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Photo: 2018: With some places expecting to be hit with air temperatures of over 40°C in the next days, much of Europe is in the grip of a heatwave – and one that is setting record highs for June. According to meteorologists this current bout of sweltering weather is down to hot air being drawn from north Africa.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The European record of 49 degrees Centigrade in Syracuse, Sicily. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/italy-may-have-recorded-europes-hottest-temperature-on-record/ Permissions: Observing the Earth Mission | Sentinel-3 System | Copernicus This image contains data from a satellite in the Copernicus Programme, such as Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 or Sentinel-3. Attribution is required when using this image. Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 The use of Copernicus Sentinel Data is regulated under EU law (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 377/2014). This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license. BlankMap-World-noborders.png Attribution: ESA, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
The Aussie share market will likely open lower, with the futures suggesting a fall of 0.3%. What to watch today: Inflation data will be released at 11:30am. The market expects consumer prices to grow 3.8% year on year. If inflation is higher than expected, further selling in the market may be seen today. At the NSW press conference at 11am this morning, the Premier will likely announce an extension to Sydney's lockdown. Stocks that will be impacted include Shopping Centres Australasia (ASX:SCP) and Vicinity Centres (ASX:VCX). Further selling is also expected in travel businesses, including Flight Centre (ASX:FLT) and Ingenia (ASX:INA). Life360 (ASX:360) reported better than expected earnings results. IGO (ASX:IGO) reported quarterly results with NPAT up 981% and free cashflow up 122%. Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) is due to report today after the market close. The oil price holds around US$72 a barrel. The copper price continues to rise 0.4%, while the iron ore price fell slightly. Trading Ideas: Ai-Media Technologies (ASX:AIM) is a Bell Potter BUY stock. It was upgraded with a new price target of $1.50, implying 63% share price growth in a year. QBE Insurance (ASX:QBE), Ampol (ASX:ALD) and Chimeric Therapeutics (ASX:CHM) are all giving of bullish charting signals according to Trading Central.
Photo: Hundreds of wildfires have broken out in Siberia, some of which can be seen in this image captured from space on 28 July 2019. Almost three million hectares of land are estimated to have been affected, according to Russia's Federal Forestry Agency. This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows a number of fires, producing plumes of smoke. The smoke has carried air pollution into the Kemerovo, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Altai regions. An unprecedented amount of wildfires have been raging in various regions of the Arctic, including Greenland and Alaska in the US. They have been caused by record-breaking temperatures and lightning, fuelled by strong winds. Wildfires release harmful pollutants and toxic gases into the atmosphere. According to the World Meteorological Organization, fires in the Arctic released around 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide in June alone – equivalent to Sweden's total annual emissions. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Earlier, hotter, bigger: the wildfires of Siberia and Pacific Northwest @JCBliss GLXXG https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Next-3-days-are-critical-in-battle-against-16334290.php Permissions: This media [sic; "image"] was created by the European Space Agency (ESA). Where expressly so stated, images or videos are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence, ESA being an Intergovernmental Organisation (IGO), as defined by the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence. The user is allowed under the terms and conditions of the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO license to Reproduce, Distribute and Publicly Perform the ESA images and videos released under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence and the Adaptations thereof, without further explicit permission being necessary, for as long as the user complies with the conditions and restrictions set forth in the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence,
This week I am thrilled to be joined but a serial entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Peter Voss. Peter coined the term "AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence) in 2001 with fellow luminaries in this fascinating area of Artificial Intelligence.Peter is the Founder/ CEO and Chief Scientist at AGI Innovations and IGO and published a book on Artificial General Intelligence in 2002. He is a technology innovator who has for the past 20 years been dedicated to advancing Artificial General Intelligence. His experience includes founding and growing a technology company from zero to a 400-person IPO. In 2008 Peter founded Smart Action Company, which offers the only call automation solution powered by an AGI engine. Peter is currently focused on commercializing the second generation of his AGI-based "Conversational AI" technology called "Aigo". It is implemented using a brain-like cognitive architecture – also known as "The Third Wave of AI".Peter also has a keen interest in the inter-relationship between philosophy, psychology, ethics, futurism, and computer science. You can follow and read his articles on Medium.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events! Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeAGI InnovationsAGIPaper on the Third Wave of AINarrow ( weak AI )ChatbotsLife ExtensionFuturismRay KurzweilAubrey De GreyDavid SinclairEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens
On the 194th episode of Audioface:REVIEWS: "Vince Staples" by Vince Staples, "USEE4YOURSELF" by IDK, and "Twin Shadow" by Twin Shadow.New Singles: "I Go" by Peggy Gou, "Gravity Glidin" by Masked Wolf, "Mafiosa" by Nathy Peluso, and "Motley Crew" by Post Malone.(If you haven't already, check out our 2-part Radiohead bonus episode in your preferred podcast app. Thank you to those who have sent positive feedback about the episode!) Lil Baby and NBA player James Harden have a run in with French authorities. The Vince Staples review. A street in New York state will soon be named after MF DOOM. The USEE4YOURSELF review. Britney Spears' attorneys for her conservatorship resign. The Twin Shadow review. Noted Little Bitch Daystar Peterson AKA Tory Lanez clunkily claims he's still moving albums, and Chris Brown's dog allegedly mauled Brown's housekeeper. ---SUPPORT AUDIOFACE!Subscribe to this podcast (or Follow on Spotify) so you don't miss new episodes on Mondays. Tell some friends about this show to keep it growing! We appreciate it, and you.Keep up with Audioface's 2021 Playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Gm0rc9gByK4idEhZw6oRu?si=a28c212ddf014641Reach out to us: https://twitter.com/audiofacepod/https://intsagram.com/audiofacepod/https://www.youtube.com/audiofacepod?sub_confirmation=1For advertising opportunities, email info (at) syndicate23 (dot) co
New times slot, still chock full of 2 hours of the best of new music, including tracks from Strand Of Oaks, Slothrust, Colleen Green and four shiny new covers! Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′15″ Big Natural by Izzy True on Our Beautiful Baby World (Don Giovanni) 3′47″ Galacticana by Strand Of Oaks on In Heaven (Galacticana Records/Thirty Tigers) ⭐️ 12′16″ Gloria by Angel Olsen on Aisles (somethingcosmic) 16′43″ Just Like Honey by Annie on Neon Nights EP (Self Released) 19′05″ You've Got A Woman by Natalie Bergman and Beck on You've Got A Woman (Third Man) 22′26″ Good Time by Stef Chura on How Many More Times (Father/Daughter) 30′05″ Iowa by Slow Pulp on Deleted Scenes (Winspear) 33′16″ 18 Cigarettes by Ducks Ltd. on Modern Fiction (Carpark) 36′44″ One More For The Ocean by Slothrust on Parallel Timeline (Dangerbird) 40′17″ I Wanna Be A Dog by Colleen Green on Cool (Hardly Art) 50′09″ Wounds Of Love by Nation Of Language on A Way Forward (Self Released) 53′19″ I Go by Peggy Gou on I Go (Gudu) 59′19″ Weekend Run by Unknown Mortal Orchestra on Weekend Run (Jagjaguwar) 64′02″ Chaeri by Magdelena Bay on Mercurial World (Luminelle) 71′47″ One More Last One by Wednesday on Twin Plagues (Orindal) 74′47″ Bad Luck by Hater on Bad Luck (Fire) 79′04″ We Cannot Resist by Lump on Animal (Partisan/Chrysalis) 83′33″ In The Shade by Noun on In The Shade EP (Self Released) 87′21″ Stuck On Hold by Freezing Cold on Stuck On Hold (Self Released) 93′56″ Rae Street by Courtney Barnett on Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists) 98′13″ If I Believed In Love by Foxing on Draw Down The Moon (Grand Paradise / Hopeless) 101′38″ Took A Minute by Molly Burch on Romantic Images (Captured Tracks) 104′53″ Dance To You by Morly on 'Til I Start Speaking (Cascine) 108′47″ This Time by Nite Jewel on No Sun (Gloriette) 117′03″ Stronger by Janelle Monae on We The People Soundtrack (RCA) Check out the full archives on the website.
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You can feel freedom in your nutrition if you follow the process. You can keep your metabolism cranking if you know how. Does food quality matter if you're hitting your numbers? How and why we use re-feeds with our clients and how your fitness can improve your daily life. Register for the FREE "Bringin' Flexy Back" 4-Week Mobility Challenge - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/mobility-challenge-intro Things we referenced in this episode: Metabolism Blog: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/blog/2020/2/18/the-real-deal-no-fluff-facts-on-calories-metabolism-and-fat-loss Fitness in 100 Words: https://tinyurl.com/s9zsxphh The 10 General Physical Skills: 1. Stamina: The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy. 2. Power: The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time. 3. Flexibility: The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint. 4. Coordination: The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement. 5. Accuracy: The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity. 6. Speed: The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement. 7. Balance: The ability to control the placement of the body's center of gravity in relation to its support base. 8. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance: The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen. 9. Agility: The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another. 10. Strength: The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force. Get notified when the FREE 4-Week Physique Template is Released - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Submit questions and You Go, I Go topics: www.digitalbarbell.com/podcast-q-a Want to work with Digital Barbell? You know you do. Custom Nutrition Coaching - Whether you're looking for better nutrition habits or you are trying to nail down the exact amount of protein, carbs and fat you should be eating, we can help. https://www.digitalbarbell.com/nutrition-coaching Want to get stronger? Digital Barbell BUILT (dumbbell and barbell version) Our PROVEN 12-Week Strength Program - FULLY COACHED! - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built Want to look like and feel like a million bucks? Digital Barbell BODY - 12 Week FULL BODY Fitness program. Expect amazing results! - FULLY COACHED! New groups start the first Monday of each month with registration opening the Monday prior. Read all about it here: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built - Get early bird access here. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Want results like no other with a custom workout program? Custom Training Programs Verrrrry limited availability, so reach out if you're interested. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/contact-us Our Email list where all the cool people get tons of free exclusive content and discounts. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list
Trying to lose weight and getting hungry? Try this. Family not supporting your goals? Here are our thoughts. Collagen protein stinks and here's why and you may have to change your identity to achieve your goals. Things we referenced in this podcast: Dealing with Hunger: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/blog/2020/2/13/practical-tips-and-tricks-for-how-to-avoid-and-deal-with-hunger-when-dieting Collagen Protein: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/blog/2019/5/31/collagen How to build habits: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/blog/2020/12/why-resolutions-dont-work-hack-your-habits-instead30 Register for the FREE "Bringin' Flexy Back" 4-Week Mobility Challenge - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/mobility-challenge-intro Get notified when the FREE 4-Week Physique Template is Released - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Submit questions and You Go, I Go topics: www.digitalbarbell.com/podcast-q-a Want to work with Digital Barbell? You know you do. Custom Nutrition Coaching - Whether you're looking for better nutrition habits or you are trying to nail down the exact amount of protein, carbs and fat you should be eating, we can help. https://www.digitalbarbell.com/nutrition-coaching Want to get stronger? Digital Barbell BUILT (dumbbell and barbell version) Our PROVEN 12-Week Strength Program - FULLY COACHED! - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built Want to look like and feel like a million bucks? Digital Barbell BODY - 12 Week FULL BODY Fitness program. Expect amazing results! - FULLY COACHED! New groups start the first Monday of each month with registration opening the Monday prior. Read all about it here: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built - Get early bird access here. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Want results like no other with a custom workout program? Custom Training Programs Verrrrry limited availability, so reach out if you're interested. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/contact-us Our Email list where all the cool people get tons of free exclusive content and discounts. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list
Want to get your first pull-up? Start here. Want to optimize your daily protein? Start here. Think you need a goal weight? Nah. Body composition is where it's at. How Blakley is working to build mental toughness and the nonsensical things we see on Instagram. Sign up to be notified when the 4-Week Physique program is available: www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Submit questions and You Go, I Go topics: www.digitalbarbell.com/podcast-q-a Want to work with Digital Barbell? You know you do. Custom Nutrition Coaching - Whether you're looking for better nutrition habits or you are trying to nail down the exact amount of protein, carbs and fat you should be eating, we can help. https://www.digitalbarbell.com/nutrition-coaching Want to get stronger? Digital Barbell BUILT (dumbbell and barbell version) Our PROVEN 12-Week Strength Program - FULLY COACHED! - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built Want to look like and feel like a million bucks? Digital Barbell BODY - 12 Week FULL BODY Fitness program. Expect amazing results! - FULLY COACHED! New groups start the first Monday of each month with registration opening the Monday prior. Read all about it here: https://www.digitalbarbell.com/digital-barbell-built - Get early bird access here. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list Want results like no other with a custom workout program? Custom Training Programs Verrrrry limited availability, so reach out if you're interested. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/contact-us Our Email list where all the cool people get tons of free exclusive content and discounts. - https://www.digitalbarbell.com/join-our-email-list
This is episode 20 of I Go to Shows in LA. It was recorded on 4-28-21 and my guest was Barry Sexton. Barry is a musician who plays in multiple projects, primarily in Orange County, California. He also performs all kinds of roles at FTG recording studio/venue. This was Barry's second time on the podcast so we primarily talked about his experience playing shows this time, rather than shows he's attended as a music fan. Thanks to Barry for hanging out again, it was lots of fun.
From the US, Texas & Canada 1st for Weekly neo-traditonal & classic Country program Fred's Country 2021 w # 16 : since october 1983 Part 1: - Easton Corbin, All over the Road - All over the Road - 2013/Mercury - Brian Callihan, Broke It Down - Brian Callihan – 2020/BCM - Brandi Behlen, Gypsy - Brandi Behlen – 2020/BCM - Triston Marez feat Ronnie Dunn, Where the Neon Lies - S – 2021/TTM Part 2: - James Dupré, City Of Single Girls - Home and Away – 2020/Fleur de Magnolia Music - Waylon N Nihipali, In a Another Truck - S – 2021/WNM - Kylie Frey feat Randy Houser, Horses in Heaven - S – 2021/MMM - George Navarro , Lost In A Kiss - S – 2020/GNM Part 3: - Randall King, I'll Fly Away - Leona – 2021/WB - Travis Tritt, Smoke in a Bar - Set in Stone – 2021/Set in Stone - Travis Tritt, It's a Great Day to Be Alive - Down the road I Go – 2000/Columbia - George Strait, Rythm of the Road- 7 – 1986/MCA Part 4: - David Adam Byrnes, Signs - Neon Town – 2020/DABM - Mich Rossel feat Thrisa Yearwood, - Ran into to You - S - 2021/ - Kaleb McRide, Plano Texas - S – 2021/KMM - Jaden Hamilton, Bad Spot - S – 2021/JHM
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Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.lifepresents Tuesday April 11, 2021 @ 11:00 AM EST 4:00 PM UK 5:00 PM Germany Freedom International Livestream www.FreedomBroadcasters.com (affiliate website) Guest: Sacha Stone https://sachastone.com/ Topic: At the End of Evil Empire Bio: Sacha is an activist, public speaker, publisher, writer and film-maker. Former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999 and has worked across both the NGO and IGO sectors as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of vanguard innovators, scientists and doctors. Sacha founded the New Earth Project an evolving blueprint for sustainable, sovereign and self-determining communities, headquartered out of the world renowned (Akasha) NewEarth Haven in Bali. Sacha is also founder of the ITNJ International Tribunal for Natural Justice, which launched under multilateral observership in June 2015 via a ceremonial seating and ratification ceremony at Westminster Central Hall in London on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. This new planetary court is committed to the dispensation of natural justice: www.humanitad.org Interview Panel Dr. Karl Moore, PhD Podcast: Made in Nature https://www.facebook.com/MadeInNaturePodcast/ Dr. Jayne Marquis, ND Podcast: INpowered Mind Body Integration https://linktr.ee/INpoweredhealth Dr. Mary Elizabeth Mansfield, PhD Podcast: Mindful Empowerment https://linktr.ee/MindfulEmpowerment Grace Asagra, RN MA Podcast: Quantum Nurse https://linktr.ee/GraceAsagra www.quantumnurse.life Hartmut Schumacher Podcast: GO YOUR OWN PATH https://anchor.fm/hartmut-schumacher-path Steve Fierro Podcast: Awakened Mind https://anchor.fm/steve-fierro Donate to support Quantum Nurse Podcast Production. Mabalos. Thank you.
Hold on or dare to let go of the spells of delusions with the freedom, sovereignty and human rights activist Sacha Stone. Are you one who will sink as the ship goes down or will you swim to be part of the new consciousness of middle earth? We chat about the tight illuminati grip of the Nordic countries, spells casts and the switch of power throughout world history. What happened to the Hollywood fairy tale? What will occur in the next few years? What will become of fiat currency, crypto and big businesses? What can the sovereignty movement teach us? What will we need to do with governments? Former rock musician and artist, Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. His transition into activism has made him a well respected global identity. His many achievements include • HUMANAID in 1999, working within the NGO’s and IGO’s sectors as an invested advocate for human rights and justice, and continues to lobby against human-rights abuses on a global scale to protect the rights of Scientists and Doctors for protection of breakthrough innovations. • NEW EARTH PROJECT headquartered in Bali at the world renowned AKASHA, New Earth Haven, where he promotes sustainability and sovereignty of self determining communities. • INTERNATION TRIBUNAL for NATURAL JUSTICE (ITNJ) June 2015 launched at a ratification ceremony at Westminster Central Hall, London, on the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, including a • Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking & Child Sexual Abuse, which continues to hear witness testimonies on a global scale via online virtual court sittings. • Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Weaponisation of the Biosphere 2019 • Judicial Inquiry into Corona/Covid , still underway as of Q4/2020 • WORLD HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT to collaborate with notable well know advocates including but not limited to : • Robert Kennedy Jnr • Del Bigtree • G Edward Griffin • Professor Delores Cahill • Dr Christiane Northrup • Dr Rashid Buttar • Dr Sherri Tenpenny • Andrew Wakefield • Dr David Martin www.reclaimyourlives.com Sacha is a passionate, activist, public speaker, publisher, writer and film-maker. The Lazarus Initiative: Lazarusinitiative.com www.sachastone.com Energy update by Wholyland: https://wholyland.me/energy-update-april-may-moon-cycle/ Money grid blogpost: https://wholyland.me/2021-money-grid-creation/ Further content information from this episode: https://www.livetheimpossible.today/159 Wholyland memberhood: https://www.wholyland.me/ Wholyland freedom course: https://www.wholyland.me/learn https://wholyland.me/wholy-blog Get the free Footsteps for Freedom ebook, here: https://www.wholyland.me/freedombook Oliver & Tora Zophias (Susana) mentoring programs: https://silverhoj.com/ Pam the Health Genie: https://www.pamlob.com/ Tora & Ulrikas Unfuckwithable blog: https://unfuckwithable.blog/ Jon Century our household Magic Musician: https://www.joncentury.com/music
Awake 2 Oneness Radio with former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone, who is currently an activist, public speaker, publisher, writer, and filmmaker for Humanitarian causes. Airing on Friday April 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM EDT. This program has been pre-recorded. Sacha grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999 and has worked across both the NGO and IGO sectors as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of vanguard innovators, scientists, and doctors. Sacha founded the New Earth Project an evolving blueprint for sustainable, sovereign and self-determining communities, headquartered out of the world renowned (Akasha) NewEarth Haven in Bali. Sacha is also founder of the ITNJ International Tribunal for Natural Justice, which launched under multilateral observer-ship in June 2015 via a ceremonial seating and ratification ceremony at Westminster Central Hall in London on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. This new planetary court is committed to the dispensation of natural justice. To learn more about Sacha and all his project go to: https://sachastone.com/
More discussion about shots (not from a glass) and needles (not for knitting). Sorry! We finally get down to knitting, bored dogs, and new projects. We end by laughing at own ridiculousness when read in a transcript. Show notes with full transcript, photos, and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com. If you’d like to become a patron and support the show financially, visit our Patreon page. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Subscribe on Android or Subscribe on Google Podcasts Marsha’s Projects I’m still working on the pair of socks for myself using Drops Fabel Print that I bought in San Luis Obispo. I’ve knit about 6” of my Walk Along tee by AnkeStrick and I’m using Little Fish Stitches fingering. Beginning to worry if I will have enough yarn. Spinning on and off with olive green merino roving. We had one beautiful sunny day this week that I could sit on the deck and spin. Heaven! I’m combining it with another merino I ordered from Paradise Fibers in Spokane, Washington in a dark brown called Bitter Chocolate. Making a 3 ply with two green and one brown single. I’ve spun two skeins. Swatching to make the Abington Mitts by Jennifer Lassonde as part of our Extremities Knit/Crochet Along. Using Dale Garn Helio that I got from Kim’s bag of yarn headed to the thrift store. Enough yarn for a brown and a burgundy pair. Kelly’s Projects I finished the pair of socks for Robert! And another Ice Time Hat! The Ice Time Hat is a pattern given to me by BostonJen of Down Cellar Studio podcast. I used two different yellow and purple variegated skeins. Check out my project page. Started the Iced Matcha Socks by Dots Dabbles. I’m using handspun wool mohair yarn that I spun from batts I carded. The wool is Charlotte (a gray sheep whose fleece I bought twice in the early 2000s). The mohair is a similar vintage mohair fleece that I bought and dyed. Both of these patterns are from the designers who have donated prizes for the Extremities K/CAL. I also started Frog and Toad from frogandcast.com. I’ve finished Toad and now need to start Frog. Then there are clothes to make. Extremities Knit/Crochet Along This KAL/CAL was inspired by the generous donation of these patterns: Abington Mitts, Jennifer Lassonde, Down Cellar Studio Coffee Socks Collection, Dotsdabbles Designs, Deborah It ends on April 25, 2021. Knit anything for your extremities (hands, arms, legs, feet). Winter Weave Along Ends on March 31. We will have prizes, including a class generously donated by Erica at Weavolution. Ep 157 final Mon, 3/8 5:41PM • 59:38 SUMMARY KEYWORDS yarn, knit, socks, laughing, transcript, marsha, appointments, pattern, talking, extremities, vaccine, people, thought, podcast, weaving, hat, crochet, pair, fun, vaccinated SPEAKERS Kelly, Marsha 00:03 Hi, this is Marsha and this is Kelly. Marsha 00:05 We are the Two Ewes of Two Ewes Fiber Adventures. Thanks for stopping by. Kelly 00:10 You'll hear about knitting, spinning, dyeing, crocheting, and just about anything else we can think of as a way to play with string. Marsha 00:17 We blog and post show notes at TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com. Kelly 00:22 And we invite you to join our Two Ewes Fiber Adventures group on Ravelry. I'm 1hundredprojects, Marsha 00:29 and I am betterinmotion. Kelly 00:31 We are both on Instagram and Ravelry. And we look forward to meeting you there. 00:36 Enjoy the episode. Marsha 00:43 Good morning, Kelly. Kelly 00:44 Good morning, Marsha. It's Friday. Yeah. I'm not sure Friday means much to to a lot of people during a pandemic, but it means a lot to me. Marsha 01:01 Yeah, it doesn't really mean... it doesn't mean... Friday, in fact, well, yeah. Friday doesn't mean that much to me anymore. But yeah, if you're retired, yeah. And you know, Ben does his own school thing. Idon't... I'm not involved in that. And and Kelly 01:14 I hope I should hope not. Marsha 01:16 I know at the age of 23. I should not be involved in it. I'm not. Such a relief. Kelly 01:23 I have students whose children are involved in their college education, helping them but Marsha 01:31 Oh, yeah, yeah,your children appearing in zoom meetings and stuff. Zoom. Kelly 01:35 That too. Yeah. I have a couple of students that come to my office drop in hours, and their children are usually in the background, or you can hear you can hear the schooling going on in the background, while the children are on their own zoom, their own zoom meeting. So. So yeah, I have a class for kind of a beginning level math class, you know, basically no prerequisites. You know, anybody can take it. And some of those students have their kids helping them. "I got confused, and I watched your video, and then I got my kid to help me." Marsha 02:14 So yeah, it's a family, a family affair. Sweet. Kelly 02:20 When parents talk about, you know, having school and kids and all of that, I always, I always tell them how, how much I think it's great. Because it's such a role model for their children, you know, that you continue to learn, but it's rough. I can't imagine the students I have, who are, who are parents who are going back to school, who are working, who are helping their children do their school, I always admire, you know, the parents who are coming back to school and the amount of work that they have to do. But in this pandemic, it's just been, like magnified. Yeah, very impressive. Yeah. their commitment to education. 03:01 Oh, yeah. Marsha 03:02 It's a struggle, but it'll be worth it in the end, you know? Kelly 03:07 Yes. And some of us in the struggle, I'm not including myself in that us really, some people in the struggle will be able to talk about it in the same way that, you know, of the sacrifices that people made during war time. Or, and some people are not, are not stepping up in that way. I sort of wonder what it would be like if they were having to live through war time, or, you know, like, the Greatest Generation they talk about, that, you know, lived through World War Two and made all those sacrifices. And our society is not quite measuring up, I don't think, to that standard. Marsha 03:47 Well, I don't know. I mean, well, you mean, in terms of wearing masks? 03:52 Willing make a..? Being willing to make a sacrifice? Marsha 03:55 Oh, Kelly 03:56 for the good ofeveryone. Marsha 03:59 It may sort of depend on where you live. Kelly 04:01 Yeah. Yeah. Marsha 04:02 You know, because if you're talking like masking specifically, everybody masks up. In fact. I mean,here... Kelly 04:10 what I'm specifically talking about here, I guess I should I should be clear. What was specifically talking about here in California, is all of the complaining about teachers not going back and the teachers unions not wanting to go back and parents can't get their kids back in school. And, like, I understand that, I understand that it's hard. But you don't get to have your same old life. Right? I mean, this is what I want to say to people, right? You don't. None of us gets to have the same life we had last February, none of us does. Marsha 04:16 My mind was going... Well. And I say even with the vaccine, it sounds like we're not going to have our same lives, right? Kelly 04:55 For a while at least. Marsha 04:56 it's going to be a different version of our of our of our same You know, yeah, so, Kelly 05:02 I think I talked about the whole, you know, push to get teachers vaccinated which is happening, and that's really good. But what was being said about what was happening and what was really happening were two different things. And so it makes it seem like, you know, well, all of you teachers are all vaccinated. So why aren't you wanting to come back? Well, we're not all vaccinated. I have my appointment, though. Marsha 05:26 That's good. Kelly 05:27 Yeah. Quick shift of the subject to be more positive. Okay. Just to be clear, I was finding myself going to an ranty place and I don't want to do that. So Marsha 05:45 well, just before you shift, let me just say here, like, I think that where I live in Seattle, everybody's wearing a mask. And so like, it seems to everybody's very compliant. I'm not going to restaurants. Stores that I've gone to, I always go in and say like, you check, how do you want me to do this? Everybody seems very on board with this in my world. In fact, so much so like, when I take Enzo for a walk, I always bring a mask with me. Because even though I don't come in contact with anybody, everybody's masked up even walking through the neighborhood. Yeah. Which I don't even know how necessary that is. But I think it's sort of it's becoming kind of a sign of solidarity, you know, but anyway, yeah. Yeah. But yes, on to more positive things. You're getting your vaccine. Yay. Kelly 06:27 Yeah, yeah. So my first dose is the 13th. And honestly, it felt like I was trying to get concert tickets. We had multiple alerts coming out on the faculty email at work, saying, Oh, I just checked the site, and they've got vaccine appointments, and then I go and no appointments. And when I got up in the morning, I get on the computer, I always check and I go through the whole thing. And the dumb thing is that you had to go through the whole process of putting in all this information. Not all of your information, but you had to click a whole bunch of places, just to be told that there were no appointments available. Like, okay, I'd rather on the very front page, right when I, you know, right, when I click on to the front page, you tell me there's no appointments available. But anyway, I do that every morning, and nothing would be available. And then the other morning, the other morning, I got on and I checked, and there was nothing. And all the dates were old. And I mentioned to Robert Oh, they haven't even updated this website yet. You know, they've still got all the old, all the old dates, they don't have the newest dates. And so then I went on to do my you know, play on the computer, read Ravelry, read my email, that kind of stuff. And I'm reading my email and one of my colleagues had emailed that there were now-- there was-- our county office of education was hosting a vaccine site. And so I went to that. So get this. She, she so it came on, it came on the screen, sometime in like a 10 minute timeframe of when I had looked and when I got the email that it was there. So I went there. It was I mean, at most 10 minutes after it had been live on this website. They had multiple appointments, like six to eight appointments every four minutes, from 10 until 4pm. Marsha 08:32 Mm hmm. Kelly 08:32 So that's a lot of appointments. Marsha 08:34 Yeah. Kelly 08:36 And I made mine. So I got it. I was like, Okay, I'm going to pick a time that has, you know, five appointments available as opposed to two because I don't want to be cart-jacked. You know, I don't want to get to the end and find out my appointment was already taken. So I do that. And then I texted some other people to let them know. And then I went back to look and they were all taken. Marsha 09:01 And you were cart-jacke? I mean they took that one. Kelly 09:05 Oh, no,no, no, I got mine. Okay. But I I texted and then I went back to check on it to see to see like, how many more appointments there still were, and nothing! Okay, so like within 15 minutes. All those appointments, you know, eight, five to eight appointments every four minutes, from 10am to 4pm. All of those appointments were taken within probably 15 minutes. Wow. It felt like I was... or like I was trying to get yarn from a super super popular dyer! Wake up in the middle of the night when the update happens and like in the early days, the Wollmeise I think was one of them. Yeah. You know, people used to get up in the middle of the night to try to get Wollmeise yarn. And anyway, I felt like that as I was trying to get my point. I've never been this excited for a shot in all my life, not even a shot of bourbon! Marsha 10:07 So then, so you'll have, I'm assuming this is the two part vaccine. Kelly 10:14 Yeah, yeah. Marsha 10:15 So then how do you know when you get your second one? Kelly 10:18 I don't know. Yeah. Marsha 10:20 Okay, how that's gonna work? Kelly 10:22 I'm not sure how that's gonna work. Yeah, I'm assuming that the same site will have the second round. And then all of us who got appointments for that first site will go to the second site, go to the second round at that same site, but I don't know for sure. I don't think we know for sure. Marsha 10:41 I was gonna say the thing about the websites, too. So let me just say, you know, in the state of Washington, I don't know what this is, all states have this. But we have Find Your Phase where you can go and find out. And you know, I'm not...I'm not eligible yet. But I went back. They say, well, they will, they will email me when I'm eligible. And I've not received any notification. So I thought, well, I'll go back and to see where I am. Maybe there's more. Because it said, when I when I registered for it, they said they don't know when my category would be eligible. No information, check back. So I thought I'll go check back. You have to register again, there's no way to go in and just log back in and find your own status, even though I've registered. And so this is a long way of saying I think they've... they've thrown these websites together as quickly as they can. And they didn't have I think... Normally with websites don't they go through for companies, they go through testing, right? Everybody uses them to check them all out. I don't think they've had any time to do that. And so there's problems in the system. Yeah Because I have no idea. You can't... Right now, I'm sure if anybody lives in the state of Washington, any of our listeners, they can tell me what's really going on but I couldn't find my status in there. I just had to reregistered again. So and then just add to all of this hearsay, rumor, confusion. Um, my brother registered in Find Your Phase and never got notified. But he's he has medical insurance with Kaiser Permanente. And so he went to the website, and he just started poking around and, and he was able to make an appointment through their website to get the vaccine. And he's never been notified that he was eligible by the state of Washington. Yeah. So I don't know. And he said, also their website, too, again, I think that they are doing the best they can sort of getting something in place, right? But he said that there isn't, like, on the website, if you want a vaccine, click here and make your appointment. He said, You have to dig down through the site, you actually have to say that you want to make an appointment to get like a flu shot or any kind of shot. And then you have to go through the and then it gets you to the part where say what I want is the COVID-19 vaccine. Kelly 12:33 Yeah, like they should have just a big button right on the front, a big button that you push to...Yeah, right. So I bet you're right. I mean, I'm complaining. Marsha 13:08 No, I mean, I mean, Kelly 13:10 it's something that had to be put together quickly. Marsha 13:13 Well, and I should say cuz I'm not... I have no idea. Now. The President came out two or three days ago saying that pretty much everybody who wants a vaccine will have it by May. So I think I will get it soon. I mean, I just it's just a matter of being patient. But I will say again, rumor hearsay, guessing, all this. It is interesting like people posting on Facebook or Instagram that are getting the vaccine. There's somebody who posts on Facebook, I know who posted that she was getting the vaccine. And as far as I know, she doesn't meet any of the criteria-- multi generational household, age, underlying health, as far as I know. And so like, how did she get it? I don't know. It's like, you know, let it go. Just let that go. Kelly 14:08 It's possible there's something you don't knowabout? Marsha 14:10 It's possible there's something I don't know. Because like, it could be an underlying health condition that I don't know about. So. So it's not about-- you can't sit there going like, well, how come they got it? You know, but yeah, that's-- Yeah, we're human. And that's where our mind goes, right? But it really, you know, vaccinate as many people as possible it doesn't really matter even.. you know? Kelly 14:33 I'd be and in my thinking,...Gosh, we've been on this topic for a long time. Sorry, everyone. Marsha 14:39 Yes, I know. Kelly 14:40 But my thinking you know, at first was well, I'm not in contact with anyone. I'm not teaching face to face yet. I don't really need to get the vaccine. You know, I wasn't too worried about jumping.... I wasn't sitting on the computer like it was a rock concert that I wanted tickets to or you know, Hamilton or something big. Cuz I thought well I'm home, you know, I'm not teaching face to face, I'm not going to be teaching face to face in the fall. I don't have to rush. But what you want is everyone, everyone who can, to get it. Marsha 15:13 Yeah, Kelly 15:14 Everyone who can get who can't who can, by whatever means really should get it because that's how you get immunity in, you know, community wide, right. So in the mathematics, there's an interesting-- there was an interesting article about mathematical modeling. And the mathematical model was, what if we do it in phases versus what if we do it as whoever wants it, come and get it? And it actually was more effective in the mathematical modeling, to make it available, you know, to make whatever was available available to whoever wanted it. Marsha 15:52 I know, that's what I was kind of wondering if that would actually make more sense. Kelly 15:55 It was, mathematically, it was more effective. Yeah. But politically, you know, like, I'm getting the vaccine, even though I'm not going to be back in the classroom. Robert goes to work every day. He doesn't work directly with the public, but he goes to work every day, and he's not eligible yet. Yeah. But politically, I mean, they're not distinguishing between educators who are going back to the classroom and educators who are not, it's just easier not to do that. And they, you know, and the the political reality is they needed to make sure that educators got vaccinated because there's such a pressure for our schools to reopen the K 12 schools to reopen. So anyway, yeah, this is a long topic. We're probably, we're probably, we're probably treading on the boundaries of what our listeners are wiling to listen to Marsha 16:46 people are gonna be listening to this walking the dog driving the car going. "Oh, for goodness sakes, stop talking!" Kelly 16:53 Where's the knitting? Marsha 16:54 Where's the knitting? Well, yes, while we wait... So anyway, patience is a virtue. I will get mine soon. I I'm looking forward to it. My vaccination. I'm excited. So anyway, and grateful that we have one. Yeah, pretty speedy the process. Kelly 17:12 Yes,so...and apparently CVS, this part of the email I got this morning. The CVS website is already doing appointments for the Johnson and Johnson one shotvaccine. So all right. That was cool to see. Yeah. That's a lot of very fast science. Marsha 17:30 Yes. Yeah. Okay. Ah, so we talk knitting? Kelly 17:37 Yeah. That's what they're here for. Right? Marsha 17:43 Yeah.Let's give... Kelly 17:43 Sorry, you guys! Marsha 17:44 Let's give them what they want! Kelly 17:46 Yes. Marsha 17:48 Okay, so how about you? Do you want to talk about your projects? Kelly 17:51 Sure, yeah. Okay. So I finished Robert's socks. They turned out really nicely. I'm actually Oh, I'm calling them finished. And I'm actually weaving in ends right now. But, but they're finished. And I've marked them as finished in the project page. He hasn't worn them yet, because I haven't woven in ends. But he tried them on. I did end up making the toe of the first sock bigger than I had done before. The look so funny! I, I have a picture of them. And because of the toe is made from my hand spun it's thicker. It's a little-- it's not quite fingering weight. It's a little bit heavier than that. Plus, it's a, it's a denser yarn. They have the most bulbous toes, but they're not pointy. So he loves them. And I'm like, they look so big. And he said, No, no, they look perfect. So Marsha 18:51 yeah. Are they comfortable? The Kelly 18:52 Yeah, he likes them. Marsha 18:53 The big poofy toes. Yes, he has room for his for his toes. So they're not 19:00 pointy, and they and they are big enough, but they do kind of bulge out while the sock is ribbed. So that's part of it, too. So the ribbing sucks in the foot of the sock. And then I added stitches when I made the toe because it was too dense and stiff and tight. So anyway, yeah, it's they're interesting looking. Marsha 19:25 Well, you'll have to share a picture of them. Kelly 19:27 So I will Yeah, the leading men fiber arts yarn is really nice. I'm gonna get myself some more of this. Maybe not this color. I don't know. I like this color! But it's just a really nice sock yarn. This is-- I think this one might be bfl sock, I can't remember now. But it just it feels nice. It was nice to knit with and the put up is very large. You get a lot of yarn in a skein of this. Marsha 19:59 [Laughing] Okay. Sorry, I'm interrupting. I'm just looking at the Kelly 20:04 you see what I'm talking about? Marsha 20:05 Yes. Yeah. Kelly 20:10 The toes are quite bulbous. Marsha 20:11 Yeah, but they look comfortable. Kelly 20:14 Yes. And they aren't--I mean, they aren't baggy when he wears them. They actually do fit it. Yeah, it's really more of a function of the, the ribbing on the foot, making the ribbing skinny Marsha 20:25 It's when they're lying in repose. [Laughing] Kelly 20:31 But they don't have pointy toes when you fold them top to bottom. [laughing] Marsha 20:36 Yeah, Kelly 20:37 Speaking of starting socks, I did start the Iced Matcha socks by Dots Dabbles. And the yarn I'm using is a handspun. It's a gray. It was... the sheep was Charlotte and I bought her fleece a couple of times. It's the same fleece that I used for the funky grandpa sweater. Marsha 20:56 Okay. Kelly 20:57 And I finally had used both. I bought two of her fleeces two different years back in the early 2000s, late 90s. And I finally spun up the end of it a couple of years ago with some mohair. So these are mohair wool. It's only a two ply. So I don't know how hard wearing they will be. But the mohair should help. It's probably a little bit thicker than a fingering weight. But not not, not so much bigger that I won't be able to use like a size one needle. And I usually use size zero, I'll probably use a size one. And anyway, I decided to make the iced matcha sock pattern. It's like ribbing, you know, has kind of a ribbing effect, which I like. And then it has a little bit of detail, but not so much detail that I won't be able to knit on them during school meetings and that kind of stuff. So and then I'm going to start another pair of of socks. I don't know which ones. I think maybe one of the cabled pairs from either from this collection, or maybe one of the Louise Tilbrook. I have quite a few of her patterns. And I have one pair of socks that I really like that was one of her patterns. So I might make one of hers. They're very involved. So, so the the Iced Matcha of socks will be sort of a medium-involved. Not not super involved, which will be good. So I'm enjoying, I just barely started those. So that's there's not much going on there. Except basically a cast on. I did also finish another Ice Time hat. The first one that I made I don't remember if when I talked about it last. But the first Ice Time hat that I made her pattern. This is from the pattern is by Jennifer Lassonde, Down Cellar studio, BostonJen. And she gave me as a gift, a copy of this pattern. And so I thought, oh, I'll try it. And I mean, I used two variegated yarns. And I looked on the pattern because it came out a little small, my gauge, you know, I usually knit pretty tightly. And so I thought, Oh, this is a little small. But then I looked on the pattern, and she has as the head circumference 18 inches, I think, which is smaller than what I normally do for a hat. Plus the cross stitches, I think have a tendency to make it tighter. Yeah. And plus, it's like a beanie. Marsha 23:41 Yeah. Kelly 23:42 And so, so I thought, Okay, well, this is good, because it's the size for a kid and that was my plan. But I want to make a bigger version. So first, I was gonna, I was gonna just add, you know, like, one pattern repeat or two pattern repeats. And, and then I thought, well, it's when -- when you do the decreases, you divide it into fou. Into four groups to do your decreases. And so like the decreases make an X on the top of the hat. And I thought, okay, that's going to make those four groups different sizes. Marsha 24:18 Yeah. Kelly 24:19 And I just thought, you know what, I'm just going to add four repeats, because 18 inches is small to me for hat circumference. Marsha 24:26 Mm hmm. Kelly 24:27 So that's what I did made it a lot easier to do the decreases and then made the slouchy version, which is more like the kind of hat--again, this is nota hat that I'm going to keep-- but more like the kind of hat that I wear. Doesn't smash your hair as much, you know, hat head. So anyway, I really like it. It came out really great. And so now I have a pair like a mother and daughter a pair of hats. Marsha 24:57 Sweet Kelly 24:58 Yeah, in purple. purple and yellow. Marsha 25:02 So I don't they're not in your project page yet, though, right? Kelly 25:06 Oh, you know, the first one I finished a long time ago. And I just put the second one in the same. So it's farther down on the project page. Oh, I'm, I'm suddenly distracted, because there's someone on the roof right outside. Marsha 25:19 Oh, really? Kelly 25:22 We had the roof put on. And then they had to replace some flashing and replaced--we have these like scupper boxes that the water goes down. They replaced those. And so apparently they're here to do something else with with the flashing. So I suddenly looked up, and there's a stranger on my roof. Right outside the window. Because the Marsha 25:49 and he's wondering why you're talking to yourself? Kelly 25:51 Yes. [laughing] Because the kitchen window or the kitchen roof is right outside the vanity area where I record so anyway. Life at the Locke household! Marsha 26:03 Yes. Kelly 26:05 So both of the designers, dots dabbles of the Iced Matcha socks and Jennifer Lassonde from this Ice Time hat have donated prizes for our extremities KAL that we'll talk about. So it's fun to be using. It's fun to be using their patterns. Although a hat does not count for the extremities KAL. Marsha 26:25 Yes. Kelly 26:27 I looked it up. It's not an extremity. several I looked actually I looked at several dictionaries. When you you know, I looked at I put in extremities and then I looked under several online dictionaries. And none of them included heads. So Marsha 26:46 it's a headless knit along. Kelly 26:50 Exactly! I started something really fun. Marsha 26:54 Oh, yes. Kelly 26:55 Yes. Frog and Toad. Oh my gosh. So cute. And you know, I was talking about socks. The socks being only medium-level involved. Then I started with toad. that's involved! Okay, that kind of knitting is involved, right? I mean, it's kind of sorta like your rabbit. Marsha 27:20 Yeah, lots of increases, decreases. And it's just like a blob until you... it starts. And then they begin to take shape. But originally, initially, you don't really know what you're making, Kelly 27:31 Right! Marsha 27:31 you know, it's the legs but what? Kelly 27:34 It's pretty much one piece, you do have to go and add the arms at the end. It's pretty much one piece. So that was good. You don't have a lot of sewing to do for the extremities. But you do have to do sewing for the eyes. Okay, and you do, you do like afterthought heels where you cut your knitting to make the holes for the eyeballs. Marsha 27:58 Oh, Dear! Kelly 28:00 Yeah, so it reminds me of... I looked at the pattern and it reminds me of when I did the afterthought buttonholes. Because it's a real small thing that you open up, you know, you cut open a piece of your knitting. And Marsha 28:14 so this type of knitting I have to say I'm, I always think the same thing. The mind that can think this way. , To create these very--just adorable and just so creative. I mean, to think like, they can figure out you have to put your decreases here, your increase there and your short rows here and like how they can do all that? How many frogs did the designer make to get the final pattern? You know? Kelly 28:45 Right.A lot of experimentation. Marsha 28:47 Yeah. Kelly 28:48 In the creation process. In fact, her website is frogandcast.com. So as of today, March, what is it March 5 2021. The front page of her website is this little bear and the whole article is about about how she, how her design process for this bear worked. So I highly recommend it as a very interesting read. And it's also a cute pattern. But I'm not going to make this bear I'm going to stick to my Frog and Toad. So I've made toad. And I'm going to.. I want to start on frog soon. I'm gonna wash him, the toad, because I'm using the Ruama. Now I can't remember how that is pronaunced. Finnulgarn Marsha 29:42 Oh, right, right, right Kelly 29:43 that we bought. So this is yarn that Marsha and I bought at stitches one year because we, I was taking the Argyle sock class and so at lunch during my class, during a break, and Marsha and I went down to the floor of the marketplace. And we just started putting color combinations together. And it's Ruama Finnulgarn is what I'm using. The frog is going to be our Toad is in a brown color. And then I have another one of these Ruama Finnulgarn that is alpaca and I have a green, like a limey, goldie... Lime is not the right word, kind of a goldy, green color, kind of an avocado. You know, like 1960s, avocado, refrigerator look or something. Anyway, it's kind of a goldy green that I'm going to use for Frog. And I have the books. And I've been getting the books out and comparing the pictures on the book to the My yarns and stuff to to try to get the right combination. So but this yarn is the the one I use for Toad that doesn't have the alpaca in it is a little bit. It's toothy. You know, it's a woolly wool. And so I know those soften up when you wash them, so I'm going to block him before I stuffed him. And also the yarn will kind of bloom and help keep the anything is stuffed, you know, help keep the stuffing from showing. So yeah, but I'm using size zero or size one needles. I think I'm using size zero and the let me just double check. Yes, it calls for size one. And I'm at I'm using a size zero needle because my yarn is a little thinner. The pattern calls for a DK yarn. And I'm using a thinner yarn its more like a sport. Marsha 31:43 I'm sorry, it calls for DK and size zero needles? Kelly 31:47 It calls for size one needles. Marsha 31:50 Oh one, ok. Kelly 31:50 and it has a I mean, Marsha 31:52 that's still that's really small. Because it's you want to have a really dense, right? Kelly 31:56 Right, , so the stuffing doesn't show. Yeah, so anyway, I went down to size zero. And actually it was worked out well, because the size zero needles that I have are short. And the size one needles were longer. And it's so tiny, that it's really nice having the I don't know, they're just like maybe four inch needles, double points. They're they're small. They're small double points. And, and I don't use them. I can use them on socks. Like I bought them for socks. And I use them for socks for me. They're not my favorite sock needles, because I like using the wooden ones. But I can use them for socks for me. But for socks for Robert. With 72 stitches. They're just too, they're too short. Yeah, but they're perfect for this. I think magic loop would work. You know, you just have to keep track of where where she says to place the markers. Yeah. So that you can make all the all the little adjustments. Yeah, but super fun. His little fingers! You do little you do on his on his on his hands. You do little PicoT bind off. So you get little fingers. It's so my gosh, so cute. Marsha 33:20 Again, Igo back to what I said. It takes a certain kind of mind. Yes, like amazing mind. This kind of stuff Kelly 33:27 His little knees. He has nice has a little frog legs have little knees. So very fun. Very fun. I can't wait to start Frog this weekend. I'm hoping I'm hoping maybe I can have I can have them done by Easter would be kind of a fun thing to do for to give to Faye for Easter. So yeah, that's kind of my that's kind of my plan. We'll see if I am able to do it. But but that's what I'm hoping. fiddley definitely worth it. So that's my, that's the extent of my projects Marsha. Marsha 34:08 Well, and I just have to ask the the, the Afghan the Oh, Kelly 34:14 I have been working on it. The last the last time we recorded I hadn't done any significant work on it at all. But I have been working on it. Now I've made probably maybe five of the squares. Not the big octagons. But the smaller, the smaller ones that can connect and kind of... I made about five of those. And then I made another I have I have done one of the octagons but then.. I was... One night I was just focusing on something simpler. And so it's basically just a granny square. And then it has an edge that has a little bit of detail something a little more complicated. So I was just doing the basic granny square part and I did about I did about five of them and then I started...Another day, I picked them back up and started doing the outer edge of each of the squares. So yeah, I made made some progress on that. So maybe sometime in the late spring, I'll be done. I'll be done with that one. But I'm not going to make any promises. Marsha 35:15 Yeah. Yeah. Never make promises. Kelly 35:20 So what about you? Marsha 35:21 So my Walk Along Tee, I've knit about six inches of the body. And I love the technique that we have discussed the Helical, right, we discussed? It's, it's great. There's some times when I get to the... there's fake side seam on the sweater and where you do you hold the yarn in front, and then slip the stitch through the back loop. And sometimes if you have any details, something like that, that's just not straight stockinette then you have to do a little fiddling around. Yeah. So like, as I said, in previous episodes, you know, this would not work for cables, or Yeah, this technique, it just has to be stockinette. But so I'm, that's just sort of my knitting when I watch Netflix. I just go around and around and around and around on them. I think you do about... you start doing increases on the way down. And I think I talked about this before, I'm not sure if I'm gonna put all of them in it. It ends up being a total of 20 stitches, which is fair amount, so I may not put all those in. I'm also beginning to worry about if I'm going to have enough yarn. Kelly 36:37 Oh. Another one of those Marsha 36:41 I know. It could be just illusion. Kelly 36:44 Yeah, yeah. Marsha 36:46 Because I have now... I had three skeins which I divided into half, right. So I had six cakes. I've used up two cakes. And I am probably halfway through the second set of two cakes. And I'm six inches of the body. And then I also have to do sleeves. So I-- but I'm going down to-- we're going down to Seabrook. I think we leave the 13th. So and that's where I bought the yarn at the string theory yarns in Seabrook, Washington. So I'm, when I'm down there, I'm going to have a better idea and I can maybe pick up another skein. I'm hoping I don't have to, but we'll see. Anyway, so I'm making progress on that. And I've been spinning on and off on the olive green Merino roving that I have that I'm combining with the dark brown, that's called bitter chocolate. And I've I had made two skeins and now I'm just filling up the bobbins again, so I filled the two green and now I'm filling up the brown bobbin. So I had-- it was-- we had a couple of nice days this week. And so I think it was Wednesday. It was nice. And I just sat on the deck. My new deck. Kelly 38:13 Yeah. Marsha 38:15 And spun. By the way, thinking that I was sitting out there spinning, Did you see my Instagram post of Enzo, staring at the dog. Kelly 38:26 Yes. Yes. Marsha 38:27 Isn't that the funniest thing that was so cute. Anyway, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to my Instagram. And you'll see the picture of Enzo looking at the neighbor's dog. But the neighbor's dog is in the window peering out and they stare at each other for a good 15 minutes. It was pretty funny. Kelly 38:45 I feel bad for Bailey because I think she's, I mean, she spent a good a good part of her life before she came to live with us living at a dog boarding kennel right? Doggy daycare and boarding kennels. So, so she was around other dogs all the time. And now it's you know, it's just her. And we have neighbors and they have... one of our neighbors has dogs that they fence fight, which I don't like so I keep her away from that. But the other neighbor has a lab that sometimes I can't find her in the backyard and I go looking for her and she's down at the fence and they are just like nose to nose at the fence talking to each other. Like, you know, not barking. Just like somehow communing. They're like keeping company with each other next to the fence. I feel like ohhh. Marsha 39:36 I was gonna ask that, put this question out to people and to our listeners later on in the podcast, but since we're on this topic, I'm just going to mention it. Because Enzo has been acting really weird recently. I've been doing long walks, I take him out and he just drags towards the end of his walk. I have to pull him along to get him home. And he's very lethargic. So I thought and I was like.. I wonder if I had to take him to the vet, you know, he's not it. Maybe there's something wrong with him. I finally thought, I think he's bored. Kelly 40:08 Mm hmm. Marsha 40:09 His life is basically sleeping around the house while I do things. One long walk during the day, and then back to sleeping around that house. Kelly 40:16 Yeah, he doesn't want the walk to end. Marsha 40:19 Yeah, that's what I'm kind of wondering. And so I, I'm varying the route. I also am playing with him every day because I realized I wasn't playing with him. And Ben doesn't live with me now who would have time playing with him. So I, every day I take, I either chase him around the house, chase him around in the backyard, which he loves. Or I, the other thing I do, which he loves is that down in the basement, I take the ball and he stands at the top of the stairs, I throw the ball up to him, and then he kicks it, he knocks he pushes it down the stairs. And then I throw it back until we do that for about 40 minutes, 45 minutes, depending on how long we want to do it. And then I also decided to get him back into agility. But I'm having a difficult time getting him into class because I think so many people have dogs now. I went like all of the... We've done all the obedience classes, but they're all full till April or May. And so I signed him up for agility, but I can't get in until I think the end of April. Yeah. So I'm going to put it out to listeners if you have any ideas what to do to keep him... because he does seem depressed, kind of or bored. Kelly 41:30 I'm going to give a suggestion. I am interested to hear what people have to say, but I'm going to give a suggestion. tricks. Teach him tricks. Marsha 41:40 Oh, yeah. Kelly 41:41 Well, you took a class, right? You did a trick class. Marsha 41:44 Yeah. But I can't get into it now. So. Oh, but I can just do it on my own.I don't need to go. Kelly 41:51 Yeah. So I mean, yeah, you know how to, I mean, you have some ideas for how to teach some of this stuff. But it's kind of fun. Is it a little more entertaining? I'd do that, at least for me, it'd be a little more entertaining than throwing the ball up the stairs for 40 minutes. Yes, for the human part of the partnership, it's more interesting Marsha 42:13 well and use his mind more you know, I because that also, you know, he just needs to use his mind. But like, my brother came by yesterday said what's wrong with the dog? And so like he saw I was like, okay, you're here. He's usually excited. He's super excited to see Mark. But he was excited and then like, laying on the sofa. And then Mark came back in the house and he didn't even get up off the sofa. I have a towel down on the basement sofa and doesn't even get up to the greet him. He's like, That's weird. I mean, cuz he usually... Like they say poodles are smart. I sometimes wonder because he's super excited to see you. You go out to the garage, you come back into the house, and he's like, Oh, you've been gone. He's so happy to see you. Like literally two minutes, but, okay. Yeah, so anyway, people, listeners, if you have suggestions for how to get my dog, I don't think he's really depressed. But I think he feels like he's depressed and bored. And like the rest of us in the pandemic, you know. But anyway, yeah, so I'll go back to projects. so I've been spinning and I'm enjoying that I just find the spinning so meditative. And just that one day where I was able to sit out there on the deck was so nice in the sun. It just sort of gives me hope that spring is on its way. And then I, as we're talking I am swatching to make the Abington Mitts by Jennifer Lassonde and as we talked in... that's our segue into our, the knit along. But I just tell you, the yarn I'm using is Dale Garn Helio. Kelly 43:53 Is that like a Dale of Norway yarn? Marsha 43:54 Oh, I'm sorry. It's it's a Heilo. It's H E I L O, and it's a, I believe it's DK weight, which is what is required for the mitts. Kelly 44:04 Something from your stash. Okay. Your Spirit yarn. Marsha 44:07 No, no, it's not from my stash. It's from Kim's stash. I went and had dinner with her one night and she had a bag of yarn that was going. She had gone through her stash and she had yarn that was going to the Goodwill. And I said do you happen to have anything that's this weight because I don't need a lot for the mitts and I don't really want to go out to a store so... and I didn't have... I have DK weight but I didn't have anything that was not painted. I want a solid or semi solid. I thought it would look better with this pattern. And so she had this yarn, a whole bag of this yarn in two colors. The one I'm going to use is kind of milk chocolate color, brown, like a natural color. And then also she has another color in here a kind of a burgundy. So I think there's another yarn I can make two pairs, one in each. Kelly 44:59 Oh, that's fun! Marsha 45:01 So anyway, I'm swatching for that. And so for our knitalong, so we should talk about the knitalong Kelly 45:08 So we are having an extremities knit along, and it was inspired by two offers of prizes. One is the Coffee Socks Collection that I already talked about, by Dots Dabbles Designs, Deborah. And the other gift that we got-- offer of a prize--was the Abington Mitts that Marsha is making. And so with these prizes when they came at the same time, and one was for feet, and one was for hands, and so we just decided, oh, let's have an extremities knit along/crochet along so you can knit or crochet anything for your hands, arms, legs, feet. Marsha 45:45 We've had lots of discussion about this, but it's not your head. Because Kelly did lots of research and your head apparently is not Kelly 45:55 according to the authorities on the internet [laughing] Marsha 45:58 Yes. According to the internet, your head is not an extremity! Kelly 46:02 That's no no hats in this time. Yeah, but legs, feet, arms, hands, you know, there's lots of lots of possibilities there. Mitts, socks are the most... Marsha 46:15 And even though we're saying it's called a knit/crochet along you can weave, you can macrame. Kelly 46:24 Okay, I don't know macrame sock? That Marsha 46:28 Yeah. Interested in any you know, like any? We were also talking in the last episode, what is it called the Kelly 46:35 Nalbinding. Now, that's how you say it? That's a that's a close facsimile of how it's pronounced at least. Oh, Marsha 46:45 you know what I think would be really cool. Do you know those lace the little lace gloves that Ruth Bader Ginsburg would wear? Kelly 46:53 Yeah, Marsha 46:55 That'd be really fun to make. 46:56 Oh, you know, as we're sitting here, I'm sitting in the vanity area of our spare bedroom. And at the vanity table normally... not right now because I move everything when I want to record. But at the vanity table, I have a little, one of those little vanity mirrors with perfume bottles. And then I have a pair of crochet gloves. Do you remember Marsha when I bought those at the antique store? Marsha 47:24 Yeah, Kelly 47:25 I have no idea how old they are. But they're teeny tiny still little crochet stitches. And they have the little buttons. They're long gloves though. They go up your arm and they have the little ...they have the little buttons and the buttons are crocheted. And the little button loops are all crocheted. The button holes don't go all the way up the gloves. Like the whole gauntlet part of the glove doesn't open up. There's just a section of buttonholes. Yeah, that would be fun. A knit or crocheted set of fancy, old fashioned. Marsha 48:01 They were kind of like fishnet kinda. Kelly 48:04 Yeah. Like afternoon tea gloves. Marsha 48:06 Mm hmm. I'm as we're speaking, this is bad podcasting, but I'm just looking at online and there's like a, there's a crocheted pair. From J and P coats. It looks like it's very old because it's a black and white photo with an old car. Okay. I don't know if they're Yeah, Kelly 48:25 that's a that's a company that makes like the crochet cotton. Yeah. Oh, that would be fun. Well, and you know, the other thing that I thought of is our we had bought the silk to make silk socks. Last year at Stitches. I haven't started those yet either. But I'm gonna-- I'm gonna stick to the socks that I have for right now. But yeah, the mesh gloves. There's there's a lot. Marsha 48:50 We'll search, Yeah. And apparently you can buy this on on Amazon. It's not that old a book. It was published in 2009. I guess that is old. Well, no. That's right. Kelly 49:03 I'm thinking of like, gloves from the 1950s or something. Marsha 49:08 Yeah, that's what it kind of looks like but it's a it's like those lace gloves like she wore in that really fine cotton. And so and there's other patterns here too. So Kelly 49:15 cool. Marsha 49:16 Yeah, I don't know. Okay, well, we went we went down a rabbit hole on that. Okay. Kelly 49:23 But you know, you can have a, you could have a nice pair of gloves for Easter. So lots of possibilities. Join us. There's a chat thread and there's a finished object thread. Quite a bit of chat going on about the projects that people are doing not very many finished objects yet but there are a few I noticed. Marsha 49:42 So, 49:43 and then our Winter Weave Along, not much time left. I have hopes of getting at least something else started if not finished. But we'll see. The only reason I still have hope is because I have spring break. Coming the third week of March, so two weeks, two weeks from now I have spring break. Yay. So maybe I could do something during spring break in terms of the weaving, but otherwise, I'm almost, I'm almost sure that I don't I, I'm almost sure I won't get something finished. But I might get something else on the loom. Because it ends March 31. So another year of weaving coming to an end for us. But if you're in the Jane Stafford Guild, her year of weaving is just starting. So that's kind of fun. Marsha 50:37 Okay, one ends and one begins so you get you get to truly a full year. Well, I guess it's been a full year. Kelly 50:44 I haven't ever kept up with hers. And like woven the thing, the projects in the guild, at the time that everybody else, you know, at the time that the the videos come out? I wanted to do that this year, but I'm not sure. I don't know. This might not be the year teaching online. It's getting better. I have to I have to admit it is getting better. But well, you know. It's it's not my favorite thing. Marsha 51:11 Well, we should not end the podcast on the same vein as it started. Listening to Kelly rant about stuff she doesn't like! Yes. So anyway, the winter weave along is, is ending March 31. So get your projects in, put them in the finished objects thread. Then we'll be doing a drawing and one of the things that we have as a prize is a class that was donated by Erika from Weavolution. So. And then the other thing that I just wanted to say, before we end is I wanted to thank our new patrons! We have three new patrons. Jane, Heddi, and Jan since the last time I mentioned new patrons. So if you'd like to be a patron, how you do that is you go to patreon.com/twoewes. And you'll see our... I guess it's a channel or a page. I don't know, our account. And then and you can you can become a patron and support the show. So really, thank you so much Jane and Heddi, and Jan for for contributing to the show. It allows us to provide, you know, the podcast hosting and prize mailing and all those kinds of things and something new, Marsha! Something really exciting that we're able to do because of the patrons. Transcripts. Oooh! Oh, yes. Kelly 52:41 So we now have a transcript of our podcast. Having used the transcription service for my classes, I learned a little bit more about the company that's powering the transcriptions for our for work on our classes. It's otter.ai. And so I went to their website, and they have regular accounts for regular people. And not you know, not just education and and such. And so I found out a little bit more about it. And so we just when the when the podcast is done, you submit it, it creates a transcript. You have to edit it because it's not entirely... It's not entirely accurate. It doesn't always understand when Marsha and I talk over each other. So there is a little editing to do for that. But But now we have a transcript that is attached. It's in the show notes at the end. So we have our regular show notes posted on the blog. And then at the end of that show notes post is the transcript. Okay, I have to say it is almost as an nerving to read as my math. My teaching transcript. I don't know if you read if you had a chance to read? Marsha 54:06 I didn't read it. And now actually as you were talking about all this I was sort of thinking to myself, I don't know that I want to read it because...Oh, here it is. Okay. Here. I'm sorry. I think this is what we say every every episode. Kelly: hi Marsha. Marsha: Hi, Kelly. Kelly: How's it going? Marsha: Pretty good. Kelly: Good. Kelly 54:28 Yes. It doesn't... I have to say, yeah, it made me laugh to read how it sounds, but it makes it available to people that wouldn't be available to otherwise. Marsha 54:41 So Kelly, we need to edit this. Because you say you know "good," and then I say "had pretty exciting weather here in Seattle. A little unusual for us that we had a huge snores" Oh! This is what I said "Excuse me, snore a huge snowstorm came through. [laughing} I did actually say that! Okay, [laughing] Kelly 55:06 yeah. Marsha 55:07 Okay, This is terrible. This is embarrassing. I'm gonna have to do a much better. Kelly 55:14 So now remember when we talked about how I was like, Oh my god, how could I have been teaching this long and not make any sense? Marsha 55:23 Yes. Well, what I'm just laughing about is is that it was not the episode where I'm trying to explain helical knitting. Yeah, and I'm waving my hands around in the air trying. Yeah, but so Kelly 55:39 it's been an interesting process, we'll probably get better. The transcripts will probably get better as we go along. But, you know, I become more aware, it would never have occurred to me a year ago, two years ago, it would never have occurred to me that you would need a transcript for a podcast. My thinking would have been well, why would someone who can't hear even think to listen to a podcast? Right? And, and my, my eyes have been opened, you know, having to make my class accessible to my students. And then other things, you know, the conversations about racism and structural, structural racism. And all of those conversations have just kind of opened my eyes and made me think about things that, that I didn't think about before, I would not have thought about a reason for making a podcast, an audio experience, available to someone who couldn't hear. Marsha 56:40 So I'm not.[laughing] I'm sorry, I am not laughing about what you're saying. Just so you know, I'm sort of chuckling because I'm listening to what you're saying. But I'm also kind of scanning the transcript. So I'm sorry, I am not laughing at all at what you're saying. Kelly 56:52 What are you laughing about now? Marsha 56:54 Okay, so um, so it was very pleasant to sit out there on a snowy day because you have heat but anyway, period. Then that night, it just started coming down and it snowed all day period. I mean, all Friday night, Friday morning, or excuse me, Saturday morning, all Saturday into Sunday. Just It never stops. And we have I mean, eight someplace about eight inches probably at my house. Snow, that's a lot of snow for us. We don't usually get that much. But of course then Sunday, late Sunday afternoon or evening. It just turned around. [laughing] Kelly 57:36 Marsha, this is what we talk about. Marsha 57:38 Oh my gosh. [laughing] And then it just became soup out there. You know? Kelly? We have to do a better job. This is terrible! So eye opening what sounds okay in normal conversation is not okay. The transcript it's unreadable. Pretty much. Oh, my gosh, it's too funny. [laughing] Well, anyway, I have work to do. On clarity, Kelly 58:15 We both, we both do, I think, having having read through it last last time to do the editing. Yeah, we both do. So anyway, now we have transcripts. And I'm very happy that we're able to do that. And it's thanks to the contributions of our patrons. So thank you very much for contributing to the podcast. Marsha 58:41 I'm still laughing I'm sorry. I will stop laughing. Kelly 58:48 Okay, Marsha. [laughing] Are we done? Marsha 58:54 This reminds me of those times over the course of our friendship where we'd have those laughing attacks. Kelly 58:59 Yes. Marsha 59:00 And have accidents. So I better get off the podcast. We better get off the phone before I have an accident. Kelly 59:07 All right. Bye! [laughing] Marsha 59:13 Okay, bye bye. [laughing] Kelly 59:16 To subscribe to the podcast visit Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dot com. Marsha 59:21 Join us on our adventures on Ravelry and Instagram. I am betterinmotion and Kelly is 1hundredprojects 59:29 until next time, we are the Two Ewes doing our part for a world fleece!
In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy speak with Peter Voss about Artificial General Intelligence, Personalizing Personal Assistants, and Motorcycles Sponsorhttp://thedatadrivenbook.com/ () Sponsor: http://thedatadrivenbook.com/ (Audible.com) - Get a free audio book and support DataDriven - visit http://thedatadrivenbook.com/ (thedatadrivenbook.com)! Guest BioPeter Voss is the world’s foremost authority in Artificial General Intelligence. His company Aigo (https://www.aigo.ai/ (https://www.aigo.ai/)) has created the world’s first intelligent cognitive assistant. Aigo was funded with a personal investment of $10 million dollars. They currently manage millions of personalized customer service inquiries for household name-brands Notable Quoteshttps://aigo.ai/ (Aigo) is Peter's company. BAILeY's Introduction (00:00) The east coast has been blanketed with snow. (01:30) https://www.amazon.com/James-S-A-Corey/e/B004AQ1W8Y?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1612291145&sr=8-3 (The Expanse) books (03:00) Coding for curiosity? - Frank (11:50) "Models don't dynamically learn." - Peter (13:00) Three waves: Logic programming, Deep learning / neural networks, cognitive architecture / intelligence (14:00) Intelligence v. sentience? - Frank (15:50) What about bots being "led astray?" - Andy (18:30) On programming morality... (21:30) AI Safety is a better description - Peter (22:30) Asimov's three laws of robotics - Frank (23:15) On delimmas - Peter (24:15) "Morality should be about human flourishing." - Peter (25:15) Are we using digital means to do something analog? - Andy (27:55) Peter is trained as an electronics engineer. (28:05) "Context is always super-important." - Peter (28:30) "You need a feedback system." - Peter (30:00) https://aigo.ai/ (AIGO) is Peter's company. (31:00) The three meanings of personal. (34:00) "Exo-cortex" (33:50) On context switches (38:30) Did you find AI or did AI find you? (41:00) "I took five years off to study..." - Peter (43:00) What's your favorite part of your current gig? (44:10) When I'm not working, I enjoy ___. (45:00) I think the coolest thing in technology today is ___. (45:30) I look forward to the day when I can use technology to ___. (46:25) Something interesting or different about yourself (47:00) https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-to-Die-audiobook/dp/B016CME5B4/ (How Not to Die) (48:00) Where can people learn more about Peter? (49:00) Book reading / listening recommendations? (49:00) https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self-Soul/dp/0465030912 (The Mind's I) (50:00) https://medium.com/@petervoss/my-ai-articles-f154c5adfd37 (Peter's articles on Medium) (52:00) Get a free audio book and support DataDriven - visit http://thedatadrivenbook.com/ (thedatadrivenbook.com)! (00:00) TranscriptThe following transcript is AI generated. 00:00:01 BAILeY Hello and welcome to data driven. 00:00:03 BAILeY The podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. 00:00:11 BAILeY In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Peter Voss, peterboat. 00:00:15 BAILeY Peter Voss is the world's foremost authority, an artificial general intelligence or AGI. 00:00:21 BAILeY In fact, he is the one who coined the term in 2001 and published a book on the topic in 2002. 00:00:28 BAILeY He is a serial. 00:00:29 BAILeY AI entrepreneur technology innovator who has for the past 20 years, then dedicated to advancing artificial general intelligence. 00:00:38 BAILeY Today he is focused on his company, IGO, which is developing and selling increasingly advanced AGI systems for large enterprise customers. 00:00:47 BAILeY Peter also has a keen interest in the interrelationship between philosophy, psychology, ethics, futurism and computer science. 00:00:56 BAILeY I think you will find this interview a fascinating look at the future of AI. 00:01:01 BAILeY Now on with the show.
In this 2-part series, Hari Ram and Sat Kirtin had the immense pleasure of interviewing Sasha Stone.Former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999, founded New Earth Project and the ITNJ International Tribunal for Natural Justice and has worked across both the NGO and IGO sectors as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of vanguard innovators, scientists and doctors.Here in part 2 of our interview, Sacha points to the emergence of profound ancient wisdom, for those who have "done the work"; for those who are fearless and committed to the path of awakening. He beckons us to avoid "dulling the pain", in order to pass through this collective death & rebirth process... with our eyes wide open. Oh! ~ what immaculate Grace awaits. ENJOY!Learn more about Sacha at: www.sachastone.comCheck out our School of Naad Youtube channel for a variety of more content! And go to https://schoolofnaad.com/ to learn more.
SACHA STONE Former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999 and has worked across both the NGO and IGO sectors as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of vanguard innovators, scientists and doctors. Sacha founded the New Earth Project an evolving blueprint for sustainable, sovereign and self-determining communities, headquartered out of the world renowned (Akasha) NewEarth Haven in Bali. Sacha is also founder of the ITNJ International Tribunal for Natural Justice, which launched under multilateral observership in June 2015 via a ceremonial seating and ratification ceremony at Westminster Central Hall in London on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. This new planetary court is committed to the dispensation of natural justice: www.humanitad.org The ITNJ launched the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking & Child Sex Abuse at Westminster Central Hall in London in Spring 2018. The Commission continues to hear witness testimonies from survivors and expert witnesses from around the globe via on-line virtual court seatings. A Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Weaponisation of the Biosphere launched in 2019 and in 2020 the court launched an inquiry into Corona/Covid (still underway as of Q4/2020): www.commission.itnj.org Sacha is founder of the World Health Sovereignty Summit with many of the worlds leading advocates in the sector including: Robert Kennedy Jr., Del Bigtree, G. Edward Griffin, Professor Dolores Cahill, Dr Christiane Northrup, Marla Maples, Charlene Bollinger, Dr Rashid Buttar, Dr Sherri Tenpenny, Andrew Wakefield, Dr David Martin, etc…: www.reclaimyourlives.com Sacha is an activist, public speaker, publisher, writer and film-maker: www.sachastone.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/catalyst-talks/message
In this 2-part series, Hari Ram and Sat Kirtin had the immense pleasure of interviewing Sasha Stone.Former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999, founded New Earth Project and the ITNJ International Tribunal for Natural Justice and has worked across both the NGO and IGO sectors as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of vanguard innovators, scientists and doctors.Here in this first part of the interview, Sacha discusses the "alchemical bifurcation" that is occurring on the planet right now and the importance of letting go! We discuss timelessness, sovereignty, the "Galactic Orgasim", shamanic rebirth and so much more.We hope you appreciate his wisdom as much as we do! Check out our School of Naad Youtube channel for a variety of more content! And go to www.schoolofnaad.com to learn more.
One of my favorite Billy Joel songs is titled, “I Go to Extremes.” I’ll admit, I’m a big Billy Joel fan, and whenever a song by him is playing, you can bet I’ll be singing. But, the lyrics for “I Go To Extremes” are actually counter-productive to your personal growth! Darling I don't know why I got to extremes Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens And if I stand or I fall It's all or nothing at all Darling I don't know why I got to extremes Managing your life in the middle of the extremes isn’t easy, but achieving a balance is necessary for your personal and professional growth. In psychotherapeutic terms, emotional highs and lows could signify an imbalance and should be treated. If you’ve developed a habit of going to extremes, whether it is going overboard in business, romance or even punishments – it is a good idea to take stock in how extreme you might be. For example, if you are trying to build a business and believe that you must be attached to your phone or email 7 days a week, that could be considered extreme. Or, in romance and relationships – if you believe they should meet all your needs and know exactly what you want; it is time to let that extreme go. Take a break and let go of going to extremes! Kelly Orchard's Apple A Day is available in print! Four in the series, with an accompanying journal page to track your thoughts and success! https://kellyorchard.com/apple-a-day-books/
In their weekly podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss IGO lithium play, Coleman to retire, Cottesloe apartments, financial planning, Zak Kirkup, the WA rich list, and our special report on family businesses.
In their weekly podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss IGO lithium play, Coleman to retire, Cottesloe apartments, financial planning, Zak Kirkup, the WA rich list, and our special report on family businesses.
Joe and Jake are joined by Mike McKay, VP of Sales at iGo, to talk business resource specifics. Making sure your back office is in order is a necessity for growth. As Joey says, you want to have a solid back office foundation, before you try to scale. From who, to how, to why, to when, all will be covered in this episode.
Many people have asked me, “Is the https://3-in-30-podcast.myshopify.com/ (Flecks of Gold Journal) good for moms of older children and teenagers too?” YES! This journal is for any mom who wants to focus on the JOY in her daily and relationships, no matter how old her children are! The “flecks” you write down will be very different if you have teenagers instead of toddlers, but those golden moments are still there. And especially if you are going through a bit of rocky time with your teenager, it might be all the more important to notice those Flecks of Gold...or as my guest, https://www.instagram.com/sarenloosli/?hl=en (Saren Eyre Loosli), and I discuss in today’s episode, create them. You might recognize Saren’s name from other episodes of 3 in 30–that’s because she has been a mentor of mine for almost ten years and has deeply impacted my motherhood. Saren co-founded the website Power of Moms with April Perry, and I was a writer and editor there for many years before I started 3 in 30. Saren is the one who gave me the advice that is at the heart of the Flecks of Gold journal and that I’ve mentioned on the show before, “In motherhood, the hard moments sometimes outnumber the beautiful moments; but the beautiful moments always outweigh the hard moments.” Listen in for my discussion with her about how we can continue to focus on the beautiful moments in motherhood even as our children become teenagers! Three Takeaways Continue to prioritize tuck-in time with your teenagers. This can be as simple as going in to give them a quick kiss and compliment at the end of the day. Respect and get excited about their abilities and interests. Let them coach and teach you for once, and it might lead to really beautiful moments of connection. Talk less, hug more. Let your teens feel their big emotions. Try not to lecture them or use to many words when they are upset...just give them a little physical connection which will hopefully lead to more emotional connection. *** Show Notes Saren’s website: https://poweroffamilies.com/ (PowerofFamilies.com) https://www.instagram.com/power_of_families/?hl=en (Power of Families' Instagram) https://poweroffamilies.com/radio/ (Power of Families' Podcast) *** Many thanks to our sponsors! https://www.pta.org/center-for-family-engagement/notes-from-the-backpack (Notes from the Backpack Podcast,) hosted by the National PTA. I especially loved their recent episode "https://www.pta.org/center-for-family-engagement/notes-from-the-backpack (Surving the Quarantine with Your Teen)” with adolescent psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour. http://betterhelp.com/3in30 (BetterHelp), the world’s largest provider of therapy, done 100% online. Did you know that teenagers can use BetterHelp? IGo to https://www.betterhelp.com/3in30 (betterhelp.com/3in30) to get 10% off your first month. *** Related Episodes https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/teenagers/ (Episode 038: How to Get your Teenagers to Talk to You (and It Starts When They are Young) // Tony Overbay) https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/loneliness-of-parenting-teens/ (Episode 088: The Unexpected Loneliness of Parenting Teens // Tiffany Sowby and Allyson Reynolds) https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/everyday-moments/ (Episode 029: Making the Most of Everyday Moments to Connect with our Children // April Perry) *** Reserve your copy of the Flecks of Gold Journal! http://3in30podcast.com/flecksofgold (This unique three-year journal) helps you gather the golden moments in your motherhood!
A new MP3 sermon from Word of Truth Mission Project is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Singing as I Go Speaker: Tommy McLeroy Broadcaster: Word of Truth Mission Project Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/17/2019 Length: 42 min.
Nothing beats Go on the go, and that’s exactly what you get with 1500DS Spirits Volume 10: Igo! Game developer and cosmetics company Tasuke put out a number of these budget titles for the DS and DSiWare around 2007-2008, consisting mostly of board and card games. They’re similar to the more well known D3… Read More » The post 1500DS Spirits: Igo - PA137 first appeared on Pixelated Audio.
Kris Papa is a student at USC and on the management team for 24kGoldn. Kris recounts moving from Chicago to LA and finding his footing in a new place away from home. He shares his experiences searching for the right people to work with and eventually directing the video for “I Go to USC”, which spawned the relationship of a lifetime. Kris details the journey of releasing “Valentino” with 24kGoldn and watching it blow up on Tik Tok. He recalls the excitement of shifting the public impression from ‘meme rapper’ to a respected artist and breaking the ‘Tik Tok bubble.’ Kris also dives into the recent success of “Mood” reaching #1 on Billboard and the remix from Justin Bieber and J Balvin. Plus, Kris describes the value in being both friends, as well as business partners, and the importance of knowing when to give his input and when to listen. Intro/ Outro: “Mood (Remix) feat. Justin Bieber, J Balvin & iann dior” by 24kGoldn. @KrisPapaa
In the early 2000s, Val Yoder and his family felt called to be involved in the development of a training place for young people. Several years later they moved to Thailand in order to help start the Institute for Global Opportunities. In this episode, Val shares the story and vision behind starting IGo and explains what the value is in having a school set in a culture that is different from the students’ home culture. Institute for Global Opportunities: https://www.igoasia.org/ Personal Workers Training Camp: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbclientassets/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/01/23171014/pwtc2020.pdf Global Tribes Outreach: https://globaltribesoutreach.com/ This is the 103rd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. Read our blog: https://www.anabaptistperspectives.org/blog/ Visit our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/anabaptistperspectives/ Connect with us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anabaptistperspectives/ Support us: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/donate/ Music: "The Basket" by Blue Dot Sessions The views expressed by our guests are solely their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Anabaptist Perspectives or Wellspring Mennonite Church.
As an iGo customer, I want to introduce you to two new products we have at ibüümerang. · Zence is a wearable no-touch aroma therapy technology that is first to market. The world's mood is improving! · Bill Genius is a free service that negotiates a lower rate on your internet, cable, cell phone, and many other utilities. I was one of 72 people chosen globally by our CEO to test market Zence. The first shipment of Zence delivers this week and we have already sold over $3 million! QVC and Shark Tank wanted this technology, but we have exclusivity. Without making any medical claims, Zence has huge benefits and helps you feel incredible upwards of 12 hours a day. I've used some for as many as 4 days. You can store and reuse the Zence. Bill Genius negotiates lower bills for you. He has saved me $144 on my satellite radio and $70 on my Sprint/T-Mobile bill. Bill Genius told me I had the best deal on my AT&T internet/TV bundle as I had recently renegotiated. HOWEVER, he told me not to worry that on my anniversary he has my back. I never have to call customer service or retention again! Please visit my website, https://gogetbart.com to learn more and watch a couple of YouTube videos I have uploaded. The holidays are ahead! Start saving and give the gift that Just Makes Zence! About the show: ► Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ► Got Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216 ► For discount Pangea Products: https://embracepangaea.grsm.io/ashsaiditmedia3226 ► Want the ‘coldest' water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12 ► Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305 ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ► SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AshSaidItMedia ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ► Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ► Newsletter: manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863http://ashsaidit.us11.list-c8&id=a6f43cd472 #atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit® Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio & Google Podcasts. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!
As an iGo customer, I want to introduce you to two new products we have at ibüümerang. · Zence is a wearable no-touch aroma therapy technology that is first to market. The world's mood is improving! · Bill Genius is a free service that negotiates a lower rate on your internet, cable, cell phone, and many other utilities. I was one of 72 people chosen globally by our CEO to test market Zence. The first shipment of Zence delivers this week and we have already sold over $3 million! QVC and Shark Tank wanted this technology, but we have exclusivity. Without making any medical claims, Zence has huge benefits and helps you feel incredible upwards of 12 hours a day. I've used some for as many as 4 days. You can store and reuse the Zence. Bill Genius negotiates lower bills for you. He has saved me $144 on my satellite radio and $70 on my Sprint/T-Mobile bill. Bill Genius told me I had the best deal on my AT&T internet/TV bundle as I had recently renegotiated. HOWEVER, he told me not to worry that on my anniversary he has my back. I never have to call customer service or retention again! Please visit my website, https://gogetbart.com to learn more and watch a couple of YouTube videos I have uploaded. The holidays are ahead! Start saving and give the gift that Just Makes Zence! About the show: ► Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ► Got Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216 ► For discount Pangea Products: https://embracepangaea.grsm.io/ashsaiditmedia3226 ► Want the ‘coldest' water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12 ► Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305 ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ► SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AshSaidItMedia ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ► Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ► Newsletter: manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863http://ashsaidit.us11.list-c8&id=a6f43cd472 #atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit® Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio & Google Podcasts. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!
Former rock musician and artist Sacha Stone grew up in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe throughout the war for independence. He established Humanitad in 1999. After conducting a five year diplomatic campaign he engaged Humanitad upon both the NGO and IGO playing fields as an outspoken advocate of human rights and natural justice. He has instigated peace initiatives and education programs, and has lobbied against human-rights abuses in different parts of the globe and continues to prosecute for the protection of breakthrough innovators, scientists and doctors. Sacha is a public speaker, publisher, writer and film-maker. https://sachastone.com/ and http://www.humanitad.org/ To connect with Moniquea, join the Facebook group here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/TranscendingTraumaPodcast Many thanks to The Kondoors for the use of their amazing single, Mr Rain, for our show's theme song. To find out more about The Kondoors visit - https://www.thekondoors.com/ or to purchase Mr Rain click this link - https://orcd.co/byqrerj #TranscendingTrauma #Trauma #MoniqueaSpiteri
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Jamie and I Go to Las Vegas for International Small Felid Workshop Jamie and I are in Las Vegas at the Fifth International Small Felid Workshop. We arrived on 11/29 and are departing late tonight, arriving back in Tampa tomorrow morning. It is our second visit here together to bond. Tuesday I went to the conference and Jamie shopped the “strip” and then that night we ate at Paris and had a five course meal that was beyond compare and then went to see the traveling Titanic Exhibition. Standing at the base of the re-created stairway of the ship, Jamie said she thought she would cry. The whole thing was very moving. Yesterday I went to the conference while Jamie shopped more of the malls along the strip and then we had room service deliver a terrific meal, and then we took a helicopter ride over the brilliantly lighted, Las Vegas hotels and casinos. It was the first time either of us had been in a helicopter and it was a thrilling experience. I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
Are we FBO? Are we IGO? Where do you land in my Top 8? In today's episode, we talk Social Media and dating. We talk about exes and where they might fit in your digital footprint after you call it quits. Additionally, we're gonna breakdown what to do when you find some new, and whether or not it really matter who your significant other follows? As a bonus, we get into a heated debate about whether you should keep your Myspace as the relic that is, or if you should delete that faster then you can pick your top 4. Remember to follow us at @NoGreenTexts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and to rate, review, subscribe, and follow us (#RRSF). As always, feel free to shoot us an email at NoGreenTextsPodcast@gmail.com for any dating questions, stories, or just to say hi!
Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows! This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track! Check out today's questions: Patrick: Hey Dr. Cabral huge fan love your podcast and all the work that your doing. I Go to the gym about 3 days a week and hit the weights for about 30 minutes . I never heard you mention anything about isometric exercises can you go over some of the pros and cons. I’m just looking to switch up doing the same thing all the time and maybe get more toned and increase strength. Thanks again for all you do. Cynthia: Hello! I've been hearing quite a bit about water filtration. I have a water filter built into my refrigerator, and was wondering if you have a recommendation for the type of filter I should purchase, or if the standard filter is sufficient in providing clean drinking water? Liz: I am currently in the midst of my 2nd round of the 7 day detox and love it (maybe not the first 2 days....) I am a graduate of IIN, trainer and currently work for Beautycounter which I'm sure you are familiar with - our high standard for clean living which goes hand in hand with yours. With that said, I am wondering if you have a referral program for the detox program. I recently have referred 12 people for the 7 day detox so I have to ask as I know many other companies that do have this. I love the products (I've also tried Fatlossity and love listening to Dr. Cabral's podcasts.). Please let me know if this is something you offer.Thanks. - Liz Melanie: Hi, Dr. Cabral. Thank you for helping me and my family transform how we feed and take care of our bodies. I subscribe to numerous wonderful supplements on EquilibriumNutrition.com.Can you please help me with the rarely discussed and horrible "Tonsil Stones?" I know you don't have your tonsils so you probably do not have any experience with these. I however, still have mine and struggle to stay on top of expressing these from the back of my mouth. Is there anything that can help control their formation? Serena: Hello doctor Cabral,I'm about to have my first colonic ever and I really want to make the best out of it - I want to flush away as much yeast/bacteria/parasites/toxins as possible. Do you have any tips on foods and supplements to use prior to the procedure, in order to get this waste moving and maximise the detox?Also, is there anything else that advise would advise on doing prior and after colonics as far as the diet/exercise/lifestyle is concerned?Thanks in advance for your help and answers!Serena Anna: Hi Dr Cabral! Have you ever seen a correlation between periods and eczema/rosacea? I've noticed that I get the worse flare-ups at the exact time every month. Is this even possible? Thank you for tuning into today's Cabral HouseCall and be sure to check back tomorrow where we answer more of our community’s questions! - - - Show Notes & Resources: http://StephenCabral.com/1716 - - - Get Your Question Answered: http://StephenCabral.com/askcabral - - - Dr. Cabral's New Book, The Rain Barrel Effect https://amzn.to/2H0W7Ge - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: http://CabralSupportGroup.com - - - Dr. Cabral’s Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Sleep & Hormones Test (Run your adrenal & hormone levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - > View all Functional Medicine lab tests (View all Functional Medicine lab tests you can do right at home for you and your family!)
Show notes can be found at tashcorbin.com/231 Today's episode of the podcast is one of our Q&A episodes, and I have a brilliant question from Nicole, who's asking for help on pivoting her niche and what to do with her existing audience when she does so. If you're doing any adjustments to your niche or messaging, this is going to be a great episode for you to read or listen along to. This brilliant question comes from the fabulous Nicole Moorey, and you can find out more about Nicole at nicolemoorey.com. Nicole asks: "Hi Tash, I'm excited to be narrowing my niche to wellness entrepreneurs, etc. as per your recommendations. This new niche represents only a small portion of my existing vaguely niched email community. How do you recommend I pivot my messaging and marketing in a way that gently and kindly lets my existing community realise I'm pursuing a new direction - whilst also helping my new niche? Some of them have been loyal friends and followers for a few years, so I want to be sure to make this change in the best way possible for everyone." First and foremost, I want to say to Nicole that that is so beautiful. I think for most women entrepreneurs, our desire not to exclude anyone and our struggles with niching can sometimes come back to our feelings and experiences on the playground where we didn't get picked for something or we were excluded. We really don't want to create that feeling in someone else. I think it's such a beautiful thing that you are thinking of your audience at this time, and you're wanting to bring them along on the journey with you if it's the right fit, or let them go gently if it's not. I've got some ideas for you, Nicole, on how you can really make this transition as easy and gentle for your audience as possible, bringing along the right people and gently letting go of the people who may not be a fit anymore. Before I jump into my advice and tips, I want to quickly clarify for anyone who hasn't heard my training about niching before, your niche is the specific group of people you focus on when you are marketing your business. Your niche is not everyone you could help, your niche is everyone you want to help. Your niche is not even everyone you could market to, your niche is the specific group of people you focus on when you are marketing your products and services - when you are marketing in your business. With that in mind, I've got five tips for you, Nicole, on how you can start to refine that niche and bring your audience with you. 1. You don't need to tell people what your niche is Those niche decisions that you make are behind the scenes decisions in your business. You don't ever have to say to your audience, "I'm no longer working with everyone else, I'm only working with wellness entrepreneurs." But as your business moves forward and you express examples and share content that's specifically tailored for wellness entrepreneurs, then that's going to deeply resonate with those wellness entrepreneurs. For some people, they may realise that that doesn't resonate for them, but for others, it may still be helpful. Let's say you've got someone who has a photography business, and they've been on your list for years and they absolutely love and adore who you are and the work that you do. Just because your content is now targeted towards wellness entrepreneurs, doesn't mean that that person doesn't eventually want to work with you. It's totally up to you about whether you choose to work with that person or not. It's not about who you serve, it's about who you focus on with your marketing activities. You never need to come out of the closet and say that you're specifically working with a certain niche now, but because you incorporate those niching decisions into the way that you message and the way that you market, you are naturally going to start attracting more wellness entrepreneurs into your work. 2. You don't ever have to reject anyone Your messaging content and offers will simply move the right people closer and not move the wrong people any closer. You don't need to ever reject anyone when you decide to refine your niche. All you're going to do is know that you have a content ecosystem that is consistently moving people more and more towards the centre and getting warmer and warmer in your audience. The wellness entrepreneurs in your audience are going to move faster than the non-wellness entrepreneurs because your content isn't designed to move them any closer. Without ever having to reject anyone, through your messaging, content and offers, you will naturally magnetise those people who fit within your niche, and you'll be less likely to magnetise those people who don't. You don't ever have to reject anyone. 3. Don't make the decision for them While someone might not fit that rigid niching that you've now selected (because I do recommend that you make that niching very tight, specific and clear), that doesn't mean that they decide that they can never get any value out of being on your mailing list, following you or even one day working with you. I've got a great example of this to share with you. I specialise in helping women entrepreneurs who are wanting to start and scale their online business. I do teach leveraging and launching in my Accelerator, and I teach startup in the Take Off program. Recently I had a lady reach out to me who's been following me for two years and has a product-based business - she doesn't sell services. I specifically share content and have courses that help people with that one-to-one service-based type business, and going into one-to-many service type business - selling digital products but not physical products. But I had this lady reach out to me because she's got to the point in her business where she really wants to start scaling her marketing. Even though she sells high-end products, she reached out to me and asked if she could buy a VIP session with me - despite the fact that she knew I usually work with service-based businesses - so that I could have a look at her online messaging, marketing and channels, and to see if there's any advice that I have. I had a look at her website, I had a look at what she was doing, and I told her that we should book in a VIP half day so that I could go through and give her product-based business all the help that I could. When she reached out, I could have made the decision to say yes or say no. If I had looked at her website and thought that I couldn't get her the return on investment because it wasn't where I specialised, I could have referred her on to someone else. But based on what I saw of her business, I said yes and she's booked in to do a VIP day with me in a few weeks time, and we get to work together even though she doesn't specifically fit my niche. You don't have to make the decision for people. They get to make the decision, you just want to empower them with all of the information that they need to make that decision. If someone doesn't specifically fit your niche and they decide they still want to work with you in some way, or they want to pay you for your services, or they still want to be on your mailing list because they're getting little dribs and drabs of great information here and there - that's totally their decision. I know that I have a lot of people on my mailing list and who listen to my podcast every single week who do not fit my niche. They made the decision that it was worth their time, energy and sometimes money to invest in learning from me because they got so much value out of it, even though maybe they don't necessarily fit my specific niche. That's their decision. That's not my decision to make for them. 4. Make sure you're looking at this in a positive way You could decide to just keep staying un-niched for the next two years and continue going round and round in circles and not really resonating with anyone with your messaging. But you've made a decision that by getting specific, you are going to be able to sell more effectively and deliver more effectively for your clients. I just wanted to do one tip in here to check-in and make sure you're viewing this as a positive thing, not only for you but also for your audience. At the end of the day, your decision to niche is actually a decision to accelerate the growth of your business, but also be able to serve the people you do want to work with, much more deeply and much more effectively. Because of that, it means that really at the end of the day, everyone is a winner. If they are within your new refined niche, they're going to get much deeper, much more specific and much clearer support from you, as well as much higher quality content. If they aren't in your niche, they get to make the decision of whether they stay for the content that you are delivering, or if they should unsubscribe and unfollow to save themselves some headspace. It doesn't need to be a harsh decision, it doesn't need to be a big piece of rejection for people, it doesn't need to be a hair tossing storm on their way out, it can actually be a really beautiful thing and a positive move. I want you to view this positively because I see it as a very positive move for your business. 5. Remember the gold nugget analogy Nicole, I know you've been to my niche training and know what I'm talking about when I say remember your golden nuggets. I've got a resource for you below so you can go and watch it, but in summary, what I mean by gold nuggets is think about yourself when you're niching as really focusing on a very specific tunnel. You're tunnelling really, really tightly with the smallest tunnel you can choose because that means you're going to move through that tunnel faster. What happens when you're tunnelling and you've got a very specific niche, is that if you have someone who doesn't fit that niche ask to work with you (like my beautiful product based lady), that is like having a gold nugget fall out of the ceiling of your tunnel. You're tunnelling through with this very specific niche, and a gold nugget falls from the ceiling and into your lap when someone who's not in the tunnel comes to you. At that point in time, you get to decide: Am I going to keep this gold nugget? Am I going to say yes to this client and work with them? Or am I going to hand this golden nugget over to someone else? Sometimes I have people who come to me who don't fit my niche and they ask me to help them, and I tell them that I don't think that I'm the best person for the job and I point them in the right direction of someone who could help them much better. I hand that golden nugget over to someone else and I keep tunnelling with my very specific niche. If that tunnelling analogy has piqued your interest, I have a great free resource for you. I'd love for you to check out my Nail Your Niche training. In this training, I: Go into that analogy a little deeper Talk about what to do when those gold nuggets arrive Share how to tell if someone is a gold nugget Go through a very thorough structured niching process, to help you make the five most important decisions that you need to make about your niche if you are marketing your business online You can find that beautiful Nail Your Niche training here: tashcorbin.com/webinar Nicole, thank you so much for your question and thank you to everyone for reading along. I hope you found this episode really helpful as well. If you'd like to submit a question for these Q&A podcast episodes, simply go to tashcorbin.com/question, pop all your details and your question in there and I will answer it on the podcast in coming episodes. Please come on over to the Heart-Centred Soul-Driven Entrepreneurs Facebook group, using #podcastaha share your aha moments and any questions that you have about this episode of the podcast. Let me know you've been reading podcast episode 231 and we can talk about this further over there! Until next time, I cannot WAIT to see you SHINE.
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Episode ninety of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Runaway" by Del Shannon, and at the early use of synthesised sound in rock music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Blue Moon" by the Marcels. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ ----more---- A note Almost every version of “Runaway” currently available is in stereo, and the stereo version of the song has a slightly different vocal take to the original mono version. Unfortunately, there appear to be multiple “original mono versions” too. To check that what I'm using here, a mono track available as a bonus on a reissue of the album Runaway With Del Shannon, is actually the hit single version, I downloaded two vinyl rips of the single and one vinyl rip of a mono hits compilation from the sixties that had been uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately no two copies of the song I could find online would play in synch – they all appear to be mastered at slightly different speeds, possibly due to the varispeeding I talk about in the episode. I've gone with the version I did because it's a clean-sounding mono version, but it may not be exactly what people heard in 1961. Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. This one is in two parts because of the number of songs by Del Shannon in the mix. Part one, part two. Only one biography of Del Shannon has ever been written, and that's out of print and (to judge from the Amazon reviews) not very well written, so I've relied again on other sources. Those include the liner notes to this CD, a good selection of Shannon's work (with the proviso that "Runaway" is in stereo -- see above; the articles on Shannon and Max Crook on This Is My Story, the official Del Shannon website, and the Internet Archive's cached copy of Max Crook's old website. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today's episode is an odd one to write, as just as I put the finishing touches to the script I discovered that Max Crook, the keyboard player at the centre of this story, died less than two weeks ago. The news wasn't widely reported, and I only discovered this by double-checking a detail and discovering an obituary of him. Crook was one of the great early pioneers of electronic music, and a massive talent, and he's a big part of the story I'm telling today, so before we go into the story proper I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge his passing, and to regret that it hasn't been more widely noted. One of the things we've not talked about much in this podcast so far is the technology of music. We've discussed it a bit -- we've looked at how things like the change from 78s to 45s affected the music industry, at the transition from recording on discs to recording on tape, at the electrification of the guitar, and at Les Paul's inventions. But in general, the music we've looked at has been made in a fairly straightforward manner -- some people with some combination of guitars, bass, piano, drums, and saxophone, and maybe a few string players on the most recent recordings, get together in front of a microphone and sing and play those instruments. But today, we're going to look at the start of synthesisers being used in rock and roll music. Today we're going to look at "Runaway" by Del Shannon: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Runaway"] Synthesised sound has a far longer pedigree than you might expect. The use of electronics to create music goes back to the invention of the theremin and the ondes martenot in the 1920s, and by the 1930s, people had already started using polyphonic keyboard-based electronic instruments. The Novachord was produced by the Hammond organ company between 1938 and 1942, and was introduced at the World's Fair in 1939, where Ferdinand Grofe, who we talked about a little in the episode on "Cathy's Clown", led a group consisting only of Novachord players in a public performance. The Novachord never achieved mass popularity because of World War II halting its production, but it was still used in a few recordings. One that's of particular interest to those of us interested in early rock and roll is Slim Gaillard's "Novachord Boogie": [Excerpt: Slim Gaillard, "Novachord Boogie"] But also it was used on one of the most famous records of the late thirties. These days, when you hear "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn on documentaries about the second world war, this is the version you hear: [Excerpt: Vera Lynn, "We'll Meet Again"] But the record that people actually listened to in World War II didn't have any of that orchestration. It was Lynn accompanied by a single instrument, a Novachord played by Arthur Young, and is notably more interesting and less syrupy: [Excerpt: Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on Novachord, "We'll Meet Again"] So even in the late thirties, synthesised sounds were making their way on to extremely popular recordings, but it wasn't until after the war that electronic instruments started getting used in a major way. And the most popular of those instruments was a monophonic keyboard instrument called the clavioline, which was first produced in 1947. The clavioline was mostly used as a novelty element, but it appeared on several hit records. We're going to devote a whole episode in a few months' time to a record with the clavioline as lead instrument, but you can hear it on several fifties novelty records, like "Little Red Monkey" by Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths, a UK top ten hit from 1953: [Excerpt: Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths, "Little Red Monkey"] But while the clavioline itself was in use quite widely in the fifties, the first big rock and roll hit with an electronic synthesiser actually used a modified clavioline called a musitron, which was put together by an electronics amateur and keyboard player named Max Crook, from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Crook had built his musitron using a clavioline as a base, but adding parts from TVs, reel-to-reel recorders, and bits of whatever electronic junk he could salvage parts from. He'd started playing electronic instruments in his teens, and had built his own recording studio. Sadly, the early records Crook made are not easily available. The only place I've been able to track down copies of his early singles in a digital format is one grey-market CD, which I wasn't able to obtain in time to include the tracks here and which only seems to be available from one shop in Cornwall. His first band, the White Bucks, released a single, "Get That Fly" backed with "Orny", on Dot Records, but I can tell you from experience that if you search anywhere online for "White Bucks Orny" you will find... well, not that record, anyway. Even more interestingly, he apparently recorded a version of "Bumble Boogie", the novelty instrumental that would later become a hit for B. Bumble and the Stingers, with Berry Gordy at some point in the late fifties. Sadly, that too is not generally available. But it wasn't until he auditioned for Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band that Max Crook met the people who were going to become his most important collaborators. The Big Little Show Band had started as Doug DeMott and The Moonlight Ramblers, a honky-tonk band that played at the Hi-Lo Club in Battle Creek, Michigan. Battle Creek is a company town, midway between Chicago and Detroit, which is most famous as being the headquarters of the Kellogg company, the cereal manufacturer and largest employer there. It's not somewhere you'd expect great rock and roll to come from, being as it is a dull medium-sized town with little in the way of culture or nightlife. The Hi-Lo Club was a rough place, frequented by hard-working, hard-drinking people, and Doug DeMott had been a hard drinker himself -- so hard a drinker, in fact, that he was soon sacked. The group's rhythm guitarist, Charles Westover, had changed his name to Charlie Johnson and put together a new lineup of the group based around himself and the bass player, Loren Dugger. They got in a new drummer, Dick Parker, and then went through a couple of guitarists before deciding to hire a keyboard player instead. Once they auditioned Crook, with his musitron, which he could clip to the piano and thus provide chordal piano accompaniment while playing a lead melody on his musitron, they knew they had the right player for them. Crook had a friend, a black DJ named Ollie McLaughlin, who had music industry connections, and had been involved in the White Bucks recordings. Crook and Johnson started writing songs and recording demos for McLaughlin, who got Johnson a session with Irving Micahnik and Harry Balk, two record producers who were working with Johnny and the Hurricanes, an instrumental group who'd had a big hit with "Red River Rock" a year or so previously: [Excerpt: Johnny and the Hurricanes, "Red River Rock"] Johnson recorded two songs in New York, without his normal musicians backing him. However, Micahnik and Balk thought that the tracks were too dirgey, and Johnson was singing flat -- and listening to them it's not hard to see why they thought that: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "The Search"] They told him to go back and come up with some more material that was less dirgey. Two things did come out of the association straight away, though. The first was that Charles Johnson changed his name again, combining a forename he chose to be reminiscent of the Cadillac Coup deVille with a surname he took from an aspiring wrestler he knew, Mark Shannon, to become Del Shannon. The second was that Johnny and the Hurricanes recorded one of Max Crook's instrumentals, "Mr Lonely", as a B-side, and you can hear in the Hammond organ part the kind of part that Crook would have been playing on his Musitron: [Excerpt: Johnny and the Hurricanes, "Mr Lonely"] Shannon and Crook recorded a tape of many other songs they were working on for McLaughlin to play to Micahnik and Balk, but they weren't interested -- until they heard a fragment of a song that Shannon and Crook had recorded, and which they'd then mostly taped over. That song, "Runaway", was the one they wanted. "Runaway" had been an idea that had happened almost by accident. The band had been jamming on stage, and Crook had hit a chord change that Shannon thought sounded interesting -- in later tellings of the story, this is always the Am-G chord change that opens the song, but I suspect the actual chord change that caught his ear was the one where they go to an E major chord rather than the expected G or E minor on the line “As our hearts were young”. That's the only truly unusual chord change in the song. But whatever it was, Shannon liked the changes that Crook was playing -- he and Crook would both later talk about how bored he was with the standard doo-wop progression that made up the majority of the songs they were playing at the time -- and the band ended up jamming on the new chord sequence for fifteen or twenty minutes before the club owner told them to play something else. The next day, Shannon took his guitar to the carpet shop where he worked, and when there were no customers in, he would play the song to himself and write lyrics. He initially wrote two verses, but decided to scrap one. They performed the song, then titled "My Little Runaway", that night, and it became a regular part of their set. The crucial element in the song, though, came during that first performance. Shannon said, just before they started, "Max, when I point to you, play something". And so when Shannon got to the end of the chorus, he pointed, and Crook played this: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Runaway"] When they were told that Micahnik and Balk liked the fragment of song that they'd heard, Shannon and Crook recorded a full demo of the song and sent it on to them. The producers weren't hugely impressed with the finished song, saying they thought it sounded like three songs trying to coexist, and they also didn't like Shannon's voice, but they *did* like Crook and the Musitron, and so they invited Crook and Shannon to come to New York to record. The two men drove seven hundred miles in a broken-down car, with their wives, to get from Michigan to New York. It was the middle of winter, the car had no heating, and Shannon smoked while Crook was allergic to tobacco smoke, so they had to keep the windows open. The session they were going to do was a split session -- they were going to record two Del Shannon vocal tracks, and two instrumentals by Crook, who was recording under the name "Maximilian" without a surname (though the "Max" in his name was actually short for Maxfield). Crook was definitely the one they were interested in -- he rearranged the way the microphones were arranged in the studio, to get the sound he wanted rather than the standard studio sound, and he also had a bag full of gadgets that the studio engineers were fascinated by, for altering the Musitron's sound. The first single released as by "Maximilian" was "The Snake", which featured Crook and Shannon's wives on handclaps, along with an additional clapper who was found on the street and paid forty dollars to come in and clap along: [Excerpt: Maximilian, "The Snake"] After that, the two women got bored and wandered off down Broadway. They eventually found themselves in the audience for a TV game show, Beat the Clock, and Joann Crook ended up a contestant on the show -- their husbands didn't believe them, when they explained later where they'd been, until acquaintances mentioned having seen Joann on TV. Meanwhile, the two men were working on another Maximillian track, and on two Del Shannon tracks, one of which was "Runaway". They couldn't afford to stay overnight in New York, so they drove back to Michigan, but when the record company listened to "Runaway", they discovered that Shannon had been singing flat due to nerves. Shannon had to go back to New York, this time by plane, to rerecord his vocals. According to Crook, even this wasn't enough, and the engineers eventually had to varispeed his vocals to get them in key with the backing track. I'm not at all sure how this would have worked, as speeding up his vocals would have also meant that he was singing at a different tempo, but that's what Crook said, and the vocal does have a slightly different quality to it. And Harry Balk backed Crook up, saying "We finally got Del on key, and it sounded great, but it didn't sound like Del. We mixed it anyhow, and it came out wonderful. When I brought Ollie and Del into my office to hear it, Del had a bit of a fit. He said, 'Harry, that doesn't even sound like me!' I just remember saying, 'Yeah but Del, nobody knows what the hell you sound like!" Like most great records, "Runaway" was the sum of many parts. Shannon later broke down all the elements that went into the song, saying: "I learned falsetto from The Ink Spots' 'We Three,'": [Excerpt: The Ink Spots, "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)"] "I eventually got hooked on Jimmy Jones' 'Handy Man' in '59 and would sing that at the Hi-Lo Club.": [Excerpt: Jimmy Jones, "Handy Man"] "I always had the idea of 'running away' somewhere in the back of my mind. 'I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder, why...' I borrowed from Dion & The Belmonts' 'I Wonder Why.'" [Excerpt: Dion and the Belmonts, "I Wonder Why"] "The beats you hear in there, '...I wonder, bam-bam-bam, I wa-wa...' I stole from Bobby Darin's 'Dream Lover.'" [Excerpt: Bobby Darin, "Dream Lover"] Listening to the song, you can definitely hear all those elements that Shannon identifies in there, but what emerges is something fresh and original, unlike anything else out at the time: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Runaway"] "Runaway" went to number one in almost every country that had a chart at the time, and top five in most of the rest. In America, the song it knocked off the top was "Blue Moon" by the Marcels, one of those songs with the doo-wop progression that Shannon had been so bored with. At its peak, it was selling eighty thousand copies a day, and Billboard put it at number three hundred and sixty four on the all-time charts in 2018. It was a massive success, and a game-changer in the music industry. Maximilian's single, on the other hand, only made the top forty in Argentina. Clearly, Del Shannon was the artist who was going to be worth following, but they did release a few more singles by Maximilian, things like "The Twisting Ghost": [Excerpt: Maximilian, "The Twisting Ghost"] That made the Canadian top forty, but Maximilian never became a star in his own right. Shannon, on the other hand, recorded a string of hits, though none were as successful as "Runaway". The most successful was the follow-up, "Hats off to Larry", which was very much "Runaway part 2": [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Hats off to Larry"] But every single he released after that was slightly less successful than the one before. He soon stopped working with Crook, who remained at the Hi-Lo Club with the rest of the band while Shannon toured the country, and without Crook's Musitron playing his records were far less interesting than his earliest singles, though he did have the distinction of being one of the few singers of this era to write the bulk of his own material. He managed to further sabotage his career by suing Micahnik and Balk, and by 1963 he was largely washed up, though he did do one more thing that would make him at least a footnote in music history for something other than "Runaway". He was more popular in the UK than in the US, and he even appeared in the film "It's Trad Dad!", a cheap cash-in on the trad jazz craze, starring Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas as teenagers who try to persuade the stuffy adults who hate the young people's music that the Dukes of Dixieland, Mr. Acker Bilk and the Temperance Seven are not dangerous obscene noises threatening the morals of the nation's youth. That film also featured Gene Vincent and Chubby Checker along with a lot of British trumpet players, and was the first feature film made by Richard Lester, who we'll be hearing more about in this story. So Shannon spent a fair amount of time in the UK, and in 1963 he noticed a song by a new British group that was rising up the UK charts and covered it. His version of "From Me to You" only made number seventy-seven on the US charts, but it was still the first version of a Lennon/McCartney song to make the Hot One Hundred: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "From Me to You"] He made some interesting records in the rest of the sixties, and had the occasional fluke hit, but the music he was making, a unique blend of hard garage rock and soft white doo-wop, was increasingly out of step with the rest of the industry. In the mid and late sixties, his biggest successes came with songwriting and productions for other artists. He wrote "I Go to Pieces" which became a hit for Peter & Gordon: [Excerpt: Peter and Gordon, "I Go to Pieces"] Produced the band Smith in their cover version of "Baby It's You", which made the top five: [Excerpt: Smith, "Baby It's You"] And produced Brian Hyland's million-selling version of a Curtis Mayfield song that I'm not going to play, because its title used a racial slur against Romani people which most non-Romani people didn't then regard as a slur, but which is a great record if you can get past that. That Hyland record featured Crook, reunited briefly with Shannon. But over the seventies Shannon seemed increasingly lost, and while he continued to make records, including some good ones made in the UK with production by Dave Edmunds and Jeff Lynne, he was increasingly unwell with alcoholism. He finally got sober in 1978, and managed to have a fluke hit in 1981 with a cover version of Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love", produced by Tom Petty and with Petty's band the Heartbreakers backing him: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Sea of Love"] He also came to people's attention when a rerecorded version of "Runaway" with new lyrics was used as the theme for the TV show Crime Story. In 1989, Del Shannon was working on a comeback album, with Jeff Lynne producing and members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as backing musicians. The same people had previously worked on Roy Orbison's last album, which had been his biggest success in decades, and Lynne was gaining a reputation for resuscitating the careers of older musicians. Both Lynne and Petty were fans of Shannon and had worked with him previously, and it seemed likely that he might be able to have a hit with some of the material he was working on. Certainly "Walk Away", which Shannon co-wrote with Lynne and Petty, sounds like the kind of thing that was getting radio play around that time: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, "Walk Away"] There were even rumours that Lynne and Petty were thinking of inviting Shannon to join the Travelling Wilburys to replace Roy Orbison, though that seems unlikely to me. Unfortunately, by the time the album came out, Shannon was dead. He'd been suffering from depression for decades, and he died of suicide in early 1990, aged fifty-five. His widow later sued the manufacturers of the new wonder drug, Prozac, which he'd been prescribed a couple of weeks earlier, claiming that it caused his death. Max Crook, meanwhile, had become a firefighter and burglar alarm installer, while also pursuing a low-key career in music, mostly making religious music. When Shannon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Crook volunteered to perform at the ceremony, playing his original Musitron, but his offer was ignored. In later years he would regularly show up at annual celebrations of Shannon, and talk about the music they made together, and play for their fans. He died on July the first this year, aged eighty-three.
Episode ninety of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Runaway” by Del Shannon, and at the early use of synthesised sound in rock music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Blue Moon” by the Marcels. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ —-more—- A note Almost every version of “Runaway” currently available is in stereo, and the stereo version of the song has a slightly different vocal take to the original mono version. Unfortunately, there appear to be multiple “original mono versions” too. To check that what I’m using here, a mono track available as a bonus on a reissue of the album Runaway With Del Shannon, is actually the hit single version, I downloaded two vinyl rips of the single and one vinyl rip of a mono hits compilation from the sixties that had been uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately no two copies of the song I could find online would play in synch – they all appear to be mastered at slightly different speeds, possibly due to the varispeeding I talk about in the episode. I’ve gone with the version I did because it’s a clean-sounding mono version, but it may not be exactly what people heard in 1961. Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. This one is in two parts because of the number of songs by Del Shannon in the mix. Part one, part two. Only one biography of Del Shannon has ever been written, and that’s out of print and (to judge from the Amazon reviews) not very well written, so I’ve relied again on other sources. Those include the liner notes to this CD, a good selection of Shannon’s work (with the proviso that “Runaway” is in stereo — see above; the articles on Shannon and Max Crook on This Is My Story, the official Del Shannon website, and the Internet Archive’s cached copy of Max Crook’s old website. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today’s episode is an odd one to write, as just as I put the finishing touches to the script I discovered that Max Crook, the keyboard player at the centre of this story, died less than two weeks ago. The news wasn’t widely reported, and I only discovered this by double-checking a detail and discovering an obituary of him. Crook was one of the great early pioneers of electronic music, and a massive talent, and he’s a big part of the story I’m telling today, so before we go into the story proper I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge his passing, and to regret that it hasn’t been more widely noted. One of the things we’ve not talked about much in this podcast so far is the technology of music. We’ve discussed it a bit — we’ve looked at how things like the change from 78s to 45s affected the music industry, at the transition from recording on discs to recording on tape, at the electrification of the guitar, and at Les Paul’s inventions. But in general, the music we’ve looked at has been made in a fairly straightforward manner — some people with some combination of guitars, bass, piano, drums, and saxophone, and maybe a few string players on the most recent recordings, get together in front of a microphone and sing and play those instruments. But today, we’re going to look at the start of synthesisers being used in rock and roll music. Today we’re going to look at “Runaway” by Del Shannon: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Runaway”] Synthesised sound has a far longer pedigree than you might expect. The use of electronics to create music goes back to the invention of the theremin and the ondes martenot in the 1920s, and by the 1930s, people had already started using polyphonic keyboard-based electronic instruments. The Novachord was produced by the Hammond organ company between 1938 and 1942, and was introduced at the World’s Fair in 1939, where Ferdinand Grofe, who we talked about a little in the episode on “Cathy’s Clown”, led a group consisting only of Novachord players in a public performance. The Novachord never achieved mass popularity because of World War II halting its production, but it was still used in a few recordings. One that’s of particular interest to those of us interested in early rock and roll is Slim Gaillard’s “Novachord Boogie”: [Excerpt: Slim Gaillard, “Novachord Boogie”] But also it was used on one of the most famous records of the late thirties. These days, when you hear “We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn on documentaries about the second world war, this is the version you hear: [Excerpt: Vera Lynn, “We’ll Meet Again”] But the record that people actually listened to in World War II didn’t have any of that orchestration. It was Lynn accompanied by a single instrument, a Novachord played by Arthur Young, and is notably more interesting and less syrupy: [Excerpt: Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on Novachord, “We’ll Meet Again”] So even in the late thirties, synthesised sounds were making their way on to extremely popular recordings, but it wasn’t until after the war that electronic instruments started getting used in a major way. And the most popular of those instruments was a monophonic keyboard instrument called the clavioline, which was first produced in 1947. The clavioline was mostly used as a novelty element, but it appeared on several hit records. We’re going to devote a whole episode in a few months’ time to a record with the clavioline as lead instrument, but you can hear it on several fifties novelty records, like “Little Red Monkey” by Frank Chacksfield’s Tunesmiths, a UK top ten hit from 1953: [Excerpt: Frank Chacksfield’s Tunesmiths, “Little Red Monkey”] But while the clavioline itself was in use quite widely in the fifties, the first big rock and roll hit with an electronic synthesiser actually used a modified clavioline called a musitron, which was put together by an electronics amateur and keyboard player named Max Crook, from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Crook had built his musitron using a clavioline as a base, but adding parts from TVs, reel-to-reel recorders, and bits of whatever electronic junk he could salvage parts from. He’d started playing electronic instruments in his teens, and had built his own recording studio. Sadly, the early records Crook made are not easily available. The only place I’ve been able to track down copies of his early singles in a digital format is one grey-market CD, which I wasn’t able to obtain in time to include the tracks here and which only seems to be available from one shop in Cornwall. His first band, the White Bucks, released a single, “Get That Fly” backed with “Orny”, on Dot Records, but I can tell you from experience that if you search anywhere online for “White Bucks Orny” you will find… well, not that record, anyway. Even more interestingly, he apparently recorded a version of “Bumble Boogie”, the novelty instrumental that would later become a hit for B. Bumble and the Stingers, with Berry Gordy at some point in the late fifties. Sadly, that too is not generally available. But it wasn’t until he auditioned for Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band that Max Crook met the people who were going to become his most important collaborators. The Big Little Show Band had started as Doug DeMott and The Moonlight Ramblers, a honky-tonk band that played at the Hi-Lo Club in Battle Creek, Michigan. Battle Creek is a company town, midway between Chicago and Detroit, which is most famous as being the headquarters of the Kellogg company, the cereal manufacturer and largest employer there. It’s not somewhere you’d expect great rock and roll to come from, being as it is a dull medium-sized town with little in the way of culture or nightlife. The Hi-Lo Club was a rough place, frequented by hard-working, hard-drinking people, and Doug DeMott had been a hard drinker himself — so hard a drinker, in fact, that he was soon sacked. The group’s rhythm guitarist, Charles Westover, had changed his name to Charlie Johnson and put together a new lineup of the group based around himself and the bass player, Loren Dugger. They got in a new drummer, Dick Parker, and then went through a couple of guitarists before deciding to hire a keyboard player instead. Once they auditioned Crook, with his musitron, which he could clip to the piano and thus provide chordal piano accompaniment while playing a lead melody on his musitron, they knew they had the right player for them. Crook had a friend, a black DJ named Ollie McLaughlin, who had music industry connections, and had been involved in the White Bucks recordings. Crook and Johnson started writing songs and recording demos for McLaughlin, who got Johnson a session with Irving Micahnik and Harry Balk, two record producers who were working with Johnny and the Hurricanes, an instrumental group who’d had a big hit with “Red River Rock” a year or so previously: [Excerpt: Johnny and the Hurricanes, “Red River Rock”] Johnson recorded two songs in New York, without his normal musicians backing him. However, Micahnik and Balk thought that the tracks were too dirgey, and Johnson was singing flat — and listening to them it’s not hard to see why they thought that: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “The Search”] They told him to go back and come up with some more material that was less dirgey. Two things did come out of the association straight away, though. The first was that Charles Johnson changed his name again, combining a forename he chose to be reminiscent of the Cadillac Coup deVille with a surname he took from an aspiring wrestler he knew, Mark Shannon, to become Del Shannon. The second was that Johnny and the Hurricanes recorded one of Max Crook’s instrumentals, “Mr Lonely”, as a B-side, and you can hear in the Hammond organ part the kind of part that Crook would have been playing on his Musitron: [Excerpt: Johnny and the Hurricanes, “Mr Lonely”] Shannon and Crook recorded a tape of many other songs they were working on for McLaughlin to play to Micahnik and Balk, but they weren’t interested — until they heard a fragment of a song that Shannon and Crook had recorded, and which they’d then mostly taped over. That song, “Runaway”, was the one they wanted. “Runaway” had been an idea that had happened almost by accident. The band had been jamming on stage, and Crook had hit a chord change that Shannon thought sounded interesting — in later tellings of the story, this is always the Am-G chord change that opens the song, but I suspect the actual chord change that caught his ear was the one where they go to an E major chord rather than the expected G or E minor on the line “As our hearts were young”. That’s the only truly unusual chord change in the song. But whatever it was, Shannon liked the changes that Crook was playing — he and Crook would both later talk about how bored he was with the standard doo-wop progression that made up the majority of the songs they were playing at the time — and the band ended up jamming on the new chord sequence for fifteen or twenty minutes before the club owner told them to play something else. The next day, Shannon took his guitar to the carpet shop where he worked, and when there were no customers in, he would play the song to himself and write lyrics. He initially wrote two verses, but decided to scrap one. They performed the song, then titled “My Little Runaway”, that night, and it became a regular part of their set. The crucial element in the song, though, came during that first performance. Shannon said, just before they started, “Max, when I point to you, play something”. And so when Shannon got to the end of the chorus, he pointed, and Crook played this: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Runaway”] When they were told that Micahnik and Balk liked the fragment of song that they’d heard, Shannon and Crook recorded a full demo of the song and sent it on to them. The producers weren’t hugely impressed with the finished song, saying they thought it sounded like three songs trying to coexist, and they also didn’t like Shannon’s voice, but they *did* like Crook and the Musitron, and so they invited Crook and Shannon to come to New York to record. The two men drove seven hundred miles in a broken-down car, with their wives, to get from Michigan to New York. It was the middle of winter, the car had no heating, and Shannon smoked while Crook was allergic to tobacco smoke, so they had to keep the windows open. The session they were going to do was a split session — they were going to record two Del Shannon vocal tracks, and two instrumentals by Crook, who was recording under the name “Maximilian” without a surname (though the “Max” in his name was actually short for Maxfield). Crook was definitely the one they were interested in — he rearranged the way the microphones were arranged in the studio, to get the sound he wanted rather than the standard studio sound, and he also had a bag full of gadgets that the studio engineers were fascinated by, for altering the Musitron’s sound. The first single released as by “Maximilian” was “The Snake”, which featured Crook and Shannon’s wives on handclaps, along with an additional clapper who was found on the street and paid forty dollars to come in and clap along: [Excerpt: Maximilian, “The Snake”] After that, the two women got bored and wandered off down Broadway. They eventually found themselves in the audience for a TV game show, Beat the Clock, and Joann Crook ended up a contestant on the show — their husbands didn’t believe them, when they explained later where they’d been, until acquaintances mentioned having seen Joann on TV. Meanwhile, the two men were working on another Maximillian track, and on two Del Shannon tracks, one of which was “Runaway”. They couldn’t afford to stay overnight in New York, so they drove back to Michigan, but when the record company listened to “Runaway”, they discovered that Shannon had been singing flat due to nerves. Shannon had to go back to New York, this time by plane, to rerecord his vocals. According to Crook, even this wasn’t enough, and the engineers eventually had to varispeed his vocals to get them in key with the backing track. I’m not at all sure how this would have worked, as speeding up his vocals would have also meant that he was singing at a different tempo, but that’s what Crook said, and the vocal does have a slightly different quality to it. And Harry Balk backed Crook up, saying “We finally got Del on key, and it sounded great, but it didn’t sound like Del. We mixed it anyhow, and it came out wonderful. When I brought Ollie and Del into my office to hear it, Del had a bit of a fit. He said, ‘Harry, that doesn’t even sound like me!’ I just remember saying, ‘Yeah but Del, nobody knows what the hell you sound like!” Like most great records, “Runaway” was the sum of many parts. Shannon later broke down all the elements that went into the song, saying: “I learned falsetto from The Ink Spots’ ‘We Three,'”: [Excerpt: The Ink Spots, “We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)”] “I eventually got hooked on Jimmy Jones’ ‘Handy Man’ in ’59 and would sing that at the Hi-Lo Club.”: [Excerpt: Jimmy Jones, “Handy Man”] “I always had the idea of ‘running away’ somewhere in the back of my mind. ‘I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder, why…’ I borrowed from Dion & The Belmonts’ ‘I Wonder Why.'” [Excerpt: Dion and the Belmonts, “I Wonder Why”] “The beats you hear in there, ‘…I wonder, bam-bam-bam, I wa-wa…’ I stole from Bobby Darin’s ‘Dream Lover.'” [Excerpt: Bobby Darin, “Dream Lover”] Listening to the song, you can definitely hear all those elements that Shannon identifies in there, but what emerges is something fresh and original, unlike anything else out at the time: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Runaway”] “Runaway” went to number one in almost every country that had a chart at the time, and top five in most of the rest. In America, the song it knocked off the top was “Blue Moon” by the Marcels, one of those songs with the doo-wop progression that Shannon had been so bored with. At its peak, it was selling eighty thousand copies a day, and Billboard put it at number three hundred and sixty four on the all-time charts in 2018. It was a massive success, and a game-changer in the music industry. Maximilian’s single, on the other hand, only made the top forty in Argentina. Clearly, Del Shannon was the artist who was going to be worth following, but they did release a few more singles by Maximilian, things like “The Twisting Ghost”: [Excerpt: Maximilian, “The Twisting Ghost”] That made the Canadian top forty, but Maximilian never became a star in his own right. Shannon, on the other hand, recorded a string of hits, though none were as successful as “Runaway”. The most successful was the follow-up, “Hats off to Larry”, which was very much “Runaway part 2”: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Hats off to Larry”] But every single he released after that was slightly less successful than the one before. He soon stopped working with Crook, who remained at the Hi-Lo Club with the rest of the band while Shannon toured the country, and without Crook’s Musitron playing his records were far less interesting than his earliest singles, though he did have the distinction of being one of the few singers of this era to write the bulk of his own material. He managed to further sabotage his career by suing Micahnik and Balk, and by 1963 he was largely washed up, though he did do one more thing that would make him at least a footnote in music history for something other than “Runaway”. He was more popular in the UK than in the US, and he even appeared in the film “It’s Trad Dad!”, a cheap cash-in on the trad jazz craze, starring Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas as teenagers who try to persuade the stuffy adults who hate the young people’s music that the Dukes of Dixieland, Mr. Acker Bilk and the Temperance Seven are not dangerous obscene noises threatening the morals of the nation’s youth. That film also featured Gene Vincent and Chubby Checker along with a lot of British trumpet players, and was the first feature film made by Richard Lester, who we’ll be hearing more about in this story. So Shannon spent a fair amount of time in the UK, and in 1963 he noticed a song by a new British group that was rising up the UK charts and covered it. His version of “From Me to You” only made number seventy-seven on the US charts, but it was still the first version of a Lennon/McCartney song to make the Hot One Hundred: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “From Me to You”] He made some interesting records in the rest of the sixties, and had the occasional fluke hit, but the music he was making, a unique blend of hard garage rock and soft white doo-wop, was increasingly out of step with the rest of the industry. In the mid and late sixties, his biggest successes came with songwriting and productions for other artists. He wrote “I Go to Pieces” which became a hit for Peter & Gordon: [Excerpt: Peter and Gordon, “I Go to Pieces”] Produced the band Smith in their cover version of “Baby It’s You”, which made the top five: [Excerpt: Smith, “Baby It’s You”] And produced Brian Hyland’s million-selling version of a Curtis Mayfield song that I’m not going to play, because its title used a racial slur against Romani people which most non-Romani people didn’t then regard as a slur, but which is a great record if you can get past that. That Hyland record featured Crook, reunited briefly with Shannon. But over the seventies Shannon seemed increasingly lost, and while he continued to make records, including some good ones made in the UK with production by Dave Edmunds and Jeff Lynne, he was increasingly unwell with alcoholism. He finally got sober in 1978, and managed to have a fluke hit in 1981 with a cover version of Phil Phillips’ “Sea of Love”, produced by Tom Petty and with Petty’s band the Heartbreakers backing him: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Sea of Love”] He also came to people’s attention when a rerecorded version of “Runaway” with new lyrics was used as the theme for the TV show Crime Story. In 1989, Del Shannon was working on a comeback album, with Jeff Lynne producing and members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as backing musicians. The same people had previously worked on Roy Orbison’s last album, which had been his biggest success in decades, and Lynne was gaining a reputation for resuscitating the careers of older musicians. Both Lynne and Petty were fans of Shannon and had worked with him previously, and it seemed likely that he might be able to have a hit with some of the material he was working on. Certainly “Walk Away”, which Shannon co-wrote with Lynne and Petty, sounds like the kind of thing that was getting radio play around that time: [Excerpt: Del Shannon, “Walk Away”] There were even rumours that Lynne and Petty were thinking of inviting Shannon to join the Travelling Wilburys to replace Roy Orbison, though that seems unlikely to me. Unfortunately, by the time the album came out, Shannon was dead. He’d been suffering from depression for decades, and he died of suicide in early 1990, aged fifty-five. His widow later sued the manufacturers of the new wonder drug, Prozac, which he’d been prescribed a couple of weeks earlier, claiming that it caused his death. Max Crook, meanwhile, had become a firefighter and burglar alarm installer, while also pursuing a low-key career in music, mostly making religious music. When Shannon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Crook volunteered to perform at the ceremony, playing his original Musitron, but his offer was ignored. In later years he would regularly show up at annual celebrations of Shannon, and talk about the music they made together, and play for their fans. He died on July the first this year, aged eighty-three.
In the inaugural episode of our new series, "Impact Real Estate" we welcome former 3-time NBA Champion Devean George. We talk about his nonprofit Building Blocks, how community work during his playing career ignited his passion for real estate that gives back to underserved communities, and how a team mentality is helping him change lives across the country. It's a special edition of the TBG Real Estate Podcast you do not want to miss.EPISODE NOTES:02:20 - From the NBA to real estate03:30 - North Minneapolis born and raised04:54 - Community Engagement with the NBA06:06 - What is Building Blocks?09:40 - The process of building affordable housing11:46 - The advantages of investing in affordable housing13:27 - Forming connections15:26 - Characteristics of the community16:59 - The after school program19:08 - What’s keeping people from building more affordable housing?23:59 - Relatable advise26:12 - The future of Building Blocks27:10 - What can we do to help?29:42 - The Hot Seat Presented by KK ResetBorn in 1977 in Minneapolis, Devean attended high school at Benilde-St. Margaret’s and went on to become a standout basketball player at Augsburg College. During his college career, he was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Most Valuable Player for two consecutive years (1997-98 and 1998-99). In 1999, he made history when he became the first-ever NCAA Division III basketball player selected in the first round (23rd overall pick) of the NBA draft. Throughout his 11-year career in the NBA, Devean played for the Los Angeles Lakers (with whom he won three NBA Championships), the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors.Off the court, Devean has long devoted a great deal of his time and energy to numerous charitable organizations focused on families, education and children. For six years, he was a sponsor of the Minnesota-based program, Why Can’t I Go?, which provided underprivileged students with travel-based educational opportunities.Now retired from the NBA, Devean remains committed to positively impacting the North Minneapolis community that shaped who he is today. His desire to give back was the driving force behind the formation of George Group North, his real-estate company specializing in multifamily residential development, mixed-use projects, and property redevelopment and management, and its charitable subsidiary, Building Blocks, which is focused on mentorship programming, affordable housing, and sustainable community development. Devean serves as President and CEO of George Group North, and Executive Director of Building Blocks.
Third in our summer series, this Sunday's will be inspired by "I Go to Sing" by Lindy Thompson.
When is the right time think about a sentence-mitigation plan? Answering that question reminds me of an old saying about the best time to plant an oak tree. I heard a speaker ask that question to members of his audience. Predictably, audience members ventured a guess. In the morning? In the winter? In the summer? No one had a clue. Pausing for dramatic effect, the speaker then gave the answer. The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today. We could say the same thing about a sentence-mitigation plan. Too often, a defendant doesn’t do anything to prepare for the sentencing hearing. It’s understandable. Many defendants don’t think of themselves as criminals. Regardless of what type of activity brought them to the attention of authorities, they think that they’re different, immune from the law enforcement. They may not know anyone that has been through the criminal justice system, and they cannot conceive of themselves going into the system. How do you see yourself? But authorities saw me differently. In their eyes, I violated securities laws. That made me a target for prosecution. And when federal authorities target a person for prosecution, their conviction rates exceed 85 percent. With those odds, it makes a lot of sense to begin thinking about a sentence-mitigation plan at the soonest possible time. Regardless of what type of charge a person faces, it’s important to realize that sentencing proceedings will likely follow. Sentence-mitigation plans can help. Start with an understanding of what the defense attorney will do. Attorneys will work with: The evidence against the individual, The procedural rules that determine what evidence the court will consider, The substantive law that Congress has passed, The case law that judges have decided, The prosecutor’s ability to prove a case against the defendant. To succeed, the defense attorney will exercise judgment and discretion, fighting valiantly to get the best possible outcome for the defendant. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney will be analyzing the case and pressing forward to get the outcome they want. Rather than justice, the prosecutor will strive for a conviction. The defense attorney will parry the prosecutor’s efforts, always assessing the strength of arguments that he can use. While the defense attorney may be a great analytical thinker, he may not have time to listen to the defendant’s life story. For that reason, every defendant should invest the time and energy to present that life story. A life story can make all the difference in the world when it comes to sentencing. Indeed, our team has worked closely with many federal judges. Our website includes two interviews that my partner Michael did with federal judges. Michael asked those judges what steps a person could take to influence the judge’s decision. Each judge responded by saying that, when it comes to sentencing, they want to hear from defendants. Our interviews with both judges are available for free through our Prison Professors YouTube channel, under the following playlist: Judge Mark Bennett from the Northern District of Iowa Judge Stephen Bough from the Western District of Missouri How to Prepare for Sentencing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf7W0veN3NWbq9nzGNmhQliFbqmaXz26y If you cannot access the link because you’re reading this book in print, simply Google How to Prepare for Sentencing + Prison Professors and you’ll find our helpful videos on YouTube or text the following word, to the following number: Text word: Sentence Text to number: 44222 You’ll get an automatic brochure sent to your phone. Defense Attorney’s Position: Some defense attorneys support a pro-active sentence-mitigation plan, while other defense attorneys resist such initiatives. Why? As stated above, attorneys are great analytical thinkers. Since they know it’s the prosecutor’s burden to prove a case, they operate out of an abundance of caution. They do not want to introduce any evidence that a prosecutor could use against their client. And since most defendants start out in denial, incapable of fully appreciating the system or the charges against them, some attorneys do not want their clients to say anything. Attorneys may have invested considerable amounts of time to construct an elaborate defense. They do not want their clients to make statements that prosecutors may twist, making it more difficult for the attorney to argue for leniency at sentencing. Defense attorneys may prefer to rely upon case law, facts, and what the prosecutor could prove. We have a different perspective. Our team has interacted with more than 1,000 people that have gone through the criminal justice system. We’ve had personal interactions with state and federal judges. Based on our experience, we’re convinced that defendants put themselves in a far better position when they engineer an effective sentence-mitigation plan. When a person creates and executes on an effective sentence-mitigation strategy, that individual does immense service to his defense attorney. In our view, an effective sentence-mitigation plan will strive to achieve several outcomes: It will help the judge see and understand the defendant as an individual, It will help the judge grasp influences that led the defendant to the current situation, It will help the judge see aspects of the defendant’s life that could not be conveyed by the defense attorney’s eloquence alone, It will help the judge see the defendant in his own environment, It will help the judge learn what other people in the community think about the defendant. Engineering an effective sentence-mitigation plan does not excuse the misconduct or litigate the case. In fact, a sentence-mitigation plan does just the opposite. It is a strategy to show the judge why the defendant is worthy of mercy. It would not serve a defendant’s interest to minimize culpability, or to blame anyone. If referring to the criminal conduct at all, the sentence-mitigation plan should focus on some key points, including: Show an understanding and an appreciation for the victim’s pain, suffering, or loss. Show influences that led the defendant to become involved in the instant offense. Show what the defendant has learned from the experience. Show what steps the defendant has taken to reconcile with society, the victims, and his community to make things right. Articulate a coherent plan to show why the defendant will never break the law again. What if I Go to Trial? As stated in previous lessons, the vast majority of people charged in a criminal case start off with a not-guilty plea. Their defense attorneys then assess the evidence and the risks of proceeding through trial, then negotiate the most favorable plea-agreement possible. Still, a small percentage of defendants maintain their innocence and proceed through trial. If a defendant proceeds through trial, and is found guilty, that defendant may want to appeal. In that case, the defendant will want to create a sentence-mitigation plan that does not in any way threaten the prospects for an appeal. Accordingly, he should refrain from discussing any aspects of the case. Instead, such a strategy should focus exclusively on helping the judge get to know him as a person. There is always an opportunity to create a mitigation strategy. It is equivalent to building a sales presentation. And how do we accomplish that goal? We begin by thinking about our audience. A sentence-mitigation strategy has an audience of one: the judge. What steps can you take to differentiate yourself from every other defendant that comes before the judge? First Person Approach: Let your lawyer argue the law and deal with the evidence against you. When it comes to articulating the story of your life, use your own words, in a first-person voice. From our perspective, this is a common sense. Your lawyer is a professional advocate, skilled in the arts of persuasion. Even if the most notorious criminal retained your attorney, a professional code of ethics would require your attorney to provide the most zealous defense possible. After decades of practicing law, judges know that the defense attorney is going to argue for leniency at sentencing. While deliberating over the appropriate sentence, the judge isn’t too concerned with arguments on case law. He has read the case law; he has his own opinion. On the other hand, he doesn’t know much about the defendant. Prior to sentencing, defendants have an opportunity to influence the outcome. Again, a defendant does well when he starts from the premise that he’s about to make the biggest sale of his life. The only question is how well he has prepared, or how much time, energy, and resources he wants to invest to build a persuasive case. Three-Tiered Plan: Our team believes that an effective sentence-mitigation plan should begin at the soonest possible time. No one can change the past, but any of us can begin crafting a story that will show who we are as individuals and how we got here. We’re big believers in a three-tiered strategy that includes: A personal sentencing narrative A strategic character-reference letter campaign A sentencing video A sentence-mitigation story of community service
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