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Special guest John Withrow returns to recount his grueling adventure at the Margie Gessick race—a notorious 110-mile mountain biking marathon with a staggering 70% Did Not Finish rate. Known for its rocky and root-filled trails in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this race demanded intense physical and mental endurance. John opens up about the unique challenges he encountered this year compared to past races like the Leadville Trail 100, and how family dynamics influenced his decision to take on such a monumental challenge. We explore the mindset necessary to push through the exhaustion and obstacles, highlighting the personal sacrifices and strategic planning that went into this endeavor. Our conversation shifts to the critical topic of fueling and pacing strategies during these extreme endurance events. I discuss my own experiences, revealing my decision to sometimes walk instead of run to conserve energy and the complexities of maintaining proper nutrition on a technical course. An oversight led to a challenging four-hour stretch with minimal intake, underscoring the importance of listening to the advice of supporters like Joe Wilcox. Discover the small but impactful adjustments, such as taking quick snack breaks, that can significantly enhance performance and endurance. Finally, we reflect on the mix of unexpected challenges and triumphs that make these races unforgettable. From brake issues that turned pit stops into high-stakes moments reminiscent of NASCAR to the satisfaction of overtaking fellow racers, the episode captures the spirit of resilience. We share thoughts on the importance of preparation, the exhilaration of maintaining momentum, and lessons learned for future races. Amidst playful banter and recovery plans, we also touch on the potential for more ordinary events next year, bringing the conversation to a light-hearted conclusion filled with camaraderie and anticipation for future adventures.

Discover the harrowing story of the 1967 Denali expedition, where two groups merged into the ill-fated Wilcox Expedition. Led by Joe Wilcox, this journey turned into the deadliest climbing disaster in American history, with a lethal storm claiming the lives of 7 out of the 12 climbers. Tune in to hear this gripping tale of adventure and tragedy. #MountainClimbing #Denali #WeirdHistory #WilcoxExpedition #1967DenaliDisaster #MountMcKinley #ClimbingTragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host:  Mindy McCulley, Extension Specialist for Instructional Support, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension, University of Kentucky Guests: Dr. Nichole Huff, Extension Specialist for Family Finance and Resource Management, Joe Wilcox, KY Saves 529 Institutional Relationship Manager, with Ascensus Government Savings Special Edition Episode: MoneyWi$e 3, Season 4 For more information about Kentucky Saves visit: KY Saves Website For more information about MoneyWi$e, visit: MoneyWi$e Newsletter MoneyWi$e Website MoneyWi$e Facebook Page

An interview with Don Cummer, author of the “Jake and Eli” series set during the War of 1812: Brothers at War; A Hanging Offence; and Blood Oath. Hear about Don's love of historical characters, his thoughts on the business of writing and publishing, and his collection of beautifully polished first chapters for books he hasn't finished. (I have such a collection myself.) 25 minutes. All ages. A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca. Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:20] Interview with Don Cummer DC: Do I plan things beforehand? History plans it for me …. In order to get characters to the final line where history says they have to be, I have to steer them on all kinds of different directions that they don't want to go. … History tells you where your finish line is and it tells you where the race course is, but it doesn't tell you how to run that race. [2:40] DC: The essence of storytelling is conflict. … there's always that opportunity to just use your imagination and just say, Okay, how can this be made worse? How can you raise the jeopardy? …   [3:40] CA: How do you feel about tormenting your characters? DC: Sometimes you just want to say, wouldn't it be nice if they all can settle down and live happily ever after, mom and dad could tuck them into bed, and the war would be over and they could be off to school the next morning. But that's not my job.   [4:00] CA: How do you feel about sad endings? DC: … I like happy endings, or at least endings where you feel there's a sense of redemption and feel that you've earned something. …And so in my books, each of the books ends with a parting. … Will they be able to maintain their friendship after three years of war? And you'll have to read the books to figure that out.   [5:00] CA: With a series, how can you end a story satisfactorily knowing that it's going to continue? DC: …If I was better at that, then everybody would know how the books would end because the original plan was to end it in three. And by the time we got to three books, the boys are not where they need to be to be at the ending. But this is one of the challenges. …   [5:35] CA: Do you have a favorite plot twist from your own work or other books? … DC: One of my big things about studying history and writing about history is that it's hard to tell who the good guys are and the bad guys are at times. If you're living in the moment, the people who are the good guys may turn out to be monsters when you find out what they're really up to …. Or they become monsters in response to events. So, my favorite twist is to take people who the reader might initially really like at first and in the end you find, Oh my God, this person is really a terrible person. And vice versa… The central spine of the story is about a man named Joe Wilcox. …. He is one of the great traitors in history, and he's in Canadian history. But we've forgotten him. We've erased him from our national memory. …   [8:05] CA: Have you ever opened a story with dialogue? DC: …I don't tend to do it because I think that it's much easier to set a nuanced opening where you can set a scene. …   [8:40] CA: Do you revise while you draft? Or do you just try to get the story out? DC: In my better self, I would say just get it out. But I've got too strong an editor in the back of my head. So sometimes it's hard for me to get out of the early chapters. … I've got beautiful opening chapters of books that will never be published. … So if I had spent that time getting to the end of the story, (a) I would have either have found out that, you know, maybe I needed a different kind of opening; or (b) I would have found that maybe I don't have the interest to carry the story on to completion…. It takes a lot of work and a lot of time to get something through to completion. … If young writers are …thinking of doing a series, I would caution them … it's easier to get the attention of a publisher by something short, easy to produce, and doesn't commit them for years of continuing stories in a series…. There's a business side of writing. We shouldn't be driven by the business side of it – that's the job of somebody else – but we have to be aware of it. …   [11:40] CA: Do you have a favorite point of view to write from? DC: I love writing in first person, but I think that first person's sort of a way to make sure that I don't get carried away by exposition in history. … You've got to deliver the historical background and the social context in a way that doesn't seem intrusive. … In the Jake and Eli books, the first two are written in first person from one character's point of view. The third one is in first person as well, but from the point of view of two characters alternating. And then the fourth one – I'm really having fun with this – it's in third person. … I need to wrestle the timeline back. Writing in first person got me carried away into other directions. My second book veered into the spooky. … [13:30] CA: Do you have any advice on making a spooky atmosphere for the reader? DC: My advice for writing spooky atmospheres is not to hurry it. It comes with layering. … If you're writing a novel or story where it's otherwise a normal world and you're expecting a normal world, and you introduce the weird elements bit by bit, and all of a sudden your character realizes, Hey, I don't want to be here anymore. … Once you get to that point and it's really spooky, then you start increasing the jeopardy.   [14:45] CA: Do you have any favorite settings from fiction? DC: Setting is everything in historical novels. I'm going to do a shout-out to my friend Karen Bass and The Hill. It's a story about a boy from the city who's been in a plane crash and he's with an indigenous friend and they have to escape. But the way that she sets that world in northern Alberta is just wonderful… Jake and Eli … made me get reacquainted with the town of Niagara on the Lake in Ontario. … My imagination for years has been living in this town, and the streets are still the same. The layout of the town is still the same. The fort it is still there the way it was. … You can walk those streets and you can picture what the tannery would've been like at the end of that road, and Dunwoody house at the corner, and here's the headquarters where General Brock has his office. It's wonderful to be able to evoke that, but also to be able to go and step into it and live it again.   [17:15] CA: So you would recommend to young writers, if there is a setting similar to what they're writing, to actually go there and put themselves into their world. DC: … you can find equivalents. A graveyard is a graveyard, if you're doing your spooky story. … The graveyard in Niagara on the Lake actually was the battlefield. … The battle of Lundy's Lane, which is the big climax of the Jake and Eli story, was fought in a graveyard at midnight. … when I started these stories, zombie stories were all the rage. So I thought, you know, why don't I just go with the flow? General Brock has been dead for a year and a half but he rises from the grave and he leads the zombie army in the graveyard at night, to push the American invaders back. … I hope somebody takes that idea sometime and runs with it because there is a zombie story waiting to be written about the War of 1812.   [18:30] CA: Do you do character exercises? Like some people write in a diary as their character or interview their character or do character sketches. Do you ever do that sort of side work? DC: No I don't. I admire people who do. It shows real discipline. I just want to get down to writing, to telling the story. You know, you have to be aware that it may take you in places that you weren't planning to go….   [19:00] CA: Are any of your stories based on your own childhood? DC: My main character is named Jacob, and my son is named Jacob. And people ask me, Is Jake in the story based upon my son? Absolutely not. My son is more like Eli, just out there, flamboyant, just fun-loving. Jacob is actually more like what I was like. You know, quiet, contemplative… it's easy to write yourself into characters, but … I have a lot more fun writing about Eli than about Jake. …   [19:45] CA: Have you ever turned your fears into fiction? DC: …When I started working on the second book and it started turning to the supernatural, it got into a lot of things that I'm probably subconsciously concerned about. The idea that this world that we see, we're not seeing everything… or fear that the people that we know may not be who we think they are. …   [21:00] CA: Do you have any recommendations to young writers for getting ideas for stories? DC: Yeah I do: read. Read newspapers. … And every time I read a history book I come across stuff that I say, oh man, somebody's got to turn that into a script or a novel. This is just too good. … Read.   [23:00] CA: Excellent. You've had so much good advice. … I wish you well with continuing the series. DC: Thank you.   [23:30] Don Cummer introduces himself DC: Hi. My name is Don Cummer. I'm from Calgary, Alberta, but I'm living between Ottawa, Ontario and Dublin, Ireland these days. I am the author of a series of books about three boys growing up in the War of 1812, the Jake and Eli stories. And I'm a historical novelist. I love history. And I'm really looking forward to Catherine's questions.   [24:00] Find out more about Don Cummer You can hear more creative writing advice from Don Cummer on Cabin Tales Episode Five: “Squirm,” about Plotting; on Episode 6.5: “Author Interviews about Beginnings;” and on Episode 8, “The Never-ending Story,” about revision. You can find out more about Don Cummer and his books from his website at DonCummer.com.   [25:10] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my interview with the young adult fantasy author Sarah Raughley, who joins us from Ottawa. Thanks for listening. Credits Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Author: Don Cummer is the author of the “Jake and Eli” stories published by Scholastic, set during the War of 1812. The first book, Brothers at War, was short-listed for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers. Don spends his time between Canada and Ireland – where he's finding many more stories to tell. Find him online at www.doncummer.com .  

During this episode we discuss gender roles and the stereotypes that we feel have been present in our society over the last few years. There are a lot differences between genders but we all must find ways to get past those and connect for a greater purpose. Tune in as we cover topics from 'Who should pay the bills' to 'Parents having preference on kids' gender, and marriage with our first male guest, Joe Wilcox! As always, thank you for tuning in! @groovyblackmillennial @groovyblackmillennialpodcast @nishatrawick @lisadenayy @joe_kidink --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to a bonus episode of the Dean Blundell Show. On today's episode, we welcome John Juliano and Joe Wilcox from LEC Connections. They are American so Dean asks the question that is on everyone's mind, do they support Trump? John and Joe own a call center for cannabis users, who pride themselves on dealing with cannabis users all over the world. Joe and John receive over 6000 calls a day and most of them are people tripping out looking for help, especially with edibles coming to the forefront recently. We close with a hilarious story about a grandmother calling in when she accidentally had some of her grandson's pot! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Wilcox may be the best-know restaurant manager ever in Kansas City.  Plaza 3, the Bristol, he has been at the center of the food and drink scene since way back in the old downtown Rusty Scupper days.   Dick Wilson and Loy Edge talk with Joe about his more recent projects in the Kansas City and Wichita food and beverage markets and reminisce about colorful people and places from the past. Set 'em up, Joe!

This week we feature commentator Josh Centers, Managing Editor for TidBITS, and author of "Take Control of Apple TV" and other titles, who covers Apple's surprising release of a major update for the MacBook Pro. The refresh features 6-core processors, solid state drives as large as 4TB and up to 32GB RAM, twice as much as Apple has previously offered. Is this the professional  notebook that many users have craved after expressing disappointment with the models offered over the past two years? Josh will also provide speculation about a possible future successor to the Mac, using an ARM-based CPU instead of Intel. Will this be a sort of convergence machine offering features derived from the iPad and Mac, or something altogether new? There will also be a discussion about health and fitness privacy, where Gene wonders if anyone would care if it got out that he's just shy of six feet one inch tall and weighs 178.5 pounds? In a special encore presentation, you’ll also hear from tech columnist and former industry analyst Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. During this episode, Joe will explain why he regards Apple’s Siri voice assistant as worse than Microsoft’s Skype, despite all the connection glitches with the latter. Will hiring former Google executives help Apple make Siri more responsive and accurate, without sacrificing your security? You’ll also hear about Google I/O and Android P, and about all those fake news reports that the iPhone X was unsuccessful. For two quarters straight, however, Apple reported that the iPhone X was not only its best selling smartphone for each week it was on sale, but the hottest selling smartphone on the planet. Gene shares his 20 years experience with the iMac, which began with the original Bondi Blue model that he beta tested for Apple as part of the former Customer Quality Feedback (CQF) program. You’ll also hear about the Apple Watch and whether it makes sense for Apple to switch Macs from Intel to ARM CPUs.continued to spread false rumors about iPhone sales over the years.

This week, we invite you to meet Major General (Ret) Earl D. Matthews: He spent three decades at the nexus of big budgets and cybersecurity, including stints as Director, Cyberspace Operations and Chief Information Security Officer at HQ, U.S. Air Force, and VP for Enterprise Security Solutions at Hewlett-Packard. In his current role as Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer at Verodin, Inc., he champions the concept of security instrumentation, a process that continuously validates the effectiveness of each security element in place. During this episode, he'll cover a gamut of cybersecurity issues that include the privacy issues at Facebook, the DNC hack, along with managing your personal privacy at a time when tens of millions of Americans have had their credit reports hacked. Major General Matthews will also reveal two episodes of ID theft that impacted his own family. You'll also hear from tech columnist and former industry analyst Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. During this episode, Joe will explain why he regards Apple's Siri voice assistant as worse than Microsoft's Skype, despite all the connection glitches with the latter. Will hiring former Google executives help Apple make Siri more responsive and accurate, without sacrificing your security? You'll also hear about Google I/O and Android P, and about all those fake news reports that the iPhone X was unsuccessful. For two quarters straight, however, Apple reported that the iPhone X was not only its best selling smartphone for each week it was on sale, but the hottest selling smartphone on the planet. Gene shares his 20 years experience with the iMac, which began with the original Bondi Blue model that he beta tested for Apple as part of the former Customer Quality Feedback (CQF) program. You'll also hear about the Apple Watch and whether it makes sense for Apple to switch Macs from Intel to ARM CPUs.

This week, we invite you to meet Major General (Ret) Earl D. Matthews: He spent three decades at the nexus of big budgets and cybersecurity, including stints as Director, Cyberspace Operations and Chief Information Security Officer at HQ, U.S. Air Force, and VP for Enterprise Security Solutions at Hewlett-Packard. In his current role as Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer at Verodin, Inc., he champions the concept of security instrumentation, a process that continuously validates the effectiveness of each security element in place. During this episode, he'll cover a gamut of cybersecurity issues that include the privacy issues at Facebook, the DNC hack, along with managing your personal privacy at a time when tens of millions of Americans have had their credit reports hacked. Major General Matthews will also reveal two episodes of ID theft that impacted his own family. You'll also hear from tech columnist and former industry analyst Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. During this episode, Joe will explain why he regards Apple's Siri voice assistant as worse than Microsoft's Skype, despite all the connection glitches with the latter. Will hiring former Google executives help Apple make Siri more responsive and accurate, without sacrificing your security? You'll also hear about Google I/O and Android P, and about all those fake news reports that the iPhone X was unsuccessful. For two quarters straight, however, Apple reported that the iPhone X was not only its best selling smartphone for each week it was on sale, but the hottest selling smartphone on the planet. Gene shares his 20 years experience with the iMac, which began with the original Bondi Blue model that he beta tested for Apple as part of the former Customer Quality Feedback (CQF) program. You'll also hear about the Apple Watch and whether it makes sense for Apple to switch Macs from Intel to ARM CPUs.

This week's guests include outspoken podcaster and commentator Peter Cohen. This week, Peter and Gene talk about the fate of Apple's cheapest personal computer, the Mac mini, the downgraded 2014 version, and what sort of upgrade might be in the pipeline in light of positive comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Peter explains why he feels that Apple has taken the wrong direction with the mini. Gene and Peter talk about low-end printers, and about using third-party toner. A good idea? What about the Apple TV 4K? Overpriced, not compelling enough to boost sales? The segment moves into pop culture, where Gene and Peter discuss Star Trek fandom, TV super heroes and similar subjects, as Gene recalls meeting some of the stars of the original Star Trek series at a convention in 1975. In a special encore presentation, you’ll also hear from columnist Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. He explains why he recently switched from T-Mobile to Verizon Wireless, mostly to improve coverage, but is now considering a return to the former. The discussion covers the ongoing dilemma of choosing the right carrier. And what about published reports that T-Mobile and Sprint, the two smallest carriers in the U.S., might be ready to ink a deal and merge? It’s not the first time this has been rumored. Gene and Joe will also talk about the new productivity features in iOS 11, and whether they might impact the use of the iPad as a productivity tool. There will also be a brief discussion of macOS High Sierra before the conversation moves to the Apple Watch Series 3, which comes in a version with LTE so you can use it to make phone calls without connecting it to an iPhone. Does this big step now liberate the Apple Watch so it can do most things all by itself? Does the future take us away from a big smartphone to a tiny smartwatch?

We present outspoken commentator Peter Cohen, who, in response to Gene's search for a better deal with a wireless carrier, talks about T-Mobile, its advantages and limitations. He mentions the Band 71 issue, the new 600 MHz spectrum that T-Mobile is rolling out to some parts of he U.S., and the fact that flagship gear from Apple, Samsung and other companies are not yet compatible. The discussion moves to the new Apple TV, the issue of cable/satellite cord cutting, and the dangers of fragmentation, where there are so many services vying for your subscriptions that it may become must too expensive to watch all the new shows that require separate memberships. What about the new iPhones, and especially the iPhone X with Face ID for logging in rather than Touch ID? What about macOS High Sierra, which is officially released on September 25th. Does the lack of support, at least for now, for all those Macs with hybrid Fusion drives cause any problems? You'll also hear from columnist Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. He explains why he recently switched from T-Mobile to Verizon Wireless, mostly to improve coverage, but is now considering a return to the former. The discussion covers the ongoing dilemma of choosing the right carrier. And what about published reports that T-Mobile and Sprint, the two smallest carriers in the U.S., might be ready to ink a deal and merge? It's not the first time this has been rumored. Gene and Joe will also talk about the new productivity features in iOS 11, and whether they might impact the use of the iPad as a productivity tool. There will also be a brief discussion of macOS High Sierra before the conversation moves to the Apple Watch Series 3, which comes in a version with LTE so you can use it to make phone calls without connecting it to an iPhone. Does this big step now liberate the Apple Watch so it can do most things all by itself? Does the future take us away from a big smartphone to a tiny smartwatch?

Commentator Bryan Chaffin, co-founder and co-publisher of The Mac Observer, considers the Apple rumor front, where speculation continues about a rumored iPhone 8 and the alleged problems Apple might be having in finalizing the design for production. But are such reports made by or influenced by bloggers who have been inspired by Apple's competitors? What about the tepid updates for Apple TV? Has time passed Apple's set-top box by, or is it possible for the product to be improved enough to realize its potential against the competition? You'll also hear from tech columnist Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. This time Gene and Joe talk about Microsoft's sales in the most recent financial quarter, and how it is succeeding beyond expectations at cloud services and Office 365. But is there any significance in the fact that sales of Surface PCs remain relatively flat? You'll also hear Joe's observations about the iPhone 8 and whether its potential might overshadow the expected refreshes of Apple's mainstream models, which will probably be named iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus. With Comic-Con San Diego in force, Gene and Joe have a pop culture discussion, where they talk about super heroes, including Batman and Superman, and having the same characters played by different actors in the TV and movie versions. And what about a rumor that Ben Affleck may be encouraged by Warner Brothers to give up Batman's cape?

We feature outspoken commentator/podcaster Peter Cohen. During this segment, Gene will discuss his efforts to get decent support from AT&T wireless, which involved multiple phone calls, and frustrating encounters with more than 20 different reps. Did he finally succeed? Gene and Peter will also discuss the prospects for new Mac notebooks at Apple's 2017 WWDC developer event in June. And what about Apple's decision to deliver subpar gaming performance on the Mac? As a former Macworld gaming columnist, Peter explains what is going on, and what he believes to be Apple's reasons for not paying attention to the needs of avid gamers. You'll also hear from independent tech journalist Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. This wide-ranging discussion will include Joe's observations about the quality of the four major wireless carriers in the U.S., as he explains the surprising result of his efforts to switch from one company to another to get better download speeds. Were there any notable announcements at the 2017 Google I/O conference in Mountain View, CA? Was it all about photos? What about the voice assistant platforms from Amazon, Apple and Google? Should Apple respond to the Amazon Echo with its own version? Gene and Joe will also talk about the prospects for new Mac notebooks at the WWDC, and is there a possibility that Apple will pull the plug on one of its three notebook models?

We feature tech journalist Josh Centers, Managing Editor for TidBITS, and author of "Take Control of Apple TV" and other titles. The discussion begins with Gene's strange story of the problems he encountered installing macOS Sierra on a 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro. The segment moves on to reports that Apple is giving the Mac short shrift, and whether such stories have any credibility. Josh brings up the question of whether innovation in the tech industry began to slow down after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. Or is that just the way the industry was destined to evolve? You'll also hear from independent tech journalist Joe Wilcox, who writes for BetaNews. He'll tell the curious tale of the two Late 2016 MacBook Pros that he owns, and the battery life issues he has confronted on both. Yet when he gave one of those notebooks, the 13-inch model, to his wife and reconfigured it with her apps and settings, battery life was normal. What about the erratic battery life tests reported by Consumer Reports magazine, which decided not to recommend the new MacBook Pros? The discussion moves to the pressing topic of whether Apple's quality control has nosedived in recent years, as Gene cites the long-term problems with the macOS' "forgetful" Finder.

We feature outspoken blogger and podcaster Peter Cohen, who focuses on the questions raised about Apple's ongoing commitment to professional users. And what about published reports, since denied, that chief designer Sir Jonathan Ive may no longer be fully involved in developing new Apple gear? The discussion also includes ousting the manager of the automation division, home of AppleScript, Apple's decision to give up building its own displays, and the ever-controversial Late 2016 MacBook Pro, which features the contextual Touch Bar and a much higher price. You'll also hear from columnist Joe Wilcox, of BetaNews, who will explain why he prefers his new iPhone 7 Plus despite the fact that he finds some of Google's services, such as its voice assistant, to be superior. What should Apple be thankful for during the holiday season? Joe offers his opinions about his 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bear, and also the impact of Google's Chromebook in American school systems, and whether its cheap price and focus on cloud-based apps makes it a better educational alternative. And what about Microsoft's controversial decision to force Windows 10 upgrades on users, and what about sharing telemetry data culled from users with third parties?

On this week's all-star episode, John Martellaro, Senior Editor, Analysis & Reviews for The Mac Observer, will discuss the recent appearance of Apple CEO Tim Cook at an AllThingsD event, and what he calls "Cook Code." He'll also talk about the tragic state of iPad magazines, operations research and tech warfare, and deliver an iPhone veteran's review of the Samsung Galaxy Note II "phablet." If you're in the market for a car, you'll want to hear from Dennis Miller, Founder and CEO of SNAFU Scan, an iOS and Android app that helps you check whether your car has been recalled by the manufacturer, and the ability to examine used car auction prices to see if your dealer is ripping you off on a trade. In our third segment, Joe Wilcox, Managing Editor of BetaNews, talks about his recent decision to move his wireless service from AT&T to T-Mobile, and proceeds to discuss what we might expect to see in Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update, and whether it can address some of the concerns about the original Windows 8 release.

On this week's all-star episode, we present Bryan Chaffin, co-founder and co-publisher of The Mac Observer, who will talk about Apple's large stash of cash and the taxman, plus other subjects, including T-Mobile's new marketing scheme that is intended to eliminate subsidized handsets. You'll also hear from Joe Wilcox, Managing Editor of BetaNews, who will talk about the increase in cyber attacks on major Web sites, including banks and other financial institutions, why he's switching his cellular service to T-Mobile, and other topics that include Samsung's impact on the Android platform.

On this week's all-star episode, commentator Joe Wilcox, Managing Editor of BetaNews, discusses the outcome of the Federal Trade Commission's probe into Google's search policies, and the verdict that addresses the patent licensing policies of Google's Motorola Mobility division. Joe will also discuss his article suggesting that Apple may have lost its stomach for industry-shaking revolutions of their product lines. You'll also hear from Avram Piltch, Online Editor Director of Laptop magazine, who will talk about the sort of product intros expected at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, held the second week of January and express his ongoing concerns about the prospects for Windows 8.

On this week's all-star episode, tech journalist Rob Pegoraro, who writes for USA Today and other publications, covers such subjects as satellite Internet, broadband Internet performance, the possibilities for the iPad mini, the impending arrival of Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface tablet. Joe Wilcox, Managing Editor of BetaNews, covers the Windows 8 issues, the introduction of the Surface tablet, and Apple's possible plans for the iPad mini and other expected new products.

We focus on some key announcements from Microsoft that have dominated tech news, such as the demonstration of a 10.6-inch tablet in two versions known as Surface, and the first announcement about the new features in Windows Phone 8. We'll also cover the potential and some of the key problems that have appeared in the forthcoming Windows 8 upgrade. Our guests include outspoken columnist and former industry analyst Joe Wilcox, from BetaNews, commentator Jim Dalrymple, Editor in Chief of The Loop, and Mike Prospero, Reviews Editor of Laptop magazine. We'll also cover Apple's amazing new MacBook Pro with Retina display, and its impact to the notebook market.

Industry analyst Ross Rubin, of the NPD Group, talks about the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile; Mac|Life Online Editor Roberto Baldwin gives you a heads up on current Apple Inc. news and views; outspoken columnist Joe Wilcox explains why he doesn't expect to have to kiss the feet of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Gene spars with outspoken commentator Joe Wilcox on Google TV and Android OS smartphones; industry analyst Stephen Baker, of the NPD Group, looks at the hits and misses of 2010; consumer technology columnist Rob Pegoraro, of the Washington Post, separates the fact from the fiction on the controversial net neutrality issue.

Varje stick upp och ner med nålen var en bearbetning. Det var jag och broderiet, vi blev som ett, säger Inger Marianne Ödlund. För henne blev vägen tillbaka från utbrändheten något oväntad - hon tog fram nål och tråd och broderade en tavla föreställande sina två chefer, med texten "Tig och lyd!". Hon broderade sig ur sin livskris. Syjuntan och trösten handlar om handarbete som överlevnadsstrategi. Om hur ilska och sorg kan gå rakt ut i en nål och sedan försvinna. Om hur en monoton stickning kan skapa lugn i kaos. Och om vikten av att få tid. "I vår jäktade tid är det finaste jag kan ge dig ett par vantar", säger Erika Åberg, verksamhetsledare på hantverksgården Skogsbo. Kvinnohistorikern Louise Waldén diskuterar kvinnans rätt att dra sig undan och vara ifred med sitt. Och så pratar vi med Joe Wilcox, en av arrangörerna bakom en särskild stickretreat - för män.