm,” Jason Koebler, Motherboard, 2017.“Longer Lasting Products: Alternatives to the Throwaway Society,” Tim Cooper, Gower Books, 2010.Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Edited by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.“The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as ‘Built to Last’,” J. B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2016.“Patagonia’s Anti-growth Strategy,” J.B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2015.What is happening here in NZ?Here in NZ we continue with this ‘business as usual’ attitude, superimposed over the whole country. It is ‘taken for granted’ and the NZ Government is basically none the wiser. They just continue to carry on as if everything is normal. The NZ struggle to get recycling more efficientNZ has not been able to get a deposit on soft drink or beer bottles, where once we had them. As a kid I used to be continuously walking up and down the main road collecting beer bottles as they were in those days just thrown out the window of cars. At the big rugby games at towns, dur9ng the curtain raiser prior to the main game, I was always able to collect enough coke and lemonade bottles to be able to buy a drink and a hot pie and have some change left over.  Why has NZ not been able to follow the legislation as in the State of South Australia and in the State of Oregon in the USA.  Because, like all the other states in Australia and the USA - business interests in both these countries have overridden prudent ecological policies.  Time and time again the breweries and Coke cola with huge financial resources and well paid lawyers - have been able to stop a deposit with regard to recycling - in its tracks. Hence, the throw away mentality is still prevalent in NZ especially with the unconscious male macho way of life.  Yet, it could be said that as an extension of the top of this article that stoves, fridges etc don’t last long too too, when compared to how they were built 50 years ago.A person working at a local transfer station north of Auckland said - If it was not for the Warehouse - he would not have a job! (The Bargain was not necessarily a bargain)Some of the other issues talked about in this interview was that big business is still calling the shots.One of the issues is that businesses do not look at our planet as a complex living super system. They fail to see the biosphere as a homeostatic, self regulating system of trillions of living creatures that are all delicately balanced and embedded in the web of life.Their (very limited) perspective is that they are on ‘a platform’ - that has raw products coming in (they are not interested in where these products come from or how they are extracted or gained) -  all they want to do is then push (highly packaged) product out onto the market. It also does not really matter how much pollution they produce in the process - hence various governments world wide - have had to enforce clean air and clean water standards on businesses to force them to comply. This has been an ongoing ‘battle’ for over 100 years.There is no thought of ‘nature’ in any business model.  Where as in America there is a remarkable treatise on this thought to come from a First Nations ‘Indian’ called Chief Seattle.     Privatise the Profits and Socialise the Costs - This means putting products or services on the market and if they do not measure up, then society picks up the costs.  - Cigarette companies did this with cigarettes. They made money out of selling them but when smokers ended up in hospital beds - especially in countries with ‘free’ hospital care - it was those countries (the taxpayers) that paid to take care and treat those dying patients. It  was the same when the Wall Street bankers in New York took insane monetary risks back in 2008 whilst still collecting ‘extremely inflated commissions and salaries’ - that they threatened to collapse the whole US and world banking system. That the US Government was then ‘forced’ to bail them out - with the US taxpayer taking the hit. This same mentality is pervasive within the current business world. Privatise the profit and socialise the losses. That there is now such a devastating effect by having to clean up the global environment as a result of business practices that did not factor in a healthy future of the world’s children. Cradle to Cradle  - and the Circular EconomyCradle to Cradle was mentioned. http://www.cradletocradle.com Cradle to Cradle is a design framework for going beyond sustainability and designing for abundance in a Circular Economy. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle. Drawing on a decade of lessons, William McDonough & Michael Braungart put Cradle to Cradle®concepts into practice with businesses, governments, and people around the world.Prof Dr Michael Braungart gave an interview on the subject of microplastics on 23-10-2018 in the ZDF news programme heute+. Car tyres are the main cause of the microplasty discovered in the human intestine, says environmental expert Michael Braungart. The main problem is the harmful pollution.In the 1980s, Braungart dedicated his work to the environmental organization Greenpeace and beginning in 1982 helped to establish the chemistry section of Greenpeace International, which he took over in 1985. In the same year he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hannover's chemistry department. In order to develop solutions for complex environmental problems, EPEA was established by Greenpeace in 1987. Ever since, Braungart has been involved with research and consultancy for eco-effective products i.e. products and production processes in a loop, not only harmless to man or nature, but beneficial.Time magazine recognized William McDonough in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet.” In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 2003 he earned the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2004, he received the National Design Award for achievement in the field of environmental design. In July 2014, Mr. McDonough was appointed as Chair of the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Circular Economy. Also mentioned was that we are reaching limits to growth and Rex and I touched on some of the major environmental challenges now affecting the biosphere. Japanase built cars superior to American carsIt was quickly noted that when the Japanese car companies came to North America that it only took a few years or so for the American people to realise that Japanes cars were not only more reliable but they lasted longer. The planned obsolescent cars from Ford, General Motors and now defunct Chrysler were far inferior to the Japanese brands - hence their continued success in the US car market today.  Apple in the US comes in for some well earned criticism in the interview.That between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported. Listen - Apple are not your kind and caring corporation. They are a hard nosed business wanting to continually corner the market for their own ends. Listen to how they and Sony stopped legislation to not allow their products to be repaired.   “Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.” A Global commitment to CHANGE … Transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.”  to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. What's wrong with 10 years for everything over $4,000?Having quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources. We could also reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education.  2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products.There is a limit to growth on a finite planetThere is a limit to growth - that if one becomes an astronaut or a cosmonaut - they see clearly from space - that life within the biosphere can only take so much.  That the increase in human numbers and their extracting and polluting practices is overwhelming the natural worlds ability to rebalance these intrusions because of the short time span. Rex mentioned, that unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure. France Under French law it is a crime to intentionally shorten lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. ... The French investigation is being led by the economy ministry's consumer protection agency. It follows a legal complaint filed in December by pro-consumer group Stop Planned Obsolescence (Hop).Jan 8, 2018 End of the line for stuff that's built to die? A new French law demands that manufacturers display how long their appliances will last. Could this stop planned obsolescence – products designed with restricted lifetimes?  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03/has-planned-obsolesence-had-its-day-design Apple investigated by France for 'planned obsolescence' - BBC News   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42615378 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/09/apple-investigated-by-france-for-planned-obsolescence-of-older-iphones/  - This is a Silicon Valley newspaper.Also covered was Regenerative Farming and Biological Farming as a way to make soils more healthy and keep the soil from being blown and washed off the land. This farming method is most definitely the most important way to regenerate our land without using fertilisers.https://www.ourplanet.org/Default.aspx?CCID=34961&FID=629092&ExcludeBoolFalse=True&ID=/greenplanetfm/search-results So there we have it However, it goes far deeper than this.  ListenThis is a very important interview - on an imperilled planet that is awash with rubbish, toxins and the throw away society. That we have to ask the question - are we throwing away our future and our children and grandchildren with it? Time for decisive action, from the Grass Roots up. Not top down from the summit of the Pyramid of Businessmen and Bankers. This has to be where all ‘grassroots’ groups as in localised communities across every nation need to be brought into the conversation and also the planning and action.

AY FAM, WELCOME TO EPISODE SIXTY-NINNNNNNE!   We're getting straight alchemical up in this one.  We do a little soft synthesis with Camel Audio and their magical music machine ALCHEMY. Afterward we find ourselves in the thick of some heavy sauce talk, DOUGHBOYS style.   This episode was recorded In Loving Memory of all the homies we lost to those software poachers at the Apple Corporation.   "MUSTARD, THE CHAMPAGNE OF SAUCE"   ALT. TITLE: "Mr. Puzzles vs Pig-Saw"

Hey everyone! It’s the moment some of you have been waiting for. I know this because you’ve emailed and messaged me to ask, "When is your mother going to be on the podcast again?" Well, when she heard about the love series, sponsored by my new book It’s a Love Story, (on sale now!), she immediately wanted to talk about her favorite movie of all time: Pretty Woman. Now because of the subject matter concerning Vivian’s line of work, my mother uses a word that rhymes with LOOKER or BOOKER a record twelve times. At one point, she takes it a step further and makes the word a verb. Because I have no idea if the Apple Corporation will flag Mama's use of that word as “explicit content” on iTunes, I decided it was best to just bleep her out. This is a family show, and I’d like to keep it that way.  Aside from vernacular that describes “ladies of the night,” Pretty Woman taught us that it’s okay to wear wigs and that it’s cool to carry dental floss in your purse. We learned how to stomp a divot and that escargot are slippery little suckers. But most importantly, we learned not to judge a book by its cover. Because even hookers can have a heart of gold.    SHOW NOTES: Subscribe to Podcast: iTunes or Android Newsletter Subscription: HERE Follow Me: Facebook and Instagram and Twitter Buy My Book: Why I Hate Green Beans Enjoy the show!

Hey everyone! It’s the moment some of you have been waiting for. I know this because you’ve emailed and messaged me to ask, "When is your mother going to be on the podcast again?" Well, when she heard about the love series, sponsored by my new book It’s a Love Story, (on sale now!), she immediately wanted to talk about her favorite movie of all time: Pretty Woman. Now because of the subject matter concerning Vivian’s line of work, my mother uses a word that rhymes with LOOKER or BOOKER a record twelve times. At one point, she takes it a step further and makes the word a verb. Because I have no idea if the Apple Corporation will flag Mama's use of that word as “explicit content” on iTunes, I decided it was best to just bleep her out. This is a family show, and I’d like to keep it that way.  Aside from vernacular that describes “ladies of the night,” Pretty Woman taught us that it’s okay to wear wigs and that it’s cool to carry dental floss in your purse. We learned how to stomp a divot and that escargot are slippery little suckers. But most importantly, we learned not to judge a book by its cover. Because even hookers can have a heart of gold.    SHOW NOTES: Subscribe to Podcast: iTunes or Android Newsletter Subscription: HERE Follow Me: Facebook and Instagram and Twitter Buy My Book: Why I Hate Green Beans Enjoy the show!

Texas A&M - International University Chair of the Fine Arts Department and former Percussion Instructor James Moyer stops by for a freewheeling, exciting discussion of his career in and out of academia, percussion, and the Apple Corporation, along with talk about the Steelers, Billy Joel, and Star Trek. He maintains time at the end for the Random Ass Questions (01:34:00).Finishing with a Rave on Apollo 11 (01:57:10).Links:James Moyer’s TAMIU pageMark BosemanIvan TrevinoTodd MeehanLance DregeRichard Gipson“Diabolic Variations” - Raymond Helble“Portico” - Tom Gauger“Duo Chopinesque” - Michael Hennagin Robert SchietromaLisa RogersScott CameronDeMorrow InstrumentsLeigh Howard StevensGordon StoutJamie Moyer, pitcherFour-Mallet Method for Marimba - James MoyerFour-Mallet Progressive Literature for Marimba - James MoyerBill MoerschMichael BurrittVida ChenowethNancy ZeltsmanCort McClarenVic FirthBrian WestBlake WilkinsJames LambertStaci Stokes-WaitesEmery AlfordJ.C. CombsSaul GoodmanJulia GainesAlan ShinnAllan TeelTom MorganRich Thompson“Back Talk” - Harry Breuer“Fluffy Ruffles” - G. H. GreenTom SiweJohnny Lee LaneBrian JustisonLarry Holmes, the “Easton Assassin”Steelers Killer B’sSteve JobsFrank KumorJeff MooreChris HanningJim Casella“After Syrinx II” - Richard Rodney Bennett“Northern Lights” - Eric EwazenJi Hye JungMike TomlinAdam BrennanJohn W. Parks IVStanley LeonardBob BeckerGary OlmsteadCasey CangelosiGene KoshinskiBrian BrittSuper Bowl XLJets-Steelers 2004 Divisional PlayoffNeil O’DonnellStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - trailerStar Trek V: The Final Frontier trailerStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryGran Torino trailerThe Mule trailerThe Shawshank Redemption trailerMonty Python and the Holy Grail trailerH. Robert ReynoldsCrystal TalieferroBilly Joel Kennedy Center HonorsRaves:Apollo 11 trailer

Apple Tax Bill, The Persecuted Church, “Evil Dish Man”, Grace Stories, Social Tip, Remembering God Loves Them, God & Atoms, Meet the IKEA Models, Humility, Radio in Space, Honesty Cafe, Disheveled Guy, $1 Billion Wedding; Quotes:  “I just want to take a moment to encourage The Apple Corporation.” “Our brothers and sisters being persecuted for their faith across the world needs to be a big deal to us.” “We can relate to Evil Dish Man.” “The point is for a moment, a fleeting second, I had a friend.” “I don't want to meet the IKEA models. Best to have a distance.”

Philip Fisher and Richard Jordan discuss Richard’s exciting new multimedia theatrical collaboration with Apple Corporation in Chicago and also Edinburgh trends and the very best that Edinburgh has to offer. Philip Fisher joins the three leading Scottish theatre critics, Joyce McMillan, Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper, to talk in detail about Anything That Gives off Light in the Edinburgh International Festival, Diary of a Madman at the Traverse and World Without Us at Summerhall, as well as identifying a plethora of other shows that are well worth catching.

Guy Newland holds a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Virginia. He has worked with a great many Tibetan scholars and taught at five Dharma centers--all within the Dalai Lama’s school of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1988 he has been a professor at Central Michigan University. His publications include The Two Truths (Snow Lion), Appearance and Reality (Snow Lion), Introduction to Emptiness (Snow Lion) and, in collaboration with others, Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford).   Episode Outline: • Early Years – Guy briefly discusses his early years on the spiritual path, studying mystic Christianity, Hinduism, Sufism, his interest in experience rather than doctrine, cultivating compassion within ourselves and finding his home in the Buddhist lineage. • Traditions – Guy discusses some of the similarities and differences between Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. • Perception – Guy breaks down the teaching of the two truths—conventional truth and ultimate truth—using various examples that include MacBook’s, Apple Corporation and Steve Jobs, mountains, animals, office buildings, telephones and more. • The Ground of All Being – Quantum Physics, the human mind, the Tao and seeing reality as it actually is are all discussed. • Emptiness and Universal Happiness – In life we suffer unnecessarily because we don’t see things the way are, looking to external things for lasting peace and happiness, however, things don’t have a graspable nature. Guy discusses the importance and benefit of understanding the Buddhist teaching of Emptiness and how it’s a peace in accordance with seeing things the way they are. We also cover practicing as a way of service for others as well as ourselves. • Books! – Guy talks about some of his favorite authors and books including Zen Master Raven, Practice of the Wild and more. • Music! Guy and I discuss our love of music including Hendrix, Radiohead, The Pixies, Sonic Youth and more.

完整文稿请关注本周六微信，或访问以下网址： http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/09/12/2582s843915.htm This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. China plans to overhaul its national college entrance exam and university enrollment system by 2020, to improve fairness and transparency. The Education Ministry says the plan will ease the intense pressure on students. The national exam, or Gaokao, is held in early June every year. It is the sole entrance criteria for most Chinese colleges and is widely regarded as the principal determinant of the future of students. The overhaul will be the biggest change to the exam since it was reintroduced in 1977. The changes include a plan containing several steps to ensure the college recruitment system becomes fairer, centering on better selection of students based on their actual skills and talents. Students from the poor regions in central and western parts of China will continue to enjoy preferential enrollment policies that have benefited roughly 200,000 students this year. This is NEWS Plus Special English. The Apple Corporation in the United States has unveiled two new smart phones and a smart watch in San Francisco, California. CEO Tim Cook claimed the new products to be the best in iPhone's seven-year history. The IPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus feature larger screens, 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches diagonally. They are slightly slimmer than previous iPhones and have a better battery life. As iPhone smartphones have been Apple's flagship products in recent years, they are contributing around a half to the company's total revenues. The company, based in Cupertino, northern California, started accepting orders on September 12th. Apple also announced a brand new device, the first in four years. Known as the Apple Watch, the new device will be on the market early next year and come in two sizes and three styles. The wearable electronic device will work with the iPhone 5 or newer models to collect fitness and health information and provide suggestions for owners with future applications, or apps. The showing off of Apple's new products came at a time when doubts are being raised about whether Apple can still remain a trend-setter and innovator in the tech world following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011. Tuesday's event was held at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, the same venue where Jobs unveiled the Mac computer 25 years ago. You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. New animal tests on monkeys show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect wanes unless the animals get a booster shot made in a different way. Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National Institutes of Health in the United States for the first human safety study of this vaccine, in the hope it eventually be used in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The vaccine was deemed promising because a single dose has protected all four vaccinated monkeys when they were exposed to high levels of the Ebola virus just five weeks later. But the challenge is that the protection wanes over time. The researchers tried booster shots, and finally came out with a new approach called "prime-boost". It includes a first dose to prime the immune system, followed by a booster two months later using vaccine made in a different way. With the Ebola crisis rapidly worsening, the World Health Organization has said it will try to speed up the use of certain experimental products, and early results are expected in November. So far, more than 3,000 people have been infected. The WHO estimates there could be another 20,000 cases before the Ebola outbreak is stopped. This is NEWS Plus Special English. Chinese scientists have made progress in brain-computer interface research after a successful experiment on an epilepsy patient. After implanting an electrode connected to a robotic hand into the brain of a 28-year-old woman, the hand performed the three actions of the rock-paper-scissors game immediately on the patient. The scientists say this shows China's progress in brain-machine interfacing, bringing new hope to patients who suffer limb motor dysfunction. Neurologists from Zhejiang University in eastern China began their research in 2006, and in 2012, they realized actions such as grasping and pinching of a robotic limb in animal experiments. They are working to improve the accuracy of the action of robotic limbs. This is NEWS Plus Special English. You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Cyber-crime rises globally, causing some 600 billion U.S. dollars of damage each year. Experts say cyber-crime involves an extremely broad field, becoming a gigantic industry. Last year, the United States suffered a loss of 100 billion dollars from cyber-crime, which is more than 0.6 percent of its GDP. An ever-increasing number of people surfing online have opened many loopholes, and 5 percent of net users have received fraudulent emails in which the senders claimed to be an heir to a large sum of money. Cyber-crime works well because the clientele is large -- almost everyone has a smartphone. Experts have warned that it's necessary for larger company budgets to increase cyber security for their users; and an active approach against cyber-crime is needed, given that virus scanners are often one or two years behind the newest virus types.

Do you believe that if a few a passionate people come together they can create change? Well according to the email I just received from Green America, the voices of conscious citizens have been heard by the Apple Corporation.   “Apple announced that it would ban benzene and n-hexane — two dangerous industrial chemicals — from its first tier factories in China starting September 2014.” This is a very important first step and I’m so glad to hear they are listening. Apple is saying that it took the action because they heard from thousands of consumers voicing their concerns.   So that’s the good news, now for the bad news.   The China Labor Watch and Green America’s undercover investigators found harmful chemicals being dumped into the groundwater, locked safety doors, and other violations. If you lived in a community where your ground water was being poisoned, would you want someone to step in and help? I’m hoping yes, discover how you can easily assist.

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Ralph Becker The mayor of Salt Lake City, deep in red-state Utah, is a Democrat. He has worked with the Mormon Church and state leaders to come up with a more humane immigration policy than neighboring Arizona.  But the Justice Department is suing Utah, and Mayor Ralph Becker explains how things might ultimately work out. Website Peter Galbraith  Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith says it is hard to overstate how much the Bush administration destroyed America’s standing in the world, but he says its restoration is President Obama’s greatest foreign policy achievement. Website Tom Buffenbarger  An interview by Bill Press with Tom Buffenbarger, head of the Machinists Union, who denounces the Apple Corporation for relying on the business model of slavery.  The Bill Press Show International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers