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As a collaborative team, Dean Bensen and Demetra Theofanous create narrative pate de verre wall sculptures utilizing nature as a vehicle to communicate environmental challenges and metaphors for the human experience. Their work connects the viewer with the natural world and instills an appreciation for its interconnectedness to humanity and its inherent fragility.    Says Bensen and Theofanous: “Our decaying leaf installations reflect on our impermanence and vulnerability. What we do has impact – often unforeseen and unmeasured. A pile of leaves hit by a gust of wind is a metaphor for this uncertainty in our future. It expresses that pivotal moment of change, when things we took for granted are suddenly gone. Existing peacefully with others and protecting our natural resources is a tenuous balance, highlighting our interdependence on others and the earth.” Bensen and Theofanous work both independently and as a collaborative team. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous private and public collections. Recent exhibitions include participating 2018 at the Ming Shangde Glass Museum in China, where they received an award from the Chinese government. Another large-scale leaf installation was on view 2022-‘23 in an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, curated by Brandy Culp. Attending The College of Idaho, Bensen graduated with a BA in art in 1990. His fascination in glass started a hunger for what he had been missing since his youth, an immersion into the exploration and development of his creative side. Upon receiving his degree, he moved to Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho, where he continued working in glass at a local studio. In 1997, the artist returned to California to pursue glassblowing as a full-time career. Immersing himself in the Bay Area glass scene, Bensen began working for many local artists and teaching at places such as San Jose State University, Palo Alto High School, Corning Glass School, Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI), and Public Glass.  In 2002, Bensen developed a body of work that would become the foundation for his ideas based on the existence of the old growth redwood forest. Using both clear glass and color, he focused initially on environmental concerns. As his concepts evolved, Bensen's work grew further, investigating the life cycles in nature, their significance, and the interplay between the earth and various species. Each slice of murrine served to highlight one of nature's footprints, marking the passage of time and a glimpse of history, the rings of life in a felled tree. Bensen has taught extensively, received a scholarship to attend Pilchuck glass school, and his first solo show, Nature's Footprints, received a full-page review in the San Francisco Chronicle. His work has been widely exhibited, including at the Imagine Museum, San Francisco Airport Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Oakland Airport Museum, and the Ming Shangde Glass Museum in China. He has also worked on a team creating several projects for renowned artist Dale Chihuly, including an enormous chandelier in Dubai.  Theofanous was immersed in the arts from a very young age, but this thirst for expression was temporarily diverted when she received her business degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She graduated and spent time working in San Francisco only to realize there was something missing in her work, and she needed to find a way to return to her creative roots. In 2004, Theofanous entered the medium of glass through flameworking and developed a method for weaving with glass that provides a continuing basis for narratives and investigation in her work. She also utilizes the ancient technique of pate de verre, which offers a detailed and painterly approach to casting that is well suited to creating hyper-realistic sculpture inspired by the natural world. Some of her sculptures now combine this cast glass technique with flameworked sculpture.  Theofanous has been internationally recognized for her woven glass nest and flora sculptures, and is included in numerous private collections, as well as in the permanent collection of the Racine Art Museum. Notable awards include: a Juror's Choice Award from renowned collector Dorothy Saxe, a merit award from Paul Stankard, a NICHE Award, a Juror's Choice Award at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Grant, two juror awards from Carol Sauvion, Executive Producer of Craft in America, and an Award of Excellence juried by the Detroit Institute of the Arts in Habatat Gallery's 50th International Exhibiton . She has exhibited internationally, including at the Triennial of the Silicate Arts in Hungary, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, National Liberty Museum, Alexandria Museum of Art, and twice in the Crocker Art Museum's prestigious Crocker-Kingsley Biennial. As an educator she has taught at top institutions such as Pratt Fine Arts Center and Pittsburgh Glass Center. She serves as Board President of the Glass Alliance of Northern California, was as a Board Member of the Glass Art Society, and is the President of the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. Theofanous and Bensen met in 2004, and their friendship soon evolved into a partnership, both in and outside of the studio. In 2017, during an artist residency at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, they began to merge their sculptural works culminating with an exhibition of woven glass wall tapestries titled Intertwined. Their collaborative work is now represented by some of the country's finest galleries, has been exhibited at numerous museums, and is in the permanent collection of the Imagine Museum and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Says Theofanous: “Technique merges with narratives in our work, to express metaphorical bridges between nature and human beings. Inspired by the storytelling tradition of woven tapestry and basketry, I see myself as weaving with glass to connect the viewer with the story of the natural world. Through the delicate leaves in each piece, I seek to depict the cycle of life: growth, discovery, change and renewal. I use the fluidity and fragility of glass to express the beauty and vulnerability inherent in the human experience.”  Theofanous and Bensen will have a solo exhibition at Trifecta Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, in fall of 2023.  

Are you feeling burnt out? Today on The Legalpreneur, I welcome our longstanding member, Nicole Bensen, to discuss burnout, retreats, and mindfulness training. She got her start at Google, managing the well-being program for women. Working in big tech can be stressful, so Nicole took a leap of faith and started Tentacles and Tea, a wellness retreat and coaching business that helps you escape the grind in some of the most beautiful locations around the world. Everything runs on divine timing, Nicole started her business the moment the world shut down, but that did not phase her! She shares how she pivoted her business model to online coaching and persevered through the past two years. Her hard work paid off, so today she is announcing her first in-person retreat in Switzerland! This trip will be an amazing opportunity to reconnect with yourself, have some fun and meet great people in the process. Nicole reveals how helpful her Legalpreneur Membership was to the formation of her company, and the benefits of having an attorney on hand! Join us as we dive into the world of Big Tech, woo-woo, and personal development.Key Takeaways:[0:40] Nicole's journey from Google to entrepreneurship [2:40] How Nicole landed her job at Google[5:00] Networking within your organization [7:40] Why Nicole left Google[10:00] Shifting to online courses[11:35] Workshops for corporate teams[13:00] Nicole's first in-person retreat[20:00] Reframing the WOO for your audience [23:20] The flex of having the Legalpreneur MembershipTo learn more about Nicole, click the links below:NicoleBensen.comInstagram THE LEGALPRENEUR BOOK IS HERE!Click this link to buy it now:  AmazonGet Legally Protected!Want to legally protect your business without the seemingly over-complicated approach?   We have THE solution for you, the Legal Protection Playbook!  Get started here.Links: Andrea's Instagram Legalpreneur Instagram Website FacebookTwitter TikTokYouTube_____Disclaimer: The Legalpreneur Podcast is advertising/marketing material. It is not legal advice. Please consult with your attorney on these topics. Copyright Legalpreneur Inc 2022

In this conversation Oracle's Jim Grisanzio talks with Oracle engineer Chris Bensen about the massive Raspberry Pi cluster he was showing at JavaOne & Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas. The cluster was connected to Oracle Cloud and ran a variety of technologies, such as Java, Linux, Database, and more.  Chris Bensen, Oracle Developer Relations https://twitter.com/chrisbensen Video of Podcast Interview https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vAGRAjbkpVKl  Jim Grisanzio, Duke's Corner Podcast Host https://dev.java/duke/corner/  https://twitter.com/jimgris

Episode 318."Stranger Things"Actor: Logan Riley Bruner.Logan Riley Bruner can currently be found in Season 4 of Stranger Things as Fred Benson. I absolutely loved chatting with Logan about Stranger Things, movies, acting, one take shots and so much more.Logan is a native of NYC and is a life long actor and writer.Welcome, Logan Riley BrunerInstagram: Monday Morning Critic Podcast.Facebook: Monday Morning Critic Podcast.Twitter:@mdmcriticEmail: Mondaymorningcritic@gmail.comYouTube: Monday Morning Critic Podcastwww.mmcpodcast.com

Welcome back to another episode of the DO BIG THINGS podcast!  This week, I sit down with Karla Bensen, an endurance athlete and coach who owns a company called Elevated Endurance.  We discuss her business, coaching philosophies as well as her latest accomplishment, running the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim!  I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did! elevatedendurance.ca big-things-crewing.com Original Music by @the.pro.guey SPONSORS: biggerthanthetrail.ca xoskin.us 10% PROMO code is BTC alteregorunning.com 20% PROMO code is DOBIGTHINGS athleticbrewing.com 20% PROMO code is MCROBERTSA20 Life is short, DO BIG THINGS baby!

Did you know that when faced with a dangerous or toxic situation, an octopus can voluntarily break off one of its own limbs? Yup, we didn't know that either. But our guest on the podcast today did and her methodology is to help people cut off those parts of their lives that are no longer serving them, emotionally, mentally, physically ... all of it! Nicole Bensen is a happiness and wellbeing coach and expert and utilizing her years of experience at Google, running wellbeing programs for their top female executives, she is now looking to serve a larger, global community. In this episode, we hear about how Nicole, despite all the amazing perks and benefits of working at a company like Google, actually experienced burnout herself, which shifted her perspective on what she was doing and how she was doing it. After taking a leave of absence, she realized she wanted her life to look different! Using research based science, along with some more mystical and fun, quirky techniques!, Nicole helps clients to build a more meaningful, connected, and joyful life. Grab your audio, and take a listen out in the sunshine to hear about the following: 1) How to get back to center, without having to spend 7 days in the mountains meditating with monks. 2) How we all can benefit from what Nicole calls a "minimum viable experience". Think - small shifts daily. 3) How you can enjoy work and love your life at the same time, while avoiding burnout and massive amounts of stress! You can find Nicole below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolebensen/ https://www.instagram.com/tentaclesandtea.nicole/ https://nicolebensen.com/ Titles/hats Founder and CEO Happiness and Wellbeing Consultant Happiness and Wellbeing Strategist Happiness Enthusiast OR Ambassador OR Coach Executive Coach Corporate Facilitator

Finding Joy and Well-being with Nicole Bensen  Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:  1.  Be inspired by how Nicole found the common thread in all her work and made that the center of her entrepreneurship.  2.  Hear how she took the daunting leap from a dream job with perks beyond belief at Google to starting her own business.  3.  Discover the uber luxe retreat locations Nicole is planning for.  Resources:  -- My first book, Relationship Ready: How I Stopped Fucking Randos and Started Cupcaking My Soulmate, is available on Amazon and Audible.  Grab your copy now!  -- Subscribe to my mailing list on my website.  -- Visit my website to learn about my coaching programs.  -- Visit Nicole's website ┃Instagram ┃Facebook   -- Watch TED talk, Jia Jiang: What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection  -- Check out Villa Honegg and Burgenstock Resort in Switzerland  -- Check out happiness researcher Sonja Lyubormirsky  -- Read Are You Busy Or Productive? By Christine Carter    Episode Highlights  The Pinnacle of Corporate Life in Silicon Valley  Nicole started as a recruiter making 80 calls a day and 10 client visits a week.  She was recruited to work at Google in their recruiting program.  She went on to be the program manager of many programs including the Wellbeing Program for Google's Executive Female Leaders.  She worked and lived in Switzerland for part of her time with Google.  At Google she had perks beyond belief and learned how to create luxurious Leadership programs and retreats for the highest positions at Google.    After nearly a decade she found herself as the program manager of 9 demanding programs.  Some Sneaky Burnout Symptoms  Waking up in the night with tightness in the chest, hard to breath.  Shaking hands.  Chipping teeth.  “I'm so busy” is a sign that we are stretched too thin.  If we are stretched too thin, we are missing our opportunity to do things to the best of our ability.  “I'm bored” can be a sign of being so overloaded that we become numb.  Feeling imposter's syndrome.  We will jump to deliver everything so we can keep up.    Headaches.  Sleeping too much or too little.      We Become Resilient by Getting Up After a Fall  Nicole took a leave of absence and did ALL the things (books, conferences, her doctor, work stress coach, couple's therapist, psychiatrist, etc) to get back to a healthier mental place. Near the end of her leave, Nicole decided to choose her wellbeing and follow her dream to start her own business drawing on all of her experience.    Self-compassion, mindfulness, and resilience are integral.  Staying in our comfort zone stunts our resilience among so many other things.  Need to practice failing and getting up.  “Focus on what's strong, not what's wrong”  What I LOVE About What I Do  Supporting others in chasing their dreams  Creating experiences for people to learn about themselves so they can pursue their dreams and best selves  Learning and doing research about how our brains work  Studying happiness and wellbeing  Creating courses and quirky exercises to practice the concepts  Tips for Developing Happiness and Joy  If you try a practice or strategy and it doesn't work, even though it works for EVERYONE else, try something else.  Make tiny goals or M.V.E.s (Minimum Viable Experiments).  These create energy and momentum.   Surround yourself with happy people. The friends of your own friends are affected by your happiness (or unhappiness).  Laugh!  Try Laughter Yoga in which you force yourself to laugh.  Its starts off feeling cheesy, but we end up actually feeling happier afterwards.  The Hard Part  Practicing being brave, working on my own resilience, putting myself out there,  Launching a new program after hundreds of hours of creating something with love and tears… and then crickets.  I Don't Do it All… No One Can Do it All  Doing it all is not a healthy goal.  I pick and choose what gets my attention that day or week.  Not feeling bad about not doing it all is a practice.   I want to set boundaries and make wellbeing a priority.  About Nicole  Nicole lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two children, two kitties, and a baby on the way.  Nicole's father was a software engineer and she has lived around Silicon Valley for most of her life.  She started her career as a recruiter for staffing agencies and moved over to Google when a former manager recruited her to Google's recruiting program.  At Google she worked in the recruiting organization then became a program manager in Switzerland.  Nicole was the program manager for the Wellbeing Program for Google's Executive Female Leaders along with 9 other programs.  After nearly a decade at Google and experiencing extreme burnout, Nicole reflected on her work experience and chose to create a company that centered all the things she was passionate about.  She is the Founder and CEO of Tentacles and Tea, a Happiness Ambassador, Positive Psychology Coach, and Creator of Transformational Experiences. Nicole offers one-on-one coaching, group programs, and corporate workshops, and luxurious retreats in the dreamiest locations near and far.      Enjoy the Podcast? If you enjoyed today's episode of The Heidi B Show, then hit subscribe, and share it with your friends!  Post a review and share it!  If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review.  You can also share this episode with your womenpreneur family and friends, so they can get closer to owning their power and upgrading their lives.   Have any questions?  You can contact me through email (heidi@heidibcoaching.com) or find me on Instagram or Facebook.  Thanks for listening!  For more updates and episodes, visit my website.  You may also tune in on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.  To pursuing our passions and building our businesses,  Heidi B 

Ryan Benson, a forensic accountant, business and income valuator, joins me for this week's episode of Divorcing Well to discuss income assessment during a divorce. We discuss when and why you would need to get your spouse's income assessed, the difference between income for tax purposes and income for support purposes, and how income can be determined when a spouse reports having no income. Ryan gives listeners examples of situations he has seen in his line of work, which are important in allowing clients to protect themselves financially. Get in touch with Ryan at bensenindustries.com or at (905) 699 - 2317

In this episode we chat with author Daniel M. Bensen about his new speculative biology novel Interchange.In this sequel to 2019's Junction, a group of humans attempt to travel across the many biomes of the alien planet beyond the wormhole on Earth. Daniel discusses how his worldbuilding process leant itself to creating the geography and biology of multiple planets spilling into and evolving on a single shared world. We also talk about writing and publishing in lockdown and his recent co-authored comic First Knife from Image Comics.Interchange, and it's prequel Junction, are out now from Flame Tree Press.Follow us on Twitter @TFCAAJoin us on FacebookVisit our Website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel Bensen is an author of science fiction, alternate history, and stories of speculative evolution. In this interview, we discuss his new book, Interchange, sequel to his debut novel, Junction, and other writings. Dan's website. Dan's book recommendations: The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold Greg Egan The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker

Winnipeg Blue Bombers Long snapper and Linebacker Mike Bensen joins Coach Gies to talk about his journey in the game. Mike shares his humble beginnings playing multiple sports and realizing early in his high school career that he had great talent in the game of football. Mike talks about winning a High School Championship at St.Pauls High School in 2003 and speaks highly of Head Coach Stacy Dainard. Mike tells his unique story after high school where he took time off from the game to go backpacking, coming back home to play Major and then CJFL football which led him to the University of Acadia and being signed as a free agent by Edmonton of the CFL. Mike shares great insight of the mindset it takes to play both at the USports and the professional level!

**This episode was published under our former branding The Choice with Amy Bett. The content is still so relevant so we have kept it available for you. :)  How To Avoid Burnout with Nicole Bensen from Tentacles and Tea.  Nicole is a Happiness and Wellbeing Enthusiast. After spending nearly a decade at Google, where she managed the wellbeing program for executive women leaders among other roles, Nicole ironically experienced burnout herself. So she set out on a mission to gain the tools and knowledge to get back to a healthy, happy place and on that journey she became so passionate to teach her new skill set to others through incredible Global Retreats, Corporate Workshops and 1:1 coaching.  Nicole believes that you can be productive, have success, enjoy the finer things in life, and have wellbeing and I am so excited for you to learn from her today so get a notebook, remove distractions and lets dive in! CONNECT WITH NICOLE BENSEN Instagram: HERE Website: HERE Get Nicole's S.T.A.R Your Thoughts Worksheet - HERE CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST - AMY BETT Work With Me 1:1 Coaching - HERE Instagram - HERE Get my FREE 10 Page Guide - How Successful Business Owners Manage Money and Pay Themselves. HERE I would love to hear your thoughts and AH HA Moments!! Send me a DM over at my instagram @amybett_. or  send me an email at hello@amybett.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inspiring Builders: Part 1: Jim Grisanzio and Chris Bensen from Oracle Developer Relations talk about how they engage developers via demos and experiences online and at conferences. This in depth conversation is part one of a two part series on inspiring developers to build real things.  Jim Grisanzio on Twitter @jimgris Chris Bensen on Twitter @chrisbensen YouTube: Chris Bensen: Inspiring Developers to Build Real Things Building of Super Pi Building the world's largest Raspberry Pi cluster The Seven Step Process to Creating an Amazing Demo Starting a New Project — Pi Zero Custom Breadboard Episode 1 - Custom Breadboard for Pi Zero    

Ben, from Fannystelle, Manitoba Canada, had an extremely rough start in his first home with his biological family. He was abused at the hand of his step dad, so he was removed by child and family services for his safety. Bensen, or Ben was nursed back to health in foster care, and placed in a new family at seven years old. He admits he was an angry teen, taking on negativity in his life to cope. But as an adult he's done the hard work to make positive change for himself despite living with triggers on his body that remind him of what he's endured. Ben speaks of breaking the cycle of abuse when raising his own daughter, thanking his foster family for their loving care, and encouraging other adoptees (especially men) to tell their story over and over to try to reduce the pain we sometimes feel. This is Bensen's journey. Support this podcast

Ryan Bensen - an experienced Chartered & Forensic Accountant, Chartered Business Valuator & Fraud Examiner, IS BACK!We discuss “income” and related subjects - including by applying the concepts we cover to illustrative hypotheticals.Because Ryan is a returning guest and I have already asked him my standard questions about food, this time I focus my laser beam on Nashville and we have fun around the subject of country music - LISTEN!I invite you to learn more about Ryan, and to contact him, through his website: www.bensenindustries.comMy email is: aj@jakubowska.ca

I'm so happy you're here for this week's "5 Questions with a Mom Entrepreneur" featuring happiness and wellbeing ambassador, Positive Psychology coach, and creator of transformational experiences, Nicole Bensen of Tentacles and Tea. Nicole spent nearly a decade at Google, ultimately managing the wellbeing program for Google's executive women leaders. After experiencing burnout herself, she left to found Tentacles and Tea to share resilience, self-compassion, and accessible mindfulness techniques through her corporate workshops, group programs, and 1:1 coaching. Her mission to support people in creating more meaningful, connected, happy lives. When she's not spreading happiness and wellbeing to others, Nicole enjoys her life in Silicon Valley, California with her husband, two daughters, and three cats. Check out today's show notes to connect Nicole: businesssavvymama.com/nicole-bensen Want to check out past episodes of "5 Questions with a Mom Entrepreneur"? Go to www.businesssavvymama.com/5-questions-with-a-mom-entrepreneur/ -------------------- Need more family fun in 2021? Pick up my FREE Monthly Family Fun Bucket List and start planning more fun, intentional family time today. Visit familyfun.businesssavvymama.com to grab your copy! Check out the show notes and past episodes at businesssavvymama.com/podcast Let's Connect! Instagram @businesssavvymama Facebook Business Savvy Mama Pinterest pinterest.com/businesssavvymama --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/businesssavvymama/message

This week's episode features my dialogue with Ryan Bensen - an experienced Chartered & Forensic Accountant, Chartered Business Valuator & Fraud Examiner.We discuss the intersection of family law and forensic accounting - including by applying the concepts we cover to an illustrative, hypothetical family. As usual, at the end of the episode, we spend some time on one of my favourite subjects, food - LISTEN!I invite you to learn more about Ryan, and to contact him, through his website: www.bensenindustries.comMy email is: aj@jakubowska.ca

Ep. 454 - Jennifer Bensen - International Teacher - Good evening Angelica! "When your inner "ding" calls, will you listen? And see it for the beautiful possibility it is? My inner ding led me on a 13-year journey to the Middle East to teach in 2002. I answered the call and leaped, leading me on the most authentic adventure of my life. To do this, I had to leave behind my family, my partner of 10 years, and my ESL teaching job." Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbensonwriter Website: https://jenniferbensonauthor.godaddysites.com/ Teaching International Links: International School Services https://www.iss.edu/ Search Associates: https://www.searchassociates.com/ Buy me a Coffee: Ko-fi.com/everythingwithange Rate this podcast: www.ratethispodcast.com/everythingwithange Review on: https://www.podchaser.com/users/everythingwithange Facebook: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Instagram: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Merch Line IG: @avgest2020 Website: www.everythingwithange.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/support

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In this week's episode of Divorcing Well, I interview Ryan Bensen, a Forensic and Litigation Accountant who specializes in complex family law matters involving calculations of income for support and business valuations. These issues come up in matters where one party is trying to hide money and their income tax return does not accurately reflect their true income. Business valuations are something that is required anytime one party owns or is a partner in a business. Often the value of the business can be a highly litigious matter and can significantly affect equalization payments and property division.

Show Notes Moe Factz with Adam Curry for September 19th 2020, Episode number 49 "Brothas Be Voting" Description Adam and Moe review the Democratic and Republican conventions, who the parties were speaking to and they deconstruct it all the way down the Chaotic Magic rabbit hole Executive Producers: James Jackie Greene Cole Calistra Nastassja Findley Branden Kollmar Frankie G Anonymous Please Daniel Huttner Brian Rogers Steve Allen Associate Executive Producers: Theodora Dorinda Ongena gunter weber Elvis Rosenberg Episode 49 Club Members Occult Fan Sir Spencer, Wolf of Kansas City & Dame DuhLaurien ShowNotes Dr.UmarJohnson.com Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:18 RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW FOR DR. JOHNSON'S NEXT APPEARANCE RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW FOR DR. JOHNSON'S NEXT APPEARANCE SIGN UP NOW FOR THE LATEST UPDATES SEND AN EMAIL TO STAY CONNECTED TO ALL UPCOMING EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS THE NATIONAL BLACK PARENT TRAINING TOUR 2020 GET YOUR IFATUNDE APPAREL HERE YOUR DONATIONS WILL HELP TO BUILD THE FDMG SCHOOL. SHARE IN DR. UMAR'S VISION TODAY! Send Restoration Fund Donations to:FDMG ACADEMYPO BOX 9634Wilmington DE 19809 STRIVE FOR PERSEVERANCE. DELIVER EXCELLENCE. Dr. Umar Johnson is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Certified School Psychologist who is considered an expert on the education and mental health of Afrikan and Afrikan-American children. Dr. Umar, as he is known to friends, is a paternal kinsman to both the Great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and the late Bishop Alexander Wayman (1821-1895), 7th Bishop of the AME Church, both from Maryland's Eastern Shore.Dr. Umar is founder and lead tour guide for the "Unapologetically Afrikan" Black College & Consciousness Tour for 11 thru 17-year-old boys & girls which exposes them to the great historical Black College tradition, within the context of visiting and learning about significant places and personalities that helped shaped the global Afrikan struggle for freedom and independence. This tour is held annually during the first two weeks of July. The Prince of Pan-Afrikanism hosts a free regular weekly Black parent teleconference every Tuesday morning from 6-8am EST where he gives free educational and mental health consultations to community members in order to help them better advocate for Black children. Dr. Umar's name, quotes and speeches have been mentioned and shared on records and songs by various Hip-Hop artists more than any other living scholar. In addition, his image has been re-created by various Black artists more than any other scholar of the 21st century. The most requested Black scholar in America also hosts a regular annual "Unapologetically Afrikan" Group tour to the Afrikan continent, which takes place the last week in July and first week in August. This tour, which always includes stops in two different countries, is designed to help Afrikans in the west reestablish their psycho-spiritual connection to their ancestral homeland. A direct descendant of formerly enslaved civil war veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops of Maryland, Dr. Umar is an educational diagnostician who specializes in special education issues. He is known most for his work in identifying mis-diagnosed learning disabled and ADHD students. Dr. Umar has been featured on News One Now, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Bev Smith Show, The Breakfast Club, as has appeared as a special guest life coach on Real Housewives of Atlanta(RHOA8). As a child therapist, he works with depressed and behaviorally-challenged males. Dr. Umar is author of the book "Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education and ADHD Wars Against Black Boys," the 1st book ever written by a African-American male school psychologist to Black parents with specific strategies on how to fight back against special education and ADHD misdiagnoses. Dr.Umar also holds degrees in education and political science.Dr. Johnson is preparing to begin organizing his National Independent Black Ex-Offender Association (NIBEA), also known as "The New Underground Railroad," in order to advocate for rights on behalf of previously incarcerated Black women, men & children, and to prevent their recidivism. Dr. Umar is founder of the "Unapologetically Afrikan," "Unapologetically Black," & "Afrikan Family First" movements. Dr. Umar is founder & president of the National Independent Black Parent Association (NIBPA) organized to fight against educational and academic racism & disproportionality in the 7 core areas of a) special education, b) school discipline, c) school finance, d) social support/services, e) school policy, f) home schooling, and g) parent advocacy. One of the most recognized social scientists & Pan-Afrikanists of the 21st Century, his book, articles and lectures are included by college and university professors across the country within their required course materials. Dr. Umar is one of the most requested speakers in the world, and has lectured in North America, South America, The Caribbean, Europe and Afrika. Dr. Umar is currently working on building his new school, The Frederick Douglass & Marcus Garvey RBG International Leadership Academy for Boys, America's first residential academy for Black boys founded upon the principles of Pan-Afrikanism and International Economics. In the future, Dr. Umar also would like to extend this school to include female students in their own residential school. BOOKS, LECTURES, & EVENTS KEEP CONNECTED WITH DR. UMAR FDMG Resumes FDMGresumes@gmail.com facebook.com/ drumarifatunde Dr. P.O.P.A.Podcast Subscription FDMG DonationsRestoration Fund DonationsFDMG ACADEMYPO BOX 9634Wilmington DE 19809 Who We Are | Black Male Voter Project | We are Building a Movement Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:05 Black Male Voter Project was founded by W. Mondale Robinson, who currently serves as our Principal. He is the National Political Director for Democracy for America, Political Contributor for The Village Celebration where he has political and cultural columns and is a regular on their syndicated radio show. Mondale is also a Political Consultant. Born one of 13 in rural North Carolina, W. Mondale grew up with a front-row seat to obstacles that kept and keeps Black people from voting. With this knowledge and his veteran campaign experience, he created a voter engagement program that would increase Black people's participation in the electoral process (BMEP Additory Approach(C)). The program was designed with a special focus on Black men, who are so often labeled as low information and sporadic voters. The program has been a success in the 13 states where it has been implemented (VA, NC, SC, GA, MS, FL, AL, TX, AR, OH, IN, NY, and NJ). Mondale has been a lifelong advocate for the expansion of democracy and the protection of voting rights. He has worked on more than 125 campaigns''across all levels of government''in the United States, and leading roles internationally. Why W. Mondale Robinson Founded the Black Male Voter Project Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:54 W. Mondale Robinson (center) at a 2019 'Brothas Be Voting' roundtable in Atlanta. W. Mondale Robinson When I was a kid, I used to watch my father do amazing things for people all the time'--he'd fix roofs, lay drywall, pour cement for entire driveways. We were extremely poor, and I could never understand why. I thought: My dad is an anomaly. How can you be so great as a person and still suffer from poverty? As I grew older, I realized my dad was not an anomaly. Most Black men his age were similarly situated but were crippled in some way: My dad, for instance, earned a felony when he was a young boy for defending his mother against white supremacy. Knowing that his struggles were all too common for Black men and watching America snuff out his greatness were my marching orders and the reason I fight for the betterment of my community. I wound up doing campaign work for a long time, and one thing I noticed right away was that most of the people who determine what's said about politics generally, but progressive politics more specifically, are white men. The messaging they convey doesn't speak to my lived experience as a Black man. It's not motivating to me or to the brothas I know'--uncles, cousins, friends, men like my father. It is well-known that voting is a habit that's formed when resources are spent on it, and Black men aren't a priority when it comes to spending money on elections. That was the genesis of the Black Male Voter Project. Our goal isn't just to make voters out of Black men but to foster this idea of voting on issues that are important to us. We don't outright support candidates; we support issues important to Black men. We're seeking to combat the narrative that Black men are apathetic toward politics. Illustration of W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project. Arrington Porter Being a Black man in America is a political statement, and it is impossible to watch politics from my body when the result of so much of the politics of this country has been the subjugation of me and folks who look like me. You can't discount the impact that's had on the mental health of Black men, either, and yet mental health is not considered part of the fight for revolution as it pertains to white supremacy. Imagine what hundreds of years of slavery have done to the psyche and the soul and the makeup of Black bodies in this country. There's a direct correlation between voting and people's health, especially for Black men. We know we're overrepresented in the prison population, which means we are less likely to have voting rights. A Florida prison system did a study a few years back, and they found that people with restored voting rights were less likely to go back to prison. Every time that I'm silent about inequality, I think about my mother, who would pretend to laugh'--to lessen the impact'--when she would tell me stories about being sprayed with a fire hose when she was nine years old for no reason other than being downtown after dark. She couldn't run and hide because she also had groceries for her siblings in her arms, and so she had to pick up the groceries while being sprayed. The white man who did it was still in elected office as the fire chief when I was growing up. Whenever I'm silent, I feel as though I'm selling my mother out. How we define success with our organization, in the end, is more complex than simply getting more Black men to vote. We're building long-term relationships. We hold focus groups called Brothas Be Voting and populate the room with brothas who don't normally participate in politics, people from the street and from underground economies, so we can hear what the barriers are. That way, we can work to remove them and help Black men start believing in the electoral process again. '--As told to Michelle Garcia This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io Advertisement - Continue Reading Below When Republicans Were Blue and Democrats Were Red | History | Smithsonian Magazine Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:51 Television's first dynamic, color-coded presidential map, standing two stories high in the studio best known as the home to ''Saturday Night Live,'' was melting. It was early October, 1976, the month before the map was to debut'--live'--on election night. At the urging of anchor John Chancellor, NBC had constructed the behemoth map to illustrate, in vivid blue and red, which states supported Republican incumbent Gerald Ford and which backed Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter. The test run didn't go well. Although the map was buttressed by a sturdy wood frame, the front of each state was plastic. ''There were thousands of bulbs,'' recalled Roy Wetzel, then the newly minted general manager of NBC's election unit. ''The thing started to melt when we turned all the lights on. We then had to bring in gigantic interior air conditioning and fans to put behind the thing to cool it.'' That solved the problem. And when election results flowed in Tuesday night, Nov. 2, Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Center lit up. Light bulbs on each state changed from undecided white to Republican blue and Democratic red. NBC declared Carter the winner at 3:30 a.m. EST, when Mississippi turned red. That's right: In the beginning, blue was red and red was blue and they changed back and forth from election to election and network to network in what appears, in hindsight, to be a flight of whimsy. The notion that there were ''red states'' and ''blue states'''--and that the former were Republican and the latter Democratic'--wasn't cemented on the national psyche until the year 2000. Chalk up another one to Bush v. Gore. Not only did it give us ''hanging chads'' and a crash course in the Electoral College, not only did it lead to a controversial Supreme Court ruling and a heightened level of polarization that has intensified ever since, the Election That Wouldn't End gave us a new political shorthand. Twelve years later, in the final days of a presidential race deemed too close to call, we know this much about election night Nov. 6: The West Coast, the Northeast and much of the upper Midwest will be bathed in blue. With some notable exceptions, the geographic center of the country will be awash in red. So will the South. And ultimately, it is a handful of states'--which will start the evening in shades of neutral and shift, one by one, to red or blue'--that will determine who wins. If enough of those swing states turn blue, President Barack Obama remains in the White House four more years. If enough become red, Gov. Mitt Romney moves in January 20, 2013. For now, they are considered ''purple.'' Here's something else we know: All the maps'--on TV stations and Web sites election night and in newspapers the next morning'--will look alike. We won't have to switch our thinking as we switch channels, wondering which candidate is blue and which is red. Before the epic election of 2000, there was no uniformity in the maps that television stations, newspapers or magazines used to illustrate presidential elections. Pretty much everyone embraced red and blue, but which color represented which party varied, sometimes by organization, sometimes by election cycle. There are theories, some likely, some just plain weird, to explain the shifting palette. ''For years, both parties would do red and blue maps, but they always made the other guys red,'' said Chuck Todd, political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News. ''During the Cold War, who wanted to be red?'' Indeed, prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union little more than two decades ago, ''red was a term of derision,'' noted Mitchell Stephens, a New York University professor of journalism and author of A History of News. ''There's a movie named Reds, '' he said. ''You'd see red in tabloid headlines, particularly in right wing tabloids like the Daily Mirror in New York and the New York Daily News.'' In 1972, CBS News split the country into regions and used a color-coded map, with blue for Republicans and red for Democrats. (YouTube) In 1976, ABC News used this color-scheme for the presidential election. (YouTube) This 1980 map from NBC News shows states for Ronald Reagan in blue, Jimmy Carter in red, and uncalled in yellow. (YouTube) For years, NBC News used blue to indicate Republican states and red to indicate Democratic states. Shown here is a screen grab from the 1984 election (YouTube) A still from CBS News' coverage of the 1988 presidential election. White indicated states where ballots had closed, but had not been declared for one candidate or another. (YouTube) By 2000, NBC News had joined their colleagues in using the current red/blue scheme. At this point in the evening, Vice President Gore had been declared the winner in Florida. This, of course, would not be the case by the following morning. (YouTube)Perhaps the stigma of red in those days explains why some networks changed colors'-- in what appeared to be random fashion'--over the years. Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly wrote in 2004 that the networks alternated colors based on the party of the White House incumbent, but YouTube reveals that to be a myth. Still, there were reversals and deviations. In 1976, when NBC debuted its mammoth electronic map, ABC News employed a small, rudimentary version that used yellow for Ford, blue for Carter and red for states in which votes had yet to be tallied. In 1980, NBC once again used red for Carter and blue for the Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, and CBS followed suit. But ABC flipped the colors and promised to use orange for states won by John Anderson, the third-party candidate who received 6.6% of the popular vote. (Anderson carried no states, and orange seems to have gone by the wayside.) Four years later, ABC and CBS used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, but the combination wouldn't stick for another 16 years. During the four presidential elections Wetzel oversaw for NBC, from 1976 through 1988, the network never switched colors. Republicans were cool blue, Democrats hot red. The reasoning was simple, he said: Great Britain. ''Without giving it a second thought, we said blue for conservatives, because that's what the parliamentary system in London is, red for the more liberal party. And that settled it. We just did it,'' said Wetzel, now retired. Forget all that communist red stuff, he said. ''It didn't occur to us. When I first heard it, I thought, 'Oh, that's really silly.' '' When ABC produced its first large electronic map in 1980, it used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, while CBS did the reverse, according to Wetzel. NBC stuck with its original color scheme, prompting anchor David Brinkley to say that Reagan's victory looked like ''a suburban swimming pool.'' Newspapers, in those days, were largely black and white. But two days after voters went to the polls in 2000, both the New York Times and USA Today published their first color-coded, county-by-county maps detailing the showdown between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Both papers used red for the Republican Bush, blue for the Democrat Gore. Why? ''I just decided red begins with 'r,' Republican begins with 'r.' It was a more natural association,'' said Archie Tse, senior graphics editor for the Times. ''There wasn't much discussion about it.'' Paul Overberg, a database editor who designed the map for USA Today, said he was following a trend: ''The reason I did it was because everybody was already doing it that way at that point.'' And everybody had to continue doing it for a long time. The 2000 election dragged on until mid-December, until the Supreme Court declared Bush the victor. For weeks, the maps were ubiquitous. Perhaps that's why the 2000 colors stuck. Along with images of Florida elections officials eyeballing tiny ballot chads, the maps were there constantly, reminding us of the vast, nearly even divide between, well, red and blue voters. From an aesthetic standpoint, Overberg said, the current color scheme fits with the political landscape. Republicans typically dominate in larger, less populated states in the Plains and Mountain West, meaning the center of the United States is very red. ''If it had been flipped, the map would have been too dark,'' he said. ''The blue would have been swamping the red. Red is a lighter color.'' But not everyone liked the shift. Republican operative Clark Bensen wrote an analysis in 2004 titled ''RED STATE BLUES: Did I Miss That Memo?'' ''There are two general reasons why blue for Republican and Red for Democrat make the most sense: connotation and practice,'' Bensen wrote. ''First, there has been a generally understood meaning to the two colors inasmuch as they relate to politics. That is, the cooler color blue more closely represented the rational thinker and cold-hearted and the hotter red more closely represented the passionate and hot-blooded. This would translate into blue for Republicans and red for Democrats. Put another way, red was also the color most associated with socialism and the party of the Democrats was clearly the more socialistic of the two major parties. ''The second reason why blue for Republicans makes sense is that traditional political mapmakers have used blue for the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists before that, throughout the 20th century. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was 'Blue'.'' At this point'--three presidential elections after Bush v. Gore'--the color arrangement seems unlikely to reverse any time soon. Not only have ''red states'' and ''blue states'' entered the lexicon, partisans on both sides have taken ownership of them. For instance, RedState is a conservative blog; Blue State Digital, which grew out of Democrat Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, helps candidates and organizations use technology to raise money, advocate their positions and connect with constituents. In 2008, a Republican and a Democrat even joined forces to create Purple Strategies, a bipartisan public affairs firm. Sara Quinn, a visual journalist now at the Poynter Institute in Florida, said she sees no particular advantage to either color. ''Red is usually very warm and it comes forward to the eye. Blue tends to be a recessive color, but a calming color,'' she said. Not that anyone thought of those things when assigning colors in 2000. Not that they think about it at all today. ''After that election the colors became part of the national discourse,'' said Tse. ''You couldn't do it any other way.'' The Rosy or Rose Cross - Occult Symbols Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:45 The Rose Cross is associated with a number of different schools of thought, including that of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, the OTO, and the Rosicrucians (also known as the Order of the Rose Cross). Each group offers somewhat different interpretations of the symbol. This should not be surprising as magical, occult and esoteric symbols are frequently used to communicate ideas more complex than is possible to express in speech. Christian Elements Users of the Rose Cross today tend to downplay the Christian elements to it, even though the magical systems used by such people are generally Judeo-Christian in origin. The cross, therefore, has other meanings here besides being the instrument of Christ's execution. Despite this, the presence of the letters INRI, which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase Iesvs Nazarens Rex Ivdaeorym, meaning "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews," cannot escape Christian interpretation. According to the Christian Bible, this phrase was inscribed on the cross where Jesus was executed. In addition, the cross is often viewed by occultists as a symbol of immortality, sacrifice, and death. Through Jesus's sacrifice and death on the cross, humanity has a chance at eternal life with God. The Cross Cross-shaped objects are commonly used in occultism too represent the four physical elements. Here each arm is colored to represent one element: yellow, blue, black and red to represent air, water, earth, and fire. These colors are also repeated on the bottom portion of the cross. The white on the upper portion of the bottom arm represents the spirit, the fifth element. The cross can also represent dualism, two forces going in conflicting directions yet uniting at a central point. The union of rose and cross is also a generative symbol, the union of a male and female. Finally, the cross's proportions are made up of six squares: one for each arm, an extra one for the lower arm, and the center. A cross of six squares can be folded into a cube. The Rose The rose has three tiers of petals. The first tier, of three petals, represents the three basic alchemical elements: salt, mercury, and sulfur. The tier of seven petals represents the seven Classical planets (The Sun and Moon are considered planets here, with the term ''planets'' indicating the seven bodies that appear to circle the earth independently of the star field, which moves as a single unit). The tier of twelve represents the astrological zodiac. Each of the twenty-two petals bears one of the twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet and also represents the twenty-two paths on the Tree of Life. The rose itself has a myriad assortment of additional meanings associated with it: It is at once a symbol of purity and a symbol of passion, heavenly perfection and earthly passion; virginity and fertility; death and life. The rose is the flower of the goddess Venus but also the blood of Adonis and of Christ. It is a symbol of transmutation - that of taking food from the earth and transmuting it into the beautiful fragrant rose. The rose garden is a symbol of Paradise. It is the place of the mystic marriage. In ancient Rome, roses were grown in the funerary gardens to symbolize resurrection. The thorns have represented suffering and sacrifice as well as the sins of the Fall from Paradise. ("A Brief Study of The Rose Cross Symbol," no longer online)Inside the large rose is a smaller cross bearing another rose. This second rose is depicted with five petals. Five is the number of the physical senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, and it is also the number of man's extremities: two arms, two legs, and the head. Thus, the rose represents humanity and physical existence. The Pentagrams A pentagram is displayed at the end of each arm of the cross. Each of these pentagrams bears symbols of the five elements: a wheel for spirit, a bird's head for air, the zodiac sign for Leo, which is a fire sign, the zodiac symbol for Taurus, which is an earth sign, and the zodiac symbol for Aquarius, which is a water sign. They are arranged so that when tracing the pentagram you can progress from the most physical to the most spiritual: earth, water, air, fire, spirit. The Three Symbols at the End of Each Arm The three symbols repeated at the end of all four arms stand for salt, mercury, and sulfur, which are the three basic alchemical elements from which all other substances derive. The three symbols are repeated on each of the four arms of the cross, numbering a total of twelve. Twelve is the number of the zodiac, comprised of twelve symbols that circle the heavens throughout the year. The Hexagram Hexagrams commonly represent the union of opposites. It is composed of two identical triangles, one pointing up and one pointing down. The point-up triangle can represent ascending toward the spiritual, while the point-down triangle can stand for the divine spirit descending to the physical realm. The Symbols Around and in The Hexagram The symbols in and around the hexagram represent the seven Classical planets. The symbol for the Sun is in the center. The sun is generally the most important planet in Western occultism. Without the Sun, our planet would be lifeless. It is also commonly connected with the light of divine wisdom and the purification properties of fire, and was sometimes considered the visual manifestation of God's will in the universe. On the outside of the hexagrams are the symbols for Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, the Moon, Mercury, and Mars (clockwise from top). Western occult thought generally considers the planets in the farthest orbits from the Earth in an earth-centric model) to be the most spiritual, because they are the furthest from the physicality of the Earth. Thus, the top three planets are Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, while the bottom three are Mercury, Venus and the Moon. Music in this Episode Intro: Mobb Deep - G.O.D. Part III Instrumental 9 seconds Outro: Whole Truth - Can you loose by following god 15 seconds Donate to the show at moefundme.com Search for us in your podcast directory or use this link to subscribe to the feed Podcast Feed For more information: MoeFactz.com

Show Notes Moe Factz with Adam Curry for September 19th 2020, Episode number 49 "Brothas Be Voting" Description Adam and Moe review the Democratic and Republican conventions, who the parties were speaking to and they deconstruct it all the way down the Chaotic Magic rabbit hole Executive Producers: James Jackie Greene Cole Calistra Nastassja Findley Branden Kollmar Frankie G Anonymous Please Daniel Huttner Brian Rogers Steve Allen Associate Executive Producers: Theodora Dorinda Ongena gunter weber Elvis Rosenberg Episode 49 Club Members Occult Fan Sir Spencer, Wolf of Kansas City & Dame DuhLaurien ShowNotes Dr.UmarJohnson.com Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:18 RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW FOR DR. JOHNSON'S NEXT APPEARANCE RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW FOR DR. 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Dr. Umar, as he is known to friends, is a paternal kinsman to both the Great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and the late Bishop Alexander Wayman (1821-1895), 7th Bishop of the AME Church, both from Maryland's Eastern Shore.Dr. Umar is founder and lead tour guide for the "Unapologetically Afrikan" Black College & Consciousness Tour for 11 thru 17-year-old boys & girls which exposes them to the great historical Black College tradition, within the context of visiting and learning about significant places and personalities that helped shaped the global Afrikan struggle for freedom and independence. This tour is held annually during the first two weeks of July. The Prince of Pan-Afrikanism hosts a free regular weekly Black parent teleconference every Tuesday morning from 6-8am EST where he gives free educational and mental health consultations to community members in order to help them better advocate for Black children. Dr. Umar's name, quotes and speeches have been mentioned and shared on records and songs by various Hip-Hop artists more than any other living scholar. In addition, his image has been re-created by various Black artists more than any other scholar of the 21st century. The most requested Black scholar in America also hosts a regular annual "Unapologetically Afrikan" Group tour to the Afrikan continent, which takes place the last week in July and first week in August. This tour, which always includes stops in two different countries, is designed to help Afrikans in the west reestablish their psycho-spiritual connection to their ancestral homeland. A direct descendant of formerly enslaved civil war veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops of Maryland, Dr. Umar is an educational diagnostician who specializes in special education issues. He is known most for his work in identifying mis-diagnosed learning disabled and ADHD students. Dr. Umar has been featured on News One Now, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Bev Smith Show, The Breakfast Club, as has appeared as a special guest life coach on Real Housewives of Atlanta(RHOA8). As a child therapist, he works with depressed and behaviorally-challenged males. Dr. Umar is author of the book "Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education and ADHD Wars Against Black Boys," the 1st book ever written by a African-American male school psychologist to Black parents with specific strategies on how to fight back against special education and ADHD misdiagnoses. Dr.Umar also holds degrees in education and political science.Dr. Johnson is preparing to begin organizing his National Independent Black Ex-Offender Association (NIBEA), also known as "The New Underground Railroad," in order to advocate for rights on behalf of previously incarcerated Black women, men & children, and to prevent their recidivism. Dr. Umar is founder of the "Unapologetically Afrikan," "Unapologetically Black," & "Afrikan Family First" movements. Dr. Umar is founder & president of the National Independent Black Parent Association (NIBPA) organized to fight against educational and academic racism & disproportionality in the 7 core areas of a) special education, b) school discipline, c) school finance, d) social support/services, e) school policy, f) home schooling, and g) parent advocacy. One of the most recognized social scientists & Pan-Afrikanists of the 21st Century, his book, articles and lectures are included by college and university professors across the country within their required course materials. Dr. Umar is one of the most requested speakers in the world, and has lectured in North America, South America, The Caribbean, Europe and Afrika. Dr. Umar is currently working on building his new school, The Frederick Douglass & Marcus Garvey RBG International Leadership Academy for Boys, America's first residential academy for Black boys founded upon the principles of Pan-Afrikanism and International Economics. In the future, Dr. Umar also would like to extend this school to include female students in their own residential school. BOOKS, LECTURES, & EVENTS KEEP CONNECTED WITH DR. UMAR FDMG Resumes FDMGresumes@gmail.com facebook.com/ drumarifatunde Dr. P.O.P.A.Podcast Subscription FDMG DonationsRestoration Fund DonationsFDMG ACADEMYPO BOX 9634Wilmington DE 19809 Who We Are | Black Male Voter Project | We are Building a Movement Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:05 Black Male Voter Project was founded by W. Mondale Robinson, who currently serves as our Principal. He is the National Political Director for Democracy for America, Political Contributor for The Village Celebration where he has political and cultural columns and is a regular on their syndicated radio show. Mondale is also a Political Consultant. Born one of 13 in rural North Carolina, W. Mondale grew up with a front-row seat to obstacles that kept and keeps Black people from voting. With this knowledge and his veteran campaign experience, he created a voter engagement program that would increase Black people's participation in the electoral process (BMEP Additory Approach(C)). The program was designed with a special focus on Black men, who are so often labeled as low information and sporadic voters. The program has been a success in the 13 states where it has been implemented (VA, NC, SC, GA, MS, FL, AL, TX, AR, OH, IN, NY, and NJ). Mondale has been a lifelong advocate for the expansion of democracy and the protection of voting rights. He has worked on more than 125 campaigns''across all levels of government''in the United States, and leading roles internationally. Why W. Mondale Robinson Founded the Black Male Voter Project Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:54 W. Mondale Robinson (center) at a 2019 'Brothas Be Voting' roundtable in Atlanta. W. Mondale Robinson When I was a kid, I used to watch my father do amazing things for people all the time'--he'd fix roofs, lay drywall, pour cement for entire driveways. We were extremely poor, and I could never understand why. I thought: My dad is an anomaly. How can you be so great as a person and still suffer from poverty? As I grew older, I realized my dad was not an anomaly. Most Black men his age were similarly situated but were crippled in some way: My dad, for instance, earned a felony when he was a young boy for defending his mother against white supremacy. Knowing that his struggles were all too common for Black men and watching America snuff out his greatness were my marching orders and the reason I fight for the betterment of my community. I wound up doing campaign work for a long time, and one thing I noticed right away was that most of the people who determine what's said about politics generally, but progressive politics more specifically, are white men. The messaging they convey doesn't speak to my lived experience as a Black man. It's not motivating to me or to the brothas I know'--uncles, cousins, friends, men like my father. It is well-known that voting is a habit that's formed when resources are spent on it, and Black men aren't a priority when it comes to spending money on elections. That was the genesis of the Black Male Voter Project. Our goal isn't just to make voters out of Black men but to foster this idea of voting on issues that are important to us. We don't outright support candidates; we support issues important to Black men. We're seeking to combat the narrative that Black men are apathetic toward politics. Illustration of W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project. Arrington Porter Being a Black man in America is a political statement, and it is impossible to watch politics from my body when the result of so much of the politics of this country has been the subjugation of me and folks who look like me. You can't discount the impact that's had on the mental health of Black men, either, and yet mental health is not considered part of the fight for revolution as it pertains to white supremacy. Imagine what hundreds of years of slavery have done to the psyche and the soul and the makeup of Black bodies in this country. There's a direct correlation between voting and people's health, especially for Black men. We know we're overrepresented in the prison population, which means we are less likely to have voting rights. A Florida prison system did a study a few years back, and they found that people with restored voting rights were less likely to go back to prison. Every time that I'm silent about inequality, I think about my mother, who would pretend to laugh'--to lessen the impact'--when she would tell me stories about being sprayed with a fire hose when she was nine years old for no reason other than being downtown after dark. She couldn't run and hide because she also had groceries for her siblings in her arms, and so she had to pick up the groceries while being sprayed. The white man who did it was still in elected office as the fire chief when I was growing up. Whenever I'm silent, I feel as though I'm selling my mother out. How we define success with our organization, in the end, is more complex than simply getting more Black men to vote. We're building long-term relationships. We hold focus groups called Brothas Be Voting and populate the room with brothas who don't normally participate in politics, people from the street and from underground economies, so we can hear what the barriers are. That way, we can work to remove them and help Black men start believing in the electoral process again. '--As told to Michelle Garcia This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io Advertisement - Continue Reading Below When Republicans Were Blue and Democrats Were Red | History | Smithsonian Magazine Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:51 Television's first dynamic, color-coded presidential map, standing two stories high in the studio best known as the home to ''Saturday Night Live,'' was melting. It was early October, 1976, the month before the map was to debut'--live'--on election night. At the urging of anchor John Chancellor, NBC had constructed the behemoth map to illustrate, in vivid blue and red, which states supported Republican incumbent Gerald Ford and which backed Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter. The test run didn't go well. Although the map was buttressed by a sturdy wood frame, the front of each state was plastic. ''There were thousands of bulbs,'' recalled Roy Wetzel, then the newly minted general manager of NBC's election unit. ''The thing started to melt when we turned all the lights on. We then had to bring in gigantic interior air conditioning and fans to put behind the thing to cool it.'' That solved the problem. And when election results flowed in Tuesday night, Nov. 2, Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Center lit up. Light bulbs on each state changed from undecided white to Republican blue and Democratic red. NBC declared Carter the winner at 3:30 a.m. EST, when Mississippi turned red. That's right: In the beginning, blue was red and red was blue and they changed back and forth from election to election and network to network in what appears, in hindsight, to be a flight of whimsy. The notion that there were ''red states'' and ''blue states'''--and that the former were Republican and the latter Democratic'--wasn't cemented on the national psyche until the year 2000. Chalk up another one to Bush v. Gore. Not only did it give us ''hanging chads'' and a crash course in the Electoral College, not only did it lead to a controversial Supreme Court ruling and a heightened level of polarization that has intensified ever since, the Election That Wouldn't End gave us a new political shorthand. Twelve years later, in the final days of a presidential race deemed too close to call, we know this much about election night Nov. 6: The West Coast, the Northeast and much of the upper Midwest will be bathed in blue. With some notable exceptions, the geographic center of the country will be awash in red. So will the South. And ultimately, it is a handful of states'--which will start the evening in shades of neutral and shift, one by one, to red or blue'--that will determine who wins. If enough of those swing states turn blue, President Barack Obama remains in the White House four more years. If enough become red, Gov. Mitt Romney moves in January 20, 2013. For now, they are considered ''purple.'' Here's something else we know: All the maps'--on TV stations and Web sites election night and in newspapers the next morning'--will look alike. We won't have to switch our thinking as we switch channels, wondering which candidate is blue and which is red. Before the epic election of 2000, there was no uniformity in the maps that television stations, newspapers or magazines used to illustrate presidential elections. Pretty much everyone embraced red and blue, but which color represented which party varied, sometimes by organization, sometimes by election cycle. There are theories, some likely, some just plain weird, to explain the shifting palette. ''For years, both parties would do red and blue maps, but they always made the other guys red,'' said Chuck Todd, political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News. ''During the Cold War, who wanted to be red?'' Indeed, prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union little more than two decades ago, ''red was a term of derision,'' noted Mitchell Stephens, a New York University professor of journalism and author of A History of News. ''There's a movie named Reds, '' he said. ''You'd see red in tabloid headlines, particularly in right wing tabloids like the Daily Mirror in New York and the New York Daily News.'' In 1972, CBS News split the country into regions and used a color-coded map, with blue for Republicans and red for Democrats. (YouTube) In 1976, ABC News used this color-scheme for the presidential election. (YouTube) This 1980 map from NBC News shows states for Ronald Reagan in blue, Jimmy Carter in red, and uncalled in yellow. (YouTube) For years, NBC News used blue to indicate Republican states and red to indicate Democratic states. Shown here is a screen grab from the 1984 election (YouTube) A still from CBS News' coverage of the 1988 presidential election. White indicated states where ballots had closed, but had not been declared for one candidate or another. (YouTube) By 2000, NBC News had joined their colleagues in using the current red/blue scheme. At this point in the evening, Vice President Gore had been declared the winner in Florida. This, of course, would not be the case by the following morning. (YouTube)Perhaps the stigma of red in those days explains why some networks changed colors'-- in what appeared to be random fashion'--over the years. Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly wrote in 2004 that the networks alternated colors based on the party of the White House incumbent, but YouTube reveals that to be a myth. Still, there were reversals and deviations. In 1976, when NBC debuted its mammoth electronic map, ABC News employed a small, rudimentary version that used yellow for Ford, blue for Carter and red for states in which votes had yet to be tallied. In 1980, NBC once again used red for Carter and blue for the Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, and CBS followed suit. But ABC flipped the colors and promised to use orange for states won by John Anderson, the third-party candidate who received 6.6% of the popular vote. (Anderson carried no states, and orange seems to have gone by the wayside.) Four years later, ABC and CBS used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, but the combination wouldn't stick for another 16 years. During the four presidential elections Wetzel oversaw for NBC, from 1976 through 1988, the network never switched colors. Republicans were cool blue, Democrats hot red. The reasoning was simple, he said: Great Britain. ''Without giving it a second thought, we said blue for conservatives, because that's what the parliamentary system in London is, red for the more liberal party. And that settled it. We just did it,'' said Wetzel, now retired. Forget all that communist red stuff, he said. ''It didn't occur to us. When I first heard it, I thought, 'Oh, that's really silly.' '' When ABC produced its first large electronic map in 1980, it used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, while CBS did the reverse, according to Wetzel. NBC stuck with its original color scheme, prompting anchor David Brinkley to say that Reagan's victory looked like ''a suburban swimming pool.'' Newspapers, in those days, were largely black and white. But two days after voters went to the polls in 2000, both the New York Times and USA Today published their first color-coded, county-by-county maps detailing the showdown between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Both papers used red for the Republican Bush, blue for the Democrat Gore. Why? ''I just decided red begins with 'r,' Republican begins with 'r.' It was a more natural association,'' said Archie Tse, senior graphics editor for the Times. ''There wasn't much discussion about it.'' Paul Overberg, a database editor who designed the map for USA Today, said he was following a trend: ''The reason I did it was because everybody was already doing it that way at that point.'' And everybody had to continue doing it for a long time. The 2000 election dragged on until mid-December, until the Supreme Court declared Bush the victor. For weeks, the maps were ubiquitous. Perhaps that's why the 2000 colors stuck. Along with images of Florida elections officials eyeballing tiny ballot chads, the maps were there constantly, reminding us of the vast, nearly even divide between, well, red and blue voters. From an aesthetic standpoint, Overberg said, the current color scheme fits with the political landscape. Republicans typically dominate in larger, less populated states in the Plains and Mountain West, meaning the center of the United States is very red. ''If it had been flipped, the map would have been too dark,'' he said. ''The blue would have been swamping the red. Red is a lighter color.'' But not everyone liked the shift. Republican operative Clark Bensen wrote an analysis in 2004 titled ''RED STATE BLUES: Did I Miss That Memo?'' ''There are two general reasons why blue for Republican and Red for Democrat make the most sense: connotation and practice,'' Bensen wrote. ''First, there has been a generally understood meaning to the two colors inasmuch as they relate to politics. That is, the cooler color blue more closely represented the rational thinker and cold-hearted and the hotter red more closely represented the passionate and hot-blooded. This would translate into blue for Republicans and red for Democrats. Put another way, red was also the color most associated with socialism and the party of the Democrats was clearly the more socialistic of the two major parties. ''The second reason why blue for Republicans makes sense is that traditional political mapmakers have used blue for the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists before that, throughout the 20th century. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was 'Blue'.'' At this point'--three presidential elections after Bush v. Gore'--the color arrangement seems unlikely to reverse any time soon. Not only have ''red states'' and ''blue states'' entered the lexicon, partisans on both sides have taken ownership of them. For instance, RedState is a conservative blog; Blue State Digital, which grew out of Democrat Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, helps candidates and organizations use technology to raise money, advocate their positions and connect with constituents. In 2008, a Republican and a Democrat even joined forces to create Purple Strategies, a bipartisan public affairs firm. Sara Quinn, a visual journalist now at the Poynter Institute in Florida, said she sees no particular advantage to either color. ''Red is usually very warm and it comes forward to the eye. Blue tends to be a recessive color, but a calming color,'' she said. Not that anyone thought of those things when assigning colors in 2000. Not that they think about it at all today. ''After that election the colors became part of the national discourse,'' said Tse. ''You couldn't do it any other way.'' The Rosy or Rose Cross - Occult Symbols Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:45 The Rose Cross is associated with a number of different schools of thought, including that of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, the OTO, and the Rosicrucians (also known as the Order of the Rose Cross). Each group offers somewhat different interpretations of the symbol. This should not be surprising as magical, occult and esoteric symbols are frequently used to communicate ideas more complex than is possible to express in speech. Christian Elements Users of the Rose Cross today tend to downplay the Christian elements to it, even though the magical systems used by such people are generally Judeo-Christian in origin. The cross, therefore, has other meanings here besides being the instrument of Christ's execution. Despite this, the presence of the letters INRI, which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase Iesvs Nazarens Rex Ivdaeorym, meaning "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews," cannot escape Christian interpretation. According to the Christian Bible, this phrase was inscribed on the cross where Jesus was executed. In addition, the cross is often viewed by occultists as a symbol of immortality, sacrifice, and death. Through Jesus's sacrifice and death on the cross, humanity has a chance at eternal life with God. The Cross Cross-shaped objects are commonly used in occultism too represent the four physical elements. Here each arm is colored to represent one element: yellow, blue, black and red to represent air, water, earth, and fire. These colors are also repeated on the bottom portion of the cross. The white on the upper portion of the bottom arm represents the spirit, the fifth element. The cross can also represent dualism, two forces going in conflicting directions yet uniting at a central point. The union of rose and cross is also a generative symbol, the union of a male and female. Finally, the cross's proportions are made up of six squares: one for each arm, an extra one for the lower arm, and the center. A cross of six squares can be folded into a cube. The Rose The rose has three tiers of petals. The first tier, of three petals, represents the three basic alchemical elements: salt, mercury, and sulfur. The tier of seven petals represents the seven Classical planets (The Sun and Moon are considered planets here, with the term ''planets'' indicating the seven bodies that appear to circle the earth independently of the star field, which moves as a single unit). The tier of twelve represents the astrological zodiac. Each of the twenty-two petals bears one of the twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet and also represents the twenty-two paths on the Tree of Life. The rose itself has a myriad assortment of additional meanings associated with it: It is at once a symbol of purity and a symbol of passion, heavenly perfection and earthly passion; virginity and fertility; death and life. The rose is the flower of the goddess Venus but also the blood of Adonis and of Christ. It is a symbol of transmutation - that of taking food from the earth and transmuting it into the beautiful fragrant rose. The rose garden is a symbol of Paradise. It is the place of the mystic marriage. In ancient Rome, roses were grown in the funerary gardens to symbolize resurrection. The thorns have represented suffering and sacrifice as well as the sins of the Fall from Paradise. ("A Brief Study of The Rose Cross Symbol," no longer online)Inside the large rose is a smaller cross bearing another rose. This second rose is depicted with five petals. Five is the number of the physical senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, and it is also the number of man's extremities: two arms, two legs, and the head. Thus, the rose represents humanity and physical existence. The Pentagrams A pentagram is displayed at the end of each arm of the cross. Each of these pentagrams bears symbols of the five elements: a wheel for spirit, a bird's head for air, the zodiac sign for Leo, which is a fire sign, the zodiac symbol for Taurus, which is an earth sign, and the zodiac symbol for Aquarius, which is a water sign. They are arranged so that when tracing the pentagram you can progress from the most physical to the most spiritual: earth, water, air, fire, spirit. The Three Symbols at the End of Each Arm The three symbols repeated at the end of all four arms stand for salt, mercury, and sulfur, which are the three basic alchemical elements from which all other substances derive. The three symbols are repeated on each of the four arms of the cross, numbering a total of twelve. Twelve is the number of the zodiac, comprised of twelve symbols that circle the heavens throughout the year. The Hexagram Hexagrams commonly represent the union of opposites. It is composed of two identical triangles, one pointing up and one pointing down. The point-up triangle can represent ascending toward the spiritual, while the point-down triangle can stand for the divine spirit descending to the physical realm. The Symbols Around and in The Hexagram The symbols in and around the hexagram represent the seven Classical planets. The symbol for the Sun is in the center. The sun is generally the most important planet in Western occultism. Without the Sun, our planet would be lifeless. It is also commonly connected with the light of divine wisdom and the purification properties of fire, and was sometimes considered the visual manifestation of God's will in the universe. On the outside of the hexagrams are the symbols for Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, the Moon, Mercury, and Mars (clockwise from top). Western occult thought generally considers the planets in the farthest orbits from the Earth in an earth-centric model) to be the most spiritual, because they are the furthest from the physicality of the Earth. Thus, the top three planets are Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, while the bottom three are Mercury, Venus and the Moon. Music in this Episode Intro: Mobb Deep - G.O.D. Part III Instrumental 9 seconds Outro: Whole Truth - Can you loose by following god 15 seconds Donate to the show at moefundme.com Search for us in your podcast directory or use this link to subscribe to the feed Podcast Feed For more information: MoeFactz.com

arrar is a SMALL town, if you look at its wiki you won’t even find a population listed (it’s around 30). It’s actually an unincorporated township close to Maxwell Iowa. In this out of the way place on the plains of Iowa is Farrar Elementary a defunct school that for some reason has become a hotbed of paranormal activity.WikiPedia article about Farrar, Iowahauntingatfarrar.com/about-farrarYouTube video (mNH0DyS0qIc) (The sprit board session)iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/terry-vanden-hull/A Haunting at Farrar: Investigating one of the Worlds Most Haunted Schools, by Richard Estep & E.E. Bensen. Self Published ( © 2019) amazon.com/gp/product/1099061024/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Heaven (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process), by Corey Taylor. De Capo Press( © 2013) amazon.com/gp/product/030682292X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Ghost Stalkers. Season 1, Episode 6. November 20, 2016 imdb.com/title/tt4227762/?ref_=ttep_ep6Kindred Spirits. Season 4, Episode 7. January 7, 2020 imdb.com/title/tt11749688/?ref_=ttep_ep5The small town of New London was first called just London. However, upon finding out that a post office had already been established for a London in another county the town changed its name to New London in 1931. Six years later in 1937, an explosion of the New London School destroyed the lives of many. WikiPedia article about New London School explosionWikiPedia article about New London, Texasnlsd.net/Recollections05.htmAnd Hell Followed With It, by Troy Taylor & Rene Kruse. Whitechapel Press, Dark Haven Entertainment ( © 2010) amazon.com/gp/product/1892523701/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1TF8&psc=1Local Headlinesmyracinecounty.com/news/burlington/2020/man-says-he-saw-beast-of-bray-road-in-lyons/amp.clarionledger.com/amp/3264064001?__twitter_impression=truecoasttocoastam.com/article/ghost-photographed-at-haunted-hotel/You can follow the show on Twitter or Facebook @stscast, or on Instagram@stscast.gramCheck out Patreon at, https://www.patreon.com/STScastThis week's featured podcasts are Folklore on the Rocks and Reverie True Crime Podcast Be sure to check out Straight Up Strange Productions for more great pods!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/Small-Town-Secrets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's show is uncomfortable. It is in the uncomfortable that we will disrupt white fragility and increase our capacity to sustain the discomfort of not knowing. I hope you will join me.I know for me I want to do and be better in terms of being anti-racist. It isn’t enough to not be a racist. I need to be anti-racist. We don’t have to be a racist to benefit from the system of racism.This is a hard conversation, but one that must occur to eliminate barriers for our students of color. I know I struggle to start this conversation, but it is one I hope will impact the necessary change we need in our educational systems and classrooms.Links Mentioned in the Show:White Fragility by Robin DiAngeloEducating the Educator Facebook Group (Book Study)Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism by Tracey A. Bensen and Sarah E. FiarmanWhat Educators Should and Should Not Do in Response to George Floyd’s Death (Education Week Teacher)

Clara Bensen shares a story that parallels adolescent sexual discovery in a deeply conservative Christian family with the myth of the temptation of Eve in “Forbidden Fruit.”Follow Clara:https://www.instagram.com/clarabensen/Support and Follow BedPost Confessions:https://bedpostconfessions.com/https://www.instagram.com/bedpostconfessions/https://bedpostconfessions.com/swag See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John sits down with writer, LMFT, former group practice owner, and “simplicity strategist” Chrissy Bensen to talk all things: Why being real is so important to simplifying The carrot that you’re dangling over your head Isolation vs community The ugly effects of comparison How to simplify your life and business Why you need to “be seen” Why you need to name your values https://www.engineer-simplicity.com/ Take the free Business Made Human® personal assessment:  https://go.privatepracticeworkshop.com/personal-assessment Join the free Private Practice Marketing Training Series: https://go.privatepracticeworkshop.com/free-training-series Sign up for a FREE trial of Spruce’s HIPAA-compliant phone and communication system at www.sprucehealth.com, and use the code PPW20 at checkout for 20% off your first month.

Featured writers include Cal Freeman, Hibah Shabkhez, Robert R. Bensen, Lynne Shapiro, and Purbasha Roy // www.goldwalkmag.com

Simon Roy and Daniel Bensen talk about the first issue of their new Image series, Protector --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pagesandpanels/support

On this episode:   -Around the league: Yotes, embellishment and/or penalty? -Nurse butt end as well as his new contract -Bensen sent down -Rant on smelling salts about San Jose game -Recap of comeback victory over Preds -Drai's Swagger And much more!   Text or leave us a voicemail to be played on our show! (587) 415-2894 Engage with us on Twitter:@OilCountryPod Follow our Network as well:@HockeyPodNet

Udo Fluck is joined by Tom Bensen, Executive Director of Arts Missoula, to talk about Missoula's sister city program.

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John Carlos Frey is a journalist covering the US border with Mexico. He's been following the caravans and asking the refugees why they're making the perilous journey. He says the drought is by far the main concern. Jen Bensen is a spokesperson for the environmental group Riverkeeper. On the Army Corps of Engineers proposal that could include a $60 billion project to build tens of miles of barriers for coastal storm surge protection of New York harbor.

We welcome the booker of the techno and experimental floor of Freqs Of Nature, Naty also runs the Berlin based Atmophile Electronics imprint, a project focused on the atmospheric side of techno & was launched last year with a great compilation featuring artists such as Mike Parker, Matrixxman, Polar Inertia among others. The next release on the label is Naty Seres EP in collaboration with Bensen plus Matrixxman on remixing duties. She will soon have a new EP coming out soon. Naty also recently played at the Modular Synth Boiler Room at Funkhaus in Berlin, she is resident of Waking Life festival in Portugal.. https://soundcloud.com/naty-seres https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/natyseres https://www.facebook.com/SeresNaty/ twitter.com/slamdjs facebook.com/Slam.soma slam-djs.com Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/SlamRadioOnSpotify Subscribe on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/slam-radio/id584845850 Slam Radio is produced at http://www.glowcast.co.uk For syndication or radio queries, email conor@somarecords.com and contact@syndicast.co.uk

We live in a world obsessed with labels, and most of them with good reason. Labels help us identify all kinds of things: what’s safe, what’s not (obvious labels on food, cleaning products, construction sites), what we like, what we don’t (flavors, genres, activities), find our tribe (special interest communities like clubs, sports teams, LGBT), etc.Labels help us make sense of a messy, complicated, dynamic world.But sometimes the helpfulness gives people false permission to impose labels onto others beyond what’s “helpful.” It’s easy for labels to become weapons of oppression for those wielding them and prisons for those they target.Either way, labels are important in our society and unavoidable. So, how do we avoid giving away our power when it comes to labels?Liv and her guest, Drew Bensen, scratch the surface of how impactful and pervasive labels are and how self-awareness can help us take our power back.

Megan Elizabeth, founder and leading educator of Above Rubies Studio. Megan is a multi passionate, award winning, entrepreneur who’s primary focus is to encourage women live a life they love – feeling beautiful, creative and balanced. Above Rubies Studio was started in 2008 as an outlet for Megan’s postpartum depression. It quickly grew into a global phenomenon where Megan shared her love for making professional style crafts simple for anyone with the Cricut machine. Megan has won multiple awards for her educational DVDs and her innovative paper line. She has also won several awards in her Direct Sales partnerships. You may have also seen Megan from time to time on both HSN and QVC. She has recently taken her heart for women to help them start up and run their own successful online businesses while still being a Mom or maintaining other life priorities! Megan has a club exclusively for Crafters and an online mentorship program for women ready to take action with their creative passions and business. Megan is Mom to three kids (Bensen 9, Jenavieve 8 and Gradyn 3) and a few other priorities to Megan: her committed relationship with coffee (it’s Facebook official), she can’t go a day without a good lip color and she’s crazy obsessed with fun singing! [3:55] Share the story of how and why you choose to do what you do? [6:04] Parents and kids are so busy these days, why are the arts critical to their development? [8:41] If parents are looking into getting their kids involved in the arts, what would be your advice. [10:26] How can the arts foster leaders? [14:30] How do the arts cultivate problem solving and critical thinking skills? [20:30] What’s one simple tip you could provide to parents about incorporating the arts into their already busy lives? [25:20] What is the good starting point for them to listen today and start of the weekend? [28:04] Why is it important for moms to make time to do this of themselves? Get connected through their website at www.aboverubiesstudio.com/ and bymeganelizabeth.com [32:30] Parting piece of advice Watch the LIVE video interview with Megan at https://wp.me/p9d2U2-1L See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Bensen of Arts Missoula joins MTPR's Michael Marsolek with a report on the economic impact of non-profit arts organizations in Missoula County — a whopping $54 million according to a new report from Americans for the Arts. "These are numbers that validate what people already know," Bensen says, "that the arts and culture organizations and people contribute a lot to our economy."

In this episode, President and CEO of the Chicago Network, Kate Bensen talks about the 4 main purposes of her organization and what needs to be done to increase diversity amongst corporate organizations. Then, she gives her views on the flexibility issues associated with being a female executive. How does a woman leader handle this challenge and what needs to be done to fulfill the balance between work and life? MBA programs have been a catalyst for growth both professionally and economically. However, as male executives grow their income over time, the opposite is true among their female counterpart. Kate explains this trend and gives her insight on why this disparity is happening. Finally, Kate shares the organizations women should be involved with if they're planning to move up the corporate ladder.   In this episode, you'll learn: • What is The Chicago Network all about? • The current status of women in Chicago in terms of advancing their careers. • The 2 drivers for change that will give a huge boost to the number of women CEOs in corporate organizations. • The initiatives companies have to do to promote diversity and inclusion among their ranks. • How to get involved in cultivating the next generation of women leaders. Tweetables: • If these firms are going to thrive, they have to win the war on talent. Big Takeaways: • Several studies suggest that profits go up amongst businesses that appoint women to the board and executive positions. • True leadership means getting out of your comfort zone and discovering the unknown. Related Links & References: • The Chicago Network official website: www.thechicagonetwork.org • Kate's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/katebensen • Professional Women Lose Confidence, Ambition As they Reach mid-career, new Bain & Company study finds: www.bain.com/about/press/press-releases/professional-women-lose-confidence-ambition-as-they-reach-mid-career • The Crisis of Confidence Infographic: www.bain.com/infographics/parity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the second part of our five part series “Better Know A Preature”, the axe-man/vocalist of the ARIA-nominated GQ Band of the Year The Preatures, Gideon Bensen, rolls out of the tour bus and joins host Jeremy Dylan for a chat about Lou Reed's classic Bowie/Ronson produced 1974 LP “Transformer”. They break down classic tracks “Satellite of Love”, “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Perfect Day” and along the way talk about Gideon's experiences in New York and how it compares to Reed's NY, David Bowie's production of the album and his dynamic backing vocals, Reed's chilled vocal style and the real reason Gideon has started dressing like Lou on stage.My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album's influence on their own music.Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industry since 2007. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the feature film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, in addition to many commercials and music videos. If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com

In a special bonus New Year's Eve episode of My Favorite Album, host Jeremy Dylan takes a look back on the albums of 2014 with guest co-host Danny Yau (who guested on the show back on episode 18). Together they count down their top 5 albums of the year, and Jeremy chats to Gideon Bensen (The Preatures), The Chaser's Andrew Hansen and ARIA winner Mike Carr about their top picks of 2014. Jeremy's Top 5 of 20145. Ella Hooper - In Tongues4. The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes3. Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights2. Taylor Swift - 19891. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager Danny's Top 5 of 20145. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey – Going Back Home4. King Creosote – From Scotland With Love3. The New Mendicants – Into the Lime2. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots1. Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – What Have We Become? So if you've not heard any of those albums yet, in the immortal words of Molly Meldrum... do yourself a favor! Thanks to everyone who has been listening to my first year of podcasting, and all the amazing guests who have joined me to chat about the music they love. We'll be back for 2015 with guests including Robyn Hitchcock, Catherine Britt, Gideon Bensen, Harry Hookey, Andrew Hansen, She Rex, Kevin Bennett, Rob Draper, Jeremy Neale and a whole stack more. See you in the new year!

Die 14. Österreichischen Medientage in Wien vom 26. – 28. September im Messezentrum. Hans Jörgen Manstein, Präsident der IAA eröffnet gemeinsam mit Oliver Voigt von der Verlagsgruppe.news die Medientage. Keynotespeakerin ist die Verlagsdirektorin von Time Europe Laurie Benson. Brigitte Jank, Wirtschaftskammer Wien mit Aussagen zur Mediennutzung in der jungen Generation. Manstein: “…Österreichs Medienmacher müssen sich besinnen …“ – Wirkt sich die Selektion der Web 2.0 User auf den ökonomischen Wettbe werb der klassischen Medien aus? Jank: „…ich glaube, dass das Prinzip der Förderung eines offenen und kritischen Medienzuganges …“ Der Titel der Medientage: Der Klimawandel im Medien Business