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Left to Our Own Devices
Michal Geva: Securing OTA

Left to Our Own Devices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 35:09


We sat down with Michal Geva, General Manager, OTA and Cybersecurity at HARMAN International to discuss trends in automotive cybersecurity and OTA cybersecurity. Michal also discussed supply chain cybersecurity, EVs and provided her tips for women in cybersecurity roles.

Jäljillä
Colemanin perhe

Jäljillä

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2023 47:20


Chris Coleman oli työskennellyt jo useita vuosia julkkis-saarnaaja Joyce Meyersille, kun hän yhtäkkiä alkoi saada uhkaavia kirjeitä ja sähköposteja. Viesteissä uhattiin Chrisin perheen surmaamisella, ellei Joyce lopettaisi “tekopyhää” saarnaamistaan. Kun Chrisin vaimo ja kaksi lasta sitten löydettiin kuolleina perheen kotoa, Chris oli varma että uhkailija oli siirtynyt sanoista tekoihin. Poliiseilla oli kuitenkin hyvin erilainen käsitys tapahtuneesta. Ota yhteyttä: jaljillapodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @ jaljillapodcastMusiikki: This work contains Music Track Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions - Heartbeat of the Hood that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Source: https://directory.audio/free-music/ambient/5275-doug-maxwell-media-right-productions -heartbeat-of-the-hoodAuthor: Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions LÄHTEET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOiFLW8_TDQ&ab_channel=TrueCrimeDailyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ7EH3Hpyp4&ab_channel=48Hourshttps://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/il-court-of-appeals/1688838.htmlhttps://www.stlmag.com/A-Family-Erased-The-Chris-Coleman-Story/https://fox2now.com/news/warning-graphic-pictures-coleman-murder-evidence/https://fox2now.com/news/convicted-killer-chris-coleman-talks-to-crime-watch-daily/https://truecrimedaily.com/2018/04/26/head-of-security-for-religious-figure-convicted-of-murdering-wife-two-sons/https://www.themidwestcrimefiles.com/post/the-ultimate-betrayal-the-coleman-family-murdershttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-accused-of-killing-family-texts-girlfriend-from-wifes-funeral/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30841214https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-chris-colemans-obsession-lead-to-triple-murder/https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ng/date/2009-05-29/segment/01https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ng/date/2009-06-10/segment/01https://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/illinois.slaying.arrests/index.htmlhttps://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/chris-coleman-convicted-of-strangling-his-family-seeks-appeal-over/article_6709a17d-45ca-55ff-9e87-af4c49b2fbc8.htmlhttps://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/may-5-2009-three-murders-mark-the-start-of-the-christopher-coleman-case/article_404da836-4ca1-5e88-b6c9-22ed6e560f9a.htmlhttps://www.joycemeyer.org/

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
What Is a Digitally Enabled Rehab Therapist?

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 60:02


PT, PTA, OT, OTA, SLP – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.    What is a digitally enabled rehab therapist? Is this the next new fad? In this episode, we talk with digital health expert Anang Chokshi, DPT, to define digital enablement for rehabilitation therapists and discuss the value of adopting digital health as a tool in your clinical practice toolkit. How are we doing? Click here to give us feedback  (01:43) Importance of Being a Digitally Enabled Therapist (05:56) How Technology Changes Our Practice (08:51) Importance of Reviewing Data (14:00) Value of Digital Tools and Competencies (21:54) APTA Foundational Paper (27:26) Categories of Digital Health (32:45) Benefits of Implementing Digital Health (36:55) Benefits to Patients (42:25) Benefits to Payers (44:07) Challenges for Stakeholders (46:35) Implementation Strategies (53:28) Resources for the Clinician (55:21) Artificial Intelligence (58:08) Closing Remarks     The content for this course was created by Anang Chokshi, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS.  The content for this course was created by Tiffany Shubert, PT, Ph.D. The content for this course was created by Susan Almon-Matangos, MS/CCC-SLP.  Here is how Relias can help you earn continuing education credits:  Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam;   or   Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy. Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the course exam and receive your certificate.  Learn more about Relias at www.relias.com.    Legal Disclaimer: The content of Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education is provided only for educational and training purposes for healthcare professionals. The educational material provided in this podcast should not be used as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others.  Resources  Digital health (FDA): https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-excellence/what-digital-health APTA foundational paper on the digitally enabled physical therapist: https://www.apta.org/your-practice/practice-models-and-settings/digital-health-technology/digitally-enabled-physical-therapist Digital PT task force report: https://world.physio/sites/default/files/2020-06/WCPT-INPTRA-Digital-Physical-Therapy-Practice-Task-force-March2020.pdf  The Playbook: Digital Healthcare Edition (Digital Medicine Society and Department of Veterans Affairs): https://www.dimesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Playbook_-Digital-Healthcare-Edition-7_26_22v-2.pdf  FDA guidance document on clinical evaluation using software as a medical device (SAMD): https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/software-medical-device-samd-clinical-evaluation 

Insider Interviews
A Holistic Approach to Podcasting

Insider Interviews

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 54:48


A “holistic” approach sounds so virtuous – in a yoga pose kind of way. And when it's applied to the business of podcasting it takes on an even healthier stance. Three wise guests explained exactly what it takes to approach podcasting as a unique medium and leverage all aspects of it to drive growth. In this episode of Insider Interviews I spoke with three phenomenal experts during the Podcast Movement conference in Denver who explained this holistic approach. Bryan Barletta, Partner, Sounds Profitable Bryan Barletta and partner and research guru Tom Webster have been making waves in the audio industry with their advisory services focused on growing audience and revenue for podcasters. (You heard me speak with Bryan Barletta on Insider Interviews three years ago and with Tom when he was at Edison Research.) Bryan described his aim to carve out a home for all podcast pros, to educate and elevate the industry. He emphasized that podcasting deserves to be treated as its own channel, optimized based on how people listen. “We're entering the ‘why' phase: ‘Why uniquely podcasting? Why start here?',” he posited. The answer? “The ad tech, the mindset, the education is now here. And that's why we need to treat it as its own channel and not try and tag it onto other channels to find its own value.” Bryan expects now, at 20 years in, we're finally entering the “2.0 era” where ad tech and mindsets are catching up to podcasting's distinct value. How can we look at measurement objectively? What is the truth behind “churn”? Bryan describes the biggest opportunities and challenges in the business of podcasting, including the status of programmatic. Then, in an unexpected question tossed at me, we discuss the opportunity for political ad messaging in podcasting.... Sample Slide from "The Podcast Opportunity" Study - Sounds Profitable Paul Riismandel, Chief Insights Officer of Signal Hill Insights Paul Riismandel joined the founder of Signal Hill Insights, Jeff Vidler, last year in the appropriately named role of Chief Insights Officer. The growing company is an audio-focused research firm that provides custom insights for publishers, broadcasters, and advertisers. Paul was very vocal about holistic campaign measurement -- versus siloed or, say, just performance-driven approaches -- that looks across placements, platforms, and creative together to “really have an apples to apples comparison." Their bread and butter is brand lift studies – the positive changes that can be attributed to ad exposure. Those studies help spotlight factors like creative and planning to better uncover why a campaign succeeds or stumbles...and matches that with insights around perception and elements like awareness, favorability, consideration, and purchase intent. He also highlighted the key role of creative and its absolute impact on brand lift. Advertisers can easily make assumptions when an ad performed well – or not – in a particular show. It could, Paul notes, perform differently across different podcast genres. Or it could be the creative, if one host or one message just didn't resonate. Test. Rinse, Repeat! Ken Lagana, EVP of Digital Sales at Audacy Ken Lagana brings the perspective of a multi-platform warrior. After years in digial media, he spent most of the last decade heading up sales for all things audio at content and entertainment company, Audacy – which has production expertise via their Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios divisions, extensive OTA (over the air) stations, digital audio and  events and, of course, podcast distribution and monetization. As such, it's not surprising that Audacy is “platform agnostic” and Ken's definition of “holistic audio” means including both radio and podcasting. But advertisers don't have to stop there: Hear Ken's description of the “triangle” of audio campaigns, starting with influential host-reads at the top! (Stay tuned for an Audacy-produced scripted podcast w...

Can’t Stop Snapping! A Marvel Snap Podcast
EP 75: PC Launch, Silver Sam, Snapcon, and More!

Can’t Stop Snapping! A Marvel Snap Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 64:49


Teddy and Brad go over Silver Sam, Brad's experience at Snapcon, and more! NOTE: this episode was recorded prior to the OTA announcement on 08/31

The Pacific War - week by week
- 93 - Pacific War - Mopping up in New Georgia, August 29 - 5 September, 1943

The Pacific War - week by week

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 34:05


Last time we spoke about the major planning leading to a thrust into the central pacific and General Kenney's neutralization efforts of the Lae area. Admiral Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur had been battling it out for a long time leading finally to some concrete plans for twin campaigns, one in the Central Pacific and one in the South and Southwest Pacific.  Countless meetings, deals and minds were put to work trying to figure out how to prepare the gradual advance towards the Japanese home islands. To finally make some waves into the central pacific it was to be the Ellice Islands, Gilbert Islands and Nauru as first objectives. Meanwhile in New Guinea the advance upon Salamaua and Lae raged on, but to really break them first air supremacy was required. Kenney unleashed a massive campaign with some innovative new toys completely desolating Wewakes airpower. This episode is Mopping up in New Georgia Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  New Georgia was falling apart for the Japanese. When Munda was seized it spelled doom. General Sasaki ordered his forces to withdraw to places like Baanga Islands after fighting a series of desperate holding operations against the forces of General Griswold. Again, the seizure of Munda was a colossal undertaking. The Americans had tossed 30,000 troops to overcome 5000 Japanese. The Americans lost 1136 of said troops and the Japanese 1500. The Japanese managed this type of bulwark defenses by building up a network of entrenchment systems around Munda Point. The US air supremacy over New Georgia gave them little advantage because the island was simply too dense in vegetation to properly spot enemy positions. Rear Admiral Turner likewise learnt a valuable lesson, that no matter how many transport boats were tossed into an invasion plan, more would always be needed. These lesson led to some radical rethinking of strategy going forward for future operations, like in the Central pacific. Admiral Ota used his fleet of barges to move 5 to 8 in a group, every night. Colonel Tomonari's 13th regiment and Sasaki's HQ were moved to Vila in an effort to reinforce  what would be the new main Japanese outpost in the Central Pacific. Further north the Americans successfully invaded Vella Lavella, completely bypassing Kolombangara and thus cutting off the enemy's supply line. In response to this Admiral Samejima established a barge staging base at Horaniu. Samejima then advised Sasaki to simply proceed with the course of action he thought best. Sasaki decided to do what he had been arguing for sometime now, to concentrate all his forces at Kolombangara. However with Zieta in the hands of the Americans, he would have to figure out a clever way to carry out the logistics of such a plan. Thus he split his forces in two, taking up positions at Bairoko and Baanga. Ota was given the task of evacuating the northern forces at Bairoko using his barge fleet, but the men to the south in Baanga were going to perform a fighting withdrawal of both Baanga and Arundel. Luckily for the Japanese, the 27th regiment had bypassed the Yano battalion in Baanga, to advance upon Piru Plantation and Sunday inlet. The forces at Baanga would be facing against the landings of 3 battalions; the 2nd and 3rd battalions, 169th regiment and the 3rd battalion, 172nd regiment led by General Barker. While Barker was getting his men to assembly positions, the Yokosuka 7th's 12cm guns and two mountains began to fire upon Munda Field. This caused only slight damage with some casualties, but it was a nuisance nonetheless. On August 16th, Barkers 136th field artillery battalion positions at Munda began counter firing against the Yokosuka guns. This was followed up by aerial attacks by 13 Avengers and 17 Dauntless who performed carpet bombing. For those who don't know this is the practice of bombing over a large area simultaneously. Imagine hitting a km area of vegetation by spreading your aircraft and timing everything just right, it produces what would look like a carpet of bombs hitting. So when you take a carpet and toss it over your floor, that was kind of the mental image received by this maneuver. The results were devastating. The Yokosuka 7th guns would not fire again.  Meanwhile the recently landed 2nd battalion, 169th regiment faced the strongest pocket of Japanese as they attempted pushing the defenders further west. The 3rd battalion, 172nd regiment would eventually join in on this attack. When the 2nd battalion was showing signs of slow progress, Barker decided to toss the 172nd in on August 18th. But the fiercest fighting would be seen between the 3rd battalion, 23rd regiment who continued to resist against Barkers 4 battalions as Sasaki's men were crossing over to Baanga and Arundel island. On August 19th, the 1st battalion finally managed to break through to the southwestern coast, where they came across the now abandoned 12cm guns of the enemy. During that night the 3rd battalion, 23rd regiment had slipped through a swamp making their way north to join their fleeing comrades over to Arundel. By nightfall of the next day all had successfully gone over. The cost of mopping up Baanga as recorded by the 169th was 44 dead, 74 wounded and 300 non-battle casualties, the ever present dangers of tropical island warfare. For the 172nd records, it was 8 dead, 36 wounded and nearly 200 men requiring evacuation from tropical diseases. For the Japanese there was no estimation or rough counts for casualties. Such dire numbers would see General Wing replace Barker as commander of the 43rd division effective August 20th. Now Admiral Halsey also wanted to see Arundel seized as it had become an important position, but the allies did not realize the amount of forces that had been snuck onto the small island. Meanwhile the 25th division continued their advance north through painfully rough swamp terrain, pursuing a rather elusive enemy. As the regiments advanced, bulldozers of the 65th engineer battalion tried to build jeep trails behind them. However the rain was so bad they became a nasty type of tropical mud and the bulldozers were struggling. Thus the supplies would have to be carried onwards to the front by hand, typically on the men's backs, or occasionally via air drops. By mid August the 161st regiment would finally reach the rendezvous point at Mount Bao where General Collins planned to have them turn west to secure an artillery position at Mount Tirokiambo. Once the artillery was set up, it could support an assault of Bairoko. Bairoko would be hit from the west by the 3rd battalion, 145th regiment of Colonel Dalton and from the east by the 1st battalion, 27th regiment of COlonel Liversedge. But mother nature is a cruel mistress and she places some impassable swamps, preventing the 140th field artillery battalion from reaching Mount Tirokiambo. On August 21st, the marine defense battalion tractors had to pull the 155mm's of the 136th Field artillery battalion over the soft road to get onto a position on Zieta Hill. However this took too long and while it was occurring the Japanese had successfully evacuated Bairoko. Admiral Ota's fleet of barges had been running to Bairoko every night under the cover of darkness and the cover of some guns placed on Kolombangara that fired upon US PT boats trying to harass the barges. American intelligence believed all of this activity was actually reinforcing Bairoko, thus they planned for a daylight raid to hit the barges in their bases. Rendova launched some PT boats, the 15th corps lent some demolition teams of the 117th engineer battalion and the NGAF provided fighter cover. The raid failed and the boats were forced to retreat.  On August 23rd, Dalton and Liversedge's men entered Bairoko to find a completely deserted base. On that same day, the 27th regiment arrived to the Piru Plantation after slogging through swamps prompting Collins to remark “Crossing that swamp was the toughest physical test I underwent during the war.” On August 23rd, Samejima sent new orders to Sasaki, instructing him to hold the Gizo-Kolombangara-Arundel line and to wait until a proper evacuation date was set. Sasaki sent the 1st company of Major Kinoshita Seishu to occupy some high ground on the western part of Arundel and the 4th company of 1st lt Ito Saburo at the base of the Stima Peninsula on its northeast coast. On August 25th Ota's barges were continuing to run nightly runs to Arundel bringing the 6 and 7th companies of Major Yamada Tadaichi over to Vila. By late August most of the other units arrived to Vila, with the Kure 6th SNLF taking the task of defending Kolombangara's western coast and the 229th regiment were deployed at Mbambare Harbor to protect its eastern coast. In addition, Captain Miyazuki Toshio departed Rabaul with 3 destroyers, the Hamakaze, Shigure and Isokaze to evacuate men at Rekata Bay back on August 22nd. However they were harassed by a PBY around Bougainville and realizing the Americans might toss a naval mission against them, they were forced to abort.  Another evacuation run was attempted 3 days later, seeing Admiral Ijuin leading light cruiser Sendai and 2 destroyers to escort Captain Toshio's group. The diversion was discover by Australian coastwatchers and soon Toshio was intercepted by 10 PBY's in the Bougainville strait. The Hamakaze's forecastle was hit by a bomb that caused 36 casualties again they had to abort. Two days after this light cruiser Sendai the destroyer Sazanami finally broke through to Rakata Bay and managed to grab most of the troops there. To grab the rest of the troops, 6 flying boats and a submarine were sent. Detachments of the Kure 7th SNLF would be landed at Sumbe Head and Sambe Head over on Choisuel, who would work to establish new staging bases for the rest of the troops being brought back to Buin. Over at Horaniu, the Japanese were constructing a new barge deport. Admiral Wilkinsons 3rd echelon led by Captain Grayson Carter consisting of 2 LSTs and the destroyers Philip and Waller were sent over to Barakoma on August 20th. They were intercepted by enemy planes in the Gizo strait which saw Philip collide into Waller providing some slight damage. The last convoys of the month would manage to unload at Barakoma under excellent weather and good air cover. Altogether Wilkinsons landed 6505 men, 1097 tons of rations, 843 tons of petroleum, 2247 tons of ammunition and 2528 tons of vehicles, By September 27th the field would be fully operational. The Americans also managed to construct an airfield at Ondonga, giving General Wing further support to mop up Arundel. On August the 29th, the 2nd battalion of the 172nd regiment were moving to the east coast while the 1st battalion moved west. Both had to advance over mangroves and hardcoral shorelines, because the interior was far too dense with underbrush.  Meanwhile over on Vella Lavella, Wilkinsons turned command over to General Griswold on September 3rd. The americans expected no resistance as they planned to occupy the entire island. Admiral Halsey gave the task to Major General Harold Barrowcloughts 3rd New Zealand division who were scheduled to arrive in mid september. But in the meantime, Griswold landed the 1st battalion, 145th regiment at Brakoma to allow Major Delbert Munsons 1st battalion, 35th regiment to advance up the east coast to secure the Kokolope Bay area, where the American wanted to set up a new radar site. Munson's men made good progress as the reached Lambu Lambu cove by September 4th. From there they dispatched Companies A and C with some Fijian commandos to patrol. The patrols got to the Boko Mission where A company ran suddenly into a strong Japanese patrol. A firefight broke out taking the lives of 12 Japanese. The men examined the bodies and their equipment and sent word back that they were facing recently landed enemy forces. The next morning, the 4th company of the Mikami battalion assaulted A company who were dug in at the Boko Mission. A company managed to fight them off, but had 2 deaths and 2 wounded in the process. Because of the attacks, General McClure sent forward his 3rd battalion followed up by units of the 64th field artillery battalion. The artillery men took up a position at Ruravai to support the advance. At the same time Munsons men cleared up the Boko Mission area, allowing for supplies to come up to it by boat. Munson then directed his forces to hit the main Japanese defenses at Baka Baka. As the men advanced they faced a steep ridge holding Japanese machine gun nests which greatly hindered their progress. Meanwhile on September 5th, the 2nd battalion, 172nd regiment discover the main enemy positions on Arundel while the 1st battalion was landing at Bustling Point trying to secure a forward artillery position. The 1st battalion would then occupy the tip of Bomboe Peninsula. The Japanese units meanwhile were reporting great success in their efforts and also requested they be allowed to assault the enemy artillery at Piru Plantation. On the last day of August, the 9th defense battalions 155mm's at Piru Plantation had begun opening fire on Kolombangara. They also dropped some leaflets upon the Japanese at Vila describing the agonizing death their artillery would provide them, cheeky. The leaflets read “ask the survivors from the 229th what it was like on Bakudan Hill”. The next morning Takabayashi told the 3rd battalion  “enemy shelling and firing will be intensified in the future, any rambling activity must be avoided and everyone must always be on the alert.” All of this prompted Sasaki to order a counterattack.  At around midnight on September 9th, Takabayashi's 3rd battalion, 13th regiment aided by a platoon of the 6th engineers snuck across the Blackett strait using barges to Sagekarasa island, their orders were to drive the enemy out of northern Arundel. Just a few hours later, Griswold ordered Colonel Sugg's 27th regiment to Bomboe Village to attack from the west. Sugg's men began their advance on September 12th, and his 3rd battalion forded the Bomboe Lagoon to seize Sagekarasa Island, effectively cutting off the 13th regiment. The Japanese were taken by surprise and began counterattacking with Takabayashi from the west and Ito from the east, but the Americans held on. Further south, Sugg's 2nd battalion ran into the Japanese main position, meeting heavy gun fire. Additionally the 1st battalion, 169th regiment began an occupation of the Fringe Island and the 82nd chemical battalion began deploying their 4.2 inch mortars at Bomboe to prepare a killing field for the Japanese at Safekarasa. From their positions on Fringe Island, the Americans were able to observe and track the Japanese barges with moonlight seeing them depart Vila and approach the landing area. This provided Sugg's the perfect amount of information to launch a deadly accurate mortar bombardment. The proceeding bombardement took countless lives including the 3rd battalion commander Takabayashi. On the night of September the 15th, Colonel Tomonari brought his HQ across and ten minutes later while he was sitting on a log listening to a company commanders report, he was killed instantly by a mortar shell that landed at his feet. Kinoshita took temporary command of the 13th regiment, 3 days later Colonel Muta Toyoji would become the new 13th regiment commander. On that same day the Americans attacked the main Japanese position, but were beaten back. Griswold  responded by bringing forward the 1st battalion, 27th regiment from Enogai with 5 marine tanks of the 11th defense battalion the following afternoon. On September the 17th the tanks charged forward with 3 rifle companies lined abreast behind them. Artillery and mortar concentrated upon Kinoshita's position, shocking the Japanese and forcing them to pull back. However the following day, the Japanese had quickly learnt their lesson and came back with anti-tank guns. They knocked out two tanks before pulling back to the Stima Peninsula. After two more days, the Japanese began evacuating Arundel. During the night, the 3rd battalion evacuated under some heavy mortar and artillery fire while the Yokosuka 7th guns covered them. The following night barges grabbed the 1st battalion troops, bringing the battle of Arundel to a close. For Colonel Muta Toyoji's 13th regiment, the fight for Arundel was a costly endeavor, they suffered 243 killed, 363 wounded, including many officers. For the Americans it was 31 dead and 225 wounded. Back on September 10th, McClure's batteries began to arrive at Lambu Lambu and as soon as they were put into position they began firing against the Japanese. You see during one of the fights between the Japanese and Munson's forces, a dead Japanese officer was found to be carrying a sketch map of the Japanese positions at Horaniu. Captain Jorn Burden translated the Japanese sketch onto their maps and added details from other patrol reports. This gave A and C batteries an incredibly accurate firing grid that proved to be deadly. The concentration of fire was so accurate the Japanese were forced to abandon their positions almost immediately. When troops later came to the area they found the dugouts had suffered direct shell hits with corpses still holding picks and shovels in their hands. The Japanese realized the American gunners knew exactly where they were located so they made a panicked withdrawal to the northwest coast. On September 14th Munson finally unleashed an attack upon Horaniu only to find the dugouts empty. Fijian commandos were sent to pursue the fleeing Japanese as the 1st battalion moved back to Lambu Lambu and the 3rd battalion occupied Horaniu. The New Zealanders would take over the fight for Vella Lavella, but now we need to venture back over to Green Hell. With the loss of Mubo and Lababia ridge, General Nakano was forced to establish a rough arc of defensive positions in the heavily timbered ground from Bobdubi on the south bank of the Francisco river through Komiatum village to the Tambu Peninsula on the coast. Nakano had risen to the bait of General Blamey who had hoped he would and poured more men into this area in order to defense Salamaua from what he believed to be the actual allied goal. Naknao reinforced the area with the 3rd battalion, 238th regiment and the 3rd battalion, 21st regiment who had been stationed at Lae. The new key position in the Japanese line was Charlie Hill. The new Japanese defensive line ran east along the Yamada Yama known to the allies as Scout ridge to the coast at Lokanu and north over the Francisco river along the ridges of Rough Hill, Arnold's Crest, Kidney Hill and the coast near Malolo. Charlie Hill held 4 perimeters. Below ground the Japanese constructed an intricate tunnel system to protect them and their supplies from bombardments. The entrance shafts had vine covered ladders that went down 6 meters. Galleries branched off the main tunnel like catacombs with benches cut into the sides for sleeping. Near Charlie Ridge was Davidson Ridge where Nakano deployed some new reinforcements from the 115th regiment. On August 24th, Nakano told his men “If this line cannot be maintained, the division is to be honorably annihilated.” Meanwhile, Colonel MacKechnie was tossing patrols past Roosevelt ridge. On August 16th I Company, down 2/3rds of its strength, basically down to a single platoon level, crept forward to toss grenades at some Japanese around Scout ridge while Sergeant Warren unleashed mortar cover. The Japanese sought revenge that night and performed a dusk to dawn attack, but grenades and mortars held them back. It was to be the start of two bitter weeks of such small skirmishes, and the Japanese hunkered down in their foxholes guarded Scout Ridge with their lives. On August 18th, K company performed a frontal assault along the ridge, but Japanese barricades and machine gun fire kept them back. 3 Americans were killed, 7 wounded for their efforts, including a courageous medic who ran into the fray. The Japanese positions on Scout ridge were very strong, with lines in depth going back all the way towards Salamaua. Scout ridge provided the defenders with countless defensive positions along its crest with four intersecting ridges behind Roosevelt ridge. On August 20th, Colonel Davidson ordered his men of the 42nd battalion to capture what he thought were only two knolls to the north of the battalion's positions on Davidson ridge. The smaller knoll was occupied without opposition and the other knoll only had slight opposition. However the next morning, scouts reported there was another feature, they called Bamboo Knoll about 600 yards farther north. Davidson then ordered it captured and it was with little opposition. Crouching in some kunai grass atop that knoll, the scouts could see Salamaua and allied artillery hitting it. They could not see the airstrip because another hill was in the way, that hill was Charlie Hill. Davidson's intelligence told him they had already seized Charlie hill because their maps were not quite accurate. This caused a lot of headaches for historians going through diaries, trying to piece together the movement of troops. Thought I would try to add some frustrating information on their part.  Now to intercept the enemy fleeing from Mount Tambu into the area between Komiatum and Davidson ridge, Brigadier Monaghan's 29th brigade were assembled east of Mount Tambu. Meanwhile Major Warfe was performing an offensive against the junction of Bobdubi, Komiatum and the Bench Cut Track. Warfs A Platoon led by Lt John Lewin had cut off a point at a junction between Bobdubi and Stevens track on August 14th. Warfe planned to toss A and B Platoons against the enemy while the 2/7th battalion's D company took up a further point on the track. At the same time the 58/59th battalion were going to launch a diversionary attack against Erskine Creek. On August 17ths, Warfes commandos advanced south under artillery and mortar support attacking the enemy along Buirali creek and Salamaua track. However the enemy proved too intense to overcome, leading the commando platoons to pull back somewhat. Then the 2/7th company came to the right of A platoons position filling a gap in the center of the enemy line. They exploited the gap and advanced towards the western edge of the main Japanese camp. Lewin's A company kept prodding the enemy lines until 6:30pm when the Japanese made a vicious counterattack causing 5 deaths including Lt Barry and 11 wounded. By dusk the Australian attacking force was thrust like a wedge into the enemy positions with Lewin and A platoon on the left, the 2/7th company in the middle and B company on the right. The following day the Japanese were forced to pull back to the line of the Komiatum track By August 19th, the Japanese were being hit hard. On their northern lines they had 23 deaths, the commander of the 80th battalion, Major Jinno was dead. The Komiatum track was cut by the 17th brigade at Laver's knoll. They were withdrawing across the front, most were now taking up positions further east at Charlie Hill and Kunai Spur. Brigadier Hammer's 58/59th were able to occupy Erskine Creek and C company of the 2/7th seized Orodubi. The following day the 2/7th battalion occupied the junction of Bobdubi and the salamaua track. They captured quite a few forward pill boxes, found the enemy was still holding some in the back so they began raining mortar upon them. At dawn on August 21st patrols found the Komiatum track abandoned, now they could push further on. On august 21st as a result of the enemy giving so much ground, Hammer ordered the mento ford the Francisco river to put more pressure on Salamaua. Lt Henry Mallett's 11th platoon of the 2/7th battalion forded the Francisco river near its south end at Bobdubi ridge. They advanced over a razorback spit towards Rough Hill where they ran into Japanese machine gun fire. They were quickly bolstered by another platoon and by 3pm took the position, to gain fire support to allow others to cross the river. During the afternoon a composite platoon led by Lt Owen Edwards advanced further to occupy a dominant hill, which was named Arnold's Crest after captain Ted Arnold the commander of C company. Like I said if you wanted a mountain, ridge, or hill named after you it seems New Guinea was the place. By August 22nd Hammer's men were occupying Arnolds Crest giving covering fire to allow more forces to cross the river. Once enough men had crossed they began expanding the perimeter. Then on August 27th 420 Japanese from companies from the 115th and 80th regiments counterattacked Arnold's Crest, successfully cutting off the allied line of communications to the south. The Australians did not give it up without a fight however, the counter attacked trying to seize the nearby Fisher's knoll. The Japanese were forced to give up Fishers Knoll but repelled the allied attacks upon the crest itself. Despite still holding Arnold's Crest the following morning saw the Japanese withdrawing westwards. Now it seems Hammer got too excited when he ordered his forces to occupy so many forward positons. Hammer signaled his new divisional commander, General Milford “unreliability of 58/59th battalion troops has forced me to withdraw to hold a tighter line Buiris Creek”. Basically he believed he had overextended the 58/59th who were currently surrounded by a company or so of Japanese. The 58/59th were down to less than 30 or so men, carrying many wounded back and sending reports they were running low on ammunition. However on the ground, John Bethune's B company were holding strong, keeping the situation together. Another company commander named Newman went on the record stating “Hammer had weak companies flung out into the blue where they could not be reinforced or supplies” After all was said and done, upon reflecting on the situation, Hammer would sign off on a recommendation to award John Bethune a military Cross, writing “‘Displaying grit and determination Lt Bethune tenaciously held the area until shortage of amn [ammunition] and supplies forced him to withdraw.' The situation forced Hammer to tone down the aggression somewhat lest a catastrophe were to occur. He ordered the men to form a defensive line from Rough Hill to Arnold's Crest, while more forces came to prepare for another offensive. On August 21st, the Taylor Force had rejoined its regimental force, allowing MacKechnie to launch a new attack in force. On August 27th, A company advanced along a trail going up George Ridge successfully cutting the Japanese supply line. The men dug in, expecting a lot of angry Japanese counter attacks. Captain George of A company wrote this of the experience “‘We began to feel chill in the stomach. Every rush meant firing a few more clips, throwing a few more grenades. As the dark suddenly quietened, our hands counted blindly the few clips left in our belts, the last grenade or two on the parapet – like a thirsty man in the desert checking his last water. For when ammo ran out, they would overwhelm us – waves of many Japs with long bayonets. Home was a long way off indeed, over dark waters to Oregon.'” The fighting fell into hand to hand combat, from foxhole to foxhole. Men fought and died around George who knew the position could not be held. The next day George heard 4 rifle shots signaling permission for his battered unit to withdraw. They fought off 10 consecutive counter attacks before tossing in the towel.  Not all was lost on the action for George's men however, so many Japanese were employed for the counter attacks, they had to give up a position they held known as Bald Hill. Other companies of Taylor force seized the hill as the Japanese retreated to positions on Berger hill and Egg knoll. Over to the west, Brigadier Moten's battered 17th brigade were relieved by Monaghan's men who took up positions north of Mount Tambu. Davidson's 42nd battalion occupied Bamboo Knoll after tossing back a ton of Japanese counterattacks. Davidson then tossed some patrols towards Charlie Hill, which would receive its name after Davidson's given name. The Japanese presence on Charlie Hill was far to strong for smaller units to prod it, so more forces would be brought up.  Back over to the north, Warfe's commando's attempted to overrun the Kunai Spur, a dominant position blocking the way along the Francisco river to Salamaua. On the morning of August 22nd, B Company of the 58/59th crossed the Buirali creek and one of their patrols advanced north to Kunai spit. Three simultaneous attacks were directed on Kunai Spur the following day by Captain Cramps 2/7th company from the north, Sergeant Tom Pot's 58/59th platoon from the west and Lt Russell Matthews 58/59th platoon from the east. It was a very steep climb, when Matthews men finally go atop the spit they were face to face with a machine gun nest that nearly took them out. On August 25th the 2/7th platoon managed to outflank the enemy position near Buirali Creek which caused them to counter attack. They failed to take the Kunai SPur and were relieved by Lt colonel Ken Montgomery's 47th battalion on the 26th. At this point Monaghan took command, and his first order of business was going to be an assault against Nakano's last line in front of Salamaua. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The allies were cleaning up on New George while continuing their deceptive assault on Salamaua on New Guinea. General Nakano's men were beginning to feel the wall behind their backs as the allies closed in on Salamaua, but still they did not realize Lae was the actual target. 

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
PTs and OTs - Are Your Exercises Challenging Older Adult Patients?

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 51:42


PT, PTA, OT, OTA – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.    Older adult patients in all rehabilitation settings are chronically under-dosed when it comes to the intensity of rehabilitation therapy. In this episode, we talk with Aimee Perron, a physical therapist, patient advocate, and national presenter, about best practices in prescribing exercise to improve strength, balance, endurance, and aerobic capacity in our older adult clients. How are we doing? Click here to give us feedback  (01:38) Takeaways From Today's Discussion  (02:56) Key to Dosing Appropriately: The FITT-VP Principle  (06:44) Underdosing and Possible Reasons  (12:39) Is My Patient Ready to Start Exercising? How Do I Know?  (13:16) Tests and Measures  (18:51) One Repetition Maximum: Example  (25:16) Matching Interventions to Meaningful Activities  (29:39) Identifying Readiness to Change  (31:28) Health Confidence and Chronic Conditions  (37:35) Everyday Tools and Equipment Considerations  (41:23) Am I Too Eager and Overdosing My Patients? How Do I Know?  (43:49) Supporting Patients in the Maintenance Phase  (46:57) Nutrition and Medication Considerations  (49:22) Conclusion   The content for this course was created by Aimee E. Perron, PT, DPT.  This course was created by Wendy Phillips, PT, BSPT. Here is how Relias can help you earn continuing education credits:  Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam;   or   Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy. Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the course exam and receive your certificate.  Learn more about Relias at www.relias.com.    Legal Disclaimer: The content of Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education is provided only for educational and training purposes for healthcare professionals. The educational material provided in this podcast should not be used as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others.  Resources  American College of Sports Medicine's Recommendations for Exercise Participation Health Screening: https://www.acsm.org/docs/default-source/files-for-resource-library/updating_acsm_s_recommendations_for_exercise-28-(1).pdf?sfvrsn=3aa47c01_4  American Physical Therapy Association: Choosing Wisely: https://www.choosingwisely.org/ General Physical Activities Defined by Level of Intensity: https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/pdf/pa_intensity_table_2_1.pdf Prescription for Health Series (A series of common chronic conditions and their exercise prescriptions): https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/eim-in-action/health-care/resources/rx-for-health-series/  Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-item Scale: https://selfmanagementresource.com/wp-content/uploads/English_-_self-efficacy_for_managing_chronic_disease_6-item.pdf  Quick Health Check Up: http://www.healthconfidence.org/ 

Futurum Tech Podcast
5G Factor: Qualcomm, Ethernovia, Cadillac Prep AI-Infused SDV Highway Star Era

Futurum Tech Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 27:42


A Review Of Key AI/Automotive Innovations by Qualcomm and Ethernovia Including The Selection Of The Snapdragon Platform For The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall is joined by colleague and fellow analyst, Olivier Blanchard, for a look at the top 5G developments and what's going on that caught our eye. Their conversation underscored: Qualcomm Spotlights Benefits of Running Gen AI on Devices. We see the cost of running generative AI models on-device versus the cloud translates directly to the amount of power required to run these models. Edge devices with efficient AI processing offer leading performance per watt, especially when compared with the cloud. Edge devices can run generative AI models at a fraction of the energy, especially when considering not only processing but also data transport. This difference is significant in energy costs as well as helping cloud providers offload data center energy consumption to meet their environmental and sustainability goals. We examine why on-device processing performance of mobile devices has increased by double-digits with each technology generation and is projected to continue this trend, and how Qualcomm's portfolio is integral to optimizing generative AI models across the global digital ecosystem through edge device optimization.  Ethernovia: Accelerating Vehicle Data Architecture Transformation. New entrant Ethernovia is charting a portfolio development course that aggregates enormous quantities of data and routing between AI and SoC chipsets, which requires high bandwidth, low latency intelligent fabrics. As vehicle architectures evolve from domain-centric controllers toward zonal architectures, networking solutions must concurrently evolve to support higher data rates of advanced vehicle applications while meeting demand for improved reliability and security. We assess why zonal architectures are critical to advancing and scaling fast-evolving software-defined vehicle (SDV) applications such as Advanced Driver-Assisted Systems (ADAS), autonomous driving (AD) and a rich ecosystem of customer software delivered Over the Air (OTA), including 5G connectivity. Ericsson on Board for Intel's 18A Process. Qualcomm's announcement that the 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ will leverage several core automotive platforms from its Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions stack in one vehicle points to both the growing appeal for automakers to streamline the design of their software-defined vehicles and to the accelerating maturity of Qualcomm's portfolio of automotive solutions. The four pillars of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Chassis stack focus on connectivity, cockpit tech (digital instrument clusters and infotainment), Car-to-Cloud features (think OTA updates), and ADAS (the Snapdragon Ride Platform delivers a broad swath of driver-assist and autonomous driving features). We review GM's decision to power the 2025 Escalade IQ with key Snapdragon automotive platforms and why it sends a clear signal to the industry that it trusts Qualcomm to deliver the goods when it comes to uncompromisingly redefine the Escalade for the EV era.

Pesos y Contrapesos
Anejo 17: Huelga de Actores y Guionistas en Hollywood

Pesos y Contrapesos

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 51:09


En nuestro último episodio, charlamos con Karen De León Otaño sobre las implicaciones de la huelga de actores, actrices, guionistas y trabajadores de UPS, así como el papel crucial de los sindicatos.

Good Morning Hospitality
Entitled Travelers & Channel Marketing Spend

Good Morning Hospitality

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 35:10


There are a few arguments to be made when it comes to entitled travelers and the poor choices being made in cities around the world but on todays episode, we hope you will share some stories with us live and tune in to hear more about how OTA's plan on expanding their marketing channels to mix things up a little! Hospitality Hotline Hospitality Hotline is open to everyone by using this link!

Jäljillä
Claudia Lawrence

Jäljillä

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 50:14


35-vuotiaan Claudia Lawrencen katoaminen vuonna 2009 on yksi Englannin tunnetuimmista katoamistapauksista. Poliisit ovat jo kauan sitten tulleet tutkimuksissaan siihen lopputulokseen, että Claudia joutui henkirikoksen uhriksi. He uskovat, että ratkaisu Claudian katoamismysteeriin löytyy hänen lähipiiristään, sillä kaikki Claudian tuttavat eivät ole olleet yhteistyöhaluisia poliisien kanssa. Ota yhteyttä: jaljillapodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @ jaljillapodcastMusiikki: This work contains Music Track Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions - Heartbeat of the Hood that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Source: https://directory.audio/free-music/ambient/5275-doug-maxwell-media-right-productions -heartbeat-of-the-hoodAuthor: Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions LÄHTEET:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4q4RQGe78&ab_channel=NelsonGibbshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/22/claudia-lawrence-three-men-arrested-on-suspicion-of-missing-chefshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/08/cps-not-charge-four-men-claudia-lawrencehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/19/claudia-lawrence-new-fingerprints-found-missing-yorkhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/24/police-search-quarry-york-claudia-lawrence-remainshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/24/claudia-lawrence-timeline-of-her-disappearancehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/19/cctv-footage-police-claudia-lawrence-missing-chefhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/18/claudia-lawrence-chef-missing-lovershttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/20/claudia-lawrence-police-seek-two-men-vehicles-missing-chefhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jun/03/claudia-lawrence-mystery-relationshipshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/18/claudia-lawrence-missing-chef-cyprushttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/18/ten-years-on-claudia-lawrence-search-frustrated-by-information-withheld-policehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/24/missing-chef-claudia-lawrence-inquiryhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/17/claudia-lawrence-york-investigation-scaled-down-after-police-reviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/29/claudia-lawrence-chef-missinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/what_happened_to_claudiahttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-65000038https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58326788https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-60784802https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-23402183https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-26632241http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8590067.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8276210.stmhttps://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4754004.claudia-lawrence-police-say-another-witness-approached-by-melrosegate-van-driver/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/claudia-lawrence-york-york-university-north-yorkshire-north-yorkshire-police-b2038734.htmlhttps://medium.com/@Krystyna.Sierbien/whenever-particularly-sozzled-claudia-lawrence-liked-to-play-the-same-elton-john-track-your-song-6cfce6f0834dhttps://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/eight-claudia-lawrence-suspects-what-21398813

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Fr Matt Nagle’s homilies
Trust in the Midst of Storms

Fr Matt Nagle’s homilies

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2023 10:32


Homily for the 19th Sunday in OTA 8/13/23 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frmatt-nagle/message

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
Can't Sleep? Try Occupational Therapy

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 71:37


OT, OTA – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.    In this episode, we talk with Dr. Yvonne Monti about the significant impact sleep deprivation has on one's health, and the critical role of occupational therapy in addressing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that contribute to sleep dysfunction. How are we doing?

Good Morning Hospitality
OTA Earnings, Maui Fires, & Glamping

Good Morning Hospitality

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 37:41


This week, Jamie Lane is back on the pod! We have seen some interesting announcements in the industry and even some comments from our last couple of episodes about OTA's, credit card companies like Capital One and American Express but, in this episode we're diving into the numbers and sharing cool stories like a glamping fund announced by Outdoorsy! Oh, can you guess what is going to be in our coffee cups this week?

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
Pelvic Health – Opportunities for PTs and OTs

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 65:32


PT, PTA, OT, OTA – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.    In this episode, we explore opportunities for rehabilitation therapists to apply a population health lens to addressing pelvic health with patients, communities, and globally with Dr. Laura Keyser and Dr. Jessica McKinney.  How are we doing? Click here to give us feedback  (02:54) Takeaways From Today's Discussion  (04:21) Health and Pelvic Health Defined  (08:26) Population Health  (10:40) Women's Health to Pelvic Health: Why the Language Shift? (14:08) Jessica's Journey Towards a Pelvic Health Specialty  (18:51) Laura's Journey Towards a Pelvic Health Specialty  (22:25) What Can I Do as a Generalist?  (28:50) Building Capacity  (36:04) Digital Rehab Specific to Pelvic Health  (44:32) Specialists and Generalists Working Together  (51:12) Next Step Recommendations  (54:27) Sex: An Activity of Daily Living  (57:21) Hopes and Vision for the Future  (1:02:05) Conclusion The content for this course was created by Laura Keyser, DPT, MPH. The content for this course was created by Jessica L. McKinney, PT, DScPT, MS. The content for this course was created by Tiffany Shubert, PT, PhD  Here is how Relias can help you earn continuing education credits:  Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam;   or   Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy. Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the course exam and receive your certificate.  Learn more about Relias at www.relias.com.    Legal Disclaimer: The content of Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education is provided only for educational and training purposes for healthcare professionals. The educational material provided in this podcast should not be used as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others.  Resources  Implementing Physical Rehabilitation Services into Comprehensive Fistula and Maternity Care: A Training Guide for Health Workers: https://www.themamas.world/training-guide World Health Organization Rehabilitation Competency Framework: https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-functions-disability-and-rehabilitation/rehabilitation-competency-framework 

How to Scale Commercial Real Estate
Commercial Real Estate and Multifamily Tech Solutions

How to Scale Commercial Real Estate

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 21:35


Today's Guest is Mike Branam.   Mike is Director of Multifamily Sales at PointCentral and has nearly 20 years of experience in real estate technology, Mike has been a part of several successful prop-tech start ups serving the multifamily industry. Join Sam and Mike in today's episode. -------------------------------------------------------------- Intro [00:00:00] Mike Branum's Background and Experience [00:01:02] Evolution of Smart Home Technology [00:02:52] The benefits of smart property technology [00:09:24] Future-proofing smart property technology [00:10:19] User experience and customization of smart property technology [00:12:08] Saving on insurance with technology [00:18:52] Benefits of smart thermostats [00:19:51] Closing [00:20:39] -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Mike: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebranam/ Web: https://www.pointcentral.com/   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Speaker 1 (00:00:00) - I spent a little bit of time in Arizona. So, you know, if it's 115 degrees outside and the outgoing resident has their air conditioning, it's 62 degrees and they're not in that unit for another 90 days. The property is on the hook for, you know, pretty decent chunk of change utility wise. You extract that over a portfolio of 10,000 units. You're talking about significant costs. Yeah, smart property technology solves that, right? So when we start to integrate with property management softwares, so when a resident moves out and the thermostat automatically gets reset, the door automatically locks. Now, maintenance can better serve other aspects of the building to fix that dishwasher that broke yesterday. Right. And and increase service levels and customer or resident service satisfaction. Welcome to the how to scale commercial real estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. Mike Branum is the director of multifamily sales at Point Central, and he has nearly 20 years of experience in real estate technology.   Speaker 1 (00:01:02) - He's also been a part of several successful prop tech startups serving the multifamily industry. Mike, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me, Sam. Good to be on. Absolutely. Mike There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less. Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there? Where did I start? I started about 20 years ago in real estate technology at the time, really working on startups and had partnered up with a couple folks that had been on the ground floor at Google and they served as mentors for me in understanding property marketing and the rental space and search technology and pioneered that into a company called Rent Pits, which grew into a company called Remotely, which from my perspective, I believe it was the first smart apartment solution to offer smart home technology to the multifamily space. So I've spent the better part of the last dozen years specifically in that space and now leading the central sales and strategy team that does smart property technology.   Speaker 1 (00:01:59) - So still coming from where I came from and to what I'm doing now and have done so for the past five years. What what is different about what you're doing now than what you've previously done? You know, the technology has come a long way. You know, when I sort of look at Smart Home and put it in a similar bucket is like the flat screen television. 15 years ago, it was like only your wealthy friends down the street had a flat screen, right? Now everyone has one, right? So the cost came down, production ramped up. And of course, you know, it's just sort of like the standard models now. Now there's different types of models, but sort of everyone has one. Smart home is very similar. It's kind of been on that path where, you know, first the technology needed to prove itself. Once it did that, the cost to to sort of enter Smart Home, whether it was your house in my house, was getting the thermostat or getting a smart lock that's really grown into smart home is defined much differently now.   Speaker 1 (00:02:52) - And in fact, I look at it as smart properties specifically for rentals, that it's not just the the end user is the benefactor of that. When I say end user, it's not just the person holding the phone controlling the thermostat. Now it's the it's the building that benefits from that. It's the it's the owner operator of the asset. It's the people who work in the building and live in the building. They all benefit from smart property technology because it's it's mitigating risk. It's making life more customized. It's it's automating certain tasks so staff can do different things, more impactful things. So it's come a long way and it's come a long way fast over the last several years. It really has. I'm thinking back, gosh, to like in the late 90s, early 2000, they started talking about the smart home, you know, and they would send these drawings, these graphics of like, you know, you see all these wires running everywhere and where we're going to take smart homes. And it was just like, okay, this is ridiculous.   Speaker 1 (00:03:46) - Like, you know, they were they were designing whole neighborhoods that were going to be smart neighborhoods. Do you recall that? I do. I do. I go back to like The Jetsons. Right? Like we're all supposed to be flying to work at this point, aren't we? Right. So I think that was like the vision of like everything is sort of automated and everything is super high tech and future proofed. And I think the reality or the evolution of the technology has been, hey, how does it make my life better, easier, more comfortable, more secure? And I think that's where that adoption is coming. I remember years ago people would say, well, if I can't get up and turn off a light switch, then this isn't, you know, I'm not that lazy. It's not turning off light switches. You know, really what it is, is making sure my door's locked when I leave for a trip. It's making sure that if if there's a flood in my space, that that water is turned off automatically.   Speaker 1 (00:04:32) - So don't come back to a $50,000 bill and clear out my basement. Right. So the technology is really just benefiting the real estate space in that way. Now, maybe we'll fly to work one of these days, but not yet. Right, Right. Yeah. I mean, hey, they're working on those vertical takeoff and landing quadcopters and all that stuff. You seen those. Those electric vtol things that. I don't know. I read a lot of flying magazines, and it's always the. It's. It's still in the future. I mean, they keep talking about it, but it's not here yet. But I think that's interesting how how that kind of has played out where you're right. It's not it's not that we're too lazy to get up and turn off a light switch. It's that we maybe want lights to come on at various times when we're out, when we're out of town or we're on vacation or things like that. But then also just the health of the building, even even just from technology.   Speaker 1 (00:05:18) - One of those thought that came to me is my pickup truck. My truck notifies me if I leave it unlocked, Right? I walk to my office and all of a sudden just, you know, get a notification on my phone like, hey, hey, you left your truck unlocked like nobody's in it. You're like, Oh, right, I'm an idiot. I can lock it from my phone, which is kind of wild how some of those things. And oftentimes I live in Memphis, which I always want my truck locked. So those are helpful things. But let's talk then, how this really ties in, though, to multifamily. I mean, a lot of this adoption, a lot of this technology, there's there's a lot of different moving pieces in this space, like aggregating that into a central platform that is meaningful both to the tenant and the landlord is a task. How have you guys done that? You know, several ways. It's a really good question. There's a couple base components to it that that had had and have impact.   Speaker 1 (00:06:10) - Every building has some form of access control solution. Every resident unit has a lock in a thermostat. So taking that and sort of leveling up to the to to the new modern world of, okay, the residents shouldn't have to have a separate access control solution versus a separate app for their smart lock for the door and then a separate app to control the thermostat. Nor should the building and the staff have to sort of figure out all these different technologies that are sort of weaving around the building, which now now what you have is it's harder for them, right? So technology, which is supposed to be easy, is would make life harder. So we've unified that into a single solution. And what that's doing is really interesting, right? So, you know, when a property turns over, you know, what maintenance typically has to do is go up and lock the door, make sure the thermostat is set to a set point that's more energy efficient. I spent a little bit of time in Arizona, so, you know, if it's 115 degrees outside and the outgoing resident has their air conditioning at 62 degrees and they're not in that unit for another 90 days, the property is on the hook for, you know, pretty decent chunk of change utility wise.   Speaker 1 (00:07:21) - So you extract that over a portfolio of 10,000 units. You're talking about significant costs. Yeah, Smart property technology solves that, right? So when we start to integrate with property management softwares, so when a resident moves out and the thermostat automatically gets reset, the door automatically locks. Now maintenance can better serve other aspects of the building to fix that dishwasher that broke yesterday. Right. And and increase service levels and customer or resident service satisfaction. So that has impact on the entire building because it increases renewal rates, improves resident satisfaction and reduces costs. And what's happening right now is we're in this sort of uncertain time economically where the last seven, eight years in multifamily has been pretty good. So rent growth has been steady and even sort of outpaced forecast. That's really not the case right now. So operators of buildings are looking for ways to, hey, let's improve customer satisfaction with our residents and increase renewals. But how do we also improve our bottom line? And it's really becoming, you know, centralization, task automation and operational efficiencies.   Speaker 1 (00:08:26) - And so technology enables all of those things. One more example, and it's probably sort of a tired one, but but Covid sort of forced a lot of different things on all of us. And one of the the early signals in multifamily was, hey, my staff may not be able to actually go to work, but we still have people that whose leases are up and they have to move somewhere. How do we show the model and self-guided tours is is really sort of kicked down the door, no pun intended, and forced a new way of showing properties upon the multifamily space that the single family space had figured out several years ago. And this was more by force. But now that everyone sort of back on site, they said, you know what, like this model kind of works, right? Like, let's let's expand the hours of operation of the model, let people go see it. You know, usually they want to see it at 7:30 a.m. before they go to work. At least the engine isn't there yet.   Speaker 1 (00:09:24) - So it's getting more eyeballs inside the building and on the property, which improves the number of leases that actually come to the building while the staff goes to work on something else. Right. So those are been sort of great enablers for this type of technology. Yeah, absolutely. And it goes back to I mean, every everybody's goal, which is the highest and best use of my time, like what is the highest and best? And it gets a question we're always asking, you know, as business owners like what what's what's the best thing right now for the business for me to be doing? Not necessarily, you know, should I be doing that? Should I be doing at no, I should be working on growth strategy and other things that are really meaningful to what we're doing. So it's kind of the same idea just when it comes to staff on hand. And that, of course then improves. The bottom line is there would have been maybe some challenges in I know you mentioned integrating with property management software would have been some challenge maybe you guys have found in getting this deployed.   Speaker 1 (00:10:19) - And then on top of that, is there any fear once you go through investing in all of this, of obsolescence in the near future? Good question. You know, we get a lot of those questions about future proofing. How do I know that this won't be obsolete tomorrow? The good news about the smart property technology is a lot of the updates are OTA updates. You know what we're not looking to to build a different lock. We're not looking to change the way thermostats actually work. At the end of the day, the thermostat is to, you know, control a set point at a certain time and a door is to lock and unlock. So from a future proofing standpoint, there might be some aesthetic changes to the way. From the stats look in locks, but the function is the same. How do you make those functions smarter, more customizable, more programmable, and to ensure that it's secure. So. So those are things that help with future proof. All the software updates are done at two in the morning when everyone's asleep.   Speaker 1 (00:11:15) - Right? So, so that's the way we get we get through the future proofing component to this. What's good is that everyone sort of recognizes, okay, I've got to get rid of my, for lack of a better term, dumb lock and dumb thermostat. It's now picking the provider. And because there's been so much movement in tech over the last several years, what we've seen is groups are looking to find providers that are future proofed and that will be around tomorrow because there's been a lot of of capital that's gone into startups that may not have had success in profitability. So now they're looking for more stability in their partners right now that that makes a lot of sense. Let's let's rewind here for one one quick second. You mentioned an OTA update. I don't know the acronym. What is that over-the-air? So it's all done over the air. Got it. Got it. Okay, cool. Learned something new here today. Let's talk then about the difference between what you what the landlord sees and maybe then what the tenants see.   Speaker 1 (00:12:08) - How easy is that? I'm going to call it digital keys Assigning. Okay. Mike, you moved into unit ten. Like, here's your access to your thermostat. Here's your access to your I mean, I'm assuming you guys are even doing door locks on the units where it's like, hey, this is, you know, you can open the door with your smartphone. I'm guessing that's that's the capabilities you're working with now. But tell me if I'm wrong. How are you guys managing that between the tenants, between the landlord software, all those integrations? Like, what does that look like from a user perspective? Yeah, a great question, Sam. So when a resident moves in because you know the technology is tied in with property management software, think, think Yardi, think RealPage and Trotta, you know, those types of sort of primary, the foundational property management software solutions when that resident moves in property staff is is very well trained to just enter that capture that resident data moving them in on the appropriate date.   Speaker 1 (00:13:01) - When that happens, they automatically receive email and or text that just says welcome to your smart home and it drops them off to the application. And once the app is downloaded in 30s, they have a smart apartment. So all of those controls are on their phone. Of course, they can still use them physically at the door, at the device should they so choose. But now they have that customization option of I think I forgot to lock the door, I'm at the airport. Let me make sure that happened or I'm in Colorado now. So we have very drastic weather changes. It's not uncommon for it to go from 85 to 25, right? So thermostat controls are really important when you're away so you don't have a catastrophic, catastrophic event. So all that can be done for the resident within 30 to 60s and it's done automatically once the property staff moves them into the property management software. So that's great. The on site staff for them. It's really interesting, right? Because, you know, depending on where where they're working, what building they're working in, there might be a lot of technology or a little technology.   Speaker 1 (00:14:01) - So sometimes there's sort of this fear component. There could be this wall that says, okay, well, what are you putting in my building here? You know, what is this going to do? And it's just going to take my job away. No, it's not. It's actually going to be a job aid for you. So, you know, I went back to that maintenance reference before. You know, maintenance used to be a very reactive role where something breaks and we go fix it. Right now, it's it's not only proactive, it's even preventative. We can provide notifications when an Hvac system starts to operate inefficiently. So it's a nice it's a nice heads up, right when maintenance starts to learn about those types of things that come to their building, we almost see their shoulders go down like, Wait a minute, so I'm not going to get like somebody calling and yelling because the thermostat broke. Like I can actually get a heads up and say, Hey, let me just take a preventative measure here.   Speaker 1 (00:14:48) - Something's not operating efficiently and this could save you a few dollars on your energy bill. Otherwise what happens? It breaks down and they run that bill down to the front office and say, hey, I'm not paying this because your thing broke. Right. So the adoption, I think, is where you might have been going with that. Like the adoption for residents and staff is phenomenal just because it's it's a low barrier technology and it's customized technology, but it's very convenient for the operator or or the staff member or the resident. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm thinking about some commercial spaces we have, and it's intriguing just to get those notifications again, going back to my truck, that tells me I'm a truck's unlocked, I get notifications. It's like, Hey, your AC, I got one. The other day it said, Hey, your AC's, you know, it's such and such locations have been running for, you know, four hours and the temperature has risen by three degrees. And you're like, Well, that is something wrong? Like, why? Why is that happening? And so I think that's that's really, really cool just to see how how that works.   Speaker 1 (00:15:44) - Well, let me ask you this, Mike. Just from a cost benefit analysis standpoint, what can you can you give us some, you know, just high level case studies on how this works out? And then maybe on the back side of that, tell us the types of properties inside a multi. Like what the ideal candidate is. Candidate is for what you guys do. Sure. So from from a return standpoint, you know. There's a lot of different sort of pockets to this where the the the operator sees return. One is rent growth and retention. There's that element to it. Vacant unit savings, there's that benefit to it, unifying technology. So they're not paying different providers for 3 or 4 different services when it can all be bundled into one, so to speak. You know, a big one that's kind of obvious is water. You know, I haven't met a property manager yet that doesn't have sort of this nightmarish story about water. You know, it leaks from the 15th floor and then everything from the 14th on down, you know, tends to get ruined.   Speaker 1 (00:16:44) - And one that was near and dear to me that was crushing, you know, having been an old baseball card collector as a $3 million baseball card collection was destroyed in a water event in a multifamily property. And you can't get those back, right? So that becomes the I think the average water event was 50, $60,000. Well, this was this was $1 million plus, you know, a water event. And they're absolutely preventable. So, you know, when you look at the return on things like that, every property manager will say, if I can solve water, you know, then, yeah, it'll save us money. But it also really impact our resident experience because the person whose card collection was ruined isn't renewing, right? So, you know, those are the types of things that we'll see on the renewal standpoint. We've got a wonderful ROI calculator that we put in front of our prospects just to point to all the different return points that exist with this type of technology. Um, second part of that question is what types of buildings does this make the most sense in? What's kind of funny is, you know, the initial thought is, oh, this makes a lot of sense for maybe a class or luxury class only.   Speaker 1 (00:17:50) - But we've had incredible adoption on class, you know, you know, not trying to go from a B to an A, but saying, look, we're going to be the best B on the block, and that will help our rent and that'll help attract more residents. And that, you know, that capital investment for technology is significantly less than some of the cosmetic improvements that might have to come with ripping out flooring and countertops and appliances and things of that nature. You'd be even surprised. You'd be surprised, like even workforce housing that operates on really thin margins, you know, some might say, well, that's a candidate they probably wouldn't want to adopt. And they're coming to us saying, actually, we do because we operate on thinner margins. For us, 15% savings on vacant units is much more meaningful, right, than it might be for an A-class property. Um, so those are a couple examples. They're built to rent, which is emerging vertical right now is all over this. Just because the single family home environment has adopted this technology very quickly and build to rent is still a single family home.   Speaker 1 (00:18:52) - But we look at it as like a multifamily that's just not horizontal, right? Um, so there really isn't a property type that's totally off the table because there's different types of benefit for every asset class. Got it. That's really, really cool. Are there? Are there ways of saving on insurance when you employ this technology? I mean, our underwriters giving discounts because, hey, look, you know, we've got an entire point central system set up at our property. You see anything like that? You know, we're hearing about that. We don't have the relationships with the providers. And ultimately it's the operator that's paying the premiums. But we're starting to hear that, hey, I can I can save X percent if I have this system in place. We're even hearing that, hey, my local utility will actually give us a credit or a rebate on the thermostats by by purchasing the hardware because they know that that that can help on the utility, you know, in saving with the grid and sort of dialing certain set points at certain hours.   Speaker 1 (00:19:51) - So there are incentives out there on hardware. There's certainly the insurance market is emerging with this type of technology, right? No, that's really, really cool. Yeah. I'm even thinking about the thermostats in our own in our own house that I mean, it's just amazing how far this has come where they will program based upon peak usage timing in the rest of the city and say okay, well if peak usage is at 7 a.m., we're going to set yours to start at 530 and get the house cool by 630. And then, you know, we're off peak usage. So, I mean, it's just it's amazing all the different ways. And I think it'll be fun just to see how this industry continues to to evolve in what what comes out next. This has been absolutely fantastic. Mike, thank you for taking the time to come on the show today and really tell us about Central, what you guys bring to the market and how it benefits both not just the tenants, but also the landlords and property owners.   Speaker 1 (00:20:39) - There's certainly been fascinating if our listeners want to get in touch with you and learn more about you, what is the best way to do that in Central? So yeah, feel free to contact me. Mike Branham at Point Central, go to our website that can that can point us point you toward me as well. But thank you for the time and and for the platform just to have a good conversation. Sam I appreciate it. Absolutely. Thank you, Mike. And we'll make sure we include that there in the show notes Point Central. Mike, thank you again. Have a great rest of your day. My pleasure. You, too. Hey, thanks for listening to the How to scale commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories.   Speaker 1 (00:21:29) - So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.  

RADIO.COM Sports Football Insiders: Off-Season Edition
Can The Jets Go From Worst to First?

RADIO.COM Sports Football Insiders: Off-Season Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 38:55


In today's episode, Brian Baldinger and Carl Dukes highlight the AFC East, if we've seen the last of Leslie Frazier, if Buffalo has moved on from OTA drama, the biggest IF in South Beach, the biggest flaw for the Patriots, how the Jets can prove they are all-in on this season, who wins the division and more! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pro Football Talk Live with Mike Florio
Joe Burrow comments on next contract + Stefon Diggs clears air about OTA incident (7/27 Hour 2)

Pro Football Talk Live with Mike Florio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2023 64:47


(00:00) Joe Burrow looking to get team friendly deal(26:10) Tyreek Hill cooperating with NFL investigation into alleged assault case (43:00) Stefon Diggs clears air about OTA incident 

Can’t Stop Snapping! A Marvel Snap Podcast
Ep 72: The Biggest OTA Ever

Can’t Stop Snapping! A Marvel Snap Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2023 95:40


Brad and Teddy talk about the new OTA and all the ramifications that come with it

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Marianne Shockley

Jäljillä

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2023 45:54


42-vuotias entomologian professori Marianne Shockley kuoli epäselvissä olosuhteissa illanvieton aikana vuonna 2019. Useista erikoisista yksityiskohdista huolimatta Mariannen kanssa illanvietossa olleet henkilöt olivat sitä mieltä, että Marianne kuoli hukkumalla porealtaaseen. Vaikka tapaus eteni oikeuteen saakka, edelleen on epäselvää mitä Mariannelle tapahtui ja kuka hänet surmasi. Jakso on tuotettu yksinoikeudella Podmelle. Ota yhteyttä: jaljillapodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @ jaljillapodcastMusiikki: This work contains Music Track Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions - Heartbeat of the Hood that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Source: https://directory.audio/free-music/ambient/5275-doug-maxwell-media-right-productions -heartbeat-of-the-hoodAuthor: Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions LÄHTEET:Blood Town-podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQaU2IRWa4&ab_channel=48Hourshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/marianne-shockley-death-marcus-lillard-trial-48-hours/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marianne-shockley-2019-death-marcus-lillard-acquitted/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marcus-lillard-marianne-shockley-georgia-hot-tub-death/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/marianne-shockley-hot-tub-death-investigation/2/https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/Q6akNfmxZVt_81_95C7zUdwf49xKv48n/https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/Nkno_AgTVIcR6Y78pWemXztJ41cI9Z_U/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/15/one-strangest-cases-dead-professor-hot-tub-suicide-baffle-police/?wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/15/one-strangest-cases-dead-professor-hot-tub-suicide-baffle-police/https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/marianne-shockley-strangled-in-hot-tub-clark-heindel-commits-suicide-marcus-lillard-arrestedhttps://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/boyfriend-of-univ-of-georgia-prof-acquitted-in-her-death/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/georgia-professor-suicide-murder-dead-charge-police-milledgeville-marianne-shockley-a8916866.htmlhttps://bobcatmultimedia.com/2707/thecolonnade/the-trial-of-marcus-lillard/https://baldwin2k.com/g/milledgeville-ga/n/76451/juror-marcus-lillard-trial-discusses-case-aftermathhttps://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/14/marianne-shockley-georgia-professor-bizarre-death-investigation/3672509002/https://thecinemaholic.com/marianne-shockleys-death-how-did-she-die-who-killed-her/https://www.the-sun.com/news/8392853/marianne-shockley-hot-tub-death-boyfriend-devil-work/https://www.the-sun.com/news/6452602/marianne-shockley-mysterious-death-drugs-hot-tub/

The Skift Podcast
What the Expedia-Hopper Split Means for Online Travel

The Skift Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 47:23


On Wednesday of last week, Skift broke the bombshell news that Expedia Group—the world's leading Online Travel Agent—had decided to end its longstanding partnership with Hopper, a rival OTA that Expedia had nonetheless been providing hotel and vacation rental inventory for many years. What's more, Expedia used their announcement to voice concerns about several practices employed by Hopper that they perceived to be detrimental to consumers. On this episode of the podcast Skift's Lead Producer Jose Marmolejos speaks with Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor Dennis Schaal (the journalist who broke that story), as well as Skift Research Analyst Pranavi Agarwal (who recently published the definitive deep dive report on Hopper's business model and performance), about why this business relationship fell apart so suddenly and dramatically. They listen back to some clips from Dennis' interview with Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde at the Skift Global Forum this past September, get some unique insights from Pranavi's unprecedented access to Hopper's business while she authored her report, and dig into what this rupture could mean for Hopper, Expedia, and the entire online travel industry.

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
My Patient Uses Cannabis for Chronic Pain: Best Practices for Rehabilitation Therapists

Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2023 60:35


PT, PTA, OT, OTA, SLP – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.    As more states legalize medicinal marijuana, rehabilitation therapists are seeing cannabis as a viable alternative for managing chronic pain. How will cannabis impact patients' clinical presentation and plan of care? How do they know what type to use, and how much? In this episode, Ellen Anderson, PT, PhD, and Lori Zucker, PT, DPT, MA, discuss clinical cases where a patient participating in rehabilitation therapy used cannabis to therapeutically manage chronic pain. How are we doing? Click here to give us feedback (03:44) Key Takeaways from Today's Discussion (05:24) Pharmacokinetics of Cannabis (09:23) The Endocannabinoid System (15:11) Dosing Guidelines Overview (26:35) Case Example: Chronic Low Back Pain (35:16) Balancing Education and Recommendations (37:14) Case Example: Multiple Sclerosis Neuropathic Pain (43:50) Case Example: Neuropathy Secondary to Chemotherapy (51:47) Considerations and Red Flags: Using Clinical Judgment (57:44) Conclusion The content for this course was created by Ellen Anderson, PT, PhD. The content for this course was created by Lori Zucker, PT, DPT, MA. The content for this course was created by Tiffany Shubert, PT, PhD. Here is how Relias can help you earn continuing education credits:  Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam;   or   Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy [link to be updated to the correct Relias Academy URL by CPM at Finishing.] Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the exam and receive your certificate.  Learn more about Relias at www.relias.com.    Legal Disclaimer: The content of Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education is provided only for educational and training purposes for healthcare professionals. The educational material provided in this podcast should not be used as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others.  Resources  Consensus Recommendations on Dosing and Administration: https://jcannabisresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42238-021-00073-1 PTcannabisinfo.com: https://www.ptcannabisinfo.com/  State Medical Cannabis Laws: https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: The Health Effects of Cannabis ad Cannabinoids: https://www.nationalacademies.org/ocga/briefings-to-congress/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state-of-evidence-and-recommendations-for-research 

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans
Steelers Hangover: Mel Blount vs, Rod Woodson as top Steelers corners

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 58:42


Today on the Hangover we debate who was the best steelers corner Mel Blount or Rod Woodson as we continue the player positions rank debate series and today we discuss the Cornerback position. Join Steel Curtain Network's Daniel and Shannon White giving their OTA observations of the Steelers on the latest episode of the Hangover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pacific War - week by week
- 85 - Pacific War - The battle of Kula Gulf, July 4-11, 1943

The Pacific War - week by week

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 31:33


Last time we spoke about the amphibious assaults for Operations Chronicle and Toenails. General Douglas MacArthur finally performed his landings at Nassau Bay, Woodlark and Kiriwina islands. Woodlark and Kiriwina proved to be cake walks, while Nassau Bay proved a tougher nut to crack. Then over in the Solomons, Admiral Halsey unleashed his landings at Wickham Anchorage, Segi Point, Viru Harbor and Rendova. Now the Japanese were more alert to the invasions and offered some resistance, although ultimately Sasaki would order many forces to simply withdraw from the invaders. Admiral Kusaka tossed a ton of airpower at the incoming allies only to lose a disastrous quarter of his air fleet, forcing him to ask his Army colleague Immamura for additional support. However with all of these landings came a large amount of allied warships to bring them, and such actions could only bring about one conclusion, another naval battle for the pacific war. This episode is the Battle of Kula Gulf  Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    Before we jump into the naval battle of Kula Gulf a lot was occurring in New Guinea and the Solomons. Over in the Bobdubi front, the Australian 15th brigade under the temporary command of Colonel Guinn were preparing for the main offensive, hoping to trap the Japanese defending Mubo. To support the Nassau Bay landing, Colonel Guinn ordered the untested 58/59th battalion to advance upon the Japanese high ground position at the Old Vicker's, Coconuts and Bobdubi area. They would be marching from Orodubi to the Coconuts while Major Warfe's commandos would raid Malolo and Kela. Company A and C of the 58/59th would make the initial attack seeing A attacking Gwaibolom and C the Old Vicker's position. Following close behind them was B company who were to advance across the ridge to gain control over the Bench Cut Track. D Company were to be held in reserve at the Kunda-vine. On June 26th, A company set off from Missim heading towards their forming up point at Namling. On the 28th, the other remaining companies made departed Meares Camp heading for the New Bobdubi kunda bridge. The next day 17 of Warfe's commandos were ambushed by 30 Japanese. They managed to escape, but were forced to abandon a Bren gun. By the night of June 29th, the 58th/59th crossed the Francisco River and began preparations for the launch of the main attack which would occur the next morning. The next morning saw lackluster allied air strikes against Gwaibolom, Salamua, Old Vickers and the Coconut area. Companies B and C left their start up point of Uliap Creek, seeing C attack Buggert village, just a bit south of the Old Vickers position being held at this time by a company of the 115th regiment led by Lt Ogawa Takeshi. They successfully outlanked the Japanese and captured the village, suffering only 2 casualties for their efforts. From there the Australians assaulted the Old Vickers position, but the Japanese defenders repealed them right back to Buggert village. The Japanese defenders had well established positions, hiding in dugouts 40 feet down from the top. The failure to seize the Old Vickers position, prevented B Company from reaching their objective, the Bench Cut Track and now they were being met with Mortar fire as they crossed the ridge. Meanwhile A Company began their assault on Orodubi, but anticipating booby-traps the men had left on the Bench Cut Track around 70 yards south of Orodubi, they chose to climb a 40 foot kunai slope to join the main track just 10 yards within the enemy. Around 80 men of Company 10 led by Lt Gunji Toshio saw the Australians doing this and promptly began tossing grenades at close range and fired down upon them. The Australians were forced to flee back to Namling as a result. The next day it was decided they would use a platoon to contain Orodubi while the others bypassed it to go onwards and capture Gwaibolom and Erskine Creek, which they managed to do by July 2nd. While this was occurring, B Company was trying to find another way across the ridge, but were failing to do so. So on July 2nd, they were ordered to move across the ridge via the newly established positions at Gwaibolom and Erskine Creek, and would reach the Komiatum Track / bench track junction where they would prepare an ambush by the 3rd. At around 5pm on the 3rd, B company managed to ambush a party of 20 Japanese trying to move towards Old Vickers and this quickly fell into hand to hand combat killing half the Japanese and one of their officers. Meanwhile Colonel MacKechnie's men were fighting to keep their beachhead alive at Nassau Bay. AA and C Companies had fought through the night against Japanese until their 300 yard perimeter was secured. At dawn on June 30th, C company began advancing south to find the Papuan infantry battalion who were around Cape Dinga. C Company made their way to a place just due west of Cape Dinga, following the Tabali River, while A Company was patrolling north and south of an arm of the Bitoi river where they ran into the 3rd battalion, 102nd regiment. A Company backed by some other units attempted to hit the Japanese western flank, but they were overwhelmed and forced to turn back. It would actually be Amphibian engineers who would save the day, who came in at the last minute to help A company out just as the Japanese tossed a banzai charge at them. Upon receiving word of the Japanese attacks, C company rushed over to join A by 3pm. Yet unbeknownst to them, the Japanese were not actually trying to break through, they were trying to withdraw by crossing the Tabali river. General Nakano had ordered them to withdraw to a new position at Lake Salus when he heard word over 1000 men had landed at Nassau Bay. Nakano also had ordered the 3rd battalion of the 66th regiment to send 150 men to march south from Salamua to help out in the Nassau Bay area. These men were tasked with carrying out only limited attacks against the allied forces around Nassau Bay, such as delaying actions to help the Nassau Bay garrison withdraw towards Lake Salus. Nakano was also coordinating with Colonel Araki who was now operating out of an HQ in Mubo, he had likewise brought forces over to Mubo from Salamua.  As for the Papuan infantry, they were marching north and they ran into the 3rd battalion, 102nd regiment around Cape Dinga as well. They managed to attack their rear killing at least 26 Japanese who were holding out in a bunker. After this they continued their march to the Nassau Bay beachhead. At around 4:30pm C company began sending reports that they were seeing some Japanese crossing over the Tabali River just south of their position. They were ordered to return to the beachhead perimeter to take the southern flank, but before they were able the Japanese attacked their rear taking 5 men and a platoon commander. Around the beachhead a hastily prepared defensive line was established by an ad hoc force of Engineers, Australian infantry and Headquarters personnel. As the night fell on, C company reached the southern part of the perimeter, quickly taking up positions. The Japanese began a series of attacks throughout the entire night from all sides using machine guns, grenades, mortar and rifle fire. Smaller parties of Japanese were trying to infiltrate positions. It was a terrifying experience for the defenders who would dub it “guy fawkes night”. Many of the men had itchy fingers which led to tragic accidental casualties throughout the night. It was a pitch black night and the noises of the jungle and Japanese screaming stuff in english unnerved the allied forces. The Japanese had tossed a ton of stuff into the perimeter trying to get the allies to use up their own munitions in response. As a result the allied forces had 18 deaths and 27 wounded several of which were the result of friendly fire. The Japanese it seems to have around 50 deaths during the night. Back over in the north, on June 30th, Captain Dexter was leading forward a number of patrols in preparation for an assault upon Duali. However as they advanced they ran into a Japanese ambush along the Bitoi track, thus canceling their planned assault. The next day, Brigadier Moten ordered Dexter's exhausted men to move forward regardless. With some support of Beaufighters strafing the Japanese positions, the Australians charged straight through the enemy positions, and to their shock they found them abandoned. As Dexter recalled ‘We advanced through the Japanese position with fixed bayonets and searched the scrub on each side. Everywhere was evidence of a hasty evacuation, dropped equipment and personal rice bags, and evidence of extensive bomb damage. But of the Japs, no sign.' Thus Dexter and his men captured the mouth of the Bitoi by early afternoon. Shortly after the capture, Dexter made contact with MacKechnie who was busy expanding his perimeter northwards. By nightfall, PT boats led by Lt Commander Barry Atkins covered the landing of 11 landing craft full of reinforcements. The PT boats staffed nearby villages to cause a lot of ruckus, hoping to dissuade nearby Japanese from firing on the vulnerable landing craft. The reinforcements were mostly from B company who had failed to land during the third wave. On July 2nd, Moten began to pressure MacKechnie, stating he had to get his troops moving inland at once. Thus MacKechnie decided to leave C company to defend the perimeter while Lt Colonel Harold Taylor would lead the rest of the men towards Napier. Luckily for the men, 4 75mm pack howitzer m1 artillery guns had been unloaded that night with the reinforcements giving them ample firepower. The gun were positioned on the beach and immediately went to work shelling targets at the mouth of the Tabali River, Cape Dinga and the area between Duali and the Bito River's southern arm. On July the 3rd, the men now designated the Taylor Force accompanied by Dexter's company were marching for Napier, but their march was a slow one as the jungles were thick and they were carrying heavy equipment. While this was occurring the 3rd battalions of the 102nd and 66th regiments were consolidating around Lake Salus looking to create a defensive position. The coastal area however proved to be too difficult to fortify, so they moved over the Tambu where they joined a SNLF platoon of the 5th Sasebo to make a position there. At this point General Savige decided to send the Papuans north along the coast to keep pressuring the enemy's retreat. By the 4th, Taylor Force had taken a position at Napier and were now under the direct command of Moten's 17th brigade. Back over on the beaches at Nassau Bay a total of 1477 troops had been landed, thus securing the beachhead. Dexters company marched back over to Guadagasal taking a coastal route, getting themselves ready for a future assault against Mubo slated for July 7th. MacKechnie believed the loss of some of his landing craft had greatly delayed the entire operation, perhaps up to 3 weeks. He did not think he would be able to move artillery or large quantities of supplies further inland. He also did not think it was tactically sound to leave his base, as the Japanese proved to be quite a nuisance in the area. Orders from the top were demanding a artillery road be built, but his troops at the assembly area would probably run out of rations in a day or two and he had no native carriers on hand. In his words "To be very frank we have been in a very precarious position down here for several days and my sending the rifle troops inland was contrary to my own best judgment. Troops had gone inland stripped to the bone. Without heavy weapons and mortar and machine-gun ammunition. "Therefore, these troops who are up there now are in no position to embark upon an offensive mission until we are able to get food, ammunition and additional weapons up to them." In response to the situation, on July 6th, Moten ordered 1000 rations and 100 boy loads of ammunition…god you have to love the australians, boy-loads haha. Anyways this was to be dropped over Napier. Moving over to the Solomons, Admiral Halsey had successfully occupied Rendova, Segi point, Viru Harbor and Wickham anchorage forcing the smaller number of Japanese to withdraw to their main base at Munda. Admiral Kusaka tossed a series of air strikes against the invaders, suffering horrible losses whereupon he had to request General Immamura reinforce him with the 21st air flotilla at Saipan and from the 6th air division. For the battle of Munda, Admiral Halsey had assembled the largest air force ever assembled in the Solomon islands campaign. It was a force that was needed as the Japanese in Rabaul tossed every bomber that was available to try and thwart the US amphibious invasion. The June air battles had greatly depleted the Japanese air power, but they were not done. On July 1st the Japanese hit Kahili using 6 Vals and 34 Zeros. They were trying to knock out the 3rd battalion, 103rd infantry who were unloading at Poko plantation on the west coast of Rendova. However they were met by 20 P-40's and F4Fs that ripped them to pieces taking down 3 Vals, 5 Zeros and losing 5 P-40's in the process. Although the allies were scoring massively high success against the Japanese in ratios, by this point it reached 7 to 1, they were still unable to sustain round the clock 32 fighter or more CAP. To do this required a total of 96 operational aircraft and after 10 days of fighting in the skies over New Georgia the pilots were also becoming increasingly exhausted. Colonel Merrill Twining requested more P-38 Lightnings, the aircraft that had become the most comfortable fighter to those in the south pacific by this point. But Hap's Arnold over in Washington was heavily committing forces for General Patton and Montgomery's invasion of Sicily at the time so he had to deny this request. As Arnold stated back “every trained unit must be thrown against the German until he is beaten”.  Regardless, with Rendova secured, General Hester was landing the bulk of his forces for the final push against Munda. The unloading process had been heavily hampered by poor planning and a failure to allocate adequate personnel for beach control and unloading duties however. To clear the new beachhead and distribute the combat stores, infantrymen were detailed to carry out the work. When transports carrying the next echelon arrived, many of the boats grounded offshore and had to be unloaded manually by troops wading ashore. On July 2nd, Admiral Kusaka coordinating with General Itahana formed a combined strike led by Major Endo Misao consisting of 18 Ki-21 bombers, 23 Ki-43's and Ki-61s with 29 Zero escort. Unfortunately for the allies, Admiral Mitscher had recalled the Rendova patrol due to bad weather, so a total of 18 Ki-21 bombers came to the scene unmolested and hit the congested area around the harbor. The strike caused 200 or so casualties, mostly upon the 2nd battalion, 172nd, the 24th seabees, the 9th defense battalion and staff officers of various headquarters. The strike also knocked out a lot of equipment and supplies. With the failure of the June air battles to hold back the allied invasion, Admiral Koga turned to the Navy for the task of providing new supplies to the defenders at Munda Point. The Tokyo Express was back in business, a convoy of 10 destroyers were sent to New Gerogia led by Rear Teruo Akiyama aboard his flagship Niizuki. His force was ordered to attack Rendova and he had with him the old Yubari, Yunagi, Mikazuki who would operate south of the Treasuries as a diversion, while Niizuki, Amagiri, Hatsuyuki, Nagatsuki, Satsuki, Mikazuki and Mochizuki would hit the allied shipping and shell the harbor. The Japanese destroyers were spotted right away, but bad weather prevented 3 American strike forces consisting of PBY's and B-25's from hitting the incoming enemy. In the meantime, Akiyama closed in on the southern tip of Rendova. She circled the island and opened fire on a point due west of the harbor. The bombardment was quite ineffective, but some allied PT boats rushed in to attack her which caused a wild 10 minute mini battle seeing 2 of them running aground. On the ground, General Hester ordered the 1st battalion, 172nd regiment and A company of the 169th regiment now designated Southern Landing Group to land at Zanana beach. Led by General Wing on the afternoon of the 2nd they made a crossing over Blanche Channel using 16 landing crafts. With the support of Brigadier General Harold Barkers artillery they successfully formed a perimeter. Now the Japanese air and naval attacks were worrying Halsey. He expected the Japanese to launch a major counterlanding with substantial forces perhaps on the 3rd. Therefore he ordered Admiral Ainsworth to lay in wait off the west coast of Rendova for the enemy. However July the 3rd would not bring an enemy, this was because General Imamura and Admiral Kusaka agreed with the lack of air and naval forces on hand at this time they could not perform such a feat, to the disgust of General Sasaki who had assumed command over the defense for Munda on the 2nd. Sasaki was so adamant about landing reinforcements at around midnight on July 3rd he proposed violating orders to simply make a counter landing using the 13th regiment and Ota's barges. He had a crazy idea to simply bring the vessels in and mix them with the American landing craft who were making rountrips to the mainland through the Honiavasa passage. He thought even if half his forces perished, the attack would be worth it. Ota objected to this on the grounds the barges would be needed for other transports scheduled for July 4th and 5th, apparently this made Sasaki visibly upset, who adjourned the meeting and left the room. Ota pushed Sasaki to write his plans down and submit them to Rabaul, which he did, and Rabaul squashed it immediately.  On July 3rd the Japanese performed an unsuccessful fighter sweep over Rendova and the next day reconnaissance reported the island was secured by the Americans who had heavily reinforced it with anti aircraft guns and radar. They also reported landings on Zanana and that it looked like Rice Anchorage would be next, thus cutting off Japanese reinforcements from coming down the Munda trail from Bairoko. Imamura and Kusaka had to wait for an accumulation of forces to bring reinforcements to New Georgia; they had no intention of losing it like Guadalcanal. 4000 soldiers of the 13th and 45th regiments were earmarked for departure. Kusaka ordered Itahana to launch another combined strike, this time aimed at Roviana island. However the Japanese were intercepted by 32 F4F's causing the loss of 6 Ki-21s, 3 Ki-43's and a zero without a single loss for the Americans. This would be the fateful end of the joint air operations as Itahana needed to take his forces to help the Salamaua area. Luckily for Kusaka he received reinforcements in the form of the 201st Kokutai from the 25th flotilla which would allow him to gradually rebuild his air strength by mid july. Meanwhile Admiral Turner had assigned 7 destroyer transports, 2 fast minesweepers and 4 Destroyers to carry the 1st raider battalion, the 3rd battalion, 145th infantry regiment and the 3rd battalion, 148th infantry regiment of the 37th division led by Colonel Liversedge into the Kula Gulf. Their escort cover was Ainsworth task group 36.1 consisting of the Cruisers Honolulu, St Louis, Helena and destroyers Nicholas, O'Bannon, Strong and Chevalier. They were also tasked with bombarding Vila and Bairoko. On July 4th, Ainsworth led the group up the slot while the Rear Admiral Teruo Akiyama's Tokyo Express were on their way to Vila carrying 1300 troops of the 13th regiment towards Vila. At around midnight Ainsworth entered Kula Gulf carefully avoiding the mindfield laid back in May. His force proceeded to shell Vila, but they failed to detect the Japanese who were heading south. The Japanese detected the Americans at 12:15 thanks to their brand new radar system; the 1-shiki 2-go radar which was outfitted on the Niizuki. The IJN were eager to test out the radar so they fastened it to the flagship of Destroyer squadron 3. Oh how the turn tables as they say. The radar indicated they were heavily outnumbered, so Akiyama decided to abort the mission, but before doing so he ordered 14 torpedoes to be launched at a range of 10 miles. The type 93 long lance torpedo remained the best weapons of the kind in the Pacific theater and one his destroyer Strong at 12:43 practically cutting her in two. Can't stress it enough what an immense advantage Japan had over the Americans in terms of torpedo power during the first half of the war, hell if any of you play World of Warships, you know Japanese DD is base as hell.  When the torpedo hit, the Japanese were already heading back up the Slot and Ainsworth thought he was being attacked by IJN submarines. Thus while Liversedge's men were landing on the southside of the Pundokono River, Ainsworth dispatched destroyers O'Bannon and Chevalier to rescue the survivors of Strong. The Strong was settling fast off the Enogai inlet. When Chevalier and O'Bannon came to the scene picking up survivors a gun duel emerged between them and some batteries on Enogai. By 1:22am Chevalier had 239 men come aboard before her commander said it was time to go. His ship was getting battered by the batteries and he unfortunately was forced to ram the Strong to keep it from capsizing which ripped a 10 foot fash in Chevaliers bow. A near miss from one of Enogai's guns had opened her seams aft and another shell knocked out her NO 3 gun mount. When Chevalier was pulling away from the Strong, breaking her in two in the process, 3 of Strong's depth charges went off under Chevalier lifted the entire boat out of the water causing her to flood in forward sections, talk about bad luck. Over in Rice Anchorage, despite the terrible stormy weather and some gunfire from Enogai, Turner ordered the transport group to clear the Gulf by 7am so they could quickly unload their cargo. 300 men of the 148th regiment landed further north at Kobukobu inlet because of the terrible weather. It would take them until July 7th to meet up with the main body. Though the USS Strong had been sunk, the Tokyo Express failed her run, thus Akiyama elected to bring the bulk of his shipment to Vila the following night, but this time he brought 10 destroyers; Niizuki, Suzukaze, Tanikaze, Mocizuki, Mikazuki, Hamakaze, Amagiri, Hacujuki, Nagacuki and Sacuki. Halsey got advance word of this and ordered Ainsworth to return to Kula Gulf to wait for the Japanese to show up. Halsey also reinforced him with destroyers Jenkins and Radford. Ainsworth went into this with a simple but ultimately flawed plan. He overestimated the capabilities of radar guided 6 inch guns against fast moving targets. On top of that he seemed to be totally ignorant of the IJN's Type 93 Long Lance torpedo's capabilities. His plan was to wait passively until radar detected the enemy than he would toss his cruisers at the enemy using their 6 inch guns, hoping to fire over 8,000 yards or so. He believed that was the effective Japanese torpedo range, why he believed this I do not know. For his destroyers, they would launch torpedoes at the enemy.   Akiyama's Tokyo Express departed Buin after sundown divided into a covering force of 3 destroyers in the front and the main bulk behind them. Around midnight on July 6th, Ainsworth's force were just northwest off New Georgia, entering the mouth of the Kula Gulf. The Japanese were also arriving to the Kula Gulf whereupon they detached the first transport unit to land 1600 troops. By 1:06am, Niizuki's radar detected Ainsworth's force, but this time Akiyama was prepared for a fight. Akiyama detached his second transport unit at 1:43am and 7 minutes later American radar picked up the Japanese. Ainsworth took his force in closer until the enemy was 7000 yards away. Then at 1:56am at around a range of 6800 yards the Americans Cruisers began to open fire. Akiyama quickly recalled the second transport unit before he engaged the enemy. Unluckily for Akiyama the Americans concentrated their fire upon the Niizuki which was pulverized quickly. She became a burning wreck before she was sunk by 6 inch shell fire taking Rear Admiral Akiyama's life alongside 300 sailors. Within 20 minutes the Americans would fire 612 shells, 6 of which smashed the Niizuki.   Despite the loss of of their commander, the well drilled torpedo crews pulled off a salvo of 16 torpedoes at the American gun flashes. Ainsworth ignorant of the long lance range could do little to avoid it. The light cruiser USS Helena was the first to be struck, her bow was blown off virtually up to the number 2 turret, nearly cracking her in two as she sank taking 190 of her 1177 crew with her. St Louis was hit by a torpedo that fortunately did not detonate and another nearly missed Honolulu. The Japanese fled as fast as they could for Buin as Ainsworth directed his two remaining cruisers to shell the second transport unit. Of the four destroyers in this group, Amagiri escaped with minor damage, while Hatsuyuki was hit by 2 6inch shells, but luckily for her they were duds and she limped away. Nagatsuki was hit by a single 6 inch shell to her rear ship which would force her to run aground near Bambari Harbor. The next morning she would be destroyed by American aircraft. At 3:30am, Ainsworth ordered his forces to return to Tulagi as he dispatched the Radford and O'Bannon to pick up survivors while Nicholas chased the fleeing Japanese. The Japanese dispatched Amagiri to pick up their survivors and she would be intercepted by Nicholas taking 4 hits before she made her retreat. While this was going on the First transport unit completed unloading its 1600 troops and bolted through the Blackett Strait and Kula Gulf. The Japanese had managed to land their reinforcements and sunk the USS Strong and Helena, so they considered it a tactical victory, though the loss of the Niizuki and her commander was terrible. The battle for New Georgia was nowhere near done. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The landings and early offensives were well on their way on New Georgia and the drive upon Lae was closing in. The Battle of Kula Gulf gave the Americans a bloody nose and now the Japanese had more forces at their disposal to try and dislodge the Americans from New Georgia.

NFL: Good Morning Football
Tuesday Pt2: CJ Stroud Expectations, Scott Pioli, QB Documentary, and Favorite Opponents

NFL: Good Morning Football

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 34:26


Part Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with CJ Stroud's OTA's with the Texans. Hosts Jane Slater, Cam Wolfe, Ryan Leaf, and Falcons DE Grady Jarrett discuss the early bonds between players being made in Houston.  Scott Pioli explains the latest with free agent RB Dalvin Cook.  Plus, Ryan and Grady reveal who their favorite opponents were on the other side of the line of scrimmage.   The Good Morning Football Podcast is part of the NFL Podcast Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Amplify OT Podcast
Ep 30: 2023 Mid-Year OT Advocacy Updates You Can Take Action On TODAY

The Amplify OT Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 39:01


2023 Mid-Year OT Advocacy Updates You Can Take Action On TODAYWe are officially mid-way through the year and some exciting things are finally being introduced to Congress. This means we have the opportunity to step up and be an advocate for change within the Occupational Therapy profession. That's why this week on The Amplify OT Podcast, I am talking about the advocacy updates you can take action on today!Join the Amplify OT MembershipAs an exclusive bonus for podcast listeners, you can join the Amplify OT Membership at any time! Join today to take control of your career! It's time to become your own best resource on Medicare and advocacy.In this episode, I cover:AOTA will soon introduce Home Health Accessibility Act which if passed would make OT a qualifying discipline in home health. The Occupational Therapy Mental Health Parity Act has officially been re-introduced into Congress. The Expanded Telehealth Access Act has been re-introduced to Congress listing OT practitioners as being eligible to provide Telehealth under Medicare Part B. The SHARE Act creates a technical fix allowing information to be shared between states and the FBI which is important for the licensure compact. Updates on the Allied Health Workforce Diversity Program asking for funding. HR 1114 (The Long-Covid RECOVERY NOW Act) providing funding to support treatments for patients experiencing the effects of long covid. Breaking down AOTA, APTA, and ASHA's letter calling out problems on several principals and providing potential solutions moving forward for Medicare Part B! It's a spicy one!Amplify OT ResourcesWant to keep learning about how insurance and reimbursement impact you? Then head to AmplifyOT.com/Services to see what resources we have available!Sign up for the Mastering OT Policy and Medicare LIVE intensive - amplifyot.com/certificationCLICK HERE to save 40% off Medbridge Today! CONNECT WITH AMPLIFY OT:WebsiteServicesFree NewsletterInstagramLinkedInFacebookTikTokLINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:AOTA joins with APTA, ASHA and APTA private practice to release policy principles for outpatient therapy reformApplying the OTA and PTA Modifier (CO/CQ) for Medicare Part BAOTA Take Action Page:

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans
Steelers Hangover: Camp Holdouts, Rumors & Center Power Ranking

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 59:07


Today on the Hangover we address the camp holdout and new player acquisition rumors. we also continue the player positions rank debate series and today we discuss the center position. Join Steel Curtain Network's Daniel J, and Shannon White giving their OTA observations of the Steelers on the latest episode of the Hangover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ride with JMV Podcast
Best Of JMV 7-6

The Ride with JMV Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 48:28


00:00 - 23:22 - Tony East of Forbes and Locked On Pacers joins the show! Tony and John talk about the Pacers signing Bruce Brown, and how that came about. They also talk about Brown's fit on the Pacers roster. They also talk about the Pacers acquiring Obi Toppin from the Knicks, and how he will be utilized here in Indiana. Tony gives his thoughts if the Pacers getting Obi is a good move overall.  23:23 - 48:28 - Mike Chappell of CBS4 and FOX59 joins the show! Mike talks about what he saw from rookie QB Anthony Richardson during OTA's, and if he will be ready to start come Week 1. Mike talks about what might lead the Colts to having Richardson start the season on the bench. John and Mike then talk about Shaquille Leonard, and how his recovery is going. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ride with JMV Podcast
Full Show: Pacers Introduce Bruce Brown, Tony East and Mike Chappell Join

The Ride with JMV Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 145:23


00:00 – 24:50 – John kicks the show off by talking about the Pacers introducing Bruce Brown, their new free agent signing! He also talks about the Pacers trading for Obi Toppin. John then talks about the Cincinnati Reds, their season and their series against the Nationals.   24:51 – 40:05 – John keeps discussing the Pacers, while also looking at some comments from listeners online. He talks about how the Pacers are fortunate to have avoided Deandre Ayton last offseason. He then opens the phone lines up and takes some calls.   40:06 – 48:19 – John closes out the first hour of the show by looking at some more comments and questions from listeners online!   48:20 – 1:17:28 – Tony East of Forbes and Locked On Pacers joins the show! Tony and John talk about the Pacers signing Bruce Brown, and how that came about. They also talk about Brown's fit on the Pacers roster. They also talk about the Pacers acquiring Obi Toppin from the Knicks, and how he will be utilized here in Indiana. Tony gives his thoughts if the Pacers getting Obi is a good move overall.   1:17:29 – 1:29:57 – John gives a quick update from around the MLB. He then takes some calls from listeners!   1:29:58 – 1:37:59 – John wraps up the 2nd hour of the show!   1:38:00 – 2:06:41 – Mike Chappell of CBS4 and FOX59 joins the show! Mike talks about what he saw from rookie QB Anthony Richardson during OTA's, and if he will be ready to start come Week 1. Mike talks about what might lead the Colts to having Richardson start the season on the bench. John and Mike then talk about Shaquille Leonard, and how his recovery is going.   2:06:42 – 2:17:18 – John answers some questions from listeners on the Colts, and when Anthony Richardson will be ready. John also talks about the importance of having a player like Jonathan Taylor for Richardson to lean on.   2:17:19 – 2:25:22 – John closes out another edition of the show!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Al Galdi Podcast
Episode 606: conversation with Commanders analyst and former Skins tight end Logan Paulsen and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 60:08


14:47 - Guest: Commanders analyst and former Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen on the impact of assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, observations of quarterback Sam Howell from OTA and minicamp practices, the state of the Commanders at tight end, how corner Emmanuel Forbes looked in offseason practices, a 2023 breakout candidate in linebacker Khaleke Hudson, whether the Commanders can have a truly special defense in the 2023 season and more 39:17 - Nationals: analysis of a 9-2 loss to the National League Central-leading Cincinnati Reds in a game that included a rough outing by starting pitcher Josiah Gray and a bizarre bat check of Reds thirds baseman Elly De La Cruz 52:06 - Orioles: breakdown of a 6-3 win at the New York Yankees that featured an impactful Major League regular-season debut by outfielder Colton Cowser and a terrific outing by starting pitcher Dean Kremer Visit PaulsonAndNace.com and tell Paulson & Nace that Al Galdi sent ya! Visit InsuranceBMC.com and tell BMC Insurance that Al Galdi sent ya! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Establish The Run
Evan Silva Explains Biggest Changes To His Top-150 Rankings (Episode 577)

Establish The Run

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2023 44:36


Adam Levitan sits down with Evan Silva to get his take on the latest changes to his Top-150 Rankings. His rankings were updated on June 27 to reflect the latest news and OTA rumblings. In this episode, we discuss: The latest changes to Evan Silva's Top 150 Links mentioned in the episode: Evan Silva's Top 150 (2023) Leone's Best Ball Mania Manifesto Thorman: 2023 Pace Preview Timestamps: (2:28) - Cooper Kupp(4:52) - Tony Pollard(7:02) - Travis Kelce(10:36) - Deebo Samuel(12:33) - Kenneth Walker(15:30) - Tyler Lockett(17:08) - Miles Sanders(18:56) - Denver WRs(21:48) - Alexander Mattison(25:13) - Devon Achane(26:52) - Tua Tagovailoa(28:48) - Washington Backfield(30:39) - Dalton Kincaid(32:36) - Jakobi Meyers(34:00) - Jerick McKinnon(35:50) - Jamaal Williams(38:34) - Big Changes at TE(41:23) - Anthony Richardson WE CAN HELP: Tired of attention-seeking hot takes? Get the highest-quality analysis in fantasy football in your inbox, FREE. Join our email list today and we'll send you a FREE copy of our Best Ball Guide covering the 5 Biggest Mistakes To Avoid While Drafting: https://bit.ly/establishtherun Want ETR on your team this season?  Our 2023 DRAFT KIT has you covered with: Silva's Top 150 and Tiers for Drafting Continuously Updated Rankings for Every Format Sleepers and Busts Best Ball, Dynasty, and Season-Long Props (Draft Kit Pro) And tons more! All in one place. Subscribe now at https://establishtherun.com/subscribe/ $100 BONUS: Looking to play Best Ball on Underdog? If you don't have an Underdog account yet, use promo code “ETR” for a first deposit match up to $100. SIGN-UP LINK: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-establish-the-run DFS OPTIMIZER: We have launched a new tools company called THE SOLVER.​​ THE SOLVER will not have any content - just the software we think fantasy players need to win.​ ​Check it out: https://thesolver.com/?ref=etr FOLLOW US: Check out our social media channels for FREE fantasy football & DFS videos, analysis, and more: https://linktr.ee/establishtherun

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans
Steelers Hangover: All-Time Greatest Steelers Position Rankings: Running Backs

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 65:18


Today on the Hangover we start a series of all time greatest Steelers by positions and today we discuss the Running Backs. Join Steel Curtain Network's Daniel J, and Shannon White giving their OTA observations of the Steelers on the latest episode of the Hangover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts
Who Will Be Daniel Jones' Top Target? | 'Upper Hand Fantasy'

Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 4:07


From 'Upper Hand Fantasy' (subscribe here): Faraz Siddiqi & Zach Rizzuto share their takeaways from the New York Giants mini-camp and OTA's while trying to figure out where Daniel Jones will be looking the most this season.Follow Faraz on Instagram @upperhandfantasy https://www.instagram.com/upperhandfantasyAlso, visit our Patreon for our updated Draft Kit, Dynasty Rankings and more: https://www.patreon.com/UpperhandfantasyAnd to take advantage of $15 million+ in prizes on Underdog, go to https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-upper-hand-fantasy and use the code UPPERHAND to get your first deposit doubled up to $100.Follow @farazsiddiqi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/farazsiddiqi To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
PMS 2.0 929 - Paul Heyman, US Open Champion Wyndham Clark, Pacman Jones LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show 2.0

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2023 183:23


On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat more about the Jack Jones situation after his attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio addressed the media today giving her thoughts on the whole situation and where they stand right now, and whether it helps, hurts, or doesn't matter at all for Jack Jones moving forward. They also chat about Packers players publicly backing Jordan Love and how he's looked so far in OTA's, and why it truly feels like the turning of a page for the Packers organization. They also discuss the group of people who went down in a submarine and now are having issues and only have 40 hours of oxygen left, and everything else going on in the sports world (20:40-40:46). Joining the progrum to everyone's surprise is the Wise man, the microphone maestro, WWE icon, Paul Heyman to chat about Roman Reigns' iconic run as champion, what is means to be great, and a couple of life lessons as well (1:53:19-2:11:55). Later, newly minted US Open Champion, Wyndham Clark joins the show to discuss his incredible weekend, how working with a mental coach helped get him over the hump, his thoughts approaching the 18th green on Sunday, his relationship with his caddie, why he thinks he's putting everything together now, and much more (). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.

Bussin' With The Boys
The Boys React To DeAndre Hopkins Visiting The Titans And Dalvin Cook Getting Released + Finals Thoughts On Baby Gronk

Bussin' With The Boys

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2023 116:47


Recorded: June 12th 2023 | On this week's episode, the podcast gods have struck again and we are without a guest. So it is just a good hang with the boys. Will and Taylor immediately get into previewing the Beer Olympics. They have a long discussion of how the format should be, the game to play and how the winner should be decided. Leave in the comments your guys thoughts on how the winner should be decided based off of their conversation. After that they get into the latest in NFL news with DeAndre Hopkins and Dalvin Cook. They react to the possibility of Hopkins becoming a Titan. However the Titans haven't had the best of luck with veteran wide receivers so the boys talk how they hope that could change. Will and Taylor react to Dalvin Cook getting cut from the Vikings and Saquon holding out during mandatory mini camp. The running back market is always ever changing so it's tough to decide whether or not to pay a guy. Over the weekend, Will had a bit of a run in with Baby Gronk. So Will gives his final thoughts on the situation and Taylor chimes in as well. The boys end the pod with the weekly staples: Shoutout No Free Shoutout, Pet Peeve and a legendary Tier Talk. Let's get in the comments boys and run these numbies up, enjoy. 1:16 We don”t have a guest again 4:44 Beer Olympics preview 22:04 Dalvin Cook released, Saquon skipped mandatory minicamp and the running back market 42:35 DeAndre Hopkins visited the Titans 53:12 The texans and redskins fight 1:00:36 OTA stories 1:06:23 Baby Gronk “We get paid to make content too, You reach we teach” 1:19:42 NASCAR 1:22:37 Do you pee in the pool? 1:27:59 Pet Peeve of the Week 1:35:13 Shoutout no free shoutout 1:45:00 Tier Talk 1:55:37 Get these comments up boys ---- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Chevy: Head over to chevy.com to learn more Netcoins: Sign up today and enjoy no fee crypto trading at https://netcoins.com Turo: Find your drive. Forget boring rental cars at https://bit.ly/3Lwerc1 NASCAR: Nashville | 6/25 @ 7:00 PM EDT on NBC Black Tux: Go to TheBlackTux.com/bussin and use code bussin, you'll save $20 off your order. Dollar Shave Club: Go to https://DollarShaveClub.com and use promo code BUSSIN to get $15 off the new Double Header Electric Trimmer. Limited time only offer expires June 30th 2023. Sport Clips: Sport Clips. It's a Game Changer. barstool.link/SportClipsBSSYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtb

Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs
Chiefs Finish up OTA's, Young WR's Making Strides

Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2023 27:01


The Kansas City Chiefs finished their last session of OTA's over the weekend and we were able to glean a little information about the team moving forward. The offensive tackle situation seems to be settled on both sides though the backup left tackle may surprise you. Skyy Moore and Rashee Rice are taking big steps forward to help with the offense this season. One of the people making it easier for them to contribute is head coach Andy Reid who seems to be shifting his philosophy when it comes to wide receivers. Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis
06/09/2023 – Best of 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe

Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 44:16


It's a Football Friday on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe and the guys believe the Vikings releasing Dalvin Cook is a missed opportunity for Minnesota. A sign of the times is NFL teams cancelling OTA's in favor of fun team building activities like paintball. Mike McDaniel side-steps questions about Dalvin Cook in the coolest way possible and a deep dive on the most racist soda pop of all time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Talkin’ Giants
589 | Giants OTA Mailbag

Talkin’ Giants

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 60:35


00:00 Intro + Thursday's OTA Canceled 5:10 Stats the Giants need to be good in 6:00 Giants turnover differential in 2023 10:45 How good can the rushing offense be? 12:30 Red zone offense + defense 15:30 Analyzing positions that lack depth 24:40 Giants 2 minute offense was not good 32:30 Surprise cut candidates 38:15 What position groups would we follow on Hard Knocks 42:50 Approach to playing starters in the preseason 48:30 Sticker story + OTA cross training 53:50 24 Hour Livestream? This episode was brought to you by SeatGeek Use code GIANTS for $20 off your first SeatGeek order: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/GIANTS Get in on the action with DraftKings Sportsbook and use promo code WORLD when signing up so they know we sent you! Head to https://birddogs.com/GIANTS and enter promo code GIANTS to get a free Yeti style tumbler with every order. Join our Patreon: https://Patreon.com/TalkinGiants Check out our Merch: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/collections/talkin-giants Subscribe to JM Football to see Bobby's Draft Breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@JMFootball Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler. In Massachusetts, call (800) 327-5050 or visit gambling help line m a dot org, In New York, call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369). In Kansas, call 1-800-522-4700. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 21+ in most eligible states but age varies by jurisdiction. Eligibility restrictions apply. See draftkings dot com slash sportsbook for details and state specific responsible gambling resources. Bonus bets expire seven days after issuance. Opt-in and 10+ leg req. for 100% boost. Eligibility, wagering, and deposit restrictions apply. Terms at sportsbook dot draftkings dot com slash baseball terms.

The Sports Junkies
Has Sam Howell earned QB1 status for training camp?

The Sports Junkies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 13:57


Commanders minicamp is over and the team has just one OTA day left before training camp begins...so has Howell done enough to deserve the starting nod he's being given?

Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis
Hour 2: LaVar Arrington & Jonas Knox – SIGN OF THE TIMES

Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 38:33


A growing trend in the NFL is cancelling OTA's in favor of fun team building activities like paintball, a sign of the times. Nick Sirianni sings the praises of Jalen Hurts. The weekly edition of “Over/Unders” and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arrowhead Pride: for Kansas City Chiefs fans
Chiefs Coast 2 Coast - the White House, Hopkins latest, Chiefs offseason tour, & OTA updates

Arrowhead Pride: for Kansas City Chiefs fans

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 61:58


Aaron Ladd and Mark Gunnels are back for another episode of Chiefs Coast 2 Coast discussing the Chiefs' trip to Washington D.C. to visit the White House for the first time in team history. There were a few former Chiefs who didn't make the trip–along with a few current Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes put on a show at this year's Big Slick–and MVS has a softball game coming up. We wrap things up by discussing the latest OTA updates–and the current MVP odds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Al Galdi Podcast
Episode 589: Chase Young speaks, Ron Rivera addresses quarterback competition and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2023 48:05


09:10 - Commanders: analysis and discussion of comments from edge defender Chase Young and head coach Ron Rivera on Day 1 of the Commanders' mandatory minicamp on where Young is at with his right knee, including Rivera on whether Young still is a starter...and react to a report saying that the team is "open to listening" to trade offers for Young 24:07 - Commanders: analysis and discussion of comments from head coach Ron Rivera from a pre-practice press conference on Day 1 of the Commanders' mandatory minicamp on quarterback Sam Howell, the quarterback competition between Howell and Jacoby Brissett, the team being without two OTA practices this offseason and more 34:07 - Nationals: breakdown of a 10-5 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a game in which the Nats blew a 4-1 fourth-inning lead 42:54 - Orioles: thoughts on a 4-3 10-inning loss at the Milwaukee Brewers in a game in which the O's blew a 3-2 eighth-inning lead Visit PaulsonAndNace.com and tell Paulson & Nace that Al Galdi sent ya! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ESPN Daily
Where Will DeAndre Hopkins Land? Bill Barnwell's Offseason Report

ESPN Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2023 30:42


June is one of the busiest months on the sports calendar. The NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Final, and the Major League Baseball season are all going full tilt. But as you know, the NFL never sleeps. OTA's are winding down. Training camp is on the horizon. And one of the best receivers in the league is now a free agent after the Arizona Cardinals released DeAndre Hopkins. So with everything going on, Bill Barnwell catches Jeremy Schaap up on everything to know about the league that has no offseason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Al Galdi Podcast
Episode 587: preview of Commanders' mandatory minicamp with Sam Fortier of The Washington Post and more

The Al Galdi Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 66:27


14:03 - Commanders: thoughts on incoming Commanders owner Josh Harris reportedly being set to meet with the NFL Finance Committee and the possibility of an expedited timeline for the finalizing of the sale of the team 17:34 - Guest: Commanders insider Sam Fortier of The Washington Post on the potential for edge defenders Montez Sweat and Chase Young to no-show the Commanders' mandatory minicamp, whether head coach Ron Rivera was bothered by Young not attending the team's first two weeks of OTA practices, what assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy may be concocting with the Commanders' offense in terms of pre-snap motion and shifting, how quarterback Sam Howell is doing, whether Chris Rodriguez Jr. might emerge as the team's RB1 and more 38:56 - Nationals: analysis of the Nats losing two of three games to the Philadelphia Phillies...react to a major report on what's going on with starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg...and thoughts on the promotion of starting pitcher Jake Bennett to High-A Wilmington 57:09 - Orioles: breakdown of the O's winning two of three games at the San Francisco Giants to improve to a Major League-best 20-10 on the road Visit PaulsonAndNace.com and tell Paulson & Nace that Al Galdi sent ya! Visit CateringByUptown.com and tell Catering By Uptown that Al Galdi sent ya! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices