Podcasts about Kow

In this episode of Northern Ag Network On Demand, we talk with Kylie Walker of KOW's Mini Cows in Huntley, Montana. Kylie shares how she built her unique cattle business—from her love of Scottish Highland cattle to creating a supportive community for women in agriculture. She’s also hosting the second annual Big Sky Cowgirl Gathering this June, a hands-on, women-focused clinic covering calving, artificial insemination, hoof care, and more. Tickets are on sale now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clem and Sarah recap the latest Berlin gaming day and discuss women and girls in tabletop. They reflect on ways to expand the KoW community, including by making it more diverse.Edited by Fred

Nin 25 jir ah ayaa fiidnimadii Khamiista lagu dilay xaafad ku taal Bagare-gården ee Göteborg. Nin ku nool Gotland ayaa lagu soo oogay dacwad ka dib markii uu kaxay baabuur uu baraf kaga yaala muraayadaha. Kow iyo toban qof oo ka mid ah taageerayaasha kooxda kubbada cagta ee Malmö FF ayaa lagu xukumay rabshado dagaal.

Tsecha Szpigel tinha só 14 anos quando foi empurrada de um trem. Ela se viu sozinha no mundo, mas foi isso que salvou a vida daquela jovem judia polonesa. Mais conhecida como Tsé, ela sobreviveu ao Holocausto, chegou ao Brasil. Aqui, ela construiu uma vida e uma grande família. Toda essa história foi documentada e está contada no documentário “Tsé”, disponível agora na GloboPlay. Nosso convidado é Fábio Kow, cineasta, diretor do documentário e neto da Tsé.

Bridget, Caitlin, and Hilda cover "Throne of the Fallen," the latest novel by Keri Maniscalco set in The Kingdom of the Wicked Universe. While the novel is intriguing and spicy, the plot is a little confusing, so it may help to catch up on the KOW universe before reading about the Prince of Envy and the artist who has beguiled him.  Catch up on the Kingdom of the Wicked Universe here:Kingdom of the Wicked - Apple or SpotifyKingdom of the Cursed - Apple or SpotifyKingdom of the Feared - Apple or Spotify

Show Me Your Glory - Week 2 - Kow you Can't! - August 20, 2023

On the beautiful island of Parksville, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada you'll find yourself surrounded by breathtaking sandy beaches and the magnificent Insular Mountains. You'll also find a fierce bear hunter named Naukwe (Noon Day Woman), who I know as Brittney Musgrave. But Brittney, who is Wasauksing, Ojibway and Cree, doesn't hunt for sport. She, like her ancestors before her, utilizes many parts of the bear for good use, including making bear grease into a healing treatment for herself and others. You'll hear from Brittney and her husband, Taylor (Haiwatha First Nation) about: • The benefits of bear grease (including healing for skin rashes, promoting hair growth and more) • Okwarì;Kowà* Supplies which offers bear grease, cedar, sweetgrass and more • Brittney's black bear hunts with a compound bow in Ontario (their treaty area) • Was Brittney actually charged by a bear once? You'll just have to listen to find out! • How one transports a bear back to their vehicle – one of the answers may surprise you *Okwarì;Kowà is pronounced “ah-gwari-gowa” and means “big bear” Yakoke, Brittney and Taylor for sharing about your adventurous world there in Canada and the good healing agents you're making for others! Check out Okwarì;Kowà Supplies here: https://www.facebook.com/OkwariKowaSupplies Native ChocTalk Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nativechoctalkpodcast All Podcast Episodes: https://nativechoctalk.com/podcasts/

Chris Lappin is joined by Promoter and Booker for Knock Out Wrestling Andrew Pratt Andrew discusses KOW post lockdown, his favourite moments from the last 10 years as the booker of KOW and promotes their 10th anniversary show on 19th November 2022. The full card for The Tenth Anniversary Show live from Cloud Nine and The Lounge on Saturday September 19th 2022. KOW Heavyweight Championship Neons Final Title Opportunity Big Guns Joe (c) vs Lucas Neon KOW Tag Team Championship The Freakshow (c) vs The Underclass KOW Showcase Championship KEINEN (c) vs ??? Knockout or Tapout Match RPD vs Brian Aidenson Vertigo Ladder Match Craig Kollins vs Lance Revera vs Ravie Davie what a night of family friendly wrestling action it is going to be! KOW celebrate 10 years of bringing home grown professional wrestling to Barrow with five massive matches on what will be a night that no-one in attendance will ever forget! Tickets are selling fast, so get yours soon to avoid disappointment! Tickets available via PayPal for just £7 each (bit.ly/39hV3fY) or you can buy yours in person from TNT Records or Happy Little Gift Company at Salthouse Post Office - Risedale Road! Twitter – https://twitter.com/ALPstreams & https://twitter.com/KO_Wrestling Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KnockoutW Twitch – http://twitch.tv/ALPstreams

Chris Lappin is joined by Promoter and Booker for Knock Out Wrestling Andrew Pratt Andrew discusses KOW post lockdown, his favourite moments from the last 10 years as the booker of KOW and promotes their 10th anniversary show on 19th November 2022. The full card for The Tenth Anniversary Show live from Cloud Nine and The Lounge on Saturday September 19th 2022. KOW Heavyweight Championship Neons Final Title Opportunity Big Guns Joe (c) vs Lucas Neon KOW Tag Team Championship The Freakshow (c) vs The Underclass KOW Showcase Championship KEINEN (c) vs ??? Knockout or Tapout Match RPD vs Brian Aidenson Vertigo Ladder Match Craig Kollins vs Lance Revera vs Ravie Davie what a night of family friendly wrestling action it is going to be! KOW celebrate 10 years of bringing home grown professional wrestling to Barrow with five massive matches on what will be a night that no-one in attendance will ever forget! Tickets are selling fast, so get yours soon to avoid disappointment! Tickets available via PayPal for just £7 each (bit.ly/39hV3fY) or you can buy yours in person from TNT Records or Happy Little Gift Company at Salthouse Post Office - Risedale Road! Twitter – twitter.com/ALPstreams & twitter.com/KO_Wrestling Facebook - www.facebook.com/KnockoutW Twitch – twitch.tv/ALPstreams --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/britwres-journey/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/britwres-journey/support

Lenin's *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new translation by Lars T. Lih. 2. The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy: a) The beginnings of the stikhiinyi upsurge, b) Kow-towing to stikhiinost: Rabochaia mysl, c) The Self-Liberation Group and Rabochee delo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unlearn to Learn is back! We rejoin the series with episode 4, focusing on bariatric surgery; why and when it's necessary, what the procedure involves and what patients can expect following surgery. To discuss this and more, Alexander is joined by Dr Lilian Kow. Dr Kow is an Associate Professor and the Clinical Director of Gastrointestinal surgery at Flinders University in South Australia. Bariatric surgery is a complex procedure to treat a complex disease. Dr Kow has visited bariatric clinics all over the world and advised and trained surgeons in the treatment and support of patients who have the surgery. Spread the word: Follow, like, share, review We want to build a Unlearn to Learn community. That starts with helping to spread the word about this series. COME AND SAY HELLO: We'd love to see your reviews and feedback – let us know what you think, and any questions you have with #UnlearntoLearn on Twitter. Unlearn to Learn is produced in partnership with The Podcast Guys. It is WOF's policy to use People-First Language and we ask all of our guests to do so, although we realize it is still not used in every setting so you might hear some guests not adhering to the policy. WOF will continue to remind all people involved with our Podcast to adopt People-First Language and to encourage all media, bloggers and others to utilise People-First Language in their writing and talking so that we can further eradicate weight bias and stigma

We're back after another long break! Your favorite KoW degens discuss some recent Mid-Atlantic GTs (including a NH podium!) and give a preview of the upcoming US Masters. Buehner recalls some violent childhood memories involving medieval combat on bikes, Eric regales us with stories from AC, while Rob brainstorms on the first-ever Nerdhammer NFT.Dwarf logo: www.icklepeeps.comBeer! by Psychostick: https://psychostick.com/Drunk & Disordered on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dndkow/Nerdhammer on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NerdhammerNetPlay Games, Lose Friends Podcast: http://www.playgameslosefriends.comKoW Masters: https://kingsofwarmasters.com/Dash 28 Kings of War resource: https://dash28.org/Counter Charge Podcast: http://www.ohiohammer.com/Fourscore Beer Co.: https://www.fourscorebeer.com/

Extra content episode on Morgan's thoughts about KOW

Did you know that in a place called Hedley in the North of England, for many many years, people reported that there was a mischievous and tricky little elf who went about the place causing all sorts of trouble! he was known as the Hedley goblin and this story tells us about a kind and cheerful lady who happens to bump into him one day! The story is gorgeous for many reasons, and very funny, but what stands out to me most is the moral tale reflected through the good lady. She reacts to each conundrum with gratitude and grace, and at the end of the day, makes herself a good friend instead of an enemy, much to a certain goblin's surprise. It is a useful lesson in resilience and gratitude, told through the story of two most unlikely companions.Ps, this story is very old and was originally called the Hedley Kow. Kow (it's spoken like Koooooo!) is an old word for sprite or elf, and for ease of understanding here I changed it to goblin, it first appeared in a beautiful book of fairy tales collected by the Australian folklorist Joseph Jacobs.Please Subscribe, rate and review!Bonus Material available weekly on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/landofnodlearning?fan_landing=trueJoin us on Instagram!https://www.instagram.com/landofnodlearningJoin our Facebook page!https://www.facebook.com/landofnodlearningListen on Apple podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/land-of-nod-kids-stories/id1539956312Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/69uOzUlxEwNaoCnkMV92OUListen on Castboxhttps://castbox.fm/channel/Land-of-Nod-%7C-Kid's-stories-id3807844?country=iebuy our wonderful new children's book, LEAVE SOME SEA FOR ME! here - https://www.landofnodlearning.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kowshika Thanam aka Kow (@dj.kow) is a Toronto-based DJ who represents RLE Sound Crew (@rlesoundcrew).She joins Ara on this week's episode of #TheTamilCreator to discuss the impact that other Tamil DJs had on her including the late DJ Brown Soul & DJ Divsa (@djdivsa), solely relying on Instagram and word-of-mouth as her marketing tools, being a proud feminist and aspiring to trail-blaze a path for other Tamil women, her firm belief that everything happens for a reason, and much more.Follow DJ Kow:- Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dj.kow/) Timestamps00:19 - Ara introduces this week's guest, DJ Kow00:44 - Stage name origins, where she spins, her love for music01:54 - Ara and Kow met through ultimate frisbee, pathway to becoming a DJ06:12 - Balancing being a full-time DJ and her full-time job at Home Depot07:48 - How she secures DJ gigs11:10 - Were friends/family supportive of Kow's career as a DJ?16:53 - When will Kow solely focus on her Deejaying career?19:23 - Deejays that Kow looks up to23:16 - How Kow wants to be remembered by friends and family26:53 - Advice she would give her 16-year-old self29:05 - How learning to accept life as it plays out has helped Kow30:22 - Preferring podcasts over books as a source of knowledge31:42 - People Kow admires in the Tamil and non-Tamil community38:09 - Advice for fellow aspiring Tamil creators40:28 - Creator Confessions42:58 - The Wrap UpIntro MusicProduced And Mixed By:- The Tamil Creator- YanchanWritten By:- Aravinthan Ehamparam- Yanchan Rajmohan    

Jeremy in joined by Mantic author and TO Ben Stoddard to talk his upcoming KoW tournament, Refuges of the Old World, being held in Rexburg Idaho.

Jeremy in joined by Mantic author and TO Ben Stoddard to talk his upcoming KoW tournament, Refuges of the Old World, being held in Rexburg Idaho.

In today's episode we have a collection of 4 clips recorded live at Nashcon with some of the participants in the KOW event along with some of the Nashcon organizers.

In today's episode we have a collection of 4 clips recorded live at Nashcon with some of the participants in the KOW event along with some of the Nashcon organizers.

Join Greg, Jon and Mike as they discuss the 2021 US Masters event.

Rob, Alex and Matt are back with another chat with Kyle, this time chatting about more than just KOW.

Rob, Alex and Matt are back with another chat with Kyle, this time chatting about more than just KOW.

In the debut episode, Rob, Eric, and Buehner from the Nerdhammer crew discuss the 2021 US Masters, the state of the current meta, and scorings systems used in KoW. Rob proves he doesn't know the difference between a noun and a verb, Buehner showcases his knowledge of idioms, and Eric reveals his go-to choice of beer for when he needs to forget something.Dwarf logo: www.icklepeeps.comNerdhammer on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NerdhammerNetThe Nerdhammer GT event page: https://fb.me/e/2CUj5HUjVCrossroads GT:  http://www.crossroads-gt.com/home.htmlKoW Tournaments (event listings): https://kowtournaments.com/

Numbers in Somali 1---> kow kow iyo toban 2---> Laba 3 ---> Saddex 4 ---> Afar 5 ---> Shan 6---> Lix 7---> Todoba 8---> Sideed 9 ---> Saqaal 10 ---> Toban 11--- Kow iyo taban 12--- Laba iyo toban 13---- saddex iyo toban 14----- afar iyo toban 15----- shan iyo toban 16---- lix iyo toban 17---- Todoba iyo Toban 18--- sideed iyo Toban 19---- sagaal iyo toban 20 Labaatan 1000 kun 30 Sodon 40 Afartan 50 Konton 60 Lixdan 70 Todobaatan 80 sideetan 90 Saqaashan 100 boqol Northern Somalia (people count like this) Kow iyo taban 1 +10 Southern Somalia ( people count like this) 10 +1 Toban iyo kow --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wanaag-islamic-channel/support

Sessió amb Hito SteyerlArtista i assagista. És considerada una de les creadores actuals més rellevants dins el camp del videoart. Els seus textos, conferències, vídeos i instal·lacions vinculen la reflexió filosòfica i política a un activisme crític inserit en l’univers de la producció i circulació de la imatge i de la paraula. Doctora en Filosofia per la Universitat de Viena, doctora honoris causa pel Royal College of Art de Londres i professora a la Universitat de Berlín, el seu treball ha estat presentat en diverses mostres col·lectives com la 55a Biennal de Venècia (2013), la 13a Biennal d’Istanbul (2013) o Documenta 12, a Kassel (2007). A més de l’exposició monogràfica Duty-Free Art que el Museu Reina Sofia li dedica el 2019, ha exposat individualment en la 58a Biennal de Venècia (2019), l’ Artist Space de Nova York (2015), la galeria KOW de Berlín (2015), el Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven, l’ Institute of Contemporary Arts – ICA de Londres (2014) i l’Art Institute of Chicago (2012). Durant 2021, el Centre Pompidou de París i el museu K21 de Düsseldorf exhibeix I will survive, la retrospectiva més important de l’artista celebrada a França i Alemanya.

Recorded 2021-05-07 18:00:13 DnB Radio Tracklisting: * Calibre & Zero T - One Word * Unreal & Pennygiles - Nothing Lasts Forever * Utah Jazz - Deep End * Need For Mirrors, Zero T & Spikey Tee - Top Shelf * Bailey - Sugar * Duoscience - Yeap * Dave Owen - Red Sky at Night * Simplification & Translate - Tonight * Kabuki & Makoto - Steroid Funk * Logistics - Love Unlimited * Rowpieces - Want You Need You * Dj Chap - Old Times * Paul T & Edward Oberon - This Love * Command Strange - Memories * Rowpieces - Cut and Run * Random Movement & Adrienne Richards - Soul on Fire * Blade & Kyro - Back from the Streets * dRamatic feat. Deeizm - Here with You * Random Movement - Little Treasure * Rowpieces - Brazil Calling * Peshay feat. Natalie Reece - Fall for You Download, Distribute, and Donate!

Happy New Year! We're back with a bumper special to kick off 2021. Join us as we chat about the year that was and the year to come. Also on the menu are the previously unreleased Kings of Fightclub episodes, including the semi-final and grand finals.That's not all! Special guest Ronnie Renton joins the cast for yarn, answers some questions (including planned releases for 2021) and we test the KoW knowledge of Ronnie and Huw in a game show we created for the occasion. All that and more in the very first cast for the year.   Enjoy!

https://archive.org/download/mundofonias-2021004/Mundofonias2021004.mp3 Recorremos nuevos discos que nos llegan de diversos rincones de Europa, de Quebec y acabamos con experimentos sonoros en el sudeste asiático. We review new albums that come from different corners of Europe, from Quebec and we end up with sound experiments in Southeast Asia. · Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesa Quartet - Meeting - Phoenix · Belonoga - Devilish girl - Folk Galore highlights 2020 (VA) · Lumpeks - Ober ciągły - Lumpeks · Karolina Cicha & Company - Polka zydowka - Tany · Maria Siwiec - Oj Janku, Janku, nie kochaj mnie - Śpiewaczka z Gałek Rusinowskich · Duo Beaudry-Prudhomme - Reel à Simon - Chansons en noires et blanches · Duo Beaudry-Prudhomme - Au pré de la rose - Chansons en noires et blanches · Nicolas Boulerice - Le corset d'Irlande - Maison de pierres · Magalí Sare & Manel Fortià - El testament d'Amèlia - Fang i núvols · Naragonia - Schurkske - Silentski · Apichat Pakwan - Improvisation (live at Artistry, Singapore) - Animist Records present: Kow mai (VA) · (Nicolas Boulerice - Le mois de mai - Maison de pierres) Imagen / Image: Karolina Cicha por/by Michał Heller

durée : 00:02:39 - Le Livre du Week-End France Bleu Normandie (Rouen)

In NDP's latest episode, Kylo & KOW join this week's panel to address some major league news. In this episode: - Timbo addresses recent concerns regarding the creation of the "RISE" Agency - Early takeaways from #MSR25 - NFL reactions so far --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we are joined by our favourite hobby legend, Patch and Direct Misfire's Huw to discuss all things Kings Of War.  If you have ever been KOW-curious, this show is for you! We dig into how the game basically works, exciting hobby opportunities it affords, army building, the setting and the community as a whole.  It is a great place to begin your journey into this great rank and flank game!

Oktober 2020. Fred ringer opp Jørgen og Morten fra Bergen! Vi prater om hobbyprosjekter, malekonkurranser, status KoW i Norge for tiden, og framtidstanker.

September 2020. Fred and Vidar throw down a podcast ep before their KOW match!0:0:25 what's up 0:17:45 news and events 0:37:10 games and hobby 1:01:15 room for improvement 1:12:30 other entertainment 1:33:00 epic moment 

Steve sits down with Matt James from the Kings of War Rules Committee to give us a glimpse behind the closed doors of how the RC functions! Matt willingly submits to a barrage of player questions - many thanks to him for his time and candour! Look out for coming episodes on the new KoW magic supplement and campaign book, Halpi's Rift!

Steve sits down with Matt James from the Kings of War Rules Committee to give us a glimpse behind the closed doors of how the RC functions! Matt willingly submits to a barrage of player questions - many thanks to him for his time and candour! Look out for coming episodes on the new KoW magic supplement and campaign book, Halpi's Rift!

Sebastiaan Jansen een van de vier partners van KOW. Met een roemrijke historie in de stad heeft het bureau een gezonde kijk op het Den Haag van morgen. “Energie neutraal is geen onderwerp meer, het verlangen gaat veel verder.” Sebastiaan over concepten, moderne architectuur en vakmanschap, maar ook over zijn grootste fuck up, successen en kantelpunt in zijn leven.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 21, 2020 is: cowcatcher • KOW-ketch-er • noun : an inclined frame on the front of a railroad locomotive for throwing obstacles off the track Examples: For his entry in the town parade, John outfitted his black truck with a cowcatcher and smoke stack to resemble a 19th-century locomotive. "Not in this show, unfortunately, is the amazing 'Galloping Goose,' which Springer photographed. Until the early 1950s its modified truck-boxcar mashup—with a cowcatcher in front—lumbered from Ridgway to Lizard Head Pass in Colorado." — Harriet Howard Heithaus, The Naples (Florida) Daily News, 17 June 2019 Did you know? New Jersey's Camden and Amboy Railroad was the first in the U.S. to adopt the cowcatcher, adding it to its John Bull locomotive in the early 1830s. But, as the Model Railroader Cyclopedia warned, "don't ever let a railroad man hear you use 'cowcatcher.'" In its heyday, railroad workers preferred the name pilot for that v-shaped frame. In the 1940s and '50s, cowcatcher jumped the tracks and took on a new life in TV and radio advertising jargon. The term was used for a commercial that was aired immediately before a program and that advertised a secondary product of the program's sponsor. Such ads apparently got the name because they "went in front."

Join the team as they discuss their Call to Arms Round 3 match-ups. Today they are joined by special guest and math wizard Page Neo who got up at 3am to be part of the cast!Page has a great YouTube channel Newbie Dice targeted at improving your KoW game you can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYd_TKvLmWq8ltToqGUZUQ

Join the team as they discuss their Call to Arms Round 3 match-ups. Today they are joined by special guest and math wizard Page Neo who got up at 3am to be part of the cast!Page has a great YouTube channel Newbie Dice targeted at improving your KoW game you can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYd_TKvLmWq8ltToqGUZUQ

The epic conclusion to the Unplugged Radio and Counter Charge Crossover where the crew break down the Kings of War armies through the lens of a new player to KoW.

The epic conclusion to the Unplugged Radio and Counter Charge Crossover where the crew break down the Kings of War armies through the lens of a new player to KoW.

Kow asks, not 1, not 2, but 3 big questions: Why did God create the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?, Why did God throw the fallen angels down to earth?, and another big one: Who did Cain marry and where was she from? SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Hebrews 11:3, John 1:1, Ezekiel 28:12-15, Revelation 12:7-9, 12, Luke 10:18, Genesis 1:2, Genesis 1:3, Isaiah 60:2, Genesis 1:14-19, John 1:1-5, Psalms 119:105, Genesis 1:16, Revelation 4:11, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 2:7, 21-22, Hebrews 12:9, Galatians 3:28, John 4:24, Revelation 13:8, Genesis 3:15, 2 Peter 3:8, Genesis 5:5, 1 Peter 1:20, Deuteronomy 30:19, Colossians 2:15, 1 Corinthians 2:8 || Genesis 5:3, 4, Genesis 4:16, Luke 3:38, Leviticus 18:9 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/AskBaddy/support

Kow Samman is the Productivity Solutions Product Manager at Azusa Pacific University. The team Kow joined at Azusa Pacific was originally Document Solutions, which received its namesake due to the need to simplify the overwhelming documentation processes that come with any university. But in the spirit of being a difference-maker, Kow and his team found that they could do far more than provide document solutions—they could inspire and enable productivity for everyone involved. In this episode, you’ll hear why Kow is driven to make a difference by empowering a new generation of difference makers.  So, how exactly does one pull this off? And how do you gain the kind of buy-in that has everyone down the line taking part in a new process? How can you make work easier and more productive for your team? Listen to this episode of Ripple Effect to find out. Links: Connect with Kow Learn More about Azusa Pacific University Connect with Chris  Learn more about Formstack

After cleaning house on the Oscars and experiencing a new kind of football, the boys are back with more picks to fatten up that wallet. Joe flexes for KOWs with his NBA crystal ball, Dom hops in the driver seat for the Daytona 500, and Terry leads the charge in this week's Inclusive Parlay. The RV may be out of toilet paper, but the tank is full and spirits are high coming off yet another W.  Big Win for KOW – 2:34 Joe's NBA Corner – 4:27 XFL Recap – 24:58 Daytona 500 – 30:38 RV Trippin' – 42:31 Inclusive Parlay – 50:27 Pods and Recs – 54:58

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Cyle Pool sits down again with Special Guest Andrew Summers to talk about Hammer and Anvil tactics in Kings of War.  Lots of wisdom dropped as these two wind through a great discussion of KOW tactics!   If you like this come tell Cyle in the Kings of War WorldWide (KOW3) Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/172722949908327/  and Join the Conversation!    Music Credits:   Intro- "Epic Boss Battle" by Juhana Junkala   Outro- "Orc March" by Basematic   Both are licensed under Creative Commons   Voice Over provided by Gideon Belmont Hill 

We talk about our lists for Forge GT. Nightstalkers and Northern Alliance in 3rd edition KOW, and Universal Battle Tournament. We also talk about the Great British Baking Show, The Seven Deadly Sins, and Phantasmagoria 2 for Nerdy Flicks. For Controllers and Keyboards, we talk about Outer Worlds, Ark, and Trails of Cold Steel.  Music: "Curse of the Scarab" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Evening Melodrama" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Village Consort" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Dewdrop Fantasy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We are excited to share with you a new series in which we explore how to organize and run a successful tournament for Kings of War. In this first episode we’ll look at it through the lens of the UK tournament scene as provided by UK Tournament Organizers Mat Green, Paul Roberts, Elliot Morrish and Matt Gorham. Huge thanks to these fine gentlemen for taking time out of their busy schedule to join Rob and Steve in the studio.Here’s a list of some of the upcoming UK events:Kings of Herts III - Oct 26Kings of War 3rd Ed Gaming Day - Nov 23Northern Kings presents The Wild Charge! a 3rd edition KoW event - Jan 18Stane of Blood - Jan 25

We are excited to share with you a new series in which we explore how to organize and run a successful tournament for Kings of War. In this first episode we’ll look at it through the lens of the UK tournament scene as provided by UK Tournament Organizers Mat Green, Paul Roberts, Elliot Morrish and Matt Gorham. Huge thanks to these fine gentlemen for taking time out of their busy schedule to join Rob and Steve in the studio.Here’s a list of some of the upcoming UK events:Kings of Herts III - Oct 26Kings of War 3rd Ed Gaming Day - Nov 23Northern Kings presents The Wild Charge! a 3rd edition KoW event - Jan 18Stane of Blood - Jan 25

I have a quick chat with Fred about his Kings of War Forums, why he created them, and how you can join!  Be sure to support this great community driven project!   You can find the KOW forums here: https://www.kowforum.com   Come join the discussion in the Kings of War WorldWide (KOW3) Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/172722949908327/    Music Credits:   Intro- "Epic Boss Battle" by Juhana Junkala   Outro- "Orc March" by Basematic   Both are licensed under Creative Commons   Voice Over provided by Gideon Belmont Hill 

A short episode about the new KOW forum! 0:00:01 new forum0:01:39 badges and achievements0:06:45 user levels0:09:00 advantages of forum 0:10:00 support for like, share and tags0:11:55 notifications on mobile0:13:50 closing thoughts

We discuss Gucci Mane’s new album Evil Genius, as well as give our thoughts on the culturally relevant Grammy nominations. We also get into Cardi B’s divorce announcement and Kevin Hart’s roller coaster week. More details on #KOW are also made available so be sure to get all of that (II) !!!

Join your hosts as they discuss the rule of cool and other KOW topics

Tonight we have Brian Bukszar on, who you may know as the man behind Killing field terrain, which is the great purveyor of Teddy Bear gaming mats.  Now he's back with his next project, Form Up Battle Bases.  This will be an online store that specializes in 3D printed basing specific for KOW. Head over to their website and check them out for yourself!  

Tonight we have Brian Bukszar on, who you may know as the man behind Killing field terrain, which is the great purveyor of Teddy Bear gaming mats.  Now he's back with his next project, Form Up Battle Bases.  This will be an online store that specializes in 3D printed basing specific for KOW. Head over to their website and check them out for yourself!  

June 2018. Lars and Fred meet up!Approximate times:0:33:00 holiday and allergy tales.1:09:00 command group models for 3rd?1:35:00 TnT US Soft Scores.1:48:00 Fred tried 9th Age; a step by step comparison to KoW with highs and lows.

Be warned: There's a lot of drunken cursing and general jackassery in this episode - definintely NOT safe for work.In this episode we carted all our 3 families up to a cabin in Oklahoma, put the kids to bed and then cracked open some brews and started recording.  There's a lot of cross talk, a lot of booze talk, a lot of making fun of Mark, and virtually no KOW talk.  So if you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in our drunken family weekends this episode is for you.     

(Hong Kong visto de Kowloon, 1841 - 1842. Desenho de Thomas Allom)Esta edição foi para o ar na Rádio Macau no dia 24 de Maio de 2018.

Welcome to the fourth installment of the Narrative Workshop!  On today's show Mark and Ben and joined by former Outrider and current Pathfinder Russ Barnes to discuss siege in the world of Mantica.  The guys also review the rules that Russ and his group have written for you to play sieges in Kings of War.. Russ has quite a few shout outs at the end of the show, so here is a summary below: Russ Shout outs – “March Hare” one day KoW tournament on 07 April 2018 “Bugeater” a two day Master’s Qualifier 01-03 June 2018 “Warhammer Refugee” one day KoW tournament will be December 01 2018 Outlander’s Facebook page “ The Outlanders”   This is where I post our campaigns, battle reports, and general information.  if you would like to contact Russ you can catch him at isanti314@gmail.com  Here is a link to the Outlanders FaceBook page where you can download the Siege rules:, https://www.facebook.com/groups/225807847488075/

Welcome to the fourth installment of the Narrative Workshop!  On today's show Mark and Ben and joined by former Outrider and current Pathfinder Russ Barnes to discuss siege in the world of Mantica.  The guys also review the rules that Russ and his group have written for you to play sieges in Kings of War.. Russ has quite a few shout outs at the end of the show, so here is a summary below: Russ Shout outs – “March Hare” one day KoW tournament on 07 April 2018 “Bugeater” a two day Master’s Qualifier 01-03 June 2018 “Warhammer Refugee” one day KoW tournament will be December 01 2018 Outlander’s Facebook page “ The Outlanders”   This is where I post our campaigns, battle reports, and general information.  if you would like to contact Russ you can catch him at isanti314@gmail.com  Here is a link to the Outlanders FaceBook page where you can download the Siege rules:, https://www.facebook.com/groups/225807847488075/

March 2018. We take a break from the CoK18 review and instead do a normal episode!Fred and Lars chat about KOW, DnD and do a kind of book review about The First Law Trilogy (with spoilers!)

Another dope Mix brought from the Archived Urban One Radio Catalogue, just more chill vibes to kick back to! Playlist: 1. Raining (w- Fishdoll & Kow)by Froyo Ma 2. This right here by More // Night 3. This is about You by Stanzah! 4. Insomnia by Haan808 5. Greatest by Lege - Kale 6. One Two feat Ezra byCavalier Beats 7. YU by Sango & Waldo 8. Two AM by SZA 9. Whatever You want by PYRMDPLAZA & Abraham Blue 10. Frontin (Remix)by L0tso 11. Chimera pt II by Christopher Dixit 12. Juicy Fruit (feat. OMAC)by Mars Today 13. Late night feat. Masego (Falcons Remix)by Goldlink 14. April Showers by Young Troubled Minds 15. Spectrum (GEOTHEORY Remix)by Goldlink 16. All In My Head by Krisbeatz 17. Compromise (Sinead Harnett, Goldlink & Secaina Hudson)by Christian Rich 18. HigherbyTay Svpreme 19. Attempt by Blvck Svnd 20. Compromise by James Gent 21. Dump Truck by Tay Svpreme

Welcome to Weight of Fire, a podcast dedicated to wargaming and miniature painting with a heavy focus on Mantic games such as Kings of War, Deadzone and Warpath. Edge of the Abyss (and other KoW topics) - We talk to Rob Burman about the Edge of the Abyss campaign as well as other KoW topics such as the upcoming sourcebook Weight of Fire TV - Andy explains about Weight of fire's new venture Question Time - We ask Rob Burman your questions Any feedback? please leave a review on Itunes and get in touch via email and follow us on Twitter: Email: hello@weightoffire.comTwitter: @weightoffire "Volatile Reaction"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Bensome, Spoon and Sellick take up arms once more for their latest KoW army review: The Kingdoms of Men! Warn the peasants, alert the knights and pray the local hero (who may or may not be named Hero) comes to save the day! Join the lads as they lay seige to the fortress of knowledge, reducing it to a pile of incoherent rubble... alongside covering the usual unit breakdowns, army lists, allies and model options for the Kingdoms of Men (manly men).  Enjoy!

Episode 387-A special preview of a new podcast by Clint Stout and our friends at Kowabunga Comics - Clint Stout and James from the Kow Cast! co-hosts this episode as they talk about Unknown Soldier by Garth Ennis and Killian Plunkett. Why is Garth Ennis so good? Who exactly is Killian Plunkett and why haven’t you heard of him? What does the Unknown Soldier represent? Find out in this episode of COMICS THAT WORK! http://comicsthatwork.kowabungacomics.com/

The boys are back in town (the boys are back in town) with their latest KoW army review: The Trident Realms of Neritica! Grab your goggles and hold your breath as they dive into all things fishmen, covering the usual unit breakdowns, army lists, and allies. Don't forget to bring a towel!   Enjoy!  

Welcome to Weight of Fire, a podcast dedicated to wargaming and miniature painting with a heavy focus on Mantic games such as Kings of War, Deadzone and Warpath. This episode we are joined by a special guest; Joe Neet from Mantic Games! Haven: A Kings of War Tournament - We talk about a recent KoW tournament Paul and Andy attended Altibash IV preview - Our up coming tournament http://www.altrinchamgaming.club/altibash What's happening at Mantic? - Joe gives us all the juicy gossip about Vanguard (a KoW skirmish game), KoW summer campaign and we even get to review one of the new formations!  Deadzone Rankings - Andy goes into a bit of detail about the new ranking system and we ask: Is it a good thing? Hobby Time - What are we painting? We chat a bit about our current hobby projects Any feedback? please leave a review on Itunes and get in touch via email and follow us on Twitter: Email: hello@weightoffire.comTwitter: @weightoffire "Volatile Reaction"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode 23: Dwarf sex education and Conquest Oslo A Kings of War (KoW) podcast, with Nick, Jon, Dan, Paul and Matt In Episode 23 Jon, Dan and Paul are joined by Fred (The Judge) Berthelsen and Lars (Map Pack) Hemmingby to talk about Haven From The Storm (best venue in KoW?) and January 2018s "must do" event, Conquest Oslo.  This is a multi-day, multi-gaming system, multi.. well, multi everything event being held in Oslo.  We also discuss the upcoming "Surge of War 2017" in sleepy Northamptonshire (which is NOT London) which Fred will be attending; and Jon is now considering attending as he is chasing ranking points... Dan, Nick and Paul are attending the Bristol 2-day event in July and obviously AltiBash4 is just around the corner too. Stick to the end of the podcast for the Dwarf sex education lesson... Edited bits: None.  Event links AltiBash4 Conquest - Oslo Surge of War 2017 Bristol - 2 dayer Feedback:  We welcome messages on Facebook or Twitter.  If you'd like us to cover your event or want some advice on army building, playing or painting.. get in touch. Facebook: www.facebook.com/FourFootSnake/ Twitter: @ohfourfootsnake

Stop ... Hobbytime! The triumvirate return to unload all the hobby that's been occuping their lives. KoW, WoK, and TWD:AOW among many other initialisms are on the agenda as well as multibasing tips.Then once that deluge of hobby talk as subsided the TO's for Convic 2017, Andrew and Geoff, join the show! Spouting their knowledge of all things Convic, get caught up with the tourney details before signing up yourself. Enjoy!Sign up to Convic here: http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=188014 Check out our purdy pics on Facey here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/directmisfire/photos/?ref=page_internal  

So where do we start? Welcome to Weight of Fire, a podcast dedicated to wargaming and miniature painting with a heavy focus on Mantic games such as Kings of War, Deadzone and Warpath. The Team - Meet your hosts Paul, Andy, Kev and Chaz Deadzone Tournament - In our main feature we discuss the Deadzone tournament "The Incident on Canaan Delta-12" (Take a look at the tournament pack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ck3amdrjbef346c/The-Incident-On-Canaan-Delta-12_v1.3.pdf?dl=1) Haven: A Kings of War Tournament - We discuss an upcoming KoW event  Hobby Time - What are we painting? We chat a bit about our current hobby projects Any feedback? please leave a review on Itunes and get in touch via email and follow us on Twitter: Email: hello@weightoffire.comTwitter: @weightoffire "Volatile Reaction"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Episode 20: Fools of War, AltiBash4 and hobby chat with Paul Welsh A Kings of War (KoW) podcast, with Nick, Jon, Dan and Matt (who?) In Episode 20, Jon, Nick and Dan chat to KoW newcomer (and superb painter / hobbyist) Paul Welsh.  Paul's Varangrrr army has been winning admiration on KoW Fanatics and having already claimed a win vs. Dan he is rapidly becoming a great KoW player. Nick, Dan and Paul talk about the recent two-dayer, Fools of War and we have a preview of the upcoming AltiBash4 event. Hobby is focused on preparation for the upcoming Lonewolf GT, with Dan and Nick having quite of work to do (and smug Jon realising that he still has lots to do too..). Edited bits: No edits and boy can you tell...  sound levels were hard to balance due to laughter throughout Event links AltiBash4 Haven from the Storm Lonewolf GT Feedback:  We welcome messages on Facebook or Twitter.  If you'd like us to cover your event or want some advice on army building, playing or painting.. get in touch. Facebook: www.facebook.com/FourFootSnake/ Twitter: @ohfourfootsnake  

Mars 2017. Vi pairer første runde av den kommende KoW-turneringen The Hunt for the Artifact på OMSK 1.4.17

Bensome and Spoon are back... with friends! Kris Kapsner of the Lake S.W.A.T.T  podcast visits to chat about the Lady of the Lake GT and the International Campaign day among other hobby goodness. Then Andrew Goodman jumps on the mic to chat all things Convic! Sprinkled in between is the usual banter and KoW convos.  Enjoy! ** Check out the following topics discussed on the cast: Oasisrising youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/oasisrising Lady of the lake GT + Lake S.W.A.T.T: http://www.lakeswattfantasy.com/lady_of_the_lake_gt/ KoW Campaign day: https://www.facebook.com/groups/USKoWCampaignDay/ ConVic: http://www.convic.com.au/

Bensome and Spoon recently attended their first KoW tourney for 2016 - Mikecon! Within is a poorly remembered reminiscence of the games they played and the thoughts on lists and whatnot. Enjoy! Upcoming Tournaments: Mikecon II  House of War Ringwood - Saturday 28 May - Register Here The Broadside Bash 2 day 5 game KoW event on April 30-May 1 in San Diego Ca.  2000 pts - Part of Kingdom-Con.  Sign up at Broadside-bash.blogspot.com - Info here Convic 9&10 July 2016 - Burden Park Bowling Club - Springvale South - Register Interest Here Mighty Fishbat: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsL...Zw-oEG6JLlaKLw

Jeff, Mark, and Ryan talk Beer, KOW, review Shiloh slaughter, USA Masters, Lady of the Lake GT, and a special 1 day national event is unveiled. Grab a beer and join us on another Beer Phase! 

Bensome and Spoon are joined by their very first guest! Vivian (Viv -  'cos there are far too many syllables otherwise) played his first game of KoW against Bensome and has obliged to chat about his experiences.Enjoy!** Apologies for the sub par audio - it's our first experience into conference calls. Lessons have been learned and improvements will be made**

En el episodio de este próximo jueves tendremos a los chicos de Falcata presentando su interesante proyecto, hablaremos de resultados económicos de GW, los horrores de KoW en españistaní y daremos un repaso general a ks varios y la actualidad del mundillo durante esta quincena! Ya sabéis, si tenéis dudas, inquietudes o interés en estos temas o si simplemente tenéis ganas de pasar un rato de risas entre amigos, os esperamos este jueves a las 22:00 horas en Spreaker y si estáis por Valencia en La Base Secreta Café ;) P.D.: El Doktor analizará Frostgrave tras haber estado jugando unas cuantas partidas, que se me había olvidado! XD 05:24 Morgana Vs Morgana - Angelus 09:40 Conexión Carlos acerca de Battle Arena y repaso a la actualidad miniaturil de la quincena 36:30 Morgana Vs morgana - Y perder 42:30 Conexión con Diego y Sergio acerca de Falcata 82:00 Frostgrave según Herr Doktor 99:23 Morgana Vs Morgana - Mi herida 103:35 Erratas edición española KoW y comunicado Miniaturama 131:35 Resultados económicos GW medio año 2015 152:00 Morgana Vs Morgana - Teólogo

En el episodio de este próximo jueves tendremos a los chicos de Falcata presentando su interesante proyecto, hablaremos de resultados económicos de GW, los horrores de KoW en españistaní y daremos un repaso general a ks varios y la actualidad del mundillo durante esta quincena! Ya sabéis, si tenéis dudas, inquietudes o interés en estos temas o si simplemente tenéis ganas de pasar un rato de risas entre amigos, os esperamos este jueves a las 22:00 horas en Spreaker y si estáis por Valencia en La Base Secreta Café ;) P.D.: El Doktor analizará Frostgrave tras haber estado jugando unas cuantas partidas, que se me había olvidado! XD 05:24 Morgana Vs Morgana - Angelus 09:40 Conexión Carlos acerca de Battle Arena y repaso a la actualidad miniaturil de la quincena 36:30 Morgana Vs morgana - Y perder 42:30 Conexión con Diego y Sergio acerca de Falcata 82:00 Frostgrave según Herr Doktor 99:23 Morgana Vs Morgana - Mi herida 103:35 Erratas edición española KoW y comunicado Miniaturama 131:35 Resultados económicos GW medio año 2015 152:00 Morgana Vs Morgana - Teólogo

En el episodio de este próximo jueves tendremos a los chicos de Falcata presentando su interesante proyecto, hablaremos de resultados económicos de GW, los horrores de KoW en españistaní y daremos un repaso general a ks varios y la actualidad del mundillo durante esta quincena! Ya sabéis, si tenéis dudas, inquietudes o interés en estos temas o si simplemente tenéis ganas de pasar un rato de risas entre amigos, os esperamos este jueves a las 22:00 horas en Spreaker y si estáis por Valencia en La Base Secreta Café ;) P.D.: El Doktor analizará Frostgrave tras haber estado jugando unas cuantas partidas, que se me había olvidado! XD 05:24 Morgana Vs Morgana - Angelus 09:40 Conexión Carlos acerca de Battle Arena y repaso a la actualidad miniaturil de la quincena 36:30 Morgana Vs morgana - Y perder 42:30 Conexión con Diego y Sergio acerca de Falcata 82:00 Frostgrave según Herr Doktor 99:23 Morgana Vs Morgana - Mi herida 103:35 Erratas edición española KoW y comunicado Miniaturama 131:35 Resultados económicos GW medio año 2015 152:00 Morgana Vs Morgana - Teólogo

A Kings of War (KoW) podcast, with Nick, Jon, Dan and Matt.  Episode 8 and the team are joined by Chris Nicholls, owner of Macrocosm Miniatures.  Macrocosm's Short Wars range of Goblins, Halflings and Dark Dwarfs are a great fit for KoW.    Chris is returning to KoW events this year and has Dan in his cross-hairs.  With an impressive record of 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw vs. the champion, Chris feels he's the player to take the challenge to Dan in 2016. And there is some history between the two of them, Chris came 4th at the first CoK event and he's not at all bitter about his loss to Dan that cost him £750.. Oh - and we pay homage to Caleb's "English" accent.  With Kyle, Caleb produces superb KoW videos.  Check them out on YouTube (search "Master Crafted") Links: Macrocosm Short Wars Master Crafted Gaming Blog (Kyle and Caleb) Timings: 0 to 3mins : Introductions 3 to 3.5 mins: Caleb doing Aussie / Dick van Dyke impressions 3.5 to 48 mins: Chris Nicholls and Macrocosm Miniatures 48 to 70 mins: Hobby time and upcoming events   Edited bits:  Kickstarter rant from Chris, Stewie's behaviour at the first CoK event

Jeff, Mark, and Ryan talk about their top 5 beers of 2015 as well as the full switch to KoW for 2016 and expectations for 2016. Grab a beer and enjoy!

En este episodio repasaremos la actualidad del mundillo durante los últimos quince días, traducciones, lanzamientos, novedades... El Doktor nos contará la programación de publicaciones de Dadi&Piombo para 2016 y su opinión de la edición impresa de la segunda edición de KoW, en su versión Gamers Edition, así como de los diferentes packs en que puede adquirirse este reglamento. También hablaremos brevemente de la quedada del pasado fin de semana con los amiguetes de Bad Roll, Sures y Scratch Attack! Para terminar comentaremos lo que está sucediendo con Prodos y AvP: The Hunt Begins y lo compararemos con lo que viene sucediendo con HQ25... y os contamos la tétrica historia del malfario que parece atraer Warzone sobre todas las empresas que se arriman a él... 02:55 Hall of the Mountain King - Kevin McLeod 05:20 Repaso actualidad miniaturil 25:00 Toccata e Fuga in D minor - Kevin McLeod 33:40 Programación D&P 2016, Kings of War 59:00 Chromatic Fantasia - Kevin McLeod 66:20 Problemas económicos Prodos, similitudes con el caso Gamezone y HQ25, maldición de Warzone. 140:00 Danse Macabre - Kevin McLeod

En este episodio repasaremos la actualidad del mundillo durante los últimos quince días, traducciones, lanzamientos, novedades... El Doktor nos contará la programación de publicaciones de Dadi&Piombo para 2016 y su opinión de la edición impresa de la segunda edición de KoW, en su versión Gamers Edition, así como de los diferentes packs en que puede adquirirse este reglamento. También hablaremos brevemente de la quedada del pasado fin de semana con los amiguetes de Bad Roll, Sures y Scratch Attack! Para terminar comentaremos lo que está sucediendo con Prodos y AvP: The Hunt Begins y lo compararemos con lo que viene sucediendo con HQ25... y os contamos la tétrica historia del malfario que parece atraer Warzone sobre todas las empresas que se arriman a él... 02:55 Hall of the Mountain King - Kevin McLeod 05:20 Repaso actualidad miniaturil 25:00 Toccata e Fuga in D minor - Kevin McLeod 33:40 Programación D&P 2016, Kings of War 59:00 Chromatic Fantasia - Kevin McLeod 66:20 Problemas económicos Prodos, similitudes con el caso Gamezone y HQ25, maldición de Warzone. 140:00 Danse Macabre - Kevin McLeod

En este episodio repasaremos la actualidad del mundillo durante los últimos quince días, traducciones, lanzamientos, novedades... El Doktor nos contará la programación de publicaciones de Dadi&Piombo para 2016 y su opinión de la edición impresa de la segunda edición de KoW, en su versión Gamers Edition, así como de los diferentes packs en que puede adquirirse este reglamento. También hablaremos brevemente de la quedada del pasado fin de semana con los amiguetes de Bad Roll, Sures y Scratch Attack! Para terminar comentaremos lo que está sucediendo con Prodos y AvP: The Hunt Begins y lo compararemos con lo que viene sucediendo con HQ25... y os contamos la tétrica historia del malfario que parece atraer Warzone sobre todas las empresas que se arriman a él... 02:55 Hall of the Mountain King - Kevin McLeod 05:20 Repaso actualidad miniaturil 25:00 Toccata e Fuga in D minor - Kevin McLeod 33:40 Programación D&P 2016, Kings of War 59:00 Chromatic Fantasia - Kevin McLeod 66:20 Problemas económicos Prodos, similitudes con el caso Gamezone y HQ25, maldición de Warzone. 140:00 Danse Macabre - Kevin McLeod

A Kings of War (KoW) podcast.  UK based Nick, Jon, Dan and Matt (when he's available - he is rather busy) talk about Kings of War.  In this first episode, the naive fools ramble and go off-topic so often that the preparation of show notes seems to have been completely wasted.  Which is kind of like Jon at Clash of Kings..   Oh - and one of the secret KoW armies is talked about (The Trident Realm of Neritica)

Jeff, Ryan, and Mark are joined by "the one who knocks" for some drinking and malarky . We talk to Dave about KoW and his AoS experience and Ryan pumps the Mirce kick starter going on rite now if your looking for some amazing minis.

Jeff, Mark, and Ryan are being drunks as usual and are joined by a special guest to talk about Beer, KoW, and Bayou battles. Grab a beer and enjoy the show

Jeff, Mark, and Ryan talk about whats been going on for the past 2 weeks in the TX GT scene. We cover this weekends upcoming Bayou GT, as well as talk about how KoW is picking up a lot of steam in the WHFB exiting community. Grab a beer and enjoy the show.

Laura Intravia does a lot of musical things. She composes, performs, teaches, tours with Video Games Live-- you know, the usual. She also guests on podcasts, apparently, because here she is for a fun-filled episode of Train Station at 8! We talk about Banjo-Kazooie, Shadow of the Colossus, Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda... all the good stuff. So don't be a square; be a square wave and tune in! (I promise that isn't our new catchphrase.)Where can you find Laura on the internet? Try her website and/or Facebook, and don't forget to read her blog. You'll learn stuff, you will!This week's Open Question: "What are some of your best video game musical memories?"How did you like this episode? If the answer is "lots" then consider following Train Station at 8 on Twitter, subscribing on iTunes, or maybe sending an email to TrainStationAt8@gmail.com. Hearing from you would make our day and then some!Music used in this episode:Chilling with the Monkey Porter (Train Station at 8 Season 2 Theme) - Bryan KellyHigh School Love - Laura Intravia, Nicole Intravia, Joe Popson, Omar NajmiThe Spirit Tree (feat. Aeralie Brighton) - Gareth Coker feat. Aeralie BrightonNow or Never (Final Stage) - Super Marcato Bros.Seirines - "Sirens" (feat. Anonymous 4) - Christopher TinYoshi's Woolly World (Remix) - Taku InoueSeven Songs for Seventh Saga: II. Water - Sebastian FreijSuper Mario Galaxy 2 (Trailer Arrangement) - Mahito Yokota You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables - Bobby PrinceCastle/Fortress (Super Mario World) - Koji KondoA Violent Encounter - Kow OtaniRevived Power - Kow OtaniNerevar Rising - Jeremy SouleClick Clock Wood (Spring) - Grant KirkhopeSong of the Ancients (NieR) - Jillian Aversa, Doug PerryItem Catch (The Legend of Zelda) - Koji KondoItem Catch (A Link Between Worlds) -  Ryo NagamatsuItem Catch (Link's Awakening) - Yoshiaki KoizumiItem Catch (Ocarina of Time) - Koji KondoItem Catch (The Adventure of Link) - Takashi TezekuItem Catch (Wind Waker) - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji KondoItem Catch (Twilight Princess) - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta

Desbarre informativo (o desinformativo) sobre lo que la semana ha dado de sí, charreta con Óscar Celma de Resinaplanet y comentario sobre KoW segunda edición, Kingdom Death Monster, Dust Babylon... 00:00 Presentación y saludos 10:45? Ruben ReQ, Kingdom Death Monster, HQ27, repaso novedades Ao$ 55:45 Charla con Óscar Celma, con intervención estelar de Rafa Archiduque 97:45 Kings of War 2, Dust Babylon

Desbarre informativo (o desinformativo) sobre lo que la semana ha dado de sí, charreta con Óscar Celma de Resinaplanet y comentario sobre KoW segunda edición, Kingdom Death Monster, Dust Babylon... 00:00 Presentación y saludos 10:45? Ruben ReQ, Kingdom Death Monster, HQ27, repaso novedades Ao$ 55:45 Charla con Óscar Celma, con intervención estelar de Rafa Archiduque 97:45 Kings of War 2, Dust Babylon

Desbarre informativo (o desinformativo) sobre lo que la semana ha dado de sí, charreta con Óscar Celma de Resinaplanet y comentario sobre KoW segunda edición, Kingdom Death Monster, Dust Babylon... 00:00 Presentación y saludos 10:45? Ruben ReQ, Kingdom Death Monster, HQ27, repaso novedades Ao$ 55:45 Charla con Óscar Celma, con intervención estelar de Rafa Archiduque 97:45 Kings of War 2, Dust Babylon

FUBAR el podcast de los wargames con miniaturas. En la sección de noticias de este episodio hablamos, entre otras, cosas de la inminente salida al mercado de Age of Sigmar, los nuevos Belgas de Peter Pig o el indigogo de Turno Cu4tro. En el bloque principal, de la mano de nuestros amigos Miguel y Carl (Pathfinder y co-traductor del juego) hablamos de Kings of War; reglas, trasfondo, noticias, la nueva edición que sale hoy, guía para empezar a jugar, etc. Y en la parte final debatimos acerca de si KoW llenará el vacío que deja Warhammer Fantasy en la comunidad de jugadores y en el mercado.

From the opening fantasy sequence where Will uses his ravenstag to kill Hannibal/Wendigo, through the expansion of the Margot Verger subplot, to the most raw KOW (killer of the week) in Randall Tier, the beast, the mechanical cave bear, we adore this episode. Even if it does have one of the most unusual and abrupt... The post Hannibal S02E09 – Shiizakana – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. 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The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. 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In critical spawning and overwintering habitat for salmonids Hwan studies the effects of temporal stream fragmentation across three organizational levels of ecology: population, community, and ecosystem levels.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:01:00] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Jason won a third year phd student in the Carlson lab, which is [00:01:30] part of the environmental science policy and Management Department of the College of natural resources. Professor Stephanie Carlson directs the lab and she is a fish ecologist. Jason is researching the effects of summertimes stream drying on fish ecology in the John West fork, a creek in Marin county. The John West fork is the spawning grounds for two varieties of salmon the summer of 2011 Woolmark the third year of his research on this stream. [00:02:00] His research will continue for two and possibly three more years. This interview is prerecorded and edited. Speaker 4: Jason, welcome to spectrum. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Wanted to ask if you could, uh, give us a brief overview of your research and add in there how it's being funded. My research is looking at the effects of low summer flow on juvenile steelhead, on the insect communities out in the stream and [00:02:30] on certain ecosystem processes such as Algal production and leaf decomposition. And it's currently being funded by, mostly by my, by my guiding professor, Stephanie Carlson. And I also have some funding from our department and the division within our department. All right. We get out a sperm wildlife grant, which helps fund the research. And also I'm currently on an NSF graduate research fellowship. Described the, the general [00:03:00] area of the site that you chose. Sort of put it in context of where it is. So my study say, uh, the John West work is in point Reyes national seashore, which is about an hour north of Berkeley in a national park in and surrounded by some state parks. Speaker 4: Also. Can you explain the watershed and the area that you're working, how it all interrelates to the watershed? So I'm, I'm working in the Lagunitas watershed. I'm working [00:03:30] in a creek that is a tributary of a tributary of a creek to the lock Anitas to log in neatest creek and log Anitas creek flows into Tomas Bay in point rays. The creek that I'm working in is a little different in that there are only two species of fish up there. Both our salt Monets, there are still head and coho salmon. This is because it's not that the creek went dry, completely dry one year and there's, there [00:04:00] was a culvert that was put in place and other fish species weren't able to recolonize the creek, but someone had adults can jump over the barrier. And so they were able to recolonize the creek and they're actually jumping through the culvert. Speaker 4: Yeah. And through this culvert and swimming up swimming into the two John West work. And what's the drop on the culvert like from, from the the bottom lip to the dead of the bid. Lower part [00:04:30] of the creek. It's about four feet. Four feet drop-off. Yeah. So that's quite a leap for the salmon. Yeah. And so with this study, what is it that you're trying to learn? That is not already known. So I'm basically trying to look at the effects of low flow and my study is really looking at what the affects are at a really fine scale. So I'm tracking, uh, juvenile steel head growth, movement and survival and I'm tracking them on a weekly basis. So [00:05:00] it's pretty fine scale monitoring, which is something that hasn't really been been carried out before. And the low-flow period is when, uh, the low, the low flow start after the last records. Speaker 4: And as the, as a temperature gets warmer, the stream starts to dry and it pretty much lasts throughout the summer until the first rains of the following year. Are you collaborating with other people on your project? Not directly with my lab mates on [00:05:30] my project. Sometimes they might come out and help me, but for the most part I've been working alone with the help of some undergraduates. There are certain side projects that we collaborate on. Um, there's also a person who is working with me from, uh, from a different department. He's not really working on my project, but, uh, something that's related to my project out on my field site. It mean it helps both of you? Yeah, definitely. And is that going to have some bearing is his, his [00:06:00] work or her work and I have some impact on your results. It definitely is connected. It is connected to, I'm more at the temperature and looking at how stratification and pull temperature stratification in pools might affect fish behavior. Speaker 4: So where, where they kind of hang out in the pool. So that's something that could definitely help us fold into your report. Yeah, exactly. So in doing your research [00:06:30] and working in the field as opposed to, uh, if you're working in the field and the lab, how much time do you spend in the field and in the lab? Um, when I'm out during the summer, uh, during my field season, it's a pretty big chunk of it. About 80 to 85% is probably spent in the field and the remainder is spent in the lab. Um, but once the summer is over and on, the field season is over. Most of the time is spent in the lab, um, [00:07:00] crunching data, processing samples and stuff like that. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 2: you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. Today we're talking with Jason Juan about his research into summertime streaming drying its effect on Fish CollagenSpeaker 5: [00:07:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 4: And so was there fish breeding going on in this part of the Stream? I would assume that that's the reason they're up there. Yeah. So one of the adults jump up into the stream. They breed typically during the winter when the rains, they come back with the rains [00:08:00] and they breed and the eggs hatch and spring. And then I kind of track the juveniles once they get to a large enough size to be able to monitor to them. So as you start to go up in the early spring, you're seeing lots of of small fish. Yeah. And it's so the fish that have spawned, have they left then or are do some stay? Yeah, but most of them have left. They're too large to stay in some of these pools. So most of them leave and with the Coho that or [00:08:30] they die right after they breed because they just breed once and they die. Speaker 4: But with the, with the steelhead, they're able to breed multiple times. And Are you tracking it all that mortality of the coho that are coming up and breeding? No, but the park service is definitely keeping track of adults, adult spawners they go up every winter and quantify the amount of a salmon reds, which are the nests that someone is build. And they also try to [00:09:00] keep track of how many fish, adult fish that they see. Talk about the insects in the fish in the same context of the frequency. So with, with the insects, um, it's, it's a pretty disturbing method to go and collect them. So we try not to collect them too frequently. We recollect them once at the beginning of the summer and again at the end of the summer. So we don't want to disturb the habitat too much that we have to kind of dig in [00:09:30] to the stream and it just disrupts, disrupts things a lot. Speaker 4: So we try to keep the frequency down and with the fish, um, we go out again, it's similar to to the insects that's we have to go and shock them and which as you can imagine, um, is quite stressful to the fish. So we shock them once in the beginning, beginning of the summer and we place pit tags into them, um, which allows us to monitor them across [00:10:00] the summer without having to actually handle them. Also, while we, um, capture them during the first event, we weigh them and measure them. And then during the late season capture event, we weigh them and measure them again and we're able to identify which the fish that were tagged, we were able to determine their growth rates and their survival. In addition, we can monitor them using the pet tags. We have a, a [00:10:30] handheld antenna that we take out and we just place it over the stream and we're able to find out where they're located or, and also if they're other still alive. Speaker 4: So that happens pretty much once a week. So the pet tag is like a radio. Gotcha. Yeah, it's an audio id, tariff id similar to what is found in a for pets, the microchips that they use for pets. And then you can also measure the mortality with that as well I guess if, yeah, so we go [00:11:00] out and we try to track their movement and also if we find a pit tag, we just kind of disturb the area around, uh, around the tag lightly. And if, if the tag isn't moving, then we kind of can surmise that there has been a mortality event that that occurred. Do you remove the fish or the die or now it's pretty hard to find them because we don't track them every day. So, so things happen [00:11:30] within the week and sometimes we kind of look around for the tag but it's pretty hard to find the tag. Speaker 4: But if we do come across any fish we do, we do take you back to the lab. Any dead Fisher and they are often tagged or have they not? Some of them are just untagged. We try to tag as many fish that we can capture at that are a certain size. They to be a certain size and size for them. So we do try to capture and tag every fish that is of [00:12:00] a certain size, but whether we do within that period of time that you can do the, that you're doing the tagging because you try to limit that. Yeah. How long is that period? What do you do? I've tried to do it all in a week. Three to four days. The tagging, the taking takes about three to four days. The caption and taking. And what's that like in terms of a process? Is it, is it you and a bunch of people doing it together? Speaker 4: Yeah. Take a little group out. Yeah, we actually took a group out, um, and we actually stayed out there for the three, three or four days. We wanted to get an early start [00:12:30] in the day and it takes about an hour to get, get out there each day. So we just decided to stay out there and it's actually quite fun. Um, most, most people really everybody volunteers to do to do like fish capturing. They're like, oh yeah, I want to do that. It's something that the interns really enjoyed. So is that time that you're in the creek, are you actually standing in the creek? So I, yeah, I actually get into the creek and I have a, an electrical Fisher and I move through the creek, [00:13:00] shocking the fish and there are a couple of them matters beside me on the scoop up any fish that had been shocked and we placed them into a bucket and then from there we kind of weigh them and measure them after, after all the fish have been captured for a certain pool. So you do this pool by Paul? Yeah, exactly. Speaker 5: You [00:13:30] are listening to spectrum on KLX Berkeley. We're talking with Jason y about his researching the summertime scream drying and its effect. Speaker 4: So Jason, how did you get interested in science when you were in high school, say or college? [00:14:00] I've always kind of really been interested in science as a kid. I really enjoyed reading science textbooks and it was as one of my favorite subjects and I just decided to stick with it. And I, I majored as a, as a biology student. And what about it appealed to you when you were young? It was like, it was the investigative process, [00:14:30] I guess that that appealed to me. It was just something that you can go out and observe and I really like that, that you can, you can actually just go out and see how nature works. And I was really fascinated by that. So biology was sort of the entree and then as you went through high school, College, yeah, I majored in biology and I really enjoyed my ecology class, just getting up out [00:15:00] there and I wasn't too keen on the molecular side of biology, but the ecological part aspect of it was really fun to get out there and observe things. And, and so it was it field work then that led you to streams? Yeah, I actually worked as a, as an undergraduate. I worked with a professor of mine and he would take me out into streams in southern California and it was quite a great experience for me. And what sort of work and studies research [00:15:30] was he doing? He was, he was doing, uh, population, uh, studies of endangered and threatened fish in southern California. Speaker 4: So when you're in the lab, what sort of data are you gathering? So for instance, with the leaf litter bags and the Algo production, um, when we come back from the field we have to process those samples. So we deploy tiles and we have to scrape off the LG from the tiles. And then we [00:16:00] have to run an analysis to quantify chlorophyll production. With the leaflet or bags that we set out, we bring them back and we, we way leaves in them and quantify how much leaf litter mass has been lost across time. What is it about the algae that you want to know in the river? With both the algae and the leaf litter, we want to see how the stream drying effects say Algal PR productivity or leaf litter decomposition. So we want [00:16:30] to see how much, how much Algo productivity there is in the early part of the summer when or when the stream is still pretty connected. Speaker 4: And then again, we want to track that change over time to see how productivity changes as the string gets dry and dry and with the leaf decomposition, same thing, seeing it over the, over the time, yeah. We want to see how decomposition rates change as the stream gets dryer and with that we're finding that decomposition rates slowed down quite a bit. [00:17:00] As the stream dries, there's less microbial activity, less insect funner to shut up the leaves. Are there other key data points that you're collecting out of the stream? Yes. I'm trying to measure the volume of water in the creek. Mostly the volume of water in between the pools of the fast flowing portions called riffles. I tried to measure how much water is in these portions and I go out pretty much every week and measure the dimensions [00:17:30] of the riffles and I'm able to get volume on every week and I'm able to quantify how this volume gets smaller and smaller every week. Eventually these, these pools are isolated and there's no more flow exactly. Between pools. Yeah. The, the riffles just most of them completely dry up by the end of summer. Speaker 3: And so the fish are then isolated in these, yeah, they're isolated. Speaker 4: The there aren't able to move among the different pools Speaker 3: at this point. Is it too soon in your study to, to [00:18:00] reflect on what you might conclude? Well, I'm, Speaker 4: I'm already seeing some pretty drastic inter-annual variation and precipitation in the area. So as I mentioned earlier, 2009 was a very dry and that was your first year? Yeah, 2009 was a very dry year, so I noticed that there was quite a bit of a mortality for the fishes. Uh, this past year, 2010 and during that summer was a lot wetter. There was a lot more habitat for the fish. A survival was a lot higher. So [00:18:30] Marty seen, uh, some significant results in terms of inter annual variation and how more extreme temperatures and extreme dry might influence the fish population. Speaker 3: Is there any part of water quality that you're measuring? Speaker 4: Temperature and a dissolved oxygen levels? Not In terms of pollution really, but a temperature and dissolved oxygen are are really key for [00:19:00] some almond species in particular, they require cool temperatures that are pretty well oxygenated. Speaker 3: The information that you're getting from your study will have an impact on other streams and creek management potentially. Yeah, that's, that's my hope Speaker 4: is that especially in certain areas where water withdrawals occur and there needs to be a certain amount of a water, hopefully our findings can maybe influence these areas where water withdrawals occur in the [00:19:30] stream comes even more dry than they typically should naturally. Speaker 3: Jason, thanks very much for coming in and talking about your research. Yes. Speaker 6: Oh, Speaker 7: [inaudible].Speaker 3: A regular feature of spectrum is dimension. [00:20:00] A few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Joining me this week to bring you the calendar is Rick Karnofsky. Speaker 8: In 1848 gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada mountains luring people by the thousands to California. Join Ranger Tammy on Saturday, August 13th from 11 to noon to find out how this event changed the San Francisco Bay forever at the Bay model visitors center in Sausalito. This is a free event on Saturday August 13th at 4:30 PM Christopher de Carlo [00:20:30] will present how to be a really good pain in the ass. A critical thinkers guide to asking the right questions at Kelly's Irish pub, five 30 Jackson Street, San Francisco visit. Reason for reason.org for more info. That's r. E a s o n, the number four R e a. S. O. N. Dot. O. R. G. Speaker 3: The science at Kow lecture series for August will be presented by Dr Willie Michaelson and is entitled nanotechnology, Enabling Environmental Monitoring. [00:21:00] Dr Michelson is the executive director of the center of Integrated Nano Mechanical Systems known as coin's, a nanoscale science and Engineering Center headquartered at UC Berkeley dedicated to enabling and realizing novel environmental monitoring applications using nanotechnology. The date of the lecture is Saturday, August 20th at 11:00 AM in the genetics and plant biology building room. 100 Speaker 8: August 17th center night takes [00:21:30] place at the rickshaw. Stop. One 55 [inaudible] street at Van Ness in San Francisco from seven 30 to 10:00 PM at this $8 old age of show you'll hear talks about winery building, a virtual reality chocolate factory and neutrophils, one of the first immune cells to reach infection sites. Be there and be square. Visit SF dot [inaudible] Dot Com that's SF dot n e r, d an ite.com Speaker 8: nightlife takes place Thursday nights from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the California [00:22:00] Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is 21 and over and pictures music, cocktails and exhibits centered around a theme. In addition, the regular exhibits such as the rainforest and planetarium will be open. August 25th nightlife is on dinosaurs. Paleo lab will present a fossil shone till featuring trilobytes Coprolites, Aka fossilized dyno poop and other amazing fines that are 65 to 500 million years old. Check out additional specimens from the academy's research collections and at dyno burlesque. Show [00:22:30] the planetarium will feature cosmic collisions, a fulldome show depicting the hypersonic impacts that drive the evolution of the universe, including a recreation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Clearing the way for mammals like us to thrive admission is $12 for more info and for tickets, visit www.cal academy.org that's www dot c a l a c a d e m y dot o r g Speaker 3: [00:23:00] and now several news stories. This item from the inside science news service scientists battle the dramatic declines of honeybee colonies with targeted breeding. There are a handful of pests and diseases that individually and in combination are causing unprecedented mortality in [00:23:30] honeybee colonies in Europe and North America. Serious efforts are being made to find solutions that can eradicate the pests and diseases. While the search for a solution continues. Researchers in Canada and the United States are attempting to bees that are resistant to Mites and viruses that attack bee colonies. The breeding process exposes the Queens to high levels of what is termed disease pressure. According to Rob Curie, professor of entomology [00:24:00] at the University of Manitoba. The survivors are then bred next season and so on. Seven generations have been bred so far. We are looking for bees that are resistant to mites and with a greater tolerance to viruses because they appear to be the two main factors behind colony loss. Speaker 3: QRI said and added breeding attribute pursued by the Canadian breeders is the ability to withstand the brutal North American winters. Curious said [00:24:30] that normally only 46% of the species known as European honeybees survive the Canadian winter, but the newest generations have a 75% survival rate. The total losses from managed honeybee colonies in the United States were 30% from all causes for the 2010 2011 winter according to the annual survey conducted by the US Department of Agriculture and the apiary inspectors of America. [00:25:00] This is roughly similar to the losses reported in similar surveys done in the four previous years. This story from Metta page today, lab grown trickier implanted in patient June 9th, 2011 at the Karolinska University Hospital in hunting, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Paolo Macchiarini implanted the first ever bio artificial trachea grown on a synthetic [00:25:30] substrate using the patient's own stem cells. The patient was a 36 year old cancer patient for this procedure. Dr Macchiarini and his colleagues collected stem cells from the patient who had late stage tracheal cancer since no suitable donor windpipe was available. The researchers used a nano composite tracheal scaffold designed and built by Alexander Se Follian Phd of the University College London. [00:26:00] They seated the polymer model with auto Lucas stem cells. These are blood forming stem cells and grew them for two days in a bioreactor. Dr Mk Jadine says there's no room for rejection because of the cells are the patient's own. Thus, there is no need for him to be on immuno suppressive drugs. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:26:30] occurred during the show is pointless on a David Kearns album, folk and acoustic made available for creative Commons license 3.0 attribution [inaudible] mm editing assistance provided by Judith White Marceline production assistance provided by [00:27:00] Karnofsky [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear if you have comments or questions, please send them to us via email address. Is Spectrum. K A l s yahoo.com Speaker 5: [00:27:30] genius at this same time. [inaudible] Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:28:00] [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In critical spawning and overwintering habitat for salmonids Hwan studies the effects of temporal stream fragmentation across three organizational levels of ecology: population, community, and ecosystem levels.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:01:00] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Jason won a third year phd student in the Carlson lab, which is [00:01:30] part of the environmental science policy and Management Department of the College of natural resources. Professor Stephanie Carlson directs the lab and she is a fish ecologist. Jason is researching the effects of summertimes stream drying on fish ecology in the John West fork, a creek in Marin county. The John West fork is the spawning grounds for two varieties of salmon the summer of 2011 Woolmark the third year of his research on this stream. [00:02:00] His research will continue for two and possibly three more years. This interview is prerecorded and edited. Speaker 4: Jason, welcome to spectrum. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Wanted to ask if you could, uh, give us a brief overview of your research and add in there how it's being funded. My research is looking at the effects of low summer flow on juvenile steelhead, on the insect communities out in the stream and [00:02:30] on certain ecosystem processes such as Algal production and leaf decomposition. And it's currently being funded by, mostly by my, by my guiding professor, Stephanie Carlson. And I also have some funding from our department and the division within our department. All right. We get out a sperm wildlife grant, which helps fund the research. And also I'm currently on an NSF graduate research fellowship. Described the, the general [00:03:00] area of the site that you chose. Sort of put it in context of where it is. So my study say, uh, the John West work is in point Reyes national seashore, which is about an hour north of Berkeley in a national park in and surrounded by some state parks. Speaker 4: Also. Can you explain the watershed and the area that you're working, how it all interrelates to the watershed? So I'm, I'm working in the Lagunitas watershed. I'm working [00:03:30] in a creek that is a tributary of a tributary of a creek to the lock Anitas to log in neatest creek and log Anitas creek flows into Tomas Bay in point rays. The creek that I'm working in is a little different in that there are only two species of fish up there. Both our salt Monets, there are still head and coho salmon. This is because it's not that the creek went dry, completely dry one year and there's, there [00:04:00] was a culvert that was put in place and other fish species weren't able to recolonize the creek, but someone had adults can jump over the barrier. And so they were able to recolonize the creek and they're actually jumping through the culvert. Speaker 4: Yeah. And through this culvert and swimming up swimming into the two John West work. And what's the drop on the culvert like from, from the the bottom lip to the dead of the bid. Lower part [00:04:30] of the creek. It's about four feet. Four feet drop-off. Yeah. So that's quite a leap for the salmon. Yeah. And so with this study, what is it that you're trying to learn? That is not already known. So I'm basically trying to look at the effects of low flow and my study is really looking at what the affects are at a really fine scale. So I'm tracking, uh, juvenile steel head growth, movement and survival and I'm tracking them on a weekly basis. So [00:05:00] it's pretty fine scale monitoring, which is something that hasn't really been been carried out before. And the low-flow period is when, uh, the low, the low flow start after the last records. Speaker 4: And as the, as a temperature gets warmer, the stream starts to dry and it pretty much lasts throughout the summer until the first rains of the following year. Are you collaborating with other people on your project? Not directly with my lab mates on [00:05:30] my project. Sometimes they might come out and help me, but for the most part I've been working alone with the help of some undergraduates. There are certain side projects that we collaborate on. Um, there's also a person who is working with me from, uh, from a different department. He's not really working on my project, but, uh, something that's related to my project out on my field site. It mean it helps both of you? Yeah, definitely. And is that going to have some bearing is his, his [00:06:00] work or her work and I have some impact on your results. It definitely is connected. It is connected to, I'm more at the temperature and looking at how stratification and pull temperature stratification in pools might affect fish behavior. Speaker 4: So where, where they kind of hang out in the pool. So that's something that could definitely help us fold into your report. Yeah, exactly. So in doing your research [00:06:30] and working in the field as opposed to, uh, if you're working in the field and the lab, how much time do you spend in the field and in the lab? Um, when I'm out during the summer, uh, during my field season, it's a pretty big chunk of it. About 80 to 85% is probably spent in the field and the remainder is spent in the lab. Um, but once the summer is over and on, the field season is over. Most of the time is spent in the lab, um, [00:07:00] crunching data, processing samples and stuff like that. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 2: you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. Today we're talking with Jason Juan about his research into summertime streaming drying its effect on Fish CollagenSpeaker 5: [00:07:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 4: And so was there fish breeding going on in this part of the Stream? I would assume that that's the reason they're up there. Yeah. So one of the adults jump up into the stream. They breed typically during the winter when the rains, they come back with the rains [00:08:00] and they breed and the eggs hatch and spring. And then I kind of track the juveniles once they get to a large enough size to be able to monitor to them. So as you start to go up in the early spring, you're seeing lots of of small fish. Yeah. And it's so the fish that have spawned, have they left then or are do some stay? Yeah, but most of them have left. They're too large to stay in some of these pools. So most of them leave and with the Coho that or [00:08:30] they die right after they breed because they just breed once and they die. Speaker 4: But with the, with the steelhead, they're able to breed multiple times. And Are you tracking it all that mortality of the coho that are coming up and breeding? No, but the park service is definitely keeping track of adults, adult spawners they go up every winter and quantify the amount of a salmon reds, which are the nests that someone is build. And they also try to [00:09:00] keep track of how many fish, adult fish that they see. Talk about the insects in the fish in the same context of the frequency. So with, with the insects, um, it's, it's a pretty disturbing method to go and collect them. So we try not to collect them too frequently. We recollect them once at the beginning of the summer and again at the end of the summer. So we don't want to disturb the habitat too much that we have to kind of dig in [00:09:30] to the stream and it just disrupts, disrupts things a lot. Speaker 4: So we try to keep the frequency down and with the fish, um, we go out again, it's similar to to the insects that's we have to go and shock them and which as you can imagine, um, is quite stressful to the fish. So we shock them once in the beginning, beginning of the summer and we place pit tags into them, um, which allows us to monitor them across [00:10:00] the summer without having to actually handle them. Also, while we, um, capture them during the first event, we weigh them and measure them. And then during the late season capture event, we weigh them and measure them again and we're able to identify which the fish that were tagged, we were able to determine their growth rates and their survival. In addition, we can monitor them using the pet tags. We have a, a [00:10:30] handheld antenna that we take out and we just place it over the stream and we're able to find out where they're located or, and also if they're other still alive. Speaker 4: So that happens pretty much once a week. So the pet tag is like a radio. Gotcha. Yeah, it's an audio id, tariff id similar to what is found in a for pets, the microchips that they use for pets. And then you can also measure the mortality with that as well I guess if, yeah, so we go [00:11:00] out and we try to track their movement and also if we find a pit tag, we just kind of disturb the area around, uh, around the tag lightly. And if, if the tag isn't moving, then we kind of can surmise that there has been a mortality event that that occurred. Do you remove the fish or the die or now it's pretty hard to find them because we don't track them every day. So, so things happen [00:11:30] within the week and sometimes we kind of look around for the tag but it's pretty hard to find the tag. Speaker 4: But if we do come across any fish we do, we do take you back to the lab. Any dead Fisher and they are often tagged or have they not? Some of them are just untagged. We try to tag as many fish that we can capture at that are a certain size. They to be a certain size and size for them. So we do try to capture and tag every fish that is of [00:12:00] a certain size, but whether we do within that period of time that you can do the, that you're doing the tagging because you try to limit that. Yeah. How long is that period? What do you do? I've tried to do it all in a week. Three to four days. The tagging, the taking takes about three to four days. The caption and taking. And what's that like in terms of a process? Is it, is it you and a bunch of people doing it together? Speaker 4: Yeah. Take a little group out. Yeah, we actually took a group out, um, and we actually stayed out there for the three, three or four days. We wanted to get an early start [00:12:30] in the day and it takes about an hour to get, get out there each day. So we just decided to stay out there and it's actually quite fun. Um, most, most people really everybody volunteers to do to do like fish capturing. They're like, oh yeah, I want to do that. It's something that the interns really enjoyed. So is that time that you're in the creek, are you actually standing in the creek? So I, yeah, I actually get into the creek and I have a, an electrical Fisher and I move through the creek, [00:13:00] shocking the fish and there are a couple of them matters beside me on the scoop up any fish that had been shocked and we placed them into a bucket and then from there we kind of weigh them and measure them after, after all the fish have been captured for a certain pool. So you do this pool by Paul? Yeah, exactly. Speaker 5: You [00:13:30] are listening to spectrum on KLX Berkeley. We're talking with Jason y about his researching the summertime scream drying and its effect. Speaker 4: So Jason, how did you get interested in science when you were in high school, say or college? [00:14:00] I've always kind of really been interested in science as a kid. I really enjoyed reading science textbooks and it was as one of my favorite subjects and I just decided to stick with it. And I, I majored as a, as a biology student. And what about it appealed to you when you were young? It was like, it was the investigative process, [00:14:30] I guess that that appealed to me. It was just something that you can go out and observe and I really like that, that you can, you can actually just go out and see how nature works. And I was really fascinated by that. So biology was sort of the entree and then as you went through high school, College, yeah, I majored in biology and I really enjoyed my ecology class, just getting up out [00:15:00] there and I wasn't too keen on the molecular side of biology, but the ecological part aspect of it was really fun to get out there and observe things. And, and so it was it field work then that led you to streams? Yeah, I actually worked as a, as an undergraduate. I worked with a professor of mine and he would take me out into streams in southern California and it was quite a great experience for me. And what sort of work and studies research [00:15:30] was he doing? He was, he was doing, uh, population, uh, studies of endangered and threatened fish in southern California. Speaker 4: So when you're in the lab, what sort of data are you gathering? So for instance, with the leaf litter bags and the Algo production, um, when we come back from the field we have to process those samples. So we deploy tiles and we have to scrape off the LG from the tiles. And then we [00:16:00] have to run an analysis to quantify chlorophyll production. With the leaflet or bags that we set out, we bring them back and we, we way leaves in them and quantify how much leaf litter mass has been lost across time. What is it about the algae that you want to know in the river? With both the algae and the leaf litter, we want to see how the stream drying effects say Algal PR productivity or leaf litter decomposition. So we want [00:16:30] to see how much, how much Algo productivity there is in the early part of the summer when or when the stream is still pretty connected. Speaker 4: And then again, we want to track that change over time to see how productivity changes as the string gets dry and dry and with the leaf decomposition, same thing, seeing it over the, over the time, yeah. We want to see how decomposition rates change as the stream gets dryer and with that we're finding that decomposition rates slowed down quite a bit. [00:17:00] As the stream dries, there's less microbial activity, less insect funner to shut up the leaves. Are there other key data points that you're collecting out of the stream? Yes. I'm trying to measure the volume of water in the creek. Mostly the volume of water in between the pools of the fast flowing portions called riffles. I tried to measure how much water is in these portions and I go out pretty much every week and measure the dimensions [00:17:30] of the riffles and I'm able to get volume on every week and I'm able to quantify how this volume gets smaller and smaller every week. Eventually these, these pools are isolated and there's no more flow exactly. Between pools. Yeah. The, the riffles just most of them completely dry up by the end of summer. Speaker 3: And so the fish are then isolated in these, yeah, they're isolated. Speaker 4: The there aren't able to move among the different pools Speaker 3: at this point. Is it too soon in your study to, to [00:18:00] reflect on what you might conclude? Well, I'm, Speaker 4: I'm already seeing some pretty drastic inter-annual variation and precipitation in the area. So as I mentioned earlier, 2009 was a very dry and that was your first year? Yeah, 2009 was a very dry year, so I noticed that there was quite a bit of a mortality for the fishes. Uh, this past year, 2010 and during that summer was a lot wetter. There was a lot more habitat for the fish. A survival was a lot higher. So [00:18:30] Marty seen, uh, some significant results in terms of inter annual variation and how more extreme temperatures and extreme dry might influence the fish population. Speaker 3: Is there any part of water quality that you're measuring? Speaker 4: Temperature and a dissolved oxygen levels? Not In terms of pollution really, but a temperature and dissolved oxygen are are really key for [00:19:00] some almond species in particular, they require cool temperatures that are pretty well oxygenated. Speaker 3: The information that you're getting from your study will have an impact on other streams and creek management potentially. Yeah, that's, that's my hope Speaker 4: is that especially in certain areas where water withdrawals occur and there needs to be a certain amount of a water, hopefully our findings can maybe influence these areas where water withdrawals occur in the [00:19:30] stream comes even more dry than they typically should naturally. Speaker 3: Jason, thanks very much for coming in and talking about your research. Yes. Speaker 6: Oh, Speaker 7: [inaudible].Speaker 3: A regular feature of spectrum is dimension. [00:20:00] A few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Joining me this week to bring you the calendar is Rick Karnofsky. Speaker 8: In 1848 gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada mountains luring people by the thousands to California. Join Ranger Tammy on Saturday, August 13th from 11 to noon to find out how this event changed the San Francisco Bay forever at the Bay model visitors center in Sausalito. This is a free event on Saturday August 13th at 4:30 PM Christopher de Carlo [00:20:30] will present how to be a really good pain in the ass. A critical thinkers guide to asking the right questions at Kelly's Irish pub, five 30 Jackson Street, San Francisco visit. Reason for reason.org for more info. That's r. E a s o n, the number four R e a. S. O. N. Dot. O. R. G. Speaker 3: The science at Kow lecture series for August will be presented by Dr Willie Michaelson and is entitled nanotechnology, Enabling Environmental Monitoring. [00:21:00] Dr Michelson is the executive director of the center of Integrated Nano Mechanical Systems known as coin's, a nanoscale science and Engineering Center headquartered at UC Berkeley dedicated to enabling and realizing novel environmental monitoring applications using nanotechnology. The date of the lecture is Saturday, August 20th at 11:00 AM in the genetics and plant biology building room. 100 Speaker 8: August 17th center night takes [00:21:30] place at the rickshaw. Stop. One 55 [inaudible] street at Van Ness in San Francisco from seven 30 to 10:00 PM at this $8 old age of show you'll hear talks about winery building, a virtual reality chocolate factory and neutrophils, one of the first immune cells to reach infection sites. Be there and be square. Visit SF dot [inaudible] Dot Com that's SF dot n e r, d an ite.com Speaker 8: nightlife takes place Thursday nights from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the California [00:22:00] Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is 21 and over and pictures music, cocktails and exhibits centered around a theme. In addition, the regular exhibits such as the rainforest and planetarium will be open. August 25th nightlife is on dinosaurs. Paleo lab will present a fossil shone till featuring trilobytes Coprolites, Aka fossilized dyno poop and other amazing fines that are 65 to 500 million years old. Check out additional specimens from the academy's research collections and at dyno burlesque. Show [00:22:30] the planetarium will feature cosmic collisions, a fulldome show depicting the hypersonic impacts that drive the evolution of the universe, including a recreation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Clearing the way for mammals like us to thrive admission is $12 for more info and for tickets, visit www.cal academy.org that's www dot c a l a c a d e m y dot o r g Speaker 3: [00:23:00] and now several news stories. This item from the inside science news service scientists battle the dramatic declines of honeybee colonies with targeted breeding. There are a handful of pests and diseases that individually and in combination are causing unprecedented mortality in [00:23:30] honeybee colonies in Europe and North America. Serious efforts are being made to find solutions that can eradicate the pests and diseases. While the search for a solution continues. Researchers in Canada and the United States are attempting to bees that are resistant to Mites and viruses that attack bee colonies. The breeding process exposes the Queens to high levels of what is termed disease pressure. According to Rob Curie, professor of entomology [00:24:00] at the University of Manitoba. The survivors are then bred next season and so on. Seven generations have been bred so far. We are looking for bees that are resistant to mites and with a greater tolerance to viruses because they appear to be the two main factors behind colony loss. Speaker 3: QRI said and added breeding attribute pursued by the Canadian breeders is the ability to withstand the brutal North American winters. Curious said [00:24:30] that normally only 46% of the species known as European honeybees survive the Canadian winter, but the newest generations have a 75% survival rate. The total losses from managed honeybee colonies in the United States were 30% from all causes for the 2010 2011 winter according to the annual survey conducted by the US Department of Agriculture and the apiary inspectors of America. [00:25:00] This is roughly similar to the losses reported in similar surveys done in the four previous years. This story from Metta page today, lab grown trickier implanted in patient June 9th, 2011 at the Karolinska University Hospital in hunting, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Paolo Macchiarini implanted the first ever bio artificial trachea grown on a synthetic [00:25:30] substrate using the patient's own stem cells. The patient was a 36 year old cancer patient for this procedure. Dr Macchiarini and his colleagues collected stem cells from the patient who had late stage tracheal cancer since no suitable donor windpipe was available. The researchers used a nano composite tracheal scaffold designed and built by Alexander Se Follian Phd of the University College London. [00:26:00] They seated the polymer model with auto Lucas stem cells. These are blood forming stem cells and grew them for two days in a bioreactor. Dr Mk Jadine says there's no room for rejection because of the cells are the patient's own. Thus, there is no need for him to be on immuno suppressive drugs. 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Today I present the second in a series of episodes that I’m calling “Running Blogcasts” featuring the writing of fellow runners in our community who have a talent for the written word.  The author of today’s episode is Kim Cowart. (Kow-ahrt).   Kim is one of the writers for the “Reasons to Run” blog over at Deseretnews.com.  She’s a 35 year old mother of two from West Jordan, Utah.    Kim spent much of her childhood living in Eugene, Oregon where running is as common as breathing.  In her teens, she moved to Utah, where there is a large and very strong running community.  Kim has always run off and on, but it was after she had her second daughter that her love of running became more serious.    It started with a 20 minute run, and before she knew it, she found herself registering for her first marathon.  She had never run a race before, ever.  Her husband says she’s an all-or-nothing kind of girl, and this just proved him right.    Kim finished her first marathon alive and well and even qualified for Boston.  Since that day she has run nine marathons including Boston.  She plans to run Boston again this April as well as the New York Marathon and the Utah Grand Slam which is a series that requires runners to complete four major Utah marathons over the course of six months.  It’s that all-or-nothing part of her personality again.   While Kim loves to call herself a runner, she is many other things.  She is a mother of two beautiful little girls, the wife of a curly, red-haired bowling math whiz, a daughter, a sister, and a friend.    Kim is a fitness instructor at a local gym where the members inspire her and bring her joy on a daily basis.  She is a jig-saw puzzle addict.  She was a high school English teacher in a former life.  Her astrological sign is Cancer, although she has no earthly idea what that means, but apparently is it important to some.    She is a cyclist and spends as much time as she can in the beautiful Wasatch Mountain range riding with her friends in the summer.  She is a voracious reader of historical fiction.  She is an organizer and master list-maker.  She is a dancer, but only when she’s playing Dance Dance Revolution with her girls, so that probably doesn’t count.   It was a gym member who attends Kim’s spin classes who asked her to contribute to the “Reasons to Run” blog and it’s been a joy for Kim to be able to combine the two joys of her life: running and writing.  Her blog isn’t necessarily always about running, specifically, but it’s always the inspiration.  She hopes her honest thoughts about running, exercise, balance and finding joy in the simplicity of life will inspire others to get up and move and realize that it’s never too late to change for the better.  It’s her mission to tell people that life is good and it’s worth living well.  Running makes it all the sweeter.   I am honored that Kim would agree not only to let me re-publish her article from the Reasons to Run Blog, but that she took the time to read it for us herself….and did so on very short notice.  I present for you an amazing fellow runner, Kim Kowart, with her essay on a topic we can all relate to: Pre-Race Jitters.   LINKS:   Please support The Mojo Loco Fund:   The song “Bound” was by Black Lab off their new album: Two Strangers. http://blacklabworld.com