Podcasts about in march

In March 1946, the UK's former wartime leader, Winston Churchill, gave a historic speech which would come to symbolise the beginnings of the Cold War. Churchill had lost power following a crushing election defeat in Britain in 1945. Encouraged by the US President Harry Truman, Churchill agreed to give a speech on world affairs at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. But why did the speech have such an impact. Alex Last hears from the historian Prof David Reynolds of Cambridge University, author of The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt. Photo: Winston Churchill at the podium delivering his "Iron Curtain" speech, at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri, 5th March 1946 (PA)

In March 1960, the South African police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, killing 69 people and injuring nearly 200 more. The massacre outraged black South Africans, leading to a radicalisation of anti-apartheid organisations such as the ANC and a ruthless crackdown on dissent by the whites-only government. Simon Watts hears the memories of Nyakane Tsolo, who organised the demonstration in Sharpeville, and Ian Berry, a photographer whose pictures of the killings caused an international outcry. PHOTO: The crowd fleeing from the police at Sharpeville in 1960 (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

In March 2020, there was a huge shift of people working from home, which meant more people stocking up on home office equipment. The need for creative solutions became evident as the client solutions group which handles laptops and desktops at Dell saw a huge influx in demand, and Dell was pressed to adapt and provide innovative offerings to customers. In this episode of B2B Tech Talk, As The Gears Turn edition, Devaughn Bittle and Patrick Cash are joined by Cory Carroll, senior solutions sales specialist at Ingram Micro focusing on Dell, to talk about how Ingram Micro and Dell’s partnership benefits customers. They also discussed: -How Ingram Micro and Dell work together to take care of their customers -How Ingram Micro and Dell help customers with financing -How Dell’s value program benefits SMBs -Where tech is going in the next year Follow us on Twitter @IngramTechSol #B2BTechTalk. Listen to this episode and more like it by subscribing to B2B Tech Talk on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. Or tune in on our website.

New month, new theme! In March, we're talking about embracing our Divine Feminine. Acknowledging that we don't have to show up in a masculine way in order to get what we really want in life is where we start. Today, we're going to talk about 3 doorways to growth and transformation as feminine beings. So, grab a warm drink and  join me as we dive deep and get more in tune with our body, mind and spirit... then, I'll leave you with a few "thought-full" questions!   Click here for show notes.   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to the first episode of a new month! This month is all about launching. What goes into a launch? How do you prepare for one? What numbers do you need to know? How do you analyze your launch results? In March we’ll be talking about all things launches and I’ll even be bringing on a special guest to chat about launch copywriting. If you're interested in learning how to launch your course, stay with me for the rest of the month.Before we go any further, I have another freebie for you: The Launch Checklist. This is straight out of Yay for 100K, as everything I’m talking about this month is super aligned with our program. This is the actual checklist we give our clients. Inside Yay for 100K, we have lessons on how to create your webinar, how to plan your launch, how to write your sales emails, how to do successful Facebook Lives and everything else you need for a hugely successful launch. This checklist is an overview of how all of that fits together.Go ahead and grab your FREE Launch Checklist now: https://courtneychaal.com/launchchecklistIn today's episode, we're specifically covering:The big picture of everything that is involved in a launchWhy you need to set up your program waitlist page firstThe five sections you need in your webinar contentHow to set up your webinar platformThe sales page VS the webinar and the webinar replay pageWhat you need to have on your webinar registration pageWhy you need to send webinar reminder emailsWhat goes into your webinar replay page and freebie worksheetThe second biggest piece of your launch pie: Your cartWhy it's crucial to have a customer service response libraryWhat you need on your webinar checkout pageThe four live broadcasts you need before your webinarBonus: How to set up your program Facebook groupIf after listening to this episode you want to fast track through these steps and implement everything successfully, you need to join us inside Yay for 100K. When you apply, we'll send over details for our exclusive private training where I go through the full program and all the details, including pricing and more.Resources mentioned in this episode:The Launch ChecklistConnect with Courtney Chaal:Instagram: courtneychaalWebsite: https://courtneychaal.comFacebook group: Get More Clients ClubEmail: courtney@rulebreakersclub.com

"Women want a running culture that doesn’t treat fear and discomfort as a given. Whether it’s being free to wear our hair in a ponytail, to run at night or to not spend money on titanium DNA-harvesting tiger claws, we want legitimate safety. Not a shallow, commodified reflection of the freedom my male friends and running partners enjoy. Safety bestowed conditionally isn’t safety—it’s implied violence." https://trailrunnermag.com/people/opi... ​ #safety​ #running​ #harassment​ In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

To celebrate World Book Day, we are interviewing the official illustrator of WBD, Rob Biddulph. Rob is a multi-award winning children’s author & illustrator. As well as working on his own books, he also illustrates for other authors including Michael Bond and Jeff Brown. In March 2020, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Rob started running a series of draw-along YouTube sessions called Draw with Rob. On 21st May he broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever online art class when 45,611 people tuned in to one of his classes. Rob’s latest picture book, Dog Gone, came out in paperback on 18th February and his latest activity book, Draw With Rob: Build a Story is published on 4th March. --- Books mentioned in this episode: Dogger by Shirley Hughes - https://bit.ly/387307z Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - https://bit.ly/3e1WYcg To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - https://bit.ly/3sKj6Mf Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph - https://bit.ly/2MHsZem What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry - https://bit.ly/3bckJN5 Meg & Mog by Helen Nicoll & Jan Pienkowski - https://bit.ly/386ciki The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr - https://bit.ly/30851vT How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss - https://bit.ly/309ZwwQ The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf - https://bit.ly/3b9KZHO Alan's Big, Scary Teeth by Jarvis - https://bit.ly/3qe1EOP Look Up by Nathan Bryon - https://bit.ly/3e3Rtts Produced & presented by the team at Mostly Books (www.mostly-books.co.uk) twitter.com/mostlyreading instagram.com/mostlybooks_shop Edited by Nick Short (www.instagram.com/alongstoryshorter)

In episode 1 of Season 5; we are headed to Dublin Ireland to discuss the murder duo known as the Scissor Sisters; Linda and Charlotte Mulhall. In March of 2005 – the sisters killed, dismembered, and disposed of their mother’s lover; Farah Swaleh Noor. But why? What would make two adult sisters kill their mother’s boyfriend in such a brutal manner? Join us as we dissect the case and learn all about the background of these individuals.Promo in this episode is for Sammi’s new podcast “It’s Frightful”. Check out Samii’s podcast here: It's Frightful Podcast Find your favorite platform, buy merch, find sources, and more!https://linktr.ee/nvnpodcastWE HAVE A NEW MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/swagmetc/albums/105579-nvn?ref_id=22209Call/text us: 1-513-549-5735Email us: naturevsnarcissism@gmail.comSend us things:PO Box 498396Cincinnati, Ohio 45249

Join Steph and Michelle as they chat nutrition! In March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietitians  hosts National Nutrition Month®. This year's theme, Personalize Your Plate, promotes creating nutritious meals to meet individuals' cultural and personal food preferences.

In March 2020 the United States Marine Corps announced that it would be disbanding its tank units.  At the time the US Marines fielded three active-duty tank battalions and one reserve tank battalion.  The news was formally announced in the Force Design 2030 Report, but word of the move came... The post What is the Tank Good For? appeared first on Wavell Room.

It’s time for a second installment of Lauren’s Series on Senses! Today, learn all about the uncomfortable truths about our tongues, what the five tastes mean for us as mammals, and some cool facts about flavors. Later, take a quiz all about famous restaurants and celebrity chefs! . [Music: 1) The Cramps, “You Got Good Taste,” 1983; 2) Frau Holle, “Ascending Souls,” 2017. Courtesy of Frau Holle, CC BY-NC 3.0 license.] . . In March, all tips to our PayPal and purchases from our TeePublic shop will be donated to the National Women’s Law Center.

In March 2020 the UK was gearing up to face the Covid-19 pandemic. Cases were increasing rapidly and by the end of month the country was in full lockdown with medics facing their toughest ever test. A group of doctors and nurses in intensive care units recorded audio diaries for the BBC which illustrated the true scale of the professional and personal challenge they faced. The UK was to become one of the worst hit countries for Covid-19 deaths in Europe. One year on – in the midst of a second wave - and a third lockdown - reporter Jane Deith revisits some of those doctors and nurses to find out how they are surviving the biggest challenge of their careers. Producer: Rob Cave

Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of last year’s US Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta (well one year minus one day; the Trials were held on February 29, making a true one-year anniversary impossible). The world has turned upside down over the last 12 months, but the six athletes selected on that day to represent Team USA in Japan are in the same spot they were this time a year ago: 23 weeks away from the Olympic Marathon. Of course, some things have changed. Galen Rupp is healthier. Jake Riley and Molly Seidel picked up new sponsors. Abdi Abdirahman is 44 years old (doesn’t it still seem impossible he made this team?). And none of them have the leg soreness from racing 26.2 miles on Atlanta’s hills — though Aliphine Tuliamuk does have the challenge of restoring her body to racing shape after giving birth to daughter Zoe on January 13. With that one-year anniversary in mind, USATF hosted five of the six Olympians on media calls over the last two days. Sally Kipyego spoke yesterday (you can read our story on her here). Today’s call featured Rupp, Riley, Seidel, and Tuliamuk (Abdirahman was not on either call). Here’s what we learned. https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/02/... ​ #OlympicMarathon​ #GalenRupp​ #traffic​ In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

Time travel happened. We can prove it. Imagine you went to bed one night in 2021 and the next morning you'd awoken in the year 2031? What would be different? How far would technology, society, and general civilization have advanced? In 2020, we saw a glimpse of that kind of advancement for retail. In March 2020 we went to bed and in an industry where 16% of transactions occurred in e-commerce. In May 2020, that percentage had risen to over 27%. Since 2009, retail e-commerce has risen 1% per year and in 2 months, we saw a decade of growth. Retail e-commerce quite literally jumped ten years into the future. What was generally accepted business practices in March were antiquated, outdated and overall useless by June. E-commerce catapulted a decade into the future and we're still playing catch-up. How have you faired? Check out this week's episode and as we deep dive into our to stay relevant and how to gut check whether you're falling behind. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mattresspodcast/message

Micöl Rankin joins this episode to chat about being yourself at work, not compromising who you are, valuing yourself highly, philosophies of life, cryptocurrency, and outer space.  Micöl is a senior art director at Moxie and host of the #YouAreDope show. He is a multimedia artist, musician, and creative designer. He has worked in the advertising industry since 2008, creating content for some of the biggest brands in the world including Coca Cola, Starbucks, Porsche, Verizon, iHeartMedia, McDonalds, and more. In March of 2020, he created a digital show on the platform, LinkedIn, titled #YouAreDope. An interview formatted show, that celebrates positivity and shines a spotlight on power players in the marketing industry and beyond. The show has been featured in Ad Age, the inspiration behind the "Be Dope Vote" platform, garnered over tens of thousands of views from all over the world, and earned hundreds of hours of viewed time.

In March 1991, 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez won a kite-flying contest. Due to this award, Junny’s photo appeared in a local newspaper called Florida Today. Junny and his family had no idea that this public recognition would ultimately lead to an elaborate scheme to kidnap and kill him. Listen to this week’s episode to find out more.

Pamela Druckerman is the author of five books including "Bringing Up Bébé", which has been translated into 30 languages and optioned as a feature film by Blueprint Pictures starring Anne Hathaway. In this episode we talk about her new children's book, "Paris by Phone" which details one little girl's pursuit of the magic of independence and her subsequent realization of the true meaning of home. We also discuss the history of French cultural influence on America and other countries, and how the political systems of a particular country affect the level and intensity of parental stress experienced by its citizens. Connect with Pamela at https://pameladruckerman.com on IG @pameladruck    Check out Pamela's Interview Zoom Series Pandemonium U https://www.pandemoniumu.com   This show is sponsored by: Public Goods - Use code Unstressed for $15 off your order. Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Stress Less. Use code podcast to save 15% at www.motherhoodunstressed.com  Connect with me on IG @motherhoodunstressed About Pamela Druckerman Bringing Up Bébé was a #1 best seller in the U.K. (Sunday Times); a top-ten best seller in the United States (The New York Times); and has appeared on best-seller lists in Germany, Russia and Brazil. (Its UK title is French Children Don’t Throw Food.) Pamela also wrote There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story,Bébé Day By Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting and Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. Her rhyming picture book for kids, Paris by Phone, illustrated by Benjamin Chaud, will appear in February 2021. Pamela writes a column about France for The New York Times, and the Dress Code column for 1843/The Economist. Her op-eds, essays, articles and reviews have also appeared in the The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair France, Madame Figaro, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Times (UK), The Sunday Times (U.K.) and many other publications. She has appeared as a commentator on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, BBC Woman’s Hour, Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PRI, the CBC, Europe1, Le Grand Journal, On n’est pas couché, France24 and Oprah.com. In March 2020, at the start of the Paris lockdown, Pamela co-founded PANDEMONIUM U, a series of free Zoom classes taught by world-class experts. In 2017 she won an Emmy for The Forger, a 16-minute New York Times documentary about a Frenchman who forged documents during WWII. The film was a finalist for the Peabody Award and won prizes from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and NPPA. Pamela also shared a 2015 Overseas Press Club award for “best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad” for video coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. From 1997 to 2002 Pamela was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Buenos Aires, São Paulo and New York. She was also a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. She grew up in Miami.  

This week on Yes But Why, we talk to theater artist and podcaster, Paul Deichmann. Paul Deichmann is an improviser from just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul is a performer, a director and a producer of improvised and devised theater pieces. At home like the rest of us in live entertainment, Paul currently produces an improvised long form podcast called The Offer with Cesar Gozurreta. Our chat goes deep into improv theory straightaway. This conversation starts with an examination of improv as meditation and ends with a discussion about finding yourself through performance. Yeah. Paul was a fun person to talk to. We discuss Paul’s voracious appetite for learning all things theatrical. Paul has explored all the different disciplines of improv, by taking classes, reading books, or going down a Google search rabbit hole. Paul shares his love for improv, as well as storytelling and creating shows. Paul has been improvising theater since his first role as a bench in his high school’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. We talk about crazy team building exercises, about his interest in dramaturgy, and about the difficulty of finding collaborators. Support Paul Deichmann by listening to his podcast, The Offer. The Offer is an improvised stories podcast hosted by Paul and Cesar Gozurreta. They create a completely original long-form story alongside an amazing guest. The Offer releases new episodes every week! In March and April of 2021, The Offer team is developing further the stories they loved improvising from throughout their first year. Check them out! Also, check out Pig Iron Theatre Company where Paul mentioned he has been enjoying taking workshops! Yes But Why Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Visit us at HCUniversalNetwork.com to join in on the fun. This episode of Yes But Why podcast is sponsored by audible - get your FREE audiobook download and your 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/YESBUTWHY. This episode of Yes But Why is also sponsored by PodcastCadet.com. Go to PodcastCadet.com and put in offer code YBY20 to get 20% off your first consultation!

This week on Yes But Why, we talk to theater artist and podcaster, Paul Deichmann. Paul Deichmann is an improviser from just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul is a performer, a director and a producer of improvised and devised theater pieces. At home like the rest of us in live entertainment, Paul currently produces an improvised long form podcast called The Offer with Cesar Gozurreta. Our chat goes deep into improv theory straightaway. This conversation starts with an examination of improv as meditation and ends with a discussion about finding yourself through performance. Yeah. Paul was a fun person to talk to. We discuss Paul’s voracious appetite for learning all things theatrical. Paul has explored all the different disciplines of improv, by taking classes, reading books, or going down a Google search rabbit hole. Paul shares his love for improv, as well as storytelling and creating shows. Paul has been improvising theater since his first role as a bench in his high school’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. We talk about crazy team building exercises, about his interest in dramaturgy, and about the difficulty of finding collaborators. Support Paul Deichmann by listening to his podcast, The Offer. The Offer is an improvised stories podcast hosted by Paul and Cesar Gozurreta. They create a completely original long-form story alongside an amazing guest. The Offer releases new episodes every week! In March and April of 2021, The Offer team is developing further the stories they loved improvising from throughout their first year. Check them out! Also, check out Pig Iron Theatre Company where Paul mentioned he has been enjoying taking workshops! Yes But Why Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Visit us at HCUniversalNetwork.com to join in on the fun. This episode of Yes But Why podcast is sponsored by audible - get your FREE audiobook download and your 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/YESBUTWHY. This episode of Yes But Why is also sponsored by PodcastCadet.com. Go to PodcastCadet.com and put in offer code YBY20 to get 20% off your first consultation!

This week on Yes But Why, we talk to theater artist and podcaster, Paul Deichmann. Paul Deichmann is an improviser from just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul is a performer, a director and a producer of improvised and devised theater pieces. At home like the rest of us in live entertainment, Paul currently produces an improvised long form podcast called The Offer with Cesar Gozurreta. Our chat goes deep into improv theory straightaway. This conversation starts with an examination of improv as meditation and ends with a discussion about finding yourself through performance. Yeah. Paul was a fun person to talk to. We discuss Paul’s voracious appetite for learning all things theatrical. Paul has explored all the different disciplines of improv, by taking classes, reading books, or going down a Google search rabbit hole. Paul shares his love for improv, as well as storytelling and creating shows. Paul has been improvising theater since his first role as a bench in his high school’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. We talk about crazy team building exercises, about his interest in dramaturgy, and about the difficulty of finding collaborators. Support Paul Deichmann by listening to his podcast, The Offer. The Offer is an improvised stories podcast hosted by Paul and Cesar Gozurreta. They create a completely original long-form story alongside an amazing guest. The Offer releases new episodes every week! In March and April of 2021, The Offer team is developing further the stories they loved improvising from throughout their first year. Check them out! Also, check out Pig Iron Theatre Company where Paul mentioned he has been enjoying taking workshops! Yes But Why Podcast is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Visit us at HCUniversalNetwork.com to join in on the fun. This episode of Yes But Why podcast is sponsored by audible - get your FREE audiobook download and your 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/YESBUTWHY. This episode of Yes But Why is also sponsored by PodcastCadet.com. Go to PodcastCadet.com and put in offer code YBY20 to get 20% off your first consultation!

In March, we talk to women about money. Caroline MacGillivray is the Founder and Director of Beauty Night Society, an organization committed to helping women living in poverty. We explore the trauma of money: why even women who give their hearts and souls to help others feel unworthy of asking for money.

The “Lights” are powerful frequencies of Divine energy that Holy Fire® Reiki brought to our awareness. Our group introduces them to you and explains how you can access them. We also share brief meditations with the light of courage, truth, peace, beauty, compassion and joy.In March, we have Licensed Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki level 1&2 and Usui/Holy Fire®III Reiki Masters, Holy Fire®III Karuna Reiki and (non-licensed) Animal Reiki classes in the Australian Eastern time zone. These are evening classes in North America, the evening BEFORE the dates shown. Please join us if they speak to you.International Center for Reiki Training websiteHoly Fire Reiki® Brings Gifts of Lights articlePam's InformationClasses: Information and Classes and Hidden Brook Farm full CalendarReiki from the Farm™ Website Sign up for our newsletter email: pam@hiddenbrook.caRegister to attend our free monthly online Reiki share hereSocial media:Reiki from the Farm™ InstagramReiki from the Farm™ FacebookReiki from the Farm™ Youtube channelMeditation music Licensed from: Nate Miller https://www.emanate7.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/Emanate7thank you to Music from Pixabay for the intro music

ReasonTV- The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium, Bitcoin, Unintended Consequences and South Africa Here   The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World Great Moments in Unintended Consequences Neutralize the Opposition | South Africa Replicating South African Revolutionary methods in the U.S.   The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium https://youtu.be/mQPsSGf9hfk ReasonTV A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent. ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...​ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...​ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason​​ Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- "Blackstone is one of the largest landlords in [the] world," tweeted the New York tenant advocacy group Housing Justice for All in May. "We know they're rich enough to #CancelRent​, and we're going to make them." And then there's Chao Huai Gao, an immigrant from Zhengzhou, China. He owns a modest two-story house in Queens and isn't rich enough to forgo rental income. He tells Reason that the emotional distress of having an occupant who isn't paying rent and who he can't evict has him contemplating "jumping off of a building." Gao came to the U.S. in 1999, working in New York restaurants and nail salons and doing interior renovation. "I haven't taken a day off since I came to America," he says. In 2017, he and his wife, who is a caretaker, made a down payment on a house as an investment property, supplementing their savings with a loan from their family in China. To cover their mortgage, they rented out both floors and moved into a cheap studio apartment nearby with their two young daughters. In March 2020, the college students sharing the second-floor apartment gave notice that they were moving out. After the apartment was vacated, a neighbor alerted Gao that he noticed that the lights were on at night. Soon after, Gao discovered that one of his former tenants had given her keys to a friend who had moved in without permission.  Gao has never met the squatter now living in his house and is afraid to contact this person out of fear that he'll be sued for harassment. The squatter, who is a dropout from an elite private university, has never offered to pay rent. (Reason was unable to reach him for comment, so we're not including his name in this story.)  Under New York state law, because the squatter has been in the apartment for more than 30 days, retaking possession will require a court order—but Gao can't obtain a court order, because New York's housing courts have been mostly closed during the pandemic. Gao tells Reason that he's in a state of personal crisis, hemorrhaging money, and consumed with worry about losing his home. Gao is part of an association of about 200 Chinese immigrant landlords in New York City with tenants who have stopped paying rent. They're speaking out about the impact of the government's decision to temporarily halt evictions—a policy championed by the #CancelRent​ movement. On September 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a national eviction moratorium that is currently set to expire at the end of March. New York is one of many states that has also passed a series of administrative orders and temporary laws halting evictions on top of the CDC order.  Although technically these measures are intended to help tenants directly impacted by the pandemic, in practice they've brought New York's eviction proceedings to a complete halt. From mid-March through the end of November, in a typical year, there would have been about 14,000 evictions in New York City. In 2020, over this same period, there were just 2. New York now has a backlog of 200,000 eviction cases that pre-date COVID-19.  Continue reading: https://reason.com/video/2021/02/23/t...​   Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World https://youtu.be/xLYYh4aPXAM ReasonTV 629K subscribers "It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money." ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV​​ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...​ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason​​​ Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- Bitcoin has won over some of America's best-known billionaires, and institutions worldwide are treating it as a serious financial asset. But bitcoin's rising price is only one part of the story. Whether they know it or not, people who buy bitcoin are strengthening a tool for protecting human rights. This still relatively new form of electronic money is censorship-resistant, seizure-resistant, borderless, permissionless, pseudonymous, programmable, and peer-to-peer. In bitcoin, transactions don't go through banks or financial intermediaries. They travel directly from one person to another. Payment processing is done not by a regulated company such as Visa or Mastercard but by a decentralized global software network. Storage is handled not by a bank but by the users themselves. Bitcoin issuance isn't determined by central bankers. The currency's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, set it to have an ultimate limit of 21 million. No one can ever print more. Bitcoin transactions can't be stopped, and you don't need to reveal your name or address or telephone number to participate. You just need internet access. In 2017, the economist Paul Krugman described bitcoin as "some fancy technological thing that nobody really understands. There's been no demonstration yet that it actually is helpful in conducting economic transactions. There's no anchor for its value." Krugman lives in a sheltered environment in a liberal democracy with constitutional protections. His native currency is globally dominant and relatively stable. It's easy for him to open a bank account, to use a mobile app to pay bills, or to grow his wealth by investing in real estate or stocks. But not everyone has that level of privilege. Around 4.2 billion people live under authoritarian regimes that use money as a tool for surveillance and state control. Their currency is often debased, and they are, for the most part, cut off from the international system that Krugman enjoys. For them, saving and transacting outside the government's purview isn't shady business. It's a way to preserve their freedoms. Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2021/02/05/b...​   Conservative Tucker Carlson and liberal Naomi Wolf completely agreeing that our politicians have been moving the US toward an authoritarian state. Once it's posted, you should take time to view the full clip.   Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 1) https://youtu.be/pSwMEtuL-GQ 112,176 views ReasonTV 629K subscribers Watch Vol. 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WRDw...​ Reason.tv presents Great Moments in Unintended Consequences! All actions have unanticipated side effects, but government acting through regulation or legislation is particularly adept at creating disastrous unintended consequences. Great Moments in Unintended Consequences takes a look at three instances of epic government facepalm: Osborne Reef, Corn Ethanol Subsidies, and a particular clause in ObamaCare that is already doing more harm than good.   Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 2) https://youtu.be/1WRDwCep25k 36,009 views ReasonTV 629K subscribers Good intentions, bad results. ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...​ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...​ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason​ Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- A luxury yacht tax to alleviate government debt? A war on grain-eating sparrows? An overcomplicated, burdensome COVID vaccine rollout procedure? 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Vanessa Schneider: Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service podcast. My name is Vanessa Schneider and I am Senior Channels and Community Manager at GDS. Today we will be talking about the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service and we will be joined by several guests.   You'll be hearing from Sally Benson from the Department of Work and Pensions [DWP], Martin Woolhead from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [DEFRA], Kate Nicholls from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government [MHCLG], and Nick Tait from GDS. As you can tell by this long list of participants, the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service involved a lot of people working for a lot of departments - it was truly a cross-government effort.    But you might not be clear on what it is. In March 2020 as a critical response to the developing COVID-19 pandemic, GDS rapidly built the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service, also known as VPS, to provide support for clinically extremely vulnerable people in England, who had been advised to shield. The service was stood up over one weekend and then continuously iterated to support emerging policy and user needs.   The service enables clinically extremely vulnerable people to register their personal details and support needs, which are securely stored, validated against NHS shielded patient lists for eligibility and securely transferred to frontline service providers. During the period of national shielding from 23 March to 30 July, that is wave one of shielding, the Vulnerable People Service facilitated more than 4.2 million deliveries of essential supplies, support with basic health and care needs, as well as providing priority supermarket deliveries.   Joining me now are Kate Nicholls and Nick Tait. Thank you for being here. Would you mind introducing yourselves to the listeners? Let's start with Kate.   Kate Nicholls:  Sure. Hi, I'm Kate Nicholls. I've been working in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government as part of the shielding programme, particularly on the Data Policy Team. So we work really closely with GDS on the kind of ongoing development of the Vulnerable People Service.    Vanessa Schneider:  Amazing. Thanks for joining us Kate. Nick, would you mind introducing yourself?    Nick Tait:  Absolutely. Hello everybody. My name is Nick Tait. I'm the Service Owner for the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service here in GDS. And I've been with the programme since 5 May 2020.   Vanessa Schneider:  Thank you. So both of you work for parts of government that have been instrumental in the development of the service. I was wondering how you came to join the teams that were working on this?   Nick Tait:  It was pretty much born of necessity really and, and practicality. As you said in your introduction Vanessa, there were a, and there remain, a lot of interested parties, a lot of stakeholders, too much for any one department to do, given the, the nature of our response to the emergency that we found, we find ourselves in. And the 2, as far as GDS and MHCLG were concerned or are concerned, we're the 2 main players: we represent the policy and the delivery of said policy as far as the digital service goes. And furthermore, as the project has progressed, it's become expedient for us to get closer to both policy makers and, and people they know - so relationships with local authorities, for example, are best facilitated by colleagues at MHCLG.    Vanessa Schneider:  Kate, I know that you joined the MHCLG team working on this a little while into the VPS [Vulnerable People Service] being set up. How did you experience that?   Kate Nicholls:  It was actually a really great time to join because all of those kind of key relationships between GDS and MHCLG had already been established. And when I joined the team, it already really had that kind of “one team” feel. So I-I'd come from a completely different job elsewhere in government policy. And I came here and it was just, yeah, this kind of efficient machine [laughs] that was just like achieving things every single day. So, yeah, it was, it was a great kind of feeling joining in with that.   Vanessa Schneider:  Amazing. Both of you touch on relationships being established, being really valuable. Do you think you've experienced anything on this scale where you've had to tap in so many departments working on the same project before? Or do you reckon that this is, and I dare use the dreaded word, unprecedented?   Nick Tait:  M-my experience of a civil servant, there has been nothing quite like this. And for me, the fact--sure, I've worked on other programmes where there are perhaps as many stakeholders, but not at this pace. We have excellent governance practises in, processes in place. But they happen at 2 weekly cycles. But you know, at-at the working level of getting the job done then to really hone in on where those key relationships are, that's something that we have had to do in order to respond at scale. And, and I should add that because there are so many stakeholders, we have Engagement Leads on the project whose main job is to consult with local authorities or with DWP or with the food and medicine supplies and so on and so forth. So it-it multiplies out. But yeah, nothing quite like this before. I think it's fair to say.   Kate Nicholls:  Completely agree with Nick. So I've worked on teams in the Civil Service before where there's been, you know, a degree of close working with departments. But I don't think the kind of level that we've got to where, you know, you could just pick up the phone and speak to anyone on the GDS side if you're in MHCLG and, and vice versa. And it's just kind of, it's just right there at your fingertips. I think that's something I've never quite experienced before.    Vanessa Schneider:  I'm, I'm really glad to hear that went [laughs] well then.What was it like working with colleagues in departments like Department for Health and Social Care [DHSC] and external organisations like the NHS, who may be structured differently because of their work being so focused directly on the public?   Kate Nicholls:  Sure. Yeah, so we've, we've worked really closely with NHS Digital (NHS D) because they sort of provide the shielded patient list, the SPL, which is basically the kind of the heart of the whole project.    So while GDS have built this wonderful registration system, the people that that's targeted at are the people who are identified clinically by doctors and other clinicians to be extremely vulnerable. So we've had to kind of, similarly to how we've done with GDS, we had to build up really good working relationships with them, have sort of regular meetings, joint governance, and really kind of create that kind of “one team” feel to make sure that, that the right sort of data on those who are clinically extremely vulnerable is flowing through our system, is flowing to local authorities, you know, whilst also keeping patient records safe, secure and, and sort of operating legally. So that's kind of the challenge of what we've have to do with NHS D. And I think by building up really good working relationships with them that's how we've managed to kind of overcome that and, and use that data in a way that hasn't, you know, really happened with patient data ever before in the past.   Vanessa Schneider:  Nick, was there anything that you could add about either the working relationship with DHSC or NHS Digital?   Nick Tait:  So my, my experience around DHSC, the one that I'd sort of pinpoint is, is their involvement at the overall, overall programme steering board - where we have had regular contact with the Deputy Chief Medical Officer [DCMO]. And having, having senior stakeholders as, as embodied in DCMO to go, and there is all of this happening helps frame our work a little bit more, and then that comes down to, to working level, where it is the nuts and bolts of the all, all important shielded persons list, which, as Kate says, is, without which we'd be scrabbling about.    Vanessa Schneider:  So we actually talked to Martin Woolhead from DEFRA, which is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, regarding the Vulnerable People Service. And he also shared with us a little bit about the working relationships between the departments.    [CLIP STARTS]   Martin Woolhead:  I'm Martin Woolhead. I'm Deputy Director for Food for the Vulnerable in DEFRA, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. My role essentially is overseeing policy and work on food for vulnerable people. So that ranges from work with food charities and local authorities to essentially get and look after food needs for vulnerable people.    One of the things I think constantly cropped up throughout the process was that, for example, on what we did on food supply, MHCLG could also have done that, you know MHCLG as programme owners, and working on this across government and leading it, could also have essentially contracted with food suppliers to deliver the, the packages of essential supplies that were delivered. The reason it wasn't done in that way was simply because of those relationships and the urgency that we had. So because we had the existing relationships, DEFRA was able to kind of work specifically on that bit and get it done quickly.   So, so where DEFRA worked on food supply because of its existing relationships, other departments had relationships with others. So in regard to the supply of medical supplies so medicines and things, DHSC led on that element because they had the relationships. And so with MHCLG convening, they were able to kind of use the relationships that other departments had and kind of, you know, outsource those bits. And for me that's part of the reason why it was done so quickly. So with all of the urgency, we used existing relationships to get things done.    From, I think, the first ask for, you know, essential supplies to help shielded people, to boxes of essential supplies starting to appear on doorsteps, took around 10 days. And from the announcement of shielding, so when shielding was first announced publicly, to people first receiving their essential supplies was 5 days. And you know, in the context of panic buying across the country, in the context of the global pandemic, the fact that we were able to organise direct doorstep, essential packages to any doorstep in England, and, and most services don't offer that. You know, most supermarkets won't offer doorstep delivery to every address in England, in just 5 days, I think was an incredible achievement.   [CLIP ENDS]   Kate Nicholls:  Yeah, we already had people that were experts in food supplies that knew the supermarkets. We already had a Government Digital Service with like expert content providers, people who are experts in, in data protection. We already had MHCLG, who have, like, links into councils and a really good understanding of what councils do on the ground and deliver. And also everybody in each of those departments already knew that we already have those people in the other departments. And you know I've missed people: DWP, who, you know, know everything about [laughs] how to set up an outbound call centre. So I guess it's kind of, it's a really positive story about the kind of existing connectivity between departments and different levels of quite, sort of deep expertise in different areas that we were able to draw upon pretty quickly.   Nick Tait:  Yeah, I think, I think I'd echo that. I mean no individual department needed to reinvent any wheels really. The, the programme trusted each department to, to focus on its, its domain area and to do that well. Which, which happened. The, the challenge wasn't sort of reinventing the wheel, it was to build the new one. And the new one was around the data sharing, was around actually gluing a, a relatively disparate bunch of people within, within government to work together. And once people sort of trusted that ‘Department X’ would take care of their stuff and ‘Department Y’ would do theirs, then it was just the governance and the working that needed to be worked out. Which sounds dismissive. It isn't at all. There was, there was hard work to do there. But we didn't sort of go, “'oh, well I've, I've done food policy' says non-food policy department, 'so I'll get involved with that.'” There was, there was no time for that sort of shenanigans, and people were focussed on what they knew best. And that was the, the real strength.    Vanessa Schneider:  I was going to say, in a very cheesy way, everybody brought their own wheels, and it turns out they were cogs that all worked together, and it made a very smooth machine. [laughs]   Nick Tait:  Indeed. Indeed. [laughs]    Vanessa Schneider:  So clearly relationships are a key part to this having worked so well, but are there, are there other drivers that you can think of that supported the development of the service?   Nick Tait:  I guess..so like the-the key driver, as in everything we do, is meeting the needs of our users. That's you know, primary directive: users first. And I think what we've learnt over the project is like, when everything was stood up in April, May 2020, the primary needs to be met were those of the clinically extremely vulnerable population. And, and as we became one team, we, we began to expand or, or more fully understand who our users were, how best are we serving service providers, whether it was wholesalers delivering food boxes, whether it was local authority, civil servants at the front line, who are in fact proxies, or can act as proxies, for CEV [clinically extremely vulnerable] users and use the system themselves and have their own requirements in their own local authorities.   And then sort of a, a third section of, of our users would be our stakeholders in terms of those who consume and then act upon the data that is presented via the dashboards that, that the Management, Information and Data Analytics teams provide. So I think, you know, the key driver has, has always been and will remain our users and that's sort of enshrined in how the service has been built. But what has changed, and, and continues to be iterated upon, is, is how we understand who our user population is and, and how best to serve that.    Vanessa Schneider:  Do you think that the service benefited from products such as GOV.UK Notify already being in place? But also, for instance, the data lists for the shielded people - because that data already existed, was that something that made your lives easier?   Nick Tait:  Notify, yes, I can't, I don't, I don't want to entertain thinking about how things might have been had we not had a readily accessible solution to communicate in as many channels as possible, whether it's a physical letter, whether it was an email or a text message, which would have happened via Notify. And, and don't forget that, either t-that DWP colleagues had o-outward bound call centres. We also had our interactive voice recognition system that was part of the initial wave one service that allowed people to, to register - that was inbound only, but, but nonetheless. So having, having access to tools and technology that, that we could trust because they've been tried and tested before us, made, made our lives easier.   Vanessa Schneider:  I was wondering as well: because the user was required to submit their details that were checked against that list provided by the NHS and DEFRA provided details to retailers under specific and secure conditions, I was wondering how the safety and security of user data was ensured and how was the data joined up to make sure the right people were giving the appropriate support?   Kate Nicholls:  That was something that again is kind of, to use the, the much used word, unprecedented. So that was an area where we had to get all of the right people with the right legal expertise and data protection expertise - so with you know, the data protection leads across DEFRA, DWP, MHCLG, GDS, the Data Protection Officers - all together. They formed a kind of data governance oversight board. Whilst we you know, we were kind of under a lot of pressure to work really quickly and get data to, to you know supermarkets, to councils, et cetera as quickly as we could, we had a really kind of rigorous group of experts holding us [laughs] to account to make sure that we had the right data sharing agreements in place, the right MoUs [Memorandum of Understanding] and, and all of that kind of information governance documentation. So that was really appreciated, and it sort of goes back to the running theme of that cross-government working - if we hadn't been able to get all of those people in place and we just couldn't have made it work.   Vanessa Schneider:  I believe there was a transfer tool as well. Could you tell me more about that perhaps? I believe it meant that you could select how people or which people could access what data if I got that right.    Nick Tait: So we-we use...for the cloud hosting service that we use for our data storage, ben-benefits from its own internal security reviews that they perform on the overall system. And then their secure storage solutions are compliant with our strict regulatory requirements. So in our case what this means, and this is where the, the data transfer tool comes in, is that all of our data is encrypted, both when we store it in the database and when we share it with whosoever we are sharing it with, whether it is a local authority or another government department.   And then at the same time, and talking of regulations, we've, we've established a sort of our own processes around the database. So if you think about GDPR and the principle of the 'right to be forgotten', that's, we have our own processes for this. And if, if our listener is interested, then they can, they can go to our service page and our, all of our privacy documentation is open and, and available there.   So like even for our teams or members of the engineering teams who have access to production, only those with security clearance can access them. It's not available to Tom, Dick or Harriet, so to speak. And we, we log and audit everything. So at any given time, who accessed which piece of data at one point, that information is always available to us. So, you know, we, we take personally identifiable information very, very seriously on this.    Vanessa Schneider:  It sounds like you're doing your due diligence, I hope the listeners are heartened by that.   Nick Tait:  Yeah. [laughs]   Vanessa Schneider:  So next I was wondering, obviously we hope that something like this never happens again. That's the whole point behind the unprecedented language of course. But I was wondering if at the very least, there are learnings that you can take away from this project and the collaboration that you've carried out as well as maybe what not to do?   Kate Nicholls:  I guess the main, the main thing I've learnt as somebody who's a-a policy official, who's never worked on a digital project before, I think I've learnt something very valuable from colleagues in GDS about, about that user base development and continuous improvement, particularly in an environment where you're setting something up very, very quickly as an emergency response.   And I think the more, as we've gone along, the more we've consulted our users - and I'm particularly, from an MHCLG perspective, thinking about councils - and ask them you know, what they think and take in their feedback and expose ourselves to kind of their, their comments and their perspectives, the better the system has become. And I think that's definitely, I guess, a general learning for me. But also if, if I, if, you know, we were ever in a position to be doing something like this again, doing that kind of immediate, constant almost consultation with users would be my main learning from kind of a policy person from the digital world, because I know user base, [laughs] user base development is already a kind of a thing that, that is common across the development of digital platforms.   Vanessa Schneider:  You're sounding like an ambassador for Agile and user-based research there. That's amazing. But I was also really keen on you identifying, sort of, users outside of the clinically extremely vulnerable people and the local authorities. Because obviously the, the service has now changed because it's a much more local approach to providing these services, isn't it?   Kate Nicholls:  Yeah, definitely. I think there are, so both in wave one and wave two, on the ground in councils, the picture is a lot more complex. You know, our service talks about kind of basic support needs, but the kind of detailed assessment of each individual is happening at that council level, and, and the delivery of that support is happening across all sorts of organisations, voluntary organisations, NHS volunteer responders, charities, et cetera. And I think a-another kind of key, I guess key groups that we've tried to listen to are you know, groups like Age UK, all those voluntary groups that are actually on the ground doing these things. They're not direct users of our service, but kind of by proxy of, of being connected to the council, they are linked to the eventual kind of frontline service that our platform leads to.   Nick Tait:  To echo Kate: having policy at a sort of a, a high level, have, having policy and delivery in the same room a-a-around the same virtual whiteboard makes for better service delivery. And I-I think that's the, you know, p-personally and then sort of to, to share more widely within GDS that that, for me, it feels like the only way that this can work. Because otherwise it, it will be a far more protracted process. So, I mean, we, we talk about closer working and collaboration and the tools that sort of facilitate all of this, but we, in my experience, we do that because it's true. And this, and this project is, is proof to me at least, and I, and I hope to our users that, that is the case.   So I think the other thing I, I'd reflect on over the time of the project was: at, at the very beginning, our, our, our overall governance was, was weighty. There was a lot of it. And over, over time as the working relationships have developed and the collaboration has developed and some of that governance has been more focussed on the bits that we're actually working on. So I think that's another reflection from me.    And I, yeah, again we say it very sort of readily now, and, and we took it quite lightly to start with, but the whole “hashtag one team”. Again, i-it's not a joke, it really is, it's the real deal for us and wi-without that, we, we wouldn't be, I think, having a happy conversation like this. And as you say, I hope we don't have to respond on this level before, but there is enough learning here to, well to make an, a really active and considered response quickly, rather than as fast as you can, which is kind of where we were to, to start with, back in 2020.   Vanessa Schneider:  Of course. At the time, you know it was just about getting it stood up, wasn't it?    So we did talk to a couple of your colleagues in other departments. And one of them was Sally Benson from the DWP, that’s the Department for Work and Pensions. So we’re just going to listen to something that Sally shared with us.    [CLIP STARTS]   Sally Benson:  My name is Sally Benson, and my day job before being involved on the National Shielding Helpline as part of the critically extremely vulnerable service is working for the Department for Work and Pensions. More specifically, I'm a Senior Operational Leader in the Child Maintenance Group.   I think when we actually bring it home, 2 people stick out in my mind in terms of people that we phoned. Samantha, a blind lady that had no, no friends or family, immediate support around her, wasn't on a, you know, a mobile telephone. But the National Shielding Helpline were able to get in contact with her and, and put her in touch with those people that were able to help her.   Another lady that we also spoke to was a lady called Carol. And it became apparent from the outset of the call that, that Carol was, was experiencing some, some health difficulties on the phone and was talking to us about how she was having trouble breathing. And actually, we had a process in place that enabled us to call the emergency services. Our call centre agents remained on the call talking to Carol, making sure that she was ok and staying with her until the emergency services actually arrived.   It turns out that Carol was actually suffering a heart attack whilst on the phone to us. And unfortunately, there were 1,400 people throughout the whole of the, of the shielding contact centre process that, that actually needed us to refer to the emergency services. And I think, you know, w-wherever you are and whatever part you played in the, in the national shielding service, whether it be, you know, the data side of it and, and enabling us to actually contact people like Carol in the first place, whether it be decision makers and policy makers that, that actually decided that people like Carol needed, needed our help and our attention, or whether or not you were part of the actual contact centre that, for Department of Work and Pensions.    Everybody played a part in, in making sure that we genuinely supported and protected those most vulnerable. And I think we've got to keep Samantha and Carol at the forefront of our mind when, when we are truly understanding the difference that, that we made. And, and it's those, those things that really give that sense of pride, real sense of purpose, and, and how together working across government, we, we really do look after those most vulnerable in our society. And the National Shielding Service was a perfect example of, of that.   [CLIP ENDS]   Nick Tait:  For the GDS teams, we are intimately connected on the user research level because our user research involves speaking directly with the clinically extremely vulnerable as well as our other user groups. And this is on one hand, very, very stressful for people; especially in the earlier days of the service when people were in dire straits for the need of basic care supplies. And that, that has an impact and an effect on, on the people who are conducting that research. And we have to take care to support and, and look after our own team members who are open to this.   It's a very present now-now validation of the work that you're doing. I think as civil servants we are all contributing to the enhancement, I hope, of the society within which we live, but to have that [finger snap] instant feedback or relatively instant feedback is very, very powerful indeed.   Kate Nicholls:  Yeah, I'd agree with Nick on that point. I think you always, you know, as a civil servant, working on, kind of, policies that you hope will have an impact on the public. But often you might be waiting months or years to actually see that manifest - just because of, you know, how long policy development in normal times takes. But yeah, to be able to, kind of, immediately see how what you're doing is actually helping people in, in some small or big way is, is a really great thing about working on this. Even though it definitely comes with some of it's, kind of, pressure and stresses.    Vanessa Schneider:  I was wondering if you had any achievements that you wanted to call out specifically, any milestones, any, maybe shoutouts to colleagues that you wanted to praise publicly?   Nick Tait:  So I think it's, it's...whilst I'm not a huge fan of milestones, there are certainly achievements that, that it serves us well to remember. So the service itself was stood up over a weekend, 4 days or thereabouts. And then for those registered users, essential supplies were arriving on doorsteps 10 days later. That's pretty amazing. And then over time in, in, in, from the March to the end of July 2020, just over 4 million deliveries of essential supplies were made. So you know this is real stuff happening. So I'm, I'm quietly proud of those things. And I think all of the teams genuinely have done the, the best they could with the tools they had at hand a-and with the information they had at the time, and we've taken time throughout the, the project, or the programme, to pause and to reflect and to ask ourselves: 'what can we do better?'    And some, and some of that has been sort of like recognised formally. So in terms of shout outs, then I-I guess we'd give a shout out to David Dilley from GDS, who was very surprised on a personal level and nonetheless very, very happy to receive an excellence and leadership award at the, the Cabbies last week. So, these things are all good to have. And, and to work on a service that, that impacts people's lives pretty quickly is often enough.   Kate Nicholls:  Yeah, again, I-I feel like specific milestones maybe aren't quite what the thing that makes me kind of the proudest of the, of working on the project. I think the kind of continuous professionalism and kind of, I guess thirst for improvement is what impresses me about working on this project. So obviously the beginning, you know there was a very clear emergency response and, and a lot of momentum [laughs] that kind of comes with that. But I think it's really impressive that even though that kind of initial phase is, you know, of emergency is, is past us now, there's still kind of that appetite to constantly, to constantly test [laughs] with the users, to constantly improve. We just, just last week, we kind of implemented some improvements to the data feeds based on local authority feedback. And I think it's really inspiring to see people who are so enthusiastic about, sort of, delivering not just something that's good enough and does the job, but something that is constantly getting better.    Nick Tait:  A-a really like serious achievement in terms of like the overall, sort of, easing of some of the pressure has been the overall relationship with, with local authorities. So we, we meet regularly, fortnightly at the moment. It used to be weekly with our, our local authority working group, which is made up of, unsurprisingly, members of local authorities from different parts of the country who have different experiences and, sort of, maturity of, of, of digital. And when we started there were a lot of, sort of, folded arms and like, 'what, what are we all doing here then?'   But that group of people has stayed relatively constant, has put the hours in, has, sort of, really risen to the challenge of collective working and collaborative working. And, and now, as Kate has just, sort of, evidenced, that group of people is co-designing the service. And, and that for me is an, is an achievement. But there's no, sort of, milestone because it's been continually being, being worked at and worked t-towards by, by everybody in that group. And, and again, like so many things, it, it hasn't been a particularly smooth ride, it's been a bit bumpy in places. And that's totally fine. But because, again as Kate said, everybody was kind and humble and professional about it and, and felt free to, to air any concerns that they had. And, and collectively that group is delivering, and that's just wonderful.   Kate Nicholls:  Yeah, I definitely think we owe a lot to the kind of openness and, and I guess willingness to give us their time of local authorities. Obviously I would say that being from MHCLG. But you know, in, in so many different fora we have across the shielding directorate, the stakeholder engagement forum, where we get lots of valid feedback, we run kind of weekly surgery sessions with councils where we get so much kind of valuable insight into what it's actually like to use our service on the ground to deliver real stuff [laughs] to people.    Yeah, as Nick said, we've got our invaluable local authority, working group. So, yeah, I think that's a really, really big part of any of the success that we can, we can claim to have had from the system comes from that, for sure.   Vanessa Schneider:  Amazing. Yeah, it's, it's not always easy for these external parties who might not have been there from the beginning to work on this in a way that they might not be familiar with. Obviously, it's a very Agile approach with GDS, and that's been something that's been spreading around government. But it's not necessarily something that local government has had to work with yet. So it's, it's great that they're signing on and that they're really engaged with it as well.   Well [laughs] on that positive note - thank you so much to all of our guests for coming on today. You can listen to all the episodes of the Government Digital Service podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. And the transcripts are available on Podbean. Goodbye.    Nick Tait:  Goodbye.   Kate Nicholls:  Goodbye.

In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

In March 2019, Sunday Times Journalist Mark Tighe returned to his desk and found two documents waiting for him. One was a photocopy of a cheque made out to the FAI by its then Chief Executive John Delaney for €100,000. The other was a confirmation from the FAI that John Delaney had been repaid €100,000. What was this about, thought Mark. Why was an organisation which received €50 million in taxpayers' funding over the past decade in need of a loan from its Chief Executive? This was the catalyst for a series of events which culminated in Delaney leaving the FAI and the organisation requiring a state bailout of nearly €20 million. But mere hours before the Sunday Times was going to print with the story, Delaney went to the High Court seeking an injunction against the newspaper publishing it. Find out why in this episode of Legally Fond, when Gavin speaks to Tighe about this legal skirmish. The story is chronicled in Champagne Football, a book written by Mark which we would highly recommend, even for those who are not soccer fans.

The former Queen of ABC is now the Queen of Netflix! Shonda Rhimes, the first Black woman to create and executive produce a top network series, is so much more than Grey’s Anatomy [though, that had a little something to do with her success]. Take a trip to shondaland as we chat all about Rhimes, her production company, and of course, those addictive, soapy, sexy, dramatic shows of hers. Later, enjoy a quiz called “Error: Location Not Found”! . [Music: 1) The Fray, “How to Save a Life,” 2005; 2) Frau Holle, “Ascending Souls,” 2017. Courtesy of Frau Holle, CC BY-NC 3.0 license.] . . In March, all tips to our PayPal and purchases from our TeePublic shop will be donated to the National Women’s Law Center.

Did Kilian Summit Everest? https://youtu.be/tOo_1kzVElg​ "From the North side of Everest you cannot mistake being on the summit- there is nothing anything like the summit on the way. His time is the FKT for the North side of Everest... 15:39 are you being deliberately stupid? not used to the dark? please look into who Kilian is, he did Everest twice in the dark in one week, absolutely embarrassing." Kilian Jornet STOPPED Earlier than I PREDICTED / 24 Hour World Record FAIL https://youtu.be/x5YBKwvS9d0​ "0:30​ because he lives in Norway ffs. 8:33​ I don't think you need tell him that, he ran what 90 miles with a dislocated shoulder? along with huge suffering in the mountains- something that flat runners don't have to deal with." #kilianjornet​ #MountEverest​ #24hourworldrecord​ In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

In March 2010, a foal is born. Growing up on a lake shore farm in Ireland, with his mother and the man who bred him, his whole world changed when he was sold at 8 months old - to begin his journey into the world of horse racing. (Ep1/6)Credits:Tiger Roll The People's Horse was written, recorded and produced by Michael Lawless, Tim Desmond and Liam O'Brien.Sound Design by Damian ChennellsProduction assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.Special thanks to all our contributors, and the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.For further information, visit www.rte.ie/tigerroll See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recap of the two 10,000-meter races that were held as part of The TEN track meet tonight at JSerra High School in San Juan Capistrano, California. For those that finished the race, the times were VERY fast. The Bowerman Track Club had a good day as BTC athletes won both races and had four athletes in each race pick up the Olympic standard. #EliseCranny​ #MarcScott​ #TheTEN​ Lap by lap splits: https://finishedresults.trackscoreboa... ​Full video replay: https://youtu.be/AIDs4qxVivI​ The Bowerman Track Club’s Elise Cranny used a 65.11 final lap to kick by teammate Karissa Schweizer to win The TEN tonight in 30:47.42 to Cranny’s 30:47.99 as the two women became the sixth and seventh US runners in history to dip under the 31:00 barrier for 10,000 meters. They are now the third- and fourth-fastest women in US history. The Bowerman Track Club’s Marc Scott’s hot start to 2021 continued tonight as he ran 27:10.41 to win the men’s 10,000 and move to #2 all-time on the British 10,000 list. Scott wasn’t the only man leaving the race happy as the point of the race was to get the Olympic standard of 27:28.00 and all five men that finished the race were well under the standard. In his 10,000 debut, Grant Fisher ran 27:11.29 for 2nd, meaning he’s now the 5th-fastest American in history. 12:58 man Woody Kincaid was third in 27:12.78 as Bowerman Track Club athletes swept the top 3 places. https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/02/... ​In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

Laurie Lewis has changed the lives of thousands through the practice and coaching of Intermittent Fasting. Laurie works with people around the world. Her technique is a culmination of her 20-year personal study of nutrition, a Health Coach Certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, fastidious research and her own personal practice of Intermittent Fasting, Her keen listening, caring style and no-nonsense approach helps her student achieve their goals. Without a doubt, Laurie is committed to you achieving yours. In March of 2020, Laurie published Celebrating Your Vibrant Future, an intermittent fasting workbook.

This week, we wanted to check in with everyone who is currently doing the 28 Day Buddhability Journey. (Remember, it’s not too late to jump in. Even a week of chanting can feel amazing!) Tell us how it’s going! If you’ve been chanting this month, send us a brief voice memo to podcast@sgi-usa.org sharing 1 thing you have learned or noticed so far during the chanting challenge. If you want to share your story with us in greater depth, put that in the email too and we might reach out to interview you! In March, we’ll do an episode recapping the challenge and we’ll play your messages on it.

Tamuri LeAnne Richardson, is the owner of TLeanne Speaking Pros LLC located in Vacaville, CA.  She is the Proud mother of two children. She has been speaking professionally for 6 years in small to large venues and is pursuing her degree in Communications. She specializes in the topics of Mental Health, Womens Empowerment, Civil Rights, Domestic Violence and so much more.  Tamuri is an International Best Selling Author of "The Power of Why II (Why 28 Women started Online Courses" and  “10 Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Public Speaker”.  a She is a Public Motivational Speak, Influential Storytelling Coach and Communications Coach; she lends her expert experience to Corporate, Small Businesses, Non-Profits and Individuals alike.  Tamuri is a Certified Presenter, Speaker for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and a Mental Health Advocate, helping to fight the stigma of mental illness in all cultural communities, but specifically the African American community. Through her presentations she encourages all who are in need to seek the assistance that they need shame-free in order to have a productive, successful life.  She is the Chair for NAMI/SF's Black Mental Health Committee Tamuri is a Toastmasters, Intl member since 2015, She was the 1st Place Winner in the International Speech Area and District division contest in 2018 for her speech “Reinventing Yourself” and the 1st Place Winner in 2019 for her speech “Stand Up and Stand your ground”. In March 2019 Tamuri’sEssay was selected as a Necessary Read and placed on the website of the Napa Valley Womens March website http://www.womensmarchnapavalley.org/docs/TRichardsonEssay.pdf this is a powerful speech of sisterhood and the consequence of being a woman in America.  Her essay was selected out of thousands to represent the voice of this year’s generation of the Woman. Tamuri is also a Active and Involved member of the NCBW (National Coalition of Black Women) also known as 100 Black Women of the Oakland, Bay Area Chapter, an organization based on the premise of help and support in the community of African American women and girls and to empower them to find their natural strength and voice and with this we assist them in leading a better, productive and successful life. Tamuri's writes articles that are featured in    and that are seen all over the world. Tamuri has spoken in front of the Senate at the Capital in Sacramento, California as an advocate for mental health change within our communities. She has stressed concerns about legislation to Senators, Assemblymen and Assemblywomen for a better tomorrow. She is very involved in advcacy work in her own community, she puts her money and service where her mouth is as well. There is a lot of work to be done for a better tomorrow and she knows that all hands need to be on deck to see that change happen. And she is committed to doing so. Her Professional resume and accolades are very long, and she is just getting warmed up. .   JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY, PHILADELPHIA, PA   "Tamuri is a pro. Kind, considerate, well spoken and the ideal expert to train our agency on boosting public speaking skills. I highly recommend her and her book, you can find on Amazon." Michael N., Interim Executive Director   URBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CA   "Her recommendations were insightful. I appreciated the outside in perspective." Hilary C., Director of Resource Development        

Today we sit down with Jillian Hubbard, an electrical apprentice from Connecticut. Jillian loved to work with her hands from a young age and made the decision to go to a CTE high school. She tried different trades and fell in love with electrical. Life, as it happens, gave her a husband and two children shortly thereafter and she found herself on the opposite coast in Washington State. Her dreams of becoming an electrician were put on hold so she could focus on being a mother, first and foremost. She also was able to pursue wildly rewarding work over the next twelve years, including being a holistic practitioner. Life happened again and she found herself back in Connecticut with unfinished business. In March of 2020, 12 years later, she decided to continue her pursuit of becoming an electrician with a burning desire to succeed. Listen in to hear Jillian’s story about her journey and love for the skilled trades. Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, and on our website blueisthenewwhite.com to receive all the latest updates. As always, this show is not monetized & we don’t run ads. We rely strictly on the word of mouth from our listeners to further the mission. So if you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to rate, review, and share. The future generations of tradespeople depend on it. On you! So thank you again and enjoy this episode of Blue is the New White with Jillian Hubbard.

Dr. Will Deyamport knows the importance of being agile in times of change. Creativity, intercultural agility and entrepreneurial acumen all intersect with Dr. Will's mission.   As seen on Forbes.com, Schoology Exchange, District Administration, EdSurge, iNACOL, and TechEdge magazine, Will Deyamport III Ed.D. is an entrepreneurial educator who specializes in assisting educators in going digital. Dr. Will, as he is better known as, is a podcaster, writer, documentary filmmaker, and District Instructional Technologist for Hattiesburg Public School District. Dr. Will  is the creator and host of The Dr. Will Show where he interviews educators and entrepreneurs on leveling up.   In March of 2019, EduMatch Publishing released Dr. Will's first documentary, The Edupreneur. The video explores the lives and careers of eight educators who have become educational consultants. You can find the documentary on Vimeo OnDemand as well as Amazon Prime.   Check out the personal, professional and creative gems of wisdom from Dr. Will!     This episode is produced by CAFFEstrategies.com – an industry leader in intercultural creative thinking development and the home of the 16 Diamond Tools of Creative Thinkers and the 7 Gems of Intercultural Creativity!

In a special episode, this week Rachel speaks about Heaven's Gate, the UFO religious cult based near San Diego, California. Founded in 1974. Rachel provides some background on the group's leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles and their teachings. She explains the importance in our times specifically of remembering the tragedy of the group's ritual suicide. In March 1997, 18 women and 21 men drank a lethal mixture of phenobarbital and vodka and then laid down to die, hoping to leave their "bodily containers', and enter an alien spacecraft. Rachel considers the mindstate of these lost individuals by examining their "Exit Statements". These statements were recorded directly before the suicides in an attempt to explain the motivations behind their actions to the public. These videos, while often disturbing, provide an intimate insight into the psyche of seemingly intelligent and logical people who have been so fully indoctrinated that they can plainly and fully justify their extreme actions. Rachel provides an analysis of the deep-seated issues, vulnerabilities, and tragic misinterpretations of the victims as well as the leaders that ultimately lead to their untimely demise. CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE Thanks to our newest Patreon supporters: Paul Canchester, Sarah G. and Ellen Perreira To help support the show and sign up for cool Indoctrination stickers and tote bags please visit: https://www.patreon.com/indoctrination

"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to Amazon Employees About the Coronavirus. Every Smart Business Leader Needs to Read It," insists an article in Inc.   Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities have been quick to paint "essential workers," and those often described as "frontline" workers, as heroes — laborers conscripted, presumably against their will, into a wartime-like scenario of heroism and sacrifice as our country battles the ongoing coronavirus scourge.   The sentiment behind this rhetoric is understandable, especially from everyday people simply trying to express their deep appreciation for the underpaid labor doing the work to feed, house, care for and treat everyone else. But when deployed by powerful politicians and CEOs, the "essential workers as heroes" discourse serves a more sinister purpose: to curb efforts to unionize, preemptively justify mass death of a largely black and brown workforce, protect corporate profits and ultimately discipline labor that for a brief moment in spring of last year, had unprecedented leverage to extract concessions from capital.   As Wall Street booms and America’s billionaires see an increase of $1.1 trillion in wealth since March 2020 — a 40% increase — while the average worker suffers from unemployment, depression, drug abuse and a loss of healthcare, it’s become increasingly clear that “essential” never meant essential to helping society at large or essential to human care or essential to keeping the bottom from falling out, but essential to keeping the top one percent of the one percent’s wealth and power intact and as it turned out to be the case, massively expanded.   Indeed, 2020 saw the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in decades, a transfer largely made possible by the essential worker as hero narrative, with little discussion or debate. In March 2020 everyone agreed in this wartime framing that was going to send off millions of poor people to their deaths for a vague, undecided greater good of the quote-unquote "economy," when really it was for the seamless maintenance of Wall Street profits.   On this episode, we explore the origins of the concept of "essential work" and those deemed "essential workers"; how it's been used in the past to discipline labor during wartime; how hero narratives provide an empty, head-patting verbal tip in lieu of worker protection and higher pay; and why so few in our media ask the more urgent question of all: whether or not low wage retail, food, farming, and healthcare workers ever wanted to be heroes in the first place.   Our guest in Ronald Jackson, a worker and organizer with Warehouse Workers For Justice.

Fronted, the London-based fintech aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has finally launched. In March, its founders took the decision to “hibernate” the nascent business after the first lockdown and with the pandemic taking hold. But, now with regulatory approval from the FCA and rents falling […]

Dr. Heidi talks with Ted Rubin, leading Social Marketing Strategist, Speaker, Author, Provocateur, and CMO of Photofy. In March 2009 Ted started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship #RonR. Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people... #NoLetUp! His book, Return on Relationship, was released January 2013, How To Look People in the Eye Digitally was released January 2105 and The Age of Influence… Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer was released in May 2017.  Website: TedRubin.com ROR: Return on Relationship™, #RonR… simply put the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship. ROI is simple $’s and cents. ROR.online: Photofy.com Facebook Page: Facebook.com/tedrubin Twitter ID: Twitter.com/tedrubin Instagram: Instagram.com/tedrubin This episode is also celebrates Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste's, #1 Bestselling book, Digital Self Mastery Across Generations, Print edition now available from all on-line booksellers, and for order in local book sellers internationally. Your order will help support the Evolving Digital Self podcast. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends (both the book and the podcast :-)  

Today’s featured Pivoter is Stuart MacDonald. Stuart is a rare bird. He’s a magician, but he’s really a character actor who happens to be a magician. He's also won a  ton of prestigious awards in magic and fooled Penn & Teller on the CW's hit show Fool Us.You see, magicians, myself included, are typically just heightened versions of themselves. But Stuart creates characters with backstories, wants, and needs, and inhabits them fully. Why don’t more magicians do it? Because it’s really freakin’ hard.In March of 2020, Stuart was the very last person to step foot on stage at the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, before they shut their doors and the world went into lockdown.Unlike most Pivoters this season, Stuart did not immediately turn to virtual in order to salvage his career. In fact, he hung up his magic act and started searching for a normal 9-5. But nearly a year later, Stuart is still a professional magician, delivering some of the most inventive virtual shows in the industry. How did he get here? This is his Pivot story.Connect with Stuarthttps://stuartmacdonaldmagic.comWatch him fool Penn & Teller: https://youtu.be/lnObtoan-0g

Donavan Brazier (800), Bryce Hoppel (1,000), & Elle Purrier (2-Mile) All Break American Records At 2021 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/02/... ​#DonavanBrazier​ #BryceHoppel​ #EllePurrier​ Congratulations to our ladies 2021 Black Canyon Ultras presented by @HOKAONEONE champion, Brittany Peterson! She finished in an impressive time of 8:48:23. Brittany already received a Golden Ticket to the 2021 Western States prior to today’s win. Congratulations to our 2021 #BlackCanyon100k​ presented by @HOKAONEONE overall champion and Golden Ticket winner, Tyler Green! Tyler finished in a blazing, 8:06:33. In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

Hollie S Can we please remove the "there is no bad weather for running just bad gear" phrase? There is dangerous weather to run outside in and you shouldn't risk your life to get a run in. #Cooper​Teare #indoorMile​ #BadWeather​ @OregonTF The boys were READY to fly... Cooper Teare - 3:50​.39 Cole Hocker - 3:50​.55 Charlie Hunter - 3:53​.49 Teare and Hocker both under the old collegiate record (3:52​.01), times are the No. 1, 2 and 6 fastest times in NCAA history! Best distance race in the world this weekend? The Kenyan national XC champs. Last year, Kibiwott Kandie upset Geoffrey Kamworor. Kamworor then missed summer/fall with injury as Kandie broke his half marathon WR. Now is Kamworor's chance for revenge. In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Gov Andrew Cuomo remains in the spotlight for his deadly decision to sign an executive order directing COVID infected patients to convalesce in nursing homes with the nation's most medically vulnerable citizens. But for, Elaine Healy, MD a brave whistle-blower that runs and represents an association of nursing home managers who called this program In March 2020 to blast Cuomo and his deadly decision, it may have gone largely unnoticed. Yet, all of the media organizations that monitor this program failed to report on this critical caller's complaint of Cuomo. Then, Doanld Trump was very well represented in today's impeachment trial by Michael Van der Veen, David Schoen, and Bruce Castor. Each attorney brilliantly presented video evidence of democrats calling for violence and challenging the 2017 Electoral College vote count. Presenting evidence that is not in context, as the Democrats have, would be thrown out of any court of law for being tainted. Democrats have failed to meet the evidentiary standards that any lawyer or judge would expect. Later, a national sex offender operation has been interrupted at the southern border as a result of President Biden's lax immigration policy. New policies allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country and avoid deportation even if they're arrested for drunk driving. Trump Advisor Stephen Miller calls in to discuss how benching Trump's immigration policies helps criminal alien gang members while hurting law-abiding US citizens. Afterward, another Lincoln Project founder, Steve Schmidt, resigns after using Trump to revive their failed RINO consultancies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Gov Andrew Cuomo remains in the spotlight for his deadly decision to sign an executive order directing COVID infected patients to convalesce in nursing homes with the nation's most medically vulnerable citizens. But for, Elaine Healy, MD a brave whistle-blower that runs and represents an association of nursing home managers who called this program In March 2020 to blast Cuomo and his deadly decision, it may have gone largely unnoticed. Yet, all of the media organizations that monitor this program failed to report on this critical caller's complaint of Cuomo. Then, Doanld Trump was very well represented in today's impeachment trial by Michael Van der Veen, David Schoen, and Bruce Castor. Each attorney brilliantly presented video evidence of democrats calling for violence and challenging the 2017 Electoral College vote count. Presenting evidence that is not in context, as the Democrats have, would be thrown out of any court of law for being tainted. Democrats have failed to meet the evidentiary standards that any lawyer or judge would expect. Later, a national sex offender operation has been interrupted at the southern border as a result of President Biden's lax immigration policy. New policies allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country and avoid deportation even if they're arrested for drunk driving. Trump Advisor Stephen Miller calls in to discuss how benching Trump's immigration policies helps criminal alien gang members while hurting law-abiding US citizens. Afterward, another Lincoln Project founder, Steve Schmidt, resigns after using Trump to revive their failed RINO consultancies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's BACK!!! BEEN DOIN' THIS!!!!! Been on hiatus while I get my bearings after the relocation. I kinda fucked up with the new mic so the audio isn't awesome but the conversation is good enough to listen to the episode. My apologies to Jenn for that! Luckily she sounds better than I do. Here's some info about this episode's guest, my friend, The Feathered Leopard: The Feathered Leopard is a 'one woman show' originally created in 2005, by Jenn Hall. While living in San Francisco in the early 2000’s, she started creating wild leather & feather earrings, then moved on to create custom leather fringe handbags, and other creative, yet useful leather goods. In 2013, Jenn started tooling & dying her leather goods, and moved into stone (mainly Turquoise) Inlay in leather. "I’m a creative person at heart, and once leather became my canvas, I seriously fell in love." says Jenn. In March of 2019, Jenn decided to take a chance and opened up a retail/workshop right outside of midtown Sacramento. As her business grew, she wanted to include the main aspects in her life that she could enjoy & share with others. She has special collection of original 60’s-70’s Home Décor, including Vintage Macramé Plant Hangers, as well as California Pottery, Glassware & more. You can now find her at the 2nd Sunday Antique Faire in Midtown Sacramento. After the tough decision to close her retail shop during this Covid-19 Pandemic, Jenn now works from her home studio in Land Park, Sacramento. She is honing in on her stone inlay craft, and working toward developing tutorials and learning materials for people new to leatherwork or wanting to develop a specialized skill. Jenn is a longtime avid gardener. She has landscaped, built beds, grown & cared for plants over the last 15+ years. She began propagating spider plants several years ago, and has moved onto a variety of succulents, jade, and cactus. Her main focus has always been to create from the heart, connect & share with others, and practice her passion. Website: www.thefeatheredleopard.com (currently under going changes) Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/thefeatheredleopard IG: @thefeatheredleopard

In March 2020, percussionist David Skidmore was faced with the sudden reality of not being able to perform for live audiences for the first time in his career. But just one week after their last in-person performance, Skidmore and the other three members of the Grammy Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion were livestreaming their first show. And they've kept that up, collaborating with Hancher and other partners ever since. In this conversation with Micah, Chuy, and Dustin, Skidmore discusses the ways in which the ensemble has been challenged to reevaluate the relevance of their mission in these times, adjust their collaboration and performance practices, and imagine a new way forward. Skidmore also discusses Third Coast Percussion's ongoing Hancher collaboration and their upcoming engagements, including two family-friendly, free events you can attend this weekend. Visit https://hancher.uiowa.edu/ to make reservations to join us for a presentation of Think Outside the Drum on 2/13, followed by the Hancher Youth & Family Talent Show Finale on 2/14. To learn more about Third Coast Percussion, visit https://thirdcoastpercussion.com/.

@jgault13 Might be worth watching this. Cheptegei's last two trips to Monaco both resulted in world records. 12:51​ on the roads last February for 5k, then 12:35​.36 on the track in August for 5,000m. PSA: there is no NBC Sports Gold Track & Field Pass in 2021. Most of the content that appeared there in years past will be on Peacock Premium ($4.99/month). Content includes the meets below, plus all the Diamond Leagues, World Relays, World U20 champs, & select WMM events. @lord_balls I had a runner ask me if we had secured permits for @wser Uh, in a normal year we don't have the signed permits until race week. That's the way it works with the USFS (feds) and ASRA (state) and Placer (county). It's one of many reasons most RDs are not good sleepers. @iRunFar The 2021 Comrades Marathon, originally scheduled for June, is canceled. The pandemic continues to heavily affect large international races in the first half of the year. In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure. This Vlog documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go. This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support

The past year has been a busy one for Jamaican-born, Charlotte-based singer-songwriter Sanya N’Kanta. In March 2020, he released an electrified debut record that in unambiguous terms reconciles past experiences with the present-day reality of racial inequality. Nearly one year later, he’s returned with a brand new release that combines acoustic instrumentation with introspection. “Music … Continue reading "‘Music Was My Solace’: Sanya N’Kanta On Race, Religion and the Power of Reggae" The post ‘Music Was My Solace’: Sanya N’Kanta On Race, Religion and the Power of Reggae appeared first on Amplifier.