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In this episode we have some (now normal) lenghty banter and answer a listener's question about how they can get over a funk they've been in. Our deck of the episode is Esther twisting Holly's arm to FINALLY purchase the Fyodor Pavlov Tarot by Fyodor Pavlov!  Our book, The History of Tarot Art: Demystifying the Art and Arcana, Deck by Deck, is available now! Please leave an Amazon review to help with the algorithm! Do you love Holly and Esther, Existential Dread, and Bed? Then you'll love our face on everything! We got mugs, totes, phone cases, and even a tarot certification! You can find our merch here! Interact with us between episodes and join our Wildy Tarot Patreon , Facebook Group and Discord Server! You can follow us on Instagram, and while you're there you can also follow Holly and Esther.   

Prokrastination - hinter dem sperrigen Wort steckt etwas, was vielen von uns bekannt vorkommt. Sei es die Abschlussarbeit, der Frühjahrsputz oder das Training im Fitnessstudio: Sich stattdessen mit dem Handy in der Hand nur kurz auf die Couch fallen zu lassen, fällt einem viel leichter. Doch die Deadline der Abgabe, der ansammelnde Staub auf den Regalen und das körperliche Bedürfnis nach Bewegung verschwinden dadurch nicht, sondern bauen immer mehr Druck auf, je länger man die Aufgaben vor sich herschiebt. Doch was sind die wahren Gründe hinter der 'Schieberitis'? Und was können wir tun, um unseren eigenen Hang zur Prokrastination zu bekämpfen? Steffi und Lukas geben praktische Beispiele an die Hand und berichten auch von eigenen Erfahrungen. +++ So bin ich eben hört ihr kostenfrei bei RTL+ Musik. Alle Folgen sind auch auf allen anderen Plattformen verfügbar.+++ Zum Podcast gibt es nun auch einen Blog, auf dem ihr alle Infos und Themen der beliebtesten Folgen jederzeit nachlesen und vertiefen könnt. Schaut gern vorbei auf https://sobinichebenblog.de/+++ Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

A straight man detests condoms with all his heart. Even the thought of putting on one of those rubbers makes him deflate like the ears on a 2-day-old balloon rabbit. Is this a fetish of some kind? It prevents him from having sex and it's bumming him out.  There seems to be a fair bit of confusion about silicone sex toys and lube. Can silicone lube harm silicone sex toys? Or do they love each other so much? Dan hops on the phone with Searah Deysach from Chicago's Early to Bed sex toy store, to set the record straight.  On the Magnum, things get heavy with a slew of questions concerning sexual abuse and trauma. Consider yourself trigger-warned. Dan brings on Dr. Leila Wood, a researcher and social worker at Austin's Center for Sexual Violence Prevention. They talk about how to support a friend in an abusive relationship, the difficulty partners can have in playing the “villain” in erotic contexts and how kinky sex can be profoundly healing.  Finally, why all the hate for Mother's Day? Can't we all just get along?  Q@Savage.Love     206-302-2064 Foria Wellness Foria is an all natural health & sexual wellness company with product lines using the power of plant actives & CBD to effectively enhance intimacy, sexual pleasure, daily wellbeing, and relief from discomfort. Get 20% off your first order by visiting ForiaWellness.com/Savage Helix Sleep This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep-the best mattress for your individualized comfort. Right now, get 20% off ALL mattress orders at HelixSleep.com/SAVAGE. Talkspace This episode is brought to you by Talkspace- online therapy that makes it easy to get extra mental health support. For $100 off your first month, go to Talkspace.com and use the offer code Savage.

From Nick Roberts, the best-selling author of The Exorcist's House and Anathema, comes fifteen dark tales that are as horrific as they are moving.“Come for the horror, stay for the heartbreaking emotion that bleeds into every page. Roberts really shows his range here, and it's obvious early on in these stories that they will stick with you long after reading them. It Haunts The Mind is that damn good.”—John Durgin, author of The Cursed Among Us and Inside The Devil's Nest.Witness absolute evil in “Sally Under the Bed” and “It Haunts the Mind.” Endure vengeance and violence in “The Noose” and “The Bitter End.” Face the realities of addiction and grief in “Thanks for Sharing” and “The Weeping Wind.” Survive otherworldly monsters in “The Paperboy” and “Voodoo Bay.”In balancing the terrors of the supernatural with the horrors of real life, this collection drags you down the dark alleys of a haunted mind, forcing you to confront your demons, both real and imaginary.“Nick Roberts has an uncanny ability to scare the bejesus out of readers. With It Haunts the Mind & Other Stories, he does it time and time again. Highly recommended if you don't want to sleep in the dark again.”—James Aquilone, Bram Stoker Award nominated editor and writer of Classic Monsters Unleashed, Shakespeare Unleashed, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker - 50th AnniversaryThis horror fiction book is perfect for fans of horror short stories, short story anthologies, horror collections, U.S. Horror fiction, ghost fiction, suspense horror, stories about substance abuse, possession, and coming of age horror.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TUESDAY HR 3 Russ Rollins kicks the idea of running a Bed & Breakfast. Russ Bread & Breakfast guy? Angel going out of town for birthday

Yasmina, sometimes known as 'The English Rose of Cairo', has over twenty-five years of experience in the field of Egyptian oriental dance. Originally from the UK she spent many years travelling and dancing her way around the Middle East before settling in Cairo in 1995. Here she performed with her orchestra for eight consecutive years, appearing at major Cairo venues such as Meridien Heliopolis, Safir, Pyramisa and the Semiramis Intercontinental hotels, the Nile Maxime, Tivoli Heliopolis, as well as hundreds of weddings and parties in Cairo and around Egypt. She has also worked extensively as a photo-journalist in Cairo and writes regularly for several Egyptian and foreign publications. Based at her home beside the Giza pyramids she is the coordinator and co-host for several international belly dance tours each year, and provides back-up to both groups and individuals in their adventures in Egypt.In this episode you will learn about:- Differences between dance contracts in Gulf area and work in Cairo- Yasmina's decision to stop active performance career, but still be based in Egypt- The evolution of Cairo dance scene since 1995 till now- Where can you do belly dance photoshoots in Cairo- Yasmina's unique Bed & Breakfast accommodations for dancers.Show Notes to this episode:Find Yasmina of Cairo on Instagram, Facebook, and website. Classes and tours with Yasmina via bellydance-now.com. For details regarding Yasmina's Belly Dancers B&B email to yasmina@yasminaofcairo.com.Details and training materials for the BDE castings are available at www.JoinBDE.comFollow Iana on Instagram, FB, and Youtube . Check out her online classes and intensives at the Iana Dance Club.Find information on how you can support Ukraine and Ukrainian belly dancers HERE.Podcast: www.ianadance.com/podcast

TUESDAY HR 5 K.O.D. - Jumping in with both feet with Apples new VR goggles. He wants them!! Finding Russ a Bed & Breakfast Sims game. Workout friends. Junk in the face guys. Monster Messages & Hot Takes Fat guy t-shirts

Follow along with message notes at https://www.westsidecommunitychurch.com/notes-resourcesJoin us as Gabe Kolstad brings us a sermon about A Reason to Get Out of Bed.#getup #driveformore #reasontogetup #getoutofbed #exciting #ministry #mission #whatsholdingmeback #obstacles #spiritualgifts #sermon #worship #westside #church #2023sermon #churchonline #gabekolstad

Director Rob Savage (Host) joins us to chat about his latest horror feature 'The Boogeyman'.He sits down with Giles Alderson and Dom Lenoir to discuss how he made the leap to studio movie and creating horror scares.They also discuss:How to shoot scare ad big horror scenes.Pitching, how he got in the room and what to do when in there.Casting incredible actors.Lighting and the 'Moon Ball'.How a light-saber and Disney helped create a defining image.Any why major issues and mistakes can lead to brilliant creativity.The Boogeyman in OUT in cinemas NOW!VOTEThe Stranger in our Bed for Best Thriller at the National Film Awards hereWATCH Breaking Infinity on it's cinema tour herePATREONBig thank you to:Serena GardnerMark HammettLee HutchingsMarli J MonroeKaren NewmanWant your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making?Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides and feedback on your film projects!SUPPORT THE PODCASTCheck out our full episode archive at TheFilmmakersPodcast.comCREDITSThe Filmmakers Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and written by Giles Alderson @gilesaldersonSocial Media by Kalli Pasqualucci @kallieepMarketing Huw SiddleLogo and Banner Art by Lois Creative Theme Music by John J. HarveyMusic supplied by – Music Bed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Police: Man accidentally shoots himself while illegally buying gun, Bed bugs decide to take up residence in terminal 2 at the Honolulu airport, Las Vegas strip club offers Golden Knight's 'free lap dances for life' if they will Cup, Prison escapee caught after showing up on a bike at McDonald's drive-thru and trying to order off dollar menu

Herzlich Willkommen bei unserem neuen Format! Alle zwei Wochen heißt es ab jetzt: Hose runter! In diesen Im Namen der Hose-Folgen beantworten wir eure Fragen, kurz und knackig. Diesmal geht es um die Frage: Warum haben wir das Bedürfnis, uns bei dem oder der Ex zu melden - obwohl die Beziehung schon länger vorbei ist? Manchmal sogar, wenn wir schon in einer neuen glücklichen Beziehung sind. Darüber haben wir mit der Psychologin Stefanie Winke gesprochen und sie hat uns erklärt, was der Grund dahinter ist und was wir machen können, wenn wir merken: Das tut mir nicht gut.

Einem Kind fällt es offenbar wirklich so schwer, sich an die kleinsten Regeln zu halten, dass es sich in Gefahr bringt, ein anderes findet einfach keinen Zugang zu anderen Kindern und nicht ins Spiel. Stattdessen fegt es wie ein Hurricane durchs Wohnzimmer und leert ohne ersichtliches Ziel alle Schränke aus. Diese Folge zeigt: nicht immer sagen Julia und Elke: "Passt schon, wird schon." In diesen beiden Fällen sagen beide: Es ist gut, sich externe Hilfe zu holen und zu schauen: Was hat das Kind und was braucht es? Sowieso kann dieser Podcast keine individuelle Beratung ersetzen und hier scheint sie umso mehr angebracht: einfach, weil es alles leichter macht, nicht weil das nicht machbar wäre, auch ein Kind mit besonderen Bedürfnissen und Bedarfen glücklich groß zu kriegen.ZIZAT: " Manchmal brauchen wir Eltern (und auch die Kinder) individuelle, professionelle Hilfe - das ist keine Schande, sondern ein Geschenk. So wie eine Brille, damit man besser sieht."OOODER Ihr hört mal in Julias zweiten tollen Podcast rein: MENO AN MICH. Frauen mitten im Leben - die die denken: betrifft mich ja noch nicht, sollten erst recht mal reinhören ;-)+++++++++++++++++Infos zur Folge:Anlaufstellen:Sozialpädiatrische Zentren, Frühförderstellen, Ergotherapeuten, Physiotherapeuten, ErziehungsberatungsstellenBitte informieren Sie sich vor Ort nach den angegebenen Schlagwörtern!+++++++++++++++++Lob, Tadel oder Themenvorschläge und Fragen zu den Themen Partnerschaft sowie Erziehung? Schreibt Julia eine persönliche Mail an podcast@eltern.de oder wendet euch an unseren Instagram-Account @elternmagazin. Und bewertet oder abonniert unseren Podcast gerne auch auf iTunes, Spotify, Deezer oder Audio Now.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.htmlUnsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tisyera and host Chris Holmes to talk about her most recent novel, Our Share of Night, her first to be translated into English. Our Share of Night follows a spiritual medium, Juan, who can commune with the dead and with the world of demons, and his son, Gaspar, as they go on a road trip to outrun a secretive occult society called The Order that hopes to use Juan and Gaspar in their unholy quest for immortality.  Publishers Weekly called it “A masterpiece of literary horror.” In a wide-ranging conversation, Mariana reflects on being a horror writer in Argentina, a country that obsesses over its traumatic past. Indeed, Mariana's interest in writing fiction in the horror genre was prompted by hearing her first horror stories, the terrors of torture and disappearances under the Argentine Junta government. The three discuss Mariana's use of violence, especially when it involves children; the various afterlives of the translations of Mariana's award-winning fiction; and the arborescence of the novel form. Humor and dry wit cut through these weighty topics to make for a lively conversation with one of Latin America's most important contemporary writers. Mentions:  Silvina Ocampo Mariana Enriquez,  La Hermana Menor -The Things We Lost in the Fire -The Dirty Kid Ray Bradbury, The October Country José Donoso Juan Carlos Onetti Ernesto Sabato Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Ingmar Bergman, The Hour of the Wolf A Nightmare on Elm Street (film) Titane (film) Pope John Paul II The Oulipo Movement Aleister Crowley Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Join me tonight on The Missing Peace with Trish Mo and Fellow UPRN Host of The Ange Rock & The Thing At The Foot of the Bed. Lorilei Potvin a Canadian Clairvoyant Medium, Crystal Reiki Master/Energy Healer, Akashic Records Practitioner, Medical Intuitive, Spiritual Teacher/Mentor, Internet Radio Host/Podcaster, Humanitarian Activist & Registered Nurse. She is also very knowledgeable about The Paranormal, having lived in an extremely haunted Home for 11 + years. Lorilei has shared her story on The Travel Channel's “Paranormal Survivor”, in Season 4, Episode 9, called “Demonic Hauntings”(here's a link to the Episode: https://youtu.be/OkoOcAL-Feg Lorilei's 2 shows are “The Angel Rock” on Mondays from 6pm-8pm EST & she co-hosts “The Thing At The Foot Of The Bed”; on Thursday Nights , 7pm-9pm EST, with David Hanzel; both shows are on United Public Radio Network or UPRN, out of New Orleans, Louisiana. Both shows can be seen LIVE-STREAMED from My YouTube channel below, as well as Our Network YouTube channels, Facebook Page & anywhere podcasts &/or Talk Radio is carried. My Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelRock My YouTube channel: https://www.YouTube.com/c/TheAngelRockWithLorileiPotvin

In this insightful panel conversation we examine the impossible and shame-based standards the fitness industry sets and how this impacts our sex lives. A co-production with Comfy Fitness. In this episode:Comfy Fitness--online fitness studio Kira Macoun - Comfy Fitness founderCarrie Drapac - Comfy Fitness founderCaitlin V - sex coach  Tazima Parris - Sex coach and pleasure mentorJoJo Bear - somatic sex and intimacy coach Get tix to our Chicago June 15, 2023 show and podcast recording!Help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity! Leave a tip for our work OR join our monthly Patreon members' club!Are you looking for…?A Wild & Sublime gift--Check out our tees and accessories!Episodes on specific topicsBooks on sex and relationships -- Our affiliate, Bookshop, helps indy book stores and W&S when you purchase from them!Want to rev up your relationship? Host Karen Yates, a somatic intimacy coach, gives you easy tools to put into practice right away with her free guide: Say It Better in Bed! 3 Proven Ways to Improve Intimate Communication. Download today! Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showFollow Wild & Sublime on Instagram and Facebook!

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Most people know Susan Feldman as the co-founder of One Kings Lane, a go-to destination for home and interior design shopping for millions of people… but her current passion is to shine a light on age defying women! Get In The Groove is a community that celebrates and engages women as the evolving and relevant women they are. They're on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations. And Susan is the perfect example. Susan became an entrepreneur at the age of 53. Susan and I talk about her intuitive career journey, her new exciting venture and what it takes to be IN THE GROOVE after 50! Are you in the 4%? Take Liz's FREE Limiting Beliefs Quiz and find out what's holding you back! www.lizsvatek.com/quiz Be a Podcast Launch VIP! Get your Podcast up and running in 1 week! Schedule a call to learn more: https://calendly.com/lizsvatek/whiteglovelaunch-session Connect with Susan: Website: www.getinthegroove.com https://getinthegroove.com/newsletter-sign-up/ Instagram: instagram @getinthegroove1 Guest Bio: Susan Feldman is the founder of In The Groove, a new life-style destination for age-defying women. In The Groove is a community that celebrates and engages these women as the evolving and relevant women they are. Founded with a sense of humor, community, and self-awareness, In The Groove is on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations. Prior to In The Groove, Susan was the co-founder and visionary behind One Kings Lane, the go-to destination for home decor. One Kings Lane launched in March 2009 and an industry was disrupted. Today One Kings Lane is a daily source of shopping and design inspiration for millions of people both online and offline One Kings Lane was sold to Bed, Bath & Beyond (Nasdaq: BBBY) in June 2016. Susan remains a strategic advisor to the company. Susan has been featured in national publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, INStyle, New York Magazine, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators and NBC's The Today Show. Susan was named to Vanity Fair's “New Establishment” list twice in the past six years. Prior to co-founding One Kings Lane, Susan held executive positions in the apparel industry—at Ralph Lauren Swimwear, Polo Jeans, Warnaco/Authentic Fitness Corp., and Liz Claiborne. Susan has an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and a BA from Stanford University. Since 2013 Susan has served on the Parson Board of Governors.

Congress races to pass debt ceiling bill ahead of Monday deadline. Paying to work. DeSantis kicks off presidential campaign in Iowa as he steps up criticism of Trump. Bed rotting. The case for a third political party. Horrific video shows nearly 40 teens viciously attacking off-duty Marines on California beach. Drones strike Moscow in first attack on Russian capital's residential areas since Ukraine war began. Kevin McCarthy threatens FBI director Chris Wray with contempt charges. The trouble with "woke" corporations. Weighing passengers before boarding a flight.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/2979118/advertisement

Starring strong female characters in rich, captivating, historical settings, we can't wait for you to dive into these two new novels we love. Our June B&N Book Club Pick is Good Night, Irene by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea. Inspired by the life of his mother, this is the story of the bravery of women on the frontlines of WWII. Urrea joins us to discuss connecting his writing to his own family, what surprised him as he wrote and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.  Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig is our June Discover Pick, full of pirates, adventure and intrigue as one woman becomes a queen of the high seas in early 19th century China. Chang-Eppig talks with us about erasure of female stories, morally grey characters, and more with Poured Over guest host, Jenna Seery. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Madyson and Jamie.   This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.         New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.      Featured Books (Episode): Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry   Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez Piranesi by Susanna Clarke    Featured Books (TBR Topoff): The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

Always believe in yourself and trust your gut.Today's featured award-winning author is a wife, grandmother, storyteller, and thinker, Patti Lee. Patti and I had a fun chat about her books, her writing style that helps her to finish books, and more!! Key Things You'll Learn:How Patti became a writerHow Patti deals with writers blockWhy it's good to be part of a writing groupWhat helped her to get the confidence to keep writing Patti's Site: https://www.pattileewriter.com/Pattie's Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0953ZD28F/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=40ffdb8f-15f1-4e3a-8bbf-561a6bca7e16&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr The opening track is titled “Check It Out” by Mountaineer from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/check-it-outLicense code: AR6DFPGVXQ9Q1SSY Please support today's podcast to keep this content coming! CashApp: $DomBrightmonDonate on PayPal: @DBrightmonBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dombrightmonGet Going North T-Shirts, Stickers, and More: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dom-brightmon You May Also Like… Ep. 311 – “Works of Urban Mythopoeia” with Cat Rambo (@Catrambo): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-311-works-of-urban-mythopoeia-with-cat-rambo-catrambo/ #Bonus Ep. – “From Prizewinning Dystopian Thrillers to Prizewinning Historical Fiction” with Alice McVeigh (@astmcveigh1): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/bonus-ep-from-prizewinning-dystopian-thrillers-to-prizewinning-historical-fiction-with-alice-mcveigh-astmcveigh1/ #Bonus Ep. – “Random Acts of Awesome Historical Fiction” with J. Lynn Else (@JLynnElseAuthor): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/bonus-ep-random-acts-of-awesome-historical-fiction-with-j-lynn-else-jlynnelseauthor/ Ep. 530 – “Nurse Turned Award-Winning Author” with Helen Starbuck (@HelenSStarbuck): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-530-nurse-turned-award-winning-author-with-helen-starbuck-helensstarbuck/ Ep. 531 – “Where the Stork Flies” with Linda Wisniewski (@Lindawis): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-531-where-the-stork-flies-with-linda-wisniewski-lindawis/ #Holiday Bonus Ep. – “Bird of Paradise” with Emily Johnson (@elhughes01): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/holiday-bonus-ep-bird-of-paradise-with-emily-johnson-elhughes01/ Ep. 397 – “Make Your Own Break” with Jennifer Lieberman (@iamjenlieberman): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-397-make-your-own-break/ Ep. 382 – “Coming Out as Yourself” with Stephanie Lavigne (@stephlavigne): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-382-coming-out/ Ep. 664 – “The Power of Thought” with Lynn McLaughlin, MEd, BEd, BA (@lynnmcla): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-664-the-power-of-thought-with-lynn-mclaughlin-med-bed-ba-lynnmcla/ Ep. 363 – “The Nowhere Pack” with VK Tritschler (@vktritschler): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-363-the-nowhere-pack-with-vk-tritschler-vktritschler/ Ep. 351 – “The Gift Legacy” with JP McLean (@jpmcleanauthor): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-351-the-gift-legacy-with-jp-mclean-jpmcleanauthor/

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                         Copperplate Time 438                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com                                          Music & Mischief1. Bothy Band:  Green Groves/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours 2. Solas:   Bird in the Tree.   Another Day3. John Carthy & Mike McGoldrick:        The Wind That Shakes the Barley/Boyne Hunt/The Sandymount.                At Our Leisure3. Delores Keane:   Far Away in Australia. The Best of 4. Martin Connolly:  Shrove Tuesday/The Dapper's Delight.              The Fort of Kincora5. Seámus O'Rocháin & Brid O'Donhue:         We'll Meet in Miltown/The Sloping Meadow/Ellis'.                     We'll Meet in Miltown6. Willie Clancy: Plains of Boyle/The Leitrim Fancy. Seoltaí Séidte7. Jake Walton:  The Music Makers.   Silver Muse8. Kevin Crawford:   Paddy Sean Nancy's.  Carrying The Tune 9. Paddy O'Brien & Seamus Connolly:     Mayor Harrison's Fedora/Johnny Cronin's. The Banks of the Shannon 10. Mick & Aoife O'Brien & Emer Mayock:                 The Traveller/The Top of the Cliff/The Bride's to Bed.                          Tunes From the Goodman Manuscripts11. Dan Brouder & Angelina Carberry:        McCarthy's/The Basket of Oysters/East of Glendart.   A Waltz for Joy12. Catherine McEvoy:  McGovern's Fave/Casagh Reel/Martin Ainsboro's.The Home Ruler                                   13. Michael Coleman: Dr Gilbert/Queen of May.                Michael Coleman 1891 - 194514. Eithne Ní Uallacháin:   Lughnasa Damhsa    Bilingua 15. Dezi Donnelly & Mike McGoldrick:               Walls of Liscarroll/Rooney's Fave/Connaughtman's Rambles.                Dog in the Fog 16. Niamh Ní Chara:    The Exile of Erin/Richie Dwyer's/Red Haired Catherine/Ril Du Forgoren.   Donnelly's Arm 17. Joe Byrne:  The Ace & Duce of Piping.              Uilleann Piping from Co Kildare18. Ben, Charlie & Brian Lennon:   Down the Broom/The Gatehouse Maid/ Molloy's.  Within A Mile of Kilty 2 19. London Lasses:  The Woods of Caolrua/Dancing Eyes/The Crock of Gold/ The White Fairy.   LL 25   20. Bothy Band:  Green Groves/Flowers of Red Hill. After Hours

Meg is back and I have all the faith in us to keep this Mini Bubble under an hour and a half and we did it!   We barely hold back our ugly cries as we get right into the Bridgi-Verse to fulfill our duties of talking about all things Bridgerton and how we want all the Lady Danbury stories, plus more.    Thanks for listening, now be sure to check out Bed, Wed, or Behead https://www.bedwedorbehead.com/ and keep streaming!

Alsof je de douche aanzet: zo hard regende het in het Zuidoosten van Spanje. Vooral de regio's Murcia, Valencia en Andalusië werden getroffen. Het zorgde voor lege straten, dichte scholen, dorpen die onbereikbaar zijn door overstroomde wegen. En die zware buien komen na maanden zonder regen. Het water kunnen ze dus goed gebruiken, maar de grond zal het niet opnemen. Die is te droog en wordt de komende jaren alleen maar droger, legt klimaatwetenschapper van het KNMI Karin van de Wiel uit in podcast de Dag. Spanje is de hotspot van klimaatverandering: de Sahara schuift op richting het land. En dat gaat de Vlaming Benny Vanhaelewyn merken: hij runt een Bed & Breakfast in Murcia en vertelt hoe hij en de Spanjaarden leven met het nu al extreme weer. Reageren? Mail dedag@radio1.nl (mailto:dedag@radio1.nl)

The more adulting we do, the more we realize how essential getting good quality sleep is to literally every aspect of our lives. From our physical health to our mood and mindset, sleep is the key to solving a whole lot of our problems. We're sick of burning the candle at both ends and tossing and turning each night, and we're not alone: the past few decades have seen a downward trend in the quality and quantity of sleep that people are getting. So… let's talk about sleep, baby! We're clearly not the experts on this (read sleep-deprived), so we called in Alanna McGinn. Alanna is the founder and lead sleep expert at Good Night Sleep Site, host of the ‘This Girl Loves Sleep' podcast and author of ‘This Baby Loves Sleep'. Alanna and her team of sleep consultants are certified through The Family Sleep Institute and have helped thousands of families around the world overcome their sleep challenges and establish healthy nighttime habits. Alanna is the resident sleep expert for publications like Forbes, Maclean's and Today's Parent, and the media sleep expert on Cityline, Breakfast Television, CBC Radio, and more. Join us as we chat about:The mental and physical impact of sleep deprivationCreating a routine that supports healthy sleepWhy your morning wakeup is the most important factor to good sleepHow to figure out the amount of sleep we really needTricks to optimize our sleep cycles and REM sleep Realtalk on magnesium and natural remedies How to catch up after an all-nighter and adjust to new timezones Can we keep napping???The power of the napuccino We hope this episode helps you create healthy sleep habits so you can get the quality sleep you deserve!For show notes and more adulting tips, visit: teachmehowtoadult.caSign up for our monthly adulting newsletter:teachmehowtoadult.ca/newsletter Follow us on the ‘gram:@teachmehowtoadultpodcast @yunggillianaire@cailynmichaanFollow us on TikTok: @teachmehowtoadultFollow Alanna:goodnightsleepsite.com@gnsleepsite@alanna.mcginn

V ELI Beamlines v Dolních Břežanech mezinárodní tým vědců provozuje jedny z nejintenzivnějších laserových systémů. Šéfem centra je Bedřich Rus, který se v rozhovoru s moderátorkou Lucií Výbornou rozhovořil i o novince – laseru L4. „Chceme ho používat pro výzkum termojaderné syntézy, v kosmickém výzkumu a také v protonové terapii,“ popisuje.Všechny díly podcastu Host Lucie Výborné můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

FOR RENT: 2 Bed/2 Bath Apt, Stunning View, 12ft Ceiling, Hellmouth in Basement Approachability: 7/10 ( Standard 1970s Catholic Church vs. Satanic Ghosts story ) Content Warnings: Suicide; Child abuse; Animal death; brief graphic blood/gore; Catholic chauvinism; general creepiness Next Week's Film  RandomHorror9 T-Shirts! Hosts: Jeffrey Cranor & Cecil Baldwin (Find more of our work on Welcome to Night Vale) Editing: Grant Stewart Logo: David Baldwin Random Horror 9 Patreon YouTube, Twitter, Letterboxd, & Instagram: @RandomHorror9 We are part of Night Vale Presents  

Kyle and Kevin talk about the Heat winning with a bunch of nobodies, Jokic supplanting Joel Embiid, and the rumor Frank Vogel is flying into Philly - but what for? (00:00 - 22:30) Marc Farzetta from The Farzy Show joins to talk about quitting the city, Kyle proposes The Procedure to him, the chance Keith Jones can turn the Flyers around, his experience with both sports radio stations in the city, and more. (22:30-1:02:00) We finish talking about the Haason Reddick rule, Thursday night football schedule flexing, pickleball taking over closed Bed, Bath, & Beyonds and LeBron "retiring". (1:02:00-1:11:55) Please subscribe to the show ([Apple Podcasts] [Spotify] [Amazon Music] [Google Play] [Stitcher] [iHeartRadio] [RSS]), leave a 5 star review, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter: @CrossingBcast Check out the other shows on the Crossing Broad Podcast Network including: Crossed Up: A Phillies Podcast, Snow the Goalie: A Flyers Podcast, and It's Always Soccer in Philadelphia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miller-Lite beer is targeted by the right for a “woke” campaign to honor Women's History Month. Though the campaign is two months old, a conservative group is suggesting a boycott of the brand. Then, a couple in PA got caught up in the bankruptcy of Bed, Bath and Beyond. They had a baby registry there and can no longer reach anyone in customer service regarding out-of-stock products that were purchased. They may lose upwards of $1,000. Finally, Oscar Mayer is changing the name of the Wienermobile to the Frankmobile in honor of the new hotdog recipe this summer.Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrCSpotify: spoti.fi/2pC19B1iHeart Radio: bit.ly/2n0Z7H1Tunein: bit.ly/1SE3NMbStitcher: bit.ly/1N97ZquGoogle Podcasts: bit.ly/1pQTcVWPandora: pdora.co/2pEfctjYouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5aAlso follow Tim and John on:Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradioTwitter: www.twitter.com/focusgroupradioInstagram: www.instagram.com/focusgroupradio

In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending May 20th, 2023... what the Fed Chief is saying about interest rates and potential rate cuts, how the FHFA is responding to a controversy over new rules for home loan fees, and why mall owners have become interested in pickleball.   Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.   Economic News   We begin with economic news from this past week, and the Fed chief's response to predictions about what the central bank plans to do next. Jerome Powell spoke out at a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and said that Fed officials have made “no” decision yet on their next move. Many economists are expecting a pause in rate hikes, but the Fed is determined to bring inflation back down to the 2% level, no matter what. A decision would be made after the Federal Open Market Committee evaluates “all” the most recent data. (1)   Powell may have also dashed a few hopes for rate cuts later this year. He says: “The data has continued to support the FOMC's view that bringing inflation down will take “some time” and that rate cuts simply are not part of the Fed's current forecast. But he also says that interest rates are currently high enough to slow economic growth, and hopefully tamp down inflation without further credit tightening.   Meantime, the U.S. leading economic index, or LEI, shows a decline in April, for the 13th month in a row. The declines have pointed toward a potential recession, but so far, that hasn't happened. The index was down .6% last month with eight of the ten economic indicators showing a decline. (2)   Initial jobless claims were down last week, thanks to an effort in Massachusetts to reduce fraudulent claims. They fell from 264,000 the previous week to 242,000 last week. Overall, they have been slowly rising since January. The number of continuing claims was also down by about 8,000 with about 1.8 million people collecting benefits. (3)   New home construction was higher in April, thanks to an outsized demand among consumers, despite high interest rates. The government says they rose 2.2% for the month with more activity in the Midwest and the West. That's for both multi-family construction, which was up 5.2%, and single-family, which was up 1.6%. Building permits were down, however, by 1.5%. (4)   The home builders confidence index also reflected a positive outlook among builders. The National Association of Home Builders say the index was up five points to a central balance point of 50 in May. Anything above 50 is positive, and below 50, negative. The reading for May is the first time it's been out of negative territory in almost a year. (5)   The latest report for existing home sales is for February, and according to the National Association of Realtors, it surged 14.5% as interest rates experienced a temporary dip. It was the biggest monthly increase since July of 2020 when sales skyrocketed 22.4%. NAR says that single-family sales are currently at their highest level since the association started tracking them in 1999. (6)   Mortgage Rates   Mortgage rates are still moving sideways. Freddie Mac says the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was up just 4 basis points, to 6.39%. The 15-year was unchanged at 5.75%. (7)   In other news making headlines...   FHFA Rescinds New DTI Fee Structure   The FHFA is rethinking its controversial new up-front fee structure for single-family home loans which placed more importance on a borrower's debt-to-income ratio than it did on credit score. The government finance agency has now rescinded the new fee structure for Fannie and Freddie loans, and is asking for input on the goals and policy priorities that the FHFA should pursue in regards to an upgrade of the pricing framework. (8)   When the FHFA announced the previously upgraded pricing structure, there was an outcry from real estate organizations, including the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Realtors, and others. It kinda blew up in the media, because it appeared to raise the fees for people with higher credit scores while lowering fees for low income borrowers, and gave the appearance of an unfair fee subsidy.    The FHFA denies that the fee structure was based on the idea of a subsidy. But it is now accepting feedback from the public on how to adjust the fee structure to better reflect loan risk in order to protect Fannie and Freddie against those risks, and without unnecessary expense for borrowers, especially those struggling with affordability issues.   Mall Owners Filling Empty Stores with Pickleball Courts!   Mall owners have a new strategy to fill vacant stores and attract more people. They are turning to the fast-growing sport of pickleball, and replacing shuttered stores like Bed, Bath, and Beyond with pickleball courts! (9)   The combination satisfies a need on both sides as consumers gravitate toward locations that offer fun, social experiences and not just a place to shop. Malls have already been incorporating things like theaters, arcades, and amusement parks into their shopping locations. So now, they are adding pickleball, and other experience-based activities like skydiving and virtual golf.   Pickleball is currently the nation's fastest growing sport. As reported by CNN and the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, it's up 159% over three years to 8.9 million players in 2022.   That's it for this episode of the Real Estate News for Investors. Please check the show notes for links at newsforinvestors.com. If you want to learn more about investing in real estate, be sure to hit the “Join for Free” button, and check out how RealWealth can help you create a cash-flowing real estate portfolio. And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast!   Thanks for listening! Kathy Fettke   Links:   1 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-powell-says-progress-on-bringing-down-inflation-will-be-slow-452edc06?mod=mw_latestnews   2 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/slowing-u-s-economy-gets-closer-to-recession-leading-index-signals-bac107f3?mod=economic-report   3 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-fall-sharply-to-242-000-as-massachusetts-battles-fraud-dc71930f?mod=economy-politics   4 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-housing-starts-rise-2-2-in-april-3062a768?mod=economy-politics   5 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/builder-confidence-rises-for-fifth-consecutive-month-amid-ongoing-shortage-of-u-s-homes-for-sale-a41d33ba?mod=economy-politics   6 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-existing-home-sales-rise-for-the-first-time-in-13-months-surging-14-5-in-february-12603067   7 - https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms   8 - https://www.fhfa.gov//Media/PublicAffairs/Pages/FHFA-Requests-Input-on-the-Enterprises-Single-Family-Pricing-Framework.aspx   9 - https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/13/business/pickleball-malls-retail-bed-bath-beyond/index.html

Our banter for the episode includes wearing curlers in public and Convincing Esther to move to the West Coast when getting back to the states. Our question of the episode our listener asks about pivoting to a new career in Wedding and Event planning. Somehow this lead to talking about trying to remember the plot of "While You Were Sleeping" the "erotic thriller" with Sandra Bullock. We then discovered that we both mis-read and therefore misunderstoof the plot for "One Last Stop" by Casey McQuinston. The deck Holly pitches to Esther in this episode to add to her collection is the Midnight Magic Tarot. (Which Esther will purchase after the big move...)    Our book, The History of Tarot Art: Demystifying the Art and Arcana, Deck by Deck, is available now! Please leave an Amazon review to help with the algorithm! Do you love Holly and Esther, Existential Dread, and Bed? Then you'll love our face on everything! We got mugs, totes, phone cases, and even a tarot certification! You can find our merch here! Interact with us between episodes and join our Wildy Tarot Patreon , Facebook Group and Discord Server! You can follow us on Instagram, and while you're there you can also follow Holly and Esther.   

Nestled in the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains is the small town of Napanoch, New York.  Within its quiet streets it holds a treasure for both the weary traveler and the paranormal enthusiast – the Haunted Shanley Hotel.  The historic Bed & Breakfast has boasted several famous guests as well as a few infamous ones that used to patronage the Gentleman's Club and Bordello.  A few of those guests have never left and still linger in the corridors waiting to greet newcomers and welcome back the returning guests.In 2005, Salvatore Nicosia bought the Shanley unaware of the spirits residing within its desolate walls.  It did not take long for the spirits to make themselves known to Sal as they saw his efforts as a labor of love befitting of the noble history of the hotel. From 2007 until his death in July of 2016, Sal poured his heart into the building bringing it back to life and giving both guests and the spirits a second home. 

On this weeks episode I sit down with Moving Boxes, a midwest emo band from Charolette, North Carolina. We talk a bit about their first EP "Calamityland" before diving into their latest singles. We then talk about an upcoming tour and what they are working on next. As always we end off with some great stories from their time in music. Be sure to follow Moving Boxes and check out "Bed, Bath, & Beyond My Breaking Point"!! This episode features the songs "Untitled" and "Bed, Bath, & Beyond My Breaking Point". You can find Moving Boxes at the following links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/movingboxesband/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/movingboxesband Bandcamp & Merch: https://movingboxes.bandcamp.com Everywhere else: https://beacons.ai/movingboxes _______________________________________ You can find Beers With Bands here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeersWithBands2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeersWBandsPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beerswithbandspod/ Bandcamp: https://beerswithbands.bandcamp.com Everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/BeersWithBands Logo and Banner design by Kaylyn Chileen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madam.fortress.mommy/ Website: https://kaylynchileen.art Beers With Bands intro by Thomas Allen of Say Days Ago and Last Autumn Say Days Ago: https://www.instagram.com/saydaysagoband/ Last Autumn: https://www.instagram.com/lastautumnband/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beers-with-bands/support

Our panel discusses new relationship energy–the fantastic feeling when you're just starting to date and getting to know someone. What happens when it fades? Can it be addictive? We cover all the bases.Don't miss our Chicago live show and podcast recording, Thursday, June 15. Wild & Sublime--The Pride Edition.Help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity! Leave a tip for our work or join our monthly Patreon members' club!In this episode:Elmo Painter-Edington - Somatic therapist and empowerment coachTazima Parris - Sex coach and pleasure mentorErica Washington - Sex-positive holistic mental health therapistAre you looking for…?A Wild & Sublime giftEpisodes on specific topicsBooks on sex and relationshipsBuzzsprout bonus! Thinking of starting your own podcast? Buzzsprout can help you create, host and promote it! Plus lots of useful tools and resources to streamline the process! Use our affiliate link for $20 off!Want to rev up your relationship? Host Karen Yates, a somatic intimacy coach, gives you easy tools to put into practice right away with her free guide: Say It Better in Bed! 3 Proven Ways to Improve Intimate Communication. Download today!Want to be Wild & Sublime out in the world?  Check out our tees and accessories. Peep our Limited Collection to make a sexy statement.Support the showFollow Wild & Sublime on Instagram and Facebook!

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After a brief philosophical investigation, Tim and Ted tackle the top tep news of the day, including a special business corner on the fate of a certain local box store. Plus, betrayal from a friend, the tyranny of the #Charged lifestyle, and the nascent Bed, Bath and Beyond uprising. Also, planning for Tesla Fest 2023 leads to some exciting developments. Support Tep Talk: www.patreon.com/TechTalkPod

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT AVI-SPL is one of the largest pro AV integrators on the planet, but for the longest time, if I was asked if I knew anyone at that company specifically on the digital signage file, I'd say "Nope." As far as I knew, and the same for a lot of people involved in digital signage, AVI-SPL was much more focused on traditional pro AV work like unified communications and control rooms. While AVI-SPL delivered some digital signage projects, it wasn't a real focus. But that started to change a few years ago when the Tampa-based company spun up a new business unit called the Experience Technology Group, or XTG. Now it has some 30 people working on projects driven by the impact of visuals, and directly involving other architects, designers and creative shops. Now, that's 30 people in a company that has 3,700 other staff, but the group works with some 300 customer-facing sales people, and gets pulled in to opportunities and projects when clients start expressing interests or needs that are about more than just function, like whiteboards and conferencing systems. I had a great, very thoughtful talk with Mark Coxon, an industry veteran who joined the company about a year ago and is one of XTG's business development directors. We get into both the science and emotional sides of experiential projects, and how these kinds of projects work when they're guided by ideas and desired outcomes, and not just the Wow Factor of big screens. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Mark, what is your role at AVI-SPL?  Mark Coxon: I am a business development director in our XTG division, which is our Experience Technology Group, so what I do is work with our regional account managers as well as our partner ecosystem to identify opportunities to build amazing experiences.  So your regional people would come across an opportunity, let's say, it's a corporate workplace that says, “We want to put a big ass LED display in our lobby. We don't know what to do or what to put on or anything else. What do we do?” And your regional person might have a kind of deer-in-the-headlights sort of reaction and call you or somebody on your team and say, okay, I need help here. Mark Coxon: Yeah. So a lot of our opportunities do arise within the regions themselves, right? Because AVI-SPL is a huge corporation. We have, I think, 300+ sellers out in the marketplace, across the world, talking to clients, managing accounts where they might do a lot more of the typical AV that you see out in the space: conference rooms and auditoriums, et cetera, and they'll come across customers saying, “Oh, I think we want to add a wow factor to this lobby” or “We're thinking about building an experience center to show off some of the new innovation that we came out with this year.” And so they'll engage our group, which is an overlay to the whole company, and bring us in, and we can really start to give, I guess, some form to that process and make sure they get what they want at the end of it.  So you have a BizDev role, but it sounds like there's a fair amount of sales, engineering, and front-end consulting involved in it. Mark Coxon: Yeah, it's funny. AVI-SPL isn't really known in the market for experiential work, but we've done a lot of it. We've done a lot of it in pockets over the years for these customers, but it was never really organized under a division, and so that's why XTG exists. We've organized this portfolio of work in this division and assigned it to a team of people. We have about 30 people on our team now that overlay the country, and that team consists of people like me, business development directors, and we come from different backgrounds, some come from fabrication, some come from the consulting world, some like me come from all over the place within the industry from an integration perspective, and then we also have technologists on the team whose job is really exactly what you said to be those people who are thinking about the art of the possible. “All right, this customer's asked for this outcome. They have these people coming to their building. They want them to feel this. They want this actionable insight out of the space.” And they're the ones who actually come up with the ideas on what kind of technology could we use to execute this and if we were to pull this off, what would it take for us to do that? And then they start to come up with rough sketches of what the technology would be to execute on that outcome.  Yeah, it's interesting. Through the years, I've been asked who do you know over at AVI-SPL and I'll say nobody from the context of digital signage, and the company's been known as a very large company, and it's very active. But doing more, if this is the right term, traditional AV work in the corporate workplace, that sort of thing, and as you said, pockets of activity in digital signage, but nothing organized. So was it recognized within the company that we need to aggregate this and put ourselves forward as being directly in this as opposed to people discovering that, oh, you do that too? Mark Coxon: Correct. XTG's definitely a targeted branding effort at consolidating this work and this expertise we have in things like executive briefing centers, museums, welcome centers, visitors centers, hall of fame experiences, et cetera, that we've done over the years for enterprise, higher-ed, and really creating some emphasis around that type of work that we do, for sure.  Is there some cross-pollination happening when you do that? What I mean is, if you do some sort of immersive, experiential environment for a corporate workplace. Do they then two years later say, oh, by the way, we need new video conferencing capabilities or new meeting room signs, that sort of thing. Do you do that?  Also, vice versa where you're already in there doing collaboration work, and they say, we want to do something in our lobby with Wow Factory. Can you do that?  Mark Coxon: Yeah, obviously, we see both of those happen. Places where we're brought in maybe to do some specialty work, and of course, the other work at that point seems like more low-hanging fruit because it's work that we excel at already and have a huge portfolio of as far as auditoriums, meeting spaces, et cetera, and then, yeah, like you said, vice versa. We're coming in, and we're doing a lot of work, and you walk through this amazing lobby where people are going to come in their first experience before they come there to meet.  So let's say somebody's bringing a customer into their building, and they're going to pitch a multimillion dollar sale with this customer that they have. How are they defining what that experience is gonna be within the building and just asking that question sometimes, who's doing this space? This looks like a customer-facing, marketing-driven space, and a lot of times they don't know that we do that work, and yeah, we stumble upon it that way as well.  Do you guys go into prospective customers or existing customers pitching the idea of experiential spaces, or are you really operating off of their interest and initiative when they're saying we're interested in this? I suspect it would be hard to pitch somebody saying, “You should have a big-ass LED video wall in your lobby.”  Mark Coxon: Yeah. I call that technology in search of an application, and that's definitely not what we do. There's a great quote by Cedric Price, who was a mid-century architect, that says, “Technology is the answer, but what's the question?” And that's really what my job is within the team, and the business development team's job is (we have a few business development managers), but our job is really what are you trying to accomplish in this space? What business outcomes are you trying to achieve when you're looking at building this space? We're in this weird mode, right? Where a lot of companies are re-evaluating what it means to have an office in general, what it means to have physical space, whether that be retail, we just saw Bed, Bath & Beyond looking at closing up and citing online competition as one of the reasons, so what does it mean to have place-based retail today? And if we are going to build a space, what should it be? And really starting at that level. So I try to start with that level with people all the time, even in the enterprise.  The question isn't what do we do with the lease that we have or this space that we have? That's part, but that's the bridge. The real question is, if I had nothing, what would I build? And that's really the end goal of what you should be moving towards, and so many times we really start breaking down the problem of: what are the impacts that you hope to make by having a physical office or a physical retail location? And then how do we move backward from that into how does that now affect what we design into space, including the technology that will go into there?  It's really reversing that. If we go in and just start telling people how cool it is to have an LED wall in their lobby, we're selling from the wrong perspective. But if somebody says, you know what, when people come in here, they come in here, and they sit, and they go into their phone. So they're waiting for a meeting. They come and sit in our lobby. They start looking at their phone, and suddenly they're stuck in their email. They're thinking about the seven things they have to do when they get back to the office, and they're already moving past our meeting. We want to create something that actually creates some anticipation, some foreshadowing that tilts them into the anticipation of the meeting they're about to have and not pull them out of our space and back into their workday. How do we accomplish that?  And those types of conversations are much, much more fun to have and that could result at the end in having a 400-inch video while in the lobby, or it could result in maybe taking physical objects that the company's made if they're an aerospace company taking some of the innovations they have like rocket nozzles and things, and putting them on a shelf and letting people pick them up and play with them. And as they do, content launches, ambiently, around the room as they interface with these objects or whatever that happens to be. But really starting with who is here, why are they here? What are they interested in, and how do we engage them more? So that when they leave, they remember being here, and they actually take the actions we want them to take. So it's a much different approach than screens first, right?  Yeah. As you might expect, I get bombarded with emails and pitches and everything else every day talking about different projects and capabilities of companies, and I see the words experience and immersive overused and abused quite a bit, and I'm curious how you define immersive and how experience is defined because I get a sense that there's this idea that experiential and immersive means that, you have to have a video wall that's got gesture recognition and you're going to wave your arms in front of it, and all these things are going to happen, or they're synchronized lighting, or God knows what.  But from my point of view, there are times when an experience is just something that tells you if you're confused about which way to go, things like that, something that just makes the space better.  Mark Coxon: A hundred percent. So it's funny that you mentioned that because although I'm on an experience team, I'm a big fan of the calm movement. How are we decreasing the technology we use for mundane tasks or throughout the day to create these analog, tactile, calm moments. I agree that the best definition of experience I've heard, and one I tried to adhere to was by Brian Solis. He used to be at Salesforce, I think he's now at Service Now, but he's written a lot of books on the experience economy. And he said, an experience is an emotional reaction to a moment in time, and as you said, that doesn't have to be an overwhelming jaw-dropping experience. It could be a relief like you said, that now I know where to go, or it could be a silent pause that allows you to reflect. I think there are a lot of ways that you can create an experience for a company.  For me, immersive just means that it's drawing the person in. It doesn't have to be all-encompassing. Are there ways to do that? Yeah. I've given, and I'm going to give a course this year at Infocom on creating the new connection center. I've given some talks before on utilizing biology to give a deeper connection to your message. So things like engaging peripheral vision work because more of your brain turns on when your fight or flight response is activated when your peripheral vision is being activated. And so are there ways that we can use, potentially waves of light to focus people inward on a screen or on a position in a room. Are there ways to draw people through space to a place where we want them to dwell? How do we create experiences where we don't, I guess, create congestion, right? Like putting a screen in the middle of a hallway, it could be a good idea as long as you're not encouraging people to stand there for 15 minutes, as long as the dwell time there is 15-20 seconds, et cetera.  So I think experience is also just how people interact with the space themselves, and immersion is a combination of all of those things. So engaging more senses always creates more memory, but that doesn't have to be an active participation either. I think the things that are often overlooked in experience are opportunities to create, if it's a movement of air, if it's gentle waves, if it's mechanical movement in a ceiling, if it's an ambient soundscape that fills the space instead of white noise, all of these things can lend to experience, but they're nothing that somebody stops and focuses on. They're things that happen in the background that enhance what's going on, without the person experiencing it really focusing on it, if that makes sense.  Yeah, I'm listening to that, and I'm wondering how the people on the other side of the table are responding to that. I suspect some of them are leaning forward and very interested, and other ones are going, that sounds expensive!  Mark Coxon: You do get that. You can definitely get that, and I think that's why the co-design process is so important and not coming in with an idea of what you want to sell. Like earlier, you talked about me coming in and telling somebody why this experience is going to be important for them. Again, that's me pushing something upstream that I've got an idea about.  I always say my best tool in a meeting is a blank piece of paper. Because if I sit down and really listen to what people do in this space, what they're trying to accomplish, all of those things, I'll pick up little notes. I had a customer the other day who, the architect, had put together a mood board of what this space wanted to feel and look like. They built a lot of these common spaces that they're talking about in architecture, We and Us spaces is what they're calling them where they're building these cafes with a lot of biophilia and wood and stone, and all of these things, and they're like we want to do sound masking in here, and you're like, okay, that's great. So obviously, you want to keep the sound from moving back and forth, but what you've really created here is almost an urban park or a community park type feel in this space so instead of just flooding this with white noise or paint noise, why not create a nature scape or something like that'll also keep the noise transfer down but really reinforce this idea that you're outside in this natural environment as opposed to the hush of a quiet office or the hush of a pink noise or white noise air chiller or something that a lot of times you put in a office space where maybe you're trying to focus on deep work and not on connection, right? So it's just really listening to those things. When you start to identify those, when people start to, I guess self align with certain ideas as you're walking through what the different pieces are, they're more invested in that. Then when you come into that space where the cost comes, they really then weigh that against the impact as opposed to comparing it to what four speakers playing white noise would cost in the space. Is it like that book about a village in terms of these kinds of projects where it's super important to have the architect involved, the engineers involved, all the different players who collaborate on a finished project as opposed to just the AV team coming in and executing this part of it? Mark Coxon: A thousand percent. So many times, when we are brought in, what we end up doing and what I do with clients when they ask for an experience like this is one of the first things we want to do is almost a gap in overlaps kind of analysis with them. There is an ecosystem of partners that is necessary to create an experience. You're going to have somebody that's creating custom content. You may have two or three companies creating custom content. You may have to have a company specializing in video and live-action, live actors, et cetera, maybe somebody specializing in creating interactive user interfaces for touchscreens and all of those things. So you have these content creators. You do typically have somebody as an architect in this space that's obviously defining what the space looks like. Many times you have an experiential design firm doing the story, right? What's the strategy, what's the story? How are we walking people through this space? That's working with the marketing team in the company. Then you have custom fabricators building all this set work that the audiovisual goes into to create the look and feel that everybody has drawn down on the paper.  So it does take a village, and many times that's part of what we do, is we educate what it is that players are involved in a successful experience. Who are the stakeholders that you have involved with now? Do we need to get more stakeholders involved? Many times it might come through IT because they see it as a technology buying exercise and you really find out that marketing and the C-suite and human resources need to be involved because this is a system that's meant to reconnect the employees of the company to the mission of what they're doing every single day in space. And now all of a sudden that becomes a much higher strategy-level conversation on how it's executed, and so it does take a village and it takes a great ecosystem of partners. I know that word's overused too. I've used it twice.  But it takes this great array of partners, which is one of our core strengths is that we have a partnership manager that works specifically on making sure that we have a broad array of partners that we can introduce into these projects with our customers to make sure that none of these gaps are left untouched and that the experience we deliver at the end is not just a piece of technology installed on a wall because the technology itself, you don't get the value out of it when it's installed in the building, you extract the value out of the system. The ROI comes from the use of the system over time to drive the outcomes that you were looking for and thinking of this as a construction project where I delivered the 400-inch LED screen, so we're done, and the customer got what they paid for, they haven't actually extracted any value out of that piece of equipment yet. It's a depreciating asset until they play something on it that gets them the result that they want. So we really try to focus on that instead of just our one part, and our, as I said earlier, we have our team. Our team, from a business development perspective, we walk through those things. Our technologists design the technology, but we also, when we take on a project, we have a program manager. And they're involved from the beginning, they listen to the intent, and just like in the programming phase of architecture, when you talk about what is the intent of the space and what are the ways that we're going to actually make some design decisions to facilitate that, the program manager really carries that spirit of the job and make sure that those partner handoffs, et cetera, are all going well and that everybody's involved in delivering the final result and so we built a process by which we deliver that, and we believe in it, so yeah, it does take a village for sure.  What is the breadth of services?  I'm thinking of one company much smaller than AVI-SPL, but they can do the full experience including metal fabrication and creative design, all that. So they can pretty much go from inception to delivery out of the same shop as opposed to using partners, but for a large company with a whole bunch of partners in play, how much do you want to own and how much do you want to cross-pollinate and work together on things? Mark Coxon: We've doubled down on partnership when it comes to that. Our core strength is delivering technology. That's why our business was built, and that's what we do best, so we focus on the design and implementation of those technology systems, and for the other pieces, we partner. So you know, w don't build a lot of content. We do have a division called Video Link that does some content for video production for meetings, et cetera.  But are we going to create computer animations for how our power plant works? No. We're going to bring in a partner that knows how to do that every day to do that. Are we going to define for the company what their story should be based on their seven customer personas? No, we're going to work with their marketing department, and if they need some help really coming up with a storyline, we're going to bring in one of our branding and creative strategy partners to help with that because that's what their core skill set is. So we try to focus on what our operational excellence is, and that is delivering technology systems. But from the standpoint of the way that we approach the sales group, we're not engaging in a process that's designed to sell a particular technology. So it's the difference between focusing on what we're really good at and letting the cart dry the horse. I love the Maslow quote, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” We try not to approach this, well, we need to sell 600 extra square meters of LED this quarter so this customer will get a video wall. That's not the way that we approach this.  We don't approach this from a technology-centric lens, but we know where we play well and what we deliver value in the market with, and that's the technology portion.   I wrote recently about a company that was, maybe not pivoting, but evolving into doing AV as a service, with the argument being that a lot of end-user customers would rather just have the whole project done as an operating line item as opposed to all the upfront costs of capital, and they don't want to worry about recurring support and all that. They'd just rather pay a number and let somebody else do it. Is that something that comes up and that you offer?  Mark Coxon: Yeah, it comes up all the time. I think customers are always looking for ways to understand how much of this you want to own from a content update perspective, from how you manage refreshes, from even how you buy a system, as you said. Is it an operational cost, or is it a capital expenditure? Is it a construction project, or is it an ongoing cost month over month?  One place that we see this very specifically right now is we're doing some virtual production and XR opportunities for clients, especially in the corporate space where they're wanting to elevate their all-hands meetings or their product launches or any of those types of things. They're often already buying those services in an operational cost format where. They're going out and renting a studio, or they're hiring a production company to come in and do these meetings for them. So they don't want to take on a capital expenditure. They want that to continue to be an operational cost. So yeah, through things like creating a plan for leasing equipment by having a breadth of services onsite, like we have onsite managed services where we can embed an AVI-SPL employee in one of our businesses to run a center per se, or to run a virtual production studio for the customer so that they just come in, the stakeholders come in, they talk about the product they want to talk about, and somebody's running all the front house, back house doing the streaming out to the other participants, et cetera.  Yeah, we offer all of that, and that's one of the great things about working with somebody like us is because we do have such a large footprint, we do have such a presence, we have 4,000 employees across the world, and we have onsite managed services available. We have the ability to buy things on the customer's behalf and lease them, et cetera. That's one of the great advantages of someone with a big footprint like us is we have the ability to do those things.  What are the reference projects that you bring up? So you're sitting in a meeting, and they say, “What have you guys done? Impress me!”  What do you come back with?  Mark Coxon: Yeah. There are always a few that we show. The Museum of the Future in Dubai is an amazing project that we did, and people were like, you guys did that project? I'm like, yeah, we did that project and delivered it through our Dubai office, which is an amazing office. That team is, hands down, an awesome team. But we show projects like that because that's a space where people pretty much ride an elevator, like a space capsule, up into a space station and then come back to Earth in a future state, and the museum architecturally is beautiful, it's an oval with a hole in the middle of it. You even wonder how it suspends itself, as well as just all the different things that are in there. There's a touch interface where a half globe, a half spear actually swells up out of a flat table, and you can use it to articulate the earth. Who's ever seen an interface like that before?  So obviously, there were some great creative partners involved in the content and in that fabrication. But that's obviously a showcase project that we talk about a lot, and then we have visitor centers and executive briefing centers. A lot of our executive briefing centers are very impressive, Honeywell and Charlotte is a beautiful center with everything from transparent LED to kiosks to volumetric displays with physical artifacts to a full four-wall cave immersion room with a touch interface in the middle to navigate through 3D environments. And so we show a lot of those pieces. We try to show projects that have, I guess, a variety of execution styles because not everything needs to be a touchscreen. It's to show someone that you could have 3D printed objects on a table, and as you pick up those objects, the video changes, and as you articulate that object, you can actually affect different parts of the video to launch. Those kinds of things are really cool and just show people that it doesn't just have to be a touch screen on a wall. We're not looking to put a big black rectangle on the finish you spent six months working on with the architect. We're going to make sure that's integrated into the space in the proper way. Yeah, I'm a big fan of subtlety and just little things like present sensors that cost a few bucks to incorporate into a design. But you walk within a certain range, and it changes what's on a screen, and “Oh, how'd that happen?” It's great, but it's not fancy, you're not issuing a press release about it.  Mark Coxon: Yeah. We've been working on some projects where they're talking about using real-time location services as people walk through the building. So they get badged in, or they get a card, and that card has a profile that maybe they've entered in, and as they walk through the space, the experience is personalized slightly to them, based on their profile or using things like data generated art. Humans are great at pattern recognition, and so if you're putting audio/visual in a space that people work in every day, or people go into the office every day with these screens are in the background, you don't want them to be counting down 15 seconds to read and then 32 seconds until the screen goes blue with white text and then: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, cue the video of the kid running through the park.  That almost becomes like water torture at some point, right? It's just the constant dripping of this repetitive content that goes on in the background. So how do we use things like occupancy sensors, and time of day weather outside, all of which create effects on these screens that are more ambient in times that they're not being actively used for customer communication or employee communication?  A lot of those things are really cool. So what you said, that subtlety, and really thinking of just the different moments. These are canvases that we can use for multiple things. Sometimes they need to be quiet and soothing for people to do their work. Other times they need to be loud and inspiring to get somebody's attention and be able to design something that does that and know who to partner with on the backend from a hardware perspective for something like a content management system that can be on a schedule or can use sensor-based inputs to trigger different modes is really important. Are you sensing or seeing any kind of a shift in the marketplace in terms of rising interest in a particular thing?  I know you mentioned experience centers, but those have been around for a while, that's an area where I get a sense because of the pandemic and everything, they're elevating in importance because you don't have as many people in the offices. Mark Coxon: Yeah, I think experience centers are becoming more and more prominent. Companies are seeing if they can bring their customers in and create a memorable, relevant experience around their value story, that pays dividends for them. I think we're seeing more and more interest, as I said, in virtual and extended reality, virtual production, and extended reality stages for elevating corporate communications. Suppose every single one of your communications goes out in 16 squares on a VTC call. How do you punctuate those meetings so that the important ones are elevated and look different, feel different, and actually engage people differently? We're seeing more and more of that.  I will say, honestly, the big push is this: The challenge of physical space in a world that becomes more and more online, we have to get away from the idea of just utility because utility is going to be provided more conveniently, virtually. I can easily join a meeting from my kitchen table. I can easily buy a pair of pants on Amazon. So if we're just looking for the utility of work or the utility of shopping or whatever that place is built to do, if we're focusing on utility, we're always going to lose to the online experience because it's more convenient and the utility is the same. So we really have to focus on the personal experience. Gensler did an experience index on public space a few years back, pre-pandemic, but people are in multiple modes when they go shopping, right? People are in the task-based mode of finding something to buy, but they're also in a mode of exploration. They're in a mode of connection. They're in a mode of aspiration. Who do I want to be? What do I want to be? I want to be inspired. They're looking for cultural connection. There are all these other motivations at play, and it's the same when people come to interact in an office, when they join their team, when they go to a movie theater versus watching something on Netflix. There's a reason the movie theaters haven't died. It feels different to watch a movie in a movie theater, not just because of the scale of the screen or the audio, but because it feels different being in a room, having a shared experience with other people, hearing their reaction to something, hearing when they go silent, when they laugh and when they cheer. Those are things that we can really build an experience around, and I always say technology has advanced to a space where technology is usually not the limiting factor, so technology's no longer a huge challenge, space isn't a huge challenge, to design a space or to be able to build a space that facilitates these things. So really, now we are in the challenge of getting somebody back to the office, getting somebody in a mall, it is a human-centric problem. That's a human-centric exercise, and if we don't start with experience design that addresses the human motivation of why they would go somewhere, and we just address the utility of how big a store need to be and how big a screen need to be for somebody to read the text? We're never going to solve a human-based problem on why space is relevant, and so I think companies and customers are starting to see this more and more if we can start talking about: what is the human experience, and then how do we use space and technology to facilitate that? It's just a different way to solve the problem.  We have to flip the model in its head. We can't start with a square building, add technology, and then hope people come and use it in the way that we designed it. That's not experience design.  All right, Mark, thank you very much—very interesting chat.  Mark Coxon: Hey, thank you, Dave. I appreciate it.  

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When was the last time you ate so much that you felt stuffed? Was it a big Thanksgiving meal or when you celebrated your best friend's birthday with that ginormous cake and ice cream? Maybe after a bad day, you almost finished a half gallon of ice cream along with some cookies while watching TV. How did you feel afterward? Frustrated that you ate so much you made your stomach hurt or did you play the guilt and shame game? Overeating every once in a while is normal. However, in compulsive eating, food is often the way of coping with negative emotions. Then you feel guilty, ashamed or depressed. These are different feelings than when you just ate too much at Thanksgiving. Bariatric psychologist Dr. Connie joins me to talk about compulsive eating and how to deal with those feelings of guilt and shame.Visit Procarenow.com for all of your vitamin, calcium and protein needs. Use Code: Susan10 to save 10%You can share the message of hope, healing and transformation with your purchase from NewHopeGirls.com Use code TRANSFORM to save 15%Guest: Connie Stapleton, PhDWebsite: http://www.conniestapletonphd.comBariAftercare: The Podcast; available on phone podcast apps, Apple podcasts and most other podcatchers Mind Prep The Book: How To Prepare for Bariatric Surgery and Live as a Healthy Post-Op: Mind Prep: The BookBariAftercare Daily Progress Journal Rate, Review & Follow on Apple Podcasts:"I love Dr. Susan and Bariatric Surgery Success." If this sounds like you, would you please rate and review my podcast? Click here. Then click on "Listen to Apple Podcasts" at the top. Scroll down to where you see Ratings & Reviews and tap on "Write a Review". Yes, I'd love a 5 star review! LOL Be sure and let me know what you love most about the podcast. Thank you for your time! If you haven't followed the podcast, be sure to Follow/Subscribe now so you never miss an episode.Listen now for a lively discussion. Here are the questions Dr. Connie and I discuss on today's episode:Let's start by explaining the difference between compulsive eating and binge eating disorder also called BED.Today, our focus is on compulsive eating. I often see compulsive eating start as a result of diet restriction where foods are seen as either good or bad. When you don't allow yourself certain foods, at some point it's easy to say, forget it and eat way too much of that restricted food. Other times, it starts as a mindless habit like munching in front of TV instead of eating a meal of protein food and other macros on a regular schedule. From your perspective how does someone typically start compulsive eating? Are there underlying emotional issues or a negative body image? What stands in the way of asking for treatment for either compulsive overeating?How common is compulsive eating in the bariatric community?Before someone is cleared for surgery, do they need to be treated for compulsive eating first? Let's get specific. How do you overcome guilt and shame? What are your best strategies?What haven't you said that we need to know?

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Bu video 03/01/2016 tarihinde yayınlanan “İman Zaafı ve İslam'ın Gurbeti” isimli bamtelinden alınmıştır. Tamamı burada: https://www.herkul.org/bamteli/bamtel... *İnsanlarda dinî duygu ve düşünce, öncelikle telkinle başlar, sonra da taklitle benimsenir ve yaşanmaya devam eder. Belki hepimizin mebde-i hayatına inilse, çocukluk dönemine gidilse bir ilmihal bilgisi mahiyetinde Allah'a, meleklere, kitaplara, peygamberlere, ahiret gününe ve kadere imanın yanında kelime-i şehâdet getirmek, namaz, oruç, zekât ve hac gibi dinin temel rükünlerinin bizlere telkin edildiği, bizim de onları taklitle alıp zamanla benimsediğimiz görülür. Usûlüddin uleması (kelâmcılar), bu şekilde taklitle kazanılan inancın bile insanı kurtaracağını söylemiş ve bunu ıstılahî ifadesiyle, “Taklidî iman makbuldür.” şeklinde ifade etmişlerdir. Fakat her ne kadar böyle denmiş olsa da, inkâr ve dalâlet fırtınaları karşısında imanın ayakta kalabilmesi için taklitle benimsenen bu mülâhazaların, daha sonra altlarının doldurularak sağlam bir blokaja oturtulması ve içte hazmedilip sindirilmesi gerekir. Zira taklit, nazarînin başlangıç noktası olarak mebdede bir vazife eda etse de, onunla elde edilenlerin kalıcı hâle gelmesi tahkikle mümkündür. *Belki günümüzdeki bu iman zaafının, Allah'tan kopukluğun ve Efendimiz'den (sallallâhu aleyhi ve sellem) fersah fersah uzak bulunuşun arkasında bu taklit vardır. Bu açıdan da evvela imanın amelle, nazarî bilginin aksiyonla takviye edilmesi lazımdır. Sonra ikinci derecede, yaptığı amelleri şuurluca yapmak gelir. Bunun üzerinde ısrarla durmak lazımdır. Şayet iman, marifetle taçlandırılmazsa, insan yol yorgunluğundan kurtulamaz; sürekli imanı heceleyip dursa da onun semerelerine ulaşamaz. *Evet, iman, “vicdan kültürü” şeklinde de ifade edebileceğimiz marifet ile taçlandırılmalıdır. Ondan sonra bir aşk ve Allah'la münasebet dönemi gelir. Biliyorsanız, O'nu çok seversiniz. Bilen sever; bilmeyen sevemez. İyi biliyorsanız, içinizde O'na mülâkî olma iştiyakına kadar meseleyi götürebilirsiniz. “Bütün benliğinle ahirete yönel ve ahirete, ahiret kadar değer ver! Ehh bu arada dünyadan nasibini de unutma!..” *Dünyaya dünyalığı ahirete de ebedîliği ölçüsünde teveccüh etmek lazımdır. Nitekim Cenâb-ı Hak şöyle buyuruyor: وَابْتَغِ فِيمَا آتَاكَ اللهُ الدَّارَ اْلآخِرَةَ وَلاَ تَنْسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا “Allah'ın sana verdiği her şeyde âhiret yurdunu ara; ehh bu arada dünyadan da nasîbini unutma!” (Kasas, 28/77) Bu âyet-i kerimede Kur'ân, “Ahiret yurdunu ara” derken “ibtiğâ” fiilini kullanıyor ki bu, “Bütün benliğinle ahirete yönel ve ahirete, ahiret kadar değer ver!” demektir. Bundan da anlaşıldığı üzere, ahiret için bütün imkânlar seferber edilmeli, dünya için de “nasibi unutmama” esasına bağlı kalınmalıdır. *İnsanlar çok kitap okuyabilirler, çok kitap yazabilirler, belki çok güzel şeyler de konuşabilirler. Fakat imanlarını marifetle taçlandırmamışlarsa, marifetlerine muhabbet sorgucu takmamışlarsa, muhabbetlerini aşk u iştiyaka çevirememişlerse, bu mevzuda bir “Hel min mezîd – Daha yok mu?” kahramanı olarak yaşamamışlarsa, bir de dünyada bata çıka yürüdükleri halde mümin olduklarını iddia ediyorlarsa, yalan söylüyorlar demektir. Kur'an-ı Kerim, kuru bilgi, faydasız malumat ve amele dönüşmeyen nazariyat insanlarını “tıpkı ciltlerle kitap taşıyan bir merkebe” benzetir. (Cuma, 65/5) Ziya Paşa'nın