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Today's guest is Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He spent two years as a police officer in Baltimore. I asked him to come on and talk about his new book, Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop. It's one of my favorite books I've read this year (and it was one of my three book recommendations on Ezra Klein's show last week).Peter spoke with hundreds of police officers and NYC officials to understand and describe exactly how the city's leaders in the early 1990s managed to drive down crime so successfully.We discussed:* How bad did things get in the 1970s?* Why did processing an arrest take so long?* What did Bill Bratton and other key leaders do differently?* How did police get rid of the squeegee men?I've included my reading list at the bottom of this piece. Thanks to Harry Fletcher-Wood for his judicious transcript edits.Subscribe for one new interview a week.Peter, how would you describe yourself?I would say I'm a criminologist: my background is sociology, but I am not in the sociology department. I'm not so big on theory, and sociology has a lot of theory. I was a grad student at Harvard in sociology and worked as a police officer [in Baltimore] and that became my dissertation and first book, Cop in the Hood. I've somewhat banked my career on those 20 months in the police department.Not a lot of sociologists spend a couple of years working a police beat.It's generally frowned upon, both for methodological reasons and issues of bias. But there is also an ideological opposition in a lot of academia to policing. It's seen as going to the dark side and something to be condemned, not understood.Sociologists said crime can't go down unless we fix society first. It's caused by poverty, racism, unemployment, and social and economic factors — they're called the root causes. But they don't seem to have a great impact on crime, as important as they are. When I'm in grad school, murders dropped 30-40% in New York City. At the same time, Mayor Giuliani is slashing social spending, and poverty is increasing. The whole academic field is just wrong. I thought it an interesting field to get into.We're going to talk about your new book, which is called Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop. I had a blast reading it. Tell me about the process of writing it.A lot of this is oral history, basically. But supposedly people don't like buying books that are called oral histories. It is told entirely from the perspective of police officers who were on the job at the time. I would not pretend I talked to everyone, because there were 30,000+ cops around, but I spoke to many cops and to all the major players involved in the 1990s crime drop in New York City.I was born in the ‘90s, and I had no idea about a crazy statistic you cite: 25% of the entire national crime decline was attributable to New York City's crime decline.In one year, yeah. One of the things people say to diminish the role of policing is that the crime drop happened everywhere — and it did end up happening almost everywhere. But I think that is partly because what happened in New York City was a lot of hard work, but it wasn't that complicated. It was very easy to propagate, and people came to New York to find out what was going on. You could see results, literally in a matter of months.It happened first in New York City. Really, it happened first in the subways and that's interesting, because if crime goes down in the subways [which, at the time, fell under the separate New York City Transit Police] and not in the rest of the city, you say, “What is going on in the subways that is unique?” It was the exact same strategies and leadership that later transformed the NYPD [New York Police Department].Set the scene: What was the state of crime and disorder in New York in the ‘70s and into the ‘80s?Long story short, it was bad. Crime in New York was a big problem from the late ‘60s up to the mid ‘90s, and the ‘70s is when the people who became the leaders started their careers. So these were defining moments. The city was almost bankrupt in 1975 and laid off 5,000 cops; 3,000 for a long period of time. That was arguably the nadir. It scarred the police department and the city.Eventually, the city got its finances in order and came to the realization that “we've got a big crime problem too.” That crime problem really came to a head with crack cocaine. Robberies peaked in New York City in 1980. There were above 100,000 robberies in 1981, and those are just reported robberies. A lot of people get robbed and just say, “It's not worth it to report,” or, “I'm going to work,” or, “Cops aren't going to do anything.” The number of robberies and car thefts was amazingly high. The trauma, the impact on the city and on urban space, and people's perception of fear, all comes from that. If you're afraid of crime, it's high up on the hierarchy of needs.To some extent, those lessons have been lost or forgotten. Last year there were 16,600 [robberies], which is a huge increase from a few years ago, but we're still talking an 85% reduction compared to the worst years. It supposedly wasn't possible. What I wanted to get into in Back from the Brink was the actual mechanisms of the crime drop. I did about fifty formal interviews and hundreds of informal interviews building the story. By and large, people were telling the same story.In 1975, the city almost goes bankrupt. It's cutting costs everywhere, and it lays off more than 5,000 cops, about 20% of the force, in one day. There's not a new police academy class until 1979, four years later. Talk to me about where the NYPD was at that time.They were retrenched, and the cops were demoralized because “This is how the city treats us?” The actual process of laying off the cops itself was just brutal: they went to work, and were told once they got to work that they were no longer cops. “Give me your badge, give me your gun."The city also was dealing with crime, disorder, and racial unrest. The police department was worried about corruption, which was a legacy of the Knapp Commission [which investigated NYPD corruption] and [Frank] Serpico [a whistleblowing officer]. It's an old police adage, that if you don't work, you can't get in trouble. That became very much the standard way of doing things. Keep your head low, stay out of trouble, and you'll collect your paycheck and go home.You talk about the blackout in 1977, when much of the city lost power and you have widespread looting and arson. 13,000 off-duty cops get called in during the emergency, and only about 5,000 show up, which is a remarkable sign of the state of morale.The person in my book who's talking about that is Louis Anemone. He showed up because his neighbor and friend and partner was there, and he's got to help him. It was very much an in-the-foxholes experience. I contrast that with the more recent blackout, in which the city went and had a big block party instead. That is reflective of the change that happened in the city.In the mid-80s you get the crack cocaine epidemic. Talk to me about how police respond.From a political perspective, that era coincided with David Dinkins as [New York City's first black] mayor. He was universally disliked, to put it mildly, by white and black police officers alike. He was seen as hands off. He was elected in part to improve racial relations in New York City, to mitigate racial strife, but in Crown Heights and Washington Heights, there were riots, and racial relations got worse. He failed at the level he was supposed to be good at. Crime and quality of life were the major issues in that election.Dinkins's approach to the violence is centered around what they called “community policing.” Will you describe how Dinkins and political leaders in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s thought about policing?This is under Ben Ward, the [NYPD] Commissioner at the time. The mayor appoints the police commissioner — and the buck does stop with the mayor — but the mayor is not actively involved in day-to-day operations. That part does go down to the police department.Community policing was seen as an attempt to improve relations between the police and the community. The real goal was to lessen racial strife and unrest between black (and to a lesser extent Hispanic) communities and the NYPD. Going back to the ‘60s, New York had been rocked by continued unrest in neighborhoods like Central Harlem, East New York, and Bushwick. Community policing was seen as saying that police are partly to blame, and we want to improve relations. Some of it was an attempt to get the community more involved in crime fighting.It's tough. It involves a certain rosy view of the community, but that part of the community isn't causing the problems. It avoids the fact there are people who are actively criming and are willing to hurt people who get in their way. Community policing doesn't really address the active criminal element, that is a small part of any community, including high-crime communities.Arrests increased drastically during this era, more than in the ‘90s with broken windows policing. If the idea is to have fewer arrests, it didn't happen in the ‘80s. Some good came out of it, because it did encourage cops to be a bit more active and cops are incentivized by overtime. Arrests were so incredibly time-consuming, which kind of defeated the purpose of community policing. If you made an arrest in that era, there was a good chance you might spend literally 24 hours processing the arrest.Will you describe what goes into that 24 hours?From my experience policing in Baltimore, I knew arrests were time-consuming and paperwork redundant, but I could process a simple arrest in an hour or two. Even a complicated one that involved juveniles and guns and drugs, we're talking six to eight hours.In the ‘80s, Bob Davin, [in the] Transit Police, would say they'd make an arrest, process at the local precinct, search him in front of a desk officer, print him, and then they would have to get a radio car off patrol to drive you down to central booking at 100 Centre Street [New York City Criminal Court]. Then they would fingerprint him. They didn't have the live scan fingerprints machine, it was all ink. It had to be faxed up to Albany and the FBI to see if it hit on any warrant federally and for positive identification of the person. Sometimes it took 12 hours to have the prints come back and the perp would be remanded until that time. Then you'd have to wait for the prosecutor to get their act together and to review all the paperwork. You couldn't consider bail unless the prints came back either positive or negative and then you would have that initial arraignment and the cop could then go home. There are a lot of moving parts, and they moved at a glacial pace.The system often doesn't work 24/7. A lot of this has changed, but some of it was having to wait until 9 am for people to show up to go to work, because it's not a single system. The courts, the jails, and policing all march to their own drummer, and that created a level of inefficiency.So much of the nitty-gritty of what cops actually do is boring, behind-the-scenes stuff: How do we speed up the paperwork? Can we group prisoners together? Can we do some of this at the police station instead of taking it downtown? Is all of this necessary? Can we cooperate with the various prosecutors? There are five different prosecutors in New York City, one for each borough.There's not a great incentive to streamline this. Cops enjoyed the overtime. That's one of the reasons they would make arrests. So during this time, if a cop makes an arrest for drug dealing, that cop is gone and no cop was there to replace him. If it's a minor arrest, there's a good chance in the long run charges will be dropped anyway. And you're taking cops off the street. In that sense, it's lose-lose. But, you have to think, “What's the alternative?”Bob Davin is a fascinating guy. There's a famous picture from 1981 by Martha Cooper of two cops on a subway train. It's graffitied up and they're in their leather jackets and look like cops from the ‘70s. Martha Cooper graciously gave me permission to use the picture, but she said, "You have to indemnify me because I don't have a release form. I don't know who the cops are." I said, "Martha, I do know who the cop is, because he's in my book and he loves the picture.” Bob Davin is the cop on the right.Davin says that things started to get more efficient. They had hub sites in the late ‘80s or ‘90s, so precincts in the north of Manhattan could bring their prisoners there, and you wouldn't have to take a car out of service to go back to Central Booking and deal with traffic. They started collecting prisoners and bringing them en masse on a small school bus, and that would cut into overtime. Then moving to electronic scan fingerprints drastically saves time waiting for those to come back.These improvements were made, but some of them involve collective bargaining with unions, to limit overtime and arrests that are made for the pure purpose of overtime. You want cops making arrests for the right reason and not simply to make money. But boy, there was a lot of money made in arrests.In 1991, you have the infamous Crown Heights riot in Brooklyn. Racial tensions kick off. It's a nightmare for the mayor, there's this sense that he has lost control. The following year, you have this infamous police protest at City Hall where it becomes clear the relationship between the cops and the mayor has totally evaporated. How does all that play into the mayoral race between Dinkins and Giuliani?It was unintentional, but a lot of the blame for Crown Heights falls on the police department. The part of the story that is better known is that there was a procession for a Hasidic rabbi that was led by a police car. He would go to his wife's grave, and he got a little three-car motorcade. At some point, the police look at this and go "Why are we doing this? We're going to change it." The man who made the deal said ‘I"m retiring in a couple weeks, can we just leave it till then? Because I gave him my word." They're like, "Alright, whatever."This motor car procession is then involved in a car crash, and a young child named Gavin Cato is killed, and another girl is severely injured. The volunteer, Jewish-run ambulance shows up and decides they don't have the equipment: they call for a professional city ambulance. Once that ambulance is on the way, they take the mildly-injured Jewish people to the hospital. The rumor starts that the Jewish ambulance abandoned the black children to die.This isn't the first incident. There's long been strife over property and who the landlord is. But this was the spark that set off riots. A young Jewish man was randomly attacked on the street and was killed.As an aside, he also shouldn't have died, but at the hospital they missed internal bleeding.Meanwhile, the police department has no real leadership at the time. One chief is going to retire, another is on vacation, a third doesn't know what he's doing, and basically everyone is afraid to do anything. So police do nothing. They pull back, and you have three days of very anti-Semitic riots. Crowds chanting "Kill the Jews" and marching on the Lubavitch Hasidic Headquarters. Al Sharpton shows up. The riots are blamed on Dinkins, which is partly fair, but a lot of that's on the NYPD. Finally, the mayor and the police commissioner go to see what's going on and they get attacked. It's the only time in New York City history that there's ever been an emergency call from the police commissioner's car. People are throwing rocks at it.It took three days to realise this, but that's when they say “We have to do something here,” and they gather a group of officers who later become many of Bratton's main chiefs at the time [Bill Bratton was Commissioner of the NYPD from 1994-1996, under Giuliani]: Mike Julian, Louis Anemone, Ray Kelly, and [John] Timoney. They end the unrest in a day. They allow people to march, they get the police department to set rules. It still goes on for a bit, but no one gets hurt after that, and that's it.It was a huge, national story at the time, but a lot of the details were not covered. Reporters were taken from their car and beaten and stripped. The significance was downplayed at the time, especially by the New York Times, I would say.That's followed by the Washington Heights riots, which is a different story. A drug dealer was shot and killed by cops. There were rumors, which were proven to be false, that he was executed and unarmed. Then there were three days of rioting there. It wasn't quite as severe, but 53 cops were hurt, 120 stores were set on fire, and Mayor Dinkins paid for the victim's family to go to the Dominican Republic for the funeral. The police perspective again was, “You're picking the wrong side here.”Then there's the so-called Police Riot at City Hall. Nominally, it was about the CCRB, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and setting up an accountability mechanism to control cops. But really it was just an anti-Dinkins protest. It was drunken and unruly. The cops stormed the steps of City Hall. I have the account of one of the cops who was on the top of those steps looking at this mob of cops storming to him, and he's getting worried he's going to be killed in a crush. There were racist chants from off-duty cops in the crowd. It did not reflect well on police officers. But it showed this hatred of David Dinkins, who was seen as siding with criminals and being anti-police. The irony is that Dinkins is the one who ends up hiring all the cops that Giuliani gets credit for.In the “Safe Streets, Safe City” program?Yes. That was because a white tourist, Brian Watkins, was killed in a subway station protecting his parents who were getting robbed. That led to the famous headline [in the New York Post] of “Dave, do something! Crime-ravaged city cries out for help.” He, with City Council President Peter Vallone, Sr., drafted and pushed through this massive hiring of police officers, “Safe Streets, Safe City.”The hiring wasn't fast-tracked. It might be because Dinkins's people didn't really want more cops. But it was a Dinkins push that got a massive hiring of cops. When the first huge class of police officers graduated, Bill Bratton was there and not David Dinkins.Some interviewees in your book talk about how there's physically not enough room in the police academies at this time, so they have to run classes 24/7. You cycle cohorts in and out of the same classroom, because there are too many new cops for the facilities.You have thousands of cops going through it at once. Everyone describes it as quite a chaotic scene. But it would have been hard to do what the NYPD did without those cops. Ray Kelly, who was police commissioner under Dinkins at the end [from 1992 to 1994] before he became police commissioner for 12 years under Bloomberg [from 2002 to 2013] probably could have done something with those cops too, but he never had the chance, because the mayoral leadership at the time was much more limiting in what they wanted cops to do.Crime starts declining slowly in the first few years of the ‘90s under Dinkins, and then in ‘93 Giuliani wins a squeaker of a mayoral election against Dinkins.One of the major issues was the then-notorious “squeegee men” of New York City. These were guys who would go to cars stopped at bridges and tunnel entrances and would rub a squeegee over the windshield asking for money. It was unpleasant, intimidating, and unwanted, and it was seen as one of those things that were just inevitable. Like graffiti on the subway in the ‘80s. Nothing we can do about it because these poor people don't have jobs or housing or whatever.The irony is that Bratton and Giuliani were happy to take credit for that, and it was an issue in the mayoral campaign, but it was solved under David Dinkins and Ray Kelly and Mike Julian with the help of George Kelling [who, with James Wilson, came up with broken windows theory]. But they never got credit for it. One wonders if, had they done that just a few months earlier, it would have shifted the entire campaign and we'd have a different course of history in New York City.It's a great example of a couple of things that several people in your book talk about. One is that disorder is often caused by a very small set of individuals. There's only like 70 squeegee men, yet everybody sees them, because they're posted up at the main tunnel and bridge entrances to Manhattan. And getting them off the streets solves the problem entirely.Another emphasis in the book is how perceptions of crime are central. You quote Jack Maple, the father of Compstat, as saying, “A murder on the subway counts as a multiple murder up on the street, because everybody feels like that's their subway.” The particular locations of crimes really affect public perception.Absolutely. Perception is reality for a lot of these things, because most people aren't victimized by crime. But when people perceive that no one is in control they feel less safe. It's not that this perception is false, it just might not be directly related to an actual criminal act.The other thing I try to show is that it's not just saying, “We've got to get rid of squeegee men. How do you do it?” They had tried before, but this is why you need smart cops and good leadership, because it's a problem-solving technique, and the way to get rid of graffiti is different to the way you get rid of squeegee men.This book is in opposition to those who just say, “We can't police our way out of this problem.” No, we can. We can't police our way out of every problem. But if you define the problem as, we don't want people at intersections with squeegees, of course we can police our way out of the problem, using legal constitutional tools. You need the political will. And then the hard work starts, because you have to figure out how to actually do it.Will you describe how they tackle the squeegee men problem?Mike Julian was behind it. They hired George Kelling, who's known for broken windows. They said, “These people are here to make money. So to just go there and make a few arrests isn't going to solve the problem.” First of all, he had to figure out what legal authority [to use], and he used Traffic Reg 44 [which prohibits pedestrians from soliciting vehicle occupants]. He talked to Norm Siegel of the NYCLU [New York Civil Liberties Union] about this, who did not want this crackdown to happen. But Norman said, “Okay, this is the law, I can't fight that one. You're doing it legally. It's all in the books.” And So that took away that opposition.But the relentless part of it is key. First they filmed people. Then, when it came to enforcement, they warned people. Then they cited people, and anybody that was left they arrested. They did not have to arrest many people, because the key is they did this every four hours. It was that that changed behavior, because even a simple arrest isn't going to necessarily deter someone if it's a productive way to make money. But being out there every four hours for a couple of weeks or months was enough to get people to do something else. What that something else is, we still don't know, but we solved the squeegee problem.So in 93, Giuliani is elected by something like 50,000 votes overall. Just as an aside, in Prince of the City, Fred Siegel describes something I had no idea about. There's a Puerto Rican Democratic Councilman who flips and supports Giuliani. Mayor Eric Adams, who at the time was the head of a nonprofit for black men in law enforcement, calls him a race traitor for doing that and for being married to a white woman. There was a remarkable level of racial vitriol in that race that I totally missed.10 years ago when I started this, I asked if I could interview then-Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, and he said yes, and the interview kept getting rescheduled, and I said, “Eh, I don't need him.” It's a regret of mine. I should have pursued that, but coulda, woulda, shoulda.Giuliani is elected, and he campaigns very explicitly on a reducing crime and disorder platform. And he hires Bill Bratton. Tell me about Bratton coming on board as NYPD commissioner.Bratton grew up in Boston, was a police officer there, became head of the New York City Transit Police when that was a separate police department. Right before he becomes NYPD Commissioner, he's back in Boston, as the Chief of Police there, and there is a movement among certain people to get Bratton the NYC job. They succeed in that, and Bratton is a very confident man. He very much took a broken windows approach and said, “We are going to focus on crime.” He has a right-hand man by the name of Jack Maple who he knows from the Transit Police. Maple is just a lieutenant in transit, and Bratton makes him the de facto number two man in the police department.Jack Maple passed away in 2001 and I didn't know what I was going to do, because it's hard to interview a man who's no longer alive. Chris Mitchell co-wrote Jack Maple's autobiography called Crime Fighter and he graciously gave me all the micro-cassettes of the original interviews he conducted with Maple around 1998. Everyone has a Jack Maple story. He's probably the most important character in Back from the Brink.Jack Maple comes in, no one really knows who he is, no one respects him because he was just a lieutenant in Transit. He goes around and asks a basic question — this is 1994 — he says, “How many people were shot in New York City in 1993?” And nobody knows. That is the state of crime-fighting in New York City before this era. There might have been 7,000 people shot in New York City in 1990 and we just don't know, even to this day.One citation from your book: in 1993, an average of 16 people were shot every day. Which is just remarkable.And remember, shootings have been declining for two or three years before that! But nobody knew, because they weren't keeping track of shootings, because it's not one of the FBI Uniform Crime Report [which tracks crime data nationally] index crimes. But wouldn't you be curious? It took Jack Maple to be curious, so he made people count, and it was findable, but you had to go through every aggravated assault and see if a gun was involved. You had to go through every murder from the previous year and see if it was a shooting. He did this. So we only have shooting data in New York City going back to 1993. It's just a simple process of caring.The super-short version of Back from the Brink is it was a change in mission statement: “We're going to care about crime.” Because they hadn't before. They cared about corruption, racial unrest, brutality, and scandal. They cared about the clearance rate for robbery a bit. You were supposed to make three arrests for every ten robberies. It didn't matter so much that you were stopping a pattern or arresting the right person, as long as you had three arrests for every ten reported crimes, that was fine.This is a story about people who cared. They're from this city — Bratton wasn't, but most of the rest are. They understood the trauma of violence and the fact that people with families were afraid to go outside, and nobody in the power structure seemed to care. So they made the NYPD care about this. Suddenly, the mid-level police executives, the precinct commanders, had to care. and the meetings weren't about keeping overtime down, instead they were about ”What are you doing to stop this shooting?”Tell listeners a little bit more about Jack Maple, because he's a remarkable character, and folks may not know what a kook he was.I think he was a little less kooky than he liked to present. His public persona was wearing a snazzy cat and spats and dressing like a fictional cartoon detective from his own mind, but he's a working-class guy from Queens who becomes a transit cop.When Bratton takes over, he writes a letter up the chain of command saying this is what we should do. Bratton read it and said, “This guy is smart.” Listening to 80 hours of Jack Maple, everyone correctly says he was a smart guy, but he had a very working-class demeanor and took to the elite lifestyle. He loved hanging out and getting fancy drinks at the Plaza Hotel. He was the idea man of the NYPD. Everyone has a Jack Maple imitation. “You're talking to the Jackster,” he'd say. He had smart people working under him who were supportive of this. But it was very much trying to figure out as they went along, because the city doesn't stop nor does it sleep.He was a bulls***er, but he's the one who came up with the basic outline of the strategy of crime reduction in New York City. He famously wrote it on a napkin at Elaine's, and it said, “First, we need to gather accurate and timely intelligence.” And that was, in essence, CompStat. “Then, we need to deploy our cops to where they need to be.” That was a big thing. He found out that cops weren't working: specialized units weren't working weekends and nights when the actual crime was happening. They had their excuses, but basically they wanted a cushy schedule. He changed that. Then, of course, you have to figure out what you're doing, what the effective tactics are. Then, constant follow up and assessment.You can't give up. You can't say “Problem solved.” A lot of people say it wasn't so much if your plan didn't work, you just needed a Plan B. It was the idea that throwing your hands in the air and saying, “What are you going to do?” that became notoriously unacceptable under Chief Anemone's stern demeanor at CompStat. These were not pleasant meetings. Those are the meetings that both propagated policies that work and held officers accountable. There was some humiliation going on, so CompStat was feared.Lots of folks hear CompStat and think about better tracking of crime locations and incidents. But as you flesh out, the meat on the bones of CompStat was this relentless follow-up. You'd have these weekly meetings early in the morning with all the precinct heads. There were relentless asks from the bosses, “What's going on in your district or in your precinct? Can you explain why this is happening? What are you doing to get these numbers down?” And follow-ups the following week or month. It was constant.CompStat is often thought of as high-tech computer stuff. It wasn't. There was nothing that couldn't have been done with old overhead projectors. It's just that no one had done it before. Billy Gorta says it's a glorified accountability system at a time when nobody knew anything about computers. Everyone now has access to crime maps on a computer. It was about actually gathering accurate, timely data.Bratton was very concerned that these numbers had to be right. It was getting everyone in the same room and saying, “This is what our focus is going to be now.” And getting people to care about crime victims, especially when those crime victims might be unsympathetic because of their demeanor, criminal activity, or a long arrest record. “We're going to care about every shooting, we're going to care about every murder.”Part of it was cracking down on illegal guns. There were hundreds of tactics. The federal prosecutors also played a key role. It was getting this cooperation. Once it started working and Giuliani made it a major part of claiming success as mayor, suddenly everyone wanted to be part of this, and you had other city agencies trying to figure it out. So it was a very positive feedback loop, once it was seen as a success.When Bratton came on the job, he said, “I'm going to bring down crime 15%.” No police commissioner had ever said that before. In the history of policing before 1994, no police commissioner ever promised a double-digit reduction in crime or even talked about it. People said “That's crazy.” It was done, and then year after year. That's the type of confidence that they had. They were surprised it worked as well as it did, but they all had the sense that there's a new captain on this ship, and we're trying new things. It was an age of ideas and experiment.And it was a very short time.That's the other thing that surprised me. Giuliani fired Bratton in the middle of ‘96.It's remarkable. Bratton comes in ‘94, and August 1994 is where you see crime drop off a cliff. You have this massive beginning of the reduction that continues.That inflection point is important for historical knowledge. I don't address alternatives that other people have proposed [to explain the fall in crime] — For example, the reduction in lead [in gasoline, paint, and water pipes] or legalized abortion with Roe v. Wade [proposed by Stephen Dubner].Reasonable people can differ. Back from the Brink focuses on the police part of the equation. Today, almost nobody, except for a few academics, says that police had nothing to do with the crime drop. That August inflection is key, because there is nothing in a lagged time analysis going back 20 years that is going to say that is the magic month where things happened. Yet if you look at what happened in CompStat, that's the month they started getting individual officer data, and noticing that most cops made zero arrests, and said, “Let's get them in the game as well.” And that seemed to be the key; that's when crime fell off the table. The meetings started in April, I believe, but August is really when the massive crime drop began.To your point about the confidence that crime could be driven down double digits year over year, there's a great quote you have from Jack Maple, where he says to a fellow cop, “This is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. As long as we have absolute control, we can absolutely drive this number into the floor.”One detail I enjoyed was that Jack Maple, when he was a transit cop, would camp out under a big refrigerator box with little holes cut out for eyes and sit on the subway platform waiting for crooks.For people who are interested in Jack Maple, it is worth reading his autobiography, Crime Fighter. Mike Daly wrote New York's Finest, which uses the same tapes that I had access to, and he is much more focused on that. He's actually the godfather of Jack Maple's son, who is currently a New York City police officer. But Maple and co were confident, and it turned out they were right.As well as having changes in tactics and approach and accountability across the NYPD, you also have a series of specific location cleanups. You have a specific initiative focused on the Port Authority, which is a cesspool at the time, an initiative in Times Square, the Bryant Park cleanup, and then Giuliani also focuses on organized crime on the Fulton Fish Market, and this open-air market in Harlem.I was struck that there was both this general accountability push in the NYPD through CompStat, and a relentless focus on cleaning up individual places that were hubs of disorder.I'm not certain the crime drop would have happened without reclamation of public spaces and business improvement districts. Bryant Park's a fascinating story because Dan Biederman, who heads the Corporation, said, “People just thought it was like a lost cause, this park can't be saved. The city is in a spiral of decline.” He uses Jane Jacobs' “eyes on the street” theory and then George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's broken windows theory. The park has money — not city money, but from local property owners — and it reopens in 1991 to great acclaim and is still a fabulous place to be. It showed for the first time that public space was worth saving and could be saved. New York City at the time needed that lesson. It's interesting that today, Bryant Park has no permanent police presence and less crime. Back in the ‘80s, Bryant Park had an active police presence and a lot more crime.The first class I ever taught when I started at John Jay College in 2004, I was talking about broken windows. A student in the class named Jeff Marshall, who is in my book, told me about Operation Alternatives at the Port Authority. He had been a Port Authority police officer at the time, and I had not heard of this. People are just unaware of this part of history. It very much has lessons for today, because in policing often there's nothing new under the sun. It's just repackaged, dusted off, and done again. The issue was, how do we make the Port Authority safe for passengers? How do we both help and get rid of people living in the bus terminal? It's a semi-public space, so it makes it difficult. There was a social services element about it, that was Operational Alternatives. A lot of people took advantage of that and got help. But the flip side was, you don't have to take services, but you can't stay here.I interviewed the manager of the bus terminal. He was so proud of what he did. He's a bureaucrat, a high-ranking one, but a port authority manager. He came from the George Washington Bridge, which he loved. And he wonders, what the hell am I going to do with this bus terminal? But the Port Authority cared, because they're a huge organization and that's the only thing with their name on it — They also control JFK Airport and bridges and tunnels and all the airports, but people call the bus terminal Port Authority.They gave him almost unlimited money and power and said, “Fix it please, do what you've got to do,” and he did. It was environmental design, giving police overtime so they'd be part of this, a big part of it was having a social service element so it wasn't just kicking people out with nowhere to go.Some of it was also setting up rules. This also helped Bratton in the subway, because this happened at the same time. The court ruled that you can enforce certain rules in the semi-public spaces. It was not clear until this moment whether it was constitutional or not. To be specific, you have a constitutional right to beg on the street, but you do not have a constitutional right to beg on the subway. That came down to a court decision. Had that not happened, I don't know if in the long run the crime drop would have happened.That court decision comes down to the specific point that it's not a free-speech right on the subway to panhandle, because people can't leave, because you've got them trapped in that space.You can't cross the street to get away from it. But it also recognized that it wasn't pure begging, that there was a gray area between aggressive begging and extortion and robbery.You note that in the early 1990s, one-third of subway commuters said they consciously avoided certain stations because of safety, and two thirds felt coerced to give money by aggressive panhandling.The folks in your book talk a lot about the 80/20 rule applying all over the place. That something like 20% of the people you catch are committing 80% of the crimes.There's a similar dynamic that you talk about on the subways, both in the book and in your commentary over the past couple years about disorder in New York. You say approximately 2,000 people with serious mental illness are at risk for street homelessness, and these people cycle through the cities, streets, subways, jails, and hospitals.What lessons from the ‘90s can be applied today for both helping those people and stopping them being a threat to others?Before the ‘80s and Reagan budget cuts there had been a psychiatric system that could help people. That largely got defunded. [Deinstitutionalization began in New York State earlier, in the 1960s.] We did not solve the problem of mental health or homelessness in the ‘90s, but we solved the problem of behavior. George Kelling [of broken windows theory] emphasized this repeatedly, and people would ignore it. We are not criminalizing homelessness or poverty. We're focusing on behavior that we are trying to change. People who willfully ignore that distinction almost assume that poor people are naturally disorderly or criminal, or that all homeless people are twitching and threatening other people. Even people with mental illness can behave in a public space.Times have changed a bit. I think there are different drugs now that make things arguably a bit worse. I am not a mental health expert, but we do need more involuntary commitment, not just for our sake, but for theirs, people who need help. I pass people daily, often the same person, basically decomposing on a subway stop in the cold. They are offered help by social services, and they say no. They should not be allowed to make that choice because they're literally dying on the street in front of us. Basic humanity demands that we be a little more aggressive in forcing people who are not making rational decisions, because now you have to be an imminent threat to yourself or others. That standard does need to change. But there also need to be mental health beds available for people in this condition.I don't know what the solution is to homelessness or mental health. But I do know the solution to public disorder on the subway and that's, regardless of your mental state or housing status, enforcing legal, constitutional rules, policing behavior. It does not involve locking everybody up. It involves drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. It's amazing how much people will comply with those rules.That presents the idea that someone's in charge, it's not a free-for-all. You get that virtuous loop, which New York had achieved in 2014–2016, when crime was at an all-time low in the city. Then the politicians decided public order wasn't worth preserving anymore. These are political choices.I had a similar version of this conversation with a friend who was shocked that there were zero murders on the subway in 2017 and that that number was stable: you had one or two a year for several years in the mid-2010s.It was five or fewer a year from 1997 to 2019, and often one or two. Then you have zero in 2017. There were [ten in 2022]. It coincides perfectly with an order from [Mayor] de Blasio's office and the homeless czar [Director of Homeless Services Steven] Banks [which] told police to stop enforcing subway rules against loitering. The subways became — once again — a de facto homeless shelter. Getting rule-violating homeless people out of the subway in the late ‘80s was such a difficult and major accomplishment at the time, and to be fair it's not as bad as it was.The alternative was that homeless outreach was supposed to offer people services. When they decline, which 95% of people do, you're to leave them be. I would argue again, I don't think that's a more humane stance to take. But it's not just about them, it's about subway riders.There's one story that I think was relevant for you to tell. You were attacked this fall on a subway platform by a guy threatening to kill you. It turns out he's had a number of run-ins with the criminal justice system. Can you tell us where that guy is now?I believe he's in prison now. The only reason I know who it is is because I said, one day I'm going to see his picture in the New York Post because he's going to hurt somebody. Am I 100 percent certain it's Michael Blount who attacked me? No, but I'm willing to call him out by name because I believe it is. He was out of prison for raping a child, and he slashed his ex-girlfriend and pushed her on the subway tracks. And then was on the lam for a while. I look at him and the shape of his face, his height, age, build, complexion, and I go, that's got to be him.I wasn't hurt, but he gave me a sucker punch trying to knock me out and then chased me a bit threatening to kill me, and I believe he wanted to. It's the only time I ever was confronted by a person who I really believe wanted to kill me, and this includes policing in the Eastern District in Baltimore. It was an attempted misdemeanor assault in the long run. But I knew it wasn't about me. It was him. I assume he's going to stay in prison longer for what he did to his ex-girlfriend. But I never thought it would happen to me. I was lucky the punch didn't connect.Peter Moskos's new book is Back from the Brink, Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop.My reading listEssays:Johnny Hirschauer's reporting, including “A Failed 'Solution' to 'America's Mental Health Crisis',“ “Return to the Roots,” and “The Last Institutions.” “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” by George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson. ​“It's Time to Talk About America's Disorder Problem,” Charles Lehman.Books:Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Jill Leovy.​Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life, Fred Siegel.​ Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District, Peter Moskos.​Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones.​Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.statecraft.pub

Episode 125. What a story this is. Joining us from halfway up the side of a mountain on a remote fjord in Norway is my old pal, Ben Ward. He's become a celebrity in Norway after their state broadcaster made 2 documentaries about him. About 4 years ago, Ben decided to buy a remote farm to renovate that hadn't been inhabited in 60 years.  People dream of going off-grid but this has been a massive challenge. Apart from hard work, landslides and little money, Ben suffered worst from loneliness. Incredible mental and physical fortitude. Enjoy...Follow Ben and join his hordes of adoring females on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/benward_krokengard/Mister Kindness on X https://twitter.com/MisterKindnessFollow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/misterkindness_podSubscribe on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8snrvTqs8_AjgIq_sIsMgMis ter Kindness on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/njohn.kindness.9on#Norway #fjord #NRK #norge #loneliness #lonely #wilderness #misterkindnesspodcast #meditation #redemption #writing #muse #poetry

Architectural Conversations: Sketches, Coffee, and Career JourneysIn this episode, hosts Jamie and Kurt engage with guests Brad Benjamin and Ben Ward, two architects and longtime friends from Greenville, South Carolina. The conversation meanders through the joys of incorporating guests into their podcast, the importance of sketching in the architectural process, and the career paths that led Brad and Ben to co-found Radium Architecture. They touch upon the influence of professional societies like the AIA, memorable conferences, and architectural practices. The dialogue covers everything from personal sketching habits to favorite pens, providing an insightful and intimate look into the architectural profession.00:00 Welcome and Guest Introductions02:12 Architectural Backgrounds and Experiences04:54 Coffee Conversations21:38 Pop Culture and Architecture34:35 Starting and Running a Small Firm49:44 The Gift of Gab and Coffee Talk50:13 Architectural Team and Regional Work52:08 Partnership Beginnings and Fun at Work53:39 Professional Networks and Career Growth59:58 Sketching and Architectural Landmarks01:06:03 The Value of Sketching in Architecture01:24:00 Pen Recommendations and Final ThoughtsSend Feedback :) Support the showBuy some Coffee! Support the Show!https://ko-fi.com/coffeesketchpodcast/shop Our Links Follow Jamie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/falloutstudio/ Follow Kurt on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kurtneiswender/ Kurt's Practice - https://www.instagram.com/urbancolabarchitecture/ Coffee Sketch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/coffeesketch Jamie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/falloutstudio Kurt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/kurtneiswender

Tim, Liam and Andrew are all smiles after the 3-0 demolition of Exeter City as Phil Parkinson rang the changes for Wrexham.We discuss the star performers, including some excellent displays from the fresh faces in the starting XI. Also, what was up with Elliot Lee's body language?We also chat about:• The Temporary Kop Stand - why were there were so many empty seats?• Chally the Champion - why the game was never in doubt despite Storm Bert • A two-part Randall's Round-Up including Archie's story, the £11.3m share issue and January spending plans• Drawing Crewe at home in the Very Weird To Change Sponsors Mid-season Trophy • Lincoln preview with Ben Ward from The Stacey West fan site/podcast._________________Enjoyed this Fat Boar-sponsored episode? Then please...

It's Monday of Ordinary Time, Proper 24 in the Church Calendar, October 21, 2024. Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office. Today's songs: Human Heart (Coldplay) & The Way You Do (All My Heart) (Ben Ward). Psalm 25 Luke 9:51-62 Playlist of songs from Morning Prayer. If you have a prayer request please ⁠submit it here⁠. Sign up ⁠here⁠ for the email list. Morning Prayer and Worship is a production of Steady Stream Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Thank you for your support. ⁠You can go here to find out more⁠. Get an ad-free feed of the podcast with a monthly contribution of any amount! ⁠Join our Facebook group here!⁠ Photo: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sunset by Ben Ward. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/support

Celebrating the life and faith of St.Luke the Evangelist in the Church Calendar, October 18, 2024. Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office. Today's song: There's a Wideness (Frederick Faber, Ben Ward). Psalm 147:1-7 Luke 4:14-21 Playlist of songs from Morning Prayer. If you have a prayer request please ⁠submit it here⁠. Sign up ⁠here⁠ for the email list. Morning Prayer and Worship is a production of Steady Stream Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Thank you for your support. ⁠You can go here to find out more⁠. Get an ad-free feed of the podcast with a monthly contribution of any amount! ⁠Join our Facebook group here!⁠ Photo by Mikhail Nilov. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/support

Interview by Kris PetersUK metal outfit Orange Goblin are a band who has had to work hard for everything they have. Bloody hard.Formed in 1995 and born into a musical landscape already dominated by bands such as Black Sabbath, Trouble, Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Pentagram, Cathedral, Danzig, Monster Magnet and Kyuss, Orange Goblin spent many of their formative years deflecting criticism of their sound, defiant in the knowledge that while a sum of their many influences, they were also a force unto themselves.Combining elements of hard rock, stoner rock, doom metal and more, comparisons to the legendary bands listed above were bound to be prominent, but over the course of nine previous albums Orange Goblin have left their indelible mark across the music world, in the process gaining the respect and level of acceptance they so rightfully deserve.That growth and progression promises to continue on Orange Goblin's upcoming album Science, Not Fiction, which will be unleashed on July 19. Blending the aforementioned genres with some outside of the box, Science, Not Fiction is an aggressive, adrenaline-fuelled sonic journey of a band with one eye on the past but the focus firmly on the future.HEAVY caught up with founding member and vocalist Ben Ward to find out more."This one's different," he measured. "Obviously, it's our first album for Peaceville Records and the whole campaign has been far more hands on than we've ever had before. In the past we might have just delivered the record to the label and said right, you get on with that, but with this record the label have been really proactive and enthusiastic in getting us to be involved in the marketing. It's been a really strong campaign. There's been three singles released so far and all had videos for them. We've got another video and single coming just prior to the release. We're doing some album launch shows here in London and Leeds in the UK and we've got a summer of festivals lined up to promote it. It's all go at the moment. We're definitely not sitting back and letting it happen. We're all very proactive."In the full interview, Ben discussed Orange Goblin's upcoming album release more, including the musical influences, proactive marketing campaign, and impact of a new band member. He provided insights into the album concept, highlighting the significance of science, spirituality, and religion. The discussion also touched on the balance between imitation and inspiration in creating an album, with Ben emphasizing the band's commitment to creating music that is interesting to them and their belief in the importance of honesty in their music.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heavy-music-interviews--2687660/support.

Orange Goblin is one of the most uncompromising representatives of old school heavy metal and hard rock in the world. Thirty years into their riff-driven career, they're releasing a brand new album (and first album with Peaceville), which may be their greatest work. Join Nate and Orange Goblin vocalist/lyricist Ben Ward as they discuss metal as a way of life, walking the fine line between stupid and clever, recording studios reminiscent of American Werewolf in London and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the pursuit of better living through riffs + fitness + sobriety, the importance of free speech in an increasingly volatile world, and more!   Album of discussion: Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction (2024) __________________________________________ E-mail all questions/ideas to: BIGRIFFENERGY@GMAIL.COM To move your question to the front of the line and get a guaranteed response on the podcast, send $10 to https://paypal.me/BigRiffEnergy. Include your question in the note/message. Thanks for supporting the podcast! __________________________________________ BIG RIFF ENERGY official sponsor: https://www.pulltheplugpatches.com __________________________________________ Find Nate:   https://www.youtube.com/@BornTooNate https://www.instagram.com/borntoonate __________________________________________ Find Spirit Adrift:   https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com https://spiritadrift.com __________________________________________

I love the end of Psalm 17 from today's reading: “…when I awake, I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.” It reminds me of a favorite book title, “They Became What They Beheld.” The more I behold Jesus—the more I gaze on Him, think on Him, consider Him and His ways, the more like Him I will be. And that's my goal…more of His kindness, goodness, faithfulness, compassion…and on and on. Let's behold Jesus as we pray Morning Prayer today. Get an ad-free feed of the podcast with a monthly contribution of any amount! It's Friday of Ordinary Time, Proper 9 in the Church Calendar. July 12, 2024. Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office. Welcome (00:00) There's a Wideness (Frederick Faber, Ben Ward) (00:59) Prayer of Confession (03:42) There's a Wideness (continued) (04:20) Psalm 16 (07:05) Psalm 17 (08:40) Glory to the Father (11:25) Matthew 24:15-31 (12:19) Apostles' Creed (15:06) Lord's Prayer (15:56) Collect of the Day (16:24) Time of free prayer (17:29) For children to come home (18:38) Benediction (20:12) Playlist of songs from Morning Prayer. If you have a prayer request please ⁠submit it here⁠. Sign up ⁠here⁠ for the email list. Morning Prayer and Worship is a production of Steady Stream Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Thank you for your support. ⁠You can go here to find out more⁠. ⁠Join our Facebook group here!⁠ Photo by Maria Orlova.

Get an ad-free feed of the podcast with a monthly contribution of any amount! It's Tuesday of Ordinary Time, Proper 9 in the Church Calendar. July 9, 2024. Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office. Welcome (00:00) Amazing Grace (John Newton, Ben Ward) (01:15) Prayer of Confession (03:43) Amazing Grace (continued) (04:19) Psalm 5 (06:02) Psalm 6 (07:48) Glory to the Father (09:25) Matthew 23:13-26 (10:05) Apostles' Creed (13:06) Lord's Prayer (13:57) Collect of the Day (14:27) Time of free prayer (15:21) Help us to be doers of the Word (16:54) Benediction (18:11) Playlist of songs from Morning Prayer. If you have a prayer request please ⁠submit it here⁠. Sign up ⁠here⁠ for the email list. Morning Prayer and Worship is a production of Steady Stream Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Thank you for your support. ⁠You can go here to find out more⁠. ⁠Join our Facebook group here!⁠ Photo by Josh Hild.

Ep 492 Orange Goblin's Ben Ward on their new release, songwriting & touring 2024

Orange Goblin's Ben Ward is joining the MetalSucks Podcast this week! Their first new studio album in six years Science, Not Fiction is dropping on July 19 and we're here to discuss that and more! We talk about Ward's one and only chance meeting with the late Ronnie James Dio, which is a story in itself. We also get to talking about recording the metal lifer anthem and second single “Cemetery Rats”, how fitness infiltrating the scene has made a much more positive situation for many metalheads, playing shows sober and how it had a little bit of a learning curve. Naturally, we also talked about the mainstream media, the lies they present, and trying to discover the truth about events. Among other things, we also discuss how the band has its 30th anniversary approaching and some of his thoughts on that milestone. Petar and Brandon tackle Sebastian Bach's attack on fans' T-shirts at a recent concert, then his decision to double down on social media to explain why he was being a dick, Bon Jovi stating the obvious about Lzzy Hale performing with Skid Row, and this goddamn overpriced Slayer cooler that Petar's going to end up buying. Song: Orange Goblin “Cemetery Rats” Song: Kissin' Dynamite “The Devil Is A Woman” Song: X-Cops “Light Em Up” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Good Friday in the Church Calendar. March 29, 2024. Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office. Welcome Song: O Sacred Head Now Wounded (Lyrics: Bernard of Clairvaux, James W. Alexander [translator]; Music: Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Sebastian Bach [arranger]) Prayer of Confession Reading: Psalm 22 Gloria Patri Reading: John 19:38-42 Apostles' Creed The Lord's Prayer Collect of the Day Time of prompted prayer Benediction If you have a prayer request please ⁠submit it here⁠. Sign up ⁠here⁠ for the email list. Morning Prayer and Worship is a production of Steady Stream Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. Thank you for your support. ⁠You can go here to find out more⁠. ⁠Join our Facebook group here!⁠ Photo: Dogwood, Ben Ward, 2024 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/message

Ben Ward (b. 1994) is a Colorado-based American photographer and cinematographer. Ben's photography focuses on a documentary approach to the human experience and the changing social and environmental landscape of the American West. In 2021, he published his book I Dream of Dust with Temper Books and in 2018 he published Clay during the production of the short film ‘Clay' by Holocene Studios. He has been featured in Then There was Us - AND 2022, Booooooom - Circles and Pomegranate Press - Nothing Left but Healing. Solo shows include Lonesome Valley Calls in Fort Collins, CO, Lonesome No More at Bolt Gallery Fort Collins, CO and has been featured in Forms at Side Stories in Denver, Fragments of Devotion at Secret Flowers in Richmond, VA, Nothing Left But Healing, Agony Books Richmond, VA, and ImageNation Paris, Galerie Joseph Turenne Paris, France Follow Ben's work: https://www.benwardphoto.com/projects https://www.instagram.com/ben.p.ward/

With Lincoln looking likely to recall Freddie Draper, Rob sat down with Ben Ward from the Stacey West to chat about Draper and the situation at Lincoln. We chat about their striker crisis, how Draper would fit, and Ben's preference on where he would like to see the striker spend the season. You can follow the pod on Twitter - @ribbonpodcast Harley can be found here - @newssaddlers And Rob can be found here - @r_petrucco Thanks to our podcast sponsors, Brellis Recruitment Intro music thanks is Rolling Heads by the Unicorn Heads, and the chant is thanks to WFC Chants

Monday, July 31, 2023 at 8:30pm Central, I'll be going live in our new Facebook group to tell the story of how God provided the new guitar I was able to get as a result of the summer giving campaign. I'll bring the guitar and play a bit as well! Join the Facebook group here. These are the songs we sang this past week on the Morning Prayer and Worship podcast. The podcast is a compilation of all five songs. Find a playlist of the individual tracks here. “Lord, Make Me an Instrument” by Ben Ward and St. Francis of Assisi “O Taste and See” by Brian and Jenn Johnson “God I Look to You” by Ian McIntosh and Jenn Johnson “O Lord, You're Beautiful” by Keith Green “Jesus Lover Of My Soul” by Daniel Grul, John Ezzy, and Steve McPherson If you have a prayer request please submit it here. Sign up here for the email list. Art: A Channel of Your Peace (St. Francis of Assisi) by maha rukab --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/message

Monday, July 31, 2023 at 8:30pm Central, I'll be going live in our new Facebook group to tell the story of how God provided the new guitar I was able to get as a result of the summer giving campaign. I'll bring the guitar and play a bit as well! Join the Facebook group here. These are the songs we sang this past week on the Morning Prayer and Worship podcast. The podcast is a compilation of all five songs. Find a playlist of the individual tracks here. “Lord, Make Me an Instrument” by Ben Ward and St. Francis of Assisi “O Taste and See” by Brian and Jenn Johnson “God I Look to You” by Ian McIntosh and Jenn Johnson “O Lord, You're Beautiful” by Keith Green “Jesus Lover Of My Soul” by Daniel Grul, John Ezzy, and Steve McPherson If you have a prayer request please submit it here. Sign up here for the email list. Art: A Channel of Your Peace (St. Francis of Assisi) by maha rukab

The lives of Tim Molony and Ben Ward have converged and diverged multiple times since their days at school together, and yet they've come together in the present day to make games. Join them, along with Paul as they discuss the journey into the industry, how they reconvened, and the title they've developed like the newly released Dros in this new Dev Diary Consider supporting the Dev Diary Patreon for early access to episodes of both Dev Diary and Next Gen, as well as much more! Follow Paul and submit your ideas for future guests on Twitter. Visit the Player2 Website and the Player2 Youtube Channel where you can also follow his written and video exploits including reviews, feature pieces, and shows such as Patched, and Gamer School

Join Zach as he chats to Brisbane's EmergeWorlds' Tim Molony and Ben Ward all about the studio's foundations and its game Dros.

It's the last week of the summer giving campaign! Would you sow towards the ministry of Morning Prayer? These are the songs we sang this past week on the Morning Prayer and Worship podcast. Enjoy! “What a Beautiful Name” by Brooke Ligertwood and Ben Fielding “Breathe” by Marie Barnett “Sinking Deep” by Aodhan King and Joel Davies “I Need You Lord” by Ben Ward (me:) “The Fount” by Ben Ward (Instrumental) If you have a prayer request please submit it here. Sign up here for the email list. Photo: Arlette Hernandez, 42 Baxter Street, taken from Columbus Park, 2021.

It's the last week of the summer giving campaign! Would you sow towards the ministry of Morning Prayer? These are the songs we sang this past week on the Morning Prayer and Worship podcast. Enjoy! “What a Beautiful Name” by Brooke Ligertwood and Ben Fielding “Breathe” by Marie Barnett “Sinking Deep” by Aodhan King and Joel Davies “I Need You Lord” by Ben Ward (me:) “The Fount” by Ben Ward (Instrumental) If you have a prayer request please submit it here. Sign up here for the email list. Photo: Arlette Hernandez, 42 Baxter Street, taken from Columbus Park, 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/message

Ben Ward started in the direct selling industry back in 2001. In this episode he shares his million dollar secret to be successful on the doors and several other highly inspiring pieces of advice that will leave you feeling motivated and ready to hit the ground running in all aspects of your life! Tune in to hear more... Be sure to visit the websites below: Youtube Channel-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWb9Smw06aVYBApIwdTV_w Website- https://www.benward.com/

Eddie Grant chats to Ben Ward, Trust Registration Service Support Adviser, to discuss everything TRS. This episode provides an overview of the Trust Registration Service, following HMRC's regulatory changes to include most non-taxable trusts. Eddie and Ben discuss the obligations these changes place on financial advisors and the latest updates and news from HMRC. Furthermore this episode covers Technical Connection's TRS support services available and how they can help yourself and your client complete these new and unfamiliar obligations.   For any TRS queries or help and support please contact via email: ben.ward@technicalconnection.co.uk   Please note - The content of this recording is strictly for general consideration only. No action must be taken or refrained from based on the content alone. Professional advice must always be sought. Accordingly, neither Technical Connection Ltd nor any of its officers, employees or contractors can take responsibility for any loss occasioned as a result of any such action or inaction.

Welcome to episode 21 of Season 6. The show went out on Rebel Rock Radio on 25 May 2023.  It was pre-recorded as I was away in a wonderful little town called Sedgefield somewhere along the Garden Route in the Western Cape.  I listened in and chatted to the people and it was a very cool show.  We kicked off with Orange Goblin, they made their TSORR debut with ‘Save Me From Myself'.  I will be playing much more Orange Goblin in the future, Ben Ward and the lads know how to rock.  From there it was all slash-and-burn up-tempo stuff like Jørn, L.A. Guns and Ace Frehley with ‘In Pursuit of Rock ‘n' Roll.   https://yourlastrites.com/2016/07/26/diamonds-and-rust-exploring-metal-classics-riot-fire-down-under/  I had a great chat with Justin VR and it was really interesting to talk to him.  We took a listen to his brand new single ‘She Said'.  Justin is described as country alt-rock so we stayed in a related area and checked out a guy who is new to me followed by a guy who is definitely not new to me.  I am talking Jelly Roll and Kid Rock respectively.  After that, we needed a bit of metal so Exodus and Gojira were called into the ring to break some heads.   Near the end of the show, we checked out some interesting cover songs, Longview, which is a Bily Joe Armstrong side project, and Chris Cornell with a very interesting mix-up of the lyrics from Metallica and U2 in his version of the U2 track ‘One'.  Chris committed suicide on 18 May 2017, this track was recorded in 2015.  RIP Chris, you are missed.   This week's Immortals track was provided by one of my favourite bands ever The Stranglers.  We checked out 7:58 of the final track of their debut album Rattus Norvegicus.  JJ Burnell and Dave Greenfield are superb throughout.  For the Ultimate Challenge, we had a look at 2011 and the four albums chosen were Chickenfoot – III, Foo Fighters – Wasting Light, Sixx A.M. – This Is Gonna Hurt, and Five Finger Death Punch.  It was a toss-up between Foo Fighters and Chickenfoot.    Artists featured:  Orange Goblin, Jørn, Megadeth, L.A. Guns, Ace Frehley, Grand Funk Railroad, ACDC, Korn, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Van Halen, Tom Keifer, Triumph, Rush, Riot, Sinner, Texas Hippie Coalition, Circus of Power, Justin VR, Jelly Roll, Kid Rock, Exodus, Gojira, The Stranglers, Five Finger Death Punch, Chickenfoot, Sixx A.M. Foo Fighters, Rammstein, Queensrÿche, Marvellous 3, Matthew Good Band, Chris Cornell, The Longshot, Arch EnemyThe Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

This week on the podcast Keir Starmer has U-turned over student fees and finance - but what should Labour's policy be if not free education? Plus support for PGRs is in the news, universities are frantically fundraising in a period of fiscal constraint, and disadvantaged students go on to be lower earning graduates - why? With Selena Bolingbroke, Director at Sighthound Consultancy, Ben Ward, Chief Executive at University of Manchester Students' Union, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will sits down with Ben Ward the executive director and Amy Mizialko the president of the Milwaukee Teacher's Education Association (MTEA) to talk through what privatization of public schools looks like, feels like, and what it is doing to MPS here in Milwaukee.  Episode Links: https://weac.org/region/mtea/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-board-president-milwaukee-public-schools-charged-bribery-scheme-linked

Shift And Unlock Your Business - Ben Ward - Team Leader Academy | -EP30- https://www.joetaylorgroup.com/scheduleWe sit down with Ben Ward, From Ben Ward Leadership, to discuss ways to shift and unlock your business potential.  Joe and Ben served together on their missions and learned how to SELL their products.  Going from serving their church to selling and exponentially increasing their income. TEAM LEADER ACADEMY is for Aspiring Real Estate Team Leaders looking to expand their knowledge and teams to fuel their business.  We provide a blueprint to success with TEAM LEADER ACADEMY and want to provide resources for new, aspiring, or existing team leaders to grow their Real Estate Teams in 2022.

Don't let obstacles stop you from achieving your goals. In this part 2 episode, Ben Ward discusses his book Pluck the FUD. You may have experienced fear, uncertainty, and doubt at some point in your transition to leadership. Ben shares his motivations for writing the book, incorporating some of his learnings from his mentor. He also takes us to some of the chapters in his book to understand how you can pluck the FUD. So listen so you can pluck the FUD!

Being good at sales doesn't mean you're instantly a good leader. And so, Ben Ward spent several years learning to transition from being a good salesman into being a good leader. In this episode's Part 1, the discussion revolves around sales and leadership. Ben shares the pillars that he thinks are the key to success for you, your team, and your business. He learned essential keys during the transition to being an effective leader. These key takeaways were written in his book and shared in this episode, along with guiding principles. Tune in and learn how you can transition into being a good leader!

Special guest, Ben Ward, lead singer with UK metal legends Orange Goblin speaks with us today about the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Shining' plus we get into all things Orange Goblin from the off. I loved putting this episode together. 

Talking with @GT BMX Freestyle's Ben Ward about how het got involved with the BMX industry, how others can get involved with the BMX industry, his position at GT, the GT team, and more! Presented by and in partnership with https://www.sourcebmx.com First Real BMX Bike? - https://youtu.be/RCIhtsnuuko Is It Crankflip Or Kickflip? - https://youtu.be/zJN2yKQWGLU Swampfest 2022 Playlist - https://bit.ly/swampfest2022 Follow me on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/brant_moore "Merch" - https://teespring.com/stores/brant-moore Episodes with video - http://bit.ly/talkingbmx Thank you for choosing to spend your time listening! If you enjoyed it, share it with a friend. Consider Subscribing on Youtube - http://bit.ly/Brant_Moore If this helped you in some way, consider supporting the channel with my Join button for a membership or through my teespring store! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/brantmoore @Brant_Moore Clothing - https://teespring.com/stores/brant-moore --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brant-moore/support

Mike & Gully reflect on a captivating 2021/22 Championship campaign which saw Ealing come out on top in one of the closest title races in recent memories.  Gully is then joined by Ealing DoR Ben Ward who charts the club's rise from London 2 to this season's Championship champions.  Ward also discusses the ongoing appeals process as Trailfinders continue their attempts to secure promotion into the Premiership for next season. 

Will Kelleher hosts the latest episode of The Ruck and is joined by Mark Evans and Alan Dymock. They chat with Director of Rugby at Ealing, Ben Ward, after the club won the Championship for the first time this weekend but still don't know if they will win an appeal to get promoted to the Premiership. They round-up the latest in the Premiership and Women's 6 Nations and preview the last-16 of the Champions Cup this weekend. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I was hoping they'd be funny in real-life, because their games are, and I'm absolutely delighted to say they are. I'm still genuinely warmed that they're best friends in real-life and have been since school. I'd hoped as much - it's why I asked them to be on the Podcast together (the first double-header!) - but I didn't realise how fundamental to everything their friendship would be.   They are Dan Marshall and Ben Ward, the eponymous heroes and funny men behind the Dan and Ben series. See them in such daring adventures as Ben There, Dan That; Time Gentleman, Please; and Lair of the Clockwork God - the latter of which was one of my favourite games of 2020.    Dan Marshall is also known for superb burglary platformer The Swindle, among other smaller games like Gun Monkeys and Behold the Kickmen. And while these are games he didn't ostensibly make with Ben Ward, they are still concepts and ideas he absolutely ran past him and asked for his feedback on - and apparently he's hard to please!   The two of them are never happier than when giggling over ridiculous ideas encamped in a pub. Or, while on a writing retreat, which is what they actually call it, spending a week in a cottage somewhere that has a hot tub. What began with writing comics while they were supposed to be working in class has flourished into a lifelong friendship and collaboration. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did.  

Taas on tarjolla apokalyptistä maailmankuvaa, muistoja Lontoon yöelämästä, rockuutisia, uutisten analyysiä ja kaikenmoista mehevää Motörheadista Dolly Partoniin. Kuunneltuina levyinä David Bowien vuoden 1974 klassikko Diamond Dogs ja lontoolaisen rockbaari The Crobarin kokoelmalevy. Studiossa Sami Ruokangas ja Juha Kakkuri. Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ULZ6jhlOf3wZAWj6ZhlJj?si=88cb1e8f752541ad Menossa ovat mukana myös Hanoi Rocks, Sami Yaffa, Rare Bird Books, Nasty Suicide, Jan Stenfors, Stenfors, Eagles, Pink Floyd, The Rasmus, UMK, Pauli Rantasalmi, Tiktak, Emppu, Emilia Suhonen, Lauri Ylönen, Desmond Child, Aerosmith, INXS, KISS, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Bonnie Tyler, Lordi, Blackberry Smoke, Cheap Trick, Motörhead, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Neil Starr, Joel Peters, John Mayall, Dolly Parton, Netflix, Rush, Alex Lifeson, Andy Curran, Coney Hatch, Maiah Wynne, Judas Priest, Andy Sneap, Hell, Glenn Tipton, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, A Matter of Life and Death, Ziggy Stardust, David Live, Young Americans, Cracked Actor, George Orwell, 1984, William S. Burroughs, Mike Garson, Spiders From Mars, Aynsley Dunbar, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Tony Visconti, Keith Harwood, Guy Peellaert, Rolling Stones, Rock Dreams, Juha Markkanen, Nana, Mick Ronson, After Life, Ricky Gervais, AC/DC, Doc Holliday, Doc Holliday Rides Again, Gary Cherone, Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Slayer, Kerry King, Orange Goblin, Ben Ward, The Answer, Cormac Neeson, Slash, Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, Cactus, Canned Heat, Alice In Chains, Corrosion Of Conformity, Monster Magnet, ZZ Top, Kyuss, Testament, Carcass, Taint, Witchcraft, Grand Magus, Electric Wizard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Down, Probot, Lemmy, Clutch, Cathedral, Municipal Waste, The Obsessed, Gentlemans Pistols, Exodus, D.R.I., Sacred Reich, Iron Monkey ja Rob Zombie.

Ep. 066: In our first installment of 2017 and our first in nearly a month, your favorite heavy metal caballeros discuss some old business regarding Disturbed and Tony Iommi before discussing the latest from Revel in Flesh, Broken Soul, Red I.V., Alluvial, Gone is Gone and Halestorm. General, recording, touring and charting news for Metallica, Megadeth, Saxon, Hammerfall, Trivium, Vektor, Judas Priest, Immolation, Darkest Hour, Suicide Silence, Life of Agony and more. Chris discusses Orange Goblin frontman Ben Ward's crowdfunding campaign to assist the families affected by the recent employment cuts at Team Rock LTD before giving an update on the YouCaring campaign for Mike Williams of EyeHateGod, which Dan follows with an update on the campaign to fund the tenth anniversary release from Seven Kingdoms. Chris and Dan discuss the handful of shows they saw during the hiatus, including Sonata Arctica, Leaves Eyes, Omnium Gatherum and Jessikill (at Alamo City Music Hall), Killstorm, Target 7 and Broken Soul (at Fitzgerald's Bar), the Iron Maiden Laser Concert Experience featuring Seventh Son, Jessikill and Jose Shredderiffic (at Fitzgerald's Bar), Red I.V.'s New Years Eve EP release show (at Tonic Bar) and Dirty Sponge and Broken Soul (at Fitzgerald's Bar). Dan gives a heads-up regarding the forthcoming interview video with local legends Seance before announcing the removal of the Social Media Highlight segment from the podcast and the creation of the Shred Shack Sound Sharing Show, abbreviated as The S5. The show is closed out with a review of Rolling Stone's Top 20 Heavy Metal Albums of 2016 list. Here are the links to the crowdfunding pages mentioned earlier: Ben Ward's Team Rock YouGiving Page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ukrockcommunity Seven Kingdom's "Decennium": https://www.kickstarter.com/…/seven-kingdoms-decennium-limi… Mike Williams YouCaring page: https://www.youcaring.com/mikeixwilliams-695413 For those interested in the Rolling Stone article referenced above: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2016-w454251 Listen to the current and all previous installments of the Shred Shack Podcast on iTunes and/or MixCloud. Head to my Facebook page (Adamans Templum) for postings of all my exploits, including more Shred Shack-related video content. Head to Chris MacDonald CPT's Facebook page for nutritional and fitness guidance. You can follow Pete on Twitter and Instagram at AbyssalSun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For the 150th episode of The Metal Cell Podcast, it was a pleasure to welcome Ben Ward, vocalist of the legendary Orange Goblin. I was also joined by Rónán O 'hArrachtáin vocalist with Ten Ton Slug and Joe McGuigan bassist of Gama Bomb. Ben talks about how Orange Goblin was formed, the early years of the band, his booking agency Route One Booking, signing with Peaceville Records and the addition of Harry Armstrong on bass duties. There's also a discussion on the recording of a new Orange Goblin release along with some upcoming tour dates for the band discussed. So be sure to check it out and subscribe to The Metal Cell Podcast if you enjoyed the interview. Thanks for the support on this special episode. Richie.

Led by Galway native Warren Healy, Clubforce is on a mission to help grassroots sports organisations keep on top of their game through its innovative club management system. Focused on global growth, the Clubforce platform is evolving into a complete sports participation system, which will transform how club members, sports clubs and their governing bodies interact with each other.

Confession: we recorded this back in February 2021, but at long last, here is a great conversation with a fantastic writer, Ben Ward. Listen and learn as we talk about the role of sports in our lives, the creative process with food, and even about writing.

Welcome back to The High Way with Kyle Shutt! This week I catch up with my old friend and Orange Goblin front man, Ben Ward! Their brand of take-no-shit rock n' roll was a huge inspiration to me and The Sword as we were starting out and it was a real pleasure to talk about the differences between starting bands across the pond versus the states. Be sure not to miss an episode by subscribing to our channel! Help us keep the show moving along by visiting our Patreon page at the link below. For a few dollars a month you can get early access to next week's episode, score some sweet merch, get a monthly guitar lesson from me, and even get a shoutout on a future episode. https://www.patreon.com/thehighway We couldn't do it without your support and we thank every one of you for listening. Listen to this episode anywhere podcasts are streaming. Support this podcast

The paradigm used to be that corporate technology slowly inched its way into the consumer's hands. During that era, IT had full control over the technology. Users, however, were frustrated because of its inability to adapt to the experience we expected and needed. Now, that paradigm has shifted. Ever since the advent of the iPhone, we've flipped the script. Now, we're bringing user-friendly consumer technology into the workplace and asking IT to support it, to secure it — to make it work. In this episode, Ben Ward, EUC Activist and Senior SE at IGEL, breaks down the history of corporate technology and how consumerization has made IT's job both easier and more difficult. We discuss: - The beginnings of corporate technology - How the iPhone almost broke IT - Why enterprises should adopt an intuitive, user-friendly model for support - The trend toward user experience monitoring You can read Ben Ward's brilliant new article on Nexthink's DEX Hub (https://dex.nexthink.com/articles/new-employee-expectations) To hear more interviews like this one, subscribe to the Digital Employee Experience Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Digital Employee Experience in your favorite podcast player.

Show Notes: In today's episode, we talk about:  Why sales and leadership are two big words, you must master if you want to succeed in life.  How both skills help you build better rapport, connection, and engagement with a broad spectrum of people.  How you must never give up even if your ideas don't launch into orbit on the first try.  What are the elements you can draw from and use as your strength when things become very difficult.  Why you should not merely tell people what to do but instead build their confidence with the right vision and accountability.  What are the effective strategies for build an amazing team that move your company to greater heights.  Learn more about Ben here: Website: https://www.benward.com/ (https://www.benward.com/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1662914187192539 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1662914187192539) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-benward/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/-benward/) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWb9Smw06aVYBApIwdTV_w (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWb9Smw06aVYBApIwdTV_w)   For more information and to explore podcast episodes, visit themikecroc.com. To drop him an email, use: info@peoplebuildinginc.com   Follow Mike on social media:   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-ciorrocco/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-ciorrocco/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeciorrocco (https://www.facebook.com/mikeciorrocco) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeycroc (https://www.instagram.com/mikeycroc)  Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeycroc (https://twitter.com/mikeycroc)    If you haven't smashed the subscribe button, do it here➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWHuKojqZfcXmvGCAi_t1Q/ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWHuKojqZfcXmvGCAi_t1Q/)   The views and opinions expressed on the "What Are You Made Of?" podcast are solely those of the author and guests and should not be attributed to any other individual or entity. This is an independent production of Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco. The podcast production and the book "What Are You Made Of?" are the author's original works. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2021.

Are you a leader or a manager?  When you influence people do they do it because they have to or they want to?  Isn't that a tough question?  What do you think?   Are you able to boost people up, motivate them and inspire them to new levels?  Because that is the role of a long-term leader. Join me on this week's podcast on influence and leadership with Ben Ward.  Ben is a leadership expert that is going to teach you the tools and techniques of how to influence others.  You will discover more about praise and how to motivate people to the next level.  Influence Like A Brick - Interview with Ben Ward

This is Ordinary Time, Proper 8, in the Church Calendar. As always, our general order comes from the Book of Common Prayer (1979) Daily Office and Scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. We'll sing a retuned version of “There's a Wideness in God's Mercy” by Frederick Faber, Stephanie Osorio, and me throughout today's time of prayer. We'll read Psalm 30 followed by the Gloria Patri. Our Lesson is Mark 5:21-43. We'll say the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Collect of the Day. We'll then have a time of prompted prayer. If you have a prayer request please submit it at https://benwardmusic.com/prayerrequest. If you'd like to be on the email list visit https://benwardmusic.com/email. Visit https://patreon.com/morningprayer to give and support Morning Prayer monthly. Go to https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=LUAEY98ADT8UG to give a one-time gift. Artwork is by Annemiek Punt. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20210625950895369&code=act&RC=57959&Row=1 There's a Wideness Frederick W. Faber, Ben Ward, Stephanie Osorio There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea there's a kindness in God's justice which is more than liberty There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good There is mercy with the Savior there is healing in his blood How wide, how high How vast, everlasting enough We'll never reach the border Expanding like the universe It's the heart of holy order Mercy, kindness, overwhelming love For the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind If our love were but more simple we should rest upon God's word and our lives would be illumined by the presence of our Lord Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. Psalm 30 1 I will exalt you, O Lord, because you have lifted me up * and have not let my enemies triumph over me. 2 O Lord my God, I cried out to you, * and you restored me to health. 3 You brought me up, O Lord, from the dead; * you restored my life as I was going down to the grave. 4 Sing to the Lord, you servants of his; * give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. 5 For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, * his favor for a lifetime. 6 Weeping may spend the night, * but joy comes in the morning. 7 While I felt secure, I said, “I shall never be disturbed. * You, Lord, with your favor, made me as strong as the mountains.” 8 Then you hid your face, * and I was filled with fear. 9 I cried to you, O Lord; * I pleaded with the Lord, saying, 10 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the Pit? * will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness? 11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; * O Lord, be my helper.” 12 You have turned my wailing into dancing; * you have put off my sack-cloth and clothed me with joy. 13 Therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing; * O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever. Mark 5:21-43 (NRSV) When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that sh --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prayerandworship/message

This is Ordinary Time, Proper 8, in the Church Calendar. As always, our general order comes from the Book of Common Prayer (1979) Daily Office and Scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. We'll sing a retuned version of “There's a Wideness in God's Mercy” by Frederick Faber, Stephanie Osorio, and me throughout today's time of prayer. We'll read Psalm 30 followed by the Gloria Patri. Our Lesson is Mark 5:21-43. We'll say the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Collect of the Day. We'll then have a time of prompted prayer. If you have a prayer request please submit it at https://benwardmusic.com/prayerrequest. If you'd like to be on the email list visit https://benwardmusic.com/email. Visit https://patreon.com/morningprayer to give and support Morning Prayer monthly. Go to https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=LUAEY98ADT8UG to give a one-time gift. Artwork is by Annemiek Punt. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20210625950895369&code=act&RC=57959&Row=1 There's a Wideness Frederick W. Faber, Ben Ward, Stephanie Osorio There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea there's a kindness in God's justice which is more than liberty There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good There is mercy with the Savior there is healing in his blood How wide, how high How vast, everlasting enough We'll never reach the border Expanding like the universe It's the heart of holy order Mercy, kindness, overwhelming love For the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind If our love were but more simple we should rest upon God's word and our lives would be illumined by the presence of our Lord Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. Psalm 30 1 I will exalt you, O Lord, because you have lifted me up * and have not let my enemies triumph over me. 2 O Lord my God, I cried out to you, * and you restored me to health. 3 You brought me up, O Lord, from the dead; * you restored my life as I was going down to the grave. 4 Sing to the Lord, you servants of his; * give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. 5 For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, * his favor for a lifetime. 6 Weeping may spend the night, * but joy comes in the morning. 7 While I felt secure, I said, “I shall never be disturbed. * You, Lord, with your favor, made me as strong as the mountains.” 8 Then you hid your face, * and I was filled with fear. 9 I cried to you, O Lord; * I pleaded with the Lord, saying, 10 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the Pit? * will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness? 11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; * O Lord, be my helper.” 12 You have turned my wailing into dancing; * you have put off my sack-cloth and clothed me with joy. 13 Therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing; * O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever. Mark 5:21-43 (NRSV) When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.” So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?'” He looked all around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader's house to say, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?” But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. When he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha cum,” which means, “Little girl, get up!” And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. The Apostles' Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. The Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Collect of the Day Proper 8 Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen. (2 Corinthians 13:14)

Dan Marshall and Ben Ward record what has now become the first episode of 'Marshall-Ward Fare'. Working under the tentative title of Lair Of The Clockwork Pod, Dan and Ben chat about the development of their game, Lair Of The Clockwork God, before they head out to Rezzed to promote it.

Just because you're good at selling doesn't mean you'll be good at leading. That's something Ben Ward learned over 20 years of helping tens of thousands of sales leaders achieve industry-leading results in team sales.   “I've experienced this myself in sales and in transitioning into leadership. It's different focusing on yourself and then helping other people become good,” he says. “Some of my top salespeople were the worst managers, the worst leaders.”  In his new book, Sellership, Ben reveals secrets of how top salespeople can become remarkable sales leaders.   “There's a strategic plan, a system, a methodology to help somebody who's really good at sales transition successfully into leadership,” Ben tells Published Author Podcast host Josh Steimle.  FIRST STUDENT FROM PUBLISHED AUTHOR MASTERMIND  Ben is the first student from Josh's Published Author Mastermind program to finish a book. The program helped Ben refocus what that book should be about.    “This book I actually planned as my fifth book. I was going to write a whole different book, one that's now going to be coming out later this year,” he says. “It's for salespeople having to overcome the fear, the uncertainty and the doubt that you have to rid from your mind, like plucking a weed from a garden.”   But the book he ended up writing first, Sellership, was a better fit for the growth of his business: helping sales leaders master the skills of leading their teams to success. It's something he also drives home in individual and group coaching sessions, keynote speaking and digital master classes.  RELYING ON MENTORS AND OTHER WRITERS   Ben leaned heavily on other mentors and writers in developing his book. Brian Tracy, who's written countless best-selling books on sales and leadership, was an early inspiration, from his books on tape to a mastermind retreat he led that Ben attended. Brian ended up writing the forward for Sellership.   Greg Reid, who's written dozens of similar bestselling books, jumped on board as Ben's co-author of Sellership. “He loved the idea and he wanted to help me,” Ben says. “He helped me blend it into an easy-to-read story that's packed with principles.”   A ghostwriter was also enlisted, particularly to help develop Ben's writing voice and the book chapters. They developed a system of sending the ghostwriter transcripts from Ben's YouTube channel and then discussing ideas over the phone.   “That ghostwriting experience was a bit of a challenge, but it ended up being amazing, taking my knowledge and concepts and having her put them in a way I could never have written myself,” he says.   The YouTube videos provided an additional benefit, allowing clients to share insights in team training meetings, coaching sessions and digital courses. “Doing those videos has been extremely valuable,” Ben says. “Recently, I've gotten new clients that way as well.”  LINKS Instagram.com Facebook LinkedIn YouTube.com BenWard.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE PUBLISHED AUTHOR PODCAST  If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. You can also watch episodes of the podcast on YouTube.  And if you want to spread the word, please give us a five-star review (we read every single one!) and share this page with your friends.   We also share valuable snippets from podcast episodes on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.  ABOUT THE HOST  The Published Author Podcast is hosted by Josh Steimle, founder of Published Author. Josh is a book author himself and his article writing has been featured in over two dozen publications including Time, Forbes, Fortune, Mashable, and TechCrunch. He's a TEDx speaker, the founder of the global marketing agency MWI, a skater, father, and husband, and lives on a horse farm in Boston. Learn more at JoshSteimle.com.

On the third episode of Kit Chat, hosts Zachary Bahar and Nora Miller (Executive Editors of https://www.evanstonian.net/ (The Evanstonian)) discuss student political involvement leading up to the 2020 election with ETHS Politics Club co-founder Ben Ward and the work being done by environmental activist group E-Town Sunrise with member Noam Hasak-Lowy. Go to https://www.evanstonian.net/ (The Evanstonian) website and check out our https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oi_jYtzT9pwjzyL41UfJp7gD060VuQu7/view?usp=sharing ( Oct. 20 issue) to learn more about the state of Evanston as the end of 2020 approaches. Follow The Evanstonian on https://www.instagram.com/the_evanstonian/ (Instagram) and https://twitter.com/theevanstonian?lang=en (Twitter) to keep up to date with all of our work. 2:45 - ETHS Political Groups w/ Ben Ward 21:10 - E-Town Sunrise w/ Noam Hasak-Lowy USEFUL LINKS: https://www.evanstonian.net/news/2020/10/20/closer-look-at-student-political-action/ (Closer look at student political action) https://www.evanstonian.net/news/2020/10/02/road-to-the-election/ (Road to the election) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbROe8JYm4&list=PL47sATSIrfkpmWToOF4_YxjIgKOHw0Oo7&index=14&ab_channel=HowtoVoteinEveryState (How to Vote in Illinois) https://www.cityofevanston.org/government/city-clerk/voting-information (Voting Information in Evanston) https://www.instagram.com/eths.civicengagement/ (Civic Engagement Committee) https://www.evanstonian.net/feature/2020/10/20/eths-environmental-clubs-during-covid/ (ETHS Environmental Clubs During COVID) https://www.evanstonian.net/feature/2020/10/20/five-questions-with-cges-bea-echeverria/ (Five questions with CGE's Bea Echeverria) https://www.evanstonian.net/news/2020/10/20/sebastian-nalls-eths-alumn-runs-for-mayor/ (Sebastian Nalls: ETHS alum runs for mayor) https://www.instagram.com/etown_sunrise/ (E-Town Sunrise) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554229/fashionopolis-by-dana-thomas/ (Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters) https://www.elizabethclinebooks.com/the-conscious-closet (The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ (A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) Produced by John Phillips. Edited by Nora Miller.  Intro music courtesy https://www.ethsbands.com/marching-band (ETHS Marching Band); outro music by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pIG1wYp1c&ab_channel=KamasiHill (Dr. Kamasi Hill and CJ Singletary).

It's here! It's the first episode of the Stacey West Podcast! Gary Hutchinson and Ben Ward talk everything Lincoln City, including our fortuitous win over Bury, our fortuitous draw with Grimsby, and the somewhat frustrating situation at the bar!  Subscribe to the podcast with whatever service you fancy, and be sure to leave us a review! 

Welcome to episode 11 of the Wesleyan Potluck: here's a rundown of what we'll be covering today: In the Lineup we'll be talking about $50 phones and playing Snake The meal will feature a discussion on the end game of the mission movement The Dessert Table will feature a great John Wesley quote, and the cleanup is where we will tell you how to become a part of the Potluck community. The Lineup- https://hypebeast.com/2017/2/nokia-3310-relaunch http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14749896/nokia-3310-snake-gameplay-preview-mwc-2017 The Meal- http://www.amplifyingmission.com/2016/08/29/the-end-game-of-the-mission-movement/ Ben Ward, Director of Communications & Innovations Architect and Asia Area Director We often say: “Our global plan for amplifying mission is based on the 5 Phases of the Missional Church. “Phase 1 begins when a church sends missionaries into an unreached place. Missionaries learn the culture and establish relationships, both proclaiming and demonstrating the gospel. As churches form and mature, the roles of the missionary team and the sending church they represent continually change. We customize our field strategy to meet the developmental needs of the receiving church based on its current phase. “Ultimately, the missional church reaches Phase 5—Multiplying Movements—achieving full partnership with the Global Church, increasingly amplifying mission.” Together with the Nepali leaders, we dreamed of a day when a strong, self-supporting Nepali Church becomes a full partner with the Global Church, crossing cultural boundaries, amplifying mission in the least reached places of the earth. Disciples making disciples. Churches planting churches. Networks of churches crossing cultural and national boundaries to start new networks of churches. Multiplying Movements—this is our end game." The Dessert Table: “God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.” — John Wesley ― John Wesley The Cleanup Twitter-@tpkirkpatrick and @heathmullikin The Facebook Group www.wesleyanpotluck.com