Podcasts about Nelda

Toni nominated Nelda for a WEBE108 Griffin Health Christmas Wish. Nelda's been having a difficult time walking, as well as getting up and down. Nelda's husband is a huge help with cooking and cleaning, but they are both older. Thanks to Griffin Health, we're able to get her a reclining lift chair so she can get up on her own and give her some independence.

Have you seen that photo of the two gorgeous glamourous blondes, sitting in loungers, sipping drinks by the pool of a Richard Neutra house in Palm springs?  That iconic photo, called Poolside Gossip, was taken over 50 years ago by Slim Aarons.  Joining us Shawn Waldron, author of a new book on Slim Aarons, and one of the two women in that photo, the Queen of Palm Springs Nelda Linsk. Later on, music with China Forbes from Pink Martini, who will tell us what really happened with Eugene. 

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When Nelda Hardwick disappeared after a late night trip to the store in 1993, there was no real investigation done and it would likely have been forgotten about over time. However, when a mystery woman is killed in the next state over 5 years later the similarities between her and Nelda are noted. Was Nelda the woman who was killed all those years later, and if so where had she been for that time. Or was it someone else all together? Intro/outro "Sugar Sugar" by Fast Lady

Listen as Melissa tells Daniel a case of love in the second act of life. But when that new love is filled with red flags. Do you stay and try to work it out? Or do you leave? We say leave.Support the show

I speak with Nelda St Clair, national incident command stress management program director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 40-year wildlands firefighter veteran about her work with mental health in the firefighter community.  We discuss the imbedded challenges of long deployments, sleep deprivation, mental and physical fatigue, injury risk and disconnection that increase the risk of substance abuse, depression and suicide in wildland firefighters. Nelda explains how new evidence-based research and program development have impacted mental health resiliency and how her current BIA work with Native American firefighting crews has taught her the imperatives of blessing, ritual and connectivity in finding beauty in the ashes. 

Covering all things female with Mia Jones and Nelda Cales! Women in the mortgage industry are power houses, listen to this. Lending Forward is a weekly podcast hosted by Taylor Ellard and powered by Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group. We bring you raw stories from real people in the mortgage industry. We're covering what's next in lending, forward-thinking, and reflecting on lessons learned from Mortgage Bankers, Realtors, Financial Advisors, Coaches, and more! How are you lending it forward? Founded in 1996, Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group® is a privately owned mortgage lender headquartered in Virginia Beach, Va. Atlantic Bay has been recognized as a Top 100 Mortgage Company in America, Best Mortgage Company, Most Enjoyable Place to Work, and an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company.

Innovation is critical for any business, but in healthcare, it really matters. The first step toward making people's lives better starts with understanding how they behave. No matter who you are or what business you're in, understanding behavioral health is crucial, and it's up to innovation and creative problem-solving to ensure we're serving patients well. In this episode, Dr. Nilda Perez, a Behavioral Health Expert, and Scott Cormier, VP of Emergency Management, EC, and Safety at Medxcel, discuss ways they inspire innovation in their own organizations. You'll learn how creativity doesn't always mean complicated projects and that sometimes it's the small things that make the biggest difference.

On this episode of Under the Wing, I sit down with Nelda Sims. Philanthropist Retired Educator and Administrator Co-Author of Discovering Strength: Hidden In Sight - An Educators Perspective I have been patiently waiting to have my first educator on the show. It is finally here! We chatted about her journey in education, the hurdles she faced advancing into administration, and the process of co-authoring a book. I genuinely enjoyed this conversation with Ms. Sims. I think you will too! “They were strict in some ways. They wanted us to be good citizens and good people.” - Nelda Sims And much more! Learn More About Nelda Sims: https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Strength-Sight-Educators-Perspective-ebook/dp/B09MJQ631Y https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelda-sims-49981923/

Jo brings us two for the price of one today, with the tale of two missing persons cases that bore eery similarities. 

Happy New Years! This is a bonus episode. I wasn't sure if I'd release it or not, but why not? I hope it serves to inspire you to dream your own dreams. And better yet, to pursue them so you can make them your reality. Thank you for listening.  -Randy I've already introduced you to one woman, Re, my maternal grandmother. The second woman I've not yet talked about, is Nelda, my mother-in-law. Nelda passed away from breast cancer when she was only 42. Rhonda and I were in our first year of marriage so my exposure to Nelda was limited to the few years I dated Rhonda and that single year of our married life. Rhonda was Nelda's firstborn. Five more would follow. At the time of her death, there were still children at home. My perspective of Nelda, while limited, now consists of being the husband to her daughter. I suspect Rhonda has qualities like her mom. For starters, her mother always seemed strong and resilient. Her daughter, my wife, is. Nelda's spiritual fortitude heavily influenced the family. When Rhonda was a little girl Nelda went looking for a spiritual environment in which to raise her children. She found the truth found only in scripture. Had she not done that, I would have never met Rhonda - because we met at church. When I began dreaming about Re's Retreat - I told you about that idea back in this episode. I told Rhonda about it, but I also told her I had her mother in mind and that my ideal outcome would be to also create another space named after her mother, Nelda's Nest. We'd daydream about it. We'd make notes. We'd share ideas - house ideas, decorating ideas. The idea for some short-term rental spaces didn't start with the 2 women who were important in our lives, but they quickly entered the picture for me. And I held to the notion that I only wanted to create awesome, comfortable spaces for couples because that's what I knew. Rhonda and I had experienced a variety of spaces so we had firsthand knowledge of what we liked, what we disliked, what we wish we could find, and more. While we're not qualified to speak for everybody - and certainly our preferences may not be everybody's preferences - we felt like we knew what would work. Namely, what would likely work better! The memories and influences of two important women put pressure on us to get it right. I define wisdom very simply as getting it right in real-time. That's our daily prayer...that we'll make wise decisions. We've always felt the appropriate pressure to get decisions right, but it's more intense now that we're older. I've likened it to landing a plane, the metaphor for achieving our next goals. At our age, the runway is shorter so we have to really hit our mark. There's little room for error. That advice we always gave the kids, "Don't make a mistake from which you can't recover," reverberates. We may not have time to recover so it's urgent and important that we get it right in real-time! The dream began a few years ago as we contemplated turning 65. Not because of retirement, but because that's when you must register for Medicare health insurance coverage (without any penalty - apply for it outside your initial enrollment period and you'll pay more). It's an important mile marker that was fast approaching, but it was just one of many mile markers. Cognitive decline is a fact of life. I read an article published online on the National Library of Medicine website entitled, "When does age-related cognitive decline begin?" I'm not a physician so I wasn't able to understand all of it, but it confirmed some things I already knew to be true from my observations. While I'm 15 years past 50 I still feel like I'm mostly in good shape cognitively. Of course, I could be nuts. How would I know? :D I've seen older men in my life display cognitive decline that was most noticeable to me as they reached 80. To be fair, I've not lived with them so my judgment isn't based on being around them 24/7.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - Oyate is a documentary that follows two Lakota activists, a Dakota hip hop artist, the first Indigenous US Secretary of the Interior, and more as they fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline. There's a screening on December 6th in Jamestown. We visit with Emil Benjamin and Jennifer Martel. ~~~ Special contributor Brandi Malarkey visits with North Dakota author T.J. Fier about her young adult adventure, “The Bright One.” ~~~ Prairie Mosaic is a regular feature on our television service. Here's one featuring Nelda Schrupp of Lakota ND. She uses metal to create incredible art.

Bien sûr s'il s'agissait d'un épisode sur Indochine le titre aurai été: the torture never stops. J'espère que vous allez aimer: 1h20!!! il fallait bien ça pour raconter la genèse du jeune Frank Zappa. J'ai quand même réussi à parler de Johnny Otis à un moment! Cpt Diligaf The Penguins, “Earth Angel” Don Julian and the Meadowlarks, “Heaven and Paradise” Little Julian Herrera, “Those Lonely, Lonely, Nights” Little Julian Herrera and the Tigers, “I Remember Linda” Baby Ray and the Ferns, “How's Your Bird?” Spike Jones and his City Slickers, “Cocktails for Two” Spike Jones and his City Slickers, “William Tell Overture” The Crows, “Gee” Johnny “Guitar” Watson, “Three Hours Past Midnight” Edgard Varese, “Ionisation” Edgard Varese, “Ecuatorial” The Jewels, “Angel in My Life” Edgard Varese, “Deserts” Igor Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring” Anton Webern, “Symphony op. 21” Little Richard, “Directly From My Heart to You” Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, “Lost in a Whirlpool” Frank Zappa, “Run Home Slow Theme” Baby Ray and the Ferns, “The World's Greatest Sinner” The Surfaris, “Wipe Out” The PAL Studio Band, “Never on Sunday” The Hollywood Persuaders, “Tijuana Surf” The Hollywood Persuaders, “Grunion Run” Ned and Nelda, “Hey Nelda” The PAL Studio Band, “Masked Grandma” The PAL Studio Band, “Why Don't You Do Me Right?” The Penguins, “Memories of El Monte” Pink Floyd, “Speak to Me” The Soots, “Tiger Roach” Frank Zappa, “I Was a Teenage Maltshop” The Mothers, “Hitch-Hike” Roy Estrada and the Rocketeers, “Jungle Dreams” Jimmy Carl Black and the Mannish Boys, “Stretch Pants” The Mothers, “Plastic People” Summer's Children, “Milk and Honey” Eric Dolphy, “Hat and Beard” The Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day” Lily of the Valley, “I Had a Sweet Dream” The Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day” The Mothers of Invention, “Any Way the Wind Blows” The Mothers of Invention, “Who Are the Brain Police?” The Mothers of Invention, “Return of the Son of Monster Magnet”

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The third episode of Season 3 features 3 Coke Scholar parents who discuss the twists and turns of raising children and teenagers. The post From Covid Challenges to Cell Phones: Parenting Wisdom with Samuel, Nelda, and Dr. Laura appeared first on Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.

God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher- a revelation reported by Dr. Jerry L. Martin offering a unique narrative account of God's experiences throughout history and beyond time. Jerry and Scott share a dynamic conversation recapping the last three episodes of the series:-Where Two Philosophers Wrestle With God- two philosophers unwrap the Problem of Evil and question, why is there still pain and suffering if God can stop evil? This dialogue considers God as a Person with an ongoing development and explores the intimate relationship between God and humans, as unique as every individual and integral to the progress of development. -What's On Your Mind- reactions from readers and listeners about their personal spiritual experiences with God. Including stories from Letitia, Nelda, Alice, and Laura on topics of talking with God, spiritual conversion, and how to stay in rhythm with the divine presence in the midst of the evil also present throughout the world.Read- God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher.Listen- Dramatic Adaptation of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher____Join the conversation and community, share a story or question, and view more content from God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Contact: questions@godanautobiography.com____Related Episodes: 78, 79, 89Related Content: God Are You Listening? 

Our very first guest on The Anchor Point Podcast, Nelda St. Clair, is back on the show for episode 100!Nelda is a former wildland firefighter who's worked her way through the ranks, and ultimately help bring about the CISM program. On this episode: We revisit her history, her background, and the updates to the CISM programs she has helped pave the way with...We also have Neldas husband, Ron Bollier, (former Type 2 IC and 41 year Hotshot) on the show to see what his perspectives are, why he left fire, and what he would like to see changed for future generations of wildland firefighters...Nelda also runs Critical Incident Concepts - A company that trains and prepares agency personnel, and responds to critical incidents around the United States for when incidents happen.So, sit down and have a listen - Because these folks have a TON of experience...And always remember what Ron and Nelda said about wildland firefighting - "There is no hall of fame"...You can be a part of the instruments of change by visiting The Grassroots Wildland Firefighters website and volunteering at:https://www.grassrootswildlandfirefighters.comYou know the drill...Stay safe, stay savage... Enjoy!..........................Updates!We launched a Patreon!!! If you guys would like to support us, head over to our Patreon Page!https://www.patreon.com/theanchorpointpodcast..........................Sponsors:The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...Mystery RanchNeed badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!https://www.mysteryranch.comHotshot BreweryWanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!https://www.hotshotbrewing.comNot a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:The Wildland Firefighter FoundationAnd, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!https://wffoundation.orgThe Smokey GenerationWanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!http://wildfire-experience.org

Families experience a closer connection when they laugh together. Keeping things light with Ted Cunningham, Dave Stone, and mother-son duo, Nelda and Tim Hawkins.

Singer and song-writer of bailes cantaos Nelda Piña, of group Nelda Piña y sus Tambores, shares with us her life journey and her knowledge about the roots of bullerengue and cumbia. She talks about the contributions of Black people to these rhythms and touches on the importance of supporting the youth in the places where these rhythms are created. And she sings for us a little bit of "Palenquero" a beautiful song in her latest album "Eco de Mis Ancestros."This episode is in Spanish, so if you understand Spanish or are looking to improve your listening comprehension, you're in the right place. You can always find a summarized version of this interview translated to English in Track 7 of our second season: My Name is Cumbia, or in Were You Listening? Track 19: Palenquero.La canta-autora de bailes cantaos Nelda Piña, del grupo Nelda Piña y sus Tambores, nos comparte un poco de su biografía y de su conocimiento sobre las raíces del bullerengue y de la cumbia. Ella también nos habla sobre las contribuciones de la gente negra a estos ritmos y menciona la importancia de apoyar a la juventud en los lugares donde estos ritmos fueron creados. !Y además nos da un pequeño concierto donde canta un fragmento de la bella canción "Palenquero" de su último álbum "Eco de Mis Ancestros"!Este Single contiene la entrevista completa con Nelda Piña. Una versión resumida de la entrevista puedes encontrarla en el Track 7 de nuestra segunda temporada: Yo Me Llamo Cumbia y en el Were You Listening? Track 19: Palenquero.Para más información sobre nuestras fuentes échale un vistazo a nuestro sitio web aquí y a nuestro canal de Youtube aquí.Contáctanos en: themixedtapepodcast@gmail.comSi te gustó la música que utilizamos, encuéntrala en nuestros playlists aquí.Host/Productores: Andrés Hincapié, PhD; Melissa Villodas, PhD Candidate Creadora de contenido gráfico: Susan Mykalcio

Making small changes in your daily routine can add up to big successes over time. Whether it’s deciding to wake up early, stopping that all-too-easy nightly wine routine, or leaving your work at the end of the driveway, there are habits you can change or implement that will help improve the way you interact with clients, coworkers, family, and loved ones. My guest today is another invaluable member of the Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, Nelda Cales. Nelda is not only a Senior VP and Regional Sales Manager at Atlantic Bay, but also a fantastic coach and mentor. She has over 20 years of experience in the banking and mortgage lending industry, and she’s here with me today to talk about making and breaking habits. She tells us about habits that have improved not only her business and sales acumen but also the kind of mom, wife, colleague, and friend she is today. Lending Forward is a weekly podcast hosted by Taylor Ellard and powered by Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group. We bring you raw stories from real people in the mortgage industry. We're covering what's next in lending, forward-thinking, and reflecting on lessons learned from Mortgage Bankers, Realtors, Financial Advisors, Coaches, and more! How are you lending it forward? Founded in 1996, Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group® is a privately owned mortgage lender headquartered in Virginia Beach, Va. Atlantic Bay has been recognized as a Top 100 Mortgage Company in America, Best Mortgage Company, Most Enjoyable Place to Work, and an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company. Discussion Points: Nelda tells us about the four most important life habits that she has adopted (or eliminated) over the years Time blocking can really help you establish certain habits Processes that Nelda prefers her teams to adhere to Tips and advice for getting through “mom (or dad)” guilt Prioritizing what’s important for you What habits should someone new to the industry begin to work on? Reading the book, “Atomic Habits” by James Clear is a great way to get started Surrounding yourself with ONLY people who will support and encourage your new habits “Momentum” is Nelda’s word for 2022 Resources/Links: Nelda Cales LinkedIn Atomic Habits by James Clear Taylor Ellard LinkedIn Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group

Episode one hundred and forty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Trouble Every Day" by the Mothers of Invention, and the early career of Frank Zappa. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Christmas Time is Here Again" by the Beatles. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources I'm away from home as I upload this and haven't been able to do a Mixcloud, but will hopefully edit a link in in a week or so if I remember. The main biography I consulted for this was Electric Don Quixote by Neil Slaven. Zappa's autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book, is essential reading if you're a fan of his work. Information about Jimmy Carl Black's early life came from Black's autobiography, For Mother's Sake. Zappa's letter to Varese is from this blog, which also contains a lot of other useful information on Zappa. For information on the Watts uprising, I recommend Johnny Otis' Listen to the Lambs. And the original mix of Freak Out is currently available not on the CD issue of Freak Out itself, which is an eighties remix, but on this "documentary" set. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Just a quick note before I begin -- there are a couple of passing references in this episode to rape and child abuse. I don't believe there's anything that should upset anyone, but if you're worried, you might want to read the transcript on the podcast website before or instead of listening. But also, this episode contains explicit, detailed, descriptions of racial violence carried out by the police against Black people, including against children. Some of it is so distressing that even reading the transcript might be a bit much for some people. Sometimes, in this podcast, we have to go back to another story we've already told. In most cases, that story is recent enough that I can just say, "remember last episode, when I said...", but to tell the story of the Mothers of Invention, I have to start with a story that I told sixty-nine episodes ago, in episode seventy-one, which came out nearly two years ago. In that episode, on "Willie and the Hand Jive", I briefly told the story of Little Julian Herrera at the start. I'm going to tell a slightly longer version of the story now. Some of the information at the start of this episode will be familiar from that and other episodes, but I'm not going to expect people to remember something from that long ago, given all that's happened since. The DJ Art Laboe is one of the few figures from the dawn of rock and roll who is still working. At ninety-six years old, he still promotes concerts, and hosts a syndicated radio show on which he plays "Oldies but Goodies", a phrase which could describe him as well as the music. It's a phrase he coined -- and trademarked -- back in the 1950s, when people in his audience would ask him to play records made a whole three or four years earlier, records they had listened to in their youth. Laboe pretty much single-handedly invented the rock and roll nostalgia market -- as well as being a DJ, he owned a record label, Original Sound, which put out a series of compilation albums, Oldies But Goodies, starting in 1959, which started to cement the first draft of the doo-wop canon. These were the first albums to compile together a set of older rock and roll hits and market them for nostalgia, and they were very much based on the tastes of his West Coast teenage listenership, featuring songs like "Earth Angel" by the Penguins: [Excerpt: The Penguins, "Earth Angel"] But also records that had a more limited geographic appeal, like "Heaven and Paradise" by Don Julian and the Meadowlarks: [Excerpt: Don Julian and the Meadowlarks, "Heaven and Paradise"] As well as being a DJ and record company owner, Laboe was the promoter and MC for regular teenage dances at El Monte Legion Stadium, at which Kip and the Flips, the band that featured Sandy Nelson and Bruce Johnston, would back local performers like the Penguins, Don and Dewey, or Ritchie Valens, as well as visiting headliners like Jerry Lee Lewis. El Monte stadium was originally chosen because it was outside the LA city limits -- at the time there were anti-rock-and-roll ordinances that meant that any teenage dance had to be approved by the LA Board of Education, but those didn't apply to that stadium -- but it also led to Laboe's audience becoming more racially diverse. The stadium was in East LA, which had a large Mexican-American population, and while Laboe's listenership had initially been very white, soon there were substantial numbers of Mexican-American and Black audience members. And it was at one of the El Monte shows that Johnny Otis discovered the person who everyone thought was going to become the first Chicano rock star, before even Ritchie Valens, in 1957, performing as one of the filler acts on Laboe's bill. He signed Little Julian Herrera, a performer who was considered a sensation in East LA at the time, though nobody really knew where he lived, or knew much about him other than that he was handsome, Chicano, and would often have a pint of whisky in his back pocket, even though he was under the legal drinking age. Otis signed Herrera to his label, Dig Records, and produced several records for him, including the record by which he's now best remembered, "Those Lonely Lonely Nights": [Excerpt: Little Julian Herrera, "Those Lonely, Lonely, Nights"] After those didn't take off the way they were expected to, Herrera and his vocal group the Tigers moved to another label, one owned by Laboe, where they recorded "I Remember Linda": [Excerpt: Little Julian Herrera and the Tigers, "I Remember Linda"]  And then one day Johnny Otis got a knock on his door from the police. They were looking for Ron Gregory. Otis had never heard of Ron Gregory, and told them so. The police then showed him a picture. It turned out that Julian Herrera wasn't Mexican-American, and wasn't from East LA, but was from Massachusetts. He had run away from home a few years back, hitch-hiked across the country, and been taken in by a Mexican-American family, whose name he had adopted. And now he was wanted for rape. Herrera went to prison, and when he got out, he tried to make a comeback, but ended up sleeping rough in the basement of the stadium where he had once been discovered. He had to skip town because of some other legal problems, and headed to Tijuana, where he was last seen playing R&B gigs in 1963. Nobody knows what happened to him after that -- some say he was murdered, others that he's still alive, working in a petrol station under yet another name, but nobody has had a confirmed sighting of him since then. When he went to prison, the Tigers tried to continue for a while, but without their lead singer, they soon broke up. Ray Collins, who we heard singing the falsetto part in "I Remember Linda", went on to join many other doo-wop and R&B groups over the next few years, with little success. Then in summer 1963, he walked into a bar in Ponoma, and saw a bar band who were playing the old Hank Ballard and the Midnighters song "Work With Me Annie". As Collins later put it, “I figured that any band that played ‘Work With Me Annie' was all right,” and he asked if he could join them for a few songs. They agreed, and afterwards, Collins struck up a conversation with the guitarist, and told him about an idea he'd had for a song based on one of Steve Allen's catchphrases. The guitarist happened to be spending a lot of his time recording at an independent recording studio, and suggested that the two of them record the song together: [Excerpt: Baby Ray and the Ferns, "How's Your Bird?"] The guitarist in question was named Frank Zappa. Zappa was originally from Maryland, but had moved to California as a child with his conservative Italian-American family when his father, a defence contractor, had got a job in Monterey. The family had moved around California with his father's work, mostly living in various small towns in the Mojave desert seventy miles or so north of Los Angeles. Young Frank had an interest in science, especially chemistry, and especially things that exploded, but while he managed to figure out the ingredients for gunpowder, his family couldn't afford to buy him a chemistry set in his formative years -- they were so poor that his father regularly took part in medical experiments to get a bit of extra money to feed his kids -- and so the young man's interest was diverted away from science towards music. His first musical interest, and one that would show up in his music throughout his life, was the comedy music of Spike Jones, whose band combined virtuosic instrumental performances with sound effects: [Excerpt: Spike Jones and his City Slickers, "Cocktails for Two"] and parodies of popular classical music [Excerpt: Spike Jones and his City Slickers, "William Tell Overture"] Jones was a huge inspiration for almost every eccentric or bohemian of the 1940s and 50s -- Spike Milligan, for example, took the name Spike in tribute to him. And young Zappa wrote his first ever fan letter to Jones when he was five or six. As a child Zappa was also fascinated by the visual aesthetics of music -- he liked to draw musical notes on staves and see what they looked like. But his musical interests developed in two other ways once he entered his teens. The first was fairly typical for the musicians of his generation from LA we've looked at and will continue to look at, which is that he heard "Gee" by the Crows on the radio: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] He became an R&B obsessive at that moment, and would spend every moment he could listening to the Black radio stations, despite his parents' disapproval. He particularly enjoyed Huggy Boy's radio show broadcast from Dolphins of Hollywood, and also would religiously listen to Johnny Otis, and soon became a connoisseur of the kind of R&B and blues that Otis championed as a musician and DJ: [Excerpt: Zappa on the Late Show, “I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music in the house. This couple that owned the chilli place, Opal and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so that I could listen to them, and so I had the ability to eat good chilli and listen to 'Three Hours Past Midnight' by Johnny 'Guitar' Watson for most of my junior and senior year"] Johnny “Guitar” Watson, along with Guitar Slim, would become a formative influence on Zappa's guitar playing, and his playing on "Three Hours Past Midnight" is so similar to Zappa's later style that you could easily believe it *was* him: [Excerpt: Johnny "Guitar" Watson, "Three Hours Past Midnight"] But Zappa wasn't only listening to R&B. The way Zappa would always tell the story, he discovered the music that would set him apart from his contemporaries originally by reading an article in Look magazine. Now, because Zappa has obsessive fans who check every detail, people have done the research and found that there was no such article in that magazine, but he was telling the story close enough to the time period in which it happened that its broad strokes, at least, must be correct even if the details are wrong. What Zappa said was that the article was on Sam Goody, the record salesman, and talked about how Goody was so good at his job that he had even been able to sell a record of Ionisation by Edgard Varese, which just consisted of the worst and most horrible noises anyone had ever heard, just loud drumming noises and screeching sounds. He determined then that he needed to hear that album, but he had no idea how he would get hold of a copy. I'll now read an excerpt from Zappa's autobiography, because Zappa's phrasing makes the story much better: "Some time later, I was staying overnight with Dave Franken, a friend who lived in La Mesa, and we wound up going to the hi-fi place -- they were having a sale on R&B singles. After shuffling through the rack and finding a couple of Joe Huston records, I made my way toward the cash register and happened to glance at the LP bin. I noticed a strange-looking black-and-white album cover with a guy on it who had frizzy gray hair and looked like a mad scientist. I thought it was great that a mad scientist had finally made a record, so I picked it up -- and there it was, the record with "Ionisation" on it. The author of the Look article had gotten it slightly wrong -- the correct title was The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Volume I, including "Ionisation," among other pieces, on an obscure label called EMS (Elaine Music Store). The record number was 401.I returned the Joe Huston records and checked my pockets to see how much money I had -- I think it came to about $3.75. I'd never bought an album before, but I knew they must be expensive because mostly old people bought them. I asked the man at the cash register how much EMS 401 cost. "That gray one in the box?" he said. "$5.95." I'd been searching for that record for over a year and I wasn't about to give up. I told him I had $3.75. He thought about it for a minute, and said, "We've been using that record to demonstrate hi-fi's with -- but nobody ever buys one when we use it. I guess if you want it that bad you can have it for $3.75."" Zappa took the record home, and put it on on his mother's record player in the living room, the only one that could play LPs: [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Ionisation"] His mother told him he could never play that record in the living room again, so he took the record player into his bedroom, and it became his record player from that point on. Varese was a French composer who had, in his early career, been very influenced by Debussy. Debussy is now, of course, part of the classical canon, but in the early twentieth century he was regarded as radical, almost revolutionary, for his complete rewriting of the rules of conventional classical music tonality into a new conception based on chordal melodies, pedal points, and use of non-diatonic scales. Almost all of Varese's early work was destroyed in a fire, so we don't have evidence of the transition from Debussy's romantic-influenced impressionism to Varese's later style, but after he had moved to the US in 1915 he had become wildly more experimental. "Ionisation" is often claimed to be the first piece of Western classical music written only for percussion instruments. Varese was part of a wider movement of modernist composers -- for example he was the best man at Nicolas Slonimsky's wedding -- and had also set up the International Composers' Guild, whose manifesto influenced Zappa, though his libertarian politics led him to adapt it to a more individualistic rather than collective framing. The original manifesto read in part "Dying is the privilege of the weary. The present day composers refuse to die. They have realized the necessity of banding together and fighting for the right of each individual to secure a fair and free presentation of his work" In the twenties and thirties, Varese had written a large number of highly experimental pieces, including Ecuatorial, which was written for bass vocal, percussion, woodwind, and two Theremin cellos. These are not the same as the more familiar Theremin, created by the same inventor, and were, as their name suggests, Theremins that were played like a cello, with a fingerboard and bow. Only ten of these were ever made, specifically for performances of Varese's work, and he later rewrote the work to use ondes martenot instead of Theremin cellos, which is how the work is normally heard now: [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Ecuatorial"] But Varese had spent much of the thirties, forties, and early fifties working on two pieces that were never finished, based on science fiction ideas -- L'Astronome, which was meant to be about communication with people from the star Sirius, and Espace, which was originally intended to be performed simultaneously by choirs in Beijing, Moscow, Paris, and New York. Neither of these ideas came to fruition, and so Varese had not released any new work, other than one small piece, Étude pour espace, an excerpt from the  larger work, in Zappa's lifetime. Zappa followed up his interest in Varese's music with his music teacher, one of the few people in the young man's life who encouraged him in his unusual interests. That teacher, Mr Kavelman, introduced Zappa to the work of other composers, like Webern, but would also let him know why he liked particular R&B records. For example, Zappa played Mr. Kavelman "Angel in My Life" by the Jewels, and asked what it was that made him particularly like it: [Excerpt: The Jewels, "Angel in My Life"] The teacher's answer was that it was the parallel fourths that made the record particularly appealing. Young Frank was such a big fan of Varese that for his fifteenth birthday, he actually asked if he could make a long-distance phone call to speak to Varese. He didn't know where Varese lived, but figured that it must be in Greenwich Village because that was where composers lived, and he turned out to be right. He didn't get through on his birthday -- he got Varese's wife, who told him the composer was in Europe -- but he did eventually get to speak to him, and was incredibly excited when Varese told him that not only had he just written a new piece for the first time in years, but that it was called Deserts, and was about deserts -- just like the Mojave Desert where Zappa lived: [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Deserts"] As he later wrote, “When you're 15 and living in the Mojave Desert, and you find out that the World's Greatest Composer (who also looks like a mad scientist) is working in a secret Greenwich Village laboratory on a song about your hometown (so to speak), you can get pretty excited.” A year later, Zappa actually wrote to Varese, a long letter which included him telling the story about how he'd found his work in the first place, hoping to meet up with him when Zappa travelled to the East Coast to see family. I'll read out a few extracts, but the whole thing is fascinating for what it says about Zappa the precocious adolescent, and I'll link to a blog post with it in the show notes. "Dear Sir: Perhaps you might remember me from my stupid phone call last January, if not, my name again is Frank Zappa Jr. I am 16 years old… that might explain partly my disturbing you last winter. After I had struggled through Mr. Finklestein's notes on the back cover (I really did struggle too, for at the time I had had no training in music other than practice at drum rudiments) I became more and more interested in you and your music. I began to go to the library and take out books on modern composers and modern music, to learn all I could about Edgard Varese. It got to be my best subject (your life) and I began writing my reports and term papers on you at school. At one time when my history teacher asked us to write on an American that has really done something for the U.S.A. I wrote on you and the Pan American Composers League and the New Symphony. I failed. The teacher had never heard of you and said I made the whole thing up. Silly but true. That was my Sophomore year in high school. Throughout my life all the talents and abilities that God has left me with have been self developed, and when the time came for Frank to learn how to read and write music, Frank taught himself that too. I picked it all up from the library. I have been composing for two years now, utilizing a strict twelve-tone technique, producing effects that are reminiscent of Anton Webern. During those two years I have written two short woodwind quartets and a short symphony for winds, brass and percussion. I plan to go on and be a composer after college and I could really use the counsel of a veteran such as you. If you would allow me to visit with you for even a few hours it would be greatly appreciated. It may sound strange but I think I have something to offer you in the way of new ideas. One is an elaboration on the principle of Ruth Seeger's contrapuntal dynamics and the other is an extension of the twelve-tone technique which I call the inversion square. It enables one to compose harmonically constructed pantonal music in logical patterns and progressions while still abandoning tonality. Varese sent a brief reply, saying that he was going to be away for a few months, but would like to meet Zappa on his return. The two never met, but Zappa kept the letter from Varese framed on his wall for the rest of his life. Zappa soon bought a couple more albums, a version of "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky: [Excerpt: Igor Stravinsky, "The Rite of Spring"] And a record of pieces by Webern, including his Symphony opus 21: [Excerpt: Anton Webern, "Symphony op. 21"] (Incidentally, with the classical music here, I'm not seeking out the precise performances Zappa was listening to, just using whichever recordings I happen to have copies of). Zappa was also reading Slonimsky's works of musicology, like the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. As well as this "serious music" though, Zappa was also developing as an R&B musician.  He later said of the Webern album, "I loved that record, but it was about as different from Stravinsky and Varèse as you could get. I didn't know anything about twelve-tone music then, but I liked the way it sounded. Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels (who had a song out then called "Angel in My Life"), or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music." He had started as a drummer with a group called the Blackouts, an integrated group with white, Latino, and Black members, who played R&B tracks like "Directly From My Heart to You", the song Johnny Otis had produced for Little Richard: [Excerpt: Little Richard, "Directly From My Heart to You"] But after eighteen months or so, he quit the group and stopped playing drums. Instead, he switched to guitar, with a style influenced by Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Guitar Slim. His first guitar had action so bad that he didn't learn to play chords, and moved straight on to playing lead lines with his younger brother Bobby playing rhythm. He also started hanging around with two other teenage bohemians -- Euclid Sherwood, who was nicknamed Motorhead, and Don Vliet, who called himself Don Van Vliet. Vliet was a truly strange character, even more so than Zappa, but they shared a love for the blues, and Vliet was becoming a fairly good blues singer, though he hadn't yet perfected the Howlin' Wolf imitation that would become his stock-in-trade in later years. But the surviving recording of Vliet singing with the Zappa brothers on guitar, singing a silly parody blues about being flushed down the toilet of the kind that many teenage boys would write, shows the promise that the two men had: [Excerpt: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, "Lost in a Whirlpool"] Zappa was also getting the chance to hear his more serious music performed. He'd had the high school band play a couple of his pieces, but he also got the chance to write film music -- his English teacher, Don Cerveris, had decided to go off and seek his fortune as a film scriptwriter, and got Zappa hired to write the music for a cheap Western he'd written, Run Home Slow. The film was beset with problems -- it started filming in 1959 but didn't get finished and released until 1965 -- but the music Zappa wrote for it did eventually get recorded and used on the soundtrack: [Excerpt: Frank Zappa, "Run Home Slow Theme"] In 1962, he got to write the music for another film, The World's Greatest Sinner, and he also wrote a theme song for that, which got released as the B-side of "How's Your Bird?", the record he made with Ray Collins: [Excerpt: Baby Ray and the Ferns, "The World's Greatest Sinner"] Zappa was able to make these records because by the early sixties, as well as playing guitar in bar bands, he was working as an assistant for a man named Paul Buff. Paul Buff had worked as an engineer for a guided missile manufacturer, but had decided that he didn't want to do that any more, and instead had opened up the first independent multi-track recording studio on the West Coast, PAL Studios, using equipment he'd designed and built himself, including a five-track tape recorder. Buff engineered a huge number of surf instrumentals there, including "Wipe Out" by the Surfaris: [Excerpt: The Surfaris, "Wipe Out"] Zappa had first got to know Buff when he had come to Buff's studio with some session musicians in 1961, to record some jazz pieces he'd written, including this piece which at the time was in the style of Dave Brubeck but would later become a staple of Zappa's repertoire reorchestrated in a  rock style. [Excerpt: The PAL Studio Band, "Never on Sunday"] Buff really just wanted to make records entirely by himself, so he'd taught himself to play the rudiments of guitar, bass, drums, piano, and alto saxophone, so he could create records alone. He would listen to every big hit record, figure out what the hooks were on the record, and write his own knock-off of those. An example is "Tijuana Surf" by the Hollywood Persuaders, which is actually Buff on all instruments, and which according to Zappa went to number one in Mexico (though I've not found an independent source to confirm that chart placing, so perhaps take it with a pinch of salt): [Excerpt: The Hollywood Persuaders, "Tijuana Surf"] The B-side to that, "Grunion Run", was written by Zappa, who also plays guitar on that side: [Excerpt: The Hollywood Persuaders, "Grunion Run"] Zappa, Buff, Ray Collins, and a couple of associates would record all sorts of material at PAL -- comedy material like "Hey Nelda", under the name "Ned and Nelda" -- a parody of "Hey Paula" by Paul and Paula: [Excerpt: Ned and Nelda, "Hey Nelda"] Doo-wop parodies like "Masked Grandma": [Excerpt: The PAL Studio Band, "Masked Grandma"] R&B: [Excerpt: The PAL Studio Band, "Why Don't You Do Me Right?"] and more. Then Buff or Zappa would visit one of the local independent label owners and try to sell them the master -- Art Laboe at Original Sound released several of the singles, as did Bob Keane at Donna Records and Del-Fi. The "How's Your Bird" single also got Zappa his first national media exposure, as he went on the Steve Allen show, where he demonstrated to Allen how to make music using a bicycle and a prerecorded electronic tape, in an appearance that Zappa would parody five years later on the Monkees' TV show: [Excerpt: Steve Allen and Frank Zappa, "Cyclophony"] But possibly the record that made the most impact at the time was "Memories of El Monte", a song that Zappa and Collins wrote together about Art Laboe's dances at El Monte Stadium, incorporating excerpts of several of the songs that would be played there, and named after a compilation Laboe had put out, which had included “I Remember Linda” by Little Julian and the Tigers. They got Cleve Duncan of the Penguins to sing lead, and the record came out as by the Penguins, on Original Sound: [Excerpt: The Penguins, "Memories of El Monte"] By this point, though, Pal studios was losing money, and Buff took up the offer of a job working for Laboe full time, as an engineer at Original Sound. He would later become best known for inventing the kepex, an early noise gate which engineer Alan Parsons used on a bass drum to create the "heartbeat" that opens Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: [Excerpt: Pink Floyd, "Speak to Me"] That invention would possibly be Buff's most lasting contribution to music, as by the early eighties, the drum sound on every single pop record was recorded using a noise gate. Buff sold the studio to Zappa, who renamed it Studio Z and moved in -- he was going through a divorce and had nowhere else to live. The studio had no shower, and Zappa had to just use a sink to wash, and he was surviving mostly off food scrounged by his resourceful friend Motorhead Sherwood. By this point, Zappa had also joined a band called the Soots, consisting of Don Van Vliet, Alex St. Clair and Vic Mortenson, and they recorded several tracks at Studio Z, which they tried to get released on Dot Records, including a cover version of Little Richard's “Slippin' and Slidin'”, and a song called “Tiger Roach” whose lyrics were mostly random phrases culled from a Green Lantern comic: [Excerpt: The Soots, "Tiger Roach"] Zappa also started writing what was intended as the first ever rock opera, "I Was a Teenage Maltshop", and attempts were made to record parts of it with Vliet, Mortenson, and Motorhead Sherwood: [Excerpt: Frank Zappa, "I Was a Teenage Maltshop"] Zappa was also planning to turn Studio Z into a film studio. He obtained some used film equipment, and started planning a science fiction film to feature Vliet, titled "Captain Beefheart Meets the Grunt People". The title was inspired by an uncle of Vliet's, who lived with Vliet and his girlfriend, and used to urinate with the door open so he could expose himself to Vliet's girlfriend, saying as he did so "Look at that! Looks just like a big beef heart!" Unfortunately, the film would not get very far. Zappa was approached by a used-car salesman who said that he and his friends were having a stag party. As Zappa owned a film studio, could he make them a pornographic film to show at the party? Zappa told him that a film wouldn't be possible, but as he needed the money, would an audio tape be acceptable? The used-car salesman said that it would, and gave him a list of sex acts he and his friends would like to hear. Zappa and a friend, Lorraine Belcher, went into the studio and made a few grunting noises and sound effects. The used-car salesman turned out actually to be an undercover policeman, who was better known in the area for his entrapment of gay men, but had decided to branch out. Zappa and Belcher were arrested -- Zappa's father bailed him out, and Zappa got an advance from Art Laboe to pay Belcher's bail. Luckily "Grunion Run" and "Memories of El Monte" were doing well enough that Laboe could give Zappa a $1500 advance. When the case finally came to trial, the judge laughed at the tape and wanted to throw the whole case out, but the prosecutor insisted on fighting, and Zappa got ten days in prison, and most of his tapes were impounded, never to be returned. He fell behind with his rent, and Studio Z was demolished. And then Ray Collins called him, asking if he wanted to join a bar band: [Excerpt: The Mothers, "Hitch-Hike"] The Soul Giants were formed by a bass player named Roy Estrada. Now, Estrada is unfortunately someone who will come up in the story a fair bit over the next year or so, as he played on several of the most important records to come out of LA in the sixties and early seventies. He is also someone about whom there's fairly little biographical information -- he's not been interviewed much, compared to pretty much everyone else, and it's easy to understand why when you realise that he's currently half-way through a twenty-five year sentence for child molestation -- his third such conviction. He won't get out of prison until he's ninety-three. He's one of the most despicable people who will turn up in this podcast, and frankly I'm quite glad I don't know more about him as a person. He was, though, a good bass player and falsetto singer, and he had released a single on King Records, an instrumental titled "Jungle Dreams": [Excerpt, Roy Estrada and the Rocketeers, "Jungle Dreams"] The other member of the rhythm section, Jimmy Carl Black, was an American Indian (that's the term he always used about himself until his death, and so that's the term I'll use about him too) from Texas. Black had grown up in El Paso as a fan of Western Swing music, especially Bob Wills, but had become an R&B fan after discovering Wolfman Jack's radio show and hearing the music of Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson. Like every young man from El Paso, he would travel to Juarez as a teenager to get drunk, see sex shows, and raise hell. It was also there that he saw his first live blues music, watching Long John Hunter, the same man who inspired the Bobby Fuller Four, and he would always claim Hunter as the man whose shows taught him how to play the blues. Black had decided he wanted to become a musician when he'd seen Elvis perform live. In Black's memory, this was a gig where Elvis was an unknown support act for Faron Young and Wanda Jackson, but he was almost certainly slightly misremembering -- it's most likely that what he saw was Elvis' show in El Paso on the eleventh of April 1956, where Young and Jackson were also on the bill, but supporting Elvis who was headlining. Either way, Black had decided that he wanted to make girls react to him the same way they reacted to Elvis, and he started playing in various country and R&B bands. His first record was with a group called the Keys, and unfortunately I haven't been able to track down a copy (it was reissued on a CD in the nineties, but the CD itself is now out of print and sells for sixty pounds) but he did rerecord the song with a later group he led, the Mannish Boys: [Excerpt: Jimmy Carl Black and the Mannish Boys, "Stretch Pants"] He spent a couple of years in the Air Force, but continued playing music during that time, including in a band called The Exceptions which featured Peter Cetera later of the band Chicago, on bass. After a brief time working as lineman in Wichita, he moved his family to California, where he got a job teaching drums at a music shop in Anaheim, where the bass teacher was Jim Fielder, who would later play bass in Blood, Sweat, and Tears. One of Fielder's friends, Tim Buckley, used to hang around in the shop as well, and Black was at first irritated by him coming in and playing the guitars and not buying anything, but eventually became impressed by his music. Black would later introduce Buckley to Herb Cohen, who would become Buckley's manager, starting his professional career. When Roy Estrada came into the shop, he and Black struck up a friendship, and Estrada asked Black to join his band The Soul Giants, whose lineup became Estrada, Black, a sax player named Davey Coronado, a guitarist called Larry and a singer called Dave. The group got a residency at the Broadside club in Ponoma, playing "Woolly Bully" and "Louie Louie" and other garage-band staples. But then Larry and Dave got drafted, and the group got in two men called Ray -- Ray Collins on vocals, and Ray Hunt on guitar. This worked for a little while, but Ray Hunt was, by all accounts, not a great guitar player -- he would play wrong chords, and also he was fundamentally a surf player while the Soul Giants were an R&B group. Eventually, Collins and Hunt got into a fistfight, and Collins suggested that they get in his friend Frank instead. For a while, the Soul Giants continued playing "Midnight Hour" and "Louie Louie", but then Zappa suggested that they start playing some of his original material as well. Davy Coronado refused to play original material, because he thought, correctly, that it would lose the band gigs, but the rest of the band sided with the man who had quickly become their new leader. Coronado moved back to Texas, and on Mother's Day 1965 the Soul Giants changed their name to the Mothers. They got in Henry Vestine on second guitar, and started playing Zappa's originals, as well as changing the lyrics to some of the hits they were playing: [Excerpt: The Mothers, "Plastic People"] Zappa had started associating with the freak crowd in Hollywood centred around Vito and Franzoni, after being introduced by Don Cerveris, his old teacher turned screenwriter, to an artist called Mark Cheka, who Zappa invited to manage the group. Cheka in turn brought in his friend Herb Cohen, who managed several folk acts including the Modern Folk Quartet and Judy Henske, and who like Zappa had once been arrested on obscenity charges, in Cohen's case for promoting gigs by the comedian Lenny Bruce. Cohen first saw the Mothers when they were recording their appearance in an exploitation film called Mondo Hollywood. They were playing in a party scene, using equipment borrowed from Jim Guercio, a session musician who would briefly join the Mothers, but who is now best known for having been Chicago's manager and producing hit records for them and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. In the crowd were Vito and Franzoni, Bryan Maclean, Ram Dass, the Harvard psychologist who had collaborated with Timothy Leary in controversial LSD experiments that had led to both losing their jobs, and other stalwarts of the Sunset Strip scene. Cohen got the group bookings at the Whisky A-Go-Go and The Trip, two of the premier LA nightclubs, and Zappa would also sit in with other bands playing at those venues, like the Grass Roots, a band featuring Bryan Maclean and Arthur Lee which would soon change its name to Love. At this time Zappa and Henry Vestine lived together, next door to a singer named Victoria Winston, who at the time was in a duo called Summer's Children with Curt Boettcher: [Excerpt: Summer's Children, "Milk and Honey"] Winston, like Zappa, was a fan of Edgard Varese, and actually asked Zappa to write songs for Summer's Children, but one of the partners involved in their production company disliked Zappa's material and the collaboration went no further. Zappa at this point was trying to incorporate more ideas from modal jazz into his music. He was particularly impressed by Eric Dolphy's 1964 album "Out to Lunch": [Excerpt: Eric Dolphy, "Hat and Beard"] But he was also writing more about social issues, and in particular he had written a song called "The Watts Riots Song", which would later be renamed "Trouble Every Day": [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Trouble Every Day"] Now, the Watts Uprising was one of the most important events in Black American history, and it feels quite wrong that I'm covering it in an episode about a band made up of white, Latino, and American Indian people rather than a record made by Black people, but I couldn't find any way to fit it in anywhere else. As you will remember me saying in the episode on "I Fought the Law", the LA police under Chief William Parker were essentially a criminal gang by any other name -- they were incompetent, violent, and institutionally racist, and terrorised Black people. The Black people of LA were also feeling particularly aggrieved in the summer of 1965, as a law banning segregation in housing had been overturned by a ballot proposition in November 1964, sponsored by the real estate industry and passed by an overwhelming majority of white voters in what Martin Luther King called "one of the most shameful developments in our nation's history", and which Edmund Brown, the Democratic governor said was like "another hate binge which began more than 30 years ago in a Munich beer hall". Then on Wednesday, August 11, 1965, the police pulled over a Black man, Marquette Frye, for drunk driving. He had been driving his mother's car, and she lived nearby, and she came out to shout at him about drinking and driving. The mother, Rena Price, was hit by one of the policemen; Frye then physically attacked one of the police for hitting his mother, one of the police pulled out a gun, a crowd gathered, the police became violent against the crowd, a rumour spread that they had kicked a pregnant woman, and the resulting protests were exacerbated by the police carrying out what Chief Parker described as a "paramiltary" response. The National Guard were called in, huge swathes of south central LA were cordoned off by the police with signs saying things like "turn left or get shot". Black residents started setting fire to and looting local white-owned businesses that had been exploiting Black workers and customers, though this looting was very much confined to individuals who were known to have made the situation worse. Eventually it took six days for the uprising to be put down, at a cost of thirty-four deaths, 1032 injuries, and 3438 arrests. Of the deaths, twenty-three were Black civilians murdered by the police, and zero were police murdered by Black civilians (two police were killed by other police, in accidental shootings). The civil rights activist Bayard Rustin said of the uprising, "The whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life." Frank Zappa's musical hero Johnny Otis would later publish the book Listen to the Lambs about the Watts rebellion, and in it he devotes more than thirty pages to eyewitness accounts from Black people. It's an absolutely invaluable resource. One of the people Otis interviews is Lily Ford, who is described by my copy of the book as being the "lead singer of the famous Roulettes". This is presumably an error made by the publishers, rather than Otis, because Ford was actually a singer with the Raelettes, as in Ray Charles' vocal group. She also recorded with Otis under the name "Lily of the Valley": [Excerpt: Lily of the Valley, "I Had a Sweet Dream"] Now, Ford's account deserves a large excerpt, but be warned, this is very, very difficult to hear. I gave a content warning at the beginning, but I'm going to give another one here. "A lot of our people were in the street, seeing if they could get free food and clothes and furniture, and some of them taking liquor too. But the white man was out for blood. Then three boys came down the street, laughing and talking. They were teenagers, about fifteen or sixteen years old. As they got right at the store they seemed to debate whether they would go inside. One boy started a couple of times to go. Finally he did. Now a cop car finally stops to investigate. Police got out of the car. Meanwhile, the other two boys had seen them coming and they ran. My brother-in-law and I were screaming and yelling for the boy to get out. He didn't hear us, or was too scared to move. He never had a chance. This young cop walked up to the broken window and looked in as the other one went round the back and fired some shots and I just knew he'd killed the other two boys, but I guess he missed. He came around front again. By now other police cars had come. The cop at the window aimed his gun. He stopped and looked back at a policeman sitting in a car. He aimed again. No shot. I tried to scream, but I was so horrified that nothing would come out of my throat. The third time he aimed he yelled, "Halt", and fired before the word was out of his mouth. Then he turned around and made a bull's-eye sign with his fingers to his partner. Just as though he had shot a tin can off a fence, not a human being. The cops stood around for ten or fifteen minutes without going inside to see if the kid was alive or dead. When the ambulance came, then they went in. They dragged him out like he was a sack of potatoes. Cops were everywhere now. So many cops for just one murder." [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Trouble Every Day"] There's a lot more of this sort of account in Otis' book, and it's all worth reading -- indeed, I would argue that it is *necessary* reading. And Otis keeps making a point which I quoted back in the episode on "Willie and the Hand Jive" but which I will quote again here -- “A newborn Negro baby has less chance of survival than a white. A Negro baby will have its life ended seven years sooner. This is not some biological phenomenon linked to skin colour, like sickle-cell anaemia; this is a national crime, linked to a white-supremacist way of life and compounded by indifference”. (Just a reminder, the word “Negro” which Otis uses there was, in the mid-sixties, the term of choice used by Black people.) And it's this which inspired "The Watts Riot Song", which the Mothers were playing when Tom Wilson was brought into The Trip by Herb Cohen: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Trouble Every Day"] Wilson had just moved from Columbia, where he'd been producing Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel, to Verve, a subsidiary of MGM which was known for jazz records but was moving into rock and roll. Wilson was looking for a white blues band, and thought he'd found one. He signed the group without hearing any other songs. Henry Vestine quit the group between the signing and the first recording, to go and join an *actual* white blues band, Canned Heat, and over the next year the group's lineup would fluctuate quite a bit around the core of Zappa, Collins, Estrada, and Black, with members like Steve Mann, Jim Guercio, Jim Fielder, and Van Dyke Parks coming and going, often without any recordings being made of their performances. The lineup on what became the group's first album, Freak Out! was Zappa, Collins, Estrada, Black, and Elliot Ingber, the former guitarist with the Gamblers, who had joined the group shortly before the session and would leave within a few months. The first track the group recorded, "Any Way the Wind Blows", was straightforward enough: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Any Way the Wind Blows"] The second song, a "Satisfaction" knock-off called "Hungry Freaks Daddy", was also fine. But it was when the group performed their third song of the session, "Who Are The Brain Police?", that Tom Wilson realised that he didn't have a standard band on his hands: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Who Are the Brain Police?"] Luckily for everyone concerned, Tom Wilson was probably the single best producer in America to have discovered the Mothers. While he was at the time primarily known for his folk-rock productions, he had built his early career on Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra records, some of the freakiest jazz of the fifties and early sixties. He knew what needed to be done -- he needed a bigger budget. Far from being annoyed that he didn't have the white blues band he wanted, Wilson actively encouraged the group to go much, much further. He brought in Wrecking Crew members to augment the band (though one of them. Mac Rebennack, found the music so irritating he pretended he needed to go to the toilet, walked out, and never came back). He got orchestral musicians to play Zappa's scores, and allowed the group to rent hundreds of dollars of percussion instruments for the side-long track "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet", which features many Hollywood scenesters of the time, including Van Dyke Parks, Kim Fowley, future Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil, record executive David Anderle, songwriter P.F. Sloan, and cartoonist Terry Gilliam, all recording percussion parts and vocal noises: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"] Such was Wilson's belief in the group that Freak Out! became only the second rock double album ever released -- exactly a week after the first, Blonde on Blonde, by Wilson's former associate Bob Dylan. The inner sleeve included a huge list of people who had influenced the record in one way or another, including people Zappa knew like Don Cerveris, Don Vliet, Paul Buff, Bob Keane, Nik Venet, and Art Laboe,  musicians who had influenced the group like Don & Dewey, Johnny Otis, Otis' sax players Preston Love and Big Jay McNeely, Eric Dolphy, Edgard Varese, Richard Berry, Johnny Guitar Watson, and Ravi Shankar, eccentric performers like Tiny Tim, DJs like Hunter Hancock and Huggy Boy, science fiction writers like Cordwainer Smith and Robert Sheckley, and scenesters like David Crosby, Vito, and Franzoni. The list of 179 people would provide a sort of guide for many listeners, who would seek out those names and find their ways into the realms of non-mainstream music, writing, and art over the next few decades. Zappa would always remain grateful to Wilson for taking his side in the record's production, saying "Wilson was sticking his neck out. He laid his job on the line by producing the album. MGM felt that they had spent too much money on the album". The one thing Wilson couldn't do, though, was persuade the label that the group's name could stay as it was. "The Mothers" was a euphemism, for a word I can't say if I want this podcast to keep its clean rating, a word that is often replaced in TV clean edits of films with "melon farmers", and MGM were convinced that the radio would never play any music by a band with that name -- not realising that that wouldn't be the reason this music wouldn't get played on the radio. The group needed to change their name. And so, out of necessity, they became the Mothers of Invention.

In this episode, I talk with noted anthropologist and educator Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole and award-winning illustrator Nelda La Teef. We discuss their picture book, African Proverbs for All Ages, the first Oprah Book. It is a beautifully-illustrated, engaging picture book about the power of proverbs, how they evolve over time, and the wisdom of various cultures in Africa. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Cole grew up during the days of racial segregation. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College, and masters and doctorate degrees from Northwestern University. Dr. Cole has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Liberia, West Africa, and traveled to 17 African countries. She is the only person to have served as president for both Spelman and Bennet Colleges; she was also the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art from 2009 to 2016. Dr. Cole serves as the Chair of the Board and the President of the National Council of Negro Women, an organization with a membership of over two million women of African descent. Throughout her career, she has worked on issues of racial, gender, and other systems of inequality. Nelda LaTeef is the award-winning author and illustrator of The Hunter and The Ebony Tree, Animal Village, and The Talking Baobab Tree. She grew up in a US Foreign Service family and spent her childhood attending schools in Europe, Africa, and Asia. She has traveled throughout West Africa conducting field research and has even been to the fabled city of Timbuktu. She holds a degree in social anthropology from Harvard University. Nelda lives in Virginia with her family where she enjoys traveling, tennis, and cycling. Order a copy of African Proverbs of All Ages here. Visit Nelda Lateef at https://www.neldalateef.com/. Resources: National Council of Negro Women: https://ncnw.org/ https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/office-of-the-president/past-presidents/johnnetta-cole Transcription: You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review (Coming Soon). Discussion Topics: A story summary of African Proverbs for All Ages. What is a proverb? Why are we drawn to proverbs? All about African Proverbs for All Ages. Favorite proverbs. Becoming readers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/support

Todas as semanas, Lara Marques Pereira traz um convidado para a happy hour da rádio, com um cocktail de conversa e música. Os convidados vêm falar do que fazem, do que gostam, podem partilhar  confidências, escolhem canções para a ocasião e podem deixar propostas  de Cultura, lazer e lifestyle para desafiar quem ouve.

Today we start season 16 off with a bang by traveling to Dodow, Germany and search for sexy foxes, and then we investigate the truly horrifying story of Nelda Louise Hardwick!   Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18482113 MERCH STORE!!! https://tinyurl.com/y8zam4o2   Help Promote Dead Rabbit! Dual Flyer https://i.imgur.com/OhuoI2v.jpg "As Above" Flyer https://i.imgur.com/yobMtUp.jpg “Alien Flyer” By TVP VT U https://imgur.com/gallery/aPN1Fnw   Links: Fox Hill near Dodow https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/werewolf.html Nightmare Myths by Karl Bartsch http://www.emecklenburg.de/Mecklenburg/en/legends.htm Karl Bartsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bartsch Nelda Louise Hardwick https://charleyproject.org/case/nelda-louise-hardwick Nelda Louise Hardwick http://identifyla.lsu.edu/profile.php?id=186 The Doe Network: Case File 1002DFLA http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1002dfla.html   ------------------------------------------------ Logo Art By Ash Black Opening Song: "Atlantis Attacks" Closing Song: "Humanity's December" Music By Simple Rabbitron 3000 created by Eerbud Thanks to Chris K, Founder Of The Golden Rabbit Brigade Dead Rabbit Archivist Some Weirdo On Twitter AKA Jack YouTube Champ Stewart Meatball The Haunted Mic Arm provided by Chyme Chili Thanks to Fabio N. Pintrest https://www.pinterest.com/basque5150/jason-carpenter-hood-river/ http://www.DeadRabbit.com Email: DeadRabbitRadio@gmail.com Twitter: @DeadRabbitRadio Facebook: www.Facebook.com/DeadRabbitRadio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deadrabbitradio Jason Carpenter PO Box 1363 Hood River, OR 97031   Paranormal, Conspiracy, and True Crime news as it happens! Jason Carpenter breaks the stories they'll be talking about tomorrow, assuming the world doesn't end today. All Contents Of This Podcast Copyright Jason Carpenter 2018 - 2021  

Nelda Nichole Kerr is a musician and an educator at Edna Brewer Middle School in Oakland, CA. Nelda and I recently hopped on a call where we discussed the origins of her passion as an educator, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching, and the drive to stay in education despite the obstacles. Music for this episode is composed by Day Ghost and editing for this episode by Bill Fires.  

Welcome to A Remarkable Thought: A short story podcast to engage your mind and lift your spirit—a production of changeyourmindchangeeverything.org. In a world that runs on 5G, caffeine, obligations, shoulds, shouldn'ts, woulds, and wouldn'ts we've created a space where you can relax, laugh and think for yourself.  Each week we will bring you a refreshing escape where your mind can wander in a thoughtful story as you visit wonders yet to be considered. At the end of every show, we will leave you with a quality question to ponder. This week's story is an original story by Jami Amerine called The Fortune Teller's Aunt. Take a beat, take a breath, and listen in!  Nelda made the swift four-block trek from the bus stop at the corner of Maple and Pine, to her building.  Although she was quick, she was mindful of the small grocery bag bumping against her hip. It was nearly dark and Aunt Cass would be pacing, not so much from the worry about her 17-year-old niece, but for the crusty bread and fresh butter Cass needed to get super on the table.   Granted super was only for Nelda, who was rarely hungry, and Cass herself.  Since Granddaddy had passed, the apartment was much quieter, sadder, but still, home.  Nelda turned the keys in the locks and hollered through the hallway, “Aunt Cass, I'm home!”    Get your copy of Well, Girl here! Show sponsor: SocialWisedU  SocialWisedU e-course will guide your family toward a healthy relationship with social media and each other.  Ditch the lectures and start equipping your family to thrive in a world that is becoming more cyber than real.  Enroll now at SocialWisedU.org *Affiliate Links are used below. If you purchase through the links we may be compensated at no additional cost to you.  Learn more about affiliate links here.  Find Made Like Martha here!  Find Sacredground Sticky Floors here!  CONNECT WITH US! Stay connected with us beyond the show by subscribing with your email address at changeyourmindchangeverything.org.  Just fill out the sign-up bar with your name and email address and voila, you'll be added!  You can also connect with Jami on her widely-popular blog sacredgroundstickyfloors.com and connect with Katie on her life-giving and freedom-finding website: katiemreid.com  Jami on TikTok Katie on TikTok Jami on Facebook Katie on Facebook Jami on Instagram Katie on Instagram See you next time! 

Virginia shares her Nelda story, Do you have a Nelda in your life. She talks about the power of God's plan for our lives and how He orchestrates everything for us we just need to follow His plan.

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This week, Tim and the gang are joined by his arguably more famous mother, Nelda, as they discuss selling family heirlooms and create a step-by-step guide to fix modern worship music. Jordan Peterson tells you why Communism failed and why you need to wash the bloody fork! Luke uses pop-quiz videos to bolster his ego and Tim evokes the spirit of Elvis in the king's famous final moments on the can.

Darleta Hurt was last seen in St. Albans, WV in 1986. Nelda Hardwick disappeared from Lake Charles, LA in 1993. Maybe you know something that could solve these cases. www.gone-podcast.com

It was from, and because of the hard living conditions of slavery, the spiritual was born. The spiritual was the creation of the American slaves brought from Africa. Spirituals expressed the history, treatment, and thoughts of Black people in the United States.  The combined experiences of Africa and America served to produce the spirituals. They served the propose of religious expression to communication, often by code. They possessed a folk literature that was varied and rich. They had their native musical endowment to begin with, and the Spirituals possessed the fundamental characteristics of African Music, rhythmic qualities, form and intervallic structure.

The party rushes ahead toward Oakencrest to determine how to warn the people of the oncoming hoard of the dead! Shae takes care to warn Nelda, and Carthis and Chauvin begin to hatch a scheme to warn and embolden the townspeople - perhaps making a little honest money on the side. Well, a little of the money will be honest! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frontier-fiction/message

If you need to be reminded or encouraged to step out and try something new, this is the episode for you friend! I had a ball catching up with one of my cowgirl heroes Nelda Hix of Williston, Florida on embracing change, learning how to truly communicate with your horse, friendship, road trips, building experiences when you aren't exactly sure what you're called to do & the beauty of figuring it out along the way as well as trying new things. I hope her zest for life & adventure encourages you to embrace your cowgirl state of mind & ignites your passion for life long learning. ******************************************************************************************************************************************** CONNECT WITH NELDA: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/nelda.hix EMAIL: neldahix@gmail.com To learn more about the Extreme Cowboy Race competitions, Nelda is competing in & shares on this episode, check out: https://craigcameron.com/exca.htm ******************************************************************************************************************************************** ********************************************************************************************************** LET'S CONNECT: INSTAGRAM: @CowgirlConfessionsPodcast EMAIL: CowgirlConfessionsPodcast@gmail.com Follow your host INSTAGRAM: @DakotaDawnJohnson FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DakotaDawnJohnson/ *********************************************************************************************************** Thank you for spending your time with me on the Cowgirl Confessions podcast. I am so glad you stopped by. If you could take a moment to share this episode and tag us on social media- I'd be happier than a cowgirl in a sea of BOGO vintage turquoise. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss an episode. New episodes will be released bimonthly. Please leave us a review if you feel so led by going to I tunes. Your feedback will really help us breath the idea of grabbing life by the horns with a COWGIRL STATE OF MIND into women across the globe, some that may have never even had the privilege to throw their leg over a horse but could most certainly use the cowgirl state of mind while navigating life. Until next time, keep pursuing your dreams with that All Go & No Whoa mentality. Remember- You're writing a story that's worth saddling up for sister. God Bless, Dakota

Show: Deadly AffairsEpisode: Fatal Finale Season 1 Episode 2Megan and Sarah cover a new show called Deadly Affairs, with host Susan Lucci!! It's amazing. This show is a keeper, thanks to Sara Garcia for the recommendation!!Nelda and Charles are both Florida middle school teachers at the end of their career. They are looking forward to a nice, relaxing retirement. Things drastically change when Charles gets a surprise visitor, his long lost son!! This family reunion is a happy one, but not necessarily for Nelda. Like sand through the hourglass, so are douche husband's secrets and lies. Check out our website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/837988Like our Facebook page and join our group!!Instagram: @itsalwaysthehusbandTwitter: @alwaysthehubsEtsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ItsAlwaysTheHusband Theme song by Jamie "I'm Gonna Kill You, Bitch" NelsonSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/join/itsalwaysthehusband?)

#9  FWPD How are they doing? (Part 1)Hello Fort Worth and welcome to another episode of the Fort Worth Freedom Review.If you are new here, the Freedom Review exists to inform and educate the Fort Worth and Tarrant County community about the values and the functions of civic engagement, the goings-on of the local City Council, the Mayor, the County Commissioners Court as well as important news stories from our community and from the greater Texas community including state political issues.  My name is Anthony Sosa and today we have Amber O'Dell, Thomas Moore and  Christie Beamer here  to discuss local issues regarding the FWPD. This episode ran a little long so we had to break it up into 2 parts. This is Part 1 of 2 and in Part 1 Amber will cover the Bowman and Del Carmen Expert Police Panel Report. This report was pretty thorough and dense and details many issues with the current state of the dept and lays a great foundation for the conversations to come in part 2.. In part 2, Christie breaks down the Sunset Commission for us, it's role and its report on FWPD and “opportunities for growth.” Thomas will discuss some of the findings from No Sleep Till Justice's FOIA request regarding FWPD incidents and finally I will present some recent news stories regarding FWPD and Keller PD.  All of the resources used for this episode will be provided below in the show notes.  As always, please subscribe and sign up for our newsletter and get updates on FW political news and deep dives into local issues. We are currently a volunteer organization, if you would like to get involved or want to contact us you can reach us at FWFreedomReview@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @FWReview and on Facebook at Fort Worth Freedom Review. This podcast is made possible by The Justice Reform League, a Fort Worth based non-profit. If you wish to support us or this podcast, please go to www.justicereformleague.org   and click on the Donate button. Report Documents: https://www.justicereformleague.org/fwpd.html#/ The Guardian Article on Nelda and John Pricehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/fort-worth-texas-police-elderly-black-coupleFort Worth Police Lieutenant Arrested For DWI In Front Of Elementary Schoolhttps://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/12/10/fort-worth-police-lieutenant-gary-hawley-arrested-dwi-grapevine/Fort Worth Police Officer Fired For Sharing Racist Post On Facebookhttps://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/10/02/fort-worth-police-officer-terminated-for-sharing-racist-post-facebook/The New York Times Article on Keller PDhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/us/marco-puente-texas-police-arrest.htmlKeller PD Bodycam videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDrd9vZXrjE&feature=emb_title  “Thirty-four states still allow police officers to have consensual sex with detainees.”https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/03/195224/new-york-police-sexual-assault-legal-loophole-closed

#9  FWPD How are they doing? (Part 2)Hello Fort Worth and welcome to another episode of the Fort Worth Freedom Review.If you are new here, the Freedom Review exists to inform and educate the Fort Worth and Tarrant County community about the values and the functions of civic engagement, the goings-on of the local City Council, the Mayor, the County Commissioners Court as well as important news stories from our community and from the greater Texas community including state political issues.  My name is Anthony Sosa and today we have Amber O'Dell, Thomas Moore and  Christie Beamer here  to discuss local issues regarding the FWPD. This episode ran a little long so we had to break it up into 2 parts. This is Part 2 of 2 and in Part 1 Amber covered the Bowman and Del Carmen Expert Police Panel Report. This report was pretty thorough and dense and details many issues with the current state of the dept and lays a great foundation for the conversations to come here in part 2.In this part, part 2, Christie breaks down the Sunset Commission for us, it's role and its report on FWPD and “opportunities for growth.” Thomas will discuss some of the findings from No Sleep Till Justice's FOIA request regarding FWPD incidents and finally I will present some recent news stories regarding FWPD and Keller PD.  All of the resources used for this episode will be provided below in the show notes.  As always, please subscribe and sign up for our newsletter and get updates on FW political news and deep dives into local issues. We are currently a volunteer organization, if you would like to get involved or want to contact us you can reach us at FWFreedomReview@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @FWReview and on Facebook at Fort Worth Freedom Review. This podcast is made possible by The Justice Reform League, a Fort Worth based non-profit. If you wish to support us or this podcast, please go to www.justicereformleague.org   and click on the Donate button. Report Documents: https://www.justicereformleague.org/fwpd.html#/ The Guardian Article on Nelda and John Pricehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/fort-worth-texas-police-elderly-black-coupleFort Worth Police Lieutenant Arrested For DWI In Front Of Elementary Schoolhttps://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/12/10/fort-worth-police-lieutenant-gary-hawley-arrested-dwi-grapevine/Fort Worth Police Officer Fired For Sharing Racist Post On Facebookhttps://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/10/02/fort-worth-police-officer-terminated-for-sharing-racist-post-facebook/The New York Times Article on Keller PDhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/us/marco-puente-texas-police-arrest.htmlKeller PD Bodycam videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDrd9vZXrjE&feature=emb_title  “Thirty-four states still allow police officers to have consensual sex with detainees.”https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/03/195224/new-york-police-sexual-assault-legal-loophole-closed

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On his recent 68th birthday, acclaimed futurist, best-selling author, and global tech authority Kevin Kelly took a moment to reflect back on his nearly seven decades of life. The result—sixty-eights bits of unsolicited advice. In this episode, Nelda sits down to discuss these "bytes" of wisdom. Acclaimed futurist Kevin Kelly has always had his finger on the pulse of what he calls the Technium or ecosystem of technologies. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control. As co-founder of Wired, the preeminent source for how technology affects culture, economy, and politics, and former editor of Whole Earth Review which covers unorthodox technical news, Kelly is an advocate for taking the long view—the really long view. From his celebrated books and publications to his online footprint, Kelly is investing time and energy into processes and research that will benefit humankind for tens of thousands of years. Kelly's efforts include The Long Now Foundation, a cultural institution whose mission is to promote long-term thinking and reframe the notion of time. Projects include a self-sustaining clock embedded in a west Texas mountain built to run for ten thousand years. As a symbol of time, the clock is an iconic reminder to invest in things for the distant future. Says Kelly, “The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly for tens of thousands of years.” Kelly's philosophy is that just knowing that things like the clock are possible can suggest even greater ideas. Ideas are Kelly's stock-in-trade. With his daily blog Cool Tools and weekly newsletter Recomendo, he shares thoughts and recommendations on anything that could be considered a “tool”—defined broadly as anything useful. Recently, Kelly even offered up 68 bits of unsolicited advice to mark his 68th birthday. With another season passing, Kelly reflects, “the only real gift that we have on our short life here is our time and how we use that time is really far more important than what we say or what we intend or what we actually preach.” There is no question, this future thinker is using his time wisely.

The Associate Caller of the Day is Rachel at Store 4105 in El Paso, Texas, and she’s been with Walmart for 26 years! Thanks for calling, Rachel! Do you need a tip for 2020? Actor, singer and restauranteur, Donnie Wahlberg, gave someone a $2,020 tip recently on a $35 lunch bill. That’s the right stuff to help us get through the year step by step. So, on Who Sang It?, we chose some lyrics that are hangin’ tough with Donnie’s generosity. And on the Social Media Highlight of the Day, we shout out Walmart Store 463 in Beeville, Texas. Nelda and the overnight team did a great job getting the store clean, zoned and ready for their Deals for Days events. Great job, team! Antonio and Iyube are in the studio for today’s podcast. We had some technical issues that kept us from being on air in stores, but you can catch up with The Night Show right here with National XYZ Day, Motivational Quote of the Day, Did You Know? and more on this Motivational Monday!

Nelda Lee — Boeing your mind since '69.

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode: Alan, Chase and ROMEY (Yayyy!!!) are in the house. Be sure to check out our Small Town Famous Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch broadcast if you want to put a face to the voices you've been listening to. Also, find STF's podcast (audio-only) on your favorite podcast platform. We're going global, son! We would love for y'all to tune in to our Live sessions and give us your questions or comments. Please do us a favor and like, follow, share, subscribe on your favorite social media app. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous us on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc... Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to listen from our website or to get in touch with us. Finally, you can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! If you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life" and many other topical subjects, then this is your podcast. Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous! #smalltownfamous #msnelda #rapidfire #podcast

This past Saturday, June 20th, was World Refugee Day (https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/world-refugee-day/) , a day when we commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees around the world. To me, the stories of refugees truly embody the resilience of the human spirit. They remind me that I am capable of hard things and that love and family and community are worth fighting for. As such, I hope that this episode will inspire you during this uncertain time in our nation's history. Today's guest, Nelda Ault-Dyslin, has extensive experience working with refugee communities, first at the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection (https://www.cacherefugees.org/) or CRIC, as they call it, in Logan Utah. I hope that as you listen, you might get one tiny idea of how you can be a better neighbor (https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/121-finding-purpose-with-brooke-snow/) and community member–or even just one tiny bit of knowledge that will help you to better understand the issues that you hear about in the news about refugees and immigration. Any effort you make to expand your worldview and become more aware of your neighbors matters! I am grateful to be part of a community of podcast listeners who deeply believes that. How to Help RefugeesThree Takeaways for Welcoming and Supporting Refugee Communities 1. Be creative and humble when learning about refugee communities. 2. Before assuming you know what kind of help a community member needs, ask them. 3. Support efforts and organizations that recognize the assets that refugees bring with them, instead of focusing only on the needs. Show Notes - Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection (https://www.cacherefugees.org/) Other Episodes You Might Like Episode 110: How to Compassionately Respond to Homelessness (https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/110-how-to-compassionately-respond-to-homelessness-meg-martin/) Episode 132: Inspiring Bravery in Our Kids Through Role Models (https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/132-inspiring-bravery-in-our-kids-ashley-aikele-and-elyse-beard/) Episode 21: 3 Easy but Impactful Ways to Deepen Relationships with Others (https://3in30podcast.com/captivate-podcast/relationships/) Sponsor This month of episodes is brought to us by Yusra Mardini (https://www.yusra-mardini.com/) . For 10% off, use the code 3IN30 at checkout. Do you have any other questions about how to help refugees? What did you find most helpful? Let me know in a comment below!

Please note this episode was recorded in April 2020. Longtime friends Nelda Hunter and Denise Rose sit down for a conversation all about their work together at the Texas Capitol. Denise is well-known under the pink dome and has an amazing reputation for being a supporter of the women she works with. This episode shares Denise's trademark warmth and supportive spirit with great advice for how to develop your own style and relationships in a competitive culture.Support the show http://www.patreon.com/PinkGraniteSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/PinkGranite)

Nowhere in the world celebrates Modernism better than Palm Springs, California.  Every February, they have a huge architecture and design festival called Modernism Week, which actually lasts 11 days. This was the fifth year USModernist has been at Modernism Week, talking poolside at the USModernist Compound, aka the hip Hotel Skylark, with nearly all the keynote speakers, authors, and special guests. When modern-day Dorothy's kick their red ruby slippers together, they don’t go to Kansas, they land next to in Frank Sinatra’s pool in Palm Springs. Modernism Week is a dazzling spectacle of mid-century architecture, martinis, lectures, art galleries, shopping, nonprofit benefit events, architecture documentary premieres, amazing parties at incredible houses, brilliantly curated house tours, detailed art and architecture exhibits, and much more.   Today we kick off 2020 Modernism Week coverage with architect Daniel Libeskind, known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the master plan for the World Trade Center reconstruction and memorial, and the Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s one of the world’s most highly regarded architects and someone people can trust to work with projects of great meaning and significance, especially where loss in involved.   Next, host George Smart visits with the Queen of Palm Springs, the woman everyone wants to talk to by the pool, Nelda Linsk.  Later a delightful chat with Alison Martino, producer, writer, reporter, preservationist, and a master chronicler of old Hollywood, in which she grew up as the daughter of singer Al Martino.

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan, Jordan Fro, and Chase shoot the breeze. Fro is back and in fine form! And, we hear from Ms. Nelda who provides her New Year Resolutions. Merry Christmas from STF! If you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous

Interview with AR State Rep. Nelda Speaks: 10/14/19, Hr. 2 by Conduit Media

The Earth Element - Harmony? Tiny house dreams are dashed by the Empress in residence. Nelda and her brood prove sticky in the woods.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan and Chase are joined by...wait for it...Romey! He's in from California and in fine form. Listen to them talk about various topics such as STF Facebook blowing up, a new Ms Nelda, and fire memes! If you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

The Amparo Experience is an immersive theater experience bringing us the story of the Arrechabala family; a story of “one family's fight for love, country, legacy and the truth behind the real HAVANA CLUB RUM”. We sat down with Writer Vanessa Garcia and Producer Victoria Collado to talk about this moving experience resonating across cultures and with Cuban-Americans who find in it their own stories. Marcos, Raquel and Nelda also sit down to talk about what the experience meant for them providing a generational perspective. This is a true story from the Exiled South; of legacy lost and recovered. Don't tell us we're not Cuban.

Jeff Kubiak is a former world-class swimmer and coach who’s now a passionate Educator, Speaker and Blogger.  He’s currently, the Principal of Nelda Mundy Elementary School in Fairfield, California.  He’s the Director of Kindness for Pushing Boundaries Consulting.  Additionally, he is the author of a children’s book called “One Drop of Kindness.” In this episode, Kubiak shares his vision for cultures of kindness with KIDS FIRST Thinking, student voice, and a belief that ALL KIDS CAN!  Later, Nicole joins Brayden and Taya to reflect on their relationship to kindness. Follow Jeff Kubiak on Twitter Instagram Purchase “One Drop of Kindness” **Award Winning Culture is Sponsored by CharacterStrong

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! In this episode, we go all the way back to July of 2017 when Alan, Jordan and Chase bring in the equivalent of kryptonite to the STF studio. It is the one-and-only Ty Too Fly. This episode was never going to see the light of day. But, after much preparation and the magic of editing, Alan was able to cobble together what ends up being an entertaining episode! Seriously, Ty is a funny guy. You'll love him. But, holding him back was like putting a bridle on a a Mustang...it just ain't supposed to happen. But, we got her done and it's now available for you! You'll hear some dated references due to being 2017. And, Alan was under the weather as you'll be able to hear. Ms. Nelda joins in. But, as with everything in this episode...it just gets weird. You'll also hear some familiar names who had yet to become STF staples. A couple of our biggest fans, Robbie Cruse and Grant Shook are first mentioned on this episode. Also, Romey had not yet joined. So, without further ado, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are STILL Small Town Famous! And, long live Nitty the Kitty.

Nelda is a former firefighter who's worked her way through the ranks, and ultimately help bring about the CISM program. On this episode she covers her history, her background, and the reasons why she is so dedicated to mental health. Along with that, she goes into great detail about the CISM program and the importance of self care/buddy care...This is unscripted, barely edited, and raw episode... Its a bit long, and a bit dark, but its great information and can help you, or someone that you know down the road...I wanted to tackle this episode right off the bat on episode one because its the "elephant in the room" discussion. Its a topic that nobody wants to acknowledge - So, Nelda and I decided to take the discussion head on...Side note: im still figuring this whole podcasting thing out, so this episode might have some volume issues... You'll deal with it...Hope you guys enjoy

Families experience a closer connection when they laugh together. Keeping things light with Ted Cunningham, Dave Stone, and mother-son duo, Nelda and Tim Hawkins. Show Notes and Resources Ted Cunningham tells of the fun he has making his wife laugh. Ted reminds couples to enjoy themselves in the midst of life's ups and downs.  https://www.familylife.com/podcast/series/fun-loving-you/ Is your family joyful?  Author Dave Stone reflects on the fun days of his childhood and on his parents, who exuded what it means to live out their faith joyfully.  https://www.familylife.com/podcast/series/faithful-families/ Comedian Tim Hawkins reminisces about his childhood and his mother’s unique ways of disciplining him.  https://www.familylife.com/podcast/series/refreshment-for-families/ Learn more about becoming a Legacy Partner, a monthly supporter of FamilyLife.  http://www.familylife.com/legacy

State Rep. Nelda Speaks' Impression of the Session: 5/2/19, Hr. 2 by Conduit Media

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan, Chase and Romey shoot the breeze. We just talk, you know, like we always do. Except, we are sometimes entertaining! In this episode, we finally have a new "Ask Ms. Nelda"! And, we beef up Seth Miller's advertisement for the heck of it! As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan, Jordan, Chase and Fro shoot the breeze. We just talk, you know, like we always do. Except, we are sometimes entertaining! We have a special gift from Ms. Nelda and a beautiful song by Alan's daughter, Lexi, to end the show. Merry Christmas and God Bless! As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan, Jordan, Chase and Romey shoot the breeze. We just talk, you know, like we always do. Except, we are sometimes entertaining! As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Sorry for the delay...we hope it was worth the wait! This big boy is 3 hours long. So, please, pace yourself. Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! This episode, Alan, Jordan and Chase welcome Justin Nolte, all the way from Delaware. Justin gives us the inside scoop about the Delaware wedding drama. Plus, you don't want to miss Jordan's singing debut! As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! The boys are back with our first Halloween episode! It's in there...somewhere. Alan did use some sound effects, at least. This week, Alan and Chase shoot the breeze. And, we are joined on the phone by our old friend, Geoffrey Orr. As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Nelda’s podcast interview with her friend George Lynch from the volunteer organization Traffick911 explains how this team of heroes helps restore what has been stolen from trafficked, but infinitely valuable, children — their individual voices and choices.

Thank you for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! The boys are back with our first Halloween episode! It's in there...somewhere. Alan did use some sound effects, at least. This week, Alan, Fro, Chase and Romey shoot the breeze. We are welcomed by Lexi and her boyfriend, Hunter. We have a new "Ask Mrs. Nelda". And, Alan asks Chase for his impression of Hank Hill getting 3 wishes from a genie. Special thanks are given this week to Jeff Prince and his pharmacy, Prince Pharmacy, in Magnolia, AR! Also, we announce that $1/month will get you a special "STF Shoutout" on an upcoming episode! As always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes and on Facebook. And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. You can also find us on our new YouTube channel! Also, visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on social media by searching Small Town Famous or, more directly, @theSTFamous. You can support us for as little as a dollar per month by going to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous! Thanks for listening to "The Biggest Little Podcast Out There"! We are Small Town Famous!

Nelda Swiggett wants to inspire her audience through her music to be proactive about addressing climate change. A Bainbridge native, Nelda has composed The Alaska Suite, a musical story of beauty. loss and hope.  Nelda and her five-piece chamber jazz ensemble will be performing these pieces Saturday evening at Grace Episcopal Church. But this is more than a concert.  The Alaska Suite combines the emotional power of multiple mediums - live music, spoken words, images, and poetry.  Nelda says Alaska is our "canary in the coal mine" and should be a wake up call for all of us. Listen here as Nelda explains her creative process for this composition and tells the events that first moved her to become an active environmentalist and later to compose the Alaska Suite. Tickets cost $15 and are available in advance at Eagle Harbor Books or at the door.  The concert begins at 7:00, doors open at 6:30. This event is being co-sponsored by Grace Episcopal Church, Cedars UUC, Eagle Harbor Congregational church, and Earth Ministry (an ecumenical Seattle nonprofit). For more information, visit http://neldaswiggett.com and https://www.gracehere.org/ Credits: BCB host: Sandy Schubach; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media: Jen St. Louis.

Thanks for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! The boys are back with another funny episode! This week, Alan, Chase, Jordan and Romey are in the house. We have new advice from Ms. Nelda, a live smackdown between long-time fan Robbie Cruse and Jordan, and much more. We have a special guest, as well! Alan's friend and fellow podcaster, Mark Turner, who's daughter, Ella, made BFFs with Anistyn at Camp Sweeney. He joins us via phone for a great Rapid Fire segment, a quick interview and a quick "convo" between Ella and Anistyn (super sweet!). Check out Mark's podcast, Whistle Stop Week, where you get your podcasts! When you get a chance, please leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and Facebook! And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. Also, we are now active on YouTube! Finally, look us up on Patreon. For just a dollar per month, you could help more folks get Small Town Famous'd! Visit us on our website at www.smalltownfamous.com. Or reach us on social media by searching @theSTFamous. Thanks for listening!

Rudy is joined by Amanda Lee Alaniz as they interview recently published author Nelda Cantu Garcia. Garcia’s book titled “It’s Not About Me; It’s About You” tells her story of growing up in rural South Texas, raising a family and the state of her faith in the midst of great loss. Original Theme Music By: Zack Munoz Support the show (http://patreon.com/revolveone)

Thanks for listening to the funniest podcast in Arkansas! The boys are back with another funny episode! This week, Alan, Chase and Fro introduce our newest segment...The Fro Down...Fro's own sports segment. We hear from Ms. Nelda and have the latest STF in Slo-Mo! Amanda, Fro's wife, joins us for Rapid Fire while doing her infamous Fro impersonation! This episode is practically a Fro Fest! And, finally, as stated incorrectly in episode 48, we have THE call from STF Uber-fan, Ty Too Fly. He has advice for Alan and his upcoming trip to NYC! You don't want to miss this! When you get a chance, please leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and Facebook! And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. Also, we are now active on YouTube! Visit us on our website at www.smalltownfamous.com. Or reach us on social media by searching @theSTFamous. Thanks for listening!

In this episode we interview Nelda from HD Salvage and Sales in Paulina, IA. She shares with us how they acquire unique time period pieces from the late 1800s to 1935, trends she sees and insight on who has visited and from where.

Join me for the Transformative Leadership Summit Vision Mission Strategic Goals Strategic goals line up with the district’s strategic goals. Our vision for Tanana is “give people what they need, when they need it.” This vision applies to staff, students, parents, and other community members as needed.   Our vision for the future of Tanana is clear and has been reviewed throughout the year. Here is the updated 4 year plan. At two times this year, I have met with each teacher individually to discuss the vision for the school and ensure that we are able to make collaborative decisions about the future. Additionally, the Leadership Team Running Agenda reviews and gives information about the trajectory of our school, as well as our Faculty Meeting Running Agenda and our PLC Session Board.   Data for Informed Decision Making While academic success is surely one of our goals at Tanana, in this building year, there has not been a lot of focus on traditional school data. While we have certainly analyzed and reviewed MAP data, PEAKS data was essentially not useful, and we have focused more on other issues.   One of the major areas of concern related to attendance and tardies. We have systematically documented tardy issues and found that typically less than 5% of our students are tardy, which indicates it is a small problem, and not a widespread issue. We have identified 19 students who are consistently tardy and in the halls and have created a student contract for them. To enable us to identify the students who were the ones causing issues, we created hall passes for teachers to use to monitor student hallway use.   Additionally, we used informal qualitative data to determine next steps for our school this year, asking teachers the areas in which we needed to focus. A review of our progress will be completed at the conclusion of this school year.   Furthermore, at the beginning of the year, Dr. Orr and I met with each teacher to review MAP data and how it would impact their classrooms. We used the documents in this folder for our review with the teachers. Empowering Work Environment At Tanana Middle School, our success cannot be dependent on the principal’s ability to manage many different initiatives. That is a recipe for disaster. Teachers and other staff take a prominent role in ensuring that plans are successful.   One such area is our advisory options. Each teacher (and staff member that wants to) may submit a new advisory option every two weeks. This list shows all the different options that have been created this year. Each teacher takes responsibility for creating something of value for students. Many items on that list are also student-generated ideas that came from students wanting to have a bigger say in what we do.   Our school librarian was given the directive at the beginning of the year to make the library a “place where we learn and create” and has been given decision-making authority to accomplish that. Mrs. Martin redesigned the library, removed a wall, facilitated technology distribution, and created makerspaces in the library, that change nearly every single day.   Mr. Balash has adjusted his way of delivering instruction in the classroom to ensure all students are engaged in the process of learning and acting. The beginning of the year, end of the year, and many other activities throughout the year have been organized by teachers working in committee to make meaningful change to our school. Continuous Improvement One of my favorite ideas is that we are never done improving. It doesn’t matter how much we do or don’t do, we can always get better. There is always room for growth, no matter what we are doing. One small example is that our hall passes were not as effective as we wanted, and so we created a second hall pass that met the teachers’ needs. One group of teachers needed additional support, so they created their own processes for dealing with hall passes in their section of the hallway.   A good example of our belief in continuous improvement relates to the Leadership Team Running Agenda. On the April 25 agenda, we had this posted on our agenda: Reevaluate schedule B, please…comment from teacher ”Does Schedule B really help us grow into the schedule we want for the future?  Does it help train students to be ready to handle the freedom of an open schedule?”   Even when we make a decision, we know that we have a long way to go to be where we want to be. Nothing in our school is too sacred to talk about. Celebrating Success and Acknowledging Failures Each faculty meeting, we start with celebrations. There are many areas when I have failed at something this year. I usually refer to those on my podcast. One of the failures that we had this year was an attempt to roll out a school-wide service learning program. A couple teachers came to the leadership team with an idea, and we tried to roll it out to the staff. It was too soon, and I let the leadership team know that I had jumped the gun too much on that.   Another area where I failed this year related to collaborating with principals relating to personalized learning. I attempted to have weekly meetings with other principals around personalized learning. Nobody showed up, and so I waited “by the phone” each week. I’ve recently started doing a Fairbanks mastermind with four other principals in the district on Friday mornings. This has been a much better solution and much more powerful because there are just a few of us. Even so, we have only had a couple meetings, so we will see where it goes.   Personalized Learning Student Reflections - One of our teachers   Ideal Week Schedule Each week, I schedule out my week and plan to spend the morning with teachers. I used to think that I needed to be in classrooms observing teachers, but I’ve realized it’s much more powerful when I think of that time as coaching teachers. I might be in their room while they are teaching, or I might be talking with them during their prep, talking about how we can meet their goals. Other items that I time block include writing newsletters to parents, collaborating with my assistant principal, and making time for district-focused work each Tuesday afternoon.   Having time blocks has really helped me to be present in the moment so that I can devote attention to the things that are really important.       Systems Leadership One of my goals this year after reading “The One Thing” has been about being more proactive, and less reactive. We’ve established Key Responsibility Areas for our special education staff, office staff and a couple other positions. It is easy to float through life, reacting to every situation, but it is so much more valuable to be proactive and lead with vision for the future. A shining example of the focus on systems has been to create strategies for recruiting top talent to our school. A recent full time certified hire told me, “I wasn’t going to work here, but then I came and heard your vision for what the school could be, and I knew I had to stay.” Having a vision and sharing it with people is what makes them join the work. This one teacher who joined our staff will have a tremendous impact on our ability to reach our goals.   At the beginning of the year, we established new school rules. These rules are “Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.” These school rules are clear, and easy to remember. They also allow teachers, students, staff, and anyone else in our building to support the rules by asking three questions about any student behavior:   Is it safe? Is it respectful? Is it responsible?   If the answer to any of these questions is, “No,” then we know the behavior needs to change. We have high expectations for students to always be safe, respectful, and responsible, but we also understand that it takes different students different amounts of time to be successful at the expectations.   Communication One area of communication for which I am especially grateful is managing conflict at our school among adults. Despite our best efforts, we adults can sometimes be the most challenging to communicate with. In my own experience, I come across and stern and strict many times, when that is really quite opposite from who I really am inside. Teachers and staff in the past have complained that it is difficult to talk with me. I’ve made great strides in being more approachable, but still have a ways to go. One of the strategies that I have used is called “Communication cards.” These cards hang on my door so that anyone who needs to have a difficult conversation with me can have a difficult conversation knowing that I am going to respond a certain way when the communication cards are used. This has really been beneficial to me to diffuse difficult situations. Thankfully, these cards have sat largely unused for most of the year. That means that I am getting better in my interpersonal communication skills because people don’t feel the need to use the cards to communicate.   Constant communication is important. I’d like to share some stats from our newly-created-this-year social media accounts. It is important for us to be everywhere for our families and support them in making sure they know what is going on at our school. We have a long way to go to be there for everyone, but we are heading in the right direction. Instagram This account has 95 posts as of 04/25/2018 and 88 followers. Most posts generate about 10-15 likes. Dr. Orr and I are the only ones who post to this account.   Facebook This account has 207 likes, and is climbing the charts in relation to the comparison schools. In three years in Kodiak, I got that page up to 700 likes, so we are making a good progression towards that. Our highest usage of our facebook page is between 4 and 8 pm and at noon. If we do any facebook live events, noon would probably be a pretty good time to do it. Our most popular posts average 10 reactions.   Twitter Our Tweets earned 5.3K impressions over the last 28 day period. We have 57 followers and 800 tweets so far. Our most popular tweet over the last month was related to a student mastering his math facts up to 14x14! That’s pretty positive. This account is mostly automatic tweets from facebook and instagram.   Mailchimp The fourth way we communicate with families is through our newsletter account in Mailchimp. Our emails usually get about 35-40% open rates. That’s pretty good.   Parent Feedback Around the middle of the year, I asked parents how much they were satisfied with their Tanana experience:   With a 10% response rate, we have about 73% of parents who are satisfied or strongly satisfied with the work done by Tanana staff with their student. That’s very positive. Those in the middle left some comments about improving communication, and one notable comment said, “Your personalized learning plan was a pretty sh*tty idea.” The Blog We started a blog for our school relating Volunteerism Perhaps the best outcome from all this parent and community communication has been the increase in parent involvement and community engagement. Nearly every week, we have had parents or community members in our classrooms working with our students. Our school is welcoming to many from outside who don’t typically have interactions with middle school students. A favorite story is from Nelda and Tom Nixon who are local watercolor artists who live close by. They came to our school and taught watercolor during advisory. This opportunity gave this retired couple an opportunity to see what is going on in schools today and be more engaged in the school process.   Our goal for volunteers was 500 in our school this year. At the semester break, we were at 250. As of today, we are at 384. Leadership For Learning If we aren’t moving forward in our efforts for helping kids learn, then all our efforts are pretty much wasted.   Our focus this year is on personalized learning and my expectations for staff have been very clear, and quite minimal. Each staff member needed to do one activity, lesson, or unit that incorporated personalized learning each quarter. This is not a high bar, but with a vision like we have, it makes it so much easier for them to be successful in implementing that. In fact, I’d say that nearly every teacher has done way more than just a 4 Personalized Learning activities this year. It has really been amazing to see how far so many have gone.   I believe that the reason we have been so successful is two fold. First, we have really great teachers who strive to go above and beyond. Second, we have a clear vision of where we want to go, and we know it is ok to not be there right this minute. As we converse about different ways to improve instruction, teachers take a little idea, and implement something amazing that they can do themselves.   For example, after our MAP meetings with teachers, Mrs. Garcia and Mrs. Chorley, and some other teachers found the MAP goal setting worksheets, and worked with students to make individual goals for where they could improve their learning.   Teachers who have been effective in implementing personalized learning have also been “visiting” the distinguished range of the Danielson framework much more often. It is really powerful to see them be so successful.   One area where we have a lot of work to do revolves around grading. Plain and simple: our grades don’t mean anything. In one class, grades mean something entirely different from another class. It is imperative that we work on getting on the same page with grading. The need to move to a competency-based system is enormous. This is a major area of growth for our school. When grades mean so many different things, it is very challenging to hold students to high standards. For example, an A in one class means that a student is compliant and does what the teacher asks. An A in another class means that a student did a bunch of work, but maybe didn’t learn anything. An A in another class could mean that a student has actually learned the content. An A in another class could mean that a student has just shown up every day, or even most days.   In the last few months, I have consistently been saying that an F means that the teacher has failed, while a D means the student has failed. We are having conversations about taking away 0 grades so as to not penalize students. This is a great podcast episode with Rick Wormeli about that very idea.   Professionalism Over the course of this school year, we have focused heavily on professional development for our staff. Each week, Dr. Orr and I curate articles, podcasts, TED talks, and other resources to help our staff have meaningful professional development on their own time. We have focused our Faculty Meetings and PLCs on providing value to our teachers. We have eliminated sit and get PD sessions and have made them personalized and interactive for all adult learners. We must model this for our teachers first, if we expect them to do it in their classrooms.   One of the major challenges we have faced this year relates to our suspensions of students of color. This is challenging because if we follow the district policies, we have to suspend students of color at a higher rate because their natural behavior is in conflict with our school district policies. Students of color are louder than their white counterparts as a whole, and that makes them easy targets for teachers or staff members when assigning blame for incidents they didn’t see themselves. Students of color are often accused or targeted because they are loud or animated. This is an area where we need to continually work to improve.   Outside of work, I have sought to improve my own professional growth by applying to present at the Alaska Principals conference, the National Principals Conference, ASTE, and the Personalized Learning Summit in San Francisco. For my podcast, since being in Fairbanks, I have interviewed  over 50 people for my podcast to learn how to be a transformative principal.  

It's been a while, but we are back...again! The whole crew is here. We have new installments of Ask Ms. Nelda, Romey Reminisces, and STF in Slo-mo. Thanks to Aaron Willis, Audio Savant, for engineering this episode and lending a creative hand to make STF even better! We apologize for the delay! We have more episodes ready and coming soon. And, you can take that to the bank...just don't cash it for a few weeks. When you get a chance, please leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and Facebook! And, while on iTunes, hit that Subscribe button! It helps make the episodes easier to find in iTunes. Visit us on our website at www.smalltownfamous.com. Or reach us on social media by searching @theSTFamous. Thanks for listening!

The STF Crew shoots the breeze straight outta Taylor, Arkansas This week, we have another installment of "Ask Ms. Nelda". Alan's wife, Leslie, participates! Then, the crew makes a cringe-worthy crank phone call. Finally, Jordan tells of his trials while in a Filipino airport bathroom! And while your at it, please leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and Facebook! Visit us on our website at www.smalltownfamous.com. Or reach us on social media by searching @theSTFamous. Thanks for listening!

Alan, Jordan, Jeffery and Chase welcome Taylor basketball coach, TC French. This episode was recorded before TC's sudden departure from Taylor. Good luck, Coach! We wish you all the best. Lexi talks about playing on the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks softball field to win her first state softball title. The crew tries to pick the NBA FInal winner (Alan and Jordan got it right). And, we get a special call from our most rabid fan...the infamous, Nelda Beene. So, as always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes, Facebook or, the new IMDb for podcasting, Podchaser (www.podchaser.com). A 5-star review enters you into our STF™ Review Contest. Please, keep hitting that iTunes "SUBSCRIBE" button! Also, if you love our show and want to help, go to www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous to support us for as little as $1/month or click the "Show Us Some Love" button on our website. Visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on: Twitter: @theSTFamous Facebook: @theSTFamous. We are also on YouTube and Instagram. Thanks to our sponsors: Northwest Regional Hospice of Louisiana Lake Sue Nursery (Facebook: @lakesuenursery) Shooters (Facebook: @shootersmagnolia) Whitehead Marine and Outboard Repair (Facebook: @WhiteheadOutboardRepair) Billy Bland Fishery, Inc (Facebook: @BlandFishery)

Episode 2 of the El Lector podcast. Tonight join Marcos as he interviews Nelda Peruyero. They discuss her father, Juan Jose Peruyero (Joseito). Peruyero was assassinated in 1977 in front of his Little Havana home. His murder remains a cold-case. Nelda shares with us the character of her father and paints a vivid picture of a turbulent time in Miami and Cuban history.

Alan, Jordan, and Chase welcome a very special guest, Ernie (aka, Chase's Daddy). On this episode, Ernie pitches his designer cat litter to Alan on a version of STF™ Tank, Chase says backstory 174 times, Jordan and Alan field a call from a Uber-fan, Ms. Nelda Beene. But, she is apparently infatuated with Jeffrey. Also on this episode, we discuss Ernie's wife and her "blow-out", Layla...the cat from Hades, Alan's puns and cerebral humor will keep Chase up at night, the famous statement "Elvis has left the building" began in our neck of the woods, Jordan has to have a visual when you tell him a story, STF has new rules...and Ernie almost broke 'em. Finally, we hear why Ernie is always outside, Ernie's "love" for a local BBQ joint, the conclusion of Jordan's "Moscow Moose Knuckle Job Interview", Jordan has a "reserve" joke (when will he reveal it?), Jeffrey walks likes he is constantly about to fall, Alan has a terrible idea and the fact that deer make terrible passengers. We reveal our "iTunes Review" t-shirt winner and are surprised by a special guest, Ms. Chapman from London, England (aka, Anna's British alter-ego). Listen all the way to the end...Ernie has a surprise coming! So, as always, if you like listening to genuine Southerners talking about the greatness that is "small town life", then this is your podcast. Give it a listen, and don't forget to leave a 5-star review on iTunes to be our STF™ ITunes Review contest winner for the next episode! Believe it or not, it does help keep us on the air! Also, if you love our show and want to help, go to www.patreon.com/smalltownfamous to support us for as little as $1/month or click the "Show Us Some Love" button on our website. Visit www.smalltownfamous.com to subscribe using your favorite podcast player and to get in touch with us. Follow us on Twitter: @theSTFamous. Find us on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Thanks to our sponsors: The Station (Facebook: @StationinTaylor) Lake Sue Nursery (Facebook: @lakesuenursery) Shooters (Facebook: @shootersmagnolia) Whitehead Marine and Outboard Repair (Facebook: @WhiteheadOutboardRepair) Billy Bland Fishery, Inc (Facebook: @BlandFishery)

Jonnie W is riding on the Poddy Bus! This week, Tim gets pizza, but not the pizza he wants. Glade calls into the show. Freight calls out Chick-Fil-A’s green apple problem. The fire alarm goes off during the show. And Jonnie recalls the first time he ever hugged Tim. Also on this episode: The gang talks nicknames for your significant other. Freight gets an amazing gift. Tim gets a Yeti Cooler. We take questions from our tweeps. Tim’s mom, Nelda calls into the show. And Freight says “dope”.Learn to the piano with Tim’s favorite system: http://www.timpiano.comSpeak a new language with Pimsleur: http://www.timpimrocks.comFollow us @poddybreakEmail us at poddybreak@rockshowcomedy.com Click here  to see Tim LIVE!!! Get more of Jonnie at http://www.jonniew.com/ Tweet him @jonnie_w

THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD by Nelda Moffatt The book examines the Bible and Christianity in the context of history—from creation to the 21st century. This includes the science of creation, also man’s evolution as he moves into social and spiritual evolution. As God reveals more and more of Himself. First, as Creator and Spirit, in the Old Testament. God’s  … Read more about this episode...

Want to catch-up on the most recent literature on tree risk assessment? Listen to this podcast to hear Nelda Matheny talk about her analysis of over 700 research papers focused on biomechanics, wind in trees, soils, wood decay, and other topics related to tree risk assessment.

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Fearful in the Great War, Joe promises God that he will become a minister. Unsaved, he goes through seminary. As a pastor he meets Nelda and they marry. Her mother knows Joe isn't saved and her comments annoy him. When an unsaved parishioner dies, pleading for peace with God, Joe doesn't have the answer and quits the ministry. He goes to New York, talks with theologians. One of them sends him to the Bowery rescue mission. Joe is offended by the sermon but ultimately goes forward and is saved.