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GB2RS News Sunday the 20th of April 2025   The news headlines: Take advantage of new RSGB membership benefits for 2025! The RSGB Board has announced Directors' liaison roles The RSGB has released a 1925 bulletin containing the original announcement of the formation of the IARU As a new benefit, the Society has teamed up with several museums to offer RSGB members discounted entry for 2025. Members can receive between 20% and 50% off admission fees at Amberley Museum, Bawdsey Radar Museum, Internal Fire Museum of Power, PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications and The National Museum of Computing. So, whether you're into engines, radar, transport, computers or communications there's sure to be something for you. To find out more, visit rsgb.org/partner-museums Following the RSGB 2025 AGM on Saturday the 12th of April, a brief Board meeting was held. The Board elected Stewart Bryant, G3YSX to continue in the role of Board Chair and Peter Bowyer, G4MJS to continue as Vice Chair. Both will remain in these roles until the 2026 AGM. The Board liaison roles with RSGB committees, Honorary Officers and areas of RSGB strategy have also been agreed. To find out more or to see contact details for each Board Director, go to rsgb.org/board World Amateur Radio Day was on Friday the 18th of April. It was also on that day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris. In celebration of this, the RSGB has shared a T & R Bulletin from 1925 that details the original announcement about the IARU's formation. This unique document has been made publicly available for all radio amateurs to be able to enjoy. To start reading, simply go to rsgb.org/radcom then click on the image to enter the web app and select the ‘RadCom Sample' option in the header. The RSGB website has a wealth of information available to you, and the search function is a useful tool to find what you are looking for. However, to make things as straightforward as possible, the Society has updated the contacts page on its website. If you need to get in touch about something specific, you'll be able to find the correct contact details at a glance. Each Headquarters department is listed with the range of services they offer. For example, you'll see that the Sales Team can also help with club insurance, Membership Services will help with any issues logging into its online membership portal, and that GB2RS news items should be sent to the RadCom Team. Whatever your query, the Team is there to help. If you need more local help, please contact your Regional Team representatives. Head over to rsgb.org/contact  to find out how to get in touch. Professor Gwyn Griffiths, G3ZIL is a well-known member of the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee, as well as someone involved with Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation, also known as HamSCI. In celebration of Citizen Science Month during April, the RSGB has shared Gwyn's HamSCI presentation from the RSGB 2024 Convention on its YouTube channel. In the talk, Gwyn outlines the organisation's activities, particularly during the 2023 and 2024 eclipses. Go to youtube.com/theRSGB  to watch the talk now. If you'd like to find out more, join the RSGB for May's Tonight@8 webinar when HamSCI lead Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF presents ‘Space weather we can do together'. Both Gwyn and Nathaniel recently won awards in the RSGB 2025 AGM Trophy Presentation. You can also get involved with HamSCI's preparations for a series of meteor scatter experiments in August and December. You can find further details via hamsci.org/msqp Have you ever wondered about the origins of the smart doorbell? Although a modern phenomenon, it has a history dating back over 100 years. During the latest series of The Secret Genius of Modern Life, Hannah Fry explores its early origins with a device created by Leon Theremin. During the episode radio amateur Neil, G4DBN, re-creates Leon's device. The episode will air on BBC2 at 20.00 on Wednesday the 23rd of April. Many of you will know Neil from Season One, Episode One of the series when he re-created the Great Seal Bug. Both episodes are available to watch now via BBC iPlayer. Please send details of all your news and events to radcom@rsgb.org.uk The deadline for submissions is 10am on Thursdays before the Sunday broadcast each week. And now for details of rallies and events The Cambridge Repeater Group Rally is taking place on Sunday the 27th of April at Foxton Village Hall, Hardman Road, Foxton, Cambridge, CB22 6RN. Doors open at 7.30am for traders and 9.30am to the general public. The entrance fee is £4. The event will include a car-boot sale, trade stands, a bring-and-buy area, catering, disabled facilities, an RSGB Bookstall and a free, marshalled car park. A cash and card burger van will open at 8am. The venue rules state strictly no dogs except assistance dogs on the field. Go to cambridgerepeaters.net for further details and bookings. The Dartmoor Radio Rally is taking place on Monday the 5th of May at the Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6AL. Free parking is available. There will be the usual bring and buy, trader stands and refreshments. Doors open at 10am and admission is £3. For further details, please contact Roger by phone on 07854 088882, or email 2e0rph@gmail.com Now the Special Event news The Spanish national society, URE, is on the air to mark the 100th anniversary of the IARU. Members are active on 160m to 6m until the 30th of April with ten different special event stations, including AO100IARU. Special awards will be available, as well as medals for the top participants from each continent who achieve the highest number of contacts with the stations on different bands and modes. Go to ure.es for further details. The Portuguese national society, REP, is also activating a number of special callsigns as part of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the IARU. This includes CR1IARU from the Azores, CR3IARU from Madeira and CR5IARU from mainland Portugal. Members will be active on multiple bands and modes. Look out for activity until the 24th of April. Full details can be found via tinyurl.com/CR1IARU The Amateur Radio Society of Moldova is operating special event station ER100IARU until Wednesday the 30th of April in honour of the IARU Centenary. Full details can be found via qrz.com The Kuwait Amateur Radio Society is pleased to announce its participation in the IARU centennial celebrations. Members of the Society will be operating special event station 9K100IARU until Wednesday the 30th of April. Ten teams of radio amateurs from around the world are commemorating 80 years since Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound. The two operations were humanitarian food drops that helped to relieve the famine in the Netherlands behind Nazi lines late in World War Two. The teams will be active between the 25th and 27th of April on HF, VHF and the DMR Brandmeister Talk Groups unique to this event. A number of the teams are also welcoming visitors and arranging activities at their locations. To find details of Talk Groups for this event, the teams involved, as well as how to collect a commemorative award, go to manna80.radio Now the DX news Aldir, PY1SAD is active again from Georgetown in Guyana as 8R1TM until the 26th of April. Aldir will be operating on all bands using CW, SSB, digital and satellite. QSL via eQSL and Logbook of The World. Arno, DK1HV is active from Greenland as OX/DK1VK until Sunday the 27th of April. He'll be QRV on 160m to 10m mainly SSB using wire antennas and 100W radio. QSL available via his home callsign. Dom, 3D2USU is active again as 3D2AJT from Nadi in the Fiji Islands until the end of April. The call sign is in memory of JH1AJT, now Silent Key. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and Logbook of The World. Now the contest news On Tuesday the 22nd of April, the SHF UK Activity Contest runs from 1830 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on 2.3 to 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Thursday the 24th of April, the 80m Club Championship runs from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using PSK63 and RTTY, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The UK and Ireland DX CW Contest starts at 1200UTC on Saturday the 26th of April and ends at 1200UTC on Sunday the 27th of April. Using CW on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. UK and Ireland stations also send their district code. The SP DX RTTY Contest starts at 1200UTC on Saturday the 26th of April and ends at 1200UTC on Sunday the 27th of April. Using RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. SP stations also send their province code.   Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Thursday the 17th of April 2025 Last week was characterised by increased Kp index numbers and severe geomagnetic storms, peaking at G4. These drove down maximum usable frequencies and disrupted DX contacts, especially on the higher HF bands. The solar wind speed increased from 380 kilometres per second to around 500 kilometres per second on the 15th and an increase in plasma density was noted as well. Subsequently, the Kp index peaked at 7.67 on Wednesday the 16th, causing visible aurora alerts in the UK. This was caused by a pair of CMEs that left the Sun on Sunday the 13th of April. We had a total of 22 M-class solar flares over four days, so a CME event was inevitable. Unsettled geomagnetic conditions are a feature on the declining side of a solar cycle, so we could unfortunately be in for many more. According to Propquest, MUFs over a 3,000km path fell to below 18MHz for long periods on Wednesday the 16th, before climbing to around 21MHz at the end of the day. Meanwhile, the solar flux index fell from a high of 170 on Friday the 11th of April to a low of 148 on Wednesday the 16th of April. Next week, NOAA predicts that the SFI will start the week around 145 but could increase to 165 as the week progresses. Unsettled geomagnetic conditions are forecast for the 22nd to the 24th of April, with a predicted maximum Kp index of four. As always, keep an eye on solarham.com for daily updates, but more importantly, get on the bands, which are a much more effective guide to HF propagation! And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO The current period of unsettled weather looks likely to continue into the coming week. This does not mean rain every day, but periods of rain or showers with some intervening drier spells. These drier interludes are not really dominated by high pressure, just gaps between the wetter periods, so it's unlikely to produce much significant Tropo. In terms of propagation, there may be some rain scatter, although it won't be very reliable. However, the prospects for meteor scatter are more promising with the peak of the Lyrids due on Tuesday the 22nd of April. It is worth checking up on procedures for meteor scatter working if you've not done it before and you may find a new part of the hobby to add to your operating schedule. The prospects for aurora continue to be raised by what seems like an almost daily supply of aurora alerts. Continue to monitor the Kp index for signs of elevated values, where Kp is above five, for radio activity. Early signs such as fluttery signals on the LF and HF bands may suggest it's worth looking on the VHF bands for auroral activity. As we move towards the new season it is good to get into the habit of looking for Sporadic-E. The Propquest website www.propquest.co.uk shows several useful components for analysing the Es prospects. If you look at the position of the jet streams shown on the Es blog tab, these can produce favourable conditions geographically to give a hint of the right direction in which to listen. The opening season typically favours 10m or 6m. EME path losses are now decreasing towards perigee on Sunday the 27th of April. Last Friday, the 18th of April, saw minimum Moon declination, so Moon windows will lengthen along with peak elevation. 144MHz sky noise starts this week very high but decreases to low as the week progresses. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

The Wilson County Public Libraries invite everyone to participate in the 2025 Summer Reading Program with “Stories to Listen To.” Season One, Episode One of this special story time with the library staff will begin Tuesday, April 22, and continue until Tuesday, April 29. Episode 2 will be available April 29 through May 6. The audio files will be posted at wilsoncountylibrary.org.Article Link

Episode One of Season Nine. We interview Sloane Price. Sloane is a TikTok influencer with over 1,900,000 followers. She is also the youngest guest we have had on the podcast to date! Sloane shares how she uses AI to assist content creation, her strategic approach to building a successful TikTok channel, and her investment in other young influencers and their businesses. A full transcript of this episode is available at Jon's entertainment law blog at www.pfeifferlaw.com/entertainment-law-blog/

About this Episode One common struggle many face in a relationship is the challenge of getting off the emotional roller coaster. The highs and lows, misunderstandings, and unresolved conflicts can create a cycle of emotional upheaval, leaving partners feeling disconnected and frustrated. But what if we could find a way to smooth the ride and create deeper intimacy? If you've ever felt caught in a whirlwind of emotions in your relationships, you're not alone, and there are ways to navigate this complex terrain. In this episode, we delve into strategies and insights aimed at helping listeners break free from these patterns. With expert guidance, the discussion illuminates ways couples can enhance their emotional intelligence, communication skills, and conflict resolution abilities. By exploring both the individual and relational aspects of these dynamics, the conversation provides tools for transforming the way partners interact with each other. This episode offers a chance to learn how to nurture a relationship's foundation while navigating life's inevitable challenges, ultimately creating a more harmonious and enduring partnership. Susan Thau, Ph. D., Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, wife, mother and grandmother treats individuals, couples and families, working intensively with emotional states. Along with Sondra Goldstein, Susan studied in a consultation group with Alan Schore, becoming interested in attachment and affect regulation. Dr Thau began as a parent educator, later Kaiser Permanente, and eventually private practice in Los Angeles where she specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Sondra is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice for many years in Los Angeles. She is a former Clinical Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology. Past study with Allan Shore, PhD, enhances her understanding of neuro-psychobiology in the processing of emotion in couples. Her study of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps in understanding emotional dynamics in couples therapy. Sondra is also a wife of 53 years, a mother, and a grandmother. Check out the transcript of this episode on Dr. Jessica Higgin's website. Episode Highlights  03:56 Understanding the framework of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). 09:39 Meeting the authors: a journey of professional collaboration. 10:51 The power of vulnerability and emotional connection. 15:36 Coregulation and the impact of presence in therapy. 18:09 Navigating emotional triggers and attachment styles. 21:44 Challenges of vulnerability and the role of the therapist. 25:54 The importance of repair and building resilience. 28:30 Acknowledging individual differences in processing. 31:45 Demystifying therapy: The role of the therapist as a stranger attractor. 34:12 Developing a secure base: The journey of earned security. 39:20 Processing stress: Sensitive emotional and aggressive responses. 41:15 Dealing with differences and building a strong relationship foundation. 46:10 The role of curiosity and connection. 49:16 Resources and guidance for relationship growth. Mentioned Living Love That Lasts (Youtube) (video) The Roller Coaster of Emotion in Couples Therapy (*Amazon Affiliate link) (book) Evolve in Love (program) Connect with Drs. Susan Thau & Sondra Goldstein Websites: susanthauphd.com Connect with Dr. Jessica Higgins Facebook: facebook.com/EmpoweredRelationship  Instagram: instagram.com/drjessicahiggins  Podcast: drjessicahiggins.com/podcasts/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/EmpowerRelation  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjessicahiggins  Twitter: @DrJessHiggins  Website: drjessicahiggins.com   Email: jessica@drjessicahiggins.com If you have a topic you would like it to be discussed, please contact us by clicking on the “Ask Dr. Jessica Higgins” button here.  Thank you so much for your interest in improving your relationship.  Also, I would so appreciate your honest rating and review. Please leave a review by clicking here.  Thank you!   *With Amazon Affiliate Links, I may earn a few cents from Amazon, if you purchase the book from this link.

Pollsters are starting to talk about a Mark Carney majority government. What a twist from just a few months ago, when it appeared Pierre Poilievre would cake walk his way to the PMO. Should Conservatives be hitting the panic button, or is there enough time to turn this trend around?  2:30 | Every Friday through the campaign, we're working with the policy firm Meredith, Boseenkool, and Phillips to present conversations across the political specetrum. This week, it's Rahim Mohamed and Shannon Phillips summing up Week One of the campaign, debating Danielle Smith's appearance with Ben Shapiro at a fundraiser in Florida, and allegations Mark Carney cheated on his PhD dissertation at Oxford.  TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: leave a comment below!  1:01:30 | Should Pierre Poilievre grow a beard? We ask AI to cook up a couple photos for your review in this very serious and undeniably insightful segment.  1:12:45 | We're thrilled to be working with Vicky Mochama on the new podcast Party All The Time. Episode One is out - subscribe, check it out, and let us know what you think!  PARTY ALL THE TIME ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://rtrj.info/PATTApplePodcasts PARTY ALL THE TIME ON SPOTIFY: https://rtrj.info/PATTSpotify PARTY ALL THE TIME TRAILER: https://rtrj.info/PATTTrailer 1:19:45 | Jenny and Nathan have no time for Premier Danielle Smith's trip to Florida, Ron doesn't like what he's hearing about Alberta separating from Canada, Michael calls out the Kool-Aid drinkers, and Brian has a question for "51st State" supporters. It's The Flamethrower presented by the DQs of Northwest Edmonton and Sherwood Park!  FIRE UP YOUR FLAMETHROWER: talk@ryanjespersen.com  When you visit the DQs in Palisades, Namao, Newcastle, Westmount, and Baseline Road, be sure to tell 'em Real Talk sent you!  PAY LESS FOR INTERNET, ELECTRICITY, and NATURAL GAS: https://parkpower.ca/realtalk/ KNOCK 50% OFF an annual subscription to Alberta Views with the promo code AVRJ: https://albertaviews.ca/ REGISTER FOR THE REAL TALK GOLF CLASSIC: https://www.ryanjespersen.com/real-ta... JOIN US APRIL 12 at the ICCHANGE GALA: https://www.icchange.ca/2025gala FOLLOW US ON TIKTOK, X, INSTAGRAM, and LINKEDIN: @realtalkrj & @ryanjespersen  JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: @ryanjespersen  REAL TALK MERCH: https://ryanjespersen.com/merch RECEIVE EXCLUSIVE PERKS - BECOME A REAL TALK PATRON: patreon.com/ryanjespersen THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS! https://ryanjespersen.com/sponsors The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Relay Communications Group Inc. or any affiliates.

The time was 3.34am on a Wednesday morning and I lay there wideawake. I pressed the screen on my phone to check the time any messages, I wondered? I flipped my pillow, shifted my weight and tried to sleep. The obvious cause of my insomnia was the five-week-old grunting and squirming in his sleep sack, a few feet away from me. But it wasn't the humidity, or the Police helicopter making one of its swoops over the neighbourhood, and this insomnia wasn't caused by a baby. It was caused by Adolescence. My wife and I had watched the final episode, episode four, a few hours earlier. The episode finished, like most of them, in devastating fashion. I sat there, turning over the story in my mind. If you haven't yet caught the Adolescence buzz, the show has had more hype in the couple of weeks since it came to Netflix than almost any other show in recent times. It's broken all sorts of records. After just eleven days, it broke the record for the highest-number of Netflix streams in a two week period. Tens of millions of views Worldwide... with millions more everyday. In a sense, Adolescence is a simple concept. It's a four-episode series set in the U.K about a knife crime. A young woman has been stabbed to death. Every episode Hasan incredibly ambitious production quality in that it's all one shot. The whole thing. 45 minutes or an hour. One take. And in the words of the creator Stephen Graham, it's less of a Who-dunn it than a Why-dunnit? As someone who's worked in the telly for twenty years, I feel I have a pretty good sense of how hard it into make a one-shot show. Technically speaking, it is ridiculously complicated. I don't think most people appreciate how hard it is to light a single scene. But then going from indoors to outdoors to classrooms to hallways to drone shots, a hundred metres off the ground. Sound recording is such a pain. And what if an actor screws up a line 20 minutes in? You start again, that's what. I read a piece which explained many of the crew dressed as extras for the show's production, so if they were caught in the back of shot it would hopefully make sense. A friend reckoned the single-continuous shot thing might be a bit of a gimmick. What's the point? He asked. Personally speaking, I just found it never gave me a chance to subconsciously look away, or to catch my breath. No chance to check my phone. The story didn't pause because the people didn't pause, the scene didn't end until the episode ended. And what scenes. Sheesh. The speed of Episode One. I just love how it had all of the banal procedural stuff, the process. The chaos of Episode Two at the school. It was a stunning vision of a totally dysfunctional space, the teachers yelling to try and control the kids. The teachers who just didn't care. Episode Three? What a brave, bold call. Just two people in an empty room nothing of visual interesting. Just two actors in conversation; the volatility, the brinksmanship, the unravelling. And episode Four, all that was lost. The desperation. The performances in Adolescence, especially Stephen Graham, were astonishing. I immediately became that person annoyingly texting all of his friends and group chats and asking who had seen it. We think of movies as being art. Well, film, cinema! We probably don't think of TV as being art in quite the someway. Or at least as often. But how do you define good art? Surely it's a creative work that makes people feel.. that affects them that sticks with them that has them tossing and turning in bed at 3.34am in the morning, replaying scenes in their head. It's been a long, long time since a TV show affected me like Adolescence. As a story, it was devastating. But as a TV drama, it was close to perfect.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott Demark, President and CEO of Zibi Community Utility, joins thinkenergy to discuss how our relationship with energy is changing. With two decades of expertise in clean energy and sustainable development, Scott suggests reimagining traditional energy applications for heating and cooling. He shares how strategic energy distribution can transform urban environments, specifically how district energy systems optimize energy flow between buildings for a greener future. Listen in.   Related links   Scott Demark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-demark-83640473/ Zibi Community Utility: https://zibi.ca/ Markham District Energy Inc: https://www.markhamdistrictenergy.com/ One Planet Living: https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-cem-leed-ap-8b612114/ Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en   To subscribe using Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405   To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/ --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited   Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa   Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa Transcript: Trevor Freeman  00:07 Welcome to thinkenergy, a podcast that dives into the fast, changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional and up and coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com   Speaker 1  00:29 Hi everyone. Welcome back. One of the overarching aspects of the energy transition that we have talked about several times on this show is the need to change our relationship with energy, to rethink the standard way of doing things when it comes to heating and cooling and transportation, etc. This change is being driven by our need to decarbonize and by the ongoing evolution and improvement of technology. More things are becoming available to us as technology improves on the decarbonization front, we know that electrification, which is switching from fossil fuel combustions to electricity for things like space and water heating vehicles, etc, is one of the most effective strategies. But in order to switch out all the end uses to an electric option, so swapping out furnaces and boilers for heat pumps or electric boilers, switching all gas cars to EVs, etc. In order to do that in a way that is affordable and efficient and can be supported by our electricity grid, we need to think about multi strategy approaches, so we can't just continue to have this one way power grid where every home, every business, every warehouse or office tower satisfies all of its energy needs all the time directly from the grid with no adaptability. That isn't the best approach. It's not going to be affordable or efficient. We're not going to be able to do it fast enough. The multi strategy approach takes into account things like distributed energy resources, so solar and storage, etc, which we've talked about many times on this show, but it also includes approaches like district energy. So, district energy is rethinking how energy flows between adjacent buildings, looking for opportunities to capture excess energy or heat from one source and use that to support another. And that is the focus of today's conversation. To help us dive into this topic, I'm really happy to welcome Scott Demark to the show. Scott has been a champion of sustainability, clean energy solutions and energy efficiency in the Ottawa real estate and development industry for over 20 years now, he has overseen many high-performance development projects and was one of the driving forces behind the Zibi development in downtown Ottawa, and most applicable for today's conversation the renewable district energy system that provides heating and cooling to the Zibi site. Scott is the president and CEO of the Zibi community utility, as well as a partner at Thea partners. Scott Demark, welcome to the show.   Scott Demark  03:15 Thanks. Nice to see you. Trevor,   Trevor Freeman  03:17 So, Scott, why don't we start with definitions are always a good place to start. So, when we talk about a district energy system, give us a high-level overview of what exactly that means.   Scott Demark  03:27 Sure, a district energy system is, is simply the connection, or interconnection of thermal energy sources, thermal energy sinks. And so really, in practical terms. It means, instead of buildings having their own furnace and cooling system, buildings connect to a hydronic loop. A hydronic loop is just pipes filled with water, and then the heat or the cooling is made somewhere else, and that heat or lack of heat cooling is in a pipe. They push the pipe to the building, and then the pipe extracts the heat or rejects the heat to that loop. And so it's simply an interconnection of us as sources and sinks for federal energy.   Trevor Freeman  04:14 And I guess one of the important concepts here is that buildings often create heat, not just through a furnace or not just through the things that are meant to create heat, but, you know, server racks, computer server racks, generate a lot of heat, and that heat has to go somewhere. So oftentimes we're cooling buildings to remove heat that's being created in those buildings, and then other buildings nearby need to be heated in order to make that space comfortable. Is that fair to say?   Scott Demark  04:42 Yeah, absolutely. Trevor, so, an office building in the city of Ottawa, big old government office building, you'll see a pretty big plume on the roof in the winter time. That's not just kind of the flue gas from a boiler, but rather it is actually chillers are. running inside to make cooling, and they're just selling that heat to the atmosphere, even on the coldest day of the year. So, it's people, you know, people are thermal load. Computers are thermal load, and so is solar gain. You know, January is pretty dark period for us, meaning low angle sun. But by this time in a year, you know, or at the end of February, there's a lot of heat in that sun. So, a glass building absorbs a lot of sun. An office building will need cooling on the sunny side of that building a lot of the time, even in the dead of winter.   Trevor Freeman  05:31 Yeah. So, a district system, then, is taking advantage of the fact that heat exists, and we don't necessarily need to either burn fossil fuels or even if it's a, you know, a clean system, we don't have to expend energy to create heat, or create as much heat if we could move that heat around from where it's kind of naturally occurring to where we need it.   Scott Demark  05:54 That's right at the very core of a district energy system. You're going to move heat from a place that it's not wanted to a place that it is wanted. And so in our example of the office building, you know, on the February day with the sun shining in and the computers all running, that building's getting rid of heat. But right next door, say there's a 20-story condo. Well, that 20 story condo needs heating and it also needs domestic hot water. So, year-round, domestic hot water represents 30, 35% of the heating load of any residential building, so at all times. So, a district energy system allows you to take that heat away from the office building and give it to the residential building, instead of making the heat and dissipating that heat to the atmosphere in the office building. So, yeah, it's, it's really a way to move, you know, from sources to sinks. That's, that's what a district energy system does well.   Trevor Freeman  06:48 So we've kind of touched on this a little bit, but let's dive right into, you know, we talk a lot on the show about the energy transition. This, this push to, one, move away from fossil fuel combustion to meet our energy needs. And two, shifting from a kind of static, centralized energy system like we have right now, big generators, large transmission lines, etc., to more of a two-way flow, distributed energy system. What is the role of district energy systems within that transition. How do they help us get closer to that sort of reality that we talk about?   Scott Demark  07:27 I think the biggest way that they help is economies of scale. Okay, so by that, I'll explain that. Imagine there's a lot of technology that's been around a long time that is very scalable to the building level, but most of them are fossil fire. Okay, so the cheapest way to heat a building in Ottawa is to put a gas fired boiler in. That's the cheapest capital cost, first cost, and it's also the cheapest operating cost, is to put a gas boiler in. That industry is well established. There's lots of trades who could do it. There's lots of producers who make the boilers. When you start to try and think about the energy transition and think about what you may do to be different, to be lower carbon, or to be zero carbon, those industries are just starting right. Those industries don't exist. They don't have the same depth, and so they don't have the same cost structure, and often times they don't scale well down to the building. And therefore, a district energy system aggregates a bunch of load, and so you can provide a thermal energy so at scale that becomes affordable. And that is, you know, a very good example of that would be where, you know, you might want to go and recover heat from some process, and we'll talk about Zibi as the example. But if he wanted to go recover heat from some process and bring it in, it doesn't make sense to run a pipeline to a source to heat one building. You can't make financial sense of it, but if you're heating 20 buildings, that pipeline, all of a sudden, makes sense to take waste heat from somewhere, to move it somewhere else. The other advantage is that truly district energy systems are agnostic to their inputs and outputs for heat. So, once you've established that hydronic loop, that interconnection of water pipes between buildings, what the source and what the sources, doesn't matter. So, you may have at one point built a district energy system, and Markham District Energy System is a great example of this market District Energy System was built on the concept of using a co-generation facility. So they burned natural gas to make electricity, they sold electricity to the grid, and they captured all the waste heat from that generation, and they fed it into a district energy system. Well, here we are, 20 plus years later, and, they're going to replace that system, that fossil fired system Augment, not fully replaced, but mostly replace that system with a sewer coupled energy recovery and drive those heat recovery chillers to a sewer system. So, they're putting a very green solution in place of a former fossil solution. They don't have to rip up the pipes, they don't have to change anything in the buildings. They only have to change that central concept. Now, again, Markham could never do that at a one building scale. They're only that at the community scale.   Trevor Freeman  10:21 So, you mentioned, I want to pick on something you said there. You talked about a sewer heat energy system. They're pulling heat from the sewer. Just help our listeners understand high level kind of, why is there heat there for us to pull? Like, what's the what's the source there?   Scott Demark  10:38 Yeah. So, when we shower, when we flush toilets, all of that is introducing heat into a sewer system. So, we're collecting heat from everybody's house into the sewer system. The sewer system also sits below the frost line. So, call it Earth coupled. You know it's the earth in Ottawa below the frost line sits around eight, eight and a half c and so at that temperature and the temperature of flushing toilets, we essentially get a sewer temperature in the on the coldest day of the year, that's around 10 10, and a half degree Celsius. And obviously, for lots of the year, it's much warmer than that. And so I think, you know, a lot of people are kind of familiar with the concept of geo exchange energy, or that. Lot of people call it geothermal, but you exchange where you might drill down into the earth, and you're taking advantage of that eight, eight and a half degrees, I'll see. So, you're exchanging heat, you can reject heat to the earth, or you can absorb heat from the earth. Well, this is the same idea, but you accept or reject from the sewer. But because the sewer is relatively shallow, it is cheaper to access that energy, and because it's warm, and on the coldest day, a couple of degrees make a big difference, Trevor, and most of the year so much warmer, you're really in a very good position to extract that heat, and that's all it is. You are just accepting or rejecting heat. You don't use the sewage itself. It doesn't come into your building. You have a heat exchanger in between. But that's, that's what you do.   Trevor Freeman  12:10 Yeah, great. And I, we've talked before on the show about the idea that, you know, for a air source, heat pump, for example, you don't need a lot of heat energy to extract energy from the air. It can be cold outside, and there is still heat energy in the air that you can pull and use that to heat a building, heat water, whatever. So same concept, except you've got a much warmer source of energy, I guess.   Scott Demark  12:34 Yeah, exactly. And you know, Trevor, when you look at the efficiency curves of those air source heat pumps, you know, they kind of drop off a cliff at minus 20. Minus 22 in fact. You know, five or six years ago, they that that was dropping off at minus 10. So, we've come a long way in air source heat pumps. But imagine on that coldest, coldest day of the year, you're still your source is well above zero, and therefore your efficiency. So, the amount of electricity you need to put into the heat pump to get out the heat that you need is much lower, so it's a way more efficient heat exchange.   Trevor Freeman  13:07 Great. Thanks for that, Scott. I know that's a bit of a tangent here, but always cool to talk about different ways that we're coming up with to heat our buildings. So back to district energy. We've talked through some of the benefits of the system. If I'm a building owner and I'm have the decision to connect to a system that's there, or have my own standalone, you know, traditional boiler, whatever the case may be, or even in a clean energy one, a heat pump, whatever. What are the benefits of being on a district system versus having my own standalone system for just my building.   Scott Demark  13:42 Yeah, so when you're wearing the developer's hat, you know they're really looking at it financially. If they have other goals around sustainability, great, that will factor into it. But most of them are making decisions around this financially. So, it needs to compete with that. That first cost that we talked about the easiest ways, is boilers, gas fired boilers is the cheapest way. And so, they're going to look to see it at how. How does this compare to that? And so, I think that's the best way to frame it for you. And so, the difference here is that you need to install in your building a cooling system and a heating system. In Ottawa, that cooling system is only used for a few months a year, and it's very expensive. It takes up space, whether you're using a chiller and a cooling tower on the roof or using a dry cooler, it takes up roof space, and it also takes up interior space. If you do have a cooling tower, you have a lot of maintenance for that. You need to turn it on and turn it off in the spring, on and fall, etc., just to make sure all that happens and you need to carry the life cycle of that boiler plant. You need to bring gas infrastructure into your building. You generally need to put that gas boiler plant high in your building. So up near the top, and that's for purposes of venting that properly. Now that's taking real estate, right? And it's taking real estate on the area that's kind of most advantageous, worth the most money. So you might lose a penthouse to have a boiler and chiller room up there. And you also, of course, lose roof space. And today, we really do try to take advantage of those rooftop, patios and things, amenities are pretty important in buildings. And so, when I compare that to district energy at the p1 level, p2 level in your building, you're going to have a small room, and I really do mean small where the energy transfer takes place, you'll have some heat exchangers. And small, you might have a space, you know, 10 or 12 feet by 15 to 18 feet would be big enough for a 30-story tower, so a small room where you do the heat exchange and then Trevor, you don't have anything in your building for plants that you would normally look after. So, when you look at the pro forma for owning your building over the lifetime of it. You don't have to maintain boilers. You don't have to have boiler insurance. You don't have to maintain your chillers. You don't have to have life cycle replacement on any of these products. You don't need anybody operating those checking in on the pressure vessels. None of that has to happen. All of that happens on the district energy system. So, you're really taking something you own and operate, and replacing that with a service. So, district energy is a service, and what, what we promised to deliver is the heating you need and the cooling you need. 24/7. The second thing you get is more resilience, and I'll explain that a little bit. Is that in a in a normal building, if you if the engineers looked at it and said, you need two boilers to keep your building warm, then you're probably going to install three. And that is kind of this, and plus one sort of idea, so that if one boiler goes down, you have a spare. And you need to maintain those. You need to pay for that. You need to maintain those, etc. But in district energy system, all that redundancy is done in the background. It's done by us, and we have significantly more redundancy than just n plus one in this example. But overall, you know, if you have 10 buildings on your district energy system, each of those would have had n plus one. We don't have n plus 10 in the plant. And so overall, the cost is lower, I would say, if you look at it globally, except the advantages you do have better than N plus one in the plant. So, we have higher resiliency at a lower cost.   Trevor Freeman  17:39 So, we know there's no such thing as a miracle solution that works in all cases. What are the best use cases for district energy system? Where does it make a lot of sense?   Scott Demark  17:50 Yeah, in terms some, in some ways the easiest things, Pretty work. Doesn't make sense. So, so it doesn't make sense in sprawling low rise development. So, the cost of that hydronic loop those water pipes is high. They have to fit in the roadway. It's civil work, etc. And so, you do need density. That doesn't mean it has to be high rise density.  You know, if you look at Paris, France, six stories district energy, no problem. There's, there's lots and lots of customers for that scale of building. It doesn't have to be all high rise, but it does, District Energy does not lend itself well to our sprawling style of development. It's much more suited to a downtown setting. It also kind of thrives where there's mixed use. You know, I think the first example we were talking about is office building shedding heat, residential building needing heat. You know, couple that with an industrial building shedding heat. You know, these various uses, a variety of uses on a district energy system, is the best, because its biggest advantage is sharing energy, not making energy. And so, a disparity of uses is the best place to use that. I think the other, the other thing to think about, and this is harder in Canada than the rest of the world, is that, you know, it's harder on a retrofit basis, from a cost perspective, than it is in a in a new community where you can put this in as infrastructure. Day one, you're going to make a big difference. And I'll, you know, give a shout out to British Columbia in the Greater Vancouver area. So, the district, you know, down in the Lower Mainland, they, they kind of made this observation and understood that if they were going to electrify, then District Energy gave economies of scale to electrify that load. And they do a variety of things, but one of the things they do is, is kind of district you exchange system so, so big heat pumps coupled to big fields, and then spring heat made a bunch of buildings. But these are green field developments Trevor. So, as they expand their suburbs. They do need to build the six stories. They very much have kind of density around parks concept. So now Park becomes a geo field. Density around the geo field, but this infrastructure is going in the same time as the water pipes. It's going in at the same time as the roads, the sidewalks, etc. You can dramatically reduce your cost, your first cost related to that hydro loop, if you're putting it in the same time you're doing the rest of the services.   Trevor Freeman  20:27 So, we're not likely to see, you know, residential neighborhoods with single family homes or multi-unit homes, whatever, take advantage of this. But that sort of low rise, mid rise, that's going to be more of a good pick for this. And like you said, kind of development is the time to do this. You mentioned other parts of the world. So, district energy systems aren't exactly widespread. In Canada, we're starting to see more of them pop up. What about the rest of the world? Are there places in the world where we see a lot more of this, and they've been doing this for a long time?   Scott Demark  21:00 Yeah. So, I'd almost say every, everywhere in the northern hemisphere, except North America, has done much more of this. And, you know, we really look to kind of Scandinavia as the gold standard of this. You look to Sweden, you look to Denmark, you look to Germany, even. There's, there's a lot of great examples of this, and they are typically government owned. So, they are often public private partnerships, but they would be various levels of government. So, you know, if you, if you went to Copenhagen, you'd see that the municipality is an owner. But then their equivalent of a province or territory is actually a big part of it, too. And when they built their infrastructure ages ago, they did not have an easy source of fossil fuels, right? And so, they need to think about, how can we do this? How can we share heat? How can we centralize the recovery of heat? How can we make sure we don't waste any and this has just been ingrained in them. So there's massive, massive District Energy loops, interconnecting loops, some owned by municipalities. Someone probably, if you build the factory, part of the concept of your factory, part of the pro forma of your factory is, how much can I sell my waste heat for? And so, a factory district might have a sear of industrial partners who own a district energy loop and interfaces with the municipal loop all sort of sharing energy and dumping it in. And so that's, you know, that's what you would study. That's, that's where we would want to be, and the heart of it is, just as I said, we've really had, you know, cheap or, you know, really cheap fossil fuels. We've had no price on pollution. And therefore, it really hasn't needed to happen here. And we're starting to see the need for that to happen here.   Trevor Freeman  22:58 It's an interesting concept to think of, you know, bringing that factory example in, instead of waste heat or heat as a byproduct of your process being a problem that you need to deal with, something you have to figure out a way to get rid of. It becomes almost an asset. It's a it's a, you know, convenient commodity that's being produced regardless, that you can now look to sell and monetize?   Scott Demark  23:21 Yeah, you go back to the idea of, like, what are the big benefits of district energy? Is that, like, if that loop exists and somebody knows that one of the things the factory produces is heat, well, that's a commodity I produce, and I can, I can sell it, if I have a way to sell it right here. You know, we're going to dissipate it to a river. We may dissipate it to the atmosphere. We're going to get rid of it. Like you said, it's, it's, it's waste in their minds and in Europe, that is absolutely not waste.   Trevor Freeman  23:49 And it coming back to that, you know, question of, where does this make sense? You talked about mixed use. And it's also like the, you know, the temporal mix use of someone that is producing a lot of heat during the day when the next-door residential building is empty, then when they switch, when the factory closes and the shift is over and everybody comes home from work, that's when that building needs heat. That's when they want to be then taking that heat to buildings next to each other that both need heat at the same time is not as good a use cases when it's offset like that.   Scott Demark  24:23 Yeah, that's true. And unless lots of District Energy Systems consider kind of surges in storage, I know our system at CB has, has kind of a small storage system related to the domestic hot water peak load. However, you can also think of the kilometers and kilometers and kilometers of pipes full of water as a thermal battery, right? So, so you actually are able to even out those surges. You let the temperature; the district energy system rise. When that factory is giving all out all kinds of heat, it's rising even above the temperature. You have to deliver it at, and then when that peak comes, you can draw down that temperature and let the whole district energy system normalize to its temperature again. So you do have an innate battery in the in the water volume that sits in the district energy system   Trevor Freeman  25:15 Very cool. So you've mentioned Zibi a couple times, and I do want to get into that as much as we're talking about other parts of the world, you know, having longer term district energy systems. Zibi, community utility is a great example, right here in Ottawa, where you and I are both based of a district energy system. Before we get into that, can you, just for our listeners that are not familiar with Zibi, give us a high level overview of what that community is its location, you know, the goals of the community. And then we'll talk about the energy side of things.   Scott Demark  25:46 Sure. So Zibi was formerly Domtar paper mills. It's 34 acres, and it is in downtown Ottawa and downtown Gatineau. About a third of the land mass is islands on the Ontario side, and two thirds the land mass is on the shore, the north shore of the Ottawa River in Gatineau, both downtown, literally in the shadows of Parliament. It is right downtown. It was industrial for almost 200 years. Those paper mills shut down in the 90s and the early 2000s and my partners and I pursued that to turn it from kind of this industrial wasteland, walled off, fenced off, area that no one could go into, what we're hoping will be kind of the world's most Sustainable Urban Community, and so at build out, it will house, you know, about six, 7000 people. It will be four and a half million square feet, 4.24 point 4 million square feet of development. It is master planned and approved, and has built about, I think we're, at 1.1 million square feet, so we're about quarter built out. Now. 10 buildings are done and connected to the district energy system there. And really, it's, it's an attempt to sort of recover land that was really quite destroyed. You can imagine it was a pretty polluted site. So, the giant remediation plan, big infrastructure plan. We modeled this, this overall sustainability concept, over a program called one planet living which has 10 principles of sustainability. So, you know, you and I are talking a lot about carbon today, but there's also very important aspects about affordability and social sustainability and lifestyle, and all of those are incorporated into the one planet program, and encourage people to look up one planet living and understand what it is and look at the commitments that we've made at Zibi to create a sustainable place. We issue a report every year, kind of our own report card that's reviewed by a third party that explains where we are on our on our mission to achieve our goal of the world's most sustainable community.   Speaker 1  28:09 Yeah. And so I do encourage people to look at one planet living also. Have a look at, you know, the Zibi website, and it's got the Master Plan and the vision of what that community will be. And I've been down there, it's already kind of coming along. It's amazing. It's amazing to see the progress compared to who I think you described it well, like a bit of an industrial wasteland at the heart of one of the most beautiful spots in the city. It was really a shame what it used to be. And it's great to see kind of the vision of what it can become. So that's awesome,   Scott Demark  28:38 Yeah, and Trevor, especially now that the parks are coming along. You know, we worked really closely with the NCC to integrate the shoreline of Zibi to the existing, you know, bike path networks and everything. And, you know, two of the three shoreline parks are now completed and open to the public and they're stunning. And you know, so many Ottawa people have not been down there because it's not a place you think about, but it's one of the few places in Ottawa and Gatineau where you can touch the water, you know, like it's, it's, it's stunning,   Trevor Freeman  29:08 yeah, very, very cool. Okay, so the next part of that, of course, is energy. And so there is a district energy system, one of the first kind of, or the most recent big energy, District Energy Systems in Ottawa. Tell us a little bit about how you are moving energy and heating the Zibi site.   Scott Demark  29:29 Yeah. So first, I'll say, you know, we, we, we studied different, uh, ways to get to net zero. You know, we had, we had a goal of being a zero carbon community. There are low carbon examples, but a zero carbon community is quite a stretch. And even when you look at the Scandinavian examples, the best examples, they're missing their energy goals, largely because some of the inputs that are District Energy System remain false so, but also because they have trouble getting them. Performance out of the buildings. And so we looked at this. We also know from our experience that getting to zero carbon at the building scale in Ottawa is very, very difficult. Our climate is tough, super humid, super hot. Summer, very cold, very dry, winter, long winter. So, it's difficult at the building scale. It's funny Trevor, because you'd actually have an easier time getting to zero carbon or a passive house standard in affordable housing than you do at market housing. And that's because affordable housing has a long list of people who want to move in and pay rents. You can get some subsidies for capital and the people who are willing to pay rent are good with smaller windows, thicker walls, smaller units and passthroughs, needs all those kinds of things. So when down at Zibi, you're really selling views, you're competing with people on the outside of Zibi, you're building almost all glass buildings. And so it's really difficult to find a way to get to zero carbon on the building scale. So that moved us to district energy for all the reasons we've talked about today already. And so, when we looked at it for Zibi, you really look at the ingredients you have. One of the great things we have is we're split over the border. It's also a curse, but split over the border is really interesting, because you cannot move electricity over that border, but you can move thermal energy over that border. And so, for us, in thinking about electrifying thermal energy, we realized that if we did the work in Quebec, where there is clean and affordable electricity, we could we could turn that into heat, and then we could move heat to Ontario. We could move chilled water to Ontario. So that's kind of ingredient, one that we had going for us there. The second is that there used to be three mills. So originally Domtar three mills, they sold one mill. It changed hands a few times, but it now belongs to Kruger. They make tissue there so absorbent things, Kleenexes and toilet paper, absorbent, anything in that tissue process that's a going concern. So, you can see that in our skyline. You can see, on cold days, big plumes of waste heat coming out of it. And so, we really saw that as our source, really identified that as our source. And how could we do that? So, going back to the economies of scale, is, could we send a pipeline from Kruger, about a kilometer away, to Zibi? And so, when we were purchasing the land, we were looking at all the interconnections of how the plants used to be realized. There are some old pipelines, some old easements, servitudes, etc. And so, when we bought the land, we actually bought all of those servitudes to including a pipeline across the bridge, Canadian energy regulator licensed across the bridge into Ontario. And so, we mixed all these ingredients up, you know, in a pot, and came up with our overall scheme. And so that overall scheme is relatively simple. We built an energy recovery station at Kruger, where just before their effluent water, like when they're finished in their process, goes back to the river. We have a heat exchanger there. We extract heat. We push that heat in a pipe network over to Zibi. At Zibi, we can upgrade that heat using heat recovery chillers, to a useful temperature for us, that's about 40 degrees Celsius, and we push that across the bridge to Ontario, all of our buildings in Ontario, then have thin coil units. They use that 40-degree heat to heat buildings. The return side of that comes back to Quebec, and then on the Quebec side, we have a loop and all of our buildings in the Quebec side, then use heat pumps so we extract the last bit of heat. So, imagine you you've returned from a fan coil, but you're still slightly warm. That slightly warm water is enough to drive a heat pump inside the buildings. And then finally, that goes back to Kruger again, and Kruger heats it back up with their waste heat comes back. So that's our that's our heating loop. The cooling side is coupled to the Ottawa River. And so instead of us rejecting heat to the atmosphere through cooling towers, our coolers are actually coupled to the river. That's a very tight environmental window that you can operate in. So, we worked with the minister the environment climate change in Quebec to get our permit to do it. We can only be six degrees difference to the river, but our efficiency is, on average, like on an annual basis, more than double what it would be to a cooling tower for the same load. So, we're river coupled with respect to cooling for the whole development, and we're coupled to Kruger for heating for the whole development. And what that allows us to do is eliminate fossil fuels. Our input is clean Quebec electricity, and our output is heating and cooling.   Trevor Freeman  34:56 So, none of the buildings, you know, just for our listeners, none of the buildings have any. sort of fossil fuel combustion heating equipment. You don't have boilers or anything like that, furnaces in these in these buildings,   Scott Demark  35:06 no boilers, no chillers, no   Trevor Freeman  35:09 that's awesome. And just for full transparency, I should have mentioned this up front. So, the zibi community utility is a partnership between Zibi and Hydro Ottawa, who our listeners will know that I work for, and this was really kind of a joint venture to figure out a different approach to energy at the city site.   Scott Demark  35:28 Yeah, that's right, Trevor. I mean the concept, was born a long time ago now, but the concept was born by talking to Hydro Ottawa about how we might approach this whole campus differently. You know, one of hydro Ottawa's companies makes electricity, of course, Chaudiere Falls, and so that was part of the thinking we thought of, you know, micro grids and islanding this and doing a lot of different things. When Ford came in, and we were not all the way there yet and made changes the Green Energy Act. It made it challenging for us to do the electricity side, but we had already well advanced the thermal side, and hydro, you know, hydro makes a good partner in this sort of thing. When a when a developer tells someone, I'd like you to buy a condo, and by the way, I'm also the district energy provider that might put some alarm bells up, but you put a partnership in there with a trusted, long term utility partner, and explain that, you know, it is in the in the public interest, they're not going to jack rates or mess with things. And then obviously, just, you know, hydro had such a long operating record operating experience that they really brought sort of an operations and long-term utility mindset to our district energy system.   Trevor Freeman  36:45 So, looking at a system like the Zibi community utility or other district energy systems, is this the kind of thing that can scale up over time? And, you know, I bring this up because you hear people talk about, you know, a network of district energy systems across a city or across a big geographic area. Are these things that can be interconnected and linked, or does it make more sense as standalone district energy systems in those conditions that you talked about earlier?   Scott Demark  37:17 Very much the former Trevor like, and that's, you know, that's where, you know, places like Copenhagen are today. It's that, you know, there was, there was one district energy system, then there was another, then they got interconnected, then the third got added. And then they use a lot of incineration there, in that, in that part of the world, clean incineration for garbage. And so then an incinerator is coming online, and so that incinerators waste heat is going to be fed with a new district energy loop, and some other factory is going to use the primary heat from that, and then the secondary heat is going to come into the dictionary system. So, these things are absolutely expandable. They're absolutely interconnectable. There are temperature profiles. There's modern, modern thoughts on temperature profiles compared to older systems. Most of the old, old systems were steam, actually, which is not the most efficient thing the world, but that's where they started and so now you can certainly interconnect them. And I think that the example at Zibi is a decent one, because we do have two kinds of systems there. You know, I said we have fan coil units in in the Ontario side, but we have heat pumps on the other side. Well, those two things, they can coexist, right? That's there. Those two systems are, are operating together. Because the difference, you know, the difference, from the customer's perspective, in those two markets are different, and the same can be true in different parts of the city or when different sources and sinks are available. So, it is not one method of doing district energy systems. What you do is you examine the ingredients you have. I keep saying it, but sources and sinks. How can I look at these sources and sinks in a way that I can interconnect them and make sense? And sometimes that means that a source or a sink might be another district energy system,   Trevor Freeman  39:12 Yeah, systems that maybe work in parallel to each other, in cooperation with each other. Again, it's almost that temporal need where there's load high on at one point in time and low on the other point in time. Sharing is a great opportunity.   Scott Demark  39:26 Yeah, absolutely   Trevor Freeman  39:27 great. Okay, last question for you here, Scott, what is needed, maybe from a regulatory or a policy lens to encourage more implementation of district energy systems. How do we see more of these things happen here in Canada or North America?   Scott Demark  39:45 The best way to put this, the bureaucracy has been slow to move is, is what I'll say. And I'll use Zibi as that example. When we when we pitch the district energy system. At Zibi, we had to approach the City of Ottawa, and we had to approach the city at Gatineau, the City of Ottawa basically said to us, no, you can't put those in our streets. Engineering just said, no, no, no, no. And so, what we did at Zibi is we actually privatized our streets in order to see our vision through, because, because Ottawa wasn't on board, the city of Gatineau said, Hmm, I'm a little worried. I want you to write protocols of how you will access your pipes and not our pipes. I want to understand where liability ends and starts and all of this kind of stuff. And we worked through that detail slowly, methodically with the city of Gatineau, and we came to a new policy on how district energy could be in a public street and Zb streets are public on the Gatineau side today, you know, come forward 10 years here, and the City of Ottawa has a working group on how to incorporate District Energy pipes into streets. We've been able to get the City of Ottawa to come around to the idea that we will reject and accept heat from their sewer. You know, Hydro Ottawa, wholly owned company of the City of Ottawa, has an active business in district energy. So Trevor, we've come really far, but it's taken a long time. And so, if you ask me, How can we, how can we accelerate district energy, I think a lot of it has to do with the bureaucracy at municipalities. And you know, we're we see so much interest from the Federation of Canadian municipalities, who was the debt funder for zcu. We have multiple visits from people all over Canada, coming to study and look at this as an example. And I'm encouraged by that. But it's also, it's also not rocket science. We need to understand that putting a pipe in a street is kind of a just, just a little engineering problem to solve, whereas putting, you know, burning fossil fuels for these new communities and putting it in the atmosphere, like the genies out of the bottle, right, like, and unfortunately, I think, for a lot of bureaucrats, the challenge at the engineering level is that that pipe in the street is of immediate, complex danger to solving that problem, whereas it's everybody's problem that the that the carbons in the atmosphere. So, if we could accelerate that, if we could focus on the acceleration of standards around District Energy pipes and streets, the rights of a district energy company to exist, and not to rant too much, but give you an example, is that a developer is required to put gas infrastructure into a new community, required, and yet you have to fight to get a district energy pipe in the street. So there needs to be a change of mindset there, and, and, and we're not there yet, but that's where we need to go.   Trevor Freeman  43:07 Yeah, well, it'll be interesting. You know, in 10 years, let's talk again and see how far we come. Hopefully not 10 years. Hopefully it's more like five, to see the kind of change that you've seen in the last decade. But I think that the direction is encouraging, the speed needs a little bit of work, but I'm always encouraged to see, yeah, things are changing or going in the right direction, just slowly. Well, Scott, we always end our interviews with a series of questions to our guests, so as long as you're okay with it, I'll jump right into those. So, the first question is, what is a book you've read that you think everybody should read?   Scott Demark  43:41 Nexus? Which is by Harare. He's the same author that wrote sapiens. Lots of people be familiar with sapiens. And so, Nexus is, is really kind of the history of information that works like, how do we, how do we share and pass information? And kind of a central thesis is that, you know, information is, is neither knowledge nor truth. It is information, and it's talking a lot about, in the age of AI, how are we going to manage to move information into truth or knowledge? And I think it, you know, to be honest, it kind of scared the shit out of me reading it kind of how, how AI is impacting our world and going to impact our world. And what I thought was kind of amazing about it was that he really has a pretty strong thesis around the erosion of democracy in this time. And it's, it was, it was really kind of scary because it was published before the 2024, election. And so it's, it's really kind of both a fascinating and scary read. And I think really something that everybody should get their head around.   Trevor Freeman  44:59 Yeah, there's a few of those books recently that I I would clear or classify them as kind of dark and scary, but really important or really enlightening in some way. And it kind of helps you, you know, formalize a thought or a concept in your head and realize, hey, here's what's happening, or gives you that kind of the words to speak about it in this kind of fraught time we're in. So same question. But for a movie or a show, is there anything that you think everybody should watch   Scott Demark  45:29 That's harder. I think generally, if I'm watching something, it's for my downtime or own entertainment, and pushing my tastes on the rest of the world, maybe not a great idea. I if I, if I'm, if I'm kind of doing that, I tend to watch cooking shows, actually, Trevor. So, like, that's awesome. I like ugly, delicious. I love David Chang. I like, I like, mind of a chef, creativity behind a chef. So those kinds of things, I'd say more. So, if there was something to like that. I think somebody else should, should watch or listen to I have, I have a real love for Malcolm Gladwell podcast, revisionist history. And so if I thought, you know, my watching habits are not going to going to expand anybody's brain. But I do think that Malcolm's perspective on life is, is really a healthy it's really healthy to step sideways and look at things differently. And I would suggest, if you have never listened to that podcast, go to Episode One, season one, and start there. It's, it's, it's fantastic.   Trevor Freeman  46:39 Yeah, I agree. I'll echo that one. That's one of my favorites. If we were to offer you or not, but if we were to offer you a free round-trip flight, anywhere in the world, where would you go?   Scott Demark  46:50 That's hard. So much flight guilt, you know, I know it's a hard assume that there's carbon offset to it. It's an electric plane.   Trevor Freeman  47:00 That's right, yeah,   Scott Demark  47:01 the we, my family, had a trip planned in 2020 to go to France and Italy. My two boys were kind of at the perfect age to do that. It would have been a really ideal trip. And so, I've still never been to either of those places. And if I had to pick one, probably Italy, I would really like to see Italy, mafuti. I think it would be a fantastic place to go. So probably, probably Italy.   Trevor Freeman  47:25 My favorite trip that I've ever done with my wife and our six-month-old at the time was Italy. It was just phenomenal. It was a fantastic trip. Who's someone that you admire?   Scott Demark  47:36 I have a lot of people, actually, a lot of people in this, in this particular space, like, what would I work in that have brought me here to pick one, though I'd probably say Peter Busby. So, Peter Busby is a mentor, a friend, now a business partner, but, but not earlier in my career. Peter Busby is a kind of a, one of the four fathers, you know, if you will, of green design in Canada. He's an architect, Governor General's Award-winning architect, actually. But I think what I, what I really, appreciate about Peter, and always will, is that he was willing to stand up in his peer group and say, hey, we're not doing this right. And, you know, he did that. He did that in the early 80s, right? Like we're not talking he did it when it cost his business some clients. He did it when professors would speak out against him, and certainly the Canadian Association of architecture was not going to take any blame for the shitty buildings that have been built, right? And he did it. And I remember being at a conference where Peter was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian architects Association, and so he's standing up, and people are all super proud of him. They're talking about his big life. And he kind of belittled them all and said, you're not doing enough. We're not doing enough like he's still he's still there. He's still taking the blame for where things are, and that things haven't moved fast enough, and that buildings are a massive part of our carbon problem, and probably one of the easier areas to fix. You know, we're talking about electric planes. Well, that's a that's a lot more difficult than it is to recover energy from a factory to heat a community, right? I admire him. I learn things from him all the time. He's got a great book out at the moment, actually, and, yeah, he'd be right up there on my in my top list,   Trevor Freeman  49:54 Awesome. What is something about the energy sector or its future that you're particularly excited about?   Scott Demark  50:00 I wish you asked me this before the election. I I'm feeling a little dark. Trevor, I think there needs to be a price on pollution in the world. Needs to be a price on pollution in America, in Canada, and I'm worried about that going away. in light of that, I'm not, I'm not super excited about different technologies at the moment. I think there are technologies that are helping us, there are technologies that are pushing us forward, but there's no like silver bullet. So, you know, a really interesting thing that's coming is kind of this idea that a small nuclear reactor, okay, very interesting idea. You could see its context in both localized electricity production, but all the heat also really good for district entry, okay, so that's an interesting tech. It obviously comes with complications around security and disposal, if you like. There's our nuclear industry has been allowed to drink like it's all complicated. So, I don't see one silver bullet in technology that I'm like, That's the answer. But what I do see, I'll go back to what we were talking about before, is, you know, we had to turn this giant ship of bureaucracy towards new solutions. Okay, that's, that's what we had to do. And now that it's turned and we've got it towards the right course, I'm encouraged by that. I really am. You know, there are champions, and I'll talk about our city. You know, there's champions in the City of Ottawa who want to see this happen as younger people have graduated into roles and planning and other engineering roles there. They've grown up and gone to school in an age where they understand how critical this climate crisis is, and they're starting to be in positions of power and being in decision making. You know, a lot of my career, we're trying to educate people that there was a problem. Now, the people sitting in those chairs, it they understand there's a problem, and what can they do about it? And so I am, I am excited that that the there is a next generation sitting in these seats, making decisions. The bureaucracy the ship is, is almost on course to making this difference. So I do think that's encouraging. We have the technology. We really do. It's not rocket science. We just need to get through the bureaucracy barriers, and we need to find ways to properly finance it.   Trevor Freeman  52:34 Right? I think that's a good place to wrap it up. Scott, thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate this conversation and shedding a little bit of light, not just on the technical side of district energy systems, but on the broader context, and as you say, the bureaucracy, the the what is needed to make these things happen and to keep going in that right direction. So thanks a lot for your time. I really appreciate it.   Scott Demark  52:56 Thank you, Trevor, good to see you.   Trevor Freeman  52:57 All right. Take care. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of The thinkenergy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe. Wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review. It really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, comments or an idea for a show or a guest, you can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com

Join hosts Jason, Tony, and our new co-host, Paul, on Episode One of Season Two! On this episode we discuss Sergei Eisenstein's epic two-part Soviet masterpiece Ivan the Terrible, released in 1945 and 1958 respectively. The films were commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 as a means to rehabilitate Ivan the Terrible's image for a contemporary Soviet audience. Stalin celebrated Part 1, but the state banned Part 2. A third part had been in the works, but was abandoned by Eisenstein after the suppression of the second part. Our discussion touches on this history and many other topics, including Soviet montage, dialectical art construction, Eisenstein's queerness, his fraught relationship with Stalin, and more.  This is the first episode of a new format in which we take book or movie recommendations from each of us, which are found below:  Tony's book recommendations: Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict by Ronald Bergan (2016) Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology, edited by Philip Rosen (1986) Film Form: Essays in Film Theory by Sergei Eisenstein (1949) Paul's book and film recommendations: This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalinist Russia by Joan Neuberger (2019) Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger  Battleship Potemkin (1925; dir. Sergei Eisenstein) Jason's movie recommendations: Come and See (1985; dir. Elem Klimov)  The Ascent (1977; dir. Larisa Shepitko)  Wings (1966; dir. Larisa Shepitko)  Please subscribe to the podcast, and don't forget to leave a review! Follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonAChristian and Anthony at @tonyjballas; follow Paul on BlueSky at @ptklein.com. Paul writes about movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. Paul's handle on Letterboxd is https://letterboxd.com/ptklein/; Jason's is https://letterboxd.com/exilemagic/.  Our logo is by Jason Christian  The theme music for this episode and all forthcoming episodes is by DYAD (Charles Ballas and Jeremy Averitt).  Please drop us a line anytime at coldwarcinemapod@gmail.com. Happy listening!  

Episode One of a brand new series of interviews with comics creators. Comics Talk welcomes Pat Mills to the show, to talk about his new Kickstarter, Ragtime Soldier, Charley's War and the 50th Anniversary of Battle Picture Weekly!

Season 3: Misunderstood Monsters starts on March 13th! Medusa has thrown down a challenge: The Gauntlet of the Gorgon. She's invited twelve different monsters to visit Mythik Camps this summer! The Muses are super-excited about the potential for mayhem and the great stories that will come out of it. Since Medusa's given us a hint about which monsters will be coming, each episode of Season 3 will focus on one of them! ...And we're also going to cover a few more, just to be on the safe side.  With these stories, we hope demigods everywhere will be ready to face down monsters of all kinds, whether you've found your way to a camp or not. So if you are at Camp Half-Blood, Camp Jupiter, Daring Girls, or Camp Mythik this summer, you'll need this information to prepare for the Quests of Medusa's Gauntlet – and if you're not at camp, you need it even more since you're out there as a solo hero. Who knows where those monsters might end up? So make sure you're subscribed! Episode One will be available to stream or download in two weeks, on March 13th, 2025! Until then, stay brave, demigods!

Stop on by for Episode One of my New Series: The Ultimate Guide to Limited for Disney Lorcana - Archazia's Island! Today we are covering all 24 Amber Cards in the set and I will rate them on a scale of 1 through 5 to help you navigate which cards to keep and which cards to pass!   To prepare for this series, I analyzed all 204 to see how they stack up in comparison to each other and what makes each card powerful or weak. I will be releasing a video every day for the next week: one for each ink, one for dual inks and one last video on the eve of release day to give quick recap as you prepare to crush Sealed or Draft at your LGS!   Follow me on Instagram (@thelorekeepersinnhq), BlueSky (@thelorekeepersinn.lorcana.community) and Twitter (@lorekeepersinn) for updates!   Contact me via email at contact@thelorekeepersinn.com   Disclaimer: This video uses trademarks and/or copyrights associated with Disney Lorcana TCG, used under Ravensburger's Community Code Policy (https://cdn.ravensburger.com/lorcana/...) We are expressly prohibited from charging you to use or access this content. This video is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Disney or Ravensburger. For more information about Disney Lorcana TCG, visit https://www.disneylorcana.com/en-US/

Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, roughly 20% of the Ukrainian territory remains occupied by Russian troops. Before the invasion, there were 41 million people living in Ukraine; today, the UN Refugee Agency estimates that 3.7 million people still in Ukraine have been displaced from their homes, while almost 7 million refugees had to flee abroad. The war has severely damaged the Ukrainian economy and the living conditions for people in Ukraine.Like everywhere else in the world, there is a class divide in Ukraine, and the impact of the war has not been equally felt: while the average Ukrainian was forced to migrate, lose wages, and fight on the front, the wealthy were able to escape conscription and put their money abroad. While economic elites reportedly took $35 billion out of the country since the start of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnky not only refused to expropriate and nationalize their assets but, instead, chose to impose harsh anti-labor measures on workers and unions and make further cuts to social services using the national emergency laws. The fight to ensure Ukrainian people's right to self-determination is not just about removing all Russian troops from Ukrainian territory and allowing the Ukrainian people to decide their own fate without fears of coups and invasions. It also has to do with stopping and reversing the encroachment of Western corporate and US imperial interests that seek to further exploit the country. However, prospects for this are growing darker by the day as President Donald Trump's new administration engages in bilateral negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and without Zelensky, to end the war, all while suggesting that the US take ownership of 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals. Solidarity with working people in Ukraine and their fight against Russia's invasion never meant support for the Zelensky government, the US government, NATO, or the designs of rival imperial powers, but lack of international solidarity has left Ukrainians in an impossible situation.   This is Solidarity without Exception, a new podcast series brought to you by The Real News Network, in partnership with the Ukraine Solidarity Network, hosted by Blanca Missé and Ashley Smith. In Episode One of this series, released on the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we analyze the current state of the war and the last three years from an internationalist, working-class perspective. Cohost Blanca Missé speaks with Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, professor of Physics at Tulane University, and one of the coordinators of the Ukraine Solidarity Network in the US; and Hanna Perekhoda, a researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, a founder of the Switzerland-based Committee of Solidarity with the Ukrainian People and Russian Opponents of the War, and an ethnic Ukrainian who grew up in the Russian-speaking the city of Donetsk in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastPre-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Blanca Missé, Kayla Rivara, Ashley SmithStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichMusic Credits: Venticinque Aprile (“Bella Ciao” Orchestral Cover) by Savfk |https://www.youtube.com/savfkmusicMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Cash for Leakers What if the perfect murder was invisible? Rogue government contractors and organized crime are weaponizing X-ray devices to slowly kill "leakers"—then cashing in on collusive life insurance policies. It starts as punishment, but when they see the money, they start making targets out of thin air.

This series tells the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family's eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California, and one woman's grassroots mission to restore their living history to the land. As we reshare this series over the coming weeks, we're adding a new fourth episode tracing recent developments in Theresa Harlan's work, its impact on the community, and the ongoing challenge of creating space for Indigenous history. In Episode One, Theresa Harlan shares the story of her family's uprooting from Tomales Bay, which ended their time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa. Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to season 2, Episode One! This one is jam packed full of information, stories, and fun! ALSO, LA50 is on YouTube! Thank you for all your support and please enjoy the show!https://x.com/PokemonGOLA50 - Xhttps://www.instagram.com/pokemongola50/?hl=en - Instahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOX8tIjdtwk - YouTube

As each year begins, many of us look to "new" as the solution to our problems. A new job, new relationship, or even a new mindset is often our hope for change. But how many times have these attempts fallen short? Lock in as Nick takes us on a journey to discover that true transformation comes not from external changes, but from the work of God in our lives. We will explore how to recognize the real problem, embrace God's solution, walk in newness of life, and sustain real, lasting change. Welcome to Episode One of New Can't Fix You: The Illusion of New.

Episode 68 - Episode One with Zander Keig on his 2024 best-selling book The Third Space - A Nonconformist's Guide to the Universe - A Nonconformist Guide to the Universe. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect tiny being. It's so damn complicated!So why does it work like that?Join us at What the Duck for the first episode of a series where we figure out how living things went from splitting ourselves in half to double the population, to periodically feeling compelled to copulate in such a vigorous, sometimes highly embarrassing, manner.Earth - this is your sexual history!Please note that this program contains adult themes and explicit language. Parental guidance is recommended. This is a summer repeat of Episode One -  please find the rest of the "Sex is Weird" series here.Featuring:Emeritus Professor David Siveter, University of Leicester, UK.Assistant Professor Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK and curator of non-insect invertebrates, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.Dr Marissa Betts, geologist and palaeontologist at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Dr Emily Willingham, biologist, journalist and author.Associate Professor Patty Brennan, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, US. Production:Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.Petria Ladgrove, Producer.Additional mastering: Isabella Tropiano and Russell Stapleton.Thanks also to Will Ockenden, Belinda Smith, Corey Hague and Joel Werner. If you want to hear more "What the Duck?" episodes- please like and subscribe here.This episode of What the Duck?! was first broadcast in September 2024 and is produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.

Drop a note to Allen S. right here. (Can't respond...sorry.)TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK, REFINER!It's been far too long since there's been productive output from the Severed Floor. Now that Season Two is underway, the "Severed" Podcast will be doing weekly "EpiCaps" (EPIsode reCAPS...get it?). This is NOT the detailed, shot-by-shot breakdown normally done as a re-watch. The re-watch episodes will be released AFTER the entire season of "Severance."EpiCaps are more about what we saw, not so much about what it means. Be looking for a new EpiCap every Monday morning during the release of "Severance - Season Two." ALSO, don't miss our Thursday night viewing parties on the "Severed" Patreon Page. Each week we're watching the new episode then discussing it in detail in a private chatroom. No spoilers anywhere until you enter the chatroom. The Patron-Refiners seemed to have a good time for Episode One. Want to join us?? It's easy! Go to:  patreon.com/SeveredPod. For $5/mo. you'll become a Patron-Refiner and can get in on the weekly viewing parties. Check it out!!BECOME A PATRON-REFINER!! Make the most of your time on the Severed Floor. Visit Patreon.com/SeveredPod to become a Refiner!! Just $5/mo. for inside info, games, trivia and early access to future "Severed" podcast episodes. Join the fun and help support the Podcast!!Support the showAPPLE PODCAST LISTENERS: If you are enjoying "Severed: The Ultimate 'Severance' Podcast" please make sure to leave a 5-star rating (and, if you want, a review telling others to give it a try). Higher rated podcasts get better placement in suggestion lists. It helps more "Severance" fans find the show. Thanks!!! Season 2 of "Severance" has been announced for 1/17/2025. While waiting on S2, we will continue to break down those things that Dan Erickson has listed as inspiration. Be watching for those episodes under the title "Severed: Origins." Join the fun on our Facebook page @SeveredPod. While we're all waiting around on news of Season Two, I'll try to keep you updated on news about the show. Also, let's talk!! Comments? Theories? Corrections? I LOVE 'EM!! Send to: SeveredPod@gmail.comPLEASE MAKE SURE TO SHARE THE PODCAST WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE 'SEVERANCE' FANS. THE SHOW GROWS THROUGH WORD OF MOUTH!!Needing your own copies of the Lexington Letter and Orientation Booklet? I've got you covered with downloadable PDFs of both documents:LETTER: LEXINGTONLETTER-TheLetter.pdf HANDBOOK: LEXINGTONLETTER-MDROrientationHandbook.pdfYou haven't completely watched 'Severance' until you've listened to 'Severed.'...

Welcome to the Hollywood Creative Alliance's Processing Severance: The Aftershow Podcast. In the first episode of Processing Severance Season Two, Rasha Goel, Mike Manalo, Shadan Larki, and Robert Licuria review and dissect Season 2 Episode 1 of the highly anticipated return Severance available to stream on Apple TV+. Season Two, Episode One is called "Hello, Ms. Cobel" - The views expressed by our hosts are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they may represent.

This is the second episode of our multi-part series on the video game console market. If you've yet to listen to Episode One, Sia Kamalie is the founder and fund manager at Skycatcher. Join me in breaking down the video game console market and his thesis for why it's an inflecting opportunity.  In this episode, we go micro and Sia is back to break down Sony. Sia and I spend a lot of time talking about catalysts and some of the dynamics that are happening under the hood of this massive conglomerate. Please enjoy this Breakdown on Sony. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- This episode is sponsored by Finley - modern debt capital management software for borrowers and lenders. Ask around and you'll find that nearly every operator or investor has experienced the operational nightmare of managing debt capital. Finley works by translating unstructured credit agreements into code, which gets all parties on the same page and helps them streamline the credit management lifecycle--think covenant reporting, interest and fee tracking, and portfolio analysis. Join the forward-thinking finance leaders, investors, and bank executives already modernizing their debt capital operations with Finley. Learn more and request your demo at finleycms.com.  —-- Business Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Business Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes (00:00:00) Welcome to Business Breakdowns (00:04:50) Series Overview: Video Game Console Market (00:05:43) Deep Dive: Sony's Business Segments (00:06:43) Sony's Entertainment Powerhouses: PlayStation and Crunchyroll (00:08:39) Sony's Strategic Shifts and Financials (00:13:06) Crunchyroll: The Netflix of Anime (00:14:18) Crunchyroll's Market Position and Growth Potential (00:16:30) Synergies Between Sony's Business Lines (00:19:09) Sony's Blockchain and NFT Ventures (00:21:05) Sony's Financial Outlook and Growth Strategy (00:29:12) Sony's M&A Activities and Gaming IP (00:42:08) Emerging Markets and Gaming (00:47:06) Sony's Management and Future Prospects (00:48:31) Lessons From Breaking Down Sony

Not so much about the Pope this week, more about something we've been promising since Episode One.  Brace yourself for intrigue, deception, double-dealing and money.... lots and lots of money.   For a very belated Christmas present join our Patreon family for yet more episodes -Tudoriferous | creating a Podcast discussing the great, good and mad Tudor Era | Patreon

It's a glorious day as Tom Baker becomes a Member of theOrder of the British Empire and the Three Who Rule are here to celebrate this momentous occasion along with news of further Gallifrey One guests, Phil Collinson trolling us all with War Chief intrigues, Toby Hadoke's annual In Memoriam, Big Finish news as usual and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Moonbase”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Tom Baker awarded MBE for Services to Television More New Guests at Gallifrey One 2025 Doctor Who Magazine 612 Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on February 1 The Savages screening at the BFI on February 28 Phil Collinson fuels the War Chief/Master link Toby Hadoke's 2024 In Memoriam Toby Hadoke's Arnold Yarrow obituary Jess Jurkovic: Record, Reuse, Recycle – 60s Doctor Who Incidental Music Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show released Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show behind the scenes Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Doctor Who – Short Trips: War Stories released Classic Series Commentary The Moonbase Episode One

Join host Dr. Tanya White as she delves into Rabbi Sacks' groundbreaking works and their relevance to today's pressing global and Jewish conversations. Launching January 2025 on all major podcast platforms. https://rabbisacks.org/books-and-beyond-podcast/ You can also sign up here to be notified as soon as Episode One drops: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBKfvEAgALKPo_seZuILImKjbeupfq2yVrc6uGs2YmaGifAg/viewform Or follow on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/books-beyond-the-rabbi-sacks-podcast-with-dr-tanya-white/id1788047629

What's the point of understanding money if we don't look at the power relations controlling its distribution? Bill Mitchell, a key figure in the development of modern monetary theory, is back for his twelfth appearance on the podcast, beginning with Episode One, Putting the T in MMT. As a key figure in the development of MMT, Bill articulates how this theory fundamentally challenges conventional economic wisdom by asserting that governments, as currency issuers, are not financially constrained in the same manner as households or businesses. This critical insight dispels the prevailing narrative that insists the government cannot afford to invest in social programs. This forces us to look not only at political choices, but the class power behind those choices. The conversation delves into the dynamics of class conflict, inflation, and the role of private banks in shaping the financial landscape. Economic austerity, rising costs, and stagnant wages force the working class to take on more and more private debt. Bill Mitchell is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at the University of Newcastle, NSW Australia. He is also the Docent Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Guest International Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. Bill is a professional musician and plays guitar with the Melbourne Reggae-Dub band – Pressure Drop. Follow his work on https://billmitchell.org/blog/

Dennis Hay Interview Scottish Hockey Heritage Dennis Hay is a former Scottish hockey player and coach who has had an interesting and long lasting career. As a player he toured Australia with Great Britain, when such things where less common, and went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, that was overshadowed by infamous terror attack, by a militant organisation. He went on to coach both domestically with the University of Edinburgh, as well as internationally with Scotland and Great Britain. Here he coached the women's team at the Olympic Games in 1988 and to a bronze medal in 1992.  In this series of four segments of his interview, recorded on 08.03.2024, we explore the various aspects of his hockey life. Starting with his early days and entry into the game, Dennis talks about his memories from his playing career, as well as his experiences as a coach. Episode One; Dennis Hay Introduction Episode Two; Dennis Hay on his Playing Career Episode Three; Dennis Hay on his Coaching Career Episode Four; Dennis Hay on his Memories of his Career This interview has been produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage.  Dennis Hay Former Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Player Former University of Edinburgh Hockey, Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Coach Interview location; Edinburgh Interview date; 08.03.2024 Interview produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage The Half Court Press Podcast is available on… iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts Amazon Music Breaker Overcast Pocket Casts RadioPublic

Join Lesley and Brad as they rewind through standout episodes packed with actionable advice. From carving out 30 minutes a day for self-growth to blending life's challenges with creative solutions, this recap offers transformative tips from inspiring guests to help you prioritize what truly matters and take bold steps toward your goals.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How the Remember When game helps you manifest goals.Embracing mom guilt and finding strength in seeking help.The 2% rule for using small daily changes to spark big growth.Creative strategies to balance family life with extraordinary goals.Episode References/Links:Ep. 1 ft. Joanna Vargas - https://beitpod.com/ep1Ep. 43 ft. Jennifer Van Barneveld-Pe - https://beitpod.com/ep43Jennifer Van Barneveld-Pe Website - https://coachjvb.com/Ep. 185 with Dai Manuel - https://beitpod.com/185Dai Manuel's Website - Website: https://www.daimanuel.com/Ep. 307 Jenn Drummond - https://beitpod.com/ep307Jenn Drummond Official Website – https://jenndrummond.com If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramThe Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channelFacebookLinkedInThe OPC YouTube Channel Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:01  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:42  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It Podcast. This is not an interview, this is not a recap, but it's like a rewind. Oh, it's like the MTV Rewind. Brad Crowell 0:51  It's a rewind. Lesley Logan 0:52  That's what it is. Oh, my God. Only took us two of these to figure out, this is our third one, we finally figured it out. So this. Brad Crowell 0:58  If you like a rewind, make sure we know, because I think it's kind of cool. Lesley Logan 1:02  I love a rewind. Brad Crowell 1:03  Yeah, it's a rewind. Lesley Logan 1:04  Oh my God. Okay, so we're rewinding, we're reliving some of our favorite episodes. Look, we couldn't possibly get all of our favorite episodes into any recap, like.Brad Crowell 1:14  I know. This is Episode 460. Are you kidding? Lesley Logan 1:15  Yeah. And so we're picking four past episodes per episode you're listening to on a topic. And today is our favorite tips, which is clearly the most general category. Brad Crowell 1:26  Yes, this is our generic favorite tips, but they're super fun great tips. Lesley Logan 1:31  If you like Jeopardy, this is the potpourri episode. Okay? So in this episode, we're gonna cover manifesting, like a type of way of manifesting without being a double woo. We're actually going to talk about, like, what to do when you make a mistake or when things don't go your way. And then we're going to talk about how you can change your life in 2% of your day. Holy freaking molly, that one's going to blow your mind. If you do not remember that, then you haven't heard that episode. Because if you had heard this episode, you would already know what we're talking about. Brad Crowell 1:56  Yeah, totally. Lesley Logan 1:57  And also, for my busy women, listen, it's all of you listening and the few good men you can send this to your busy woman in your life, like an inspiration on how one busy woman made the most out of her busy life to get to hit her goals that she has in her life. So here we go. Episode. What did you say? 460?Brad Crowell 2:15  460. Whoo! Stick around. Here we go.Lesley Logan 2:19  So our first clip in this rewind is from the first episode ever. Brad Crowell 2:24  The very first. Number one. Lesley Logan 2:26  When I interviewed Joanna Vargas, because I, like, had a batch interview a bunch of people, I was like, oh, this is the first episode. Like, I didn't know that when I picked her, but when we did the interview, I was like, this is being it till you see it. And so we're actually going to talk about this Remember When game, which is the most fun game, and I highly recommend playing it whenever you feel stuck. Brad Crowell 2:46  Yeah. Also, I'm pretty sure she used your name like 50 times in that episode, which I thought was a helpful trick for how to remember people's names, so we reflect on that as well.Lesley Logan 2:56  Yeah. Also, here's what I'll say. It definite. I just interviewed someone. The episode will come out soon. Her name is Kelsey Lensman, and listen to how many times she says my name and she doesn't just say Lesley. She said Les. Like, as if we're best friends. By the end of the episode, I was like, okay, Kels, when are we hanging out next? Like, I was like, This is my new best friend. And I don't normally follow all of our guests, because sometimes they poach us or whatever. But Joanna and this girl, Kels, I now follow, and I check on all the time. So here you go. Here's episode one. Joanna Vargas 3:27  Yeah, there's this game that I play. I have some girlfriends that know it, and it's called Remember When. And we'll just sit there, and we'll just drink coffee, or sometimes just some wine, and we just say, remember when, and we talk about things in the past as if they've already happened. So last summer, I was sitting at the park with a girlfriend. We're like, hey, remember when you're at my wedding? She's like, Oh my gosh. And we will give details. Remember when I made that toast and then I fell on my dress and we just start laughing. We will tell the most detailed stories. Oh my gosh. Remember when we went to Vegas and we had that phenomenal bachelorette party, and then we got free food, and we didn't have to pay for anything that whole night, and then she'll come in and go, yeah, remember when we took that helicopter? We will go on and on. Remember when that guy, he came and he just spoiled the heck out of me. Another thing we do is we'll send texts to each other, and we'll say, why are men so great to me? Why do men treat me like queens? Why do men buy me whatever, like, just on and on, and I'm like, oh, yeah, why? Why is it? And then the universe will show you why men are so good to you. Or you could say why are my clients just giving me so much money because of nothing? And then she'll text me, yeah, why are they? So we're already thinking and asking a question of true curiosity and as if it already happened. And so find somebody out there that you could play this game with, because not everybody will get it, right? And the ones that do get it text message, have a little session, a little zoom session, get together. I really, truly, it's so fun and make a game like little kids play Lesley, right? Brad Crowell 5:14  All right. So finally, let's talk about the Be It Actions from this interview, what bold, executable, intrinsic, or targeted action items can we take away from your convo with her? And I thought I jump in first and just say, one thing that I noticed wasn't anything you talked about. It wasn't like an actual talking point you had. If you go back and you listen to this interview, I am pretty sure she used your name, Lesley, 50 times. Lesley Logan 5:44  I know. Brad Crowell 5:45  She says it in almost every sentence. Lesley, you know what? Lesley, you know, this, Lesley, Lesley, right? And I picked up on it, like, maybe halfway through, two thirds way through. And I was just like, now I was listening for it, and then I heard it the rest of the time through. And I thought, wow, she is just so amazing at connecting to people in how she engages with them, she focuses on them, she speaks their name, she knows them. This is obviously a sales tactic for those of you who have ever done any kind of sales.Lesley Logan 6:14  (inaudible) only like her thoughts to me, like, she wasn't selling anything.Lesley Logan 6:19  Okay, so that was episode one. And the best way to find that is in your whatever podcast app you use, you have to go all the way back, or if you're on the OPC app, you can actually probably just search for itand that might make it really easy. I don't know. At any rate, it's Episode One. Now we're gonna go to Episode 43 so we're still early on in the podcast, and I really loved our guest, Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe. She's first of all, a beautiful human kind of in a way where you're like, oh, you might be a little jealous of how beautiful this human is, but I really love how vulnerable she is and how honest she is. And the whole episode, she actually talks about being a mom and it making time for herself. But first I want to talk about asking for help. And she has this really fun thing of how she handles when things don't go well, and it's about correcting and continuing. It really kind of helps you, like it's kind of the be it till you see it, isn't it? Brad Crowell 7:13  Yeah and asking for help, right? And then she also had some pretty powerful advice at the end about being more organized in your schedule, this helped me begin to live by my calendar.Lesley Logan 7:26  Stop it. Brad Crowell 7:27  What?Lesley Logan 7:27  What? Brad Crowell 7:28  Yeah, take it away. Enjoy. Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe 7:31  So I have a really great support system. My husband is in the business with me, and he fully understands and so like he knows that if I have to do something, he's got the kids. I've also had to learn that I'm always gonna have that mom guilt. I feel like mom guilt is just a normal thing to have. You just have to accept it. And, you know, do your best, show up the best you can, but also be okay with asking for help when you need it. And so we have a nanny that comes in and helps us, and she's like family now. And I had, when I first hired a nanny, when I had my first son, I had so much guilt about it, I was like I got but I have to be there for him. I have to be there. And now I've let that go, because I now look at it as a blessing that he can have somebody else in his life to make an impact, to make him more of a well-rounded person, or them both a more well-rounded person. So having the grandparents there, and having, you know, the caregiver there, and then also having our undivided attention at a certain time. You know, my cutoff is always five o'clock, and I'm with them 110% so, you know, I've just, when you become a mom, you just have to be more organized in your schedule. Recently, I've been getting up earlier and just getting my workout in a lot earlier. And I've, literally, I said recently, because it's been, like, four days, but it's a game changer, like six o'clock workout, do some work before the kids get up. And, I mean, it's been such a game changer. And I'm doing that for myself, you know, I had that me time before the day starts, which is so key. Lesley Logan 9:18  So that was Episode 43, if you want to go listen to the full thing. And I hope you do. I hope this helps you go back to the fun catalog that we have. I do know, shout out, I can't shout out the names, because I remember your faces, but not your names. To my peeps in Texas who've listened to the entire catalog three times through, you are brilliant. And then one of our girls in Alabama had only found us, like, eight months ago, and started with episode one, and a couple months ago finished it, so she is on track. So you guys be inspired. You can go back to the beginning anytime you want and do a rewind of your own. Lesley Logan 9:46  Up next, we have Episode 185 2% is only 30 minutes of your day. So we just gave away what that is. 30 minutes of your day is 2%. Brad Crowell 9:55  That's not insane. Lesley Logan 9:56  Insane. So when you tell me you don't have time, you don't have 2% of your day for you, we got problems. But, Dai Manuael, and every time I see his name, I want to go Dai Manuel Miranda, and I know that's not his name, but like, does it? I just anyways, he is epic. He's got a beautiful story about riding his bicycle, and then also, like, how he really helps people break up their day, because 2% of your day is 30 minutes, and he also gives out tips on how to break up that 30 minutes. You can make the most of it. So even, it doesn't have to all be exercise or all be reading. He has a really wonderful way for you to take 2% of your day for you to make your life better. So here is Become a Champion of Change with DaiManuel, Episode 185.Dai Manuel 10:39  Here's the thing, we've all got 30 minutes a day. All right? I know there's people thinking, I don't have 30 minutes a day. I'm like, you know what? Give me your smartphone, we're gonna go into the settings and you're gonna look at the thing called screen time, okay? I know you got 30 minutes now. You know, like, don't tell me don't. Now, here's the thing that's only 2% of every 24 hours. So what I want you to do is make a commitment to yourself that you're going to commit 28 days straight, that's four weeks, where you're going to make non negotiable every day 30 minutes for yourself. And in this 30 minutes, you're going to do something very specific. You're going to move your body with purpose for 15 minutes. Okay? You're just going to move it. I don't care how you move it. Just move it any way you want. As I always say, always, always, okay, like, move your body for 15 minutes, get your heart rate elevated, feel into your body, so if you did something good, then you're going to immediately follow that with five minutes of mindful meditation. All right? Now, that's 20 minutes. Now, for the last 10 minutes, you're going to feed that muscle between the ears, okay, that brain of yours with something positive, intentional, focused, personal development, not professional development. Personal Development. Okay? We all get lots of professional development, but I want you to work on yourself personally. So you can listen to a podcast like Lesley's, you know, you can listen to a TED Talk. By the way, I did a TEDx talk a year ago on vulnerability in men. Lesley Logan 12:00  That's so cool.Dai Manuel 12:01  So there's a little plug there, self plug, sorry, sorry, sorry. Lesley Logan 12:05  I love it. Dai Manuel 12:06  Also, you know, whatever it is, but feed your mind something positive for 10 minutes, and you'll find that after exercising that mindfulness meditation, you're ready to receive and you become a sponge. But that's just 2% of your 24 hours, okay? And in that, if you commit to that for four weeks, I've never had anybody come up to me and say I didn't experience a big shift. I know you will. Body, mind and spirit, you'll shift. Brad Crowell 12:28  Okay, so, wow. Episode 185 with Dai Manuel, 2% is only 30 minutes of your day that, I mean, it's kind of mind-blowing, and it makes me re-evaluate the stories I'm telling myself. So, next up we have Episode 307, 307 with Jenn Drummond. Jenn is like an incredibly inspirational human being, slash, epic mom, slash, what the hell.Lesley Logan 12:28  She climbed all seven K2s, and she was not a rock climber or hiker, professional climber, before the pandemic. So, yeah.Brad Crowell 13:04  So this one is Reaching New Heights And Transforming Life Post-Accident with Jenn Drummond, and what was super fun was her telling her story about how she uses her time while she can actually be present and still maximize her time so that she could prep for those epic climbs. Lesley Logan 13:21  She has seven kids. Brad Crowell 13:22  She has seven, seven kids.Lesley Logan 13:24  Yeah, so I had to ask. I had to go, how the hell did you, like, do you have seven nannies? Like, what do you got? You know? Brad Crowell 13:30  It's amazing. Lesley Logan 13:30  Her tip is epic. Brad Crowell 13:31  Yeah. So here you go, enjoy.Jenn Drummond 13:34  So when you have restrictions or limitations or whatever, that's not a no. That's a time to pull out the creativity bone and figure out what you're going to do. And so some of the meetings that I was on, I didn't have to be visually present, so I could walk on the treadmill and do the Zoom call, right? And I had this little thing called this Firefly. I don't know if you met Fred the Firefly but, Fred the Firefly is a very nice friend of mine, and he listens on all my Zoom meetings that we invite him to, and he takes all the notes for me. So then I can be walking. I'm like, oh, Fred caught that. I'll make sure I look at it a little more detailed later on. And so that was helpful. And then when my kids had soccer games, right? Soccer games are an hour and a half. They're forever, especially when your kid's not good, they're even longer. They're an hour and a half. And so I would bring a 12-inch step to the game. I'd bring a backpack full of water bottles, and I was that mom like standing on the sideline going, doing my step up. So I was watching the game, instead of the mom that was sitting there just watching. So I had to, you know, I had to make it work. Lesley Logan 14:34  That was Episode 307. I hope you go back and listen to the whole thing. I learned so much. I went on a journey. She is just fabulous. And she has a great book, which we read as well, and I just really enjoy it. Lesley Logan 14:46  And that wraps up our favorite tips, which is, by the way, clearly not including all of our favorite tips of all the Be It Till You See It interviews we've done, but hopefully it's a rewind that helps you go back to four in the catalog, and really take in like, what are your favorite tips of these guests? We want to know. So share it with the Be It Pod. You can tag the Be It Pod on Instagram. You can share it in a review with five stars, please. And you can also share this with a friend who is looking like maybe they're just feeling a little stuck or lost, like one of these tips might be exactly what they need. Sometimes we don't know what to say to people. We can send them an episode and it could be, oh, they'll pick out the thing that they needed to hear that day, which could be really cool. Brad Crowell 15:26  And also, too, these rewind episodes are really fun to send out because it is a little bit of a taste of a bunch of different episodes for them, and they'll really get to know Lesley, I don't think I'm in these too much, but. Lesley Logan 15:38  You're not at all on any of them. Brad Crowell 15:40  No, but I'm in the middle. I'm in the middle of all these. So, here I am. I'm here. Lesley Logan 15:45  He's here. And also, like, you know, the Be It Till You See It podcast grows because of you. It grows because you share the episodes. Let's be honest. Everyone's really busy, and most people are not randomly finding a podcast on their own. So we just want to (inaudible) thank you.Brad Crowell 15:58  I don't remember the last time I opened the pod app to be like, what is out there? Lesley Logan 16:01  No, I never. Brad Crowell 16:03  It's all referral-based. Lesley Logan 16:03  It's all referral-based. So thank you so much, and we hope that this episode helps you share the Be It Till You See It podcast with a friend. Because we, as long as we continue to grow, we can continue to get bigger and bigger guests. I have some dream guests. I have some huge dream guests. And the more downloads we get, the easier it is for me to get those dream guests, and I might as well say it now we're in the top 1.5% of our podcast because of you guys. (inaudible)Brad Crowell 16:28  That means we've actually grown in our listenership. Thanks to you. Lesley Logan 16:32  Thanks to you. Brad Crowell 16:33  So, you're amazing.Lesley Logan 16:34  Thank you for listening. Until next time, you know what to do, Be It Till You See It. Yes, Brad finally got it.Brad Crowell 16:41  I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 16:42  I'm Lesley Logan. Have an amazing day. Brad Crowell 16:44  Bye for now. Lesley Logan 16:46  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 17:28  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 17:33  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 17:37  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 17:44  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.Brad Crowell 17:48  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dennis Hay Interview Scottish Hockey Heritage Dennis Hay is a former Scottish hockey player and coach who has had an interesting and long lasting career. As a player he toured Australia with Great Britain, when such things where less common, and went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, that was overshadowed by infamous terror attack, by a militant organisation. He went on to coach both domestically with the University of Edinburgh, as well as internationally with Scotland and Great Britain. Here he coached the women's team at the Olympic Games in 1988 and to a bronze medal in 1992.  In this series of four segments of his interview, recorded on 08.03.2024, we explore the various aspects of his hockey life. Starting with his early days and entry into the game, Dennis talks about his memories from his playing career, as well as his experiences as a coach. Episode One; Dennis Hay Introduction Episode Two; Dennis Hay on his Playing Career Episode Three; Dennis Hay on his Coaching Career Episode Four; Dennis Hay on his Memories of his Career This interview has been produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage.  Dennis Hay Former Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Player Former University of Edinburgh Hockey, Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Coach Interview location; Edinburgh Interview date; 08.03.2024 Interview produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage The Half Court Press Podcast is available on… iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts Amazon Music Breaker Overcast Pocket Casts RadioPublic

Dennis Hay Interview Scottish Hockey Heritage Dennis Hay is a former Scottish hockey player and coach who has had an interesting and long lasting career. As a player he toured Australia with Great Britain, when such things where less common, and went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, that was overshadowed by infamous terror attack, by a militant organisation. He went on to coach both domestically with the University of Edinburgh, as well as internationally with Scotland and Great Britain. Here he coached the women's team at the Olympic Games in 1988 and to a bronze medal in 1992.  In this series of four segments of his interview, recorded on 08.03.2024, we explore the various aspects of his hockey life. Starting with his early days and entry into the game, Dennis talks about his memories from his playing career, as well as his experiences as a coach. Episode One; Dennis Hay Introduction Episode Two; Dennis Hay on his Playing Career Episode Three; Dennis Hay on his Coaching Career Episode Four; Dennis Hay on his Memories of his Career This interview has been produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage.  Dennis Hay Former Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Player Former University of Edinburgh Hockey, Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Coach Interview location; Edinburgh Interview date; 08.03.2024 Interview produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage The Half Court Press Podcast is available on… iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts Amazon Music Breaker Overcast Pocket Casts RadioPublic

This special update episode marks ten years since we published Episode One of the Columbo Podcast - Murder by the Book. In this episode, Gerry and Iain look back on ten years of podcasting together and announce their plans for the Columbo Podcast in 2025.

This special update episode marks ten years since we published Episode One of the Columbo Podcast - Murder by the Book. In this episode, Gerry and Iain look back on ten years of podcasting together and announce their plans for the Columbo Podcast in 2025.

Dennis Hay Interview Scottish Hockey Heritage Dennis Hay is a former Scottish hockey player and coach who has had an interesting and long lasting career. As a player he toured Australia with Great Britain, when such things where less common, and went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, that was overshadowed by infamous terror attack, by a militant organisation. He went on to coach both domestically with the University of Edinburgh, as well as internationally with Scotland and Great Britain. Here he coached the women's team at the Olympic Games in 1988 and to a bronze medal in 1992.  In this series of four segments of his interview, recorded on 08.03.2024, we explore the various aspects of his hockey life. Starting with his early days and entry into the game, Dennis talks about his memories from his playing career, as well as his experiences as a coach. Episode One; Dennis Hay Introduction Episode Two; Dennis Hay on his Playing Career Episode Three; Dennis Hay on his Coaching Career Episode Four; Dennis Hay on his Memories of his Career This interview has been produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage.  Dennis Hay Former Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Player Former University of Edinburgh Hockey, Scotland & Great Britain Hockey Coach Interview location; Edinburgh Interview date; 08.03.2024 Interview produced in conjunction with Scottish Hockey Heritage The Half Court Press Podcast is available on… iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts Amazon Music Breaker Overcast Pocket Casts RadioPublic

Welcome to Episode ONE of a brand-new season of Abraham's Table! Imam Omar Shaheed and Rev. Ellen Fowler Skidmore welcome Rabbi Erik Uriarte to our interfaith discussions! Today we introduce ourselves, and look forward to a new season of listening and learning! Welcome to Abraham's Table.

Melissa's Old Nose is back to continue our recap and break down of Episode One, Season 14 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, or, should we say, the season of Dorit.  We cover it all and prepare for a season long show down that we did not know we needed but are so here for, Dorit vs. Kyle. Gabriela helps us make sense of it all - the good, the bad, the other.  While we have her, Gabriela chats Teresa's recent WWHL appearance - second chair (?), Jackie Goldschenider and Teresa's recent chat, all the online rumors and nastiness surrounding Teresa and Louie's supposed foreclosure, Teresa's old, current, and future feud with Tamra Judge and oh, so much more. In typical Gabriela - Melissa's Old Nose - fashion - nothing is off limits or held back. Part II starts now.  @rhonjteabee @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope  BROUGHT TO YOU BY:  IRESTORE -  https://www.irestorelaser.com/VELVETROPE (Get Hundreds of Dollars Off For Huge Black Friday Sale Their iRESTORE Elite To Regrow Your Hair At Home) LOLAVIE - lolavie.com/VELVET (From Now Until Cyber Monday You Can Shop Their Best Sale of The Year & Get 25% Off Jennifer Aniston's Award Winning Hair Care) MANSCAPED - manscaped.com (Use Code Velvet For 20% Off Plus Free Shipping on The Chairman™ Pro Package) HINGE - (Refresh Your Hinge Profile Early OR Download Hinge Today and Set Your 2025 Dating Intentions Now!) PAIR EYEWEAR - paireyewear.com (Use Code Velvet Rope For 15% Off Your First Pair For Infinite Possibilities of Stylish Frames)  GOBBLE gobble.com/velvet ($120 Off Across 4 Boxes, Plus Free Shipping and Free Cookies on Gobble's Lean and Clean Dinner Subscription) OAK ESSENTIALS - oakessentials.com (Use Code Velvet15 For 15% Your First Order of Clean, Spa Quality Skincare Essentials) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact David@advertising-execs.com MERCH Available at - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa's Old Nose is back and so is RHOBH!!! Today Gabriela helps us recap and break down Episode One, Season 14 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, or, should we say, the season of Dorit.  After much hype and on line chatter about Dorit coming in hot, she did not disappoint.  Jennifer Tilly and Bosom Saint John make their much anticipated debuts, Kyle is hurt and refuses to mention Morgan's name, Garcelle fishes for a storyline, Sutton gets surreal, Kathy steals the show, Erika plays middleman and oh so much more.  Melissa's Old Nose helps us make sense of it all - the good, the bad, the other.  While we have her, Gabriela chats Teresa's recent WWHL appearance - second chair (?), Jackie Goldschenider and Teresa's recent chat, all the online rumors and nastiness surrounding Teresa and Louie's supposed foreclosure, Teresa's old, current, and future feud with Tamra Judge and oh, so much more. In typical Gabriela - Melissa's Old Nose - fashion - nothing is off limits or held back. @rhonjteabee @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope  BROUGHT TO YOU BY:  LOLAVIE - lolavie.com/VELVET (From Now Until Cyber Monday You Can Shop Their Best Sale of The Year & Get 25% Off Jennifer Aniston's Award Winning Hair Care) MANSCAPED - manscaped.com (Use Code Velvet For 20% Off Plus Free Shipping on The Chairman™ Pro Package) HINGE - (Refresh Your Hinge Profile Early OR Download Hinge Today and Set Your 2025 Dating Intentions Now! IRESTORE -  https://www.irestorelaser.com/VELVETROPE (Get Hundreds of Dollars Off For Huge Black Friday Sale Their iRESTORE Elite To Regrow Your Hair At Home) PAIR EYEWEAR - paireyewear.com (Use Code Velvet Rope For 15% Off Your First Pair For Infinite Possibilities of Stylish Frames)  GOBBLE gobble.com/velvet ($120 Off Across 4 Boxes, Plus Free Shipping and Free Cookies on Gobble's Lean and Clean Dinner Subscription) OAK ESSENTIALS - oakessentials.com (Use Code Velvet15 For 15% Your First Order of Clean, Spa Quality Skincare Essentials) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact David@advertising-execs.com MERCH Available at - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you believe that this little indie sow premiered way back in March of 2014??  That's an entire decade of The Bittersweet Life! Have you been with us from the very start? Or have you joined us late by caught up on all the episodes over the years? Or perhaps those first few seasons are a mystery that you've never tapped? Either way we're going to have fun on this episode. In honor of 10 (and a half) years of this show (and actually 11 since the taping of this pilot episode in Katy's Trastevere apartment) we listen all the way back to Episode Number One, and comment on it in real time. How relevant is that discussion? What was it like for Tiffany, with zero audio background, to tape her first podcast episode? How much has the show changed and evolved over the decade?  We hope you'll enjoy listening back as much as we did.  And if you haven't heard those early seasons, why not dig into our archives? There are some real gems back in our early era. ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!  

In this episode of The Bandwich Tapes, I sit down with the incredibly talented musician James Raymond for a wide-ranging conversation about his life, music, and creative journey. James Raymond is a musician, songwriter, producer, and film composer who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. James has produced and co-written several records with his dearly departed birthfather, David Crosby, the most recent being FOR FREE. He has also written songs for David Crosby, Crosby/Nash, and CSNsometimesY and played on records by Warren Zevon and many others. This episode is a must-listen for anyone curious about the diverse inspirations that fuel James' work and the stories behind the music.Check out more about James and his music at jamesraymond.comMusic from the Episode:One for Every Moment (CPR)Morrison (CPR)She's Got to Be Somewhere (David Crosby)River Rise (David Crosby with Michael McDonald)Rodriguez for a Night (David Crosby)For Free (David Crosby with Sarah Jarosz)The Other Side of Midnight (David Crosby)Thank you for tuning in! If you have any questions, feedback, or ideas for the show, please contact me at brad@thebandwichtapes.com. And please spread the word about the show!The theme song, "Playcation," was written by Mark Mundy.

FanX LIVE brought a slew of stars to Farnborough for the first running of the show, and the Saturday afternoon brought us The Phantom Menace panel with guests Hugh Quarshie, Steve Speirs, Marc Silk and Andy Secombe (That's Captain Panaka, Captain Tarpals, Senator Aks Moe and Watto). Look back over a quarter of a century to the making of Episode One, as well as our chat with TC-14 performer John Fensom on this special episode of Making Tracks. Remember to tune in to Good Morning Tatooine, LIVE Sunday evenings at 9.00pm UK, 4.00pm Eastern and 1.00pm Pacific on Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram and Twitch and check out our Fantha Tracks Radio Friday Night Rotation every Friday at 7.00pm UK for new episodes of The Fantha From Down Under, Planet Leia, Desert Planet Discs, Start Your Engines, Collecting Tracks, Canon Fodder and special episodes of Making Tracks, and every Tuesday at 7.00pm UK time for your weekly episode of Making Tracks. Thanks to James Semple for the Fantha Tracks intro, Blues Harvest for our Making Tracks opening music and Mark Daniel and Vanessa Marshall for our voiceovers. You can contact any of our shows and send in your listeners questions by emailing radio@fanthatracks.com or comment on our social media feeds: https://www.youtube.com/@FanthaTracksTV/ https://links.fanthatracks.com/ https://link.chtbl.com/fanthatracksradio www.instagram.com/fanthatracks www.facebook.com/FanthaTracks www.twitter.com/FanthaTracks www.pinterest.co.uk/fanthatracks/ www.fanthatracks.tumblr.com/ www.tiktok.com/@fanthatracks www.twitch.tv/fanthatracks www.threads.net/@FanthaTracks

In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, we begin a three-part series examining the manufacturing comeback in the United States, the resulting surge in job creation, and the types of skills workers need to get those jobs. In the series, we explore how the nation's employers are finding, training, and retraining the talent to fill as many as 3.8 million jobs over the next eight years. Manufacturers say they are already having trouble filling those jobs. Episode One of The Manufacturing Comeback focuses on how large employers are addressing the shortage of skilled talent. Building a Talent Pipeline I recently traveled to Minneapolis to attend The Manufacturing Institute's Workforce Summit 2025. There I spoke with Mark Rayfield, CEO of Saint-Gobain North America and CertainTeed, and with Paul Myles, senior manager of Government Workforce Development and Training Programs at Magna International. In the podcast, Rayfield and Myles discuss how while the demand for manufacturing jobs in America is surging, finding skilled talent to fill these roles is a growing challenge. Unlike manufacturing jobs of the past, these jobs are often tech-focused. That means manufacturing employers are competing with other industries that are also looking for a tech-skilled workforce. We discuss innovative recruitment methods, effective partnerships with educational institutions, and creating career pathways for people from all backgrounds. Behind the Manufacturing Resurgence The recent surge of manufacturing construction and hiring is being fueled by the infusion of federal funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act enacted in 2021, the CHIPS and Science Act enacted in 2022, and private funding. To better understand how the manufacturing comeback is reshaping the workforce, I speak with Gardner Carrick, chief program officer for The Manufacturing Institute, which is helping employers figure out how to build a strong talent pipeline. Also joining this part of the conversation is Yustina Saleh, managing director of Workforce Innovation for The Burning Glass Institute. Importantly, we look at the ebbs and flows of manufacturing hiring and how jobs have changed over the past several decades. We also examine why it has become more difficult to find workers interested in manufacturing careers, despite the fact that they are often good-paying jobs. You can listen to the entire conversation here, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find our podcasts on the Work in Progress YouTube channel. The Manufacturing Comeback This three-part podcast series is a robust conversation about an industry that is once again looking for workers. Next week, in Episode Two, we turn our attention to how smaller manufacturers are attempting to find and train new workers. This series is made possible through support from The Manufacturing Institute. As a nonprofit journalism organization, WorkingNation partners and collaborates with outside organizations to make possible our mission of telling stories about solutions to today's workforce issues. All editorial decisions on this series were made independently of our supporter. Episode 339: The Manufacturing Comeback: How Large Employers are Sourcing TalentHost & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4Transcript: Download the transcript for this episode hereWork in Progress Podcast: Catch up on previous episodes here

**For all details on how to subscribe using Apple or Spotify and support the podcast plus get early release, ad free listening and bonus episodes please visit https://www.theguiltpodcast.com/how-to-subscribe**In April of 1989 two Swedish tourists, Heidi Paakkonen and Sven Urban Hoglin disappeared without a trace only days before they were due to leave New Zealand.Despite no bodies being found, David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders. In October of 1991 Urban's body was discovered 70km away from where the New Zealand Police said it should be, when it was discovered up a forest road in Parakiwai, near Whangamata.Yet despite this contradictory new evidence and the eventual discovery that a key witness had committed perjury, David Tamihere was not successful in his appeals and served 21 years before being paroled in 2010.To this day Tamihere has always maintained his innocence, that he never met the Swedish couple, and he certainly never murdered them.It was almost one year ago, in December of 2023 that I released the final official episode of Season three of GUILT - Finding Heidi. This episode was the last in what had been an eight month investigation by myself to try and get to the truth, and more importantly to try and find Heidi.Since the release of that episode my work has not stopped, in fact it has amplified, as I've worked with the New Zealand Police to ensure that fresh evidence I've uncovered has been actioned appropriately with one final goal in mind, to find Heidi.Over this series of episodes which I'm calling Finding Heidi - Part Two Endgame, you're going to hear the story of this year's work, and how it led to a recent event, which I believe is the most important development in this case in 30 years.. Everything you're going to hear is new, and has never been heard before.And by the end, this case will never be the same again.Episode One of Finding Heidi Part Two will be available for subscribers on November 11th 2024. To find out how to subscribe you can visit our website www.theguiltpodcast.com and click ‘how to subscribe.'Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guilt. Expand your listening experience and support the creation of this podcast by becoming an Acast+ Subscriber. Benefits include, Early Release, Ad Free Listening and Bonus Content. https://plus.acast.com/s/guilt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Episode 2 of Breakfast with an Alcoholic, Season Three: A New Beginning? No one has really nailed what this enterprise ought to be called, but that's ok. In Episode One, we discussed the role of the Big Book in our recovery and assigned some homework, which was to read Chapter One of the Big Book, “Bill's Story,” all sixteen pages of it:In this episode, we go through Bill's Story in more detail, and we find aspects of the story that mirror our own. It was finally seeing that Bill's Story was just like my story that opened the door for me to finally get sober. We discuss all that and more, including a failed coup attempt by the sponsees during the Alcoholic Lightning Round. For background, you might want to watch this first:According to the trusty AI-bot that helps me edit the podcast,This conversation delves into the profound struggles of alcoholism, the journey towards recovery, and the pivotal moments that lead to transformation. The speakers reflect on personal experiences, the importance of connection, and the role of spirituality in overcoming addiction. They discuss the significance of willingness to change and the design for living that supports sobriety, drawing parallels to the foundational stories of Alcoholics Anonymous.How can you not already be listening? Also, Daniel and Sean: Were you aware we said all that?And here are some take-aways from our conversation (courtesy of my personal alco-bot or drunk-bot?)—although wouldn't you rather listen?:Takeaways* Self-knowledge is not the answer to addiction.* Despair and loneliness can be overwhelming in addiction.* Connection with others can lead to transformative experiences.* The concept of a higher power can be personalized.* Willingness to change is crucial for recovery.* Sobriety is a journey, not a destination.* The importance of sharing experiences in recovery.* Fear can be a temporary motivator for sobriety.* A design for living can help navigate life's challenges.* The journey to sobriety often involves setbacks and learning.* Vanilla is a legitimate flavor; not the absence of flavor.If you're looking for a copy of the Big Book, it's available online and I might also recommend this if you're not quite sure that you should be reading/listening to this stuff or not:Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join us. Get full access to Thanks For Letting Me Share at thanksforlettingmeshare.substack.com/subscribe

Trump's Bold Election Predictions, Kamala's Debate Disaster, and Exposing Falsities   In today's MG Show, Jeffrey and Shannon break down DJT's latest predictions as the countdown to the election hits 11 days. Jesse Watters humorously comments on Kamala's disastrous debate performance, likening it to her “debating herself and losing.” They explore Alex Jones' disinformation on Q, as psyop operators attempt to shift blame onto Q's influence. DJT sets an example on what it means to be a true leader, while CNN's Anderson Cooper and Charlamagne face off on-air. Plus, Episode One of *The Art of the Surge* documentary on Trump drops on X.com, and more.   Keywords: Trump election predictions, Jesse Watters Kamala debate, Alex Jones disinformation, Q psyops, CNN Anderson Cooper, Charlamagne, Art of the Surge documentary, Trump leadership, conservative podcast, America First, MG Show -----------------

A series designed to address the cries for help that so many of us express when life becomes overwhelming. Our struggles come in many different ways— emotional, mental, spiritual, and relational. Through practical means this series offers biblical hope and guidance for finding peace and restoration in Christ. Welcome to Episode One of Somebody Save Me, When Life Feels Overwhelming.

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A number of years back, expat podcast Expat Sandwich produced a documentary episode all about... us! As we prepare to launch our 12th season (can you believe it?), we've decided to air the episode in its entirety here on our show. According to Expat Sandwich's show notes for the episode, "Veteran public radio producer Katy Sewall and writer Tiffany Parks have been friends since the sixth grade. Together they host The Bittersweet Life, a podcast they created four years ago when Katy spent a year in living in Rome, and where Tiffany has lived for the last thirteen years. "Their conversational podcast is NOT short on substance by any means—they take deep dives into some pretty emotional terrain on universal topics such as joy, loneliness, heartbreak, relationships and much more, as events unfold in their daily lives. In this episode, we share some of our favorite shows from their podcast as well as learn more about Katy and Tiffany—where they've been and what lies ahead." If you're a relatively new listener and the clips shared on this compilation are unfamiliar to you, take it as a suggestion to dig back into the archives for our early shows—or maybe even start all the way back at Episode One. You can find the original Expat Sandwich episode here. ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!  

While it is absolutely true that the market has changed, not all businesses are struggling right now. Those of us who understand business and have done the work to build brand equity, solve real problems and offer SPICE solutions aren't concerned about the market changes. Yes, there are tried and true strategies and insights that can position you to build a business that is absolutely market agnostic, meaning it doesn't matter what the market is doing, you will continue to grow and thrive. .  When you understand how to operate your business accordingly, you will continue to see growth when others see constriction. When sales cycle slow because buyers become more discerning, it's important to understand how to navigate your business so that you don't find yourself questioning if you'll be part of the 10% that go out of business each year. To that end, it is always important to be fiscally responsible as a CEO of your own business and that's why you're going to love this episode. In this episode, I am responding to another question that landed in my DM's – “when the market starts to shift, what expenses should you never look to cut?” I love this question for so many reasons and it's the sign of being a mature business owner who understands that no matter what the market is doing, the cost of doing business is the cost of doing business. If you're ready to determine which expenses avoid the chopping block when sales slow down,  grab your Move to Millions Podcast notebook and listen in to discover: The importance of expense management 5 keys to navigating the current market in your business 3 keys for optimizing your team during these market shifts How to create a market agnostic business And so much more Powerful Quotes During the Episode: "One of the most important things you can do right now as an entrepreneur is to focus on maintaining profitability and cash flow by cutting unnecessary costs." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "While a recession is not yet confirmed, it's crucial to prepare for potential market constriction and a slowdown in sales within the next year to a year and a half." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "You should have at least three months, ideally twelve months, of operating expenses in reserve to weather any economic downturns." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Do not slash your marketing budget, even if the return seems low. Marketing is essential for long-term growth and brand visibility." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Customer service is key. Retaining your customers and ensuring positive experiences will support business stability and reduce client acquisition costs." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Automations and critical software should be retained to maintain efficiency. Only cut unused or unnecessary systems to save costs." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Be cautious with team cuts; each team member should contribute to profit-generating activities. Focus on eliminating non-essential tasks rather than cutting staff." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Being part of a community during market downturns can lead to valuable strategy exchanges and support." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Make wise choices with investments—don't over-invest. Ensure every investment adds value and negotiate where possible." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Eliminate non-essential expenses, negotiate better rates with service providers, and optimize existing investments for better value." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Reevaluate your tools and ensure they are essential and cost-effective. Optimize credit card processing fees and cut unnecessary fees." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon "Don't cut your marketing, customer service, essential software, automation, or team. These areas are crucial for maintaining business health during tough times." – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon These quotes capture the essence of the advice and insights shared during the episode, providing valuable takeaways for listeners.Resources Mentioned: Move to Millions by Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon – Get Your Copy Companion Guide for Move to Millions – Download for a detailed overview of the seven systems to seven figures. Join the Move to Millions Facebook Group for ongoing support and community engagement – Join Now Move to Millions 90-Day Business Growth Planner – Get Your Planner Want more of Darnyelle? Social Media Links: http://www.instagram.com/darnyellejerveyharmon http://www.facebook.com/darnyellejerveyharmon http://www.twitter.com/darnyellejervey http://www.linkedin.com/in/darnyellejerveyharmon  Links Mentioned in the Episode: com com com Move to Millions Continuum Episode God Girls Making Millions Subscribe to the Move to Millions Podcast: Listen on iTunes Listen on Google Play Listen on Stitcher Listen on iHeartRadio Listen on Pandora Leave us a review   Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you're not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don't want you to miss an episode. I'm adding a bunch of bonus episodes to the mix and if you're not subscribed there's a good chance you'll miss out on those. Now if you're feeling extra loving, I would be really grateful if you left me a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find my podcast and they're also fun for me to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

Nick & Muriel join Becky Poole on Episode One of her brand new true crime podcast The Ballad of Dena & Andrea! This is a fun, heartfelt conversation between old friends about a serious topic: the art and craft of true crime storytelling. Instead of listening to Muriel's Murders this week, we invite you to check out The Ballad of Dena and Andrea.  Find Episode One (and more!) On Apple On Spotify Or anywhere, just type it in! M'sMs will be back next week, and keep your eyes out for some exclusives. XOXO

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country's most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army's Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy's cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country's most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army's Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy's cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now: https://link.chtbl.com/rmpust_fdtw. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country's most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army's Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy's cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now: https://link.chtbl.com/rmpust_fdtw. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.