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Ever thought about taking a weekend getaway all by yourself?Meggan shares the benefits of taking a solo weekend trip, from getting a mental reset and stepping away from your usual responsibilities to having complete control over your schedule. We also chat about how solo travel can build confidence, encourage creativity and give you some much-needed time to yourself. Plus, we share our very different perspectives on traveling alone—and why a solo getaway might be worth trying, even if you're not naturally comfortable with alone time.Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Today's phone in: Making the choice between university and community college. And off the top, the new US alcohol ban will hurt small distillers most, and the NS auditor general on how to address sub-par provincial test results.
Dutch rail operators NS allow most stuff to be advertised at their train stations. But when Wakker Dier applied to have an advert suggesting that people didn't eat animals for one day, they said no...until the courts made them change their mind. Up the revolution! As well as this news, Richard, David & Dominic will be discussing several others stories from the week's vegan & animal rights space.Like what we do? Want to help it sound even better? Join our KoFi gang here: https://ko-fi.com/ENOUGHOFTHEFALAFEL Thanks to Neil, Shane & Alex for their continued Ko-Fi support!****************Enough of the Falafel is a community of people who love keeping on top of the latest news in the world of veganism & animal rights. With the Vegan Week podcast, we aim to keep listeners (& ourselves) informed & up-to-date with the latest developments that affect vegans & non-human animals; giving insight, whilst staying balanced; remaining true to our vegan ethics, whilst constantly seeking to grow & develop. Each week we look through news stories from the past 7 days in the world of veganism & animal rights. If you spot any news stories that might catch our fancy, or have an idea for a discussion topic, get in touch via enoughofthefalafel@gmail.com.*****************This week's stories:https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/sep/19/council-of-fashion-designers-of-america-ceo-steven-kolb-resigns-after-physically-restraining-animal-rights-activists https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckj0639455rro https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/six-animal-rights-campaigners-cleared-34656359 https://redtractor.org.uk/news/red-tractor-opens-beef-lamb-and-dairy-standards-consultations/ https://www.bristol247.com/food-and-drink/news-food-and-drink/vegan-cafe-and-shop-to-close-after-more-than-a-decade/ https://www.theanimalreader.com/2026/09/14/iceland-plans-whaling-law-review-that-could-lead-to-permanent-ban/ https://globalnews.ca/news/12064339/third-marineland-beluga-dies-after-move-this-time-in-spain/ https://www.nu.nl/economie/6410771/rechter-oordeelt-dat-reclame-wakker-dier-zichtbaar-mag-zijn-op-ns-stations.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fground.news%2F https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/hackney-ban-meat-dairy-adverts/ https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/markets-and-trends/dairy-markets/waitrose-champions-regenerative-farming-on-milk-bottles https://www.thejournal.ie/peta-dup-gordon-lyons-belfast-big-fish-sculpture-7171120-Sep2026/ ****************Thanks everyone for listening; give us a rating and drop us a message to say "hi"; it'll make our day!Dominic, David & Richard
Tim van Deursen, oprichter van Hack the Planet, begon als Java-developer bij de NAVO. Hij is auteur van het boek Hack the Planet dat op 24 september 2026 uitkomt.Nu staat hij in de Amazone terwijl illegale houthakkers om hem heen opereren, gebruikt hij VR om stammen die elkaars bloed dronken voor het eerst naar elkaar te laten luisteren, en bouwt hij AI-camera's die een stroper in het oerwoud opsporen via een simpel WhatsApp-berichtje.Wat hij leerde? Dat naïviteit geen zwakte is maar een superkracht. Dat techneuten de klimaatcrisis kunnen oplossen als ze stoppen met TikTok-algoritmes bouwen. En dat het armste jongetje van Zambia, dat zijn enige maaltijd van de dag met een vreemde deelde, hem meer leerde over geluk dan alles wat hij daarvoor had.
Planning a trip to Bali? We're joined by Silvia, founder of The Good Observer, for an insider's guide to experiencing Bali beyond the tourist bubble. She shares her tips for planning a first trip, why slowing down and immersing yourself in Balinese culture can make all the difference, and why she recommends skipping the usual Bali itinerary. We chat about where to stay, homestays, getting around, local food, avoiding Bali belly, and some of the lesser-known places worth adding to your trip. Plus, Silvia shares her advice for solo travellers and her seven-day slow travel itinerary for first-time visitors.Episode Resources:The Good Observer websiteFree 7 Day Slow Itinerary for BaliThe Good Observer YouTubeSupport the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Today's phone-in: What is the right mix of technology in our children's classrooms? Also featured: a forensic DNA expert on identifying cremated remains in NS, and researchers have developed a new way to measure the risk of homelessness.
Steve welcomes his friend George Godfrey from Nova Scotia to talk about some of his paranormal experiences.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/missing-persons-mysteries--5624803/support.
In dieser Folge von Aurora's Mistress Talk tauche ich tief in eines der intensivsten und logistisch anspruchsvollsten BDSM-Rollenspiele ein: Entführungsspiele (Kidnapping Play/Abduction Play). Was steckt hinter dem Wunsch, „entführt“ zu werden? Warum ist gerade der totale Kontrollverlust für viele Menschen so reizvoll? Wie wird so ein Szenario sicher und einvernehmlich umgesetzt – von der ersten Verhandlung bis zur Aftercare? Wie lange dauert es typischerweise und welche Fantasien stehen dahinter? Ich erkläre die psychologischen Hintergründe, den typischen Ablauf, Sicherheitsregeln und gebe praktische Einblicke. Eine aufklärerische Folge über Vertrauen, Adrenalin und die Grenzen zwischen Fantasie und Realität.ShownotesWorkbook "How to be a good Slave" : eBook: https://mistress-academy.de/s/auroranianoxx/how-to-be-a-good-slave Print Version: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0GC3ZBGCBKindl: https://www.amazon.de/Workbook-How-good-Slave-Unterwerfung-ebook/dp/B0GPFCPHMQ/eBooks„Die Kuns tder Dominanz“ – ein Leitfaden für FemDoms: https://mistress-academy.de/s/auroranianoxx/whitepaper-femdom"Penis und Hoden abbinden“: https://mistress-academy.de/s/auroranianoxx/Penis-und-Hoden-abbindenMISTRESS ACADEMY: www.mistressacademy.deDOMINA MASTERCLASS: https://www.domina-ausbildung.net/Die Coachings meiner MISTRESS ACADEMY:: https://www.mistressacademy.de/coaching/Die Online-Kurse meiner MISTRESS ACADEMY:: https://www.mistressacademy.de/online-kurs/ Kurs "How to be a FemDom": https://www.mistressacademy.de/how-to-be-a-femdom/Kurs "Perfect Slave - der Sklaven-Guide": https://www.mistressacademy.de/perfect-slave/ Einzelcoaching mit mir: https://www.mistressacademy.de/einzelcoaching/Meine Workshops:FemDom-Workshop: https://www.mistressacademy.de/femdom-workshop/Dom-Sub-Workshop: https://www.mistressacademy.de/dom-sub-paar-workshop/Alles zu meinem MISTRESS EMPIRE:Private Mietung: https://www.mistressempire.de/booking/privateWebsite: https://www.mistressempire.de/Phone: 040 41125057Mail: info@mistressempire.deMein Buch "Abends heiße ich Aurora": https://amzn.to/2UmZr6dAurora Nia Noxx auf den Kultkieztouren: https://www.kult-kieztouren.de/guides/aurora-nia-noxx/Auroras kostenloser Telegram-Kanal: https://t.me/auroranianoxxchannelAurora auf BestFans: https://www.bestfans.com/auroranianoxxKontakt Aurora: aurora@mistressacademy.deInstagram: @auroranianoxxofficial
On the phone-in: Our guests, Frank Rudzicz and Sageev Oore discuss concerns and answer questions about artificial intelligence. And off the top of the show, we speak with Nina Newington who's a senior from Mount Hanley, NS. She is part of the Seniors Climate Witness e-Caravan to Ottawa to raise environmental issues. And we hear about a new scam in Summerside, PEI.
Is saving $100 worth giving up some of your business class perks?Air Canada has introduced new Premium Economy Basic and Business Class Basic fares, but what exactly do you get—and what do you give up? We break down these new fare options, including seat selection, lounge access, baggage, flight changes, refunds and eUpgrades. Plus, we chat about whether the savings are actually worth it and why you might want to do the math before booking.Episode resources:Mastering Aeroplan and Air Canada StatusSupport the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
In this episode Andrea Samadi explains the concept of sleep stress — a wearable-device measured how physiologically activated your body remains during sleep — and places it within a neuroscience-based movement and recovery framework. She reviews the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic vs. parasympathetic), how WHOOP estimates sleep stress from heart rate and HRV, and why trends over weeks matter more than single nights. Using her six-month data, Andrea shares how recovery habits and removing alcohol coincided with an 89% drop in nightly high sleep stress. The episode ends with practical steps and a seven-day experiment to help you observe and reduce nighttime physiological activation by changing daytime behaviors, sleep environment, and training timing so your body can better recover and adapt. When Sleep Isn't Rest—What “Sleep Stress” Reveals About Recovery: The Story Behind My 89% Drop in Sleep Stress Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, productivity and results. I'm Andrea Samadi, and if you've been following along through Season 16, you'll know that we have been building what I call The Brain's Operating System for Human Performance—a neuroscience-based framework designed to help us understand how the different systems of the brain and body work together to influence how we learn, adapt, connect, lead and ultimately perform. We are currently in Phase 3: Movement, Learning and Cognition, where we have been following a central pathway: Movement → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates a stimulus. But movement alone does not make the brain or body stronger. We must be able to recover from that stimulus before adaptation can occur, to give us our desired outcome of improved performance. This is why our recent bonus episodes have moved beyond exercise itself and into the recovery signals that help us understand whether our bodies are successfully handling the demands we are placing upon them. In Bonus Episode 3[i], we explored the hidden story behind my resting heart rate. My data showed that it was not merely a measure of fitness—it was also reflecting the total load my body was carrying. During the higher-stress months of January and February, my resting heart rate remained elevated at approximately 56–58 beats per minute. As I placed greater emphasis on sleep, hydration, Zone 2 movement, sauna, meditation and recovery, it gradually fell to 54 and then 53 beats per minute. The lesson was that a lower resting heart rate signals that the body is working less during rest, and recovering more efficiently. The idea is to learn what your baseline is, and see how you can improve this number for a more efficient RHR. In Bonus Episode 4[ii], we explored restorative sleep and learned that sleep quality is not measured by duration alone. Deep sleep supports physical restoration and repair, while REM sleep plays an important role in memory, learning and emotional processing. Because longer REM periods tend to occur later in the night/morning time my regular 4:00 AM wake time may give me less opportunity for that REM-rich portion of sleep—which is the tradeoff I'm choosing--since waking early allows me to exercise. Two additional hours in bed would not guarantee two more hours of REM, but they could create a greater opportunity for more REM sleep. The lesson was not to choose sleep over movement or movement over sleep. It was to protect enough sleep while still making room for movement, so the brain and body have the opportunity to adapt. Throughout these bonus episodes, I'm sharing patterns from my WHOOP wearable device[iii] data—not because everyone's numbers should look like mine, but to demonstrate what can happen when we measure consistently, look for trends and test small changes. The goal is not comparison. It is to help each of us better understand our own baseline and use that information to improve our habits, recovery and results. While examining my own sleep data for these recent bonus episodes, another question came to my mind. It was while looking this sleep stress score. What if we are sleeping—but our physiology remains unusually activated throughout the night? How would we even know if this was happening? This is another measurement I can see with this wearable device. What if our eyes are closed and we are technically asleep, but the body is still working harder than usual? What if our sleep isn't giving us the rest and recovery that we need. This brings us to today's question: What is Sleep Stress? One of the most valuable metrics I have been tracking this year is not simply how long I sleep or how much deep and REM sleep I achieve. Those are all important to me, but something stood out with these sleep scores to me, this year. It is the amount of time my body spends in a state of elevated physiological stress while I am asleep. When I examined my most recent six-month trend, I noticed something that kind of stopped me in my tracks. My average time in WHOOP's high sleep-stress zone (monthly score from January 2026 till now) initially rose from 21 minutes to a peak of 35 minutes (around April/May) where I noticed my sleep scores were terrible with International travel, but I can't blame everything on just the travel and times zones. I knew I was off track with rest and recovery. How much I was off, I'm not sure because Whoop confirmed my scores with the times zones might have been inaccurate, but either way, even if my sleep stress peaked at let's say 25 minutes, it still showed me that I was doing something to keep my body stressed out while I was sleeping. As I paid attention to rest and recovery, the scores began to improve in May, June, July, August…until now. 35 minutes of high sleep stress went…to 18…to 14…to 5…and finally to just 4 minutes of sleep stress each night. That is an approximately 89% decrease from my six-month peak. The data cannot tell me that one specific behavior caused this change. But it does suggest that my body has become progressively less physiologically activated while I was asleep. And this helped me see recovery in a new way. Sleep duration tells us how long we slept. Sleep stages estimate the type of sleep we experienced throughout the night. Sleep stress gives us another window into how physiologically activated the body remained during that sleep. In today's BONUS EP 5 we will explore: What Sleep Stress measures The sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system Where Sleep Stress fits into the Movement Loop What I noticed in my six-month results What the results show—and what they cannot prove How you can monitor nighttime physiological stress And practical tips to help your body settle and recover Let's begin with the nervous system and what's working behind the scenes while we are asleep. The Autonomic Nervous System To understand Sleep Stress, we first need to understand the autonomic nervous system and how ACTIVATION and RECOVERY work together. We covered this topic on a very early EP 59[iv] with Suzanne Gundersen on “Putting the Polyvagal Theory into Practice” and then again with educational neuroscientist Dr. Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight[v]. You can review those episodes if you want a deeper dive here. The autonomic NS is the part of the nervous system that regulates many of the functions that happen automatically, without requiring conscious thought. It helps manage: Heart rate Blood pressure Breathing Digestion Temperature regulation Energy use And our physiological responses to changing demands in our life experiences Two of its primary branches are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system helps mobilize the brain and body when we need energy, alertness or action. It is often called the fight-or-flight system. We need this sympathetic activation to wake up, exercise, concentrate, solve problems, respond to challenges and perform under pressure. When sympathetic activity rises, heart rate may increase, breathing may become faster and energy becomes more readily available for action. That is exactly what we want when climbing a mountain, completing an intense workout, delivering a presentation or responding to an immediate challenge. The problem is not activation itself. The problem may arise when the body has difficulty shifting out of that activated state after the challenge has passed. The parasympathetic nervous system supports the restorative side of this process. It is often described as the rest-and-digest system because it helps the body conserve energy, digest food and create conditions that support rest and recovery. When our parasympathetic NS is activated, heart rate generally slows and the body becomes less physiologically activated. But the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are not simple on-and-off switches. They continually interact throughout the day and night. Healthy regulation depends on our ability to move flexibly between activation and recovery as our life circumstances change. I'm sure you've heard people talking about how they “regulate” themselves, or take themselves from a high stress state, to lower stress state usually through intentional breathing, (I've just started to add this technique), physical movement (my go-to way to get back to myself when I have time) and some people use sensory grounding to get themselves out of anxious loops. American neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman suggests the physiological sigh as a breathing technique “to reduce stress and anxiety in real-time, while they are still engaging in life.”[vi] He does say that this pattern of breathing is something that we all engage in when we are in deep sleep (our dogs do it too), a double inhale, followed by an extended exhale. He says it works well to reduce stress because “it offloads a lot of carbon dioxide all at once.” Until I started to look at this sleep stress number, I didn't realize that even during healthy sleep, our autonomic activity fluctuates. Deep sleep is generally associated with greater parasympathetic influence, while REM sleep can include more variable heart rate, breathing and sympathetic activity. This means that brief periods of increased physiological stress during sleep are not automatically signs that something is wrong. The more useful question is: Can my body move flexibly between activation and recovery—or is it remaining unusually activated for extended periods? What Does WHOOP Mean by Sleep Stress? WHOOP estimates physiological stress using signals that include heart rate and heart-rate variability, or HRV, compared with your personal baseline. Its Sleep Stress view shows the proportion of the night spent in low, medium and high physiological stress zones. This is an important distinction: A wearable does not directly measure your thoughts or emotions. It cannot know whether you are worried, excited, digesting a late meal, fighting an infection or recovering from a difficult workout. It also does not directly measure the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system. Instead, it uses cardiovascular signals to estimate how physiologically activated your body appears relative to what is normal for you. Elevated nighttime stress can potentially be influenced by: Mental or emotional strain Alcohol Illness or an emerging infection A late or heavy meal Intense exercise close to bedtime Accumulated training strain Dehydration Heat or an uncomfortable sleep environment Travel and disrupted routines Hormonal changes Certain medications Or sleep-disordered breathing Sleep Stress should therefore be treated as a signal to investigate, not a diagnosis. One elevated night may not mean very much. The greatest value comes from observing your own patterns across several weeks and comparing those patterns with your behaviors, environment, training and health. Where Sleep Stress Fits in the Movement Loop Our original Phase 3 framework was: Movement → Adaptation → Performance But we can now expand this pathway: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement provides a challenge to the brain and body. That challenge creates physiological load. Recovery gives the body an opportunity to respond to the load, repair what was challenged and build additional capacity. That process is adaptation. And the capacity created through adaptation supports future performance. Sleep Stress sits within the recovery stage of this loop. It helps us investigate whether the body is successfully downshifting from the demands of the day or remaining more activated than usual during the recovery window. This does not mean that every increase in nighttime stress prevents adaptation. The body is dynamic. Exercise, digestion, illness, temperature and different stages of sleep can all affect nighttime physiology. But if elevated Sleep Stress becomes a repeated pattern, it may indicate that the body is carrying more load than it is currently absorbing. This is why Sleep Stress belongs in Phase 3: Movement supplies the challenge. Recovery determines how effectively we absorb it. Adaptation builds capacity. And capacity supports performance. What My Six-Month Results Show When I examined my 6-month Sleep Stress results from March 17 through September 12 when I was writing this episode, I first looked at six consecutive monthly windows: March 17–April 15: 21 minutes of average high Sleep Stress April 16–May 15: 35 minutes May 16–June 14: 18 minutes June 15–July 14: 14 minutes July 15–August 13: 5 minutes August 14–September 12: 4 minutes The pattern was not a straight decline. My average high Sleep Stress initially increased from 21 to 35 minutes. That April-to-May period (with International Travel) was the highest point in the six-month window—a 67% increase from the preceding month. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. The data cannot tell me exactly what caused the increase. It may have reflected accumulated emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, temperature, or several factors interacting at once. But after that 35-minute peak, the direction changed: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That is an approximately 89% reduction from the peak. This was not the result of one isolated night or a single unusually good week. It was a progressive decline across four consecutive monthly windows. When I switched to WHOOP's full six-month view, however, I initially noticed what appeared to be a contradiction. My six-month average was 16 minutes in the high-stress zone—60% higher than my preceding six-month average of 10 minutes. How could my current Sleep Stress be improving so dramatically while the six-month comparison still showed an increase? The answer is that a six-month average is a lagging measure. You can see my 6 month data in the show notes. This graph includes the elevated spring period, particularly the April-to-May peak of 35 minutes. Those earlier nights continue to pull the six-month average upward, even though my more recent results are much lower. The percentage of each night spent in WHOOP's different stress zones makes the recent change especially clear. During the April-to-May peak: 6% of my sleep was in the high-stress zone 27% was in the medium-stress zone 67% was in the low-stress zone By August 14 through September 12: High-stress sleep had fallen to 1% Medium-stress sleep had fallen to 10% Low-stress sleep had risen to 89% This may be the most meaningful finding in the entire six-month trend. I did not simply spend less time in WHOOP's high-stress zone. A much larger proportion of my night shifted into the low-stress zone. From spring into early summer, my high Sleep Stress had already begun to decline as I was focused on my health routine it kept dropping—from 35 minutes to 18 and then 14 minutes. I was living my life as usual. Three observations help explain what I think this pattern means. Observation One The Spring Peak Was Worth Investigating The 35-minute average represented a 67% increase from the preceding monthly window. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. Something was placing a greater physiological demand on my system, but the screenshots cannot tell me precisely what it was. The increase could have reflected emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, illness, temperature or several factors interacting at once. This is why wearable data becomes more useful when it is paired with context. The number shows us what changed. A behavior log helps us investigate why it may have changed. Observation Two The Improvement Began Before August My Sleep Stress did not suddenly improve in one week. After the April-to-May peak, it declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 minutes fell to 18, then 14, then 5 and finally 4 minutes. That suggests an ongoing recovery shift rather than one isolated good night. By the latest monthly window, 89% of my sleep appeared in WHOOP's low-stress zone, compared with 67% during the spring peak. My body appeared to be spending progressively more of the night in a lower state of physiological activation relative to my baseline. Observation Three One Change May Have Strengthened the Trend Then, on August 7, I changed one thing. My movement, training, sauna, hydration and sleep practices remained relatively consistent. The clearest variable I intentionally changed was this: I stopped drinking alcohol. The timing matters. My July 15-August 13 average, which contained only the first week of the alcohol-free experiment, was already down to 5 minutes. Because most of that monthly window occurred before August 7, alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But after I removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level and fell again to 4 minutes. During the same period, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. These measures are related rather than completely independent-WHOOP's Stress Monitor itself uses patterns in heart rate and HRV. Still, when several parts of my recovery picture begin telling a consistent story after one clearly defined change, the pattern becomes more compelling. The data does not prove that removing alcohol caused every improvement. The most responsible conclusion is that my recovery had already begun improving and alcohol removal may have helped reinforce and sustain that progress. My Biggest Aha Moment My biggest realization was this: I was not improving my sleep only by changing what I did at night-such as cooling the room, using a sleep mask or limiting phone use before bed. I was improving my nights by changing my days. This is exactly what Dr. Kristen Holmes suggested we do on EP 4054. Everything we do during the day contributes to the total load our bodies must process: The emotional stress we carry The timing and intensity of exercise The food we eat The time we eat it Alcohol Hydration Light exposure Travel Work demands And whether we create moments of recovery between those demands The night can become a physiological reflection of everything that came before it. For years, many of us have assumed that being exhausted guarantees a good night's sleep. But exhaustion and regulation are not the same thing. We can be deeply tired and still physiologically activated. The goal is not to exhaust the body until it shuts down. The goal is to help the body transition from meeting the demands of the day into the conditions required for recovery. How Can YOU Measure Nighttime Stress? WHOOP provides a specific Sleep Stress view, but you do not need WHOOP to begin observing your recovery patterns. Depending on the wearable or device you use, you may be able to track: Sleeping heart rate Resting heart rate Overnight HRV Respiratory rate Skin-temperature deviation Sleep disruptions Restlessness Blood-oxygen trends And recovery or readiness scores The most important consideration is your personal baseline. Your HRV, resting heart rate and respiratory rate should not be judged against someone else's ideal number. Begin by learning what is normal for you. Then look for: Sudden deviations Repeated elevations Changes lasting several nights Connections with specific behaviors (I noticed that sleep stress was ALWAYS there after no more than 1-2 glasses of wine) And whether multiple measures change together (I noticed that after a long hike, if I chose to have a drink that night, even one glass of wine, sleep stress would be there the next day). There was no escaping what elevated it for me. Even without a wearable, you can begin tracking subjective signs of recovery. Each morning, ask: How many times did I awaken? Did I feel restored when I woke up? Was my mind calm or racing before bed? Did I wake with tension, a racing heart or unusual warmth? How was my energy, mood and focus the following day? You can then compare those observations with factors such as: Alcohol Meal timing Exercise timing Emotional stress Illness Travel And changes in your sleep environment The purpose is not to become anxious about every fluctuation. The purpose is to find patterns that help you make better decisions. It did help me to have a wearable to notice just how consistent my sleep stress was with certain behaviors. Can you measure Sleep Stress without a wearable? Not in the same way. Without overnight heart-rate and HRV data, we cannot calculate WHOOP's Sleep Stress score—and we may not consciously feel that our physiology remained activated. That was true for me. I did not feel stressed while I was sleeping. I needed the data to show me that my body was experiencing something my conscious mind could not detect. Without a wearable, we can still watch for indirect clues: repeated awakenings, morning fatigue, an elevated morning pulse, daytime sleepiness or a bed partner noticing snoring, gasping or restlessness. A sleep diary can help connect those clues with our daytime behaviors. The wearable did not create the stress. It made an invisible physiological pattern visible. How Can We Lower Sleep Stress? There is no single method guaranteed to lower nighttime stress because the underlying cause may differ from one person to another. The following ideas are best approached as individual experiments. Examine Alcohol Alcohol can make us feel sleepy, but sedation is not the same as restorative sleep. Try reducing or removing alcohol for several weeks and observe what happens to your Sleep Stress, HRV, resting heart rate, awakenings and morning energy. Look for a trend rather than expecting every night to improve. This isn't the first time I've removed alcohol while creating certain conditions for my body to perform at its best over the past 7 years of this podcast, and prior. I remember first hearing Dr. Daniel Amen talking about how alcohol isn't a health food, and that he suggests no amount to be healthy for the brain. When I first heard him say this, I did think, “Oh come on, Dr. Amen, say it's not so” because I don't eat junk food (we'll cover this topic next) so I would almost look to find some research that would allow even just small amounts. You can hear what Dr. Huberman[vii] suggests on his riveting episode on this topic, and I'm sharing that my reduction with sleep stress was significant enough for me to decide that cutting it out of my diet would be a permanent decision. This is a personal decision though and what might be significant for me with my results, might not be what you notice. Finish Eating Earlier A large or heavy meal close to bedtime may keep the body active through digestion. Experiment with finishing dinner earlier and leaving a consistent interval before sleep. Then observe whether your nighttime heart rate, Sleep Stress or restlessness changes. I've always had dinner around 5pm and don't eat anything after 6:30pm (except the occasional hot chocolate). Create an Evening Wind Down The brain and body need a transition between daytime demands and sleep. Your off-ramp might include: Dimming the lights Reducing stimulating content Reading Meditation Slow breathing NSDR Gentle stretching A warm shower or bath Writing down tomorrow's priorities Or following a consistent bedtime routine The purpose is to give the nervous system repeated cues that the demands of the day are ending. I like an Epsom salt bath when I'm home to transition from a work day, to night time. Balance Training With Recovery Exercise generally supports sleep and long-term health, but timing and intensity can affect individuals differently. If you repeatedly notice elevated nighttime stress after late, intense workouts, experiment with completing those sessions earlier. You might replace a late high-intensity session with walking, gentle mobility or recovery work and then compare the results. I did notice that on days I go to the gym after work, I do have higher stress that next morning. It's not always easy to fit everything in early mornings. Practice Regulation During the Day Do not wait until bedtime to address accumulated activation. Small recovery periods throughout the day can include: Brief movement breaks Time outdoors Slow breathing Space between meetings Short periods without digital stimulation Meditation Recovery does not begin when your head hits the pillow. It is built into the rhythm of the entire day. Optimize the Sleep Environment Examine the physical conditions surrounding your sleep: Is the room comfortably cool? Is it dark? Is it quiet? Are notifications turned off? Are pets or other interruptions waking you? Does your bedding help regulate temperature? Has travel disrupted your routine? Sometimes the source of elevated nighttime activation is due to your environment. Pay Attention to Possible Health Signals A sudden increase in nighttime stress—especially when accompanied by changes in resting heart rate, respiratory rate or skin temperature—may occur when the body is fighting an illness. Persistent changes deserve attention, particularly if they are accompanied by loud snoring, gasping during sleep, chest symptoms, unusual shortness of breath or significant daytime sleepiness. A wearable cannot diagnose sleep apnea, an infection or another medical condition. Its role is to help us notice when something has changed and decide whether further evaluation may be appropriate. A Seven-Day Sleep Stress Experiment This week, select only one or two variables to change. Your experiment does not have to involve alcohol like mine did. I honestly just stopped enjoying it, so it was an easy variable for me to pick. Don't ask me to give up coffee though. I won't be participating in any caffeine reduction experiments. Choose one variable that may be influencing your nighttime physiology, keep everything else as consistent as possible, and watch the trend—not one isolated score. You might: Avoid alcohol Finish dinner earlier Move intense exercise away from bedtime Create a 20-minute evening wind down routine Practice five minutes of slow breathing Or make the bedroom cooler and darker Each morning, record: Time in high Sleep Stress, if available HRV Resting heart rate Respiratory rate Number of awakenings And how restored you feel on a scale from 1 to 10 At the end of the week, ask: What changed? What remained consistent? Which behaviors appeared to help my body settle? Which behaviors were followed by greater nighttime activation? Do not try to produce a perfect score. The goal is to identify a pattern you can repeat. Review and Conclusion To close out this BONUS EP4, where we explored Sleep Stress—not as another score to chase, but as a window into what the body may be experiencing while we sleep. We learned that Sleep Stress estimates how physiologically activated the body remains during the night. It is different from sleep duration, which tells us how long we slept, and sleep stages, which estimate the kinds of sleep we experienced. To understand this metric, we looked at the two primary branches of the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system mobilizes energy so we can move, focus, respond and perform. The parasympathetic nervous system supports conservation, digestion, restoration and recovery. Neither branch is inherently good or bad. We need activation to meet life's demands, and we need the ability to downshift when those demands have passed. Healthy regulation is not the absence of stress. It is the flexibility to move between activation and recovery. We also learned that WHOOP does not directly measure either branch of the autonomic nervous system. It uses patterns in heart rate and heart-rate variability, compared with our personal baseline, to estimate physiological stress. That makes Sleep Stress a useful signal—but not a diagnosis and not proof of what caused a particular change. This metric fits within the recovery stage of our expanded Movement Loop: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates the challenge. But the challenge alone does not build greater capacity. The body must be able to absorb the load, recover from it and adapt. When I examined my own six-month results, I saw my average high Sleep Stress rise from 21 minutes to a spring peak of 35 minutes. It then declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That represented approximately 89% reduction from the highest month The proportion of my sleep in WHOOP's low-stress zone also increased from 67% during the spring peak to 89% in my most recent monthly window. My recovery had already begun improving before I had cut out alcohol on August 7, so alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But when I kept the rest of my routine relatively consistent and removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level. At the same time, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. This does not prove that one behavior caused every change. But it gives me good reason to believe that removing alcohol helped reinforce an already improving recovery pattern. And that brings me to the most important lesson from this experiment: I did not improve my recovery by asking my body to do more. I improved it by creating better conditions for my body to recover from everything it was already doing. So tonight, instead of asking only: “How many hours will I sleep?” Think about-- “What am I doing today that will help—or prevent—my body from settling tonight?” Because the night does not begin when we close our eyes. It carries the accumulated effects of how we moved, trained, ate, worked, regulated and recovered throughout the day. Movement creates the stimulus. Recovery allows us to absorb it. Adaptation builds our capacity. And greater capacity prepares the brain and body to perform tomorrow. I'll see you next time for Episode 407, where we will revisit Jason Wittrock's work through a current and carefully defined lens. We'll examine his experience with nutrition and fasting as the perspective of an applied practitioner and personal case study, while comparing those ideas with current evidence surrounding nutrition, blood-sugar stability, metabolic flexibility, recovery and performance. Because if recovery determines how well we adapt to a challenge, metabolism determines whether the brain and body have the energy required to power that adaptation. And the brain and body cannot sustain performance without the energy required to power the system. I'll see you next time. REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 3 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-hidden-story-behind-your-resting-heart-rate/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 4 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/is-your-4-am-hike-costing-you-rem-the-movement-vs-sleep-trade%e2%80%91off/ [iii] whoop.com [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EP 59 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/suzanne-gundersen-on-the-polyvagal-theory-in-practice/ [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast “The Future of Educational Neuroscience” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lori-desautels-and-michael-mcknight-on-the-future-of-educational-neuroscience-in-our-schools-and-communities/ [vi] Dr. Andrew Huberman Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety. The Physiological Sigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc [vii] Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.hubermanlab.com/subtopics/effects-of-alcohol-on-the-brain-and-body
By Pastor 'Seun SalamiAudio Podcast of Believers House, 264 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS
This week, our main story is the arrest of Frank Magazine editor, Andrew Douglas, on a charge of distributing an intimate image. The charge arises from an story Frank published about 'slum' landlords, and has been subject to civil court proceedings as well. We discuss the charge, and the likely outcome.Also this week;- the Edmonton Oilers have signed Alex Formenton, one of five Team Canada junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault, to a one-year contract. Some fans are calling for the signing to be reversed. - the RCMP has announced that their officers will no longer be required to wear name tags, for fear of being 'doxxed'- the NS legislature opened for its fall sitting this week, with no mention of the Mass Casualty Commission implementation committee report, or plans for carrying the work forward- New Mexico lawyer Stephen Aarons has been fined for using ChatGPT in a brief where the AI tool made up witness statements- the BC Human Rights Tribunal has awarded $15,000 to an inmate who claimed to have been mocked by guards while on suicide watch
This week, we are back with part 2 of a “…Shoulda Been Huge!!!” episode for Halifax, NS, Canada's very own: SLOAN! We covered the years 1992-2001 back in Ep. 348; this time we bring you up to date with releases from 2003 to 2025. Sloan is the quintessential Canadian power-pop act—that blends '70s hard rock riffs, Beatles-esque vocal harmonies, and indie rock grit has won them gold albums and a Juno in their home country. We think it is a grave mistake that they are not as revered everywhere in the world!This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that Kevin has been a fan of since discovering their first album back in 1993. Robert is less familiar with their impressive discography, so join him if this is an unknown for you. We think they should be remembered alongside the likes of other Canadian treasures like RUSH and TRIUMPH!Songs this week include:1. Sloan – “Ready For You” from Action Pact (2003)2. Sloan – “Living With The Masses / HFXNSHC” from Never Hear The End Of It (2006)3. Sloan – “The Other Side” from Parallel Play (2008)4. Sloan – “I've Gotta Know” from The Double Cross (2011)5. Sloan – “You Don't Need Excuses To Be Good” from Commonwealth (2014)6. Sloan – “Spin Our Wheels” from 12 (2018)7. Sloan – “Scratch The Surface” from Steady (2022)8. Sloan – “Capital Cooler” from Based On The Best Seller (2025)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://bonelesspodcasting.com/shows/in-obscuriahttps://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://x.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it: InObscuria StoreCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/
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Das Hüttengefängnis wurde 1858 als Polizeiwache mit angeschlossenen Haftzellen in der Neustadt in der Nähe der Wallanlagen errichtet. Ab 1933 fungierte es als Ort der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung. Es diente als Haftstätte für als „Asoziale“, „Politische“ oder aus weiteren Gründen verfolgte Männer und Frauen, als Sammelpunkt für die Zwangsabschiebung von Jüdinnen und Juden polnischer Staatsangehörigkeit im Oktober 1938 sowie als Durchgangsstation in das Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen nach dem Novemberpogrom. Über das Hüttengefängnis kamen mehrere Tausend Frauen und Männer in die KZ Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Buchenwald. In der Nachkriegszeit nutzte die Stadt das ehemalige Gefängnis bis 1981 als Jugendheim, später als Unterkunft für geflüchtete Menschen und von 1991 bis heute als Wohnheim für wohnungslose Männer. 1951 wurde das Haus nach dem von den Nazis ermordeten Widerstandskämpfer Helmuth Hübener benannt, der mit 17 Jahren vom Volksgerichtshof zum Tode verurteilt wurde. "Der Historiker Herbert Diercks hat zur Geschichte der Hamburger Polizei während des Nationalsozialismus geforscht und Ende 2025 im Schaff-Verlag das Bauheft „Das Hüttengefängnis in der Hamburger Neustadt“ publiziert. Wir nehmen diese Veröffentlichung zum Anlass, die Heftvorstellung mit Schlaglichtern auf die Nutzungsgeschichte der Viktoria-Kaserne zu verbinden." Das Hüttengefängnis weist einige Parallelen zur Nutzungsgeschichte der Viktoria-Kaserne auf. Beide waren Orte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung, dienten als Sammelpunkte u.a. für Deportationen in die Konzentrationslager und wurden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg jahrelang als Wohnunterkunft für obdachlos gewordene Menschen benutzt. Herbert Diercks skizziert die Geschichte des Hüttengefängnisses und stellt sie in Bezug zum Polizeigefängnis Altona. Die Veranstaltung soll anhand der vergleichenden Nutzungsgeschichte zweier Einrichtungen, die über lange Zeit der Repression dienten, einschneidende Kapitel der Hamburger Geschichte beleuchten. Ergänzender Beitrag von Jonas Jakubowski sowie eine Anmoderation durch Theo Bruns für die Geschichts-AG denkXmal der fux eG und Corry Guttstadt von der IKW. Herbert Diercks, Historiker und ehemaliger wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte des NS in Hamburg, 1994 bis 2019 Redaktionsmitglied der „Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland“. Zu den Bauheften: Neben dem Bauheft zum Hüttengefängnis ist im Schaff-Verlag auch ein Bauheft zur ehemaligen Viktoria-Kaserne erschienen. https://www.schaff-verlag.de/produkt/hamburger-bauheft-50-das-huettengefaengnis-in-der-hamburger-neustadt/ https://www.schaff-verlag.de/produkt/hamburger-bauheft-21-die-ehemalige-viktoria-kaserne-1878-2017/ Vortrag von Herbert Diercks vom 14. April 2026. Veranstalterin: Geschichts-AG denkXmal der fux eG in Kooperation mit der interkulturellen werkstatt e.V. (ikw), gefördert von der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg - https://www.fux-eg.org/veranstaltungen/2026-04/das-huettengefaengnis-in-der-hamburger-neustadt-und-die-viktoria-kaserne-in-altona
Want to save money and avoid the crowds on your next trip?Shoulder season travel might be the answer! In this episode, Susan Catto from Travelzoo joins us to talk about why traveling just before or after peak season can mean fewer crowds, better prices and even a more enjoyable experience. We chat about how to find the right shoulder season for your destination, the pros and cons to consider, where shoulder season works best, and how to prepare for unpredictable weather, shorter days and seasonal closures. Plus, Susan shares some of her best shoulder season travel experiences and plenty of practical tips to help you make the most of traveling outside peak season.Episode Resources:Travelzoo websiteTravelzoo Nation Facebook pageSupport the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
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Welcome to episode 14 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is part 1 of my conversation with Jane Braithwaite who lives in Peterborough, ON. Jane's ancestors. have connection to Barbados, Sydney, NS and Milton ON which is a small hamlet west of Toronto. So many fascinating stories including that her grandmother was the first African Canadian visiting home maker in Toronto.
By Pastor 'Seun SalamiAudio Podcast of Believers House, 264 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS
On the phone-in: Niki Jabbour answers listeners' gardening questions. And off the top of the show, we hear from Nicholas Duncan Ray McCabe who talks about the shelter in New Glasgow, NS. We hear your feedback on gender based violence. And we also hear an update on the Dares Lake dam in Lunenburg County that breached.
On the phone-in: Author Elizabeth Peirce answers listeners' questions about preserving and pickling food from the garden. And off the top of the show, we speak with Meghan Hansford from Adsum House about the resignation from cabinet in NS of Marco MacLeod. We also hear FTR of Premier Tim Houston. And listeners share their feedback on Parkinson's disease.
Is summer really almost over?Before the cooler weather settles in, Meggan shares some easy ways to make the most of the remaining warm days and help you squeeze a little more fun out of the end of summer.So grab your travel mug and make the most of the season while it lasts!Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Want to travel more without waiting for your next vacation? We explore some of the best careers and work arrangements for travel lovers. From pilots and flight attendants to travel medical professionals, cruise ship crew and EFL teachers, we chat about jobs that can help you see more of the world. We also cover remote work, freelancing, sabbaticals and a few more unexpected options. Plus, we talk about the reality of working while traveling and why a job that gives you the freedom to travel might be better than one that requires you to travel for work.Episode ResourcesHow to Earn a Freelance Income to Travel More or Move AbroadSupport the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
De scholen beginnen weer - of zijn alweer begonnen - en dat betekent dat je terug in het ritme moet. En dat is niet altijd even makkelijk voor iedereen, zo luidde ook het commentaar van Nynkes dochter op Editie NL. Het forenzen komt ook weer op stoom, dus je tas MOET op de grond. Al vinden we de nieuwe NS campagne bijten met de nieuwe SIRE campagne. De zeehonden komen geld te kort, de blanke vla heeft zichzelf op en wat is de beste zin uit de Nederlandse popgeschiedenis? Een praatje maakt je dag, dus babbel gewoon lekker met ons mee als je dit luistert. Tot snel! Nynke, Anne, Hanneke en Alex ----- Sponsor: Rabo Jongerenrekening Met een gratis Rabo JongerenRekening leert je kind stap voor stap omgaan met geld. Onder jouw toezicht natuurlijk. Open t/m 4 oktober een Rabo JongerenRekening en ontvang 3 maanden €5 cadeau. Check de voorwaarden op [link] https://www.rabobank.nl/particulieren/ouders-en-kinderen/rabo-jongerenrekening ----- Sponsor: Oot
This week, a band we've featured and often discussed on the show finally gets their due! Therefore, we give you part 1 of a “…Shoulda Been Huge!!!” episode for Halifax, NS, Canada's very own: SLOAN. The quintessential Canadian power-pop act—that blends '70s hard rock riffs, Beatles-esque vocal harmonies, and indie rock grit that has won them gold albums and a Juno in their home country. We think it is a grave mistake that they are not as revered everywhere in the world! This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that Kevin has been a fan of since discovering their first album back in 1993. Robert is less familiar with their impressive discography, so join him if this is an unknown for you. We think they should be remembered alongside the likes of other Canadian treasures like RUSH and TRIUMPH! Songs this week include: Sloan – “Underwhelmed” from Smeared (1992) Sloan – “Torn” from Peppermint - EP (1992) Sloan – “Shame Shame” from Twice Removed (1994) Sloan – “G Turns To D” from One Chord To Another (1996) Sloan - “She Says What She Means” from Navy Blues (1998) Sloan – “Seems So Heavy” from 4 Nights At The Palais Royale (1999) Sloan – “Friendship” from Between The Bridges (1999) Sloan – “If It Feels Good Do It” from Pretty Together (2001) Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts! Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/ https://bonelesspodcasting.com/shows/in-obscuria https://www.facebook.com/InObscuria https://x.com/inobscuria https://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/ Buy cool stuff with our logo on it: InObscuria Store Check out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/ If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/ If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/
NS&I has just boosted the Premium Bonds underlying rate again to its highest level in nearly two years. The odds of winning are better too, with more £50,000 and £100,000 prizes to boot.More than 22million of us hold Premium Bonds but after years of being beaten by the best savings accounts, are they suddenly looking like a good option again? And why raise the rate at all? Lee Boyce, Georgie Frost and Helen Crane discuss.11.34: Imagine you bought a house years ago, pay your mortgage every month... only to discover the Land Registry still hasn't registered it in your name. It could mean you can't remortgage and subsequently out of pocket. We discuss a case where this happened, why and a deluge of cases we are hearing about.20.54: Inflation is heading the wrong way again - up from 2.6% to 2.9% in July, largely thanks to higher energy costs. What does that mean for base rate?Energy bills are likely to head higher still, with forecasts of another rise price cap rise in October. Is it time to fix?29:11: And finally, plug-in solar panels can be legally sold from next week. But before we all rush out to buy them, we explain what you need to know...Follow us on Instagram @dmgnewmedia.Follow us on TikTok @dmgnewmediaFollow us on X @dmgnewmediaEmail us hello@dmgmedia.co.ukText us 020 7938 6000.Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen CraneProducer: Georgie Frost Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Did you know that owning shares in certain travel companies can come with perks like cruise onboard credits, hotel discounts, elite status, and car rental savings? In this Travel Tip Tuesday, we're breaking down shareholder benefits from companies including cruise lines, Accor, IHG, and Sixt—and sharing how these travel perks can help you save money on your next trip. Important: This is information, not investment advice, so be sure to do your own research before buying any stock.Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Vandaag bespreken we het boek Je bent niet de baas, maar je moet er wel iets mee van Marije van den Berg en Nico Groen. De ondertitel is: Het gemeenschappelijke organiseren Marije werkt als onderzoeker, adviseur en initiatiefnemer op het grensvlak tussen gemeenschap en overheid. Ze zit in het bestuur van het Druckeronds, in de Rekenkamer Leiden & Leiderdorp en in de raad van toezicht van Ouders en Onderwijs. Ze is columnist van VNG magazine en Binnenlands bestuur. Ze heeft een podcast Democratie in uitvoering (link) Nico is bestuurskundige en meer dan veertig jaar onafhankelijk organisatieadviseur en interim-manager. Hij was bijna twintig jaar bestuursvoorzitter van een groep industriële ondernemingen in de machinebouw. Nu is hij voorzitter van Werknemersparticipatie Rotaform Lelystad, de Industriële Kring Lochem en van de Coöperatie LochemEnergie Waterkracht. Een fijn boek. Minder dan 200 pagina's. Behapbare hoofdstukken van enkele pagina's. Net als haar boek Stop. (Boekencast over in 2021 opgenomen) Lekker geschreven, kernachtig. Dit keer geen stappenplan of methode, maar wel goede tips voor actie, met veel aandacht voor gemeenschappen en de ruimte tussen de markt en de staat. De kruk met drie poten. Ik kreeg er energie van en wilde weer aan de slag met het werk dat ik normaal doe. Met de goede tip, met anderen delen wat je belangrijk vindt én gaan doen wat er dan moet gebeuren. Moedig zijwaarts. Voor de meeste goede dingen hoef je geen toestemming te vragen. p 192 Boek Je bent niet de baas 6 delen: Verwacht niet te veel van organisaties (en bazen) Overschat markt en staat niet Herstel maatschappelijke balans Vorm lokale gemeenschappen Maak ruimte voor wat er toch al gebeurt Laat je niet afleiden Geheim katern (voor als je wél de baas bent) We zijn al bevoegd en hebben geen toestemming nodig. Zekerheid vs vrijheid - boek van Aldous Huxley De tijd van de oligarchen. Mensen kiezen voor zekerheid. Inleiding: de buschauffeur in de nacht maakt keuzes zonder dat er een baas nodig is. Wie niet zelf zijn positie kiest, krijgt er eentje toegewezen. Daar zit voor mij wat gevoel voor merit in. Je moet het zelf doen. Vrijheid komt niet vanzelf. Verwacht niet te veel van organisaties (en bazen) We verwachten teveel van organisaties, efficieny, de mechanistische benadering Alle mensen zijn ongeveer even groot. Als je de baas wordt, ga je je anders gedragen. Het verschil in grootte van karakter is vaak meer een kwestie van de omstandigheden. Hannah Arendt - handelen p27 p30 besluitvorming, beslissingen in organisaties worden vaak door mensen genomen die nét niet genoeg vakkennis hebben om alle details te begrijpen. Terwijl uitvoerders deze kennis wel bezitten en ook actuele informatie hebben. Herbert Simon: autoriteit ontstaat omdat anderen hun gedragskeuzes door de baas laten bepalen. Je accepteert de leiding omdat je het nut ervan inziet, niet omdat het moet. Terwijl leiderschap wisselt naar gelang de vraag en de omstandigheden. Een ondernemer doet het ook niet allemaal alleen. Terwijl ze zich wel eenzaam voelen. Overschat markt en staat niet De kracht van de markt is niet zo groot mogelijk. Meer middenstand, minder monopolies. De neoliberale belofte van efficiëntie door schaalvergroting is vaak een recept voor kwetsbaarheid. Waar variëteit beschermt tegen systeemuitval. De markt heeft ons veel gebracht, maar ze moet terug in haar hok. We moeten de staat ook niet overschatten. Positie kiezen in de gemeenschap. Met overheidsbeleid besturen we de staat, niet de samenleving. Ook hier besluitvorming zo dicht mogelijk bij de praktijk leggen. p60 en 61 - Door eigendom te verbinden met daadwerkelijke betrokkenheid, geen focus meer op financiële waarde maar op maatschappelijke waarde. Herstel maatschappelijke balans Een stelsel van twee is nooit stabiel (markt en staat). Een derde domein, het coöperatieve domein. Laten we de kleinste omweg kiezen. p73 Grootste omweg zoals in de zorg. Kleinst mogelijke omweg via de commons. p75 Eerst tijd geven aan wat belangrijk is en dan pas een besteding zoeken voor de tijd die over is. Haal het schema uit je hoofd dat tijd vooral werktijd is die je moet verkopen voor loon. Tijd is een hulpbron die waardevoller wordt als we die delen met anderen en gezamenlijk inzetten. Tijd als common. p80 Whatever the problem, community is always the answer. p 86 beheermodellen naast gezonde verdienmodellen. Gebruikswaarde creëren en in stand houden. p88 Wees middenstander. Midden in de gemeenschap. p100 Vorm lokale gemeenschappen Maak ruimte voor wat er toch al gebeurt Laat je niet afleiden Geheim katern (voor als je wél de baas bent) Opvallende lessen uit het boek voor ons: 00:00 Intro van het boek en eerste indruk van Erno 02:15 Met anderen delen wat je belangrijk vindt en gaan doen wat er dan moet gebeuren. 02:55 Eerste induk van Tom 06:05 Je hebt geen toestemming nodig om te beginnen. 10:05 Wie niet zelf positie kiest, krijgt er een toegewezen. 10:50 Haal dat [organisatie]harkje uit je hoofd. 13:15 In deel 1 was ruimte geweest voor een stappenplan hoe je naar zelforganisatie komt. 15:55 Afhankelijk van het thema kijken we (op) naar de leider die past bij de situatie. 17:05 Leiderschap is een eigenschap van een systeem en niet van een functionaris. 18:45 Voor de ondernemer is eenzaamheid het lastigste wat ze dien. 19:25 Schaalvergroting zorgt niet voor meer efficiëntie, maar wel voor meer kwetsbaarheid. 20:35 De markt heeft ons veel gebracht, maar ze moet terug in haar hok. 21:30 Tom is het er niet mee eens dat we de overheid overschatten en het voorbeeld is de woningbouw. 27:10 Onderzoek naar framing rondom openbaar vervoer. 29:45 Uit het dogma volgt dat een staatsschuld per definitie negatief is. De overheid is geen bedrijf. 30:35 Een samenleving antifragieler of stabieler maken met de coöperatie als kernorganisatie. 32:30 Haal het schema uit je hoofd dat tijd vooral 'werktijd' is die je moet verkopen voor loon. 33:05 Tijd is een hulpbron die waardevoller wordt als we delen met anderen en gezamenlijk inzetten. 34:10 Voor veel maatschappelijke problemen is 'de straat' het uitgangspunt. 37:15 Op zoek naar concrete stappen die je in je eigen straat kunt organiseren. 38:25 Ik noem Segers, maar ik bedoelde Ronald Rovers over materiaalgebruik. Zie bronnen hieronder. 42:10 In kleine stappen afstand nemen van het leidinggeven. 44:00 Leiderschap wordt op dit moment neergezet als, de briljante eenling die weet hoe je de problemen oplost. 44:40 De ruimte die er is naast de markt en de overheid voor de gemeenschap. Bronnen die we genoemd hebben Verhaal met Impact Leren om goed te stoppen – Marije van den Berg (eerder gesprek met Marije met name over haar boek Stop) VNG - Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten De tijd van de oligarchen - Aldous Huxley Administrative behavior - Herbert Simon Mission Economy – Mariana Mazzucato #boekencast afl 29 Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb #boekencast afl 37 Uitgewoond - Cody Hochstenbach Thrive institute Onderzoek laat zien dat NS maatschappelijk winst maakt - Eurasmus Universiteit Duurzaam Kapitalisme – Willem Schramade #boekencast afl 16 Filosofie van de kroeg – Hans Schnitzler #boekencast afl 137 Warmte uitwisselen met elkaar in de wijk via een zonnewarmtenetwerk – Desiree Orij Het omgekeerde ontwerp van de stad – Marianne Lefever Het fossiele brandstof feest is voorbij – Ronald Rovers Self-determination theory - Wikipedia Deci and Richard Ryan De machtscode boek - Marietje Schaake Luister naar deze aflevering Beluister hier ons gesprek over het boek Je bent niet de baas, maar je moet er wel iets mee In een halfuur delen wij dit boek met jou. Een halfuur met kennis die je tot je neemt terwijl je wandelt, loopt of rijdt, bijvoorbeeld. Video van deze aflevering Bekijk ons gesprek op video https://youtu.be/uERuDCCGVlI https://youtu.be/uERuDCCGVlI In deze aflevering bespreken we het boek Je bent niet de baas, maar je moet er wel iets mee. Samenvatting (met hulp van AI) In aflevering 141 van de Ondernemers Boekencast bespreken we het boek "Je bent niet de baas, maar je moet er wel iets mee" van Marije van den Berg en Nico Groen (ondertitel: het gemeenschappelijke organiseren). We waarderen de vlotte stijl en het positieve, activerende doel: niet passief worden door slecht nieuws, maar lokaal zelf iets doen. Kernboodschappen zijn dat mensen geen toestemming hoeven te vragen (“je bent al bevoegd”), dat autoriteit ontstaat doordat anderen die accepteren, en dat leiderschap een systeemeigenschap is. Het boek kent zes delen (plus een geheim katern) en pleit voor zelforganisatie, coöperatieve vormen en lokale gemeenschappen als derde pijler naast markt en staat; de markt moet “terug in haar hok”. We verschillen van mening over de rol van de overheid bij woningnood en missen soms een concreter “waar begin je”-stappenplan, bijvoorbeeld in de eigen straat. Transcript [00:00:00] Erno Hannink: Welkom in de nieuwe Ondernemers Boekencast, aflevering 141. Het boek: Je bent niet de baas Maar je moet er wel iets mee. Het boek van Marije van den Berg en Nico Groen. De ondertitel is Het gemeenschappelijke organiseren en het is uitgegeven door Verhaal met impact over verhaal met impact. Volgens mij is dit wel een vorm van uitgeverschap waar het naartoe gaat. [00:00:24] Erno Hannink: Want verhaal met impact is niet alleen een uitgever dat de boeken ze. Er zijn ook sprekers in die stal. Ze organiseren evenementen, dus ik denk wel dat dat een soort vorm is van uitgeven waar het naartoe gaat voor meerdere uitgevers. Want alleen een boek is veel te weinig denk ik. [00:00:39] Tom van der Lubbe: Correspondent doet natuurlijk eigenlijk een be
Thinking about taking your first cruise? In this beginner's guide to cruising, we're joined by travel advisor Geoff from Abeam Travel Design to break down everything you need to know before booking. We chat about the pros and cons of cruising, how to choose the right cruise line, ship, itinerary and cabin, what's actually included in the price, and which extras can quickly add up. Plus, we cover excursions, packing tips, common first-time cruiser mistakes, and why working with a travel advisor can make all the difference.Episode Resources:Abeam Travel Design websiteAbeam Travel Design InstagramSupport the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee, you'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/travelmugpodCheck out our fav items here: https://travelmugpodcast.com/our-favourite-travel-products/We have Merch! Shop here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/travelmugpodcastGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST: https://travel-mug-podcast.kit.com/1f72cedce5*********************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every few weeks as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.Website: https://www.travelmugpodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/travelmugpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmugpodcast/Jenn's Blog: https://willsavefortravel.comDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Meggan shares her car rental experience in Portugal and why it was important to add a second driver, which they don't normally do! Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger lazen vijf zeer interessante boeken en bekeken een magnifieke film. De zomerboeken zitten vol ideeëngeschiedenis en politieke conflicten gedurende vele eeuwen. Met persoonlijke verhalen, portretten, onthullingen en worstelingen met democratie, dictatuur, geloof en tolerantie. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! De film De Gaulle: Résistance draait vanaf 6 augustus 2026 in de bioscoop Steun Greenpeace in de strijd tegen onherstelbare schade door diepzeemijnbouw. Teken de brief aan het kabinet-Jetten Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** 1) Willem van Oranje, Apologie – Vertaald en ingeleid door René van Stipriaan (Querido Facto) Prachtig bezorgd boek door René van Stipriaan neemt de lezer mee op reis door het leven, werken en denken van 'de Zwijger' in de jaren tussen1540 en 1580. Geen andere leider in onze streken publiceerde ooit zo'n persoonlijke verantwoording van zijn politiek, filosofie, strategische en spirituele keuzen. Vanaf zijn tienertijd speelt hij een prominente rol in de aristocratie van Europa, opgevoed en als prins gevormd door de absolute elite van de machtigste familie, de Habsburgers. Keizer Karel en diens zus Maria van Hongarije blijven zijn rolmodellen. Juist daarom keert hij zich af van ‘de tirannie die mij mijn hart doorwondt'. Oranje kiest tegen bruut geweld en onderdrukking en voor de vrijheden van de Nederlanden. Apologie is een uitdagend en gedurfd boek. Hij richt zich tot de Staten-Generaal, de bevolking in den brede en heel de Europese elite. Hij bepleit vreedzame matiging en beginselvastheid, ook tegen al te felle calvinisten en allereerst tegen het Spaans bewind, dat het beleid van zijn rolmodellen had verraden. De toon, ironie, felheid en scherpte van zijn redeneringen laten ons merken waarom hij destijds zo bekend was als briljant redenaar. Oranje is in dit boek zijn eigen memoires-auteur, politiek spindoctor, spiritueel filosoof en vurig bepleiter van de vrijheid van geweten, burgerrechten en tolerantie van verschillen tussen overtuigingen en beginselen. 2) Peter Longerich – Onwillige Volksgenoten (Hollands Diep) De propaganda en de decoratie van het Nazibewind kennen we. Maar wat dachten de mensen die in de bioscoop de Wochenschau zagen en Leni Riefenstahls films eigenlijk zelf? Longerich dook in diepe, uitvoerige bronnen en schetst de 'Stimmunggeschichte' van het Duitse volk in de Nazitijd. Een tijdsbeeld als zelden vertoond met feiten en analyses van de 'stemming onder de mensen' van Beieren tot Bremen. Boeren blijken ontgoocheld door het opgelegde productiebeleid en zien hun dagloners en masse wegvluchten. Arbeiders zien de armoede van de crisis welbewust voortduren. Massaal klagen burgers over partijmanifestaties en 'vrijwillige’ donaties. Al heel vroeg - rond 1935 - is oorlogsangst dominant. Met heftige conflicten tussen het regime en gelovigen. Kerken werden verzetshaarden, Hitler durfde nooit hard door te pakken. Propaganda-triomfen als de Olympiade konden angst en wegkijken niet verdrijven. Het boek biedt bovendien een verfijnd stuk 'bureaucratie-geschiedenis'. Want het was niet vanzelfsprekend om die 'stemmingen en indrukken' in een dictatuur zonder meer door te spelen naar boven. Hoe de Duitse ambtenaren hun rol als rapporteurs inkleedden, hoe zij boodschappen verpakten, de feiten niet konden verhullen, dus dan maar in balans brachten laat Longerich ook zien. Heel herkenbaar, zeker als je zulke patronen ook nu aanschouwt in Poetins Rusland of Trumps MAGA-sfeer. 3) Auke Kok – Mussert (Hollands Diep) Auke Koks biografie is rijk en onthullend. Hij slaagt erin een politiek onbenul, een onaantrekkelijke hoofdpersoon toch heel boeiend te maken. Mussert was een antiparlementair en autoritair techneut. Collega's brachten hem Mussolini's fascisme bij, ook een regime dat verzot was op moderne techniek en autoritair optreden. En Indische kringen zorgden voor een racistisch superioriteitsaffect. Dat werd de politieke brug naar de nazi-ideologie. Nederlanders verdienden in het Germaanse wereldrijk een eigen, machtige plaats naast Hitlers ariërs, meende hij. De NSDAP-leiding zag dat toch wat anders en Arthur Seyss Inquart noteerde dat Mussert geen sieraad was voor het naziregime. Integendeel. Hij was koppig, had geen mensenkennis, werd door de bevolking geen leidersfiguur maar een landverrader gevonden en Mussert voerde een beroddelde levenswandel. Tot in zijn proces na de bevrijding klopte hij zich op de borst voor zijn moed tegenover de Duitsers. Hij had immers Neerlands lot van annexatie zoals Oostenrijk of Sudetenland verhinderd, daar zou hij uiteindelijk een standbeeld voor krijgen, dacht hij. 4) Willem de Bruin – Ontspoord (Atlas Contact) Hoe ondergaat een samenleving en haar politiek bestel een overweldigende technologisch revolutie? Ontspoord gaat over de komst en dominantie van de allernieuwste industriële mobiliteit - de spoorwegen - maar heel dat verhaal over de 19e eeuw gaat over deze tijd. De opmars van het internet en de actuele AI-revolutie komen steeds in je hoofd op bij het lezen van het fascinerende tijdsbeeld van het destijds arme en achterop lopende Nederland na 1830. Ideologische principes over de publieke zaak en particuliere taken domineerden het debat. Maar dat spoorwegen een heel eigen organisatie van technologische finesse, lange termijn investeringen en sociale sturing vereisten zagen velen pas laat. De liberaal Thorbecke maakte een zwenking naar overheidssturing. Abraham Kuyper zag de geheel nieuwe infrastructuur als een staatstaak die God had opgedragen. Bismarck vond het een strategisch netwerk van zo'n geopolitieke betekenis, dat het nimmer aan ondernemers overgelaten kon worden. De Eerste Wereldoorlog bewees zijn gelijk, ook in ons land. In 1937 waren de NS een feit, uiteindelijk. De discussie - zelfs de 19e-eeuwse - stond nadien niet stil. Paars overwoog heel even de NS naar de Beurs te brengen. De actuele dreiging in Europa en de NAVO-planning bewijzen nogmaals Bismarcks profetische blik. 5] Bastiaan Rijpkema & Bart Schreuders (red.) – Tolerantiedenkers (Prometheus) Is er een actueler, indringender thema dan de verhouding tussen democratie en tolerantie en de vele misverstanden over wat tolerantie eigenlijk is? Dit boek biedt twintig portretten van onmisbare denkers - vooral een soort ideeënschets - van Plato tot Chantal Mouffe en Barbara Skarga. Bekende namen komen langs, waarbij hun soms verrassende gedachten over ruimdenkendheid en geslotenheid centraal staan. Tocqueville natuurlijk, Spinoza, Machiavelli, Popper, Camus en Erasmus uiteraard. Het boek is niet te missen doordat er mensen aan het woord komen die niet elke dag over de tong gaan, maar bijzonder inspirerend zijn. Nicolaus Cusanus (1401 – 1464) uit een wijndorp aan de Moezel bijvoorbeeld. In de 15e eeuw een essentieel diplomaat en geleerde die door heel Europa reisde. Hij betoogde dat als God oneindig is en één, dan de mens dit nooit zal bevatten. Mensen zullen een eigen, onvolmaakt idee van die 'Heilige Wijsheid' - inderdaad, Hagia Sophia - ontwikkelen, beseffend dat zij 'wetende onwetenden' zijn. Alle reden dus tot intensieve, tolerante dialoog om zo dichterbij dat mysterie te komen. Hij zocht daarom nadrukkelijk zelf zo'n dialoog met de Islam op. En ervoer dat tolerantie dan, ook, schuurt en afstand meebrengt. En nooit passief kan zijn, maar dwingt tot actieve dialoog. De Franse denker Claude Lefort (1924 – 2010) - inspirator van Paul Frissen – was als jong trotskist afkerig van het Stalinisme en zo ook van Sartre. Hij zag dat democratie tolerantie vereist, omdat de plaats van de macht per definitie leeg is, alleen tijdelijk vervuld op zijn best. En hij definieerde dat er 'le politique' is - het democratisch bestel van instituties en regels - en 'la politique' - de geesteshouding die daarbij past, zoals het voorkomen van 'permanente vijandschap' en zondebokken. Bestel en ethos. Verwar die vooral niet. *** Verder luisteren 580 - Lenteboekenspecial 555 – Winterboeken: dominanten en dissonanten in een veranderende wereld 527 - Politici en hun boek 522 - Zeven zomerboeken 472 - Winterboekeneditie - Premiers, Leiderschap, Macht 441 - Extra zomeraflevering: boekenspecial! 395 - Vijf boeken en een afscheidsbrief 363 - Extra zomeraflevering: PG tipt boeken! 286 - Extra zomeraflevering: PG tipt boeken! 269 - Vijf boeken die je moet lezen om Europa beter te begrijpen 259 - De omgevallen boekenkast: leestips van PG! 133 - Amerikaanse presidenten: boeken die je volgens PG móet lezen! 99 - Tips voor thuis: de omgevallen boekenkast van PG! 35 - Charles de Gaulle *** Tijdlijn 00:00:00 – Deel 1 00:29:06 - Deel 2 00:55:35 - Deel 3 01:15:05 - Deel 4 01:59:59 - Einde See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Met in deze aflevering: Waarom hebben stieren een ring door hun neus en koeien niet? Kan je beter een hoge of lage WOZ-waarde hebben bij overlijden? Wat gebeurt er met koelwater nadat een datacenter daar gebruik van heeft gemaakt? Hoeveel neemt het gletsjerwater af per jaar door klimaatverandering? Wat betekent de brommer op tijd zetten? Waarom zitten er gaatjes in de zijkant van De Gelderlander? Hoe kan je de NS-zomerkaart opzeggen?
The Sanna family of Chicago saw the end of the milkman and needed adapt their dairy business for the future. Hello Swiss Miss. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Seaside Plumbing Ad] Dave Young: Welcome back to the Empire Builders Podcast. I’m Dave Young and Stephen Semple sitting here. And he just told me what the topic is. And it took me back to, gosh, it took me back to my young teens sitting in a ski lodge drinking some hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: There you go. That’s a good one. Dave Young: This was the innovation in hot chocolate, and we’re going to talk about Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: All right. And I’m trying to think of when that would’ve come out. Probably, I’m guessing the ’60s, ’70s? Stephen Semple: Yeah, it was ’60s. Dave Young: And it wasn’t long before my mom had a recipe for it would make a giant tub of it. It wasn’t Swiss Miss obviously, but it was like it’s powdered milk and cocoa and whatever else. I would just eat it by the spoonful dry. Stephen Semple: Wow. Really? Okay. There you go. Dave Young: Sure. I was doing those kinds of YouTube challenges before YouTube was around all by myself in my mom’s kitchen. Stephen Semple: Well, Swiss Miss was actually launched in 1961. 1961. It was created by the Sanna family, as you’ll learn in this. And it’s a bit of an interesting story. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of- Dave Young: The Sanna Family? Stephen Semple: Sanna family. S-A-N-N-A, Sanna. Dave Young: Sanna. Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. And it said it’s a bit of an interesting journey. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of the stuff that happened. Dave Young: And I don’t know where this is going. I’m going to throw a weird guess out. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: One of the things that my mom put in her hot cocoa recipe was a powdered milk. And we used to drink this, a powdered milk called Sanalac. Stephen Semple: You’re right on the money, Dave. Dave Young: Is that right? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yep. Once again, ding, ding, ding. Dave nails it. Dave Young: All right, continue. Stephen Semple: Okay. Well, we’re done. We’re done now. Dave Young: For some reason, I saw it with one N, but yeah, it was weird. There was a period of a couple years where she didn’t buy milk at the store. She bought powdered milk and we had these jugs that had these plungers that stirred it up and we had powdered milk. It was almost like war rations in the ’70s or something. I don’t know why we did it. Stephen Semple: So this is a big part of the story. Now, Swiss Miss was started in ’61. It was sold in 1967 to Beatrice Foods. Now, the price wasn’t disclosed, but it’s estimated it was somewhere in the $10, $12 million range, which is not bad for 1967. Today, they’re owned by Conagra, and it’s estimated that they sell 50 million boxes a year of Swiss Miss hot chocolate, which is pretty- Dave Young: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Our story starts with Anthony Sanna, who’s an Italian immigrant in Chicago, who starts Sanna Dairies, which is a milk distribution company. And at the time, milk was a really regular delivery. There was the milkman who came to the neighborhood delivering bottles of milk. Dave Young: Yeah. And we had a milkman. Maybe she didn’t like him and decided, “Sorry, we’re going the powdered route.” I don’t know. I don’t know. Stephen Semple: Interesting. Dave Young: We’ll never know. Stephen Semple: Following World War II, US consumers start going through a large transition. Suburbs, boom, refrigeration in the home becomes common, grocery stores emerge. Guess what? The writing on the wall for home milk delivery is there. Dave Young: The refrigerated section of the grocery store. Yep. Stephen Semple: Right. So Anthony sees this opportunity to create maybe what he should do instead of he’s got to pivot the business away from whole milk delivery to, “I’m going to build a shelf-stable milk product.” Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: So now at the time, powder milk existed and had for generations, but the problem was it wasn’t convenient. It tended to float on the surface, formed like these stubborn lumps. It created a lot of dust. It required really vigorous mixing and it didn’t dissolve well in cold water. So shelf-stable, but not convenient. What Anthony Sanna developed was this milk drying. He did this more of this milk drying that turned it into Sanalac, which is one N. Dave Young: Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Oh, is it? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. It’s spelled with one N, but the family name is two Ns. And basically promote it as the first instant dry milk. And the word instant is important here because the milk was very fine, dense particles that when it hit the water, it blended better. Dave Young: I don’t remember there being anything wrong with it. It was like, “Oh, you dump the powder in, you put the water in, and the pitcher, it was a plastic pitcher and it had a plunger agitator thing, and now it’s milk. Have some cereal now.” Stephen Semple: The powdered milk previously was when the water hit the powder, the outside would become wet and sticky, trapping the brown powder inside, so it was all this work to break it down. Dave Young: It’s kind of like stirring up a protein drink today, right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Where the Sanna process from Sanalac produced a powder that was more porous, less dusty, easier to wet, quicker dissolving. Great. Dave Young: Love it. Stephen Semple: So now what you’ve got is this patent that Charles Sanna put together was described as being instantly soluble, free-flowing, relatively dust-free, non-fat, dry milk. So the first act- Dave Young: Put that in a song. Stephen Semple: Exactly. So act one is we basically pivot away from the milkman. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: So challenge to the business was milkman’s going away. That’s a powerful idea. Dave Young: Yeah, absolutely. Stephen Semple: Because my business is changing, I pivot. But I didn’t pivot away from the milk business, pivoted away to how the product is done. On its own, we could do a whole podcast on that, but we’re not done yet. So war breaks out with Korea. Korean War breaks out. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: And Charles takes the product and packages it in the small individual packets. Dave Young: Oh, okay. So you could have a cup of milk. Stephen Semple: So now it’s easy to transport and use it. You could have a cup of milk, you could use it as a creamer for coffee, all the other stuff. And he gets a huge contract with the government, but in order to meet the delivery requirements, he has to have a large inventory on hand of the milk powder. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: Korean War ends. What do you do with all the inventory? Dave Young: Oh my gosh. Stephen Semple: So he’s sitting on this massive amount of inventory. So what Charles notices is that there’s a lot of hot chocolate mixes at the time where cocoa and sugar, but required hot milk. Dave Young: You added milk. Yeah, yeah. Stephen Semple: Hot milk, he had to heat up. And as we know, heating up milk, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck because you can get the film on the top. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: It’s one of those things that goes from warm to boiling over instantaneously. It’s crazy. Dave Young: I can’t remember the last time I even tried. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, I’ve done it for some creams, things like that. It’s pain in the neck so, “What if the milk was part of the mix?” He asked himself. So he started experimenting with mixing in cocoa and sugar with his instant milk. Now you have a hot chocolate without heating milk. Dave Young: You could just use hot tap water. Stephen Semple: Exactly. Dave Young: Right? Yeah, a kid can make their own cup of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stephen Semple: So here they are. They didn’t invent hot chocolate, they didn’t invent hot beverages, but what they really created was this new thing, hot chocolate instant beverage. I’ll just open the pack, add hot water, ready to go. Now, where are they going to sell it? So what they decide to do was sell it to airlines because they could individually pack it. Dave Young: Airlines. Oh, yeah. Stephen Semple: Because remember, it’s late ’50s, airline travel’s glamorous. And so they approach the airlines and they say, “Hey, you should do this because this’ll be really easy for you to give people hot chocolate.” Dave Young: And nobody’s going to be boiling milk on an airplane. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: Nobody wants to do that. So yeah, perfect. Perfect target. Stephen Semple: Right. But our story’s not quite done because they lose the airline contracts. And the reason is, here’s the ironic twist, they lose the contracts because the product is so popular, people are stealing packets and taking it home with them. Dave Young: That’s just good market research. That’s what that is. Stephen Semple: So it becomes way too expensive for the airlines to do this. But what they know is, “We got a hit. When that’s happening, we’ve got a hit.” But what they also realize is Brown Swiss is not really a good name. So in 1961, they rebrand it to Swiss Miss. And in the packaging, they lean heavily into the halo effect of Swiss and Swiss chocolate. Dave Young: Sure, sure. Yeah. And then there’s a little alpine girl in the logo, right? And she’s the Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Exactly. And the interesting thing is the product has nothing to do with Switzerland. It really doesn’t. Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: But what they understood is there’s the halo effect of Swiss, which they understood with Brown Swiss, they understood Swiss has got this halo effect, but Brown Swiss was almost too weird and on the nose. Swiss Miss allowed them to create this lovely feeling, right? Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: And when you looked at the early packaging, there was Swiss lodges and this character, this Swiss character. Dave Young: We’d much rather think of our milk as coming from a happy cow with a bell around its neck in Switzerland than a modern day dairy operation. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, if you think about it, we often use these shortcuts to judge products. If something comes from Italy, we assume fashion. Germany, we assume engineering. Japan, we assume electronics. France, luxury. Switzerland, chocolate and watches. Dave Young: And holes in cheese. Stephen Semple: And holes in cheese. Yeah. So the company literally borrowed these decades of reputation and attached to it for that halo effect. And it just worked better when they did it with the name Swiss Miss than Brown Swiss. But what I loved is the path this went down is think about the innovations that Charles Sanna did. “I’m in a milk delivery business. Delivery’s going away. What do I do? I’ll make a shelf-stable product. That way I don’t have to deal with the delivery man.” Korean War comes along. “Oh, I’ve got an opportunity. Let me individually package it. Great. Oh, I’ve got all this inventory. What am I going to do with it? I’ll make hot chocolate.” He continually pivoted. And it wasn’t a pivot of leaving his industry. This is the other thing that gets me is when people are like, “Oh, I’m going to go over and do this other industry thing.” No, it was still all inside a consumer consuming a milk-like product. Dave Young: I wouldn’t be surprised if the hot chocolate mix that my mom made wasn’t a recipe from Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Maybe. Dave Young: Because the main ingredient is powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. That’s interesting. Dave Young: And you just add your own cocoa and sugar, but they’re still selling her powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. Yeah, they’re still selling their product. Yeah. Dave Young: Right? And if you want it more convenient, you want to take it on the road or take it on a ski trip or to the cabin in the woods or whatever, to the ice rink, you’d fill a Thermos with hot water and grab the packets and go. Stephen Semple: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s the reason why I found this interesting is I want to think about where we are today. How much change is going to be happening due to AI, changes in population, things along that lines? And there’s going to be this temptation to go into different businesses. You don’t need to go into different businesses. Just look at the opportunity around the edges of your own industries because you already have a lot of knowledge about that industry. But what I really like is any one of these challenges, how many companies got wiped out following wars when the war ended and they were stuck on industry? In the motorcycle, so many companies, things like that would wipe out, didn’t wipe them out. Or things like a whole business pivoting in terms of what the business model is, like milk delivery man. Unbelievable innovations and pivots that I think really just shows how brilliant a business person Charles Sanna was. Dave Young: I think you can absolutely pare this down to he had a focus on removing friction. Stephen Semple: Yes, there you go. Dave Young: Right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: And if you focus on removing friction between you and your customer, in the case of the milkman, right? The friction point as well [inaudible 00:15:47]. Stephen Semple: The milkman was removing. Yeah, but even getting into milkman- Dave Young: The guy dropped off the milk and I had to remember to pick it up off the porch before it spoiled and put it in the fridge, and then put the bottles back out. Stephen Semple: Right. But if you even think about the milkman, when it first came out, it was removing friction because it was brought to your home. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Stephen Semple: So the first removing of friction was bring milk to the home. Second removing of friction was remove the milkman. Next friction was put it in individual packages. It was that constant thinking because that’s even what landed them in the milkman business in the first place, I’m going to guess. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: And that’s something you should think about in your business is- Stephen Semple: Absolutely. Dave Young: … what’s getting in the way of my customers? What’s between me and my customers? Stephen Semple: Constantly make it easier for the customer. Constantly make it easier. Absolutely. Oh, and later on, of course, after the business was sold, I think when it was under Beatrice, the next little giggle that they did was putting the dried marshmallows in, so then all of a sudden you’d have the dried marshmallows in with the package. Dave Young: Oh, sure. Yeah. They’ve got all the different… There’s dark chocolate Swiss Miss. There’s all kinds of product fair issues. Now, we’re at about 16. Can I pull on another thread that might lead to somewhere else? I don’t know. It’s probably a dead end, but my understanding, this might be an American versus Canadianism, but this is only strangely interesting to me because I’m from Nebraska. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: So the name is Beatrice or- Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Dave Young: … the company here we would call it Beatrice. There’s a town in Nebraska, which is also where, that’s the Conagra folks. It’s Beatrice. The town is named Beatrice. Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Okay. Dave Young: And I don’t know if that’s where the food company got its start, but it’s like, “Here’s a word that’s got three different pronunciations.” I told you this was going nowhere, but we’re at 17 minutes now. Stephen Semple: Conagra bought Beatrice, whatever you want to call it. So yeah. Dave Young: If it was a woman, you’d just call her B. Stephen Semple: B. There you go. That’d be easier. Dave Young: Beatrice. All right. Well, now you’ve solved another one of my childhood mysteries, Stephen. Stephen Semple: There you go. Dave Young: Shed new light on why my mom was feeding us powdered milk all those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: All right. Dave Young: Thanks, looking forward to next time on the Empire Builders Podcast. Stephen Semple: All right. Thanks, David. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a big fat, juicy five-star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute Empire Building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.
We have officially taken our first trip together. Learn how we planned our weekend away, where we went, what we ate, and who we met (hint: it's a pretty famous author!). Plus, tune in to hear what we learned about each other and whether we would travel together again!Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
On the phone-in: Genealogy expert, Lesley Anderson, answers listeners' questions. And off the top of the show, we speak with Nate McLagan, who uses a metal detector to find lost rings and other precious items. He recently found an American man's wedding ring in the lake at Kejimkujik National Park in NS.
#165 - Het regent weer irritaties (uit een goed hart) vandaag. Isa blijkt een ouwe zeurkous te worden, en dat is Marc-Marie’s schuld. En hij heeft ook wat te zeuren hoor, maar je maar geen zorgen. Alle Engelsen mogen zich schrap zetten. We maken het goed met een spannende kijktip! Kijktips in deze aflevering:
Ever wonder if you should leave your wedding rings (or other sentimental/expensive jewelry) at home while you travel? Jenn considers when you should leave them home and how to keep them safe when traveling!Support the Travel Mug Podcast by buying us a coffee! You'll make our day & you'll get access to fun stuff like bloopers and extra content.We have Merch! Shop the Travel Mug Podcast Store Check out our fav items here: Our Favourite Travel ProductsGRAB OUR MASTER PACKING LIST HERE*****************************************We are travel enthusiasts who do not claim to be professionals! Instead, we are two Halifax, NS natives with travel blogs who somehow found one another on the internet, and now, we have a podcast!!Join us every week as we talk about our favourite destinations, travel tips, travel fails, and all things travel!We have a big passion for travelling and talking about travel, so we hope you will listen and join the conversation.You can find us here:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramJenn's Travel Blog Jenn's YouTube channelDisclaimer: All episodes are based on our opinions and experiences. Always do your research and make travel plans based on your budget and comfort levels.Support the show
Ilona is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Veteran, having turned an early fascination with aviation into a position as a helicopter pilot at one of Canada's Tactical Helicopter Squadrons. After thirteen years in the CAF, Ilona was released following an injury. She continued in aviation for several years as a civilian helicopter flight instructor.Before & throughout her career in aviation, creativity & craft always played a large role in Ilona's life, cultivated at an early age when she was encouraged to learn by creating – from sewing & knitting to building & painting. As an adult, Ilona learned the art of wire-wrap jewellery through evening classes, while posted to Comox, BC. This particular craft quickly became the focus of her creative energy.Now residing in Halifax, NS, Ilona took skills from both her career in aviation & instruction, and her creative practice into entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Mable & Rose Handmade, a creative costume jewellery repair & upcycling business that values secondhand materials, hands-on experiences and community.Check her out @mable_and_rose
Jaap was ooit dik, tot die legendarische Men’s Health-cover hem een goddelijk lichaam bezorgde. Volgens Sander een wonder van ijzersterke discipline, maar dat droomlijf behouden blijkt een hel. Waarom hebben die vetcellen van Jaap eigenlijk een beter geheugen dan hijzelf?Nu is er Ozempic: één prik in je pens en de honger is weg. Is deze afslankmedicatie een zegen, of de ultieme doodsteek voor onze ruggengraat? En wat doen we met 'food noise' die constante ruis in je kop die blijft schreeuwen om snacks, terwijl supermarkten ons doelbewust blijven verleiden? Hebben die voedselgiganten vrij spel nu we alles toch wel kunnen 'wegspuiten'? Samen met obesitashoogleraar Liesbeth van Rossum duiken we in de wereld van Ozempic, food noise en de smerige verleidingstrucs in de supermarkt. Ontdek verrassend Nederland deze zomer met NS. Koop Nederland Dal Vrij vóór 1 augustus en profiteer een maand lang van onbeperkt reizen in de daluren en het weekend voor € 49 per maand. Het abonnement is tot en met 31 juli te koop. Klik hier voor meer informatie over het Nederland Dal vrij Abonnement Klik hier voor meer informatie over dagjes uit met de trein Recent brachten internist-endocrinoloog en hoogleraar obesitas aan het Erasmus MC Liesbeth van Rossum en obesitasarts en wetenschapper Mariette Boon het boek VET Belangrijk 2.0 uit. Hierin worden op een toegankelijke en luchtige manier de nieuwste wetenschappelijke inzichten over overgewicht en obesitas beschreven, inclusief verrassende nieuwe kennis over leefstijlfactoren, de biologische oorzaken van overgewicht en de werking van obesitasmedicatie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
#164 - Het is zogenaamd niks voor deze twee, maar er wordt een partijtje ópgeschept vandaag! En dan bedoelen we niet op de mooie Thaise borden van Marc-Marie. Isa maakt zich klaar voor de grote (enge) dag, maar gelukkig kan ze daarna als een prinses genieten van haar wangenmassage. En van een boterham trendloze kaas. Kijktips in deze aflevering:
PODCAST LAS NOTICIAS CON CALLE DE 15 DE JULIO - Las primarias no le preocupan a JGo - El Vocero Rivera Schatz refiere a subsecretaria de la gobernación Itza García - El Vocero Bonistas la emprenden contra la Junta porque alegan esconden dinero para no pagar la deuda de la AEE - El Vocero USA envía barcos para confrontar a China en el Pacífico - WSJAhora mismo vuelven a atacar a Irán y cierran el estrecho de Hormuz - WSJProcurador del envejeciente la emprende contra la baby secretaria de la Familia - El Vocero Llega a PR la diarrea explosiva de cyclospora - Metro Adictos a la lotería, aumenta 7% la cantidad de billetes, 780 millones se juegan en PR - El Vocero • ¿Te ha pasado que llegas de viaje y se te arruina la ilusión tan pronto ves la factura del teléfono y tienes cargos adicionales? • Se suman más y más y más cargos adicionales por cada llamada, mensaje, búsqueda que hiciste. • Eso me llegó a pasar, hasta que me cambié a T-Mobile. • Los únicos que ofrecen SIN COSTO ADICIONAL internet y textos ilimitados en más de 215 destinos. • Ya no me tengo que preocupar cuando viajo, ni cuando regreso porque ya está incluido, sin cargos adicionales. • Viaja relax con T-Mobile, ¡Cámbiate hoy en T-Life o llama al 1800TMOBILE!#incluyeauspicio #tmobileDistrito Sports Hub en Centro de Convenciones con 20 millones de inversión - El Vocero Agricultores dicen que la sequía los está destruyendo - Primera Hora Gobernadora dice que LUMA no puede demandar al gobierno y pide al Supremo acoger el caso y resolverlo para sacar a LUMA - Metro Tres años de cárcel para Arriaga por abuso de menor de 12 años - Jay Fonseca PR Prohíben los jetskis en Salinas tras más casos de muerte de manatíes - Primera Hora ICE detiene operativos que incluyan detener carros cuando tras matar joven colombiano, Trump cambia decisión - WSJMoody's da buena nota pero con cuidado a San Juan para emitir deuda - El Nuevo Día EE.UU. golpea Irán por 4to día; Trump amenaza con volar plantas eléctricas y puentes. Brent en $86.82.LOS DATOS DEL DÍA (cierre martes 14 de julio)Brent$86.82/barril +4.45%WTI~$80/barril (máximo de 4 semanas)Gasolina EE.UU. (prom.)$3.89/galónDiésel EE.UU. (retail)cerca de $5/galónS&P 5007,543.59 +0.38%Dow Jones52,508.27 +0.02%Bono 10 años4.583%Euro/USD~1.14 (últ. dato disp. 11 jul)Gas natural (Henry Hub)~$3.00/MMBtu (11 jul)
Waarom krijgt een vrouw tijdens haar zwangerschap meteen de vraag of ze parttime gaat werken, terwijl die vraag aan een man bijna nooit wordt gesteld? Dat is de hardnekkige erfenis van de tijd waarin de man de kostwinner was en de vrouw thuisbleef. Die traditionele rolverdeling werkt nog altijd door. Onrechtvaardig! Maar de sleutel tot verandering ligt ook bij onszelf. Lieve vrouwen: stop met maternal gatekeeping en geef je partner de ruimte om op zijn eigen manier voor de kinderen te zorgen, zonder alles langs de meetlat te leggen. En mannen: verenig je. Claim je plek aan de keukentafel, strijd voor beter verlof of kroon jezelf desnoods tot dadfluencer. Pas als we stoppen met het automatisch verdelen van rollen op basis van gender, ontstaat er échte keuzevrijheid. Gelijkheid op de werkvloer begint immers thuis: bij de verdeling van de luiers én de ambitie.Wil je weten wat de afschaffing van de salderen voor jouw situatie betekent en hoe je meer uit je zonnestroom haalt? Kijk op vattenfall.nl/zon voor advies en oplossingen.Ontdek verrassend Nederland deze zomer met NS. Koop Nederland Dal Vrij vóór 1 augustus en profiteer een maand lang van onbeperkt reizen in de daluren en het weekend voor € 49 per maand. Het abonnement is tot 31 juli te koop.Klik hier voor meer informatie over het Nederland Dal vrij AbonnementSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
#163 - Er stroomt weer allerlei opbouwende kritiek uit ’t goede hart van Marc-Marie & Isa. Gelukkig komen ze weer tot rust als het over die heerlijke, zachte zomeravonden gaat. Denk wel even de muggen weg, dan. Ze hebben een vreselijk (doch vermakelijk?) nieuw programma gekeken én geven bindend advies.
Chris Boshuizen, better known as Dr. Chrispy, is a physicist, entrepreneur, musician, and former astronaut whose career bridges the worlds of science and creativity. As the co-founder of Planet Labs, he helped revolutionize Earth observation through satellite technology before flying to space aboard Blue Origin's NS-18 mission, becoming Australia's third astronaut. Alongside his work in aerospace, Chris creates music inspired by exploration, innovation, and the human experience, producing under the name Dr. Chrispy while encouraging others to pursue bold dreams with persistence, curiosity, and purpose.In this episode, discover how an astronaut, physicist, and musician found a way to merge science, creativity, and purpose—and why pursuing your biggest dreams is always worth the journey.Key TakeawaysWhy perseverance matters more than perfect timing when chasing ambitious goals.How the "overview effect" changes the way astronauts see Earth—and what creatives can learn from that perspective.What the future of space travel could mean for music, creativity, and live experiences like concerts in space.---→ Learn more about Chris and his work at: https://drchrispy.com/.Book an Artist Breakthrough Session with the Modern Musician team: https://apply.modernmusician.me/podcast
In this episode, our host Kyia unpacks a truth most of us try to avoid: nothing good in life is convenient and the moment we start chasing ease over everything else, we lose the things that actually matter. She walks through the hidden "price tag" on community, hard work, marriage, NS forgiveness. She shows how every one of those costs comes with a reward on the other side that convenience could never buy. This episode is a challenge to stop optimizing for comfort and start paying the price for what's actually worth having.
Een burgerberaad klinkt misschien stoffig en saai, maar het geeft burgers juist een stem in de politieke besluitvorming. Toch is niet iedereen overtuigd. Sannie stak in zijn column zijn scepsis over deze ontwikkeling niet onder stoelen of banken: zijn burgers wel in staat om complexe problemen op te lossen? Eva Rovers, is oprichter van Bureau Burgerberaad. Zij stelt dat burgers verrassend goed kunnen meedenken én meebeslissen over ingewikkelde maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Terwijl de rest van Europa al volop experimenteert met succesvolle burgerberaden, rijst de vraag: waarom doen we hier in Nederland niet meer mee? Ga je op autovakantie in Europa? Zorg dan voor Wegenwacht Europa, de vertrouwde pechhulp die je vakantiegevoel garandeert, zodat elke onverwachte wending een goed verhaal wordt. Meer informatie en voordelen vind je op www.anwb.nl/wegenwachtWil je weten wat de afschaffing van de salderen voor jouw situatie betekent en hoe je meer uit je zonnestroom haalt? Kijk op vattenfall.nl/zon voor advies en oplossingen.Ontdek verrassend Nederland deze zomer met NS. Koop Nederland Dal Vrij vóór 1 augustus en profiteer een maand lang van onbeperkt reizen in de daluren en het weekend voor € 49 per maand. Het abonnement is tot 31 juli te koop.Klik hier voor meer informatie over het Nederland Dal vrij AbonnementSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Net Promoter System Podcast – Customer Experience Insights from Loyalty Leaders
Episode 263: What does it feel like to go into space? To rocket past the Kármán line, float in perfect silence, and return to Earth—all in 11 minutes? Blue Origin's astronauts experience an expensive thrill ride: part theme park roller coaster, part life-altering pilgrimage. In this episode, Allie Kuehner, a Blue Origin astronaut from the New Shepard flight NS-33, relives the intense pause before liftoff, the three-G climb that somehow feels slow, and the instant gravity disappears. Joining her is Sarah Phelps, Blue Origin's former managing director of astronaut and customer experience, who reveals how her team turns that fleeting flight into a story people cherish for life. We take a behind-the-scenes look at Blue Origin's astronaut training program. It's curated, detail-oriented, and built to guide participants through an emotionally charged moment of awe. We unpack how a month-long window after Allie first decided to go into space narrows down to an intentionally designed two-day training sprint—one that forges six strangers into a crew that is forever changed upon their return to Earth. We explore, through Sarah's lens, what makes the experience meaningful via her design choices, such as why hearing that audible launch countdown is a moment you never forget. And how the first flight-suit try-on became an unexpected, emotionally charged moment of emphasis for astronauts and their loved ones. Sarah made many experience tweaks, as she explains: "We were going into the debrief, and I said, 'But I didn't hear the "go" poll.' … The answer was, 'Well, the astronauts don't need to hear that; that's not part of it. They can just hear the countdown.' I said, 'But I want to hear, "INCO go. Capsule go. Booster go. CAPCOM go. Crewmen go." I want to hear the flight director, "New Shepard is go for launch." … And just because that's never been done before and astronauts on previous vehicles didn't need to hear it, my astronauts … need to feel that reverberation in their whole being that we are go for launch." Allie and Sarah also share lessons any brand can use to choreograph peak emotion without sacrificing operational precision. And they cover what the future of space tourism looks like, such as why going to the space station just for a weekend may become a reality within our lifetimes. Guest: Allie Kuehner, Blue Origin Astronaut, New Shepard flight NS-33, conservationist, and board member of Nature is Nonpartisan Guest: Sarah Phelps, VP, Games Hospitality, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, formerly Blue Origin's Managing Director of Customer Experience Host: Rob Markey, Partner, Bain & Company Give us feedback: Customer Confidential Podcast Feedback Send us a note: Contact Rob Timestamped Topics [00:06] Seven-second rumble before motion and the surprise of a slow ascent [00:09] Capsule-booster separation and sudden silence [00:12] First look at Earth from above [00:14] The astronaut experience inspiration and reimagining astronaut training for modern civilians [00:16] Design brief and making 11 minutes meaningful without formal astronaut prep [00:18] Managing human variables like pausing the launch for final phone calls to family [00:19] Adding the audible "go" poll for emotional impact [00:22] Flight-suit reveals and custom bomber jackets as milestone markers [00:23] Humanizing an engineering culture and lessons CX leaders can mirror [00:25] Looking ahead to Sarah's vision of weekend trips to orbit Notable Quotes [00:00:02] "You're going faster than a speeding bullet. You go through three Gs, but you don't even feel the three Gs, because there's so much else going on. You're looking out the window, it's so loud, and then all of a sudden the rocket and the capsule dislodge from one another. And it goes to perfect silence." [00:00:48] "We're giving people an opportunity to go 62 miles above the earth, and you know that somehow, some way, that experience is going to change you, and it's going to change how you see the world moving forward. For me, it's how do we build an experience around that?" [00:05:34] "One of the most surprising things to me was the ascent—how beautifully slow it felt." [00:06:57] "The first time you get to look out these windows down at Earth, you just see this delicate, finite, beautiful planet. And in that moment, you just realize how connected we all are." [00:09:41] "This thing is an 11-minute flight. It's basically a half-million-dollar roller coaster ride." Additional Resources Watch a full replay of Allie's Blue Origin New Shepherd Mission NS-33 flight here: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-33-mission
Is the fear of heights innate or learned? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O'Reilly explore taking risks, the neuroscience of fear, and how to overcome it with freestyle rock climber and subject of the film Free Solo, Alex Honnold, and neuroscientist Heather Berlin. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/conquering-fear-with-alex-honnold/ Thanks to our Patrons Joseph Savage, Grace Smith, Joe Pacillo, Gregory Wright, Eric Brothwell, IvanM, Pattie Particle, Cory Fenstermaker, James H Lawson, embreebane, Dai Stiho, Raymond C King, J M, Alex Wheeler, Jason Rushmore, Idris, Damian Correa, Dylan Woody, Julia Nolen, Chris Petit, Anna, David Kapner, Lalo, Vic, Ash Anthony, Wayne Stubblefield, Robin Fordham, EL_Bdo, Teresita Brown, Heather Walker, Christian Cummins, NS, Trenton Clark, Pou Lay, Joya, Derek Bolka, Diego Calderón, Charles Kimmel IV, Josh Folland, Gerard Kennedy, Hunter Ruigrok, Chris Frazier, Yasmany Cubela Medina, Julian Childs, Brandon Sachs, Scott Warren, Moses Bulondo, Sai Kiran, Zalijah Stahl, Crystal Monahan, Lee Robertson, Kenny918, Tinajocelyntheyogi, Tuan Nguyen, Elizabeth Laycak, Joshua Kelly, Ali Haidari, Richard Clements, Maria Giddings, Joyce, Andrew Frigyik, Scott Muri, Mark Hardt, Alex Stern, Anthony Mercury, Hellothere123, James Gordin, Matt Robertson, Peter Manis, Gegi, Rob, Heber Martinez, Aditya Khurjekar, and Jim Finley for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
PODCAST LAS NOTICIAS CON CALLE DE 4 DE JUNIO - Jefe de seguridad nacional dice que evalúan fraude en sistema de energía de PR - El Nuevo Día Cambiar minoridad a 18 años vuelve a estar en portada - El VoceroSi tienes un billete de 2 puede que tengas mucho, pero mucho dinero - Primera Hora Estados advierten que requisitos de trabajar par Medicaid trae serios problemas - Axios Alarma con la carne, llega el parásito come carne a vacas de Estados Unidos - WSJ En déficit la AAA, tienen que usar fondo de emergencias para mejoras - El Vocero Hoy pelean DACO y LUMA en Boston sobre fallo de pagar por los enseres - El Vocero Autorizan contrato para que la AEE use generación temporera de 10 años con Gas Natural de Power Expectations - El Vocero Bancos se oponen a medida que elimina truco de comprar deuda barata y espetártela cara - El Vocero Asignación de millones para Ferraouili es defendida por… ella misma - El Nuevo Día Alegan intervenciones indebidas continuas desde Fortaleza en contratos - El Nuevo Día Ni la ropa de Elvia ni la de Anthonieska es la misma recuperada de la escena - El Nuevo Día Siempre innovando y con los mejores beneficios, MCS Personal Directo te ofrece cubiertas accesibles para que cuides de tu salud y la de los tuyos.Con una amplia red de proveedores de más de 15,000 médicos de libre selección. Reembolso de hasta $40 mensuales por membresía a un gimnasio o por un entrenador personal debidamente certificado. Asistencia en el hogar para servicios de cerrajería, plomería y electricidad de hasta $350 por evento hasta 4 veces al año.¡Únete HOY a la gran familia de MCS!¡Salud que completa tu vida! Llama al 787.945.1259 y oriéntate.Endoso pagado#mcs#incluyeauspicio Cese al fuego entre Israel y Líbano otra vez - CNBCHay fondos para comprar casa - Primera Hora Republicanos votaron a favor de parar guerra de Irán - Reuters En problemas famoso dominicano congresista aliado de PR - Gothamist CUBA se quedó fuera de Visa y Mastercard por sanciones a GAESA - Cuba Debate Venezuela subiendo exportaciones 22% — Bloomberg LOS DATOS DEL DÍABrent: $96.97/barril (-0.86%)Diésel (promedio nacional EEUU): $5.35/galónS&P 500: 7,553.68 (-0.74%)Dow: 50,687.07 (-1.21%, -620.72 pts)Bono 10Y del Tesoro: 4.49% (subió desde 4.43%)Euro/USD: 1.16Gas natural (Henry Hub): $3.21/MMBtu • • Tasa hipotecaria 30Y: 6.52%
PODCAST LAS NOTICIAS CON CALLE DE 1 DE JUNIO - AccuWeather marca al Caribe noreste con riesgo sobre el promedio mientras comienza temporada Temperatures extremas en PR Junta autoriza paguen a Educación Especial, pero advierten que no pueden seguir pagando con fondos no recurrentesMientras, plantea cambios en Ley 60, créditos de cine, y créditos de manufactura.Gobierno no consigue casi ingenieros para poder contratar en obras públicas - El Nuevo Día JGo logra fiesta playera y recauda 500 mil con Jorge Navarrio y otra legisladora - El Nuevo Día Horrible escena de hit and run deja persona decapitada - Noticentro Trump plantea que FEMA no puede hacerse cargo y le toca a los gobiernos locales meter mano en caso de desastre - El Nuevo Día China especializa estudiantes y universidades en “tierras raras” - Reuters Comienza hoy temporada de huracanes, se esperan pocos, pero mucho polvo del Zahara - Primera Hora Gobierno federal te paga la luz si tienes atrasaos en cerca de 4000 familias - Primera Hora Bukele 2 v. Trotsky Comunista en Colombia para la segunda vuelta No hay doctores para atender endometriosis - Metro Paso mega importante contra cáncer de páncreas, PR presente en Chicago - Jay Fonseca PRIrán acusa a Estados Unidos de violar cese al fuego tras nuevo bombardeo y ataques en Líbano - DW No saben a dónde van a llevar a Juana Matos y sus casi 200 familias con casi 100 millones en fondos federales - El Nuevo Día Advierten demasiado poder dado a Recursos Naturales para mitigar daños en erosión costera - El Nuevo Día Otro error en caso de Anthonieska, cogieron la ropa que no era - Jay Fonseca PR Mansión se vende en 39.5 millones en Río GrandeLa Cámara exige que se entregue informe de supuestos malos manejos en OGPe realizado por ahora ex secretario de DDEC - El Nuevo Día 205 asesinatos en PR al 31 de mayo — 26 más que el año pasado (+17.5%); MMM hoy voy pa Martins BBQEl mejor y más sabroso pollo asado a la varita de Puerto Rico. Cocinando diariamente comida fresca saludable y sabrosa con un montón de complementos para escoger, arroces, habichuelas, verduras, mofongo,tostones,....MMMM....Esto si es criolloMartins BBQ, TOMANDO todas las medidas de salud y sabor para mantener la mesa boricua al dia con opciones para llamar, recoger o delivery por UBER Eats, y DoorDash.MMM Hoy como en Martin's BBQAsado...Jugoso...Sabroso#martinsbbq#incluyeauspicio Berkshire compra constructora de casas - BusinessWire Junta autoriza cerrar créditos contributivos en PR - El Vocero Nvidia lanza nuevo microchip y nueva computadora que va a ayudar a robots y a carros autónomos - Axios Demócratas progresistas van contra Ai - Axios PPD dice Miguel Romero hace campaña con crisis de agua para ser el candidato del PNP - El Vocero 20% de retirados tiene que buscar otros ingresos porque no dan las pensiones - El Vocero La gente está pagando más la casa que antes - El Vocero Dicen que van a abrir las cavernas de Camuy - El Vocero Auditoría pide a Autoridad de Tierras que pidan devolución de dinero - El Vocero No van a eliminar la erudita y punto - El Vocero LOS DATOS DEL DÍABrent crudo$92.05 / barril (−1.77%)Diésel retail EE.UU.~$5.60 / galónS&P 5007,580 (+0.2%) · 9 semanas al alzaDow Jones~50,000 (+0.7%) · récordBono 10Y Tesoro4.45%Euro / USD1.165Gas natural Henry Hub$3.29 / MMBtuHipoteca 30Y EE.UU.6.53% (Freddie Mac)
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