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Expert Educator Clare Ford is back, and today's discussion revolves around children being MORE than their grades. As Clare tells us, we can't say grades don't matter because 80% of children are defining themselves by their grades, but we can teach them they are more than their grades. The landscape of education has shifted over the last year and a half as they were forced to pivot into online learning. We chat about whether or not you can rely on the school system to provide a complete education that meets children's needs, and how the pandemic has been a gamechanger in education. As always, there are tips and tricks scattered throughout the episode to help you meet the needs of your children. We spend a good bit of time talking about the special needs of highly sensitive and autistic children in today's education system. This is a wonderful episode for parents, grandparents, teachers and anyone that works with or around children. Y'all come on in! OUR GUEST Clare is an author, speaker, coach, healer, tutor and parent who is passionate about ensuring that children are "switched on" learners, accessing their natural gifts, abilities and talents to unlock their true potential and live purposefully. As an empowering education expert and award-winning wellbeing entrepreneur, Clare combines her unique skill set to support families around the world. Her passion and enthusiasm to get children and young people motivated and learning has been the catalyst for developing the Clever and Quantum Curricula in her global online academy, Switched ON! Clare is often invited to speak on radio shows and summits and industry events. Switched ON! Global Website: https://www.switchedonglobal.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/switchedoncollective TW: @ClareFordCoach CONTACT MELA www.podpage.com/belle-book-candle FB & IG @bellebookcandlesc YT: Belle, Book & Candle Support by becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/bellebookcandle Or, buy Mela a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/bellebookcandle Interested in our upcoming Greenwild Festival on November 13, 2021? Check it out here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwild-festival-for-witches-mystics-tickets-152286885173 CREDITS My dad wrote the lyrics to my theme song, and we sing it together at the beginning. Thanks to my husband for his contributions. Thank you to our guest, Clare Ford. Original Broadcast: 8.27.21 --- 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/bellebookcandle/message

Author interview with Clare Mulley. Clare has written three historical biographies including THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN: A BIOGRAPHY OF EGLANTYNE JEBB, FOUNDER OF SAVE THE CHILDREN; THE SPY WHO LOVED: THE SECRETS AND LIVES OF CHRISTINE GRANVILLE who was Britain’s first female special agent in WWII; and the Aviatrix Book Club discussion book for May 2021, THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER: A TRUE STORY OF SOARING AMBITION AND SEARING RIVALRY.  She reviews non-fiction for the UK’s Spectator and Telegraph, and has given talks for TedX, the Houses of Parliament, Royal Albert Hall, the Imperial War Museum, the National Army Museum and British Library, as well as many festivals. She has also been featured on BBC television and radio. I highly recommend you check out her book reviews and blog at her at her website, www.claremulley.com. In this interview, Clare talks about her path to becoming a biographer, what led her to write about these two incredibly complex and fascinating women: Hannah Reitsch and Melitta Stauffenberg, and the trail she followed to uncover their stories. She also talks about her other two books, both of which sound equally fabulous and fascinating. I am grateful to all of the authors who have chosen to invest their inspiration and tremendous effort to write about women in aviation. Books like this a treasure. As Clare highlights in the interview, Hannah is a well-known historical figure, but we might never have known about Melitta and her unique role in World War II were it not for Clare’s interest, tenacity, and research and writing skills. Everyone with any interest in history, World War II, or aviation should read this book!

Mark Scheifele takes his kids to work…quite literally. He really did take a couple of goats to the rink for practice… In the meantime, the rest of the grown ups are already deep in the mud of round one in the 2021 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.  There’s some big match ups too - it’s crazy to think that Washington Capitals OR Boston Bruins won’t progress to round two! New York Islanders are already giving Pittsburgh Penguins a run for their money, and surprise wild card Minnesota Wild beat Las Vegas Golden Knights in game one? More than half of games played so far have finished in overtime… As Clare gets set for her first vaccine the same night that Toronto Maple Leafs enter the playoffs, she admits she’s not sure which she’s dreading more…Plus as Latvia prepares to host Team GB Ice Hockey team and friends from this Friday, Jolon continues to reminisce about his trip to the IIHF World Championships in 2019. Presented by Clare Freeman and Jolon Kemp Walker. Produced by ASFB Productions. 

My guest in this episode is the divine Clare Kenty, a pioneer who has developed a teaching called, Reiki for the Times, Not Your Average Class. We talk about how everything is evolving and how her Reiki offering is really meant as a “bridge into where we are going.” As Clare says, we are not just talking about Reiki, it’s really about the—yes, and… Her joy around the teachings of Reiki began when she felt she “knew” the work during the first class she attended.The way Clare teaches Reiki now is to offer a non-hierarchical, de-colonized space for each individual “student” to understand and explore the energy. She shares that the phrase, for the times, is really about asking—how can we honour the genesis of this “beautiful modality” and work with it side by side allowing it to blossom into whatever its evolution is going to be? Our conversation unfolded and we explored our current evolution as humanity. Clare shared her perspective on straddling her being in a beautiful human vessel and the expansive all-ness we are—and the challenges of hovering between that and this very oppressive system that hooks into us. It’s an invitation to look at how we have been doing things, and as Clare says, begin to “question everything” and open ourselves up to choosing a different narrative. In particular, an invitation to question the ways we have agreed to devalue ourselves. If there is no wrong, how do we release old scripts—or, as Clare says—how can we unsubscribe from the narratives that have been part of our human learning experience. How to let go of what we are ready to move beyond, because we are at a point now where we are longing the joy of co-creating and bringing into the material world our next evolution—knowing all paths are leading us to Source. In this human journey, all perspectives are valuable, worthy and needed. As Clare shared, “The system was not designed for liberation. We’re going to have to liberate ourselves…so how about we take back our choice and choose differently.” From my perspective, I think that is how the world evolves into a heaven on earth. More about Clare https://www.clarekenty.ca/ Link to all podcast episodes https://www.artthatmoves.ca/podcasts/

Vanessa Schneider:  Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service Podcast. My name is Vanessa Schneider and I am Senior Channels and Community Manager at GDS. Today we will be talking about GOV.UK Platform as a Service. GDS has a reputation for creating best in class digital products and services for government, and GOV.UK Platform as a Service - or GOV.UK PaaS for short - is one of them.    GOV.UK PaaS helps public sector organisations to secure and swiftly host their digital services without worrying about infrastructure. It’s currently used by 131 organisations, runs 1,652 applications and recently celebrated passing its live service assessment, providing a joined-up experience across channels.    Joining me are Clare Barnett and Mark Buckley. Thank you for being here. Would you mind introducing yourselves to the listeners?   Clare Barnett:  Yeah. Hi, everyone, I'm Clare. I'm a Senior Researcher on GOV.UK PaaS. And my role involves spending most of my time with users of GOV.UK PaaS, understanding what they need from our platform, understanding how current features work and what we can do to improve them, and also understanding how we might need to develop the product in the future to help meet needs that we're not currently catering for.    Vanessa Schneider:  Great, thanks, Clare. Mark?   Mark Buckley:  Hiya, I'm Mark Buckley, I'm Product Manager on GOV.UK PaaS. And that means that a lot of the user needs and things that Clare identifies and other folks on the team, I help to prioritise in order to iterate and hopefully make that product better.    Vanessa Schneider:  Great. So both of you mentioned GOV.UK PaaS and I also gave an introduction at the top of the episode but I’m sure [laughs] our listeners would value hearing from an expert what GOV.UK PaaS actually is.    Mark Buckley:  So GOV.UK Platform as a Service - or as we abbreviate it to PaaS as it's quite the mouthful - is a cloud hosting platform essentially, where service teams around government and public sector can use us to host their applications and digital services in the cloud. So whether that's a service living on GOV.UK like the Teaching Service or a simple informational website such as technical documentation or something like that, they can host their app, those applications on our platform.   The platform side of it, and is doing this sort of hard work of connecting and running the infrastructure that underpins the World Wide Web. So is akin to the plumbing in a house. So, yeah, we take care of that so the service teams don't have to.    Vanessa Schneider:  Great, thanks Mark.    Clare, as a user researcher, can you tell us why should people use PaaS? Does that come up maybe in your work?    Clare Barnett:  Yeah, it absolutely does. And, you know, I'm talking close all the time and I'm always hearing: one of the things that we hear is how we can improve the product. But we're always hearing the good stuff as well and why people use us. And I mean, essentially PaaS is there to help teams avoid unnecessary overheads.   So it means that they don't have to run the infrastructure themselves and they don't need to have Web Ops capability in-house, which means they can focus their time and budget on running their service. And what we hear from our users is that using GOV.UK PaaS, it means that they can avoid procurement blockers, it's much easier to-to use us than it is other commercial services because they don't have to go through long procurement processes.   We also offer a great developer experience, which we've spent a lot of time developing and improving over the years. And we're trusted - we hear from a lot of users that the fact that PaaS is developed by the public sector for the public sector is a really good thing for our users. It helps avoid lock-in with expensive suppliers and it feels much more collaborative as well. And overall, we're offering teams much better value for money than, than some of the commercial providers out there.   Vanessa Schneider:  Do you ever have people coming in thinking they know what PaaS is and you've got to clear up a couple of misconceptions?    Clare Barnett:  I mean, I think we have people who maybe think they can use PaaS in a slightly different way to the way that they, they do. But I mean, I would say some of the common misconceptions are that: it's only for developers. And actually that's not true at all. We do have a number of designers using GOV.UK PaaS to host their prototypes. So yes, we-we do have some misconceptions, but we're able to clear those up quite easily.    Mark Buckley: Yeah, I-I suppose more often than not, we get misconceptions the other way, as in they don't know what PaaS is or aren't clear on sort of the benefits or the purpose for us.   A lot of teams we hear from: 'oh, well, it's only for, available for central government. It's made for central government by central government'. But that's not the case. We've done a lot of work over the years in opening up those contracts and focussing on the-the needs of not just central government, but the wider public sector. So we have teams and services from the devolved administrations, Northern Ireland Assembly use like pretty extensively, local authorities use us, NHS use us, College of Policing use us there - so we have representation from right across the public sector.   And I suppose another kind of misconception   is that GOV.UK PaaS is only suitable for very simple services, such as, as I mentioned earlier, sort of a static website or something like that. But again, that's not true. We have quite we're a, we're a very flexible and powerful platform actually. And some of the services that folks might know: so the Document Checking Service is running on GOV.UK PaaS and GOV.UK Notify, which is, over, certainly over COVID, has become pretty much the UK's notification platform that also runs on GOV.UK PaaS. So we-we have the kind of full spectrum of services living quite happily and running reliably on GOV.UK PaaS.   Vanessa Schneider:  I imagine that listeners know maybe of the word cloud, cloud hosting - because we do have a sizeable audience in the Digital, Data and Technology space. I'm sure they also know that there's commercial providers in this instance. So what motivated government to create this tool rather than just relying on external providers?   Mark Buckley:  GOV.UK PaaS, yeah, is not the only Platform as a Service offering or cloud hosting offering that is available to public sector. Indeed, there is a somewhat confusing overlap with G-Cloud where you could procure different types of cloud hosting provider potentially. But we as a GOV.UK PaaS is a Platform as a Service which when it comes to cloud hosting and that type of thing, is different from Infrastructure as a Service, which is generally what private sector infrastructure providers would provide.    And if services or teams decide to use that, they will have to stitch together and do all of that kind of plumbing themselves because there's sort of more raw materials. And in-in doing that, will have to hire and recruit significant web operations capability. Because we are a platform, we've done all that, built it once with the needs of government at its heart. So to-to fit with the-the kind of M.O. of the rest of the government as a platform products. So GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay and our ourselves: we built it once so that it can be reused and across the public sector, so that there isn't that same duplication of effort. And cloud infrastructure and hosting is not a simple kind of area and takes a lot of investment. So it's, you know, the, that we've provided or invested a lot in that is beneficial hopefully to other service teams.   Vanessa Schneider:  Yeah, definitely build once, use many, it's a favourite phrase in-in our organisation.    Right. So obviously, you are working on the product itself. I was wondering if you maybe in user research, hear about the kind of challenges people have been able to overcome thanks to GOV.UK PaaS or whether you've got a particular case that you'd consider a success story.   Clare Barnett:  Yeah. So we-we hear a lot of the time that teams are able to move a lot faster when they are using GOV.UK PaaS. So they're able to deploy faster. Just generally it kind of helps their internal processes. We take away a lot of the work that otherwise they might have to do themselves.    So some research that we did recently around users evaluating PaaS for use. One user actually said to us: ‘largely all of the effort is offloaded onto ourselves’. So they see the value for money in that the-the service doesn't really feel like very expensive at all. You know we're taking away a lot of the work that-that users would actually have to do in their teams, that's being placed on us.   On top of that, the support that we offer is really comprehensive. So whereas if a team was using a commercial competitor of ours, they might be paying quite hefty sums to have a support model in place. With GOV.UK PaaS, they get all of that included and they get access to 24/7 support. So it-it really is-it's the speed at which people are able to operate and the fact that they can reduce their team size, they don't have to have web ops capability. And the fact that overall that these things combine to help them save money and get bet-better value for money in the long term.   Vanessa Schneider:  If someone is curious to find out more, maybe take their own time and to look at information, where can they go?   Clare Barnett: Yeah, so if you'd like to find out more about PaaS and how it works, then you can go to our website, which is cloud.service.gov.uk for more information. If you're already using PaaS, then you can contact our support channel, and again, if you go to cloud.service.gov.uk, you'll see a support thing in the top right hand corner of the page.    Vanessa Schneider:  So obviously we've heard brilliant things about PaaS now, but don’t just trust us seeing as we are the organisation [laughs] that developed GOV.UK PaaS. We’ve actually chatted with some tenants. So first off we will be hearing from Himal Mandalia.    [VOX POP STARTS] Himal Mandalia:  Hi I'm Himal. So I've joined GDS recently as Head of Technology for GOV.UK. I've been working around government digital for about the last 6 years. Working at the Ministry of Justice Digital and the Department of Education.   So I've just joined about a month ago, but over the last few months since last year, there's been some experimentation running, some trials around GOV.UK Accounts.   As part of the trial, the first step was to-to offer an account along with the Brexit Transition Checker. So as a user, as a citizen, you-you go through a journey, you get to some answers that you might want, but then you may want personalised notifications when some of that content changes and you may want a return journey, you may want to come back and, and see, see what you selected previously.   Now, that's not being hosted along with the sort of main GOV.UK stack. GOV.UK is quite a large, complex service made up of many, many applications which are hosted on an infrastructure platform that's fairly manually set up and we are shifting over to something that will meet our evolving and quite sophisticated needs.   But for the experiment particularly the-the Accounts prototype - GOV.UK PaaS was the obvious thing to use for that. You know, just get it in there. You can deploy to it easily. You can tear it down. You can spin up additional things. And, you know, in my role as Head of Technology, I'm quite comfortable with advocating PaaS for any additional things like that. And as we, as we, as we go about re-platforming a lot of those components for GOV.UK, I definitely want to keep PaaS on the table as an option for some of those services that are very modular, that can just be, be stood up and, and then run very easily.    Vanessa Schneider:  Do you mind sharing what you think the advantage is of hosting on GOV.UK PaaS versus other solutions?   Himal Mandalia:  What things don't you want to have to worry about? What things are just, you know, what's termed the undifferentiated heavy lifting. It's really the same for many of these use cases, and you just want it to happen magically. You don't want to have to think about it. You don't want anyone doing it. And a lot of that is that that site reliability engineering, the the infrastructure engineering required to create the environment in which your application lives. And you and this is where, this is where PaaS comes in because that's all set up for you. A developer can just issue a few commands and create an environment, and launch the app.    I was describing this to some non-technical stakeholders and leadership in DfE a year or 2 ago, there was some confusion around, you know, why would we want PaaS when we have a cloud platform already? And I said, well, it's like having access to a-a really, really high quality construction site. So you've got your space to-to build your roads and your houses and you've got these amazing construction tools, but you need a level of specialism. You need actual-actual architects. You need people that can lay, can lay the electricity, wires under the road. You need to do a lot of stuff to build a few houses, but you have complete control in how you set, in how you set that up.   PaaS is much more like moving into a, moving, moving into a flat that's just ready, and all you need to do is worry about the furnishings, what you're going to put in there. And that was a very sort of loose sort of metaphor that I kept sort of pushing the boundaries on, and it broke a few times. But it's, it's, it's pretty much that: it's that, it's that thing, your application just needs somewhere to live. You just want to take care of that furnishing layer of it, not have to worry about the wiring up the walls for any electrics.    You know, organisationally you need a range of options. You do need the very low level infrastructure offering for-for the things that are very differentiated. And you need to have a very customised infrastructure build. But you also need those things that remove all of that heavy lifting and just let teams put apps out there.   And I think I've encountered in some places a very one dimensional view of what cloud means. It's, it's, it's basically a case of a one size fits all solutions, which is, which is not really the nuanced view that's needed. A nuanced view is ensuring you have the capabilities across the spectrum to handle all of your use cases. And some will be very IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service. But PaaS should definitely be there. And I think the, I think, I think the zenith of something like that is fully self-serve PaaS, which is, which is where we are with GOV.UK PaaS. It's, it's, it's great. And we just need to keep iterating it, improving it.   [VOX POP ENDS]   Vanessa Schneider:  I was wondering if anything particular stuck out to you or maybe we can discuss what it is about people working with PaaS that you all go to building and construction metaphors [laughs]?   Mark Buckley:  Yeah, well, thanks to Himal for speaking so eloquently and positively about GOV.UK PaaS.   A couple of things sort of jumped out at me that it'd be really good to sort of reiterate. And one of those is: Himal mentioning it's not a, there's not a, it's, it's not a one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all when it comes to PaaS. There's absolutely no reason why services and departments can't use things in addition to PaaS, or as well as PaaS.   So Himal mentioned where there are those really sort of complex or specialised differentiated services. Then absolutely GOV.UK PaaS probably isn't the platform for-for them. But there are also vast swathes of services and applications across government that are quite typical, sort of 3-tier applications as they're kind of known in development terms. So there might be a presentation layer and a data layer and application layer all mixing together. They work really well on GOV.UK Paas, and that essentially is probably the majority of the services that run on GOV.UK, for instance, or not on GOV.UK but are part of that.   So if you're searching for a teacher vacancy as kind of said before or looking for your energy performance certificate at MHCLG [Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government], these are all services that run really well on GOV.UK PaaS and take that stress or drama away from Developers and Web Ops Engineers so they can concentrate on other things.   Clare Barnett:  I was just going to add to that - that's something that kind of stood out for me was when Himal talked about wanting to use GOV.UK PaaS for other applications that they're looking to standup on GOV.UK as well. Because we hear that from a lot of users of the platform that once they've used it once, quite often they become advocates for GOV.UK PaaS.   You know they are selling it within their own organisations and wanting to use GOV.UK PaaS for as many things as they can and as many services suitable for. And basically end up with a really strong community of users who are really good at sharing with each other and, and, and sharing the patterns that they use and the way that they do things with, with other users to help them understand how they might be able to use the platform for their specific needs, which is, which is really great. And yeah, and it's nice for us to know that, you know, once someone used us once, actually they want to use us again.    Vanessa Schneider:  Yeah, I'm, I'm really enjoying hearing all the positive news about it, and it must be really nice to have that sort of unintended consequence of people becoming these evangelists essentially and also supporting each other when it comes to the use of it.   So next we’ll be hearing from Colin Saliceti and his experience using GOV.UK PaaS at Department for Education.    [VOX POP STARTS]   Colin Saliceti:  Hi, my name is Colin Saliceti and I work for the Department for Education in the Teacher Services area. Teacher Services is a big area in the Department of Education [DfE], and our goal is to get excellent teachers for every child. My job title is actually Lead Infrastructure Engineer and me and my colleague, we take care of the cloud infrastructure for all the services that are developed in Teacher Services.    Vanessa Schneider:  So Colin, thanks for introducing yourself. You work in Teacher Services, I was wondering, how does that relate to PaaS?    Colin Saliceti:  In Teacher Services, we create and develop a number of services for, mainly for teachers and their careers. So we have a number of service teams which do a lot of development. So we need to provide them with the best tools to deploy their services and make it available for the, the public. And PaaS is a very good tool for that. We have different options. But we have experimented with one service which was teaching vacancies earlier, and this proved a massive success. And then next, we expanded to more and more services.    For example, Get Into Teaching, which is our main information website for teachers. That's where they can get information about the career, they can get in touch with an advisor, they can subscribe to events, and they can actually start the process to get them to-to become a teacher.   And it ties well with another service that's also on PaaS, called Find Teacher Training. So the future candidates can find a-a teacher training. So this is a very important website that the providers of training all across England advertise their courses and the candidates can apply for them through the website.   And we also have another one, which is Register Trainee Teacher - which is also on PaaS; it's not live yet, but it's almost there - where we can actually track all the, the trainees and see at which stage they are in-in their training and follow them in the beginning of their career. So there's quite a number of different services and it's just growing.     Vanessa Schneider:  So our next question is what the advantage is of hosting on PaaS versus other solutions, would you mind explaining what the benefit of it is?    Colin Saliceti:  The first thing is because it's easy compared to different platforms.    It's not easy because it's simple. It's easy because t-the platform packages a lot of features, but the way to use it, the interface to use it is, it's-it's quite easy for us. So we don't actually need a highly skilled specialist, at least in the beginning, to get on board with PaaS. So a Service Team with developers, they can manage themselves to deploy to-to PaaS without any assistance, at least in the first stages.   It's very important that it's a very flexible platform. And we can deploy the production website, but we can deploy many test websites if we need to, and we can deploy a new one for, to test something in particular, and then we can destroy it because we don't need it again and we don't need to pay for it again. So that, this flexibility is very important. And it also makes it very cost effective because we only pay for what we use and when we don't need it, we can scale down or just delete it.     Vanessa Schneider:  I was wondering if you have a user story that relates to the service that shows why it was a good idea to go with PaaS.    Colin Saliceti:  I got a very good example in the, actually, in the other part of the department.   After Teaching Vacancies, which was the-the first, it became obvious that PaaS was a good choice and some of other teams adopted it as well in, in DfE. So you may have heard of the laptops that we delivered to all the schools and for the disadvantaged kids who, to help them do the homeschooling. And so this was done thanks to a programme called Get Help with Tech. This was built very quickly and it was built on PaaS from day one. And PaaS proved that there was very important because we were able to build very quickly and iterate very quickly until we got the service right and we're able to deliver to all the schools in England.    Vanessa Schneider:  So I was wondering if I was a member of a different government department or a different team, how would you convince me to use GOV.UK PaaS?   Colin Saliceti:  First of all, the reasons I already explained: that it's easy to use and the, the learning curve is very easy. This flexibility is amazing as well, and that's really cost effective.   It's also very important that it's provided by government, it's not a separate commercial platform, it is actually provided by GDS. So all the security assurance has already been done and it's assured up to different levels of confidentiality. So you don't actually, in your department, you don't actually need to do that work again because it was already done by GDS.   And another thing is that because it's supported by GDS and we have an amazing relationship with them and we get an excellent support for them, from them, from the people who build and actually run the platform, and we have direct contact with them. And they're also here 24/7 in case of an issue. Which, so it's a great experience to run things on PaaS.    [VOX POP ENDS]   Vanessa Schneider:  So that was Colin. I also want to hasten to add, he was very concerned with appearing impartial because he did work at GDS previously on PaaS. Just wanted to make sure that he was completely representing DfE only.   Mark Buckley:  And that's the impartial version? Well, that's, that's good to hear. [chair squeaks]   Vanessa Schneider:  I think your chair just laughed.   Mark Buckley:  Yeah, potentially.    No, we've been working with DfE and Colin for, for a long time, but it's, it's great that Colin is still enjoying the benefits of our platform.   Vanessa Schneider:  Anything stand out otherwise? I was wondering, he mentioned, for instance, the really good support that you provide and I think, Clare, you mentioned that as well, coming out in your user research interviews.    Clare Barnett:  Yeah, that comes up a-alot when we talk to our users, because it's part of what makes PaaS so cost-effective for people, but it's also it-it means that people feel reassured that they're going to get the help and support. They get you know, responses. There's a really quick turnaround time for, for responses.   And we offer it not just through our support platform, called Zendesk, but we'll say through Slack. So there-there's multiple channels that people can use to get that support. And they will always be speaking to somebody from the team, as Colin said, who is well-versed in the platform, very experienced. And often the team will pair on them if they're trying to troubleshoot or problem-solve something and-and often help them fix problems that are not actually a PaaS problem. It might be that there's a problem with their, their code their end and quite often the PaaS team help identify that. So there's a lot of added value in that support package for our users.   Vanessa Schneider:  That seems to chime a lot as well with what Colin is talking about in terms of it being a really good test environment, in terms of being able to try things out, see if they work or not. Is that a common kind of use case across government?   Mark Buckley:  Yeah it's, but...we-we support services and applications running from everything from discoveries and alphas. As Colin was kind of mentioning, sort quick prototypes to check the viability. As Clare mentioned earlier, designers using it to test out and iterate sort of content and things like that. So you've got that at, at the start of the journey, but also all the way up to running mature products and services that teams do iterate on and improve those as well after going live, as it were.   It’s, in a sort of roundabout, roundabout way both Colin and Himal mentioned that things like Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS, and requiring real expertise and specialists. And quite often in government and early on in those services when they're getting up and running, will rely on suppliers and external parties to come in, maybe contractors, to come in and build things. And if they're built with incredibly specialist skills, then that becomes really difficult to maintain in the long term when the build team might have moved on to other projects for instance.   Having a platform like GOV.UK PaaS enables services to only need to recruit and employ Developers that they need and not the additional specialists and some, that kind of thing so that they can quickly iterate and test things out and not be at risk of not being able to support what they're doing over the long term. So, yeah, it's, what Colin said kind of brings a tear to the eye, right, in terms of being able to quickly build those things on a supported platform that can then enable support to folks in lockdown that really need help with education and homeschool.    Vanessa Schneider:  We always love it when our services have that direct impact, I think it's a lot more relatable to people to say I've got my kid a refurbished laptop, rather than saying that now you can get your document checked, because obviously Document Checking Service is much more a business-to-business kind of environment, isn't it?   So we've heard from some of the people who are using GOV.UK PaaS about why they like it, and about how your team develops it, but I think it's time now to share some GOV.UK PaaS fast facts with our listeners. As a starter for 10, can you tell me whether there's maybe a record for how fast a service was stood up via GOV.UK PaaS?   Mark Buckley:  You know, even though we are, from a development point of view, you can do a cf push and your application is running in minutes, in terms of actual real life bonafide services, the Shielded Vulnerable People Service as part of the support for people shielding and to get them support during coronavirus, the, there was a first kind of pull request on that service at 4pm on a Thursday, and the service itself went live when the Prime Minister a-announced it on, on the Monday.   So you know, within the space of 4 days, you've got something stood up and running on PaaS that, and the first care packages, or support packages, delivered to people within a week kind of thing. Which, yeah, at-at the beginning when, you know it seems like a long time ago now, was this was almost, almost almost a year ago, it was like indispensable to have GOV.UK PaaS and the other common platforms as well, GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Pay as ways to very quickly, cheaply and easily stand up new services. So 4 days to support the Vulnerable People Service was a really nice thing to do. I don't know if it's a record, but it's a good, good story.   Vanessa Schneider: If you want to hear more about how this service was stood up, you can listen to our February episode of the podcast.    Clearly GOV.UK PaaS has had an important part to play in the UK government response to coronavirus but what other services do you host that you think listeners might be surprised by?    Mark Buckley:  It's not only GOV.UK designed system services and things like that, as, as mentioned, NHS, local authorities, various kinds of things are hosted. I think the probably most unusual service that is hosted on GOV.UK PaaS is called Cosmic Bazaar - and not bizarre as in unusual, although it is unusual, Bazaar as is in markets or souk [laughs] I suppose - which is a forecasting platform for economists to hone their, yeah forecasting and evaluation skills as part of the Cabinet Office. So that was an unusual one to be posed with.    Vanessa Schneider:  Clare, I'm thinking that across all of these various services that are being set up on PaaS, the user research element of it is probably still going to remain consistent even as the applications vary across the 'bazaar' to the mundane. Is that right?   Clare Barnett:  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, yes, we have a really wide variety of services, but within that we have a kind of core set of different types of users - they fit into you know, a certain user type that we see. Which means that we can build the product around those user types rather than building and designing the product around very kind of specific niche services.    Vanessa Schneider:  So my final question is just about whether you've known about any other governments taking advantage of our research here. For instance Notify, we've been quite grateful and flattered where the Australian government, the Canadian government, the Department for Veteran Affairs in America, they've used the GitHub basically forked it and made their own variations of it. I was wondering, have you heard about that being the case maybe for PaaS?   Mark Buckley:  We actually have a bit of a kind of community ourselves with other, other 'PaaS's' from around the world. So our PaaS, GOV.UK PaaS, is built upon a technology called Cloud Foundry, which is the abstraction layer I suppose away from the raw infrastructure that Colin and others have talked about. And as well as ourselves, also the Australian government and the American government, Cloud.Gov, use Cloud Foundry as well. So there's been quite a lot of sharing between our teams. So 18F was the kind of equivalent of GDS in America. We have quite frequent contact with them. We have shared our repos, we've used some of their repos. So yeah, that's a lovely global community of Cloud Foundry and PaaS users.   Vanessa Schneider:  That’s so great. Like I know we do a lot of international work but it’s, it’s really quite heartening to see that what, you know that we’re collaborating internationally in something that’s so important. What a lovely note to end on right?   So yeah, thank you so much to all of our guests for coming on today. You can listen to all the episodes of the Government Digital Service Podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. The transcripts are available on PodBean.    Goodbye.    Mark Buckley:  Bye.    Clare Barnett:  Bye.

TB published a surprise Lizzie novel! When COVID struck last year, TB realized Lizzie would be the one character who would freak out the most, and TB wanted to surprise her fans with a gift. Also, TB is at the halfway point on both her British novella and the cowrite with Miranda MacLeod. So, she’s published one book and has two more barreling toward the finish line. As Clare said, TB is cooking on gas. Clare is trying to keep up her January pep. She’s booked her first editing date and commissioned 2 book covers. Woo-hoo! This is Clare’s launch week for Hot London Nights! While getting the book ready, Clare had another printer fail on the last 60 pages, naturally, because printers hate Clare. She’s on a roll with meditating every morning and yoga-ing. Sadly, Clare is still killing plants. Try to stay alive, Roscoe… They move on to the main subject: Do your books follow a formula? The simple answer is yes. In order for books to offer all the feels with highs and lows, the story has to hit certain beats, taking the reader on a journey. This does not mean the story can’t be original. It’s one of the challenges for every author, to hit all the beats, but to do so with originality. And, don’t forget to add one necessary ingredient: conflict. Your character has to overcome it by the end. Do you write to a formula? Head over to www.lesbianswhowrite.com, and leave a comment on the episode. Or you can email them at: lesbianswhowrite@gmail.com. Next week, they’ll breakdown what to think about during the final book edit. Happy listening! Clare and TB Links: First Chapter of Hot London Nights: www.clarelydon.co.uk/2021/01/hot-london-nights-first-chapter-preview/ Clare’s London Romance Books (Sale ends Jan. 25, 2021): payhip.com/custardbooks Lizzie Books: lesbianromancesbytbm.com/books/a-woman-lost-series/

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As Clare is falling deeper in love with Dale, we're forced to watch the rest of these men go through therapy, learn their love languages, and strip down ALL in one episode!  WANT RECAPS OF THE BACHELOR? For hilarious exclusive weekly recaps of The Bachelor Franchise and other reality shows, support our podcast by becoming a patron for just $5/month at patreon.com/2blackgirls1rose Shoutout to the newest member of our team — Jodie, our editor! She’s dope, we love her, she’s literally changing our lives. To tap into her awesome editing skills, contact her at jodiegordonmedia@gmail.com or find her on IG @jodiegordonmedia.   WE GOT MERCH! We got merch y'all! Tshirts, tanks, sweatshirts, mugs, totebags, stickers! Order your 2 Black Girls, 1 Rose gear today at www.teespring.com/2blackgirls1rose   CONNECT WITH US! Twitter: @2blkgirls1rose Instagram: @2blackgirls1rose Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2blackgirls1rose Email us questions and feedback at 2blackgirls1rose@gmail.com  

I could have talked with Clare for another hour about the idea of relying on a more ethnographic approach to assessing an organization’s readiness for a campaign as well as perhaps relinquishing our dependencies on the often presumptuous and very reductionist approach that has become common practice for the last several decades. After spending several years conducting feasibility studies myself, I’ve come to realize just how often they simply can’t deliver on their promises and how they tend to cultivate for the organization a flawed sensibility of how effective fundraising really works.  As Clare and I discussed, it begins with an ability to fully immerse oneself in a community, ask meaningful and open-ended questions, and pick up on patterns that reveal themselves in each conversation. As Clare suggested, it also means having both a keen sense of where opportunities might be and the curiosity to find them. These are all strengths that an employed fundraiser can be recognized and admired for having. As always, we are very grateful to our partners at CueBack for sponsoring today’s podcast, and we would encourage you to visit their website to learn more. Also, if you’d like to know more about Responsive’s frameworks training, please reach out today.   #unpredictable  #responsivefundraising  

In one of the rainiest Ramblings we've ever recorded, Clare Balding discovers a brand new waymarked walking route in South Wales which has been established on the path of an ancient pilgrimage. It's called the Penrhys Pilgrimage and connects Llandaff to Penrhys. As Clare hears, while walking (and getting soaked) along the final five mile stretch from Trebanog to Penrhys, a huge amount of work from local volunteers has gone into making this project happen. Penrhys is the site of an ancient well and a statue of Mary and already has a pilgrimage passing through from east to west (the Cistercian Way) but from March 25th 2020 this new route , running south to north, will be available to all comers, pilgrims or not. Please scroll down to the 'related links' box to find out more. (Please note: the launch events mentioned in the programme have now been cancelled due to Covid-19) Producer: Karen Gregor

Welcome to the golden anniversary episode! TB is amazed Clare had the foresight to schedule a sex talk during the week of Valentine’s Day. For some inexplicable reason, TB has Thanksgiving on her mind. On the work front, TB is twenty-five percent done with the cowrite with Miranda MacLeod, and fittingly, she had to stop a sex scene to talk about sex. She’s that dedicated. For those in the Massachusetts’s area, TB will be on a panel, with Miranda MacLeod and Jane C. Esther, at the Peabody library on March 13th. In non-writing news, TB wishes TV shows wouldn’t mess with her. There’s been a lot of sobbing on the couch. Clare claims she hasn’t had a productive week, but after listing what she has accomplished, including getting through twenty percent of the edits for her upcoming release, writing 10k in her Xmas romance, and visiting family, all while being bogged down with a cold, TB thinks Clare should call the week a win.  Oh, TB also thinks Clare is brilliant and wonders why people don’t like Clare. The duo turns to this week’s topic: where their characters have sex. This is a topic that causes TB to blush repeatedly and giggle. When she uses a certain phase, it tips TB over the edge. Before they get to that point, they discuss all the exciting places their characters have gotten their groove on and why the scenes are necessary for the romance genre. As Clare says, they’re the action scenes of romance, and they help move a story forward. Furthermore, they’re important to add drama and all the feels readers crave. Like all aspects of writing, it’s important to mix them up and to keep them fresh. Resources and links: I Heart Lesfic Valentine’s Sale Page: iheartlesfic.com/love-is-in-the-air-sale/ How Do You Write Podcast: rachaelherron.com/category/podcast/ Why Queer Romance Matters Panel deets: www.facebook.com/events/591982348319759/ Please share your thoughts about sex in books. Head over to www.lesbianswhowrite.com, and leave a comment on the episode. Or you can email them at: lesbianswhowrite@gmail.com. Stop back next week for the much-requested discussion about mailing lists. Happy listening, and thanks for all of your support. Here’s to the next 50 episodes! Clare and TB

This has been a hellish week for TB, involving penning a new Lizzie book and proofing a different Lizzie audiobook. She’s halfway through the first draft, and her editing deadline is getting closer, which means the freak-out stage will hit TB soon. TB has been in launch mode since July and is looking forward to slowing down some to enjoy the holiday season. Recently, she walked in her characters’ footsteps and visited Mount Auburn Cemetery. The Christmas movie channel has started, and Clare may not write any new words until 2020. But she just released Made in London, so make sure you grab your copy. She recently attended an event and heard Nick Hornby explain how he ended up writing the screenplay for Wild. On the work front, Clare tried a workaround to electronically sign contracts, but it epically failed. Also, she had to go to the cinema twice, and it’s one of her least favorite activities. Poor Clare. During the comment section, a question by a lesfic author spurred the duo to chat about spicy sex scenes in their stories. The two move on to the main topic: How do you read, and can you be a good writer without reading? TB shares her favorite methods of reading, which include audiobooks and paperbacks. Due to migraines and insomnia, she’s worked out a reading routine that eases both issues. Clare’s reading habit started from an early age thanks to her parents. Both agree that writers need to read to be better writers. Back when she was 18, TB heard an author say writers shouldn’t read, and it broke TB’s reading heart. She swore she’d never be a writer if that was the case. Luckily, it wasn’t. As Clare says, many writers worry about story elements seeping into their own, but reading is a crucial way to expand a writer’s experiences and makes them better storytellers. Made in London: www.clarelydon.co.uk/books/made-in-london/ TB’s Mount Auburn blog post:  lesbianromancesbytbm.com/2019/10/09/is-it-weird-that-cemeteries-inspire-me/ Stop back next week for an entertaining conversation about writing tools the duo couldn’t live without. If you’d like to leave a comment on the episode, head over to www.lesbianswhowrite.com. They’d love to hear from you. Or you can email them at: lesbianswhowrite@gmail.com. Happy listening! Clare and TB

Psychiatrist Dr Roelof Joe Stammeijer has a coffee and a chat with his mum, Flute professor, soloist, author and rather fine golfer Clare Southworth-Stammeijer on the subject of stress and mental health for the musician.  As the surname suggests, Dr Stammeijer is Clare's son, and also was a flute player himself so is fully aware of the day-to-day inner struggles that musicians face. As Clare says at the end of the podcast, never suffer in silence.  Everybody has good days and days when they do not feel as good. This is natural, however if you find the regularity of the low days increasing, and you are beginning to feel extremely low, then if you can't emerge from the clouds, seek help from your local doctor.  Thankfully in 2019, it is not a sign of weakness to accept that at times we are stressed, extremely low and may have some deep inner issues.  It's a sign of weakness when you don't seek help! Talking Flutes Extra podcast returns next week with an interview with Hollywood film flute player, social media influencer and founder of the 'Glow With Music' project Gina Luciani. Talking Flutes and Talking Flutes Extra are podcast productions by the Trevor James flute Company.  For more information visit www.trevorjamesflutes.com       

Is Passive House necessary in Australia? This is a question many ask, because they believe our climate is too mild to necessitate the Passive House approach. Yet, Clare Parry disagrees. She is a Director and Principal at Grun Consulting, and is a Certified Passive House Certifier and Trainer. Clare was also one of the founding members of the Australian Passive House Association. Its vision is to lead change by educating, promoting, and supporting the delivery of Certified Passive House buildings in Australia. Clare is the Certifier for the Owl Woods Passive House project - so it’ll be her job to provide the tick of approval that everyone else has done their jobs, and the home can actually be certified as a Passive House. Clare however, fulfills many roles when it comes to sustainable design in Australia, and whenever I researched or talked about Passive House - it was Clare Parry’s name that came up. I’m really excited you’re going to meet her through this episode, and hear about her experience with Passive House, and really helping it get traction in Australia. SHOW NOTES: Meet Clare Parry from Grun Consulting. Clare has had a lifelong interest in best practice building design, involving a holistic approach to achieve sustainable measures and provide a better option in the longer term, both for the client & the environment. Her focus is on building performance, and she works extensively with the Passivhaus standard. Her work as a sustainability consultant and mechanical engineer has involved experience as a Certified Passivhaus Designer, Trainer and Building Certifier, LEED AP, Green Star AP, WELL AP, NABERS and CBD Assessor. In 2011 Clare founded the Australian Passive House Association and has been involved as a Director until late 2017. She is one of the first Certified Passivhaus Designers in Australia, and one of only two Passivhaus Certifiers. She is a certified Passivhaus trainer as well and you can often see her speak at national and international conferences. Clare is a Director and Principal at Grün Consulting. Grün specialises in delivering high performance buildings. They deliver all aspects of Environmentally Sustainable Design consulting, specialising in Passive House (Passivhaus) from design through to certification. They are advocates for Passivhaus, for Net Zero, and experts in town planning, multiple rating tools including LEED, Green Star and the Living Building Challenge, and energy ratings including Carbon Neutral, NABERS & CBD. In this episode, I ask Clare ... What made you become interested in Passive House? You've worked for some time  (and continue to work) as a sustainability consultant in a range of accreditation systems like LEED, Greenstar, WELL, etc. How does Passive House sit in relation to this? You founded the Australian Passive House Association (APHA) in 2011. What compelled you to do that? What's the APHA's role? You are performing the role of Building Certifier on the Owl Woods Passive House project. Can you describe what's involved in that? I read an article of yours on Linkedin ... where you spoke about industry talking about the difficulty of getting the consumer engaged in the idea of sustainability. You said "The issue is not actually about engagement. That implies that people are choosing alternatives when the options are on the table, but the truth is they really have no idea what’s possible." And then you spoke about our responsibility to educate - which is what Undercover Architect is all about. How would you like to see homeowners going about really moving the needle on Passive House and its adoption in Australia? What would you tell them to do to feel more confident to pursue this for their projects when opposition might be budget, or it being too hard, etc? As Clare mentioned, the Australian Passive House Association is an incredibly useful resource for you if you’re wanting to embark on the Passive House journey, so check out the show notes for a link to find them. A word of warning though … I’m finding that the more people I speak to about Passive House, I find they started their journey with an interest, and go so passionate about it, they’ve gone onto be certified! Not only professionals but homeowners as well! Who knows what learning and opportunity the Passive House journey might open for you hey? Listen to the episode now. This episode is brought to you by my online course “How to Get it Right in Your Reno or New Home”. This is a superfast course that will help you get ready for your renovation or building project in the best way possible. 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Entrepreneurs Clare Cook and Dr. Robert Autin Collaborate to Enhance Cultural Landscape of Lafayette  Friends since Pre-K, the husband and wife team of Clare Cook and Dr. Robert Autin provide an inspirational take on how a deep passion for arts and science can positively impact a community. In this podcast interview with Jan Swift, host of Discover Lafayette, this highly-disciplined couple share their captivating journey which eventually brought them back to their beloved hometown, Lafayette LA. Robert Autin always wanted to be a doctor and assumed he would follow in the steps of his late father, Dr. David Autin, who was a urologist. Instead, Robert followed a more arduous path of specializing in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, along with General Surgery. He ended up at New York Methodist in Brooklyn NY for a five year residency in surgery. Clare Cook, Robert's lifelong friend, was also successfully pursuing a career path as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, after receiving her Master of Fine Arts from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2011, she launched Clare Cook Dance Theater and produced multidisciplinary dance theater projects and educational workshops to nurture youth creativity. Most noteworthy, Clare had the opportunity to work with Susan Stroman, a Tony winning choreographer, working on Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway. Her career was definitely on an upward trajectory. While Clare and Robert had dated in college, both had moved on as they pursued higher education. Year passed, and both ended up in New York where they reconnected. Married in February 2014, they returned home to Lafayette when Robert joined the medical practice of Drs. Philip Gachassin and Dennis Eschete. As Clare wound up commitments with her work in New York, she pondered how she could positively add to the local arts community in Lafayette. The result was the establishment of Basin Arts, located at 113 Clinton St. in downtown Lafayette, which offers dance and art classes, free visual arts programming, and genre-bending special events. Basin Arts is also the home to a professional company-in-residence, Basin Dance Collective, and the newly established art rental program, BARE Walls, which establishes relationships between local artists and businesses and provides residual income to artists every time their work is displayed. The name Basin Arts was coined by Robert, and refers to "a collective that allows things to pass through." As its website states and Clare affirms, "Basin Arts is a container for creativity that supports and implements cross-disciplinary collaboration, allowing Lafayette’s creative class to come together, share, experiment, and focus on process over product." For more information, please visit https://basinartslafayette.com. Clare is also involved as a teacher in the community and she developed a curriculum, Movement & Mindfulness, for a year-long teaching residency at Myrtle Place Elementary School. She has led dance classes at Miles Perret Cancer Services for cancer survivors, worked with the elderly population at The Blake, and designed movement workshops with Acadiana C.A.R.E.S., Big Brothers-Big Sisters, AOC Community Media and GEAR Up through the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Clare is not the only artist in the family. Robert is owner of Acadian Superette located at 600 Lamar Street in the Freetown neighborhood of Lafayette. A local favorite for hearty meals, the restaurant is beloved for its home smoked meats, homemade bacon, and good old fashioned plate lunches. Robert is a hands-on owner: he personally brines and smokes the meats and drives (at times) to the Eunice Superette where he sources the meats. He built the Superette's smokehouse. To get a feel for how much he enjoys cooking, check out a few of Robert's videos on Acadian Superette's Facebook page where he illustrates how he makes boudin, BLT and Reuben sandwiches, and tempts you with his smoked pancetta,

Navigating #MeToo. With Food Women. Welcome to a very special episode, the premiere of a new segment on the podcast I like to call the Edacious Round Table. Instead of learning one person's journey, area Food Folks discuss a topic. First up? Harassment and discrimination in Food Work with co-hosts Arley Arrington and Clare Terni. How has it affected Charlottesville? What can we do to change things? We dive in. Arley Arrington works at Whisk in Richmond. Previously, she lived and worked in Charlottesville as a server in various restaurants and as a baker at Brookville. She's also done catering for The Space and owns her baking business, Arley Cakes. She is a past podcast guest and her lemon raspberry birthday cake won a 2017 Edacious Golden Fork Award. Clare Terni has lived in Charlottesville for 20 years and has worked on and off in food since she was sixteen, mostly catering and working in restaurants. She currently teaches Anthropology at JMU and works as both a server and manager for The Whiskey Jar, as well as creating social media for Ten Course Hospitality. As Clare states so well during our conversation, gender roles are changing slowly. They are broader than they once were, but limitations still exist. Many back-of-house employees are men while front-of-house are mostly women. If women are in the back, they're often relegated to salads or pastries. How do we change that? Certainly not with one conversation. But maybe by talking about it, we get other people talking, writing, discussing, disagreeing, and finally, making necessary changes. Maybe we do that. There's a lot to discuss. The way women accept the self-destructive behavior, yelling, and machismo in the food industry because it's what we've always expected. The way smiling or not is seen by turns as a sexual invitation or a BITCH label. The way Mansplaining, inappropriate comments, inappropriate touching, subtle and not so subtle digs at our gender are disguised as jokes. We cover it all. Are women more motivated to start their own businesses because they want to create a better environment? What about the roadblocks they face when they do? What about race? When you're a woman of color in the South who owns a business, how does that affect EVERYTHING? How did Donald Glover's Atlanta fit into our conversation? How does Charlottesville and its current dynamic fit into this discussion? We spend a great deal of time and get very vulnerable and real on this topic. Which was scary as heck for this Southern white woman. And awesome and wonderful and it makes me proud to know these amazing women. Is building a loyal staff who stay for years the answer? Building trust among your employees? A dedicated human resource department? What about small operations who can't afford that? What about a server who might smile a bit more because it means the difference between $200 in tips and $500? Is crying on the job okay? What about women chefs who insist gender makes no difference? When you're the boss it's important to model the behavior you want your employees to exhibit. In my opinion, it can affect the ambiance, even the food. Not only the culture of your kitchen but the culture of your restaurant. We are not health professionals. Just three women who do the Work of  Food and have stories and opinions. If you feel you've experienced harassment on the job or in any aspect of your life, please reach out to someone. Tell them about it. Heck, reach out to me and tell me about it. I'm not sure who or where to direct you, but I promise if you reach out? I'll find out. You are not alone in this. Relistening to this episode helped me understand how very much I don't know. How blessed I am because of my privilege. There's still so much to learn. I'm not woke but I am aware and I look forward to any education I experience every day of my life. I didn't edit this down. It's very long. It's very important. So I hope you'll give it a listen. There is so much here. Thank you to these ladies who had the courage to get vulnerable and tell their stories. I hope by doing so we can shed some light on the very real issue that is occurring daily here and all over the world. Maybe by talking about it awareness will rise and eventually we'll have other issues to tackle around a table because this one will be nonexistent. In the meantime, tell me what you think. Cheers. SHOW NOTES – Links to resources talked about during the podcast: Why Food Writing Matters! - I'm teaching a course as part of the Tom Tom Founder's Festival! Come be a part of the fun! Tuesday, April 10th from 7-9pm at The Pie Chest. We'll talk food writing, do some fun creative exercises, give away huge amounts of food writing books, and eat pie. Lots and lots of pie. Don't miss this chance to GET EDACIOUS! Crowdfunded Pitch Night! - Come see me pitch as part of the Tom Tom Founder's Festival! Wednesday, April 11th from 7-9pm at The Jefferson Theater, 9 local folks and I will have 3 minutes to pitch our business for a chance to win $5K! The audience selects the winner. So come on out and GET EDACIOUS! Goat Snuggling - Every Saturday through Mother's Day, Caromont Farm will be snuggling goats and passing the hat as part of their DACA initiative to make sure their employees are safe. Come participate in this important community effort. Subscribe to This Podcast. Stay Edacious! - Come on, after this episode? You know you want to. Subscribers get new episodes instantly, while non-subscribers have to wait a few hours or days depending on the iTunes gods. Never miss a chance to be edacious! Subscribe to Edacious News - Never miss a food event in our area! Learn about regional and national food stories so you can stay edacious! 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As Clare has spoken, there is a place in My heart that remains void until you give yourself to Me. Just so, there is a God-shaped place within you that will never be satisfied any other way than to be united to Me. I am telling you this because I have poured out My Spirit upon the earth in a most salutary move to bring you closely united into My Heart. I have put a hunger and thirst in My People because I long to be united with them and complete the works My Father has sent Me into the world to do. Search our messages at: http://search.stillsmallvoicetriage.org/index.php http://www.stillsmallvoicetriage.org/TRIAGE FOR TRUTH SEEKERShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/still-small-voice/id1025396536 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/615941http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Bride-Clare-Dubois-ebook/dp/B01BU3W0M6 A PDF of this message is available at: http://www.heartdwellers.org/all-pdf-files.html TO DOWNLOAD: just download 'clip grab' http://clipgrab.org/a free program on the net, copy the address from the browser, and paste it in clip grabs address bar, click on save as mp3, music, or mp4 video, then click on 'grab this clip' and it will be downloaded. Designate a place for it to go so you can find it easily. DONATE HERE: http://www.heartdwellers.org/donate-1.html or by mail: Clare du Bois, P.O. Box 1113, Taos, New Mexico, 87571 We are a full-time ministry and appreciate the kind and generous hearts that are able to contribute to our ministry. May the Lord bless you a hundred fold, both now and in the age to come. You can't out-give the Lord! May He enfold you in His Loving Arms. You can buy a hard copy of Chronicles of the Bride on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Bride-Clare-Du-Bois/dp/0615363644 or free download on our website As well as Love Letters To My Bride, 1, 2, 3 and The Rapture WAS RealPLEASE USE OUR MANY PAGES OF PLAYLISTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS https://www.youtube.com/user/claredubois/playlistsDear Family, We now have a blog just for you to post your experiences and read about others who are coming into intimate relationship with Jesus. We'd love to hear about Him touching you at prayer time, or visions you have had with Him, going to Heaven, etc. Love you all so very dearly...you are such a consolation to Ezekiel and I. Clare https://heartdwellingwithjesus.wordpress.com/category/breakthroughs-with-jesus-breakth

Clare Balding joins Team Zulu, a group of walkers, led by Tarquin Shaw- Young, who prepare for long distance charity walks by training on the majestic Malvern hills. Tarquin became obsessed by the 1964 epic war film, depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift, as a small child and now uses Zulu as the motif for bringing friends and family together to embark, each year, on completing the Worcestershire Way. As Clare marches across the hills with the group she talks to Tarquin's wife, Kelly about what it means to be married to a man who turned up at their wedding in a pith helmet. Producer Lucy Lunt.

In this series of Ramblings Clare Balding is going on wildlife walks around the UK. Today she is in Richmond Park in London with internationally renowned sculptor and artist Nicola Hicks M.B.E. Nicola's work focuses on animals sculpted in straw and clay and drawn on huge sheets of paper. Dynamic and distinctive, it has gained wide critical and public acclaim. Her statues of a dog in Battersea Park and a giant beetle in Bristol have become local landmarks. Twenty years ago, Hicks grew tired of the pressures of the London art scene and decided to make her artistic love of wildlife a reality. She decided to move her growing family to Cumbria and become a sheep farmer. It was steep learning curve with many joys and setbacks. As Clare and Nicola explore the surprisingly rich wildlife habitats of Richmond Park, she discusses her acclaimed artwork, her deep love of British countryside and wildlife and the highs and lows of adapting to rural living. Having just taken the decision to sell the farm and the rolling hills to return to London for good, Nicola shares with Clare her excitement and sadness at the transition. Can you really find walking and wildlife satisfaction in London? Nicola shows Clare how, she passionately believes, you can find natural beauty, insects and animals as rich and diverse as that in the countryside. Producer: Lucy Dichmont.

Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.Through the centuries, immigrants have had to literally fight for recognition in Britain and that means with their fists. As Clare continues to explore how sport made Britain and Britain made sport, she visits the Lynn Boxing Club in South London.Founded in 1892, it's the oldest continuing amateur boxing club in the country. It was around the time that bare knuckle boxing was starting to decline and amateur boxing, with gloves, took over. As Professor Tony Collins from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University explains, the history of Boxing is intertwined with the history of black immigrants and the struggle of Jewish sportsmen to find acceptance. Readers, Brian Bowles and Stuart McLoughlin Producer: Garth Brameld. Producer Lucy Lunt,Sara Conkey,Garth Brameld.