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The biggest event inside  Macstock Conference and Expo is the annual Macstock Film Festival, organized and hosted by Wally Cherwinski. An accomplished videographer in his own right, Wally shares his thoughts on why you (yes, you!) should be creating a submission and joining in the fun. No prizes, no judging and no pressure mean that anyone can be part of the Festival. Wally provides some tips on how to approach a subject, creating something from content you already have, and the emotional impact of preserving memories through video.  Visit Macstock Conference and Expo and use the MacVoices discount code MACVOICES to save $30 on your registration fee.   Today's edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Live!, our weekly live panel discussion of what is going in the Apple space as well as the larger tech world, and how it is impacting you. Join us live at YouTube.com/MacVoicesTV at 8 PM Eastern 5 PM Pacific, or whatever time that is wherever you are and participate in the chat, or catch the edited and segmented versions of the show on the regular MacVoices channels and feeds. Show Notes: Chapters: 02:22 The MacStock Short Film Festival04:31 Learning from the MacStock Film Submissions06:53 Submission Guidelines for MacStock Film Festival11:36 Creating Professional Videos with iMovie Trailers13:53 Tips and Tricks for Video Editing22:18 The Fun and Engrossing Process of Video Editing25:55 Encouragement to Create and Submit Videos for MacStock Links: Video To Go by Wally Cherwinski in the Apple Books Store Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on X, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

The biggest event inside  Macstock Conference and Expo is the annual Macstock Film Festival, organized and hosted by Wally Cherwinski. An accomplished videographer in his own right, Wally shares his thoughts on why you (yes, you!) should be creating a submission and joining in the fun. No prizes, no judging and no pressure mean that anyone can be part of the Festival. Wally provides some tips on how to approach a subject, creating something from content you already have, and the emotional impact of preserving memories through video. Visit Macstock Conference and Expo and use the MacVoices discount code MACVOICES to save $30 on your registration fee. Today's edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Live!, our weekly live panel discussion of what is going in the Apple space as well as the larger tech world, and how it is impacting you. Join us live at YouTube.com/MacVoicesTV at 8 PM Eastern 5 PM Pacific, or whatever time that is wherever you are and participate in the chat, or catch the edited and segmented versions of the show on the regular MacVoices channels and feeds. Show Notes: Chapters: 02:22 The Macstock Short Film Festival 04:31 Learning from the Macstock Film Submissions 06:53 Submission Guidelines for Macstock Film Festival 11:36 Creating Professional Videos with iMovie Trailers 13:53 Tips and Tricks for Video Editing 22:18 The Fun and Engrossing Process of Video Editing 25:55 Encouragement to Create and Submit Videos for Macstock Links: Video To Go by Wally Cherwinski in the Apple Books Store Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on X, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In the Spigen suite at CES in Las Vegas, Samuel Han, Specialist, Retail Enterprise Development, showed us some of their latest products that include a new gaming keyboard, GaN power products, and new iPhone cases that range from stylish to practical, and more.  Show Notes: Links: ArcPlay Real Dual 8K Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Spigen GaN III 652 65W 2 Ports Compact Foldable Dual USB C Wall Charger Spigen Magnetic Style Armor MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Case Spigen Magnetic Ultra Hybrid MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Case Spigen Valentinus Magnetic Wallet Card Holder for iPhone Caseology Universal Waterproof Phone Pouch [Vacuum Seal Technology/Built-in Pump] Spigen Magnetic Enzo Aramid Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Max Case Spigen Thin Fit Pro Designed for iPad Pro 12.9 inch Case   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In the Spigen suite at CES in Las Vegas, Samuel Han, Specialist, Retail Enterprise Development, showed us some of their latest products that include a new gaming keyboard, GaN power products, and new iPhone cases that range from stylish to practical, and more.  Show Notes: Links: ArcPlay Real Dual 8K Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Spigen GaN III 652 65W 2 Ports Compact Foldable Dual USB C Wall Charger Spigen Magnetic Style Armor MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Case Spigen Magnetic Ultra Hybrid MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Case Spigen Valentinus Magnetic Wallet Card Holder for iPhone Caseology Universal Waterproof Phone Pouch [Vacuum Seal Technology/Built-in Pump] Spigen Magnetic Enzo Aramid Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Max Case Spigen Thin Fit Pro Designed for iPad Pro 12.9 inch Case   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Welcome to Episode 137 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week we cover the following topics: Peloton Studios shared the story of Shaunta-Maé and her recovery. IDs are now being checked for in person classes at PSNY – and London soon as well. A new feature allows you to change the app icon color for the Peloton App on iPhones & iPads. The Peloton App on Android now lets you see a video only preview of classes. The Amazon Prime Video feature has temporarily been removed from the Peloton Entertainment beta. Peloton bikes and accessories were on sale for Amazon Prime Day this week. Both Jermaine Johnson & Ben Alldis have new split strength programs on the way. There is a new “Peloton Hip Hop Tour” – featuring hip hop from 5 different regions. A new artist series with Christina Aguilera features 14 different classes this week. Classes from October 10 – 25, 2019 were purged this past week. An extra activity, open to everyone, has been added to the Peloton On Tour. You now can buy Peloton hardware using Citizens Pay for financing in addition to Affirm. Several instructors went to the Mission Impossible premiere and met Tom Cruise. Jess Sims as a new partnership with US Bank. Matty Maggiacomo is working on a book with his mom. Amanda & John share their, and the community's, class picks of the week. You can find links to full articles on each of these topics from the episode page here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/pelo-buddy-tv-episode-137/ The show is also available via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeloBuddy This episode is hosted by Amanda Segal (#Seglo3) & John Prewitt (#Kenny_Bania)

- Weiter voraus: Apple Event am 7. September - Später, fortgeschrittener, besser? Was Apple zu iPadOS 16 sagt - Prima selbst repariert: Apple erweitert Self Service Programm - Vorsicht, lückenhaftes VPN: Sein oder Nichtsein? - Update-Alarm: Wie dringend müssen iOS und Co. aktualisiert werden? - Umfrage der Woche - Zuschriften unserer Hörer Links zur Sendung: - Bloomberg: Apple Event am 7. September - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-17/apple-targets-sept-7-for-iphone-14-launch-in-flurry-of-devices - TechCrunch: Apple veröffentlicht iPadOS 16.1 Beta - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/23/apple-delivers-ipados-16-1-beta-ahead-of-ios-16-fall-release/ - Apple Newsroom (Deutschland): Apple weitet Self Service-Reparatur auf Mac Notebooks aus - https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2022/08/apple-expands-self-service-repair-to-mac-notebooks/ - Michael Horowitz: VPNs auf iOS-Geräten - https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php - Mac & i: Aktive Angriffe auf iPhones, iPads und Macs - https://www.heise.de/news/Aktive-Angriffe-auf-iPhones-iPads-und-Macs-Was-Nutzer-jetzt-tun-sollten-7237518.html

AP correspondent Ed Donahue on Apple Security Flaw.

Update required as Apple admits a major security risk for iPhones, iPads and iMacs that could allow hackers to take complete control of the devices. Plus an Apple iPhone 14 launch date? Marvel's new She-Hulk series - is the CGI any good? Self-driving vehicles ‘on UK roads by 2025' could create 38,000 jobs. The evolution of a frog's brain and how they evade predators in first ever study. One in every ten Reddit users publishes toxic posts. Harmful 'forever chemicals' found in makeup can now be destroyed. A food crop breakthrough ‘could help alleviate food shortages', Elon Musk's Twitter claims doubted by online bot researchers and the Pokémon World Championships have started in London. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

AP correspondent Ed Donahue on Apple Security Flaw

Verkaufen lohnt nicht mehr, zum Wegwerfen viel zu schade: Alte Apple-Hardware landet oft in der Schublade, dabei gibt es viele interessante Einsatzmöglichkeiten.

Verkaufen lohnt nicht mehr, zum Wegwerfen viel zu schade: Alte Apple-Hardware landet oft in der Schublade, dabei gibt es viele interessante Einsatzmöglichkeiten.

In the developers beta for iOS and iPadOS, Apple has rolled out Legacy Contacts to help users manage their data in the event of death.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Linh wonders how to pick an iPhone, and Dimitri tries his best to explain it… slowly… Check out Linh's app, Not Phở, a cook that introduces the user to Vietnamese cuisine, especially dishes other than Phở. It runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It also have an iMessage sticker pack so that you can share with all your friends and family. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1525104124?pt=14724&ct=Podcast&mt=8 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinhAndDimiChan Follow Dimitri on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dimitribouniol Follow Linh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/linhbouniol New devices: - iPhone 13 mini: fast, small body, great cameras - iPhone 13: same as mini, but larger body - iPhone 13 Pro: same size as iPhone 13, but even better cameras - iPhone 13 Pro Max: same as 13 Pro, but even larger body How to choose an iPhone? - Phone calls only: any previous/older model or second hand - Photo enthusiast: latest model (iPhone 13 Pro or Pro Max) - Basic computer phone: any model depending on budget (iPhone 11, 12, 13) - Size (memory): 64 GB minimum for normal usage, 128 GB or more if you take lots of photo/video - Game enthusiast: latest model with the fastest processor and largest space (device with A15 or A14 chip) Apple always has an event at the beginning of September for new iPhones/iPads, and sometimes an event at the beginning of October for new computers.

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I'm Fred Fishkin.      The big focus is on the camera capabilities of Apple's new iPhone 13 line up….with impressive new capabilities for still photos and videos….even in the models without the Pro designation.       You'll find some great new technology...

This week was Apple's iPhone event where we saw the iPhone 13, 9th Generation iPad, iPad Mini (pro but not really), and the Apple Watch Series 7.  There's a lot to digest from this event, so we have Vyyyper, an Apple-focused Youtube creator on to talk about everything Apple had to show off. What did Vyyyper order from the event? What did I order from the event? You'll find out! Plus, we have a Tech Yeah item that has probably existed for a long time, but for some reason, I've never seen it before.  Links to News of the week available at benefitofthedoud.com Patreon bonus for this episode: Early access Special thanks to:Vyyyper, the man about techYoutube - Twitter Subscribe to the show! Support the show! Read more! Twitter - @Benefitofdoud Instagram - @BenefitoftheDoud Youtube - http://bitly/botdtubeTikTok - @BenefitoftheDoud Benefit of the Doud is written and hosted by:Adam Doud - @DeadTechology Co-produced by:Clifton M. Thomas - @cliftonmthomas

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Apples store California Streaming event, bedre kjent som "ny iPhone-event", gikk av stabelen på tirsdag. Og nye iPhones, det fikk vi! Endelig med 120Hz (men på bare enkelte av dem?), nye kameraer og Cinematic mode som Ole lurer på om kan måle seg med Sonys Cinema Pro - app. Nye iPads, ny Apple Watch. Er det noe bra? Er det noe vits? Eller bør man vente til neste år? Vi tar praten.Hørt om Ray-Ban Stories? RayBans produsert i samarbeid med Facebook med kameraer og ørepropper som streamer det man ser direkte til Facebook, bare å si "hey Facebook, capture". Creepy?Ole anmelder OnePlus Nord 2, oppfølgeren til suksessen som fikk 10/10 i fjor. Kan årets modell leve opp til fjorårets?Til slutt tar vi en titt på høstens store spill som faktisk får oss til å glede oss til kulde, mørke, innesitting med god samvittighet og svette gamingnetter.God lytting!

Techstination interview: New iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and more: CEO Tim Cook Wrap Up

View in HD at . Apple announced the new iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max today at a special event. These new phones feature upgraded cameras, processor and more. A new base-model iPad was also announced, and a redesigned iPad mini that looks more like the iPad Pro line. The new Apple Watch Series 7 features a larger display and is more durable.

Apple has been trying for years to reinvent the healthcare system. In 2016, the company started operating its own health clinics for employees as a testing ground. But, WSJ's Rolfe Winkler explains, Apple's had a hard time accomplishing its ambitions.

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide panel of Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio wrap up with even more off-the-wall picks and discussion.  (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by SaneBox, the best way to take control of your out-of control-email. To get $25 credit when you sign up for any subscription, visit SaneBox.com/MacVoices. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links: Joe Kissell’s picks: CZUR Shine Ultra on Indiegogo or AliExpress DinoFire remote Wally Cherwinski's Picks: New York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles Britbox British TVWally’s top 22 list of murder mystery/crime series on Britbox: Line of Duty Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Poirot (David Suchet) Inspector Morse Cracker Shetland Death in Paradise Vera Midsomer Murders Prime Suspect (Hellen Mirren) Wallander Life on Mars A Confession Scott & Bailey River The Fall (Gillian Anderson) The Sweeney The Inspector Lynley Mysteries MI-5 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Father Brown The Ice House (Daniel Craig) Preserve precious memories with a printed photo book:Presto Photo Mimeo Photos Photobooks   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski Anker USB C to Lightning Cable, iPhone Charger Cable USB C Cable 100W 6ft, Anker Powerline III USB C to USB C Charger Cable 2.0, Type C Charging CableSyntech USB C to USB Adapter (2 Pack), Thunderbolt 3 to USB 3.0 Adapter USB C Charger, Anker 60W 2-Port PowerPort Atom PD [GAN Tech] Foldable Wall Charger   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Joby JB01507 GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K Glif - Quick Release Tripod Mount for Smartphones Joby BallHead 3K The PB Love Company (peanut and almond butter)   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide panel of Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio wrap up with even more off-the-wall picks and discussion.  (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by SaneBox, the best way to take control of your out-of control-email. To get $25 credit when you sign up for any subscription, visit SaneBox.com/MacVoices. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links: Joe Kissell’s picks: CZUR Shine Ultra on Indiegogo or AliExpress DinoFire remote Wally Cherwinski's Picks: New York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles Britbox British TVWally’s top 22 list of murder mystery/crime series on Britbox: Line of Duty Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Poirot (David Suchet) Inspector Morse Cracker Shetland Death in Paradise Vera Midsomer Murders Prime Suspect (Hellen Mirren) Wallander Life on Mars A Confession Scott & Bailey River The Fall (Gillian Anderson) The Sweeney The Inspector Lynley Mysteries MI-5 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Father Brown The Ice House (Daniel Craig) Preserve precious memories with a printed photo book:Presto Photo Mimeo Photos Photobooks   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski Anker USB C to Lightning Cable, iPhone Charger Cable USB C Cable 100W 6ft, Anker Powerline III USB C to USB C Charger Cable 2.0, Type C Charging CableSyntech USB C to USB Adapter (2 Pack), Thunderbolt 3 to USB 3.0 Adapter USB C Charger, Anker 60W 2-Port PowerPort Atom PD [GAN Tech] Foldable Wall Charger   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Joby JB01507 GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K Glif - Quick Release Tripod Mount for Smartphones Joby BallHead 3K The PB Love Company (peanut and almond butter)   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide panel of Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio wrap up with even more off-the-wall picks and discussion.  (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by SaneBox, the best way to take control of your out-of control-email. To get $25 credit when you sign up for any subscription, visit SaneBox.com/MacVoices. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links: Joe Kissell’s picks: CZUR Shine Ultra on Indiegogo or AliExpress DinoFire remote Wally Cherwinski's Picks: New York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles Britbox British TVWally’s top 22 list of murder mystery/crime series on Britbox: Line of Duty Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Poirot (David Suchet) Inspector Morse Cracker Shetland Death in Paradise Vera Midsomer Murders Prime Suspect (Hellen Mirren) Wallander Life on Mars A Confession Scott & Bailey River The Fall (Gillian Anderson) The Sweeney The Inspector Lynley Mysteries MI-5 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Father Brown The Ice House (Daniel Craig) Preserve precious memories with a printed photo book:Presto Photo Mimeo Photos Photobooks   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski Anker USB C to Lightning Cable, iPhone Charger Cable USB C Cable 100W 6ft, Anker Powerline III USB C to USB C Charger Cable 2.0, Type C Charging CableSyntech USB C to USB Adapter (2 Pack), Thunderbolt 3 to USB 3.0 Adapter USB C Charger, Anker 60W 2-Port PowerPort Atom PD [GAN Tech] Foldable Wall Charger   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Joby JB01507 GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K Glif - Quick Release Tripod Mount for Smartphones Joby BallHead 3K The PB Love Company (peanut and almond butter)   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide features picks by Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio. With all the gift guides over the years, you would think that no more “firsts” could happen, but they do and on a regular basis. Find out what surprises happened this time around. (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links:   Joe Kissell’s picks: iProven Forehead Thermometer for Adults Sentry Safe CFW20201 Waterproof Fire-Resistant Medium Tubular Lock Chest Wally Cherwinski's Picks:Lonely PlanetDVD Box Set of Rick Steve’s European travelsNew York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Beethoven The New Complete Edition [123 CD] Generac Guardian 16000-Watt Air-Cooled Home Standby Generator with Wi-Fi and 16-Circuit Transfer Switch Anker Rechargeable Bolder LC90 LED Flashlight, Pocket-Sized TorchJackery Portable Power Station Explorer 500Jackery SolarSaga 100W Portable Solar Panel   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Logitech C920x Pro HD Webcam Logitech C930e 4X Zoom Webcam iPhone 12 Pro Max   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide features picks by Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio. With all the gift guides over the years, you would think that no more “firsts” could happen, but they do and on a regular basis. Find out what surprises happened this time around. (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links:   Joe Kissell’s picks: iProven Forehead Thermometer for Adults Sentry Safe CFW20201 Waterproof Fire-Resistant Medium Tubular Lock Chest Wally Cherwinski's Picks:Lonely PlanetDVD Box Set of Rick Steve’s European travelsNew York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Beethoven The New Complete Edition [123 CD] Generac Guardian 16000-Watt Air-Cooled Home Standby Generator with Wi-Fi and 16-Circuit Transfer Switch Anker Rechargeable Bolder LC90 LED Flashlight, Pocket-Sized TorchJackery Portable Power Station Explorer 500Jackery SolarSaga 100W Portable Solar Panel   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Logitech C920x Pro HD Webcam Logitech C930e 4X Zoom Webcam iPhone 12 Pro Max   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our fourth MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide features picks by Joe Kissell, Wally Cherwinski, and Mark Fuccio. With all the gift guides over the years, you would think that no more “firsts” could happen, but they do and on a regular basis. Find out what surprises happened this time around. (Part 1 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by BetterHelp. Affordable, private, online counseling. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Macvoices. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Joe Kissell is the publisher of  Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter on LinkedIn. Links:   Joe Kissell’s picks: iProven Forehead Thermometer for Adults Sentry Safe CFW20201 Waterproof Fire-Resistant Medium Tubular Lock Chest Wally Cherwinski's Picks:Lonely PlanetDVD Box Set of Rick Steve’s European travelsNew York Times Premium Crossword Puzzles   Mark Fuccio’s picks: Beethoven The New Complete Edition [123 CD] Generac Guardian 16000-Watt Air-Cooled Home Standby Generator with Wi-Fi and 16-Circuit Transfer Switch Anker Rechargeable Bolder LC90 LED Flashlight, Pocket-Sized TorchJackery Portable Power Station Explorer 500Jackery SolarSaga 100W Portable Solar Panel   Chuck Joiner’s picks: Logitech C920x Pro HD Webcam Logitech C930e 4X Zoom Webcam iPhone 12 Pro Max   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Week of: 10-5-2020 Xbox Gaming News, Releases and A Fun Fact

The second part of our special MacVoices Live session with Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, and production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, digs a bit deeper info the audio and video production challenges and techniques that yielded such a fantastic result. Be sure to watch for the outtake after the credits that was not part of the live session, where the group reveals a surprising aspect to their collaboration. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

The second part of our special MacVoices Live session with Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, and production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, digs a bit deeper info the audio and video production challenges and techniques that yielded such a fantastic result. Be sure to watch for the outtake after the credits that was not part of the live session, where the group reveals a surprising aspect to their collaboration. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

The second part of our special MacVoices Live session with Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, and production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, digs a bit deeper info the audio and video production challenges and techniques that yielded such a fantastic result. Be sure to watch for the outtake after the credits that was not part of the live session, where the group reveals a surprising aspect to their collaboration. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In a special MacVoices Live session, Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, along with production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, talk about their newest project, a lockdown video that featured the entire band, including Chris Breen, Paul Kent and Chuck La Tournous, singing and recoding remotely. Part 1 covers how it started with a message from a fan and how it all came together. (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In a special MacVoices Live session, Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, along with production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, talk about their newest project, a lockdown video that featured the entire band, including Chris Breen, Paul Kent and Chuck La Tournous, singing and recoding remotely. Part 1 covers how it started with a message from a fan and how it all came together. (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In a special MacVoices Live session, Macworld All-Star Band members Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Bob LeVitus, and Duane Straub, along with production team members Wally Cherwinski and Skylar Hamilton, talk about their newest project, a lockdown video that featured the entire band, including Chris Breen, Paul Kent and Chuck La Tournous, singing and recoding remotely. Part 1 covers how it started with a message from a fan and how it all came together. (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko’s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, and follow him on Twitter. Dave Hamilton  is co-host of The Mac Geek Gab, President and co-Founder of The Mac Observer, and co-Founder of BackBeat Media. You can also find him as a regular on The Mac Observer's Daily Observations Podcast, and co-hosting both The Small Business Show and Gig Gab, and can follow him on Twitter.  Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac," has been considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Macintosh and Mac OS for nearly twenty years. A prolific author, Bob has sold millions of books worldwide in a dozen languages. His recent titles include: iPad 2 For Dummies, Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, iPhone 4S For Dummies, and Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. He's been a tech columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and writes regularly for The Mac Observer web site. His hobbies include playing guitar with the infamous Macworld All-Star Band, engineering audio recordings (mostly of classic rock songs), and budget video-making. Bob also has a Macintosh computing consultancy that offers expert technical help, training, and pre-purchase advice to Mac users via phone, e-mail, and/or Internet-enabled remote control software. You can find him on Twitter and see his latest project at WorkingSmarterForMacUsers.com. Duane Straub plays bass for the Macworld All-Star Band Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Skylar Hamilton is part of the audio production team for The Macworld All-Star Band.   Links: Rolling Stones - Together At Home The Weight - Playing for Change Wally Cherwinski's YouTube Channel for more Macworld All-Star Band Videos Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

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This Road to Macstock conversation introduces the Film Fest that will be part of this year’s event. Wally Cherwinski reviews the very few guidelines for the submissions, and then provides both information and inspiration on how you can create something that will be shown on the Macstock screen. Drawing from his experience as a videographer, Wally’s tips on using your iPhone and/or Mac to tell your story, and what that story might be, will have you up and running in no time. This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by the MacVoices Dispatch, our weekly newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on any and all MacVoices-related information. Subscribe today and don't miss a thing. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Donate to MacVoices via Paypal or become a MacVoices Patron. Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Links: Video to Go by Wally Cherwinski on iBooks Photomagico by Boinx Software MacVoices #18213: Wally Cherwinski’s Guide to Video Creation, Video To Go

This Road to Macstock conversation introduces the Film Fest that will be part of this year’s event. Wally Cherwinski reviews the very few guidelines for the submissions, and then provides both information and inspiration on how you can create something that will be shown on the Macstock screen. Drawing from his experience as a videographer, Wally’s tips on using your iPhone and/or Mac to tell your story, and what that story might be, will have you up and running in no time. This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by the MacVoices Dispatch, our weekly newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on any and all MacVoices-related information. Subscribe today and don't miss a thing. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Donate to MacVoices via Paypal or become a MacVoices Patron. Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Links: Video to Go by Wally Cherwinski on iBooks Photomagico by Boinx Software MacVoices #18213: Wally Cherwinski’s Guide to Video Creation, Video To Go

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EP153 - Pre-Thanksgiving Industry News and Listener Questions Thanksgiving road trips with Jason & Scot have become a tradition in the digital shopper marketing industry.  Here is an hour of new and listener questions, to get you ready for the Turkey-5 holiday! Spiffy announces connected car initiative.  The first connected car feature grants limited access to vehicles through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) connected car capabilities. Eliminating the step of handing off keys prior to a service makes Spiffy's on-demand services even easier for customers. Amazon News HQ2/3 discussion Amazon offers free shipping w/o Prime (how will Target/Walmart respond) Apple establishes an official presence on Amazon Other News 11.11 Recap Walmart earnings (e-com up 43%) Walmart CEO Doug McMillon on Tim Ferris podcast New store concepts dominated by mobile experiences 7Fresh (JD Grocery) New Nike NY Store "House of Innovation 000" 7-11 scan and go Sams Club Now Amazon Go / 4-Star / Books Listener Questions Sri Rajagopalan Is the Amazon business in consumables really growing? Why are we not embracing Alibaba in the USA? Anonymous Anker rose to be a powerhouse of an Amazon business. Can you analyze their changes to highlight the overall marketplace transition to differentiated product development? Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 153 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, November 18, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 153 being recorded on Sunday November 18th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek, and as usual I'm here with your co-host. Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Tonight we are sitting here on the cusp of Thanksgiving which is the official kickoff of holiday 18 we got some great guests on as we get into the thick of that but we thought we'd take this kind of opportunity here before at everything hits to go over some industry news and we I had some listeners that were really dying to ask some questions so we have some listener questions and we have hopefully if our sound engineer is doing his job we should have this out before you do your travel for Thanksgiving so hopefully this gives you something to you get the folks in the car asleep so that you can pick about some e-commerce and get really super hungry as you ride to that, great turkey dinner that you're going to enjoy. Jason: [1:34] That's a lot of pressure you just put on the audio engineer thanks a lot. Scot: [1:38] Well we have a we have a big team and I'm confident they can they can get it done. Before we dig into news and Lester questions Jason you were at something to deal with a bonfire so tell me about this big block party with you. Jason: [1:55] Sorry I did not get to light anything on fire. Loyal listeners will have heard of last week show where we talked a little bit about some joint research that my employer poop assisted with salesforce.com and so we did this. Speak study called The Shopper first study and you can listen to episode 152 if you want to learn more about the study but one of the things we we've done is leverage pieces of that study in various social events around the country so one of these we called the retail retail bonfire was in Manhattan a couple weeks ago we had three or four hundred clients in. To the Dream Hotel put on a cool event and shared some of the research but I also got to, talk a little bit about one of my favorite topics which is personalization and I I got to share this story that I enjoy sharing that I call hashtag United you don't know me and it's essentially this. This tragic story about how I'm United's best customer and I'm in their Secret customer Infinity program and I travel millions of miles with him and I. Do all my spending with a very expensive United credit card and so imprimis they should know everything about me and they should have tons of data. Dramatically reduce friction and make my my experiences with them easy and. [3:23] There's just numerous touchpoint I have with them every day where they missed that opportunity and so. I used that story to sort of underscore the point that at the moment in the industry were talking off a lot about personalization but in reality, nobody's doing a very good job yet and we we have all that the data and insight to treat customers much better than we in fact actually are and so that's kind of. The kind of said my my talk which seems like it was well-received I got some good feedback at the retail bonfire. Scot: [3:57] Yeah there was a video posted in I couldn't hear what you were saying because it was from the audience there and but there was a lot of laughter I thought you were doing your quit this whole e-commerce retail gig and doing stand-up. Jason: [4:09] So you may have busted me I'm a little Overexposed I flew straight from the retail bonfire to the Home Improvement Aerie tail summer in Chicago which was that show for the Home Improvement industry at talking about digital disruption and so I think the video you're referring to is actually a little bit of my my sort of omni-channel presentation at the retail bonfire and I always. Put some jokes in there and occasionally one of them lands. Scot: [4:38] I don't know you're saying but those people were very rolling in the aisles. Jason: [4:43] I got super lucky that they accidentally recorded the one one segment where where they thought it was funny and they didn't record what I said so you will never know that they just don't have a very good sense of humor. Scot: [4:56] I was guessing that maybe you would like you're like the 9 p.m. and then going to dinner and had like 45 drinks or something. Jason: [5:04] Yeah well that for folks that are interest in having me speak to your event you should know I do have a two drink minimum so I only accept it and swear people are likely in that state already. But yeah so I've been traveling a lot since grocery shop doing a bunch of fun events and I've been trying to keep up on stuff, I feel like everytime I open my newsfeed all I see is a big giant picture of Scot Wingo, doing something with speed and I think there was some pretty cool news this week if I'm not mistaken. Scot: [5:35] Yeah it's kind of you know you would think that my car washing world would not intersect with our digital world that much but the increasingly dense and so one of the things we've been working on it's 50 for a long time is a fair number of Manufacturers have connected car initiatives big Tesla do so I've been in Connected car world since 2013 and what would connect the car is essentially is your vehicle has a 3G or 4G or an LTE connection, that essentially connects your car to the cloud and then usually the manufacturer will give you a nap and I'll let you do a lot of cool stuff so for example with the Tesla app you can lock and unlock the car to put it in the valet mode you can now actually. [6:23] It has a mode where will we will come to you that's pretty cool kind of Tony Stark mode and then so various other manufacturers have other features in addition to the app haven't connected car it in the vehicle you will have Wi-Fi and then you can have just like over the air updates you can have better Maps so there's a lot of really great reasons to do this from a consumer Behavior perspective so 2015 people started in it and it was kind of spotty because a lot of them would charge you extra a lot of consumers didn't sign up for it within the last 2 or 3 years OEM zarchive including it in the the first three to five years of the vehicle ownership so we're that ties in with our world is 50 is for doing Car Care car wash and oil changes those kinds of things and we're having watched Amazon for 20 years yeah I think they think they get right as a musician is being really obsessed with with customers so we. [7:24] I'm thinking how can we make that customer experience better and one of the painful things, drives us crazy is we have to get our customers keys and that can be kind of an arduous process so this allows us for those customers that you have connected cars they can give us permission and then the day of service we can come in and our technician can walk in the black car and get the keys to our service without having them involved. Inet School transparency in mission control of that so that was really well received a lot of good press and thanks for bringing up it's it's it's fun to see how these things overlap. Jason: [8:00] Yeah it's that's kind of cool. It reminds me a lot of sort of it's the carwash equivalent of the Holy Grail of Amazon or Walmart delivering the groceries right through my refrigerator. Scot: [8:12] Yeah Amazon does have a program So within the Amazon key there's two flavors to key there's that home one where they can you can grab them permission with a Wi-Fi lock that come in or out and then you have a camera to watch Lily person I've been else have a car delivery system within tea and they're using a lot of the same technology that we are in the connected car to do that. Jason: [8:33] I will say I know you. Joke about there being a lot of overlap but it's kind of annoying for me because I feel like I'll go to visit a car client and you don't be talking that e-commerce and. You know if you start to feel like you've moved on from e-commerce the car and then they're still out yet we're sick of Jason can we meet Scott. Scot: [8:54] Funny Cooks so it would not be the Jason Scott show without a little bit of. Jason: [9:07] Your margin. Scot: [9:16] Cool well the big amazon news that that has happened since our last news podcast is they they did make the final hq2 decision. Good news is it lined up the rumors reported on so this is kind of like old news in a way but I guess we should say. [9:33] So what Amazon did I is they did kind of did the proverbial the Old Testament splitting of the baby and instead of announcing they decided to split it into two so, New York's and Virginian were the winners so specifically New York City somewhere around Queens called Long Island City which is maybe you can explain this list I don't understand this particular thing. It in Crystal City and they're actually, asking people to kind of create a new names there's a whole new name there that they're going to kind of call where they're going to be, something like National Landing so that's interesting and so there was a lot of controversy after Nelson super small lot of people were upset they split it. I and our cock will this isn't really another headquarters is just two things. You know dr. Holloway was right he had predicted this and so he was indicated in his whole thing about you know it's convener to abduct businesses houses and their political influence. The light people of observed that now Amazon has data from sunlight 240 cities and Metro areas about. [10:50] All this data they had them put together for Amazon is now sitting somewhere in a database I hopes Amazon in the variety of different ways young next time they build a building center or a Dana Center they can kind of go and say well you know for hq2 you said this, certainly give us portion of whatever you promise, and then the other big one is now that it's public the subsidies have been released and it turns out we add up New York in Virginia it's over 2 billion dollars and subsidies, so this creates a lot of consternation from citizens who were like wow why are we paying so much and then company exist, okay we've been here forever when are we going to get our tax credits and it's just really kind of, yeah I probably read 5 articles a date so kind of from the aftershocks this that's been and, you're so that's good be interesting to watch and see where they they plant more flights would you think about it all Jason. Jason: [11:59] I'm a little over at my wife asked me today and I she pointed out that I kind of snapped at her in the answer. Cuz I'm a little tired of talking about it out of course I want to share my myhumboldt pod with our listeners. [12:20] So they're opening a new headquarters in a suburb New York and they're going to 25,000 employees Google already has close to 25,000 employees in New York and there was no year long. Contest or you know this constant drumbeat of news Amazon set. Nothing's up by calling at hq2 and having this kind of formal contest and all of us to follow the industry and in the media. [12:51] I feel like sort of overreacted and bought into it too much because it's in some ways it's it's not a heck of a lot different than. Then the way every other company behaves I mean all all companies you know try to extort these business development funds from cities when they moved new infrastructure there I mean. Towing threatened to move their headquarters from Seattle to Chicago McDonald's and moving their headquarters like they're all these things that happen all the time. And it's it's kind of annoying that the Amazon one stayed in the new cycle for a year and then had this anti-climatic ending right so. They split it up between two City so it clearly isn't that co-equal headquarters like I'm sure the center of gravity for Amazon is going to stay squarely in Seattle so people that like that or going to be happy people that don't like Amazon's presents in Seattle and probably. Going to be disappointed they're going to hire a bunch of people in New York and compete with with Google and the agencies protect tires in New York but that's not. [13:53] I think a game changer you know it's. I feel like it's a little overhyped I will tell you that Steve Carell was the host of Saturday Night Live this week and he played Jeff Bezos. In the opening and he had a bunch of funny lines but one of them he's like we are excited to announce hq2 last week and everyone was really excited with our result. What are the people in one of the cities that we selected as hq2 or any of the people that live in anywhere that is not hq2. Scot: [14:25] Spring Arbor. Jason: [14:30] Pretty funny and summed it up pretty well side note. Anytime a city cut these Economic Development projects with employers one controversial thing is right. How much input you gave the citizenry in this and what you know sort of checking balance process were followed and obviously. Particularly in New York Amazon negotiated for these things and the governing politicians a largely. Agreed to them without any public discourse and so now that they're revealed there's there's a lot of folks on City councils and Andreas capacities that are sort of. Outraged and obviously the Optics to Amazon probably look pretty bad because they're. There you know compared to many companies there they're doing very economically well now these these. Subsidies that they're getting our are publicly revealed there was no there was no sort of public comment. [15:33] And it looks a little shady that they promise this whole hq2 thing and then they they split the baby and you know we all assume that the subsidies they got are not half of what was offered because they split the headquarters in half they probably. Got most or all of the the offered subsidies even for the the half the jobs that they promised and as you kind of pointed out. Every single time they open up a filming center from now on they're probably going to remind that municipality what kind of. Program was off and you know the try to get as much as they can and I think they even announced a big new facility in Nashville the same time they announce these two headquarters. I'm not I don't think they're behaving that much different than any other employer but I feel like. Some of the overhyped pr maybe sort of backfiring on them at the moment because there is a big backlash. And it almost even feels like Amazon recognized it again overboard cuz I feel like they they'll eat the announcement on Election Day in that like I assume that was to try to. Can I sneak it in and a busy new Psycho. [16:40] So another interesting one that I was following this week is there's been kind of a fun arms race on what retailers would do for their free shipping program for holiday. So Target. [16:57] Several weeks ago and asked that they would drop all minimum thresholds on their free shipping so you know if you want to shop from Black Friday to Christmas it Target no matter what you buy what volume you get free 2-day shipping. Walmart normally has free 2-day shipping with a $35 threshold so we are all curious to see if Walmart would respond to targets. Offer in Walmart did not respond they announced that they were going to keep their $35 threshold and so at the time I thought that was kind of interesting Walmart didn't feel like they had to chase. Target in this particularly expensive to offer promotion over holidays I thought that was kind of fascinating and that in a way I, I sort of admired Walmart's position there and then the totally unexpected thing happened Amazon came in and said, oh and by the way we're offering free shipping with no threshold whether you're a Prime member or not for the holidays Inn in effect matching targets offer and undercutting Walmart and well haven't been in Walmart was comfortable, not matching Target I suspect they they did not anticipate that that, Amazon would have a significantly more generous shipping offer than they did. Scot: [18:14] Yeah I had some people tweet at me in there like what why I would even pay for Prime and you know I think what those folks are missing is this is the Super Saver quickly a program that used to be you had a minimum car that you have to get to get Super Saver but it's still the Super Saver service-level just Hard series things to say but essentially you know that's kind of the slow boat and it's a 4 5 6 day kind of a shipping window not a not a two-day so Prime Sole is the thing that makes sense in my mind to pay for it because now you're getting free 2-day shipping for pain description so that's the difference in yiay Prime and Super Saver can still co-exist even when Super Saver is free. [18:58] One thing I noticed it was interesting is there's been a lot of kind of friction between Apple and Amazon over the years and then also Facebook their Style lot of drama going on with with all these companies fit specifically between Apple and Amazon you know there's been no love lost there they had, what example is Prime video for the longest time wasn't available on Apple TV devices you know I don't think apple is ever available on Amazon Fire devices and then I'll dig up that resolved and then one of the ones that got resolved that was kind of nursing is is Apple app that apple is going to really increase its listings on Amazon with kind of bring that the main product lines up there with iPhones iPads and that kind of stuff so it was actually Apple selling on Amazon, I thought the timing was interesting it feels like if your Apple you want to do that for the holiday, the water of Wall Street on Judith at the new iPhones aren't selling it, the pace ever thought they should be and suppliers are swimming in inventory so that was interesting you know what is the quid pro quo if I'm if I'm. [20:15] Amazon and I say alright I'll let you somewhere your stuff here you know obviously you're getting it cuz of that, but then you got it feels like there's something else going there and one of the big friction points as a Kindle reader so I use my Kindle app on my iPad is can't really buy from the Kindle app you have to go to the Amazon website you can buy to the Amazon apps Can't Buy Kindle content website order it and then download it and what they're doing is it getting around the 20 to 30% take right at the store level not selling right from the iTunes Store. So I would love to see you know that is a big friction point that with the Amazon ecosystem I'd love to see kind of hopefully as he's guys get along better let's see that go away. Jason: [21:07] I totally agree you know I assume one of the things that that Apple's getting in the short run is that by being on on the. The popcorn formula that they're going to get more brand protection help in more policing with all the the counterfeit product and because am is Apple so popular. You know there's a lot of speculation that there's a ton of counterfeit fit product and I'm I'm thinking mainly like Chargers and cables and things like that that that. Probably part of the quid pro quo of Apple being on their formally is that they'll get more help with their brand protection and so in some ways it felt not too dissimilar from the like the deal Nike cut earlier for example. [21:52] But I will throw one thing out, I share your frustration I can browse for books on the Kindle app but I can't buy them I have to go to the website and prove your point it's because when you buy something through an app you pay a commission to the app store owner right and so. Amazon doesn't want to pay Google and iTunes the big Commission on those. So they make you go to the web there is now a traffic solution for this Amazon should release a Kindle Progressive web app. An answer that that essentially like would be. Functionality that you don't get from the the App Store and therefore don't have to pay a commission and so they could basically have all the same offline capabilities that they have in their app that can let you put an icon on there on on the. The homescreen let you read books offline and all those sorts of things and they could sell you books which without having to pay on iTunes or Google Play. Commissioned so regardless of whether this deal makes apple and Amazon more friendly in that way if you like Amazon needs to get off the dime and embraced pwa. Scot: [23:04] So then how do you it's so I'm going to do it for dummies question if they're not in the app store which everyone's been trained as a way to get this stuff how do you do discovery. Jason: [23:15] So that still is the that is the problem with pwa today. [23:21] Never trying to con in Discovery they're not discovered in the App Store but they are much more discoverable in Google then amps are in so. I if I were a Amazon I would certainly still have. My app in the app store for Discovery but I would give them an alternative which is this pwa version so instead of throwing someone to the Amazon website to buy. The book and then having them come back to the app to read it I would throw them to the pwa version of my sight to both by the book and read them going forward and it will see if the App Store. Track down on this pain at the moment there's no restriction against having an app in the app store if you get that app away for free by the way you pay nothing to the App Store have utility in that app. In that app you can totally promote your pwa and even had a direct link for someone to download the PJ pwa version, as having greater capability than the App Store version so. You can kind of use the app store version of the Trojan Horse for your pwa version but at the very least the pwa version would be a good would be a better alternative than. Send him to the website to buy and then having them come back to the Kindle app. [24:46] So we'll see how that all plays out. Scot: [24:48] Search Jeff listens I'm sure he's taking care of since Jeff call Jason if you want details. Jason: [24:53] Or I'll just send an email you can add a? In forward it off to someone to ruin their life on Thanksgiving. We you did not record a show directly adjacent to it but. Of course singles Day November 11th was happened since the last time we did a new show and it's kind of a big milestone it's the 10th anniversary of double eleven day. Did you were you up late buying some stuff from Hong Kong. Scot: [25:29] Wasn't you know I think it's been interesting over the 10-year Ark where you know I feel like the last first nine years there was all this hey this is going to spill into the US and then feels like this year there's finally capitulation and I didn't even get a single email I think from us retailer promoting it like last year I got a couple of your before I got a lot and you before you a lot so it feels like, we kind of given up on the spilling over in the US and then Prime day is kind of become are on the singles day. And now everyone is anchoring on that and offering their own kind of deals around that time for 11:11. Yep. Jason: [26:10] The number of years where singles they grew dramatically and Jack ma would threaten next year. We're coming to the west and mostly what that meant and this has definitely been true. Every year alibaba's done a great job of recruiting more Western Brands to participate in singles day, in Asia and definitely singles day has expanded Beyond China so Alibaba now you don't has a presence in other cities are other countries rather, they have is it was Zada. In Singapore did they extended it too so it's it's definitely become a bigger Regional event and there's a ton of Western Brands I have a ton of clients that are excited about it as an opportunity to sell to. The indigenous populations in those countries but I would agree with you right there was always some type that there might be some play for for us consumers and it most there's like a kind of soft play for. Scot: [27:14] Like a kind of soft play for. Jason: [27:17] But I definitely know I haven't seen any any traction with with Western Choppers. Just what happened they sold 30 billion the equivalent of 30 billion dollars in US 30.8 billion so huge day. Compare do I cut prime day that might be 4 billion or a Black Friday or Cyber Monday they could maybe hit 6030000000 the normous number, that's up from Mike 25.3 billion last year so, in a superficial you look at that and go man this this thing continuing a crank it does seem like the rate of growth is starting to slow down so that represented a 27% growth over last year to put things in perspective last year was a 39% growth over the year before that and I'm pretty sure every year other than those two has been over 50%. [28:14] Feels like the growth rate is decelerating a little bit and. In some ways even though was the 10th anniversary it felt a little bit Mewtwo number one Jack ma who played at the super prominent role in the first nine was was there but had like a much less significant role as he sort of stepping back from the company a little bit. I think Alibaba issued some guidance either right before or right after, singles day that they sort of downgraded their the revenue guidance for the year and there's a lot of talk about how the Chinese economy is slowing down a little bit so. You know it's it's one of those things like objectively. It did really well but against expectations it was a little bit of the year if you will. Scot: [29:06] Yeah absolutely and dumb Alibaba stock is spelled it so even after you know what kind of a crazy number like 31 billion essentially if you around up a tad which is crazy to do in a 24-hour period the stock is trading kind of New Year Of Glow and it's that pressure up lowering the forecast China economy slowing down the tariffs you know everyone is thinking. Is, assuming the worst with this tariff environment that were in so yeah it's going to be a little bit of a rough time there yeah I did see another article that to your point about brands that they had the most semi 200 Western Brands sold pretty considerable amounts on there and it it's funny it's kind of like you know everyone goes to China and tries to set up a.com to give up and they essentially saw Auntie mall to you're looking at, even Amazon who runs their own Chinese store they sell a lot of candles and devices over there which be like let's see if you like Amazon selling on eBay which you would never have so it is interesting to see it even though they're slowing down there quite dominant and huge portion of e-commerce goes to Ali. Jason: [30:24] For sure what one of the thing that seems what is containing attractions every year they make significant progress in trying to turn this into a omni-channel event so Alibaba owns a bunch of stores they only like a hundred of these fancy digital-first grocery stores they don't like 500 convenience stores. Increasingly there their soliciting other retailers that they don't, direct Lyon to participate in double eleven day in so what that usually means is some kind of digital enablement so maybe they have a digital sign in the front of the store with the deals and you can. Activate the deals in the store you might take the goods with you or had the good ship from home but you don't really trying to expand from being a pure e-commerce holiday to being an omni-channel holiday. [31:15] E-commerce is bigger in in China than is in u.s. it still is true that it's like e-commerce is like 15% of the total. Retail spend in China and that's. More true in a lot of the West develop cities so you know it. Yeah you got a really big tier-1 cities there's kind of a premise that they're they're getting saturated with e-commerce and that you know everybody knows about it and use it as much as they want to and that really is driving the. The swelling growth rates in China. There's a huge untapped Market in China which are all these West develop cities that you are more likely to have like real farmers in them and to one of those you get singles day to reach him or them is you. Enable that one physical store that's in that City to sell stuff from. From that singles day in that store and so it seems like there was something like 200,000 stores that participated in singles Day this year so so that to me is is. Kind of interesting and you know frankly that's going to have to be the future of the growth story in China right like you. [32:30] It's already bigger than the US that the addressable Market is even way bigger, but they increasingly have to get these not digital Shoppers to to get in online before they are able to get them to become e-commerce shop. Scot: [32:47] Yeah so pooping so we've covered Amazon Ali Baba and now another large Global retailer is Walmart they announce their quarterly earnings and this was weird once were they that came out in and you exceeded. Expectations and it seems like they raised him in the stock went down and I'm not exactly sure what went on there I bet you made his watch that little bit closer than I did the headline that caught my attention was they announce that e-commerce group 43%, I think that's a pretty good acceleration for these guys and Baseline about kind of 15% growth rate that's the top scorer number and government is a lot of people that anchor on this 15% growth number so it feels like Walmart's e-commerce is growing 3x Amazon's quarterly earnings were more in the mid-20s range so feels like they're growing faster than congratulations to our friends at Walmart there sounds like. Jason: [33:49] And kind of put it in a frame it a little bit if the investor Day last year mark Glory promise 40% annual growth in e-commerce and then the next quarter out they slightly miss that at 39% and, a 1% misses apparently enough that they took a pretty big beating in the in the. Financial press and in their stock market in their in their market cap so the next couple quarter since then they basically hit that, percent exactly in fact it almost seems suspicious cuz I hit that exactly so this quarter getting 43%. With big holiday quarter up is pretty favorable and good news for Walmart, you know I do like to remind people in my mind a big driver that huge number so you know what we're doing a lot of things to grow e-commerce they really turned up the heat on the marketplace and they've dramatically expanded their selection so I think. Not very long ago that they were selling about a million rescues online and today they're more like 40 or 60 million skus online so making huge progress on the assortment. But one of the big drivers of e-commerce at Walmart is. [35:03] Selling groceries online in the way Walmart predominantly sells groceries online is you order them online in there for field from the store so either curbside pickup. Or home delivery and. You know you can add a new skew to your eCommerce site and it instantly available to everyone in the US but to grow grocery sales. [35:26] You have to make more stores available to fulfill that order so Walmart has like 4,000 stores in the US. As of this quarter they had 2100 stores that did curbside pickup and 800 stores that did. Home delivery that's twice as many curbside pickup stores that they had last year so. In a way they've doubled their capacity to sell groceries online in the last year and they're promising another thousand next year and so a lot of this e-commerce growth is be coming from. Like this this significant investment the Walmarts making in grocery. Scot: [36:04] When will that be in every story like when will they laughed that that whole thing. Jason: [36:10] Yeah they haven't said yet but like if you. Last year 2000 stores next to a thousand stores if we if they keep up that linear progression they have two more years before they max out and so then it's another year after that before they really lap the. The 4000 store number so there's there you know could easily be two or three more years of. Benefit from this kind of digital same Source Tails phenomenon that's playing out at Walmart. Scot: [36:39] What's going on with our friends in Bendel. Jason: [36:43] I want a few things but the other one I would have just hit on right now it's kind of fun to Doug mcmillon's the CEO of Walmart impressive guy started out as in internal Walmart work in the stores and is now I think according to Fortune Magazine like the 40th most powerful man in the world which I remind myself every time I've been meeting with him he did an hour-long podcast on the Tim Ferriss show so, like you know he speaks a lot but not really long form like that and so it's kind of fun to hear him and he got to share a little more personal stories then then he's normally known for so if you're interested in Walmart I'd encourage you to listen to that podcast on the Tim Ferriss show and frequently the Tim Ferriss show is kind of a feeder for this show so we watch that show carefully if a guest as well there then we might consider having him on our show so you know maybe that bodes well for Doug's chances of getting on the Jason and Scott show one day soon. Scot: [37:44] Tim doesn't have the reach we do so we try to help me out by by mentioning his podcasr once in awhile. [37:55] So there was a lot of brick-and-mortar stuff announced involving phones and I wanted to pick your brain on that one I saw was 7-Eleven they have this kind of Scan & Go technology what's interesting is kind of pivoting from from Walmart there Walmart had this functionality I think they've actually kind of liked it so you could kind of self checkout at Walmart so now you can't do that but everyone else is trying it so, what the heck's going on with that. Jason: [38:25] So what we kind of genetic I'll scan and go is the ability to pull out your phone scan a product yourself in the store and then pay for it on your phone on and therefore not have to go to a cashier to pay for it and that the expressive been around for a while they weren't the first ones but actually Apple Store is offered this for quite a while so you can walk in and grab your accessories scan them in the Apple app, pay with Apple pay or whatever payment methods you have on file and walk out of the store never have to get help from anyone. [39:00] And we're seeing that increasingly being used Macy's is rolling that out one of the big complaints and these big department stores is that it's hard to find a cashier to check out. So that, potentially attacking the number one complaint at Macy's is you mentioned they rolled it they piloted it in Walmart and Sam's Club and they should have turned off that pilot in Walmart they've doubled down on that pilot in Sam's Club we haven't officially heard from Walmart what what's going on but, my suspicion is in this is kind of a funny side note about anything you do in retail. I'm willing to bet that a bunch of the clerks in Walmart did not love promoting Scan & go because it peten, the potential to reduce the number of shifts they have for cashiers in Walmart so you can imagine this labor force that's responsible for educating customers about this feature. [39:59] It feels like that picture is competing with their livelihood and so, wouldn't surprise me if Walmart is having a retrench How They Roll that out in the Walmart stores but they definitely have embraced it in the Sam's Club stores and in fact Sam's just announced a new. Concept store called Sam's Club now and not only can you scan & Go in Sam's Club now it's the only way to check out so you absolutely have to have a phone and you have to have the Sam's Club app installed before you're even allowed in the store you scan all your items as you put them in your car. And you you self checkout before you leave the store that's a interesting pilot. [40:44] At the same time since they now know every customer is using the phone in the app in the store they've added a bunch of features to the app so they actually have one of my favorite features they've added an augmented reality feature so you can name your phone camera. Add a shelf in the store it recognizes the products on the store and it gives you supplemental information about this product. So you can do the like kind of product comparison where you compare two products and see how the attributes are different than what the pricing is. With why products in the store you can also see ratings and reviews and things that were used to an e-commerce, Sam's is now enabling in the Sam's now store but using the the phone that they're forcing the customer to use and to me that's a big Trend in brick-and-mortar so I'm calling this Tran the future brick-and-mortar is mobile. Because we're increasingly sting same-store Concepts where you literally can't shop the store without using your mobile phone so. We talked a lot about Amazon go and this show can't get in the Amazon go store, without using the mobile app Amazon has book stores in these four star stores in if you want to know the price of any book in the bookstore you need to use the app if you want to pay in the stores are highly encouraged to use the app in those Amazon stores. [42:05] Jd.com that the second biggest e-commerce site in China has just rolled out this new digital grocery format called 7 fresh and they're requiring customers to use their, the phone to get in the store and to do scan and go and have all these features in the store excuse me. And Nike just opened a new, flagship store in on Fifth Avenue in New York it's a cool store for variety of reasons but most of the cool new features are digitally enabled features that require you to have your phone in the store that day, stores geofence the app so when you watch the Nike app near the store the app goes in the in-store mode and it gives you all these unique capabilities. Help you shop the store better so we could eat that in the future episode on any of the specific store formats but to me the big takeaway is. [43:00] 15 to 20% of all e-commerce sales sales happen in e-commerce the rest happen in stores, throw these things people are getting used to online like Dynamic pricing and ratings and reviews in more detailed product information and, the very consistent answer that we're seeing to solve all those problems for brick-and-mortar Shoppers is to have that experience on the phone. Perfect sense because. Customer bring the super expensive phone with a big brilliant screen with him to the store that's a lot more appealing than putting thousands of super expensive screens in the store at the store would have to pay for so I think there's a train we're going to continue to see play out. Scot: [43:41] Yeah and judging from your voice to get pretty you're pretty emotional about the stuff man. Jason: [43:48] I love me some mobile brick and mortar shop. Scot: [43:50] Cool that's the all the News That's fit to chat about any Commerce in retail with that let's move over to listener questions. Jason: [44:08] Question question question question. Scot: [44:14] Our first question comes from, Patrick and he says we're a small retailer with about 30 or 40 employees and we're transitioning from selling other people's stuff. To developing in manufacturing our own brand of products any suggestions on building a team within a retailer that is responsible for manufacturing your own. Brand of products does seems to require a new skill set of employees that we have not traditionally hired for for example Engineers product Developers osetra, Jason had any advice for Patrick on how to counter if swivel maybe not pivot is Right work but too kind of gradually go from selling other people's stuff to developing your own products and sign this. Jason: [44:56] That will sew a congratulations on leaning in that direction I absolutely the dad is a important part of the future of Commerce is more more companies are going to be selling their own stuff it's going to be increasingly harder to make a living selling other people's stuff and I do think you're right like I. You need a lot of different skills to be a product developer manufacturer and marketer, then you do to be a wholesaler or retailer in so I do think you want to think about. Adding those new capabilities via VIA dedicated teams. [45:39] A picture of the things I really want you to think about in the places I would start thinking about investing in in shifting my labor force the most are the successful products that people watch today. Are based on. An intimate understanding of the Target customer and their needs wants and desires and so like all the companies we've seen their been really successful launching new products have a direct relationship in some way or another with a customer, and they use that relationship to test launch new products and quickly iterate and that is Maybe, not best done on platforms like Amazon where's your. Pretty heavily disintermediated from the customer and so you know one of the things I encourage companies to do is they pivot part of their business from from wholesale to to being a brand of manufacture. Is [46:34] Thinking about how you can develop a direct-to-consumer Channel or some way to have meaningful intimacy directly with customers so that you can get. [46:44] Feedback from from customers and so you can more quickly iterate on five development and by all means once you have a great product. Use all those other channels to sell the heck out of it so I have no problem with you selling that new product you invented. On Amazon but I think you need another Channel besides Amazon to test and learn and really develop those those product quickly. The other thing I would remind you is when you're selling someone else's stuff someone else is invested a lot of money in creating awareness and demand for that product when you're making your own product. You really need to have a marketing strategy around how you're going to treat that awareness and brand and usually the, different skills the dirty secret is when you're selling someone else's stuff the Big Marketing skill you need is actually B2B marketing skills, you build a relationship with those retailers but when you start making products that you want consumers to buy, because they recognize that your unique value proposition you really need true b2c marketing skills and said yeah you need to start thinking about, having the right people with the right skills and the the appropriate budgets to do that and so you know those are all some of the things I would. I think about as I made that transition Scott any important stuff I miss. Scot: [48:04] Yeah we're going to have a question in a little bit about anchor spoiler alert and so listen. Don't stop listening. Here at this point Patrick Patrick didn't tell us the categories in so sometimes this works or doesn't but one what area is kind of July feedback like you talked about is Kickstarter or Indiegogo and a lot of the biggest campaign to see on there already pretty well put together so but there's this kind of, level down or maybe two levels down if you kind of Explorer to there and companies are using those platforms to do a lot of experimentation around features so let's say you're going to come up with a widget and I kind of want to find out if people want feature 1 2 3 or some combination of those use those platforms for that what you do is you put the basic product out there then as you date they have different terminology for this but it's actually there's these different levels that that people can commit to. I'm going to vote with their dollars so let's say your base product is $30 and then you can add these features and. You can use that that feature set on those platforms to kind of let people vote with their wallet for different features that you may or may not want associated with your widget. So if you still a little time poking around there you'll see what I mean but that's kind of a cool way of of kind of. [49:29] Killing three birds with one stone so you're getting dressed feedback from consumers you're getting people to pay for YouTube product which is always nice, I did the third one is your building that direct channel so that those platforms can be really useful way that I don't think a lot of Amazon sellers may think about leveraging those platforms for for for doing that. Okay our next question is from Street, and we'll do kind of lightning round here so his first question Jason is is the Amazon business in consumables really growing. [50:06] All right. Jason: [50:08] But clearly there's categories like the Amazon basic battery famously has. 31 market share which is 10% bigger market share than Duracell tons of brands are seeing huge growth on Amazon subscribe and Save. I think it's fair to say that like Dash replenishment well super interesting and potentially the future. Isn't huge yet but absolutely Amazon's having I think very meaningful success in in consumable type product. Scot: [50:39] Are there any consumables that aren't doing well. Like maybe razors like me up Dollar Shave Club and doesn't seem like Amazon's really directly address to that that market that seems to be where razors are going just going to rain in my pickle. Jason: [50:55] That so you know we're going to do is we have to invite one of our data friends like 10 10 data onto maybe share that but I would not be shocked if Amazon sells more razors than Dollar Shave Club or Harry's. So I haven't I'm guessing I haven't specifically seeing the data on razors obviously there are a lot of people buying razors as a single order from Amazon. What's the mixture make a note and we will find out from from some folks that might know in the future shop. I think one of the other questions that tree ask got was why are we not embracing Alibaba in the US. Scot: [51:37] Yeah we kind of talked a little bit about this on the singles day coverage and there's just kind of an interesting little history lesson here, not a lot of people may know so Alibaba acquired a eBay selling platform full disclosure this is a kind of small competitor of Channel advisors called Activa in August of 2010 and then one of the things that Activa team did it and I'm good friends this guy's name is Jeff they pitched Ali Baba on building a Marketplace so essentially aggregating the products from those eBay sellers that now we're kind of also buying a lot of products from Alibaba to sell in the US and they came up the little Marketplace called 11 mean that never got traction a lot of people kind of a room you'll see felt like that was Ali Baba's bet on the US and that's not true and it was just kind of experiment Within that ended up getting caught wound down in 2015. Combined with a bunch of other marketplaces and then. [52:47] Alibaba you know where they're investing heavily is so special to have a very large US presence in New York and their they seem to be expanding that AliExpress is, have a B2B site where you can buy in bulk you know products and then resell them so lot of these Marketplace sellers Source from AliExpress I don't think Alibaba disclose exactly how big that is in the US but I I know it to be quite large so that's a big Market Place a lot of people don't know about because it's kind of weird B2B and then the other kind of technical of Alibaba that reaches into the u.s. today is they invest in a lot of companies. So let's see I always get some of this mixed up with Racket and who's the other company that kind of comes in and buys a lot of our companies so alibaba's a big investor in ShopRunner and then they see today by some The Flash show cat is or was that. Jason: [53:48] I know for fact rocket on about a few but it wouldn't shock me a volume also has. Scot: [53:55] So it seems like most of their their plays in the US have been to really kind of, invest in things and keep an eye on it where you know where I think they're they're doing a lot of the US is more China in so we mentioned earlier the show getting large Brands sell into China that have done some experiments we're trying to get Chinese Francis on the US yep that hasn't really play doubt busiek Park is flowing through Amazon right now or through AliExpress or from Alibaba which you know back to the first question how do you start building questions how do you your seller of other people stuff how do you start the Liam one thing we didn't talk about is finding a Chinese manufacturer alibaba.com is great for that so you can go on there and literally find a factory to make you any. [54:45] So those are the ways that there is some connective tissue between kind of the the China Alibaba world and the US so yep there's always been speculation to sew on eBay and PayPal split up there's rules around this I think we're past the time frame around these rules there's a lot of speculation that it was being done so that the eBay asset could be sold off mom and the number one company admission does find that would be Ali Papa so that would become an interesting way for Alibaba to really get serious about the US market is by eBay retool it and kind of what's worked in China which is splitting the people kind of oriented auctions from any of the B2B sotol Ballentine mall and and then taking a run at the US with some combination of putting a lot of Chinese sellers in the mix so so we'll see the jury still out on that I think it's definitely something Ali Baba has it keeps an eye on and want to the kind of in a weekend position right now like we mentioned earlier so out so I don't think it's you know if I was there I would do that right now, but you know it is something to keep an eye on and we will report any news there on the Jason Scott show. Jason: [55:56] Nice. We're starting stats for Tom little bit that you dirty tease this question so I want to make sure we get it in I think it came from an anonymous listener but it sent you the question was anchor which is a nktr which is the. The accessory mobile and PC accessories manufacturer anchor Rose to be a power a power house on Amazon business can you analyze their changes to highlight the overall Marketplace transition to differentiated product development. Scot: [56:28] Yeah and so my knowledge I've never works directly with these guys but I've read a lot of articles about him and I know people that have worked with him so it's all second-hand knowledge so Jason you may have more knowledge but urban legend at least on this is Anchor started as just kind of in one of these companies that sells a lot of accessories and then they started to see a hole in the market not and I think one of their. As they started to get their know their customer a lot of them are Travelers like like you and I and the one of the first things they noticed or heard from their customers was, hey you know I want, more USB ports on my power supply so that I don't have to buy as many of the Scituate of the bricks so one of their first products that came out with was a multi USB plug-in kind of power supply that was wildly popular and now they've taken that and really run with it and you know they have a whole, Kohl Mansion whole group that that innovates around these kinds of things talks to people and understands you know what what is their next gadgets need look like, I'm I'm sitting here and. [57:43] I got 30 or 40 different anchor thinks I have a thousand Jason and it's one of my favorite things to buy on Prime day because they are pretty aggressive song and to my knowledge they pivoted from Simply a Marketplace seller all the way to a top manufacturer I've read articles that kind of put their sales well north of of several hundred million dollars would surprise me I bet they're probably three to five hundred billion dollar company at this point so, back to that first question this is a really good example of how they do it but I also know, it's been a lot of time looking at Amazon search results there's various services that give you Amazon searches and the results, so for example we have a customer channelizer that spoke at a conference so I don't feel bad saying this they you know there's just this classic Han Solo in carbonite image there in the Star Wars world shockingly so I know a lot about them and they kept seeing people look for that in different ways and they came out with a beach towel that had it on it so it looks really funny the beach towel is just like. [58:50] The exact Han Solo in carbonite so it looks kind of funny when she was sitting there on the beach and they discovered that two looking at Search terms so people are actually looking in towels for Han Solo Carbonite not finding it and they saw the no search results there and decide, and I've heard danger guys talk about they spent a lot of time looking at the Amazon Marketplace in these inequities between Supply and man and then they figure out how to be the supply that meets that again. Jason: [59:18] Yeah it's an awesome tactic if your own e-commerce site it's one of the most valuable, places to mine are those zero results found on your own site but for sure using tools to get disability in the like what's happening on Amazon searches super valuable the other area that they they tend to farm a lot for good Insight is the reviews on the. Amazon so you you can actually learn a lot about the attributes people are looking for and products by reading the reviews of people that actually bought the. The previous versions of products which is another good tactic, and you did correctly surmise I feel like I am a little bit of an anchor hoarder I have some weird wait in fear that someone's going to come to my house with a weird device that they need charged and I'm going to be a bad host, and not have the right the right stuff so I feel like I I buy way too much of that stuff and every new Gadget that comes out open the door to replace it all right so. Now are our latest iPhones can be charged by 18 watt Chargers and they charge a little faster so I had to replace all the the the older usb chargers with USB C Chargers and one of the things you'll find from a company like anchors they have now moved in a differentiated products is. [1:00:36] Actually have competitive advantages over the ocean of of generic products that are there on the market so you can find, 18 watt USB C charger from anchor that are much smaller, that have like nice usability features like folding plugs and all these things then almost in the other sellers on Amazon so it it it are a little tip of my hat. It's always surprising to me when you can offer a differentiated product on Amazon where they now have like 600 million. Million skews and so that's going to be a great way to leave it hopefully you're listening to this show, in your car on the way to. Your relatives for for Thanksgiving and when you jump on your phone to look for some of those Black Friday deals make sure you check out some cool new usb chargers, from our friends and anchor and so, if I'm wrong or you have another paper product or there's anything else you want to discuss from the show we did encourage you to jump on a Facebook and leave us a question we do try to get to all of them we can. What is a good enjoy the show we sure would appreciate it if you would jump on to iTunes and give us that 5-star review. Scot: [1:01:48] Thanks for listening when we hope you have a great Thanksgiving and we're thankful here at the Jason and Scott show for you listening to these crazy ramblings through over a hundred 50 episodes we have no idea why you do it but we really appreciate it. Jason: [1:02:05] Absolutely and so until next time happy turkeying and happy commercing.

The second Holiday Gift Guide features suggestions from Wally Cherwinski, Joe Kissell, Brett Terpstra and host Chuck Joiner, with products that range from tech to domestic, travel to coffee. You never know what to expect with these guides, and the panel delivers.  This edition of MacVoices is supported Opsgenie by Atlassian.Your next incident doesn’t stand a chance. Sign up for a free account and add up to five team members now. and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Joe Kissell is the publisher of Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site ,JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Brett Terpstra is a coder, writer and web developer. He works behind the scenes at blogs including Engadget, Joystiq and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. He also writes for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and contributes to Macworld. Brett develops Marked for Mac and recently co-authored “60 Mountain Lion Tips” with David Sparks for the iBookstore. He discusses all things “nerd” on his podcasts, Systematic and Overtired.You can find Brett as “ttscoff” on Twitter, and at his website, brettterpstra.com.  Links: Brett Terpstra’s Picks Moshi Digits Touchscreen Gloves Fellow Prismo Dyson V8 Gerber Shard   Wally Cherwinski’s Picks: Rankie 2-Pack USB C Adapter Hi-speed USB Type C to USB-A 3.0 SanDisk Ultra 256GB Dual Drive USB Type-C Griffin iTrip Clip Bluetooth Headphone Adapter Ztylus Designer Revolver M Series Camera Kit: 6 in 1 Lens + iPhone Xs MAX CaseStylus  Ztylus M Series Pendant Lens Carrier Ztylus M Series Vent Mount Bag Bungee Carry On Luggage Belt AmazonBasics Ultralight Packable Day Pac 16.4FT Power Cable for WyzeCam Joe Kissell’s Picks: Snapnator Pro Luna Display  Wobble Wedges Sandisk SSD Chuck Joiner’s Picks: SetApp Webcam Slide Covers iPad Mini 4 iTunes Gift Cards (especially if discounted)

The second Holiday Gift Guide features suggestions from Wally Cherwinski, Joe Kissell, Brett Terpstra and host Chuck Joiner, with products that range from tech to domestic, travel to coffee. You never know what to expect with these guides, and the panel delivers.  This edition of MacVoices is supported Opsgenie by Atlassian.Your next incident doesn’t stand a chance. Sign up for a free account and add up to five team members now. and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Joe Kissell is the publisher of Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site ,JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter. Brett Terpstra is a coder, writer and web developer. He works behind the scenes at blogs including Engadget, Joystiq and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. He also writes for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and contributes to Macworld. Brett develops Marked for Mac and recently co-authored “60 Mountain Lion Tips” with David Sparks for the iBookstore. He discusses all things “nerd” on his podcasts, Systematic and Overtired.You can find Brett as “ttscoff” on Twitter, and at his website, brettterpstra.com.  Links: Brett Terpstra’s Picks Moshi Digits Touchscreen Gloves Fellow Prismo Dyson V8 Gerber Shard   Wally Cherwinski’s Picks: Rankie 2-Pack USB C Adapter Hi-speed USB Type C to USB-A 3.0 SanDisk Ultra 256GB Dual Drive USB Type-C Griffin iTrip Clip Bluetooth Headphone Adapter Ztylus Designer Revolver M Series Camera Kit: 6 in 1 Lens + iPhone Xs MAX CaseStylus  Ztylus M Series Pendant Lens Carrier Ztylus M Series Vent Mount Bag Bungee Carry On Luggage Belt AmazonBasics Ultralight Packable Day Pac 16.4FT Power Cable for WyzeCam Joe Kissell’s Picks: Snapnator Pro Luna Display  Wobble Wedges Sandisk SSD Chuck Joiner’s Picks: SetApp Webcam Slide Covers iPad Mini 4 iTunes Gift Cards (especially if discounted)

Wally Cherwinski has authored a new book targeted at making video creation more approachable...and he has hit the mark! Video To Go is for anyone who wants to create engaging video, but doesn’t want to get mired down in technical details. While Wally provides some specific ideas about how to shoot, he also teaches you how to think about what your final product will look like, and what to shoot to get there. He discusses the use of cutaways, changing angles, looks, and why you no longer need expensive video gear to succeed. This edition of MacVoices is supported by our Patreon campaign. If you find value in MacVoices, please consider helping sponsor the show, and our ongoing efforts to bring you quality information. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:  - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Links: Video To Go in Apple Books

Wally Cherwinski has authored a new book targeted at making video creation more approachable...and he has hit the mark! Video To Go is for anyone who wants to create engaging video, but doesn’t want to get mired down in technical details. While Wally provides some specific ideas about how to shoot, he also teaches you how to think about what your final product will look like, and what to shoot to get there. He discusses the use of cutaways, changing angles, looks, and why you no longer need expensive video gear to succeed. This edition of MacVoices is supported by our Patreon campaign. If you find value in MacVoices, please consider helping sponsor the show, and our ongoing efforts to bring you quality information. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:  - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Originally trained as a scientist, he spent a portion of his career in research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, England while doubling as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he joined Canada's National Research Council and spent many years managing communications for the Canadian Space Program. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada's National Film Board. More recently, he has combined his passion for video with his love of travel. Wally has been a Mac user since the original 128K in 1984 and his Apple "museum" includes 28 Macs (not to mention Newtons, iPods, iPhones & iPads). He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on three MacMania cruises. He also writes a regular video column in the ScreenCastsOnline monthly magazine. You can connect with him on Twitter, or view his Cirque du Mac videos (and others) on his YouTube channel. Links: Video To Go in Apple Books

  Your App Lady  Show Notes Series 1 Episode 8 Welcome to series 1 episode 8 of the Your App Lady Podcast! I am Betsy Furler and I am Your App Lady. I am a wife, mother to two boys, a Product Designer, business owner and speech pathologist. I’m also an app addict. Join me as I talk about my favorite subject: Apps.  And I may also occasionally talk about my kids, my work and the rest of my life. On each episode, I’ll talk about recent tech news, recommend apps that I use myself and leave you with a great tech tip. Tech News  AFLAC’s toy robot for kids facing cancer is the smartest toy of all! For more information: https://www.theverge.com/ces/2018/1/11/16874724/aflac-special-duck-robot-toy-children-cancer-therapy-ces-2018 I love this duck robot that is made specifically for kids who are battling cancer. AFLAC designed the duck to help kids cope. The duck has emoji patches that change the duck’s expression and the child can give the duck an IV. The duck will also quack and cuddle with the child. One of the emoji patches is a rocket ship. It will take the child to their “happy place” making the environmental sounds from that environment such as a rainforest, garden or amusement park. App of the Week: Scanner Pro by Readdle  Available for iPhone and iPad. Also: Tiny Scanner by Appxy A scanner app on your phone is one of the most convenient apps you can have. I use Scanner Pro but know many people who are happy with Tiny Scanner - Tiny Scanner is available for Android and iPhones/iPads. I use Scanner Pro frequently to get paperwork into a digital form and on to my phone. I use this for business papers, handouts at conferences, medical records, baseball schedules, class lists etc. These papers are then stored on my phone and I can find them easily. I always scan my son’s school schedule with his locker number and combination at the beginning of each year. Then I have the schedule if I need to get him out of class or need to put something in his locker. It is also convenient when you need to sign and return a form. School permission forms can be scanned and then signed in an app like PDFExpert and emailed right back to the teacher. If you want a copy of a friend’s recipe or photo, it’s easy to scan it. A scan is much clearer than a photo and the corners can be squared so if you then print it, it will look like a copy and not like a photo. Tech Tip Identify Songs In An Instant. You no longer need an app like Shazam to identify songs. Siri, Google Now or Cortana can identify songs for you. Just activate your virtual assistant and ask her to name the song. For example, I said “Siri, what song is playing?” And she answered correctly. It was “Come Alive” from The Greatest Showman. I’m still obsessed! For more information: https://www.t3.com/news/23-smartphone-tricks-to-impress-your-friends Thanks for listening to Your App Lady today!  Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it! Get our newsletter and stay up to date by clicking here. Follow me Twitter: @yourapplady Instagram: @yourapplady Facebook: @yourapplady LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler Website: www.yourapplady.com Voice over work by John Swasey - VO Producer -281-794-6551 johnswasey@sbcglobal.net

On episode 90 of the BSP, I talk about having a rough morning, and using the SM7b Again. In the news, I cover the IRS Suspending Equifax’ contract, Google decreasing their dongle’s price, Apple working on a show with Steven Spielberg, Amazon Echo Show price dropping, Echo allowing multiple voice profiles, Amazon wanting to give delivery drivers access to your home, a Stand alone VR headset, a Razer Smartphone, Hulu Launching 4 eSports Shows, FaceID, Google Home Mini recording all day, and a new X-Files trailer. Discord Server (https://discord.gg/dXQUc7v) 00:00 - Intro 00:57 - Almost at 100 01:11 - Rough Morning 01:38 - SM7b 02:13 - IRS Suspended Equifax’ Contract (BSP-085: https://youtu.be/Hqu46D3C270?t=20m56s) 04:58 - Google Decreases Dongle Price 06:07 - Apple Works with Steven Spielberg on Amazon Stories 08:58 - Amazon Echo Show Price Decreased 11:03 - Echo Allows Multiple Voice Users 12:21 - Amazon Wants to Give Delivery Drivers Access to Your Home? 14:55 - Stand Alone VR Headset 17:17 - Razer Smartphone 18:47 - Hulu Launching eSports TV Shows 19:43 - FaceID Replacing TouchID on iPhones & iPads 21:05 - Google Home Mini Recording EVERYTHING 23:36 - New X-Files 24:40 - Ask Bandrew 25:22 - Email 25:57 - Episode 1 to 8 of The BSP 26:56 - Art D7 27:18 - 4u Flight Case Rack Unit for Gear (http://amzn.to/2gHHFa5) 27:48 - Zoom U44 Review? 28:30 - Food 28:56 - Outro Submit your questions to be answered on a future episode to AskBandrew@gmail.com The Bandrew Says Podcast is available on: ►iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bandrew-says-podcast-audio/id1046423132?mt=2 ►Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ieua25h7tadlb2ti4p5nclqhjuu?t=The_Bandrew_Says_Podcast_Audio_Video__Tech ►RSS Feed: http://bandrewsays.libsyn.com Follow us on: ► Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bandrewsayspodcast ► Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bandrewsays ► Website: http://www.geeksrising.com

So, you want to get a new iPhone? Check out our tips for preparing and upgrading to the next new thing! Listen to considerations, trade-offs, and thoughts on the future of the iPhone user experience as Dave and Melissa discuss the September 12 “Apple Event." Full show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com Apple Event Breakdown The Apple Event was on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. You can watch it here. Steve Jobs Theater & Apple Campus access were announced and a virtual tour was shown. Apple Retail no longer calls their spaces “stores” but instead they will now be referred to as Town Squares & Plazas. Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular was announced. Heart health is a major area of focus, specifically atrial fibrillation (“afib”) for the future of watchOS. Here is a link to the heart study. Apple TV 4K was announced and pricing for the prior models has dropped. It promotes stunning HDR display for the visually astute. New iPhones announced: iPhone 8 & iPhone 8 Plus to join the existing lineup. We discuss Face ID in an overview addressing popular concerns. We recommend listening to John Gruber’s “200: Episode Cc’, with Special Guest Craig Federighi” How to Pick Out an iPhone That's Right for You “Compare iPhone models” — Apple We discuss factors you should consider when purchasing a new iPhone: size of the hardware, what kinds of cases will fit, storage capacity, timing, cost, and protection. Refurb Tracker is a good resource for tracking when refurbished iPhones & iPads (and other Apple gear) go on sale B&H Photo is a good place to order online because they do not charge sales tax or shipping Apple provides for an Education Discount, but your school must be participating in the program. Be sure to consider protecting your investment by reviewing warranty and insurance plans. Look at your carrier’s offering and compare the features and cost to AppleCare or SquareTrade. Some carrier plans cover theft while others only cover specific types of damage. Is it a trade-off or a true disadvantage? Face ID vs Touch ID — you can unlock your iPhone more discreetly with Touch ID vs Face ID. How often is this a need to the point where it becomes a disadvantage for you? Wireless Charging with Qi — how often do you find yourself using your iPhone while it’s plugged in and charging? Tips for Preparing to Upgrade to iOS 11 1. Get to know new features before you upgrade. “What’s new in iOS 11” — Apple Watch Dave’s video 2. Update your security to 2-Factor Authentication. 3. Use iMazing to back up and even upgrade your device to iOS 11. • Contact: email us • like our Facebook page, tweet @InTouchwithiOS, @TheMacMommy or @daveg65 • Meta: ITWIOS 013 The Future of iPhone was recorded September 20, 2017. “Please Listen Carefully” by Jahzzar is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. In Touch with iOS is an independently produced podcast, publication and social identity and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. iOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. All other Apple Inc. trademarks discussed are property of Apple Inc. A full list of Apple trademarks is available here. Sometimes we use affiliate links for products in show notes. Unless otherwise noted, these products or services are not a sponsor. Your patronage helps to support our content production at no additional cost to you and does not alter our honest opinion of said product or service.

-- Some more info about what we know about macOS Sierra and iOS 10. -- With iOS 10 allowing users to remove built-in apps from their iPhones & iPads, it might be a good time to start looking at alternative apps that can replace or enhance what Apple's built-in apps (like Mail, Safari, Notes, Weather, Stocks, etc.) do.   -- We'll review some tips and tricks about managing photos on your iPhone/iPad once you've imported them (but didn't delete them) from your iPhone. -- We'll review new features with iBooks that allow you to sync your entire Books library -- even with PDFs and eBooks not from Apple -- with all your devices. -- With more occurrences of malware fooling Mac users, we'll talk some more about how to be more aware of these scams and how to get rid of them from your computer.   And, of course, we'll go over some other current events in the OS X world as well as review some cool Mac & iOS apps and leave some time for Q&A.

Brett Burney of Burney Consultants LLC focuses the bulk of his time working with lawyers on tough e-discovery issues. Brett is also very active in the Mac-using lawyer community, working with lawyers who want to integrate Macs, iPhones & iPads into their practice. Brett is a frequent contributor to LegalTech News and speaks around the country on litigation support, e-discovery, Mac and iOS-related topics. Brett currently serves as the Chair of the ABA TECHSHOW 2015 Planning Board.

A summary of January, the first month of the 114th Congress. In this episode, a favor for Wall Street is signed into law, the Senate did almost nothing, and the House passed bills that benefit Wall Street, fossil fuel companies, and companies that don't want to give you health insurance. There were a few good bills mixed in there too. Please Support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! January Laws HR 26: Terrorism Risk Insurance Program ReAuthorization Act of 2015 The bill reauthorizes and changes the terms of the program that provides Federal insurance to businesses damaged in a terrorist attack. The program was dead for 12 days after expiring on December 31, 2014. Extends the program until December 31, 2020 Decreases the Federal share of compensation from 85% to 80% over the course of the next five years. There's a $100 billion cap on Federal losses. The program trigger, which is the point at which insurance companies get Federal money, gradually increases from $100 million now to $200 million. The Secretary of Treasury alone will certify the act of terrorism; the Secretary of State will no longer be involved. A rollback of the Dodd Frank financial reform bill was attached. The attachment prevents the SEC from telling swaps traders how much cash they need to put up front to make a swaps trade. The attachment is the text of the Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act, which was written by Rep. Michael Grimm. He tried to get it passed in the 112th and 113th Congresses, before he resigned on the first day of the 114th Congress after pleading guilty to tax fraud. The Securities and Investment industry was his #2 contributor, giving him over $400,000. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who fought to keep this provision in the bill, has taken at least $2.8 million from the financial industry. January Bills H.R. 22 and S. 12: Hire More Heroes Act Veterans with government health care will not count towards the 50 employee Affordable Care Act threshold which triggers a company's obligation to give employees health insurance. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Rodney Davis in the House, who has taken over $180,000 from health professionals and over $160,000 from the insurance industry. The bill is sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who has taken almost $1.3 million from health professionals and almost a million from the insurance industry. H.R. 23: National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act Reauthorization of 2015 Reauthorizes and updates the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program The program designed to improve weather modeling, coordinate post-storm investigations, improve understanding of wind's impact on buildings and vital infrastructure, and promote adoption of storm preparation measures. Appropriates about $21 million per year for the next three years Written by Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Texas H.R. 34: Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2015 Consolidates tsunami warning systems for the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and for the Atlantic Ocean into a single warning system, which will cooperate with other countries' warning systems. Appropriates $27 million per year through 2017 to get this done. Passed unanimously. Written by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon H.R. 203: Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act Requires annual independent evaluations of Veteran's Administration mental health programs Requires the Veteran's Administration to create a website for information about their mental health services that needs to be updated at least every 90 days. Creates a three year pilot program to repay psychiatrists' loans ($30,000 a year) if they work for at least two years at the Veteran's Health Administration. Prohibits any additional money to get this done. Written by Democrat Rep. Timothy Walz of Minnesota H.R. 351: LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act Forces the Department of Energy to decide on applications to construct, expand, or operate liquified natural gas export facilities within 30 days of the completed NEPA review. Requires the applicant to publicly disclose the specific destination of the liquified natural gas exports. Written by Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, whose top three contributing industries are #1 Leadership PACs, who have given him over $387,000, #2 Mining, who has given him over $250,000, and #3 Oil and Gas, who has given him over $244,000. H.R. 3: and S. 1 Keystone XL Pipeline Act Explicitly approves the Keystone XL pipeline. Forces any lawsuits against the pipeline to be filed in Washington D.C. or in the Supreme Court Written by Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, whose #1 contributing industry is Oil & Gas, who have given him over $322,000. The House version would be vetoed by the President H.R. 30: Save American Workers Act of 2015 Makes people work for 40+ hours to be eligible for employer provided health insurance. Effective as of January 1, 2014 The effects of this on the budget will not be counted Written by Rep. Todd Young of Indiana Passed 252-172 Would be vetoed by the President H.R. 185: Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015 Adds extra work to creating regulations Makes it easier for the courts to shut down regulations Written by Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, who has accepted over $10 million from various industries Passed the House 250-175 Would be vetoed by the President H.R. 37: Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act A package of 11 Wall Street deregulation bills from the 113th Congress (the GOP House leadership tried to get this passed as an uncontroversial suspension bill on the second day of the 114th Congress). Includes the Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act, which is the bill that has already been signed into law as an attachment to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program reauthorization. Would delay the Volcker rule until 2019 (the Federal Reserve already delayed it until 2017), which prohibits commercial banks from trading collateralized loan obligations. Would allow companies to exclude historical data from their financial reports at their discretion. Companies with under $250 million in revenue wouldn't have to submit their financial statements in computer readable form (this would include roughly 60% of publicly traded stocks). Exempts some private equity firms from having to register as brokers with the SEC, which will exempt them from more frequent examinations. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this term. His #1 contributing industry is leadership PACs but his #4 is the finance industry. He's taken almost $500,000 Would be vetoed by the President YouTube: GOP Financial Services video about HR 37, starring Michael Fitzpatrick H.R. 161: Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act This bill was discussed during the 113th Congress in episode CD055: Three Bills for Fossil Fuels Permits for natural gas pipelines must be decided in under 1 year If the agency does not decide within 90 days of the completed environmental review, the permit will be automatically approved on the 120th day Written by Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas (who is the Koch brothers' Congressman) who has taken almost $300,000 from Koch Industries alone. In total, he has taken $928,000 from the Oil and Gas industry. Would be vetoed by the President H.R. 7: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015 Would prohibit Federal funding for any abortion (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services, except in cases involving rape, incest, or life endangermen). Prohibits small businesses from claiming their health insurance tax credit if the plan they offer includes abortion Written by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey Would be vetoed by the President H.R. 240: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 Already dead. H.R. 514: Human Trafficking Prioritization Act Sense of Congress that the State Department can combat trafficking just fine without more money and orders a report. Written by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey H.R. 515: International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking Creates a new Angel Watch Center in the Department of Homeland Security which will track and store travel information about sex-offenders and notify other countries of the sex-offender's travel plans. Written by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey H.R. 357: Human Trafficking Prevention Act Expands required information in training programs for Federal employees dealing with human trafficking. Written by Rep. Sean Maloney of New York H.R. 468: Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015 Adds "severe forms of trafficking in person" to the list of things that grant money for runaway and homeless kids can be used for Written by Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada H.R. 350: Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2015 Orders a few reports Written by Kristi Noem of South Dakota H.R. 159: Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015 Prioritizes how grants to local police forces are given based on the State's laws' treatment of victims of sex trafficking Makes sex trafficking victims eligible for the Jobs Corps even if they aren't low income Written by Rep. Erik Paulsen of Minnesota H.R. 285: SAVE Act of 2015 Makes advertising the services of prostitutes who are under 18 or are forced into prostitution punishable by ten years in prison. Written by by Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri H.R. 181: Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 Prioritizes how grants to local police forces are given based on the State's laws' treatment of victims of sex trafficking Adds the production of child pornography to the definition of "child abuse' Allows the FBI to wire tap suspected child abusers Eliminates the prosecutorial requirement that that the government prove that the defendant recklessly disregarded the victims age puts the burden of proof on the defendant Written by Rep. Ted Poe of Texas H.R. 460: Human Trafficking Detection Act of 2015 Trains TSA, Customs, and Border Patrol agents on how to detect and disrupt human trafficking within one year Written by Rep. Bradley Walker of North Carolina H.R. 398 and S. 205: Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015 Gives a grant to one hospital to develop best practices for recognizing and treating human trafficking victims Written by Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina in the House and Rep. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana in the Senate. H.R. 469: Strengthening Child Welfare Response to Trafficking Act of 2015 Prioritizes how grants to local police forces are given based on the State's laws' treatment of victims of sex trafficking Written by Rep. Karen Bass of California H.R. 246: To improve the response to victims of child sex trafficking. Adds child sex trafficking to the list of things that should be reported on the "cyber tipline" Written by Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio Additional Information Article: Obama Moves to Block Horse Slaughter by Stephanie Strom. New York Times. April 2013. Article: Fox News to earn $1.50 per subscriber by Brian Stelter. CNN Money. January 2015. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) CEO by Kito Peters (found on Music Alley by mevio) Warden Pale's Big Profit Prison by William Brooks Be Heard Have something to say? 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In this episode, we look at the riders added to the must-sign 2015 budget, including favors for Wall Street, unions, agribusiness, the oil and gas industry, electric utilities, the vending machine industry, telecoms, the trucking industry, the insurance industry, and the politicians themselves. Please Support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! CRomnibus Article: CRomnibus Disaster Signals a Sad New Normal in D.C. by David Dayen. The Fiscal Times. December 2014. Article: Wall Street's Omnibus Triumph, and Others by Russ Choma, OpenSecrets Blog, December 2014. Division A Agriculture & FDA Section 741: Defunds an advisory board made up of scientists that evaluates the effectiveness of food safety inspection processes. Section 750: Prohibits funding from being used to inspect livestock slaughterhouses to make sure diseased animals are separated from animals who will be eaten and to make sure the animals are being slaughtered humanely. Section 751: States can exempt schools from the requirement to provide whole grains to students in school lunches. Section 752: No money can be used to implement a law that would require a sodium reduction in school lunches. Division B Commerce, Justice, & Science Section 202: The Department of Justice can't pay for an abortion unless the mother's life is in danger or unless she was raped. The bill acknowledges that this might be unconstitutional and if so, this provision will be "null and void". Section 501: Money can't be used for propaganda that is not authorized by Congress. Section 509: No money can be used to seek the removal of another country's tobacco marketing restrictions, "except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type". Article: US floats cutting tobacco from part of Pacific trade pact, Krista Hughes, Reuters, October 21, 2014. Section 516: "None of the funds made available in this Act shall be used in any whatsoever to support or justify the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States Government." Section 517: Fully automatic weapons may be exported to Canada without an export license if they are to be used by the US Federal Government or the government of Canada. Section 519: Prohibits new trade agreements from including language that forces countries to police the unauthorized distribution of patented pharmaceuticals, language that prevents generic versions of drugs before the patent has expired, and language that allows patent owners to prevent importation of products even if their product is available in other countries. Section 528: No money can be used to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammaed or any other detainee from Guantanamo Bay prison to another location in the United States. Section 530: The government should purchase Energy Star light bulbs to the extent practicable. Section 533: Prohibits government employees from denying or ignoring a permit to import shotguns. Section 538: Prevents the Department of Justice from using it's money to prevent States from implementing their medical marijuana laws. TITLE VI- Travel Promotion Enhancement and Modernization Act Passed the House in July 2014 and was discussed on CD081: The July Bills. Changes the board of directors of Brand USA – a non-profit organization that advertises U.S. tourism – from being made up of travel industry specialists to one made up of entirely of executives, with five seats reserved for people with ties to multinational corporations. It eliminates the seat for the specialist in intercity passenger rail. Extends the authorization for the government to spend $100 million per year on Brand USA through 2020. Extends the Travel Promotion Fee – a $10 fee charged to people who get a visa to travel into the United States – until 2020. Division C Defense Coming Soon Division D Energy & Water Section 107: Federal funding can't be used to enforce the mitigation regulations known as the "Modified Charleston Method." The Modified Charleston Method was implemented in May 2011 and is a formula for calculating how much wetlands need to be protected for each acre of private development. This method protects more wetlands than are protected when it is not used, generally requiring 3 acres of wetland conservation for every acre destroyed. InfoPacket: The University of New Orleans 2013 Economic Outlook & Real Estate Forecast Seminar for the Northshore One of the projects impacted is a Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline. Kinder Morgan has given almost $80,000 to the Boehner for Speaker Committee. Article: Wetlands Mitigation Rules Get Tougher, and St. Tammany Officials Get Worried by Christine Harvey. The Times-Picayune. March 2012. Amendment added by Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana Press Release: Scalise Applauds Delay of the Modified Charleston Method in 2015 Appropriations Bill, December 2014. The vast majority of Rep. Steve Scalise's campaign funds come from PACs - 71% - but his #1 listed contributing industry is Oil and Gas; he's taken over $600,000. Section 109: Prohibits changes to the regulatory definition of "fill material" or "discharge of fill material". In 2002, the Bush administration changed the definition of "fill material" which can be dumped into waterways with a permit, to include "waste" from coal mining. This was attached by Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho to the 2014 budget. He has taken over $445,000 from electric utilities and $137,000 from mining. Section 111: Prohibits the government from requiring a permit for dumping farming and ranching "fill material" into waterways. Section 112: Deletes an EPA/ Army rule that limits the farming and ranching "fill material" that can be dumped without a permit. Section 312: The Department of Energy is not allowed to construct centrifuges for enriched uranium in 2015 and needs to do a cost-benefit analysis of options for suppling enriched uranium for war purposes and an "estimate to build a national security train". Section 313: Prohibits enforcement of energy efficient light bulb standards. According to the Department of Energy, these standards will save $17.7 billion in energy costs over the next 30 years, as well as avoid 106 million metric tons of co2 emissions. This amendment was added by Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas, whose #5 contributing industry is Electric Utilities - he's taken almost $200,000 -, although he get 69% of his money from PACs. He has added it to must-sign legislation every year since 2010. Division E Financial Services Section 114: The Treasury Department may not redesign the $1 bill. Article: One is the Loneliest Dollar Bill by Sarah Mimms. National Journal. January 2015. Article: Bush Administration Fights Currency Redesign. Associated Press. December 2006. Article: The Blind Welcome a Ruling That May Help Them Count Their Cash by Tina Kelley. New York Times. May 2008. Section 502: Prevents the Federal Communications Commission from implementing a recommendation from 2004 that would change a government subsidy for telecoms to allow payment for broadband lines per household instead of per line, which would effectively reduce the subsidy for the companies. FAQ: Universal Service Administrative Company. Section 630: The text of HR 992, which was the bill written by Citigroup that will allow banks to gamble with credit default swaps on the stock market with customers deposits in FDIC insured banks. Article: Derivatives Markets Growing Again, With Few New Protections by Mayra Rodriguez Valldares. New York Times. May 2014. Article: Three Bankers Bolster Blankfein as Goldman Trading Sinks by Michael Moore. Bloomberg. May 2014. This provision was added by Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas, who took over $114,000 from Securities and Investment bankers for the last election alone. Over the course of his four year career, he's taken almost $700,000 from bankers... that we know of. Section 725: "Prohibits Federal agencies from monitoring individuals' internet use." Section 735 Prohibits funding for requirements that would make companies submitting offers for Federal contracts to disclose their political contributions. Section 809: Prohibits Washington DC from using its money to from legalize or reduce the penalties for a schedule I substance, which includes marijuana, for recreational use. Division F Land Management & Environment The Department of the Interior USGS: For the United States Geological Survey to surveys and research topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the mineral and water resources of the United States... approx $1 billion, available until 9/30/2016. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, offshore safety: $125 million minus fees collected, estimated real appropriation of $66 million for enforcing regulations for leases for oil and gas, other minerals, and energy on the Outer Continental Shelf + $65 million - minus fees collected- over half of which needs to go towards expediting drilling permits on the Outer Continental Shelf. Collection and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral revenue will get $265 million. Wildland fire management: $805 million. Hazardous fuels management and resilient landscapes activities can be privatized. This money can be used by the Secretary of State outside the United States. This money can be used to pay off debts incurred for fires in previous years. This money can be used as emergency funds to deal with earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, oil spills, and to control cricket outbreaks. Section 122: Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from protecting the Sage-Grouse under the Endangered Species Act. Oil backers, conservationists battle over fate of greater sage grouse by Sandra Fish, AlJazeera America, December 2013. Environmental Protection Agency Over $2.3 billion for fire suppression. Federal Firefighting Costs for suppression alone averaged $1.46 billion a year since 2000, a time period that has included 9 out of the 10 hottest years since records began in 1880. Section 411: Allows Alaska red and yellow cedar to be exported to foreign countries. Press Release: Petition Seeks to Protect Tongass' Ancient Yellow Cedars as Endangered Species by the Center for Biological Diversity, June 2014. Article: Forest Service criticized over Tongass management by Maria La Ganga, Los Angeles Times, November 2014. Article: Viking Lumber wins Big Thorne contract, again by Katie Mortiz, Juneau Empire, October 2014. Article: In Alaska, a Battle to Keep Trees, or an Industry, Standing by Michael Wines, New York Times, September 2014. Article: The Forest Service bets on second-growth logging in Alaska by Krista Langlois, High Country News, January 2015. Article: Budget bill boosts logging by Section 419: No money can be used to regulate carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor or methane emitted from livestock production. Section 420: No money can be used to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems. Amendments identical to Sections 419 and 420 were attached to the 2014 budget by Rep. Ken Calvert of Southern California. He has taken over $650,000 from Agribusiness. Section 425: No money can be used to regulate the lead content of ammunition or fishing tackle. Division G Labor, Health, & Education Health and Human Services Section 217: Prohibits funding of gun control promotions. Section 220: The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) can privatize research into "security countermeasure" drugs for 10 years. Op-Ed: Ebola and the most important agency America has never heard of by former Rep. Mike Rogers, The Hill, October 2014. Department of Education Section 301: No money can be used for transporting children to other school districts to "carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system." Section 303: No money can be used to prevent voluntary prayer in public schools. Department of Labor Section 406: The National Labor Relations Board can't use their money to provide employees with electronic voting for electing representatives for their collective bargaining. All Departments Section 506: The Departments of Health & Humans Services, Labor, and Education can't use their money to pay for health benefits coverage that includes abortion coverage. Section 507: Abortions can be paid for with Federal funds if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest or if the mother's life is in danger. States will be allowed to cover abortion and abortion coverage can be offered separately. Section 508: No money can be used for research that harms a human embryo. Section 521: No money can be used for programs that distribute sterile needles to drug addicts. Section 529: No money can go towards ACORN, "or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, allied organizations, or successors." Article: Congress's Undying (and Less Than Effective) ACORN Funding Ban, by David Weigel, Bloomberg, December 2014. Ebola Response & Preparedness Ebola money is available for use until September 30, 2019. Over $1.7 billion for the Centers for Disease Control to "respond to Ebola domestically and internationally." $10 million for hospital worker and emergency first responder training. $597 million for global health security The money can be used to purchase and insure vehicles in foreign countries. Section 601: The CDC can use this money to "acquire, lease, construct, alter, renovate, equip, furnish, or manage facilities outside the United States." $238 billion in "emergency" funding will go towards the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases" to "respond to Ebola domestically and internationally." $733 million for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to "respond to Ebola domestically and internationally" to develop and purchase vaccines, "necessary medical supplies, and administrative activities." Money can be used for the "renovation and alteration of privately owned facilities at the State and local level" Division H Congress Section 102: No money can be used to deliver a printed copy of a bill to a Representative unless that Representative asked for it. Section 105: No more than 50 copies total of the US Code can be printed for the entire House of Representatives. Section 1301: The Government Printing Office is renamed to the Government Publishing Office. Division I Military Construction Section 101: Construction contracts with guaranteed profits will be allowed in Alaska and/or if the Defense Secretary says there's a reason for one in writing. Section 109: Military construction money can't be used to pay property taxes in foreign countries. Section 110: The military can't use this money for any new installations without notifying the House and Senate Appropriations Committees first. Section 111: Architect or engineer contracts over $500,000 in Japan, NATO countries, or countries bordering the Arabian Gulf must be awarded to US firms or be partnerships with US firms. Section 117: Money for military construction can be held & used up to four years after it is appropriated. Section 127: $125 million extra is appropriated until September 2018 for projects anywhere excepts in Europe. Section 512: No money can be used to prepare any United States facilities to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison. Veterans Veterans benefits will cost $94 billion and medical expenses will cost $59 billion, which is $153 billion total. Section 236 The Veterans Integrated Service Networks are not allowed to change their system for contracting for diabetes monitoring supplies and equipment. Press Release: Sysmex America Sign Two Contracts with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, PR Newswire, November 2013. "Sysmex America now holds Veterans Administration hematology contracts and standardization agreements with 16 of the 21 VISNs." "The VA Schedules are indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity type contracts awarded to pre-approved vendors." OpenSecrets: Hal Rogers, chairman of the Appropriations Committee is a shareholder of Roche Holdings, which signed a 10 year distribution agreement with Sysmex America in 2012 which allows Roche to distribute Sysmex hemotology products to countries around the world. Division J State Department & Foreign Operations $2.1 billion for Worldwide Security protection for the State Department, which has doubled since 2008. Article: Exclusive: Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal by Spencer Ackerman, Wired, October 2010. Approximately $3.5 billion will go towards the United Nations, including U.N. "peacekeeping missions". Over $1 billion plus $2.7 billion in "global health programs" funds will go to USAID. $5.6 billion will go towards combatting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. $2.5 billion will go towards "development assistance", which includes spending on: Agribusiness Setting up financial institutions "Policy and regulatory programs" that "improve the environment" for financial institutions. Marketing Energy and storage facilities Infrastructure Schools spreading "ideas and practices of the United States, including new education material and curricula "To expedite the location, exploration, and development of potential sources of energy in developing countries" Over $2.6 billion for the "Economic Support Fund", which includes funding for: Promoting "economic or political stability" Legal education training Academic training for law enforcement (the military is prohibited from participating) Prison programs "Legal reform" and "revision and modernization of legal codes and procedures" Can be used for loan guarantees for Jordan, Ukraine, and Tunisia and this money won't count towards laws limiting assistance to countries. This money can be used to create "enterprise funds" for Egypt or Tunisia, which are "public-private partnerships for the purpose of investing US Government funds to support the private sector". This money "shall be available for economic programs and may not be used for military or paramilitary purposes." $853 million for the War on Drugs Includes authorization for the "use of herbicides for aerial eradication". Tells the State Department to report on the cost of "establishing an aviation platform in Africa" which would be used for, among other things, counternarcotics. $145 million for "Peacekeeping Operations" to "enhance the capacity of foreign civilian security forces" including military forces in charge of policing civilians (gendarmes). $106 million for "International Military Education and Training." $5 billion for the "Foreign Military Financing Program The money can be used "to procure defense articles and services to enhance the capacity of foreign security forces" Over $3 billion must be grants to Israel $1.3 billion can be put in an interest bearing account at the NY Federal Reserve for Egypt, and the money can be used for weapons as long as Egypt meets a list of demands (including giving detainees access to due process of law). Article: Congress allows Obama to reopen military aid to Egypt by Julian Pecquet. Al Monitor. December 10, 2014. $1 billion will be for Jordan. This money can be used in the Western Sahara. This money can be used for "counterterrorism and counterinsurgency" in Pakistan. Section 7004: The State Department can construction "diplomatic facilities" that include office space or "other accommodations" for the US Marine Corps. The Congressional report on where these facilities are and their costs can be classified. Congress doesn't need to be notified of new diplomatic facilities if there is a "security risk to personnel". Section 7008: Money can't be used to directly assist any government whose elected government is removed by the military. However, we can give that country money again as long as the next government is elected. Section 7034: Prohibits money being used for "tear gas, small arms, light weapons, ammunition, or other items for crowd control purposes for foreign security forces that use excessive force to repress peaceful expression." Section 7041: We will give $150 million to Egypt as long as Egypt is taking steps to "implement market-based economic reforms". Section 7041: The State Department can use its money to create a new government and "promote economic development" in Syria. Section 7042: State Department funds are going towards training and equipping Ethiopian military and police. Section 7042: State Department funds will also towards training militaries in Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d"Ivoire, Guinea, and Zimbabwe. Section 7042: State Department money will go towards managing natural resources and supporting security forces in South Sudan. Section 7043: State Department money will be used for naval forces, coast guards and nongovernmental organizations "directly engaged in maritime security issues" in Asia. Section 7043: State Department money will go towards the Philippine army. Section 7043: State Department money will be given to the military of Vietnam and for health/disability activities in areas sprayed with Agent Orange and/or contaminated with dioxin. Section 7044: The State Department can construct and renovated US government facilities to accommodate Federal employees or contractors or expand aviation facilities in Afghanistan if it would "protect such facilities or the security, health, and welfare of United States personnel." Money for Afghanistan can go towards "programs in Central and South Asia relating to a transition in Afghanistan, including expanding Afghanistan linkages within the region." Section 7044: Money can go towards military training in Sri Lanka. Section 7045: State Department funds can be used to "support a unified campaign against narcotics trafficking" in Columbia. 10% of the funds will go towards "aerial drug eradication programs". Section 7045: State Department funds can be given to the Guatemalan army. Section 7045: State Department funds can be given to the Honduran army and police. Section 7045: State Department funds can be given to the Mexican army and police. Section 7074: $100 million for the Special Defense Acquisition Fund, which is under the control of the Defense Department, to buy weapons and defense services for foreign countries. Section 7083: The United States will contribute over $3.8 billion to the International Development Association, a branch of the World Bank that provides loans and grants to "boost economic growth" in poor countries. It's our 17th contribution. Over $1.3 billion will be for State Department security. Over $7.6 billion for the War on Terror. $1.5 billion for Ebola "assistance for countries affected by, or at risk of being affected by, the Ebola virus disease outbreak." Division K Transportation $500 million for national transportation infrastructure, including highway, bridge, rail, port, and public transportations projects. $9.7 billion: For the Federal Aviation Administration. $8.6 billion is from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund so the taxpayer subsidy for air travel is $1.1 billion. $40 billion for the highway trust fund. Section 133: Prohibits enforcement of regulations until September 30, 2015. The regulations delayed say: Commercial drivers must not work for 34 consecutive hours between weeks and that 34 hours must include two periods from 1am to 5am. Commercial drivers must not drive more than 60 hours in 7 consecutive days or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days. Truckers will be able to drive for 82 hours per week. Article: The Department of Transportation wants truckers to sleep more. Congress said no. by Lydia DePillis. Washington Post. December 2014. Article: Survey Shows Hours of Service Top Trucking Concern. Trucking Info. October 2014. OpenSecrets: Senator Susan Collins of Maine inserted the rider on behalf of the trucking industry. She received $21,000 from the trucking industry for the 2014 election. The trucking industry also gave $87,150 to Senator Mitch McConnell, the new Majority Leader in the Senate. $250 million for Amtrak operations. $1.1 billion for Amtrak investments and improvements. Housing Section 235 Forbids funding for a program that reduces mortgage rates for first time home buyers who go through home counseling and financial education. Section 420 "It is the sense of Congress that the Congress should not pass any legislation that authorizes spending cuts that would increase poverty in the United States." Division L Homeland Security Funding for the Department of Homeland Security remains at the same levels as 2014. Funding runs out on February 27, 2015. Article: With Shutdown Avoided, Who Are Winners (And Losers) In 2015 Budget? by Kelly Phillips, Forbes, December 2014. Division M Expatriate Health Coverage This section includes the altered text of HR 4414, the Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification Act of 2014, which was discussed on Congressional Dish episode CD075: The April Bills. Exempts expatriate health plans issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2015 from the minimum standards set by the Affordable Care Act. "Expatriate" includes people from foreign countries working in the United States as part of a job transfer. The effects of this on the PAYGO budget will not be counted. The original version of this bill was written by Rep. John Carney of Delaware, who has taken over $312,000 from the insurance industry. Division N Campaign Contributions In May, as discussed on Congressional Dish episode CD071: Our New Laws, the President signed into law the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which eliminated public financing of political party conventions. Section 101: Creates three separate funds for political parties, at least triples the amount of money an individual can contribute to each of these new funds, and eliminates limits on how the parties can spend the money. We don't know exactly how much individuals will be able to contribute to political parties now that this provision is law. NPR has a different number than the Washington Post, which has a different number than The New York Times. Congressional Dish calculations indicate that the changes will allow an individual to contribute at least $257,400 per year and that amount increases every two years based on the Consumer Price Index. Division O Pensions Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), pensions for retiree's who have already started to collect benefits can't be cut unless a company goes into bankruptcy. This section changes the law to allow benefit cuts to multi-employer pension plans under other scenarios. Section 102: Allows a multi-employer pension plan to be labeled in "critical status" five years before it's projected to actually meet critical status criteria, if the plan sponsor chooses to label it that way. Department of Labor list of Multi-Employer Plans listed as "critical status" Section 106: After certifying that a plan is in critical status, a "funding improvement plan" must be crafted, and benefits cannot be cut nor new people excluded during this time. Section 121: Allows the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to merge two or more multi-employer pension plans and allows the PBGC to give cash to the plans. Section 122: Multi-employer plans can be broken up if they've cut all the benefits allowed and need to do so to remain solvent. Section 131: Increases the premium rate for multi-employer plans from $12 to $26 in 2015 and then some complicated amount tied to the national average wage index after that. Section 201: Allows benefits to be cut when a plan is in "critical and declining status", which means the plan is in critical status and projected to become insolvent within the next 15 years. For plans with over 10,000 participants, one participant - selected by the plan sponsor - will advocate on behalf of all the retired participants. The following conditions need to be met in order to suspend benefits: The plan needs to certify that it will avoid insolvency. The plan needs to certify that it will become insolvent if it doesn't cut benefits. Limits on benefit suspensions Monthly benefits can't be reduced below 110% of what would be guaranteed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which is approximately $1,180 for participants in multi-employer plans. People over 75 are exempted from the benefit cuts. Disability benefits can't be cut. Eleven different factors will determine how much each participant's benefits would be cut. Benefits will be cut first for employees that worked for companies that withdrew from the plan and failed to pay. Benefits can't be cut until the plan sponsor submits can application to the Secretary of the Treasury and notifies plan participants, employers, and employee organizations. The notice can be in electronic form. Process for cutting benefits: The plan sponsor must submit an application to the Secretary of the Treasury for approval to suspend benefits. Within 30 days of receiving the application, the Secretary of the Treasury will solicit comments from employers, employee organizations, and participants on the website of the Secretary of the Treasury. If the Secretary of the Treasury does not approve or deny the application within 225 days, the application will be deemed approved. Within 30 days of the application's approval, participants and beneficiaries must vote on whether or not to cut benefits. Majority rules. If the participants vote not to cut benefits, the Secretary of Treasury can label the plan a "systemically important plan" and allow benefits to be cut even though the participants voted no. Access to the courts is limited: A court reviewing a lawsuit challenging a benefit cut can only grant a temporary injunction if the plaintiffs will probably win. A participant in a pension plan can not challenge a benefit cut in court. OpenSecrets: Rep. John Kline has taken over $14 million in campaign contributions from all kinds of industries. OpenSecrets: Former Rep. George Miller took over $2.4 million from unions, that we know of. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Blame the Bankers by The Sharp Things (found on Music Alley by mevio) Growing Marijuana Song by Ben Scales Be Heard Have something to say? Leave a message on the Congressional Dish voicemail line and it might be featured on the show! Call (339) 707-0307 Help Congressional Dish Rate Congressional Dish with 5 stars on iTunes and leave a rave review. Download and share the FREE Congressional Dish app for iPhones & iPads and all Android devices. Submit your favorite episodes to Reddit. Musicians: Share your music with Congressional Dish (and the world) - email the mp3 to Jen at Congressioanldish dot com. Share your favorite episodes with other podcasters, share with your Facebook friends, share with your Tweeps, share, share, share! Thank you for supporting Congressional Dish

In this bonus episode, a quick overview of Congressional basics. We also examine the priorities of the 114th Congress by reviewing the bills that were passed during its first week. Please Support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! 114th Rules of the House The 114th Congress passed the new rules, which amended the rules passed by the 113th Congress. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will have to estimate the budgetary effects of major bills on businesses by requiring estimates of "economic output, employment, and capital stock" that would result if the bill became law. Allows the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to continue the lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the investigations into the "Fast and Furious""scandal". Continues a lawsuit that aims to stop the Obama Administration from paying for subsidies to health insurance companies to offset the cost of low-income health insurance plans. Prohibits a bill that would shift funds out of the Social Security trust fund. Continues the Benghazi investigation. Bills Passed in the First Week House of Representatives HR 26: Terrorism Risk Insurance Program ReAuthorization Act of 2015 The bill reauthorizes and changes the terms of the program that provides Federal insurance to businesses damaged in a terrorist attack. A rollback of the Dodd Frank financial reform bill was attached. The bill passed both chambers of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Obama. HR 22: The Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 The Affordable Care Act requires employees with over 50 workers to provide their workers with health insurance benefits. If this bill becomes laws, workers who are military veterans will not count towards the 50 employee threshold. The bill passed the House unanimously. HR 30: Save American Workers Act of 2015 The Affordable Care Act requires that an employee that works over 30 hours per week is considered full time and, if the employer is required to provide health insurance to full time staff, is eligible for employer-paid health insurance benefits. This bill would change the threshold for health insurance eligibility to 40 hours per week. HR 3: Keystone XL Pipeline Act Allows TransCanada to "construct, connect, operate, and maintain" the Keystone XL pipeline. Only the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for Washington DC can hear civil cases against the pipeline. The bill passed with the entire Republican Party and 28 Democrats voting Yes. Sponsored by Rep. Kevin Cramer, North Dakota's only Representative. His top contributing industry is Oil & Gas; he's taken over $400,000. Defeated... For Now HR 37: Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act A package of 11 bills from the 113th Congress that would have rolled back Dodd Frank financial reform even further. Was defeated as an uncontroversial suspension bill, which required 2/3 of the House for passage. Expect to see this bill come up for a vote under regular order in the near future. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this term. His #1 contributing industry is leadership PACs but his #4 is the finance industry. He's taken almost half a million dollars. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Be Heard Have something to say? Leave a message on the Congressional Dish voicemail line and it might be featured on the show! Call (339) 707-0307 Help Congressional Dish Rate Congressional Dish with 5 stars on iTunes and leave a rave review. Download and share the FREE Congressional Dish app for iPhones & iPads and all Android devices. Submit your favorite episodes to Reddit. Musicians: Share your music with Congressional Dish (and the world) - email the mp3 to Jen at Congressioanldish dot com. Share your favorite episodes with other podcasters, share with your Facebook friends, share with your Tweeps, share, share, share! Thank you for supporting Congressional Dish

In this episode, an interview with Chris Clemmons, a member of the Congressional Dish family who ran for the House of Representatives in Kansas' 2nd district. In this episode, we discuss the experience of running for Federal office, the election results, and begin to brainstorm how to win without corporate cash in 2016. Please Support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Information Presented in This Episode Chris Clemmons is running for Congress in Kansas' 3rd district in 2016: Campaign website Follow Chris on Twitter Campaign Facebook page Chris ran against and was defeated by Rep. Lynn Jenkins: Lynn Jenkins took over $2.5 million in campaign contributions. Kansas' 2nd district election results. Chris will be running against Rep. Kevin Yoder in 2016. Kevin Yoder proudly inserted the bill written by Citigroup, which allows banks to gamble with our deposits on risk using "swaps", into the 2015 "CRomnibus" budget, which was signed into law. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Have You Had Enough? by rotflmao (found on Music Alley by mevio) Step Up by Dona Oxford (found on Music Alley by mevio) Be Heard Have something to say? Leave a message on the Congressional Dish voicemail line and it might be featured on the show! Call (339) 707-0307 Help Congressional Dish Rate Congressional Dish with 5 stars on iTunes and leave a rave review. Download and share the FREE Congressional Dish app for iPhones & iPads and all Android devices. Submit your favorite episodes to Reddit. Musicians: Share your music with Congressional Dish (and the world) - email the mp3 to Jen at Congressioanldish dot com. Share your favorite episodes with other podcasters, share with your Facebook friends, share with your Tweeps, share, share, share! Thank you for supporting Congressional Dish

Making the sale and making it easy for you and your buyer Talking about: terminals, wireless & wired iPhones iPads & tablets PayPal PCI compliance & fees merchant support pay-as-you go processing monthly charges and getting the biggest bang for your buck Steven Ballan, vice-president of 1st National Payment Solutions, one of the pioneers in providing merchant accounts to non-bricks and mortar merchants, lays out the current "best practices" and answers questions about making smart choices in your credit card processing options.