Podcast appearances and mentions of jack nichols

Send Bite Me a Text!Ever wondered how cannabis can become a part of your daily routine, sparking creativity and lightening life's burdens? Meet Jack from Peterborough, Ontario, who shares his vibrant journey with cannabis on our kickoff episode of Cannabis Confessions. Jack's storytelling takes us back to his teenage years when he sneaked cannabis from family members, leading to a lifelong relationship that's infused humour and creativity into his writing and comedy. Join us for a firsthand look at the perks of Canada's federal legalization and how it has reshaped Jack's cannabis experience, offering more access and less legal hassle.Get ready to laugh and learn as we navigate various cannabis consumption methods, from vapes to edibles and sprays. Jack recounts a comical experience with cannabis spray at high altitude, shedding light on the unexpected twists cannabis can bring. We'll chat about the therapeutic benefits Jack swears by, emphasizing cannabis's ability to ground us, lift our moods, and even boost our appetites. These personal tales paint a picture of cannabis as a versatile ally in managing everyday challenges, far from the myths that once surrounded it.We also dive into the myths and misconceptions clouding cannabis use, shattering outdated beliefs like the gateway drug theory. Jack and I stress the importance of "set and setting" for a positive experience and the need for personal experimentation, as reactions can vary widely. Whether you're new to cannabis or a seasoned enthusiast, this episode offers insights into understanding its multifaceted role in our lives. As we wrap up, we express our gratitude to Jack for being our inaugural guest and invite listeners to share their stories, fostering a community of connection and storytelling in upcoming episodes.Share your story.Learn more and join the waitlist at joinbiteme.com Get your Aeropress here and drink great coffee.Support the show Visit the website for full show notes, free dosing calculator, recipes and more.

On this week's Industrial Talk we're onsite at Xcelerate 23 in Orlando, FL and talking to Lee McClish, Director, Maintenance and Reliability, NTT Global Data Centers about "Ensuring Data Center Reliability to Deliver Optimal Performance".  Summary of our conversation: Securing operational technology with zero trust. 0:00 Palo Alto Networks offers zero trust security for operational technology, simplifying management and providing comprehensive visibility and protection. Industrial maintenance and reliability with a Navy veteran. 1:16 Lee McClish, Director of Maintenance and Reliability at NTT Global Data Centers, discusses his role and journey in the industry. Scott MacKenzie, host of Industrial Talk, highlights the importance of maintenance and reliability in the industry and the benefits of Accelerate 23. Jack Nichols retired from the Navy Reserves with 30 years of service and worked in various industries, including a corrugated box plant and a chemical company, before becoming a reliability engineer. Reliability and maintenance programs for critical infrastructure. 5:03 Raging Wire's Lee explains his mechanical engineering background to Scott MacKenzie. Lee categorizes critical assets into electrical, mechanical, building, fire, and life safety categories. Implementing a CMMS system and improving maintenance processes. 8:25 Lee discussed the importance of predictive maintenance and using IR scanning to identify deficiencies in manufacturing assets, highlighting the need to justify the cost of such efforts. Lee also shared their experience with implementing a CMMS system to improve maintenance management, but encountered challenges with cluttered screens and inadequate remedy codes. Lee spent their first year in a new role building foundations, including FMEA and PM optimization, and bouncing ideas off industry experts. Lee years, Speaker 3 was promoted and given maintenance coordinators, allowing them to evolve the CMMS and set standards for their team. Data center maintenance and reliability. 13:46 Lee discussed the benefits of documenting and analyzing failed cause remedy codes, as well as the challenges of managing and securing data in the cloud. Lee's company is building more data centers to accommodate the growing number of devices and using predictive analytics to capture and trend data, while also addressing cybersecurity concerns. Lee discusses NTT global data center and the importance of asset management and reliability at Fluke accelerate event in Orlando. Finally, get your exclusive free access to the Industrial Academy and a series on “Why You Need To Podcast” for Greater Success in 2023. All links designed for keeping you current in this rapidly changing Industrial Market. Learn! Grow!...

Jack Nichols is the Vice President Of Product Management at Genesys. He shares his non-linear journey from networking to logistics to communications where he always paid attention to the customer's voice. He brought this interactive intelligence he gathered along his journey to informing product design experiments at Genesys. He is currently involved in global initiatives where his focus is to create valuable bundled products and services for his customers

Retaining top talent is a perpetual challenge for customer experience (CX) leaders. To deliver outstanding customer experiences, you need to keep your best agents. But it's equally important to retain your technical team, including the software engineers who build and maintain the tools in your CX ecosystem. In this episode, Jason Alley, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Genesys, joins as guest co-host to discuss how one Genesys customer motivated software engineers to drive CX innovation — and found the key to retaining them. Richard Trucker, Software Engineering Manager at OVO Energy Ltd., explains how empowering engineers to solve problems in collaboration with business teams yielded rapid CX innovation. And it differentiated its brand and motivated the development team with quick feedback and satisfying results. Jack Nichols, VP of Product Management for Genesys Cloud CX rounds out the conversation with insights into how a composable CX ecosystem empowers software engineers and fosters co-creation.

I det sjuttonde programmet av Bio-trion kollas det på klassikern The Shining (1980). Trion har tillsammans fått uppleva stunden när Olivias The Shining-oskuld togs och trots det eviga hyllandet av Jack Nichols prestation kommer de överens om att filmens stjärna är Shelley Duvall. Kubrick är en riktig fitta, scenografin och ljud bilden är otroliga men främst talas det om Scatmans roll och med det tillkommer en överdriven del Scatande. Kanske är stunden kommen då Bio-trion är som mest seriösa när tolkningar av filmen diskuteras, men för att avsluta på en gladare not så uttrycker Malte en vilja om fitta. Sist: Jack är en toke i denna film.

The future of customer experience (CX) is composable. We're hearing that a lot these days. But what is composability — and how will it affect customer and employee experience? In this episode, two oracles of composability at Genesys, Jack Nichols, Vice President of Product Management, and Jason Alley, Senior Director of Product Marketing, join our hosts to delve into the key components of a composable CX platform and ecosystem. They also clearly define composability and explain how it enables faster innovation and better resilience. The conversation is packed with insights that dig beneath the surface of composable technology concepts to explore what it means to operate as a composable organization. 

Your earbuds will watch “The Facts of Meth” when Big Luck's, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz and Chumahan rip apart the bullshit on music and the huge catalog sell-offs by legacy artists and the question is: where the fuck is the new music? Find out Tech Corp's plot to kill off new music, to create and milk the shit out of old music catalogs with the freezing power of nostalgia. Dogface? Stevie Nicks. Why does Chumahan hate the term “4-D Chess.” Chumahan's invitation to send in Silly Shit to hluckshow@gmail.com. Are viral nostalgic fake-assed blowups choking out true blue grassroots new talent? OBE's advice for new artists comes to light and Schwartz's buddy Silly Puddy. OBE's music crisis and whether the HLS Intro is too long.Transcript:Good morning and welcome to the hard luck. I'm sure about qualify west side host Steve lucky Luciano. That's why these gentlemen you've tuned into the greatest show on earth is to our look, show, come eat. If you, from the people youth center in Santa Monica college. Sidney across from me, my cohort,Indian, Southern California.all that grind on that's wrong. You know why? Because I live for the pain of that foot. Stop me. Stop me.Yeah, just like that. And on soundShawn Lewis, social awkward damn dog, goodengineersfrom P E to the.And talking about gee, we got the Xtrordinair showrunner. Yay. Ordinary show runner run. The extraordinary show. Yes, what's up boy. What's up fellas. Oh man. When they say that's an extraordinary show because we had shorts on, he was touching the shit in the turns extraordinary. Cause that's true. Tell us the secret to your magic.Yes. It's just, you know, being a 85 year old man trapped in a 40 year old body. Uh, that's my secret man. The wisdom, the wisdom, the wisdom of ancient wisdom bang and with some more wisdom for you. Yeah. It'sAli on the visuals. You already know, know what time it is. All right. You guys, you heard it? Yup. Oh man, that pumps me up more than anything else in the entire world, just yelling. I was trying to come inside to the studio, get out of it. I got away from the dumpster and we got to go inside. Then you cut to here.You already dealt with the avid is Allie. It's your boy. It's your boy. I lik I just make demands, right. Cosmic. Right. Hey, tell us what's coming up in the, in the fashion weeks. What's on the, you're not, are you tell us, get predict, please predict I just released here. What I've done or like, no, no, no. You're a fashion Maven.Obviously the dreads prove that. And tell us, sir, please. If you will, where is fashion going in the next year? Digital everything is going cyber. So you gotta get on the way before it's too late. A lot of things are changing and, and IMTS and all sorts of block chains are really going crazy right now with the web three.So you just gotta take advantage of the tools that. Right now. All right. All right. So Hey, blockchains are going crazy. Real insight. Good. Going crazy. Speaking of, uh, new technologies and digital and all this fucking shit, that's coming down upon us while we're still in a social coma from COVID. One thing I've been thinking about is new music, new music, new music.It's fun. There's only a few people making good music. When you say that, Sean, I would say that I, as a matter of fact, it's funny, you mentioned it. Well, I'm glad I was glad, I'm glad you asked. So I'm reading the Atlantic today, this morning at like 4:45 AM. And, uh, I was looking at this article. It said that, um, 70% of all the U S music market is old shit like catalog.Right. Like, no one is listening to new music. How many artists have sold their fucking complete portfolio? I just saw that. What was it? Uh, some Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan. His whole fucking for how much? I don't know. Look it up. Look it up. Look it up. Uh, I've heard about Neil young, all a Spotify thing with them.Well, wait, let's go back. Okay. Let's go back to Sean's thing and then we'll pick up on the BA uh, Neil young. Go ahead, Sean. So nobody's listening to new music. Nobody. Yeah. This is why I'm always saying that. Fuck nostalgia. I'm sick of fucking the scholarship because it's killing us. But go ahead. Why? So let me read this quote.It says 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5% of total streaming. Wow. Dang, believe that. Think about that top 200 shots that the top two new only account for 5% of total streams, that means it's virtually not penetrating anything, right? That means it's not doing anything.It's also because it's mostly. No, I'm not interested in looking at it. Right. Look at people ain't even interested in going there to listen to it. Okay. Just, I did just look this up. Bob Dylan's catalogs sold between two 50 and 300. 200, 2 50, 300 mil cash out for Bob Dylan on his fucking, all of his. And I guarantee you when that dude was down in the fucking village and he was fucking drinking coffee and doing Coke and all the other shit he was doing, he did not think in a million years that his body of work was going to wind up selling for 250 mil.I gotta be honest as much as that is, it seems low. Bob, Bob, Bob, doing as my point of view, is that like, if you're an artist nearing like sort of the end of your life, I mean, basically he's got retirement. Yeah. Why not? Cash? We just talked about just that cashed out on ESPN, on the games. Um, the, uh, um, football.Who cashed out EA sports gave fucking what's his name? Two 50, right? Same. Right. That was a cash out for sure. Right. Right. And I don't think that guy, when he was fucking a PE teacher ever thought his name. Would sell for two and is the type of thinking, and we're not going to get lost on that track, but that's the type of thinking where, when he's talking about blockchains and all this shit that you have no idea, right?Oh, that's going to be even, but the boss, Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. Five 50 for his catalog. That's more for Bruce Springsteen. Did that, dude. I mean, think about some of the iconic music that, that, listen, I'm not saying we're fans necessarily, but I'm just saying, if you think about middle America born in the USA, for sure.But also like on, when I lived in New York, like you always heard Bruce Springsteen on the radio and you always heard, uh, piano fucker. Oh my God. What the fuck? What the fuck is this? And he got fat. Oh my God. Billy Joel. Yeah, it's constant airplay on the radio has used them though. The people that are paying out these huge catalog fees, right?Yeah. Group that decides we're going to give Bruce Springsteen five 50. We're going to give Dylan two 50 upfront. Yeah. These companies to make an investment like that. They have to already know they're going to make a hundred times that off of the investment. I mean, what is a hundred times. Five 250 million, right?25 billion. So these groups are making investments of that size on that, like, to be able to deal out 250 million, right. They get what I'm saying. Like if they're pack these guys understand digitally, what's going to happen with that. And when they own it and every way they can squeeze it out and make a hundred times that do both those guys abuse, that will literally last forever.Forever, but yeah, but, but, but so going back to this and you know what, actually, Darren Craig talked to me about this, it's kind of, and he said, it's tripping me out. But what he's seen is is that a lot of major pieces of catalog from publishing houses, studios, and legacy celebrities are being purchased for enormous sums upfront money.Right. And he, he doesn't understand yet, but he thinks. There's something that everyone in tech has predicted that is going to mean that these things are going to be worth 10 times. That for some reason, well, now they are. What do you mean? Everyone starts listening to old music. I mean, these are worth way more than you would think they're worth, right?If we're not creating any new legacy of this, then we're going to have to lean on these old catalog. For the Mo the majority of our listening. Sure. Which means that, you know, investing, you know, 300 million into something isn't really all that big of an impact. Check this out. Stevie Nicks made a deal for a reported hundred million dollars with primary wave for her portion of publishing rights to some of her biggest hits of this means that the portion that listen her.That means that the studio or the producer who recorded it, whoever owns the masters, all that shit probably still has their piece. Uh, and it's only for like edge of 17 in landslide right now. Dog face. Yeah. He must've made that shit. Oh my God. So, so, so, so sit back for a second. Just think about this.Cause these guys are playing like four D chess. I hate that fucking term, but anyway, right. So I guarantee you that when you see some virus viral things and you go like, how come dog face? How did that, like, why did that blow up the way that it did? And it occurred with that music right to fucking Fleetwood Mac.How did that blow up? And then also at some point we're learning that Stevie Nicks is selling catalogs and it's adding to the nostalgia and updating the nostalgia. I guarantee you there's a connection there. Ah, dude, there's gotta be people playing everybody that they're, they're floating out and, and they're squeezing off new artist.Yeah, well, but artists are talking about that though. What do you mean artists are talking about how they can't get in and play. We got to pay to play, right? And they don't make these deals. They're not getting any of the streams where every that's been going on. Right. So look at it this way. If you're able to circulate in nostalgic track, you're able to extract more money out of one song and you don't have to deal with the artists.They're bullshit. The fucking whatever they're lawyers, they're Coke, they're bitches they're. You don't have to deal with none of that. You don't have to figure out how to pay the fucking writer and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You just take that one track. And if you can create a value in these nostalgic hits and you close off the new.You got way more control. It's a similar thing that's happening in film and television. One of the driving forces of animation and CGI is that please, dear God, please. There's some producer, right? Some PFAFFA producer would say fucking, just oily packages lined with gold. He's just make money, hand over fist.The one thing that sticks in his fucking cry is that he can't control Jack Nichols. Because the guy's a fucking star and he's got to pay Tom cruise prices. And who knows, if he's going to go off the rails, quit the production, hold it all up, all that bullshit. Right. But you got to deal with when you're dealing with a mega fucking blue chip star, that's a human being.The minute you can turn him into a cartoon, that's real enough that it looks real. He's never gonna be. He's never going to fucking join a union. He's never going to develop a weird Coke habit animate me. So let's, and let's, let's create this. Metaverse create movies without having to pay any humans. And we can fucking control costs like a motherfucker.And that's what's happening with music in nostalgia, in an audio version, freezing an artist. What they already created. And trying to milk the fuck out of that. So here's the next gig, if you want, if you want to ensure your legacy as a paid actor, start getting into voiceovers. Yeah. That's right. Start working on your, uh, You're imitation game.That's why my boy I'm telling you, he works a lot, bro. Silly putty, silly kid. Yeah. He works a lot, man. And, and uh, you know, makes decent coin doing it to decent Wayne. Hey, what? So, so the, so that's what I think, podcasts. This is what I've been trying to kind of flow out there is that right now it's a flood.Oh, yeah. So like, if you can build up the world and the characters and the, and the interpersonal dynamics and a following, and that the dah on a podcast situation, you are creating those audio gigs that you're talking about. What else. Okay. But, okay. So, so we got to that. So go on with the new music. What else is there to explore on this topic?I mean, there really isn't, I mean, it's just that like your numbers, that you were always tripping off those numbers. I was, uh, I was sort of at a crisis myself about, you know, I read some YouTube comment. Just like, you know, everybody chips off the, you know, why not trip off some YouTube comments? There was a comment on one of our, our videos.And it was saying that the, the interest too long. Yeah. Somebody said it's a waste of time. S 8 1 8. Yeah. And he said, and the intro's a waste of time. But then again, bro, I've heard other people say that they look forward to the intro cause they don't know half of the tracks that we're throwing up. And I know for me, like if I listened to a podcast, I kind of skipped the intro.It's like the same old shit. And I guess in a sense. What you're saying is right. Some people listen because they want to see what playing or whatever. Cause yeah, you're right. I didn't even think about that. I do the same fucking thing on podcasts. I listened to. I skip our own shit all through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Yeah. But that's the type of people we are. Well, that's, that'd be where and the other thing I want you guys to remember is to just keep in mind. A lot of us amongst each other have commented about how sometimes the show just starts. And there's nothing, all of a sudden you're in the middle of a conversation.Right. We've all kind of weighed in and said, we liked that. And we play with that. Yeah. I personally, when we were rolling right into a conversation, I love that. I mean, I'm attached to it. Yeah. Introduction, because that's how we've been branded branded. And that's kind of what we were showing is you do an introduction.So I don't, but I think we keep them guessing, well, we live in a that's true, but we live in a society right now where intros are deemphasized. And think about this time they want, think about, think about this in shows, used to be for moot television shows. They used to be formerly. Right. They used to be, there was a guy, Mike post, Sean who's Mike postHe's a, I mean, he's a record producer, but he's also a composer and he did a bunch, bunch of, uh, interest for me was basically, yeah. Television shows. Right. And so like, you used to fuck you. Back in the day, like you would come on and watch small wonder, and it'd be like a whole fucking intro. Everybody trying to eat a sandwich or a taxi.Listen to that depressing music on the east coast facts alive. Right? You take a book, you take a bag and all that.The facts of math,right? That'sright. But now in the age of being. And, but, and also remember there were credits during that, so you'd know like, oh, okay. Who the stars are. There was no fast forward though. There was no fast food. There was no, you know what I mean? I've seen that game, bro, like, right. Nobody would ever watch that shit so different, bro.Now, when I do a show like a binge watching a show, I skip intro. They give you a button that says. I was one of the first one, and then I write it out. I'd skip it. I remember Narcos skipping all that shit, but because it's the same every fucking time. Well, ours isn't if you're concerned. Ah, but listen, if you're consuming on a, on a what'd I binge watch, right?Yeah. You don't want to be watching the fucking intro all that time. I think we, I know something, I don't, ain't going to say it, but you said enough with that. Right. Right. And you know what, and you know what, I'll tell you something else, man. I mean, the other piece of this that I'm looking at is, you know, you can't put art out there.You can put art out there without having critics that like one piece and don't like another piece. Right. And it, the game, you know, I'm not a mass appeal kind of guy. That's not my strong suit that Steve, your strong suit is that you do understand, we had that talk about. Uh, Mount w uh, Westmore Westmore, and that collaboration between Snoop and fucking 40 and all that shit.Right. And you understand mass appeal and all that stuff. So on a certain level, you know, I don't think media is necessarily set up for mass appeal like that, unless they're trying to create this nostalgia thing, you know, or they're trying to, they're trying to chum the water. Right for this like other stuff.And I think that, um, this is a jumping off point. This shows a jumping off point. I don't think that this show has an end into itself. I don't either, uh, listeners Ben and whoever's listening right now to the show. If you can draw. Yeah, you can draw, you need to reach out. At get, you know what? Just get it, the show.Get it. Hard luck. Uh, luck show@gmaildotcomhluckshowatgmail.com and you know what? I'm looking for some help with some artists, Hey, and send in some silly. Um, I'm telling everybody you want to email anything. You can take a picture of your fucking balls. You can fucking get, Hey, come on. What do you mean? I don't want boss.He's got to read the email you don't want. And you know what though? Go ahead and should have, well, I would love to do a Q and a show if we get listeners sending in questions. Yeah. And where's the phone thing we're supposed to be able to start calling. Yeah, Schwartz that goes on the, on the, on, listen, this is what I'm saying.Look, you don't want balls. I want balls. Okay. Send the ball. But what I'm trying to say is right there, Sean, I want both, you forward all genitalia to you behind. Yeah. Attention to Mohan on the fucking email contains balls. Yeah. Questions and anything, any your silly shit, you little silly fucks out that are out there listening.And you got something funny to say you're out. You see any fucking parking lot lizards that you're flying Jang clearly wrong around trying to cycle zombies. Yeah, exactly. All the weird shit you come in. Hey, you get a little snippet video of you talking to the homeless or talking to a city council person.I don't give a fuck what it is. It might make it onto the show. It might be part of the discussion, but start flooding the inbox with crazy silly shit from. And I don't want you to put any filters on it. I know. All right. I don't want any motherfucking filters, cause this is an unfiltered show. Send it in and it might make it onto the fucking show.I want to hear it. See, it was a fucking hate me. Oh, you right there. I see you. Like, I want you to send me that, that one person, that fucking was trying to get me off the show since we fucking started you. I'm talking to you. You fuck you little fuck. You Udall, small Dick motherfucker. I want you to send me all your hate mail and send it to me.Cause you know what? I'm on my way to the bank. When I'm just fucking loading up the bank with tons of greenbacks and laughing, I'm going to use your fucking hate mail to wipe my tears of joy. And then I'm going to throw it in the fucking trash you fucker. 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Uh, Schwartz or me and Schwartz told me that he had like a small conversation with Diablo, big deal. I did man. Shout out to Diablo. Um, yeah. And he was, uh, he was definitely on a creative tip that night.Creating some new tracks and wanting to share him with me. And we talked about, talked about all kinds of shit, man talks about religion, talked about, you know, what did you guys talk about religion? What was because we were texting back and forth and all of a sudden, like he kept on saying like Schwartz is Schwartz.And he's like, you know, I don't know if you're Jewish, but you are. And, and, and, you know, and he started talking about like his experience in prison. Um, you know, Jewish food and then actually go into services and different things like that. Didn't sound like he was a candidate for conversion. No, but he even shared with me that he did sing shallow Malem, which was pretty funny.Why is that funny? No, it was just interesting. You don't want, what does that mean? It's a song. It's a song that song every, a Chavez every Saturday. But when you, what is it? What's the name of the dude? I gotta tell you, I can read Hebrew perfectly and sing it, but I just don't know what it means.Unfortunately, I know Shalom is peace. Shalom Aleichem Shalom. I left my son. Good. Vincent could break it down. Unfortunately, man, I can't sing it. Sing it right now. Come on bro. Do it. Let's let's do this. You can't do no, no, no, exactly. Yeah, but it's not yet, but we're connected to my no, no, you didn't do anything.What about, is there some, is there a prayer on site? Go ahead.which one is, uh, I don't know. I mean, I can get any of it, right? Come on. I'm going to break bread with somebody, you know, you sayor it's mascot fucking, now you can eat the holla. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Give me, give us a couple. There was another one. That's it. I don't know. Yeah. Anyways, so bang back. How long my conversation with Diablo, he was sharing PC, bubbles. He tie, he talked about even share me stories about a woman that his mother worked for, that they were close with.And, um, Yeah, it was really weird. You out and be real, man. Does it weird you out? And we're not saying Diablo is up to anything cause he's not. Cause he's probably honestly trying to ask you about our share or like bond with you about it, but does it ever weird you out that. Does it ever weird you out that, uh, when someone tries to do the Jewish stuff with you and they're not Jewish, do you feel weird about what do you know?Cause there's, there's different. I, I will pick up on the temperature of it real initially. And if people have interests or like a genuine. You know, knowledge that they want to gain or share with me, I'm totally with it. If somebody is trying to do some clowning, shit's going to be a problem real quick.Right. But, but, but you are way more into the Jewish faith earlier on, right? For sure. Yeah. Well, I. But I'm pretty religious. So I went to like a Orthodox Hebrew school, even though I wasn't like Orthodox, but I did go and do that, which is why, like, it's funny because I've been in relationships before where they wanted to go to, like, what's, there's kind of Orthodox is like the highest of high I explained to Mr.And Mrs. Ear buds, who aren't at, what is the Orthodox. Orthodox specifically the, like the black hats, the long beards, um, the women with head coverings and long dresses, stuff like that. Um, you also have, which I have family in New York that are modern Orthodox, which. Do everything the same as those people who look and that's actually traditional, like old school Polish garb, like in Europe.Yeah. But that's like Eastern European. Right. Okay. So let me put, pinpoint real quick right here. Cause that's right. So my godfather, one of my other golfer, one godfathers, Lou Palmer Rico from new castle, Pennsylvania. The other one is Elliot shelter. From Los Angeles. Okay. Shelton, uh, listen, he's a real mench.This one. Here's your godfather. He's also my godfather. He was these two guys were law partners. I mean roommates with my dad when they were in law school together at Pepperdine, Elliot Shelton. Cause I asked him one time I go. Why? So there's all these different kinds of Jewish folks. Right? You got these refills.Which pretty much is like, they don't really do much of anything. They're there they're Jewish, but they're not getting, and then I'll ask them, I'm like, what's with the hats. Like I see some, then there's another group that got the black hats and the beards. He explained to me exactly what Schwartz said, which is that this is a style.Old days in Eastern Europe and there was a very influential or Abby or somebody and everybody just adopted that and just glommed on to that. Does that, does that comport? That's true. Okay. And so you were modern Orthodox, and what does that so modern means you follow all the same shit, but you live in the modern world.You look like you don't have. There's kind of work around, like one of the things where you see people with the long beards is you're not allowed. There's four different points on your head and your face where you're not allowed to actually touch a raiser, touch a blade to your skin. What? Yeah. So that's why, that's why you see there's one right here.That's why you'll see. They have like longer, uh, sideburns a little bit. And what's the reasoning behind not touching a razor to the four points on your face. Right? Embarrassed to say, I don't remember, but, um, there are re but so like the modern Orthodox guys will use like electric razors, right? Because it typically the razors not touch.Correct. This is one of the things I love about the Jewish faith is that they have. So they have these rules where you're like, what the fuck? I don't know, that's around it. That they all share. Somebody came up, right. Somebody came up as a way to observe it and then work around it. Right. And you can kind of see where that would encourage you to.Right. Yes, you're absolutely. Right. Right. So it's, so it's, there's different levels. So you have that and below that you have like, what's called conservative, which is kind of conservative. It's it's weird. So you have conservative, then you have like reformed, which is like the lowest level of rules. If you, and.You know, like in an Orthodox temple, like the men and women are separated. Right. Um, you don't sit together. You'll never see a woman up, like at what's called the Bema, which is like where you, they bring the tore out and put it in, do the read. You'll never see a woman touch that you'll know. It's very, so like my, my wife, Megan, you said right.Dude. I won't even see him looking at that year. Me dude, I had a guy that I went to law school with Dan clench, your fist and relax. Nah, dude, I'm telling you, bro, you're never going to fucking see a woman if she's menstruating. She not even entering the building like that. I think that that kind of has something to do with it, but also like, dude, it's funny when early on.Megan. And I were like going to my family stuff like back in New York and that shit would piss her off, bro. Like, oh, it's sexist or all that, you know, but just the whole separation. No, Megan definitely loves God, the whole separation of the men and the women. But then you go to a conservative and it's first of all, at an Orthodox synagogue, it's all Hebrew.Like there's no heat, there's no English reading. You go to a conservative temple. It fucks me up, bro. Like all these songs have a certain rhythm and shit like that and you'll see them up there. Men or women and women wear fucking yamikas and shit. And where tallest is, it's real true. Like a yamaka Keepa, not like a, just only in shool.Like I didn't really like in shool is temple. Yeah. And anyways, so it would fuck me up though, because like somebody would be up there and they'd be singing. These readings in the same rhythm and tone, but in English up there. And it would just really like, fuck me up. I kinda like to go in, do my shit.Unfortunately it takes away a little bit of the. The meaning. Cause it's not like, you know, in English you get to understand a bit more obviously, right? It's like opera, it's like opera sometimes in opera, you hear the Italian, it sounds great. You don't really know what the fuck they're saying, but that's kind of part of it.And then sometimes they'll sing it in English and you're like lemonade and it kind of changes the nature of it. There's no mystical aspects. Yeah. So anyways, so that's, it's a different setup, but no. So we were talking about, he was sharing with me, his experiences. Um, Sharon, some new music with me and he's coming on.Uh, next week, actually, we're going to have him on and he's excited to come in and bring some new shit that he has been working on. Um, and we're hoping to connect the week before, if not, we're going to do it soon after the conversation. It was about an hour. Okay. And were you actually on the phone with the device to your ear?Uh, no. I had headphones. And so you will walk around talking to the Abla for, I smoked maybe like half a pack of smokes, like just kind of out there and towards the end, Megan, and texted me a few times. And I was like, Hey, I gotta, I gotta jump. And definitely, I think I listened to like four or five more tracks after that.Is there anything hard at now? Listen, no disrespect to the, but is there anything harder than listen to your friends tracks on the phone? Shawn, how many times have somebody been like, Hey, I want to play so, and then they, and then they played their phone right next to. Do you love that? I hate it. Yeah, it actually, I gotta be honest with you.It wasn't bad cause I, it wouldn't, it didn't sound shitty. It actually sounded pretty good. Um, like the sound quality and the music was good. Um, so it wasn't that bad. Um, but it was cool, man. It was a real, like we had actually been kind of playing phone and text tag and shit and, um, and fucking snapping each other with towels in the gym.Amen. So, no, but, uh, and it was good to finally get. Right on forward to doing some stuff with a man Mr. Diablo, his neighborhood, man. It's funny is that, and we're going to talk about that later, um, with Mr. D and you'll see why we're going to talk about it. But when you brought up the thing about somebody is like, yeah, my mom or my parent used to work for like sure.I'm going to check the temperature quick. And I've had a couple people try and make a Jewish joke in front of me and it went south. I told you about that and me and left key in the joint they call the fucking dudes with Roger gets a bit. Well, yeah, they'd be all loving and happy and never. And I got this.I didn't even, I didn't even know what it meant. They'd be Shaloma these dudes might be breaching it off Hitler. And one time, as soon as I walked by, they're like, oh, I got, I was young. You know, I don't even, and they have all, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's funny, bro. And, you know, I've had a couple of people through my life, do some shit, like make a mistake and say something like, why are you being so Jewish over there with that?Or, you know, something like that when I drew them down. Right dude. And I'll be like, I won't even, I won't even need to say anything upset, go, you know, I'm part Jewish and I'll, and, and they start, I came in and shut up after that winter. Oh, bro. I didn't, you know, I, some I did,but best friends now, uh, that, that was, that was, but it's. Um, 90% of the time people talk to me and I tell them they, some of the best stories bro, they've told me about. And we're going to talk about Mr. Duke is Jeffrey was one of them that it's like, and that's so many people, dude, my mom used to work for and they would invite us.And the, and here's the crazy thing about a lot of these stories. Listen to me, when I tell you this, these people that were telling me over and over again, we're not Jewish parents work for these people. Yeah. Over and over again, these people were telling me about what these, their parents, who they worked for did for them.They took all. I got to go to the theater and see this, I got this. I got that. I'm like, well, nigga, yeah, they helped like these, these Jewish people had really influenced these people's lives for their parents working for them. I was hearing stories that didn't what a boss doesn't usually do. Do you get what I'm saying?Yeah. Or a story after story? Oh, I was given these books. I was given this, I was showing that as a man and. It's and I experienced that through my own family. And I've seen that around dude. And like, people are quick to want to try and say some shit about Jews, you know, they are, and I've always experienced Jews, not being.The closed up, you can't get in. It's only us play. Maybe it's perceived like that, but I always see them making it a point to involve, put their hand out, observe respect other, other races and other things. And like, but, but, but let me ask you this question. I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on this.Judaism. If you were to look at it from one angle is really. Yeah, right. And yet somehow it's evolved into almost quote unquote erase thing too. Yes. Ethnicity. Yeah. It's it's weird. And when I've talked to some Jewish friends, they are like, well, I don't, I actually am not Jewish because I'm not in the, and I'm like, yeah, but you're from Israel.And they're like, yeah, it doesn't matter. And a lot of those Israeli Jews tried to tell me that shit, but I don't buy into it. And so therefore I'm not Jewish, it's a religion and they get offended. If I say. Explain or say that other folks think of it more than a religion. I have that same thing. Cause people will be like, you're Jewish.I'm like, okay. But I don't practice Judaism. Right. I am Jewish by blood birth. I love it. These things are beautiful, but I don't follow Jewish faith. That's not my. Right, but you still here to them, but you still identify that there's a biological component for you as being Jewish. Absolutely. So, so I mean, it, it, it is a religion.I mean, I grew up all the time. People finding out that I was Jewish or, oh, you don't look Jewish. It's like, well, fuck. Like what is looking? You know, like, and then that's a weird discussion. Like what does a Jew look like? Because it is a religion now it's funny because a lot of people that do come from Israel.On on the large blue, more, less observant than like Jews and other countries, whether it be America or Eastern Europe, which y'all always, I found interesting. No, he's saying that folks that are from Israel tend to be a little less observant than people than Jewish folks that are living in other countries.But that would make sense because there's no doubt of their heritage because they actually come from the fucking country. So they don't need to prove it. Right. I'll hold on to anything. Right. Okay. Got it. So know that that's, it's an interesting discussion, but just to go back on the topic real quick, it was funny when Diablo said to me last night about his mom working for this family and kind of what they did and it was Jerry Heller, right?No, it threw me back, man, because growing. We had, you know, I didn't, I've made jokes. I'm not handy. And like growing up in my family, it was like, literally, if there was something wrong or something needed cleaning or something needed done, there was a person for that. And these. Would have kids. And so many times they would come with them.I befriended them. Our family took them to Dodger games or, or sports games, stuff like that. So when he's, he's telling me that from like the other side and it kind of tripped me out because, you know, I didn't, it's not like I kept in touch with any of these people. These were like, long-time people that work like throughout my childhood and growing up.And, um, so it was interesting to hear the other side of it. So like cooks and man. Yeah. I mean, why are we trying to dance around that? Yeah. I mean, why? Well, no, it's, it's it's whatever, it's not, yeah. It's cleaning people. Yeah. Maids. Okay. Yeah, because you know what, that's true, but I think that's true of, you know, because I've been reading, uh, lately I've been reading about African-Americans and I've been reading about world war II and African-Americans and preparation for black history.We're going to do a black history month show. It's not going to be, you know, following Carver or the peanut and any of that shit, but it is going to be about world war II heroes that are black, that were denied the medal of honor based on race when they were fighting fascism and Nazis. Now think about that, bro.Fucking disgusting to me. Think about that. Where gin and up support against racist Nazis. We want black Americans to help in the effort they do and go beyond the call of duty because they believe that once I deliver on this hero wisdom and S and N and sacrifice my fucking book. To the cause of freedom, they go right back to fucking America and they can't even drink at the same soda fountain or walk through the front door of an established Erika.She be ashamed. So in doing that, though, there was a culture of, uh, uh, house maids and cooks of which this hero that I'm talking about. And in that culture, I'm going to say this. They would become friends with the kids. And they would these even like these races, white families, and I think some part of having a class system where you got an owner or a master, if you want to call it that, and then you have house help, right there is already built into the system that we're going to treat you more like family than not.Because we're bringing you in and you're below your, you're below us economically, and you're going to carry the fucking shit. You're going to do the laundry and all this other stuff. And, and, and this is beyond race or whatever. So sometimes I think about like, okay, yeah, that's cool. Everybody that had the money to hire a man, they were cool because they talked to the kids and the maiden, all that other stuff.But there's a long tradition in the elites doing that to maintain the status quo. Does that make sense? Yeah. Do you hear what I'm saying about that show? I'm not saying necessarily that was Diablo his case, but I'm just saying, do you understand that? You're absolutely right, because I'm going to make nice, nice.So long as you stay where you're at and you don't fuck up my shit. Yeah. I don't know that that's everybody's intentions, but I understand what you're saying. Absolutely. There's a lot before that. Sure. There's a lot that's laid down before that happens. Right. Sure. And I understand that. But I also understand these stories are like, it's, it's weird.I hear these stories so often. I'm not, I'm not taking away from that. That's true. That there was great. Uh, business people or whoever they were that extended it like a welcoming, uh, embrace right. To people that were their employees. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, I'm just saying that the America, not even the European system has in it.Cause that's what, well, that's where it came from. That's what down NAB. Like when y'all all these stupid fucks, watch this down NAB and they sit there and they fucking play with themselves and watch, you know, and all this old British bullshit. Right. It's all about looking at this great master and look at the lives and the servants and they, and they were nice and they really cared because they showed up and they helped that old Mae fix her leg.And then they sent her back to work, but it was cool and all that kind of stuff. Well, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. All that shit. Yeah. But what, your one thing that you're missing. That I think you're missing that Jews have always been persecute. They've always been oh, for sure. And I think Jewish people carry that with them and consciously I don't want consciously, they have that on their mind and they consciously want, I feel like most Jewish have that and out of either, either.Guilt or whatever they, they seem to want to extend themselves more and not carry that. I would agree with that. I agree with that. You're absolutely right. That makes total sense to me on that level. And that is a piece that I think should be added to the particular instance in which we're talking about, for sure, because there's no way you can be somebody who was Jewish faith living in.Before they add boats to bring over any other race that we're using the Jews. Not only that, but like I was reading about the Spanish inquisition. Right. It's funny Diablo. And I actually talked about that the other night. What did he say? Well, no, he, cause he was talking about how he explained, I guess there was in prison.He was talking with Jewish guys and there was certain, there was a slang term for pork and. It wasn't the actual name in Spanish for pork in these Jews, these Jewish guys in prison asked him not to use that term because it actually referred to a certain sect of. Um, in Spain where Jews are, are there, there's a, there's a lot of Jews in Spain and, you know, I said, I've done minimal reading on it, but that the whole Spanish inquisition, what I'm saying is talking about the Spanish inquisition and how literally the theory of Christopher Columbus and all those people on the ships were actually Jews that they had been basically sent off because of all the shit going down, but listen.So, all right. That's interesting. The thing is too, to piggyback off of. Right. Is that the Spanish inquisition, a lot of the Spanish acquisition was trying to fair it out through torture and violence, secret Jews, because there were laws back then that the Catholic Pope pushed that said, if you're Jewish, you got convert to Christianity.You can't be fucking around with it. We're not, we're not playing games. Right. And so then, and so then a lot of Jewish people, uh, And then probably as has true with a lot of different civilizations, maintain their true identity underneath, right. And the inquisition was designed to torture, fucks and find out who's a false.Trying to find the real quote-unquote Jews. So the issue there is, I can see where if you come from an experience or a heritage that suffered that, that when you're in the driver's seat, you might act different. You on it, you might act a little different. Yeah. You, you broke that down exactly how right? I didn't want to necessarily make it so that I didn't understand what you're saying.And, but I also didn't want to lose the piece that just economic structurally. There's also an element of that there. Sure. Absolutely. Right now, listen, I'm hearing a bunch of noise out there. Yeah, I think we got, I think we've got guests or Dean, his manager Jeffrey count. Do they want to shit? Oh God damn it.Jesus fucking Christ. Is it running down hill?Why? What happened? Just a little dribble, tiny little drip. What do you want to do? Cause I'm going to start. What are you going to start doing when these guys pull them in? I'll fucking fucking in the goddamn shit. Uh, yeah. Can we end this man? This shit all blew up. has got the Niners game on his mind. He can't even think straight.We haven't even gotten to talk about that. Yeah, we will. We will. This crazy fuck. Will look at his face. Look at that guys. Happier than I've ever seen. I've never seen him radiate, like he is. He's trying to control it cause he doesn't want to fuck a little kid before a fucking trip, like a vacation the night before can't sleep lead.You, you can fucking do anything to him right now. Wouldn't phase him. You can't break his, his spirit. There is no, no touch of you came into Starbucks loud. He was like, oh really? Yeah. He was like, oh, when you know, Sean's feeling good when he's like, oh, boop. And he starts poking you and shit like that, bro.Yeah. I'm like, ah, he's on one. Nah, fucking 900 high on the night when she talk about that. Cause it's LA and the Niners, but honestly I was rooting for the Niners last week, but for the sake of, for the sake of our sanity, I think the Niners should win so that we don't have to see Sean's bummed out face. I mean, I've never seen him more alive know miracle grow.Doesn't do this. What would be a really bummed out phases if they did win tomorrow and then they get crushed? No, no, no. Cause at least he'll be, he'll be able to say like they weren't even supposed to get to the he's already using it already. I know he's already, he's already trying to protect his feelings by being like, listen, the way I'm looking at it.They shouldn't even be here playing all the houses. Yeah. All that you did the last two weeks, it's been straight reverse psychology. Oh, he's like texting, like, oh, Packers are going to win. Yeah, they should have one. I mean, that's the conversation that everybody's having. Fuck. How'd that? How did that happen in green bay loose?You know, they're, they're doing now, but you know, whatever, if they went fucking right on, I just want to know one thing he loved Jimmy G or not. No, I'm not a Jimmy G fan. That is by the way, the proper way to kill the animal on the altar to ask the gods to grant. You do that? It's a vocal version. He's not superstitious, but he hates Jimmy G and we're probably not going to win this.I don't hate him. I don't think he's the future. So funny dude, every night or fan is fucking saying that shit. They're like, oh, you should be happy with Jimmy. G's gotten you guys in NFC championship. Listen, the guy, the guy that sleeps in our studio when we come at six in the morning, right. That guy he hugging.I wish Mr. Mrs. Ear buds are here because what happens is we come and knock on the fucking door and then you hear like aerosol air freshener. Yeah. Clouds of fucking, popery trying to capture he's smell out of the fucking air. Right? Mr. Mr. Earbuds could fucking smell the studio and we come in at 6:00 AM.Oh boy. I smell like booed air. Whom was like, someone's been putting in work. It's not like blood, sweat, and Poon who has been putting in work that normally isn't put in around here except on the two K fuck. Listen.very new air.clean up. Barely.Follow your team anytime, anywhere with contour TV and the contour app from Cox. 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Learn about the evolution of Experience as a Service from Genesys' VP of Product Management, Jack Nichols. Jack discusses prototyping with regulatory constraints, ways Genesys hopes to apply AI to their product, and innovation within a large enterprise.Throughout our conversation, Jack explains the growth of experience as a service. Many companies have customer touchpoints fragmented across multiple systems, leading to poor experiences for customers and employees alike. Jack believes that a single customer engagement system is the way to go, ensuring that all touchpoints with the customer are connected to provide a great experience. For example, as a leader in the customer engagement space, Genesys uses AI to route calls, creating customer and representative match-ups that are most likely to achieve positive results based on the attributes of each customer.Jack shares about their growth from product discovery to finding product-market fit to scaling the product, to now - enterprise maturity. While it was a hard decision to make at the time, Jack explains that the team's decision to focus on the security and stability of the product before moving on to building new features allowed them to scale successfully.We also get a glimpse into prototyping and scaling telephony products at an enterprise level within regulated environments. Jack shares the pros and cons of these challenges: the process of releasing new features is time-intensive, but it also leads to confidence that what's been released is rock-solid by the time it gets to users.As we wrap up our talk, Jack shares the importance of listening to customers and Genesys' plans to gather in-depth user feedback on the product.You can find Jack on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/jacknichols3 and Genesys at: genesys.com.You can find more information about this podcast at sep.com/podcast and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you!

Integrations don’t have to a heavy lift. By taking small steps, you can achieve a better customer experience through a more open platform. On today’s podcast, Jack Nichols, VP of Product Management for Genesys Cloud, shares the information you need to use an open platform to integrate your data, giving agents the tools they need—and customers the experience they deserve.

Eric Jensen of BYU on Afghanistan peace, Venezuela turmoil and transgender ban in US military. Timothy Threlfall of BYU and Frank Wildhorn of Wonderland on Welcome to Wonderland. Paul Venturelli of Ball State University on symbiotic farming with aquaponics. Jack Nichols on ironing as an extreme sport. Gabriel Neal of Texas A&M University on apple cider vinegar. Tom Christofferson on a gay Mormon's perspective.

Jack Nichols on HEROES, Inc.® - who it benefits and how ~ ". . .we support the widows and children of police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty here in the greater Washington area. And HEROES actually stands for Honor Every Responsible Officer's Eternal Sacrifice. . . Whatever they want and they need, we're gonna make sure they get taken care of right away." Jack Nichols, President, HEROES, Inc. ® and Andy Ockershausen in studio Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. And we have a very important president of my most important, I believe, the most important charity in the city of Washington, of HEROES, Inc. Jack Nichols, welcome to Our Town. Jack Nichols: Thank you, Andy, it's great to be here, great to be here. Andy Ockershausen: But you are a native of Our Town. I mean ... Jack Nichols: I am, I was born and raised. Andy Ockershausen: We consider everything part of Our Town. Even Annapolis is Our Town. Vienna, Virginia is Our Town. We go all the way to Fredericksburg, because this is Our Town. Almost as big as HEROES, not quite as fame footprint, but this is what we are. This is Our Town, and HEROES is such a big, important part of Our Town. Jack Nichols: Yes, it's work that we love to do, it's very important. All the first responders and helping those families, it's a labor of love for a lot of us and it has been for a very long time. Andy Ockershausen: And you're a native. You grew up in Silver Spring. Jack Nichols On Growing Up in Our Town Jack Nichols: I am. I actually grew in Rockville and all my family is from the Baltimore area. My father was the first one to leave the country and come down 95 to Montgomery County. Born and raised in Rockville and been here, I went away to school for four years, but came back, been here all my life. Andy Ockershausen: We are another country to Baltimore. Jack Nichols: Right, we are, you definitely don't bring the Washington Post up there. Andy Ockershausen: Oh my God. We had a company that I worked for called HomeTeam Sports, carried the Orioles baseball. Jack Nichols: Sure. Andy Ockershausen: And it was great. Jack Nichols: Yup. Andy Ockershausen: But, they said, whatever you do, go back to Washington, we don't want you living here. Jack Nichols: That's right, that's right. Andy Ockershausen: Baltimore, we call it Baseball USA. A great baseball town. Now, the Orioles aren't doing real good right now, we're watching them, but our Nats are, I know. Jack Nichols: Absolutely. Andy Ockershausen: Fair compensation. So you decided, you went to school out of town, out of the city? On Education - St. John's | East Carolina University Jack Nichols: Well, I went to college at East Carolina University, which is down in Greenville, North Carolina. Reason for that is my parents said you can go anywhere you want, but it can't be more than five hours away. So Greenville, North Carolina is five hours away. Andy Ockershausen: Right on the border. Jack Nichols: It was as far away as I could possibly get, but other than that, I went to St. Johns here, locally. Andy Ockershausen: Did you? A cadet. Jack Nichols: That's where I met, ... I was a cadet, I was back when it was all boys and military. Andy Ockershausen: But you didn't go downtown, you were up here, right, in Northwest? Jack Nichols: I was, right. Andy Ockershausen: Because they would use to be, they used to have formation down here in Vermont Avenue. Jack Nichols: Vermont Avenue, that's right. Andy Ockershausen: I would ride the street car. Jack Nichols: That's right, that's right. Andy Ockershausen: So, you decided then to come back to Our Town and get involved in the banking business here. Did you study banking in college? Jack Nichols: I did, I was a finance major and the reason for all that is because my father was a long time banker here. He worked for what is now Bank of America. So in the Summers in high school and college,

Addiction has become a public health crisis that is tearing down communities throughout the country. How do we address this complex problem? In this episode, APhA President Nancy Alvarez interviews pharmacist, Jack Nichols, whose 15-year narcotics habit cost him a high-profile career and led to criminal charges for writing fake prescriptions and diverting drugs. Listen as Jake sheds light on the stigma associated with addiction.

We welcome Eric Rhein.  A presence in Manhattan's East Village since 1980, Rhein became a part of the neighborhood's arts community, with artists such as Greer Lankton, Luis Frangella, David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and Mark Morrisroe. As the community permanently altered the city's cultural landscape, it was also profoundly devastated by HIV/AIDS. Through wire portraits, Rhein's ongoing work Leaves honors individuals he knew who died of complications from AIDS. Initially 80 portraits at its conception in 1996, Leaves has now grown to over 250 portraits—an evolving, personal memorial to the overwhelming losses due to the pandemic. Inspired by his uncle Elijah "Lige" Clarke (an early gay rights activist who, with his partner Jack Nichols, co-founded the first national gay weekly newspaper Gay, and the Washington Mattachine Society), Rhein relates to his art as a form of activism and healing. Rhein helped create Visual AIDS' Frank Moore Archive Project, an archive formed to support artists living with HIV/AIDS and preserve the works of those who passed away. View Rhein's page on Visual AIDS' Artist+ Registry here.

We welcome Eric Rhein.  A presence in Manhattan's East Village since 1980, Rhein became a part of the neighborhood's arts community, with artists such as Greer Lankton, Luis Frangella, David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and Mark Morrisroe. As the community permanently altered the city's cultural landscape, it was also profoundly devastated by HIV/AIDS. Through wire portraits, Rhein's ongoing work Leaves honors individuals he knew who died of complications from AIDS. Initially 80 portraits at its conception in 1996, Leaves has now grown to over 250 portraits—an evolving, personal memorial to the overwhelming losses due to the pandemic. Inspired by his uncle Elijah "Lige" Clarke (an early gay rights activist who, with his partner Jack Nichols, co-founded the first national gay weekly newspaper Gay, and the Washington Mattachine Society), Rhein relates to his art as a form of activism and healing. Rhein helped create Visual AIDS' Frank Moore Archive Project, an archive formed to support artists living with HIV/AIDS and preserve the works of those who passed away. View Rhein's page on Visual AIDS' Artist+ Registry here.

This week’s ControlTalk NOW features Daikin’s IoT game-changer, the Rebel RTU; Stromquist’s Tim Chamblee’s VFD Training Part 1 and Part 2; More about KMC’s Conquest Controllers; 2014 ControlTrends Award Winners, Delta Controls and Schneider Electric; and the FieldServer Protocol Revision 12 BACnet Router from the Sierra Monitor Corporation. Tim Chamblee’s Intro Class: Variable Frequency Drives Part 1. Learn the basics of variable frequency drives in this intro class, from Variable Frequency Drives guru, Tim Chamblee. With over thirty years of experience, Tim is a well recognized expert in the HVAC industry and an enormous asset to the Stromquist team. Tim is also a part-time instructor at Chattahoochee Technical College teaching the Advanced HVAC Program. In The Winners Circle with Schneider Electric’s Can2Go. Check out Patrick Dumas in the winner’s circle at the 2014 ControlTrends Awards with Sean Johnson. Schneider Electric’s Can2Go (SmartStruxure Lite) won the 2014 ControlTrends Awards Wireless Product/Solution of the Year. Can2Go offers Contractors and Systems integrators one of the most complete hybrid control solutions: Wired (BACNet, Modbus, CANbus), Wireless (EnOcean, ZigBee), and Web (IP/Ethernet). These building automation technologies combine to provide maximum interoperability, control, and energy savings. Daikin Launches First IoT HVAC Equipment. Rebel RTU Rocks! Ken Smyers caught up with Paul Rauker, VP of Systems and Controls, Daikin Applied, on the ground floor of the 2015 AHR Show. Paul expertly reviews the features of Daikin’s latest Intelligent Equipment, the Rebel RTU — that is the first IoT HVAC RTU. Paul shows us what extraordinary innovation is possible when collaboration takes place between industry and technology leaders, Daikin and Intel. Introducing KMC New Line of BAS Controllers: Meet Conquest! Thanks to Erich Kreuter for introducing us to KMC’s Conquest line of building automation controllers. KMC Conquest controllers are fully programmable, native BACnet controllers with integrated alarming, trending, and scheduling that maintain logic and data at the edge. KMC Conquest controllers are enabled with NFC technology allowing field configuration with our mobile app: KMC Connect Lite. Delta Controls Wins 2014 Building Automation Control System of The Year. The world wide ControlTrends Community spoke with their votes and Delta Controls was named the winner of the 2014 ControlTrends Building Automation Control System of The Year. Congratulations to Jack Nichols, and the entire Delta team, for a job well done. The Delta Controls’ motto, which permeates throughout the organization is “Do it Right!” VFD Training Part 2: Tim Chamblee continues his Variable Frequency Drive Training with an in-depth explanation of the application benefits, the potential energy savings, and the importance of proper grounding and wiring methods — and then demonstrates how to use a Honeywell Variable Frequency Drive to control a cooling tower fan with a Honeywell T775 controller. Sierra Monitor Corporation’s FieldServer BACnet Router — First Product to be Certified as Router at BACnet Protocol Revision 12. Milpitas, California – January 12, 2015 – Sierra Monitor Corporation, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high- value infrastructure assets, today announced that its FieldServer BACnet Router has been certified by the BACnet Testing laboratory (BTL), having successfully passed the Protocol Revision 12 router tests. Sierra Monitor Corporation addresses the industrial and commercial facilities management market with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high-value infrastructure assets. The post ControlTalk NOW: The Smart Building Podcast Week Ending March 8, 2015 appeared first on ControlTrends.