Podcasts about Glantz

En el contexto de la Conquista de México, una esclava y una princesa indígenas deben luchar por sobrevivir mientras se derrumba el mundo que conocen. Su únicas armas son su inteligencia y su capacidad de adaptación. Bibliografía: Castañeda de la Paz, María. Los Hijos de Moctezuma. Conferencia del libro Conflictos y Alianzas Castañeda de la Paz, María y Margarita Menegus Borneman. Isabel Moctezuma, familia y encomienda. Serie 1521, un atado de vidas. 2021. UNAM. México. Glantz, Margo. Malinche. Conferencia CEHM.Fundación Carlos Slim. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-lk5-vd8o Vindictas Históricas. Isabel Moctezuma, la última princesa mexica. Serie Vindictas Históricas. Capítulo 2 2021. México 500. TV UNAM. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shNu_GqirY4 Vindictas Históricas. Malintzin, nunca más Malinche. Serie Vindictas Históricas 2021. México 500. TV UNAM. Youyube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GQ8ShPykc

In this episode of In Search of More, Eli Nash sits down with Nikki Glantz, co-founder of Milestones in Recovery, to discuss the complexities of food addiction and its ties to emotional and chemical dependencies. Nikki shares insights on how food often serves as a coping tool, the isolating nature of eating disorders, and the importance of identifying signs of addiction. She highlights a personalized, empathetic approach to recovery, addressing underlying emotions, and balancing food intake to support individuals on their unique recovery paths. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Nikki Website | https://www.milestonesprogram.org/our-staff/nikki-glantz/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-glantz-ba9b901b6 Milestones in Recovery | https://www.milestonesprogram.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Eli Website | https://bit.ly/eliyahunash Instagram | https://bit.ly/eliyahu_nash Facebook | http://bit.ly/3h3rFSr YouTube | https://youtube.com/@insearchofmore ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the In Search of More Podcast: www.youtube.com/@InSearchOfMore?sub_confirmation=1 For booking inquiries, email: booking@insearchofmorepodcast.com Join Our WhatsApp: https://wa.me/message/PBH5QDJQNQ5LJ1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on social media Facebook | http://bit.ly/3jr9eYT Instagram | http://bit.ly/3JsvU5I TikTok | http://bit.ly/3XZ60Lo Twitter | http://bit.ly/3XNgxsR --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-search-of-more/support

W filmie omawiamy kluczowe przyczyny klęski niemieckiej armii w bitwie na Łuku Kurskim, jednej z największych bitew pancernych II wojny światowej. Analizujemy błędy strategiczne, przewagę taktyczną Armii Czerwonej. Dowiedz się, jak czynniki techniczne i logistyczne wpłynęły na wynik tej decydującej bitwy i ostatecznie zmieniły bieg wojny na froncie wschodnim. #historia #podcasthistoryczny

En el contexto de la Conquista de México, una esclava y una princesa indígenas deben luchar por sobrevivir mientras se derrumba el mundo que conocen. Su únicas armas son su inteligencia y su capacidad de adaptación. Bibliografía: Castañeda de la Paz, María. Los Hijos de Moctezuma. Conferencia del libro Conflictos y Alianzas Castañeda de la Paz, María y Margarita Menegus Borneman. Isabel Moctezuma, familia y encomienda. Serie 1521, un atado de vidas. 2021. UNAM. México. Glantz, Margo. Malinche. Conferencia CEHM.Fundación Carlos Slim. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-lk5-vd8o Vindictas Históricas. Isabel Moctezuma, la última princesa mexica. Serie Vindictas Históricas. Capítulo 2 2021. México 500. TV UNAM. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shNu_GqirY4 Vindictas Históricas. Malintzin, nunca más Malinche. Serie Vindictas Históricas 2021. México 500. TV UNAM. Youyube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GQ8ShPykc

Can a simple photo of your meal help feed those in need and boost your restaurant's bottom line? In this episode of the Local Marketing Lab, Andrew Glantz, founder and CEO of GiftAMeal, reveals how restaurants can achieve growth with social responsibility. Andrew shares innovative strategies that not only give back to the community but also drive customer loyalty and increase revenue.Here are some topics discussed in the episode around increasing restaurant growth with social responsibility:How to implement a giving-back program in restaurantsImpact of social responsibility on customer behavior and loyaltyIntegrating social impact initiatives with existing marketing effortsCommunicate your brand's social impact to customersAuthenticity in corporate social responsibility effortsResourcesConnect with Andrew Glantz on LinkedIn.Learn more about GiftAMeal.Other shout-outsBrands working with GiftAMeal: Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken, Pizza Factory, Gong Cha bubble tea, Groucho's Deli, HopCat, Sal's Pizza, Starbird Chicken, Fuzzy's, Taco Shop, Jimmy John's, TGI Fridays, Andy's Frozen Custard, and Scooters CoffeeIntegrations with GiftAMeal: Olo, Thanx, Lunchbox, Ovation, and Tattle

W tym filmie przyglądamy się jednej z kluczowych operacji II wojny światowej – Operacji Cytadela, znanej również jako bitwa na Łuku Kurskim, z perspektywy niemieckich dowódców. Analizujemy plany strategiczne Wehrmachtu, decyzje dowódców takich jak Erich von Manstein i Heinz Guderian, oraz kluczowe założenia niemieckiej ofensywy pancernej. Dowiecie się, jakie były cele operacyjne, jak Niemcy planowali pokonać Armię Czerwoną, i co poszło nie tak, że ofensywa zakończyła się klęską. Oglądajcie, by poznać kulisy jednej z największych bitew pancernych w historii i dowiedzieć się, dlaczego bitwa na Łuku Kurskim stała się przełomem na froncie wschodnim. #historia #podcasthistoryczny

W tym filmie przyglądamy się niemieckiej perspektywie jednej z najbardziej brutalnych i wyniszczających kampanii II wojny światowej – bitwie o Leningrad. Dowiesz się, jak niemieckie źródła wojskowe i historyczne relacjonowały oblężenie, które trwało 872 dni i kosztowało życie setek tysięcy ludzi. Jakie były plany dowódców Wehrmachtu? Jak postrzegano radziecki opór i warunki panujące w oblężonym mieście? Poznaj wydarzenia z punktu widzenia strony, która miała nadzieję na szybkie zwycięstwo, a napotkała jedną z największych tragedii w historii. #historia #podcasthistoryczny

Algunos de los textos de Síndrome de naufragios de la mexicana Margo Glantz. En el audio escuchan cómo llegue a Margo Glantz. var playerInstance = jwplayer("myElement"); playerInstance.setup({ file: "https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/lecdet/lec_301-400/306+S%C3%ADndrome+de+naufragios+-+Margo+Glantz.mp3 ", width: 400, height: 24 });

I have yet to come across an independent restaurant owner that didn't open their restaurant to better serve their community. But things get tricky when we try to get granular. We all aspire to serve our communities but with tight margins and low profits, most of us struggle to fulfill our lofty goals around community impact. Enter Andrew Glantz of GiftAMeal. Andrew has built an ecosystem that helps restaurants earn more and market better while providing over 2 million meals to local food banks. Today we sit down to discuss how cause-marketing impacts local restaurants and the communities they serve. For more information on GiftAMeal, visit https://www.giftameal.com/. ____________________________________________________ Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time. We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other content: Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts Restaurant expert videos & webinars

Alma Espinosa, Germán Martínez y Liliana Calatayud nos comparten una nueva emisión de Oye, lee y dile, el espacio radiofónico de la Editorial UV. Hoy disfrutaremos de una charla con la escritora mexicana Margo Glantz, quien nos habla sobre la reedición de su libro: Doscientas ballenas azules y cuatro caballos.

When trauma or tragedy strikes, how do you find the support you need? Who can you trust to be a wise guide on your path towards healing? In this special episode, Davey and Aubrey are joined by Nothing is Wasted coaches Ken Roberts, Teresa Glantz, Jen Ball and Karissa Sprinkle to discuss why having people to walk alongside us in our pain is so important. Each one of them have found themselves in the darkest valleys and found a way towards healing with the help of others. Now, they help walk others through their pain as coaches with Nothing is Wasted. Together, they discuss why we need wise guides in our healing journey, how coaching can be a valuable tool God uses, and how you can find someone to walk beside you right now through Nothing is Wasted. If you've ever felt alone or if you've wanted to isolate in your pain, this conversation will encourage you to find those who have been where you are and who can help you through the valley of your pain.   Nothing is Wasted Coaching: www.nothingiswasted.com/coaching Teresa Glantz: www.teresaglantz.com/ For Trauma Care Specialist Course: www.teresaglantz.com/training Karissa Sprinkle: www.karissasprinkle.com Do you need someone to walk with you one-on-one through your valley? Our certified coaches are ready to meet you where you are and help you find a way forward: www.nothingiswasted.com/coaching Do you want to be a part of helping launch Davey's new book, Nothing is Wasted, into the world? Join the Book Launch Team and be a part of sharing this incredible message of hope, forgiveness, and turning pain into purpose with those who need it most. www.nothingiswastedbook.com It's so hard to watch someone who is hurting after a recent loss or trauma has changed everything for them. The When Everything Changes: Navigating the Early Days of Loss, Trauma, and Tragedy mini-course will help those you love walk through the early days of grief and suffering and find hope on the other side: www.nothingiswasted.com/everythingchanges

Jak przebiegała ofensywa drugiej połowy 1944 r.? Posłuchajcie! #historia #podcasthistoryczny

Today I'm joined by Mitchell Glantz of Iowa. Mitchell has been chasing the Super 10 and hunts a variety of species...mostly with his trad bow. We hear about some amazing hunts and animals he's been able to take. It's a fun interview...if you enjoy it...pass it along to a friend who might as well!

Explore the world of entrepreneurship with Paul Glantz, CPA, MST, chairman, and co-founder of Emagine Entertainment, Inc. Join the conversation as Paul shares his remarkable journey into the entertainment space and the invaluable role his CPA background has played in navigating challenges and seizing opportunities.

Dive into the business world as Justin, the President of Sign Comp, shares his journey from hospitals to the sign industry. In this episode, he addresses labor shortages, reveals secrets to Sign Comp's post-COVID success, and unveils logistics, shipping innovations, and game-changing marketing tactics. Beyond business, Sign Comp emphasizes team spirit through incentives, internal growth, and a dynamic workplace culture. We'll also delve into the essentials of Sign Comp's user-friendly signage extrusion and their online presence revamp. Justin extends beyond traditional boardroom discussions, offering practical insights from coaching youth sports to unconventional industry perspectives. Tune in for a straightforward and captivating conversation that cuts to the core of business insights. Justin Murray is the President of Sign Comp, the world leader in providing innovative extruded aluminum framing solutions for the sign industry. Renowned for its innovative solutions and unwavering commitment to quality, Sign Comp, under Murray's visionary leadership, is transforming the signage landscape. With a proven track record, he continually pushes boundaries, propelling Sign Comp to new heights and solidifying its standing as an industry leader.

GiftAMeal is an app that allows diners to take a photo of their order from a partner restaurant. For each photo taken, GiftAMeal donates to a local food bank to provide a meal to a family in need. Each month, more than 40,000 meals are provided through more than 100 local food banks in 37 states via GiftAMeal. In the last year, GiftAMeal has grown from 200 to almost 1,000 partner restaurants. Andrew fell in love with the profits-with-a-purpose business model as a student at Washington University. While there, he owned and operated a non-profit storefront dedicated to reuse and sustainability. Later, while interning at a venture capital firm, he developed the idea for GiftAMeal on his lunch break. GiftAMeal works with individual restaurants and franchises or franchise groups of restaurants like Red Robin. Making GiftAMeal an easy plug-and-play concept for restaurants and larger chains is a goal in 2024. QUOTES “Making an impact is something that's always been important to me. I also love the creative autonomy that comes with entrepreneurship and trying to find those win-win scenarios and align incentives for different parties.” (Andrew) “We've seen that guests using GiftAMeal are returning 39% more frequently, they're spending 20% more per visit and they're tipping 32% more than a standard guest.” (Andrew) “We started off as a mobile app, but we've always paid attention to the different technologies that were being developed.” (Andrew) “Fuse Marketing and 5W PR studies found that 84% of Gen Z were more likely to purchase from a brand if (the brand) gives back and 71% of Millennials would pay more for a product if they knew that some of the proceeds were going to a good cause.” (Andrew) “Entrepreneurship is not an easy journey.” (Andrew) TRANSCRIPT 00:00.00 vigorbranding Hello everyone today's episode of flirk tales I am joined by someone who takes cause marketing and entrepreneurial spirit to a new level. His name is Andrew Glanz and he's the founder of gift a meal. Welcome Andrew and tell us a little bit about yourself and some of your backstory. 00:14.43 Andrew Glantz Yeah, of course. Um so I'm originally from Los Angeles and I came out to St Louis to go to wash you for college when I was a student there I owned and operated a nonprofit storefront to promote reuse and sustainability and volunteered for various causes and. Ah, then when I had a summer internship at a venture capital firm and got exposed to the startup world I fell in love with the scalability of it and found out about the idea of a profits with a purpose business model that you could do well while doing good and came up with the idea for gift and meal when I was on a lunch break break and kind of ran with it and put my savings into it. Graduated in May Twenty seventeen and started out in St Louis and now started to really scale it up and grow it into what it is today. 01:01.68 vigorbranding That's very cool now like you know I'm I'm somewhat of an entrepreneur I started my own business when I was 27 and grew several companies and I love it. I mean I Just think it's ah a great way to be and and I love the energy of it. So How did you become this entrepreneur. How did you all? sorry. Family of entrepreneurs I mean just had ideas tell me about you like what would would motivate. You. 01:21.14 Andrew Glantz Yeah I mean I think that making an impact has always been something that's important to me and then I also just like the creative autonomy that comes with entrepreneurship and trying to find those win-win scenarios and align incentives for different parties and so with gifted meal I was trying to look at how we could. Create a win for the restaurants in terms of marketing win for them and and an easy way to add a community engagement program for them and then for food banks in terms of their fundraising and not taking a lot of effort for them to connect and be able to raise more funding and for diners to be able to discover and support socially conscious restaurants and. So I kind of combined all those together along with Tom shoes warby parker buy 1 give 1 model and applied it to the restaurant industry where guests can just take a photo of their food or drink at a restaurant that's a partner and then we make a donation to a local food bank to give a meal to someone in need in their community so tried to make it. Easy and align all those stakeholders. 02:19.11 vigorbranding It's fantastic I Mean it's a great Obviously it's a great cause it's ah it's a great concept and it's ah it's really, ah, a very smart model I mean I'm I'm really intrigued I Want to learn more about this. Um, so the gift of meal. How how does it work like you know you know you talked about it started. You had the idea you went to school. Um, you want to do good all good things. But how does how does it work like I mean I'll say this from the entrepreneurial side I mean we all got to make a living I mean you know you have nice clothes on I'm sure everyone's got to make a living. How does the model work like teach me teach me how it works. 02:40.96 Andrew Glantz Um, yeah. 02:47.85 Andrew Glantz Absolutely so the program is funded by the restaurant and free for the guest who's dining at the restaurant and so the restaurant's paying a flat monthly program fee to be involved so for a single unit mom and pop. It's $59 a month then each time a guest dines at the restaurant whether it's. Dine in take out her delivery. They can scan a Qr code off of signage from the restaurant which launches gift to meal on their phone. They then take a photo of their food or drink and when they do that we make a monetary donation from that program fee that the restaurant pays to a local food bank to cover its cost of providing a meal to someone to need in their community. And then the guest is invited to share that photo on their personal Facebook Instagram or Twitter x and we give an extra meal for each platform they share on since then they're promoting the restaurant to their friends in a positive way. Um in terms of the donation component. The donations are all local so we match. Each restaurant location to a food bank that services the county that they're in and each of these different food banks gets food donated to them by supermarkets food distributors community food drives and in storeing these big distribution facilities and then where gifted meal comes in is donating money to help fund the distribution costs. Getting that food from these big facilities to the hundreds of neighborhood pantries where those in need could actually access the food. So typically the food banks have listed on their website for every dollar donated they could provide 4 meals to those in need or 5 meals or three meals. So approximately it costs about twenty five cents to distribute a meal's worth of food in bulk. 04:19.56 Andrew Glantz Um, and so that's the amount that we're actually donating per photo taken. 04:23.27 vigorbranding That's awesome. So then you're helping facilitate Basically the outsourcing of the food or the the backend or back office. It's not really a food thing but I mean you're you're funding the the distribution the distribution model. So that's wonderful and then I mean so you know the the the. 04:33.92 Andrew Glantz Um, yeah. 04:40.34 vigorbranding Restaurant themselves in they get to tout the fact that they're doing this. They can feel good about themselves obviously but from a marketing perspective. They really get to sort of like ah say hey look. We're really supporting our community here. How are they? how are they taking advantage of that. 04:44.63 Andrew Glantz Um. 04:48.94 Andrew Glantz Yeah, yeah, Absolutely I mean the restaurant could be posting about it on their social media channels about how many meals they're providing and everything but more than that one step further with gift to meal. It's an interactive level of social responsibility. Where the guest feels good about themselves because they're putting in some amount of effort to take the photo but they feel that sense of gratitude towards the restaurant because the restaurant's the one that's ultimately paying for it and so it really creates that sense of emotional connection between the guest and the restaurant. 05:14.14 vigorbranding Um. 05:18.83 Andrew Glantz And makes them feel good about choosing that restaurant in addition to encouraging them to promote the restaurant to friends on social media and so we've seen that the guests using gift a meal on average are returning 39 % more frequently. They're spending 20% more per visit and they're tipping 32% more than a standard guest. Because of that sense of emotional connection. They have raises and satisfaction rates. You know the restaurant's getting Goodwill with these customers and they're also getting more word of mouth recommendations as a result on their social media to their friends and everything so it is something that's really cool to be able to see a true marketing return without having to. Ah, discount or offer Coupons or anything that slashes the margins for the restaurant. 05:58.88 vigorbranding Yeah, it's it's brilliant I mean because I mean let's face it. We are a marketing firm we market and and help market restaurants and you know a lot of times. It's all the different deals and the the value meals and all these kinds of things that you got to try and entice customers and you you brought forth a really smart ah program. 06:13.95 Andrew Glantz Next. 06:15.31 vigorbranding And it's It's pretty remarkable and and I love the fact that you know your numbers I mean you can you're you're able to tell talk about the the growth and sales the tipping which is really important to the servers and we got take care of the servers I think it's really an interesting ah model Really really, really cool so you should be yeah, be very proud of what you built. 06:22.60 Andrew Glantz Enough. 06:32.14 vigorbranding So like Okay, so how do you? How do you sell Now you know again be an entrepreneur come up with ideas. Great idea. Brilliant idea. Got the numbers. How do you sell like how do you go out and market it and what's your best way and what's it like are you knocking on doors are you making phone calls. Are you going to shows I mean how do you get this this program to. 06:49.74 Andrew Glantz Yeah, it's a great question I mean originally I when I didn't have a car when I was in college I was going up and down the street in the snow between 2 and four thirty p m to mom and pop restaurants to try to talk to the owners and to have them join and. 06:50.34 vigorbranding To the right people. 07:05.62 Andrew Glantz Ah, pitched them on the program and then from there we were able to sign up some restaurant groups and then we had some franchisees join and then we had a 30 location regional chain sign up for gift to meal and then we started to expand from there now we're in 37 states across um, almost a thousand restaurants and. Um, at one point seven million meals provided to those in need and so it was kind of continually de-risking ourselves with different types of restaurants and larger restaurant groups. Um, so now we work with multiple brands that you know have over 100 locations system-wide so we work with all 100. 07:38.76 vigorbranding So. 07:42.32 Andrew Glantz 30 locations of Lee's famous recipe chicken all 110 pizza factory locations we work with 162 gong chaw locations and we also work with franchisees of brands like Jimmy John's and chick-fil-a and um and lots of others and fuzzy talker shop and so red Robin Tgi fridays and so it's something that's been really exciting to connect with all these different types of brands in terms of where I meet them. You know sometimes they reach out to us on our website after you know, seeing us in the news. Sometimes it's introductions from our current restaurants other times it's going to conferences and. Ah, Mike you've said other times it's just kind of cold reaching out to them with a Linkedin email or phone call and just trying to start up a genuine conversation from a cold interaction and finding those brands that could be a likeminded fit. 08:31.70 vigorbranding You know I love it and I love the ah the started in the college and no car. You know I have a friend one of my very best friends. Extremely successful guy. He he went to college with his brother. Ah, he ended up going for pizza the first night. Ah. Didn't know what else to do second nigh second they were hungry. Let's go for pizza. Third night they were hungry. They went for pizza so 3 nights and early get a pizza shop. They said the pizza guy hey look if we pass out Coupons for your pizza shop. Do you think? maybe you give us like a discount on pizza guys like sure. Yeah pass them out to all the college or that created a thing called the coupon clipper. Coupon clipper is a hugely successful magazine across the country I think there's something like maybe I get this number wrong. But I'm going to suggest 125 magazines coupon clipper magazines at 1 point in time around the United States it's ah a huge company ended up being sold to kinet. 09:16.76 Andrew Glantz Man. 09:23.13 vigorbranding Ah, anyway, just like you did like just a so a simple like I'm going to go out I'm going to knock on a door I'm going to find something out I'm going to go to the next one knock on the door So congratulations I Just I'm always in awe of entrepreneurship and just the people in the and the fortitude that that bring these things and these ideas forth. It's awesome. 09:37.76 Andrew Glantz Thank you. 09:39.75 vigorbranding Um, if you ah if you can say I mean who's your who's your biggest client and have you are you trying to talk to some of the you know so the franchisees The actual franchise are you having any a look there. 09:48.99 Andrew Glantz Yes, it's a little bit of a mix I mean we can work with all different types of organizations whether it's something system-wide like we could work with a brand across a thousand locations. We could work with a brand if they're an 100 location brand or a thirty location brand. Ah, for us. We're really flexible to however the organization does budgeting. So for example for gong cha with their 162 locations. Lee's chicken 130 and pizza factories one 10 um, those are all paid for by corporate out of their marketing and advertising funds and they pay for all the franchisees to be on gift a meal. 10:18.37 vigorbranding Ah. 10:24.18 Andrew Glantz Um, but then we also work with the franchisees directly um like a red Robin Franch franchisee Lehih Valley Restaurant group in Pennsylvania has 20 red robins and so we just just work with them directly and they pay for gift and meal. But we don't have any interaction with corporate on that side. So you know I'd love to have red Robin as a brand across all locations. 10:29.64 vigorbranding He. 10:40.51 vigorbranding Sure. 10:44.17 Andrew Glantz Um, that's one of those things where you know we can hopefully prove out the value to the franchisees get introductions from one franchisee to another get introductions to corporate and continue to go that way so we go both a bottom-up approach and a top-down approach and in terms of the size of the brands like you know there's. Brands that we're having conversations with that have thousands of locations and it's something that's really exciting there and we've gotten feedback from them and built new product offerings where we've created and essentially a white labelbeled version of gift ameal that's custom branded to their brand colors and everything. 11:02.90 vigorbranding Awesome. 11:13.30 vigorbranding Hey. 11:18.16 Andrew Glantz Could be integrated into their own mobile applications. Their online ordering solutions to have it really feel like a native solution for them. Um, and so that's something that we're really can be focused on in 2024 Um, is you know how can we work with these larger players and have get to meal be in really easy plug and play. Social Responsibility Community engagement tool for them. 11:36.55 vigorbranding Yeah I Love that idea I think that's brilliant. The the white labeling and letting them sort of for lack about a word get credit for this concept right? I mean because you know it is it really is your your success is is all dependent upon their their success and and and their brand and that's why they're doing it. So. 11:44.42 Andrew Glantz Yeah, yeah. 11:55.92 vigorbranding I Think that's fantastic I Think it's super super smart. How I mean what is the Ah how how likely are people to download the app I mean what are your I mean everybody's got turbulence. Everyone hits like speed bumps like you always have things, especially it's not entrepreneur. There's things you have to overcome. 11:56.30 Andrew Glantz Um. 12:07.11 Andrew Glantz Yes. 12:12.77 vigorbranding I mean the first thing might have been the first restaurant to stop to jump on. Okay, great. So but you have a great story. Ah you you bring forth. Ah, the time when you had your first restaurant you you didn't have any traction so you couldn't say we're going to increase your tips we're going to increase your sales you were going to increase your visits but you had a great idea so someone took a chance on you and your concept which is great. 12:23.40 Andrew Glantz Yeah. 12:31.68 vigorbranding But as we grow as you grow What? what are? what are some of the stumbling the roadblocks and I was wondering I guess is is getting people to download the app or or things like that does that become any kind of a friction point. 12:42.90 Andrew Glantz Yeah, absolutely. Um and so we we started off as a mobile app but we always paid attention to the different technologies that were being developed so Apple released and a concept called an app clip and Android released something similar called an instant app where you could just scan a Qr code and launch. The app on your phone without having to download an app onto your device and so it's a really clean and quick full-screen experience. So it's kind of like a light version of an app. Um, and that's kind of what we've adopted with most of these partner restaurants nowadays that we've developed over the last year is this app clip version of gift a meal. Don't actually have to download the full app onto your phone in order to participate and take your photo. It just gives that quick experience skim the qr code take a photo to give a meal and then you're done and there's no account creation or download required. Um, if you want to download the full mobile app you can and you can see the list of all the partner restaurants on there. You can see the photos that other customers have taken and you can have a profile you can see friends photos and all of that. Um, but we realized that there were kind of those 2 different types of consumers. The consumers that wanted that full experience and consumers that just wanted something really really quick and easy. And so that's why we created both avenues so people can kind of choose how much they want to engage. 13:53.71 vigorbranding Yeah I Love it. That's great. That's great. Do you ah different. Obviously you mentioned some of your your customers. Um, do do any fine dining restaurants as anybody like that got involved and I guess you know you're looking for scale so you're probably looking for larger groups. But I mean like if it was ah you know? ah. Ah Pf Chang or or any it's something more than a a simple qsr and anything anything like that has anybody like that jumped on. 14:18.71 Andrew Glantz Yeah, and I mean we have plenty of casual dining and fine dining restaurants and lots of you know we're about half mom and pops and restaurant groups compared to chains and um, you know we've seen that they've done well on gift to meal too. It's just figuring about. 14:26.83 vigorbranding Um, sure. 14:31.99 Andrew Glantz How to promote the program in a way that fits into the restaurant's customer experience seamlessly. So for instance at a qsr like fast casual brand. They might be able to have a table tent up on the table or a window cling in the drive-through window. 14:36.34 vigorbranding Here. 14:49.67 Andrew Glantz Ah, so that customers know how to participate in gift a meal and they can scan the Qr code at a fine dining restaurant. You're not going to put a table tent on a white tablecloth and so it's figuring out. Okay are you going to have something on the menu so customers know how they can participate. Is it going to be something in like a check presenter. Is it going to be a little menu insert. 14:58.74 vigorbranding A. 15:07.83 Andrew Glantz And so we've had fine dining restaurants be successful, but um, you know there've been in terms of our kind of core restaurant grouping it more falls in the line of qsr fast casual casual dining. Um at the elevated casual dining. Um and not as much like super. $4 sign fine dining restaurants. 15:29.50 vigorbranding That's great. So like um obviously ah businesses have um times where they're They're busy like sales times and gift and meal. It lends right into the holidays gift right? And so I would think this is a great time and probably arguably. 15:39.29 Andrew Glantz Yeah. 15:43.92 vigorbranding Maybe the middle of the summer would have been the time you're out there really pushing this but during the holidays this gift meal seems like it could be a great time for you to really kind of like catch fire and and and again I know that ah the last thing the food banks probably needed on Thanksgiving or the day before is a turkey right? They're probably pretty well covered. Unfortunately and and it's an important thing to to be honest, all year round for sure I mean this is something the the food banks need food probably more so ah other times a year than than during the the heart of the holidays I guess I'm just wondering. Ah, do you find this to be a good time to talk to people because again the gifting a meal and and feel people sort of feel maybe a little more. Ah, apt to be generous this time of year so selling through and maybe even seeing. Do you see more participation with the the customers in the restaurants at this time of year. 16:29.73 Andrew Glantz Yeah, it's good question so I'll kind of walk through those 3 different groups. The food banks the diners at the restaurants and the restaurants themselves for the food banks I mean they do have a big need in the holiday season and just in the winter season in general when it's cooled outside. They have a spike in the need for services. In the summer months that is particularly challenging for kids that are facing food insecurity because they don't have access to the school lunches and um, you know so filling that meal gap for the kids is something really important for the food banks but you know they really just need more support all year round for the food. Banks. 16:54.55 vigorbranding Um. 17:06.25 Andrew Glantz On the ah you know diner side of things that people dining out at restaurants. You know we see that in the season of giving in the holidays people are really apt to use a program like gift a meal and kind of lean into it and something that makes them feel good about themselves and that they're really actively looking for and so it stands out to them in a really positive way. Um. Again throughout the whole course of the year you know we've seen that people are looking to give back I mean there were a couple consumer culture reports. Um, that were done by fuse marketing and 5 wpr and it found that 84% of Gen Z would said that they would be more likely to purchase from a brand if they give back and. 17:42.70 vigorbranding A. 17:44.88 Andrew Glantz 71% of millennials said that they would pay more for a product if they knew that some of the proceeds were going to support a good cause and that's regardless of the timing of the year in terms of the restaurant side of things this time of year is tough to get the ear of restaurant owners and executives just because you know holiday season people are busy. 17:53.97 vigorbranding But. 18:01.11 vigorbranding Yeah. 18:03.24 Andrew Glantz Um, and so you know typically in terms of you know those types of conversations we get a lot of people saying this is great. Let's talk in January for the next year but then we also see people that say hey let's talk now because we're setting our budgets in November and December Four 24 18:18.29 Andrew Glantz Um, or you know we want to launch this on January First we have a number of restaurants that are already set to launch on January first and so that'll be something really exciting. So you know it's a little bit of a mix of everything sometimes restaurants are looking for things for the holiday season. Um, but once we're already kind of in it. Um, you know, just. People in general at any job get busy during the holidays and yeah. 18:38.75 vigorbranding Yeah, they got to make their way through right? So and you know I mean um, again I keep sound I'm impressed by the model I Love it and we you know in in in our company. We have several different agencies and one one is an agency that focuses on restaurants vigor and I will. I Going to be sure to talk to our clients about your your your product I think it's ah think it's a great I Think it's a great product I think it's ah I think makes ah you know you always look for win-win in a way I mean your's like a win-win win right? The food banks and the folks the food banks are helped the people going to the food banks are helped. The patrons are. 18:57.17 Andrew Glantz Thanks. 19:10.56 vigorbranding Feeling good about themselves and it's it's great marketing for the restaurant so you got like 4 wins there and that's ah, that's pretty unheard of so. 19:15.23 Andrew Glantz Yeah, and tad and another one something that's kind of cool from the marketing agency perspective um is that with gift tomeal. We give a restaurant access to a dashboard where they could access all of the user-generated content created from the program and they have the rights to use that content in their marketing and social media efforts. 19:28.88 vigorbranding Nice. 19:32.58 Andrew Glantz And so we've had our partner restaurants give their marketing agency access to the dashboard so they can create some really cool engaging. Authentic user-generated content pieces to push out in their marketing efforts. That's been something really cool to see and what the marketing agencies have kind of. 19:37.80 vigorbranding Love it. 19:48.97 Andrew Glantz Taken and run away with with gift a meal. 19:49.21 vigorbranding So if I if I did the math race. It's around seven hundred bucks a year per location is that is that simply how it breaks down at $59 a month or whatever something like that. Yeah. 19:58.41 Andrew Glantz Yeah, so that's the price for an independent restaurant to join for a single location if a restaurant has 5 plus locations we discount based off the number of locations. So if a place has over 30 locations then it's $39 a month per location if they pay monthly or 34 if they pay annually. 20:05.32 vigorbranding Um, okay. 20:14.22 vigorbranding Gotcha. 20:17.65 Andrew Glantz Um, and so you know discount rate for more locations they can go month to month with no commitment and cancel at the end of any month. Um or they can pay annually for a slightly discounted rate because it's you know it's more predictable cash flow for us and um for budgeting but um, but yeah, so you know it's a. 20:30.12 vigorbranding Sure. Absolutely. 20:36.71 Andrew Glantz Try to make it affordable and have a flat predictable rate for budgeting for the restaurants and we cover all the cost of the donations from there. So we have 6 of us on the team right now. So you know we're small and scrappy stay lean. 20:42.57 vigorbranding I Love it How many employees do you have nice, very cool. That's hey it's a way to be if you're an entrepreneur and you you want to make it. That's what you got to be? you know the last thing you need is is lots and lots of Pete mouths defeat. But. 20:53.00 Andrew Glantz Even. 20:57.82 vigorbranding Are you doing all the sales are you the guy hitting the the payment or you have a team now. 21:01.94 Andrew Glantz Um I have a team. Um, yeah Allison and Danny are also working on the sales as well and they're wonderful. Um, and you know like they've you know they've started to have some really great ones like I mean Lee's famous recipe chicken with 130 locations 21:13.58 vigorbranding Awesome! yeah. 21:16.52 Andrew Glantz That was Danny who brought that in in pizza factory with 110 locations that was Allison and then gong cha with 162 that was me and so you know the 3 biggest sales were all from 3 different people on the team and so to you know, really progress in the business to not just be founder led sales is something that. 21:26.34 vigorbranding That's awesome. 21:34.48 Andrew Glantz Has been really exciting because it shows me that you know we actually have something here. Um, that's beyond myself and um, you know it's something where I always want to be kind of involved in sales because I want to be having that customer interaction and be learning what customers need and how to further adapt our product and. 21:36.36 vigorbranding Is. 21:51.79 Andrew Glantz Ah, you know at the end of the day sales is what's going to be most important both to grow the business grow our revenue and then also to grow our level of social impact and give the most meals possible. Um, but you know where you can grow a lot faster with people like Danny and Allison on our team. 22:07.86 vigorbranding That's great and obviously too I mean scalability is huge right? So you can't be the guy all the time. So the more that others can can I'll say enjoy and feel good about the sales. Ah the better it is for your company. It raises right? You know high tide rises up all the boats. So that's ah, that's fantastic. So. 22:11.89 Andrew Glantz Yeah. 22:21.57 Andrew Glantz And. 22:23.30 vigorbranding Again as an entrepreneur like you know and have a lot of respect for what you're doing here. You're grown fast and you recently beat out 35000 applicants to win an Amazon small business grant. Can you talk about that talk about the program and and it so makes you be very proud of. 22:36.44 Andrew Glantz Yeah, yeah, I mean I thought it was throwing a dart at a very far away dartboard when I applied for it. I mean like you said 35000 applicants and um with a big name competition from Amazon Business it was something I thought we had no shot at. Ah, but you know I fill out the application because why not it took me 10 minutes to fill out the application talking about kind of our traction our growth over the last year we've doubled in size and kind of the vision for where we want to go and um I got the alert that we were 1 of 10 finalists and. Ah, you know that was something that was really exciting and started to think okay, maybe this is something that's possible and then Amazon business opened it up to everybody with an Amazon business account to be able to vote. Um it was blind voting so we had no idea how many votes we had um and as one but vote pre Amazon Business Accounts no one could really rig it. Um, and it. You know we ended up finding out that we won and we got a $25000 non-dillutive grant and that was something that was incredible and Amazon actually flew out here to St Louis and they had a team of like 11 people to film a video and take photos and all this stuff and that'll be coming out soon and. Ah, you know it was just something that was a really cool experience and to feel the support from the Amazon business team was incredible. Um, and you know the funding um to be able to support us goes a really long way and so yeah I mean it was something I was. 24:05.54 Andrew Glantz Pretty flabbergasted with and a positive way and very very grateful for to really push forward with our mission. 24:07.18 vigorbranding It's awesome. 24:13.76 vigorbranding That's great. So ah I mean so there's more people on the on the camera crew for Amazon than in your company. 24:17.39 Andrew Glantz Yes, it was. It was a wild experience like we filmed at the food bank that we work with in St Louis we filmed at one of our partner restaurants and it was it was quite the production. 24:28.70 vigorbranding That's great, very cool and so $25000 you probably just went out and what had 1 hell of a dinner right? So what you know I'm just kidding what it ah caviar jets champagne no. 24:35.40 Andrew Glantz Not not quiet I I think that that that goes kind of right in you Yeah not not quite more on sales marketing and products. Yeah. 24:44.21 vigorbranding Yeah, excellent, Okay, good true. Um entrepreneur I Love it I Love it I Love it. That's fantastic. What other what other advice. What advice do you have for other entrepreneurs who have a dream or have an idea is there anything you want to? ah you know, throw out there. 24:57.51 Andrew Glantz Yeah, that's a good question I mean for other entrepreneurs I Think the big thing is if you have an idea talk to people in the space, especially those are that are going to be your potential partners or customers to figure out the problems that they're facing and the pain points I think something with gift to meal. 25:11.61 vigorbranding In. 25:15.31 Andrew Glantz Um, but I figured out is that everybody is busy and figuring out how to make things as easy and plug and play as possible was what we found a lot of success with so making it no effort for staff. No mental energy for the restaurant to have another program to have to think about just be really simple and easy. Um and have every touch point. 25:21.71 vigorbranding Um. 25:34.77 Andrew Glantz Um, with the customer be something that's important is something that I figured out and then I think more than anything. It's just getting out there and doing it and seeing what the response is like and learning and being willing to fail and having a low ego so that you know you could admit when you're wrong and. 25:35.76 vigorbranding Yeah. 25:50.80 Andrew Glantz Continually iterate and learn and and like reimplement and just kind of go from there and I think that if you're also just kind of a kind person and put yourself out there that you know people will want to help you succeed People are generally good and. Um, don't be afraid to ask people for help in a reasonable way and um, then also you know always make sure to give that back to support everybody else along the way just as those have supported you. 26:18.46 vigorbranding That's great and you just like probably put together what you could put a book together on because I mean as far as being an entrepreneur I mean like some of the things you hit I just think are just absolutely ah poignant. Ah, you know don't be afraid to fail I mean you know I personally have started businesses I'll be honest I've started businesses that were better than the business. Better ideas than the businesses that were successful timing might have been wrong just didn't quite hit it right on the ah the scale the luck scale or whatever you want to call it and I mean I think you do make your own luck. But I mean sometimes it's a timing thing and but you can't be afraid right? You can't be afraid to fail. 1 thing I did years ago I talked to my I had 2 daughters and we were in a restaurant somewhere and we were just talking about like like just work and business and life and all stuff and I said to my girls I said look around see this restaurant and they're like looking around and so I said everybody in this restaurant everybody in this restaurant has an idea or had an idea for a business or a product. Everybody everybody said one day I'm going to start this or hey we should do this or I'm gonna do this or I have this idea and I'm gonna make and you know what hardly any of them probably executed on it and that's really it comes down to it's like to do it like you said just do it you you sat there. You you had your you were at that break you you know you looked at other other business models which is smart and you had this idea. 27:20.13 Andrew Glantz Right? so. 27:30.35 vigorbranding And you're like Wow, It's a good idea and you two choices right? You can just say oh that's a good idea and just like go do whatever else you finish your sandwich. Whatever you're doing lunch or you sort of take this further and start to build on it and execute and actually execute spend time that you're not getting paid for ah that you could be doing candidly something else. Ah and then doing it and applying yourself and it says. People don't realize it so there's nights that you were working on this thing or this time or this the dedicated time that you put into this ah that that no one sees they see this. They see you now they see the success and all that and you think that's what that's easy or that's what you do, but people don't realize all the. The nose that you probably heard along the way or that's not really a great idea or whatever you heard I'm not I'm sure you heard stuff but it's ah that's the hard part right? and then people know about that. They'll just see the success and they'll read the article. They'll see the hey liquid he built and it's it's ah it's tough. You know, but it's it's cool like there's nothing more Fulfilling. Um. 28:07.50 Andrew Glantz Yeah. 28:22.83 Andrew Glantz Yeah, absolutely and I mean now looking back people are like oh that's such a simple like great idea. But at the beginning you know it was something was like oh well, anybody actually do this thing and before we had the case studies with the restaurants this show that there was a boost in revenue that resulted in visit frequency and tip size. 28:22.88 vigorbranding Then then building something. 28:28.79 vigorbranding Like. 28:41.34 Andrew Glantz Um, you know it was something where people were skeptical um about if this was something that would be sustainable. Um, and you know there were 5 different times in our company's history where we had one month of runway left in the bank account before you know we'd go under and I either had to like sign up a new restaurant close an investor with a pitch competition. 28:41.96 vigorbranding You. 28:50.70 vigorbranding A. 28:59.45 Andrew Glantz Cut costs and find a way to make things happen and you know now as a company we found a way to have it grow in a sustainable Way. We're almost at breakeven for a comp for the company and you know it's something that's really exciting but you know it's not entrepreneurship is not an easy journey by any means. But. You know like I mentioned earlier the creative autonomy that comes with it is something that I cherish and that's really exciting and to be able to build a company culture in the way that I envision for how true people should be treated and in order to figure out how we're going to have our impact be On. All these different stakeholders whether it's our investors or whether it's the restaurants or the patrons arepoint to the restaurants or the food banks and manching those relationships in what I deem to be the right way is something that is just extraordinarily special to me and to be able to see gifted meal as kind of like my baby start to grow is. Um, something that is just incredibly meaningful and makes all of the hard work and the long hours and the challenging times be worth it. 30:01.51 vigorbranding Yeah, it's fantastic, Very cool, very cool. Is there anything else I mean are you working on anything else any other ideas. Ah percolating I mean anything else you want to talk about with gifted meal. Is there anything else you want to bring forth. 30:13.15 Andrew Glantz Um, That's a good question I'm not working on any other ideas outside of gift to meal get to meal it kind of takes up everything for me and I put my all into it. Um, but yeah I mean I think it's something where with get meal. We're constantly Innovating. We've launched some really cool tech integrations. Ah, like we've launched integrations with the online ordering platform olo with loyalty and marketing marketing platforms like Lunchbox. Thanks and incent Tv where now Gifty meal can be integrated as. 30:32.31 vigorbranding A me. 30:43.20 Andrew Glantz A button into the restaurant's own white labeled mobile white labeled mobile app so there could be a button within there to gift a meal or at the end of their olo online ordering experience. There could be the prompts to gift a meal and so you know those types of innovations of. Working with these other solutions in the food. Tech ecosystem is something that's really exciting as well. And um, you know it's something. That's you know we're excited to see the impact grow as we work with more partners of these different vendors in the space that work with restaurants and how we can help them provide value to their clients. As well as you know as we look to work with larger and larger brands and more food banks and we're now working with over 100 food banks across the country in 37 states and you know our goal is to be in all 50 states by this time next year and 2024 so um, you know I'm just. 31:31.49 vigorbranding It's awesome. 31:33.96 Andrew Glantz Incredibly grateful for doing what I do every day and grateful to people like you for helping give me a megaphone to share this with the world. 31:41.39 vigorbranding Absolutely I'm proud to proud to to to do this with you I mean and I said and I'm I'm a man of my word we have restaurants that we work with I think this would be a a really smart add on so we'll definitely keep this conversation going. So my last question I asked is to everybody every guest. Ah, if you have 1 final meal. 31:50.30 Andrew Glantz Thank you. 31:58.41 vigorbranding What would you eat and why. 32:00.24 Andrew Glantz Um, if I had 1 final meal I think ah it's actually funny their gifted meal partner in St Louis ah it's called posture. yeah yeah I know ah it's ah it was. It's ah it was actually one of it was like our 1 of our first. 32:09.23 vigorbranding Ah, free plug. Ah. 32:16.38 Andrew Glantz Ah, like well-known like James Beard award winningning restaurants in terms of like more finer fine dining place called posteria and it's italian it's just italian food to to the max problem in the Us. Ah, and ah yeah, no their their bolognnaise is just incredible and. 32:20.18 vigorbranding E. 32:27.92 vigorbranding Be here. 32:35.30 vigorbranding Yeah. 32:35.30 Andrew Glantz You know also get a pizza and something else there. So I'd say a comprehensive full meal at Posteria um would be my final meal. 32:42.60 vigorbranding Fantastic. That's very good very good I do actually have 1 other question too because just the the way you know the entrepreneurial side of me and how you start out. Did you have to ah like your first restaurant when you try you have this great concept. You know you came up with this pricing of ah $70 a month or you know whatever 69 whatever it was a month did you have to give one away for free. Did you have to do 1 restaurant say hey look you know what? I'm going to cover this. You do this? Let's see that this works did you have to do that or talk about that just that very quickly. 33:10.43 Andrew Glantz Yeah, at the very beginning it was the first forty restaurants that we did for free. Um and you know we no longer have that free plane anymore. But um, you know it was one of those things where like you said it's the chicken or the egg of like you know, getting people to use it and getting validation and. 33:11.90 vigorbranding Wow. 33:22.40 vigorbranding It's right sure. 33:25.40 Andrew Glantz But even getting restaurants to sign up for free for something was tough because it's another thing for them to think about that wasn't proven and so is kind of me going in there saying hey like this could be a value to you. It's going to make an impact for the community If you're an early adopter that like we depreciate it like help help out this young guy who's trying to do good in the world and um. 33:39.64 vigorbranding E. 33:43.66 Andrew Glantz You know and then we were able to prove out the concept and then sign up others and convert those restaurants to be on sustainable plants for the long term and yeah, but you know it's one of the things where at the beginning you have to you know? Yeah, you have to prove it out. 33:54.86 vigorbranding s what you got to do yep, give it away. Yep good for you andrew I mean you've all the grit in the world of an entrepreneur. Obviously you're successful I congratulate you on your success and appreciate the time this is really ah, really an enlightened conversation all right. 34:08.30 Andrew Glantz Yeah, thank you so much for the opportunity. 34:12.60 vigorbranding We'll talk soon.

Fredrik snackar öppen källkod med Magnus Glantz. Vi är många som arbetar med och inte minst bygger på öppen källkod hela dagarna, men har vi tänkt så mycket som vi borde på vad det innebär? Och vad det inte innebär, för den delen? Hur utvärderar man till exempel ett projekt man funderar på att använda sig av? Säkerhet är ju en sak, men också hur robust, livaktigt och välskött det är. Det finns många frågetecken kring öppen källkod, men egentligen beror alla på att man har så mycket fler möjligheter än med sluten källkod. Sluten källkod är borta när personen eller organisationen bakom den är borta, och speciellt när det gäller långsiktiga saker - som samhället i stort - borde vi kanske tänka efter mer vad det innebär att binda sig till en lösning där vi inte har tillgång till koden. Vad händer om det inte längre kommer nya versioner för nya operativsystem? Vad händer om hårdvaran slutar säljas? Eller om vi helt enkelt gjort oss beroende av en proprietär meddelandeplattform för att publicera vår information och den plattformen får en ny ägare som förstör den på helt nya sätt? Ett stort tack till Cloudnet som sponsrar vår VPS! Har du kommentarer, frågor eller tips? Vi är @kodsnack, @thieta, @krig, och @bjoreman på Mastodon, har en sida på Facebook och epostas på info@kodsnack.se om du vill skriva längre. Vi läser allt som skickas. Gillar du Kodsnack får du hemskt gärna recensera oss i iTunes! Du kan också stödja podden genom att ge oss en kaffe (eller två!) på Ko-fi, eller handla något i vår butik. Länkar Magnus Red hat Open source Sweden Open source initiative OSI:s tio kriterier för öppen källkodslicenser OSI:s licenslista Teknikneutralitetskravet är nummer tio i definitionen Steve Ballmer När Steve Ballmer kallade Linux för en cancer GPL Github uppmuntrar en att välja en licens för ett nytt repo, men väljer man inget så är ens kod inte öppen Log4j och problemen det hade Riksarkivet Sydkoreas problem med Internet explorer Cyber resilience act Magnus på Mastodon Titlar Huvudsakliga hattar En röd fedora Halvflummig IT-roll Verka för öppen källkodsekosystemet Du får inte diktera vad folk ska göra med programvaran En distinkt person Jag defaultar alltid till GPL v3 Halvmögliga mackor Bedöma något i ett vakuum De digitala vägarna Apple stone

It's summertime in Sweden and Canada, so it's time for Pushback Talks - Summer Series! And we're doing things a little differently this year. For the next six weeks, we'll revisit some of our favorite episodes from across all six seasons, giving you updates on the guests and topics at the top of each episode.The Filmmaker and the Advocate are taking a break, but the podcast isn't. No matter where you are - we hope you enjoy this year's Summer Series!This week we revisit Pushback Talks' first-ever guest, Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist, San Francisco resident, and author of, Homewreckers, Aaron Glantz.  Glantz speaks with Fredrik and Leilani about the devastating impact of vulture capitalists on millions of Americans since entering the housing sector after the Global Financial Crisis. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz provides a jumping-off point for the trio to discuss the cozy relationship between government, banks, and private equity that ensured those with money would be winners and those without would have their dreams demolished.Fredrik and Leilani used this episode of PUSHBACK Talks as a wake-up call and a warning: the vultures are likely circling again, with 40 million people in the US who can't pay their rent and nearly 4 million who can't pay their home mortgages. Years later, the financial situation in the US has only worsened, making this conversation all the more relevant. Produced by WG Film Recorded & Edited by Sebastian CronholmMusic by Florencia Di ConcilioSocial Media & Support - Kirsten McRaeSupport the showSupport the show

Ep #156 with Yehuda Glantz, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Yehuda was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has lived for many years in Jerusalem. He is a wonderful songwriter and composer and has a very deep spiritual and uplifting energy in his music. He plays charango, accordion, guitar, piano and sings. In this episode he performs three of his songs with the Israeli Symphony Orchestra. On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100063982602329/videos/1968192446913813 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qLieXzBny54 Podcasts on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hilljoy/ep-156-yehuda-glantz-singer-songwriter-and-multi-instrumentalist A Worldsoul Records Production derrikjordan.com on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qLieXzBny54 Podcasts on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hilljoy/ep-156-yehuda-glantz-singer-songwriter-and-multi-instrumentalist A Worldsoul Records Production derrikjordan.com

Andrew Glantz is the Founder & CEO of GiftAMeal, a local marketing program that helps provide a meal to a family in need each time a guest takes a photo at a partner restaurant. Over 500 restaurants currently participate and over 1,300,000 meals have been given so far! Andrew believes that profit and purpose can be consistent goals hence his expertise in brand alignment.On this episode, you'll learn from Andrew about:Aligning social impact and business valuesGrowing your business is a sustainable/profitable wayThe impact of giving/service on your businessMore!Thanks, Andrew!

The guys recap the race at Atlanta and cover a few headlines in Turn 1 In Turn 2 they chat with Ben Glantz about the 4 Corners Fire & Safety team's event this weekend at Eagle Raceway

Before marijuana prohibition, the most popular form of consuming cannabis was through a tincture. Pharmacies across the US used to carry bottles of cannabis tincture on their shelves as the go-to medicine for Americans treating pain, nausea, insomnia, and many other common ailments. Even after it was outlawed, making tincture remained one of the most effective ways to use marijuana medicinally, because tinctures provide consistent doses, potency, and effects.Now we're easing out of the prohibition era, cannabis-derived tinctures are popping up everywhere from medical dispensaries to gas stations and grocery stores. Of course, not all tincture is good. So if we want to use tincture as an everyday medicine as they did back in the day, what should we know about finding and using a quality medical cannabis tincture?In this episode host Brit Smith talks to the founder of the most popular tincture company in Massachusetts, Peter Glantz from Howl's Tincture. They discuss the 5,000-year-old history of making whole plant medicine, and how that history inspired the concoctions Peter now makes.They also cover what ailments patients say are best treated with cannabis tinctures, how tincture helps with so many illnesses, how to dose yourself with different ratios of CBD to THC, the difference between extraction and infusion, and why the method of making the tincture should matter to medical patients.Follow us on social media @DifferentLeaf, and find host Brit Smith @BritTheBritishBuy any issues of Different Leaf magazine at DifferentLeaf.com or find your local in-person retailer at DifferentLeaf.com/on-the-newsstandsFind DL's new merch line at xDifferentLeaf.com

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The joint leaders' statement at the G20 Summit, while largely symbolic, showed that "Russia [is] a lot more isolated than perhaps we'd been led to suspect," says USIP’s Mary Glantz, adding that Russia's anti-imperialist justification for the war in Ukraine is "not getting the traction we thought it was."

In this podcast we talk with Harry Glantz, an accomplished HR leader and agent of change. Harry recently retired as the senior vice president/chief human resources officer at Railworks Corporation, which does maintenance and construction for railroads. Our discussion includes what employers need to do now with respect to the changes that have taken place with today's workforce and the prevalence of remote working. While many employees may not be ready to come back to the office fulltime, Harry believes that others miss the opportunity to interact with management and basically “show off” the project they're working on. That conflict is just one of the important topics we explore with Harry who also gives us a unique perspective on collaboration.So if you want to know:– How collaboration can only be effective if it involves a cross section of the organization– About the importance of senior executives being visible to their employees– What may happen if the economy doesn't improve in the next few months– Why senior management shouldn't count on virtual meetings with employees to create the connections today's employees want– About the need to look at every employee as a contract worker About Harry GlantzAn accomplished global chief human resources officer, Harry Glantz recognizes the importance of the convergence of HR, marketing, social media, technology, metrics and big data. He recently retired as senior vice president human resources for RailWorks, a railroad maintenance and construction company. He calls himself “not your typical HR executive” and has been a hands-on agent of change within private and public companies, union and non-union — with employee populations from 100 to more than 3,000. You can find Harry on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/harryglantz. About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-241-harry-glantz-on-the-top-hr-priorities-for-leaders-now-with-lois-sonstegardphd

In this podcast we talk with Harry Glantz, an accomplished HR leader and agent of change. Harry recently retired as the senior vice president/chief human resources officer at Railworks Corporation, which does maintenance and construction for railroads. Our discussion includes what employers need to do now with respect to the changes that have taken place with today's workforce and the prevalence of remote working. While many employees may not be ready to come back to the office fulltime, Harry believes that others miss the opportunity to interact with management and basically “show off” the project they're working on. That conflict is just one of the important topics we explore with Harry who also gives us a unique perspective on collaboration.So if you want to know:– How collaboration can only be effective if it involves a cross section of the organization– About the importance of senior executives being visible to their employees– What may happen if the economy doesn't improve in the next few months– Why senior management shouldn't count on virtual meetings with employees to create the connections today's employees want– About the need to look at every employee as a contract worker About Harry GlantzAn accomplished global chief human resources officer, Harry Glantz recognizes the importance of the convergence of HR, marketing, social media, technology, metrics and big data. He recently retired as senior vice president human resources for RailWorks, a railroad maintenance and construction company. He calls himself “not your typical HR executive” and has been a hands-on agent of change within private and public companies, union and non-union — with employee populations from 100 to more than 3,000. You can find Harry on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/harryglantz. About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-241-harry-glantz-on-the-top-hr-priorities-for-leaders-now-with-lois-sonstegardphd

As with many other wars and conflicts that grew out of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is a much deeper history to what is going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia. You have to understand the historical context to understand why these two countries cannot get together and come to a lasting agreement over their border and what to do with Nagorno Karabakh. With a breaking of the ceasefire last month, and at least 300 dead, this region continues to see instability that has the potential to flare up again and again. For this episode we talk with Mary Glantz, a former US Foreign Service Officer and a current Senior Advisor to the Russian and European Center at the US Institute of Peace, about the intractable nature of this conflict. On a rare positive note, there is hope that a breakthrough in the peace process is closer than ever and there is a high likelihood that the United States could help push this over the finish line. Listen today to help better understand the drivers of this conflict and what the what is happening here!Dr. Mary Glantz was a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service and was detailed to USIP as a State Department fellow prior to her retirement in 2022.Most of her 20-year career as a diplomat has focused on Russia, the former Soviet Union, and other countries of Europe and Eurasia. Previous overseas postings include Baku, Jerusalem, Estonia, and Kosovo. Dr. Glantz also has served as a Russia analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as well as on the Russia and Poland desks at the State Department. Prior to joining the State Department, she worked as an intern for the Special Adviser for Central and Eastern European Affairs to the Secretary General of NATO, serving in Moscow, Russia and Vilnius, Lithuania.Dr. Glantz received her bachelor's in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her master's in post-Soviet studies from the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and a doctorate from Temple University with a specialization in military and diplomatic history. She recently completed a certificate in data science at Montgomery College.Donate Today to help support our ongoing series. 

With Ukraine making massive gains on the ground, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalating threats "show that [he] is getting a little bit desperate," says USIP's Mary Glantz. "He's been feeling a lot of pressure to show some victories," which has left the world "holding their breath to see what might happen."

Refael Glantz of accessiBe.com joins the show to share what their company has learned in helping make websites accessible from the basics.In This Episode00:00 - Introduction02:49 - Greeting to Rafi06:32 - A personable opportunity08:31 - Building accessiBe10:28 - What is accessibility11:56 - Adapting Alt text   13:00 - The SSL of today15:41 - Disability mindset shift18:13 - Legal repercussions22:25 - Tiers of accessibility26:03 - How it works32:05 - An option for DIYers34:00 - Best practices35:19 - Reporting options37:12 - Passion from the heart38:43 - Extra abilities42:21 - Deep level of accessibility45:04 - Know the need50:32 - What's step one 55:38 - Hockey talk Get all links, resources and show notes at:https://joshhall.co/213

Dr Stanton "Trouble" Glantz formerly of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education joins the Gen Green skeleton crew to provide us insights on public health after working in the field for the majority of his natural and unnatural life. Below is a link to the one-and-only Tobacco Files: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

En entrevista con Pamela Cerdeira, para MVS Noticias la escritora Margo Glantz, nos comparte su sentir al ser galardonada con el premio Carlos Fuentes.

Hija de inmigrantes judíos ucranianos Margo Glantz nació en Ciudad de México en el año 1930. Docente, narradora, ensayista y crítica literaria, es autora de unos treinta libros que siempre encuentran la forma de convertirse en más. Su escritura fragmentaria -que en su momento fue vanguardia y que la convirtió en una pionera de las formas contemporáneas de la literatura- le permite a Glantz reconvertir su obra constantemente. Experta en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Glantz estudió Literatura en la UNAM -donde además enseñó durante más de 50 años- y se doctoró en Letras Hispánicas en la Sorbona, de Francia. A fines de los años 80 fue agregada cultural de la embajada de México en Londres y también ocupó otros cargos relevantes, además de haber recibido innumerables y prestigiosos becas y premios. Es autora de libros como Las genealogías, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: saberes y placeres, El rastro y Saña. En Argentina, en los últimos meses la editorial Ampersand publicó en su colección Lectores su ensayo El texto encuentra un cuerpo y, recientemente, bajo el título Sólo lo fugitivo permanece, El cuenco de plata editó una nueva compilación de relatos y textos breves cuya protagonista es un personaje clásico de Glantz, Nora García, una suerte de alter ego de la autora. Conversamos con Margo días atrás sobre su obra, sus orígenes, su tratamiento del cuerpo femenino en sus textos, su apasionada relación con el arte, el tango, la moda y el diseño y su entrañable amistad con los escritores argentinos Tamara Kamenszain y Héctor Libertella. En El Extranjero, Hinde habló de “Trust” el libro del escritor argentino Hernán Díaz y en Libros que sí recomendó la reedición de “Ley de juego” de Miguel Briante (Mil Botellas) y “El peligro de estar cuerda” de Rosa Montero (Seix Barral) En Voz Alta, la poeta peruana Valeria Román Marroquin leyó el poema [De Cajarmarca al sitio de Jr. Cusco] de Manuel Fernández y en Te regalo un libro, Javier Porta Fouz, director artístico del Bafici que acaba de publicar “Buenos Aires sin mapa” habló de "Descanso de caminantes" y "Borges" ambos de Adolfo Bioy Casares.

We're tackling the food insecurity crisis in the U.S by highlighting GiftAMeal and their quest to help provide meals to the 40 million people suffering through the uncertainty of not knowing where their next meal is coming from. GiftAMeal founder Andrew Glantz joins the podcast to chat about how GiftAMeal is partnering with food banks in local communities to provide meals for people who are food insecure. How do they so? They work with participating restaurants, and all customers have to do is snap a photo of their delicious food or drink and post it through the GiftAMeal app and a meal will be donated. In this episode we discuss:

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On the seventh episode of The Panzer Podcast we are finally getting around to the second iteration of the Panther tank, the Ausführung A-- which was the second most prolific of the three variations, and will take us well into 1944. We will drill down the details of makes the Ausf. A an Ausf. A, as well as describe the differences between the Ausf. D and Ausf. A. Moving on, we will pick up our combat narrative on the Eastern Front and get a chance to visit with the Allied invasion of mainland Italy and just how the new Panther got along driving through the hills of Central Italy. Enjoy! -John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com Sources include: "Panther, Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael and Gladys Green, "Panther and it's Variants" by Walter Spielberger, "Repairing the Panzers, Vol. 1 & 2" by Lukas Friedli, "Elements of Armament Engineering, Part Two" by Billingsly et al, "Ordinance in the Eastern Front" a discussion, led by John W. Schaefer, "Militarfahrzeuge, German Softskinned Vehicles of WW2, Vol. 10" by Walter Spielberger & Uwe Feist, "Sd,KFZ 8 & Sd.KFZ. 9, Schwerer Zugkraftwage (12t & 18t)" by Alan Ranger, "German Heavy Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-2"Panzer Tracts No. 5-4" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle & Lukas Friedli, "Historical Study: German Tank Maintenance in World War II" by Dept. of the Army, June 1954, "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of all Small Arms, Artillery, and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945" by Terry Gander & Peter CHamberlain, "Designing the T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank" by Peter Samsonov, "Panther" by Thomas Anderson, "German Artillery of World War Two" by Ian Hogg, "Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panther Tank: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171): Enthusiasts' Manual" by Mark Healy, "German Medium Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 Vol. 1" by Thomas Jentz, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1943-1945 Vol. 2" by Thomas Jentz, "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank" by R.P. Hunnicutt, "Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II" by Wolfgang Schneider, "Testing and Fielding of the Panther Tank and Lessons for Force XXI" by John Womack, "World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery by Lorrin Rexford Bird & Robert Livingston, "Panther vs. Sherman" by Steven Zaloga, and "A Survey of Tank Warfare in Europe from D-Day to 12 August 1944" by HG Gee of the Army Operational Research Group, “Battle of Kursk” by Glantz and House, “Kursk: The Greatest Battle on the Eastern Front 1943” by Clark, “Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East” by Ziemke, “Stärkeberechnung der Panz.Div.44.” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 1944., “Allgemeine Heeresmitteilungen: Elfter Jahrgang 1944” by Oberkommando des Heeres (B.Arch RH 1/167), “Leicghte Panzer-Aufklärungskompanie” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen.

On the fifth episode of The Panzer Podcast, we will be discussing the Sd.Kfz. 9 "Famo" Heavy Prime Mover, along with the Bergepanther (Recovery Panther), and of course the Sd. Ah. family of tank towing trailers. Finally I want to touch on another specialty variant of the Panzerkampfwagen V "Panther", the Pantherbefehlswagen (Panther Command Tank) and many other tidbits and anecdotes to round out the story of these special, purpose-built vehicles in support of the Panther tank. Enjoy! -John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com Sources include: "Panther, Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael and Gladys Green, "Panther and it's Variants" by Walter Spielberger, "Repairing the Panzers, Vol. 1 & 2" by Lukas Friedli, "Elements of Armament Engineering, Part Two" by Billingsly et al, "Ordinance in the Eastern Front" a discussion, led by John W. Schaefer, "Militarfahrzeuge, German Softskinned Vehicles of WW2, Vol. 10" by Walter Spielberger & Uwe Feist, "Sd,KFZ 8 & Sd.KFZ. 9, Schwerer Zugkraftwage (12t & 18t)" by Alan Ranger, "German Heavy Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-2"Panzer Tracts No. 5-4" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle & Lukas Friedli, "Historical Study: German Tank Maintenance in World War II" by Dept. of the Army, June 1954, "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of all Small Arms, Artillery, and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945" by Terry Gander & Peter CHamberlain, "Designing the T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank" by Peter Samsonov, "Panther" by Thomas Anderson, "German Artillery of World War Two" by Ian Hogg, "Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panther Tank: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171): Enthusiasts' Manual" by Mark Healy, "German Medium Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 Vol. 1" by Thomas Jentz, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1943-1945 Vol. 2" by Thomas Jentz, "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank" by R.P. Hunnicutt, "Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II" by Wolfgang Schneider, "Testing and Fielding of the Panther Tank and Lessons for Force XXI" by John Womack, "World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery by Lorrin Rexford Bird & Robert Livingston, "Panther vs. Sherman" by Steven Zaloga, and "A Survey of Tank Warfare in Europe from D-Day to 12 August 1944" by HG Gee of the Army Operational Research Group, “Battle of Kursk” by Glantz and House, “Kursk: The Greatest Battle on the Eastern Front 1943” by Clark, “Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East” by Ziemke, “Stärkeberechnung der Panz.Div.44.” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 1944., “Allgemeine Heeresmitteilungen: Elfter Jahrgang 1944” by Oberkommando des Heeres (B.Arch RH 1/167), “Leicghte Panzer-Aufklärungskompanie” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen.

In this exclusive interview, Linda and Jule, the subject and reporter behind “An Absurd Result,” share how they turned Linda's fight in the justice system into a powerful podcast about survival.

On the fourth episode of The Panzer Podcast, we will finish discussing the aftermath and consequences of Operation Citadel and the Battle of Kursk insofar that it affected the Panther tanks. Along with an in-depth discussion of the Panzer repair network and logistical system. Enjoy! -John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com Sources include: "Panther, Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael and Gladys Green, "Panther and it's Variants" by Walter Spielberger, "Repairing the Panzers, Vol. 1 & 2" by Lukas Friedli, "Elements of Armament Engineering, Part Two" by Billingsly et al, "Ordinance in the Eastern Front" a discussion, led by John W. Schaefer, "Militarfahrzeuge, German Softskinned Vehicles of WW2, Vol. 10" by Walter Spielberger & Uwe Feist, "Sd,KFZ 8 & Sd.KFZ. 9, Schwerer Zugkraftwage (12t & 18t)" by Alan Ranger, "German Heavy Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-2"Panzer Tracts No. 5-4" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle & Lukas Friedli, "Historical Study: German Tank Maintenance in World War II" by Dept. of the Army, June 1954, "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of all Small Arms, Artillery, and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945" by Terry Gander & Peter CHamberlain, "Designing the T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank" by Peter Samsonov, "Panther" by Thomas Anderson, "German Artillery of World War Two" by Ian Hogg, "Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panther Tank: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171): Enthusiasts' Manual" by Mark Healy, "German Medium Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 Vol. 1" by Thomas Jentz, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1943-1945 Vol. 2" by Thomas Jentz, "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank" by R.P. Hunnicutt, "Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II" by Wolfgang Schneider, "Testing and Fielding of the Panther Tank and Lessons for Force XXI" by John Womack, "World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery by Lorrin Rexford Bird & Robert Livingston, "Panther vs. Sherman" by Steven Zaloga, and "A Survey of Tank Warfare in Europe from D-Day to 12 August 1944" by HG Gee of the Army Operational Research Group, “Battle of Kursk” by Glantz and House, “Kursk: The Greatest Battle on the Eastern Front 1943” by Clark, “Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East” by Ziemke, “Stärkeberechnung der Panz.Div.44.” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 1944., “Allgemeine Heeresmitteilungen: Elfter Jahrgang 1944” by Oberkommando des Heeres (B.Arch RH 1/167), “Leicghte Panzer-Aufklärungskompanie” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen.

Teresa Glantz, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, shares with us her own story of trauma as well as how women can help heal trauma of their own or be there for a friend who is experiencing the effects and triggers of this tough topic. 

On the third episode of The Panzer Podcast we will discuss in detail the final preparations and modifications made just prior to sending the new Panzerkampfwagen V 'Panther' Ausf. D, Sd.Kfz. 171 to the Eastern Front. Once there, we will get into the details of Operation Citadel and just how well or, not so well, the new Panther tanks would do against a determined defense. We detail the actions of July 5 - July 20 1943 for Panzer-Regiment 39 "von Lauchert" and within, the two Panzer-Abteilungen 51 & 52 (Panther Abteilungen). Further details include the Kriegsstärtkenachweisung (K.St.N. [TO&E]) of the new Panther units as well as plenty of contemporary, and first-hand accounts of how the battle went for these particular units at Kursk and the surrounding areas. Enjoy! -John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com Sources include: "Panther, Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael and Gladys Green, "Panther and it's Variants" by Walter Spielberger, "Repairing the Panzers, Vol. 1 & 2" by Lukas Friedli, "Elements of Armament Engineering, Part Two" by Billingsly et al, "Ordinance in the Eastern Front" a discussion, led by John W. Schaefer, "Militarfahrzeuge, German Softskinned Vehicles of WW2, Vol. 10" by Walter Spielberger & Uwe Feist, "Sd,KFZ 8 & Sd.KFZ. 9, Schwerer Zugkraftwage (12t & 18t)" by Alan Ranger, "German Heavy Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-2"Panzer Tracts No. 5-4" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle & Lukas Friedli, "Historical Study: German Tank Maintenance in World War II" by Dept. of the Army, June 1954, "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of all Small Arms, Artillery, and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945" by Terry Gander & Peter CHamberlain, "Designing the T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank" by Peter Samsonov, "Panther" by Thomas Anderson, "German Artillery of World War Two" by Ian Hogg, "Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panther Tank: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171): Enthusiasts' Manual" by Mark Healy, "German Medium Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 Vol. 1" by Thomas Jentz, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1943-1945 Vol. 2" by Thomas Jentz, "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank" by R.P. Hunnicutt, "Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II" by Wolfgang Schneider, "Testing and Fielding of the Panther Tank and Lessons for Force XXI" by John Womack, "World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery by Lorrin Rexford Bird & Robert Livingston, "Panther vs. Sherman" by Steven Zaloga, and "A Survey of Tank Warfare in Europe from D-Day to 12 August 1944" by HG Gee of the Army Operational Research Group, “Battle of Kursk” by Glantz and House, “Kursk: The Greatest Battle on the Eastern Front 1943” by Clark, “Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East” by Ziemke, “Stärkeberechnung der Panz.Div.44.” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 1944., “Allgemeine Heeresmitteilungen: Elfter Jahrgang 1944” by Oberkommando des Heeres (B.Arch RH 1/167), “Leicghte Panzer-Aufklärungskompanie” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen.

Rafi Glantz is the Partner Success Manager for accessiBe. As Mike Hingson discusses near the beginning of this episode one of the advantages of being a podcast host while working for a company is that it is easy to find talent and interesting guests close at hand. Rafi is one of those gems listeners now get to meet. He was born in the United States, but moved to Israel when he was 18. Listen to his interesting story and learn how he became an Israeli Citizen, joined the military and then worked for companies in his newly adopted company. Rafi will take us on a journey of discovery including what brought him to accessiBe and all his adventures since joining the company. Some directories do not show full show notes. For the complete transcription please visit https://michaelhingson.com/podcast About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:21 Hi, and welcome back to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset, the podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Unexpected. It's always kind of fun. Today, I want to introduce you to Refael Glantz, we call him Rafi. We call him other things, but Rafi is what will you like that? We will call you Rafi today, and Rafi is the partner Success Manager at excessive B, you know, and he is the second person from accessibility that that we have talked with on this podcast. And why? Well, yes, it has some to do with accessibility. But even more important than that, what I find interesting is that when I have the opportunity to work for an with a company that has a lot of very talented people, it's great to be able to interview everyone and talk about their talents, without having to go far afield to as a result be able to interview lots of people with lots of interesting stories. So we don't have to go search for guests too far. Because we could just look inside in our case excessively. And it isn't always about accessibility. But by the same token, sometimes it is and sometimes excessively comes up in the conversations as I'm sure it will today. But Rafi, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Rafi Glantz  02:40 Thanks so much for having me. I'm glad to be here.   Michael Hingson  02:43 So Rafi, you I have to say that you don't really sound like you were born in Israel.   Rafi Glantz  02:50 I was. No, I'm from Detroit originally.   Michael Hingson  02:54 Yeah, there you are see? So, um, so you are from Detroit? And when did you when did you move to Israel and what what brought you to Israel.   Rafi Glantz  03:05 That's a kind of a funny story. So it's funny, it's good that you bring that up. When I was 18, or 17, really, I was finishing high school. And we're living in Philly at the time with my family. I went to university up in Bel Air in California at American Jewish University, which no longer has undergrads, which might tell you a little bit about why I ended up dropping out. And when I turned 18, I realized, okay, I can join the military now, which is really what I wanted to do. And I ended up moving to Israel getting my citizenship here. And I did about almost three years in the military here. And then when I got out, I realized that it made more sense for me to find a job in the high tech world here, then go back to the states and pursue a degree that to be totally honest, I didn't have too much interest in anymore. What kind of a degree did you want to get? Well, I went for pre med, and what they called bioethics. And I was actually a combat medic in the Army. And so I had some interaction with that stuff. But the interaction that I had, I guess helped me realize that that was not the path that was gonna, at least I thought at the time, make me really happy.   Michael Hingson  04:21 So you, you switched, how, how difficult was it to become a citizen in Israel? I asked that because, you know, there are lots of discussions about immigration and citizenship and so on here and it'd be interesting to hear a little bit about what it's like when you when you did it over there.   Rafi Glantz  04:39 For sure. So luckily for me, it's very easy for me to prove that I'm Jewish, because my dad is a cantor and now a rabbi. So he's got a very strong body of proof to show that I am in fact Jewish and Israel has a law called the right of return. So if you are Jewish and can show it that You're essentially guaranteed citizenship here. And they have a very much streamlined process. So I had my new identity documents and everything the same day I landed. Wow. Yes is much smoother than Much, much smoother than our southern border currently.   Michael Hingson  05:15 Yes. Makes it a real challenge. Well, so I'm real nosy. How old are you now?   Rafi Glantz  05:23 Oh, I'm actually just turned 28. About two weeks ago,   Michael Hingson  05:26 congrats. excited me as an interesting company. The founders were under 30, when they formed accessibly, they were part of the 30, under 30, for Forbes in 2019. And I learned that sure Heckerling, the founder, the CEO of excessive he will be turning, I think he said 32 in January. And it's interesting, it's lots of young people, which is great. And not too many of us who have been around the industry for a long period of time. But but there are advantages and disadvantages, I suppose as long as the tribal knowledge can be passed on from people who've been there, but it's really cool to be with a company, where there's a lot of vision, and a lot of enthusiasm for, for what we're doing.   Rafi Glantz  06:16 Absolutely, it's really exciting for me as well, because to come from, you know, a world where in the United States, especially where we're really taught to defer to experience and age, and that, you know, somebody who is older and more experienced in an industry definitely knows better than you. And, you know, you shouldn't necessarily go against that grain. That's very much not the culture here. And so while of course, a lot of our startups don't succeed and don't achieve the level of success that we certainly have. It's really, really inspiring to see guys who are not that much older than me. build such a behemoth, you know, and don't you wish you'd had the idea first, oh, my God so much. But unfortunately, and I'll tell you the truth, a lot of people in sales calls and stuff like that, they'll say something like, wow, this is really impressive. How did you build it? And I said, Well, to be honest, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. But I will take all the credit you're willing to give me sir, absolutely.   Michael Hingson  07:15 Makes makes perfect sense. You know, the, the issue is that it is still a team. And I think even in the US, though I'm not seeing as much as you might think of deferring to people with a lot of experience, we we tend to, I think as a as a country look down, especially the younger people look down at a lot of older people, there's a lot of age discrimination that goes on here. And it gets pretty, pretty vigorous sometimes, which is unfortunate.   Rafi Glantz  07:48 I actually, I never want I haven't lived in the States for about 10 years. So I'm a little out of date there. But I also grew up a lot of the time in a synagogue surrounded by I guess a little bit of a different approaches, right. And I went to a religious school for a lot of my early childhood. And so that was like really drilled into me that you don't argue with the rabbi's on certain things.   Michael Hingson  08:11 So while you lived in Philadelphia, did you go look at the stairs and see if you saw rocky running up and down the stairs or hearing meal? Yo, Adrian Are any of those things?   Rafi Glantz  08:20 Just I will admit that I have yo yo words real way, many times inside the museum of art as well, which let me tell you the security guards are not fans. They've heard it before and they don't want to hear it again.   Michael Hingson  08:33 Yeah, I can imagine. I can imagine they've heard it way too many times. And not too many people probably run up and down the stairs either.   Rafi Glantz  08:44 Not anymore. Maybe they used to but right now, not not too many. I've done it a couple of times. But there there are more stairs than you would think.   Michael Hingson  08:55 Yeah. Yeah. Well, and then there are those silly people who run up and down the stairs of the Empire State Building. I'm just as confused about those people as well. So it's okay.   Rafi Glantz  09:10 Yeah, listen, I'm confused about people who run marathons. If somebody tells me they ran a marathon, I said, who chased you? Like yeah, exactly what I don't understand what what was the reason? But, you know, teach there. If that's what gets here, you know, gets you up in the morning then great.   Michael Hingson  09:26 Yeah. Well, it's the same thing as football. You don't want to play this game where everybody just beats up on you. That's fine.   Rafi Glantz  09:33 Exactly. You know, there's a great SNL sketch. I love the vintage SNL sketches. And yes, the more recent ones like they're kind of hit or miss for me, but they had a very good one with Alex Rodriguez. And Charles Barkley and then they had Kenan Thompson playing a football player. And you know the baseball play rod and and Barkley are talking about wow, you know, I played for 10 years. I played for 20 and my knees or shot or this is hurting. And the football player says, I played for 10 games, and my brain doesn't work. Which we don't want to make light of CTE but it is a very serious issue that not enough people address. So I'm at least glad it's being discussed now.   Michael Hingson  10:17 Yeah. Well, and and we do need to look at more of those things. But still people like to bang their heads together. So it's, it's okay. It's a news event for me. And that's okay.   Rafi Glantz  10:31 I think it's better than rugby. At least they wear helmets. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  10:34 at least. I was in New Zealand in 2003. We were there for about two weeks. And it was during a lot of the rugby playoffs. There are two things that went on in in New Zealand at the time. One was rugby playoffs, and they certainly are very, very loud and opinionated about rugby in teams. But even more so New Zealand had just lost the America's Cup. And they were yelling, why is it that the government doesn't take over paying for our ship our yacht so that we can win? Because Oh, it was just vigorous and horrible.   Rafi Glantz  11:16 I'm glad they've got their priorities in order. Yeah, we   Michael Hingson  11:18 certainly do believe that sports are parameters and Okay, anyway. So, so tell me, you, you moved to Israel in 2018, and enjoyed the military and worked in as a medic. And so you must have lots of interesting stories. Did you ever get to see much in the way of combat? Or were you close to it or any kind of experiences around that that you want to tell?   Rafi Glantz  11:43 I saw enough. So I actually joined the military in 2011. Or actually, sorry, 2012, because it was November 18 was November 22, something like that. 2012. And then I was in there for almost three years. And for most of my service, it was honestly very boring. Most people who do military stuff will tell you it's mostly hurry up and wait. Yeah, I have a lot of very funny stories that are not appropriate. But I can tell you that in 2014, we ended up having what some people call a war, some people call an operation in Gaza. And I had the misfortune to be involved in some capacity. And I learned that that is not a career path for me that I would much rather work in high tech. And I think one funny tidbit that I will share that I think will tell a lot of people listening just one thing about our culture is that Israel is a very, very small country. So we have what's called staging areas for the military, basically, where, you know, you park all the vehicles and leave all the soldiers in a relatively protected area, so that they can be sent to a new area as needed. Now, the public knew aware a lot of these staging areas work because it's not secret. And a lot of the soldiers you know, they're 1819 20 they're gonna call their parents and say like, Hey, here I am, everything's okay. Don't worry about me. I could not tell you how many random citizens of this country showed up to staging areas all over the place, with food, blankets, coffee cigarettes, for people who smoke everything you can imagine, over the course of a two week war, I gained about 10 pounds. I think this is maybe the only military operation in history, where the majority of the soldiers actually gained weight.   Michael Hingson  13:39 But it is nice to see that the military folks are are supported. And I understand that's what's going on. You mentioned it and I'm not sure that a lot of people really understand how large is Israel.   Rafi Glantz  13:51 It's pretty small. It's about the size of New Jersey a little bit smaller. And when you take into account the West Bank and and Gaza, it's even smaller, you know, the distance between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem even though we see it on the news all the time we hear about it, the distance between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is like 30 miles. It is not a big place. And it's a little bit funny because you'll have experienced this Mike living in California, driving 45 minutes is not a big deal, right? Driving an hour to Costco is relatively normal. Like I'd rather if there's a Costco 40 minutes away, but I'll go in Israel, if you're driving more than 20 minutes, people will look at you like what, how can you do that in the same day? How can you come back? It's so far, because it's just a completely different standard.   Michael Hingson  14:41 It's interesting, I have met people when I lived in New Jersey, we met some people who lived in Springfield, which is no more than 10 or 15 miles outside New York City. And yet, these people who were 40 and 50 years old, never had been to New York City. It really, it is amazing to see some people how confined they, they keep their world, they have never been to New York City, much less going to upstate New York or anything like that they have just been around Elizabeth and Springfield and so on, and had never been to to New York City. It's amazing. If you know, for us, as you point out here in California, we don't think anything about that, we oftentimes will drive three and 400 miles to go from one part of California to another and think, right, not too much of it. Karen and I do a little bit more thinking about it. Today, she's got a little bit of rheumatoid arthritis, so she won't drive as far at one time. But we have, and it's normal to see that. But you know, at the same time, there's a lot of value of being around home, but not going 10 or 15 miles to the to the largest city in the country. One of the one not the largest in the world, but one of the largest in the world. And seeing all that it has to offer is really a strange thought, a strange feeling.   Rafi Glantz  16:09 I couldn't agree more. And you know, what I we have a lot of what we call taboo to my life, which basically means Culture Day on Sunday. So when you're in the army, they'll take you for like a special trip on Sundays to see a historical site or to see the western wall or something like that. There's a lot of kids who live in a country the size of New Jersey who've never seen the wall or the Dome of the Rock or all of those, you know, very holy sites that Jerusalem so famous for in prison.   Michael Hingson  16:38 Yeah. And go figure and and I think it's a great loss not to visit, or at least learn about a lot of those places. I think that the people who don't do that miss so much about the rich culture of wherever they live.   Rafi Glantz  16:54 Definitely. I, like looking back, I would have liked to spend more time, you know, investigating City Hall in Philadelphia, and not just for all the relatively corrupt things that happened. Just kidding. But that'd be fun. It would necessary certainly be nice.   Michael Hingson  17:13 Yeah, it's an interesting and interesting place. And, you know, we got to deal with politics as we deal with it. So I'm still with Mark Twain. I wonder if God had been a man because he was disappointed in the monkeys. But you know, we got to do.   Rafi Glantz  17:31 That's not the most unlikely theory, I've heard to say.   Michael Hingson  17:37 So you, you went to the military, and you came out and did school and so on? And what did you do before you joined accessibility?   Rafi Glantz  17:47 Well, before I joined accessiBe, I realized that in the Israeli tech scene, you know, a person who speaks English, like I do, and has a relatively acceptable phone manner, can find employment in the high tech space. So I started working in the financial technology industry, mostly just, you know, working in the crypto field, and I went in whatever I do, my philosophy is that, you know, you should dive into it as deep as you can, and learn everything that you can about it. Because you never know, like, what's going to come in handy and how much information you'll need. And particularly in the crypto world, it's, it was such a new field at the time I'm talking, you know, 2016 2017, it was such a new field, that there really were no experts. So if you were willing to put in the time and Google things and study, you know, you were as much of an expert as anybody could find. And the problem of course, being that it's expanded so much that nobody could possibly keep up to date on everything that's going on. But that was that was sort of my first foray into the real high tech world.   Michael Hingson  18:57 So what did you do?   Rafi Glantz  18:59 Um, mostly I just did marketing and content. So I tried to connect with the communities that were behind these organizations. And I learned a little bit about how to manage marketing, but mostly it was managing people whether they were working with us on projects or whether they were doing marketing or influencer marketing or anything like that. I mostly learned how to keep my own stuff organized, and keep people on deadlines, which as you can, as you probably already know, is not the easiest thing. It's like   Michael Hingson  19:32 herding cats. Absolutely. Yes.   Rafi Glantz  19:36 So we both have cats, so   Michael Hingson  19:40 I think they weren't themselves out for the morning anyway, at least I hope so. Ours was yelling at us. Certainly Ervin has quite a down I refilled her food bowl so she's a little happier.   Rafi Glantz  19:50 Not There you go. Although I see mine just loves human food every I'm a big I love cooking that's like my Yeah, my stress relief or and every Every time I make anything with chicken, meat, fish, anything, the cat assumes it's for him. He doesn't understand that I'm not cooking for him and I've already given him. So it's, it's, it's a problem. But I always find it adorable to feed a cat pieces of cow meat, because he would never be able to get that in the wild. I can give it to,   Michael Hingson  20:21 well, ours likes her food. Although she will eat chicken. We haven't seen her eat a lot of fish. And we haven't been able to convince her to do that. So that's okay. But she she really likes her own food. But what she really loves is when she's eating, she wants to be petted. So our food dish, her food dishes up on our sink, it's a double sink with a long counter between the two sinks in the bathroom. We have to keep it up there because there are certain dogs who will probably invade the food bowl if we don't. Because he believes everything is for him. It's a laugh, he's a Labrador, but we we put the food up on the counter. But she wants to be petted while she's eating. In fact, she really likes to get rubbed all over and she'll lay down and per while she's eating, getting petted.   Rafi Glantz  21:19 That's one way to do it.   Michael Hingson  21:21 And during the during the night, at least well, I'll only let her do it one time. I told her when she started this, that she gets at one time a night. And that's it. She'll walk me until I get up in the middle of the night and feeder. So frustrating. Yeah. But, you know, animals are fun. And you know what you can't argue with all that they bring us in that we get to bring them. The fact of the matter is that all animals have personalities. And I'm sure that there are people listening to this who say I never let my cat do that. Well, you know. On the other hand, our experience unless there's some catastrophic illness is that our animals tend to live a long time. I had one guy, Doug Holland, who lived over 15 years, typically, guide dogs worked for me for 10 years or so. I've had two that didn't, but both were illness relate well, one was illness related. And one was she just really got fearful of guiding actually was my sixth dog. Marilyn, she only worked about 18 months. And then just this afraid of guiding but there were other issues with her. But even Roselle worked from 2000, I'm sorry, from 1999 to 2007. And she had for the last three years, she guided a condition known as immune mediated thrombocytopenia, which is where the platelets in the blood will be attacked by your immune system. It's something that humans get in dogs get and and eventually got to the point where she couldn't work more, but she lived for four more years. And that was okay. But we love our animals. And when we should they add so much value to us, I wish more people would take the time to really develop relationships with animals.   Rafi Glantz  23:15 Yeah, I think they, like you say they add a lot to your life. And you know, you can get your emotional validation from all kinds of different places. But in my mind, like there's nothing better than a dog because no matter what, as long as you're not abusive, and a lot of times even then that dog is going to love you and support you and be there for you until the day it dies. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  23:37 they may not trust you as well. And that's something that I talk a lot about when I when I travel and speak and talk about what guide dogs do and even the experiences of the World Trade Center. I tell people that dogs do love unconditionally, but they don't trust unconditionally. The difference. However, between dogs and humans, his dogs will generally be open to trust. I had I saw one that wasn't because she had been abused. And it took us months before we got her to trust us. But then when she did, she opened up and became a great friend for us for three years. It was in the latter part of her life. And she still lived to be 15.   Rafi Glantz  24:17 Wow. So my family has had poodles for the longest like full standard poodles and little purse dog. Yeah. And I, you know, on average, I think they're living with nine years, maybe 10. Not not quite that long. So you must you must really take care of these guys.   Michael Hingson  24:35 Yeah, every dog is a little different. We haven't had poodles, but we've had cats that lived a long time and stitch our current cat is now 12. So she'll, she'll be around quite a while yet, especially if we keep making her jump up to get her food. She's got to get around her size. We're not going to lift her up. She's tried to start to pull that one on us few times. We don't do it.   Rafi Glantz  24:59 Well, right because those cats, they'll take advantage of you. They're clever.   Michael Hingson  25:03 You think   Rafi Glantz  25:04 I met mine, he has this thing he loves knocking over glass items, doesn't care what it is if it's full of water, if it's full of juice, whatever, he will knock it right over. And the worst part is, you'll see him doing it. And I'll, I'll go, you know, I'll yell at him. However you yell at him to try and get him to stop doing something. And he will look over at me and knock it over. As he looks at me. Yeah, with no shame. No. No shame at all. Just as though it's like, oh, this is what I'm doing. This is mine. As if I as if he paid for it from IKEA. Right. You know, he doesn't understand now there's glass on the floors. He doesn't understand why I'm picking him up and trying to put him in another room. Yeah, cut his paws open.   Michael Hingson  25:53 Yeah. We haven't gotten to the point of stuffing him in a box and saying you're going to stay here for a couple of weeks, you're grounded. Work. Well, how did you come to accessiBe? How did you discover this company?   Rafi Glantz  26:09 It's actually a very funny story. So I started working at a company called Celsius network, which is in the crypto space. And people that are great, like I don't, I don't have anything negative to say about them, it just didn't really work out. And I was looking for a new role. I had some friends who worked in marketing, and they had a great marketing company called market across an inbound junction. So I spoke to them had an interview, they turned out not to be interested. And a week later, I haven't interviewed accessiBe, and I ended up getting hired. And I thought, you know, these are two totally unrelated things. Turns out market across was an early investor in excessively. So it's sort of close the loop there. And it's, I've been here for almost two and a half years now. And it has been a very, very crazy ride. You know, when I when I joined excessively, I think we had a little bit under 4000 Total customers period. And we were we just started selling in the US a few months before. And we were working out of this small office, north of Tel Aviv, it took me like an hour on a bus to get there every day there and back. And two and a half years later, we have grown just an unbelievable amount. And it's sometimes really quite surreal to see it.   Michael Hingson  27:33 It's it's an amazing company. I just learned about it literally about 12 and a half months ago, and have gotten very much involved in it and find the same sort of thing. It's an interesting ride. It's a great ride. It's it's a great company, and there are a lot of things that it's doing. So So what exactly did you start doing? And are you still doing the same thing you did? And what do you do now? Exactly?   Rafi Glantz  28:02 Ah, that's a good question. So I started out doing just regular sales, I had access to be I was one of our I guess you'd call it an account executive. And within a couple of months, it became clear that we needed somebody in the company to handle enterprise accounts. And despite not really having any specific experience doing that. The powers that be which are shared deck, LM gal pulled me into an office and said, Hey, do strategic partnerships. And I said, What's that, and they said, we'll figure it out. So there was a little bit more planning than that. But they kind of threw me into the deep end there. We built a lot of really cool partnerships with organizations like Synchro and real page and other groups whose names I won't get into right now. And from there, we realize that now we really need you know, as we grow, we need somebody who really has experience and processes and is more professional to handle that. So we brought in Darryl, who now does that and I moved over to the partner success team, which I did part time a little bit in the partner success in strategic but now I really work with our agency partners because excessively has partnerships with almost 5000 agencies in the United States and Canada. And I work with those partners to help them with essentially whatever they need accessibility wise, you know, some of them, they have a lot of technical questions that need addressing, they might not be sure how to go about making a website accessible really, and with others, there are more questions relating to how do I get my clients to want to spend money on accessibility? Because unfortunately, there are most business owners out there today. If you tell them, hey, you can make your website accessible for this and this and this, their immediate answer is, well, what happens if I don't, because I don't want to spend that money. And I don't really agree with that approach. But that is, unfortunately, their approach. So a big part of my job is arming these agency partners with the right tools and the right talk tracks and points to make and statistics that will help them explain to these business owners why accessibility makes sense, not just for their business, but also morally and legally.   Michael Hingson  30:34 So, for fun, what what's good is, what do you say? What do you say to someone? Or what would you say to someone who says, I just don't want to spend the money to make my website accessible? And I asked that, and I'll tell you why. Ask it, I'd love your thoughts on this as well, is you were well aware that over the past several months, there have been some people, and it's a relatively small number, comparatively speaking, but still, they're very vocal, who say none of this stuff works. It's not good. The companies just plain don't have good practices and so on. And the only way to do web access is to do it right from the outset, or to do it with manual coding. And I'm sure there are all sorts of other arguments that you hear, but what do you say to the person who says don't want to spend the money?   Rafi Glantz  31:24 Well, yeah, let's let's take that into points. Because I think the the don't want to spend the money is one point, and then the detractors are another, I'll address both. But let's tell because I want to spend the money. Right, so don't want to spend the money. I usually say one of two things. One is the really positive side, which is hey, 26% of American adults, according to the CDC, live with a disability, even if I cut that down to 5%, who really have trouble using websites, I know very few business owners, that wouldn't invest $50 a month to increase their market share by 5%. And to be perfectly blunt with you, sir, if you can't afford $50, for 5% more customers, your business is a bigger problem than accessibility. And I know that that sounds a little bit aggressive, but it is the case. And then I'll also mention something that you'd actually brought up in a previous, previous webinar that we did. The Nielsen data that shows that people with disabilities are the most brand loyal community, and particularly online, most businesses now are doing their best to build a supportive and positive community of customers and of users. So this is a great way to do that. And I'll also try to humanize it a little bit and say, hey, put yourself in somebody's shoes for a second, who needs to use a screen reader or Braille reader or click stick? And let's say you're looking for new shoes, right? If you go on Google, you're gonna go through 1215 websites before you even find one you can use, then by the time you do if you need shoes again, do you really think you're gonna go searching for a shoe store? No, you're gonna go back to the one that was accessible. But more than that, you're going to share it with your community. Because there are so few business owners in whatever your space is, that cater to people with disabilities, people will flock to you. And I think that that's just a general advantage of capitalism, that if you choose to stand out by being accessible, and being one of the first movers in this space, which I know, it seems like there's already a lot of activity and accessibility, but less than 2% of websites are accessible. So if you make yourself accessible, even next week, you're still one of the first movers, it sets you apart, it puts you in a new class. And it's also a great, it's a great piece of PR to put out both internally for your company culture, and externally for the world to see that you are a brand that cares about all people and takes all their money.   Michael Hingson  33:51 There you are. Well, how does how does access to be fit into that? What is it that accessibly? Does that company should take that kind of an interest in?   Rafi Glantz  34:03 That's a good question. So I'll first say that our position to my best understanding of it is that accessibility and I know this is a very San Francisco thing, say so get ready, Mike. Accessibility is more of a journey than a destination. You know, there is no such thing as 1,000% Perfect accessible website at all times, for a lot of reasons. But the real big thing is that websites change all the time. And sometimes there are things that an automated widget can't fully remediate on its own. So what we've done at accessiBe is we've created a full web accessibility hub. And we're in the process of releasing certain things now. But the big flagship product that everybody probably knows about is our automated tool, the widget, the overlay, whatever you want to call it, and that's a really big important step towards web accessibility. using that tool. You can make pretty much any website reasonably accessible. In 48 hours or less for less than $500 now depends on the size of the website, it depends on certain other factors. But that's generally the case. That being said, depending on your website structure, your needs your compliance obligations, you may want certain other things, whether that's testing by a person who actually has disabilities and can confirm that everything's working properly, or whether it's us working with you to develop best practices for your internal development, so that you can make sure that when you build new products, or you update your website, you're doing so in the most accessible way possible. To access campus, you know, we're actually creating a learning center for developers to become web accessibility developers, because I know that a lot of our marketing and conversations are about an automated solution. But we do want to empower developers to make these changes permanently. The issue is that when we looked and I say, we're not really looking for this, but when we looked, we could not find a really great comprehensive learning center for a developer to go from a JavaScript developer to an accessibility developer. And so we just made it, we're creating that we're creating access flow or creating access find, we're building this whole network so that whatever your needs are relating to accessibility, we'll be able to meet. And we're going to do our best to do that in an affordable way and an accessible way. Because we, as much as we'd love it, if everybody made accessibility, a core tenet of their business and of their approach to the web to the web, we also have to recognize that many website owners, in fact, the majority, they spend less than $1,000 a year on their entire website infrastructure. So there has to be a relatively easy and affordable way for them to achieve some modicum of compliance as well. I think   Michael Hingson  36:53 one of the important things to make sure people understand is that if you use something like excessive BS, overlay technology, it's it's AI Artificial Intelligence powered overlay, you're not suddenly saying My website is perfectly and totally accessible. But it makes a significant difference. And because of things like what you said, access flow, without going into a lot of detail about it, it will give you tools to help you determine what else needs to be done to make the website accessible in a more complete way. And that's extremely important to be able to do. You know, you have talked about I think that the right thing the the moral and ethical reasons for making your website accessible, and it's something that we should do, we don't tend to think in an inclusive way, whether it's here in the US, or in most places, although in Israel, the laws are now pretty stringent about website access, but they're not really stringent throughout the world, in that they don't absolutely mandate and require totally, that websites, for example, and apps and other things need to be accessible. And people do find ways or try to find ways to get around it in various places. Now, I don't know much about the history in Israel and what people do today. But I know we're here, even though a number of courts have said that the Americans with Disabilities Act does apply to the internet, because the ADEA does not specify brick and mortar facilities as the only places that businesses have to provide inclusion to address. But some people say well, but the ADEA was invented before the internet. And so it doesn't apply. And a couple of courts have gone along with that. So Congress needs to address it. The president needs to address it, and they haven't done that yet.   Rafi Glantz  38:58 I agree that I think one of the issues that we're dealing with that we saw and continue to see during these Facebook, or I guess now I should say meta, these Facebook hearings is that our elected officials don't seem to understand how the internet works by any stretch, and neither do judges for for the most part. I know, I know only a very few number of judges personally, but none of them are JavaScript developers, you know, none of them know how to code. It's not something that you're trained on in law school. So I think that in general, there needs to be a change in the approach to this so that there's some sort of mechanism for people to get trusted information. So they'll be able to make a reasonable decision because I do think that a lot of the decisions that have been made are being made from a place that's not as informed as it could be.   Michael Hingson  39:49 Well, I think that's true. And if you look at things like excessive BS ace audit tool, or you can go to the World Wide Web Consortium website, and Find their audit tool. There are places where you can go to say to a website, here is my website address. Tell me how accessible My website is. I think people would be really surprised. For the most part, if they found out just how inaccessible and how unintrusive most websites really are. Yeah, you know, most people   Rafi Glantz  40:23 don't think I talked to business owners and agency owners like, probably 910 12 times a day at this point. And most of them, very few of them have any hate in their heart towards people with disabilities, the real issue is that they just don't think about it. Because number one, they're busy running their business, they're, you know, chicken with their head cut off on most days anyways. But unless you have somebody in your family who has disabilities or in your community that you're close to that you work with on a regular basis or something, for most people, it's just not top of the mind. Now, not saying that should be the case by any stretch. But it's, it's a challenge for us that we need to make this more visible, for lack of a better word.   Michael Hingson  41:05 Absolutely. And, you know, the reality is that there are some who say, I'm just not going to spend any money, I can't afford to do it. But again, it's a mindset shift, if they looked at it, as you said, that is, think of all the business that you can get by making your website accessible. I think anyone who has any insight into the business concepts of the world would agree that it makes perfect sense to make your website accessible. And then when you bring things into it, like access fine, and maybe you want to explain a little bit about what that is, but access fine, also, can help make a difference for people.   Rafi Glantz  41:45 Yeah, access fine, is I talk about it on my calls a lot, because it's a huge opportunity for a business owner. So access find is the world's first search engine that is only going to display accessible results. So only accessible websites, and everybody who uses accessibility is pretty much going to be on there. So what I like to say is that if you're everybody does SEO now, right? Everybody wants to optimize their search results and get found on the internet. Well, if you're doing SEO on Google, you're competing with every other shoe store, every other hockey rink, whatever it is in the world, and certainly everyone in your area, if you're on access, find you're competing with like five other people, because nobody's accessible yet. So as frustrating as that is, it's a huge opportunity for the early movers to establish themselves.   Michael Hingson  42:33 And I want to make it clear as that access find is not just accessibly. That is it is the intent is for it to be website remediation process agnostic, as long as you are working to make your website accessible, it doesn't matter what tool you use, so long as you do it. Because the reality is, when it comes down to it, there are two things that go into making a website accessible. One is the code that somehow gets inserted somewhere that does things like label images, or label buttons and define links and so on, tells you that you have a shopping cart. And so that's that's one. But the other is specifically looking at what you do to make that website usable. And a lot of it has to do with labeling. But it also has to do sometimes with layout and other things like that. And so the issue is it doesn't matter what tool you use. But however you do it, the fact is that the evidence of you doing it is visible to audit tools that look for it. And it's visible to people who who know how to look for it. And that's what you really want to get to.   Rafi Glantz  43:56 Yeah, I mean, I, we don't care how you become accessible. If people can use your website. That's awesome. And we want to put that on access fine. And like access find is not solely an accessible thing. It's a nonprofit. And we're in partnership with the Christopher Reeve Foundation and with the Viscardi Center, and a whole bunch of other really awesome organizations that believe in the same goal that we do that whether you choose to work with us or anybody else. The goal here is accessibility. And that's actually, you know, we did this ad that I got a lot of Facebook messages from my mom's friends about this ad that we ran a national ad campaign in the US which you know all about Mike the Unstopables. And the reason the the purpose of this was not so much to sell excessively, but to sell the idea of accessibility, because like Like we said before, so few people are really aware of this at all. And of those people very, very few have it at the top of their mind.   Michael Hingson  44:55 Diversity is a term has really gone away from dealing with disabilities and I will make that argument all day. We talk about diversity when we're dealing with sexual orientation, race, and gender and so on. But disabilities don't get included in that, which is why I prefer to use the term inclusive, because either you are or you aren't. And if you're leaving anyone out, then you're not inclusive. And it's as simple as that. The fact is, as you pointed out, 20 to 26% of all people in this country and mostly throughout the world, have some sort of disability, how often were we discussed or talked about, or issues that we face brought up during last year's presidential campaign in this country? And how often are those kinds of things considered today, and it's just reality is not much.   Rafi Glantz  45:47 Yeah, and it's a real shame, because there's a massive missed opportunity, I think, you'll probably know the number better than me. But there's close to $500 billion a year in disposable income in the community. And most people are just choosing not to tap into it for some reason. It, it doesn't make sense, particularly now, in a time when we have inflation, we have supply chain problems, we have all of this stuff, and people are scrambling to find customers, you would think that they would want to access the market that's right in front of them.   Michael Hingson  46:18 One of the things that it isn't directly related to web access, but one of the issues that we face as blind people is that the cost for assistive technology, the technology that at least hopefully and does somewhat level, the playing field for us, is expensive screen readers, the software that makes computers talk and describe or verbalize what comes across the screen tools to produce Braille and so on cost money. The National Federation of the Blind has worked with Congress to get introduced into Congress the accessibility assistive technology affordability Act, which calls for a tax credit for people who purchase assistive technology to help us offset some of those costs, yet, and it was actually put into the buyback better program of Congress and Joe Biden. But it's now been dropped as they've been weeding out some of the the programs that people are debating over whether they want to include or not, that is extremely unfortunate that they would that that would even happen, because it's pretty universal thing that for us to be able to do the same things that you do, there are going to be some costs, because we have made our universe some site oriented, that we leave people out. And we've we've done that in various other ways. But even I think I could make a strong case, to a degree more with blindness than than anything else. We think that eyesight is the only game in town. And we don't tend to think about the fact that some of this technology costs, we're not saying pay for it, but give us some tax credits to help us offset some of the costs. And so there's a push right now to get that put back into the bill. But you know, we don't tend to think about people with disabilities in general. One of my favorite examples, is we watch the view everyday, Karen watches it. Now, last month was national employment, or National Disability Employment Awareness Month. I didn't hear actually, except for one time, any disability mentioned on the view in the whole month of October, and that time wasn't even relating to employment or disability awareness, other than saying how inspirational it was that a couple of people with Down syndrome were doing something. It's not inspiration, we need its recognition and understanding and a raising of expectations about society. Absolutely.   Rafi Glantz  48:54 And there's just not enough representation. For all the reasons that you point out there just isn't. I think, what was Senator Tammy Duckworth? I think she's one of the first if not the first woman with disabilities in the Senate. And I mean, she, I could not think of a more heroic story. I mean, she was a combat helicopter pilot, if I'm if I'm remembering this correctly, who was wounded in combat, and ended up becoming a United States Senator. I mean, I could not think of something that would be more appropriate to teach kids, but you rarely hear about that today. The news stories that we hear about are so much, so much less interesting and so much more depressing.   Michael Hingson  49:37 What's interesting is that she isn't the first to have a disability and be in the Senate or the House, and specifically one of our previous podcast guests, a lady named Peggy Chung, who is also known as the blind history lady, talked about the fact that before 1940, there had been three blind people in the house and to whom served in the Senate. But since then, not one single blind person has been in either house, which is kind of interesting. But really, we've gone backwards, we have gone backwards. And she makes that point during the podcast. So if people haven't heard that it's a fascinating one to go listen to. She's got some great stories. She even talks about the fact that the typewriter was originally invented for a blind person. It's a great story, you should go find it. It's, it's, it's in, in the the podcast, and   Rafi Glantz  50:29 I heard that clip on your LinkedIn, you saw that? Yeah.   Michael Hingson  50:33 Good for you. I appreciate you looking. But it's a fascinating story. And the reality is that so many people could make contributions to society, but we tend not to recognize or lose out on getting what they can offer, because we operate in the assumption that there's only one way to do things.   Rafi Glantz  50:55 Yeah. I mean, one of the things that you said initially, is something that I quote you on, I do attribute it, don't worry. But in my in my call, because I'll bring up you know, Michael Hanson, and everything. And I'll say, well, now he's our chief vision officer. But as he says, You don't need sight to be a visionary. And you know, it gets a chuckle. But it's also true, you really don't. And one of the very few experiences that I've had, that sort of, certainly not put me in your shoes, but let me feel a little bit of what it might be like, was, there's this restaurant in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and I forget what it's called, but they put everything in complete darkness. So for about two and a half hours, you're eating, drinking being served everything, mostly by people who have disabilities, both deafness and blindness, as if you're part of that community. And initially, it was very disconcerting. And I did make sure not to wear a white shirt, of course. But it was, for lack of a better word, very eye opening.   Michael Hingson  52:00 The only problem with that, and a lot of us express this concern is if you go away from that having had challenges and you think that's how it is for for people who are blind, you're missing the point. Because the fact is just like for people who can see you learn techniques to do the things that you learn, the fact is that I'd be glad to go to that same restaurant with you and laugh at you while you're having a problem. Because I don't have that problem. Because I've learned techniques. And so there was an organization several years ago that created a website, and was called how I see it, or that's how eye see it the is Eye. And they asked their members to put up on the website, videos of themselves being blindfolded, trying to accomplish tasks. And the whole intent of it was to say see how difficult it is to do this if you're blind. And the reality is, they were so wrong by doing that. And what actually occurred was that blind people discovered it and started putting up our own videos on the same website, saying See how easy it is if you learn and actually overwhelmed the site, and eventually was taken down. And eventually there were some discussions. But it was an organization that has to do with eyesight, and blindness and so on. And they missed the whole point. The reality is that, that it's not the blindness or the eyesight. It's how you learn to deal with it. Most sighted people don't learn to be very observant, by comparison to say, a Navy Seal or someone in the military or people who learn to use their eyes or their ears extremely well. And people who truly learn to understand their senses recognize that, that in fact, there's more than one way to do things. And it isn't always about one particular sense. Absolutely.   Rafi Glantz  53:56 I think a great example of that is actually one of the guys who helped create accessories, initial solution a dt. So he's a friend of sheers. I'm imagining you might have even had the chance to meet him.   Michael Hingson  54:08 I haven't met I know about it, but I haven't met him yet.   Rafi Glantz  54:11 Okay, so get excited. But he is a really nice guy. He came in and showed us a presentation. But what really impressed me was that this guy, not only does this screen reader talk about two and a half times my normal speaking speed, and my speed is not slow. He's also listening to music and also coding while he's having everything read to him and everything. That is very impressive, regardless of any kind of ability or disability. Like I don't think that I would be able to do that. Without like you say without a lot of practice. And there are absolutely strategies and stuff that you would learn to to help you do it. But for someone like me, it's still impressive.   Michael Hingson  54:54 So I have a couple of other things. One is I want to get back To the whole issue of access, and so on, we talked all about the moral aspect of it. But the reality is there is a legal aspect of it, and what do you what do you say to people? Or let me let me combine both of them together, there have been criticisms that that people say is bad marketing to say that you shouldn't make your website accessible just because somebody might sue you. And creating that level of fear. When in reality, it does happen, and it can happen. But what do you say to people about that? And how do you deal with the people who plain say, that's wrong to even say?   Rafi Glantz  55:38 So it's an important point to bring up? And I think that number one, it's in arguable that this is a real problem. Now, could you argue it in court? Sure, you can argue whatever you want in court. But as you know, the American legal system is not 100% perfect all the time for everyone to say the least. So there is a lot of case law to show that you do need to be accessible. The real problem that we face today is the demand letter problem. And it's a lot more of a murky issue than the full on lawsuits. Because the people who send lawsuits, in my experience, much of the time, these are actually well intentioned people who actually have tested this site, they want to use the website and they can't. The demand letters, on the other hand, are coming from a relatively small number of law firms that have identified this as a great way for them to make money making settlements. And unfortunately, in our, in my opinion, particular, that tends to paint the community of people with disabilities in a very negative light. Because in my experience that I believe also in yours, your first instinct when something is not perfect, or as expected is not to sue the pants off of somebody, you're going to engage in a dialogue with them and try to get them to understand why this is something important. So when people tell me, Hey, I don't really believe I'm going to get sued. Sometimes I'll be a little bit rude and just say, Okay, wait. But what I usually will respond with is a story that actually happened to me. So about two years ago, I was in Las Vegas, right before Corona started speaking about web accessibility, and somebody interrupted me about halfway through the presentation, right when I was talking about the legalities, and he claims to own 60 locations of a payday loan company. Now, I won't defend payday loan companies, I don't understand how 3,000% interest is legal in the United States of America, that's a different conversation. But he claims to own 60 locations, and he got a demand letter from some attorney asking for $10,000 Because his website wasn't accessible. Now, this guy's never heard of accessibility before, which is puts him in the same boat as the vast majority of business owners in the United States. So he calls us lawyer and asked the Hey, what's up with what's going on? And the lawyer explains, well, listen, it's you, we shouldn't really fight this. Because if I take this to court and fight it for you, you're going to pay me $100,000. In legal fees, it's going to take like a year and a half. And we'll probably still lose, because you're not accessible. Like you haven't done any work to your website, you don't have any grounds. So he said, Okay, he wrote a check. And he started looking into how to make the rest of his websites accessible. The problem is, and this speaks a lot to the nature of many of these complaints. The day his check cleared, he got 59 more letters and had to settle for $600,000. And as much as I disagree with the business that he's in, I appreciate him having the courage to come forward and speak about it. Because this happens a lot more frequently than we realize, because most business owners who have something like this happen to them, they're not going to speak up about it, they're going to be as quiet as possible, because they don't want to get sued again, and they don't want to cast their business and themselves in a negative light.   Michael Hingson  58:49 The other part about that, though, is that his lawyer wasn't up on it enough to understand that maybe there are ways to address the issue either. Very true. I know, excessively, has interacted with a number of companies, I'm sure you've got stories about this companies that say, Hey, I'm being threatened with a lawsuit. Can you help us and that what accessiblity has done as helped in two ways. One, it's offered its its products, and when that's put on the site, that greatly mitigates a lot of the accessibility issues by just using the overlay not totally, but that it helps. And the other thing that excessive B will do is then show with its its own documentation that it creates case by case. Exactly how the, the website has become accessible. And that in fact, the the lawsuit is not justifiable. Yeah,   Rafi Glantz  59:50 I mean, I don't know the exact number anymore, but I don't even close to it. But it's it's literally in the 1000s of people who have come to us with papers already served and all Almost all those cases, we've managed to make the whole thing go away. We've never had a client successfully sued due to using our tool. And I will also say that having access to be on your website has despite what whatever detractors might want to say, which, you know, they're welcome to say whatever they want. But having accessiBe on your website has become a lot like having the ADT flag on your lawn. You know, people see that flag and realize you have a good security system. And they're a lot more likely to move on to the next victim than test it out. And we've seen that play out quite a bit in recent months.   Michael Hingson  1:00:34 What do you say to the people in there have been consumers who say that we're just not doing things the right way?   Rafi Glantz  1:00:42 I say what I said before, which is it's a journey, it's not a destination, you know, there is no one stop perfect, immediate solution for accessibility? Because it really depends on the website, it depends on how often you're updating it. What industry are you in, you know, medical, and housing have different requirements in many cases than other e commerce stores. But a real the best approach to accessibility, I think, is a comprehensive one that comes at it from multiple angles. So yeah, you want to have best practices. When you're building a website, you want to have all of the alt text and Aria labels and features on there. You also want to have an overlay widget because as you know, Mike, not everybody who's colorblind is colorblind the same way, right. So if you pick like a couple of colors to use on your website, no matter what colors you choose, they're not accessible to everybody. So I think that there's a layered approach to accessibility that can include both best practices, manual remediation after the fact and automated remediation as well, to give you the most complete picture.   Michael Hingson  1:01:48 And that's really as good as it gets that it is a journey, you know, always will be a journey. There are people who rightly say the only true real way to create an inclusive or accessible website or anything accessible is to do it right from the outset. And that's, that's, that's absolutely valid. But that means that WordPress has to build such stringent tools into its system, that any website that's created or any, any system that's created through WordPress has to be accessible before it could be released. Microsoft has to fully include accessibility in everything that it does, right from the outset, not making it an afterthought. Apple needs to do the same thing. But Apple also needs to because it has all these apps that come out of the App Store, Apple needs to mandate a basic level of accessibility that apps beat. And I have not seen that Apple requires that today. So you can create and people create all the time apps that aren't accessible. Nice, I put it that way. Because Apple, in fact, has built a level of accessibility into its products. It's it is made screen readers. And in Apple's case, it's called VoiceOver, it has made a screen reader, a part of the technology that it produces on all Macs is on on iPhones, it's on iPads. They've made their websites pretty usable. But they don't mandate the same thing about the people who come to the App Store and require that abs that websites are excuse me, apps are fully accessible, or at least accessible to the point where they can be and I understand that there are times that websites or apps are going to display videos, or let's not use videos, but images or maps that we don't know how to verbalize yet automatically, but people do need to address those issues. And we're not doing that yet.   Rafi Glantz  1:03:59 Right. And I think there's a really important point that you brought up there that there is some responsibility that lies with these big giant tech companies like WordPress, like Wix, you know, whatever name name a giant company, because, well, it's all well and good to talk about America and say, hey, you know, we need to build accessible websites. But in the developing world around the world, there are there's even less attention being paid to accessibility a lot of the time and even less budget. And that being the case, the only realistic way that many of these websites can be accessible is by these giant providers mandating and providing tools for that to be possible. Because again, I mentioned that, you know, most companies in the United States pay less than $1,000 a year for their whole website. Worldwide. That number is divided significantly. You know, there's a lot of people who pay even less and we're very proud to be able to offer our automated solution which is an important component like we said Have a layered approach to accessibility at less than 500 bucks a year. But I think you'll agree it's hard to convince someone to spend 500 on accessibility if they spent 200. On the website, you know?   Michael Hingson  1:05:11 Sure. Well, and but the reality is, again, the issue isn't mandated that somebody do it. The role modeling really has to be done by those who develop the basic technology. And so those who create WordPress design tools, WordPress that creates its design tools, or Microsoft should have the absolute best screen reader built into its technology right from the outset, and it and it doesn't. Google is the same way any of them, it isn't mandating that somebody else do it. It really needs to start with them. They really need to build in absolut

In the second episode of the Podcast we continue where our discussion of the Panther left off-- Covering what the Panther D actually would like once production of the Ausf. D began, which in January of 1943 would be a lot different from the Panzerkampfwagen V 'Panther' Ausf. D, Sd.Kfz. 171 that would first go into Kursk. We'll take an in-depth look at all of the systems and final armament & armor layout of the Panther and get ready for the first deployment in July of 1943. Enjoy! -John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com Sources include: "Panther, Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael and Gladys Green, "Panther and it's Variants" by Walter Spielberger, "Repairing the Panzers, Vol. 1 & 2" by Lukas Friedli, "Elements of Armament Engineering, Part Two" by Billingsly et al, "Ordinance in the Eastern Front" a discussion, led by John W. Schaefer, "Militarfahrzeuge, German Softskinned Vehicles of WW2, Vol. 10" by Walter Spielberger & Uwe Feist, "Sd,KFZ 8 & Sd.KFZ. 9, Schwerer Zugkraftwage (12t & 18t)" by Alan Ranger, "German Heavy Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 5-2"Panzer Tracts No. 5-4" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle, "Panzer Tracts No. 16-1" by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle & Lukas Friedli, "Historical Study: German Tank Maintenance in World War II" by Dept. of the Army, June 1954, "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of all Small Arms, Artillery, and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945" by Terry Gander & Peter CHamberlain, "Designing the T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank" by Peter Samsonov, "Panther" by Thomas Anderson, "German Artillery of World War Two" by Ian Hogg, "Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panther Tank: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171): Enthusiasts' Manual" by Mark Healy, "German Medium Half-Tracked Prime Movers" by Reinhard Frank, "Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945" by Walter Spielberger, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 Vol. 1" by Thomas Jentz, "Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1943-1945 Vol. 2" by Thomas Jentz, "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank" by R.P. Hunnicutt, "Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II" by Wolfgang Schneider, "Testing and Fielding of the Panther Tank and Lessons for Force XXI" by John Womack, "World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery by Lorrin Rexford Bird & Robert Livingston, "Panther vs. Sherman" by Steven Zaloga, and "A Survey of Tank Warfare in Europe from D-Day to 12 August 1944" by HG Gee of the Army Operational Research Group, “Battle of Kursk” by Glantz and House, “Kursk: The Greatest Battle on the Eastern Front 1943” by Clark, “Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East” by Ziemke, “Stärkeberechnung der Panz.Div.44.” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 1944., “Allgemeine Heeresmitteilungen: Elfter Jahrgang 1944” by Oberkommando des Heeres (B.Arch RH 1/167), “Leicghte Panzer-Aufklärungskompanie” by Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen.

Remko is back from Nashville and together with Donnie they discuss the latest action from the 2021 World Series of Poker.  The $50,000 Poker Players Championship is onto Day 3 and Remko talks to Adam Friedman, Matt Glantz, and Josh Arieh about their first Main Event experience and the status of poker's most prestigious mixed game event.  With the introduction of yet another successful new WSOP event, the $5,000 NLH/PLO, Donnie brings up another wide variety of new games that could be considered to be added to the 2022 WSOP schedule.  Lastly, we're organizing a WSOP Main Event last longer with some fun prizes for the people in our Discord channel. Join now and enjoy the sweat as the largest event of the series gets underway on Thursday.   

On this episode, David speaks with two pioneering women to discuss equality in the workplace. David is joined by Shelley Zalis. She is known as the “chief troublemaker,” a pioneer for online research, movement leader, and champion of gender equality. She is an internationally renowned entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, mother, and founder and CEO of The Female Quotient. Today, as CEO of The Female Quotient, Zalis works with Fortune 500 companies to advance gender equality across industries.  Also joining in the conversation is Gina Glantz, who in her own bio says she is a serial organizer/shit stirrer/campaign tech innovator/grandmother. She is the founder of GenderAvenger, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring women are always part of the public dialog because women's voices count.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we sit down with Kate Glantz of Luma Legacy to discuss what motivates her, the positives of failure, and the meaning of social impact. We also discuss how to measure success and make purpose your throughline.

Kelly discusses how leading a non-profit organization is no different than running a for-profit business. In her years of being an executive director, Kelly has learned how to identify what business decisions can provide the greatest impact for her stakeholders. Kelly shares how she opens doors to donors and leaves them open for future collaborations.

Chris Glantz is an engineer and surveyor, and a man navigating his own trail toward the man he's becoming. We talk about asking for what you want while letting go of expectations, old patterns and fear, self-care, and reminding men that they're worthy of love, and that's just the start. Chris Glantz https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-glantz-42a33213/ 

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Special Guest, Stan Glantz, Professor of Medicine and Director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education