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New Hampshire Unscripted talks with the performance arts movers and shakers

Mushrooms seem to be all rage these days and I'm not talking about the ones we Beatniks like to highlight. Mushroom coffee, tinctures, powders, blends, capsules, etc seem to be popping up in all of my social media. Soooo WKXL's NH Unscripted reached out to Eric Milligan at the NH Mushroom Company (didn't know that there was a NH mushroom company) to get all the details on why there's so much chatter lately. They have a 5000 sqft warehouse in Tamworth so it seemed like they would know a little about the subject. From their marketing material: “NHMC has been a leading source of specialty mushrooms, with educational programs on fungi enjoyed by many. It has been recognized in WMUR's cook's corner and New Hampshire Chronicle. Additionally, it was featured in the documentary “The Line that Divides Us.The NHMC has experienced a growing interest in mushroom education, providing an array of educational programs year-round. From the Cooking with Mushrooms, to the enchanting Friday Forage, Fungi and Fibers, and Mushroom ID Class. Not to mention the highly sought-after Can You Eat It Class”

WKXL - New Hampshire Talk Radio
NH Unscripted with Eric Milligan

WKXL - New Hampshire Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2025 44:22


Mushrooms seem to be all rage these days and I'm not talking about the ones we Beatniks like to highlight. Mushroom coffee, tinctures, powders, blends, capsules, etc seem to be popping up in all of my social media. Soooo I reached out to Eric Milligan at the NH Mushroom Company (didn't know that there was a NH mushroom company) to get all the details on why there's so much chatter lately. They have a 5000 sqft warehouse in Tamworth so it seemed like they would know a little about the subject. From their marketing material: "NHMC has been a leading source of specialty mushrooms, with educational programs on fungi enjoyed by many. It has been recognized in WMUR's cook's corner and New Hampshire Chronicle. Additionally, it was featured in the documentary “The Line that Divides Us.The NHMC has experienced a growing interest in mushroom education, providing an array of educational programs year-round. From the Cooking with Mushrooms, to the enchanting Friday Forage, Fungi and Fibers, and Mushroom ID Class. Not to mention the highly sought-after Can You Eat It Class”

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast
Funding vs Engineering, Edinburgh and WOMA Plans

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 31:07


Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss Modvion’s €39M grant for wooden wind turbine towers, leading to a discussion about funding vs. engineering readiness in the wind industry. Plus they highlight Veolia’s blade recycling advances in PES Wind Magazine. And the Weather Guard team announces they’ll be in Edinburgh for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia 2026!Learn more about CICNDT! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: A portion of the Weather Guard team. We’re headed to Scotland for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight, which is gonna happen on December 11th in Edinburgh. We’re gonna attend that and it’s gonna be a, a number of great offshore companies there. We’re hoping to interview a couple of them while we’re there. But Joel, this is a real opportunity, uh, for offshore companies in the UK to showcase what they can do and they can get on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel Saxum: Of course. So we’re flying over the sixth and seventh there over the weekend. And we will be, uh, in Edinburgh, uh, on the eighth. So Monday morning through Thursday. Thursday and Thursday is the or E Catapult event. And yeah, we’re excited to see some of the companies that are gonna be there, interview some of them, get the, the picture, uh, of the uk um, supply chain, right? Because I think it’s a really cool event that they’re doing. I’d love to see other countries do that. I’d love to see the US do that. Um. Just say like, Hey, this is, these are the companies, the up and [00:01:00] comers and the, the people that are changing the game and, and kinda give them a platform to speak on. So we’re excited to do that. It’s gonna be a one day event. Um, love to see some people join us, but the other side of that thing is we’re gonna be over in Scotland. So we’re, well, we’ve got a couple meetings in Glasgow, a couple meetings in Borough. So if you are around the area, um, of course we’re linking up people on the uptime network, but, uh. If you’re around the area and you want to, you wanna chat anything wind, or maybe you got lightning protection problems, get ahold of us. ’cause we’ll be over there and, uh, happy to drop in and uh, share coffee with you. Allen Hall: It’s just part of Weather Guards and the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast outreach to the world. So we’re gonna be in Scotland for an entire week. We’re heading down to Melbourne, Australia for probably a couple of weeks while we’re down that way. And we will be somewhere near you over the next year probably. It’s a really good, uh, free service that we provide, is we want to highlight those businesses and those new technology ideas that need a little bit of exposure to grow. And that’s what the Uptime podcast is here to do. So join us [00:02:00] and if you want to reach out to us, you can reach us via LinkedIn, Allen Hall, Joel Saxon. We’ll respond to you and hopefully we can meet you in Speaker 3: Edinburgh. You’re listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here’s your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Alan Hall in the Queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Soon, the home of Maersk North America, I think we’re going to find out. And also the new Home of Scout, if you haven’t seen the little, what was formerly a MC little vehicle that’s gonna be made, well engineered in Charlotte and then built in South Carolina. So we’re looking forward to that. And with me as Yolanda Pone in Texas. Joel Saxons up in the great state of Wisconsin and Rosemary [00:03:00] Barnes is back in Australia. And there’s plenty of things to talk about this week, and I, I think our pre-recording discussion has centered on wooden wind turbines. And if everybody’s been following, um, mod Vion, they have received a 39.1 million Euro grant and they are making of all things. Wooden wind towers. So, uh, up in Sweden, there’s plenty of wood to make towers out of, out of it. And it’s a laminated process. And if, if you’ve looked online, I encourage everybody to go look online. It’s kind of an interesting technology they have where they’re layering wood together to build these towers sections. And so instead of using steel or other materials, concrete, you can make them outta wood. Uh, so the European Union is backing this, and as Joel has pointed out. This is not the only money they have received to develop this technology. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Back in 2020, they received a six [00:04:00] and a half million euro. Grant as well. And then they had some investment money come in, um, and it was in Swedish Knox. Okay. Or of course they’re in Sweden, so Makes sense. But that was a, a convertible note around 11, 12 million, uh, euros as well. So when you add this 39 million Euro grant on, you’re looking at about 55, 50 7 million euros in funding over the last five or six years for this company. Allen Hall: How does the European Union decide where to invest? These innovation funds at, Rosemary Barnes: you know, it’s interesting ’cause I visited MO when I was in Sweden a few months ago. I actually have a video, uh, about to come out hopefully next week. Um, about, yeah, I got a tour of their factory and, uh, interviewed one of their engineers who’s been with them like the whole time. Um, and I visited them just a few days after I visited C 12. I made a video about that as well. That’s a floating vertical axis wind turbine. C 12, just like four days after I visited them, they, um, received the [00:05:00] news that they had been awarded a similarly sized European grant. So, yeah, in the tens of millions, I can’t remember the exact number. And I was thinking, what would I do if I got, you know, 40 million euros, which is like nearly 80 million, I think Australian dollars. Like I could really come up with something major and develop it in that time. It’s not, they haven’t been given the money to come up with the right solution, right? They’ve been given the money for the solution that they already have. And I think that it’s really interesting that these European grants, it’s set up like that where they’re supporting, uh, assume that they’ve got a certain technology readiness level that you have to be at before that they will support you. And that kind of means that you’re locked in to a solution by the time that you’re at that point, right? Rewards only that kind of model where you have a charismatic person with a vision that they just pursue to the end. It does not reward getting the smart people who could find solutions to the real problems. It [00:06:00] doesn’t reward that because you, no one’s getting heaps of money, like $10 million early on to be like, here’s a problem, now find a solution and we’re going to. Fund that through the 10 things that you try that don’t end up working, no one is funding that, right? So all of that has to be done on the basis of your own pockets or the ability of your charisma to convince other people to support it. And I just think that it’s probably like. Not the right way to spend your, you know, if you’ve got like $500 million to spend to get the next big thing in wind energy, you shouldn’t be picking a bunch of companies that are tier L five. You should be getting the smartest people and giving them money to found a company and um, yeah, come up with solutions that way. Joel Saxum: Is it wooden? Wind turbine tower worth it. Rosemary Barnes: And ev everyone will have to have to watch my video. ’cause I asked, I asked quite in depth questions ’cause I went into it very, very skeptical thinking that this was a su sustainability play. And I’ve got two issues with that. Like, first of all, wind turbine tower is [00:07:00] not that unsustainable. I mean, wind turbines on average are paying back the energy that it took to make them in, you know, six months or so. But what was interesting is, you know, wood is a, a composite material, right? It’s got the, um. Fibers, cellulose fibers in a malignant matrix. It’s, it’s, it’s a composite material, just like fiberglass is. Why don’t we make fiberglass towers? I mean, it’s partly ’cause of the cost and it’s partly ’cause joining them is quite tricky as well. Um, and yeah, those are probably the, the main two things, but I’ve actually done a bit of work into it. If you could make a fiberglass tower, you could go. Way, way taller than you can with, with a steel tower, with, you know, transport constraints and whatever. So the wooden tower actually has a lot of the advantages that you would find if you had, were able to make a fiberglass tower. So they are expecting to be able to go taller, um, with, you know, they’re as constrained by transport because, you know, the fibers are all running this way. It’s fine to cut it, um, like longitudinally, um, slice it into pieces and join the all site. Doesn’t, um, [00:08:00] reduce the, the. The strength really. So there from that point of view, there’s something to it. If you can go taller, make it easier to go taller with towers, then that’s a real problem that needs a solution. There are other solutions. There’s like NARA Lift, you know the one just got bought by Ford Spanish company where they build a turbine on like a tiny tower and then slot pieces in underneath it to come up. That’s another great solution. Um, people are also looking at 3D printing concrete towers and thing, things like that. So it’s not like this wooden tower is the only way that we’re gonna be able to do that, but it’s a real problem with a plausible solution to it. So. I think that they’re ahead of many, many, many, many of this kind of company. Just just from that, that at least they’re solving a real problem. Allen Hall: Delamination and bottomline failures and blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy [00:09:00] production. C-I-C-N-D-T are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their non-destructive test technology penetrates deep to blade materials to find voids and cracks. Traditional inspections, completely. Miss C-I-C-N-D-T Maps. Every critical defect delivers actionable reports and provides support to get your blades. Back in service. So visit cic ndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions. Is it the fact that founders in that sense can speak about problems and tell a story, which it feels like if you watch Shark Tank, this is sort of the Shark Tank wind energy connection. I always think it when you watch Shark Tank. Is someone who gets money there or what’s the equivalent? In the UK it’s called Dragon’s Den. There’s [00:10:00] a a certain personality type. Rosemary Barnes: How often am, am I saying? Are we all saying what we’ve got here is a solution looking for a problem? Like there’s a real disconnect between. Engineering a good solution and, um, that, that will work in the field versus fake it till you make it to attract investor money. I think it’s like this, this Silicon Valley like model where with software you kind of can fake it till you make it and it, you know, like update quickly, learn quickly. But with a hardware product as big as a wind turbine. You can’t, like if the engineering isn’t right, the product will never succeed. You can’t bluff your way through that. Um, the projects that are done, like with the right engineering can’t attract enough. Funds. So they, they fail before they ever prove it. But the ones that attract enough funds are doing it because they’re like, uh, designing for investors rather than to build a successful project. And so it’s like you’ve got these two alternatives, both of which are guaranteed to fail.[00:11:00] Um, I think that that’s the, like the biggest problem for how hard it is to get like legitimate innovation in energy Yolanda Padron: up. I feel like it’s almost like a, it should be a training. For engineers in school to be able to at least pretend like you can not care about the details as much, you know, for 20 minutes in the day or something. ’cause imagine how successful some of these projects could potentially be if you were at least for a meeting like par with. Those people who just have that personality type. Allen Hall: Not all engineers are gonna be founders of company and not all founders of company are gonna be engineers. And that has an influence on what the little tiny pool of people that can be able to do this where you’ve taken a very complicated problem, come up with a solution and being able to sell it or market it, which is even harder. You gotta market before you can sell it. [00:12:00] The engineering. Type person tends to wanna focus on the details, the of the product, not on the problem that someone is struggling with and what that means to that person. Here’s, I think where that line gets crossed, and you can do both, is that, that the engineers that are just. Focused, super focused on learn, learn, learn, learn, knowing what you do not have and going to get those skill sets because you don’t have to be the world’s best engineer, nor do you have to be the world’s best marketer, but you have to know enough to be dangerous and you as an engineer. Training I had in school was keep. Pounding, keep trying to learn more. And I, I feel like Rosemary’s in the same vein, right? So she’s always trying to learn more and that’s why she has her engineering with Rosie, uh, YouTube channel is because she’s constantly trying to pick up new things. But you also look at Rosemary. Oh, Rosemary, I don’t mind if I use you [00:13:00] as an example here, but you didn’t come out of, uh, Australian Elementary School, whatever that is, being a a, a really good speaker, like that’s something you’ve learned over time. You’ve been able to. Work in a very large company, you now, you’re in a very small company, the one that you own, and you’ve had to bridge that. And that means you have to know what the budgets are, what the money, where this money’s coming from. You have to sell to large corporations. You have to learn all those skills. That takes time, and each one of those skills you learn is extremely painful. So you have to have the resilience to say, you’re shooting arrows at me all the time. I’m not dead yet. I’m gonna keep moving forward because I could, I can see a way that I can make a business that produces a revenue that I can pay the mortgage with. Joel Saxum: That’s what it takes. Another, another side of this is, is if you’re trying to, to get, you’re getting to the point where you’re building a team out, right? I think it’s very [00:14:00] important for a founder to under, to understand their limitations at certain points in time. Because if you build a company and you’re just like, I like engineers, so I’m gonna build a company with five engineers and us six are gonna make something happen that may not be the best, you know, the best strategy if you’re gonna want like. I did, we used to do this thing, um, in a, in a company that I was a partner in where we had those, it’s a, basically like a spider graph, right? And you take, you answer all these questions and it ranks you on points of like, where you are for problem solving and where you are for the, you know, the big picture where you are for details. And then it overlays them all. So you look at your management team, you overlay ’em, what you wanna see is a perfect circle that you’ve filled every one of these. Areas, these silos with skills on your management team or on your execution team, or on your project team or whatever it may be. You can’t really Allen Hall: have an ego in a sense. The thing about starting a company is everybody is shooting Arrow, is that you, when you first go to a customer [00:15:00] that first time, they are gonna blow holes in you because you haven’t thought of all these different things that they consider to be very important. And you come out of it like, boy, yeah, yeah, I was not ready for that. Yes, Rosemary Barnes: but you’ve gotta want that. See that not as an insult to your ego, but as information that you need to, to grow. I think. ’cause I work a lot with startups as well as having one of my own. Um, and one thing that I do is I really, really early on screen them to figure out what kind of founder there are. ’cause there’s, there’s two kinds. There’s the one that wants to develop a significant product that will be successful in the world. And then there’s other ones who just love their idea and want to keep on working on it forever. And that second type, they don’t, they don’t want to learn anything wrong with their product. They don’t want to know about, um. You know, showstoppers because that’s gonna prevent them from doing what they love, which is working on this idea. So I only wanna work with the, the first kind, who would see a, being informed about a [00:16:00] showstopper for their project. They would see that as a real win. So that’s my always, my philosophy is just, uh, just gonna break it. What, whatever your idea is, I’m gonna do whatever I can to break it. Whether that’s physically or whether that’s commercially break the business case. You just throw everything you can at it intentionally. And with my own products too. You. Do everything you can to make it a failure. ’cause that’s how you learn how to make something that cannot fail, you know? And that’s what you need to succeed. It’s not enough to have an idea that, you know, like, like a lot of times with wind energy, you come up with something that might make be better, right? Than the status quo. So let’s think about, you know, um. Wind turbine. They’ve all got three blades. They all have a, um, the upwind facing rotor. You know, they’re, they’re very, very similar. There are all sorts of ideas that could be better. Right? That could be a better way to do it. You know, there’s different ways to make the, the blade maybe out of sailcloth instead of fiberglass. You can have two blades. Um, you can have a [00:17:00] downwind rotor. You can, like any, all of these ideas have been tried before, but being a little bit better is, is not. It’s not close, it’s not close to being enough like it is so far from, from being enough. It has to be so good that it can’t fail. That is the only way for you to overcome the, um, the gap that you have to what the status quo is. And so many people like, but my, you know, but my design is 1% more efficient. People could, you know, get all this amount extra. They, they’re not, that is not enough to get you over that massive hump between where you are now with an idea. What it would take to get people buying enough of it that it will ever reach its potential. That’s what people don’t see. Allen Hall: That’s exactly circling back what we’re talking about. The idea has to be a big improvement. Whatever it does. The wheel was a big improvement. The pencil was a big improvement. Paper was a big improvement. [00:18:00] Sliced bread, huge improvement. It just made your life easier. It has to be something that makes. Life easier, not just a little bit. And Rosemary is 100% right about this. It has to be a lot. So when, when I hear people in wind that are working in technology talk about a quarter percent, a half a percent, say 2%, that’s usually not enough to get somebody to react to it. It has to be a bigger number. Now, the two percents of the world. Incrementally, we will make the world better. Rosemary Barnes: It, it’s fine if it’s a, if it’s a small technology that will just fit in with a status quo without making anyone’s life harder than 2% is amazing. If it requires anyone to do anything different, then it is not close to enough. Allen Hall: Don’t miss the UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight 2025 in Edinburg on December 11th. Over 550 delegates and 100 exhibitors will be at this game changing event. Connect with decision makers. Share your market ready innovations and secure the partnerships to accelerate your [00:19:00] growth. Register now and take your place at the center of the UK’s offshore Wind future. Just visit supply chain spotlight.co.uk and register today. So we have somebody on the other side of the table, which is Yolanda, who sees all the crazy people come up to ’em. If you’re sitting across the table from someone who wants to sell you a product, I, I can’t even think of what. To be selling you, honestly. ’cause there’s not a lot of, um, maybe, maybe they’re selling aerodynamic improvements. Maybe they’re selling some blade whizzbang thing or CMS system. Maybe CMS system. Can you suss that out? Can you just tell that this person is not locked in on reality? It’s, does that show up in a meeting? Yolanda Padron: Well, initially, a lot of times some people just won’t. They don’t care exactly what your problem is or what the, you know, a problem might be big, but it might [00:20:00] not have as big an impact on generation as the spend to fix it would be. Or a lot of times the, the problem that you may be seeing is just. You know, it, it’s a risk that you’ll, you’ll take because of the, the cost of the solution. I mean, if, if you have, if I have $2,000 budgeted to fix or deal with an issue and you’re offering me a solution for $45,000, I just can’t take it. You know? I mean, as great as you might sound and as much as you believe in your project, uh, on your product, you just can’t take it. And I think there’s some people who. Come to the table really caring about what the issue is and finding a solution together for the sake of the industry, as was weather guard and is. Uh, but there is also [00:21:00] just some, some teams who just really, really just want their product, who will come to an engineer and won’t even bring an engineer to the table, who will just not even care about testing. Their, their product in a, their an accredited facility. And we’ll say, I mean, I had people come to me in a sales pitch and then when I asked them for testing results, they would say, well, will you fund this testing? It’s like, no, I. I, I won’t, you’re, you’re selling me the product. Like I don’t, Rosemary Barnes: I don’t think you understand. I saw so many companies that that was their biggest failure. They couldn’t get real world testing and that, that’s why I know that weather guard and paddle load are like poised for at least once you have a good idea, you’re gonna be able to develop it. Because the testing is, the testing capability is built in and I definitely could get people to pay to test. [00:22:00] A product that I developed because I know exactly what their problem is. I know exactly how much it’s worth to them, and they know that I understand it better than than them even. So I think people don’t, um, like it’s a very wind specific thing, but it is so hard if you just come up with an idea and you don’t know anybody that, um, managers wind farms. It’s so hard to convince someone to put something like even to just allow you to put it on for free. That’s a really, really hard sell. Allen Hall: So what is the advice for. Small businesses that want to be large businesses that are, have wind products that they’re offering today, what are the steps they need to take to make it a reality? Rosemary Barnes: They need to understand the, the problem really well, or the problem that they’re. Potential customers had and they also needed to understand the other pain points in that person’s life. Because a lot of times I’ve seen people get so, um, kind of worked up that, yeah, they’ve got a business case on [00:23:00] paper that, you know, the company should, in theory, make way more money from having this product. They’re not having it, but people don’t have enough time. Um, it has to be. Solving, either solving a problem that is taking up their time already, and you will immediately take up less of their time with when your solution is, when they even start to implement your solution. It’s not enough that they do a year project and then they start to have their problem solved. Um, so either, yeah, it has to be so much better or it needs to be totally painless to implement it. That’s the, that’s the two, two options that you have. There isn’t a third option. Yolanda Padron: I think it’s really important to balance your humility. Uh, and just your ego a little bit. Of course, you need to be proud of your product and you want to believe in it and everything. Uh, but you need to be humble enough to listen to the person and listen to their issues and listen to maybe your product isn’t perfect and it needs some tweaks [00:24:00] and mower likely than not, it will need some tweaks. So just don’t. Continue going forward to something that just won’t work. Speaker 6: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Pullman on the park for Wind energy ONM Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at WMA 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and M Australia is created by wind professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches. Allen Hall: So everybody’s preparing to go to Melbourne in February of 2026 for Woma [00:25:00] Wind Energy, o and m Australia and the promos have just hit LinkedIn. Everybody’s talking about it. We’re getting a, a quite a number of sponsors. Joel. We have a, a couple of sponsorship levels still available, but not many. Joel Saxum: Yeah, we are fresh out of round table sponsors. Um, we’ve still got a couple hanging out there for some. Receptions and lunches and things like that. But, uh, yeah, we’ve got, uh, a lot of our friends joining up, a lot of emails coming in to ask of can I get involved somehow? Um, which is great because to be honest with you, even if we don’t have a spot for an ex ex exhibitor spot or a sponsorship spot, getting to talk with people at an early engagement level is fantastic. But we’re, ’cause we’re finding more and more subject matter experts through these conversations as well. So we’re able to bring, if, if we can’t. Engage on a sponsorship level, fine. Still reach out because the, there might be a spot for you up on a panel as one of these people that can educate, uh, and share, uh, with the Australian wind industry Allen Hall: and as the promos are saying, Rosemary. We [00:26:00] want solutions, not speeches. So this whole event is about solution, solution solutions, right? Rosemary Barnes: And problems. Allen Hall: What kind of problems are we gonna talk about? Rosemary Barnes: I mean, I think that’s the, the interesting part is that it brings those two, two parts together. That’s what we’ve been talking about with technology development. That the, you know, the critical thing is to know, understand very well what your customers. Facing in terms of problems. And so this is the event where everybody is there to talk about exactly what problems they’re actually spending time on day to day. And those are the ones where, you know, it’s a much easier pathway to succeed. So if you’re a, a. Technology developer, you know, a company that has some new technologies, then this is the event to come to to make sure that you get that fit right. Allen Hall: And Woma 2026 will be held the 17th and 18th at the Pullman Hotel, which is in beautiful downtown Melbourne. And you need to be going online. Go to Woma 2026 WOMA, 2020 six.com. Get registered. There’s only 250 seats [00:27:00] available and a number of them have already been reserved. So it’s shrinking day by day. If you want to attend and you should attend, go ahead, register for the event. If you’re interested in sponsorship, you need to get a hold of Joel. And how do they do that? Joel Saxum: Uh, you can reach out to me on LinkedIn, um, pretty easy to find there. Uh, or send me a direct email. JOEL Do a xm. I have to say that out loud because. I gets confused a lot@wglightning.com, so Joel dot saxon@wglightning.com. Allen Hall: So go to Wilma. 2020 six.com and register today. This quarter is PES WIN Magazine, which has arrived via the Royal Mail. There are a number of great articles and uh, I was thumbing through it the other day and the article from Veolia, and we had Veolia on the podcast, uh, a couple of years ago on blade recycling. And there’s a number of, of cool things happening there. You know, Veolia was grinding down the blades and then using them, [00:28:00] uh, mixing them with, with cement. Reducing some of the coal and other energy forms that are used to, to make cement. And they were also using, uh, some of the fiber as fill. So that process, when they first started, we were talking to ’em. Then there’s been a lot of iterations to it. It’s like anything in recycling, the first go around is never easy. But Veolia has the. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Thanks for joining us as we explore the latest in wind energy technology and industry insights. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you. Found value in today’s conversation. Please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show and we’ll catch you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:29:00] Podcast.

Protrusive Dental Podcast
Cracked Teeth Clinical Guidelines – Chase? Fibers? WHEN to Intervene – PDP246

Protrusive Dental Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2025 60:05


Cracked teeth — the diagnosis we all hate as Dentists! How do you decide when to monitor and when to intervene? What is the recommended intervention at different scenarios of cracks? Should we be chasing cracks and reinforcing with fibers; is there actually enough long-term data to support that approach? Over the years, we've had some epic episodes on this topic — from Kreena Patel's “I Hate Cracked Teeth” (PDP028) to Dr. Lane Ochi's Masterclass on Diagnosis and Management (PDP175). But in this brand-new episode, Jaz is joined by Dr. Masoud Hassanzadeh to bring it all together — not just the diagnosis of cracks, but their management. They explore when to intervene, the role of fibers in preventing propagation, and even the fascinating possibility that cracks in teeth may have some ability to heal, just like bone! This one's a deep dive that will change how you talk to patients — and how you approach cracked teeth in your own practice. https://youtu.be/VHYRBnfJS3I Watch PDP246 on YouTube  Protrusive Dental Pearl Your patient's history predicts the future! Ask if past extractions were difficult → clues you into anatomical challenges. Ask how they lost other teeth → if cracks, be proactive with today's cracks. History isn't just background—it's a clinical tool. Key Takeaways Cracks in teeth can be diagnosed using magnification and high-quality imaging. Patient factors such as age and muscle strength play a significant role in crack prognosis. Symptomatic cracks should be treated to prevent further propagation. Understanding the anatomy of the tooth is crucial for effective treatment. The healing mechanism of cracks in teeth is possible but varies between enamel and dentin. Fibers can be used to strengthen restorations and manage cracks effectively. Long-term studies are needed to assess the effectiveness of current crack management protocols. The use of fluorescence filters can help identify bacteria in cracks. Chasing cracks should be done cautiously to avoid pulp exposure. A comprehensive understanding of crack mechanics can improve treatment outcomes. Highlights of this episode: 00:00 Teaser 00:47 Intro 03:08 Protrusive Dental Pearl - The Importance of Dental History 07:18 Interview with Masoud Hassanzadeh 08:22 Diagnosing and Managing Cracks 21:13 When to Intervene on Cracks 25:50 Restoration Techniques and Materials 28:30 Chasing Cracks: Guidelines and Techniques 36:50 Mechanisms of Crack Healing in Teeth 45:11 Exploring the Use of Fibers in Dentistry 52:43 Introducing the Book on Cracked Teeth 54:57 Percussion-Based Diagnostics (QPD) 56:44 Key Takeaways 57:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts 01:00:07 Outro As promised, here are the studies mentioned during the discussion: Why cracks do not propagate as quickly in root dentin: Study 1a & 1b Root dentin has significantly higher fracture toughness compared to coronal dentin—nearly twice as tough, as demonstrated in multiple studies. The key difference lies in their structure and toughness. Root dentin's unique collagen orientation adds strength, while its fewer lumens and thinner peritubular cuffs make it less brittle. In contrast, coronal dentin has thicker cuffs, which increase brittleness. Unlike coronal dentin, which fractures uniformly, radicular dentin is anisotropic—its fracture behavior varies depending on direction. These structural features give root dentin greater resistance to cracking, making it more durable under stress. Studies on decreasing crack length due to crack repair in enamel. Study 2 The importance of the modulus of elasticity of the final restoration in arresting crack propagation. Study 3 The role of fiber in restoring cracked teeth and how it can increase fracture strength—even surpassing that of natural teeth. Study 4 Decision Making for Retention of Endodontically Treated Posterior Cracked Te...

Outdoor Minimalist
203. Are Natural Fibers Making a Comeback in the Outdoor Industry? with Patrick Clark

Outdoor Minimalist

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2025 31:47


For decades, the outdoor industry has celebrated innovation through synthetics—lighter, stronger, and more technical fabrics made from petroleum-based materials. But as we grapple with the environmental costs of producing many synthetic products, is a shift underway? Wool, waxed cotton, hemp, and other natural materials might be making a comeback —not as a nostalgic throwback, but as brands and individuals innovate with them, proving they can be high-performing, sustainable alternatives to synthetic fibers. One of the people leading that charge is Patrick Clark, founder of Lucky Sheep and author of the book A Rewilder's Guide to Outdoor Adventure. Patrick has developed a full backpacking kit made almost entirely from natural fibers—with a base weight of just 20 pounds. From lightweight wool sleeping bags to waxed canvas backpacks, his designs challenge the idea that performance has to come at the cost of sustainability.Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/outdoor.minimalist.book/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@theoutdoorminimalistBuy Me a Coffee: ⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/outdoorminimalist⁠⁠⁠Listener Survey: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/jd8UCN2LL3AQst976⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠------------------Lucky SheepWebsite: https://www.woolsleepingbag.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luckysheepgear/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LuckySheepOutdoorGearFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LuckySheepSleepingBags

The UNSTUCK Podcast with LaChelle Wieme
Ep. 108 - Ethical Fashion That Changes Lives with Meli Alness of Freedom Fibers

The UNSTUCK Podcast with LaChelle Wieme

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 44:05


What if the clothes you wear could change someone's life?In this episode, I sit down with Meli Alness, founder of Freedom Fibers, a slow-fashion brand that creates clothing free from exploitation at every step. Her mission is to design zero-waste garments that honor both people and the planet while empowering women in India to rebuild their lives through meaningful, dignified work.We talk about how Meli transformed pain into purpose after a life-changing brain injury, the incredible stories of the women behind her brand, and why your purchasing choices hold far more power than you think.☑️ The truth behind the fast fashion industry and how it quietly exploits 98% of garment workers☑️ How repurposed saris and zero-waste design create beauty, sustainability, and purpose☑️ The link between self-worth and what we wear, and how to shop with soulEvery thread tells a story. Tune in and discover how conscious fashion can transform lives, including your own.If this episode inspired you, be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who believes in doing business for good.Episode Highlights00:00 Welcome and Introduction01:00 Meet Meli Alness of Freedom Fibers03:00 The mission behind ethical and zero-waste fashion09:00 God's calling and the birth of Freedom Fibers18:00 The women changing their lives through sewing28:00 Fashion as self-expression and self-worth38:00 The cost of fast fashion and the power of conscious choice44:00 Final reflections and how to support Freedom FibersMore About MeliMeli is an artist, designer, visionary and entrepreneur. She is Founder and CEO of Freedom Fibers, a slow fashion brand that prioritizes people over production, providing conscious consumers with clothing and accessories that are free from exploitation at every step.Shop: https://freedomfibers.orgInstagram: https://istagram.com/freedom_fibersHOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU:

Visionaries Global Media
ROH Revelry #200: What are Pie Fibers?

Visionaries Global Media

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2025 106:59


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The Shining Wizards Network
ROH Revelry #200: What are Pie Fibers?

The Shining Wizards Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2025 107:00


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The John Batchelor Show
4: Dallas Bonds with Magpies; Cockatoos Attack Neighbor's Roof GUEST NAME: Jeremy Zachis Dallas, unfazed, continues his friendship with the magpies, letting them play with his toys (whose artificial fibers they use for nests) and eat his biscuits. The se

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 7:42


Dallas Bonds with Magpies; Cockatoos Attack Neighbor's Roof GUEST NAME: Jeremy Zachis Dallas, unfazed, continues his friendship with the magpies, letting them play with his toys (whose artificial fibers they use for nests) and eat his biscuits. The segment also highlights the destructive behavior of cockatoos, who are now trying to dismantle a neighbor's corrugated iron roof by pulling out the iron and steel roofing nails with their beaks.

Not Your Granny's Quilt Show
Meet Hannah of Honey Fibers! - Ep. 164

Not Your Granny's Quilt Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 134:03


This week on Not Your Granny's Quilt Show, my guest is Hannah, the creative mind behind Honey Fibers. Growing up surrounded by her great-grandmother's quilts, Hannah's love for stitching started with a deep connection to heritage. In 2020, she picked up quilting to keep her hands busy—and found herself completely hooked. Recently, Hannah brought the quilting community together for a collaborative project to raise funds for Palestine, with the resulting quilts now ready to be raffled. We talk about her passion for hand quilting, the joy of running her handmade goods shop, and the power of craft as a tool for connection and change. You can find her work at honeyfibers.com and on Instagram @honeyfibers.Want to see more? You can find it here: NYQGS Merch Shop: nygqs.printify.me Patreon: patreon.com/notyourgrannysquiltshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notyourgrannysquiltshow https://www.instagram.com/sweetpeadesigncompany YouTube: https://youtube.com/@notyourgrannysquiltshow Want to be on the show? Send us a message!

The Real Truth About Health Free 17 Day Live Online Conference Podcast
How a Wide Variety of Plant Fibers Contribute to a Healthy Microbiome and Lower Glycemic Load With Dr. Joel Fuhrman

The Real Truth About Health Free 17 Day Live Online Conference Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 10:40


The Prepper Broadcasting Network
Prepper Camp Speakers: Using Fibers for Survival and Homesteading w/ Jordan Smith

The Prepper Broadcasting Network

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 20:35


Fiber, such as wool, is a resource that people pay little attention to in today's time. Natural fiber items are even less understood and almost considered an oddity with the number of synthetic products now in circulation. Having the ability and skill to make your own clothing could make or break a family or group during tough time.Gloves, hats, shirts, sweaters, underwear everyday things that we take for granted could have a huge impact on our lives and make an individual quite vulnerable. This class will discuss the sources in which fibers come from, be it animal, plant or even insect.This will cover many of the main types of sources and the multiple uses for them in the prepper and homesteading lifestyle. You will get to see first-hand the type of equipment that are ideal. As well as getting to see and handle some of the fibers up-close.I will also present and show how these fibers can be used and handled in its final process. You will leave with simple set of plans to build your own drop spindle. We will also discuss the how to begin in your new fiber adventure.This class will allow you to walk away with a whole new view on this great resource.Prepare for AnythingTM At Prepper Camp 2025.For tickets and information go to: www.PrepperCamp.com

Mike's Daily Podcast
Episode 3107: Fibers!

Mike's Daily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 24:02


Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the week so far and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of big name cable companies. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

Mike's Daily Podcast
Fibers!

Mike's Daily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 24033:05


Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the week so far and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of big name cable companies. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

brewmasters fibers mike matthews disgruntled fiddle player madame rootabega
Mike's Daily Podcast
Fibers!

Mike's Daily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 24033:05


Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the week so far and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of big name cable companies. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

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Mike's Daily Podcast

Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the week so far and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of big name cable companies. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

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Mike's Daily Podcast
MikesDailyPodcast 3107 Fibers

Mike's Daily Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 24:02


Mike Matthews investigates the fascinating news from the week so far and Mike answers what is happening in the odd world of big name cable companies. Join Mike as he podcasts live from Café Anyway in podCastro Valley with Benita, the Disgruntled Fiddle Player, and the Brewmaster. Next show it's Madame Rootabega, Valentino, and Bison Bentley.

Creation Moments on Oneplace.com

Some plant stems act as fiber-optic cables, guiding light underground to stimulate growth. This technology was used by God long before humans discovered it. Nature continually reveals divine foresight and intelligence. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29

Practical Nontoxic Living
E106. Best Nontoxic Fabrics and Fibers: Safe Choices for Bedding, Clothing, Rugs & More

Practical Nontoxic Living

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 5:47


Practical Nontoxic Living™ Raindrop | Ultimate Home Detox™ Unpacked What are the safest fabrics for your clothes, bedding, and home furnishings? In this follow-up to Episode 105, “Toxic Textiles,” Sophia prioritizes the certifications and most nontoxic fibers and materials to look for when shopping for clothing, linens (like bath towels, bed sheets, and kitchen cloths), and home decor — including rugs, carpets, curtains, and upholstered furniture. Episode 105 shares an enriching detox deep dive. But if you want high-impact takeaways from the detox deep dive within 6 minutes, episode 106 is for you! This short Raindrop episode shares three helpful tips to identify safer, low-tox fabrics to reduce your toxic exposure from what sits on your skin (like clothes and bedding) and to cultivate a healthier, more healing home environment. Learn which natural fibers to prioritize, and how labels like GOTS-certified organic cotton, hemp, linen, and OEKO-TEX MADE IN GREEN fit into smarter shopping decisions. Whether you're updating your wardrobe, redecorating your living space, or simply replacing your towels, this episode will empower you to choose fabrics that reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, VOCs, and other hidden toxins.

Since Sliced Bread
Dietary fibers contribute nutrition and functionality to bars

Since Sliced Bread

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 26:25


In this episode of Since Sliced Bread, Fernando Schved, former chief technology officer for Galam, breaks down the different types of fiber that work best in bars and the benefits they bring. 

Conversations With Carla
4, Activating Your Feminine Fibers: Relationships, Respect, and Radiance

Conversations With Carla

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 51:23


How do you embody and activate your feminine fibers? Freedom Formula breaks it down. Tea Time offers Carla and Michelle's thoughts on dealing with controlling mom friends and strained Mother, Daughter relationships. In Etiquette, we explore how dressing reflects self-respect, guidelines for formal and casual events, and being feminine and modest.   To support the mission of Bochy's Org.- Bochys.org (https://bochys.org)    •   To register for The Experience England click her-  Experience England (https://www.carlashellis.com/england)    •  To explore more about Carla click here-  CarlaShellis.com (https://carlashellis.com)Support the show

Interplace
Beaks, Brakes, and Brainwaves

Interplace

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 18:11


Hello Interactors, This week, four strange bird encounters landed in my lap — three in real life, one on my screen. First, a crow tore through the bushes in our yard chasing a frantic nuthatch. Moments later, I spotted two more crows feasting on roadkill just outside our house. Then, while walking with my wife, we watched four ducks in hot pursuit of another, flapping furiously down the street — some kind of aerial turf war. And finally, scrolling through my feed, I stumbled on a paper describing a Cooper's Hawk hacking the city's traffic system to hunt smarter. After all that, I tried seeing cities as a bird might. So I wrote as one.HISS, HUM, HUNTI first sense the city as vibration. Before sun rays even breech the branches, a hiss of car tires emerge; street lamps click off; somewhere a garage door rumbles open. Each resonance strikes the hollow chambers of my bones like sonar. It's a sketch of distance, density, and direction. This all makes perfect sense to me even though I am just a kid. A juvenile Cooper's Hawk — Accipiter cooperii — yet the human-made maze below me is as legible to me as the nest I left barely two winters ago. What follows, in human words, is a recount of one day's hunt. I hope to demonstrate what humans regard as intelligence, innovation, and enterprise exists in a single act of predation.DANCING WITH DATA AT DAWNPerched on a gray mast of the Main and Prospect traffic light, I begin to render the scene. My basemap is no pixel grid glowing on some screen across town; it is a topological organ in my scull. Topology matters when a lamppost sits one maneuver away from the porch roof, which is one glide away from the dumpster rim. My so-called ‘bird brain' calculates dynamic flows of probability. One flip of a traffic light, a garbage truck rolls by, and that gust of wind changes direction. My internal map pulses between “larger” when prey likelihood rises and “smaller” when likelihood falls.As I gaze out above the east-west avenue, a slipstream peels off the 7AM wave of commuters. I spot a sparrow in a vortex that spirals from the garbage truck's wake at 07∶13. That acoustic shadow beneath that florist's van is one place I could pass unseen. But is a sparrow worth it?What I am doing — unknown even to myself — is what spatial scientists call real‑time kernel‑density estimation. At any point on a simple 2D path I can plop a small mathematical bump — a kernel. I can then reason about the density mapped below me by stacking up every bump's contribution at a particular spot. That once scatter of points on a map morphs into a smooth curve that shows where meaningful observations truly cluster. I continuously weight a landscape of pigeons, cyclists, and idling SUVs by situational context rather than simple Euclidean distance.Complexity geographer David O'Sullivan calls this kind of adaptive map a narrative model — a story the system tells itself so it can keep acting. My mental basemap obeys what is adjacent to what on this map. After all, a three‑meter hedge is more impenetrable than thirty meters of empty air; therefore straight‑line distances can lie and deceive. When humans try to simplify distances by saying, ‘as the crow flies', they have no idea what they're leaving out.BRAKES BUILD BARRICADESAt 07∶26 a stainless‑steel button is pressed; I hear the relay's metallic click 3.2 seconds before the little white pedestrian blinks alive. I am perched here because I anticipated this poke by pedestrians on their morning commute. Vehicles will now queue as these bi-peds spill into the cross walk. The stacked metal boxes of steel, rubber, and plastic will form a barricade forty meters long…potentially.Brake‑lights align into a pulsing crimson corridor whose half‑life I have calculated and averaged across nineteen previous dawns. Humans call the coming congestion a nuisance, but I call it camouflage. For twenty‑two seconds the asphalt canyon's turbulence drops below an acceptable range. I can now hover as if among cedars.A scientist has been watching from the opposite curb. They will soon begin recording this trick in their field book as so: a hawk anticipates the signal pattern and times its dives to the red‑phase distribution of brake lights.Because most queues are short, but occasionally very long, I have to be careful to time this properly. If I dive for prey based on the overall mean of the lineup, I will arrive while half the cars were still rolling to a stop — dangerous. So instead, I consider just the top-10% longest lines. Scientists marvel that I learned this algorithm in a single winter. I marvel that they need calculators to compute it.ZEBRA STRIPE SLALOM STRIKEI drop. The scent of hot rubber folds swirls with the cedar‑resin on my breast feathers as the warm air fills my plumage. The slowing bumper of a school bus becomes a landing spot — a moving parapet. Fresh into the dive, the thermoplastic zebra stripes flash white‑white‑white like a stroboscopic speedometer. None of this was made for me, yet every dimension matters for my survival. The curb‑to‑planter setback of 0.9 meters sets my glide angle; the bollard spacing — installed last year to calm e‑scooters — creates a slalom that funnels starlings toward an ornamental plum in a front lawn.Urban design handbooks invoke words like livability and placemaking, as if these geometries were some kind of neutral toolkit. But for me, in the instant before impact, this curb‑to‑planter setback, this bollard slalom, adjudicates more than legal fiction — it means life and death.Urban forms may look passive, yet every angle, radius, and dwell time means someone has won and someone has lost — wide curb radii speed cars through a right-turn but lengthen the crossing exposure for a toddler. Urban geometry is power cast in concrete; it never clocks off, and is both political and ecological: a three‑second refuge for a starling is a three‑second targeting solution for me.FORCE AND FEATHERS FACES FEEDBACKImpact. Feathers erupt like dark gray confetti. The starling crumbles under thirty‑four newtons of closing force — about the weight of a brick slammed into its ribcage. While I mantle the prize, a more philosophical bird might wonder: Who authored this death? Was it my neuromuscular burst alone? Or the person whose fingertip initiated a forty‑second cascade of stopped traffic? Or the traffic engineer who — chasing level‑of‑service targets — extended the red phase by six seconds last fiscal year?Philosophy of science warns against naïve linear causation; urban events rarely run in neat A → B lines. Herbert Simon, writing on complex systems, described cities and organisms as “nearly decomposable hierarchies,” where slow, macro‑scale layers — like signal‑cycle regulations, curb geometries, and commuter habits — set the boundary conditions within which rapid micro‑events unfold. My talon snap and a starling's dodge happen inside those higher‑order constraints, even as countless such micro‑acts, in aggregate, keep the larger structure of life humming along.My strike, therefore, is a city‑scale phenomenon folded into tendon and keratin — street grids, signal cycles, and global supply chains compressed into one ballistic gesture. In the metallic tang of blood this mystery unfolds. I taste data: adipose fat tissue infused with fryer grease, feather sheaths dusted in brake dust, hormone ratios ticking through molt stage like seasonal code. Each swallow becomes a lab assessment — an unwitting biopsy of the urban food web — revealing how corn subsidies, restaurant waste, and airborne microplastics percolate up the trophic ladder. To devour a single starling is to audit the metabolic ledger of the Anthropocene, one protein strand at a time.All of which reminds me that agency, mine, yours, the starling, is relational: the prey's demise is over‑determined by a network whose nodes include asphalt viscosity — how a petrochemical blend modulates surface friction, drainage, and midday heat plumes — and municipal bond ratings that decide whether this intersection receives fresh pavement or another crosswalk. Chemistry, finance, and instinct co‑author every kill I make, and every step you take.FIBERS, FOSSILS, AND FIRMWARE REFRESHDusk now drapes the mast in violet. Streetlamps flicker on; LED headlight arrays begin tinting the roadway cyan. Beneath the darkening asphalt, copper once meant for a clicking telegraphs now pipes broadband; beneath that, bricks baked when canals were high‑tech cradle those cables like red‑clay fossils. Media archaeologist Shannon Mattern argues that cities have always computed — tallying grain on cuneiform tablets, ringing bell‑tower hours to synchronize labor, routing mail through pneumatic tubes — only the substrates keep shifting, from clay and bronze to fiber optics and silicon. And trust me, nature was doing math long before humans claimed to invent it.From my perch, epochs overlay transparently: timber palisades, horse drawn carriage tracks, fiber conduits. My hunting tactic is merely firmware patch v.2025 in a 5,000‑year old operating system. Your protocol tomorrow may be Li‑Fi pulses from a smart pole — a future where streetlamps won't just illuminate, they'll whisper streams of data in rapid-fire flashes — or the hiss of an autonomous shuttle that brakes at frequencies human reflexes never reach.And you'll be impressed with yourself. Meanwhile, I listen, map, and adjust — in my world here, survival goes to whoever learns faster, not whoever hits harder. Every fresh tactic buys a heartbeat of advantage, yet it also tightens the ratchet: the prey adapts, signals change, habits shift. Humans follow the same spiral — each smarter signal controller, each app‑driven reroute, plugs one gap while opening two more, slipping us all a step deeper into the city's endless, restless loop.OF DASHBOARDS AND DAGGER-WINGSHumans may obsess over their dashboards and digital twins, yet a hawk that weighs less than a laptop already runs a live cognitive twin of the urban systems you built. Your impressed with monthly model updates while my model is updated at wingbeat resolution. If Homo sapiens hope to build a resilient future they might start where I perch: by listening for weak signals, mapping contingencies as well as coordinates, and recognizing that every curb, click, and feather participates in these nested conversations of forces.The next time you press that crosswalk button and that electromechanical relay inside the signal‑control box snaps the circuit closed, ask not only whether it is safe to cross but what other intelligences have read that clue before you.Meet us in the hush of those red taillights — inhabit that brief, engine‑silent interstitial where the white pedestrian man shines — then test what flickers in your own peripheral “bird brain”. Listen for the thin rustle of variables you once called noise; trace how a single press of that button ripples through nerves, budgets, buildings and beaks. Hold the silence long enough to notice how even I, a vicious dagger‑winged stalker, leave scraps for ground‑feeders and vacate a block after one clean kill so others may eat. If you can rest in that hush without lunging for your phone or some manically measured meaningless metric, you may begin to practice reciprocity — paring appetite to need, letting leftovers seed the next cycle — while stalking your own assumptions with the same taloned precision I bring to feather and flesh. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Composites Weekly
Unlocking the Potential of Natural Fibers – Interview with Vinit Chaudhary of Elemental Composites

Composites Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 20:06


On this episode, Vinit Chaudhary, founder of Elemental Composites, joins the podcast. Elemental Composites specializes in fabricating non-woven intermediates for composite industries. Their innovative process consists of two distinct stages: (1) Unique Mixing: This process involves the deagglomeration of fiber bundles and the uniform mixing of various types of fibers.  (2) Dry-laid Technique: The mixing stage […] The post Unlocking the Potential of Natural Fibers – Interview with Vinit Chaudhary of Elemental Composites first appeared on Composites Weekly. The post Unlocking the Potential of Natural Fibers – Interview with Vinit Chaudhary of Elemental Composites appeared first on Composites Weekly.

Strength Changes Everything
The Truth About Type I and Type II Muscle Fibers: Strength Training Essentials

Strength Changes Everything

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 22:39


Amy Hudson and Dr. James Fisher explore the difference between type one and type two muscle fibers—why they matter, how they function, and how to train them effectively. They discuss why neglecting type two fibers can lead to rapid muscle loss and how simple strength exercises can make a huge difference in keeping you strong, mobile, and functional for life. Join us to hear ways a sedentary lifestyle weakens type two muscle fibers and how small changes in your workouts can have a huge impact on your long-term health. What are type one and type two muscle fibers, and why does it matter? Dr. Fisher explains that type one fibers are built for endurance, while type two fibers generate explosive power—think marathon runners versus sprinters or powerlifters. Dr. Fisher dives deeper into why we shouldn't think of our bodies as purely type one or type two. While genetics play a role, the way we train determines how these fibers develop and function over time. The Size Principle explains how our bodies recruit muscle fibers based on demand. If we only perform light movements, we activate type one fibers, but if we never lift heavy, we neglect type two—leading to faster muscle decline as we age. Amy asks whether someone could go decades only recruiting type one fibers. Dr. Fisher says this is a common issue, especially for sedentary individuals like office workers who don't challenge their muscles regularly. According to Amy, the problem with neglecting type two muscle fibers is that they're the ones that decline the fastest with age. If we spend our 30s, 40s, and beyond avoiding high-effort exercise, we'll lose strength rapidly, making everyday tasks harder over time. Amy points out that as we age, our exercise approach has to evolve. What worked in our 20s might not be enough to maintain type two muscle fibers in our 40s, 50s, and beyond. So how do we train type two fibers? Dr. Fisher emphasizes that you don't need to lift extremely heavy weights. The key is engaging in strength training with sufficient intensity to activate those fibers. Having a personal trainer overseeing your workouts can go a long way in ensuring you're training with sufficient enough intensity. For Amy, the difference between recruiting type one and type two fibers comes down to duration and intensity. For older adults who haven't exercised in years, strength training is a game-changer. Dr. Fisher explains that if the choice is between walking for 20 minutes or strength training for 10 minutes, the latter offers significantly more benefits for health and longevity. Resistance is your ally—when applied safely and at the right intensity, it triggers type two muscle fibers and helps us maintain strength as we age. Amy and Dr. Fisher agree that maintaining muscle is about more than just fitness—it's about preserving independence and quality of life. Dr. Fisher introduces the concept of concentric and eccentric muscle actions, explaining how both play a role in muscle development. The eccentric phase—where the muscle lengthens under tension—may be particularly effective for type two fiber recruitment. He highlights the benefits of exerbotic devices, like those used in The Exercise Coach, which provide more resistance during the eccentric phase. Amy talks about the future of fitness, and how embracing resistance training—especially with innovative tools—will be key to staying strong and functional for life.     Mentioned in This Episode: The Exercise Coach - Get 2 Free Sessions! Submit your questions at StrengthChangesEverything.com     This podcast and blog are provided to you for entertainment and informational purposes only. By accessing either, you agree that neither constitute medical advice nor should they be substituted for professional medical advice or care. Use of this podcast or blog to treat any medical condition is strictly prohibited. Consult your physician for any medical condition you may be having. In no event will any podcast or blog hosts, guests, or contributors, Exercise Coach USA, LLC, Gymbot LLC, any subsidiaries or affiliates of same, or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, or agents, be responsible for any injury, loss, or damage to you or others due to any podcast or blog content.

The Concrete Podcast
The Fibers That Bind Us: What Japan, GFRC, and Good Business Have in Common

The Concrete Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 57:15


What if the material you choose could shape more than just your next concrete piece—but your entire outlook on the craft? In this episode of The Concrete Podcast, Joe Bates returns fresh off his trip to Japan, bringing with him a lens of precision, patience, and possibility. We unpack the heart of GFRC—what it is, which fibers are best, and why it's become the go-to for serious makers who care about both beauty and strength. BG shares a personal story about falling out of love with Festool and how that moment clarified something bigger: how tools—and the way we use them—reflect what we value. From the changing tides of the concrete industry to a surprising old product that gives Bondo a run for its money, this episode is a conversation about doing better work, with more intention. Whether you're a seasoned fabricator or just starting out, this one's about choosing materials, methods, and mindsets that actually move the needle. Let's make concrete healthy again. MCHA. #StoryDrivenSuccess #ConcreteCraftsmanship #MakerMindset #EntrepreneurJourney #DesignBetterBuildBetter #CreativeBusinessTips #SelfDevelopmentPodcast #GFRCExplained #BuildingWithPurpose #PodcastForMakers

The Concrete Podcast
The Fibers That Bind Us: What Japan, GFRC, and Good Business Have in Common

The Concrete Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 57:15


What if the material you choose could shape more than just your next concrete piece—but your entire outlook on the craft? In this episode of The Concrete Podcast, Joe Bates returns fresh off his trip to Japan, bringing with him a lens of precision, patience, and possibility. We unpack the heart of GFRC—what it is, which fibers are best, and why it's become the go-to for serious makers who care about both beauty and strength. BG shares a personal story about falling out of love with Festool and how that moment clarified something bigger: how tools—and the way we use them—reflect what we value. From the changing tides of the concrete industry to a surprising old product that gives Bondo a run for its money, this episode is a conversation about doing better work, with more intention. Whether you're a seasoned fabricator or just starting out, this one's about choosing materials, methods, and mindsets that actually move the needle. Let's make concrete healthy again. MCHA. #StoryDrivenSuccess #ConcreteCraftsmanship #MakerMindset #EntrepreneurJourney #DesignBetterBuildBetter #CreativeBusinessTips #SelfDevelopmentPodcast #GFRCExplained #BuildingWithPurpose #PodcastForMakers

Echoes of Shannon Street Case File
Mayhem in the Midsouth | Red Carpet Fibers Part II

Echoes of Shannon Street Case File

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 11:04


Serial Killer is finally captured and later executed for his crimes.Come visit us on YouTube to see the maps, pics, diagrams and much more on this episode as well as many others.   https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howell

Muhammadan Way
Organic Prayer Why Natural Fibers Are Better for Grounding Energy in Salah

Muhammadan Way

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 25:57


Subscribe to the channel : @muhammadanway Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nurmuhammad.muhammadanway IPhone App - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/muhammadan-way/id1244297852?mt=8 Facebook - https://facebook.com/shaykhnurjanmirahmadi Donate - https://muslimcharity.com Website - https://nurmuhammad.com TV Show - https://huberasul.net The Noble Naqshbandi Order proudly presents the ancient Islamic teaching and realities of the Prophetic Kingdom. Known as the Muhammadan Reality. Mawlana representing the Sultan al Awliya of The Naqshbandiyya Order Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani Shaykh Sayed Nurjan MirAhmadi student of the way The Seekers of The Heart, The Lovers of the Prophetic Reality As ancient as time itself, seek to be a servant of the light and lovers. Naqshbandi, Qadiri, Chistiyya, Shadiliya, Rifai, Inyat Khan, Alawi and many more All are the Muhammadan Representatives to Creation https://nurmuhammad.com is pleased to present the Muhammadan TV. Network Donations https://muslimcharity.com to support These works https://nurmuhammad.com Shaykh sayed nurjan mirahmadi

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1052: Of Wasps Making Paper

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 3:40


Episode: 1052 In which wasps teach us to make paper from wood.  Today, wasps try to teach us to make paper.

This Week in Hearing
268 - The Brain's Adaptive Mechanism for Hearing Loss: Modulation of Cochlear Nerve Fibers

This Week in Hearing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 24:10


A deeper understanding of how the brain regulates sound perception through inner ear nerve fibers could transform the way hearing loss is diagnosed and managed. In this conversation, Dr. John Oghalai explores groundbreaking research that uncovers the brain's role in modulating cochlear nerve fibers to adjust sound levels in response to hearing loss. These findings provide new insights into auditory processing and may help explain conditions such as hyperacusis and tinnitus, offering potential pathways for future treatment approaches.Dr. Oghalai further explores the implications of these findings for future treatments and personalized hearing care. He also shares how advanced imaging technologies like optical coherence tomography (OCT) could one day revolutionize the diagnosis and management of hearing disorders, potentially leading to more effective and tailored therapeutic approaches. This discussion provides a detailed look at the evolving landscape of hearing research and its potential impact on patient care.Learn more about the work being conducted in Dr. Oghalai's lab: https://oghalailab.usc.edu/research/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).- https://twitter.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearing

3D Printing Today
3D Printing Today #561

3D Printing Today

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 38:01


Fibers on the build plate, The limits of FDM, Billion Dollar Bambu

The Art of Range
AoR 153: Back to the Future with American Fibers -- Cate Havstad, Ed Mouw, & Ed Roberson at SXSW

The Art of Range

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 72:48


Can Farmer-Founded Fibers Save American Fashion? Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of RangeRevolution leather goods, and Ed Mouw, president of Duckworth wool clothing answered this question in a pre-panel interview at SXSW with Ed Roberson joining in. If Duckworth and Range Revolution are not on your radar screen, and if Mountain & Prairie Podcast isn't in your podcast feed, they should be now. Ed R interviewed Cate and Ed M in a SXSW talk the day after we recorded this preparatory interview. We discuss supply chain challenges, what is fashion, the recent renaissance of wool, and why natural fibers are superior to synthetics (let me count the ways). Go to https://artofrange.com/episodes/aor-153-back-future-american-fibers-cate-havstad-ed-mouw-ed-roberson-sxsw for links and the transcript of this interview.

Art on the Air
Art(s) on the Air with Ben Copperwheat

Art on the Air

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 58:38


Join Tamara for an interview with Ben Copperwheat, a versatile artist known for his exceptional work in fine art, wearable art, and interior concepts.  His distinctive style is characterized by vibrant colors, bold graphic imagery, and captivating screen prints. His art bursts with a riot of rainbow and neon hues, encompassing a diverse range of motifs and icons that form a unique visual language.  Ben was born in 1975 in Luton, U.K., and received a BA and an MA in the arts before moving to NYC in 2003. He worked as a Print Designer for Calvin Klein for a few years and then freelanced - co-founding an avant-garde menswear line, and working with stylist Patricia Field at events like Berlin Fashion Week and Art Basel Miami. In 2018, he moved here to Savannah and became a Professor of Fibers at SCAD. Check out Ben's work and follow him here:  https://www.instagram.com/bencopperwheat/  http://www.bencopperwheat.com/    Tune in and get all the details! 

Wild With Nature
The song of the tall dogbane: fibers at the riverbank

Wild With Nature

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 15:54


It's an afternoon in late April along the Clark Fork River near Missoula, Montana, USA. The song of the tall dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) isn't obvious, like the red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) that are singing in the aspen grove on the other side of the river, or the European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) that are nesting in the cavities of the cottonwoods. But the dogbane has a song, too, a song it sings with the wind. I can hear it this afternoon as last year's dead stalks whisper and rustle in the breeze…This month's story is all about tall dogbane, what makes this plant special to me, and (more broadly) how plants can help us. In this podcast, we follow a dogbane patch along Missoula, Montana's Clark Fork River from spring into summer. As usual, we hear a variety of natural sounds that I recorded for the story, including wind, rain, and insects in the dogbane patch, plus red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia), Wilson's warblers (Cardellina pusilla), and western wood-pewees (Contopus sordidulus). In this episode, I make mention of a video by Sarah Corrigan of Roots School about gathering dogbane fibers. You can find that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vPyRWGvDs.As always, I depend on the support of my listeners to continue doing this work. Please share these podcasts, leave a rating, and, if you're able, support me through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wildwithnature. Thank you!!!You can find the written, illustrated version of this story here: https://wildwithnature.com/2025/03/01/tall-dogbane-fibers

Echoes of Shannon Street Case File
Mayhem in the Midsouth | Red Carpet Fibers | Part 1

Echoes of Shannon Street Case File

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 13:14


Serial rapist becomes a serial murderer. Come visit us on YouTube to see the maps, pics, diagrams and much more on this episode as well as many others. https://www.youtube.com/@jamesr.howell 

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2541: This Strength Building Technique Activates More Muscle Fibers... & You're Probably Not Using It (Listener Live Coaching)

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 89:38


In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach three Pump Heads via Zoom. Mind Pump Fit Tip: Here is the ONE strength-building technique NONE of you are doing that is killing your progress. (2:27) The most important thing to consider when training your kids. (18:53) Turbocharge collagen production in your skin with red-light therapy. (27:40) Cluster vs. traditional sets. (29:17) Shout out to Ben Bruno! (33:32) Adam has a gift for numbers. (35:23) Look out for parasites! (38:10) The grossest thing you have dealt with as a parent. (41:14) The ultimate scam artist. (47:29) GHK-Cu benefits the skin. (50:55) #ListenerLive question #1 – Are my workouts too long? I am averaging 2 hours. (54:04) #ListenerLive question #2 – You guys always talk about ‘muscle memory'. Is there ‘fat' memory? Would that explain weight gain and how easily people gain weight back? (1:06:51) #ListenerLive question #3 – How would you help someone lose over 100lbs and get absolutely jacked? (1:14:39) Related Links/Products Mentioned Ask a question to Mind Pump, live! Email: live@mindpumpmedia.com Visit Joovv for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! ** Code MINDPUMP to get $50 off your first purchase. ** Visit Luminose by Entera for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! ** Promo code MPM at checkout for 10% off their order or 10% off their first month of a subscribe-and-save. ** Mind Pump Group Coaching February Promotion: MAPS Anabolic & No B.S. 6-Pack ** We are offering them both for the low price of $59.99, which is a savings of $114! ** Cluster sets and traditional sets elicit similar muscular hypertrophy: a volume and effort-matched study in resistance-trained individuals Ben Bruno trainer post "Scamanda": All About the Viral Cancer Scammer Saga Visit Paleovalley for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! ** Discount is now automatically applied at checkout 15% off your first order! ** Train the Trainer Webinar Series Mind Pump #1142: Nine Signs You are Overtraining Mind Pump #1297: 3 Ways to Know If Your Workout Is Not Right for You Mind Pump #1695: How to Lose 100 Pounds Mind Pump #2385: Five Reasons Why You Should Hire a Trainer Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Brad Schoenfeld, PhD (@bradschoenfeldphd) Instagram Ben Bruno (@benbrunotraining) Instagram  

Five Journeys Podcast
Detox by Rotating Plant Fibers, with Dr. Deanna Minich

Five Journeys Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 9:05


Do you want to optimize your detoxification and improve gut motility? The answer may lie in rotating dietary fibers. It's not just about the type or amount of fiber, but the diversity and rotation of fibers that can truly revolutionize your gut health. Rotating fibers every few days can create a diverse gut microbiome as well as help your detox. In this episode, Dr. Deanna Minich delves into the vital role of phytonutrients and fiber in promoting detoxification and gut health. She emphasizes the significance of incorporating a diverse range of colorful foods and rotating dietary fibers to optimize gut motility and support the body's detoxification processes. She advocates for the rotational approach to fiber intake, recommending the inclusion of about 50 unique foods within a week to promote diversity and enhance immune health. Listen now and start adding fibers to your diet today! Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/feelfreakingamazing/  Summary Dr. Minich discusses the relationship between phytonutrients and detoxification, highlighting the role of fiber in preventing the absorption of toxicants into the body and binding to toxins, estrogen, and liver metabolites. Dr. Minich stresses the importance of adequate hydration alongside fiber consumption and categorizes fibers into broom fibers, which promote gut motility, and mop fibers, which aid in toxin binding and gut microbiome health.  Phytonutrients in Colorful Foods Phytonutrients play a vital role in supporting the body's detoxification mechanisms. By consuming a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, you can harness the power of diverse phytonutrients to enhance your overall health and aid in detox processes. Incorporating colorful foods can help you optimize your detox and improve your gut health. Fiber and Detox Fiber is a key player in supporting detoxification processes within the body. It acts as a binding agent for heavy metals, estrogen, and liver metabolites, facilitating their elimination from the body. Just as a broom, it sweeps away toxins and waste products, preventing their absorption into the bloodstream.  Implementing a Rotation Diet A rotation diet involves regularly changing up your food choices to promote dietary diversity and avoid developing sensitivities to specific foods. Dr. Minich recommends rotating fiber sources every three to four days and aiming to include around 50 unique foods within a week. This approach helps prevent gut microbiome imbalances and ensures that the body receives a wide array of nutrients for optimal health and detoxification.  Listen now and start adding fibers to your diet today! Guest Bio Dr. Deanna Minich is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries, currently serving as Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health. She has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™). She is the author of six consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999). She has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine and on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Currently, she teaches for the Institute for Functional Medicine, University of Western States, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Institute for Brain Potential. Through her talks, workshops, groups, and in-person retreats, she helps people to practically and artfully transform their lives through nutrition and lifestyle. Visit her at: www.deannaminich.com Links https://www.facebook.com/deanna.minich/ https://www.instagram.com/deannaminich/ www.deannaminich.com https://deannaminich.com/dr-deanna-minich-blog-2/   Is Melatonin the “Next Vitamin D”?: A Review of Emerging Science Related Episodes Phytonutrients: the Key to Your Health, with Dr. Deanna Minich Age Into Your Best Self, with Dr. Deanna Minich Explore the Myths of Melatonin, with Dr. Deanna Minich Unlock Better Sleep and Hormone Balance, with Dr. Deanna Minich Decrease Toxic Exposure and Become More Resilient, with Dr. Joseph Pizzorno Detox from Heavy Metals, with Wendy Myers Detox to Reverse Disease, with Dr. Joseph Pizzorno Upgrade Your Heavy Metal Detox, with Wendy Myers  

Real Fuel with SLS
EP 34: Fiber for Endurance Athletes

Real Fuel with SLS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 37:10


Let's dive into fiber! Are you curious to learn more about fiber and its role as part of an endurance athlete's plate? If you deal with tummy troubles in or out of workout, learn why fiber intake, type and timing is something you should be looking at. In this episode I cover:-What is fiber-Types of fiber-New considerations when it comes to added fiber-Timing of fiber around workouts-Why more fiber isn't always better-Fibers role in gut health-And so much more!Listen on spotify, apple or wherever you get your podcasts! If you're loving the show, be sure to rate and leave a review!Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Poultry Keepers Podcast
The Role of Proteins, Fats, and Fibers in Poultry Nutrition-Part 1

Poultry Keepers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 27:47 Transcription Available


In this episode of the Poultry Keepers Podcast, Jeff Mattocks, Carey Blackmon, and Rip Stalvey explore the complexities of proteins, fats, and fibers in poultry nutrition. They delve into protein sources, comparing vegetable-based (mostly soybean and canola meal) and animal-based (fish meal and meat meals) proteins, and discuss essential amino acids like lysine and methionine. The conversation covers the importance of sustainable fishing for fishmeal, concerns over overfeeding protein, and specific nutritional needs during different growth stages of poultry, including chicks, growers, developers, layers, and breeding stock. The hosts emphasize the need for balanced amino acid profiles and adequate vitamins for healthy poultry development and productivity.You can email us at - poultrykeeperspodcast@gmail.comJoin our Facebook Groups:Poultry Keepers Podcast - https://www.facebook.com/groups/907679597724837Poultry Keepers 360 - - https://www.facebook.com/groups/354973752688125Poultry Breeders Nutrition - https://www.facebook.com/groups/4908798409211973Check out the Poultry Kepers Podcast YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@PoultryKeepersPodcast/featured

Break Your Budget
93. Your Guide to Material Composition and Creating a Wardrobe of Natural Fibers

Break Your Budget

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 35:43


This year, my goal is to shop more intentionally. A major theme of this is to begin purchasing clothing made of natural materials, and slowly phase out the synthetic clothing in my closet. Natural materials wear better, they look better, they last longer, and are an overall better ROI on your clothing spend. However, it can feel like a daunting task to navigate shopping for natural materials in a world where everything is made of plastic. In this episode, Michela shares why natural materials are better, what materials to look for, where to focus your purchases on, and her favorite brands. Everything is linked on LTK! Break Your Budget LTK: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/Breakyourbudget

The Synthesis of Wellness
154. Dysautonomia, The Vagus Nerve, & The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis | The Role That the Vagus Nerve Plays in Intestinal Health, Conditions and Root Causes Associated with Poor Function

The Synthesis of Wellness

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 16:54


In this episode, we explore the intricate role of the vagus nerve as a central regulator within the microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) axis, examining its neuroanatomical structure, signaling mechanisms, and interactions with microbial metabolites and immune pathways. We discuss how vagal afferent fibers relay sensory input from the gut to the brain, including signals mediated by short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and gut-derived hormones, and how efferent fibers modulate gut motility, intestinal barrier integrity, and inflammation through the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. Finally, we explore vagal dysfunction as well as associated conditions and symptoms, and we touch on just a few potential root causes. Topics: 1. Introduction Focus on the vagus nerve's role in the microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) axis. Bidirectional communication between the brain and microbiota. Overview of communication pathways: neural (e.g., vagus nerve), endocrine (e.g., HPA axis), immune (e.g., cytokines), and metabolic (e.g., SCFAs). 2. Overview of the Nervous System The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord - control centers for the body. The peripheral nervous system extends beyond the CNS The peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. 3. Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and Subdivisions Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) Enteric Nervous System (ENS) 4. The Vagus Nerve and Role in the PNS Principal component of the parasympathetic nervous system. Governs "rest-and-digest" activities Contains both afferent (80%) and efferent (20%) fibers. 5. Vagus Nerve Anatomy Fibers originate at the base of the skull and extend into the gut wall. Fibers distributed throughout the mucosa, submucosa, and beyond. Interact indirectly with gut luminal contents via specialized gut cells, including EECs and immune cells. 6. Interaction with Intestinal Cells Enteroendocrine cells (EECs) release gut hormones in response to microbial metabolites. SCFAs, such as butyrate, activate free fatty acid receptors on EECs, stimulating vagal afferents. Immune cells within the gut wall modulate vagal signals during inflammatory responses. 7. Review of Functions Sensory input (afferent fibers): Detects gut-derived signals like microbial metabolites and mechanical stretch. Motor output (efferent fibers): Regulates gut motility, secretion, immune responses, and more. 8. Impact of a Diverse Microbiome on Vagal Activity Enhanced SCFA production boosts vagal activity. SCFAs improve gut barrier integrity, reduce systemic inflammation, and assist in regulating stress responses. 9. Examples: Intestinal Barrier Function Releases acetylcholine (ACh) to modulate inflammatory pathways. Helps enhance tight junction protein expression, preserving gut barrier integrity. Helps prevent the translocation of microbial endotoxins like LPS into systemic circulation. 10. Dysfunction of the Vagus Nerve Reduced vagal tone disrupts gut homeostasis. Conditions such as IBS, IBD, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, depression, and POTS. Chronic stress, infections, and dysbiosis are common contributors. 11. Root Causes 12. Tying Back to the HPA Axis Low vagal tone is associated with increased HPA axis activity. Highlighting the interplay between the gut, brain, and stress response systems. 13. Conclusion Identifying potential root causes. Contributing lifestyle factors. "⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠75 Gut-Healing Strategies & Biohacks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠" Follow Chloe on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@synthesisofwellness⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Chloe on TikTok @chloe_c_porter Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠synthesisofwellness.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chloe-porter6/support

What's in My Bag? (Podcast)
Episode 217: Keep Your Fibers

What's in My Bag? (Podcast)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 93:32


A ghost named Jide makes a return back to the pod for this episode! We start by playing some new music from him & Lewis coming to the conclusion that he might be aging out of newer acts. The guys talk about maintaining a low haircut which leads to a discussion about hair enhancements that barbers have started using lately. From there, Jide gives us a little insight into his abrupt absence & so much more. ENJOY! 

Dreaming In Color
Episode 304: I Just Wanna Be Alone With You

Dreaming In Color

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 72:22


There is nothing else, I'd rather doooooooo. This week, Nancey speaks with artist Larissa Miller about intimacy and longing in the dream space. Larissa shares a dream story about reciprocated desire at an artist residency. Larissa is an artist and designer, born in Riverdale, GA, and raised in the Triad of North Carolina. Larissa earned her undergraduate degree in Consumer Apparel and Retail Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and recently completed her MFA in Fibers from Savannah College of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards including Fiber Art Now's Excellence in Fibers, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Appalachian Visions Scholarship, and Penland School of Craft's Cynthia Bringle and Edwina Bringle Scholarship. She has been featured in Surface Design Journal and Fiber Art Now's magazine. She also has participated in Arrowmont School of Art's Winter Pentaculum residency and was recently chosen as one of SCAD's Presidential Alumni Atelier Ambassadors in Atlanta. Now based in Savannah, GA Larissa is focused on building her network through her development of new work. Follow Larissa's work on IG: ⁠@larissam_studio⁠ & ⁠@rissalarue_co⁠ Visit Larissa's website: ⁠https://www.rissalarueco.com/⁠ ⁠Magic & Makers: A Wonderland Celebration⁠⁠TENTH annual pop up pARTy at Cohen's Retreat⁠ Follow the Show on IG: ⁠@dreamingincolorpod⁠ Follow Nancey on ⁠Instagram ⁠& ⁠TikTok⁠: @nanceybprice Music by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay

Fully Nourished®
Functional Fibers for Estrogen Detoxification & Plant Estrogens

Fully Nourished®

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 45:37


Celebrating the 50th episode today, so a big thank you to all of my listeners who have stuck with me throughout this journey as Fully Nourished is seeking to continually improve how we view female physiology on the planes of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.We are continuing our hormone series today, and we are going to take a deeper dive into plant foods, phytoestrogens, and functional fibers. I'm noticing another pendulum swing where people are beginning to over-demonize plants. There are nuanced examples where women are demonstrating benefits from cutting plants out of their diets, and my fear is that it will become the new fad diet that will push people back into the Carnivore diet, which we've already discussed, isn't ideal, especially for the female physiology. It is critical that we learn to live within the rhythm of our bodies and understand that the spectrum of what our bodies need will shift with the seasons. Instead of approaching our nourishment from a state of fight or flight, we need to sit with our bodies, rest, listen, and pay attention to truly give our bodies what they need. In this episode, we really dive deep into nourishment and the roles that phytoestrogens play in this process. There's so much more to the story than what you see on social media and in all the crazes that demonize seeds, seed oils, and soybeans. I can't wait to share it with you and I know you're going to love this episode. Tune in today! In this episode:[00:46] Welcome to Episode 50 of The Fully Nourished Podcast![02:43] We continue our hormone series today where we talk more about plant foods, phytoestrogens, and functional fibers.[10:28] The three components that the human body needs to gain from our foods. [16:24] Pay attention to the rhythm of your body to provide you with the nourishment you need in a specific season. [23:44] The difference between symptom suppression and true healing.[26:10] The taboo of phytoestrogens.[31:28] The breakdown of phytoestrogens in common foods and the role they play in the body. [33:56] Is there a link between estrogen and androgeny?[41:11] You have my permission to stop being afraid of any specific food group as long as it supports your nourishment.[43:30] Thanks for joining me on the Fully Nourished Podcast today!Links and Resources:Submit Questions Here: https://airtable.com/appoicByQy3UFoSXs/shrXwD7wQFJQr68NnSign Up for Sunday Tea Here: https://jessica-ash-wellness.ck.page/04f86a550fDiscount Codes from Our Sponsors:Subluna: https://shopsubluna.com?sca_ref=6575731.SiVwQ6X9YX*Code JESSICAASH for 10% offIG: @shopsubluna*This is an affiliate link. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links.Connect with Jessica:Have Sunday tea with me! Sign-up for my Sunday newsletter where I share what's on my brain from the nutritional to spiritual: https://www.jessicaashwellness.com/email-subscribe. Join the Fully Nourished community! Follow me @jessicaashwellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicaashwellness/ Join Nourished Circle: https://programs.jessicaashwellness.com/nourished-circle

Nervous Laughter Podcast
Episode 120: Baguettes and Cigarettes

Nervous Laughter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 38:43


We're talking a little Folie à Deuxhttps://journals.lww.com/ejdv/fulltext/2017/37020/delusion_of_parasitosis_with_folie___deux.9.aspxhttps://casefilepodcast.com/case-17-the-eriksson-twins/Motorway Cops Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8g37tXM7VEhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919794/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deuxhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/8811140Write us some of your cringe stories at [nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.com](mailto:nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.com)The socials: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nervouslaughterpodcast) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/NervousLaughterPodcast) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/NervouslaughPod) Write us some of your cringe stories at nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.comThe socials: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1052: Of Wasps Making Paper

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 3:41


Episode: 1052 In which wasps teach us to make paper from wood.  Today, wasps try to teach us to make paper.

The Concrete Podcast
Master the Art: AR Glass Fibers, Sealing, and RammCrete Revealed

The Concrete Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 64:14


Get ready to level up your craft. In this episode of The Concrete Podcast, we're tackling the nitty-gritty that makes all the difference. You'll hear which AR Glass Fibers are worth your time, insider tips for caulking your forms (and keeping that color just right), and how to stop making those pesky sealer mistakes once and for all. Plus, BG's fired up about a new mold-making product that he learned about in the Facebook group. Oh, and don't miss out—big news about the upcoming RammCrete Workshop this November in Kansas. Time to mix up some magic, y'all. #ConcreteCraft #ARGlassFibers #SealingMistakes #FormBuilding #CaulkingTips #MoldMaking #RammCrete #ConcreteDesign #ConstructionLife #Craftsmanship

The Health Ranger Report
Brighteon Broadcast News, Aug 9, 2024 – New warning: Get out of the cities or PERISH in the coming chaos

The Health Ranger Report

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 144:40


- Potential #famine in Western nations due to war and cultural decline. (0:03) - Preparing for economic collapse and potential famine. (5:12) - Psychic warfare and mass awakening. (31:39) - #Nutrition, herbs, and the Bible with a focus on apples, apricots, and superfoods. (35:21) - Contingency planning for hurricanes and financial crises, with a focus on prioritizing resources. (51:26) - Preparedness for unexpected events, including natural disasters and economic crises. (55:19) - Emergency communication plans and backup options for when cell towers fail. (1:14:59) - Prepping and self-sufficiency, with a focus on assessing needs and providing resources. (1:21:14) - Biblical herbs and their medicinal uses. (1:40:04) - Apricot seeds, laetrile and mentions in the Bible. (1:51:30) - Nutrients and toxins in food, with a focus on strawberries as a detoxifying fruit. (2:02:15) - Food science, digestion, and natural medicine. (2:13:25) For more updates, visit: http://www.brighteon.com/channel/hrreport NaturalNews videos would not be possible without you, as always we remain passionately dedicated to our mission of educating people all over the world on the subject of natural healing remedies and personal liberty (food freedom, medical freedom, the freedom of speech, etc.). Together, we're helping create a better world, with more honest food labeling, reduced chemical contamination, the avoidance of toxic heavy metals and vastly increased scientific transparency. ▶️ Every dollar you spend at the Health Ranger Store goes toward helping us achieve important science and content goals for humanity: https://www.healthrangerstore.com/ ▶️ Sign Up For Our Newsletter: https://www.naturalnews.com/Readerregistration.html ▶️ Brighteon: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport ▶️ Join Our Social Network: https://brighteon.social/@HealthRanger ▶️ Check In Stock Products at: https://PrepWithMike.com

Discover Daily by Perplexity
Quantum Nerve Fibers in the Brain, Mistral AI's Release Agents, Changes at X, and a Medieval Beatmachine

Discover Daily by Perplexity

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2024 7:43 Transcription Available


Can our minds truly operate on a quantum level? Join Alex and Sophie on Discover Daily by Perplexity as they explore the intriguing possibility of quantum entanglement in the brain. Discover the groundbreaking hypothesis from researchers at Shanghai University that suggests nerve fibers in the brain might generate entangled particle pairs, potentially reshaping our understanding of brain function and consciousness. We also cover Mistral AI's introduction of Agents, a new feature that allows developers to create custom behaviors for AI applications, potentially revolutionizing fields such as customer support and data analysis. Additionally, we discuss X's departure from its San Francisco headquarters, marking the end of an era for the company in the city where it was founded and raising questions about the future of tech in the Bay Area.And then we move on to music, where we explore Teenage Engineering's unique EP-1320, the world's first electronic instrument dedicated to medieval music. This innovative beat machine offers music producers and enthusiasts a chance to create medieval-inspired compositions with modern electronic flair, blending historical sounds with cutting-edge technology.From Perplexity's Discover Feed:https://www.perplexity.ai/page/mistral-releases-agents-EzKZ6W87Qq6v86Qwt1A3RAhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/x-is-leaving-san-francisco-DmRJkTnUS3ywTJ4Xngj2FQhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/teenage-engineering-s-medieval-iEVLOSzLSQOjCdZE479IOghttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/quantum-entanglement-in-the-br-7rokEdmsR4uZQmYOlx5J.APerplexity is the fastest and most powerful way to search the web. Perplexity crawls the web and curates the most relevant and up-to-date sources (from academic papers to Reddit threads) to create the perfect response to any question or topic you're interested in. Take the world's knowledge with you anywhere. Available on iOS and Android Join our growing Discord community for the latest updates and exclusive content. Follow us on: Instagram Threads X (Twitter) YouTube Linkedin