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This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Silas Howard (@silash), award-winning trans filmmaker, to talk about why the 2024 horror-romcom Lisa Frankenstein Should've Been Gay. If you recall, we recently did an SBG episode on the 2022 series Darby and the Dead, which was directed by none other than Silas. So when we decided to do an episode on Lisa Frankenstein, we could not think of a more fitting guest for discussing this incredibly campy, queer-coded Halloweencore romcom. As you all know by now, monsters are super queer-coded. They are often depicted on the fringes of society, hiding in literal closets, and transforming their bodies in unique ways. If you identified with the misunderstood monster in horror movies growing up, you're probably some flavor of queer now. Lisa Frankenstein takes identifying with monsters a step further by making the transmasc-coded creature a love interest for the main character. The story follows Kathryn Newton's character Lisa Swallows (the jokes basically write themselves) and her growing friendship with a reanimated corpse. She seems entirely unconcerned with his whole being dead thing and doesn't mind one bit that he is missing certain body parts. Things get increasingly unhinged as Lisa begins helping her new friend get the body parts he needs to feel affirmed and comfortable in his newly reanimated skin. Everything in this film from the plot to the cast (Carla freaking Gugino is in this!) to the color palette to the over the top drag-influence on the costume design is too queer-coded to have been unintentional. Honestly even the morally ambiguous way that the characters approach killing is queer-coded. Even though the film doesn't go all the way there or expressly state anyone's sexuality, it's basically leaping off the screen the entire time. We know one thing for sure, Lisa Frankenstein Should've Been Gay(er). You can support Lez Hang Out while unlocking a bunch of awesome perks like access to our exclusive Discord, 23 and counting full-length bonus episodes (including our brand new episode on the dark comedy/psychological thriller Saltburn), weekly ad-free episodes, and more by joining us on Patreon at bit.ly/lezpatreon. You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch (use code lhospooky for 20% off your purchase through November 1st!) and purchasing our original Lez-ssentials songs for as little as $1 each on Bandcamp. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You can find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" is the latest horror miniseries from acclaimed director Mike Flanagan, the creative mind behind "The Haunting of Hill House," "Midnight Mass," "Hush," "Gerald's Game," "Doctor Sleep" and more. One of his frequent collaborators has been actress Carla Gugino, who always delivers stellar work in all of his projects, but with "The Fall Of The House Of Usher," she recently received a Critics Choice Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television. Receiving critical acclaim for her performance in miniseries, Gugino was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her work, her collaboration with Flanagan, and more. Please be sure to check out the show, which is now available to stream on Netflix and is up for your consideration in all eligible Emmy categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this down-to-earth conversation with distiller and outdoorsman Tony Gugino of Eighth District Distilling Co., some of the topics we discuss include: How Tony's childhood exploring and fishing in Upstate New York inform the way he moves through the natural world and experiments with botanicals in his spirits. The attributes and attentional faculties that separate experienced foragers from everybody else, and why foraging is less about memorizing plant names than it is about developing spatial awareness and being in open dialogue with the world around you. Then we use Tony's recent victory as a contestant on Moonshiners: Master Distiller as a case study for how to build a foraged spirit from the ground up, analyzing not just the ingredients he used, but how he braided them into a cohesive, symphonic product. We also delve into foraging for bartenders, specifically: using seasonality and natural harvest cycles as a way to break out of the cloistered, “riff on a classic” approach that can place some bartenders in a creative rut. But foraging isn't just for distillers and bartenders--it's for everyone, so we conclude by offering some advice for home bartenders who have the option to start experimenting with foraging at a truly intimate scale. Along the way, we cover all the reasons why I was jealous of Tony when I first met him, how to make salt - yeah, you heard me…salt, the connection between Mulberries, Silk, and Connecticut's textile industry, and much, much more. Featured Cocktail: The Golden Ghost This episodes' featured cocktail is: The Golden Ghost. To make it, you'll need: ¾ oz Espadin Mezcal ¾ oz Blanco Tequila ¾ oz of clear Creme de cacao ¾ oz genepy (which is a green alpine liqueur from France) 1 dash of orange bitters Combine the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, stir until well chilled and properly diluted, then strain into a Nick & Nora glass, garnish with a flaming star anise pod, and enjoy. The Golden Ghost is a Bijou riff minted by bartender Brian Evans of the bar Sunday in Brooklyn sometime around 2018. Instead of 1.5 oz of gin, you've got a split base of mezcal and tequila, which kinda tracks. Some of those mineral agave flavors can act like botanicals. The ¾ oz of creme de cacao nods to some of the deeper more confectionary notes that a good sweet vermouth will provide in the Bijou cocktail, with the genepy standing in for Chartreuse to tone down both the proof point and the pour cost.
Ronald Young Jr. reviews Lisa Frankenstein with Laura Nichols… Laura and RYJ discuss the meaning of horror elements and romp and what exactly applies hereLaura 4 of 5 starsRYJ 3 of 5 starsFollow me on IG, Tiktok, and Threads - @ohitsbigron Follow Laura Nichols on Twitter - @larr_bethAvailable in theatersStarring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest and Carla GuginoWritten by Diablo CodyDirected by Zelda WilliamsFor more information about Lisa Frankenstein check out this linkSupport Leaving the Theater on Patreon using this link
In today's episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo falls for Netflix's final Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Doctor Sleep”) collaboration, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The series follows two wealthy and powerful Pharmaceutical magnates whose family dynasty begins to wash away as their heirs start to meet horrifying ends. The series can be streamed in its entirety on Netflix and stars Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli, Willa Fitzgerald, Zach Gilford and more. READ MORE: 'The Fall Of The House Of Usher' Review: Mike Flanagan's Gothic ‘Succession' Is A Horror Tale Of Pharma Greed & Sackler Family Retribution Joining Bingeworthy to discuss the series is one of the stars, actress Carla Gugino (“The Haunting of Hill House," “Watchmen,” “Gerald's Game"). During the chat, Gugino, a longtime collaborator with writer/director Mike Flanagan, described jumping on board the project almost instantly and talked about her career at length. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theplaylist/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theplaylist/support
Carla Gugino has been quietly amassing one of the most diverse bodies of work in Hollywood, and it's about time that's recognized. She's got a disaster movie in San Andreas, loads of family-friendly adventure films including Race to Witch Mountain, Night at the Museum, and the Spy Kids movies, and she's currently soaring in the horror space with projects like Gerald's Game and The Haunting of Hill House. We'd be here all day if I listed everything, but do give her lengthy filmography a quick scan. I'd be willing to bet that in almost all cases, consecutive projects fall in different genres.Just recently, Gugino got the opportunity to show off a good deal of her seemingly limitless range in a single project, The Fall of the House of Usher. The stellar new Netflix series from Mike Flanagan and the “Flanafamily” focuses on Roderick and Madeline Usher, the extremely wealthy and powerful brother-sister duo pushing Fortunato Pharmaceuticals up and up while leaving a trail of dark secrets in their wake. They think they are untouchable, but when their heirs start dying one by one, they're forced to revisit past choices and reckon with Gugino's character, Verna, or rather, “The Raven.”While Verna is often seen in human form, she's not. As Gugino has explained in the past, “She's not the devil. She's not even evil.” She added, “You could say she's the executor of fate or the executor of karma.” Just before their death, each Usher sees a manifestation of Verna, and each version is different. It's a one-of-a-kind challenge and Gugino absolutely soars while tackling it, so much so that she was just honored with a Critics Choice Nomination for Best Actress in a Limited Series.In honor of that accolade, the success of The Fall of the House of Usher, and everything Gugino's accomplished in film and television thus far, she joined me for a Collider Ladies Night conversation and offered up a closer look at how she did what many strive to do in Hollywood — avoid being “boxed in” and build a career with a wealth of unique creative opportunities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The So Fly Crew sit with Hannah and Joe from Costa to talk about The Marlin Fly Project. This is a very cool undertaking to help researchers begin to learn more about striped marlin in Mag Bay. The project brought together a group of incredible fly anglers and scientists to tag fish, all with the goal of discovering different lifestyle habits of these beautiful creatures. Learn More: https://www.costadelmar.com/en-ca/c/marlin-fly-project This episode also features the Best HALLOWEEN Fishing Story Ever from Eric Lund of Esnagami Lodge, as read by Mitch.
Alexis Hejna, Dorian Price, Jason Teasley and Robert Winfree present their The Fall of the House of Usher 2023 miniseries Review! The Fall of the House of Usher is an American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. All eight episodes were released on Netflix on October 12, 2023, each directed by either Flanagan or Michael Fimognari, the latter also acting as cinematographer for the entire series.Loosely based on various works by 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe (most prominently the eponymous 1840 short story), the series adapts otherwise-unrelated stories and characters by Poe into a single nonlinear narrative set from 1953 to 2023, and recounts both the rise to power of Roderick Usher, the powerful CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company and his sister Madeline, and the events leading to the deaths of all six of his children. It stars an ensemble cast led by Carla Gugino as a mysterious woman plaguing the Ushers, and Bruce Greenwood as an elderly Roderick.The first two episodes of The Fall of the House of Usher premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2023 before the Netflix release the following month, being viewed over 13 million times in its first two weeks. It was met with positive reviews, with critics praising its production values, directing, and performances (in particular from Gugino, Greenwood and Mark Hamill), although they were divided on its narrative, notably in relation to the source materials.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsoFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulich
Joe Gugino is the Conservation & Community Partnerships Manager at Costa Sunglasses. Today he talks about what Costa is and what they represent. They have many conservation initiatives and film projects. We talk about how Costa is partnered with the TU 5 Rivers program as well as many others. Joe also shares some stories about saltwater fly fishing and the cool species he catches. As we're finishing up this season of Emerging we are asking for some feedback on our show. If you fill the survey out by May 31st you will be entered to win a pair of Costa sunglasses! You can find the link to the survey in the episode description or in our Instagram bio. Check out the links below to find some cool Costa gear and learn about their projects. Emerging Podcast Survey Costa's Website Costa's YouTube Channel
Why do masks never seem to fit right?! Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy! In this episode: What is 3D Fit? The challenges of masks fitting properly on public health & safety workers How technology can improve the fit of masks Find out from Mike Gugino, inventor of 3D FIT! Mike has worked in the respiratory protection fit testing process for many years and has oversaw thousands of annual fit tests. Mike knows the frustrations around fit testing all too well and while he was working in this role, he decided that there had to be a better way. So he created the app 3D FIT (still in development!) as an alternative respiratory protection fit test that only utilizes a smart device. Thanks to his innovation, Mike will help save first resopnder and medical workers time while making them safer with better fitting masks! Join our SFF Community! Head to www.smartfirefighting.com to discover how SFF accelerates innovation for emergency responders, to find out when our next event is or review our curated resources! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/395 Presented By: Zoe Angling Group, Yellowstone Teton, Drifthook, Range Meal Bars Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors Joe Gugino of Costa Del Mar takes us into the conservation work they've been focusing on to protect the species we love. We find out where Joe's passion for striped bass comes from, what the American Saltwater Guides Association has going on right now, and how Planet Purpose Solutions is helping Costa fulfill their vision in conservation. Taking the glare off the water and the big conservation issues today. Costa Del Mar Conservation Show Notes with Joe Gugino 3:44 - Joe talks about how he got into fly fishing when he was still in Connecticut where he and his brothers grew up. He started on saltwater and striped bass which has been his number one species. 6:01 - He talks about the fluctuating population of striped bass over the years and the work they do in Costa Del Mar to address that problem. 8:47 - We go into detail about what he does in Costa as the Conservation and Community Partnerships Manager. 11:09 - We dig into their products including my favorite the C-Mates Readers. He recommends their copper base lenses. In episode 272 with Evan Russell from Costa, we talked about how to choose polarized sunglasses for fishing. 14:09 - He shares Costa's plans and upcoming conservation programs for both salt and freshwater. 15:54 - We talk about episode 390 with Darren Calhoun. He also shares his experience when his team and their partners went to the Wind River Reservation this summer and what he loved about the area. 19:45 - He shares more about the Protect Report that they will release in time for their 40th anniversary next year. He also tells how Planet Purpose Solutions is helping them with their conservation programs. 21:40 - He mentions the Kick Plastic movement. 23:27 - We dig into how Costa's focus on conservation started. 26:43 - He takes us back to when he was first contacted by Costa when he started a fishing company. 30:34 - He talks about their activity of tagging marlins and stripers with the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) to see where these groups of fish are going and how they can protect them. 34:25 He describes Magdalena Bay and tells about their plan to go there with the Costa team, Costa pros, Indifly, and scientists from the Billfish Foundation and IGFA. 40:07 - He explains the importance of community involvement in conservation to create a positive impact on the environment. 41:14 - He tells where people can access their Protect Report. He also reveals the new sustainability hub on the Costa Del Mar website which is sort of a condensed version of the Protect Report. 42:21 - We dig into plastic pollution and their efforts to address this. He mentions the experts whom they are working with for this cause which are Planet Purpose Solutions and 5 Gyres Institute. 45:13 - He talks about their successful work with Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) which was the Project Permit and the short film called A Pathway for Permit. It tells the story of their collaborative efforts to conserve and protect the Florida Key's permit fishery. 47:34 - We talk about football and the team he is supporting. Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/395
In this week's podcast, we bring on Adam Gugino, Co-Founder of UNBLINDED.He has helped scale 0-500 employees at Momentum Solar, Ran all the sales and marketing, and is on his way to making a MASSIVE IMPACT!Such a great podcast about mastering your influence, becoming a greater leader, and the skills needed to get there. If you haven't yet, go check out UNBLINDED with Sean Callagy and Adam Gugino! There is so much opportunity to invest in yourself and it should be frequent if you want to make an impact. D2Dcon 6 is right around the corner! Get your tickets at https://d2d.ticketspice.com/d2dcon-6Thank you for listening! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube!You may also follow Sam Taggart on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for more nuggets on D2D and Sales Tips.If you learned something from this episode, join us for D2DCON 6 on January 19th - 21st for the most epic event in Salt Lake City!
We can find parallels between the state of America and the nation of Judah in Isaiah chapter one. Pastor Gugino and I discuss the current cultural trends and the church's solutions.
Joe Gugino is the conservation and community partnerships manager at Costa sunglasses, and a darn good one! Without him, the 5 Rivers program, Kick Plastic, the Untangled collection and all the other awesome projects Costa funds would not be possible. Here is the first Protect Purpose Report by Costa, which will tell you all about the incredible work they do. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Joe! Stay tuned for more IFTD conversations coming soon.
Pastor Gugino gives helpful insights on raising up Christian ministers and laymen inside of the church. He also gives advice to pastors who are in a building program.
Gunpowder Milkshake is one of those films that has all the elements to be really good but fails to live up to the potential and the cast. It's one of the cardinal sins of a film with a great cast and an interesting concept. Seriously, with a cast of women like Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh, Gunpowder Milkshake didn't have to try hard to get our attention. The mistake comes from where the attention is put in this film and not leaning on why the audiences were interested in the first place. You would think that this film would focus mostly on ‘The Librarians', the secret sisterhood of assassins. However this film oddly enough doesn't give us enough of them. This film should have been treated as an ensemble film but instead it focused mostly on Gillan's Sam and only gives us pieces of the lore behind The Librarians. It's a puzzling choice. Especially since when the film focuses on the women of the movie, it works very well. The chemistry between the cast is great. Chloe Coleman as the young Emily is also a great addition and works really well with everyone. It tis a little disappointing that we didn't get enough of Paul Giamatti being over-the-top Giamatti but what we do get works. One thing I can't help but feel is that this film would have been better in the hands of a female director and writer. Yes, men can and should be able to write and direct female-centered films well. But in many cases, there's a clear lack of understanding the assignment. Gunpowder Milkshake falls into that category. It feels like the veterans Basset, Yeoh, Headey and Gugino were able to salvage this film from being a complete disaster just based off of their own talent and not because of what they were given with the script. There's a lot of forced “Girl Power” moments that feel as if they were clearly written by a man (and they were) and don't do this cast justice. This film is entertaining enough and apparently there's a sequel being developed. I hope that the lessons learned from this first outing are taken to heart and I really hope they hand the reigns over to a woman to do it justice. Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Follow us on Twitter: @Phenomblak @InsanityReport @TheMTRNetwork Our shirts are now on TeePublic. https://teepublic.com/stores/mtr-network Want more podcast greatness? Sign up for a MTR Premium Account!
1 part Kill Bill, 2 parts John Wick, and top generously with stylized action sequences...this week we ordered up a Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), the latest in the shoot-em up genre from Netflix. Come listen and find out if it delivered.Subscribe, rate and review:Apple Podcasts: Our Film FathersSpotify: Our Film FathersGoogle Podcasts: Our Film FathersStitcher: Our Film FathersAmazon Music: Our Film Fathers-----------------------Follow us:Instagram: @ourfilmfathersTwitter: @ourfilmfathersEmail: ourfilmfathers@gmail.com
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Carla Gugino catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her new Netflix film, Gunpowder Milkshake. We hear all about making a visually fantastic film, incorporating famous authors into the story, and having Janis Joplin's version of Piece of My Heart soundtracking one of her fight scenes. The Haunting of Hill House actress goes on to tell us about the music that influenced her early years, which includes The Cure, Oingo Boingo, Liz Phair, and her recent favorites like Lana Del Rey and Coutney Barnett. Gugino also discusses the brilliance of David Bowie, the new Sparks documentary, and her friendship with Jenny Lewis, who she starred with in 1989's Troop Beverly Hills. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Some stylistic cool stuff, but the love-orphan of "John Wick" and "Kill Bills fails to hit. Gillan and the all-girl murder squad of Headey, Yeoh, Gugino, and Bassett do what they can. Unfortunately hampered with over long sequences, slo-mo, and one of the worst soundtracks in modern cinema. #gunpowdermilkshake #karengillan #netflix --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/toddlyden/message
Martin Gugino, the elderly protester who was pushed by Buffalo police in an incident seen around the world last year, is now suing the City of Buffalo.
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On this episode of the SeaBros Fishing Podcast we catch up with our friend and fellow fisherman Joe Gugino.Joe is based out of Winthrop Massachusetts, and spends most of his time on the water in the areas surrounding Boston Harbor and North Shore, MA chasing trophy striped bass.Taylor and I met Joe in 2019 when we sat down to discuss becoming a part of the Costa Sunglasses pro-program, which Joe helps coordinate in his role as "Fishing Community Leader" with Costa.During our conversation, Joe discusses how he maintains relationships with all of the pros, anglers, and charter captains that are affiliated with Costa, but the majority of our time is spent discussing his rookie year of offshore fishing in the NE Canyons and local tournaments.Joe is an energetic guy and is full of great stories and experiences. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and we hope you enjoy as well!Stay Tight!- Taylor & BryanSponsors, Information, and Links from this podcast episode:SponsorsDeep ApparelMass Bay GuidesLT Marine ProductsGuest InfoJoe Gugino@joeguginoJoe's Instagram@costasunglassesCosta InstagramWhy Knot Fishing@whyknotfishingWhyKnot InstagramSocial MediaSeaBrosFishing: @seabrosfishingMBG Fishing Charters: @massbayguidesBryan: @mbgbryanTaylor: @mbgtaylorSeaBros Fishing WebsiteMass Bay Guides WebsiteSupport the show (http://www.seabrosfishing.com)Support the show (http://www.seabrosfishing.com)
Joe Gugino lives in Massachusetts and has a ton of experience chasing striper. This is a species of fish that I have very little experience with, so it was very interesting to learn about the fishing, the culture, the issues that they are facing, and much more. One thing that really intrigued me from this conversation was the issues that arise with dealing with multiple states regulating a migratory fish. In this case, 13 different states. We talk about this, fishing tactics, and even some deep sea fishing in this episode. Be sure to share this with someone who you think would be interested in learning more about striper. This episode is brought to you by these great sponsors: Barracuda Tackle - Makers of the best cast nets on the market BarracudaTackle.com Empire Boat Covers - Protect All The Things You Love - empirecovers.com/TRP Boat Hammock Stands - Comfortable Boating Awaits - boathammockstand.com Fishing Points - 30% off A Yearly Subscription - tomrowlandpodcast.com/points This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts @waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollective Find over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on Waypoint You can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes at Tomrowlandpodcast.com Learn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites: Saltwater Experience Into the Blue Sweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We all carry a book within us that tells our own story, each one is different and it is up to each person to make it interesting. The story of an entrepreneur often has unexpected twists that catch the attention of the audience. To make it an interesting story you must take the risks into account. A true entrepreneur takes risks, dares to explore, and ventures into new territories. Integrity, working under this concept makes you extraordinary, not all of us are capable of loving others unconditionally and of offering the best for them even if it is not 100% beneficial for us. The formula that we must apply to turn our history around is the following: Influence Mastery: This is well known and used in the world of sales, it is not about manipulating people but guiding them to what is best for them. Process Mastery: Success implies a process. You can have all the heart in the world, but if you don't have a defined process, you won't get anywhere. Self Mastery: Definitely, personal development is necessary to achieve advancement in career development. Let go of the fear of failure and rejection, otherwise, you will be inhibited from receiving other benefits in your life. This is the formula that Adam Gugino applies in the story of his life. Adam Gugino, a specialist in Ecosystem Merging, call centers, outside sales, inside sales, marketing, and client service. Now is currently CRO at Unblinded Mastery. His purpose and mission are to bring the best out of people by helping them find the passion and motivators that drive them on the path of success. If you want to learn how to apply this formula in your life, stay until the end of this Podcast and remember: There is no price tag you can put on lives in integrity and aligned with your true identity. - Adam Gugino. In this episode, we explore: How to turn your story around How to achieve outcomes with effective processes How to apply his 3-part success formula How to confront and talk always from a love position Connect with Adam Gugino: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamguge/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agugino LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgugino/ Phone Number: +1 372 672 90 02 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwAyi8aeDwojtaC2hlbam9A Website: https://unblindedmastery.com/ Hit me up on social media and say hi! Youtube: https://bit.ly/35nJ0uV Podcast: https://ericbalance.com/podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericbalance/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericbalancecoaching Website: https://www.ericbalance.com/
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As someone with an extensive professional history in sales, I’ve seen my fair share of marketing gimmicks attached to companies with little to no genuine interest in the people working for them. It’s so rare to see businesses, particularly of a corporate nature, have such welcoming and driven individuals working at the helm, which is why I’m so excited to announce my guest today! Joining me on the podcast is someone with a hunger to integrate personal development into the everyday culture at both ‘Unblinded’ and ‘Momentum Solar’, Adam Gugino! Adam is a Chief Revenue Officer and has won multiple awards within the Sales and Directing fields respectively. He is someone who has always had a passion for collaboration and authenticity in business and shares his personal experience of getting to where he is today in this episode. We discuss how Adam became involved in Sean Callagy’s ‘Unblinded’ movement, who is also a previous guest of ‘Orange Crushing It’, why Adam chose to leave a stable job to pursue his dream of starting a company, and what it means to bring someone to the magic ‘yes’ in sales. If you’re interested to hear more, tune in to Episode 21 of Orange Crushing It!Some Questions I Ask:How did you become involved in Sales & When did you recognize it was something you wanted to pursue? (6:36)How do you create a fun and welcoming workplace for your employees in a field that can feel potentially difficult? (9:43)Could you share what your one distinction or shift was when deciding to leave your company, ‘ADP’? (17:46)What motivated you to sell out shows over the Thanksgiving period when initially working at ‘Unblinded’? (28:17)Where do you see things going in the next year for yourself and ‘Unblinded’? (32:06)In This Episode You Will Learn:Some background on Adam Gugino (1:20)Why I have created the ‘Orange Crushing It’ movement (4:16)What Adam learned through the process of building his team and creating company culture at ‘Momentum Solar’ (12:24)Why rejection is an important part of our journey (15:27)Sean Callagy’s ‘80/20 Rule’ (22:20)How Adam met and began working with Sean Callagy (23:53)My acknowledgment of Adam’s integrity and perseverance (30:48)Why we need to have genuine belief and unconditional love for everything (32:23)What a ‘yes’ means to someone (33:26)Adam’s mission statement for ‘Unblinded’ and the industry (35:35)Let’s Connect!WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramConnect With Adam Gugino:LinkedInInstagramFacebookPhone: (732) 672-9002‘Unblinded Mastery’ - Website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Armed militants allied with Donald Trump have begun showing up at Black Lives Matter uprisings around the country. It’s not right to call them counter-protests, when their goal is to intimidate! Meanwhile, soldiers for two nuclear-armed states are going at each other with clubs and fists in one of the most remote parts of the world. We give you the best information we have on the Himalayan border conflict between India and China. And lastly: Oxford University researchers report a breakthrough COVID-19 treatment. Better still, it involves a cheap steroid drug that’s widely available across the world. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Trumpist Militants Swarm BLM Peaceful protesters in at least ninety-eight cities across the US suffered chemical attack by police departments in recent weeks, according to the New York Times. Such indiscriminate use of tear gas has not been seen stateside since the 1960s and ’70s, when police used it to disperse civil rights and anti-war marches. But these crowd-control weapons are even more dangerous now, on account of the coronavirus. In Buffalo, New York, the seventy-five-year-old white man attacked by police last week remains in rehab. Martin Gugino’s lawyer told CNN the police left him with a skull fracture, and he can no longer walk. In a statement through his lawyer, Gugino said QUOTE there are plenty of other things to think about besides me ENDQUOTE. All the same, best wishes. Nearly sixty Buffalo cops resigned from their department emergency-response unit after the attack on Gugino. CNN also reported that officers in South Florida, Atlanta, and Minneapolis were resigning from crowd-control assignments – or from policework entirely. In Richmond, Virginia, the chief resigned after a police SUV drove through a crowd of protesters. Donald Trump met privately with the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the young man murdered by white suburbanites while jogging in Georgia. Trump also signed an executive order yesterday banning police chokeholds – unless the officer fears for his life. As critics noted, Trump’s order has loopholes big enough to drive an armored vehicle through. Reactionary forces appear to be escalating their violence ahead of Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday. Some press are calling these counter-protests, but it’s more accurate to say they are shows of force by pro-Trump militants -- who are, to varying degrees, in league with police. In Missoula, Montana, hundreds of people rallied to protest the recent appearance of such militants at pro-BLM events. In the small town of Bethel, Ohio, seven hundred right-wing militants – some armed with guns or baseball bats, and belonging to motorcycle gangs -- showed up to intimidate a group of eighty BLM demonstrators. Police joined a Back the Blue event in South Philadelphia to defend a Columbus statue, and to support a police captain who accused journalists of inciting a riot. In Seattle, known members of violent rightwing groups showed up to make trouble at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. In Troy, New York, several men were arrested after bringing body armor and assault rifles to a BLM event. Police said they also carried a tactical manual from the rightwing New England Militia. And in Albuquerque, New Mexico, rightwing militia claimed they had no knowledge of a man who was arrested after firing shots into a crowd of protesters. The shooter, Steven Ray Baca, sought to protect a statue of a sixteenth-century conquistador who slaughtered indigenous people. Police radio reportedly described the rightwingers as QUOTE armed friendlies ENDQUOTE. Despite such threats, uprisings continue around the globe. Our best count has more than thirty-five hundred protests since May 25, most of them in the US. India-China Conflict Kills 20 Border skirmishes between India and China have escalated, and this is very bad news for the whole world. Both countries have nuclear weapons. At least twenty Indian Army soldiers died in fighting along the contested border with China in the Himalayas on Monday. They were the first soldiers to die along that border in forty-five years. Indian sources claimed the Chinese also suffered casualties, but China did not confirm this. China may have captured dozens of Indian soldiers, according to the New York Times. Good information from the remote border region is hard to come by. Neither side claims shots were fired. Reports say the opposing soldiers went after one another with rocks, clubs, and fists. Some of the clubs may have been studded with nails or wrapped with barbed wire. That this could take place in 2020 shows you how much sense it makes for any country to maintain nuclear weapons. The whole thing may have begun after an Indian officer fell into a gorge, leading to a call for reinforcements, according to the Guardian. This is not the first recent skirmish in the border area, as listeners know, but it is the most deadly. China sees an ulterior motive in India’s expansion of road infrastructure. And the suspicion goes both ways. China has also fortified its position. Everybody, keep it cool. Please? Breakthrough Coronavirus Treatment Reported Scientists reported a major breakthrough in coronavirus treatment. For the first time, a randomized clinical trial showed that a cheap, commonly available drug can increase the chance of survival in COVID-19 patients. The drug, dexamethasone (DEXUH-METHO- ZONE), is used to treat the inflammation that goes with many conditions, including arthritis and asthma. The clinical trial was carried out by researchers at Oxford University. The results have not been peer reviewed. But doctors and scientists expressed strong optimism about what their British counterparts reported. Per the BBC, the trial found patients on ventilators who received the steroid drug were one-third less likely to die. And the drug may also prevent some of the organ damage caused by people’s own immune systems that can happen with COVID-19. The lead researcher, Martin Landray, said the benefits are clear, and the drug is globally available. Essentially, he said, it costs thirty-five pounds -- or forty-four dollars -- to save a life. But what will the insurance companies say? A breakthrough couldn’t come at a better time: yesterday Florida, Texas and Arizona all reported record one-day increases in coronavirus cases. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: Pacific Gas and Electric pleaded guilty to eighty-four counts of manslaughter for its role in the 2018 Camp Fire. That fire claimed as many lives as there were manslaughter charges – plus one death, ruled a suicide. Yesterday the California utility’s CEO, Bill Johnson, stood in Butte County court and answered guilty to every criminal charge. That certainly hurt more than the modest three-point-five million dollar fine agreed to in the plea deal with prosecutors. A new book by Donald Trump’s only known niece describes the family as QUOTE a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse ENDQUOTE. The author, Mary L. Trump, is a trained clinical psychologist. Her book is titled Too Much and Never Enough. The publisher, Simon and Schuster, is also putting out former Trump adviser John Bolton’s book, which the White House is attempting to suppress. The German public broadcaster reported yesterday that for three decades before reunification, officials in West Berlin knowingly placed homeless children with foster parents who were pedophiles. Researchers at Hildesheim University interviewed victims and pored over records to make the shocking determination. They found the so-called experiment was effectively sanctioned at the highest levels, and included prominent academics. An internal Central Intelligence Agency report -- released yesterday to the public in redacted form -- found the largest data theft in Agency history took place because the people involved were too focused on building new weapons. The data theft took place in 2016 and was revealed in 2017 by Wikileaks, in the release the website called Vault Seven. No doubt everyone at the CIA has learned a lot of valuable lessons since then. That’s all for the AM Quickie. Join us this afternoon on the Majority Report. June 17, 2020 - AM Quickie HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn
My second day of ranting about Martin Gugino & Trump calling him an Antifa member. At best, Martin Gugino belongs to the AARP and Medicare Gang.
My second day of ranting about Martin Gugino & Trump calling him an Antifa member. At best, Martin Gugino belongs to the AARP and Medicare Gang.
Today on the Show: Martin Gugino's Abuse by Buffalo cops and and his history as a long time Witness against torture. Also, on a brand new edition of the Flashpoints Election Crimes Buletin with Greg Palast, we examine last night's Georgia election heist. And we'll have an important update on an upsurge of corvid19 in a number of states. The post Background on Martin Gugino, The 75 Year Old Protester Attacked By Buffalo PD appeared first on KPFA.
Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Georgia’s primary election devolved into an absolute mess on Tuesday, as voters and poll workers reported major problems with new voting machines and extremely long lines in a state that has struggled with overt voter suppression by the ruling Republican party for years. Meanwhile, Donald Trump falsely accused the 75-year-old protester who was brutally injured by Buffalo, New York police of being a quote “Antifa provocateur,” further pushing the baseless conspiracy that blames widespread protests on far-left radicals. And lastly, protesters in Seattle establish a quote “autonomous zone” on the city’s Capitol Hill, created when police abandoned their embattled East Precinct after days of demonstrations outlasted the cop’s brutal response. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Georgia Primary Mess It was election day in Georgia on Tuesday, and across the state, people struggled to vote. Georgia has a particularly troublesome history with voter suppression, and this election cycle was no different. Nikema Williams, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, told the New York Times that she got 84 text messages complaining of voting problems just 10 minutes after the polls opened at 7 a.m. The main problem this time around appears to be the voting machines, which appear to have failed on a widespread scale, as well as new delays caused by sanitizing the machines and social distancing, which led some in-person voters to wait six to seven hours. If you remember, this is the same state where Bryan Kemp won the race for Governor after leading widespread voter roll purges during his time as Georgia Secretary of State. Kemp’s own Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, ostensibly mailed everyone in the state a vote-by-mail ballot, but some people said they didn’t get them, and were forced to vote in person. Raffensperge blamed the long lines and voting delays on poll workers not knowing how to operate the new machines. Shouldn’t it be his job to, you know, teach them? The chaos is bad for Georgia’s primaries, which will set the ballot for a lot of consequential state house and national offices in November, but it’s even worse as an omen for how that election will go. Georgia is expected to be a battleground state between Trump and Biden in November, and it’s clear that the Republicans are already testing out the various suppression measures they’ll use to keep it from being a fair fight. Case in point: many of the delays and issues were worst in the two counties that comprise metro Atlanta, which lean Democratic. And it wasn’t just Georgia: voters in South Carolina’s primary yesterday also reported long lines at polling stations. This is definitely going to be a nationwide trend in November, and it’s important that we recognize what it looks like before it happens. Trump Claims Elderly Pacifist is Antifa Donald Trump sank to, well, not his lowest point of the current news cycle, but certainly a new depth on Monday, when he said that the 75-year-old man critically injured by Buffalo police during a protest was a quote “Antifa Provocteur.” endquote. In reality, Martin Gugino is a long-time peace activist, who marched in the Buffalo Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrated for many other causes over the years. On Thursday night last week, Buffalo police shoved him to the ground so violently that he cracked his head on the concrete. He’s still in the hospital. That didn’t stop Trump from tweeting on Tuesday that Gugino was connected to a conspiracy theory promoted by the president’s new favorite source, One America News Network, that alleged Antifa were trying to knock out police radios with scanner devices. This obviously makes no sense whatsoever: Neighbors, friends, and fellow activists described Gugino as an inquisitive, gentle and friendly person who loved to attend speaking events at the local radical bookstore and was once asked to critique student presentations for an environmental studies class at the University at Buffalo. Gugino is still in a delicate state in the hospital, as friends say he’s still in immense pain whenever he sees bright light or moves his head. He may not consider himself antifa, but it’s pretty clear that he’s not on the same side as the fascists that nearly killed him. Seattle Protesters Set Up Autonomous Zone Protesters in Seattle have won a victory of sorts, setting up a semi-autonomous zone outside of police control in the vicinity of the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. The cops abandoned the precinct on Monday, evacuating most of their supplies and reportedly moving in a mobile shredder unit to destroy documents. The Seattle Police has been particularly brutal with protesters, waging battle with rubber bullets, flash bang grenades, pepper balls and massive amounts of tear gas night after night, despite elected officials’ promises to push them to de-escalate. But protesters have weathered it all, creating their own riot shields and steadfastly returning to the area around the precinct night after night to protest, according to Capitol Hill Seattle. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says that the police’s retreat from the East Precinct was a deliberate attempt to de-escalate the strategy, and protesters have filled the void of violence by creating a strange, peaceful autonomous zone in the blocks surrounding it. On Tuesday afternoon, the Capitol Hill Seattle blog reported that the protesters have used abandoned police barricades to block off sections of the area to traffic, creating a twisting maze and setting up tents to keep themselves dry when it rains. Activists also reportedly planned to stay the night on Tuesday night. The conservative rumor mill, however, is convinced that antifa means to burn down the precinct, whereas leftist protesters worry that right wing agitators or the cops themselves are going to try something to incite more blame. Either way, it’s a fascinating development to how the protests are remaking urban spaces and challenging the police’s role and presence in our cities. Keep an eye on this story today to see how the autonomous zone shakes out. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: The boutique fitness world is in turmoil as CrossFit’s CEO Greg Glassman stepped down on Tuesday after telling gym owners that quote “we’re not mourning for George Floyd.” His comments provoked many gyms, which pay money to the global CrossFit brand to use its trademarks, to separate themselves from the system. Vincent D’Andraia, the NYPD officer who was captured on video violently shoving a young woman to the ground, has been arrested and charged with assault. New York prosecutors are considering bringing misconduct or criminal charges against as many as 40 other NYPD officers in connection to their behavior at the protests. The U.S. may be slowly reopening, but around the world the coronavirus is on the rise, particularly in Latin America, where many countries are being pushed to the brink by rising cases. On Sunday, new cases reached a global high at 136,000, mostly in that region and parts of South Asia. And finally, remember Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, the so-called Democrat running against AOC in the primary for her seat in Congress? You know, the one who criticized AOC for living in a quote “luxury apartment” in DC? Turns out, she has a $40 million investment portfolio. AOC was a bartender until 2018, so it seems like Caruso-Cabrera probably shouldn’t try to pull the working-class card on here there. That’s it for the Majority Report’s AM Quickie today. Stay tuned for the full show from Sam this afternoon! June 10, 2020 - AM Quickie HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn
Keith Giles, author and friend of Martin Gugino, the 75 year old pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, talks to Mary about Martin's involvement in the Black Lives Matter protests in the US.
Phoenix Karen gets a flavorful slap from a Native American woman that she put her hands on. Martin Gugino from Buffalo who was shoved to the ground prompted Trump to make a tasteless tweet about the situation. SMH! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
On this edition of The Geist Bucket Challenge Jack and Anna discuss the NYPD Chief, who has never heard of "self reflection", looking like Henry Winkler, Trump is tweeting about Martin Gugino, Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute have been fired from the cast of "Vanderpump Rules", and a new trailer dropped for 'Bill and Ted: Face the Music'. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
The So Fly Crew sits with Joe Gugino from Costa and Why Knot Fishing. Joe takes the fellas through the ins-and-outs of fly fishing for striped bass – a coveted fish they're all eager to one day catch. Links to the pages Joe references in the show: @bwhally @pogo_pike @joegugino @costasunglasses
We celebrate Thanksgiving this year the same way you celebrate Thanksgiving by talking about Pauly Shore's sexual prowess. And you thought you had nothing to be thankful about? (there may have been wine) Yes, we are covering Son-In-Law, a Thanksgiving adjacent film with heart, farmers, young Carla Gugino and the weez. We also cover Frozen 2, how did it stack up the original? How were the visuals? Rob, our resident musical consultant chimes in with his opinions on the new songs from the film. All this plus some Florida Dog news and a new album by Dog Fashion Disco. This week our question is What pop culture are we thankful for at the moment? Remember if you use our link (https://amzn.to/2KxR8OU) we get a little bit of money towards server costs at no extra cost to you. So go ahead and buy that Nicholas Cage Mermaid Pillow you definitely need. Segment Times 09:50: Weird Shit in Florida 12:58: Frozen 2 32:54: Son-In-Law 01:06:35: The Question We have a store! Check out our shirts, mugs, bags and phone cases here: Buy cool crap! And you can always reach us at givemefivepodcast@gmail.com or at our Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/givemefivepodcast/ Opening Theme Opening theme: GLOW by DJ Ten (feat LeBrock and ULTRABOSS ) Snap Decisions theme: Skin by DJ Ten (feat Mecha Malko) All artists available on Bandcamp Rant Theme - Samurai Cyberpunk by Shredder 1984 Available on Bandcamp
This week on the Mr. Skin Podcast, Mr. Skin recounts the hottest nude scenes from 2005. These are the best and most skintastic scenes that 2005 had to offer featuring loads of A-list stars in their hottest scenes, so listen to hear who makes the cut for the being fine in '05.
On this episode of the Mr. Skin Podcast, Mr. Skin and Andrea talk about nudity news like Nicole Kidman's boob slippage in the latest episode of Big Little Lies. They also talk about the TV nudity in Jett, Euphoria, grown-ish, City on a Hill, The Last Czars, and the return of Stranger Things which features Maya Hawke. She's Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman's daughter! They will also talk about Katherine Moennig's return to lesbian kissing and Melanie Griffith's topless paparazzi pics. All of this plus an interview with pornstar Lance Hart and Streamate SuzySirenXO.
Today on the Mr. Skin Podcast, Mr. Skin talks about the amazing three - yes, three - full frontal scenes in the show Jett. Not only that, but Mr. Skin will talk about movie nudity news like Julianne Moore naked in Gloria Bell and Lily James starring in Yesterday.
Today Mr. Skin and Andrea talk about Sydney Sweeney's boobs on the HBO Show Euphoria, Carla Gugino get's nude on the new Cinemax show Jett, more nudity from Vida and Doom Patrol, and more. Also, stick around to hear an interview with the AVN Award Winning adult star, Jillian Janson. This episode is sponsored by Streamate.
In this episode, Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Christopher (@chrisopotamia) discuss The Haunting Of Hill House (2018), Friends, The Spice Girls, Sabrina, and The Family Stone. Thanks for listening and TRY NOT TO DIE!! Follow us to give us some feedback and listen to episodes once we figure this sh*t out. Twitter: @DirtyHorrorPod Instagram: @dirtylittlehorrorpodcast Facebook: Dirty Little Horror Please leave a review if you have a moment. Dirty Little Horror is an LGBT Horror podcast where we try to find the gay subtext and make spooky dick jokes!
Televigion has returned! In a new more focused format and with a new name, Pilot Season. We (James and Rachel) will be recording regular episodes where we have watched the pilot episode of a show and then we'll chat for roughly half an hour. Sometimes we'll know the show, and sometimes we won't. Sometimes we'll like the show, and sometimes we won't. But we promise to have fun discussing it. This episode we're joined by The Televigion Mum, long time corresponder, first time guest! We're watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, a new adaptation of the influential and highly regarded 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson. It has been adapted by Mike Flanagan of Oculus, Hush and Gerald's Game fame and stars Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman and Timothy Hutton. For the future we're looking for recommendations and guests! Get in touch with us:- Televigion on Twitter, James on Twitter, Rachel on Instagram, Rachel on Twitter, The Televigion Blog or televigionist@gmail.com.
The close ties between Pes. Trump's new economic advisor and Buffalo's late Congressman Jack Kemp
Sean and Charles from Miskatonic Musings join us for a round of Gerald's Game(2017). Mike Flanagan (HUSH, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Oculus, etc.) directed the hell out of Stephen King's claustrophobic tale of bondage gone wrong starring Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, and Carel Struycken. Check the boys out at @MiskatonicPod and their iTunes Page, and hub. Sean has writing you can find at his webpage and on Amazon here.
The spooky season has arrived which means it's time for Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan to get ready for the ultimate scares. We begin this week with a review of Gerald's Game, the new film from Mike Flanagan that stars Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, and is also adapted from a Stephen King novel. We don't quite agree on this one, but there's plenty to talk about including how it deals with some of its more controversial topics, some third act woes, and whether Gugino holds her own in a movie reliant on her performance selling it. Not only that, but Chris can finally talk about American Made which he saw a month ago overseas. Meanwhile, Dylan watched Lucky as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival and talks about one of Harry Dean Stanton's final performances. We also discuss the latest season of You're The Worst and Dylan talks about the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. There's plenty of Avatar news and a pretty weak week of Blu-rays, but don't worry, we got you covered anyways. Next week, we'll be back to talk about Blade Runner 2049. Film Fallout is a weekly podcast about film and television, hosted on BagoGames.com. Every week, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss news happening in the industry, blu-ray releases coming out this week, what they’ve been watching, and then a review of one movie. You can listen to it on SoundCloud, iTunes, or on BagoGames. Also follow us on Instagram for some behind-the-scenes magic. We are both on Twitter, if you’d like to follow us there. Chris is @HammerkopCross, Dylan is @DreaminDylanS, and you can follow the podcast @Filmfalloutcast. And finally, there is a Facebook page for the podcast if you’d like to ‘like’ us on that.
Who knew that when I had Prof Ganley on to talk about Pres. Trump's tax reform and supply side economics , that one of the guys who was there when supply-side was birthed would call in?
Decent ep about a not great ep... or is it? Casual gun use is funny. Dissecting early Sunny. Gugino's, baby. We go a little heavy on the sound effects but also the show clips so it's cool. Gabe's points keep getting "stolen" before he gets to say them, which is also cool. If you don't want to listen to a 25 minute podcast about a mediocre 21 minute Sunny episode you can show yourself to the door.
Cage. Sinise. De Palma. SNAKE EYES. Gugino. Guzman. Kevin McAllister's Dad. Assassination. Boxing. Mystery. Nicholas Cage being crazy. Terrible shirt. Rewatchable? Roll the dice to find out. Also, Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. Also, follow us on Twitter. And please consider supporting our Patreon campaign. WARNING: this podcast contains strong language and immature subject matter, please be advised.
This week, The Last Row Podcast turns to the disaster movie genre, with a focus on The Rock’s San Andreas. Drew and Badway compare the earthquake epic to other natural disaster flicks, pondering on and off-screen body counts, overall mood, and whether Badway would be of any use in an emergency (he’s not). Other topics include: rioting, the ethics of saving your family over helping hundreds of others, disaster movie casting characteristics, and examining the future of the on-screen relationships after the credits roll.
Jamie and Doug's pirate-themed band just got their first gig...despite having no talent and being unable to play any song but Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Follow Good Times Great Movies on Facebook & Twitter and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher.
Ruggedly handsome, all-American good looks and school boy charm, Canadian-born actor, JAMES TUPPER (REVENGE, GREY’S ANATOMY, MERCY, MEN IN TREES), one of TV Guide’s Sexiest Starsand US Weekly’s Sexiest TV Men, will return to the big screen on December 7th in PLAYING FOR KEEPS alongside Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Dennis Quaid. Currently, Tupper stars as Emily Van Camp’s deceased father, ‘David Clarke’ on ABC’s mega-hit series REVENGE in which the whole series revolves around Emily’s vengeance to those who betrayed her father (Tupper). He also recently signed on to play the coveted role of ‘Richard Deaver’ in Jerry Bruckheimer’s highly anticipated NBC drama pilot THESECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. No stranger to the big screen, he starred opposite Jim Carrey in MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS as ‘Rick,’ the eco-fanatic boyfriend of Popper’s ex-wife (Gugino) and opposite Zac Efron and Claire Danes in ME AND ORSON WELLES. Tupper is also known for his roles on the small screen as the sexy ‘Dr. Andrew Perkins’ on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy, the sultry home-wrecking war hero, ‘Dr. Chris Sands,’ on NBC’s medical drama, “Mercy,””the sinfully sexy wildlife biologist, ‘Jack Slattery’ on ABC’s “Men in Trees,” and as the loveable philanthropist ‘Owen’ on ABC’s “Samantha Who.”
Ruggedly handsome, all-American good looks and school boy charm, Canadian-born actor, JAMES TUPPER (REVENGE, GREY’S ANATOMY, MERCY, MEN IN TREES), one of TV Guide’s Sexiest Starsand US Weekly’s Sexiest TV Men, will return to the big screen on December 7th in PLAYING FOR KEEPS alongside Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Dennis Quaid. Currently, Tupper stars as Emily Van Camp’s deceased father, ‘David Clarke’ on ABC’s mega-hit series REVENGE in which the whole series revolves around Emily’s vengeance to those who betrayed her father (Tupper). He also recently signed on to play the coveted role of ‘Richard Deaver’ in Jerry Bruckheimer’s highly anticipated NBC drama pilot THESECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. No stranger to the big screen, he starred opposite Jim Carrey in MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS as ‘Rick,’ the eco-fanatic boyfriend of Popper’s ex-wife (Gugino) and opposite Zac Efron and Claire Danes in ME AND ORSON WELLES. Tupper is also known for his roles on the small screen as the sexy ‘Dr. Andrew Perkins’ on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy, the sultry home-wrecking war hero, ‘Dr. Chris Sands,’ on NBC’s medical drama, “Mercy,””the sinfully sexy wildlife biologist, ‘Jack Slattery’ on ABC’s “Men in Trees,” and as the loveable philanthropist ‘Owen’ on ABC’s “Samantha Who.”
The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. 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The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. 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