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Video version: https://youtu.be/5DIH0zdPnOk Working across UK funky, house and various, mutated strains of bass-heavy club music, Roska has earmarked himself as one of the UK's most accomplished underground exponents. Through a series of releases via influential dance labels like Numbers, Tectonic and Hotflush, as well as two albums for Rinse Recordings in 2012, he originally blazed a trail for funky to return to the clubs. He has continued to push the sound firmly into the future too, albeit now punctuated by his wider influences, via his own, genre-blurring Roska Kicks & Snares (RKS) imprint. Presiding over 50 releases, RKS has welcomed the likes of MA1, Champion, Gemmy and Doc Daneeka to the label since its inception in 2009 and now functions around a core base of new artists; Tony Tokyo, J Kenzo's Jodo Kast project, Majora, Transcode and Frederique. After spending the last four years releasing via different platforms A renowned DJ to boot, Roska's ‘Roska Presents' brand has seen him curate line-ups across the UK for the last five years and after recently returning from a tour of Asia – he took in dates in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul. Armed with a series of fresh remixes for artists including Matthew Herbert, grime-rap star CasIsDead, DJ Fresh and even Diplo, Roska is also prepping releases for Low Steppa's Simma Red, Form & Function and Pinch's crucial label hub, Tectonic. With a temporary move away from regular radio also in motion, a lot lies in store over the next few years – a defining period in Roska's impressively diverse and equally influential career so far. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raveroompodcast/message

A heated discussion between Mike, Seth, & Tommy as they dive into an excellent article by Christopher Laubenthal of Nightingale about the need to build data literacy in the organization. Internal Design: Success Requires Form and Function | Nightingale (nightingaledvs.com) Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎ Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/ Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/ Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

The long-awaited Pointing Dogs Volume Two: The English and Irish Breeds by Craig Koshyk has finally hit shelves. Inside, readers can explore in-depth information about Pointers, setters, and the overall development of bird dogs across the pond. Koshyk features an entire chapter about Irish Red Setters alone; let's take a peek inside. It's believed that Irish Setters are perhaps the oldest breed of setting dogs. “The spaniels that became setting dogs were in Ireland since at least the 16th century,” said Koshyk. It's easy to imagine this gorgeous dog breed loping across vibrantly green hillsides in search of game, regardless of whether it's in the 16th century or the 21st. 

To Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signup Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast! I'm Eric Dyck, your host for this enlightening episode, and if you've ever pondered about the intersection of form, function, fragrance, marketing, and modern entrepreneurship, you're in the right place. https://nezcare.com Today, we're diving deep into the world of Nez - a revolutionary deodorant brand that's been making waves in the beauty industry. It's not just about masking your odor, it's about layering your fragrance, elevating your mood, and confidently stepping out. But Nez is not only about the product - it's about the philosophy and the drive behind it. Joining us is the indomitable Sherry Jhawar, the mastermind behind Nez. Our conversation will enlighten you on: The Transformation of Advertising in the Digital Age: From traditional TV spots to decentralized platforms, discover how brands are adapting and evolving in the world of digital. User-Generated Content (UGC): Why is UGC the hidden goldmine for brands, and how can businesses leverage this often-underutilized tool for maximum impact? The Rise of Micro-Influencers: Big celebrities are not always the answer. Learn how rising stars and authentic voices can be a game-changer for brand narratives. Optimizing Paid Media: Discover insights into the fast-paced world of paid advertising, and learn about the strategies that have catapulted brands to the forefront. So, whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a marketing guru, or just curious about the world of beauty and its innovative marketing trends, this episode promises valuable insights and actionable takeaways. Let's dive in! Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:23 - Unleashing the Potential of User-Generated Content 12:40 - Evolution of Advertising in the Digital Age 18:10 - Strategically Allocating $50,000 for Growth 26:30 - The Power of Creative Strategy in Ads Hashtags: #UGCMarketing #InfluencerMarketing #DigitalAdvertising #BrandGrowth #CreativeStrategy Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signup Advertise on DTC - https://dtcnews.link/advertise Work with Pilothouse - https://dtcnews.link/pilothouse Follow us on Instagram & Twitter - @dtcnewsletter Watch this interview on YouTube - https://dtcnews.link/video

Designing with intention | Home Makeover Hacks ... Join us for another captivating episode of "Psychologie of Home" with your host Kami Gray! In this week's episode, Kami sits down with homeowner Colleen Clancy to delve into transforming sentimental spaces. If you're passionate about transforming your living spaces while preserving sentimental value, this episode is a must-listen!Colleen, our fantastic guest, brings her heartwarming story to the table. As a homeowner with a special connection to her grandparents' house, Colleen is seeking practical tips and ideas from interior designer Kami Gray to give her cherished home the upgrades it deserves. The home is brimming with sentimental value, but it's in dire need of some modern enhancements.Tune in to discover practical tips and creative ideas for infusing new life into a space laden with memories. Learn firsthand how to convert an ordinary closet into a charming mudroom, a transformation that promises to add both function and flair to the home.But that's not all – Colleen and Kami engage in a lively discussion about the boundaries of design and purpose. Discover why that Peloton bike might not be the ideal living room centerpiece. The camaraderie between Colleen and Kami is palpable, making this episode a delightful blend of laughter, insight, and practical advice. Whether you're a homeowner seeking to revive a beloved space or simply a design aficionado craving fresh perspectives, this episode promises to leave you inspired and informed.Remember, new episodes drop every Wednesday at 6 am PST, ensuring you're equipped with your weekly dose of interior design brilliance. Subscribe now and embark on a journey of design discovery!Watch Full Episode on YouTube here:https://youtube.com/@PsychologieofHomeConnect with Kami on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/psychologieofhome/KamiGrayInteriors.comPsychologieofHome.com

The name of the breed in Hungarian is Magyar Vizsla. The official FCI translation is Hungarian Short-haired Pointing Dog, but in English the breed is most commonly called Vizsla or Hungarian Vizsla. “Magyar” means Hungarian. There are several theories regarding the origin of the word “Vizsla”. Some authorities claim the word is of Turkish origin meant “to seek”. Others suggest that it was the name of a village on the Danube. Whatever its origin, today Vizsla means “pointing dog” in the same way the word “braque” does in French. Pronouncing: Mag yar VEEZH-luk (“Zh” and in “vision”)

Way back in 1881, German hunters began systematic crossing of Pudels and Pointers. They eventually created a superb breed of gundog and named it the Pudelpointer. The Pudels used in the original crosses were not the same as the Poodles we have today. The German Pudel was a hunting breed known for its keen love of water, strong retrieving instinct and sharpness on predators. Compared to other breeds of pointing dogs, pudelpointers are not particularly common. Yet Lisa and I have seen a good number of them over the years in places like Germany, France, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the U.S. and Canada. We've even hunted over a number of them right here in our home province of Manitoba.

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This episode of "This Week in Local” tackles two issues on the minds of Localogy analysts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin. One is the validity of claims that ad-supported media is either dead or dying in our new privacy-first era. The other is what impact will Shopify's decision to eliminate recurring meetings have on the future of work. Visit Localogy.com for more.

On today's Kicker, what the media got right and wrong in the 2022 midterm election. Ross Barkan, a politics reporter for New York magazine, The Nation and more talks with CJR's editor and publisher Kyle Pope about the media's penchant for speculation in divisive elections. Also in the discussion: how the media grapples with writing about a democracy in peril. On today's Kicker, what the media got right and wrong in the 2022 midterm election. Ross Barkan, a politics reporter for New York magazine, The Nation and more talks with CJR's editor and publisher Kyle Pope about why the media's penchant for speculation in divisive elections. Also in the discussion: how the media grapples with writing about a democracy in peril. “Is this the election that will determine the future of democracy?” Barkan questions.  “Maybe, maybe not. But I have my own reservations about that kind of grandiose rhetoric.”

Episode Notes:Solana Spaces founder and CEO Vibhu Norby sits down with Brian Friel to talk about creating crypto's first interactive retail experience that aims to onboard the next wave of users to web3.Show Notes:Brian Friel (00:06):Hey everyone and welcome to the Zeitgeist. The show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers for pushing the Web3 space. I'm Brian Friel, Developer Relations at Phantom. I'm super excited to introduce our guest, Vibhu Norby. Vibhu is The founder and CEO of Solana Spaces. The first in real life crypto retail experience. Vibhu, welcome to the show.Vibhu Norby (00:27):Thanks Brian.Brian Friel (00:28):Real excited to talk to you today. I think of all our guests, you have some of the most unique backgrounds of somebody who's now full-time in crypto. If you don't mind, could you walk us through a little bit about who you are and your journey to what is now launching Solana Spaces?Vibhu Norby (00:41):Yeah, I definitely do. Our team is a different type of team from what you mostly see. I used to be a respectable tech entrepreneur raising VC from tier one firms and building cool companies, writing code for Google. And then sometime over the last two years, like everybody else, I became a degenerate crypto guy. Pretty much my whole life, I have been writing code since I was a kid, and my first job was at Roblox. Funnily enough, I built their collectable system back in 2009.Brian Friel (01:08):Wow.Vibhu Norby (01:08):This was a long time ago.Brian Friel (01:09):Sneak peak to NFTs.Vibhu Norby (01:11):Yeah. I worked at MySpace. My big break came when I joined a startup called Nest, which was the smart learning thermostat company that Google acquired while I was there, and I was still writing code there, but I kind of got interested in what we were doing with retail. I got exposed to a couple of projects that the company Google was doing to build out an experience inside a Best Buy and Target an Apple stores and so on. And I fell in love with the idea of building a physical store for hardware products.Vibhu Norby (01:43):So I left Google with a bunch of other people, and directly prior to Solana Spaces for seven years, I built this national retail chain called B8ta. We opened stores all over the country. Japan, Middle East, at some point we owned Toys R Us for a good six months, which was a very interesting project.Vibhu Norby (02:00):And then a lot of people during Covid started getting interested in crypto. First Ethereum and then Solana, and at some point B8ta, this was a physical retailer that was super affected by Covid. So I started thinking about what I want to do next and I was pretty convinced that I want to get into this space. And I tossed around a bunch of software ideas. I'm not really, by my nature, a physical retail person, but by chance, met Raj in November last year. Although we had talked a long time prior to that, at that moment we connected around building a IRL Solana store. Both thought it was an interesting enough and weird idea that had a very small chance of being important, and those are kind of the best ideas to build. So between November and March we figured out a deal with the Solana Foundation and created Solana Spaces.Brian Friel (02:53):That's awesome. If I'm not mistaken, it looks like you guys are already live in New York. You're planning a store in Miami, is that correct?Vibhu Norby (03:00):Yeah. We opened Solana Spaces at Hudson Yards at the end of July and that was our first store, and the next location opens the first or second week of October in Miami. And these are two very different spaces. The first one is a 1500 square foot retail space, very much a store in a major shopping mall. The location in Miami, we call the Solana Embassy, because it is the craziest store on planet Earth I believe. It is a store, it's a coworking lounge, it's a nightclub, it's the best events venue in Wynwood, and it's all dedicated to teaching people about Solana.Brian Friel (03:38):That's awesome. So like me as an end user, let's say I was walking through Hudson Yards, I see this store, can you paint a picture and walk us through what can I expect when I walk into one of these stores?Vibhu Norby (03:48):The store is modeled around being your first crypto friend. That was how we designed it. And we asked for ourselves, how do people get crypto pilled in the first place? And pretty much everyone will share a story of someone in their life or someone they knew that got them a Phantom wallet and gave them NFT or gave them some tokens. So we wanted to build that kind of experience for people that maybe don't have a crypto friend yet.Vibhu Norby (04:13):So when you walk in, first of all, the space looks unlike anything you've seen in a typical shopping center because it's full of NFT artwork. And we have this crazy immersion screen that shows you what's happening on Solana in real time. And then we've got amazing merch products everywhere. So it's got this stunning welcoming look. And when you come in, there's two paths you take.Vibhu Norby (04:37):One path is, you can come and learn about how blockchains work, if you have more time. If you have less time, which is the average person, your first step is going into the Phantom Seed Phrase booth, which is a privacy pod where in three minutes you learn about how to keep your seed phrase safe and you get little cards you can write it down on, and then we drop you a PO App for completing that. And after you exit the seed phrase booth, you can walk around the store and scan your phone at all these different tutorial displays, and each one of those will open the DApp Browser in Phantom Mobile, and walk you through a tutorial about Orca, about Step'n, about MetaPlex, about Degenerate Ape Academy, about Form Function, or any number of our other partners. And once you've completed those learning materials, we give you another NFT. It's all gas list, no transaction fees.Vibhu Norby (05:30):Once you've collected enough of those badges, you show our store ambassador and we'll give you USDC. So basically we are paying people to learn about crypto in the store. And this is literally a micro version of what a good friend is supposed to do, right? Give you their wallet, give you some NFTs, give you some money.Brian Friel (05:49):Right.Vibhu Norby (05:50):And of course if you want to, if you're a degenerate like me, you can also spend that money immediately on the merch in the store.Brian Friel (05:56):The shoes. I want the Solana shoes. I see those on Twitter and I'm pretty jealous.Vibhu Norby (06:01):Yeah. We've got the Solana shoes, we've got the best socks in crypto, we've got hats and designer wear. And everything in the store is something that we designed and is exclusively available there, so you can only get it in the store. So it's kind of worth your time to come out of your way and try this.Brian Friel (06:17):That's super cool. And was there anything in particular from your experience founding B8ta, that impacted this vision that you had for Solana stores?Vibhu Norby (06:24):Yeah. If you know what we kind of did at B8ta, this is in many ways a direct descendant. It's a more fleshed out version of some of the big ideas that we were on to. B8ta was a... and my team hates that I'm always talking about it, but it was important part of my life. I started it when I was 27 and kind of grew up with it. We raised a hundred million dollars of venture capital, we opened stores everywhere and we had quite a large team and made a big impact on industry. We were the National Retail Federations retailer of the year. And the thing that made B8ta very innovative at the time was we had re-engineered the store business model to basically run auctions on top of space, like physical space, and we'd sell the space to the highest bidder. And so it was a more accessible way for newer brands to enter into a store.Vibhu Norby (07:07):And what we did here was we fixed a bunch of the things that we didn't like about that model, and benefit from everything from the rewards layer that crypto can offer companies to some very, very wild things that we're doing that we have not announced yet that we will soon. But in fact, the whole business model of this company we have not revealed yet to the public. And that business model is going to blow people's minds. That is probably the thing that is the most built on top of the learnings of my previous venture, and it's really a big idea on how quickly could you grow a retail business.Brian Friel (07:42):That's really cool. That's quite the cliff hanger. I'm tempted to press you on that but I won't because we have a ton of stuff to get through already on this. But I am curious, switching back to, you show up to this store, you walk in for the first time. I'm sure you're seeing both people are completely new to crypto who just think this store is interesting and they want to walk in, then you know have the crypto native degenerates like yourself, me and people listening to this podcast. But for the folks who are new to crypto specifically and they're coming into the spaces, what do you find that is resonating with them the most and maybe what is giving them the most friction about this crypto experience?Vibhu Norby (08:13):I think the hardest part has been teaching people about how the blockchain works. I think I was a bit more optimistic that people will be interested in the technology, but what clearly resonates to me is without a doubt, NFTs is one thing to kind of read the news about NFTs and write them off as write click saving, why would you need this? I'll just save this image to my computer. But it's another thing for someone to open up a wallet and see that this is something that's theirs. Even if it's a worthless NFT, people connect with those. And there's something called the endowment effect in retail, which is why most stores are loosely optimized around getting you to put your hands on the products, because once you feel a shirt in an apparel store or you pick up a video game, and nobody buys video games in real life anymore, but at GameStop, there's like a little part of your brain that doesn't want to give it back.Vibhu Norby (09:11):So our job in the space is give you things, tell you that you own them and get that endowment effect started. We've had some really cool experiences that have been shared with us. We had a guy that came from Ethereum and he walked into the store, this was a couple weeks ago, and he maybe had heard about it, but he didn't have any of the Solana tooling and didn't have a Solana wallet, and all of a sudden he was telling us on Twitter that he was investigating all the NFT projects and Solana and he had applied for y00t lists, and I feel like he was fully down the rabbit hole, right?Brian Friel (09:45):One of us. Yeah, that's awesome.Vibhu Norby (09:47):That story we've heard a bunch of times. So I think NFTs and then the merch, I cannot tell you how surprised we were how much people love merch. I don't know, it doesn't matter whether you know about crypto or not, you know about Solana or not, people are coming in and buying the gear. And that's a beautiful thing because I think what it says to me is crypto is really a community building tool, and one of the ways to be part of the community is to wear the stuff that community wears, and that's another way to kind of participate. So we really do focus on making high quality stuff that people want that's eye catching and interesting. And if you walked in and you didn't understand the crypto stuff but you like the products, that's a win. We'll take it.Brian Friel (10:30):Yeah, that's cool. And I guess taking that a little bit further, the store is really highlighting the whole Solana ecosystem, but for a given crypto project, say there's a crypto project that's building on Solana right now listening to the podcast, should they be thinking about in real life retail experiences? I think this is something that has been basically on no one's radar in the crypto space for a really long time and you're showing that there might actually be a reason for individual projects to pay attention to this.Vibhu Norby (10:53):I think there has been a lot of theory. I mean we can talk about payments for example. Payments are theoretically the very best use case of crypto, whether that's like remittances or that's paying a vendor, and not to shill Solana, but I do love me Solana.Brian Friel (11:10):I will note real quick, you're not actually part of Solana even though it's called Solana Spaces, it's a separate organization. Just to make that clear.Vibhu Norby (11:18):Yes. But we did call the company Solana Spaces and it's pretty hard to go back at this point.Brian Friel (11:22):Yeah, right.Vibhu Norby (11:24):Yeah, I think Solana particularly should be an awesome tool for payments because the fees are basically zero and that certainly isn't true with even credit cards. So I think that was a hypothesis, but making that come to life for somebody and building a mental model for other businesses has yet to happen. So I think if you're a store or you're a cafe, you absolutely should be looking at Solana pay. The question on that side is, how does it benefit the consumer and how do you overcome that acquisition cost and time of getting someone to download Phantom and fund it and swap it over to USDC and all that kind of stuff. It's a lot of steps today.Vibhu Norby (12:00):The two areas I think that are interesting, one is merch, and I have to talk about that, but I think every NFT community should be thinking very hard about what experiences they can build that represent and amplify their brand and their ethos.Vibhu Norby (12:14):If the first month of the store taught us anything, it was that there's an intense passion for these projects and I would love to see that problem space explored. In the Embassy, we have a Degenerate Ape Cafe, and it's an NFT coffee shop. We'll serve you hot coffee. It's all a roast made by a community member and it's got the monolith designer coffee bags and-Brian Friel (12:35):Nice.Vibhu Norby (12:35):... it's designed out of crates. And we have these cool branded cups. I don't know if this made it into production, but at the bottom of the cup there was going to be a QR code that you could scan and get a proof of caffeine NFT.Brian Friel (12:47):Oh, that's a cool little Easter egg. Yeah, finish your drink and get that.Vibhu Norby (12:50):It kind of starts that way, but then you can imagine that maybe you can take your proof of caffeine badge and next time you come back you get a discount on it. So you start to build the rails of loyalty. I was sitting there waiting for NFT collections to break into IRO experiences, but at this point, we're just going to build all of them for the Solana community. Whatever they want to build, IRL, they need to come talk to us because we are very much interested in setting examples for what this space will look like in the future.Brian Friel (13:19):So thinking five to 10 years out, I know that's a really big ask in crypto, but how do you see these two worlds converging? Right now, I'd say that most of crypto culture lives on Twitter and you guys are making really big inroads into the retail space. Do you see you guys really catalyzing that and most projects going through you? Do you see individual NFT collections spinning up their own entities to handle in real life venues? How do you see about five, 10 years out in the retail space playing out?Vibhu Norby (13:48):I'm going to confess, I'm pretty much a token MAXI. And I don't think it's a stretch to say that every IRL business in... Five or 10 years is way too short. But if you fast forward it a hundred years, I think every IRL business, every fashion brand that matters, every coffee shop, it will have started digitally and we'll start with digital assets. Why not five to 10 years? Because everything physically just takes forever to be disrupted. It's just not even possible to move that fast. But over a long period of time, I do think that it's inevitable. The reason being, that every talented creative person on earth right now is either exploring NFTs, creating them, dabbling in them, and maybe it can extend to not just NFTs, but I think NFTs and token AMEX and all of the kind of interesting combinations of those things. Crypto is an incredible creative sandbox for entrepreneurs. And it's also the most accessible way for entrepreneurs to get started. The composability of the ecosystem and the tooling.Vibhu Norby (14:50):Great entrepreneurs are attracted to things that are accessible because it's so hard to build a business in the first place, that if someone else is out there offering a tool that makes life easy or makes it easier to monetize, they're going to find it. So you're seeing it right now. I think digital art... What's happening right now with NFTs on Solana is a historical thing. It is mind blowing how many NFTs are minted every day on Solana. It's actually crazy. And that's coming from still a very small audience. We're at a hundred-thousand plus a day. I think there was a day the other week that was like 300K in a single day. So not a stretch of the imagination to say that the next great coffee entrepreneur, the next great fashion designer, the next great retail entrepreneur, is going to start with an NFT collection, with digital art, with digital assets.Vibhu Norby (15:40):And what happens when you have a sandbox that's accessible to the greatest entrepreneurs, things are going to come out of that that are incredibly disruptive. Of course the hit rate will be very small, but there aren't that many massive businesses in the world. And so I think it's pretty likely that we're going to start seeing crypto companies picking off certain use cases and industries, obviously creating new ones as well. And you're going to see this fastest in the things that are most simple on the sensory side, that's why I think art. Art has already been massively disruptive. I've dabbled in traditional art collecting and that whole world has been turned over in the last two years completely. And to me, it makes sense that that was the first thing to go because I think from a form perspective, it's the simplest to represent digitally. I think the latest adopting things will be hard physical assets, things like commercial office buildings in real estate, these things are very, very difficult to bring on chain, but it will happen and there are smart entrepreneurs working on it today.Vibhu Norby (16:42):So I think if you think five to 10 years... Maybe it will happen faster than we think. But the whole tree of ideas around IRL is going to be explored in that time period. The question is just, how long does it take for those things to become very meaningful and very large. I think that's a much longer process. Starbucks was in obscurity for 20 years before they figured out the formula for scaling. So maybe Solana Spaces, is that right? You never know over a long enough period of time. But I just think that the greatest creatives are working in crypto. So I'm just very excited to see what kinds of ideas these people create and how we can support them.Brian Friel (17:17):That's awesome. Yeah, this is a very exciting future you paint. And you say you are a Token MAXI. I'm curious though, do you have any contrarian views on the current state of crypto?Vibhu Norby (17:27):Yes.Brian Friel (17:28):Do you have anything in particular that you think the space should be focusing on that it's not?Vibhu Norby (17:33):How many people do I want to offend?Brian Friel (17:37):I'd say go big.Vibhu Norby (17:38):This is going to piss everybody off that listens to this show, but so be it. I think token going up and going down is very bad. I think if Solana... We never talk about price by the way. We never talk about it as an investment vehicle and I very much think that that's caused a lot of problems. But I think if Solana never changed where it was, I think if it became a USDC level of stability, this would be the greatest boon for the ecosystem. Because I think that you have within every interesting crypto project, it's flooded with speculation from the very get go, and these teams get obsessed with the price instead of the experience. And in the earliest days of a company, you just want the founders to be obsessively focused on the product and just making the product really good.Vibhu Norby (18:21):And I've seen a lot of communities, they won't say it necessarily, but I think I've seen a lot of projects get focused on how these things perform as an investment, not just as a product experience. So stability in this arena would be very good. People will be mad at that because obviously everyone wants the tokens to go up, but the best companies will be built when the founders are able to focus on building great things only. So that's one thought there.Vibhu Norby (18:45):I think some of the ideas we've shared around fashion are kind of contrarian. I think it's the next thing to go. I think after art, because the fashion world effectively was built for NFTs. You have limited supply items, you have great design wins, you have provenance, you have intense loyalty and identity formed around fashion products, products from runway level stuff to the things that make into Macy's. You see the same thing with collections. They do collection one, becomes very expensive, they do collection two, they do collection three, and it becomes more accessible over time. That's basically how the fashion world works.Vibhu Norby (19:19):And we tweeted recently that fashion designers today, they don't go to the fabric store and select fabrics and then go home and put them in front of a sewing machine. They open up Blender, they open up 3D modeling software and build the fashion that way. So by default, the fashion world is already moving to a 3D and digitally native format. Definitely in the next five or 10 years, that category is going to be completely disrupted by NFTs. What I see and what the ecosystem talks about as merch, this is not merch, this is actually about modern fashion and it's about people connecting with the things that they own in a deeper sense. And so crypto merch is going to take over the world. Merch is how a hundred, 200 million people are going to find out about Web3. And we're not going to call it merch, it's just going to be fashion. I really believe that and I'm seeing that on the ground level in the store every day to be honest.Brian Friel (20:12):That's super cool. One last question we ask all our guests. You paint a great picture here of the future blending in real life experiences with crypto, how crypto and entities are taking over the art scene and then soon to be fashion. But looking ahead, I guess one last question we ask everyone is, who is a builder that you admire in the Salona ecosystem?Vibhu Norby (20:33):I don't know if this is a unique answer, I'm going to give you two people that are totally different ends of the spectrum. One is. I'm obsessed with Frank DeGods.Brian Friel (20:41):DeGods. Yeah.Vibhu Norby (20:42):I just don't think there's another person like him, like another entrepreneur out there like him. He's just a unique marketing machine that the world has never seen before. He basically broke the Twitter algorithm for millions of people for two weeks straight. And it's not unintentional. He's maniacal about understanding how people are going to react to things. And I know he's been taking a break recently, but I'm definitely a Frank Maxi. I don't own DeGods by the way. I don't have any financial interest in it. I just think that he's an awesome builder. I wish more people in crypto would be thinking about marketing the way he is because it is making a real impact. His fervor single handedly brought over so many people for me to take a look at Solana.Brian Friel (21:25):The y00t list has passed, so we know this is a genuine recommendation. There's nothing at stake here.Vibhu Norby (21:31):No, no, nothing at stake. No y00t list. And then number two is Akshay BD from Superteam.Brian Friel (21:37):Yeah, Superteam.Vibhu Norby (21:38):He's brilliant, but I don't think anybody else thinks like him. I've been observing how he's building Superteam Dow and very closely because, well I can't really share why I'm looking at that, but they are building the first truly decentralized entity. Every detail of how they built that company is just different from a typical company. To how you get employed, how they pay people, where the people are, I think is a much bigger deal than they get credit for. I'll give an example, they just launched this product called Earn the other day, and I posted a bounty on there and I swear, I had 25 people who just did the work and sent it to me without even asking. That's pretty dope. And I'm a big fan of his. He knows that.Brian Friel (22:19):Yeah, we saw something similar. Just to plug that if it's further. When I was first getting started on Solana, we started this Solana cookbook to help engineers share resources and Superteam Dow just took that and ran with it. And I'd say most of the heavy contributors were tied into that in some way. And it's really cool to see them organizing and leveling up the whole space. I couldn't agree more.Vibhu Norby (22:37):Both he and Frank, they're both cult leaders of different flavors. Akshay much more understated but true visionary, and Frank, completely the opposite. More obviously cult leader. But yeah, thanks for the question.Brian Friel (22:50):Yeah, that's awesome. Well Vibhu, this has been an awesome discussion. Really appreciate you taking the time to jump on, share your background and also your vision for the future of crypto and in real life experiences. If people want to learn more about Solana Spaces, where can they go?Vibhu Norby (23:04):You already know, at Solana Spaces on Twitter. It's the best Twitter account in Solana, if I do say so myself.Brian Friel (23:10):Beautiful. Yeah, I actually spent more than I'd like to share on Sunday trying to figure out your seed phrase like crossword puzzle. That was awesome that you guys did.Vibhu Norby (23:18):We do it every week. I have another one dropping this Sunday. I have another one dropping Sunday after. We're going to do a crossword pretty soon. Yeah, Sunday puzzles.Brian Friel (23:26):Super cool. Well keep us posted on when you guys are opening a store on the west coast. I'm pretty jealous of all our east coast friends who get to do what you're doing. But thanks for coming on. Definitely want to have you back at some point.Vibhu Norby (23:36):Thanks Brian.

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Listen in as Jennifer talks about the story behind Linen Alley and how it has evolved since Jennifer opened the store 18 years ago. She speaks on the four mattress types that make up the company's core line, and the secret to creating a high-quality bed that lasts for generations.She and Beth discuss the different factors that go into optimizing one's sleep experience, from the impact of weight on the bed to choosing the right pillow. They also offer an in-depth look at why brand partners Heston and ViSpring are among the best in the industry.Topics Discussed: [02:00] Opening the store and how things have changed over the past 18 years[05:03] How different material provide different levels of absorbency[06:40] The growth of the Hastens brand[07:43] Creating a “generational” bed[13:31] Linen Alley and Hestons' ideal customer[18:09] How weight impacts sleep quality and how to choose the right pillow[22:16] What Jennifer has learned since starting the business[23:35] The next “new” thing in sleeping[28:33] Hestons and ViSpring's amazing customization options[33:58] Linen Alley's dedication to serviceConnect with Linen Alley:Website - https://www.linenalley.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/linenalley/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/linenalleyjh/Connect with Build Magazine:Website - https://rebrand.ly/bmwebInstagram - https://rebrand.ly/bmigwebFacebook - https://rebrand.ly/bmfbwebKey Quotes by Linen Alley:Sleep has taken center stage in the last five years when it comes to making our days better. So, I think we should start focusing on how important our sleep is by buying products that help us sleep better. ~JenniferAll of the other brands are trying to get the best priced materials to perform in the way that our all-natural materials already perform. ~JenniferWhen you're building a custom bed, our message to people is: Please come pick your mattress first. ~Beth

What role does sampling or borrowing play in making art? Do you feel special pressure to reinvent the wheel or make something groundbreaking as a black artist? Should you make a burner account for your art? (The answer is yes.) I dug into these questions and more in this episode with Davon Clark, a poet, photographer and all-around creative. We explored all things form and function as it relates to being a young, black artist creating both the work and ourselves in the social media age. CONNECT WITH DAVON Instagram: @daybydavon DAVON'S “CREATIVES YOU SHOULD KNOW” Toaster Henderson, poet and teaching artist: @hiimtoaster Devin Allen, photographer: @bydvnlln Dave Gaines, poet: @davegpoetry CREDITS Produced by Aisha Oxley Audio Mixing & Engineering by Melody Rowell at Yellow Armadillo Studios Original theme music by Jason Ivy and Chris Bivins Original Music "Lapis Lazuli" by Sarah the Illstrumentalist CONNECT WITH YO&B Official IG: @young_original_andblack Aisha's personal IG: @aishainprogress SEND ME A MESSAGE aisha@alloriginalbyao.com

Season 5, Episode 17. Kelli Lamb, editorial director and co-founder of Rue magazine, is Nancy's guest. Rue was founded a little more than ten years ago as one of the first digital shelter magazines, with the goal to become your pathway to stylish living, and has been available in stores since Spring, 2021. Rue brings the readers well-crafted design, effortless entertaining tips, and the products you need to make it all your own. Kelli has now shared her expertise in her new book Home with Rue where she begins by encouraging readers to ask what a “functional, joyful home” looks like to them and then goes room by room offering pointers on how to add “beauty in your everyday routines.” Her book gives expert tips and tricks for decorating all areas of the home, from kitchens to entry ways to bathrooms. Home with Rue goes on sale May 24, 2022, available where books are sold. This podcast sponsored by Monogram Appliances Studio 41 email comments & questions to Nancy@NancyHugo.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homedesignchat-with-nancy/support

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This conversation is both technical and design-oriented as we navigate what it's like to build with Polygon + Arweave, and delve into the design ethos of NiftyPixels. Matt, aka "pencilflip", shares his technical learnings building on Arweave and creating an NFT marketplace. Kat, aka "Katherine" shares a bit about her design philosophy and approach to creating a pleasing aesthetic, while also being super functional and easy to use. This duo has gone on to create amazing NFT-oriented platforms, including their most recent projects: mycoverse.xyz, and Solana-based formfunction.xyz. They continue to build on Arweave as their storage layer for all NFTs :).Be sure and follow @onlyarweave to stay in the loop!

Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the second episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It's for devs, by devs. Todays guest is pencilflip, a Solana dev who joined the Solana ecosystem just a few months ago, and in addition to contributing tools, guides and twitter threads for fellow developers, he recently founded Formfunction, a marketplace for 1/1 NFTs. 00:39 - Intro01:51 - pencilflip's background03:30 - Working at facebook vs. web 3.007:31 - How pencilflip got into crypto08:52 - Views on NFTs10:45 - Getting into Solana15:29 - Experience working in lower level17:56 - What was his method to learn Solana?21:01 - What's the hardest concept on Solana?23:53 - How fast did he move from Rust to Anchor?27:35 - Building on Solana33:24 - Advice to people moving to Web 3.0 Intro Voice Overs: (00:00)If we can't talk to each other, we're not going to make it. Sometimes I feel like I've been a lot full more than I can chew. Most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. Face full of glass hurts like hell, when you're in it. That's weird that glass looks half full to me. Eating glass, eating glass is staring at the abyss. Gosh who gives a shit about glass. It's part of our culture to eat glass. Hey get some safety goggles next time.Chase: (00:38)Hey everybody. And welcome to Chewing Glass the show where we talk to Solana developers building in the Solana ecosystem. Today, we have Matthew Lim, aka pencilflip. Matthew is actually one of the young bloods in the Solana ecosystem. I think I met him maybe two or three months ago. He was doing some really cool threads on Solana. So I reached out, we set up a call. He really dove into everything that has been going on in Solana and produced some really cool content. Everybody's been watching and just really interested in what he has to say. So with all that, Matt welcome. And how's it going?pencilflip: (01:21)It's good. Thanks for having me on here, Chase.Chase: (01:23)No, this is great. I know you and I have been trying to plan this conversation for quite a while. We just kept pushing it back. Things happen. Crypto happens fast. So it's great to have you today. I guess we'll just go ahead and jump right in. One of the first things that I think probably really cool especially somebody coming from Web 2.0 into Web 3.0 is really just, what's your background really interested to hear?pencilflip: (01:51)Yeah, so I guess before I dove fully into Web 3.0, I majored in computer science at Caltech. And then I went to go work at Facebook for a few years or Meta now, I guess. And so there I was working on a few different teams. First, I worked on integrity building out Facebook's content moderation platform, which is the biggest in the world. We have like tens of thousands of content moderators, so building out the tools and services for them. After that, I switched over to AR VR, whereas helping build Ray band stories, like three band glasses with a camera and a voice assistant. And that was a lot more like a lower level protocol work, basically working on the communications protocol between the glasses in your phone. And then finally I was at Facebook NPE. It's like an incubator inside Facebook, a bunch of smaller teams working on more zero to one projects outside of Facebook's main family of apps. And for that, I was doing more full stack web development.Chase: (02:43)I mean, that's pretty amazing. What languages are you actually working in when you're working on this project at Facebook?pencilflip: (02:51)Yeah, so I guess it varied from team. When I was doing more web stuff, the backend is in Hack, which is like Facebook's typed version of PHP. Front end is JavaScript or like Flow typed with flow. And then when I was working at AR VR, it was basically just all C++.Chase: (03:11)So C++, is that the only low level language you would work in at the time?pencilflip: (03:16)Yeah, at Facebook, it's the only low level language I worked with.Chase: (03:20)Obviously Facebook Metaverse lots of things going on there, crypto. So how was that? How was your experience working at Facebook and then to follow up, how was your experience working on Facebook compared to what you're doing right now in Web 3.0?pencilflip: (03:38)Yeah, that's a good question, I think. To just in general, how I liked working at Facebook, I think it is like in the beginning, when I first came into the company, I was learning a ton, basically experiencing for the first time building products that people are using at scale. And then I think over time, my learning curve got flatter or I start learning things as quickly and then stop learning as much, which is a big part of the reason why I eventually chose to leave. And that was like, even though I was switching teams pretty frequently and switching to different text stacks. At the end of the day, you're still working at this really big company. And back when I was at Facebook, there wasn't as big of a focus on the metaverse and all that.Although AR VR was a pretty big focus and in general I'm pretty bullish on AV VR. So it was really fun to work on that stuff there. And I'd say in terms of the differences between working there versus now doing some of my own stuff in Web 3.0, I think now I'm just moving a lot faster. Web 3.0 in general moves so fast. There's new stuff happening every day. Huge things happening every day. Obviously on the regulatory side, things move a little more quickly too, because Facebook is bogged down by all these laws and GDPR and the FTC consent order. And in Web 3.0, most people, I think we're ahead of the regulation and the regulation needs to catch up to crypto. So yeah, just like the speed at which things happen, I think is a big difference.Chase: (05:06)That's actually... I don't know. I was a little more surprised whenever I heard you say that Facebook is slowed down by regulatory things. And I guess it took me back a little bit for a second. I was like, wait, crypto, there's lots of... Wait a second. People just ignore those for now until there's actually something going on. So it was pretty funny to hear that. Yeah. So, I mean, that's really cool in general, did you enjoyed working at Facebook up until the point where you ended up, I guess plateauing, as you say, like technologically?pencilflip: (05:38)Yeah. I think there's a lot of pros and cons of working there. It is really cool to see how one of the biggest companies in the world runs thing. Just to give you an understanding of what the infrastructure looks like at that level, how things are organized. And also when you build stuff, you're shipping it to build millions, if not billions of people, which is just a really cool thing. But on the other hand, right, you're at a big company so the overall impact you have is a lot smaller. And also as you go into a big... Working at a big company, there's a lot more processes in place too. So it's a little harder to get things done, because you have to go through maybe multiple layers of people or multiple layers of processes. So yeah, overall I'd say there's definitely good and bad parts, but I did enjoy working there. And I learned a lot of stuff.Chase: (06:26)The layers involved in the middle management and above middle management, below... All the different levels of management in this corporate... I mean, I came from the corporate world. I'm so glad I found crypto because that was somewhat the vein of my existence, to be honest. And I did a tweet the other day, just really thinking about that. And I was saying if somebody tried to sit me down and show me their spring NBC app, I literally might just die by having to deal with it. So it's the experience going from that world has been really, and coming to Web 3.0 has been incredibly great for me personally. And it sounds like it's the same for a lot of other people, but to your point about seeing how an organization like Facebook operates and being able to execute at scale like that, is pretty incredible.And having people from that industry come here, hopefully what they learn is how to leave the bad and bring the good into crypto because there's probably tons of lessons learned from Facebook, how things could be done better in crypto, but also how to keep the things that were not super efficient out of there, but it's all very interesting stuff to me. So moving on, I would say the next thing is how did you get started in crypto in general? Like whether it was... You could start with how you got found out about crypto when you found out about it and then like how you actually ended up starting to get involved more on the development side of things.pencilflip: (08:09)Obviously the first thing I heard about was Bitcoin back in college and I read about it and I was like, "Oh, this is cool," but I didn't like pursue it that much. And then maybe fast forward to 2017 when CryptoKitties was a thing again, I was like, "Oh, this is cool." And I got a CryptoKitties or two. And then I got-Chase: (08:26)Well, that nostalgia right there, man, CryptoKitty's holy cow.pencilflip: (08:30)And then at the beginning of this year, one of my best friends was basically telling me about NFTs. And then I started looking into it more also based on all the activity that was happening. I actually did try to find my CryptoKitties, but I forgot my C phrase. So it's gone forever.Chase: (08:47)Well, at least you didn't give it away to somebody else who ended up stealing them. So I mean, maybe that's a little bit better.pencilflip: (08:52)Yeah. That's true. That's gone forever. I've never getting that back. But anyways, yeah so at the beginning of the year I started looking more into NFTs and following things more closely. And then it was only really until a few months ago though maybe September, I think around September where I really started going in really deep and learning and reading and also building things and trying to figure out what is web 3.0 and how does crypto work and what stuff could be built on it?Chase: (09:23)What did you think about NFTs? Did you actually see value? And then when you started diving in, how did that change your mind?pencilflip: (09:29)A lot of people immediately get it. And then a lot of people are like, "Well, it's weird." And I was actually more on the latter side. I was like, "Huh." I mean, I got the fact that, okay, it's like people collect stuff and now you can collect digital stuff. I think that's the most straightforward explanation for me, but I was still confused about like, okay, why are people paying all this money for it? In general, it was a little confusing, but I was kind of like dove into it more and both started using the products and like talking to different artists and creators and developers in this space, it started to become more clear what the utility was and why it's actually a really awesome technology for both artists and collectors. So yeah. That's how, and as far as like NFTs go.Chase: (10:16)Yeah, for me, I was never actually really skeptical. I just wasn't completely sold on them as what they were. The art thing was great. But then as time went on, I'm like there's communities forming around this. You now have this visual identifier on social media platforms. It's where before maybe it was a sports team, you see this guy with his shirt and he likes the Chicago bulls, just like you do, so now you connect. Now you, simply scrolling through your feed on social media, like Twitter, you see an SMB or you see a thug birds and you're like, "Oh, we're friends now."It's the community building aspect that's has been pretty incredible to me. And then now beyond that, we've starting to see things with utility, like Genesis Go and different things like that that are trying to take it to a different level on how these things can be used. But it's been really cool to see. So when you got into this NFTs, what was your next step in terms... You dove into... I'm pretty sure when we spoke about this prior a couple months ago, you didn't go directly into Solana. Obviously, you started playing around elsewhere.pencilflip: (11:32)Yeah. And I guess just your point about the whole community thing. I think one thing I forget who said this, but so someone is talking about people have really expensive paintings in their house and the point is just people can look at it, but you know, realistically you probably only have 10 or 20 people over to your house, or I don't know 50 people over to your house every year, as opposed to having a Twitter avatar and like literally thousands of people can see that. And so that's like, well, actually these NFTs... More people are... They're much more visible to many more people than traditional art just hanging in your house.And yeah, as far as getting into Solana, I first started on Ethereum because that's the biggest one. It's the most resources, is it's like the one that the people I knew were working on. And so I did crypto zombies and I started learning solidity. And then I eventually ended up building this pixel art marketplace on polygon, like a layer two for Ethereum, where you can draw and mint pixelar on the website. And so I was doing all that before I got into Solana.Chase: (12:38)Now that you've gone through all the experiences of Ethereum, at what point in time did you actually find out about Solana?pencilflip: (12:46)Yeah, I think I had heard of it when I was exploring Ethereum. I knew what it was, it was another L1, but I hadn't really dove too deep into it. And the point at which I started looking more into it is when my partner and I, Catherine, we wanted to do an NFT collection and we were exploring which blockchain to do it on. And so that's when I started looking into Solana more seriously because we didn't want to do it on Ethereum. It's too expensive. We didn't really want to do it on polygon either because there's not a great community on polygon as far as NFTs use this art collections. It's more about gaming. And so even though it's fast and cheap, we felt like Solan would be better because Solana's also fast. It's also cheap. And it also has this really thriving NFT community.Chase: (13:34)Yeah. You're an Ethereum developer. Then the next thing is you're like, okay, Solana's the one. It's cheap, it's fast. It's what we want to do. You started diving in and then where did you start and what was that experience like?pencilflip: (13:49)I think for me, my approach was, and this may be different for a lot of people, but basically I was like, okay, if I want to build on Solana and really dedicate a lot of time to it, I want to understand it pretty well. And actually have justification for me spending all this time on it as opposed to just relying maybe on like, "Oh, it's market cap is going up." Like coin price is really high. I want to know the tech behind it and know why it's supposed to be better.And so at the beginning I spent a lot of time just reading through the white paper, which actually is not that detailed. Reading through the medium articles about all of Solana's different technologies and how it makes sense.Chase: (14:30)The core innovations.pencilflip: (14:31)Yeah. The core innovations exactly. Also, reading through Shinobi Systems, which is a validator on Solana, has a really good reference on proof of history and how it ties together with Solana's proof of stake. And so really just trying to understand how the blockchain actually works, how it's different than Ethereum and why the architecture allows for higher throughput, cheaper transactions. And that was really important because I wanted to understand that if I was going to spend all this time actually building on top of the blockchain.Chase: (15:07)Yeah. So you've you really deep dove into this, just to give a quick TLDR on the things that you were doing. You did some diagramming around accounts, you wrote some threads on PDAs, program derived addresses. You've done tons of deep dives into a lot of things like these exist and the documentation, but they hadn't really been broken down into these bite size, digestible chunks that are easy to understand for newer developers or web 2.0 developers or people who really haven't taken a dive into blockchain or an Ethereum developer, because lots of people try to do these one-to-one comparisons for accounts in the programming model.And there really just aren't that many. So it's really important. And everybody that's probably watching this, that knows who pencilflip is super appreciative of that. But through that process, you have a lot of experience with lower level languages. What was that experience like for you? I'm assuming you enjoy doing this or sorts of things. So maybe would you call that eating glass for yourself or do you just enjoy this so much that it's not really that for you, this was just a fun little project to understand how Solana works.pencilflip: (16:24)Yeah, it's an interesting question. I think, and I think PaulX was talking about this too on the podcast you do with him. But I think the hard part is not really learning REST. I mean, I think it can definitely be maybe more difficult, especially if maybe you've never programmed before then you're probably going to have a hard time learning REST. But as like if you do know other languages then picking up another language, at least enough to write some basic programs and not too hard especially because... And Paul X also mentioned this, there's no multi-threading in these programs, you don't have to deal with race conditions.Most of it is serial logic. You read some data, you write some data, you do some business logic. So the rest part is not super complicated, especially because Anchor provides you this very nice framework within to operate. Yeah. Like the C++ stuff I was doing at Facebook was way more painful because we were doing a lot of multi threading. You have to do all this address sanitization, thread sanitization to catch all these weird racing editions, which I haven't done in Solana yet.Chase: (17:28)So working at Facebook is also chewing glass as well.pencilflip: (17:33)Yeah. They are definitely some engineers there that are... They're chewing a lot of glass. So yeah, basically I was just going to say, I think just understanding Solana's programming model and the way accounts work and the way that programs are structured was a little more difficult than the language part.Chase: (17:51)How did you work your way through that whenever you were trying to understand these things? Did you just take a one step at a time? Did you have a game plan or did you just dive in randomly all over the place? Because one of the biggest challenges right now, currently with Solana is we're starting to have a lot more content, thanks to people like you and Paul X and many others who are creating, creating lots of content, but there's no clear path to understanding those things.And we're doing something at Solana labs. And my dev team's been working on structuring the actual path for understanding things and the order of operations in which to learn them, because that's the biggest challenge. The information's out there, but people have to cherry pick when and where, but it's a lot easier if somebody says, this is the order that you learn things. It's a lot more helpful, but then there's some engineers who were open to just straight up diving code, but like, what was your method for really understanding these things? Or you just went along with whatever happened on the day.pencilflip: (18:56)Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a good question. And I think there's like a lot of valid approaches. So mine isn't like the right one, but basically the way I usually like to do things is, I read enough to get a basic understanding and then I'll try actually building something. And then I can just reference things that I don't understand or things that I need more information on as I build the thing. And so specifically I think Nader Dabit tutorial was really helpful. I followed that to get some basic scaffolding and a basic app up.Also, Brian Friel wrote a bunch of really good guys and writing the front end and writing the Solana program. And so I followed those, built something on my own. And then as I'm building stuff, I would like maybe modify it or maybe I ran into something that I didn't understand. So then I would look at the documentation and I think, one note too, is that for Solana, it's really important to be able to actually understand the source code and look at the program library or look at Metaplex' code because yeah, things are so early, it's not really well documented. So I think that is just something you'll have to do if you want to build in the space is get used to reading the source code. Yeah.Chase: (20:04)I, 100% agree, but there are definitely different types of learners out there. And I think we can still make that a little bit easier by going to that source and pulling out some of these smaller little snippets of code and walking through it, instead of just saying, "Hey, here's a massive program. You can just walk through this yourself." Not everybody's used to learning that. Web 2.0, especially in the younger generations, like we're in snippet heaven here. Like if it's snippet, then I don't want to touch the thing sort of, which is why we started to create the Solana cookbook.It's never going to solve all of your problems, but what it will do is give you some really good references to find it. Maybe it's not because you're finding out how to do it for the first time, but because you don't want to have to dive that code again. And here's a reference to something very normal that you would have to do on Solana and have to go back. So that's what we're trying to solve, but it's always interesting for me to just ask these questions because parts of my job is developer relations is to just ask developers what sucks and what's good and do more of the things that are good and do less of the things that suck and try to just continuously iterate and improving on this.pencilflip: (21:19)I mean, don't get me wrong. I don't think the status quo should be like, "Oh, everyone has to look at this source code." And I think the cookbook is really helping with that. Obviously it would be preferable, if you could just look at some docs, the interfaces are clearly documented. Like, "Oh, here are the accounts that get passed in. Here's the instruction data." We're just not at that state yet. But yeah, I do agree with you. It can definitely be improved and I think you, and all the stuff you're doing and everyone else is doing with the Solana cookbook is a big step towards making it easier to onboard.Chase: (21:50)We've already discussed, what were some of the challenges, but if you had to pick the most challenging thing through your experience, which one of those would it have been? Which concept on Solana was the hardest to just fully wrap your mind around and be like, "Okay, I get it. But it took me two weeks." Or however long it took you to figure it out.pencilflip: (22:09)Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know if this was maybe the most... Actually yeah, I think this was probably the most difficult and also the most important was just understanding how the account model works because after you understand that everything follows after. Like PDAs, it's the same thing, except it's derived from some seeds. So understanding how the cap model works and basically how the program state is separated from the program execution, which coming from Ethereum was a little confusing, I think just understanding that was the most difficult, but also the most important be because yeah, it's underlying the entire programming model. The way accounts work.Chase: (22:53)I think in software in general and I'm guilty of this as well, is that a lot of people actually come just really looking for shortcuts. And it's always important to know which pieces are the most... Which pieces are the hardest. Once the hardest stuff is understood, the accounts model, the PDA and the CPIs. Once you just can grasp these concepts, then your life gets exponentially easier because everything else is easy if you just buckle down and make your way through that.pencilflip: (23:24)And I think another key thing is, you don't necessarily have to do the rest part of things in order to get as in the Solana. You can be writing front end code and just interacting with existing programs. Although you still probably have to understand a little bit about how it works, but the build space course, a lot of it is just interacting with existing programs and writing JavaScript or type script. And that can also be a very, or at least a little bit easier of a way maybe to get started initially.Chase: (23:51)Yeah. I think that it highlights a point that I've been trying to reiterate for a long time, is that you don't need to know Rust to build on Solana. There's so many projects out there or even if you just want to play around, but there are projects that are just hiring specifically for the front end Dapp side of things, where it's just very similar to talking to a centralized API, as long as you know how to use Web 3.0.JS or any of these other front end clients. You don't need to know Rust to build on Solana, because the thing is, you start on the front end building in talking to a blockchain or a centralized database. It's very, very similar.Then once you understand how it works and communicating using the RPC client that defines all of the methods that used to talk to those blockchains after you get that, then you're like, "Okay, now I want to write my own program." At least that's the hope and buildspace has done an amazing job. They've had... I know at least over 10,000 people have done that getting started and they love it. And you mentioned Nader and he also has done an incredible job with his tutorial. That's one of the most popular for sure. How quickly did you jump from doing the Rust bit moving to Anchor or did you just do that almost immediately?pencilflip: (25:12)Yeah. I think when I was getting into things, Anchor was already pretty popular and so I started out by writing Anchor programs, like toy Anchor programs. Yeah, this was actually a big question for me when I was starting out. I was like, "Should I learn Anchor first? Should I learn how to write programs with add Anchor? And I remember asking some people in the discord and getting their opinion and looking back at it I think, I mean, either one is fine to be honest, I think it's easier to start with Anchor obviously, but I do think it's super important to be able to understand programs written without Anchor just because so many programs are written like that.Like the Solana program library programs, a lot of them aren't written with Anchor, although they're Anchor rappers or the Metaplex programs, a lot of them are not written with Anchor. So if you need to like... you basically need to be able to understand those programs if you're doing coding on Solana. And so you need to be able to understand programs that aren't written with Anchor as far as writing programs though, I think just default to Anchor.Chase: (26:13)Yeah, for sure. And I think as Anchor matures, I know the Anchor book is now out and Paul X has been working on that, which is going to be incredibly valuable to that. There was mostly minimal examples in the past and just like Solana has been working on... Solana labs has been working on all things like Anchor has been really cranking up the heat with getting out content and making it easier to onboard to there.I think this year is going to be huge. I said it the other day on Twitter that I think that in one year, probably less than that, Armani says two weeks, whatever that means, but that the developer experience on Solana is going to be completely unrecognizable as it is today. People are not going to have to really ask much questions. We'll get to a... We're probably going to be at a place where you would have to be at least a junior developer who understands programming concepts could come in and within a certain amount of time, maybe two weeks, maybe a month, be able to self onboard to Solana without having to just constantly ask questions.Chase: (27:19)That's the ultimate goal. My ultimate job is to put myself out of a job by making the developer experience good that there's no need for Chase anymore.pencilflip: (27:29)I think that's a very hard job to accomplish. So I think your job security is still is fine.Chase: (27:36)No, I agree. I always make that joke, but the reality is like it's somewhat of an unachievable goal to an extent and I'll never achieve it, but we just keep striving to get there, but yeah, I'm super excited for this year and to look back on this year, next year, to see this conversation, the last conversation, all the things that have happened and how easy it is for some new developer to basically onboard to Solana. So, and again, this is thanks to people like you and Brian and Colin, all these different guys who are just altruistically contributing to the cookbook, writing their own content. I could not have scaled myself and developer relations without that. It would be 100% impossible because by the time that me as one person writes a piece of content, it's outdated in like a week.So that's how fast things are moving. Yeah. Just to move on, this whole series of Chewing Glass is really to have the conversations we've been having. Like what was your experience like and how you got into it? But what I understand is, even though you started out as just a noob engineer on Solana, you actually have recently formed your own company on the Solana blockchain. And definitely, we're not going to talk about it too much, but I will definitely let you talk about what you're building.pencilflip: (29:08)Catherine and I... Catherine used to be a designer at Instagram. We are starting this product and this company called Form Function. And basically it's the best way for independent creators and artists to make a living off of NFTs. That's the longer term vision. The shorter term, we're just building the best marketplace for high quality, one of ones, high quality, one of one art, and for these independent artists and creators on Solana.And so you can think about other marketplaces like Magic Eden and Solana as more catered towards collections. The things most people are buying on there is collections like DJ AVEs or Solana monkey business, or et cetera, et cetera. And it's not so much focused on these more independent artists or photographers who do their own art. They don't really have basically a class seat at those platforms. And so we really want to build a place where those independent creators can be really showcased and their high quality art can be displayed and featured on our platform.Chase: (30:12)Like you said, the Magic Edens and the Solana arts and all the other ones out there they're... I don't think their platforms specifically is for collections, but that is where the world is. And there's Holaplex and Metaplex's spin up auction platforms are doing that. But to have a marketplace, that's almost who knows? This is like an art gallery kind of of 101 creators who can come in here and create their own art. And it doesn't have to be this big marketed thing. People can just... Those collections are not.. They're community builders and some of them have utility, but this is like just shining a spotlight on these creators that have been gate keeped out of being able to get involved because of lack of technical knowledge and that's how it's been. And I think this is going to... I've seen a couple people talk about it on the Twitter sphere lately about like 2022 being the year of creator NFTs, or like one of one NFTs for creators, and it's super exciting. I've seen some really awesome art out there that I have really been eyeing. And there's so many ways to do it. I've seen augmented reality pieces of NFTs. I've seen people doing paintings or photography and it's happening more and more because tools like, it sounds like what you're building are going to enable that to be a lot easier to happen.pencilflip: (31:42)Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Really excited for all the one of one stuff that's been happening on Solana. I think it's been growing, it's going to continue to grow and really a big part of what we want to do is just improve Solana's maybe culture or almost reputation, because I think sometimes people look at Solana and the NFT ecosystem and they see these board app derivative, where they see these soul planks.And it's just like, well, is everyone on Solana just copying the popular projects in Ethereum, and that's definitely not true. There are a lot of awesome collections that are Solana native, but we also want to make it like a blockchain that's known as well for this really high quality art like Ethereum has become and have it be associated with that because that's good for artists. It's good for collectors. It's good for the entire Solana ecosystem. And it also gives these artists who maybe they don't want to list on Ethereum for environmental worries, or maybe the gas fees are too high for them. It gives them a really good place to go and sell their art that otherwise, maybe they wouldn't list at all.Chase: (32:45)Yeah. The, I do have some opinions on that and it's definitely the case that there were some collections that are just straight up clones and a lot of people outside of the Solana ecosystem that don't... They aren't really following it. They look in there and they're like, "Hey, why you guys just keep copying everything?" But if they actually were in the circles or bubbles that a lot of us are in, they would realize that the majority of these communities are also on the same page as them. They hate it as well.There's actually campaigns that campaign around these collections that are just straight up clones telling people, "Please don't buy them. Please don't buy them." The reality is I have, maybe it's a conspiracy theory, but I feel like people who are doing these sorts of clone things, they're not necessarily Solana natives. And there's no way to actually verify that. But these are grifters. They are traveling around seeing where the money's flowing into and they're doing whatever they can as quickly as possible to hopefully capture some money. And then they disappear.It's happening on Near as well. And I also spoke about this. I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for Near because it's happening there. Those clones are moving to them. It's going to happen. People are going to end up losing money. And the best thing that Near and or Solana still can do is to educate your community as quickly as possible, because otherwise lots of money is going to be stolen from people when these rugs are happening and a lot of them are. And if you see a project that's a direct clone of something and you think, oh, this is going to be great because I can get it for cheaper. It's not going to be great. I can promise you that. It's going to be the opposite of great. It's going to be very, very bad for you. So if you're listening, don't buy clones on any blockchain because it's not going to work out. So that's my little-pencilflip: (34:42)Totally agree with everything you just said.Chase: (34:44)That's my little feel.pencilflip: (34:46)It was a great feel.Chase: (34:47)Exactly. So this was a great conversation and to hold round the whole thing off, what would be your advice to people to future builders on Solana, whether it be how they learn or what they should do, or where they focus their time? What would be the one thing that comes to mind to you right now that would be your greatest advice to people looking to get into Web 3.0 blockchain and Solana?pencilflip: (35:11)Yeah, I mean, so first of all, I love what Paul X said here was basically like, "Get started, dive in, build something, read something, try something, how just like gets started. I think that's super important. And I'd add on that, get involved in the community. The Solana community is really welcoming and everyone's like... I think everyone I've met is super nice and friendly and like wants to help. And that's one of the best things you can do, both for the community, like give back to the community.And also the community will get back to you. You can ask for help in these discords. If you DM them, people will probably help you out. And then it obviously helps when you're building your own things because then you have a network of people to ask questions, to bounce ideas off of et cetera.So yeah, I think it's a great time to do it too, because Solana's still relatively small. It almost feels like a family where a lot of the people who are really into it know each other. Yeah. It's a really awesome place to be. So that would be one of my key pieces of advice, is just get involved in the community, make some friends and build some cool stuff.Chase: (36:16)Yeah. That's amazing advice and it's always just go build something and share it with people and just have a good conversation and send DMs to whoever you can find because they're going to answer. This is a very strange time where you can DM a CEO of a protocol or whatever and they're going to probably respond if it's somewhat reasonable and to have that accessibility is a pretty powerful and don't just sit back and submit resumes everywhere and think that's going to be the best choice.Because I get a lot of messages to myself saying like, "Hey, nobody's responding." I'm get involved. DM people. Strike conversations. People are literally getting hired to really amazing companies simply just by being consistent, persistent building things, being involved in a discord. And just, if anything, just start answering questions and helping people. Somebody's going to pay attention to you and it could change your life in a very short amount of time so.pencilflip: (37:18)Yep. Totally agree with everything you just said.Chase: (37:21)Well, Matt, AKA pencil flip. It has been great. It's been about a month and a half since we've been talking about this. It finally happened and I think the listeners are really going to love it. So thanks for joining man. It's been a pleasure.pencilflip: (37:37)Yeah. Thanks for having me on Chase. It was great coming on and chatting with you. Always enjoy talking Solana and everything with you it's always a ton of fun.Chase: (37:44)All right, everybody. Thanks for listening.

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Our homes tend to fill up with the artifacts and debris of our busy lives as much as by conscious choices that we've made, so they can come to represent a distorted view of our lives and our tastes. In episode #95 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests designing a vision for your home to guide your decluttering efforts and to reflect a truer picture of who you are and what you love.This episode is Part I of a two-part series.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw095The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.To participate live in our weekly webcast, join our Meetup group  follow us on Facebook, or subscribe to our mailing list. You can also watch the video of our webcast on YouTube.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theclutterfairy)

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Take a step behind the scenes of R+Co and R+Co BLEU in this conversation with R+Co Executive Director of Packaging Richard Chalmers. From sourcing environmentally sustainable materials, and engaging the senses (wait until you hear about the audible click!), to designing bottles that inspire a customer to want to pick it up and their ability to get out every last drop of product, we cover everything from fit to form to function.

If you love modern architecture, you are going to enjoy this conversation. The coronavirus is all we talk about these days because that is all we can think about. I have been trying to be as productive as possible, but it’s challenging and the news always seems to continually get worse. That being said, there have been some positives that have come out of this. The time spent focused on work without that daily commute. That 2 hour daily waste of time has been amazing. I am so much more productive. Then you factor in the time spent with family, that time is invaluable. That is one of the reasons why I think you are going to enjoy this conversation with David Thompson of Assembledge+, a Southern California architectural firm producing some amazing work. David is a unique talent and he has been joined by his father, Richard, a highly accomplished architect in his own right. This son-father duo is producing some truly unique design and you are going to hear how it all fits together. Thermasol presents A Moment of Zen, Wellness Tips for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul This is a new segment of the show called Wellness Tips for a Healthy Mind, Body, and Soul. This topic has been coming up more and more lately and while this is certainly not a new topic, more clients have been asking for health and wellness worked into their designs. I started asking around and there are some really interesting ideas taking shape. I make a trip to Las Vegas in January, sometimes February during KBIS, the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show. About four or five years ago I noticed an increase in the number of vendors with products designed to make the bathroom more spa-like. It was an ‘ah-ha’ moment for me and I started asking designers and architects more about this in the interviews that followed. Over the past few years, there have been way more products and companies featuring products focused on health and wellness in design. These products are focused on clean water, air quality, noise reduction, and light purity in addition to the limitation of unwanted light. Once a month, we are going to explore these ideas and see how design and architecture are once again not only making places to live, work, and play but make those spaces work better. Check out the Moment of Zen where we explore ideas for a more peaceful space. Wabi-Sabi - An outdoor shower can create a peaceful transition between a long day and the peace that comes from being home. An outdoor shower posted by Bloemendaal, the Netherlands based Woodlands House was placed in space without overthought design elements or ultra-lux materials yet its appearance is incredibly pleasing. It made me feel like I found a long lost treasure. Make it Natural - There are few things more peaceful than observing nature. @ConcreteGeometric posted a what they called “little octahedrons’ in small Concrete Geometric concrete planters from @stuffhollywood. These little miracles can bring peace a first sight. A little green makes for a lot of zen. Fortress of Solitude - Jhoiey Ramirez of @StudioJhoiey created a spectacular bath that created the feeling that you are at your favorite spa. Everything in this space provides the feeling of solitude from the steam shower and lighting to the exquisitely crafted tile work. There is a window inside the fully enclosed, frameless steam shower that gives a peaceful inside out feeling. You could be happy spending hours in this masterfully crafted bathroom. Three ideas for you to consider exploring in your future projects. Zen is a state of mind, designing for wellness is more important now than ever before. Thermasol is a brand created over 60 years ago to incorporate steam showers and sauna into any project you can design. They have also integrated cutting edge technology into their products allowing you to set individual profiles for every user. Set temperature, chromotherapy, aromatherapy, listen to music, or watch your favorite shows while taking a rel...

In this episode, Heidi Hartman, breeder and owner of Harbor Run Labradors talks to us about stud dog maintenance, nutrition, and important points when considering putting, and using a dog at stud.  In today's discussion we cover 3 main themes: So you want your dog to be a stud, So you've proven your dog for stud now what, and So you want to use my stud dog. We approach this topic with considerations to both popular and rare breeds alike. No two breeding programs are the same, and we respectfully breakdown considerations of fundamentals, in addition to different views when considering and using stud dogs. This discussion is based on breeder opinions only, we highly suggest you consult your veterinarian with any breeding advice.  8:40 – I have great dog, want to be used at stud one day 11:25 – Breed Standard 13:00 – Form & Function – field titles to prove ability 14:50 – Health Test Recommendations 23:00 - Other considerations for a prospective stud dog 29:35 – Check Fertility 30:20 – Freezing semen 35:00 – Brucellosis 38:00 – Keeping Stud Dog Health & Fertile 43:20 – Type of person it takes to own a stud dog 46:00 – Using stud that's being campaigned 47:15 – Brief on contracts 48:50 – Stud fee vs Service fee 54:00 – Breeder Intentions 1:00:00 – Breeding options 1:03:30 – Duties/Responsibilities of a stud dog owner 1:11:00 – I have a stud dog, but don't have interest in the work -------------------------------------------------- Connect with Heidi of Harbor Run Labradors Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thebirddogbabe Thank you to our Sponsors: Dakota283 Kennels use promo code: BirdDogBabe for 10% off through end of June Prois Hunting Apparel for Women: Use promo code: BirdDogBabe for 10% off through end of June Connect with Courtney Follow Bird Dog Babe: Instagram Facebook YouTube  

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We visit the Mingeikan – the Japan Folk Crafts Museum – to speak to its director-designer Naoto Fukasawa, who has used Japan’s Mingei crafts movement to inform his globally renowned products. Plus: we look at design’s future and the role of artificial intelligence with Daisuke Ishii, Sony’s chief art director, discussing the brand’s ‘Affinity in Autonomy’ installation.

I often get requests to talk about ingredient substitutions when it comes to cooking and baking. On one hand, that's a pretty easy ask, what with list upon list of ingredient substitutions on the internet. On the other hand, how can a home cook think about substituting or omitting ingredients, or changing recipes, from a more general perspective? For complete show notes on this episode, visit http://kitchencounterpodcast.com/144 Connect with the show at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kitchencounterpodcast Twitter: @TKCpodcast Email: feedback@kitchencounterpodcast.com Leave a rating and review at: http://kitchencounterpodcast.com/itunes Available on Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music

We recently calculated how many pattern collections we've published and were SHOCKED to discover that we've done over 130 books since we started this program. Each collection has come together after months of planning, designing, and knitting. Every time we get a new sample in the office or do a new call for submissions, we get excited about all the possibilities! To celebrate our new Gansey collection: Form and Function, Stacey and Hannah sit down together in the studio to really dig in to these new patterns and share the details that make each one unique. We've never done a Gansey focused collection and share some of the challenges and considerations that went in to the selection process. Alexis and Hillary also sit down to chat about our OTHER new news! We've been busy adding new colors to your favorite yarn lines, making new bulky needle sets and (drumroll please!) we're introducing a whole new faux fur yarn! As always, happy listening and happy crafting!

We're doing another edition of There's No Plane Like Home, where we take a look at one of the many planes of the Magic multiverse and try to figure out if we'd actually mind living there. This time we're focusing on the home of both Chandra Nalaar and the Inventors' Fair. So fire up the aether harvester, hop in your filigreed race car, and decorate some giants - we're going to Kaladesh! Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch! Become a Lifeguard on Patreon! – www.patreon.com/themanapool Support TMP on Humble Bundle! – www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=themanapool&charity=110198 This episode's post: themanapool.com/podcast/episode-565 The archive: themanapool.com/category/podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/TheManaPool Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themanapool Twitter: @TheManaPool Discord: discord.gg/7da7T6s Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Email: dorks@themanapool.com Subscribe to our RSS feed: feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool Intro & Outro Music: Diamond by Swift – myspace.com/swiftband Brought to you by Mana Pool Productions

We’re drinking Ethiopia Limu from Form & Function Coffee, located in Boise, Idaho, this week as we tackle the modern history of coffee and how it can help us distinguish between, and better choose, our coffee shops. This week, I’m keeping things simple and brewing it in a standard drip coffee pot. No ‘fancy’ hand pour or press needed! That said, it’s still important to get a couple things right. First, I used a medium grind setting to freshly grind my beans just before brewing. I also followed the golden cup ratio for standard coffee brew, which is 1:18 or one gram of coffee for every 18 ml of water. I brewed 6 cups or roughly 1420ml of water, and so ground 79 grams of coffee to brew. Last week we talked about what defines specialty coffee. This week, we tackle how to find specialty grade coffee, so you know you’re enjoying the best coffee possible, whether at home or at the cafe. The trick? Understanding a little bit of coffee history. Sources: Ultimate Guide to Buying Specialty Coffee Beans What Is “Third Wave Coffee”, & How Is It Different to Specialty? The History of First, Second, and Third Wave Coffee --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beandiscovery/message

You walk into a bathroom, and after washing your hands there is a choice between the hot-air hand dryer, or glorious paper towels. Which do you choose? Our answer to this question and a look at the evolution of hand dryers on the first episode of Form + Function! Show Links: Hand Dryer - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_dryer) Blowhard: A History of Hand Dryers (https://medium.com/s/ordinary-objects/blowhard-a-history-of-hand-dryers-7fbee9f489) How One Company Reinvented The Hand Dryer (https://www.npr.org/2013/02/04/171090394/how-one-company-reinvented-the-hand-dryer) Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom (https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/) Social Links: Form + Function Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/formandfunctionfm/) Form + Function Twitter (https://twitter.com/formfunctionfm) Ben on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thelateknight/) Stephen on Instagram (https://instagram.com/stephenrobles) Ben on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lopezb91) Stephen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/stephenrobles)

Welcome to Form + Function with your hosts Ben Lopez and Stephen Robles. Each week we pick an everyday object or technology, like “toothbrushes”, and learn who invented it, how it’s evolved over time, and where we hope it will be improved in the future! Tune in every Thursday for a new episode. Visit the Form and Function Website (https://formandfunction.fm)

New episode of the podcast is live! This time I talk with my buddy Mike over at Form Function Wood about cars, life, and dangerous machinery.

Brian and Lisa reflect on their thought provoking running technique coaching session with 55+ 10,000m world record holder Keith Bateman. They discuss key takeaways from the session and what they plan to implement. Meanwhile, Brian learns about the impact of his inflexible feet on his running technique in a fascinating conversation with foot whispering sports podiatrist Thomas Do Canto. Resources and references discussed in this episode: Older yet faster, by Keith Bateman and Heidi Jones Connect with Brian and Lisa: Blog: http://runningtechniquetips.com Brian's Running Technique Book Brian's Running Form Drills eBook and free online resources. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningtechniquetips/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RunningTechniqueTips/ Twitter: @BrianRunCoach YouTube: http://youtube.com/runningtechniquetv

Stephen Heuer, BS Nutripath, has paid his dues for telling the truth about our food supply, as Big Pharma, BigFarma and Big Govt’s attempt to have control over our food supply and our health. He is an avid reader and distributor of unbiased TRUTHs about what is really needed for optimal Form & Function. Always something new with Stephen.  This will be a call-in show dedicated to our audience.  Bring your question’s & be a part of the show. 

Stephen Heuer, BS Nutripath, has paid his dues for telling the truth about our food supply, as Big Pharma, BigFarma and Big Govt’s attempt to have control over our food supply and our health. He is an avid reader and distributor of unbiased TRUTHs about what is really needed for optimal Form & Function. Always something new with Stephen.  This will be a call-in show dedicated to our audience.  Bring your question’s & be a part of the show. 

This week on the inaugural episode of the Worship Together Podcast, Jimi sits down with one of the most influential voices in worship music, Kim Walker-Smith. Kim gives listeners a glimpse of her journey with God over the past few years and describes what it’s like to balance her ministry with her personal life.    Also, Jimi and Gutie discuss Easter Sunday, church Spinal Tap moments and what we're singing this week.    Connect with Worship Together: Twitter: https://twitter.com/worshiptogether Facebook: facebook.com/worshiptogether  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worshiptogether/?hl=en   Hosted by: Jimi Williams David Gutekunst   Production and Editing by Form & Function –– formandfunctionmedia.com    Worship Together is the number one resource for Worship Leaders. Find free resources and videos at worshiptogether.com   

Dr. Enquist's lab investigates how functional constraints at the level of the individual (anatomical and physiological) influence larger scale ecological and evolutionary patterns. He is broadly trained plant ecologist. His lab uses both theoretical, computational, biophysical and physiological approaches to address integrative questions related to (1) the evolution of form and functional diversity; (2) the origin of allometric relationships (how characteristics of organisms change with their size) and the scaling of biological processes - 'from cells to ecosystems'; (3) the evolution of life-history and allocation strategies; and (4) community ecology and macroecology. His research also includes the monitoring of long-term dynamics of growth and change within a tropical forest in the Area de Conservation, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Presented March 30, 2012.

Some years ago the curator of East Asian art at one of America’s premier art museums said of his initial attempts to organize the vast miscellany of uncatalogued objects in the museum’s storerooms that had been collected in East Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: “Anything that didn’t look Chinese or Japanese, we assumed was Korean.” A few years later, in a published statement that manages simultaneously to be both similar and quite different in nature, one of Korea’s most eminent art historians averred that Korean art is “simple and natural, unaffected with a quiet sense of humor, unselfconscious—Korean art waits for you." Happily, in more recent years the study of Korean art has largely advanced beyond such superficialities, but there is still a value in asking in what sense—or senses—is a work of art produced in Korea ‘Korean’? In this talk, this question will approached through the analysis of a limited number of major examples of art created on the peninsula between the seventh and eighteenth centuries.

Some years ago the curator of East Asian art at one of America’s premier art museums said of his initial attempts to organize the vast miscellany of uncatalogued objects in the museum’s storerooms that had been collected in East Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: “Anything that didn’t look Chinese or Japanese, we assumed was Korean.” A few years later, in a published statement that manages simultaneously to be both similar and quite different in nature, one of Korea’s most eminent art historians averred that Korean art is “simple and natural, unaffected with a quiet sense of humor, unselfconscious—Korean art waits for you." Happily, in more recent years the study of Korean art has largely advanced beyond such superficialities, but there is still a value in asking in what sense—or senses—is a work of art produced in Korea ‘Korean’? In this talk, this question will approached through the analysis of a limited number of major examples of art created on the peninsula between the seventh and eighteenth centuries.