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This week Sammy Kay from The Kilograms joins us. Sammy breaks down the band's new record, Beliefs and Thieves. We discuss the album's title, song writing, the art of fading a song out and Sammy and Anthony geek out about gear. We also wonder if fans of a band can turn you off to a band? All this and of course Ska News and our Ska Picks of The Week! The Kilograms: https://thekilograms.bandzoogle.com/homeOn The Upbeat:ontheupbeatska.comSka News…..-Abbraskadabra On April 4th, Abraskadabra dropped their new album, Pack Your Bags.https://open.spotify.com/album/3BBApPl2UzNhL9pPLPqwIg?si=N_ChRP4TRQ-9tFsxgR8LdA-The ScootersOn March 31, The Scooters released a new song called Working Class. https://open.spotify.com/album/5x0icCs0SJ8mwIubgnXZya?si=pDicLIZ9R42Im7ks_nH1Zg-The ChainsOn April 4, The Chains released a new song called The Rent. https://open.spotify.com/album/3JtyhOIeR0yvHW0l9Zr3pF?si=0atsA2FYThqGviI0HRCAKQSka News 2025 Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CLg5HvXyFxP6hQxQi9Qfs?si=fmVCy1bORNGmlle3FA4-uw&pi=u-gkNw56cQRWeaSka Picks of The Week 2025:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bzFTOq9JPpWk1KSEg2nqE?si=Dh0zXfgHSeqfVKsYs0HRJw&pi=u-bIgOFTm_QpaGSka News Theme by Dang!t:https://dangitband.bandcamp.comMain Theme by Millington: ⁠https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music

This week Rich Zahniser formerly of The Hippos joins us. Rich tells us about the band's early days, recording in The Beastie Boys' studio, life on the road and how The Hippos got signed to Interscope Records. We also discuss the album cover for Heads Are Gonna Roll, recording of the album and early reaction to its 1999 release. All this and Ska News and our Ska Picks of the Week. Rich Zahniser;https://www.primeroyalstudios.comThe Hippos: Heads Are Gonna Roll Vinyl https://interscope.com/products/the-hippos-heads-are-gonna-roll-lp-interscope-com-exclusive?srsltid=AfmBOoo490mZtjlarOQxS4ekTtY7pJ9gjItOU6R_tUvkF0FTO7BIUI5VOn The Upbeat:ontheupbeatska.comSka News……-Abraskadabra On March 21 abraskadabra released a new song called No Strings Attached. https://open.spotify.com/album/2R3BO51lmiNLzZ8qJ8r43D?si=CCDj1WI4RR6WxNORpXPeEg-Joker's Republic On March 21 Joker's Republic released their cover of Lit's My Own Worst Enemy.https://open.spotify.com/album/6Tcr1GlMox5UJ3VVrNoTiH?si=DDqI7wpWR_GUn6GGj02n8A-The Kilograms On March 20th The Kilograms dropped a new song called Battles . https://open.spotify.com/track/7dpdey94k4VLMydkNvPrgW?si=z90rowwITge2SqRRL9aT8A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2Qz7dqhzS2Pg8T6Ntmm1vBSka News 2025 Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CLg5HvXyFxP6hQxQi9Qfs?si=fmVCy1bORNGmlle3FA4-uw&pi=u-gkNw56cQRWeaSka Picks of The Week 2025:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bzFTOq9JPpWk1KSEg2nqE?si=Dh0zXfgHSeqfVKsYs0HRJw&pi=u-bIgOFTm_QpaGSka News Theme by Lab Brats:https://labbrats.bandcamp.comMain Theme by Millington: ⁠https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music

This Week Andy and David from The Players Band visit the show. They tell us about their Kickstarter campaign for the band's latest album, Skazilla. We learn how they came to work with Vic Ruggiero and Victor Rice and we listen to the song, What I See. All this and of course Ska News and our Ska Picks of the Week. The Players Band: theplayersband.comOn The Upbeat:ontheupbeatska.comSka News…..-The KilogramsOn February 27th The Kilograms released a new song called Faith and Love. This is the second single of The Kilograms' debut album, Beliefs & Thieves, that will be released on Friday, April 4th . https://open.spotify.com/album/7mjJvHtrZCLp2ozWk8dq8B?si=4N8IioChTO6zGk1BAQ25CA-Paint Bomb On February 27th Paint Bomb released their cover of Gourmet Race. https://open.spotify.com/track/26cTnZXaCgx8xQJ91VhBQq?si=rxE_lwVMRAmyB3kgqrHoJA-Millington On February 28th Millington released a new song called Landslide. https://open.spotify.com/track/5YY4YVwf4pOfqARgCRVviB?si=AX3_S7uRQN6X-UZi0GPPFQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A048fR8LNv0By4skCQYeDyGSka News 2025 Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CLg5HvXyFxP6hQxQi9Qfs?si=fmVCy1bORNGmlle3FA4-uw&pi=u-gkNw56cQRWeaSka Picks of The Week 2025:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bzFTOq9JPpWk1KSEg2nqE?si=Dh0zXfgHSeqfVKsYs0HRJw&pi=u-bIgOFTm_QpaGSka News Theme by Dang!thttps://dangitband.bandcamp.comMain Theme by Millington: ⁠https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music

Today on the show we spoke to Dean Harrison, who was out on his boat in the Bay of Islands when a 450kg Dolphin jumped up and in to his boat.

Sammy Kay of The Kilograms talks all about the bands upcoming debut record Beliefs & Thieves on this weeks PCH!THE KILOGRAMShttps://thekilograms.bandzoogle.comhttps://thekilograms.bandcamp.comhttps://www.instagram.com/thekilogramshttps://www.instagram.com/sammykaynjPCHInstagram - www.instagram.com/powerchordhourTwitter - www.twitter.com/powerchordhourFacebook - www.facebook.com/powerchordhourYoutube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8LggSpotify Episode Playlists - https://open.spotify.com/user/kzavhk5ghelpnthfby9o41gnr?si=4WvOdgAmSsKoswf_HTh_MgDonate to help show costs -https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pchanthonyhttps://cash.app/$anthmerchpowerchordhour@gmail.comCheck out the Power Chord Hour radio show every Friday night at 8 to 11 est/Tuesday Midnight to 3 est on 107.9 WRFA in Jamestown, NY. Stream the station online at wrfalp.com/streaming/ or listen on the WRFA app.Special Thanks to my buddy Jay Vics for the behind the scenes help on this episode!https://www.meettheexpertspodcast.comhttps://www.jvimobile.com

Scream Therapy host Jason Schreurs welcomes New Jersey punk staple Sammy Kay, most recently of punk supergroup The Kilograms, to talk about the evolution of his mental health. With several diagnoses under his belt, Sammy is navigating schizoaffective, which includes a number of voices in his head. Sammy has learned to be curious about the journey he's on and has found ways to manage his daily life. http://sammykaynj.bandcamp.com Featured song clips: Sammy Kay - "Better/Worse" from Better/Worse (Revolution Vintage, 2020) Sammy Kay - "A Better Way" from July 1960 (Sell the Heart Records, 2024) Sammy Kay - "Sweet Cecillia" from civil/WAR (2019) The SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it. ORDER A COPY OF THE BOOK! screamtherapyhq.com/book SCREAM THERAPY MERCH! teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy About this podcast: Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself. Intro/background music clips: Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus" Contact host Jason Schreurs - screamtherapypodcast@gmail.com

"Pati galvenā šajā laikā ir cerība," uzskata Latvijas Televīzijas žurnāliste, skatītāju tik iemīļotā raidījuma "Ielas garumā" veidotāja, daudzu portretraidījumu un filmu autore un arī Latvijas sabiedrisko mediju balvas "Kilograms kultūras" žūrijas pārstāve Lilita Eglīte, kura cenšas sekot līdzi visiem notikumiem kultūras jomā, bet balvas "Kilograms kultūras" kontekstā viņas prioritātes ir vizuālā māksla, kino un teātris.... Šovakar pulksten 17.30 Latvijas Televīzijas 1. kanālā būs skatāms jau trešais Lilitas veidotais raidījums par Jelgavu, bet pulksten 21.05 Rīgas kinostudijā sāksies balvas "Kilograms kultūras" pasniegšanas ceremonija un koncerts, ko tiešraidīs arī "Klasika". Ilze Medne: Raidījuma "Ielas garumā" jaunākais raidījums, kuru lūkojām februāra sākumā, bija veltīts ceļojumam uz Alsungu, un tas nu bija viens meistardarbs, ne raidījums, kas mums ļāva to pilnasinīgo vasaras pilnbriedu un kultūras savdabības un bagātības sajūtu smelt pusstundas garumā pilnām riekšavām. Gribu jums teikt sirsnīgu paldies par to, ko jūs ar šiem raidījumiem darāt, jo man tā ir regulāra pote pa brīžam dziestošai patriotisma sajūtai. Latvijas Radio šāds mīļraidījums man ir "Stiprie stāsti", televīzijā - "Ielas garumā": kad noklausos un noskatos šos raidījumus, ir sajūta – ar mums viss būs labi, ja mums Latvijā ir tik skaisti, gudri un stipri cilvēki. Tikai jāprot viņus pamanīt, novērtēt un pateikt viņiem paldies. Lilita Eglīte: Ar mums patiešām viss būs labi, ja ir tādi cilvēki, un man jāatzīst, ka suitos bija viens no lieliskākajiem pēdējā laika piedzīvojumiem, jo tur patiešām ir šie cilvēki! Un ja man vēl izdodas viņus parādīt tā, ka kāds iedvesmojas, tad, manuprāt, ir sasniegts tas, kas žurnālistam ir jādara: viņam ir jāparāda tas, kas ir vērtīgs. Protams, jāatklāj arī tas, kas nav tik vērtīgs, tomēr pati galvenā īpaši šajā laikā ir cerība. Tas brīnišķīgais, ko dara cilvēki visapkārt Latvijā. Un suiti noteikti ir tādi. Ļoti, ļoti interesants piedzīvojums! Vai jūsu mērķis, veidojot raidījumu par suitiem, bija tieši tāds pats, kāds tas bija laikā, kad jūs pirms 22 gadiem sākāt veidot raidījumu "Ielas garumā"? Jā. Pirms tam gatavoju ļoti daudzus raidījumus par vēsturi: gan "Rīgai 800", gan vēl agrāk, kad strādāju Jaunatnes, skolēnu un bērnu raidījumu redakcijā: ar pusaudžiem ļoti daudz braucām pa Latviju, un es viņus mēģināju ieinteresēt novadpētniecībā, vēsturē. Pēc tam studijā bija konkurss. Bija arī tādi raidījumi kā "Ejam meklēt!", "Pieturiet!", "Zaļais kvadrāts". Principā tēma visu laiku bijusi viena un tā pati – līdz pat raidījumam "Ielas garumā". Cauri laikiem. Tikai toreiz tas sākās ar bērnu raidījumiem. Šogad man bija viena no brīnišķīgākajām raidījumu pieturām – tā bija Subatē, kur atgriezos pēc 30 gadiem, bet sastapu tos pašus cilvēkus, ko biju intervējusi toreiz, kad viņi bija mazi bērni… Piemēram, viena meitene dziedāja to labi zināmo dziesmiņu Šuju lellei jaku. Pēc raidījuma par Subati viņa man atsūtīja videosveicienu, un tas bija brīnišķīgi! Subate ir viena izcila vieta! Maza vietiņa, arī sarežģīta vietiņa, jo tur vairs nav centra, bet tur ir brīnišķīga koka arhitektūra un tur ir ļoti aizrautīgi cilvēki, kuri stāv un krīt par to un veido savu vidi ļoti skaistā vietā – pie diviem ezeriem. Vai jums ir karte, kurā jūs ar raibiem karodziņiem atzīmējat vietas, kurās esat bijuši un filmējuši?  Šādu karti pirms gadiem desmit izveidoja portāls LSM, un tā karte tur ir joprojām, tikai tā kādu laiku bija neaktīva. Tagad mūsu raidījuma izpildproducents Gunārs apņēmies šo karti atkal atdzīvināt un papildināt ar visām tām ielām un vietām, kur esam bijuši pēdējā laikā. Tā kā meklējiet šo karti LSM! Kuri ir blīvākie maršruti? Ārpus Rīgas ļoti daudz esam filmējuši Jūrmalā. Jo tur bija un joprojām ir brīnišķīgi vēsturnieki – Inga Sarma, arhitekts un kultūrvēsturnieks Rihards Pētersons, vēsturniece Ausma Pētersone. Starp citu, nākamais raidījums 1. martā būs Kāpu ielas stāsta turpinājums. Iet kopā ar Rihardu Pētersonu allaž ir ļoti aizraujoši, jo tad tu pamani Jūrmalas arhitektūrā ļoti daudzas nianses. Lai gan es pa kādu ielu pirms raidījuma esmu nostaigājusi jau daudzas reizes, tad, kad ejam kopā ar Rihardu, ir savādāk. Nebiju bijusi Jelgavā, lai gan pati esmu no Jelgavas, tur esmu dzīvojusi kādu laiciņu, un mani vecāki tur dzīvoja, bet es kaut kā nevarēju saņemties stāstīt par Jelgavu, jo tas, kāda šī pilsēta tika sabūvēta padomju laikā, un salīdzināt to ar seno Jelgavu – kaut kā sāpīgi... Īsti nemācēju tam pieķerties. Bet tagad jau tapis trešais raidījums par Jelgavu! Šovakar būs stāsts par Parka ielu ar trim parkiem Jelgavā. Tā ka var atrast arī tādas vietas. Ļoti mīļa pilsēta man ir Liepāja, kur esmu ļoti daudz filmējusi, atgriežoties šeit ik pēc laiciņa – pēc gadiem pieciem, diviem, kā nu kuru reizi. Latvijā esmu bijusi visos novados, daudz Latgalē, un šogad arī pirmo reizi Rēzeknē. Ir vēl dažas vietiņas, kur vēlētos aizbraukt. Jo "Ielas garumā" esmu mēģinājusi darīt tā – gan Rīgā, gan arī pēc tam novados –, ka nav visu laiku viens un tas pats rajons, apkaime, jo tur tomēr ir diezgan daudz līdzīga. Lai skatītājiem nekļūtu garlaicīgi, pamainu vietas. Vairāk – audioierakstā.

This Week Mike and Callyn of The Wavebirds join us. First we discuss what bands we would like to see reunited. Mike and Callyn tell us how they got into ska and how The Wavebirds started. We also discuss song writing, video games, horns, voice acting and Canadian ska. All this and of course Ska News and our Ska Picks of the Week!  The Wavebirds:  https://linktr.ee/thewavebirds?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2cfa5d89-70b8-4955-aaf0-78974be97b29 On The Upbeat:  ontheupbeatska.com Ska News….. -Combustible Nuts On January 24 Combustible Nuts released a new song called Commercial Break (Log!)  https://open.spotify.com/album/17cT0BI90owB4OIjIyacum?si=WG-5u8pTT3iTrqjhhzVOCQ -The Kilograms On January 21 The Kilograms released a new song called Beliefs and Thieves.   https://open.spotify.com/track/0oIRQyj9VWPSaGiiem9Y1o?si=4xAIa7ErTr-BOfNBG-hw5g -Sad Snack  On January 21 Sad Snack released a new song called Brain Fog.  https://open.spotify.com/track/0euk5bvRuclLsZ7aJ6bqJO?si=yev5DZo5SqimPxMEnz__BQ Ska News 2025 Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CLg5HvXyFxP6hQxQi9Qfs?si=fmVCy1bORNGmlle3FA4-uw&pi=u-gkNw56cQRWea Ska Picks of The Week 2025: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bzFTOq9JPpWk1KSEg2nqE?si=Dh0zXfgHSeqfVKsYs0HRJw&pi=u-bIgOFTm_QpaG Ska News Theme by Lab Brats: https://labbrats.bandcamp.com Main Theme by Millington: ⁠ https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music

This week on The Austin Young Show, we're tackling the rise of fascism head-on. We're discussing practical anti-fascist tactics, from educating yourself and challenging hate speech to getting involved in your community and using your voice. We're talking about how to be a constant thorn in the side of authoritarianism, because complacency is not an option. Plus, we're dropping a sonic bomb: a brand new, never-before-heard track from American Sh*tstorm called "Cult"!Music By:Bella Ciao - Rebel RiotCult - American Shit StormYeehaw - BoofBeliefs and Thieves - The KilogramsNostalgia Ain't What It used to be - Chilled Monkey BrainsBuried Alive- Kill LincolnWhatever- NoogyGI Joe Was Full of Shit - Fat By The GallonWe've Had Enough - The Two WattsLink for if you encounter ICE Agents:www.immigrantjustice.orgFollow The Austin Young Show:www.theaustinyoungshow.comFollow Veronica Young: https://linktr.ee/TheVeronicaYoungShow*DISCLAIMER: I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this music/song. All rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. All bands have given permission to use their music.*

This Week Mike and Callyn of The Wavebirds join us. First we discuss what bands we would like to see reunited. Mike and Callyn tell us how they got into ska and how The Wavebirds started. We also discuss song writing, video games, horns, voice acting and Canadian ska. All this and of course Ska News and our Ska Picks of the Week!  The Wavebirds:  https://linktr.ee/thewavebirds?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2cfa5d89-70b8-4955-aaf0-78974be97b29 On The Upbeat:  ontheupbeatska.com Ska News….. -Combustible Nuts On January 24 Combustible Nuts released a new song called Commercial Break (Log!)  https://open.spotify.com/album/17cT0BI90owB4OIjIyacum?si=WG-5u8pTT3iTrqjhhzVOCQ -The Kilograms On January 21 The Kilograms released a new song called Beliefs and Thieves.   https://open.spotify.com/track/0oIRQyj9VWPSaGiiem9Y1o?si=4xAIa7ErTr-BOfNBG-hw5g -Sad Snack  On January 21 Sad Snack released a new song called Brain Fog.  https://open.spotify.com/track/0euk5bvRuclLsZ7aJ6bqJO?si=yev5DZo5SqimPxMEnz__BQ Ska News 2025 Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CLg5HvXyFxP6hQxQi9Qfs?si=fmVCy1bORNGmlle3FA4-uw&pi=u-gkNw56cQRWea Ska Picks of The Week 2025: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bzFTOq9JPpWk1KSEg2nqE?si=Dh0zXfgHSeqfVKsYs0HRJw&pi=u-bIgOFTm_QpaG Ska News Theme by Lab Brats: https://labbrats.bandcamp.com Main Theme by Millington: ⁠ https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music

Everyday battler Dane Lyons joins us for a yarn around his inspirational story of hitting a top weight of 270kg and what drove him to lose 170kg and change his life around for the better. Dane takes us through the ups and downs of his journey, including the diet choices, surgeries he considered and fitness regime he had to undertake to begin his weight loss journey and how that transitioned into getting in to the bodybuilding scene. Dane was extremely transparent in the highs and lows of his journey and is doing great things to stay on the right track. Enjoy trendsetters!Follow Dane on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/dane_lifts__/?hl=enEver wanted to watch the Podcast? Get around our Patreon, only $5 a week to access full uncut visual and audio episodes and check out all of our vlogs: patreon.com/alphablokespodcastBought to you by Better Beer. Now available in 4000+ bottle shops nationwide, get around the Zero Carb lager of Australia: www.betterbeer.com.au0:00 - Starting weight9:36 - Gainers12:50 - Decision to change life29:50 - Burger Cafe35:10 - Gastric Sleeve43:30 - 200kg to 130kg48:00 - Bodybuilding1:08:26 - Next competitons1:19:22 - Fitness business1:21:56 - Guest Questions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shannon Wilson of Ohio punk band Bandages joins the show this week to talk about the bands debut record and much more!BANDAGEShttps://www.instagram.com/Bandages_Musichttps://bandages1.bandcamp.comhttps://www.facebook.com/BandagesPunkRockhttps://linktr.ee/bandagesmusic?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZbMyGG4wEhoqzc_ME7g2QqJmoltKaA-ChDVd0BwJ3xFn7l7JgbnqNb0bw_aem_eREatAudkJImrU7XoBv2cQPCHInstagram - www.instagram.com/powerchordhourTwitter - www.twitter.com/powerchordhourFacebook - www.facebook.com/powerchordhourYoutube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8LggSpotify Episode Playlists - https://open.spotify.com/user/kzavhk5ghelpnthfby9o41gnr?si=4WvOdgAmSsKoswf_HTh_MgDonate to help show costs -https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pchanthonyhttps://cash.app/$anthmerchpowerchordhour@gmail.comCheck out the Power Chord Hour radio show every Friday night at 8 to 11 est/Tuesday Midnight to 3 est on 107.9 WRFA in Jamestown, NY. Stream the station online at wrfalp.com/streaming/ or listen on the WRFA app.Special Thanks to my buddy Jay Vics for the behind the scenes help on this episode!https://www.meettheexpertspodcast.comhttps://www.jvimobile.com

Sestdienas rīta programmā "Atspere" viesojās rakstnieks Svens Kuzmins. Nupat klajā laista viņa piektā grāmata "Brīvībene", kuras galvenā varoņa vārds ir Svens Kuzmins. Sarunā - par 2000. gadu Rīgu, mūsu sasaisti ar senču izvēlēm, par vēstures un kultūras simboliem un to, vai maz nepieciešams literatūrā nodalīt reālo no izdomātā. Grāmata nākusi klajā izdevniecībā "Orbīta" un tā no jauna mākslinieka skatpunkta stāsta par kāda Rīgas nama likteni un iemītniekiem. "Brīvībene" vēsta par 2002. gada nogali, kad topošais mākslas students pārceļas uz sava vecvectēva denacionalizēto īpašumu. Nams ir zaudējis sendienu krāšņumu. Vecie, sociāli nelabvēlīgie īrnieki tajā saimnieko, it kā nekas nebūtu mainījies, taču pārmaiņas ir skārušas gan Rīgu, gan pasauli: Dvīņu torņi ir sagrauti, Latvija gatavojas uzņemšanai Eiropas Savienībā un NATO, pa Vecrīgu klimst niknu skinhedu bari. Bet jaunās paaudzes mākslinieki un literāti, kā visos laikos, meklē patiesību un skaistumu jauna laikmeta priekšvakarā. Svens Kuzmins: "Jau bērnībā sapratu, ka Rīga kā vieta, kas uzlādēta ar vēsturi, ir ļoti noslēpumaina, mīklaina, tajā ir daudz tumšu plankumu, visādu neizgaismotu kaktu. Šī vienmēr klātesošā noslēpuma sajūta saviļņo un grūti vārdos tverama. Pietrūkst vārdu tiktāl, ka jāraksta grāmatas, lai to izstāstītu (smejas). Jo vairāk mēģini šo noslēpumu atšifrēt, jo lielāks un kārdinošāks tas kļūst. 2002. gadā sāku šajos ēnainajos kaktos ieiet un uzkavēties. Tas bija interesants vadmotīvs, pat virsmērķis, strādājot pie šī teksta -  ļoti uzsvērt nezināmo, maksimāli maz izskaidrot, kas tad īsti notiek, koncentrēties uz to, ko es nezinu; izdarīt tā, lai, lasot to, neapskatāmo, tumšo plankumu būtu vairāk nekā to izskaidrojamo. Tā ir arī tumšu plankumu apzināšanās gan sevī, gan savas dzimtes neviennozīmīgajā vēsturē. Negribu izteikt kategoriskus, visaptverošus apgalvojumus, ka tā ir katra latvieša lieta, taču zinu, ka šādu dzimtu ar tik neviennozīmīgu vēsturi, kāda grāmatā aprakstīta, nav maz. Ļoti bieži, kad runājam par latviešu identitāti, pašnoteiksmi, līdz galam nav saprotams, kas tas ir un no kā tas sastāv. Ja skatāmies ārpus, teiksim, nacionālā romantisma komplekta un ejam dziļākos vēstures ēnu kaktos, tur ir ļoti daudz lietu, kuras aktīvi jāmeklē gan savā privātajā vēsturē, gan mūsu visu kolektīvajā. 19. un 20. gs. bija ļoti sarežģīts un daudzšķautņains laiks. Mēģināju šo sarežģīto lietu apzināt. Protams, es nekādā gadījumā nemēģinu pateikt, ka būtu nonācis pie kaut kādām atbildēm, drīzāk teiktu tā - tas ir individuāls sevis, savas vietas un laikmeta izprašanas ceļš, kuru noiet ir ļoti aktuāli." Svens Kuzmins (1985) ir latviešu rakstnieks, publicists un mākslinieks, etīžu teātra "Nerten" režisors. Latvijas Mākslas akadēmijā studējis  glezniecību un grafiku, Mančestras Metropolitēna universitātē – glezniecību. Kuzmins ir stāstu krājuma "Pilsētas šamaņi" (2016), kā arī romānu "Hohma" (2019), "Dizažio" (2021) un "Skaistums un nemiers" (2023) autors. Svena Kuzmina darbi tulkoti angļu, krievu, lietuviešu, igauņu, spāņu un citās valodās. Par romānu "Dizažio" pirms diviem gadiem viņš saņēma Latvijas Literatūras gada balvu, bet par romānu "Skaistums un nemiers", kuras galvenais varonis ir Kārlis Skalbe, 2024. gada sākumā izpelnījās balvu "Kilograms kultūras", kā arī saņēmusi Ventspils Rakstnieku un tulkotāju mājas balvu "Sudraba tintnīca".

Izdevniecība "Orbīta" laidusi klajā rakstnieka Svena Kuzmina grāmatu “Brīvībene” – stāstu par kāda Rīgas nama likteni un iemītniekiem no jauna mākslinieka skatpunkta. Kultūras rondo tiekamies ar autoru. “Brīvībene” vēsta par 2002. gada nogali, kad topošais mākslas students pārceļas uz sava vecvectēva denacionalizēto īpašumu. Nams ir zaudējis sendienu krāšņumu. Vecie, sociāli nelabvēlīgie īrnieki tajā saimnieko, it kā nekas nebūtu mainījies. Taču pārmaiņas ir skārušas gan Rīgu, gan pasauli: Dvīņu torņi ir sagrauti, Latvija gatavojas uzņemšanai Eiropas Savienībā un NATO, pa Vecrīgu klimst niknu skinhedu bari. Bet jaunās paaudzes mākslinieki un literāti, kā visos laikos, meklē patiesību un skaistumu jauna laikmeta priekšvakarā. Grāmatas autors Svens Kuzmins par jauniznākušo darbu saka: “Tas ir stāsts par dzimtas spožumu un postu, par ticību mākslai un par vestures slāņiem, kurus glabā ne tikai šī, bet arī daudzu citu vecās Eiropas namu sienas.” Grāmatas pieteikumā autors raksta, ka visam tajā aprakstītajam ir ilustratīva nozīme, jebkāda līdzība ar reālām personām un notikumiem ir nejauša, Sarunā Svens Kuzmins norāda, ka ilustratīvs ir tieši tas, kas ir grāmatā. "Tas, kas tur ir aprakstīts, es neesmu aprakstījis notikumus, vai portretējis cilvēkus. Vienīgie cilvēki, kam ir saglabāti īstie vārdi, esmu es un mana mamma. Bet es tāpat neesmu mūs norakstījis no dzīves," norāda Svens Kuzmins. "Šie notikumi ilustrē principu visam tam, kas patiešām notika, viņi kaut kādā veidā parādā to notikumu dabu, tā laika dabu, pašus fenomenus kā tādus, ar ko bija jāsadzīvo un jāsaskaras." Šī ir piektā Svena Kuzmina grāmata, vairākām iepriekšējām bijuši labi panākumi, par romānu "Dizažio" pirms diviem gadiem viņš saņēma Latvijas Literatūras gada balvu, bet par romānu "Skaistums un nemiers", kuras galvenais varonis ir Kārlis Skalbe, šī gada sākumā izpelnījās balvu "Kilograms kultūras", kā arī saņēmusi Ventspils Rakstnieku un tulkotāju mājas balvu "Sudraba tintnīca".

Dogs in China are becoming employees in pet cafes, earning money just like humans. The concept, called "Zhengmaotiaoqian" in Chinese, translates to "earn snack money," and the idea is that these pets are working part-time or full-time at the cafes and returning home at night, just like humans. Also, a pumpkin that has won an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California four years in a row has grown well-fed and healthy soil. The 51st World Championship Pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco, was 1,121 Kilograms, weighing 11-14 people depending on their weight.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Jersey has a solid reputation for raising successful singer-songwriters, with Sam Krajkowski aka Sammy Kay as another proof. Ten years after his debut album Fourth Street Singers and five years after his most recent full-length civil/WAR, he goes back to basics with a new LP called July 1960. It concerns ten stripped down punk-folk songs with imaginative storytelling about the finer details of life (as the musician explains: “This is me navigating being in my mid-thirties, chasing some kinda hope, and trying to get my thoughts off my chest while understanding who I am”), with a sparse instrumentation of pianos, pedal steel guitars and strings, and always those amazing gravelly vocals. Impressive and irresistible.July 1960, produced, engineered and mixed by James Duckworth, is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Sell the Heart Records (US) and Engineer Records (UK). Featuring Sammy Kay (vocals, acoustic guitar), John Calvin Abney (pedal steel, electric guitar, piano, mellotron, harmonica), Cory Tramontelli (upright bass) and Collin Thompson (trombone).PS  Sammy Kay has much more to offer; earlier this year he released a nice debut EP with his new ska project The Kilograms, which also includes Joe Gittleman (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones), Mike McDermott (The Bouncing Souls) and J Duckworth (Newport Secret Six). Thanks for listening!!! Please Follow us on Instagram @hiddentracks99Pre and Post roll music brought to you by @sleepcyclespa

Hailing from New Jersey, singer/songwriter SAMMY KAY has lived the kind of romantic life that can only be found in song. With the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows, KAY returned to his home state after years in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, as well as traveling the world playing in and working for a myriad of bands (Gaslight Anthem and Bouncing Souls among them).   The Kilograms  Joe Gittleman of The Mighty Might Boss tones and  Sammy Kay have formed a new band together called The Kilograms. The band has released their first song called “Who Am I”. The song is off the Black Sand Relief: A Benefit for Michelle Ska and the People of Mauicompilation album. The Kilograms will be releasing a full album soon.   Tickets to The Kilograms with C-Level and Rubik's Groove at Mahalls Lakewood OH Sep 4th  https://mahalls20lanes.com/event/the-kilograms/ Sammy Kay's and The Kilograms info sammykaynj july-1960 https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Kilograms-61552101741122/ https://thekilograms.bandcamp.com/album/ep    

Suzuki Motor Corp. will try to cut 100 kilograms from the weight of the lightest version of its Alto minivehicle, which tips the scales at 680 kilograms, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: From Kilograms to Tons: The Scaling Challenge for Cultivated Meat, published by Dr Faraz Harsini on May 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a linkpost for GFI's most recent report on trends in scaling cultivated meat. As a student, I spent over 10 years studying human diseases and pandemics. I constantly asked myself: how can I increase my impact? My pharmaceuticals job felt unlikely to be the best answer. As I learned more about the cruelty in the meat, dairy and egg industries, I realized that we need technology to replace animal agriculture in addition to individuals choosing to go vegan and promoting veganism. We need to change the culture and educate individuals, but we also need to change the system. As a cultivated meat senior scientist at GFI, I spent a lot of time last year conducting a survey to determine trends in cultivated meat production, identify challenges, and provide useful insights to investors, researchers, and suppliers. Below are the selected key insights from the report. The industry currently operates on a small scale, with most productions at the kilogram level. Many companies plan to scale up with large bioreactors in the next three years, enabling significantly larger annual production in the order of tons. Companies are exploring various bioprocessing techniques and bioreactor designs for process optimization, including stirred-tank or air-lift bioreactors, fed-batch or continuous modes of operation, and strategies like recycling and filtration to reduce costs. Some companies face knowledge gaps in regulatory affairs, signaling a need for collaboration with regulatory agencies to establish frameworks. Cultivated meat companies are investigating diverse fit-for-purpose scaling strategies, bioreactors, and operational methods. Due to the specific requirements of each cell type and product, a universal bioprocess and scaling solution may not be feasible. Consequently, there's a demand for additional techno-economic models and experimental data to fine-tune bioprocesses for each specific product type. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Chapter 495 - "As Long As I Can Create and Make Art" ...as read by Sammy KayToday we welcome Sammy Kay to the podcast! Sammy is currently playing guitar in The Kilograms, a new ska/reggae project with Joe Gittleman, formerly of the Mighty Mighty Bostones. The Kilograms released their debut ep earlier this year. Sammy talks about music as a means of escape, how The Kilograms came together, the joy of creating music, and more.https://thekilograms.bandcamp.com/album/ephttps://sammykaynj.bandcamp.com/musichttps://www.patreon.com/asthestorygrowshttps://asthestorygrows.substack.com/DiscordEmail: asthestorygrows@gmail.comChapter 495 Music:The Kilograms - "I Swear"The Kilograms - "Can't Be Beat"The Kilograms - "Who Am I (To Say)"The Kilograms - "America In Black and White" 

Tarryn Johnston founded Hennops Revival in November 2019, inspired by a devastating flood that severely affected the Hennops River area. Despite initial challenges and scepticism, Tarryn's deep passion for the environment fuelled her commitment to cleaning up the river and its surroundings. In the last 4 years, Tarryn and her team have cleaned up over 4.5 million kilograms of waste, logged 26,000 volunteer hours, created more than 8,000 job opportunities and impacted over 207 million Kilolitres of water!!! Tarryn joins Good Things Guy to discuss the evolution of Hennops Revival from a single river clean-up to a large-scale initiative. She shares her experiences of facing doubt and criticism but emphasises her unwavering dedication to making a difference. Listen to the interview here:

This is episode 160 and our guest for the second time is Sammy Kay. Sammy is a songwriter from New Jersey who now makes his home in Cincinnati, Kentucky. He is a dear sweet soul who has lived a fascinating life. We have gotten to know each other over the last year and some change and I am grateful for the connection we have formed.    Sammy is always working and you will hear about those projects during our chat. Most notably the debut EP from his band The Kilograms with J Duckworth, Joe Gittleman, and Michael McDermott is now available wherever you consume music. This is essentially me and Sammy shooting the shit and I hope y'all enjoy it as much as we did.  

29. februārī Mūzikas un drāmas telpā “OratoriO” otrreiz izskanēs dziedātājas Vaidas Voveres oriģinālmūzikas un dzejas koncerts “Vārsmas”. Par šo programmu, kas pirmoreiz izskanēja 2023. gada 17. augustā Ojāra Vācieša muzejā, viņa tika nominēta balvai “Kilograms kultūras” kategorijā "Starts". Vaida atveidoja arī Baibas lomu Kārļa Lāča mūziklā “Pūt,vējiņi!” Rīgas Doma kora skolas mūziklu nodaļas iestudējumā. Skatuves vilinājumu Vaida sajutusi jau bērnudārzā, kad regulāri piedalījās mazo vokālistu konkursā "Cālis". Neatsveramu pieredzi viņa guva Jelgavas korī "Skali" pavadītajos gados , bet muzikālie domubiedri un šī brīža skatuves partneri sastapti Rīgas Doma kora skolā, kur arī notikušas pirmās kompozīcijas stundas pie Jēkaba Jančevska. Ar savu dzeju Vaida ir bijusi literāro konkursu “Aicinājums” un “Ojāra Vācieša Pārdaugavas literārās balvas” laureāte. Šobrīd Vaidai savu padomu neliedz arī pianists un komponists Edgars Cīrulis, kurš "LNSO vasarnīcā" pirmatskaņotajā jaundarbā izmantos Vaidas dzeju. Programmas "Vārsmas" centrā ir triptihs, kuru iedvesmojušas trīs Jaņa Rozentāla gleznas – Mērijas Grīnbergas portrets, "Arkādija" un "Nāve". “Vārsmas ir manas iedvesmas un šaubas vienlaikus. Tas ir mans vārīgums, kas mēdz būt vislielākā dāvana un vissmagākais slogs. Izveidot šādu programmu bija milzīgs pārbaudījums un atklāšanās, bet es ticu, ka īstena māksla prasa radītāja drosmi un ievainojamību,” uzskata Vaida Vovere. Sarunā - arī par kafijas aizmiršanu, saņemot vēsti par nomināciju balvai "Kilograms kultūra", par to, ka vispatiesākie mēs esam bijuši kara pirmajās nedēļās, un ceļu pie dzejas un komponēšanas. Vaida Vovere: Pēc skolas absolvēšanas sekoja piespiedu brīvais gads, bet tajā laikam arī atradu savu ceļu, kad no mūzikas izpildīšanas vairāk pievērsos arī tās radīšanai. Dzeja tam visam ir plūdusi cauri kā pašterapija. Nopietnāk tas kļuva, kad skolotāja Iveta Šimkus, kas ir dzejniece, nesen izdevusi brīnišķīgu dzejas krājumu, manī kaut ko ieraudzīja un mani mudināja. Tad arī es pati noticēju, ka varbūt mana dzeja nav tikai piezīmes dienasgrāmatā, bet tas var būt arī kaut kas citiem klausāms un lasāms. Tad Literārā akadēmija, dažādi konkursi un vienkārši vēlme rakstīt, jo vairs jau nevarēšu nerakstīt. Mūzika tam līdztekus. Tas viss ir gājis kā tādā bizē - ļoti ciešā, skaistā bizē.  Kā pati raksturotu, kas ir tas, ko radi? Grūti to ielikt kādā nišā. Laikam teiktu, ka visvairāk iespaidojos no indiefolk mūzikas tradīcijām un muzikālā teātra, Brodvejas un Vestendas mūziklu tradīcijām, bet vienmēr visupirms ir vārds un teksts. Dziesmas ir ne tikai labskanīgas, bēdīgas vai priecīgas, tās vienmēr ir arī stāsts. Koncerts ir vairāki stāsti vienā lielā stāstā, un man vienmēr ir ļoti svarīgi stāstīt šos stāstus un sajust dažādas emocijas. Par ko stāsti? Pagaidām visvairāk stāstu par sevi, savu pieredzi, veiksmēm, neveiksmēm, ticību, neticību, cerībām. Stāstu par dažādām sajūtām, kuras mani piemeklējušas un mītiem, kurus esmu izdomājusi.

“Latviešu mūziķi – ukraiņu karavīriem!” Personība, kuras enerģija un daile bieži izskan un atspoguļojas Ukrainas kara kontekstā. Šovakar Monopolā - dziedātāja, pianiste un komponiste Katrīna Gupalo. Ukrainā arī šobrīd dzīvo Katrīnas radi, ģimene. Jautāta, kā viņiem klājas, Katrīna neslēpj, ka ir grūti, galvenokārt tāpēc, ka nav skaidrs, cik ilgi vēl turpināsies karš. "Bija jau doma, ka viss ļoti ātri atrisināsies un dzīvosim tālāk. Bet, nē! Jau tik ilgi un neredz galu un neredz kā. Mēs visi ticam uzvarai un es ticu uzvarai, bet man ir sajūta, kaut kam ir jānotiek, kaut kam ir jāmainās varbūt mūsos pašos kardināli, lai tā uzvara atnāktu. Jo tagad tas ir tāds bezgalīgs process, kurā mirst tūkstošiem cilvēku, iet bojā, tiek iznīcinātas dzīves," vērtē Katrīna Gupalo. "Nē, man nav bezcerības, man ir liela cerība, bet kaut kam ir jāmainās, jo 2022. gadā visi blieza maksimumu, ko varam iedot, kā varam palīdzēt, tagad ir pagājis laiks un visi ir vairāk vai mazāk atslābuši. Kā mēs varam runāt par uzvaru tagad, ja palīdzība ir mazāka, nekā toreiz. Tagad ir jābūt vēl vairāk, nekā 2022. gadā, ja pat tad ar visu milzīgo, kas nāca palīgā no visas pasaules Ukrainai, ja pat ar šo visu enerģiju un palīdzību nesanāca izbeigt karu. Tagad tam ir jābūt vēl vairāk," pārliecināta Katrīna Gupalo. Katrīna studējusi Rietumu Mūzikas akadēmijā Kalifornijā, Londonas Karaliskajā mūzikas akadēmijā un Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmijā. Iespējams, ka daudzi Katrīnu iepazina kā Latvijas Televīzijas šova “Radīti mūzikai” lauerāti. Savas muzikālās karjeras laikā Katrīna radīijusi vairākus hītus un sadarbojusies ar daudziem citiem ievērojamiem mūziķiem. Piemēram, Ukrainas atbalstam Katrīna kopā ar 40 mūziķiem no Latvijas, Lietuvas, Ukrainas un Krievijas radīja dziesmu un klipu ar nosaukumu „Resistance” jeb „Pretošanās”. Šī dziesma tika nominēta Latvijas Televīzijas un Radio gada balvai “Kilograms kultūras”. Katrīnas sniegums ticis atzinīgi novērtēts arī dažādos starptautiskos konkursos, t. sk. Parīzē, Londonā un ASV. Katrīna ir arī koncertaģentūras "Aira Laiviņa Artists" dibinātāja un mākslinieciskā vadītāja. Pierādījusi sevi arī kā režisore un idejas autore izrādēs "100 gadi ar Piafu” (2015) un "Pēc Pusnakts / After Midnight” (2016), kas notikušas vairāk nekā 20 koncertzālēs Latvijas pilsētās. "Pēc Pusnakts / After Midnight” guvusi augstu britu kritikas novērtējumu Londonas "Camden Fringe” festivālā. 2022. gadā Katrīna saņēma Latvijas augstāko apbalvojumu Triju Zvaigžņu ordeni un uzstājās Valsts prezidenta pilī Rīgā. Viņa iekļauta žurnāla “Pastaiga 2023 Izcilās Latvijas sievietes” gada sasniegumu sarakstā.

Drummer for The Bouncing Souls and Joan Jett, just to name a few, Michael McDermott is another Jersey treasure. From his early ska days and Murphys Law, to Budokan, the kid's got stories and he's telling! And be sure to check him out in The Kilograms with Joe Gittleman and Sammy Kay. Support the show via Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sammy Kay is here representing The Kilograms! Who are the Kilograms? Well they're a brand new group consisting of Sammy Kay, Joe Gittleman, J Duckworth, and Michael McDermott! Sammy let's us know how the group got started, what is in their future, and what events inspired the writing and recording of the song "Can't Be Beat!" Check out the new EP from the Kilograms! https://thekilograms.bandcamp.com/album/ep https://open.spotify.com/album/2UN3bLLtNxeCoUfQPhfR5n Ska News: Smoke and Mirrors Sound System - Beyond the Pale (Single) https://open.spotify.com/album/3kUzptGkgYP85UYRco4fLH Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - The Last Ninja (Single) https://tokyoskaparadiseorchestra.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-ninja https://open.spotify.com/album/2o4kWMnrJxC9lksNceAnfg The Rins - Greener (Single) https://open.spotify.com/album/1OGgUMetZHo0FfQ3YK8EUD On The Upbeat Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/ontheupbeatska https://www.facebook.com/ontheupbeatska https://www.twitter.com/ontheupbeatska https://www.ontheupbeatska.com On The Upbeat Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ontheupbeatska On The Upbeat on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Dsa1Gmt1Pivxo5sFGaxob?si=FeoGvciiQy2IxtHBY4GeVw&nd=1 On The Upbeat Merch: https://on-the-upbeat.creator-spring.com/ On The Upbeat Bandcamp: https://ontheupbeat.bandcamp.com/ Ska News Theme by Dang!t: dangitband.bandcamp.com/music⁠ Sponsorship Music by Eric Daino: ericdaino.bandcamp.com/music ⁠ Main Theme by Millington: millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music⁠

"Ir jāsaprot pēctecība – bez pagātnes tagadne un nākotne nav iespējama," uzsver Dekoratīvās mākslas un dizaina muzeja vadītāja, mākslas vēsturniece un kuratore Inese Baranovska, ar kuru kopā atskatāmies uz muzeja vēsturi, ielūkojamies rūpīgi veidotajā  mākslas kolekcijā, kā arī noskaidrojam, kā muzejs gatavojas svinēt savu 35. dzimšanas dienu. Jau pavisam drīz – 8. februārī – jubilejas gads tiks atklāts ar Rotu mākslas biedrības izstādi "Skārien-jūtīgs", kurā piedalīsies daudzi Latvijā un pasaulē pazīstami mākslinieki... Inta Zēgnere: Muzejs, kura iepriekšējais nosaukums bija Dekoratīvi lietišķās mākslas muzejs, dibināts 1989. gada 6. jūlijā. Tas bija laiks pirms Atmodas, un laikrakstā "Literatūra un Māksla" jau parādās raksti arī par pirmajām izstādēm, tai skaitā, Inese, arī tavi raksti. Kas šajās telpās atradās pirms tam? Inese Baranovska: Mūsu ēkas vēsture ir ļoti sena, tā sniedzas līdz pat 13. gadsimta sākumam, kad tika dibināta Rīga. Precīzu datu nav, bet varētu teikt, ka ēkas vēsture aizsākusies jau 1204. gadā. Tolaik tā bija Svētā Jura baznīca, arī klosteris un hospitālis, un pēc vairākiem ugunsgrēkiem reformācijas laikā 17. gadsimtā centrālā ēka tika pārveidota par noliktavu. Un noliktava tā bija gan 18. un 19. gadsimtā, gan arī 20. gadsimtā – visu padomju laiku, un tikai 80. gadu vidū, kad strauji notika Vecrīgas renovācija un, pateicoties poļu restauratoriem, tika renovēts viss Konventa sētas kvartāls, Rīgas domei radās ideja, ka būtu nepieciešams šāds muzejs. Jo astoņdesmitie gadi ir laiks, kad visur Eiropā un pasaulē tika dibināti šāda formāta dekoratīvi lietišķās mākslas vai dekoratīvās mākslas muzeji. Taču laiki mainās, un vairāk kļuva aktuāls tieši dizaina termins – līdz ar to pārveidojās arī muzeja identitāte. Ja sākotnēji mūsu kolekcijas pamatā bija dekoratīvi lietišķā māksla un tie vairāk bija mākslinieku unikālie darbi – keramika, tekstils, koks, metāls, ādas, plastikas izstrādājumi, stikls, tad kopš 2005. gada veidojam dizaina kolekciju un fokusējamies uz stāstu par dizainu. Dizaina terminu šobrīd vērtējam daudz savādāk. Ja gadsimta sākumā, runājot par Jūliju Straumi, Jūliju Madernieku vai Ansi Cīruli, mēs neteicām, ka tas ir dizains, tad šobrīd, atskatoties uz šo meistaru daiļradi no šodienas perspektīvas, varam teikt, ka viņi visi bijuši arī dizaineri. Kas ir lielākās vērtības, kas muzejā rodamas un pie kurām tev pašai patīk visvairāk pakavēties?  Porcelāna un fajansa trauku apgleznošanas darbnīcā „Baltars” tapušie darbi, protams, ir viena no mūsu virsotnēm, bet ir arī citi mūsu pīlāri: Jūlijs Madernieks, Jūlijs Straume, Ansis Cīrulis, Romans Suta… Tāpat Rūdolfa Heimrāta tekstildarbi, Pētera Martinsona keramika. Ir arī turpinājums – sešdesmitie, septiņdesmitie gadi un – mūsdienas. Mēs turpinām papildināt mūsu krājumu. Ir jāsaprot pēctecība: bez pagātnes nav iespējama tagadne un nākotne. Tā ka mums ir gan dizaina klasiķi, gan kinētiskās mākslas klasiķu darbi – Valdis Celms, Artūrs Riņķis, un mums ir arī jaunais mākslinieks Germans Ermičs – ļoti perspektīvs dizainers, kurš šobrīd nominēts balvai "Kilograms kultūras". Ļoti priecājamies, ka varam papildināt savu krājumu ar ļoti aktuāliem un jauniem radošā un unikālā dizaina darbiem, veidojot stāstu par pēctecību.  Kā domājat svinēt savu jubileju? Nu jau gads ir sācies… Īstā dzimšanas diena ir vasarā, tādēļ mums ir speciāla programma ar nosaukumu "Dizaina procesi tuvplānā", kas sāksies aprīlī. Tās būs piecas pop-up izstādes saistībā ar aktuālo dizainu un rūpniecisko dizainu, kas mazāk pārstāvēts mūsu kolekcijā, krājumā un ekspozīcijā, bet tieši tāpēc mēs vēlamies par to runāt. Šo projektu veidojam sadarbībā ar 2023. gadā dibināto biedrību "Dizaina eksporta alianse", kurā apvienojušies nozīmīgākie eksporta preču piedāvātāji un dizaina kompānijas, tādas kā "an & angel", "Madara", "Vaidavas keramika", "Mamma Lampa" un citi. Sadarbībā veidosim nelielas pop-up izstādes, uz kuru pamata notiks stāsti, tikšanās ar dizaineriem: stāstīsim par dizaina procesu, sākot no baltas lapas un zīmuļa, kad mākslinieks savu ideju vispirms iemieso, un kas notiek pēc tam un kā tas viss top, lai cilvēki saprot, ka jebkura krūzīte vai bļodiņa ir vesels stāsts. Bet jums jau ir arī klasiķi. Pērn 140. jubileju svinējām Ansim Cīrulim, bet 2020. gadā par godu Jūlija Madernieka 150. jubilejai bija izstāde un grāmata. Arī šogad droši vien plānota kāda speciāla jubileja? Jā, 150.dzimšanas dienu atzīmēsim [tekstilmāksliniekam]Jūlijam Straumem, bet šis formāts būs mazliet citādāks – tā nebūs izstāde, bet gan lielāks pasākumu cikls ar nosaukumu "Laikmeta straume. Jūlijam Straumem – 150". Tie būs zinātniskie lasījumi ar divām sesijām – pavasarī un rudenī, speciāla izglītības un publisko pasākumu programma. Savukārt muzeja otrā stāva pastāvīgajā ekspozīcijā "Klasiskās vērtības" būs ļoti interesanta Jūlija Straumes maz redzētu darbu ekspozīcija no Latvijas Nacionālā mākslas muzeja grafikas darbu krājuma. Tie būs Jūlija Straumes meti tekstildarbiem. Savukārt pavasarī būs interesants projekts sadarbībā ar Azerbaidžānu – tiks izstādīti azerbaidžāņu paklāji, bet ar tiltu uz pagātni, jo savulaik Jūlijs Straume bija devies zinātniskās izpētes ekspedīcijā uz Kaukāzu, kur pētīja Kaukāza paklājus, tai skaitā Azerbaidžānas reģiona paklājus, un šo izstādi mēs veidosim arī par šo tradīciju pētniecību un pārmantojamību. Lai gan Latvija no Azerbaidžānas ir tik tālu, ornamentālajos rakstos, ornamentālajos simbolos un tekstila darbu nozīmībā mūsu tautu kultūrās paklāji un ornaments ir ļoti būtisks rādītājs. Kopumā šogad mūsu izstāžu programma būs blīva, veltīta kultūras mantojumam, veltīta tās skatījumam un lasījumam no mūsdienu perspektīvas. Un gadu mēs atklāsim pavisam drīz – 7. februārī. Jau no 8. februāra līdz 21. aprīlim līdz ar mūsdienu aktuālo mākslu skatītājiem būs apskatāma Rotu biedrības izstāde "Skārien-jūtīgs"… Vairāk – audioierakstā.

Lielais balvu pasniegšanas laiks sāksies šomēnes, februārī, bet janvāris ir allaž bijis dažādu kultūras balvu pieteikumu mēnesis, kurā tiek paziņoti balvu pretendenti. Kultūras rondo „Mēneša apskatniekā” kopā ar kultūras žurnālistiem pārrunājam būtiskākos notikumus gada pirmajā mēnesī un analizēsim situāciju kultūras telpā. Viesos Nora Rieksta, Jānis Lācis un Kristīne Simsone. Vienu balvu gan pasniedz janvārī - Normunda Naumaņa vārdā nosaukto Gada balvu  mākslas kritikā saņēma Ivars Šteinbergs. Šajā mēnesī uzzinājām Lielās mūzikas balvas nominantus. Noslēdzies Latvijas sabiedrisko mediju gada balvas kultūrā “Kilograms kultūras 2023” fināla balsojums. Apbalvojuma ieguvējus izziņos svinīgā ceremonijā 16. februāra vakarā. Šovakar, 1. februārī, notiek Latvijas Kinematogrāfistu savienības nacionālās kino balvas „Lielais Kristaps” atklāšana un sākas filmu programma, kas vainagosies ar apbalvošanas ceremoniju 4. februārī un ko tiešraidē translēs Latvijas Televīzija.  Janvārī aktīva bijusi kino dzīve, gan pašu mājās, gan pasaulē. Pasniegtas "Zelta globusa" balvas, izziņotas Oskara nominācijas. Pirmizrādei bijusi daudzsēriju filmas “Pansija pilī” pirmajām sērijām un filmai „Pastkarte no Romas”- Jānis Jarāns.

Noskaidroti sabiedrisko mediju gada balvas kultūrā "Kilograms kultūras 2023" ziemas balsojuma uzvarētāji un atklāts fināla balsojums. Par finālistiem līdz 31. janvāra pulksten 23.59 iespējams balsot portālā LSM.lv. Apbalvojuma ieguvējus izziņos svinīgajā ceremonijā 16. februārī, kas tiešraidē būs vērojama LTV1, LSM.lv un REplay.lv, kā arī klausāma – LR1 un LR3 "Klasika". Saruna studijā ar žūrijas pārstāvi Aneti Ašmani-Vilsoni. Balvas nominantus – oriģinālākos un kvalitatīvākos aizvadītā gada Latvijas kultūras notikumus – sabiedrisko mediju kultūras jomas profesionāļu žūrija izvirzīja, savukārt skatītāji un klausītāji izvēlējās trīs balsojumos – pavasara, rudens un ziemas baldojumā.

Pablos: There's this idea that was just published that you could produce concrete and make it stronger by adding charred coffee grounds to the mix. And this is some research out of Australia. So concrete, if it's not obvious, is like the most used material on the entire planet, aside from oil, which we burn. Cement, is in everything, and it's this like staggering scale problem. Partly because of its contribution to greenhouse gases, right? So when you make cement, you're burning some shit to make a bunch of heat to make the cement and you need that heat and there are ideas to decarbonize cement by electrifying cement plants. But then there's this chemical process going on, which is the bulk of the carbon emissions. And there's just no way to get rid of that. So that's kind of the lay of the land. Interestingly, about half of all the cement in the entire world is made in China. That country is basically made of cement. This is one of the major targets for trying to do reductions of carbon emissions. And these guys figured out how to use coffee grounds. It's not totally clear to me that they're using, uh, used coffee grounds, I presume that's the case, because there's 10 billion Kilograms of used coffee waste every year that mostly ends up as biomass rotting in landfills. So this is worth solving. I thought this was kind of interesting. You can't just take the coffee and throw it in the cement because the oils and stuff in it will seep out and actually make the cement fall apart. They invented this pyrolyzing process where you basically heat up the coffee grounds to a specific, pretty high target temperature, around 500 C, I guess. That'll get rid of the oils presumably, and makes it into an additive you can just throw into the cement mix and it makes it 30 percent stronger. So I got two things that are kind of interesting, related to this. We Have a company our fund backed called DMAT, and these guys figured out how to make cement that's lower carbon, but the way they do it, is they solved this 2000 year old mystery in material science, which is, how did the Romans make cement? Ash: I was going to bring that up. Pablos: Yeah. Cause they made the, the Pantheon to like two millennia ago and it's still there. It's unreinforced concrete in a seismic zone. And then they, somehow got busy, watching Netflix or something and got bored and forgot all about how to make cement. And then nobody's been able to figure it out ever since. Ash: They were just looking at the colosseum. They were like, Hey, I'd rather look at the lion. Maximus Aurelius or whomever. And then that's it. They're like, forget it. Pablos: Look at the cool lion. Oh shit. The lion ate the guy who knows how to make the cement. Ash: Literally probably what happened. Pablos: That is literally probably what happened. So anyway, I got this team at MIT that figured it out. Ash: It was self healing, right? Pablos: We figured that out a little while ago. It's self healing because what happens with cement is it fractures, water seeps into the cracks and then destroys the cement from the inside out. And that's what's happening to our bridges and everything else we made. And so to make it stronger and handle that, we load it up with steel rebar. So it's steel reinforced, and then it still only lasts 50 years. The Roman cements, apparently lasting at least 2000 years. And what happens is it just gets stronger because when it cracks, water seeps into the cracks and it activates these lime deposits that are trapped in there. And so then the lime fills the crack and seals it up and heals the cement. Presumably the colosseum is just getting stronger over time. Now we know how to do that. So we can make cement that lasts virtually forever, use less of it, use less steel, and the kicker is, it's about 20 percent less CO2, out of the box without even trying. That's pretty dramatic considering the, the scale of the problem and the lack of other practical ways of decarbonizing. So these might be compatible, right? You might be able to also use this coffee additive. What I like about this is that cement is such a big thing. Most people just take it for granted. They don't know how. Intensive this is from a carbon emissions standpoint and the scale of it. this. You know like we can actually make things way, way better. with some of these ideas. Ash: And the way they were doing it, the Romans had volcanic rocks, so they had this ability to automatically have the little bubbles in it. But I think what's interesting is that, some people are like, oh, can we put plastic? Isn't that where we just got in trouble with microplastics? Let's solve one problem and then really screw up something else. The idea I was thinking is maybe this is where the coffee ground becomes like the aeration, right? Cause the whole structure was that as the bubbles popped, that was how the lime. Seeped back in, right? The water combined. Pablos: I think that was one of the theories that was debunked. I'm not positive, but I think that was the, like the prevailing idea, or it was kind of a half baked idea of like how this happened. And I think that is not what actually, it's nothing to do with the volcanic rock after all. Ash: It wasn't the volcanic, right? They had a couple , right? One was like some guy was trying to do bacteria. five, six years ago. That was the other crazy one, which was like, we will just have a living organism inside. The other question is, during production, can you trap, can you use it to just trap the stuff? Like, if you look at, was it clean, right? If you look at those guys, Pablos: So that's what DMAT solved. And they do it with this process called hot mixing. Which apparently was considered dumb for, I don't know, centuries or something. And so nobody tried it. Apparently using hot mixing they can get the lime deposits optimally trapped in the cement. I don't know all the details. Ash: I like it. Pablos: Yeah, so we'll get them on the podcast sometime and have them explain all the all the ins and outs. But yeah, pretty cool stuff. Ash: The challenge with almost all of these carbon reduction technologies is scale. Oh, hey, we're going to take carbon out of the sky. And it's like, okay, what did, what was the impact? Well, it's like half a car. Pablos: Right because the sky is like the most entropic source of carbon there is. Literally, the number 400 parts per million. Well, let's see. If you had a haystack, and you had, 400 needles and, a million pieces of straw, good luck finding a needle. It's literally, the hardest possible place to get carbon. If you want to, sequester carbon, the thing to do would be to just, leave the fucking coal in the ground. Where it's, the highest density of carbon you could find. So yeah, it's, it's kind of idiotic. Most of these things kind of solve themselves if you solve energy. If you had like a shit ton of free energy, then yeah, you could go do carbon capture from the atmosphere, but, otherwise it's pretty painful. Ash: The problem is, yeah, like you said, unless you can turn it back into like a diamond or something, like you said, put it back into coal. These magma guys are, are cranking. Maybe we can use those guys. You've heard of the magma guys? Pablos: What's the magma guys? Ash: These guys were doing the near magma experiment. They're like, we're just going to go 6, 000 feet, like just a little over a mile. What's a mile? 5,280 feet? So you just go a little bit into the mantle. Just tap into that hyper geothermal. Pablos: I don't know what you're talking about. Ash: Oh, so there's a project, just came out a couple of days ago that they revealed that they have a timeline on 2025. They're going to do two. One is an open magma bubble, it's in Iceland and then they're going to do another one on top of it. They're going to build like a little station and they're going to go straight down. This is poking the bear, I would say. Pablos: So they're basically trying to do a man made volcano. Ash: Yes, yes, that's the, that's the way to think of it. Pablos: Iceland doesn't have enough volcanoes. Ash: There's not enough problems where you could just suddenly drill a hole and burst the pimple of God, right? I don't Pablos: People are worried about AI, and here we are trying to make a cousin for Eyjafjallajökull. Ash: I like it because someone's like, "there's infinite heat." And I'm like, "yeah, but it's kind of down there for a reason." Didn't work out too well for a lot of people, right? Pablos: I don't understand, I guess if you succeeded at drilling that hole, then I think you would have basically the same thing as the makings of a volcano. Ash: Yeah, but they're trying to contain it, right? They somehow feel like, like they could drill in a place... Pablos: You're going to have to cycle it because if it cools, even if the magma comes up and cools, it's just going to plug your hole. Ash: So the point is that they have to get a turbine to magma, magma rotating. It's wild. It's going to be interesting. just liked the idea that, that someone's literally poking the bear. Pablos: Oh, they definitely should try. Ash: Cause you know, we talk about fusion being risky, but this one I just feel has a lot more problems. Pablos: Yeah, I think they're just gonna, the magma is just gonna plug the hole. Ash: No, they've got, they've got, some ideas. Yeah, well, it is pressure. It's under pressure. That's why I keep calling it a pimple. Pablos: Yeah, that's why volcanoes get made, right? Ash: That's why they gotta go to Iceland. But, the interesting thing is, if you could technically, if you could maintain pressurization all the way up to the top, right, then it can stay magmatic and you could technically build some sort of, high velocity magma drive. That's, what they're thinking of. And that will just keep cycling. Cooling, but just spinning this turbine. Pablos: What do you do with the magma that comes up hot? Ash: It becomes like a, a river. Pablos: You run the turbine, but then where does it go? You gonna pump it back down? Ash: Yeah, it's as if you were in a magma flow, right? So magma continues to move. It continues, it has a lot of movement, which people don't realize. Look, the minute I heard drill 6,000 feet into a thin crust lava magma I sort of went, Hmm, this cannot end well. That's, that's the way I looked at it. But who knows? Pablos: But it's just Iceland, so you know, there's only like 130,000 people there. They're tough though. If anybody can handle it... Ash: Don't you remember? Didn't, they stop all transatlantic flights? You remember right? There's like a little Ash: cloud and, so just Iceland, but it's, it's literally on the jet stream. We Have a few airplanes crossing right over Iceland. No more going to Europe or vice versa. Pablos: Yeah, well, we overdid it anyway. Europe is basically just like a suburb of the U.S. now. Ash: And Brexit. So, you know, Pablos: There's a lot of people who are trying to figure out how to decarbonize cement and it stalls out in part because there's like four or five thousand cement plants around the world, and they all cost $100 million to build in the first place. A lot of the ideas for decarbonizing cement require building a new plant. And even if you could build one, you're not going to build 4,000 of them. They're Just non starters. And that's part of why I like DMAT is that they can integrate in any cement plant with basically zero capex. You can just go in and upgrade, turn some knobs, and make a new formula. So, that's super cool, and hopefully this coffee based additive would have that property as well. Ash: I think what's interesting is just the coffee part of all this conversation. Pablos: If I go back to that article, it says that there's, 10 billion kilograms, which is 22 billion pounds of coffee waste a year. I presume this is post consumer grounds. Ash: This is probably commercial coffee grounds that they can track using, like, Starbucks. It doesn't include what we take home. Pablos: So it's at least something like three pounds of coffee grounds per human, for every man, woman, and child on Earth. I don't even drink coffee. So somebody else is doing double. The other one that we, got excited about and backed is this, startup called Marvel Labs. What's exciting there is they figured out how to use the used coffee grounds as an input material for 3D printers. That sounds like kind of a cute thing, but the truth is it's staggering implications. And it's because 3D printers, they're called rapid prototypers because we used them in labs and they were very expensive and impractical for a long time. And then in 2007, one of my buddies helped start MakerBot, and I was an advisor for MakerBot, which was the first consumer 3D printer. And so we thought we were gonna eventually build farms of these things like AWS, you'd just have a data center full of MakerBots and you'd wire them up to the "buy now" button, and whenever you clicked "buy now," a MakerBot would print your stuff and then print a box around it and then print a FedEx label on it. It would show up in the mail. Obviously that didn't happen, and here we are 15 years later, and you don't buy anything on Amazon that's 3D printed. There's two big reasons. One is they're one pixel printers, so they're super slow, and that makes it expensive. And then the other part of it is that the input materials are expensive, so you've got these high quality filaments, plastic filaments and things that are expensive. At the end of the day, you're competing with injection molding, which is like the cheapest way of making anything on Earth. And so, it hasn't worked out. There's a couple of exceptions. So for example, with metals, 3d printing of metals has worked out pretty well for two reasons. One, they're higher value parts. So you're printing, you know, jet parts and rockets and stuff. But also the technique in the printers is it's a powder bed, so you have this bin of powder, you run over it with a binder, like glue, from an inkjet head or a laser or something to sinter it together, and then, you pick up your part and shake it off, and you've got this part that was printed in a bed of dust. It's actually a very elegant way of making a 3D printer, and it's faster, because they're more like layer at a time instead of pixel at a time. Anyway, so what Marvel Labs did is they adapted that style of printer, which is fast, but the input material is these used coffee grounds and what the effect of that is, is now they can print stuff out of coffee. They're making all kinds of stuff. Sinks and light fixtures and bicycles and things. And the parts come out of the machine. They're made of coffee and then they just powder coat them with paint or metalize them so they look like metal and you can't even tell that it's made of coffee. And so this whole thing works awesome, but the main reason that it's important , and the reason that we invested, is that it flips the economics. So now, these parts that Marvel Labs is making, they've reshored manufacturing, they manufacture stuff in the U. S., they do it fully automated. And the parts are cheaper than doing it in Asia. That's what's exciting to me. They're also printing with seaweed. They're printing with sawdust. All the technologies they invented to make it work are about, printing with biomass in general. They're kind of the kingpin. Now we can get this whole vision together of producing things on demand in 3D printers in the U. S. Ash: It's interesting because several things, right? One is, like you said, it's not just, the on demand. All of our strategic risk starts to change, right? Think of what happens when, we get to a point where we're having another pandemic or, I don't know, they go after Taiwan. Supply chain changes if you're suddenly local, right? As long as we can get enough coffee into the system, we have enough of our own source material. Pablos: Ha, Ha, ha, ha. As a matter of national security, Americans are being asked to drink more coffee. Ash: It's a national security imperative that you get a frappuccino. Pablos: Well, I found out China just surpassed the U. S. as having the most Starbucks locations. Ash: China did. Frightening. I mean, Japan, Starbucks, whole different story. I was just looking at the botanical Starbucks in Japan, Starbucks is its own, own different conversation. But I was going to say that when you think about all of this, the implications for logistics, and one thing I wasn't sure on, on the way that they produced, what was their binding material? Because I know they're, one of the things they were talking about was biodegradability. Pablos: Marvel Labs has invented a variety of different binders. One of them is entirely sugar based. They use it with seaweed and they can make these biodegradable parts. Which is really cool, and then they have some top secret binders they invented that are super cool and they're not ready to announce them yet, but it's awesome. Ash: I saw some of the pieces. Pablos: Yeah. Oh, that's right. Ash: I got to actually play around with it. I, I think what's amazing to me is that the idea that you can cut production time. I don't know if it was an experiment or if they still do it, but remember there was Amazon Now. Where like they had little trucks going around and, and they had like USB cables or like whatever you needed, like that minute. Pablos: circulating your neighborhood With, that was loaded with the things that they predicted, were going to be bought. Ash: Yeah, 100%. That's what it was, right? They predicted that, everyone in Palo Alto needs like an extra USB cable. And they had one and you could get it like one hour delivery. Pablos: But that truck could just have a 3D printer in the back. Ash: That's exactly it. Right? Like imagine, how big are these things? How big are the printers? Pablos: The printers are, I'd say like 80 percent of the printer is the print bed by volume. So, if you have a printer the size of a refrigerator, 20 percent of it is gantry and other crap. And that's pretty typical of 3D printers, I guess you could say. And at least in a powder bed style printer. And the rest of the volume is printable. So, these printers are actually quite large. And one of the nice things about a powder bed printer is that you could just print a whole bunch of parts at once. You just fill up the bed with parts because they're just floating in powder because the powder is like the support material as well. It makes it easy to do big batches of stuff. If you're printing coffee mugs, you can print it and you got a fridge size printer. You can print, a couple hundred mugs or whatever all at the same time. And then, they just come out of there. I'd say 3D printing's future, over the next 10 years or so will be really focused on figuring out how to make multi material printers. There's a little bit of work on that now, especially trying to be able to do conductive materials. It'd be great to be able to print something like a game controller or a pair of headphones or something, have some of the wires printed in it. Ash: Maybe you have the recycled aluminum just like get blasted and powderized. I know of a magma plant coming up that might be able to... Pablos: Can we make a magma, printer? Ash: You take the aluminum, you feed it into the magma god and it comes out powderized. Pablos: Well, most aluminum comes from Iceland anyway. Aluminum is essentially made of electricity and they have access to cheap, clean electricity, Ash: That's the, the, secret, right? So we have infinite power and then they're just producing the conductive dust. One of the things I was thinking is like, how do you market this, right? Because we have to get a behavioral change on consumption. It's so easy to go with fast fAsh:ion, fast goods. We're addicted, I don't know if you've ever seen Wish? Pablos: Oh, uh, I know what it is, but I've seen Temu. I signed up for Temu. I ordered some shit before I found out it was obviously Chinese spyware app. And I um, I, bought some shit Temu cause it was so cheap. They're like paying you to take this stuff. And then it was like worse than infomercial products. Like I got these things and they're the cheapest possible things. And they had used like trick photography. I bought this bottle of, a cleaning product, I have it right here. I'm looking at it. It's this bottle called Foam Cleaner. I'm like, oh cool, I'll use that to clean the shower. I don't know what, kind of bug eye lens they must've used to photograph this thing. But when it showed up, the bottle itself is literally a 60 milliliter bottle, which is, that's like the size of, it's like a large bottle of nail polish, Ash: It's like, It's like, not even a perfume bottle. Pablos: And then it's got the full size spray head that you'd have on a bottle of Windex or something on it. So this whole thing, it looks like a joke. Nobody would ever do this. I've never seen a bottle this small with this big, like the spray head by volume is bigger than the bottle. Ash: So basically you've got a bobblehead cleaner. That's what you're saying. Bobblehead but foam cleaner. That's it. That's it. We can market it. Pablos: Yeah. I mean, I'm afraid to spray it because you know, like if I pull that trigger more than three times, the bottle will be empty. Ash: I'm sure it's not a neurotoxin or anything. Pablos: Okay. But anyway, the point being. Yeah, it's Temu and Wish and all this bullshit. I don't know about consumer behavior change. You would know more than me. What are the odds that we're ever gonna be in a world where people buy less shit? Ash: It's not that we buy less. I'm trying to figure out if we can shift them, right? Think about it. At one point, we were all obsessed around Gore Tex, it was like the magic, right? We had just left our class on osmosis and we were like, wow, it's like osmosis in a fabric, we were excited. Pablos: Maybe explain how Gore Tex works. Ash: Gore Tex's whole idea was about breathability, where the pores on the fabric were supposed to for air to go out, but water not to come in. Pablos: Which works because... Ash: It's surface tension allows the droplets to hold more together, so they're bigger than the water vapor molecules going out, right? So, so the molecular sizes are different. So you can create this sort of barrier. Now there's 50 versions of this to Sunday. But, Gore Tex was, was something which became a brand name, right? I don't know if it was before Intel Inside, but it was kind of the same concept, right? Saw a little label on Gore Tex. Pablos: It's like the Dolby of outerwear. Ash: It is. It was the Dolby of Outerwear. So I think somehow we've got to build that kind of reputational or brand concept, For example, if it's the seaweed and sugar and everything nice, right? Pablos: Okay. I see. Full circle brand where it's like "buy as much of this shit as you want. Whenever you're done we're just gonna turn it into the next shit you're gonna buy." Ash: it's not just recyclable... Pablos: It's like infinitely recyclable. Recycling is a is a joke. Ash: And the amount of energy and stuff that it takes is is sort of crazy, on that as well, right? So that's that's one of the, the sort of big, big problems that that happens with it. And I think one of the challenges is that we've got to figure out a way. That, something like what we're talking about in terms of, this new product, this new mechanism, this new process can be Gore Tex'd. Or Dolby'd, and a little bit more than like this is recyclable. I think we're kind of over it, right? Like we've seen the little symbol, we don't even know what's going on anymore. I know that in most countries they have like, at least like five bins. I think most Americans can't figure out like. What's up? There's a blue box. Pablos: You could imagine a version of this where, ultimately everything is just made of, some atoms, right? They have to come from somewhere. And then the energy it costs to, move them around and stick them together. So. You know, if you sort of just take that approach, you could say, okay, this stuff is made of this much joules and, this many atoms, like you could basically measure everything that way. Then you could say like, all right, well, the total cost of ownership in a given product could be added up that way. The cost of like mining all the shit, the cost of transporting around the world, the cost of, burning stuff to make it, whatever it takes. If you added that up for any object, it would probably be staggering. In the long run, you would, you, what you would like to do is track things that way and then be able to say, okay, this is kind of a full circle product, like an apple is probably like the closest you get maybe to a product that is low impact, it grows, we there, there's some energy cost in transporting it from a farm to your mouth, and then you eat it, you throw out a quarter of it as biomass. Ash: When you say an Apple, not your iPhone. Pablos: Oh yeah, I'm talking about like an actual physical apple. The kind you can eat. Yeah. Not an phone. Granny Smith, not a Macintosh. Ash: But maybe that's the score, right? Pablos: I think your Intel inside becomes... Ash: is it net negative? Is it net positive? Pablos: It's net negative or it's like close to the threshold of about an apple instead of being, at the threshold of like about a Tesla. Ash: That may be the interesting way to do it? So maybe a dynamic symbol is the way to think of it, right? So instead of the old Intel Inside or Dolby Atmos or whatever's going on, or Gore Tex, maybe it's about the level. Is there a number? Is there a score? Lasered in or 3D printed into the object itself or, or anything that you look at, it just tells you that this has a small number or a small something that people can understand that's better or higher or whatever. Pablos: Energy star. Ash: I look at something like calories. Like years and years ago, we all started getting obsessed and that definitely the generation that grew up with cereal boxes, who had nothing better to read. And we didn't have a iPhone to scroll. We read cereal boxes. We knew more about niacin and potassium in your cornflakes than any human should ever know. Pablos: It's true. I read a lot of cereal boxes. Ash: That's what you'd read. You read, you'd read the cereal box. When they changed the USDA standard for what you can see inside, the bigger format I remember that was like a big change on the packaging design. That was something where we could see the calories and then we realized, per standard serving size or whatever it was. And I think that at some point, the same thing has to happen, right? Each object that we consume or buy, can have that. There's actually a company. That we're looking at, called Love, like seriously called love.com. Uh, uh, I won't go into much more about that, but they're actually trying to change this, like specifically change this idea. They're trying to build an Amazon. First of all, they have love.com. I sort of tossed out the idea that it's powered by love. And that way, it can have a score, each thing you're buying. They curate what's allowed to be sold on there. So it's like an Amazon, but like, we're going to get rid of Pablos: So all you need is love. Love is all you need? Ash: It's true. That's their eventual goal is to go head to head with Amazon. A billionaire multi time, entrepreneur who's kicking this off. What's interesting, though, is I think people will start to recognize this. Pablos: Yeah, you could do some big branding campaign around, certified green or whatever, but it seems so like all these things are so gameable. I mean like calories, even like, I understand this as a kid, but now that I know what a calorie is like... Ash: It's totally gameable. Pablos: Oh my god, that's a totally fake thing that we made up that's, like, barely a measure of anything. Ash: That's why I picked it. I was going to say that with good numbers come good evil, right? Are you drinking a 12 ounce can of Coke? Was it like eight ounces? What did they do? It's interesting how it became a complete nonsense number? It mattered. We learned later that maybe the mix matters, and it wasn't about the sodium. And there's a lot of little bits that didn't matter. The question becomes, can you build something genuinely? There's another company, we invested in, Dollar Donation Club. And what's interesting about them is, when Seth, who's the founder, said, "Hey, I'm going to see if we could create the world's first super philanthropist." The idea that if we all gave a dollar a month, technically it's billions of dollars. You can make a lot of changes. He said," where am I going to give the money? I don't want to be another money place. I want to be something where I can see the impact." So he built a giant impact map of things he wanted to do. And he said, "okay, I want to know exactly how many kilos of microplastic are removed for my donation." Like, I don't care that I donate $1, $2. I was like, I'm willing to go and take out a kilo. Well, it turned out he can only get to like, I forget what the number is like 11 or 20 charities. It took that long and that his professional teams, like when they vet out what the charity really does. Pablos: Yeah. Ash: Almost no one qualified. So I think this is the unfortunate thing that's going to happen, right? So if our coffee friends bring it full circle, if Marvel can really like just crush it. Like they can demonstrate there's an actual true cost reduction I'm talking about from Guangzhou to, Columbus. By the time it gets there, like what actually happened and then the return leg, right? Like what happens on the back if, if that's actually a real score. That we can defend. Maybe that's what Marvel has to do. Pablos: The way it should be done probably is kind of like, consumer reports. There ought to be, like, life cycle metrics made for, the product coming outta Marvel Labs versus its competitor that came from Guangzhou. Here's your Samsung versus iPhone versus, Nokia or whatever and somebody does the research and figures out; this is the mining footprint; this is the shipping cost. This is how much, energy was burned. The factory is running off of a coal plant versus a nuclear reactor or whatever. Ash: Like Energy Star, but like it actually makes sense as opposed to Energy Star. Pablos: Yeah, and that could be given a score in joules that just ranks these things against each other. Ash: But we're talking about three ideas here, right? So that one idea is to get somebody to come out there and say, look, fundamentally, product life cycle measurement is something someone should go build, like someone should, whether it's independent of Marvel or not, somebody should do it. And then different manufacturers or, or whether it's a 3D printer of type company or someone else should go in and say, look, let's show you why we are the lowest score, the highest score, whatever the, whichever one's considered the better thing. And then we have to create education and marketing on that, to say, Hey, if you're not doing this, you, you are literally creating damage. Pablos: There must be initiatives like this that we don't know about. An interesting thing to consider is an iPhone is made of whatever, 2000 components. Some of them are like screws that Apple sourced and didn't manufacture. Where was the metal for the screws mined? Where's the factory for the screws? How far are the screws traveling to get to the iPhone factory? All that kind of stuff. And so you would, eventually if this were fully played out, when you design an iPhone and CAD, it would just tell you, where your screws are coming from. We already have the environmental impact score for those screws. Pick the ones that have the lower score. Ash: So this is like an SAP thing. So go back to, Fast moving consumer goods. So in the FMCG world, one of the things that's really interesting is something called, smart label and smart label is interesting because it said, Hey, like ingredients don't cut it. I want to know like really what's going on, it goes really deep, you can dive into the label, but where did you source it? Like, is it really honey from here or what was going on? I think Nestle, I think some of the biggest players all support it. Procter and Gamble, all these guys are on smart, smart label. Now that's interesting because you're almost already there, for those guys, you're pretty close, but that's for food. Hopefully that's mostly biodegradable. Otherwise we have other problems in life. Pablos: Yeah, that's interesting. Maybe that could be extended so that all the, the ingredients of my, headphones... Ash: Exactly. Could you extend that construct? I actually think back to another company, from years ago, it is one of my patents, from a while back. it was a company called, Black Duck Software. You were talking about, as you're sitting there with your CAD, I was thinking of, open source. Remember it was like, ""are you using something that's gonna infect the rest of your project?" When you're coding in Eclipse or something and you're like, oh, let me just grab this little... Pablos: You accidentally scoop up some GPL library... Ash: Yeah, it's an LGPL or something. It happened to Fidelity. Their entire mortgage calculator, their entire mortgage algorithm had to be open sourced because they used a website plug in. So, they eventually invested in the company. Obviously, they invested in us. But what was good is that, when you, were able to sit down and look at the project, it would tell you immediately, like, if you put this in there, you will like, have to open source your print driver. Pablos: All that should just be in CAD. A lot of CAD software has a plug in to tell you how much it's going to cost to machine that part that you made based on the design. And it could easily tell you how much material it's going to take and how much material cost there's going to be. But you could extend on that and say, you chose these screws. Here's how much they're going to cost. Here's what the lead times are. All that's in SAP already. And then it tells you, this is the environmental footprint of the screws you chose. Ash: And now you can tie that into some exchanges or B2B sourcing companies and just say, okay, give me a scenario. I want to automatically reduce my carbon or my, my total footprint. Where else could I source, right? So maybe instead of titanium screws, I have to manufacture for this new titanium iPhone from like some Russian mine where the titanium lives. Pablos: be seven Web3 companies trying to do this already. Ash: I think what they miss. And this is something that I think is an interesting part of the journey, right? That you and I also take is it sometimes great technology and great back end stuff doesn't hit the front. The only reason calories don't matter today because we woke up and realized that somebody paid off the cardiologists to get us to eat margarine and told us that sugar was, okay and fat was terrible. That was programming, right? That was maybe we need some good programming. I mean, we got programmed the wrong way. Maybe we need to program people. To see the right thing. And I don't know that we could be seen as altruistic or that we're necessarily not, not commercially motivated. I think that there's some way that today because of information and speed of information, I think we can create some level of transparency, like you said. And then we can turn around and say, back in the day, I couldn't tell you where my, millet was coming from for the food. Today we can, Smart Label will tell you literally where that food comes from. I think we could do something fun, fun with that. Someone should go do that. Pablos: Yeah. Someone should go do that, which is, one of the main points of doing this podcast is that hopefully we'll come up with ideas that somebody else should go do.

Many questions for the owners of a blueberry orchard in Hawke's Bay after around 700 bushes were stripped by thieves. Hastings-based Bay Blueberries —hard hit by Cyclone Gabrielle in February— has had hundreds of kilograms of berries stolen from its premises on Railway Road South. It's believed to have happened in the middle of the night between January 1st and 4th. Owner Marian Hirst told Tim Dower that the berries they picked are a mix of ripe and unripe meaning they'll be ghastly to eat. She says they've all lost, from their pickers through to their foreman because they were all ready to pick and work. Hirst says the ripple through the business has been considerable. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman chat with Nikola's Chief Engineer & Head of Vehicle Platforms - Christian Appel! The guys explore Nikola's ground-breaking Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Semi Truck! 2:00 - Getting a look at Nikola's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Semi Truck! 3:43 - So, what is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell? 8:42 - Drivetrain architecture. 12:46 - 70 Kilograms of Hydrogen. MPK (Miles Per Kilogram). 15:09 - What's the range? 15:44 - How does Hydrogen power the truck? 17:49 - EV Mode. 19:27 - "Backpack style" hydrogen tank design. 23:01 - European perspective on the truck. 26:27 - Thoughts on Tesla Semi & Decarbonizing the trucking industry. 27:52 - New designs & new innovations. 31:21 - Refueling? 37:33 - Working on infrastructure with Volterra. 39:02 - Decarbonizing - Who's making the hydrogen? 43:22 - Feedback from drivers. 46:15 - Cab environment & suspension. 49:07 - Feedback from fleet owners. 52:39 - Comparing fuel prices. 54:39 - Full battery electric version. 57:29 - Solid State Batteries. 01:00:28 - Cooling system. 01:03:38 - Road to autonomy. 01:07:02 - Product line & Origin Story. 01:10:26 - Where are they built? 01:15:01 - Nikola's customers. 01:17:45 - Christian's background. 01:23:00 - Chinese market. 01:25:05 - "This is really a unique time in history." 01:28:03 - The Software Defined Revolution. 01:34:55 - Christian's personal fleet.

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A massive meth haul destined for our shores has been stopped in its tracks. About 713 kilograms concealed in maple syrup bottles came in from Canada with a street value of $250 million. The same group tried importing six tonnes into Australia. Detective Superintendent Greg Williams says this isn't the first time they've seen drug trafficking groups out of Canada targeting New Zealand. "In 2-19, we had half a tonne seizure in Auckland, called Operation Manta. And that was a Customs-focused job that identified a Vietnamese drug trafficking group out of Canada that was importing here." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Fat Shaming is terrible.  In fact there's only one place left where they're allowed to fat shame.The doctor's office. I was there last week…  y'know… you walk in.  First thing - they put you on the scale… which is located in the middle of a busy hallway. And if you're sensitive about your weight… as you balance your feet… you cringe as you wait for the number.  Oh you bargain.  Can I take my shoes off.  Here.  Hold my phone. But it doesn't work.  The number is the number.  But now… there's a movement to stop public weight shaming at the doctor's office.  Some women on the web… complain there is no reason to weigh you.  So the doctor can tell you… “well, you're a few pounds overweight and oughta cut back.  What person who's overweight is not aware of it already? This is why the proper response is to ask… why do you need to weigh me?  Will it change the medication you prescribe?  Will I get a different diagnosis depending on my weight?  So people decline to get weighed.  At the doctor's office last Friday … I was overjoyed the scale said 94.  I felt 12 years old.  94… I felt lighter than air… before I realized it was kilograms.  94 kilos.  Which sounds a lot less but it's exactly the same as 207 pounds.   Kilograms are a mood boost.  And that's important… because after they weigh you in pounds… and you get all upset… what's the next thing they do?  They take your blood pressure.  Big surprise.  It's through the roof.Doctors… you gotta  flip your scale to kilograms … it'll take 10 points off your patient's diastolicSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey students! Have you ever been to Qingjin Farm? It's in Nantou County. 你們去過南投清境農場嗎？ It's a great place to see sheep. You can watch the sheep run. And you can watch the sheep getting sheared. 在那裡你可以看到很多綿羊，也可以看剪羊毛秀。 Do you know what the hair of sheep is called? No, it's not called hair. It isn't called fur, either. It's called fleece. Sheep have a lot of fleece. Fleece 就是羊毛。 Today, I want to talk about a special sheep named Shrekapo in New Zealand. New Zealand has a lot of sheep. Shrekapo had a lot of fleece. I mean really a lot. Most sheep have about five kilograms of fleece. But Shrekapo had almost 20 kilograms of fleece! 一般的綿羊大概有五公斤的羊毛。但在紐西蘭，有一隻叫做 Shrekapo 的綿羊有快二十公斤的羊毛！ Why did that sheep have so much fleece? It's because it ran away from a farm. It was missing for a few years. That means no one sheared that sheep for three years! That's why it had nearly 20 kilograms of fleece. 為什麼牠有這麼多羊毛？因為牠失蹤了好幾年，沒有人幫牠剪羊毛。 Shrekapo had so much fleece it couldn't see. Its fleece was covering its eyes. 牠的羊毛多到都擋住牠的眼睛了。 They found Shrekapo near a lake in New Zealand in April. Then, they sheared the animal. I think Shrekapo feels a lot better now. And he can see now, too! ________________________________ Vocabulary 迷途3年的綿羊 剪下來的羊毛多達20公斤。 1) kilogram 公斤 Losing 20 kilograms is a lot for a sheep. 失掉20公斤 對一頭羊來說很多呢。 Yeah, a sheep usually weighs just 45 kilograms. 一頭綿羊通常只有45公斤重。 2) hair 毛髮 Imagine having 20 kilograms of hair. 想像一下擁有重20公斤的頭髮。 The hair must be very long! 那頭髮一定很長！ I prefer short hair. 我比較喜歡短頭髮。 3) cover 遮住 Why are you covering your eye? 你為什麼遮住一隻眼睛？ Because I was hit by a ball. 因為我被球打到。 It hurts a lot. 很痛呢！ 4) better 比較好 Are you feeling better now? 你現在覺得好些了嗎？ I am. Much better. 好多了。 Luckily my left eye works just fine. 幸運的是我的左眼很管用. 今天的單字你背起來了嗎？ kilogram 公斤 hair 毛髮 cover 遮住 better 比較好 ________________________________ Quiz 1. Why was Shrekapo a special sheep? A: It was such a fat sheep B: It had so much fleece C: It had fur, not fleece 2. What problem did Shrekapo have? A: It couldn't walk B: It couldn't hear C: It couldn't see 3. How much fleece do most sheep have? A: About 2 kilograms B: About 5 kilograms C: About 20 kilograms Answers 1. B 2. C 3. B

In this FLCCC How to video, Kristina explains how to convert weight in pounds (lbs) to kilograms (kg). Here is a link to the I-MASK+ Protocol page on the website, Here is a link to a lbs to kgs conversion calculator. https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/weight/pound-to-kg.html?x=120&x2=&x3= Donate to the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, Inc To educate medical professionals and the public in safe and effective ways to prevent and treat COVID-19. Click here to make a donation: https://covid19criticalcare.com/network-support/support-our-work/ GoFundMe: https://charity.gofundme.com/donate/project/front-line-covid-19-critical-care-alliance/joyce-kamen Buy FLCCC gear at: https://theflcccstore.org/ Subscribe to our mailing list on our website: http://flccc.net/signup Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/FLCCC_Alliance

Did you know that 30-50% of ultra-runners struggle with gastrointestinal distress? Have you ever wondered why you felt nauseous on a long run or during a race? Julie Shobe, a nutritionist for beginner ultra-runners, tells us WHY we might be feeling nauseous and HOW to combat GI issues during training and on race day! Listen to the episode to learn more!How to get started with better nutrition according to Julie:AVOID DEHYDRATION: drink 14oz of water every hour and 250mg of sodium every hour (or500mg of sodium for every 1L of water)HOW TO TRAIN YOUR BODY TO EAT WHILE RUNNING: 1. Start with carbs and find your baseline (how many g of carbs do you eat every hour?)2. Slowly increase your carb intake (eat 10g of carbs more than you do every hour until you get to 60g of carbs every hour)3. Add sodium and proteinWHAT TO EAT DURING A LONG RUN: Eat a variety of foods high in carbs and protein. Avoid food with high fat. Here are some ideas-Quesadilla-PB&J-Pizza-Cheese stick-Nuts-Protein bar-Protein shakeHOW TO EAT OFF OF THE TRAIL:-60% carbs-Then protein-Then fruits and veggies-Fat will just find its way in there!CAFFEINE EQUATION:Body Weight in Kilograms x 9 = __________mg of Caffeine intake per 24 hours.WHY WE GET NASEOUS WHEN WE RUN:-Under fueling-Stomach "falls asleep"-Not enough salt-Not enough protein-Not enough fluid-Waiting too long to start eatingOTHER TAKEAWAYS:-Eat protein during your long runs so it can start to rebuild and strengthen your muscles-Carbs = energy. Protein = rebuild/recovery. Fat = hormones.-Practice running and eating through the night! (12am-5am is the hardest!)-Intermittent fasting/running fasted is proven to show an increase in cortisol levels in female athletes-Peeing consistently on a run MIGHT be a sign that you are not getting enough electrolytes-CARBS ARE GOOD FOR YOU!____________________________________________________________________________________________________Links:Get in contact with Julie here: Julie Shobe | Dietitian (@ultra.runner.nutrition) • Instagram photos and videosE-mail: connectfitnessandnutrition@gmail.comCoaching for beginner ultra runners:Melody Bateman (@pinetreerunning) • Instagram photos and videosUtah Realtor who will help you find a home near running trails:Jacob Bateman | Exit Realty Affinity | Bountiful, UT Real Estate | 385-314-1016 (ihouseelite.com)Thank you to our sponsor: Teton Hammocks!Best Camping Hammock | Camping Hammock Tarp - Teton Hammock (tetonhammocks.com)

Today we are joined by Bill Gillespie. Bill is a Strength & Conditioning Coach with over 40 years of collegiate sports and NFL experience. Bill is also a world-renowned and highly decorated weightlifter. He is a 133-time and current world record holder in the equipped bench press with an unbelievable lift of 1129.8 lbs (!). He just set his current record on Jan. 22, 2022, at the 365Strong New Year Power Bash in Charlotte, NC, at the age of 62. Bill is a 23-time world champion in the bench press.Bill attended college at Liberty University, where he was a four-time All-American and two-time small college national champion in the shot put. He held the school record for 24 years with an outdoor mark of 55' 8-1/2".Gillespie started off his brilliant career as an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 1983-1991 at Liberty University. After leaving Liberty in 1991, Bill became a member of the strength and conditioning staff at t he University of Washington, where he coached for 11 years. He started off as an assistant coach in 1991 and was named Pac-10 Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. In 1999, he was promoted to the Director of Strength and Conditioning. During his time there, Washington made nine bowl appearances and three consecutive trips to the Rose Bowl. In 2003, Bill joined the strength and conditioning staff for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League where he stayed until 2005 before making his return to Liberty as the Director of Strength and Conditioning. Bill is a native of Tacoma, Washington. He and his wife Anita, have two children, Cameron and Rachel. You can find more about Bill on his Instagram.Show Notes:Bill Gillespie | InstagramBill Gillespie Equipped World Record Bench Press 1,129 lbs 2/22/22 | Maximum IronBill Gillespie, Master Strength & Conditioning Coach, Class of 2002 | Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association Bill Gillespie Competition Records | Open PowerliftingPowerlifter Bill Gillespie Sets All-Time World Record Equipped Bench Press Of 512.5 Kilograms (1,129.9 Pounds) | BarBendWestside Barbell | Official WebsiteLouie Simmons | WikipediaLouie Simmons Competition Records | Open PowerliftingWestside vs the World (2019) | IMDbMike Bridges Competition Records | Open PowerliftingMike Bridges (1982) WORLD RECORD (181 lbs / 82.5 kg) POWERLIFTING TOTAL 954.5 KG | YoutubeSorinex Exercise Equipment Official WebsiteThorne | Official WebsiteKNOX Unflavored Gelatin | AmazonRestless Legs Syndrome Fact Sheet | National Institute on Neurological Disorders and StrokeShould you try the keto diet? | Harvard Health PublishingCarb Backloading: Eating Carbs to Get Lean and Strong | Men's Journal

Daily Dad Jokes (07 Jan 2022) Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: YTJRGRAND, MaxtheAnxiousDog, HotGarbage56, ThePepperPopper, chacham2, rodimus117, MajesticNatural3285, theunicornpreacher, jpewaqs, astrosmash77, cereal-killer6, Taylorobey, HotGarbage56, n397854, oeco123 Get your very own dad joke featured on our podcast by becoming a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/dailydadjokes Subscribe to this podcast via: Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts Youtube Channel Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show with +20k per episode 30-day reach? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Dad Jokes (07 Jan 2022) Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: YTJRGRAND, MaxtheAnxiousDog, HotGarbage56, ThePepperPopper, chacham2, rodimus117, MajesticNatural3285, theunicornpreacher, jpewaqs, astrosmash77, cereal-killer6, Taylorobey, HotGarbage56, n397854, oeco123 Get your very own dad joke featured on our podcast by becoming a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/dailydadjokes Subscribe to this podcast via: Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts Youtube Channel Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show with +20k per episode 30-day reach? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the fourteenth episode of the Modern Outdoor Survival weekly podcast, we talk about kilograms.This isn't a rant about units of measurement but an episode all about weight. We talk about how much is too much and what that means, alongside where you can easily make savings and how technology has helped with this over the years.Whether you are away for a month or a day, the weight of the kit that you carry and transport with you can have a real impact on your quality of life during that period of travel. Remember, you can also join our burgeoning community over on the Discord server for Modern Outdoor Survival: https://discord.gg/SqG9ghFuURLinkswww.lighterpack.com

In Episode 106 of The Win-Win Effect™ Show, Chris Ross speaks with Meera Mudan to discuss everything between Pounds, Stones, and Kilograms. It doesn't matter how you need to convert your weight. Aim to Unleash the Warrior Within. GUEST ➥ https://www.meerafitness.com/personalised-program For as long as Meera can remember, sports and fitness have been a massive part of her life. From swimming competitively, becoming a BoxFit coach, and developing a keen interest in yoga and meditation. Then, life happened. She started her fitness journey young but ended up frustrated, trying and failing to reach her fitness goals, signing up to diets and workout plans only to fall off the wagon and struggling to balance real life and her fitness goals. Meera binged, under-ate, over-ate, cut out carbs, even went on juice fasts. You name it; she tried it all. She even trained like a mad man in the gym, and STILL no results! Her breaking point came while in a cycle of overeating followed by guilt starvation, and a family member intervened. After re-educating herself and taking control of her diet and exercise, she finally found a method that worked!! She was over the moon! Finally - getting in shape didn't feel like a punishment. She could eat foods that she enjoyed and still lose weight! Today, her passion is to help everyone create and journey to a unique and empowering lifestyle. Training with her gives you access to a bespoke service, focusing solely on meeting your specific goals. She always ensures that every client feels supported, confident, and motivated to achieve his or her goals - no matter how big or small. Connect with and JOIN FREE COMMUNITY Community Content About CHRIS ROSS® Booking The WIN-WIN Effect WINJECT TV Already have an account? Log In First Name * Last Name * Password * Confirm Password *

In this episode, John Preston talks about being a Marine, a firefighter, recording artist and the suicide of his older brother, Mike, who was a police officer. John started an organization, 22andyou, to bring awareness to veteran and first responder suicides. John talks about the epic journey he started on January 13, 2020 where he walked 22 miles a day, carrying 22 Kilograms, for 28 straight days. John walked from Palo Alto, CA to the deck of the USS Midway in San Diego, CA, a trek of over 600 miles. John discovered a lot about himself, his brother's suicide, and had many revelations along the route. Come listen to John's life changing journey as we discuss that it's ok to ask for help and to #Sharetheweight. John had a film crew with him along the way and is in production of a film series to document the struggles of the trip and to highlight the amazing first responders he met along the way. Check out John's website below and donate to his cause to help get the film to production. Also, check out John's story on YouTube as well and his song Wasteland. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Officer Michael Lee Preston EOW January 13, 2016. May you rest in peace brother. https://22andyou.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pF25O4LpEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnX_9lBJc4U --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-cefalu/message