Podcast appearances and mentions of jim dwyer

Local author, Steve Metzger, tells the story of former Chico State librarian, Jim Dwyer, who died under mysterious circumstances.

Part One- Jane Barbian president of the school board of the Racine Unified School District. We discuss various issues confronting the school district- and upcoming elections to fill two vacancies on the board. Part Two - to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 - we'll replay a portion of my 2005 conversation with Jim Dwyer, co-author of "102 MInutes- The Untold Story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers." This is the remarkable story of the thousands of people who were inside the WTC that day who managed who survive.

From 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jim Dwyer talks about his extraordinary book "102 Minutes," which tells the story of the thousands of people who were in the Twin Towers on 9-11 and somehow managed to escape. In many cases, it's the story of ordinary civilians demonstrating incredible courage, tenacity and ingenuity - but also the story of simple luck determining who survived and who perished.

Out of the Highlands to Glasgow we go with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Cantrip, Poitín, Wolf Loescher, Mark Kenneth, Mad Maudlin, Tullamore, Lauren Oxford, Seán Heely, Brobdingnagian Bards, Eireann's Call, Jesse Ferguson, Karen Matheson, The Tomfooligans, Chance the Arm, River Driver, Slugger's Rule GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Subscribe and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD — VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2023 episode.  Vote Now! Two weeks after the episode is launched, I compile your votes to update a playlist on Spotify and YouTube. These are the results of your voting. You can help these artists out by following the playlists and adding tracks you love to your playlists. Follow us on Facebook to find out who is added each week. Listen on Spotify and YouTube. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:02 - Intro: The Wizard and Willow 0:11 - Cantrip "Jigs" from Undark 5:54 - WELCOME 7:16 - Poitín "Mother And Child" from One For The Road 9:44 - Wolf Loescher & Mark Kenneth "Carrick - a - Rede" from Loescher+Kenneth 13:48 - Mad Maudlin "Think on Glasgow Set" from Empty Chairs 16:20 - Tullamore "Sweet Ellen Joyce" from Six Strings and Coffee Beans 19:38 – FEEDBACK We have a limited - edition Irish & Celtic Music Podcast shirt that is our store for the next month. It's a Celtic Pride Month shirt that features a rainbow colored Celtic knotwork with the podcast name in the middle. It's a bold way to share your love of the diversity of Celtic music and culture. 22:37 - Lauren Oxford "Streetlight Birds" from Lauren Oxford 25:33 - Seán Heely "Pipe Tunes from the Highlands" from Edge of the Bow 31:49 - Brobdingnagian Bards "Ye Jacobites By Name" from Real Men Wear Kilts 35:16 - Eireann's Call "My Ain True Love" from Tús 38:27 - Jesse Ferguson "Willie o' the Glass Tongue" from The Bard of Cornwall 42:43 - THANKS 44:40 - Karen Matheson "Laurel to a Wreath" from Still Time 48:25 - The Tomfooligans "McGregor's Pipes" 52:59 - Chance the Arm "Jug of Punch" from All in Good Time 57:15 - River Driver "Goodbye Mick and Goodbye Pat" from Traces 1:00:39 - CLOSING 1:01:44 - Slugger's Rule "Newry Highwayman" from Greatest Hits: Volume II 1:05:13 - CREDITS The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to subscribe to the show. You'll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you'll get 7 weekly news items about what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage. Finally, please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME CELTOPHILE TO CELTIC MUSIC * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a musician and podcaster out of Atlanta, Georgia. This Podcast is here to build our diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. Hey Celtic Bands, I'm looking for new music and stories in 2023. To submit your band, just complete the permission form at 4celts.com. You'll also find information on how to submit a story behind one of your songs or tunes. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out at least four times a month. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. As a patron, you get music - only episodes before regular listeners, vote in the Celtic Top 20, and you get a private feed to listen to the show.  All that for as little as $1 per episode. A special thanks to our Celtic Legends: Bill Mandeville, Marti Meyers, Meghan Walker, Dan mcDade, Carol Baril, Miranda Nelson, Nancie Barnett, Kevin Long, Gary R Hook, Lynda MacNeil, Kelly Garrod, Annie Lorkowski, Shawn Cali HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every week, $1, $5, $25. Make sure to cap how much you want to spend per month. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast?  You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email me at celticpodcast@gmail, message me on Facebook, or contact me through Mastodon @celtfather@c.im. Jim Dwyer sent a couple St Patrick's Day pictures   Solange Benoit emailed photos: "Hi Marc! Kilrush was busy again over the weekend with 3 gigs and boy, they did not disappoint!  Here are some pictures: "   Scott F. sent St Patrick's Day pictures of Ockham's Razor: "Hey Marc, I got a few of Ockham's Razor but I was too busy running sound to get too many more." Raven Lunatric with Ancient Order of Hibernians sent a photo of them in the parade. GERALD GUINN emailed photos: Hi Marc!  Hope your holiday was a joyous one as well!! I'm attaching a pic of the audience from our St. Patrick's show in Murfreesboro, TN, and one from the County Sumner Irish Festival that we played during this St. Patrick's season. Funny songs? Well, from our "Lager & Blood" album, I think "Irish Rover", "The Johnny Jump Up", "The Devil that You Know", and of course, "The Old Dun Cow" are all potential candidates!"  

This episode is as Chicago as a box full of sport peppers, deep dish pizza, House music, and bad Cubs general management decisions. Card 521 on Beckett SABR Bio by Tom Mank Chicago Magic Lounge The Magic of Paige Thompson Mascot Watch: Chairman Yam Southern Illinois University in 1970 Jim Dwyer Painted Cap World Series Home Run! Game 1, 1983

The A's held their 50th anniversary celebration for the 1973 World Series yesterday, and Brandon Nimmo was not having it. In fact, Nimmo was so not down with the Oakland dynasty that he decided to make the day more about the 1969 Mets, emulating Fall Classic catches by Tommie Agee and Ron Swoboda.Swoboda couldn't help the Mets in 1973 against the A's because he was traded with Rich Hacker to the Expos right before the 1971 season, in exchange for Don Hahn. It wasn't Hahn's fault that the Mets couldn't take down Oakland 50 years ago, as he went 3-for-4 in Game 7 and was on base in the ninth inning when Wayne Garrett, representing the tying run at the plate at Oakland Coliseum, popped up to end it.After the next season, Hahn was part of the trade that sent Tug McGraw to Philadelphia, and brought Mac Scarce, John Stearns, and Del Unser to New York. Scarce was traded a few months later for Tom Hall, who was meh out of the 1975 Mets bullpen and then traded to the Royals for minor leaguer Bryan Jones, who never advanced past A-ball, early in the 1976 season. Stearns only played one game with the Phillies, then 810 for the Mets from 1975-84, so he had some extremely bad teammates over the years. Unser may be thought of as one of those, as one of the classic ‘70s dudes who couldn't hit his way out of a paper bag — Unser had a .677 career OPS — but he did hit .294/.337/.392 for the 1975 Mets, with 10 of his 87 career home runs, a total that trailed only Dave Kingman (37) and Rusty Staub (19) on a team that hit a total of just 101 dingers.The Mets traded Unser in July of 1976 to the Expos, along with Garrett, for Jim Dwyer and Pepe Mangual. Dwyer, who was in the majors until 1990, only took 15 plate appearances in 11 games as a Met, then was part of a three-team trade that sent him to the Cubs, Pete LaCock to the Royals, and Sheldon Mallory to the Mets. Mallory didn't make the Mets out of 1977 spring training and had his contract sold to the A's,where he played his only 64 major league games, hitting .214/.291/.262 with 12 stolen bases.Mangual played nearly five times as many games as a Met than Dwyer did, with 49: the last 49 games he spent in the majors, hitting at a .183/.258/.294 clip before the Mets sent him to the Angels in a deal for Gil Flores.Flores, then, was almost as bad with the bat in 81 games as a Mets reserve outfielder, hitting .213/.281/.279 with one homer, off Bill Bonham in Cincinnati on August 19, 1979. It was an inside-the-parker, according to Baseball Reference, and also didn't save the Mets from a 6-5 loss.The 1979 season wasn't the end of Flores' career. He went to Triple-A Tidewater in 1980 and stayed there for five seasons, stealing a total of 107 bases while playing alongside many of the players — Wally Backman, Jesse Orosco, Darryl Strawberry, and Mookie Wilson to name a few — who wound up winning it all with the 1986 Mets.It's not really a straight line from Swoboda to 1986, just as Nimmo's catch yesterday wasn't exactly the same… but it sure is enough to make you smile and remember why you love this game. If that's the kind of thing you're into. If it's not, and you're asking “who cares about this?” you can join Homer Simpson. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willetspen.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the weekend!This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27.There is a chance for a little bit of rain this weekend, but it mostly looks to be pleasant fall weather. On Saturday there will be increasing clouds and a little bit windy, with a high near 55 degrees. There will be a 40 percent chance for rain after midnight. It will be cloudy, with a low of around 36 degrees. On Sunday there will be a 40 percent chance of rain before noon. It will be mostly cloudy again, with a high near 42 degrees. On Sunday night it will be partly cloudy, with a low of around 26 degrees.An annual spring marathon connecting Iowa City and Cedar Rapids will not return in 2023.Jim Dwyer, the race director and Corridor Running co-president, said organizers are discontinuing Run CRANDIC due to logistical and staffing issues, including getting enough volunteers and public safety officers to work the race.Dwyer, who also co-owns Iowa Running Company in downtown Cedar Rapids, said the marathon requires about 75 to 100 public safety personnel from six agencies to secure the race route.“It's not ability to pay. It's more of a staffing issue, really,” said Dwyer, who said a portion of the race entry fee covers street closures and the cost of providing for off-duty police officers, sheriff's deputies and other security personnel.The city of North Liberty continues to work on plans for a new park in the northwest part of the city.The Northside Community Park Project is among the initiatives identified in the city's 2022-24 goals report. The city is negotiating with a property owner to acquire the nearly 45 acres of land, which would make this one of the city's largest parks.The land — owned by the Meade Family Real Estate Limited Partnership — is located above West Penn Street between N. Jones Boulevard and Highway 965.The city has more than 20 parks, including Centennial Park, which is the city's largest park. A map from the city shows each of the city's parks, along with service areas and where gaps exist.A moratorium on new utility-scale solar installations will be extended through March, the Linn County Board of Supervisors decided this week.The supervisors originally adopted the moratorium in October to last through Dec. 31 with the idea that it could be extended up to three times through 2023 while the county ordinance governing the solar projects is reviewed.The moratorium does not affect the already-approved solar projects near Palo and Coggon, which will continue. But applications for new projects will not be considered until the pause is over.“By the March deadline, we will have a better idea of how much time is actually needed,” Planning and Development Director Charlie Nichols said. “It won't be open ended like now. We should be close to completion or at least developed enough to know how much time we need.”

Join our hosts, Carl Newbanks and Kristi Ackley, in this classic episode as our guests share scary stories of will bequests gone wrong! Jim Dwyer and Nancy Brown have decades of experience working with nonprofits and donors to align charitable goals with mission and purpose. But these years of experience don't come without nightmare stories that would keep any development professional up at night.

For 9-11 .... Jim Dwyer, co-author of "102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers."

From 2006 - Jim Dwyer, a reporter for the New York Times, and co-author of "102 Minutes: the Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers." The book explores many of the stories of the thousands of people who managed to escape the World Trade Center on 9-11. We are replaying this on the 20th anniversary of that tragic day.

Topics include Catholics, car thieves, and the Moon on acid. Poems by Jim Dwyer, Doug Shields, Jack McCarthy, Gabrielle Boulianne, Wayne Miller, and Veronica Golos. Hosted by Doug Shields. Booth Announcer Jim Bratton. Music by What Army. First aired on KPSQ 97.3 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Syndicated on Pacifica and podcast at https://www.poetize.xyz/ and on your podcast app.

Topics include Catholics, car thieves, and the Moon on acid. Poems by Jim Dwyer, Doug Shields, Jack McCarthy, Gabrielle Boulianne, Wayne Miller, and Veronica Golos. Hosted by Doug Shields. Booth Announcer Jim Bratton. Music by What Army. First aired on KPSQ 97.3 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Syndicated on Pacifica and podcast at https://www.poetize.xyz/ and on your podcast app.

It's all about auxiliaries in higher education as Clayton Mitchell from Jefferson, Jim Dwyer from Arizona State and Kelsey Finn from NACAS join TJ in this Virtual AOA Conference in California.

Co-hosts Carl Newbanks and Kristi Ackley, reconnect with Jim Dwyer to share more scary stories of will bequests gone wrong! Jim's decades of experience working with nonprofits and donors have given him many nightmare stories that would keep any development professional up at night! Listeners might remember that Jim recently retired from St. John's University a liberal arts college in Central Minnesota.

Join our hosts, Carl Newbanks and Kristi Ackley, as our guests share scary stories of will bequests gone wrong! Jim Dwyer and Nancy Brown have decades of experience working with nonprofits and donors to align charitable goals with mission and purpose. But these years of experience don't come without nightmare stories that would keep any development professional up at night.

Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, died earlier this month. He was 63.Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Jim was drawn to stories about discrimination, wrongly convicted prisoners and society’s mistreated outcasts. From 2007, he wrote The Times’s “About New York” column — when asked whether he had the best job in journalism, he responded, “I believe I do.”Dan Barry, a reporter for The Times who also wrote for the column, has called Jim a “newsman of consequence” and “a determined voice for the vulnerable.” Today, he reads two stories written by Jim, his friend and colleague.These stories were written by Jim Dwyer and read by Dan Barry. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

John Pontacolone, Director of Finance for the City of New York, had just stepped out of the subway in time to see the North Towers hit by a screaming commercial airplane on September 11, 2001. It would take him nearly 10 hours to make it home to his wife Lillian and son. And it's a day they'll never forget. Please listen in as he recounts his 9/11 experience and what New Yorkers proved to the world in the days that followed. Also mentioned: "102 Minutes" by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn

In this episode, Nic and Amanda talk with Jim Dwyer from Alumni Relations to discover how alumni help students at SVSU. Be sure to stay to the end when we all get a little choked up by the "Irreverent Question of the Day".

James Dwyer is a professor of law at William & Mary Law School and the co-author of Homeschooling: The History & Philosophy of a Controversial Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Following the arc of Jim’s excellent book (co-authored with historian Shawn Peters), we discuss some foundational questions related to homeschooling, such as: What is the state’s role in family affairs? To what extent are children their own people? What basic human goods does every young person deserve to access? And most interestingly, what is the proper way to regulate homeschooling in the United States? Professor Dwyer received his law degree from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in political and moral philosophy from Stanford University. He teaches Family Law and Youth Law (among other subjects) and has authored a half dozen books and dozens of articles on child-welfare related topics.

Dr. Jim Dwyer, Chief of Emergency Medicine at No Westchester Hosp, discusses Covid-19 readiness, response and the disease. Must listen.

Dr. Jim Dwyer, chief of emergency medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital, gives all the latest info on readiness of staff and what to watch for. Must listen.

Another stellar episode of "The Lisa Wexler Show," listen to this piece (featured as our podcast on the WICC Web site) in which Lisa dedicates 30 minutes to speaking with Dr. Jim Dwyer of Westchester Hospital -Northern Westchester Hospital Chair of Emergency Medicine DR. JIM DWYER discusses COVID (0:10:45 - 0:36:40)

Two extremely interesting guests - Dr. Jim Dwyer who is the chair of emergency medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital, and Scott Appleby from the City of Bridgeport -Northern Westchester Hospital Chair of Emergency Medicine JIM DWYER discusses carbon monoxide poisoning (0:09:20 - 0:23:00) -City of Bridgeport Director of Emergency Management SCOTT APPLEBY discusses violence in the city (0:23:40 - 0:36:00)

ISCHEMIA trial hailed as practice changing The largest-ever RCT of initial invasive versus conservative management of stable ischemic heart disease makes waves. DAPA-HF: Dapagliflozin’s HFrEF efficacy confirmed in nondiabetics Further analyses from the DAPA-HF trial showed dapagliflozin cut death and heart failure events in HFrEF patients with no diabetes. Colchicine cut post-MI CVD events Colchicine fulfilled the promise first seem in CANTOS that anti-inflammatory treatment can reduce cardiovascular disease events. Getting high heightens stroke, arrhythmia risks Cannabis use or abuse among the young was associated with adverse cardiovascular consequences in two studies. Editor's note: This is the final episode of the MDedge Cardiocast. On behalf of Dr. Jim Dwyer and all of us at MDedge, thank you for supporting Cardiocast. For more MDedge podcasts, go to www.mdedge.com/podcasts.  Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeTweets

We introduce a brand new format with Jerome Dwyer, MD, brother of our host, Jim Dwyer, MD, for a new segment that we're calling 'Card Talk' where Dr. Jim and Dr. Jerry talk about the current clinical state of cardiology and take a peek into the future.  This week in cardiology news: Survival at ‘overweight’ BMI surpasses ‘normal’Data from more than 142,000 middle-aged people worldwide show those with a BMI of 25-29 outlast those at 20-24. Visceral fat linked to sixfold increase in masked hypertensionThe body mass index trend was not significant. New class of drug safely halved LDL cholesterol in ORION-11Inclisiran potently cut LDL cholesterol by inhibiting the PCSK9 enzyme with biannual injections.    

Jim Dwyer, a reporter for the New York Times, joins the show to discuss his article "The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five" and what we now know about this case.

Millions of rent-burdened Americans face eviction filings and proceedings every year. On this week’s On the Media, what we think we know, and what we definitely don’t know, about America’s eviction crisis. Plus, how local journalists failed the Central Park Five.  1. Jim Dwyer [@jimdwyernyt], columnist for The New York Times, on his experience reporting on the Central Park Five trial.  2. We hear the story of Jeffrey, a security guard in Richmond, Virginia whose severe rent burden caused his family to be evicted.  3. Matthew Desmond [@just_shelter], founder of the Eviction Lab, explains what he and his fellow researchers have learned from their massive collection of eviction data. 

Jim Dwyer, a reporter for the New York Times, was co-author of "102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers." This book, published in 2005, examines how thousands of people on 9-11 were able to escape the Twin Towers on that terrible morning before the Towers ultimately fell.

Jim Dwyer |102 Minutes     ABOUT THIS EPISODE On episode 2 of The Live Mike Podcast with Mike Romigh, Mike talks with Jim Dwyer, author of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers--a riveting collection of eyewitness accounts from inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center during the 102 minutes between the first impact to the second collapse on September 11, 2001.  Also appearing is KDKA investigative reporter Andy Sheehan, whose brother escaped the World Trade Center collapse. This episode was recorded September 09, 2018 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, with previously recorded content. Host: Mike Romigh.  Guest: Jim Dwyer, with Andy Sheehan.  Audiography: Kevin Farkas, Mike Romigh. Music (available on SoundCloud.com): HarbingerLoops (“Dreary Thoughts,” “Raven”).  Additional sound: “TSVP Memorial: God May Show You Mercy” (A creative audio memorial and remembrance of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, September 11, 2001. Composed in 2010. Featuring the voices of Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, President George W Bush, Senator Hillary Clinton, Representative Dick Gephardt, Senator John McCain, NYC first responders, Taliban representative, various eyewitnesses). ©The Live Mike Podcast/The Social Voice Project, Inc.  All rights reserved.     ABOUT THE PODCAST The Live Mike Podcast with Mike Romigh is an issues-oriented podcast about political life in Western Pennsylvania.  Although his personal views are left-of center, Mike welcomes meaningful conversations about topics from across the political spectrum. Mike Romigh is a noted broadcaster in Western Pennsylvania, with more than thirty years behind the microphone talking politics, sports, current events, local history, and entertainment.     OTHER WAYS TO FIND THE PODCAST jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('#slider_5270').owlCarousel({ responsive:{ 0:{ items:1 }, 480:{ items:2 }, 768:{ items:3 }, 980:{ items:4 }, 1200:{ items:4 }, 1500:{ items:4 } }, autoplay : true, autoplayTimeout : 5000, autoplayHoverPause : true, smartSpeed : 200, fluidSpeed : 200, autoplaySpeed : 200, navSpeed : 200, dotsSpeed : 200, loop : true, nav : true, navText : ['',''], dots : true, responsiveRefreshRate : 200, slideBy : 1, mergeFit : true, autoHeight : false, mouseDrag : true, touchDrag : true }); jQuery('#slider_5270').css('visibility', 'visible'); sa_resize_slider_5270(); window.addEventListener('resize', sa_resize_slider_5270); function sa_resize_slider_5270() { var min_height = '50'; var win_width = jQuery(window).width(); var slider_width = jQuery('#slider_5270').width(); if (win_width < 480) { var slide_width = slider_width / 1; } else if (win_width < 768) { var slide_width = slider_width / 2; } else if (win_width < 980) { var slide_width = slider_width / 3; } else if (win_width < 1200) { var slide_width = slider_width / 4; } else if (win_width < 1500) { var slide_width = slider_width / 4; } else { var slide_width = slider_width / 4; } slide_width = Math.round(slide_width); var slide_height = '0'; if (min_height == 'aspect43') { slide_height = (slide_width / 4) * 3; slide_height = Math.round(slide_height); } else if (min_height == 'aspect169') { slide_height = (slide_width / 16) * 9; slide_height = Math.round(slide_height); } else { slide_height = (slide_width / 100) * min_height; slide_height = Math.round(slide_height); } jQuery('#slider_5270 .owl-item .sa_hover_container').css('min-height', slide_height+'px'); } });     SUPPORT LOCAL PODCASTING Let’s keep local podcasting alive!  If you like our podcast, please help us continue this great entertaining and educational program.  Show your support by making a financial donation, underwriting the podcast,

In this episode, I am excited to have Jim Dwyer on to talk about how best to align your goals and values with your career experience. Jim believes that one of the core purposes of our short time here is to align the world around us, so we can live as meaningful a life as possible and help others do the same. Going into his third decade as an attorney, Jim is more committed than ever to the healing power listening can be for our clients. It's a force that is undervalued in the legal world. Jim grew up in a trial lawyer family. He is a personal injury lawyer and the managing partner of his law firm. Topics Covered Jim talks about how he started down the path of aligning his core values and intentions with his legal experience and knowledge to create the inspiration for Tipping the Scales. How Jim's mindset isn't about making problems (opposing counsel) disappear, but rather about not losing focus on your goals when in these tumultuous scenarios. How our fiduciary duties can translate to relationships outside of our firm and legal practice. For more information on Jim, find him at the following site: http://tipping-the-scales.com/ Sources mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Story-Justice-Redemption/dp/081298496X   Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! hello@jeenacho.com. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho For more information, visit: jeenacho.com Order The Anxious Lawyer book ? Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers I'm creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus 31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/ Transcript Jim Dwyer: [00:00:03] For me, the goal is how do I keep myself centered so I don't lose myself in a reactionary relationship with someone I don't like. Intro: [00:00:18] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho. Jeena Cho: [00:00:40] Hello my friends thanks for being with us today. In this episode I am so happy to have Jim Dwyer. Jim believes one of the core purposes of our short time here is to align the world around us so that we can live as meaningfully as possible and help others do the same. He's been practicing law for over three decades and he has committed more than ever to the healing power of listening to our clients. It's a force that is undervalued in the legal world of orderly agree with that. Jim grew up in a child lawyer family. He is a personal injury lawyer and managing partner of his law firm in Portland Oregon. And with that here's Jim. Jim welcome to the resilient lawyer I ask. Jim Dwyer: [00:01:25] Good morning Gene. As always good to be talking with you. Jeena Cho: [00:01:29] So let's start by having you give the audience a 30 second introduction to who you are and what you do. Jim Dwyer: [00:01:36] So in about the year 2000 I've moved up to Portland that's our pricing law. I woke up one morning and felt. Not internally happy about where I was in my life. And yet I looked around and I appeared to myself to have everything that should have made me happy. I still do have a wonderful marriage. I have two incredible children. I have a partner of up to practice law with I live in a house. I love the city I love. And yet inside of me was this lack of contentment. And it was very confusing to me. And what I realized just kind of thinking about it and sitting with why I was not happy with where I was when everything told me I should add is that I really felt like. [00:02:36] I needed that who I was fundamentally as a person was not being fully integrated into the practice of law. Russia another way of putting the practice of law I had not integrated into me living my best life. I compartmentalize years of practice of law. Here's me as a father. Here's me as a husband and I realized what I needed to do was align all of these critical relationships in my life to helping me. Live my best life which also meant in turn I was helping all those people do the exact same thing for them. And that's where tipping the scales I didn't realize at that time. That's where it was born from. Jeena Cho: [00:03:26] So you know as I'm listening to you tell your story I think a lot of lawyers would be like I can't seem to figure out a way to or they sort of realize that the way that they've been practicing lies really misaligned with their best selves or their true intentions. And they think this is an adequate law. Did that ever occur to you or anywhere you like this. Figure out how to make this work within the context of being a lawyer. Jim Dwyer: [00:03:53] Well when I that's a really interesting question because when I moved up from Eugene in 1990. I've been practicing law for nine years and I was really happy and I know. Am I unhappy because of where I'm practicing or how I'm practicing or am I just unhappy being a lawyer. And I mean I didn't know the answer to that question. And they decided you know rather than stopping practicing law why don't I start changing how I'm practicing law and discover. Whether. [00:04:33] Being a lawyer is consistent with me living my best life or not. And so it became kind of a grand experiment when I came up here interviewed 39 literally 39 attorneys before I found what I believed was the perfect attorney for me to practice law with who I've been with for 20 years now. Jeena Cho: [00:04:54] Wow. When did you start tipping the scales. Jim Dwyer: [00:04:59] Tipping the Scales started about five years ago. Jeena Cho: [00:05:04] Was that part of the interview process or were the interviews sort of for your own personal growth and knowledge. Jim Dwyer: [00:05:13] Oh the 39 interviews. Oh that was me actually trying to find the perfect place for me to land. I had my wife and I had given up so much to make this move up to Portland that I decided that I did not want to insult the sacrifice that really my wife and I made by just taking any job. If I was going to make this change that I needed to take the time to make sure that I landed in the right place. Jeena Cho: [00:05:57] Yeah. And what unfolded for you see you when an interviewer interviewed 29 lawyers. Why did you get out of the way. Did you learn or where did you get it. Jim Dwyer: [00:06:12] She was 39 lawyers and they didn't even know I was interviewing them either. I said my wife helped me come up this ingenious idea of calling lawyers up and saying I'm looking for work from Portland. I'm not. Looking to get hired by you but I just need to understand the Portland market which could take you out to lunch. Yeah because if I told them I was looking for work and they weren't looking for hire somebody well it wasn't going to work. [00:06:44] But everyone's really pretty willing to help people out. And so I don't have lunch and they didn't realize that I was learning about the market. I was also learning about that because I believe that I was going to be some recently I believe that I was going to be hired not by someone who was looking to hire. I would meet someone and we would so connect that we would make it work we'd find a way to make it work because of how we would connect. Which is exactly what happened. Actually. Jeena Cho: [00:07:23] So you on your part. Jim Dwyer: [00:07:26] Right. Jeena Cho: [00:07:28] Tell me about the lawyer Compass series. What is out about. Jim Dwyer: [00:07:32] So the lawyers compass was really born from the I D. I've always loved compasses for that it was because I grew up with my grandpa and we went fishing in high mountain lakes and hiking up and down rivers of central Oregon Trout Trout fly fishing. When I was young my Grandpa always had a compass with that in his pocket on his boat dashboard autist car Myhre you know those kind of like floating old school compasses that kind of float in the water and move as the car the boat moves. And I remember asking him Grandpa why do you have compasses everywhere. [00:08:20] And he said it's because I always want to know where I'm going. And that kind of always stuck with me this affinity for compasses and one thought five 0 7 years ago is in Hawaii and we're in Hawaii. You're on an island. You see compasses everywhere. Yeah. And I was looking at a compass and I saw it and thought flashed in my mind that was what a lawyer is. Compass looked like that would help me stay true to who I am and that's. Really where it was more from him. Jeena Cho: [00:09:03] You always say you know the type of lawyer that you were meant to be or you know really sort of aligning you pass this law to who you are. Like what does that mean. What does that look like in terms of those on a day to day basis. I was at the wall and looking at you and the way that you're working and let's say you know 10 years ago versus how you practice law. Now what's different. Jim Dwyer: [00:09:30] Sure. So this the center of a compass the center of the lawyers compass is the true self. And just like with an old school campus not like a digital compass you'd have on your phone an old school campus you can only take a troop bearing a true reading by standing still. At me moving you can't be running. You're not going to get a true reading. So the war the center of the lawyers compass is about understanding our true self and then integrating that meaningfully into the everyday ness of life. So an example of that would be a I consider myself a student of relationships and the relationships are one of the most powerful forces in my life. [00:10:31] And because of that I want to honor every relationship that I am in to the extent of whatever that relationship is obviously of my relationship with my wife is going to be different and their relationship with my client was going to be different with Eugene than it is with my law partner Dean. And so within each relationship my focus is on how do I bring the greatest meaning and value in this relationship to the person that I am in that relationship with. At that moment in time whether that's a phone call but a client meeting with a client face to face meeting with my law partner or my wife. So because relationships so powerful for me I want to honor them. And that's how I bring that aspect of me out into my everyday life. Jeena Cho: [00:11:33] I think that's probably easy to do with people that you like and respect them. I think that we tend to come across lots of different personalities and some personalities are very difficult to deal with it. Sure it does. How does that translate when your work. It's a very difficult opposing counsel. Jim Dwyer: [00:12:00] Well first off there's no way that a thing that I'm going to say is meant to imply that that I believe there's something we can do to dissipate all frustration dealing with a difficult person. I don't think that's actually possible. By acknowledging that I think that's all it's true. I can't make the person go away I pay a wife to or two but that's not going to happen. So for me the goal is how do I keep my self centered. [00:12:37] So I don't lose my self in a reaction relationship with someone I don't like. And I just have to keep focused on who I am and not be sort of like you're dealing with a difficult person sort of like an electorate Tim Holding a cattle prod right now they're just jabbing at you and it just every time it hits you it just makes you jump and it makes you angry. And that makes you want to. Be that back to them. Well that's just that's just I know where that puts me that puts me in a in a downward spiral cycle that is never going to serve me and never going to serve my client ever. So that simply requires self discipline. [00:13:34] And control. And not taking things. Personally I think for me that's the biggest lesson all of us to not take things personally. That attorney who's jabbing me with a cattle prod he or she is not jabbing me because I am Jim Dwyer jabbing me because I'm the opposing side and that's just what they do. I'm a fungible good. For them jabbing at so I don't really take it personally because honestly it's about them and not me. And that helps kind of lower that. That had that intensity inside of me because I could see them like Heintze repairing the deposition. When you start answering questions when you're angry or mad that's when you're going to say things you wish you never said and you can't take it back. Right. Yeah. That applies to me as well as my core I have. Jeena Cho: [00:14:37] But yeah I you think just telling someone like well you know just don't take it personally. It's only like it's entered into me. There is like this tone of I mean it's almost like principle Don't be angry like or get over it. Jim Dwyer: [00:14:52] Right. Jeena Cho: [00:14:54] That's say. What does that actually look like you know so you're on the phone with opposing counsel and he has just unreasonably. I mean not agreeing to give me an extension on something that's like that's not even important or I don't know exactly what that dispute is. So when you say like well you know I don't take it personally like there are there like me that use other tools and you know what does that actually. How does that translate in how can someone you know get better at that practice of not taking things so personally. Jim Dwyer: [00:15:28] Right. So for some reason for me understanding that they're not doing what they are doing because I am Jim Dwyer helps me. Get rid of my anger about a not like oh I'm at peace it's all fine. Say what you want to you can't ruffle my feathers. That's a bunch of B.S. because I'm not happy. I don't like it. So just because I'm feeling that does not mean I'm going to react or act from that place of the discipline of being a professional is to understand the separate yourself out from that. And what I just try to do is because once you get sucked up into it you're wrong in the gutter Yeah. And how do you advocate for your client rolling in the gutter. I I don't know. So I still have frustration inside me that this person is being a teacher to me. I'm just not going to be upping the ante and I'm doing. And that helps me just. Keep me from vaporizing inside really vaporize. Then I say things I wish I hadn't have said. Jeena Cho: [00:16:47] Yeah. Jim Dwyer: [00:16:49] OK you don't have to respond. Most of the time responding isn't going to change what they do. It's only going to make you more mad and you lose your bearings and you don't do a good job. It's fight or flight. And as attorneys we're not. Taught to fly we are trained to fight. And so there's kind of a third way inside of that and that is I don't say anything. They are waiting for you to respond. They are. They have just jab you with that cattle prod and now you're supposed to play your part. I don't play that part. And that is very empowering. And that throws them off I believe internally it throws them off because they don't know what to do. I'm going off script and they don't know what to do. There's a lot of power literally in that. Jeena Cho: [00:17:53] Thing not allowing the other person's behavior to dictate what your response is going to be. Just as you said it this empowers them. And whereas if you kind of give them the reaction that they want then they know they can just continue to hold you and they say well you know it's like oh off at work. So I mean you had a few more times and get some more reaction out of them than the lawyers that sort of engage in these jerks like behaviors you they do it because it works. Jim Dwyer: [00:18:23] Yes right. That's right. I mean you know they always say whether whatever sport you're playing it's like don't lose your cool when you lose your cool you lose your sense and your ability to function as your at your best. And that is not easy because everything in you as an attorney because you're not taught to fly. Everything is taught you to fight. Jeena Cho: [00:18:50] Yeah. So true. So you've been practicing law for a little bit. Is that the practice of law teach you about relationships and why they declined. Jim Dwyer: [00:19:07] Well you know I actually believe that lawyers it is we are actually given a roadmap or a blueprint. To relationships. And it's ironic that the profession that is so often and legitimately maligned by society as to how they treat their clients actually are the holders of a blueprint or a road map to relationships. And it's something that we all know that that was we started learning in law school. That is the three fiduciary duties that we owe our client. Full and frank disclosure. Duty of care. And duty of loyalty. [00:20:00] And if you think about those are three object ways of understanding relationships and if a relationship fails be it with a client as an attorney or your spouse or a friend or your children. I guarantee you at least to one of those three are going to be at the root of why that relationship failed. So if I'm looking to strengthen a relationship since I value relationships and I look at the relationship with my law partner it's like how do I communicate to him how important our relationship is to me. [00:20:50] Well full and frank disclosure I let him know how much I value him. I also let him know when what he is doing is bothering me because if I ignore the problems and only acknowledge the positive it's going to either eventually fail. Or going to limp along and never be what it really could've been. And then we have a duty of care. That's our actual action. How am I doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing to show that that relationship is. Important to me my pulling my weight. [00:21:35] Which is completely different from full and frank disclosure. Yeah. And then finally his loyalty and you know loyalty I think loyalty is one of the most powerful forces in our lives because it allows us to see beyond what our rational brain tells us is true what our eyes tell us is true what we hear in our ears. That allows us to transcend the senses and see more of what is possible to see the best in someone in a difficult situation. It is readily powerful and it's there at our disposal. Jeena Cho: [00:22:18] Yeah and if we think about it and use it you know that's such a beautiful framing and I think that I ever really thought about our duties as lawyers and how that can translate into just every aspect of our lives and can actually help us be better lawyers but also better spouses and friends and significant others and parents and to for and love. Jim Dwyer: [00:22:44] There's so much mystery in a relationship. Chemistry is how people get along but it's not just all chemistry. Sort of like being a doctor. There is there is a science of being a doctor and there's the art of being a doctor and the fiduciary duties is the art of relationships and if you if you want to dig into that then you can do that. Jeena Cho: [00:23:18] Lay your hopes for our profession and society. Jim Dwyer: [00:23:25] We are trained we are trained technicians to understand the if you're ever a doctor you are trained in the science of medicine. If you are an attorney you are trained in our science of understanding all the technical aspects whether it be a statute or case law about being an attorney. And we have seminars we have magazines we have law school we have we have awards where we award people for there are technical which is not easy technical accomplishment. [00:24:04] I'm not trying to put the less than that or say it's not important. It is when that's all we are focusing in on. We are missing the soul of law. When my clients come to see me I can look at this and say I'm a persons are well you know they're here because they're injured and my job is to get them money. And I I do my job by getting them the most money I can. That is so not true. It is terrifying. And my clients may not even understand what actual justice is and how it feels. But if I understand the emotional part of justice was being treated fairly and respectfully and being honored as a person is all about I am that conduit. All of us individually are this conduit of bringing the soul of law into the experience of our clients. [00:25:06] When we have awards and seminars and training and law school that deals with this human relationship dynamic though the art of listening because it is an art it is not easy then we will see. I believe the satisfaction of lawyers going up clients and a gradual change in how society views the law and lawyers. Jeena Cho: [00:25:36] Now when you say the soul of law and we'll talk about that what does that mean to you. Jim Dwyer: [00:25:43] The whole form means to me the emotional experience the feeling of law. Laws are meant to protect us to keep us safe to have rules that everyone knows how to operate ideally within and keep within those for an orderly safe society. All of that actually has to do with each of our individual sort of fruition. It's all about about individuals becoming the best that they are able to within the society that and culture that they live within. And as lawyers when we're just focusing on being the best technician and for getting the heart of why someone is coming in as they are they feel injured they feel hurt they feel wronged whether you're a criminal lawyer bankruptcy family law. [00:26:50] It doesn't make a difference. There is something hurting inside that person that is bringing them to you. And as lawyers were trained to deal with that technical part. Well here's what the rules say. This is what the law says. This is what I can do. And that's great we're doing our job. But there is so much more that we can do and how our clients experience the law through us. I can get a client from the best settlement on the face of the earth and they can leave I'm satisfied on feeling treated fairly respectfully and honored. Jeena Cho: [00:27:33] Yeah. Yeah I think so often what our clients really want is some kind of closure or an apology. Or you know just the sense that like someone heard them you know. And I know and I often just feel like we miss Ed because we just focus on you know how are we going to divide the pie how are we going to get x number of dollars and insight and give it to my client exactly. Jim Dwyer: [00:28:02] Exactly. And then they are looking for that. And that's part of what we have to deliver. But just like a doctor with terrible bedside manners who is great accurately what they're doing there's not a feeling of completeness that transaction they go into a restaurant having a best food served by hook hook created by the chef and they have the worst service like. I'm not going back there. The food was awesome. The service was horrible. It was a terrible experience. I didn't like it at all. It's like that's kind of what happens with lawyers. And that's our response we're responsible for that. Jeena Cho: [00:28:47] Yeah. Jim Dwyer: [00:28:50] You had referred on Facebook you were talking about the book just mercy. Wow. Wow. Talk about someone who is a master technician in the law and never got the sole. Jeena Cho: [00:29:10] Right. Jim Dwyer: [00:29:11] That that that man is an evil power that came from his guilty to soul fully connect with his clients. At the same time being a master technician. Yeah right. That's what makes that's what makes him so powerful. And each one of us can be that in our own right. So I read a book and somehow that got me searching and I found a book The Book of joy which is written by Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. And it's a wonderful read. [00:29:54] And there's a quote in there that I want to read to is I read this really made me think about you and it said discovering more this is Desmond Tutu saying discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact we may cry more easily but we will laugh more easily to perhaps we are more just alive. Yet as we discover more joy we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than him Vitters we have hardship without becoming hard. And we have heartbreak without becoming broken. And that that really hit a very deep place within me and it made me really also think a lot about you and the great work that you do helping lawyers find more satisfaction and happiness and. In their life through being mindful meditation is such a big part of I start every one of my mornings with meditation and some days I meditate really great and other days my head is higher meditation really helpful. [00:31:29] I can't even stop may break them for 20 minutes. Like I said this is a practice. Yeah. Some days you practice better than you practice other. Jeena Cho: [00:31:41] And then that happens to me all day that happened to me. Yes. The day I you know I often like I'll do some sort of concentration practice I'll just cannot determine and start back back up at one and not once I get past three and it's I don't. Jim Dwyer: [00:31:56] Have you know I think people who are just starting out meditation think well if I'm supposed to just be having this perfect blissful experience like I don't know not really. And sometimes you hit that they have. But lots of times you don't. It's still a practice of what you're where you're trying to get to and you just keep plugging away. But yeah. Jeena Cho: [00:32:22] Oh really, yeah. So I mean I think two lessons you know really go check out just that book hands the first book I read in the last decade and it will change my life. And you know there's this part of the book where he is sitting on the phone with someone and they have they lost all appeals and he is going to be executed very shortly. Jim Dwyer: [00:32:49] You know the next Yeah. Right over the phone call. Jeena Cho: [00:32:53] Yeah. And he says you know why don't we want to kill all the broken people. And he goes on to say you know but we're all broken right. And I think just kind of recognizing that like to be human is to recognize our own broken ness and and also in others and to hold that with compassion. And I. Oh my gosh. And you know and the other thing that I don't think I'll ever forget from that book is you know he's part of this person who is about to be executed and of course you know Brian just feels like he has completely failed you know. [00:33:32] And right in the and the and the person says You know I just want to thank you Brian for believing in me and for fighting for me. And I think that's also part of a lot that we often forget as intercropping take on the other person is not dependent on the outcome. Jim Dwyer: [00:33:52] That's right. We can give a great outcome and destroy it by how we treated them. That's where we lose kind of the soul of law Brian and not just Mercy was able just to perfectly aligned to be the consummate professional where he's a technician and focused on the soul they are both equally important. And when we combine those two that's that is a force to be reckoned with and each one of us can be that force to be reckoned with and our own rights in our own lives. Jeena Cho: [00:34:28] Does it mean to be easily that way. Jim Dwyer: [00:34:35] would say a resilient lawyer means that in the face of all of the challenges and complexities and mastery that that the law demands of us to really be the advocate the technical advocate that our client clients need that we do not lose and forget our humanity. At the same time. Jeena Cho: [00:35:08] Europol. Jim thank you so much for being with me today. Really appreciate it. Jim Dwyer: [00:35:14] It's always great talking with you. Jeena Cho: [00:35:16] You know that and for the veterans that want to learn more about you check out your blog Royds. Most the best way can count Sure. Jim Dwyer: [00:35:28] So if a little bit of a little complex what's called Tipping the Scales dot com. But there's a hyphen on each side of the so tipping the tipping hyphen. Hyphen scales dot com Krait. Jeena Cho: [00:35:42] And we will link to that. Jim Dwyer: [00:35:45] Get them have a blog post on that. I'm posting now for four and a half years. Jeena Cho: [00:35:51] I love that you do that and just appreciate your thoughtfulness. Yeah I think it's so easy to just kind of go on autopilot and just be assigned and aren't generating more income but you. Jim Dwyer: [00:36:07] Really just have Yeager's in the very demanding you know much to do. It's like how do you do anything else. Jeena Cho: [00:36:15] And just appreciate your insights. An unnamed woman thank you for sharing it with the audience. Hey thank you. Jim Dwyer: [00:36:24] I feel the same way about you. You know that, absolutely. Closing: [00:36:36] Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It's really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that, so we really appreciate it. As always, we'd love to hear from you. E-mail us at smile@theanxiouslawyer.com. Thanks and look forward to seeing you next week.

Beyond Blade Runners and Replicants, there must be a place “Over the Rainbow” for us to exist in solidarity and equanimity. And certainly, the 21st Century hovering above us should be a cause for hope, not despair; yet even with this new century being no way near its quartermark, it's already given us a planet wheezing from ecological crisis-to-crisis, where an untenable economic system of neo-feudalism ravages plants and animals, as well as the rights of those we love (or should love). In the Terror & Twilight of Our Broken Age, what ideology best speaks and acts from a place made from compassion and love? Instead of passively looking at the new century that hangs in the sky, blinking obliquely above us, we should instead reorganize our motions to The North Star of Human Decency, namely that of Anarchy. For this 21st episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse will finally come out of the “political closet” and show some raw & real skin: they are both Anarchists Without Adjectives, and they believe that this ideology of love is the only practical solution to the world's byzantine disorders, fraught with confusion, warbling on without a just antidote. In their most personal and revealing podcast since the show's first episode, Jesse & Matt explore their disparate journeys to humanity's greatest romance, Anarchy; they will describe its origin story, its turbulent relationship with authoritarian communists and how this political philosophy is not only the most idealist of ideologies, but also why it's the only one which can ride inside us--whispering out “hope” for a utopian future. HELPFUL RESOURCE GUIDES ABOUT ANARCHY: The Most Popularly Cited and Shared Introduction to Anarchy: David Graeber's “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” Thomas Giovanni in the Black Rose Anarchist Confederation: “Who Are the Anarchists and What Is Anarchism?” Have More Specific Questions? Go to An Anarchist FAQ from The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective. The Anarchist Library: A Deep Database and Archive of Out-of-Print & Hard-to-Find Articles, Books, Speeches and Interviews on Anarchy America's Legendary AK Press, Which Runs as a Worker-Cooperative Since 1990, and Publishes Important as well as Far Reaching Works of Political Theory, Journalism, Fiction and Non-Fiction Works. 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An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840) Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: God and the State (1882) Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: The Conquest of Bread (1892) & Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) Emma Goldman (1869-1940) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: Living My Life (1931) David Graeber (1961 & Still Kicking) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) & The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (2013) MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Judy Garland's “Over the Rainbow” & Where to Watch the Legendary Film in All of Its Proto-Camp Glory The Legendary Theme Song for the Reading Rainbow & Where to Watch the Show in All of Its Kid-Camp Fury Anarchists and Molotov Cocktails! Why Do Black Lives Matter? Why Do Comrades Lives Matter? 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Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.” An Online Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, Generated from Questions by Readers of The Guardian: “Chronicles of Earthsea” The Rules of Being a Mormon in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or Mormon Church) In Ask Gramps: “Do I Need to Confess Masturbation to My [LDS] Baptist?” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: “Why and What Do I Need to Confess to My Bishop?” {Which Basically Avoids Mentioning All the Sex and Dirty Parts in Case Readers Become Too Inspired} Catholic Online: “A Guide to Confession” Terry Eagleton in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In Praise of Marx” Karl Marx's Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Originally Published in 1867; This Was Translated & Reprinted in 1992) David Harvey: A Companion to Karl Marx's Capital (2010) Louis Menand in The New Yorker: “Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today” Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011) Rachel Holmes' Eleanor Marx: A Life (2015) Ralph Nader's Most Notable Works:   Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think (2016) The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012) “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us”: A Novel (2011) A Fantastic Essay on Barack Obama's Patina-Presidency: “The Gap Between Rhetoric and Action: The Failed Foreign Policy of Barack Obama” Matthew Snyder's Ph.D. Dissertation: Welcome to the Suck: The Film and Media Phantasm's of The Gulf War (2008) Noam Chomsky's Most Notable Works on Politics & Anarchy: On Anarchism (2013) Who Rules the World? (2016) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media (1988; 2002) Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration and Power (2017) On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (1998) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2007) Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002) The Anarchist Library: Workers' Solidarity Federation's “History of the Anarchist-Syndicalist Trade Union” The Anarchist Library: Rudolph Rocker on Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in “The Reproduction of Daily Life” Mikhail Bakunin, The Founder of Modern Anarchism: Mark Leier's Bakunin: The Creative Passion (2009) America's Most Famous Anarchist & Greatest Dissident; as Seen in Candace Falk's Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman (1990), and Also in Kevin and Paul Avrich's Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman (2012) Michael Albert, the co-founder of Participatory Economics (Parecon): as Seen in the Graphic Novel-ization Parecon: Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thomspon's Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics (2013) The Big Think: “Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy?” Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003) & Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society (KAIROS) (2017) Andrew Anthony in The Guardian: “Ex-diplomat Carne Ross: The Case for Anarchism” IMDb: John Archer and Clara Glynn's The Accidental Anarchist (About Carne Ross' Epiphany Toward Anarchy After Becoming Disillusioned of Serving State Power) Biola Magazine: “What Are the Key Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity?” Jehovah's Witnesses (JW.org): “What Happens at a Kingdom Hall?” Reddit: “How to Make Molotov Cocktails”  (!!!) David Graeber's Most Famous Essay on Anarchism: “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” The Anarchist Library: “An Anarchist FAQ” Bakunin on Karl Marx's Idea of Socialism Within the State: “A dictatorship of the proletariat is still a dictatorship.” The Anarchist Library: Wayne Price's “In Defense of Bakunin and Anarchism” (Responses to Herb Gamberg's Attacks on Anarchism) The First International (AKA the International Workingmen's Association) The Socialist International David Harvey's Most Recent Work: Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017) David Graeber's Idea of Baseline Communism Is Fully Explored in His Most Important Work: Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Lord of the Rings & Gandalf's Anxiety & Terror of the Rings Corrupting Powers: “Don't Tempt Me Frodo!” Jonathan Franzen About Those Facebook “likes” in The New York Times: “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.” Jim Dwyer's Article on Marina Abramovic's Art Project to Stare at People, Eye-to-Eye, Twenty Minutes Each for Hours and Hours; As Explored in The New York Times: “Confronting a Stranger, for Art” Buzzfeed: “Watch Six Pairs Stare Into Each Others' Eyes as a Love Experiment” The Guardian: “Literary Fiction Readers Understand Others' Emotions Better, Study Finds” Annie Murphy Paul in Time Magazine: “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer” Adam Gopnik Explores the Paris Commune in The New Yorker: “The Fires of Paris” The Anarchist Library: Murray Bookchin's “To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936” Noted Correction: Matthew incorrectly stated that members of Congress receive lifetime pension after only being in office one term (two years); In actuality, members of congress receive pension after five years (but Senators do get pensions after just one term of six years). For more information on this, go to FactCheck.org's article on the subject. Margaret Atwood's Interview on Canada's Q TV Where She Discusses Her Creation of God's Gardeners in The Year of the Flood (2009) & How Environmental Activists Must Make Friends with the Religious for a Truly Big Tent Movement to Save the Planet; Also Talks About the Split Between Christian Fundamentalists & Environmental Christians Who View Humans as Stewards of the Earth. Jessica Alexander in The Atlantic: “America's Insensitive Children?” {How Schools in Denmark Teach Students Empathy From a Young Age} Kevin Carson in Center for a Stateless Society: “Libertarian-splaining to the Poor” Learning About Worker Cooperatives: A Working Definition from the Canadian Worker Co-Op Federation Alana Semuels in The Atlantic: “Worker-Owned Cooperatives: What Are They?” National Community Land Trust Network: An FAQ About Community Land Trusts Mikhail Bakunin: “To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.” {For More Quotes by Bakunin, Hit Up His Wikiquote} The Future Is A Mixtape's First Three Episodes Exploring The Poison Pyramid: What Jesse Calls An Unconsciously Inspired Anarchist Idea-Shape: Episode 001: The Desire For Certainty: On the Terrifying Costs of Religious Tyranny Upon Humanity Episode 002: The Invisible Hand: Explores the Death-Dealing Nature of Capitalism Episode 003: Star-Fuckers: Concerns Our Toxic Relationship to the Cult of Celebrity-Worship Mikhail Bakunin's Quote on God as a Bad Boss: "A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” Vivir la utopía: Juan A. Gamera's Documentary on the Anarchist Revolution in Catalonia: Living Utopia (1997) Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892: 2017 Edition Translated by Jonathan-David Jackson) Utopia As Seen George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia Where He Describes How Everyday Workers Were in the Saddle of the 1936 Revolution: "The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009) Why is it that the German Air-Bombings during WWII (The Blitz) caused suicide rates to plummet so dramatically? British scientists discover the reason as seen in The Telegraph's article: “Terror Attacks Cause Drop in Suicide Rates as They Invoke Blitz Spirit” PBS NewsHour: “Sebastian Junger's Tribe Examines Loyalty, Belonging and the Quest for Meaning” How Spending $25 on Others (Instead of Keeping It for Yourself) Creates More Happiness; as Seen in The New Republic Interview with Scientists: “Want to Be Happy? Stop Being Cheap!” Time Magazine: “Do We Need $75,000 a Year to Be Happy?” The US Military-Industrial-Complex: $700 Billion on Murder and Machinery: Alex Emmons in The Intercept: “The Senate's Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free” Armistead Maupin: “There is your biological family and then your logical family.” As Seen in His Autobiography, Logical Family: A Memoir Is Kamala Harris America's Future President or Just Another Transactional Politician Buried in Corporate Money? Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Basic Dividend (UBD)? Matthew Bruenig's Essay-Report: “How Norway's State Manages Its Ownership Of Companies” (From the People's Policy Project) Michael Zannettis in The People's Policy Project: “Why Americans Are Going to Love Single Payer” Alan Moore's Most Important Works, Both Past and Present: Watchman (Released in 1986-87; Reprinted 2014) V for Vendetta (Released in 1989; Reprinted in 2008 Jerusalem: A Novel (Hardback Release: 2016 & It's 1280 Pages!) From Hell (2004) When V for Vendetta was published it was seen as an SF allegory for Margaret Thatcher's World Gone Mad; As Seen in George Monbiot's Excellent Essay in The Guardian: “Neoliberalism -- the Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems” But There's A World We Can Have from the Anarchist Principles of Mutual Aid, Solidarity and Community Wealth: Marcin Jakubowski's Open Source Ecology Project & It's Philosophy The Making of “America's Most Radical City” as Explored with the Founding of Cooperation Jackson; Jackson's History of This Struggle Is Also Explored in Ajamu Nangwaya & Kali Akuno's Book  Jackson Rising (2017) Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website . . . The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Are runners in the movies and on TV ... realistic enough for you? Dave and Rob dive into that in this week's episode of #RunIowa. We also feature our talk with the Iowa Running Company (a brand-new running store in Cedar Rapids) owners Jim Dwyer and Clifton Smith. Our of the Weeks are back with tips on "acting" like a movie-star runner and the Loessfest 5k and Half!  Thanks for joining us, subscribing, and reviewing! And check out RunIowa.org for all sorts of cool information and running gear in our running store https://runiowa.itemorder.com/sale 

The groundbreaking humor magazine National Lampoon was published from its New York City headquarters from 1970 through 1988, a time which encompassed some of the city’s most beloved and troubled eras. With the release of Douglas Tirolas documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, writers and artists from the Lampoon discuss what it was like working for the famed publication. The conversation, which features Tony Hendra, Sam Gross, Peter Kleinman and Douglas Tirola was moderated by Jim Dwyer and recorded in front of a live audience on September 10, 2015 at New York's 92nd Street Y.

The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program is the largest school based father engagement program in the nation with over 4000 schools participating. James F. Dwyer is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. While a cadet, he attended the U.S. Army Paratrooper School at Fort Benning, Georgia and earned his jump wings in the summer of 1978. He also served in the U.S. Army as an armored cavalry officer in the 2nd Squadron of the 9th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Stewart, Georgia from 1981 until 1984. After leaving the Army, he worked as trader on Wall Street for nine years before leaving for Sandy Springs, Georgia where he worked as a stock broker for another nine years with A.G. Edwards & Sons. He left the financial world after 9-11 and became a firefighter with the City of Atlanta Fire Rescue Department at the age of forty-six. He has been with this department for ten years and has worked as a part-time firefighter for seven years with the Sandy Springs Fire Rescue Department as well. He is married to his wife, Meryl, and they have four dogs and two cats at home in Acworth, Georgia. Jim and Meryl belong to Freedom Church, a non-denominational Christian church in Acworth and on Sundays he participates in a bible study program for inmates at the local jail. This is his first literary work and he is currently working on the second book of his three-part series about the battle of Tarawa. Each week, WatchDOGS Radio host Keith Schumacher and co-host Chris Danenhauer discuss how this program is impacting families and schools across our nation and in four foreign countries. Please join our audience and call in with your questions and comments.  

You wouldn't know it from watching CSI, but forensic science may not be so scientific after all. In recent years the use of DNA evidence has exposed just how badly traditional crime lab techniques can fail, helping to convict the innocent while the guilty go free. Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and columnist for the New York Times, has been covering wrongful convictions and DNA-based exonerations for years. He and I talked about the many ways conventional forensics can go wrong, as described and demonstrated in his recent eBook "False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt and Science."

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not exist before September 11, 2001. In this episode, we look back at the bills that created these new government agencies. Links to Information in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Music: Homeland Security Blues by Spartacus Jones (found on Music Alley by mevio) The Department of Homeland Security was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (signed into law on November 25, 2002). Democracy Now episode from November 26, 2002: President Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law. Contains an interview with Joan Claybrook, former President of Public Citizen The stated purpose was to consolidate all departments related to "homeland security" into one cabinet in response to the September 11 attacks. Twenty-two agencies were brought into the new department: New $4.5 billion Department of Homeland Security headquarter complex only houses the Coast Guard; they just moved over the last few weeks. The Homeland Security Act was passed after many members of a lame duck Congress had left for vacation; corporate friendly provisions were slipped into the bill. Section 201, paragraph 14 orders the Department of Homeland Security to start data-mining: "To establish and utilize, in conjunction with the chief information officer of the Department, a secure communications and information technology infrastructure, including data-mining and other advanced analytical tools, in order to access, receive, and analyze eta and information in furtherance of the responsibilities under this section, and to disseminate information acquired and analyzed by the Department, as appropriate." Democracy Now episode from November 21, 2002 Contains a Pentagon press conference by Pete Aldridge, then Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, during which he explains the plan for Total Information Awareness Contains an interview with Gail Russell Chaddock, author of an Christian Science Monitor article about the creation of the Department of Homeland Security Total Information Awareness programs were split up and transferred to private contractors hired by the NSA. What are fusion centers? "According to government documents, the fusion centers collect cell phone numbers, insurance claims, credit reports, financial records, and names of relatives and associates. The information is shared among law enforcement officials nationwide." - Democracy Now, April 3, 2008 Fusions centers collect state and local information from license plate readers Secure Communities collects the fingerprints of everyone who has been arrested Private intelligence companies such as Stratfor do surveillance work for private corporations, the Department of Homeland Security, the military, and intelligence agencies. Democracy Now episode from October 3, 2012 Contains details on a Senate report that concluded Department of Homeland Security fusion centers to be "useless" [caption id="" align="alignright" width="275"] Border Patrol drones (Source: DHS.gov)[/caption] Democracy Now episode from May 4 2006 about immigration prisons Contains and interview with Judy Greene, justice policy analyst for Justice Strategies The Transportation Security Administration was created by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act signed into law on November 19, 2001. The act federalized airport security. Democracy Now episode from October 15, 2001 Contains information about the Bush administrations resistance to federalizing airport security Contains information on Argenbright Security, the private security company which failed to detect the 9/11 hijackers at Newark International Airport and Washington-Dulles International Airport. Watch the September 11 hijackers walked by - not through- the metal detectors monitored by employees of Argenbright Security. Huntleigh, the subsidiary of Israeli firm ICTS International, was the security firm at Boston Logan airport on September 11, 2001. Both of the planes that hit the World Trade Center in New York City originated from Boston Logan International Airport & all the hijackers went undetected through security managed by Huntleigh. After airport screening operations were federalized, Huntleigh sued the United States for it's lost business, calling the federalization "unfair". The Screening Partnership Program allows airport security operations to be re-privatized. Sixteen airports currently have private security. Section 147 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act limited liability for the owners and operators of the World Trade Center and New York City for the events of September 11: (b) EXTENSION OF LIABILITY RELIEF TO AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS- Section 408 of that Act is amended-- (1) by striking `air carrier' in the section heading; (2) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: `(a) IN GENERAL- `(1) LIABILITY LIMITED TO INSURANCE COVERAGE- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, liability for all claims, whether for compensatory or punitive damages or for contribution or indemnity, arising from the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001, against an air carrier, aircraft manufacturer, airport sponsor, or person with a property interest in the World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001, whether fee simple, leasehold or easement, direct or indirect, or their directors, officers, employees, or agents, shall not be in an amount greater than the limits of liability insurance coverage maintained by that air carrier, aircraft manufacturer, airport sponsor, or person. `(2) WILLFUL DEFAULTS ON REBUILDING OBLIGATION- Paragraph (1) does not apply to any such person with a property interest in the World Trade Center if the Attorney General determines, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing on the record, that the person has defaulted willfully on a contractual obligation to rebuild, or assist in the rebuilding of, the World Trade Center. `(3) LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY FOR NEW YORK CITY- Liability for all claims, whether for compensatory or punitive damages or for contribution or indemnity arising from the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001, against the City of New York shall not exceed the greater of the city's insurance coverage or $350,000,000. If a claimant who is eligible to seek compensation under section 405 of this Act, submits a claim under section 405, the claimant waives the right to file a civil action (or to be a party to an action) in any Federal or State court for damages sustained as a result of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001, including any such action against the City of New York. The preceding sentence does not apply to a civil action to recover collateral source obligations.'; and (3) by adding at the end of subsection (c) the following: `Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to civil actions to recover collateral source obligations. Nothing in this section shall in any way limit any liability of any person who is engaged in the business of providing air transportation security and who is not an airline or airport sponsor or director, officer, or employee of an airline or airport sponsor.'. Domestic Security Bill Riles 9-11 Families, New York Times, November 26, 2002. Information regarding the history of the World Trade Center construction, New York City building codes, and the death tolls from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were from The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Keven Flynn. Democracy Now episode from September 1, 2005: Hurricane Katrina exposed the dis-function of the Department of Homeland Security Contains an interview with Matthew Brzezinski, author of "Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security-An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State." Representatives Quoted in this Episode Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin (clip from House floor, November 16, 2001) Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland (clip from House floor, November 22, 2002)