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Resources by J.P. MorelandFinding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought PeaceJ.P. Moreland's WebsiteQ: I'm really interested to know how a philosophy professor ends up writing a book on anxiety and depression.I approach philosophy as an attempt to learn how to live a wise and flourishing life that honors Christ. I was born with a problem with anxiety that led me to wanting to continue to develop my emotional health and spiritual health. I was born with a genetic disposition towards anxiety from my mom's side, and as a little boy I also observed her worry and be anxious a lot. So by the time I got out of high school, and was well-taught and predisposed to being an anxious person. In 2003 I had an unbelievably stressful year at university. I had panic attacks and had what I could call a nervous breakdown that lasted 7 months. I got on medications, got into good Christian therapy, and began to practice some things that I've learned from Dallas Willard. After 7 months I got better. But then it happened again for 5 months. So I devoted myself to learning about anxiety and coming up with a list of practices that would help me.Q: The other thing you do that I found really helpful is that you help address a lot of concerns that Christians might have about mental health or medication or self-compassion. Have you found that to be well-received or have you gotten pushback from that?I did get some pushback. I was actually preaching at a church and I talked about the importance of medication for those who need it, and I was not allowed to speak at the second service and was never invited back. They were pretty upset with me. The Bible itself emphasizes the importance of non-biblical knowledge. If something in psychology contradicts the Bible, then I don't accept it. But if the Bible doesn't speak about it, then I'm free to follow the evidence wherever it goes. Psychology and psychiatry have a tremendous amount to offer us in our tool bag.Q: One of the pieces that I found really helpful in the book is you continue to go back to all these practices and very practical things that have worked for you, yet leaving it open for not being totally prescriptive for people. I'm curious to hear a little about your journey with contemplative prayer and how that has helped you with anxiety.It's been life changing. I needed to learn how to attach to God. This form of prayer has opened me up to attaching and connecting and experiencing the presence of God with more intensity than I had before. It has drawn me closer to the Lord. Contemplative prayer has a lot of different ways of doing it. The bottom line for me was finding a way to sit in the same place every morning and be quiet and to learn how to focus my attention by the use of some repetitive phrase. I want to get in a position of receptivity where I'm open to being guided or connected.Q: could you say a little about the four-step solution process?It is one way of dealing with the kinds of negative self-talk that we are habituated to that tears us down and makes us afraid and depressed. It was generated by Jeffrey Schwarz. It's a way of re-training your self-talk. The first step is that you invite the Spirit to search you and help you notice when you're doing this. Step 2 is to label it (there are 10 typical thought disorders), to name it, which takes the power out of it. Step 3 is refocusing, where you turn your mind away from it, and go to something that gets you into what's called flow. Step 4 is evaluate how you did in handling it. After 2-3 months of doing this daily, those grooves that automatically trigger anxiety are replaced with triggers that automatically cause feelings of joy and peace.Q: How did your friendship with Dallas inform your writing.He was my main professor and my dissertation supervisor. Part of his influence was realizing that it is actually possible to make tremendous progress in this journey. He really lived this, and that attractiveness of his heart and life drew me in, motivated me to dive in a learn a new era of the Christian life that I had not been taught before.Q: It reads like formation work applied to mental health challenges. What was it like to crash for all those months?It was terrorizing. What I learned quickly was that my typical approach to the Christian life was not adequate to deal with it. I felt like I was letting people down.Q: Are you healed?I haven't come close to having mild anxiety in 5 or 6 years, and it's been 8 years since the breakdown. In 2015 and for the next 2 ½ years I had 8 surgeries – one was life threatening for sure. I had chemo and 2 rounds of radiation, and I went through that whole time filled with joy and peace. And that's because I was reaping what I had sown for years in these practices. They worked; they actually re-formed my character to where the natural thing for me to do was respond in a trusting manner. Cast your anxiety on the Lord and he'll care for you, and the peace of Christ which surpasses understanding will guard your hearts and minds – those are not so much promises as ideals that you strive to achieve through practices and through praying through things. After a while, those texts become effective because you have developed the habituation that makes them a part of what you've now become.Q: How important were Biblical passages for you?The first appendix in Finding Quiet is a list of verses that are solid gold. Dallas told me that as, or more important, than getting in the Word and reading it, is to commit a handful of verses to memory that are there and you love them, they just do something for you, and make those the rails on which you run your life. As I began contemplative prayer, I would begin to quietly pray through a few of those and orient myself to contemplative prayer sessions with these verses. Pick a list of 4 or 5. I would try to express them emotionally to God, rather than cognitively reciting them.Q: What would you say to someone listening who is really struggling with anxiety and maybe has some self-condemnation or shame?Remember that Peter says that there are brothers and sisters all over the world who are going through the same things and that you're not alone. This is an epidemic, so you're not unusual. If this is a hard thing to handle, why not go to a Christian therapist and get some Christian counselling; go to a psychiatrist (rather than a GP) and consider getting a little help with meds until you get over the hump. And begin sharing what you're experiencing with trusted people so that you have a place to share it to get it off your chest. And then begin some of these simple practices. Guilt and shame is not needed. I don't think Christians should ever feel guilt or shame because of Romans 8:1 that says there is no condemnation and Colossians says that what we've done, our certificate of debt, was nailed to the cross. We should feel something else, and that is godly sorrow. The difference is that shame and guilt and self-oriented and self-condemnatory and puts me down. Godly sorrow is a form of sadness that draws me toward the Lord where I can acknowledge things and agree with God. It moves me toward the Lord and creates a hunger to conform to the way he is and continue on the journey rather than beating myself up.Q: For folks who have friends and family, spouses, that are struggling with anxiety, is there a word you might have for the best way they can love each other through this?The first thing is to be present to your loved one and give them opportunities to share and talk. And without you initially trying to fix it. Just be a presence and listen, even if you've heard it every day for 20 days now. That's going to give a feeling of support. Be careful to preserve your own boundaries. You're going to need time away and you just have to communicate that with them. You have to keep yourself from going down or you're not going to be any good to anybody.Q: How was your wife?She was worried. She was just there for me and listened to me and supported me. I didn't feel any condemnation on her part.

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: m?$5qmj?Scripture: James Discussion Questions:Q: How would you describe your faith to a stranger on the street?Q: Would the people who know me best say that my faith and actions line up? Why or why not?Q: What do you believe about God? Do you take action on what you say you believe about Him?Q: Are you surrounded by people who can encourage & hold you accountable with putting your faith in action?Q: How would an active faith help those around you?

In this podcast I answer a rider question about e-bikes and another question on how to maintain muscle mass and strength while riding. You can stream or download it from the link below or you can find it on Itunes, Podbean, Spotify and all other major podcasting platforms. Here are the notes from the podcast... Q: “Are e-bikes good or bad for mountain biking?” This isn’t about whether you should get an ebike or not, simply what my opinion of them is. I get a lot of riders who assume I must dislike them since they make things “easier” but that isn’t the case. Like almost everything else in life, when you start talking about ebikes you need to first give your opinion some context. While some people see ebikes as the next best thing to the invention of the “safety cycle” itself, others see it as a sign of the coming apocalypse. It seems to me that the problem is that two people can be talking about the same word and yet be talking about two totally different contexts. On one hand you have the people who see the ebike as a great way for riders to ride further and longer than they would have, either due to age, injury or just their own preferences. On the other hand you have the people who are talking about the weekend warrior type who are using an ebike because they are “easier” and seem like they want to be able to ruin as many people’s experience on the trail as possible with their ignorance of trail rules and etiquette. Both of these types of riders exist and they both use ebikes. I completely support the first group but not the second. Call me an elitist but I think that there is more to being a mountain biker than owning a mountain bike. The industry wants to “grow” the sport simply to sell more bikes and equipment, not because it is what is best for the sport. I think that the weekend warriors who bounce from one outdoorsy sport to another and never take the time to learn how to help preserve the things they are doing are bad for our sport and will eventually lead to negative consequences for everyone else. But that is an industry focus problem, not an ebike problem. Ebikes are simply tools and how you use them will ultimately determine if they are “good” or “bad”. Q: I'm a 40 yo male who does a full body style workout 4 days a week doing all the big compounds and have made some great gains. My question is I want to be more proficient on my rides but do not want to lose the muscle that I’ve achieved. Is this possible? Thanks! The ultimate question - how do I be good at riding without looking like a cyclist. This is a great goal, especially as you get older. At a certain point your body starts to lose muscle mass and working on having and maintaining a healthy level of muscle mass is an important part of Riding For A Lifetime. Another reason to want to maintain your muscle mass is that it is the best armor you can put on your body. The more muscle mass you have the more stress your body can take before something goes snap. But to get better at riding your bike you need to ride your bike...a lot. So how do you balance the two? Here are some ideas… You may have trouble lifting 4 days a week while also focusing on riding 3+ days a week (which is what I would recommend you do to get better at riding). I’d recommend cutting back to 2 days in the gym and doing 2 days of Isometrics (Atomic Strength Training Program). When you ride, focus most rides on shorter rides of 45-90 minutes. On these rides focus on your skills and efficiency instead of trying to “go fast” or “work hard”. Once every 5th ride or so you can go fast/ hard or go for a really long ride. If you have any questions you’d like to send my way I’m always happy to help, just send an email to james@bikejames.com. Until next time… Ride Strong, James Wilson “It is essential for a student on the path of the warrior never to close their mind to the possibility of other possibilities.” Miyamoto Musashi

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Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: M^419.nbScripture: Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Genesis 3, Romans 6:23, Philippians 2:5-11, 2 Cor. 5:17-20Discussion Questions: Q: What are some of your favorite stories? (books, movies, songs, etc) What makes them meaningful to you?Q: How would you describe “The Gospel” (God’s story) to a stranger?Q: How does the “Gospel Story” outline help you understand God’s story better?Q: How would you tell your story to a stranger? What role does Jesus have in your story? Q: How does your story reveal areas of unbelief that you need to move towards belief? Q: Are you a “Gospel identity amnesiac” in any area of your life? (forgetful of your God given identity)? Waymaker How Deep the fathers love Nothing but the blood goodness of god

[Originally Recorded March 28, Re-Recorded April 12, 2021] Approaching Zack Snyder's Justice League in good faith.  How did Darkseid forget the location of Earth?  Why didn't Steppenwolf tie the Mother Box to the Defiance immediately?  So many questions! Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Justice Con 2021 - April 16-18ASPF.org Answers, insights, and commentary on: Impressions (00:00:58) Comparison (00:02:30) Gratitude (00:06:20) Growth (00:08:50) Logic (00:10:20) Layers - Black Suit Example (00:11:50) Past Nitpicking Plot Holes (00:14:00) Death of the Author (00:16:00) Q: Did Diana lie to a little girl? (00:24:30) Q: Diana says the Boxes are indestructible but they're destroyed? (00:26:15) Q: Why did the Boxes die? (00:27:40) Q: Do we know the Boxes are destroyed? (00:29:05) Q: Why didn't the Box reach Darkseid directly? (00:32:30) Q: Why did about a month pass before Steppenwolf arrived? (00:34:30) Q: Why did Amazonian Box stay awake? (00:38:20) DeSaad & Darkseid's Last Lines Analysis (00:41:20) Not Omniscient (00:42:20) Lies & Hiding (00:43:40) Honor Culture (00:45:00) Armada Alternatives (00:48:30) No reaction, Let Steppenwolf Die, Boxes at Defiance, DeSaad asks Ways Old & New (00:53:40) Q: Are there more Mother Boxes? (00:58:30) Q: How did Steppenwolf conquer before? (01:05:30) Q: How did Darkseid forget Earth? (01:09:25) Timeline (01:10:20) Q: Doesn't Diana contradict this? (01:25:35) Hearsay, Myth, Rashōmon End Notes / After Show [Recorded April 15, 2021] (01:36:00) Q&A Summary To learn more:Zack Snyder's Justice League - "We Live in a Society" Extended Deleted Sceneoverthinking - original song | Orla Gartland Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.comTwitter: @mosanswersSubscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / Pod.Link / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaicHelp With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #RestoreTheSnyderverse

Don't Be Foolish Live Wisely Lost World Lord's Will Do Be FILLED Under the Influence... ... of Substances The Restriction on Drunkenness The Result is Debauchery ... of the Spirit Instead be Filled with the Spirit In our Speaking In our Singing In our Satisfaction In our Submission Q: Are you being foolish? Making the most of every opportunity? Finding the Will of God in the Word of God? Q: Are you being filled? Are you under the influence of alcohol/drugs? Are you being filled by the Holy Spirit? (speech, songs, satisfaction, submission)  

Hi Chealsea here with solution for seniors podcast.Before I get started, I want to thank Home Helpers of Bourbonnais for sponsoring Solutions for senior podcast. If you or your loved ones are in the Kankakee or will county area call home helpers at 815-401-5527 for all your home care needs. You can also visit their website at homehelpershomecare.com/Kankakee This week I’m going to be talking about what it really takes to be a caregiver for an aging loved one. Being a caregiver for an aging loved one can be very demanding and more then you expected. Being a caregiver to an aging family member can be rewarding for you, but it can also take a toll on your emotions, your finances and your family. While you may feel like you have no choice, but you do have a choice. There are resources that you can get in touch with if you don’t feel like caregiving is the right choice for you at this point in your life. Keep in mind, It doesn’t have to destroy your family bond if you are unable to take on the full time caregiving role. Even if you don’t take on the full role of caregiver, you can still have a strong, active role in ensuring your aging loved one is safe and healthy. If you have siblings or other family members you can rely on, you can all work together to find the best solution for your aging loved one. No matter what you decide, you shouldn’t feel guilty about your decision. Becoming a family member’s caregiver alters the relationship. It increases stress and it impacts your finances since you will likely have to step back from work or cover costs of necessities not covered by insurance. Of course, there are also many benefits to caregiving. You will strengthen the bond you have with your aging loved one. You will have the comfort of knowing you did the best you could for the person you love. You will get to spend quality time together at a time where there may not be much time left.Each year, many men and women take on the role of caregiver for an aging loved one. Caregiving can be challenging, yet it can be very rewarding. You will need to learn how those challenges could impact your mental, emotional, and physical health. Before jumping into caregiving, consider these questions. Answer them honestly and if in the end, you don’t think you can become a full-time caregiver, decide how much you can do and work with other family members to ensure your aging loved one is cared for and you are all in it together. Here are some factors to consider before you step into the role of family caregiver. Q: Can You Accept Your Loved One’s Old Age?Q: Can you stay positive in the face of decline?Q: Do you like this person, not just because they are family?Q: Can you adjust to having a different role?Q: Are you overburdened?Q: Are you physically able?If you do decide to proceed as the caregiver, be sure to care for yourself in the process. You won’t do anyone any good of you don’t first care for yourself. Caring for a loved one can be overwhelming at times. However, the challenges of caregiving don’t have to be faced alone. I hope this podcast helps you in your family caregiving journey. Again, I would like to thank home helpers of Bourbonnais for sponsoring solutions for senior’s podcast. If you or your loved one are in the Kankakee or will county area call home helpers at 815-401-5527 for all your home care needs, you can also visit their website at homehelpershomecare.com/Kankakee Thank you for listening this week join me next week for another topic we all face while helping our aging loved ones. Stay Safe and well.

Today's class is volume five of me answering questions from the entrepreneurship class of Prairie High School. [01:34] 28) Q: What are some specific strategies you may use to solve problems you encounter? [05:12] 29) Q: How have you bounced back from failure and leverage it into something positive? [09:44] 30) Q: Are you satisfied with were you currently at or do you wish to continue to spread your word? [12:28] 31) Q: What was your hardest setback while creating your brand? [16:20] 32) Q: What has been the best reward for all of your hard work thus far? [18:47] 33) Q: What are some of the more major events that occurred throughout your life that caused you to focus on mental and motivational side of athletics and life? [24:14] 34) Q: What is your most significant piece of advice for being entrepreneur and creating a strong brand? [30:09] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 1343: How To "Solve The Problems" And Add Value http://dreallday.com/1343- 1116: The Problem Is NEVER The Other Person -- It's ALWAYS You http://dreallday.com/1116- 1049: There Are No Unsolvable Problems http://dreallday.com/1049- 793: The Problem Is NOT The Solution http://dreallday.com/793- 781: Keep Having The Same Problem? You're The Problem http://dreallday.com/781- 767: How To Promote Yourself By Solving Problems http://dreallday.com/767 570: The Real Problem- You Don't Know The Real Problem http://dreallday.com/570- 541: Problem-Solving: Going to The Source Of A Situation http://dreallday.com/541 1153 Mirror and the window http://dreallday.com/1153- --- Next Steps - 1) Get The Free Books: The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free 2) Join the texting community: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 or go to http://DreAllDay.com/Text Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know! Find Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Twitter [http://Twitter.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt] Work On Your Game Podcast is at: http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com Apple Podcasts | SoundCloud | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Blueberry | Player.FM

Guest what? TARTLE has a Tik Tok account! It’s one of our favorite places to post and interact both with members of TARTLE and with people curious about us and what we do. Recently Alex and Jason sat down to answer a few questions from the TARTLE Tik Tok community. Below are some of the better or more fun questions and answers. Let’s deal with a serious one first, and one we get pretty often. Question: What does TARTLE do with your data? Answer: The answer of course is simple, we don’t do anything with your data. We don’t sell it, we don’t even use it for our own benefit without your consent. What we do is collect and store it in an encrypted format so that you can sell it when you chose, to whom you choose, for whatever reason you choose using the TARTLE data marketplace. That’s it, and yes, it is that simple. Q: Does big tech need to die? A: No, it doesn’t need to die. It does need to be reminded that it shouldn’t be using its power to manipulate people. That’s one of the goals of TARTLE, to provide a model of cooperation with users and other companies that shows it is possible to harness the power of data without taking advantage of others. Q: I tried to integrate my Facebook account but it wouldn’t work. What gives? A: In short, Facebook is constantly changing its rules and often that means we need to change things on our end. We are still small so it takes time to catch up to a company that literally employs thousands. We are working on it. Not every question is serious or technical though. Sometimes, they’re just fun. Q: Is Alex forty feet tall? A: Nope, a mere 6’5” which is tall but not tall enough to live at the top of a beanstalk.  Q: What is up with the burlap sack? A: Hey, that was a cashmere sweater in that video. It is completely different than burlap.  Let’s get back to some of the more serious and technical questions. Q: Do we need to give our data to TARTLE? A: Well, if you sign up with us, that’s what you are deciding to do. Of course, you decide how many accounts you want to connect with us. How much of your data you entrust to our care is entirely up to you. And again, we don't do anything with it except store and secure it for your own later use. We put all the power to control it into your hands.  Q: How on earth do I use your site? A: This is one of the joys of being a new company, we have a few growing pains. We acknowledge our initial system was difficult to use. Fortunately, we are getting close to finalizing a redesign that is both inherently easier to use and set up to do a much better job of walking you through the process of signing up and getting started making use of TARTLE. Q: Are we a scam or spyware? A: No. We don’t work for anyone else, no company or government agency is pulling our strings. We encourage anyone suspicious of us to research TARTLE and see if you come away still having those suspicions.  Q: What does TARTLE mean? A: It’s actually a Scottish term. When you are introduced to someone and realize a moment later that you forgot their name and have that awkward pause while trying to remember it – that’s a TARTLE. Q: We need some return on our loss of privacy. A: Yes we do. For too long, we’ve been giving up our privacy thanks to all of these companies taking and manipulating our data without our consent and getting rich off it. It is past time that we should both get some privacy back and some money on our end as well.  Q: How can we stop the government from taking our data? A: To completely stop it is almost impossible. However, you can slow them down. Use a TOR browser, get a VPN, and stop pumping out all your data for all to see on the internet.  Q: Do you use crypto/blockchain? A: Yes, we use crypto currency for payment, which allows our system to be global and unaffected by whatever happens with fiat currencies. The blockchain also allows us to be transparent with how much and the type of data being traded, while protecting the data itself and its source. We genuinely appreciate our community. There are a lot of fun and energetic people out there who are either early adopters or people who are curious about our mission. We’ll be doing this again before long. In the meantime, we’d like to leave you with a question – What’s your data worth? www.tartle.co Tcast is brought to you by TARTLE. A global personal data marketplace that allows users to sell their personal information anonymously when they want to, while allowing buyers to access clean ready to analyze data sets on digital identities from all across the globe. The show is hosted by Co-Founder and Source Data Pioneer Alexander McCaig and Head of Conscious Marketing Jason Rigby. What's your data worth? Find out at www.tartle.co  

In this, the very first show of 2021, Dean, Chris and Mads talk about their experiences playing December's game club game Exile on the BBC Micro. Thanks to all of our Patreon’s who made this episode possible. William E Rimmer Ninjixel TJ Andy Hudson Ricardo Engel Adrian Nelson Alastair Barr Straight2Video RoseTintedSpectrum Matthew W James Bentley Wiedo Belochkin Tony Parkinson Gaz H Mal Woods Zach Glanz Richard Rogers Cane and Rinse LamptonWorm Salvio Calabrese Mitsoyama Rhys Wynne Clint Humphrey MARK BYLUND Paul Ashton Chris Rowe Jon Sheppard Laurent Giroud Martin Stephenson Aaron Maupin Jim-OrbitsIT Jon Veal Thomas scoffham Andy Marsh Patrick Fürst Laurens Andrew Gilmour Stephen Stuttard Matt Sullivan Magnus Esbjörner Darren Coles Garry Heather Edward Fitzpatrick Nick Lees Blake Brett   Q and A with Peter Irvin. Q: Where did the concept of the game come from? Was it influenced by earlier videogames? A: The concept for Exile started as just the idea of a man with a jetpack exploring an underground cavern system, having to solve problems to progress, fighting off hostiles. It wasn’t influenced by other games, more from TV/film - like Star Trek, Blakes 7, Forbidden Planet. Q: Was the game built around the plot or did the mechanics of the game come first? A: The mechanics came first and we kept adding stuff to the game engine until we knew what the limits were and how far we could go with the resources available. The plot crystallised over time, after we worked out what could be achieved, then we had to populate the map to match and make a playable game. Major way points were decided, like the Rune Door and Triax’s lab, and the scattering of other puzzles, equipment and encounters designed to get the player equipped to pass through these way points. However we sometimes had “we could add this cool thing” moments and had to include that - like the digital speech on the large RAM BBC micro version. Q: Nowadays, there is infinite memory to craft a story and provide lots of context for the game. That was not possible for you. How early did you develop the idea of a novella? A: To include a novella was decided quite late in the day. Yes, it was a way to help explain the game back story better but it was also a way to add perceived value to the game, and reduce piracy - the thinking being that people would pay more and pirates would think they were missing out on important stuff if they did’t have the full package, though I’m not convinced by that. Q: How much of what you and Jeremy learned from Thrust did you carry forward into Exile? A: With Thrust, Jeremy showed that implementing physics well - gravity, thrusting, multi-body mechanics - was actually rewarding for the player; it was pleasing just to fly around. We were both interested in physics so that had to be a big part of Exile, and a lot of time was spent getting the physics engine right - all the acceleration rates, gravity, impacts, wind forces, floating, etc work in balance and to feel ok but coded with very little memory. Q: Were there any interesting alien life forms that you prototyped but had to cut? A: There were a few but the details are lost to me by the passing of time. Most memorable now was a dog - which was to be the player’s faithful companion, helping out as best he could. He was included from the beginning as it came over from an unfinished game I was doing before Exile called “Wizard’s Walk” - a wizard travelling down a long pretty cave populated by hazards. The dog used too much RAM for its graphics in Exile - it needed extra frames due to walking up diagonals. It also had to be indestructible, and manage to get around the map as well as the player or the game wouldn’t work, so it ended up being removed and we put in Fluffy which was small alien bundle of pixels and trivial code to control. Q: Some game reviews show screenshots that are clearly from a different game map. Were review copies sent out that were radically different or were these more likely pictures from earlier prototype builds? A: I don’t recall any wrong maps being reviewed. Perhaps on the Amiga version? The BBC Micro Exile game map was generated by a tiny algorithm to produce the straight tunnels, a scattering of caverns, some individual tiles and areas that could be hand-defined (like for the top ship, the top underground base, Triax’s lab, various doors, etc. The map code was fixed in stone at a very early stage because changing it would have meant repopulating the entire game. Q: The manual quite bluntly tells players that it’s a game which requires thought. Where you worried that people wouldn’t “get it”? A: Exile was hard to play in parts and required people to use their brains in some places to solve the natural puzzles. That wasn’t the way games were back then - most were short duration entertainment requiring little thought. We designed Exile as the sort of game we wanted to play, hoped others would accept it, but knew if they got stuck they could ask their friends or get advice from one of the games magazines. It isn’t a “levels game” where you just shoot your way through and collect stars, it was more like a movie - one big adventure. It was also more difficult than it should have been partly due to the limitations and efficiencies of the physics engine and shared general purpose code between many creatures. Many people didn’t complete Exile, or even get as far as the excitement of destroying the maggot machine, the earthquake and the flooding caverns, but I like to think they still got value for money. It’s hard to balance a game for all abilities when the resources are so tight and trying not to allow dead ends in progress were the player to have inadvertently wasted all the required resources to overcome upcoming obstacles, but in retrospect perhaps some things should have been easier. Q: The purple, vertical blast door near the start has a gap at the top which can be flown through, with enough time and patience. Did you know about it when the game shipped, but decided it wasn't a big enough game-breaker to fix? A: There were many such collision “features” - a side effect of a general purpose physics engine with limited resources to prevent special cases. Anyway, quantum tunnelling happens in physics, so surely that’s fine! Q: Are there any (other) bugs in the game which you look back on now and think “ah, if only we could patch it!”? A: There were many of what I call “features” rather than bugs in Exile and I think we knew about most of the ways things could go wrong but had no spare RAM to fix. My favourite one was, with your back to a vertical door, holding something, suddenly turning around while thrusting forward and do a throw - the thrown object can usually be made to appear on the other side of the door to you. Sometimes you could use a similar system to get yourself through! There were so many things to balance - like the relationship between the speed of a firer, the speed and dimensions of bullets and the thickness of doors, otherwise they could tunnel through the door or bullets hit the firer. Q: Did it bother you that the published solutions made use of physics/engine glitches to get the coronium rocks out of the eastern area, instead of the 'correct' solution which involves creating additional coronium by luring slimes through a piece of solid rock, converting them to yellow balls, then passing them through the underwater structure containing red blobs to the west of the windy shaft? A: No, I’m not really bothered about players making use of things they found. Exile is about exploration and experiment, so finding shortcuts, even if relying on “features” is still in that spirit. We wanted several ways to do many of the puzzles anyway, and the eastern tunnels were meant to be a natural area uncorrupted yet by Triax, where the player could experiment to discover the tools they would need in the western caves. This probably didn’t come across to the player. Also some of the puzzles were a bit contrived I suppose - nevertheless rewarding if you solved them. Q: Which version of the game do you consider definitive? A: The BBC micro version was the most definitive. It was the first and a genuine struggle to make happen at all, and I believe took that platform to its limits. I hated the Electron version - there was no way to avoid having a border of white noise (ie code) around the game view - buyers must have been so forgiving. Q: We are aware of the tragic circumstances around Jeremy’s death. Was a sequel planned before he died? A: From fading memory, I think we were still working on bits and pieces with the original game - like an Amiga CD 32 console game, and we had tried to get publishers interested in a Sega Mega Drive version but the console market was very controlled, with publishers taking few risks on unconventional product due to the costs of making the expensive ROM cartridges. You almost had to have a working game already on the platform to be considered seriously and with development systems hard to come we didn’t have the funds to make that happen ourselves. There were some explorations into making use of the code for a new game but nothing solid. Q: You had a version of the game planned for iOS and Android back in 2010. Are we correct to assume that that project has been discontinued? A: No, it is my intention that this should still happen. It’s difficult to know how non-retro it would need to be to have any measure of success against todays effects-driven offerings, though computer gaming is a broad church. Q: If the mobile project had gone ahead, would there have been any fundamental changes to the game? A: The first release would be very familiar, but enhanced in details, the plot cleaned up - more obvious - and easier to play. The control system on a touch screen can’t depend on the zillion keys that Exile required either! I don’t think it should stray too far from the original fundamentally as the audience would include fans of the originals; but sequels could go much further.  

Note: The time signatures [00:00] below indicate the start of a question if you'd like to skip to a particular one of interest in the audio file.[00:09] - Q: Are the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost the same thing?A: TBD[00:54] - Q: What is a spirit/soul and how do they interact with our mind and body?A: TBD[03:08] - Q: Since Genesis mentions God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply prior to the fall, and part of the curse was to increase pain of childbirth... will babies be born in heaven?A: See Matthew 22:30 - For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.[04:32] - Q: Did God make hell? If you go to the first book of the Bible it says God made heaven and earth so where does hell come into play?A: See Matthew 25:41 - Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’[05:57] - Q: In the old testament God refers to Lucifer as "the morning star" (Isaiah 14:12?), in Revelation Jesus says "He is the bright morning star." (Rev 22:16) How would you explain the differences in these 2 passages to someone who believes they are the same and therefore; Jesus = Lucifer?A: See 2 Corinthians 4:4 - In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.[10:03] - Q: Are prophesies still a way that God communicates? How does God communicate to masses of people in today's world?A: See Romans 10:14-17[13:48] - Q: We know that God is outside of time. We believe that old testament saints did not have to wait for Jesus's sacrifice to enter into Heaven (bc it was as if it already happened). We believe that absent from the body = present with God. And yet, Jesus's return will signal a new heaven and new earth, and the reception of our glorified bodies. That indicates that there is some element of time in Heaven. How is it both? How is God outside of time, but also waiting on the right time?A: See Galatians 4:4-5 - … fullness of time had comeRevelation 6:10 (5th Seal) - …how long before you will judgeRevelation 22:2 - …yielding its fruit each month.[19:22] - Q: I really miss a lot of my friends that I have been very close to since childhood, but they live very sinful lifestyles and I have tried talking to them about how they act and talk, but they always say they like the way they live, so I have stopped talking to and spending time with them. I have spent a long time trying to fall out of the sinful habits they encourage and I don't want to fall back into those habits, but I have known those friends for so long and I have created such a connection to them that can't just be recreated. I know I shouldn't do anything that would encourage a Godless lifestyle but I also don't want to just abandon them. Do you have any tips or encouragement at all that could help me through this?A: TBD[23:07] - Q: If there is evidence or individual belief that the government was elected or established through fraud or corruption, are we still called to submit to their "power"?A: See Mark 12:17 - Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.[27:43] - Q: If Christians are the majority who don't believe in wearing masks, are we chasing non-Christians away from the church by not wearing masks? Shouldn't we be the first to want to protect others and make them feel comfortable? Thank you in advance!A: TBD[38:27] - Q: Flat earth vs Round earth? Thoughts?A: See Isaiah 40:22 - It is he who sits above the circle of the earth…Revelation 7:1 - After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.Any question that was missed due to time constraints during the service Pastor Jeff will address the answer on the blog.Sermon Notes (PDF): BLANKHint: Highlight blanks above for answers! Small Group Questions (Whole Group):Review the questions submitted above. Discuss any of these that stuck out to you, or that maybe your group finds particularly interesting.Breakout Questions:Pray for one another!

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: aq@8Nri4Scripture: Isaiah 9:6, Genesis 1-4, Romans 8:22-23, Romans 7:18-20, Colossians 1:19-20, Luke 2:25-32, 2 Cor. 5:17, Colossians 3:12-15, Revelation 21:3-5Discussion Questions: Q: In what ways have you seen SIN shatter the way God designed the world to operate? Q: How does previous or current sin in your life affect your relationship with God? Q: Does Jesus coming to earth to reconcile us back to God give you peace? Why or why not?Q: Are their people in your life that you are currently not at peace with? How may God be calling you to be a peacemaker with them?Q: Read Revelation 21:3-7. How does Jesus promise to make all things new in the end? How does this provide you peace in your daily life?

"Since the podcast began back in July, Nikkiesha has spoken with 8 artists for feature length interviews. As we near the end of 2020, Nikkiesha shares some of their favorite moments from those interviews, where people have shared their experiences as BIPOC and/or queer/trans/GNC musicians, artists, and label founders. If you hear anything you like, please check out the full interviews, all available on our showpage! This podcast is produced by Stereoactive Media. 00:00 - Intro/Sponsor 00:53 - Q: What inspired you to start making music? Answers from Anjimile, Witch Prophet, Big Joanie 06:15 - Q: What inspired the beginnings of the Trans Trenderz label? Answer from Blxck Casper 09:10 - Q: How'd you meet and form your duo? Answer from The Black Creatures 12:25 - Q What was the first song you ever wrote? Answers from Witch Prophet, The Black Creatures 17:20 - Q: What inspired your album? Answers from Anjimile, NYALLAH, Witch Prophet 34:20 - Q: What's the story behind your name? Answers from The Black Creatures, Tender Creature, Big Joanie 40:55 - Q: How'd you name your album? Answers from Anjimile, Witch Prophet, The Black Creatures, Tender Creature 46:10 - Q: What's behind the Trans Trenderz label name? Answer from Blxck Cxsper 49:20 - Q: How does your music connect with your identity? Answers from NYALLAH, Witch Prophet, Anjimile 65:35 - Q: What's it like being Black and queer in the music industry? Answers from Anjimile, NYALLAH, Witch Prophet, Billy Dean Thomas, The Black Creatures 77:10 - Q: How does Trans Trenderz hope to create a legacy for Black/trans artists? Answer from Blxck Cxsper 82:55 - Q: Are you hopeful about the changing landscape of the music industry? Answers from Billy Dean Thomas, Big Joanie 86:10 - Q: How has the pandemic affected you? Answers from NYALLAH, Witch Prophet, Big Joanie, The Black Creatures 101:40 - Q: Do you prefer studio work or playing live? Answers from Witch Prophet, Tender Creature, Big Joanie 106:30 - Dope bars courtesy of Billy Dean Thomas 108:10 - Outro/Sponsor // Produced by Stereoactive Media 109:15 - Finish "

With the holiday season almost upon us and Black Friday somehow now spanning the entirety of November, we thought it was the right time to talk about gifts for you or the gamer in your life. Before that, Steve's been exploring London in Watch Dogs: Legion and Pete finally got to play Arkane's Prey but did it live up to his expectations? 00:03:01 - What We're Playing 00:44:07 - Black Friday Sales 00:58:54 - Q: Are there any games you regret buying? 01:03:55 - Holiday Gift Guide The PotsCast is the weekly Nintendo podcast from the LootPots team. We get together to discuss the latest gaming news, rumours and releases. Get in touch with us at potscast@lootpots.com, join our Discord (https://discord.gg/eKDcB2y) server, and support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lootpots). The PotsCast is: Pete: https://twitter.com/loud_pete Steve: https://twitter.com/steve228uk

Welcome! Friday is always one of my favorite days of the week. I love getting to hang out with some awesome people on our coffee talks. If you’d like to join our live Friday jam sessions, head over to takeactioncrew.com. We’d love to have you join us! Once you’ve joined, you’ll be able to ask your own questions each week to help grow your business. Today we’re going to talk about how to run Facebook ads for your brand and everything you need to know about how to get started.   Keep in mind that you always want to start by planting seeds and build out content from the start to avoid putting all your efforts into one platform. However, it can be frustrating to wait for months for that content to bring organic traffic to your website. So, there is definitely a time and place to use Facebook ads. It allows you to instantly drive traffic and get eyeballs on your content. However, you have to consider that when you’re paying for ads, you need to find a way to recoup the cost and make money. That’s why I always suggest selling digital products to start. You can also start by creating your email list, which we recently taught how to do in our email fast track workshop.   Remember, consistency is key. If you are posting on Facebook every day, you have a good chance of getting in your audience's feed. The more that they interact with you, it lets Facebook know that they want to hear from you. However, you won’t get full reach without paying for ads.   How to Use Facebook Ads To Grow Your List   If you don’t have an email list and don’t want to wait for months to see progress, I recommend paying for Facebook ads to get a head start. All you’ll need is to build a lead magnet and landing page. Even if you don’t have anything to sell them yet, you can use the content you’re creating to drive traffic to your website. I would pay for up to 1,000 subscribers without having a paid product. Because once you have a list, you can sell to those people in the near future once you do have products ready to go. Once you have your list, you can ask people directly what content they are looking for to help make the content creation process easier.   You can also build a list by doing a giveaway as another option if you don’t have your lead magnet ready yet. The quality will be less than leading people to a lead magnet. However, it’s much cheaper to get leads. You have multiple options, so there is nothing stopping you from taking action now!   The Value of Selling a Digital Product   I recommend starting with a digital product, and you can incorporate a physical product later down the road. This helps keep your funnel going so you don’t run out of inventory and break your process. Start with offering a digital product on the thank you page of the lead magnet, and you can sell your physical product after that. Remember, once you capture a person’s email, you’ll be able to reach out to them on a regular basis, so you’ll have plenty of time to sell your physical products. Once you start to see your lead magnet converting at 20-30% on the front end, you need to get a digital product created quickly so you can start bringing in some revenue.   When you start sending out emails, ask yourself what you’re putting in front of people that you can start recouping income from. It can be as simple as adding affiliate links to your blog post or implementing ads to your website.   Coffee Talk Q&A   Q: How far out should I start to promote my workshop?   A: In all honesty, it just depends. I recommend starting out promoting two weeks out at the most. You want to keep it close enough that people will keep your workshop top of mind. It’s also essential to make sure that you provide frequent updates as you get closer. You want to keep in touch with those who have already signed up for your workshop and are waiting for it to start, as well as those who haven’t signed up but are still interested.   Q: Should I create an ebook or mini-course first?   A: I would say you should do whatever is going to be the easiest. For me personally, I recommend starting with an ebook or guide first. You can easily use the content that you’ve already created in the past to create a rough draft, so it should take too much time compared to getting a course ready to go. It’s also usually cheaper as well. Once you have an ebook or guide created, you can use it to outline a course. While you’re building out the course, you’re able to bring in some money from the guide, so it’s a good place to start.   Q: How much should I spend on Facebook Ads per day?   $5 is the minimum I would spend a day. That will be enough to get started as you test and start to get data back from the first few days. You need to give Facebook some time to learn more about your target audience and the type of people interested in your product or service.   So even though you have to pay for ads, it’s considered an investment in your business. As soon as you start to grow your list, think about what you can offer on the backend to make back the money you spent on ads. It’s much easier than you might think. The key is to get started and take action sooner than later!   Q: Is there a minimum number of months I have to sign up for Brand Creators?    No, there is no minimum time frame for Brand Creators. We offer month-to-month, quarterly and yearly options. However, we designed the program to serve as a way for us to work with you month after month as we help you grow your business in the process. We have worked hard to make it possible to connect you with other business owners who are in similar situations as you. This allows you to learn from others and to let you know that you are not alone. We expect a commitment on your part because we know that if you’re truly committed, you are going to see results. Stop consuming and focus on taking action. That is why we created Brand Creators to help you make it possible to do that.    Q: Are people from ads less engaged than other leads?   A: No matter how you find new customers, you need to put in the work to build a relationship and establish trust from the very beginning. At first, people will not be committed or dedicated to you or your brand because they don’t know who you are or what you stand for. As you start to build goodwill, you will gain their trust in the process. For me, it’s helped to show up consistently no matter what I have going. To show that I genuinely care about my community and what they are looking to accomplish.   Q: Best advice you’re received from a mentor or parent?   A: My mother always taught me to always be open and honest. She said that it was important to always be transparent. My father always taught me by doing and taking action.   When I was doing the Rock Your Brand rebrand, I messaged Pat Flynn. I was struggling with how to move forward. He told me to take a step back and think about how someone would describe me in five years. What would I be known for? This got me thinking and motivated me to move forward with the rebrand. I recommend using the same exercise for yourself if you’re struggling to figure out what you’re going to do next.   Thanks for joining me today! As always, I am here for you, I believe in you and am rooting for you. It’s time for you to take action and go rock your brand.   Take-Aways From Today’s Episode How to Use Facebook Ads To Grow Your List (7:05) The Value of Selling a Digital Product (10:18) Coffee Talk Q&A (18:25) Links:   Take Action Crew: http://takeactioncrew.com. Coffee Talk: https://brandcreators.com/coffee Playbook: http://brandcreatorsbook.com Checklist: https://brandcreators.com/checklist Brand Creators Event: Grab Your BAL Recording HERE Email List Workshop – https://learn.brandcreators.com/email-workshop-sales-page     Quote Keep in mind that you always want to start by planting seeds and build out content from the start to avoid putting all your efforts into one platform.  Or If you don’t have an email list and don’t want to wait for months to see progress, I recommend paying for Facebook ads to get a head start. All you’ll need is to build a lead magnet and landing page.

Nick Saban once said... "If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader; sell ice cream." Thats damn right! There are far too many coaches who don't understand the role of a coach/leader or its responsibilities. Far too many coaches feel that making their players happy and being liked by their athletes are as important as what you teach and produce. Too many coaches feel "trying hard" is enough and being liked is the goal...and they are wrong. Real coaching is the process of teaching people how to be successful. Its not always fun and often times it means your athletes (employees) wont always "like" you during the process. A coaches job means teaching his/her athletes how to be successful....successful on the score board, successful as high character human beings and successful in understanding how to build programs that produce winning and repeatable results. Thats what coaching is about. If you're a coach who feels your job is to be friends with your athletes then you don't understand the role. If your system, program and process cant produce successful results then you are not a good coach. When you are a coach you have to trust that, in time, your athletes will come to love you for what you taught them, for the person you were and what you sacrificed for them Q: Are you a real coach or not! Are you in it for the right reason?

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: vg2X!1$^Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9-12, Exodus 19:5-6, Galatians 3:28-29, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Matthew 5:13-14Discussion Questions: Q: What does “church” mean to you? What do you base this on?Q: How does Peter’s comments on being the Church shape your understanding of it?Q: What do you think the Church’s role in the world/culture/society is?Q: Are you most attracted to secession, activism, accommodation or engagement with the world/culture/society? Q: How well do you as an individual & us together as a church declare the Good News of Jesus? What could help you/us do that better?Q: Do your actions put an ! or ? after your words? Q: How do these concepts help you grow as a disciple who loves God, loves people, & serves the world?

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: 0z$t%AirScripture: 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, Psalm 18:27, Psalm 149:4, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Proverbs 16:18, Daniel 4:30-31, Romans 1:25 Habakkuk 2:18-20, Hebrews 4:14-16, 2 Chronicles 16:8-9a Discussion Questions: Q: What are some of your biggest strengths? How could they become weaknesses?Q: How could independence & pride steal your freedom? Q: How could surrender lead to actual freedom? Q: What are some of your biggest weaknesses? How could God use them as strengths? Q: Are you weak enough for God to draw you near to Himself? Q: Are you weak enough for God to use you, your weaknesses, struggles, failures, etc.? Q: How do these concepts help you grow as a disciple who loves God, loves people & serves the world (lives on mission) in everyday life?

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://www.yahradio540.com/listen-live/ Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Heard on KFEQ 680 AM & 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WNAX 570 AM Yankton SD Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-570-s36447/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW In segment four Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions Q One of my container cherry tomatoes all of a sudden has green aphids and ants. I was reading that the duo are quite a pair. Sounds like the ants are gardening the aphids? How can I prevent both from hanging out on my tomatoes. I already removed the aphids and put down coffee grounds and cayenne pepper (I didn’t have any ground cinnamon). Recently the ants ate the root system from my Bee Balm and now I’m worried they’re doing the same to my Black Cherries because the plant hasn’t been growing much A:top dress with worm castings water around plants for aphids - get rid of aphids the ants go with them Get rid of aphids and other sap-sucking pests. This will prevent ants from hanging around to harvest honeydew. Distribute artificial sweetener near the ants. Reportedly, this is fatal to ants (which might make you reconsider adding the stuff to your coffee). Sprinkle ground cinnamon or cayenne pepper around your plants. This may help repel, but not injure, ants. Place food-grade diatomaceous earth by trails and nests. Made from fossilized hard-shelled algae called diatoms, this fine powder dehydrates ants — as well as slugs and cockroaches. But it’s completely safe for humans. (Note: It may take a few weeks to kill ants, and it must stay dry to be effective.) Set a borax (or boric acid) and sugar poison trap. A quick internet search will return dozens of DIY recipes for borax- and boric acid-based pest poisons. But use these carefully — though borax and boric acid are natural compounds, they are toxic to humans and animals. Pour boiling water on the anthill. This technique works only if you know where the ants’ nest is, of course. And bear in mind, ants build their homes to withstand rain and flooding. So it may take several attempts before you kill the queen (and wipe out the colony). Q: Are pine needles are too acidic to use as browns for composting? I am so glad I came across your site. It has a lot of valuable information. Keep up the good work. Thank you, A: Thank you for the kind words of out the site. Pine needles are acidic on the tree however you can mix them into your compost pile but it is best to not mix more than 10% of the total volume of the pile with pine needles as it can cause problems in breaking down in a reasonable amount of time period Q: is it okay that my swiss chard is so floppy? they grew so tall and then get knocked down by just normal watering. They're all on the dirt instead of growing upwards. Crushed by their own weight and the weight of water. Its been a few days but the leaves still look green so it doesn't look like its dying. I'm hoping they recover and start growing upwards or start looking like leafy plants eventually. I'm worried I might have killed them. A: yes it will still grow even though it is floppy you can harvest off of it all though the season you do not have to wait till it gets large. By harvesting the outer leaves the largest ones will help the other grow. 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A: A little finger eggplant or a White egg eggplant are both good ones to grow as they take only 65 days to produce Check out the companies that make the show possible Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com Proplugger of www.proplugger.com World's coolest rain gauge www.worldscoolestraingauge.com Rootmaker of www.rootmaker.com Us coupon code TWVG at checkout and save 10% of your order Tomato snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pomona pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Iv organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. JimZ of www.drjimz.com Seed Savers Exchange of www.seedsavers.org Waterhoop of www.waterhoop.com Green Gobbler of www.greengobbler.com Nessalla koombucha of www.nessalla.com MI Green House LLC of www.migreenhouse.com Phyllom BioProducts of www.phyllombioproducts.com Happy leaf led of www.happyleafled.com Neptunes harvest of www.neptunesharvest.com Dripworks of www.dripworks.com We Grow Indoors of www.wegrowindoors.com Harvestmore of www.harvest-more.com Deer defeat www.deerdefeat.com Blue ribbon organics www.blueribbonorganics.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center www.bluemels.com Milwaukee,WI official garden center of the show Wisconsin Greenhouse company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/?ref=wisconsinvegetable Tree-Ripe Fruit Co of https://www.tree-ripe.com/ Big elk Garlic farm https://www.bigelkgarlicfarm.com/#/

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://www.yahradio540.com/listen-live/ Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Heard on KFEQ 680 AM & 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WNAX 570 AM Yankton SD Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-570-s36447/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW In segment one Joey and Holly talk about the importance of bats on your property Eat bad insects - mosquitoes, harmful beetles - bats can consume up to 70% of their body weight in 1 night - pregnant bats can consume up to 100% of their body weight Bats help pollinate fruiting plants They spread seeds for growth and reforestation How bats live In segment two Joey and Holly go over several very well knows and repeated wrong garden information. Over repeated wrong garden information Epsom salt and blossom end rot Potato tower Leaving rings on canning jars Turning canning jars upside down Peeling root crops for canning Bunnies dont like marigolds Egg shells offer immediate results Nothing grows under black walnut trees Zinnias are bug resistant “I have a black thumb” Everything will cross pollinate In segment three Joey and Holly talk with their guest Dr Rose Hayden Smith of https://rosehaydensmith.com/?fbclid=IwAR36YuK41ETaZbebctibWM0SWM2j8fF-MpvYhvGcYGiE_JaEfvejOPTtPp0 Dr. Rose Hayden-Smith is an author, historian, and food systems expert. She has a passion for the American Gardening Programs of WW 1. She is often called the Victory Grower. 1.What is a victory garden? 2.You are a food systems expert, what is that and how does that apply to even just someone growing some tomatoes on their apartment patio? 3.Your book Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of WW1 – what inspired you to write this book? 4.There can be many parellels drawn from WW 1 times to today – there was a pandemic, etc, what are some other parellels – (people showing interest in growing their own food)? 5.Why should we look at history when it comes to things like growing food, changing food systems, even pandemics? 6.How can people find out more about you? In segment four Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions Q One of my container cherry tomatoes all of a sudden has green aphids and ants. I was reading that the duo are quite a pair. Sounds like the ants are gardening the aphids? How can I prevent both from hanging out on my tomatoes. I already removed the aphids and put down coffee grounds and cayenne pepper (I didn’t have any ground cinnamon). Recently the ants ate the root system from my Bee Balm and now I’m worried they’re doing the same to my Black Cherries because the plant hasn’t been growing much A:top dress with worm castings water around plants for aphids - get rid of aphids the ants go with them Get rid of aphids and other sap-sucking pests. This will prevent ants from hanging around to harvest honeydew. Distribute artificial sweetener near the ants. Reportedly, this is fatal to ants (which might make you reconsider adding the stuff to your coffee). Sprinkle ground cinnamon or cayenne pepper around your plants. This may help repel, but not injure, ants. Place food-grade diatomaceous earth by trails and nests. Made from fossilized hard-shelled algae called diatoms, this fine powder dehydrates ants — as well as slugs and cockroaches. But it’s completely safe for humans. (Note: It may take a few weeks to kill ants, and it must stay dry to be effective.) Set a borax (or boric acid) and sugar poison trap. A quick internet search will return dozens of DIY recipes for borax- and boric acid-based pest poisons. But use these carefully — though borax and boric acid are natural compounds, they are toxic to humans and animals. Pour boiling water on the anthill. This technique works only if you know where the ants’ nest is, of course. And bear in mind, ants build their homes to withstand rain and flooding. So it may take several attempts before you kill the queen (and wipe out the colony). Q: Are pine needles are too acidic to use as browns for composting? I am so glad I came across your site. It has a lot of valuable information. Keep up the good work. Thank you, A: Thank you for the kind words of out the site. Pine needles are acidic on the tree however you can mix them into your compost pile but it is best to not mix more than 10% of the total volume of the pile with pine needles as it can cause problems in breaking down in a reasonable amount of time period Q: is it okay that my swiss chard is so floppy? they grew so tall and then get knocked down by just normal watering. They're all on the dirt instead of growing upwards. Crushed by their own weight and the weight of water. Its been a few days but the leaves still look green so it doesn't look like its dying. I'm hoping they recover and start growing upwards or start looking like leafy plants eventually. I'm worried I might have killed them. A: yes it will still grow even though it is floppy you can harvest off of it all though the season you do not have to wait till it gets large. By harvesting the outer leaves the largest ones will help the other grow. Q: Are the leaves of Sunchokes edible?? Thanks. A: The Leaves are not safe for humans Q:Any tips on slowing the production of flowers on basil? A. Basil that is going to flower can be caused but hot temperatures indoor and out, pick the flowers off as soon as you see them. Basil won't live forever but cutting the flowers off and keeping the plant cool in good soil can make it last a bit longer. Instead of harvesting individual leaves, you can also harvest stems or the entire plant. Basil will grow back and provide a second or even third harvest even after being completely stripped of leaves. Q:What variety of eggplant do you suggest for northern Wisconsin? A: A little finger eggplant or a White egg eggplant are both good ones to grow as they take only 65 days to produce Check out the companies that make the show possible Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com Proplugger of www.proplugger.com World's coolest rain gauge www.worldscoolestraingauge.com Rootmaker of www.rootmaker.com Us coupon code TWVG at checkout and save 10% of your order Tomato snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pomona pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Iv organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. JimZ of www.drjimz.com Seed Savers Exchange of www.seedsavers.org Waterhoop of www.waterhoop.com Green Gobbler of www.greengobbler.com Nessalla koombucha of www.nessalla.com MI Green House LLC of www.migreenhouse.com Phyllom BioProducts of www.phyllombioproducts.com Happy leaf led of www.happyleafled.com Neptunes harvest of www.neptunesharvest.com Dripworks of www.dripworks.com We Grow Indoors of www.wegrowindoors.com Harvestmore of www.harvest-more.com Deer defeat www.deerdefeat.com Blue ribbon organics www.blueribbonorganics.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center www.bluemels.com Milwaukee,WI official garden center of the show Wisconsin Greenhouse company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/?ref=wisconsinvegetable Tree-Ripe Fruit Co of https://www.tree-ripe.com/ Big elk Garlic farm https://www.bigelkgarlicfarm.com/#/

Mia Voss aka “The Accidental Entrepreneur” is a human ray of sunshine who has a unique handle on life. Her company, Mia on the Go represents women over 40 going on kickass travel adventures. (Spoiler alert: you’ll learn how to adapt your travel and what kind of travel works in the apocalypse). Mia is a travel blogger, life lover, brand ambassador, spokesperson, social storyteller, burgeoning podcaster of Shit We Don’t Talk About, and she speaks with a focus on female buying power. She has also kicked anxiety to the curb and is a veteran of walking into her triggers. For complete show notes on this episode visit https://sickbiz.com/126 Takeaways: Why you need to pivot in a pandemic--and where you should put your efforts. What is your business ripe for doing right now? What the hell and ambivert is. Q: Are you one? How to confront your anxiety and do the opposite of what your fear wants you to do. Mia Voss is proof that you are the architect of your life. That you hold the blueprints and can reinvent yourself as many times as you desire. There is a niche out there for you. Your people are out there. The ones who want to hear your story and will even look up to you are waiting for you. We all have the responsibility to follow our passions. Mis doing just that. Check her out on Facebook at “Mia Voss on the Go.” Bio: Mia Voss is a super opinionated lifestyle blogger and activist, brand ambassador, speaker, and entrepreneur. Her main superpowers? Storytelling & people connecting. And drinking wine. Catch the sickest podcast around and learn how to turn your pain into purpose and profit every week on Sick Biz Buzz. Tune in wherever podcasts are available. To purchase your copy of Hilary’s book Sick Success click here.

---------------------- Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ----------------------   Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Flutter and Wow”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Flutter_%26_Wow     “Flutter and Wow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9HeYxxzuc   Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/07/05/episode-48-flutter-and-wow/   References:     Episode 7 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Let’s See How Brave You Are.” It’s a slow drag with “No Hiding Place,” another gem from “Momofuku”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/11336612   Episode 35 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “With a Song in My Heart.” It’s a slow drag with “Turpentine,” another gem from “Momofuku”: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/slowdragwithremedy/id/13453079 “Flutter and Wow, Sound Distortion”: https://www.britannica.com/technology/flutter Q: Are wow and flutter key to that analogue tape sound?: https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-are-wow-and-flutter-key-analogue-tape-sound “What do wow and flutter sound like?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCwRdrFtJuE “Magnetic Field” example: https://www.britannica.com/science/magnetic-field So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo "Flutter and Wow" lyrics: Last rays of sunlight die Full moon begins to rise Reflected in your eyes I can't believe that this is happening You make the motor in me Flutter and Wow The crowd was gathering The clock struck five, then ten My happy tears were descending I can't believe that this is happening You make the motor in me Flutter and Wow Flutter and Wow / Flutter and Wow You make the motor in me Flutter and Wow / Flutter and how The incident tape across the bed Threading it from the reel to the head I'm planting this thought in a magnetic field And pushing the button And all of a sudden Erase everything rotten Fascinated and uptight Make me shout out loud Make me cry all day and night My voice got stuck in my throat... Pulled my hand up into the sleeve of my coat So you'd never know how it was shaking I can't believe that this is happening You make the motor in me Flutter and Wow Flutter and Wow / Flutter and Wow You make the motor in me Start up and stop again When I am spluttering You make the motor in me Flutter and wow / Flutter and how Flutter and wow / Flutter and how To the bridge The incident tape across the bed Threading it from the reel to the head I'm planting this thought in a magnetic field And pressing the button And all of a sudden Erase everything rotten Fascinated and uptight Make me shout out loud Make me cry all day and night

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It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about libraries vs frameworks, Firefox, who would win a thumb war, and more! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 01:37 - Q: Why does React bill itself as a library instead of a framework? 03:14 - Q: Are y’all still using Firefox now that it has been six months? 06:30 - Q: Is it possible to do a hasty treat regarding the Brave browser? Would love to hear your opinion on the tech, view on the approach and why we could need another browser in 2020. Peace! 09:34 - Q: Who would win in a thumb war, Wes or Scott? 10:56 - Q: What are your thoughts on XState and state machines for managing state in apps? I’ve been super interested in trying to use it, eager to hear what you both think. Also, wondering if you’d have any recommendations on how to use it with Apollo, whether to use XState’s internal context to store app state, or use the Apollo cache. 14:53 - Q: Should I start a new project with jQuery or React? 17:21 - Q: I’m a young teen (60 different pages? How do you organize the REST-ful API? How do you resolve dependencies between API endpoint 1 and API endpoint 2? How do you share information between multiple components in VUE-State-Management? 42:44 - Q: I’ve done Wes’ NextJS course and he uses Styled Components instead of Next’s own styled-jsx. What are your opinions on styled-jsx, and why you do (or do not) use it? Links React Firefox Brave CodeSandbox VS Code in the browser CodePen Source Making Design Patterns Figma Auto Layout ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 1: Myths and Legends Podcast 2: Fictional Podcast Wes: Parchment Paper Baking Sheets Shameless Plugs Scott: Sapper For Beginners - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Beginner JavaScript Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

What a beautiful community of HSPs we have in our Sensitive Empowerment Community! Thank you for all the wonderful live questions. We started out discussing the post: Anguish and Action: Be the Change. Supporting ourselves through intense emotions so we can be our best selves to listen, learn, and grow to be the change we need in the world. Here are some of the questions we covered in this Q/A event.... Q: I've been receiving feedback that I'm too good or too nice for the world. Why is that a negative? How should I respond? I think I'm seen as too soft and it seems to hinder me in the workplace. Q: How to tell, when meeting a potential friend, if they are going to be parasitic about our HSP empathy and energy. Are there questions, we can ask, in addition to checking in with how we are feeling in their presence, and after spending time with someone? Q: How to control osmosis with everyone and everything around us with the wall analogy that you have spoken of, Julie...how to bring that wall up and down at will. Q: I have questions around the message of loving yourself and turning inward and the push to destigmatize therapy. How is that not still looking outward?

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/ Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on KFEQ 680 AM at 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST April – Oct https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW In segment four Joey and Holly answer gardener'questions Note Giveaway: Open to listener 18 years and older and living the contagious united states this give away ends Thursday May 14th 9 am cst winner will be notified via email on May 14th and will have 7 days to reply to claim their price for detail got to the Wisconsin vegetable gardener .com and click on the giveaway tab at the top of the page https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/giveaway/ Q: I apply weed and feed to my lawn can I compost the clippings? A: No if the weed and feed is non organic meaning its active ingredient in not corn gluten it had 2-4-d as it’s active ingredient and that is a broad leaf herbicide that kills plants by changing the way certain cells grow this herbicide is very strong and even after mowing grass bagging clipping composting to a black compost the 2-4-d is still active and when put in your garden it will kill your broad leaf vegetable there is not a study that we have found that says if you wait this long then it is safe to use in the garden. Q: Are there any varieties of nectarines that will grow in WI outside of a green house? A: Stark HoneyGlo miniature nectarines only attain a height of about 4-6 feet. ... 'Intrepid' is a cultivar that is hardy in zones 4-7. ... 'Messina' is another freestone crop that has sweet, large fruit with the classic look of a peach. I have dealt with slugs in the past. What can I do to be proactive this year? A: you can use CRAB & LOBSTER SHELL 5-3-0 from https://www.neptunesharvest.com/ it is high is calcium at around 23% Weeds hate Calcium so you can work it in your soil for a weed control Place it on top of the soil and because of it sharp edges is will keep them away Q: Can the seeds be planted a day or two after drying? A: It all depends on the type of seed not all seeds can be planted right away some need a cold cycle OR Seed stratification is the process whereby seed dormancy is broken in order to promote this germination. ... Even still, other seeds require a combination of both warm and cool treatments followed by a warm treatment, or a combination of warm and cool moist followed by a dry cycle and warm period to germinate. (It all depends on the seed type) Q, in the summer of 2019, my squash became covered with dust or mold. How can I prevent that from happening again this year? A: Thank you for your email, we will start with the easy part first the dust and mold issues with your squash plants that is called powdery mildew and it is caused by several factors. The main factor is that moisture on leaves the plants are not drying off it gets cool at night. in the middle of summer this is not a big deal as the nights are so warm that they dry off after dark with no issue but as the days get colder as we have found the moisture stays on the leaves and begins to creates the mildew, So how to control this, do not plant those plant close together let them have space to allow all the surface area as possible in the late summer. There are measures that you can take to try to prevent this from happening https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/controlling-or-eliminating-powdery-mildew/ you do this before seeing the mildew to keep the pH on the leave at a level that will no allow the mildew to form Q: I have a simple question about canning that I can't get a good answer on hoping you can help. If I have a recipe for refrigerator pickles ... Can I do the canning method with a hot bath to keep pickles for a while or do they have to be refrigerator pickles? A: your recipe for refrigerator pickles is only for refrigerator pickles you can not use that recipe to and make hot water bath pickle you would need a hot water bath pick recipe Q: I've started winter squash, and they're going great guns -- they're huge, over 12", but it's too soon to put them out. they are starting to form buds. I'm assuming I should pinch the buds so they survive transplant better. Should I also cut back the vines? A: yes as you see it bud cut those off. Check out the companies that make the show possible Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com Proplugger of www.proplugger.com World's coolest rain gauge www.worldscoolestraingauge.com Rootmaker of www.rootmaker.com Us coupon code TWVG at checkout and save 10% of your order Tomato snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pomona pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Iv organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. JimZ of www.drjimz.com Seed Savers Exchange of www.seedsavers.org Waterhoop of www.waterhoop.com Green Gobbler of www.greengobbler.com Nessalla koombucha of www.nessalla.com MI Green House LLC of www.migreenhouse.com Spartan mosquito of www.spartanmosquito.com Phyllom BioProducts of www.phyllombioproducts.com Happy leaf led of www.happyleafled.com Neptunes harvest of www.neptunesharvest.com Dripworks of www.dripworks.com We Grow Indoors of www.wegrowindoors.com Harvestmore of www.harvest-more.com Deer defeat www.deerdefeat.com Blue ribbon organics www.blueribbonorganics.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center www.bluemels.com Milwaukee,WI official garden center of the show Wisconsin Greenhouse company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/?ref=wisconsinvegetable Tree-Ripe Fruit Co of https://www.tree-ripe.com/

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST http://player.listenlive.co/41841 Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on KFEQ 680 AM at 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://www.yahradio540.com/listen-live/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST April – Oct https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 10-11 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW In segment one: Joey and Holly talk about best crops to grow in containers Bigger the conatier the more soil 5 gallon bucket 10 gallon grow back grow https://myrootmaker.com/ coupon code TWVG Drainage holes What to fill it with Green stalk grow tower coupon code Wisconsin save 10 on orders over $75 https://greenstalkgarden.com/ Beans. Most of the beans are climbers or bushier type, and they grow upward. ... Lettuce Peppers Chillies Radishes Asian Greens Spinach Peas Potatoes Swiss Chard Lettuce Carrots Chillies Tomatoes Cucumbers Eggplants DO not grow okra asparagus some overwinter crops garlic hit and miss strawberries Peppers Beets: Direct seed 9 per square foot Broccoli: One transplant per 5-gallon container. Cabbage: One transplant per 5-gallon container. Or with small varieties, one plant per gallon container. Carrots: Direct seed 16 per square foot Cucumber: Two transplants per 5-gallon container. If using vining types, grow on trellis or cage. Eggplant: One transplant per 5-gallon container. Green Beans: Sow directly 9 bush 8 pole Kohlrabi: Direct seed into a 5-gallon container. Thin to three plants. Lettuce: Direct seed or transplant into 1-gallon or larger container. Onion: starts 6 pers square foot green onions; Peas: Direct seed into 5-gallon container. Grow taller varieties on a trellis. Thin to 5 inches apart. Pepper: One transplant per 5-gallon container. Radishes: Direct seed into 2-gallon or larger container. Thin to 3 inches apart. Spinach: Direct seed into 1-gallon or larger container. Thin to 3 inches apart. Summer Squash: Direct seed or transplant, two plants per 5-gallon container. Swiss Chard: Transplant or direct seed four plants per 5-gallon container. Tomatoes: Transplant one plant per 5-gallon container. Winter Squash: Direct seed one plant per 5-gallon container In segment two Joey and Holly talk about what you need to know before growing vine vegetable and fruits in your garden Generally, the longer the growing season, the more the vines will spread, so you'll want to allow more room for winter squash and melons than for summer squash and cucumbers. Direct sow these crops Ground Containers Straw Bales Space is need You can grow these in containers or bags of compost laid on the grown cut open soil needs to be dry and warm. If your soil stays very wet and you've had trouble raising healthy vine crops, try building up the hills into three- to five-inch-high mounds before planting. Then plant the way you would for hills. These mounds aid the plant's germination and improve the growing environment because the soil warms up and dries out faster. A raised mound has warmer soil for germination and better drainage. ... The hills drain the soil faster, preventing water log and also warm the soil faster in the sun Space plants 18 to 24 inches apart in rows 36 inches apart. Melons GRapes Vining pumpkins require a minimum of 50 to 100 square feet per hill. Plant seeds one inch deep (four or five seeds per hill). Allow 5 to 6 feet between hills, spaced in rows 10 to 15 feet apart. When the young plants are well-established, thin each hill to the best two or three plants. Cucumbers The vines can reach 6 to 8 feet long or more. In large gardens, cucumbers can spread out on the ground. Plant them in rows on the ridges prepared earlier. Use a hoe or stick to make a small furrow about 1 inch deep down the center of each ridge. A rule of thumb is to allow 24 square feet per plant. For watermelon saskatchewan watermelon we were able to grow Grow Cream of Saskatchewan Watermelon from fresh Citrullus lanatus melon seeds. ... Instead, this unique variety produces delicious, pale yellow to white melons that weigh in at 12 to 20 pounds each. The outer skin is dark green and very thin, making it difficult to store for long periods of time. TIP : Planted with vine crops radishes seem to repel some harmful insects, such as cucumber beetles and black flea beetles. Whether it's their sharp odor or because they exude some chemical that insects dislike, radishes work. Plus, they sprout quickly to mark the row, so you won't disturb the germinating seeds when you cultivate around the hills or rows to keep down weeds. Sprinkle a few radish seeds in each planting spot. Any early maturing variety will do. Leave the radishes in place until they're way beyond the eating stage. Pull them up when you harvest the first small fruits from the vine. As you remove the radishes, you loosen the soil around the base of the plants, leaving good-sized cavities where the radish roots were. These holes become ducts for air and water, keeping the vine roots better supplied. Radishes are most effective at warding off insects when vine crops are young. This is also when cucumber beetles can do the most damage, spreading disease that can knock out an entire young crop. By the time the radishes lose some of their potency, the vines are strong and well-established In segment three Joey and Holly welcome their guest garden expert Melinda Myers https://www.melindamyers.com/ Nationally known gardening expert, TV/radio host, author & columnist Melinda Myers has over 30 years of horticulture experience and has written over 20 gardening books, nationally-syndicated “Melinda’s Garden Moment” program which airs on over 115 TV and radio stations throughout the U.S. Melinda also hosts the internationally distributed Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD series, including the latest Food Gardening for Everyone DVD set.. She appears regularly as a guest expert on national and local television and radio shows. https://www.melindamyers.com/ 1. Pollinators are so important - what are some annual and perennial flowers you grow to attract pollinators? 2. why are native plants important for everyone to grow? 3. Due to the pandemic, many apartment/condo residents will be growing vegetables in containers - what are some great container growing tips? 4. Many people think birds can cause damage in the garden - why are birds beneficial in the garden? 5. How can we find out more about you? In segment four Joey and Holly answer gardener'questions Note Giveaway: Open to listener 18 years and older and living the contagious united states this give away ends Thursday May 14th 9 am cst winner will be notified via email on May 14th and will have 7 days to reply to claim their price for detail got to the Wisconsin vegetable gardener .com and click on the giveaway tab at the top of the page https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/giveaway/ Q: I apply weed and feed to my lawn can I compost the clippings? A: No if the weed and feed is non organic meaning its active ingredient in not corn gluten it had 2-4-d as it’s active ingredient and that is a broad leaf herbicide that kills plants by changing the way certain cells grow this herbicide is very strong and even after mowing grass bagging clipping composting to a black compost the 2-4-d is still active and when put in your garden it will kill your broad leaf vegetable there is not a study that we have found that says if you wait this long then it is safe to use in the garden. Q: Are there any varieties of nectarines that will grow in WI outside of a green house? A: Stark HoneyGlo miniature nectarines only attain a height of about 4-6 feet. ... 'Intrepid' is a cultivar that is hardy in zones 4-7. ... 'Messina' is another freestone crop that has sweet, large fruit with the classic look of a peach. I have dealt with slugs in the past. What can I do to be proactive this year? A: you can use CRAB & LOBSTER SHELL 5-3-0 from https://www.neptunesharvest.com/ it is high is calcium at around 23% Weeds hate Calcium so you can work it in your soil for a weed control Place it on top of the soil and because of it sharp edges is will keep them away Q: Can the seeds be planted a day or two after drying? A: It all depends on the type of seed not all seeds can be planted right away some need a cold cycle OR Seed stratification is the process whereby seed dormancy is broken in order to promote this germination. ... Even still, other seeds require a combination of both warm and cool treatments followed by a warm treatment, or a combination of warm and cool moist followed by a dry cycle and warm period to germinate. (It all depends on the seed type) Q, in the summer of 2019, my squash became covered with dust or mold. How can I prevent that from happening again this year? A: Thank you for your email, we will start with the easy part first the dust and mold issues with your squash plants that is called powdery mildew and it is caused by several factors. The main factor is that moisture on leaves the plants are not drying off it gets cool at night. in the middle of summer this is not a big deal as the nights are so warm that they dry off after dark with no issue but as the days get colder as we have found the moisture stays on the leaves and begins to creates the mildew, So how to control this, do not plant those plant close together let them have space to allow all the surface area as possible in the late summer. There are measures that you can take to try to prevent this from happening https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/controlling-or-eliminating-powdery-mildew/ you do this before seeing the mildew to keep the pH on the leave at a level that will no allow the mildew to form Q: I have a simple question about canning that I can't get a good answer on hoping you can help. If I have a recipe for refrigerator pickles ... Can I do the canning method with a hot bath to keep pickles for a while or do they have to be refrigerator pickles? A: your recipe for refrigerator pickles is only for refrigerator pickles you can not use that recipe to and make hot water bath pickle you would need a hot water bath pick recipe Q: I've started winter squash, and they're going great guns -- they're huge, over 12", but it's too soon to put them out. they are starting to form buds. I'm assuming I should pinch the buds so they survive transplant better. Should I also cut back the vines? 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America Under House Arrest: Why the cure is now worse than the disease - An interview with Scott Klusendorf | The Mark Harrington Show | 4-23-20 America is rapidly approaching 1 million cases of COVID 19. Thus far, 47,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Just how much worse remains to be seen. There are too many unknowns. Some medical experts predict millions of deaths worldwide unless we continue to lockdown society and enforce strict social distancing for 12 to 18 months.  Others say those projections are not only wrong, they are overstated “by orders of magnitude.”  The problem is existing figures may not tell us to what extent COVID-19 causes death. Today, Mark interviews Scott Klusendorf, President of Life Training Institute about his recent article published in the Christian Research Journal entitled Covid-19 Do Pro-life Principles Require A Sustained Shut Down of the Economy? Who Decides? Read Scott’s article HERE: https://bit.ly/2RXuJzJ Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Council writes in the New York Times that pro-life Christians must abandon any consideration of the economy and remain sheltered-in-place as long as lives are at risk. “Each human life is more significant than a trillion-dollar gross national product. Stocks and bonds are important, yes, but human beings are created in the image of God.”   Q: How should pro-life Christians respond to COVID-19? Here are a some of the other questions: Q: Are pro-life advocates who question a prolonged economic lockdown trading lives for profits, thus undermining their core principles? Or is this a false choice? Q: Do doctors have a corner on how we structure society in light of a pandemic, or do we need voices beyond the hard sciences? Do these experts have a trump card (pun intended)? Who decides? Q: Are protesters unqualified to address the economic shutdown? Q: What are the threats to human life with a continued economic shutdown? Suicide. Poverty. Gambling. Depression. Mental illness. Elective surgeries. Drug and alcohol abuse. Civil unrest? Scott travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views in the public square. Scott is the author of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture. You can watch The Mark Harrington Show on Mark’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Mark’s show is also broadcast over Salem radio stations every Saturday in Detroit (WLQV), Columbus (WRFD), and Cleveland (WHKW).   Facebook Personal - https://www.facebook.com/MarkCreatedEqual Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/TheMarkHarringtonShow/ Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kM_Q0sgCk9iVWAg8HNSFQ Twitter - https://twitter.com/mharringtonlive iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/activist-radio-mark-harrington/id827982678 Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ii2i6elyevshicbfmc5263zq2ga Website - https://markharrington.org Podbean - https://createdequal.podbean.com  

 Discover how to gain massive upticks of respect from your subordinates but still be human especially in this time of crisis Learn the challenges business owners face in converting everything from physical into digital space with basically no practice and no warning Learn why being an extreme micromanager is a pitfall when managing teams remotely and how it puts pressure to everyone from the top on down to prove that they're doing work Resources/Links: (Available for Download Soon) Cheat Sheet with 4 Keys to Modeling Accountability: https://go.sentendremethod.com/MTI Summary In response to the pandemic, organizations allowed their employees to work from home, and flexible work arrangements became the new normal. But the sudden shift from physical to digital space and indefinite length of this period have caused anxiety and uncertainty to business leaders and owners. Businesses are forced to adapt to changes overnight, management worries on how to manage remote teams and maintain productivity — what’s perhaps most at risk in this strange new world of work. Liz Wiltsie is a trauma-informed leadership development coach and consultant with diverse industry experience. Liz’s super-power is breaking complex topics down into actionable insight. In this episode, Liz shares how she and her company, Sentendre, helps business owners build communities where people feel profoundly seen and understood at work. Check out these episode highlights: 01:32 – Liz's ideal client: "My ideal client is people who want to be better leaders of remote teams. That's pretty simple." 01:43 – Problem Liz helps solve: "The main problem is that people don't know how to lead remote teams effectively, particularly at a moment of global crisis." 02:10 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Liz: "So, one is a lack of morale now that you are not in physical space together. The second is an enormous pressure to just be business as usual, to be able to convert everything that you used to do into digital space with basically no practice and no warning. And then the third is a feeling of being overwhelmed by a lot of new technology at once." 03:13 – What are some of the common mistakes that folks make before finding Liz and her solution?: "One of the things that they do is that they assume that there's a one-to-one translation between physical space and digital space. And they try to make the same things work." 06:27 – Liz's Valuable Free Action(VFA): "I've seen people have massive upticks in respect of their team just by admitting that like they're a real person in this moment." 07:45 – Liz's Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Cheat Sheet with 4 Keys to Modeling Accountability: https://go.sentendremethod.com/MTI 08:00 – Q: Are these practices relevant outside of a crisis?? A: Yes, they are." And that there's a whole lot of things that we're doing now and reimagining how work looks and how we support people that I think should absolutely continue once the danger has passed. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Leaders need to show that they're real. Not leaning too far into the mistake, and allowing people to have actual human responses.'” -@wiltsieClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: 0:09 Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, joined today by Liz Wiltsie. Liz, good day, very warm welcome. Where are you hanging out? Liz Wiltsie: 0:19 Thanks for having me, Tom. I'm in Los Angeles, California. Tom Poland:0:21 L.A. and we're all hunkered down and shut down, and a lockdown in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis, which is incredibly apt because Liz's superpower is breaking comp...

In today's Q&A Friday, we talk about our audio setup, tools for writing, building a SaaS company, books, how to read an article, hobbies, and more!Q: What is your audio set up?We use the MixPre 3 since it has three audio inputs. We also like that it can use batteries and an SD card. It makes it very portable and can be used without a computer if you have to go out to grab an interview with someone. For mics, we use the Audio Technica AT875R. It's a great shotgun mic that works well in spaces that aren't acoustically treated. Finally, we use Sony MDR7506 headphones.Q: What tool do you use to draft your writing?We use tools like Ulysses for a pure writing experience. It has a great “table of contents” style organization. We also use Notion for long-form and collaborative writing.Q: What's one thing you learned about building a SaaS company that you think is a valuable lesson for creators?The first thing that comes to mind is that it will take a lot longer than you think. You've got to make sure you keep at it and have the mindset of showing up every day for years. Q: Which books about writing non-fiction would you recommend?Nathan recommends Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. Barrett recommends The Golden Book on Writing by David Lambuth, Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, On Speaking Well by Peggy Noonan, The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto, and On Writing by Steven King.Q: When you read articles, do you read the entire article, or just skim for highlights?We usually read the entire thing. If we're thinking of giving up on an article, then we start skimming to give it more of a chance.Q: Are you expecting a decrease in your customer base from people who have gone out of business?We've seen a little bit of that, but we've actually seen more growth as businesses try to increase their online presence.Q: What are your hobbies?Nathan - playing outside with his kids, practicing soccer by himself, woodworking, and reading books. Barrett - reading and writing, hiking, skiing, camping, and fly-fishing. Q: What are your priorities for revenue as your business increases?We'll invest heavily in the product. We've added team members recently and we've put more money into advertising. We want to be able to serve a larger group of creators while maintaining the notion that existing customers are more important than getting new customers. Our success is creator success.Creators of the day   Anne Beiler  Prince McClinton Resources of the day Embossed stationery from Crane.com Osmo Pocket Thought of the day“If rest is what you need, take this weekend to not be productive, so that you can be more productive in the week. After the last few weeks of non-stop craziness, this might be the perfect thing for you to hear.” ~ @BarrettABrooksLinks MixPre 3 Audio Technica AT875R Sony MDR7506 The Podcaster's High Quality Microphone Shootout Ulysses Notion Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The Golden Book on Writing by David Lambuth  Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury On Speaking Well by  Peggy Noonan The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto On Writing  by Steven King  Stay in touch Start building your audience for free! Twitter Facebook Instagram

March 8th is International Women's Day, this year's campaign theme is #EachforEqual; An equal world is an enabled world. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality. Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender equal world. We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations, and celebrate women's achievements. This year's theme fits perfectly in to the ongoing struggles that women within the music industry face world wide. I extended a Public invitation to all women involved within any aspect of the music industry, offering flexible times to conduct the interview via phone to make it easier to fit in with everyone who could spare up to 30 mins out of their day, in hope of being able to get as many different views as possible. I researched as much as possible prior to writing the questions asked, as I wanted to make sure that the interview would offer something different to what has already been published in the past. Giving the participants the opportunity to be thoughtful, and honest with their responses, enabling them to provide their personal insight and experiences, to shed as much light as possible onto an issue which for generations has been pushed in to the dark. My eyes were opened to how little meaningful discussions are available publicly whilst researching, and there are so many more discussions that need to be had on this subject. With that being said, I hope that next time an opportunity to discuss issues that impact us all becomes available, that more women will trust that I will conduct the interview thoughtfully, and feel safe in sharing their stories with me. I would like to thank everyone that agreed to be interviewed, I appreciate you all for supporting my podcast, and for making the time to chat with me, I chose to open and close this special episode with "I Am Woman", which was written by Helen Reddy, and Ray Burton. The questions asked: Q: What does this year’s theme for International Woman’s Day “An equal world is an enabled world” mean to you in relation to your role? Q: Do you think that the Australian music industry is inclusive of everyone? Q: Why do think so many female music students do not go on to work within the Music Industry once they have completed their studies? Q: Are the women who teach music failing to support, encourage, and mentor their female students? Could they be giving priority to their male students knowing that they have a better chance of being successful within the industry? Q: Have you ever felt pressured to compromise your own comfort levels in order to look a certain way, or stopped being true to yourself in hope of getting ahead? Q: Have you experienced indecent behaviour either physically, mentally or emotionally while working as a musician? Q: Have you had an experience when you felt that you were not supported or sabotaged by other women in the industry? Q: Has there been a time that you have not been given credit for work that you have done, or someone has taken the credit for your work? Q: Have you witnessed positive changes in the industry in regards to women? Q: Is there anything that you would still like to see change? https://www.facebook.com/allowmetoguideyoutothegig Email: mailto:banditabout17@gmail.com https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/band-it-about-proudly-supporting-live-music-podcast-series/id1493050539 https://anchor.fm/dianne-spillane --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dianne-spillane/message

We’re less than one week away from Super Tuesday!  In today’s episode, Sara and Misasha talk about why the primaries are so important and why your vote matters, especially this election year! They will also cover what the deal is with Super Tuesday, what happened in Iowa and why that matters, and take a look at what the primaries really mean for our Presidential election. Listen and learn during this informative Q&A session laced with Sara and Misasha’s punchy commentary! Show Highlights: Q: When does primary season begin and how long is it? A: Voting began February 3rd with the Iowa caucuses. The last states vote in early June. Primary season lasts approximately 4 months.   Q: Who will I be voting for in the primaries? A: The primaries are the main event. Candidates for the Democratic and Republican 2020 Presidential nominations, but voters will find all manner of down-ballot elections to consider on primary day. Down ballot means everything that is not the Presidential nomination, including house and senate races, and seats on the state legislature.   Q: What’s the difference between primaries and caucuses? A: Primaries are relatively straight-forward. Voters vote and their vote goes to candidates who hope they get more votes than the other candidates. Caucuses, like Iowa, are similar. Generally, supporters for various candidates sit or stand together in groups. A headcount is conducted, and if a candidate doesn’t reach a certain threshold of support, the group is deemed non-viable and its members re-align with other clusters before a final count is made.    Q: Can states actually cancel their primaries? A: Yes, they can and some states did this year. Alaska, Nevada, Kansas, Virginia, Arizona, South Carolina, and Hawaii canceled the Republican primaries only.   Q: Is there a Republican Presidential primary and opponents running against President Trump? A: Yes. In most states, President Trump’s opponents include Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and William F. Weld, a former Massachusetts Governor.   Q: Can you vote in both the Democratic and Republican primary? A: It’s just one vote, per person. In some states with “Closed primaries”, you’ll need to be registered with a given party to participate.   Q: Can Trump be re-elected President even after getting impeached by the House? A: That is his plan. President Trump is the first impeached President ever to seek re-election.   Q: Why do we keep hearing that Iowa is so important? A: Iowa goes first and has since the 1970s. There’s really no great reason why Iowa goes first, although some of the Vietnam war protests and racial tensions of the 1968 Democratic convention helped set the stage.    Q: What is Super Tuesday? A: Super Tuesday is March 3rd, and is the single most important day on the primary calendar because of how many major states will be holding their elections, including two very large states, California and Texas. About 40% of all pledged Democratic delegates will be awarded in these states. Misasha goes into greater detail here about how the delegate fight gets more serious!   Q: When did Super Tuesday become a thing? A: Voting on that day of the week is an old tradition in the United States, but it wasn’t until the 1976 election that was credited with leading to the first recorded usage of that particular phrase. Sara shares the backstory of the when and the why!   Q: How does someone win the Democratic nomination? A:  A candidate hoping to win on the first ballot at the convention must secure a majority of pledged delegates, as dictated by the outcomes in state primaries and caucuses. In total, there are just under 4,000 pledged delegates up for grabs, as well as hundreds of super delegates, though the party prefers to call them “automatic” delegates. The official nomination will take place at the party’s convention in Milwaukee this summer.   Q: What are delegates? A: There are two different types. Delegates, “the people”, are like political figures: activists and local leaders chosen to represent their states at the party’s convention. Delegates, “the numbers”, are the all-purpose metric of primary success. They are allocated proportionately according to the state voting results and their population.   Q: What are super delegates? Didn’t they get rid of those? A: Democratic super delegates are political insiders. They can be sitting lawmakers to former senior party officials whose primary choices can be divorced entirely from the preference of the average voter. Super delegates can vote as they choose and their very existence in 2016 became a source of major tension in the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. While Mrs. Clinton bested Mr. Sanders among pledged delegates in 2016, Mr. Sanders and his supporters saw the super delegates system as an affront to the democratic process. In response, the Democratic National Committee has sharply reduced the influence of super delegates, effectively preventing them from participating in a substantial way in the first ballot of a Presidential nominee process.     Q: Are there any history makers in the Presidential election? A: Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Klobuchar, or Representative Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii would be the first woman elected President. Mr. Buttigieg would be the first openly-gay President to hold the office, and Mr. Sanders or Mr. Bloomberg would be the first Jewish President elected. A few of them would also be the oldest President ever inaugurated for a first term.   Q: Which party has done better at fund-raising so far? A: Trump entered 2020 with more than 100 million dollars in cash on hand, and he outpaced every Democrat with 46 million in the 4th quarter of 2019. But, contenders for the Democratic nomination have accusatively surpassed Trump’s totals, suggesting pretty good enthusiasm.   Q: Does my vote in the primaries matter? A: YES!! Although the piecemeal nature of the state-by-state calendar might make the process seem less exciting, the primaries really do resolve the nontrivial matter of choosing major party nominees and also all of the down-ballot stuff.   Q: Is it ok for me to skip voting in the primaries and just vote in the general election? A: It’s allowed, of course. But the down-ballot primaries will be of significant consequence locally in many states and those are the feeder systems for our future. So it’s incredibly important to vote, especially all the way down the ballot and not just in the main event.   Q: Do I need to be registered to vote in the primaries? A: Yes! 49 states require voter registration. North Dakota is the only state that does not require it. Deadlines for registering in your state can be found at the U.S. Vote Foundation.   Q: Do I need a government-issued ID? A: These requirements can vary by state and can be found at NCSL.   Q: What if I was removed in a voter purge? A: You can check your status at Vote.org.   Listen to the podcast for more Q&A regarding voting over the internet, those interfering Russians, Trump’s chances of re-election, how trustworthy the polls are, if we are going to be ok, and when this will be all over. Sara and Misasha’s discourse on Iowa and what we can learn from it. Please Vote!! Resources / Links: PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW US! Dear White Women Podcast GET ON OUR INSIDER’S LIST! Sign up for our weekly emails! 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Continuing the tradition of our post-Oscar palette cleanser, TLS asks: Q: Are we not men? A: No, we are CATS! [Aggregate score: 4.5] The post Film & TV: CATS appeared first on The Lost Signals.

The Expanse season 4 ep. 5 “Oppressor” Director Jeff Woolnough Writer: Ty Franck Daniel Abraham Actors: Holden (Steven Strait) Alex (Cas Anvar) Bobbie (Frankie Adams) Naomi (Dominique Tipper) Drummer (Cara Gee) Dr. Elvie Okoye (Lyndie Greenwood) Adolphus Murtry (Burn Gorman) Avasarla (Shohreh Agdashloo) Amos (Wes Chatam) Ep 5 Thanks to Sci Fi Bulletin.com: Naomi and Lucia have made it back to the Rocinante but Lucia is not out of the woods yet. Meanwhile, the camp below is in lockdown and Holden is struggling with two sides that refuse to back down in his attempts to protect both from the protomolecule. Avasarala continues in her campaign, participating in a head to head debate with her political rival. Q: Are the narratives the increase the tension on Ilus earned? Q: Teams fracture as members pursue differing goals. One thing remains constant, The Belters dig in to remain in control of Ilus. Q: Avasarla engages in a Political debate/ as her election bid continues: Does this interest you? Doe is elevate the tension if we consider how a different leader might impact the response to eh events happening surrounding the Proto-molecule? Ep. 6 “Displacement” https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/the-expanse-recap-s04e06-displacement/ There’s nothing like a looming “natural” disaster to bring enemies together - for survival. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tom-zimm7/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-zimm7/support

The Expanse season 4 ep. 5 “Oppressor”DirectorJeff WoolnoughWriter:Ty FranckDaniel AbrahamActors:Holden (Steven Strait)Alex (Cas Anvar)Bobbie (Frankie Adams)Naomi (Dominique Tipper)Drummer (Cara Gee)Dr. Elvie Okoye (Lyndie Greenwood)Adolphus Murtry (Burn Gorman)Avasarla (Shohreh Agdashloo)Amos (Wes Chatam)Ep 5Thanks to Sci Fi Bulletin.com:Naomi and Lucia have made it back to the Rocinante but Lucia is not out of the woods yet. Meanwhile, the camp below is in lockdown and Holden is struggling with two sides that refuse to back down in his attempts to protect both from the protomolecule. Avasarala continues in her campaign, participating in a head to head debate with her political rival.Q: Are the narratives the increase the tension on Ilus earned?Q: Teams fracture as members pursue differing goals. One thing remains constant, The Belters dig in to remain in control of Ilus.Q: Avasarla engages in a Political debate/ as her election bid continues: Does this interest you? Doe is elevate the tension if we consider how a different leader might impact the response to eh events happening surrounding the Proto-molecule?Ep. 6 “Displacement”https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/the-expanse-recap-s04e06-displacement/There’s nothing like a looming “natural” disaster to bring enemies together - for survival.

Coming in with a brand new episode this week! Q: Are you seeing a chiropractor? In this episode, both Dr. Madalyn and Dr. Kaylee talk about specific things you should consider to look into when choosing a chiropractic provider that is right for you, specifically for you moms out there who are pregnant or postpartum.

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Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott spoke with the media prior to their sixth day of training camp. Coach discussed the following topics: *Injuries *Offensive line rotation *Punter rotation *Running Game *Frank Gore *Devin Singletary All audio is owned by the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. For full video check out the Bills periscope page. Transcripts: Head Coach Sean McDermott Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Sean McDermott: Good morning, we will go ahead and get started update wise. LeSean McCoy will not practice, he has been excused for personal reasons. It's something that we've known about for several days here so nothing unexpected at this point. Mitch Morse will be held out of practice today, he is in the concussion protocol and that really came up yesterday. From that we will move forward and get into our sixth practice of training camp. Q: With Mitch, the first day he sat out, was that just a day off? A: Veteran day off. Q: And then this was something different? A: Right. Q: What about Spencer Long? Did he get dinged yesterday? A: He has a knee. He won't practice at this point, he's just working through a knee soreness at this point. Q: Is LeSean's thing anything that is going to be prolonged or? A: I don't anticipate that at this point but it is something that we've known about for several days. Q: Tyler Kroft was out walking yesterday. How encouraging is that and how far away is he from really getting into the game? A: He's making positive progress. The young man is an extremely hard worker. He cares about it and I think he's been very diligent with his rehab and I think he's making steps in the right direction which is good to see. Timeline is something I really couldn't tell you at this point. Q: How do you see your punting job shaking out? A: That's an area that we have to develop, there's no doubt about it. You know the challenges we had there last year and that's an area I want to see these two young punters develop. We've tried to expose them and we will continue to try and expose them to different game situations or game-like situations in practice so they can continue to evolve. They are working hard at it. Q: What are some things you like to do, like you say to simulate because you can't actually get there. What do you try to do to get as close as you can? A: It's never easy. As you alluded to, putting them in not just scripted periods but some of the unscripted periods so they have to stay warm. That's what really happens during a game of two to three hours where some of those they can anticipate just from the down and distance situations but staying warm throughout a two or three hour window and putting them as we did yesterday, I believe Cory Carter had the, what we call the sky punt that landed in the end zone. Those are situations we try to expose them to and really our overall team as we work a lot of situations in practice. Q: With Morse out of the lineup, we are looking at a heavy center/guard rotation for you guys. How would you asses the fluidity of execution despite giving the fact that the guys are rotating? A: I've been impressed really when some guys have been down, Mitch in this case who you alluded to and other guys stepping up whether it's been Jon Feliciano, Spencer Long, Russ [Russel] Bodine has put together a couple good practices and really just the mental toughness of the group and of the units. So we'll be down a little bit today coming from a numbers standpoint on the offensive line, but that said I'm encouraged by their mental toughness. Q: Are you concerned at all with Mitch? Obviously this has been an issue overtime, right off the bat. A: He is in the protocol so I don't want to say too much here, but any time a player is injured I am concerned because it's their health and the health of our overall football team. You've heard me say how important availability is so we have to make sure that when we get these guys back, just overall, the number of guys we have out there right now it is concerning. We can only control what we can control and that's what we focus on. It does give other guys opportunity to step up and show us what they got. Q: What are your thoughts overall with protecting guys in the preseason and training camp, especially the ones you know that are going to be a part of your starting line up like Jerry Hughes or Lorenzo [Alexander], things like that. How do you protect them and try your best you possibly can to avoid these injuries and protect them for once the regular season starts. A: We always want to be smart. We take a lot of time in the offseason, particularly in the spring with our sports science department, medical staff, strength and conditioning staff, and coaching staff and try to map out a good schedule so we know going into that it's kind of been going through the ringer if you will and giving it a lot of thought. That said, we want to build them up so we acclimate them to the amount of reps they will see in a game at some point and physical toughness and mental toughness is all a part of developing a football team and getting us ready to go for the regular season. It's a delicate balance, guys that you already know what they can do and getting them ready but also trying to stay fresh and healthy as an overall football team. Q: What really is the execution of the running game yesterday? You seemed to be relatively consistent throughout practice. A: I was encouraged by that. Early on in practice, I thought really the whole practice had good intensity. Started off with the run game and the nine on seven and then carried on to our blitz period. I thought defensively, we showed up and established the line of scrimmage at times as well. It was really probably the first practice overall where I felt like it was good back and forth between both sides and good intense competition. Q: What was your observation of Frank Gore, come to the idea that he might have missed a day of practice? There was that question, the NFI, came off immediately and again, we've been asking you questions about being cautious with people. Here's your oldest one, your oldest player. What's your sense of how he's handled whatever load this is and as you look at him at his age, what he looks like to you? A: Tough. Tough. Guys. When you look up tough in the dictionary, I think you'll see Frank Gore's picture right it. That guy is, he's tough and if we're going to be anything we are going to be a tough football team. Q: Can you see that being contagious? A: Absolutely. You've been around this game longer than I have even (Vic Carucci). It is, it is a big part of building a good solid football team, in particular in Buffalo, New York. Q: What kind of things has Devin Singletary added to the offense? It looks like you're lining him up all over the field. A: I think you see it like I do. You see the quickness and instincts. He's an extremely humble young man and really takes the coaching well which isn't always the case with young players these days. I really appreciate that about him and I believe he's endeared himself to his teammates which is important as well just by the way he is approached the struggle to his NFL career. Q: 5 days into camp, the receiver break down. It looks like you have 5 guys that are locked and then you have a bunch of guys that if you keep six, it could be a tough call. How's that shake out for you? A: There's good competition along with other positions, in this case with wide receivers. It seems like a different guy makes a play from kind of that group of guys you are referring to and I think Ray-Ray McCloud has had a real nice training camp to this point. Just with effort and doing the things we expect our wide receivers to do. At the end of the day, you have to get open and you have to get separation and catch the football. Q: What did you make of how the offense is doing? Last weekend after John Brown was the lead and then Josh [Allen] went to Cole Beasley and found him open. How did you like that dynamic and what you saw with that? A: That's part of us growing as an overall offense. It's trying to figure out the strengths of our players and build this system around the strengths of our players and then develop a core set of fundamentals across the board as a football team. That will be good to see and we are not where we need to be yet so we've got to continue to grow in that area whether it's John, Cole or the down the field passing game or the short intermediate passing game, the check downs, or the efficiency of our offense in order to move the chains. Q: Sorry, going back to Mitch entering the concussion protocol, is something that happened yesterday or during his previous day of practice? A: He was diagnosed yesterday. Q: If you had to pick your favorite moment behind the scenes, I know a lot of stuff goes on and we don't see those bonding moments but is there one you can share that maybe has been in particularly a guy telling a story or anything that stood out to you so far? A: There's always those behind the scenes moments and I would say a couple stand out. Having Kyle Williams back on campus and watching the guys interact with Kyle has been fun to watch. One of the joys of coaching is those bonds and watching guys just really be human. You see guys little things behind the scenes, shooting basketballs or hanging out together. We have guys in the morning chapel service that spend time together spiritually and getting themselves right so kind of those things that happen, as you mentioned, behind the scenes us really neat to see. At the end of the day, what I come away with is that these guys, and I've said this before, they're human. They deal with things, they support one another and you see guys putting arms around each other when a guy had a challenging play or a bad day or they are going through things off the field. Those are the things I believe that‘s the glue that really bonds a good team together.

Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott spoke with the media prior to their sixth day of training camp. Coach discussed the following topics: *Injuries *Offensive line rotation *Punter rotation *Running Game *Frank Gore *Devin Singletary All audio is owned by the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. For full video check out the Bills periscope page. Transcripts: Head Coach Sean McDermott Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Sean McDermott: Good morning, we will go ahead and get started update wise. LeSean McCoy will not practice, he has been excused for personal reasons. It’s something that we’ve known about for several days here so nothing unexpected at this point. Mitch Morse will be held out of practice today, he is in the concussion protocol and that really came up yesterday. From that we will move forward and get into our sixth practice of training camp. Q: With Mitch, the first day he sat out, was that just a day off? A: Veteran day off. Q: And then this was something different? A: Right. Q: What about Spencer Long? Did he get dinged yesterday? A: He has a knee. He won’t practice at this point, he’s just working through a knee soreness at this point. Q: Is LeSean’s thing anything that is going to be prolonged or? A: I don’t anticipate that at this point but it is something that we’ve known about for several days. Q: Tyler Kroft was out walking yesterday. How encouraging is that and how far away is he from really getting into the game? A: He’s making positive progress. The young man is an extremely hard worker. He cares about it and I think he’s been very diligent with his rehab and I think he’s making steps in the right direction which is good to see. Timeline is something I really couldn’t tell you at this point. Q: How do you see your punting job shaking out? A: That’s an area that we have to develop, there’s no doubt about it. You know the challenges we had there last year and that’s an area I want to see these two young punters develop. We’ve tried to expose them and we will continue to try and expose them to different game situations or game-like situations in practice so they can continue to evolve. They are working hard at it. Q: What are some things you like to do, like you say to simulate because you can’t actually get there. What do you try to do to get as close as you can? A: It’s never easy. As you alluded to, putting them in not just scripted periods but some of the unscripted periods so they have to stay warm. That’s what really happens during a game of two to three hours where some of those they can anticipate just from the down and distance situations but staying warm throughout a two or three hour window and putting them as we did yesterday, I believe Cory Carter had the, what we call the sky punt that landed in the end zone. Those are situations we try to expose them to and really our overall team as we work a lot of situations in practice. Q: With Morse out of the lineup, we are looking at a heavy center/guard rotation for you guys. How would you asses the fluidity of execution despite giving the fact that the guys are rotating? A: I’ve been impressed really when some guys have been down, Mitch in this case who you alluded to and other guys stepping up whether it’s been Jon Feliciano, Spencer Long, Russ [Russel] Bodine has put together a couple good practices and really just the mental toughness of the group and of the units. So we’ll be down a little bit today coming from a numbers standpoint on the offensive line, but that said I’m encouraged by their mental toughness. Q: Are you concerned at all with Mitch? Obviously this has been an issue overtime, right off the bat. A: He is in the protocol so I don’t want to say too much here, but any time a player is injured I am concerned because it’s their health and the health of our overall football team. You’ve heard me say how important availability is so we have to make sure that when we get these guys back, just overall, the number of guys we have out there right now it is concerning. We can only control what we can control and that’s what we focus on. It does give other guys opportunity to step up and show us what they got. Q: What are your thoughts overall with protecting guys in the preseason and training camp, especially the ones you know that are going to be a part of your starting line up like Jerry Hughes or Lorenzo [Alexander], things like that. How do you protect them and try your best you possibly can to avoid these injuries and protect them for once the regular season starts. A: We always want to be smart. We take a lot of time in the offseason, particularly in the spring with our sports science department, medical staff, strength and conditioning staff, and coaching staff and try to map out a good schedule so we know going into that it’s kind of been going through the ringer if you will and giving it a lot of thought. That said, we want to build them up so we acclimate them to the amount of reps they will see in a game at some point and physical toughness and mental toughness is all a part of developing a football team and getting us ready to go for the regular season. It’s a delicate balance, guys that you already know what they can do and getting them ready but also trying to stay fresh and healthy as an overall football team. Q: What really is the execution of the running game yesterday? You seemed to be relatively consistent throughout practice. A: I was encouraged by that. Early on in practice, I thought really the whole practice had good intensity. Started off with the run game and the nine on seven and then carried on to our blitz period. I thought defensively, we showed up and established the line of scrimmage at times as well. It was really probably the first practice overall where I felt like it was good back and forth between both sides and good intense competition. Q: What was your observation of Frank Gore, come to the idea that he might have missed a day of practice? There was that question, the NFI, came off immediately and again, we’ve been asking you questions about being cautious with people. Here’s your oldest one, your oldest player. What’s your sense of how he’s handled whatever load this is and as you look at him at his age, what he looks like to you? A: Tough. Tough. Guys. When you look up tough in the dictionary, I think you’ll see Frank Gore’s picture right it. That guy is, he’s tough and if we’re going to be anything we are going to be a tough football team. Q: Can you see that being contagious? A: Absolutely. You’ve been around this game longer than I have even (Vic Carucci). It is, it is a big part of building a good solid football team, in particular in Buffalo, New York. Q: What kind of things has Devin Singletary added to the offense? It looks like you’re lining him up all over the field. A: I think you see it like I do. You see the quickness and instincts. He’s an extremely humble young man and really takes the coaching well which isn’t always the case with young players these days. I really appreciate that about him and I believe he’s endeared himself to his teammates which is important as well just by the way he is approached the struggle to his NFL career. Q: 5 days into camp, the receiver break down. It looks like you have 5 guys that are locked and then you have a bunch of guys that if you keep six, it could be a tough call. How’s that shake out for you? A: There’s good competition along with other positions, in this case with wide receivers. It seems like a different guy makes a play from kind of that group of guys you are referring to and I think Ray-Ray McCloud has had a real nice training camp to this point. Just with effort and doing the things we expect our wide receivers to do. At the end of the day, you have to get open and you have to get separation and catch the football. Q: What did you make of how the offense is doing? Last weekend after John Brown was the lead and then Josh [Allen] went to Cole Beasley and found him open. How did you like that dynamic and what you saw with that? A: That’s part of us growing as an overall offense. It’s trying to figure out the strengths of our players and build this system around the strengths of our players and then develop a core set of fundamentals across the board as a football team. That will be good to see and we are not where we need to be yet so we’ve got to continue to grow in that area whether it’s John, Cole or the down the field passing game or the short intermediate passing game, the check downs, or the efficiency of our offense in order to move the chains. Q: Sorry, going back to Mitch entering the concussion protocol, is something that happened yesterday or during his previous day of practice? A: He was diagnosed yesterday. Q: If you had to pick your favorite moment behind the scenes, I know a lot of stuff goes on and we don’t see those bonding moments but is there one you can share that maybe has been in particularly a guy telling a story or anything that stood out to you so far? A: There’s always those behind the scenes moments and I would say a couple stand out. Having Kyle Williams back on campus and watching the guys interact with Kyle has been fun to watch. One of the joys of coaching is those bonds and watching guys just really be human. You see guys little things behind the scenes, shooting basketballs or hanging out together. We have guys in the morning chapel service that spend time together spiritually and getting themselves right so kind of those things that happen, as you mentioned, behind the scenes us really neat to see. At the end of the day, what I come away with is that these guys, and I’ve said this before, they’re human. They deal with things, they support one another and you see guys putting arms around each other when a guy had a challenging play or a bad day or they are going through things off the field. Those are the things I believe that‘s the glue that really bonds a good team together.

Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott spoke with the media prior to their sixth day of training camp.Coach discussed the following topics:*Injuries*Offensive line rotation*Punter rotation*Running Game*Frank Gore*Devin SingletaryAll audio is owned by the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. For full video check out the Bills periscope page.Transcripts:Head Coach Sean McDermottWednesday, July 31, 2019 Sean McDermott: Good morning, we will go ahead and get started update wise. LeSean McCoy will not practice, he has been excused for personal reasons. It’s something that we’ve known about for several days here so nothing unexpected at this point. Mitch Morse will be held out of practice today, he is in the concussion protocol and that really came up yesterday. From that we will move forward and get into our sixth practice of training camp.Q: With Mitch, the first day he sat out, was that just a day off?A: Veteran day off. Q: And then this was something different?A: Right. Q: What about Spencer Long? Did he get dinged yesterday?A: He has a knee. He won’t practice at this point, he’s just working through a knee soreness at this point. Q: Is LeSean’s thing anything that is going to be prolonged or?A: I don’t anticipate that at this point but it is something that we’ve known about for several days. Q: Tyler Kroft was out walking yesterday. How encouraging is that and how far away is he from really getting into the game?A: He’s making positive progress. The young man is an extremely hard worker. He cares about it and I think he’s been very diligent with his rehab and I think he’s making steps in the right direction which is good to see. Timeline is something I really couldn’t tell you at this point. Q: How do you see your punting job shaking out?A: That’s an area that we have to develop, there’s no doubt about it. You know the challenges we had there last year and that’s an area I want to see these two young punters develop. We’ve tried to expose them and we will continue to try and expose them to different game situations or game-like situations in practice so they can continue to evolve. They are working hard at it. Q: What are some things you like to do, like you say to simulate because you can’t actually get there. What do you try to do to get as close as you can?A: It’s never easy. As you alluded to, putting them in not just scripted periods but some of the unscripted periods so they have to stay warm. That’s what really happens during a game of two to three hours where some of those they can anticipate just from the down and distance situations but staying warm throughout a two or three hour window and putting them as we did yesterday, I believe Cory Carter had the, what we call the sky punt that landed in the end zone. Those are situations we try to expose them to and really our overall team as we work a lot of situations in practice. Q: With Morse out of the lineup, we are looking at a heavy center/guard rotation for you guys. How would you asses the fluidity of execution despite giving the fact that the guys are rotating?A: I’ve been impressed really when some guys have been down, Mitch in this case who you alluded to and other guys stepping up whether it’s been Jon Feliciano, Spencer Long, Russ [Russel] Bodine has put together a couple good practices and really just the mental toughness of the group and of the units. So we’ll be down a little bit today coming from a numbers standpoint on the offensive line, but that said I’m encouraged by their mental toughness. Q: Are you concerned at all with Mitch? Obviously this has been an issue overtime, right off the bat.A: He is in the protocol so I don’t want to say too much here, but any time a player is injured I am concerned because it’s their health and the health of our overall football team. You’ve heard me say how important availability is so we have to make sure that when we get these guys back, just overall, the number of guys we have out there right now it is concerning. We can only control what we can control and that’s what we focus on. It does give other guys opportunity to step up and show us what they got. Q: What are your thoughts overall with protecting guys in the preseason and training camp, especially the ones you know that are going to be a part of your starting line up like Jerry Hughes or Lorenzo [Alexander], things like that. How do you protect them and try your best you possibly can to avoid these injuries and protect them for once the regular season starts.A: We always want to be smart. We take a lot of time in the offseason, particularly in the spring with our sports science department, medical staff, strength and conditioning staff, and coaching staff and try to map out a good schedule so we know going into that it’s kind of been going through the ringer if you will and giving it a lot of thought. That said, we want to build them up so we acclimate them to the amount of reps they will see in a game at some point and physical toughness and mental toughness is all a part of developing a football team and getting us ready to go for the regular season. It’s a delicate balance, guys that you already know what they can do and getting them ready but also trying to stay fresh and healthy as an overall football team. Q: What really is the execution of the running game yesterday? You seemed to be relatively consistent throughout practice.A: I was encouraged by that. Early on in practice, I thought really the whole practice had good intensity. Started off with the run game and the nine on seven and then carried on to our blitz period. I thought defensively, we showed up and established the line of scrimmage at times as well. It was really probably the first practice overall where I felt like it was good back and forth between both sides and good intense competition. Q: What was your observation of Frank Gore, come to the idea that he might have missed a day of practice? There was that question, the NFI, came off immediately and again, we’ve been asking you questions about being cautious with people. Here’s your oldest one, your oldest player. What’s your sense of how he’s handled whatever load this is and as you look at him at his age, what he looks like to you?A: Tough. Tough. Guys. When you look up tough in the dictionary, I think you’ll see Frank Gore’s picture right it. That guy is, he’s tough and if we’re going to be anything we are going to be a tough football team. Q: Can you see that being contagious?A: Absolutely. You’ve been around this game longer than I have even (Vic Carucci). It is, it is a big part of building a good solid football team, in particular in Buffalo, New York. Q: What kind of things has Devin Singletary added to the offense? It looks like you’re lining him up all over the field.A: I think you see it like I do. You see the quickness and instincts. He’s an extremely humble young man and really takes the coaching well which isn’t always the case with young players these days. I really appreciate that about him and I believe he’s endeared himself to his teammates which is important as well just by the way he is approached the struggle to his NFL career. Q: 5 days into camp, the receiver break down. It looks like you have 5 guys that are locked and then you have a bunch of guys that if you keep six, it could be a tough call. How’s that shake out for you?A: There’s good competition along with other positions, in this case with wide receivers. It seems like a different guy makes a play from kind of that group of guys you are referring to and I think Ray-Ray McCloud has had a real nice training camp to this point. Just with effort and doing the things we expect our wide receivers to do. At the end of the day, you have to get open and you have to get separation and catch the football. Q: What did you make of how the offense is doing? Last weekend after John Brown was the lead and then Josh [Allen] went to Cole Beasley and found him open. How did you like that dynamic and what you saw with that?A: That’s part of us growing as an overall offense. It’s trying to figure out the strengths of our players and build this system around the strengths of our players and then develop a core set of fundamentals across the board as a football team. That will be good to see and we are not where we need to be yet so we’ve got to continue to grow in that area whether it’s John, Cole or the down the field passing game or the short intermediate passing game, the check downs, or the efficiency of our offense in order to move the chains. Q: Sorry, going back to Mitch entering the concussion protocol, is something that happened yesterday or during his previous day of practice?A: He was diagnosed yesterday. Q: If you had to pick your favorite moment behind the scenes, I know a lot of stuff goes on and we don’t see those bonding moments but is there one you can share that maybe has been in particularly a guy telling a story or anything that stood out to you so far?A: There’s always those behind the scenes moments and I would say a couple stand out. Having Kyle Williams back on campus and watching the guys interact with Kyle has been fun to watch. One of the joys of coaching is those bonds and watching guys just really be human. You see guys little things behind the scenes, shooting basketballs or hanging out together. We have guys in the morning chapel service that spend time together spiritually and getting themselves right so kind of those things that happen, as you mentioned, behind the scenes us really neat to see. At the end of the day, what I come away with is that these guys, and I’ve said this before, they’re human. They deal with things, they support one another and you see guys putting arms around each other when a guy had a challenging play or a bad day or they are going through things off the field. Those are the things I believe that‘s the glue that really bonds a good team together.

Q: Are the Hamptons expensive, pretentious and crowded? A: In season, you bet. And if you say otherwise, you either don’t know the place or are in denial. It’s also the American Rivera, serving up a breathtaking, always easy-on-the-eyes combination of ocean, bays, farms, vineyards, storybook villages, and that special light that has attracted artists for decades. So how does a Hamptons veteran joyfully navigate through the summer crush? If you know the territory there are simple, even fun, workarounds. Here are a few tips. For more content go to BillGoldstein.com, Not That You Asked!

This is the audio from our video here: https://youtu.be/GpJJkSBP-YQ   They say “never start with an apology”, so we won’t. Not everyone loves vintage guitars – in fact many people think it’s all a load of pish. Dan and I are not such people and so we took this opportunity to visit ATB Guitars in Cheltenham, UK and fill our boots with an afternoon of complete and utter kids-in-a-sweetshop indulgence.  There is no real point to this video, other than to remind ourselves that it’s only this very moment that ever matters; simply to do and to experience. MASSIVE thanks to Mike and David at ATB for making us so welcome and letting us have the run of the store! https://www.atbguitars.com/ Instagram @atbguitars Questions arising…Q: Are vintage guitars really ‘better’? A: No. Modern guitars aren’t better either. Q: You couldn’t tell in a blind test though, could you?A: Maybe, but if your brain is trying to tell, you’re not doing anything relating to actual music. Q: That’s every guitar gear video ever, isn’t it?A: Touché. Probably! The bit after the video in the venue or studio is Q: Did Mick buy that Strat?A: Not today. But one day when the day is right I will. Q: Why didn’t you play the //insert any guitar we didn’t play here//?A: We chose the ones that interested us the most. We’ll answer everything else we can in Monday’s VCQ. Enjoy the episode! Pedals & stuff in this episode… • Keeley D&M DriveUK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2oTblU1Australia: http://bit.ly/2pUDUAEhttps://www.thatpedalshowstore.com/collections/pedals-1/products/d-m-drive-pedal • DanDrive Austin PrideFind Dan on Instagram @dandrivepedal • Catalinbread EchorecUK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2mORqULAustralia: http://bit.ly/2BWjXTM • Catalinbread Belle Epoch DeluxeUK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2RVldeSAustralia: http://bit.ly/2Ovelqa • Supro Tremolo UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2pZrAkZ * Why do we have preferred retailer links? Find out here: http://www.thatpedalshow.com/partners Interesting bits and go-to sections…- Here we come, walking down the… 0:00- 1957 Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster: 02:30- 1959 Gibson ES-335 and more old hollowbodies… 04:45- Plug in the Switchmaster and ’59 ES-335: 12:40- Mick reflects on his reissue 335 and the real ’59: 17:10- Amps today? 18:35- Plug in the ’59 355 and ’66 Casino: 19:20- Effects today?: 23:02- 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom: 25:25- A gilding of Goldtops: 27:40- A look at some Les Paul Juniors: 35:25- Gibson SGs: 36:45- Plug in the ’55 Goldtop & ’64 SG: 39:05- Plug in the ’53 & ’57 Les Pauls: 48:40- Dan reflects on the ’57 Les Paul compared to his ’58 Reissue: 54:40- Fender corner! 58:20- Strat heaven: 1:04:43- 1963 Korina Body Fender Stratocaster: 01:14:49- L Series Fender serial numbers?: 01:17:07- The only bases anyone ever needs: 01:18:30- A note on Fender headstocks: 01:19:00- 1974 Fender Hardtail Stratocaster: 01:20:00- The only reissue in the shop! 1:20:40- A brief look at the amps: 01:21:30- Plug in the ’58 Strat & Tele: 01:22:16- Plug in the ’61 and ’63 Strats: 01:31:30- Plug in the ’58 Jazzmaster: 01:37:20- Plug in the ’62 Stratocaster: 01:42:48- A note on old guitars: 01:50:02- Thank you! 01:51:00 Guitars in this episode - check https://www.atbguitars.com/ to see what’s still there!• 1957 Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster• 1959 Gibson ES-335• 1959 Gibson ES-355• 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom• 1957 Gibson Les Paul• 1953 Gibson Les Paul• 1955 Gibson Les Paul• 1964 Gibson Firebird VII• 1961 Gibson SG (Les Paul) Junior TV Yellow• 1955 Gibson Les Paul Junior TV Yellow Maple Body• 1965 Gibson SG Standard• 1964 Gibson SG Standard• 1958 Fender Telecaster Custom - Prototype/Catalogue• 1958 Fender Jazzmaster• 1966 Fender Jazzmaster• 1963 Fender Esquire• 1957 Fender Stratocaster• 1958 Fender Stratocaster• 1959 Fender Stratocaster• 1961 Fender Stratocaster• 1962 Fender Stratocaster• 1963 Fender Stratocaster (Korina body)• 1974 Fender Hardtail Stratocaster• 1982 Fender Stratocaster Amps in this episode• 1955 Fender Deluxe (5E3 narrow panel)• 1959 Magnatone 280A We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel. Please buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creativeshttps://www.patreon.com/ThatPedalShow Please visit our preferred retailers!UK & Europe: Andertons Music http://bit.ly/2cRvIvtAustralia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf

Replay of segment 4 of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from 6-22-19 Heard on 860AM WNOV & W293cx 106.5FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 9-10AM CST Heard on WAAM 1600 AM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on WWDB 860 AM Philadelphia, PA Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on KMET 1490 AM Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM pst Banning, CA listen here during show hours for your station: WNOV https://tinyurl.com/y8lwd922 WWDB: https://wwdbam.com/ WAAM https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft KMET https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ In segment 4 Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions 1.What can I plant in place after I harvest my garlic? A: Tomatoes , potatoes, cucumbers, peas, turnips, rutabagas 2. Q:My tomatoes look normal but the turn black on the bottom.what's wrong ? The bottom of the fruit is black? A: This would be blossom in root rot it is due to the fact that there's not enough water in the swell in order for the plant to pick up the necessary calcium that is required to properly develop the fruit what you want to do is just water the plant keep the soil to a damn consistency such as a sponge and water regularly to prevent the soil from drying out and then preventing the plant from up taking the calcium that is needed to develop the fruit if you begin to water that will fix the next generation of fruit that will begin to develop it will not fix the current problem that is on the plant 3. Q: Are shrews good or bad for the garden? A:Shrews don't hurt plants, and they don't burrowing into garden beds much if any. They live under leafs and grass matter such as mulch and might use existing mole and vole tunnels. So they are fine for the garden As the name implies, insects make up a large portion of the typical shrew diet. Food habit studies have revealed that shrews eat beetles, grasshoppers, butterfly and moth larvae, ichneumonid wasps, crickets, spiders, snails, earthworms, slugs, centipedes, and millipedes. 4. Q:I have about 15 2-3 year old boxwoods that I am trying to grow into a hedge. Suddenly the outside tips are turning yellow. I am concerned that I might loose them. Is there anything I should do to assure their health. A:Feed and water your bushes like normal to help them recover. Root Rot. Sometimes, the root systems of boxwood shrubs get infected with fungal pathogens like Phytophthora. When root rot becomes serious, it'll manifest as yellowing leaves that curl inward and turn up, and the plant will grow poorly Check out the following sponsors that make the radio show possible: Thank you Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com IV Organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. Earth of www.drearth.com organic Root maker of www.rootmaker.com Flame Engineering Inc. of www.flameengineering.com Use coupon code WVG19 to get free shipping. Pomona Universal Pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Bobbex of www.Bobbex.com: Beans & Barley of www.beansandbarley.com MIgardener of www.MIgardener.com Outpost Natural Foods Co-op of www.outpost.coop Root Assassin of www.rootassassinshovel.com . Handy Safety Knife of www.handysafetyknife.com Use promo code WVG to get 10% off &free shipping one time use only BioSafe of www.biosafe.net Save 10% on your next order use coupon code TWVG at checkout Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pro Plugger of www.proplugger.com Dharmaceuticals of www.dharmaceuticals.com Soil Savvy of www.mysoilsavvy.com Use coupon code TWVG19 to save 10% at checkout Tomato Snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Drip Garden of www.dripgarden.com Drip Garden Wisconsin Greenhouse company https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Standard Process Inc. of www.standardprocess.com Big Fat’s Hot Sauce of www.bigfatshotsauce.com Soil Diva of www.soildiva.net World’s coolest floating rain gauge of www.WorldsCoolestRainGauge.com Clyde’s vegetable planting chart of www.clydesvegetableplantingchart.com NuNu Natural Healing of www.nunuhealing.com RowMaker of www.rowmaker.com Eco Garden Systems of www.ecogardensystems.com Use coupon code (wiveg2019) and get $295 off the list price of $1,695 PLUS free shipping (a $250 value). Shield n seal of www.shieldnseal.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center of www.bluemels.com Phyllom BioProducts of PhyllomBioProducts.com Norwalk juicers of www.norwalkjuicers.com Use coupon code Garden talk Free Continental US shipping on the Model 290 Juicer Tree Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/ Hydrobox of https://gohydrobox.com/

Replay of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from 6-22-19 Heard on 860AM WNOV & W293cx 106.5FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 9-10AM CST Heard on WAAM 1600 AM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on WWDB 860 AM Philadelphia, PA Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on KMET 1490 AM Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM pst Banning, CA listen here during show hours for your station: WNOV https://tinyurl.com/y8lwd922 WWDB: https://wwdbam.com/ WAAM https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft KMET https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ In segment 1 Joey and Holly talk about how to keep your tomatoes healthy all season long and producing Keeping your tomato plants healthy Trim around the base Mulch Whole grain yellow cornmeal Water consistently trellis/cage Harvest frequently Look for problems Leaf discoloration In segment to Joey and Holly talk about the importance and value of Bees Understanding bees Bees help pollinate Help make more bees It is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees 4000 species of bees in north america Bees are not native to north america - settlers brought them over Found on every continent except antartica Bees are at a high risk for extinction - The researchers found that the American Bumblebee's area of occurrence has decreased by about 70 percent and its relative abundance fell by 89 percent from 2007-2016 compared to 1907-2006. Loss of habitat (aka conversion of prairie into farmland) and insecticides are thought to be the primary causes of the great bee disappearing act. Bumblebees are among the most important pollinators of crops such as blueberries, cranberries, and clover, and almost the only insect pollinators of tomatoes In Segment 3 Joey and Holly talk with their guest author Erik Knutzen of https://www.rootsimple.com/ Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen live in the heart of Los Angeles, in a little bungalow set on a 1/12 acre lot where almost all of their land is devoted to growing edible or otherwise useful plants and trees. Their obsessions include bees, bikes, beer, chickens, healthy cities, healing herbs, simple living and good food. In short, everything DIY! They are the authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World. 1. Many people don’t want to have a compost bin or compost area because they don’t have enough space or they don’t like the thought of it, but there is worm composting – why would you recommend worm composting for people who don’t want to commit to a compost heap? 2. You don’t care for lawns (neither do we) – why don’t you like them or think they really make sense? 3. You keep your home cleaning products really simple and basic – what do you use to clean your home with? 4. You consider yourselves radical home economists – why do you call yourselves that and what does it mean to you? 5. You like to keep things simple and low-tech when it comes to living as urban homesteaders – why do you do so? 6. Where can we find out more about you? In segment 4 Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions 1.What can I plant in place after I harvest my garlic? A: Tomatoes , potatoes, cucumbers, peas, turnips, rutabagas 2. Q:My tomatoes look normal but the turn black on the bottom.what's wrong ? The bottom of the fruit is black? A: This would be blossom in root rot it is due to the fact that there's not enough water in the swell in order for the plant to pick up the necessary calcium that is required to properly develop the fruit what you want to do is just water the plant keep the soil to a damn consistency such as a sponge and water regularly to prevent the soil from drying out and then preventing the plant from up taking the calcium that is needed to develop the fruit if you begin to water that will fix the next generation of fruit that will begin to develop it will not fix the current problem that is on the plant 3. Q: Are shrews good or bad for the garden? A:Shrews don't hurt plants, and they don't burrowing into garden beds much if any. They live under leafs and grass matter such as mulch and might use existing mole and vole tunnels. So they are fine for the garden As the name implies, insects make up a large portion of the typical shrew diet. Food habit studies have revealed that shrews eat beetles, grasshoppers, butterfly and moth larvae, ichneumonid wasps, crickets, spiders, snails, earthworms, slugs, centipedes, and millipedes. 4. Q:I have about 15 2-3 year old boxwoods that I am trying to grow into a hedge. Suddenly the outside tips are turning yellow. I am concerned that I might loose them. Is there anything I should do to assure their health. A:Feed and water your bushes like normal to help them recover. Root Rot. Sometimes, the root systems of boxwood shrubs get infected with fungal pathogens like Phytophthora. When root rot becomes serious, it'll manifest as yellowing leaves that curl inward and turn up, and the plant will grow poorly Check out the following sponsors that make the radio show possible: Thank you Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com IV Organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. Earth of www.drearth.com organic Root maker of www.rootmaker.com Flame Engineering Inc. of www.flameengineering.com Use coupon code WVG19 to get free shipping. Pomona Universal Pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Bobbex of www.Bobbex.com: Beans & Barley of www.beansandbarley.com MIgardener of www.MIgardener.com Outpost Natural Foods Co-op of www.outpost.coop Root Assassin of www.rootassassinshovel.com . Handy Safety Knife of www.handysafetyknife.com Use promo code WVG to get 10% off &free shipping one time use only BioSafe of www.biosafe.net Save 10% on your next order use coupon code TWVG at checkout Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pro Plugger of www.proplugger.com Dharmaceuticals of www.dharmaceuticals.com Soil Savvy of www.mysoilsavvy.com Use coupon code TWVG19 to save 10% at checkout Tomato Snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Drip Garden of www.dripgarden.com Drip Garden Wisconsin Greenhouse company https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Standard Process Inc. of www.standardprocess.com Big Fat’s Hot Sauce of www.bigfatshotsauce.com Soil Diva of www.soildiva.net World’s coolest floating rain gauge of www.WorldsCoolestRainGauge.com Clyde’s vegetable planting chart of www.clydesvegetableplantingchart.com NuNu Natural Healing of www.nunuhealing.com RowMaker of www.rowmaker.com Eco Garden Systems of www.ecogardensystems.com Use coupon code (wiveg2019) and get $295 off the list price of $1,695 PLUS free shipping (a $250 value). Shield n seal of www.shieldnseal.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center of www.bluemels.com Phyllom BioProducts of PhyllomBioProducts.com Norwalk juicers of www.norwalkjuicers.com Use coupon code Garden talk Free Continental US shipping on the Model 290 Juicer Tree Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/ Hydrobox of https://gohydrobox.com/

This week Aaron and Tracy chat with Zac Ruiz of Den For Our Cubs. They discuss how he and his wife made the decision to leave their life in Southern California to live in a tent in New Mexico- and Zac’s philosophy on living a life you love.   LET’S CHAT! You can always call and leave your questions and comments on our voicemail! 978-709-1040 QUICK FACTS ABOUT ZAC’S HOME: - They currently live in New Mexico. - They transitioned from apartment, to camper and then to the tent. - The canvas home is 300 sq ft and 12 ft tall. - They built a platform and then a frame, then essentially just slid the tent on. - They have polycarbonate sheets on the front of the tent to let in sunlight. - They heat the tent with a propane heater. This is the one he mentioned: https://www.mrheater.com/big-buddy-portable-heater.html - They have a water well and use their Berkey to filter it. https://www.berkeyfilters.com - The house cost $5,000 to build. - They have a composting toilet. This is the one thing Zac mentioned not enjoying in terms of upkeep. - They’re not off the grid, they go into “town” for normal activities.   “If you don’t like your life- try something. If you still don’t like it- try something else!”   The Etsy Shop: - Zac sells custom lights for homes and businesses. - He builds in shipping container. - www.etsy.com/shop/MoonStoneFox   SOCIAL QUESTIONS: Q: Did you ever have a moment where it was so overwhelming and you felt like you made the wrong choice? A: There are always doubts/fears but he was so tired of California and ready for a change that this life is refreshing.   Q: Do you plan on homeschooling? A: Yes. Zac and his siblings were homeschooled and they plan on doing the same.   Q: Are bugs a problem? A: Surprisingly, NO!   Q: Do you grow your own vegetables? A: Yes, but not a full farm lifestyle. They try to buy local as much as possible.   FIND ZAC: Website | https://denforourcubs.wordpress.com The Gram | https://www.instagram.com/DENFOROURCUBS/ Etsy | https://www.etsy.com/shop/MoonStoneFox   FOLLOW US on social media: Website | https://howtohome.com/ Instagram | http://bit.ly/2WqVfSp Twitter | http://bit.ly/2RRyYij Facebook | http://bit.ly/2MC3Hdc Youtube | http://bit.ly/2SifqTH SUBSCRIBE to the How to Home Podcast: Itunes | https://apple.co/2DL0lSp Android | http://bit.ly/2B9k7Fm Stitcher | http://bit.ly/2DM0W6c Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2GcRCKo   THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR FILTERBUY.COM

If you haven’t heard Mark talk about his favourite car, the top 3 things he’ll bring if he ever got stranded in an island, or his least favourite trait of his business partner, Rob Moore, then you’re in for a treat! Today on the Mark My Words Podcast, Mark answers questions from his listeners and the community. It won’t just be about property or his businesses or the current political issues, he’ll be talking about his personal life also. This should be a nice peek at how Mark, a successful entrepreneur, lives and enjoys his life, so start tuning in! KEY TAKEAWAYS Q: How do you manage a work-life balance? It’s all about scheduling, according to Mark. When he has a meeting, he makes sure he adds 30 minutes before and after for travel time. During weekends, he’s mostly at home so there should be no work that butts in. Q: What’s your advice about landlords no longer being able to evict tenants on short notice without good reason and plans? The abolishment of Section 21 is still under consultation. Everything still holds for now. Let’s wait for what’s going to be the decision. Q: How did you get your systems in place? Mark started with Excel spreadsheets, tried other systems, and then had his business’ system custom-built to their needs. Q: Ferrari or Lamborghini? It depends on what model. Mark explains more about their features in this episode. Q: What can I do to become your protégé? Mark: “Bring me land for a great price that I can put 250 flats on… bring that deal to me, then we can do it together and learn together. Q: What’s your favourite cheese? Halloumi, grilled on the barbecue on a Sunday afternoon. Q: What investments can you make outside property? Tracker funds in the UK and other similar types of investments. Q: Would you and Progressive Property launch a software? Mark says it’s not in his interest. He thinks he’ll make more money in what he knows more. Q: How do you go overcome procrastination and fear before a big deal? It all comes with the experience since you got your first deal. Test and measure the numbers ever since the beginning so you won’t procrastinate. Q: If you get stuck on an island and you only get to choose 3 things to bring, what will they be? A satellite telephone, knife, desalination tablets Q: What’s the effect of the attack on landlords by the government? Mark: “I feel victimised. I feel discriminated against. I feel like a minority.” Q: Are you meeting with other investors to come up with a voice to challenge them? Mark has a petition running on the parliamentary website to remove the 3% surcharge and remove Section 24. Q: What’s your most and least favourite trait of Rob? Most favourite: Rob’s brilliant ability to engage with people Least favourite: He’d do anything just to engage with people Q: What is the most important trait that a property investor should have? Being tenacious, not giving up, keeping on going Q: If there was a movie made about you, whom actor would you choose to play you? Tom Cruise BEST MOMENTS "I like to focus on a few things and do them well rather than try new stuff and not do very well.” “Fear disappears with knowledge; risk reduces with knowledge.” “Rents are rising at an abnormal rate." VALUABLE RESOURCES Annual Meetings | Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Progressive Property Reintroduce full mortgage interest relief and drop the 3% stamp duty surcharge Petition ABOUT THE HOST Mark Homer is an entrepreneur investor.  He has worked with investment since he was 15 years old using the laws of wealth! He is a spreadsheet analyst with an impressive following from major publications including BBC Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, as well as co-authoring the UK’s best-selling property books.  Mark has always looked for the best investment vehicle, and at the end of 2007 with Rob Moore the co-founder of Progressive Property his joint portfolio produced more profit than any of the other investments he’d tried in the last ten years, combined. Contact Method Email: Markhomer@progressiveproperty.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhomer1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markprogressive Twitter: https://twitter.com/markprogressive See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you haven’t heard Mark talk about his favourite car, the top 3 things he’ll bring if he ever got stranded in an island, or his least favourite trait of his business partner, Rob Moore, then you’re in for a treat! Today on the Mark My Words Podcast, Mark answers questions from his listeners and the community. It won’t just be about property or his businesses or the current political issues, he’ll be talking about his personal life also. This should be a nice peek at how Mark, a successful entrepreneur, lives and enjoys his life, so start tuning in! KEY TAKEAWAYS Q: How do you manage a work-life balance? It’s all about scheduling, according to Mark. When he has a meeting, he makes sure he adds 30 minutes before and after for travel time. During weekends, he’s mostly at home so there should be no work that butts in. Q: What’s your advice about landlords no longer being able to evict tenants on short notice without good reason and plans? The abolishment of Section 21 is still under consultation. Everything still holds for now. Let’s wait for what’s going to be the decision. Q: How did you get your systems in place? Mark started with Excel spreadsheets, tried other systems, and then had his business’ system custom-built to their needs. Q: Ferrari or Lamborghini? It depends on what model. Mark explains more about their features in this episode. Q: What can I do to become your protégé? Mark: “Bring me land for a great price that I can put 250 flats on… bring that deal to me, then we can do it together and learn together. Q: What’s your favourite cheese? Halloumi, grilled on the barbecue on a Sunday afternoon. Q: What investments can you make outside property? Tracker funds in the UK and other similar types of investments. Q: Would you and Progressive Property launch a software? Mark says it’s not in his interest. He thinks he’ll make more money in what he knows more. Q: How do you go overcome procrastination and fear before a big deal? It all comes with the experience since you got your first deal. Test and measure the numbers ever since the beginning so you won’t procrastinate. Q: If you get stuck on an island and you only get to choose 3 things to bring, what will they be? A satellite telephone, knife, desalination tablets Q: What’s the effect of the attack on landlords by the government? Mark: “I feel victimised. I feel discriminated against. I feel like a minority.” Q: Are you meeting with other investors to come up with a voice to challenge them? Mark has a petition running on the parliamentary website to remove the 3% surcharge and remove Section 24. Q: What’s your most and least favourite trait of Rob? Most favourite: Rob’s brilliant ability to engage with people Least favourite: He’d do anything just to engage with people Q: What is the most important trait that a property investor should have? Being tenacious, not giving up, keeping on going Q: If there was a movie made about you, whom actor would you choose to play you? Tom Cruise BEST MOMENTS "I like to focus on a few things and do them well rather than try new stuff and not do very well.” “Fear disappears with knowledge; risk reduces with knowledge.” “Rents are rising at an abnormal rate." VALUABLE RESOURCES Annual Meetings | Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Progressive Property Reintroduce full mortgage interest relief and drop the 3% stamp duty surcharge Petition ABOUT THE HOST Mark Homer is an entrepreneur investor.  He has worked with investment since he was 15 years old using the laws of wealth! He is a spreadsheet analyst with an impressive following from major publications including BBC Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, as well as co-authoring the UK’s best-selling property books.  Mark has always looked for the best investment vehicle, and at the end of 2007 with Rob Moore the co-founder of Progressive Property his joint portfolio produced more profit than any of the other investments he’d tried in the last ten years, combined. Contact Method Email: Markhomer@progressiveproperty.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhomer1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markprogressive Twitter: https://twitter.com/markprogressive

It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott answer your questions! This month - interview questions, headless CMSs, resume design, redux vs context, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 2:21 Q: Are there any tutorials you would recommend to learn more computer science related knowledge (algorithms, closures, etc.)? 5:12 Q: Do you have any suggestions for picking a headless CMS? 8:55 Q: Do you have any advice for someone in a customer service background seeking a more flexible job with remote work opportunities? Resources? Is this a realistic goal or a good way to approach my job search? 15:13 Q: How much importance would you place in the design of a resume? Is it worth the cost? 21:09 Q: With the new React Hooks and Context API, do we still need Redux? 25:37 Q: If either of you could change anything about your personal tech stack, what would it be and why? 29:07 Q: Do you prefer to use React’s defaultProps or plain JS default function parameters to give your component’s props some default values? 30:44 Q: You guys chat CMS sometimes - why no love for Umbraco? 35:53 Q: I’m ready for a new challenge, how do I break this to my employer? 38:16 Q: What’s the difference between const add = (a, b) => { return a + b } and function add (a, b) { return a + b }? Links Udacity Coursera Contentful Ghost Prismic Strapi HeadlessCMS Sanity WordPress Drupal ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: J.A. Henckels International 10-piece Capri Granitium Nonstick Cookware Set Wes: IRWIN VISE-GRIP 2078300 Self-Adjusting Wire Stripper, 8" Shameless Plugs Scott’s Gridsome Series Wes’ YouTube Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

This week, Pat Copps from Orkin Pest Control joins Aaron and Tracy to discuss all things creepy-crawly. We’ll talk about the best methods of prevention, how to recognize a pest infestation in your home, and which products are the safest and most effective to remove any unwanted visitors.   LET’S CHAT! You can always call and leave your questions and comments on our voicemail! 978-709-1040   FAST FACTS: - Over 56% of homeowners have had a problem with ants in the last year - A single flea can lay up to 25 eggs per day while a single rat can have up to 84 offspring per year - Termites cause an estimated $5 Billion of structural damage per year - Many pests including rats, mice, mosquitoes, fleas and ticks can carry potentially deadly or life-threatening illnesses   TIPS: - 20 percent of household fires are caused by rodents. - Focus on prevention: keep trees and shrubs trimmed and house sealed up. - Expanding foam isn’t Pat’s favorite because pests can chew through it, he suggests an epoxy product. - Keep standing water clean and flowing. Mosquitos love humidity. - Pick up pet food after they’ve eaten. - Be mindful of what you’re planning and what kind of pests they attract. - Cockroaches and rodents love cardboard. - Rats attract other rats. - Use a screen with the proper sized mesh. - Don’t wait until your issue gets huge to call in a professional. - Stains on the seams of a mattress or box spring might indicate bed bugs.   SAFETY: - Stay away using products if you don’t have to. Try cleaning up the area first if you only see a few ants etc. - For a children’s structure like a playhouse a vacuum cleaner is a great tool without using chemicals. Also check on irrigation and shrubs surrounding it. - Don’t put bug sprays into the wrong container (not clearly labeled), and store things in a locked cabinet. - Pat doesn’t recommend keeping unused pesticides sitting around.   DIY TOOLS: - Flashlight - Multi tool to open up cabinet or vent - Sealant for small openings or holes   PHONE CALLS/SOCIAL: Q: Traps aren’t working on my rats, but I’m afraid with poison they’ll die in the walls. What should I do? A: Pat recommends calling in a professional so they can put cameras in the walls etc and determine where the rats are. Based on that, they may change up traps or trap locations.   Q: Is it true that bed bugs don’t bite people with alcohol in their bloodstream? A: No….   Q: Are there any considerations for people who live in apartments? A: If you see something, let the property manager know- they usually have a service agreement with a pest company.   Q: Sometimes I feel like I feel a bug on my skin and it’s not there. Are small dust mites common? A: It’s possible, but it could be a number of things.   ORKIN's INFO   Website | https://www.orkin.com Instagram | http://bit.ly/2OIeaoC Twitter | http://bit.ly/2UakDi7 Facebook | http://bit.ly/2Up9edh   FOLLOW US on social media: Website | https://howtohome.com/ Instagram | http://bit.ly/2WqVfSp Twitter | http://bit.ly/2RRyYij Facebook | http://bit.ly/2MC3Hdc Youtube | http://bit.ly/2SifqTH   SUBSCRIBE to the How to Home Podcast: Itunes | https://apple.co/2DL0lSp Android | http://bit.ly/2B9k7Fm Stitcher | http://bit.ly/2DM0W6c Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2GcRCKo   THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR FILTERBUY.COM

While all of the amazing advances in technology area make it easier to sell your items to customers in the US from all over the world, it can be frustrating trying to understand the tax laws you have to deal with. This could get you into a lot of trouble with the US government. We frequently have conversations with eCommerce sellers that are based outside of the United States and they usually have pretty much the same questions. Andy and Dan join us today to answer these questions and help you get your business on the right track.Additional Questions Answered:Q: Do I need a US entity to sell in the US or collect sales tax?A: A US entity is not required to sell in the US or collect sales tax. We have many clients that keep their foreign entity and some that operate as sole traders/proprietors. In some instances opening a US entity can complicate income tax requirements. You could have US-sourced income to report in that case and you could end up owing federal income tax and in some cases state income tax.Q: Are there any benefits of opening a US entity?A: It could help you if you need to set up a US bank account (see below). Also, if you are working with US suppliers, some of them may require you to operate as a US entity. Q: Is an EIN/FEIN required to sell or collect sales tax?A: Most states require an EIN (aka FEIN) to register to collect sales tax. An EIN is generally not a legal requirement to sell in the US. However, some suppliers may require it if you are making purchases in the US. You can obtain an EIN directly from the IRS, or we can assist you in getting an EIN if so desired.Q: Is a social security number or ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) required to register for sales tax?A: If you are a US resident you must have either an SS# or an ITIN.. If you are not a US resident, you are not required to have either one. Q: Am I required to have a US bank account in the US to file sales tax returns?A: When filing the returns online, most states require you to have a US bank account because of the ACH limitations. We do not require our clients to use a US bank account to file sales tax returns, remit taxes to the states or for any of our other services. However, the states often require a US bank account to pull the taxes. We have helped companies outside the US and can probably help you also. Q: Can you assist with or complete forms such as the W-8BEN-E or W-8BEN forms? A: Yes, we can assist or complete your W-8BEN-E or W-8BEN forms. Q: Can I have my mail from the various states sent to your firm? A: Sure, this is part of our sales tax return services. If you are a client, we will give you our address to use as your mailing address.If you feel you need help with any of these things we offer a FREE Consultation SIGN UP HERE Watch the video of the podcast HERE.

DEVO DOES DISNEY! Richard and Bonnie from the band Bolonium help us answer the pertinent questions surrounding this album. Questions like: What was Disney thing? And… that’s about it. What was Disney thinking? Really?!? Did they just pick Devo’s name out of a hat at random? Did they really think this would work? Why hadn’t anyone bothered to look at Devo’s lyrics before green-lighting this project? Is there any band that would be worse for this Disney-fied treatment? Will there ever be a 3.0 version of Devo? Was Devo trying to rush this out before Disney realized their mistake? Q: Are we not kids? A: We are Dev2.0. Really, what were the executives at Disney thinking???

Topic: Restaurant Q: How often do you eat out? Who do you go with? A: I often eat out on weekends, when I hang out with my friends. Q: What restaurant do you usually visit? A: Well, there are not many restaurants in my neighborhood, so my best choice is the deli in convenient stores like the Circle K, Mini-Stop, B-smart. Q: What type of food do you enjoy to eat? Western or Asian? A: I'm interested in Asian food, Western food is not my thing. Q: How much do you usually pay when you eat out? A: It's not very expensive, just around $5 for each meal. Q: Do you enjoy spicy food? A: Yes, I do, especially on cold days. Q:Are the servers there friendly to you? A: Yes, they are. Most of them are really helpful. Q: Have you ever tried Italian food? A: Yes, at least once, when I was in my friend’s wedding party. Q: Are you concerned about calories when eating out? A: Yes, I am. I'm on diet now, so this really matters to me. Q: Are fast food restaurants like KFC or McDonald’s famous in your country? A: Yes, they are. The youth in my country are big fans of fast food. Q: Do you often drink alcohol when eating out? A: No, not often. Just when I have parties with my friends. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationpartner/support

Topic: Family Q: How many people are there in your family? A: There are 5 people in my family: my father, mother, brother, sister, and me. Q: Does your family live in a house or an apartment? A: We live in a house in the countryside. Q: What does your father do? A: My father is a doctor. He works at the local hospital. Q: How old is your mother? A: She is 40 years old, 1 year younger than my father. Q: Do you have any siblings? What’s his/her name? A: Yes, I do. I have 1 elder brother, David, and 1 younger sister, Mary. Q: Are you the oldest amongst your brothers and sisters? A: No, I am not. I am the second child in my family. Q: What do your mother/father like? A: My father likes playing football and my mother likes cooking. Q: Do your parents let you stay out late? A: Of course not. They always ask me to get home before 10 pm each night. Q: Do you stay with your parents? A: Right now, no, but I used to. Q: Does your family usually have dinner together? A: Yes, we do. My mom always prepares delicious meals for us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationpartner/support

I'm joined by Jake Eisenberg, president of Reach Digital Group. Jake shares his approach to local marketing and explains how he uses social media to boost lead generation and acquire solid leads. His company specializes in helping local businesses, but his approach works for national brands as well.   Q: Jake, you're president of the Reach Digital Group. How did you get into this business and why did you choose to start your own agency?  Originally, I got started with a mixed martial arts blog that I had in 2009, before MMA really took off. This website was gaining a lot of traffic, and I was generating money through ad revenue, and I saw how to bring new traffic in. I started getting familiar with search engine optimization and started thinking to myself, "What are other ways that I can bring this up?"  As I was going through school, and working, and all these other things, I started working on other projects and I stumbled across doing some e-commerce websites, and I got familiar with doing Google AdWords. That lead to search engine optimization, Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, and running social media calendars.  I was having great success with these strategies that I was working on and building through time. Some friends or family members started to approach me and say, "Can you give me a website for my business? We liked what you were doing; let's kind of see what you can do for us."  These strategies were working at a local level and at the national level. Actually, it’s easier at a local level, because there's not as much competition.  So, I started having success with that and it quickly turned into family members who had businesses, became my testimonials, or my case studies. I was able to then get new business through referral. That's how I got started with it: I tapped my own network, did the work well, and was able to use that to leverage new business.  Q: What are some of the biggest changes that you've seen since you started that MMA blog in 2009? Technology changes at warp-speed, so in the online marketing space, what have you experienced in terms of changes?  A lot of the changes I've seen are from the platforms growing. Search engine optimization used to be something where you could just do what they call "keyword stuffing." If you wanted to rank for a certain keyword, you could just put a bunch of that same keyword on a page and you would rank. That's changed, because now there are so many more websites out there. So everyone's doing that, and now you've got to find new techniques, and new ways to do it.  The same thing with Google AdWords. The pay-per-clicks have gone up a lot, because more people are using those channels. Facebook advertising is still relatively new and it's just gotten even more acknowledgment in the media world, because of everything that's just happened. So, we can still kind of consider the Internet to be new.  There are a lot of unknown territories and directions that we can go. We're all learning and it's constantly changing and evolving. There's just so much more competition that you've got to come up with new strategies, and the platforms have become a lot more advanced.  Q: I'd like to explore that a little bit more. For your peers, what should they be focusing on, in terms of skills they need to be honing or new platforms that they need to be becoming more adept at using?  With how the marketing world is changing, it's a content-first world. You've got to build this customer loyalty. If you're selling a service or a product, you want to provide the information to the potential customer, what it is that you have that leads to it. You can put content out there in the form of video or blog posting, and be able to share that.  The two top converting platforms right now are still Facebook and Instagram. If you're able to meet your customers at least on those two channels, as well as having a blog to explain what your business is, because that will help bring in keywords and maybe some backlinking to boost it; start with those.  You don't need to be on every single channel. You just want to be able to meet them on at least the two biggest channels. I recommend tapping those three sources and provide information about yourself and your service.  Q: There are many platforms, and it seems like new ones popping up every day. Obviously, it's better to go where your audience is and Facebook and Instagram are where they are. It seems like a lot of people feel compelled to be on as many platforms as they possibly can, almost like the shiny object syndrome, "There's this new thing; I have to do it." What is your advice for people who feel like they're getting spread too thin?  Realistically, it's because they are getting spread too thin when you're trying to keep up with all the new trends. Coming from a business perspective, you look at the analytics and ask, "Where's my engagement coming from? Where am I getting the most clicks, the likes, the shares?" I would focus on those and chop off the ones that you think you're getting spread too thin on. Because you're wasting valuable time or effort that you could be putting towards something else to just try to keep up with these other channels to maybe meet a small percent of your client base.  Q: So you focus your efforts where there's the likelihood that you're going to get the biggest return on that investment?  Exactly; just make sure to keep checking on that and making sure that your engagement is there, because it can change.  Going back to the idea of how this world is evolving and new technology, one platform could be big now, and in two years it could be a different one. Keep an eye on it and make sure you know where you're actually getting the best benefit.  Q: You mentioned analytics and following this data-driven approach. What are some of the key performance metrics that you use, and what platforms or tools do you use to gather data and analyze those metrics?  That really depends on the approach. If it's paid outreach, look at your cost per conversion and your cost per click, because if your cost for conversion is too high, there's already going to be something wrong there. Always look at it from the monetary standpoint.  For social media, do the posting and look at engagement; see what posts are working, what posts aren't working.  I take a different approach than most: I actually track through my own spreadsheet. I'll give a score to posts that I think were better or worse, and how they did. And I'll go back at the end of the month and review those scores. It's just a method that I found to work.  Q: The only wrong way is one that doesn't work for you.  Right, and I just feel that the analytic software is -- it's data driven, but they don't understand how people are responding to a certain question. So, if you're asking a more human-type question than one that's systematic, those programs aren't going to be able to tell you that. That's something that it's easier to keep track of by going through and judging those type of posts … and constantly seeing if you're going up, what pages were doing better, and focusing on where those numbers are going.  Q: With Reach Digital, you focus on, primarily, helping local businesses?  Local and small businesses. We started locally and have now grown into doing some business at the national level, but we've got a lot of local businesses.  Q: To what extent do you find that small business who tend to do business locally, have more limited resources? How does that affect how you start to help them? That's one of the reasons they'll approach us. A small business might not have the resources to hire someone in-house for marketing. So we're able to offset those costs. Often they're saying, "We want to be on social media; we want to be on blogs; our expertise is focusing on the business; we want someone else to handle the online efforts."  Working with us is a way to offset the cost of getting someone with knowledge. They don't have to train, they don't have to get benefits, and so that's kind of where we found that connection point with local businesses.  Q: Can you describe for me who your ideal client would be?  Our ideal client is someone who has a little bit of knowledge of online marketing, already started to attempt it, and is looking for repairs and someone to monitor it. So we're kind of looking for that now, companies with semi-established to established online presence.  Q: When you have a conversation with a potential client who has some knowledge, and has attempted it on their own, do you find that they come to you with a better sense of where their limitations are, where their needs are, and where their particular pain points are?  Oh, yeah, 100%. When they've actually rolled up their sleeves and attempted it and have got it going, they know where their weakness is and where they need help. They also have a better idea of the message that's going to connect better socially with their customer base from actually trying it. So, it's not as much of a learning period. For us, as a business, we're able to go in there, talk with them, get their knowledge that they've already learned from their client base, and then apply that to help correct those challenges.  Q: What are the typical questions that they ask you when you have that first conversation?  They actually all range. Some of them say, "We know what we're doing, but can you just help us schedule?" Or, "Can you show us how this will bring us ROI (return on investment)?”  That's one of the biggest things. With online marketing, a lot of companies have a hard time seeing how social media can bring a return on investment. That's when we tell them that, “Let's look at the analytics, let us show you where your traffic is coming from, and let's set up some type of conversion campaign to show you that people are calling or signing up.” That's really what they're looking for.  Q: When you're looking at metrics like cost-per-conversion, that gets right at their bottom-line. Right. So they're able to see exactly what's going on, if it's making them money. Because, if it's not making them money, they don't want to pay us. We have to show them that what we're doing is working.  Q: You have a Chief Barketing Officer; tell me about him.  That's my good boy. Actually, it's his birthday today.  Congratulations! Happy birthday.  I'll be sure to pass it along. So, yeah, my dog Bear is a black Lab mixed with a Newfoundland, so he's a big boy, and he keeps the spirits up. He makes sure that everyone is happy (when he's not sleeping), he's always got a toy in his mouth, and he gives us some good suggestions [laughter].  Q: Having a Lab around the office is always a good idea, I think.  Oh, yeah. It keeps morale high!  Q: As you're paying attention to what's happening in the marketing space, you see organizations that do some things that you think, "Wow; that was really brilliant." And then you also see others do things where you just feel like smacking your forehead and going, "What were they thinking?" Tell me about something that fits the latter category, where you wonder where their brains were on that day.  People are starting to take Twitter a lot more seriously than they did a couple of years ago. You'll see now a lot of gaffs on there. They say something that may offend a group of people, and the next thing you know it's a public relations nightmare. I'm seeing people and businesses making that problem. Then having another problem cleaning up that problem, either by over-addressing it (and upsetting other people because they over-addressed it), or not addressing it at all.  Everything is about finding that middle ground. In social media, now, with the way everything is going, is like stepping on glass. A lot of companies are starting to realize that they shouldn't have said something. And especially recently, that's really the biggest thing. I'm like, "What are you guys doing? Filter.”  Q: The feedback that you get when you misstep, as an individual or as an organization, can be swift and severe.  Right. Public opinion can crush you.  Q: Yeah, it seems like there are examples of that in the headlines just about every day. Let's flip that around; for an organization that's done something in the online marketing space that was really quite clever, have you seen any where you said, "Oh, I need to make a note of that; that was brilliant?" Yeah. A lot of it is becoming these grassroots campaigns, especially with e-commerce, how people are tying in with social media influencers. I've seen a lot of really funny campaigns that they've mixed in their products with an influencer and it’s gone viral. I always kind of take note of what the campaign was, how they did it, and just something to keep in my back pocket if I feel that I have a similar product. You've just got to be funny and it's got to connect with the audience. It's amazing how quickly something can go viral.  Q: Are there any that are particularly memorable for you?  There are so many. There's a phone case company that every time they put out a video, it was just using real-world situations that people could really relate to: Dropping your phone or leaving your phone on top of the car, or needing to take a selfie. It was a self-adhesive phone case that could stick to surfaces and it was just using those situations like walking by a mirror wall and they just stuck it on there and took a picture. It was really creative how they tied in actual people’s situations to connect consumers with their product  Key advice Q: What advice do you give to CEOs or business owners when you're advising them on how to increase their return on investment for their online marketing programs? When it comes to social media marketing, it's: Stay consistent with what you're doing Stick to the brand message Never stop marketing, because once you stop marketing, you're going to stop getting sales and you're going to stop getting leads. The importance of testing And another thing I tell them is to constantly A/B test, which is split testing. Try different headlines. Try different subject lines. Make sure you're mixing it up, because you never know what message will stick. It could be one word that could change the complete engagement of an entire campaign. So always test to find that right messaging. Online Marketing Tools  Q: Are there particular tools that you use to do that split testing, or any other testing, to continue to improve the ROI?  For email marketing, MailChimp has an option for you to do that (split test). If it's building landing pages, there are a couple of companies (Leadpages and UnBounce) that already have those options built in. Whatever program you're using, just check to see if they have an option for you to be able to test different headlines, different subject lines, different blocks of text, images, all of that.  Q: How big is the Reach Digital team now?  We have four people who are full time and we have a couple that freelance for us on some bigger projects. Five if you want to include my Chief Barketing Officer.  Well, you got to include him. You have to feed him, so he needs to work, too.  Right, there you go.  Q: Are you guys all co-located or are you geographically disbursed?  We are a mix; it just depends on the service. We are a mix, because with it being a digital world now, everyone doesn’t need to be working in one location. We've found that we have some better employees that we've worked with who are located in different parts of the country and it's just easier to keep them working from their location.  Q: That's another one of those big things that's changed in the last decade that you don't have to all be in the same building and the same room to do work really well.  Right. We've found that using Google Hangouts, you can video chat with everyone at one time, so if you need to have a meeting, click of a button.  Management Tools  Q: What are some other tools that you use to effectively manage the team?  We use a project management tool called Asana. It's just really easy to keep our clients in there. We'll give our clients the connection to it and they can see the projects they're working on. Everyone can effectively communicate and it's a really good way to stay focused.  Another tool that we use for our back end and CRM is Zoho One.  Those are the two main ones that keep us on our path.  The Future: Voice, Video, Bots, and AI  Q: We talked about changes since you started in the online marketing space almost 10 years ago. Look 10 years into the future, where do you see that space going and what should we be doing to prepare ourselves to be effective as we move into the future?  A lot of the future is going to go to voice and video. Most of the Google searches right now are being done on voice. So, it's preparing those new search keywords to work that way.  Another part will be messenger bots. Having messenger bots using artificial intelligence technology is allowing small businesses to compete with big business. They're able to build these messenger bots through Facebook and other tools that are allowing them to, almost, build out a full support staff, to where they can really have all the customers’ questions answered.  They don't need to have these big rooms of customer service reps, and it keeps the customer happy because they're able to handle business without leaving the app.  Voice, video, and artificial intelligence are where I see us going. In 10 years, who knows; look how much technology's advanced in the last 10. So, I can only imagine the next 10.  Q: It could be both scary and very exciting, with a lot of opportunities.  Right. It's going to be a roller coaster!  Q: Are you strapped in and ready for the ride?  Oh, yeah. I love it.  Going back into your history a little bit, you got a bachelor's degree in media and information from Michigan State. Any chance you'll go to the University of Michigan for a master's program [laughter]?  Our family is divided. My entire family went to the University of Michigan, and my sister and I are the only two to go to Michigan State. We've had that in-house rivalry for a while, and it's been great, because Michigan State, athletically, has been on top the last six or seven years now. It's been good that I've been winning the argument.  Q: That's wonderful; congratulations. I was at an event recently with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and he's from Lansing (Michigan) and is a big fan. So he was singing the school’s and the team's praises. So I think he's there as much as he can to cheer on the Spartans.  Some of the best experiences of my life. Online Marketing for Local Businesses  Q: There you go, that's perfect. Reach Digital focuses primarily on five areas of work, in which you're able to help small business owners: Local marketing Website maintenance Facebook advertising Search engine optimization (SEO) Business listing management Tell me about business listing management. What is that?  Business listing management is where, if you have a business, it will be in any of the business directories: Yelp, Citymapper, Google, My Business, Bing Places, Yahoo, there's so many different directories.  A big, big thing about that with your search engine optimization on a local level, especially, is having yourself listed correctly in all these directories.  There's something call the NAP, which stands for “Name, Address, Place.” Search engines want to make sure that the name, address, and place are correct for all the businesses listed, that is, all the business directories that you're in.  If it's incorrect, they see inconsistencies and it's harder for them to score it. It's harder for them to give you that trust score or ranking, because they see that there's some inconsistency. So it's good to be consistent across the board.  Another thing we're able to do is monitor reviews that come across those listings. If you get a bad review, we're able to let you know so you can respond to it. If you get a good review, we're also able to let you know, so you can thank them and be engaged with your client base.  Q: I would think that would a critically important service, and a strategic investment that small business owners could make to continue to build those key relationships and manage their online reputation.  Yes, online reputation is very important. A lot of people will look at reviews before they even decide to call you, and it's just that extra trust factor. So, you want to make sure that you're on top of it.  Q: In terms of your overall business, how would you rank order those areas of work in terms of where the team spends the majority of the effort and time?  Regeneration Campaigns  For the majority of our effort and time, we do a lot of regeneration campaigning. Which is, if someone's got a service to offer or a product to sell, we're trying to get them leads, so they can call. A lot of our time and effort is spent building those landing pages, and then running page campaigns, mainly through Facebook advertising to send traffic to generate those leads. The main effort is testing and building those pages, and building out those campaigns.  Q: When you do that, do you manage the CRM on your end, or do you use the CRM and relationship management tools that your customers already use?  We will integrate within their CRM. We'll have it set up to where those leads are going to go right into the clients’ systems. Their ads are all run into their own ad managers.  We're not like a normal agency where we'll say, "Okay, you’re going to spend $1,000 a month, and we're going to hit you with 10% on top of it," or something like that. We say, " It's in your ad manager. Those campaigns are yours. Once we're done creating it, it's yours, and we run it.” We'll optimize it, but everything is through their programs.  Q: To what extent are you agnostic about whatever platforms they're using? Really good question. There are a lot of these programs and platforms. Most of our clients are using the bigger CRM platforms, and point of service systems that we've had experience with. A lot are using Salesforce, Zoho, and Lightspeed, which is a point of service, point of sale system. Q: Your team is capable of helping them regardless of how they've implemented on their end? We'll tie into either their email marketing platform, or we'll tie into a web form that was created within their CRM. That web form will link to their system. We will format that form to have the same name to match, so if something is typed in on that form, and they hit submit, it will automatically be properly implemented into that lead form. It's really matching the field names that they already have set up. Q: Jake, what have I not asked you that I should have? Let’s touch on the local business aspect. If someone has a new business, one that's struggling, I can help them get that domain name, web hosting, or a contact management system that they should probably be looking at to use. Q: Sounds like they need to give you a call. They should. Q: If you've got a small business and you need help getting online, or you've already gone online to increase your marketing, and you've realized that you need some expertise and some more horsepower, Reach Digital sounds like a really great place to go. How do they get in touch with you?

Happy President’s Day!! Jessica wades outside of her box. Melissa shares the love of the friendships that have become family. John learns the laws of keeping kosher. The topic for today is… Do I’m Sorry work? Q: Are you holding any grudges? A: YES! We all deal with tragedy & confrontation differently. J & M discuss disappointing friendships. Jess deals with bad behavior in her daycare. Do you subscribe and save?  Amazon? Chewy? John shares his thoughts on Lent and religion. Happy Day!!

Q Do you ever wonder if the issues in your small groups ministry are unique to your environment? Q Are you curious to know if others are dealing with the same challenges? In this podcast, host Carolyn Taketa interviews special guest Amy Jackson where they survey the landscape of small groups ministry by looking at the top issues that arose in 2017 as well as the ongoing popular issues that come up year after year. Amy is the associate publisher of SmallGroups.com, a publication of Christianity Today which has over 875,000 visitors each year and specializes in providing resources for small-group point people. She has been a small-group leader for over 14 years and has served in small groups ministry as a director, minister, trainer, speaker, and coach. Just click the play button at the top of this post to enjoy this insightful discussion! To subscribe to our Group Talk Podcast, click HERE Take your small group ministry to the next level by attending the "Lobby Gathering" 2018 in sunny Southern California March 13-15th! Register HERE!

In this special episode, NBT client Ryan Baxter takes over the mic to ask Dr Tommy Wood, MD, PhD, some excellent questions around fuelling for Obstacle Course Racing (OCR). Whilst Tommy’s answers are somewhat specific to OCR, all athlete may find some helpful tips here. Below are the questions that Ryan asked, and a summary of Tommy’s response. Q: Diet can be like politics or religion, how do you effectively communicate your ideas about how athletes should fuel? Be honest about the fact that there is more than one way to skin the cat Start with real food - eliminations and diet subtypes are secondary It’s OK to supplement if needed Q: What is the most common problem you see when it comes to nutrition and athletes? Undereating and underfuelling Worrying too much about the minutiae Thinking they can eat whatever they like because they exercise Focusing too much on supplements without wanting to get the basics right You need to figure out if you’re somebody that should worry *more* or less about their nutrition Most of the people I work with often need to worry less Over-restriction Most “average” people need to worry more Q: As far as day to day nutrition what do you think that should look like? Any specific macro recommendations? This assumes no goal for changes in body composition Eat 120-160g of protein per day, in 3-4 meals For OCR athletes, I’d eat at least 1g/lb carbohydrate per day Depends on intensity and can be cycled by day The rest should come from fat, from whole food sources Q: Chris Masterjohn just posted two videos [1, 2] on fueling athletic performance with carbs vs fats.  My overall interpretation of his analysis was that he feels that if you are doing intense exercise you need to be fueling with carbs.  What are your thoughts on the carbs vs fats debate. Masterjohn has nicely presented the evidence to answer a question that should be obvious but sadly has generated a lot of debate. Simplistically, you need to right fuel for the given exercise or intensity, and if you want to be regularly performing at glycolytic activities, you should be eating carbohydrates. You can still do glycolytic work when restricting carbohydrates, and it may help to mitigate the downregulation of glycolytic pathways, but your absolute performance will probably drop. If you’re restricting carbohydrates, *why* are you doing it? Metabolic health? If so, focus on that rather than performance. “Fat adaptation”? Can be achieved whilst also eating carbohydrates! Fat oxidation rates increase with VO2Max. Q: Our team is very diverse both in age range and fitness.  We have people who are in their teens and up and we have people who are beginners to those who race in the elite class.  Do you have recommendations about how to someone might go about finding the right nutrition for themselves? An appropriate (and good) multivitamin is usually a good idea Start with the rough recommendations above Older people (40-50+) may need more protein If still hungry, eat more! If poor recovery, or weight loss despite not feeling hungry Eat more carbohydrates Increase calorie density of foods If regular GI symptoms (diarrhoea, bloating etc), consider a period of elimination of the main potential culprits: Grains, dairy, soy, eggs FODMAPs If this is beneficial for you - do more digging! Q: We have some vegetarians on the team, would you suggest anything specific for them? Don’t fall into the typical vegetarian traps Not eating vegetables Not eating fish (if not vegan) Eating “faux” meat Making bread and cheese dietary staples Don’t usually have as much of a problem eating enough carbohydrate Make sure you get enough protein (may need to increase intake to compensate for lower essential amino acid intake) Controversial May only be necessary if trying to maximise muscle mass Q: Do you have any supplements that you would recommend every athlete take or is supplementation an individual recommendation? Creatine Vitamin D (if levels are low) Citrulline and beta-alanine for repeated HIIT/Sprint/higher-rep weight training performance Caffeine and nitrates (beetroot shots?) restricted the rest of the time and then used as an ergogenic aid Q: Everyone always focuses on macronutrients when it comes it nutrition, but what about micronutrients?  Should we focus on them as well?  Can you talk about how they might affect your athletic performance? Micronutrients are essential for all the basic synthetic and enzymatic functions in the body. B6 for red blood cell production Multiple B vitamins for various parts of energy production Copper for proteins involved in iron absorption Copper, zinc, and selenium for enzymes involved in handling oxidative stress Zinc inhibits copper uptake Many athletes both zinc *and* copper deficient Selenium and iodine for thyroid function Chris Masterjohn series Q: I think every athlete knows about the importance of staying hydrated, but do you have any recommendations when it comes to hydrating during training or racing?  Should we be drinking a specific amount on a set schedule or should we just be mindful of how thirsty we are? All the best evidence says you should just drink to thirst. Tim Noakes “waterlogged” - documents the adverse effects of hyponatraemia in marathon runners and US Army when trying to stay “hyper hydrated”. Where it has been studied, the people that perform the fastest at longer distances (IRONMAN triathlon or ultramarathons) tend to lose the most amount of bodyweight (i.e. are the most dehydrated). Maybe genetic or involve other factors, but suggests dehydration is not the limiting component. Q: OCR is a unique sport that combines lots of different aspects of physical fitness, so you think there are special fueling requirements for OCR athletes? OCR typifies the need for metabolic flexibility - the ability to utilise all substrates at the right time, and switch between them. Overtly restricting one macronutrient is unlikely to be beneficial Cycle training intensities/modalities and fuel appropriately to get the best of all pathways. Q: We have a coach who likes to push us pretty hard over the course of a 2hr class.  As an example, his warmup was a burpee ladder which essentially amounted us doing 15 minutes of burpees. And that is the warmup, how should we fuel for training sessions like this like this? Should we fuel beforehand/after/both? I don’t think most people need intra-workout nutrition for this kind of session. Unless struggling to maintain weight or want to gain muscle mass Consider small amount of carbs and amino acids (as during a race) Get a real food meal in as soon as feasible and comfortable Can use a shake if you need more calories or protein or will be a long time before you can eat. Not essential Liquid calories not recommended unless failing to get enough from food. Q: OCR races can vary greatly in distance, there are some that are 5k in distance all the way up to ultra-endurance races that last 24 hours. Of course, we are doing a lot more than just run during these races. When should we start concerning ourselves with intra-race nutrition? What would you suggest? Probably don’t need intra-race nutrition unless going over 2-3 hours Greater dependence on fat-burning/aerobic pathways at that distance Combination of slow-digesting carbohydrate and some amino acids UCAN, PHAT FIBRE, oats, sweet potato powder MAP, BCAAs, protein powders Fats for longer efforts if tolerated Can be real-food based Nuts (macadamias are popular) and seeds (i.e. chia) Pemmican NAC or glutathione for much longer efforts (i.e. 24h races) Q: After a tough training session or race, we all want to recover as fast as possible to get back to training or racing.  Rest is important as is mobility etc, but is there anything from a nutrition perspective we can do to recover faster? Depends on how soon you want to/need to recover Antioxidants Cold baths Don’t eat crap food and minimise the post-race beers Eat enough protein If you tend to be nauseated or get GI symptoms after races, consider not eating for 2-4 hours afterwards to give the gut a break.     If “fat adapted”, your body should be better able to handle this Q Are there signs or symptoms that we might not be fueling properly? What do you see in practice when athletes are not fueling correctly? Poor sleep Fatigue Slow recovery and soreness Low libido Here’s the outline of this interview with Ryan Baxter: [00:01:51] Get this kid some carbs! [00:02:13] The Loft private Facebook group. [00:06:10] FDN: Functional Diagnostic Nutrition training. [00:07:49] Behaviour change. Podcast: How to Create Behaviour Change with Simon Marshall, PhD. [00:10:19] Testing currently utilized by Nourish Balance Thrive. [00:11:37] Insulin. Podcast: Poor Misunderstood Insulin with Dr. Tommy Wood. [00:13:03] Mindfullness. Podcast: How to Think Yourself Younger, Healthier, and Faster with Dr. Ellen Langer, PhD. [00:14:29] Nutrition recommendations for OCR. [00:15:58] 120 - 160 g PRO, 1g CHO per lb of bodyweight? FAT? [00:19:28] Net vs total CHO, fibre. [00:20:30] YouTube: Carbs and Sports Performance: The Principles and Carbs and Sports Performance: The Evidence with Chris Masterjohn, PhD. [00:25:31] Podcast: Metabolic Flexibility with Chris Kelly. [00:33:47] Pre/during/post training nutrition. [00:35:25] Dr Tommy Wood's Nutrient-Delivery Smoothie. [00:35:42] Wild Planet sardines. [00:37:56] Nutrition for Spartan Beast and Ultra Beast events (~6 hours). [00:39:47] UCAN and Phat Fibre. [00:39:57] Catabolic Blocker. [00:41:04] Pemmican. [00:41:18] 100-200 kCal per hour. [00:41:38] NAC. [00:42:49] Podcast: Professor Tim Noakes: True Hydration and the Power of Low-Carb, High-Fat Diets. [00:44:01] Justin's nut butters. [00:44:28] Pro Bar Mixed Berry. [00:45:00] Primal Kitchen’s bars and Ben Greenfield’s Nature Bite bars. [00:45:48] Supplements. [00:46:13] Creatine. [00:46:29] Vitamin D (test 25-OH-D). [00:46:59] Citrulline and Beta-Alanine: Why and How You Should Supplement with Creatine and Beta-Alanine. [00:47:12] Caffeine. [00:47:26] Nitrates, e.g. beet shots. [00:49:10] Nourish Balance Thrive Highlights email series.

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be a PacktPub author! I'm going to work with them to create a course on network/vulnerability scanning. I'm pumped, but kinda nervous, so when I had the initial conversations with PacktPub staff, I made sure I hit them with my burning questions: Q: Are you going to ask me to create a sweet course and then pay me pennies for every digital copy sold? A: No. Authors get paid a lump sum up front and then share in profits for digital copies sold. Q: Who's gonna dictate the project outline - as well as timeline for recording it? A: It's a joint effort. The author dreams up the timeline, fine-tunes it with PacktPub, and then hammers out a mutually agreeable project timeline. Q: Do I have to buy some expensive software/hardware to make these videos? A: Not really. PacktPub did recommend I buy a better microphone (so I got a Snowball), and then they license authors a copy of Panopto to record the videos. More Qs and As covered on today's episode!

Q Are you feeling burnt-out as a ministry leader? Q Do you know other ministry leaders who are on the edge of burn-out? If so, you've come to the right place... The greatest gift you can give those you lead is your own healthy soul. So often, as pastors and Christian leaders, we get weary and depleted behind the scenes even while our ministries are thriving and successful. The statistics on pastors struggling with depression, anxiety, and burnout are alarming. Lance Witt is the founder of a ministry called REPLENISH, which has been around for 10 years. It is dedicated to helping people live and lead from a healthy soul. Prior to starting Replenish, Lance served 20 years as a senior pastor and another 7 years as an Executive/Teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California. He led Saddleback’s small group Campaigns, such as 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community. Currently, along with speaking, consulting and training, Lance does Life Plans, individual coaching, and staff training and development. He has published a book called Replenish and is currently working on a new book on High Impact teams to be released in 2018.  Host Carolyn Taketa asks Lance the following questions and more in this exclusive interview... So how do we care for ourselves in such a way that we minister from a healthy soul? What are the warning signs to look for? What spiritual disciplines and practical activities help us replenish our souls and keep us flourishing both in ministry and in our personal lives?  Just click the play button at the top of this post to enjoy this insightful discussion! To subscribe to our Group Talk Podcast, click HERE

How You Can Support the Show! Visit http://www.patreon.com/johnpcordray to support the show. This was recorded for John's Patreon page.    ABOUT ME I'm John Cordray, a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Therapist and I own a private practice in St. Louis, Missouri. I started podcasting and broadcasting video (Live & Edited) in 2015. I'm using Patreon to help find people who believe in the message that I am providing to help people around the world learn to cope with a mental illness. I hope to find individuals to support what I do with my podcast and videos to help me pay for equipment and to help cover other expenses that go into production. ABOUT THE SHOW Helping End the Stigma of Mental Illness One Show at a Time. The Mental Health Today Show started as a podcast helping thousands around the world with mental health topics. The show recently added live video on Facebook Live, where John interviews guests and encourages people who struggle with a mental health issue. People who tune in live can also comment instantly to John and he is able to answer their questions in real time. John also produces The Mental Health Minute as a short (PSA) with helpful tips. 99% of what I do online is free to the public, but it can be expensive to keep up with production costs. With your help I'll be able to continue to help thousands of people who need to know that someone like me (a therapist) is here for them. WANT TO BE A PRODUCER OF THE SHOW? You can be one of my awesome "Producers" by supporting my work. There are 5 level tiers to choose from (every tier is a monthly subscription): Junior Producer ($3.00/mo) Producer ($10.00/mo) Executive Producer ($25.00/mo) Co-Director ($100/mo) John's Inner Circle ($150.00/mo) Current needs to keep the show on the air: If you're not interested in becoming a producer (as mentioned above) you can choose to provide support for a specific need. Podcast Hosting Services + App = $30.00 / mo Social Media Distribution = $11.00 / mo Facebook Advertising (to advertise the show) = $400 / mo Video / Audio / Graphic Design Editing Software = $75.00 / mo Equipment: Mic = $65.00 Headphones = $20.00 Audio Mixer = $65.00 Cords = $65.00 Cloud storage (for videos) = $19.00 / mo   FAQ Q: How does becoming a Patreon work? A: Patreon is a convenient way for content creators to be paid for their work. So many creators are doing great work and Patreon is often the only way they can get paid. In my case, for example, Patreon is the ONLY way I am paid for my work, and I put a lot of work into my show every week. Q: I've never heard of Patreon, can they be trusted? A: Absolutely, Patreon was established in 2013 and has over 70 employees working hard to make sure your experience is great! I trust them with my content too! Q: How often do you publish your show? A: I produce new episodes (podcasts & videos) every week. My goal is to produce two a week. As I find more supporters I will be able to produce even more! Once I have enough supporters to go full-time I will have a daily show M-F. Q: Will I support you monthly or per creation? A: All of my Patreon supporters are monthly supporters. You won't be charged every time I publish a new podcast or video. I think it's easier for you to budget your support this way. Q: Is Patreon the only way you're being paid to produce your show? A: Yes, I have been producing my show without payment since June 2015, but it has been difficult to continue to pay for production costs. Q: What do you use to process payments? A: Paypal is the payment processor that I use. This means you can pay from your Paypal account or use your credit card. Paypal is also a great because it's a universal payment processor to make it easy for international supporters. Q: Are you really a therapist? A: Yes, I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Therapist. I also speak at conferences about my experience using social media, podcasts, and live video to help people with mental health struggles. Q: What if I can't afford or don't see a good option I want to support you with? A: First, thank you for your interest in supporting my work! If you don't see a good option on the suggested ways to support me you can always enter your desired amount. Anything helps, even $1.00 / month! Q: What if I have additional questions? A: Great question! If you have more questions you can visit the Patreon help center. Q: I'm ready to support you, how do I do that? A: Super, thanks! It's really easy, just click on the link below and follow the instructions.   Become a Patron and support the show here http://www.patreon.com/johnpcordray With your help we can promote a more positive perception of mental health. Together, let's say #GoodbyeStigma! Thank you, John Cordray, LPC, NCC www.johncordray.com www.TheMentalHealthTodayShow.com www.Facebook.com/thementalhealthtodayshow  

The Michaels get into one of San Antonio's biggest urban legends...MIDGET MANSION!!! Like most good urban legends (and most Resident Evil games) this story has multiple endings each with its own moral message. We also explore the truth behind the legend and try and find if there ever were any serial killers that could fit the mold of the story. Plus, other legends that may have influenced this tale, movie reviews from the Wrassle Nerds, low hanging jokes, and o course our traditional Florida story! Twitter: @TX_Files Patreon: www.patreon.com/txfiles Intro Music: "Murder Company (Henry Lee Lucas)" by Church of Misery Sources: I know it. You know it. Everybody knows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szieinkcEA0&app=desktop http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2004/06/14/focus1.html http://www.answers.com/Q/Are_there_any_midget_serial_killers http://m.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2012/07/02/the-strange-tale-of-midget-mansion# https://ghostcitytours.com/haunted-san-antonio/ghostly-legend-midget-mansion/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi2fYhebAx0&app=desktop Wrassle Nerds: Twitter: @WrassleNerds / @GoobZWN / @RipkenWN YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHS-0bHFhrA87ChlO2jJJIQ twitter: twitter.com/tx_files Patreon: patreon.com/txfiles instagram: instagram.com/thetxfiles/ Xbox Gamertags MB: fiveonetwo MC: Miketastic TX Intro Song: "Murder Company (Henry Lee Lucas)" by Church of Misery Outro Song: "Satan Is Real" by The Louvin Brothers #truecrime #comedy #texas #sanantonio #aliens #michael #TX #Austin #murder #assassination #conspiracy #coverup #bigfoot #horror #blackeyedkids #santaclaus #podcast #scarymovies #horrormovies #supernatural #paranormal #ghosts #poltergeists #moviereview #friends #crime #thieves #government #history #funny #nativeamerican #warfare #civilwar #folklore #lore #magic #florida #floridastories #floridastory #documentary

AFFKT on: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFFKT/ - SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/affkt HOW I MET THE BASS on: - Facebook: www.facebook.com/howimetthebass - Twitter: twitter.com/howimetthebass - Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass 3 QUESTIONS to AFFKT: Q: You just released your album ‘Son of a Thousand Sounds“. Does this title describe your music right? A: I guess it describes what I do as an artist. During the years I have been producing many different styles of music so this is reflected on a natural way on my music. I just want to do music with total freedom; that was the initial goal I had when I created this project and I think that’s how it always should be. Q: You built up SINCOPAT to a world wide respected label. What´s your secret for this success? A: The secrets of Sincopat’s success are first the love, work and respect we invest on every single release, and second trying to release timeless music - sometimes more dancefloor oriented I would say, and sometimes more to listen and enjoy also outside the club. I always like to think how the people in the future will feel Sincopat music, and I have the feeling we will still sound as fresh and special as today. Q: Are there any news you want to tell us – what´s coming up in 2017? A: Next year comes as exciting as this past year, I have finished 4 new remixes coming out in December and early 2017 for Henry Saiz, Mason, Bufi and Martin Eyerer feat. Ruede Hagelstein. And I am working on new EPs and few more remixes at the moment. I am focussed as well on preparing a new live set, and it’s being a lot of fun but there’s still much work left. On Sincopat we have a lot of amazing music coming, EPs and Albums; just to name a few, by the end of February we have the first album by Piek and on March Vomvo 03 signed by Pete Oak, also EPs by Audio Junkies, Patrick Kunkel, Bufi, Darlyn Vlys, Anii, Alext Stein, and many more!

Kailin Scott is an expert at escape rooms. She works in escape rooms, she creates escape rooms, she an artist and uses her artistic ability to create escape room images and puzzles. She has always been a huge fan of video games, and she came across a series called Zero Escape. It's an Escape Room Series featuring lots of puzzles. She really loved it and she wondered if this happened only in video games or if it was something that could be found in real life. Her boyfriend, who is from China, told her that in Asia, Escape Rooms are popular. Most Influential Person My boyfriend. He introduced me to Escape Rooms. Transcript Q: So Kailin, if there's someone listening today who is a little bit lost or unsure what we're talking about when we say Escape Rooms, can you fill us in and explain it a bit more? A: Escape Rooms are puzzle rooms where you are locked in and given an objective. There are two types: one where the objective is purely to escape and the other type where the objectives can be almost anything from finding someone's medicine to solving a zombie apocalypse to even trying to fight a fire. Q: I imagine Escape Rooms are a mindful experience because once you're in there you really have to think about nothing else except getting out or solving the puzzle. Is this true? A. When you get in there you can only focus on the puzzles because you're in there with a time limit, so much so that you don't even know what time it is. You have to get an announcement at five minutes [before the end], or sometimes at about thirty minutes [before the end]. You are usually in there with a team of two to six people. It's a lot of teamwork, so it's thinking together. Q: Are you usually in there with random people you've never met or do you usually go there with friends? A: It can work in a lot of different ways. There are facebook groups where you can meet random people to meet up with and do random escapes. A lot of the time you do plan this with your friends. Sometimes there are escape rooms that will set you up with random strangers to do the room. Q: Does this mean that you could escape the room and nobody else will? A: It depends on the room escape really. Some of them do set you up in teams where you do battle against each other to see who gets out first. Other ones expect you to work completely as a team to all be able to escape. Q: Do you have to be really good at solving puzzles to get out of the room? A: Not necessarily. As long as you can wrap your mind around the logic of puzzles or at least be able to bounce ideas off other people, you should be able to think your way through it. Q: What are some of the most creative types of puzzles you've seen in Escape Rooms? A: One of my favorite puzzles so far has been a puzzle that was completely in braille. Usually, if they're going to make you learn another language, they will leave some sort of hint around. In this case, it was a complete wall of encyclopedias. You had to look at this and see that it was braille and one you had this figured out you can go through all of the books to try and figure out what was going on and then actually use the braille to solve the puzzle and open the lock. Q: I understand there are Escape Rooms that just suddenly appear for a few weeks or months. Tell us about those? A: Those are Pop-Up Rooms. They'll appear every once in a while, and they're usually situated around a certain theme. The video game called Zero Escape does have a Pop-Up one that's currently going around in the U.S. It should be coming to Canada at some point. There are other ones such as Dracula's Library, Casa Loma (Toronto Ontario Canada), and other ones that do pop up but then have made permanent homes in big cities such as Toronto. Q: Can you explain what you actually do in your role in creating Escape Rooms? A: In that role, I'm an artist. I'm brought in to help make the puzzles come to life. Someone writes down the puzzles on paper; they explain the puzzles to me and then I try to make that puzzle happen. Whether it's creating a drawing, building a chest that has a mechanical rig or even just going out and picking up locks. It's taking that idea from paper and making it a reality. Q: When people come to participate in an Escape Room, is there a way that you can help get them relaxed and get them into the mood of what they're going to be doing in the event that they might never have done this before? A: Beforehand, someone's going to explain all the locks you may come across in the room because not everyone's seen a directional lock or a keypad and they may not know what it is. There's usually a story to go on behind the room: something that sets you in the mood of the room. Whether you're about to solve the Curse of the Mummies Tomb or just at your crazy old Aunt Edna's place try to find her medicine, there's always a story behind the room. Other things they'll tell you are don't overthink it because if you overthink it you're probably not going to have a good time. Thinking too hard just leads to no escape. Q: Here at ConBravo Kaitlen, you were doing a presentation yesterday about Escape Rooms and you told us a story that explained why age is no limit. You told us about some women who came to the Escape Room that you work at. Can you tell us that story now? A: Definitely. We had a group called Sunday Funday and I swear they looked like the Golden Girls. Possibly even older than the Golden Girls. They came in, they've never done an Escape Room before, but they're locals and were just so excited to do this. They went in; they had a wonderful time. They actually made it really far. The logic and the thought processes they had when they did this was absolutely amazing to watch. I got to game master for them and they had a wonderful time. They didn't really escape, but they left feeling a lot smarter than when they went in. Q: Have you had people come who didn't escape and they wanted to come back repeatedly until they figured it out? A: This happens quite often. A lot of escape rooms will have a second timer discount because you've already gone and completed maybe 25% of the room and you want to complete the rest of it. This discount will often take up to 50% off your visit to go and do this escape room again and just keep doing it and doing it until you get it. Q: I expect people do this to celebrate events or parties. Would you explain some of the events people use as a reason to come to Escape Rooms? A: Personally, I regularly attend Escape Rooms for my birthday, my boyfriend's birthday, my friends birthdays. We have a lot of people who come with their soccer teams to celebrate victories. Even here at ConBravo, the staff went and did the Escape Room in town just to celebrate the fact that the Con has kicked off. Q: Can it help bond people who come to the rooms, because you are really working as a team? A: Very much so. We had a mother who booked her daughter and her boyfriend who she was fighting with at the time, to go into the room together. She said, you're probably going to see some yelling, but by the end of it the relationship was actually really strong. They came out very happy and worked through their differences because they had to work together. Q: Can you tell us about some humorous escape rooms or some escape rooms with humor in them? A: One of my favorite ones that I've run into is a scale. A lot of people are scared to step on scales so people will just avoid the scale but you actually have to step on the scale and it's going to read the wrong weight every time. It's going to read the same way for everybody who steps on it. The people who come in there have very different reactions to it. There are people who will say, this scale is very complimentary and there are other people who will say, the scale says, I'm fat. A lot of people just tend to avoid the scales altogether. It's kind of hilarious to watch. Honestly, if you're in an Escape Room, the point is to check everything. Q: I know you probably have to be discreet about some of the tricks that are in Escape Rooms, but can you tell us some of the trickiest types things that people will encounter in an escape room? A: Maps are your worst enemy. A lot of Escape Rooms will use old maps and you're going to have to calculate coordinates. If you're really good at map reading, that's awesome. My friends and I are not so we tend to run into problems with those. Sometimes rooms will get you to do algorithms for math, but those rooms tend to leave you some note paper so you can write down your ideas as you go and don't have to do it in your head. Q: What sorts of puzzles would work really well for an artistic person? A: Being able to have a spatial sense of where you're going and what you've seen; a memory of what you've seen on the walls or even just picking out the finer details. If you have an eye for these fine details, you can find things that other people who are more literal-minded have missed. Q: Being artistic, what are some of the most fun, artistic things you've created for escape rooms? A: My claim to fame is Aunt Edna's Condo in Hamilton Ontario Canada at The Crux. In that room there are about twenty paintings hidden somewhere in the room in various places. I created every single one of those over the course of three days with nothing but markers. Q: Do you sometimes get your friends involved in creating some of these puzzles? A: At this point it's always been my co-workers. I was hired on by a team. My friends do get to come in and test the rooms sometimes. Q: Sometimes do people set up something like this in their own home for a personal party? A: Yes. They are working on building kits for people to do this kind of thing at home and even in classrooms, so people will take it to schools as well. It's called Escape Room In A Box. There's a KickStarter going right now. It is everything you need to have a mini Escape Room in your house. Q: Can you think of any other really funny people who came in to solve these puzzles? A: We had a group come in from Texas and they called themselves the Texas Rearrangers. They were visiting family in Hamilton. They consisted of a 14-year-old girl, her 9-year-old brother, the mother, the father and the aunt. They went into the room and the girl decided to be a complete drama queen, star-fishing herself on the floor, screaming, "We're never getting out of here." The brother grabbed one of the props in the room and decided to dance to build moral support. So obviously watching them on the camera was pretty amusing. Q: Have you had people come into the room who have been too serious and not been able to relax with it? A: Definitely. Not everybody feels comfortable coming into the room. You'll get a lot of questions beforehand. Some people will go in there so serious and so focused on trying to solve this that they kind of put themselves in a corner. You need to be able to think, observe what's around you. You can't just hyper-focus on one thing. You need your mind to be open and you need to be aware. You need to rely on your teammates. You're not a one-man army in this situation. Q: Is there any negativity around Escape Rooms that you've heard? A: There have been a couple of people that gave bad reviews to Escape Rooms. We've had people come in that just don't enjoy themselves. They find the puzzles too hard, or they're too frustrated because they didn't beat it. People tend to get upset when they lose so you do have some sore losers who say they're never coming back and never doing anything like it again. It's kind of sad because you would like to see people try it again, maybe trying other Escape Rooms, because every one is a bit different.

In celebration of the release of Bloodlust: Tournament of Death over at Vice.com (Release Date: Nov 15), Damian sits down with one of the movies most memorable characters: Jeff Cannonball. But as Damian learned while making the doc, Jeff is no mere wrestler, Jeff is a basement playing, on the floor sleeping, front seat of the van riding, kid of the hardcore. Listen in as the two discuss going from playing Ieper fest to wrestling New Jack. Also touched on: Brought together by a Plastic Bomb “It is very weird being called an Athlete” Just two Friends of Tom hanging out Finding punk from your rock dad A Thin Line Fading: pre-Tear It Up and Reign Supreme First show at a skate park Asking about the cover song and discovering the CroMags Q: “Are you into Punk?” “I don’t know” Being made fun of for liking Unbroken Black Coffee becomes Scared To Death Loving Tear It Up Seeing Blind Society Getting into Wrestling before you could talk Dad and the 2am Wrestling TV show DON’T WEAR BRET THE HITBEAR’S GLASSES! Be it the Ultimate Warrior or music: Loud Fast Rules! Punk or Wrestling? The death of Eddie Guerrero XFilesX is super underrated The importance of Mental Mind Eraser What’s worse breaking straight edge or Vegan? UltraMantis Black Pissed Jeans and Chikara Tournament of Death as Wrestlemania A Tear It Up t-shirt flip ieperfest “Moshing to Strife” A Myspace post for destiny: Getting into wrestling Punk or Wrestling: the choice is yours forming Altered Boys “A full circle of weird violence” Kevin Gill: the hardcore/wrestling connection punk and juggalos Homies is killer! Mike McCarthy from For The Worse goes so deep Gordon Solie Motherfuckers: a perfect band THE BEST SHOW An inside account of the Kenzan and more!!!!!!

CIP S1E26 – Will Tao – Life as a Young Immigration Lawyer http://www.canadianimmigrationpodcast.com/life-as-a-canadi…er-is-it-for-you/ Will Tao Canadian Immigration Lawyer, practicing with the well respected law firm of Larlee Rosenberg in Vancouver, BC.  We are going to do things a little bit different this podcast.  The purpose behind this podcast is to inspire other young lawyers to consider the practice of immigration law.  In per conversations with Will, he told me about an experience he had speaking with a well-known Bay Street lawyer before he began searching for summer jobs and she pegged it at a 0% chance that he could do immigration before five years call. Will Tao is an Associate at Larlee Rosenberg and provides legal services in all areas of Canadian immigration law.  Will specializes in complex immigration and citizenship refusals, reconsideration requests, appeals, admissibility hearings/detention reviews, and judicial reviews of administrative decisions. Will is frequently contacted by clients and their immigration representatives after their initial applications are refused or a request for further information has been received. Will has successfully assisted his clients on several challenging, high profile cases involving employers and individuals alike.  Will also has a strong international student and temporary foreign worker practice, where he advises students and temporary workers on the compliance issues and the crucial transition to permanent residence in Canada via Express Entry and Provincial Nomination Programs. Will also serves as a legal advisor and advocate to Canadian families looking to reunite via family sponsorship. Overall, Will believes in a client-focused approach, one that allows the companies and individuals he works with to present their case to Canadian immigration authorities with the needed balance of honesty, simplicity, and creativity. Prior to joining Larlee Rosenberg, Will studied International Relations and History at UBC (with a focus on migration history) before attending the University of Ottawa for law school. At the University of Ottawa, Will co-founded the University of Ottawa Business Law Clinic, Canada’s first bilingual, bijural pro-bono business law clinic. In his final year of law school, Will spent a semester abroad in Chongqing and achieved Dean’s Honour List in his final year. Will is proficient in Mandarin and enjoys sharing his experiences as a second-generation Chinese-Canadian. In his spare time, Will enjoys mentoring young lawyers and students and writing and blogging about immigration related issues. His law blog, Vancouver Immigration Blog (www.vancouverimmigrationblog.com ), was awarded a 2015 Clawbie for “Best New Law Blog” and is widely-consulted within the Canadian immigration legal and policy community. Will is a Board Member and Mentorship Chair with the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, British Columbia and a Committee Member of the City of Vancouver’s Cultural Communities Advisory Committee. 1) Road to Being an Immigration Lawyer – Q: How did you transition into becoming an immigration lawyer?  2) Why Immigration Law? Q: What are the benefits and challenges specific to practicing immigration law? Q: Are you worried about pigeoning-holing yourself as a young practitioner? 3) Challenges of Being a Young Lawyer – Q: How can a young lawyer stay competitive and provide value add in the immigration market?  Q: What type of skill sets does a young lawyer practitioner need?  Q: How has being of an immigrant background impacted your practice?  4) Value of Mentorship –  Q: why it is important to have a mentor when starting out?  Q: What arenas are there to access it? Q: What advice do you have to senior practitioners looking to mentor a young immigration lawyer or retain immigration lawyers as associates? 5) Where you See Your Practice Going – Q: What areas of immigration law are you particularly passionate about and hope to grow moving forward?  Q: Do you have a few examples of notable cases you have been involved in? Q: How can people reach you? You can contact Will Tao via e-mail: Will.Tao@larlee.com Will’s Bio: http://www.larlee.com/lawyers/will-tao/ Larlee Rosenberg, Barristers and Solicitors: www.larlee.com Will’s Blog –“Vancouver Immigration Blog”: http://vancouverimmigrationblog.com/

NIKO SCHWIND on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikoschwind/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nikoschwind HOW I MET THE BASS on: - Facebook: www.facebook.com/howimetthebass - Twitter: twitter.com/howimetthebass - Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass 3 QUESTIONS to NIKO SCHWIND Q: You´ve been touring all over the world yet. What´s your favorite place? And where did you have the greatest partys? A: It´s hard to choose one country but I am definitly in love with Australia and Switzerland. To be part of the Rainbow Serpent Festival down under was one of my best experiences of my DJ career. Q: Obviously 90% of your music releases appear on Stil Vor Talent. What´s your special relation to this label? A: Since I've been part of it for close to 10 years now, the label has become a family to me and many of the artists are good friends to me, which shouldn't be taken for granted in these fast-paced, globalized times. Q: Are there any news you want to tell us – what´s coming up this summer? A: Beside our Stil vor Talent Festivals during the summer, I'm really looking forward to my first gig at Melt Festival this July. New music will be released in late August on Stil vor Talent, as well.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Herry Han, partner at Lightspeed China Partners, spoke with our host Nina Xiang, on making early-stage investments in China's media and mobile healthcare sector. Don't forget to subscribe to China Money Podcast for free in the iTunes store, or subscribe to China Money Network weekly newsletters. You can also subscribe to China Money Podcast’s Youtube channel or Youku channel. Q: In China's media and advertising sector, where do you see future opportunities? A: For advertising, I think there is much more room for growth in the mobile and globalization space. Not so much mobile traffic has been well monetized, or mobile advertising accurately delivered to consumers. There is a great opportunity to create a smart platform to deliver advertising to mobile sites, or to augmented reality (AR) platforms if you think ahead. Also, we see a lot of Chinese companies going global, and they want to market their products to international markets. Companies like Avazu are targeting to help Chinese companies to go global. For media, we are expecting to see the emergence of new media platforms focused on different verticals such as real estate and auto. The new generation doesn't like the old platforms. They are looking for new niche products mostly in mobile formats. Every ten years, there are great opportunities for new media platforms. Q: How are the old and new platforms different, aside from one being viewed on the computer and the other on a phone? A: For example, Soufang.com was an "old" real estate information platform. Autohome.com was an "old" auto platform. These portals are transforming themselves by providing online and offline services, transactional services and other new offerings. Despite their efforts, there are still a lot of new mobile apps emerging, offering new experiences to the young consumers. There will definitely be some new firms that will win the heart of new consumers in this process. Q: Does Lightspeed have other investments in the media sector? A: We have invested in a video producer called iEver Makeup Room. They are building video content in new and innovative ways, and have attracted a lot of eyeballs in a short period of time. We believe video, especially live online streaming and short video, will continue to experience explosive growth going forward. Q: How does this type of company make money? A: As long as there is traffic, we can monetize it by ways including advertising, gaming and lead generation. Q: Lighstspeed also invested in BTCChina, now named BTCC. Can you share with us the rational behind this Bitcoin investment? A: BTCC is sort of a "wild" bet on the future digital currency. We invested in the company in a series A round and in an experienced entrepreneur. This is not a typical investment for us, as nobody can say if digital currency will be the direction of the future or not. We made our bet thinking that if this trend realizes itself, we are invested in the top player in the sector. Digital currency is something so big that we feel like we cannot miss. Q: Which type of mobile healthcare firms will have a better chance to succeed? A: We invested in a company called Trusted Doctors in 2012 as a seed investment. Our observation is that the entry point to mobile healthcare in China is still the doctors. If a company can acquire the top doctors in China, it will win the whole healthcare sector. Trusted Doctors have over 400,000 top doctors on its platform. In China, patients will not pay for services digitally unless they know the identities of the doctors. So as these doctors invite their patients onto the Trusted Doctors platform, it will allow the company to monetize. Other type of mobile health companies we like are those that focus on big data. Q: Are there similar start-ups in the U.S. that do the same thing as Trusted Doctors? A: I think so. There are some U.S.

Ep#38: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here’s the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: How did you find your beta readers and how many do you have? Q: What should I instruct an editor or line editor to look out for in my manuscript? Q: Past, Present or Future - which tense is most appropriate? Q: Is it ok to self-publish before you go to school? Q: I'm designing my own book covers. If I download photos from the internet, am I breaking copyright? Q: Is there funding to help an independent publishers? Q: Are Bookbub Ads and Goodreads Deals worth the effort? Q: Are review bloggers and guest blogging still a powerful marketing strategy? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. About your hosts Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011. Connect with Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. Connect with Orna on Twitter @OrnaRoss

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Roger Wu, a partner at consumer-oriented private equity firm Maison Capital, spoke to our host Nina Xiang on China's O2O (online-to-offline) bubble and the firm's investment in a Chinese healthcare device maker. Don't forget to subscribe to China Money Podcast for free in the iTunes store, or subscribe to China Money Network weekly newsletters. You can also subscribe to China Money Podcast’s Youtube channel or Youku channel. Q: Give us some background of Maison Capital? A: We are a boutique private equity fund founded in 2004 based in Shenzhen, with a focus on the broader consumer sectors in China, including consumer technology, consumer services and lifestyle, as well as the healthcare sector from a consumer angle. Q: Are your funds all RMB denominated? A: We manage three RMB funds, and are raising a U.S. dollar fund now. By the end of this year, we are expecting our assets-under-management to reach over US$500 million. Q: As Chinese consumers become more sophisticated, how do you invest to capture new demands? Take the healthcare sector as an example, why did you back BMC Medical? A: We target consumer sub-segment leaders, those medical device makers producing products specific to one sub-segment. BMC Medical is the largest home-grown brand in respiratory devices in China, focusing on the OTC market selling to individual patients. When we invested in 2010, the market was dominated by foreign brands with very few local producers. MBC Medical was able to produce substitute products targeted to consumers at more attractive prices, and has been growing steadily over the years. Q: How do BMC Medical compete with foreign brands, which Chinese consumers trust and love? A: First, we have to believe that their product quality gets improved consistently. They can also provide customer services better as they are local. Their prices are sometimes half or a third of the foreign branded products. We see the trend of domestic substitution across the board in medical devices. As some of these domestic producers get better, they also start to export their products. Q: How did you get to know DJI, the Shenzhen-based drone maker? A: We met them early on in a trade show back in 2012. We were actually the first institutional investor in the company. Even though it's a technology company, we believed that it would succeed in the consumer market. We try to spot companies early on in an emerging sector trend. For example, we recently invested in an insurance brokerage firm, China Jiang Tai Insurance Brokers Ltd., as the first institutional investor backing the company. Q: You also invested in Helijia, a consumer service O2O (online-to-offline) start-up. The valuation of this company was pretty high when it raised US$49.5 million series C round last April? A: We have looked at some two hundred O2O companies, and we invested in one. Helijia is an O2O channel providing beauty services (manicure, pedicure, hair, makeup) that we believe will only be adopted by more consumers in the future. What we liked is that the beauty space is quite consolidated. The second player in this market is not even one tenth the size of Helijia. Q: Some people don't believe that beauty services O2O firms can achieve steady growth, as users like to have a fixed person to do their nails or their hair? A: But the platform provides a support system. The manicurist depends on the platform to protect herself. The commentary and rating systems are also key in maintaining service quality. Q: What's your outlook of the O2O sector in China? A: We don't think O2O works for every sector, such as nanny or home chef services. We don't see scalability in these types of services. There is probably a bubble in the space currently. Many of these O2O companies will eventually fade away. Only select sectors will see the emergence of successful companies. Q: Lastly,

The Q: Are you a foster failure? If so, what made you foster fail? It’s the most joyful failure of all, and I know I’m not the only rescue chick that’s proud to have that failure under my belt! It’s not uncommon to fall in love when you bring an animal into your life. Sometimes we fall fast, other times it takes a little longer, but the only thing I’m sure about is that you can’t control love. Love happens with or without your consent. Thanks to all of you who shared the love stories behind your foster failures! To access links to the resources and photos mentioned in this episode, please visit http://myrescuerocks.net/28. Please help us spread our rescue stories by sharing this show with a friend, PAWlease, I’d really appreciate it! You can also help out by subscribing, and leaving a rating and review on either iTunes or Stitcher. Thanks so much for your support!

Jeff and Jon talk with a local brewer, Lee Robinson, Founder and Co-Owner of Bentonville Brewing Company. A Discussion with Micro-Brewer Lee Robinson of the Bentonville Brewing Company Q: What is the difference between nano and micro-brewery? A: It's based on volume production, what you can do annually. How many barrels a year - in Arkansas it's 500 barrels a year is a micro-brewery. However this number increases every year, the bar keeps on raising for what can be considered as micro-brewery. Q: How do you sell your beer? A: We self-distribute and we don't go through distributorship because that means a lot more costs,a lot more kegs and lot more inventories to get a good percentage of the keg. Q: Your run your own tap room? Where is your tap room? A: Yes, we run our own tap room. Its over here at 1000 Southeast 5th St in Bentonville, Arkansas. Q: What is your background? Is that where you met Gavin Edwards (co-owner)? A: My background is actually finance and real estate. Yes, we have worked together in real estate over the last few years, he was a realtor and I was a loan officer. He came into the brewery a little bit later in the game. It was me and another friend of mine who started it. Q: About your brewmaster, how long he's been doing it? A: About 2 or 3 months now. But before him, we brought in a guy who is experienced so it is from that person where our current brewmaster has taken his technical background from. Q: When you guys decided that you wanted to do this, how did you come to an agreement? Who's gonna do what? What does the partnership look like and all that fun stuff? A: A lot of handshakes and verbal. We do have a new operating agreement now but that's probably one thing that we should have defined more clearly early on. We should have written out in detail what and whose role should it be because many would not do the roles they said they would do. We did some other things, trading equity for work and build-out and stuff like that but it didn't quite go as we planned but we all got it done in the end. I did all the licensing with the TTB and ABC, a lot of stuff, I didn't know about. You can read all that stuff online but depending where you live at, you will have different circumstances to go through in getting a license. Q: Now that you're in the game, are you getting a little more confident with all that works, getting the traffic, getting the brand out there and all that? A: Yes, we're very excited how things are going so far. Our first brews were actually very good beers.The first time we had a bad batch, they got messed up, we got the wrong yeasts and we just flushed it down the drain. Q: What do you think the outlook is for craft brew? A: I think it's very positive right now especially here in Benton County and in the Little Rock area, there is a lot of growth happening, there are a lot of breweries coming out. Q: How has it been so far? Did it meet your expectations? Exceeded? A: It has met my expectations. Right now, we're paying the bills so that's pretty good. We're not really into real profit yet. Q: When you get to capacity, what's the plan? What will you do to expand? A: That's where it gets a little risky to me. We can add a little more areas and space but we will soon outgrow that space and that's gonna be the next challenge - what we are going to do, should we stay in this small craft brewery or do mid-size brewery and that is where the risk will come in.  It is something we should plan and think about thoroughly. Q: Are you going to can as well? A: If we decide to go, we need to move to another facility. That maybe an option for us. Q: What do you think about some of the labels that are out? A: Sometimes more is less, that is my personal opinion. I would like to keep it simple and basic and focus on the beer. Q: What's keeping you up at night? A: Right now we are trying to maximize production and also manage accounts, making sure to keep all accounts that we have. And also, what beer to produce. Q: How many different types of beer that you have now? A: We've got 5 different types. Q: Do you guys offer anything other than your own beer? A: We have some wine in our brewery. We have some brewed coffee from Airship coffee. We're looking at local root beer. Q: Are you having fun? A: Yes, I really enjoy starting business and running them day to day Q: What about cleaning and water quality? A: The whole brewing process is cleaning. Brewing is not difficult, it's a lot of hard work, taking good notes so you'd know what you did right, what you did wrong. And making sure that everything is very clean so you don't get infections. With the water quality, we run it through a carbon filter and we treat it with different salts to balance the water to the beer that we're gonna make. 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Ep#16: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here’s the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: I’m toying with the idea of using Facebook ads for 1) collecting email subscribers by offering some free content and 2) promoting my books directly. I’ve been through Mark Dawson’s 3 free videos and probably have enough information to try this .. should I do it? Q: Google Play: What is it? Should I put my books in there or not? What royalty revenue could I expect? Q: Now that I’ve published my first book, I am getting contacted by book promoters who promise to publicise my book for a fee. How can I tell which are effective and which are not? Q: After hitting some technical problems loading my books onto Ingram Spark, I missed the promo offer (open to everyone). Can you advise when and if a new offer for Alli members will be launched soon? Q: When hiring a proofreader is it best to engage them for two sets of proofreads – digital and print or just digital? Q: As a self-publisher/writer should I purchase my ISBN’s directly from Bowker? I see there are other sites offering ISBN’s for less money, but are they legitimate? Q: Are there any book cover designers available who can format a color design for a modest book who do not charge lots of money to do so? Q: How can I get review copies of my book at a discount? Q: What publisher would you recommend to do a self-published non-fiction book that has both black and white and color pages? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. About your hosts Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011. Connect with Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. Connect with Orna on Twitter @OrnaRoss

Stalemateby Rose Lemberg He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-patterns etched into the ceiling, tiny and dense, gray against darker gray. No power runs through them. Inert now. Unneeded.He wants to make the patterns work again.—how could anyone survive a descent through Calamity storms?  Above him, someone’s shiny dark shirt smells of static, a faraway storm passing. How are they still alive?Alive, forever, trapped inside this loneliness.A full transcript appears under the cut:----more----Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode seven for May 21st, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.Our story this week is "Stalemate" by Rose Lemberg.Rose Lemberg is a queer bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interfictions, Uncanny, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction anthology, and other venues. Rose co-edits Stone Telling, a magazine of boundary-crossing poetry, with Shweta Narayan. She has edited Here, We Cross, an anthology of queer and genderfluid speculative poetry from Stone Telling (Stone Bird Press), and The Moment of Change, an anthology of feminist speculative poetry (Aqueduct Press). She is currently editing a new fiction anthology, An Alphabet of Embers. You can find Rose at http://roselemberg.net and @roselemberg, and support her on Patreon at patreon.com/roselemberg.Stalemateby Rose Lemberg He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-patterns etched into the ceiling, tiny and dense, gray against darker gray. No power runs through them. Inert now. Unneeded.He wants to make the patterns work again.—how could anyone survive a descent through Calamity storms?  Above him, someone’s shiny dark shirt smells of static, a faraway storm passing. How are they still alive?Alive, forever, trapped inside this loneliness.—where is their ship then? The Machine detected nothing—Two people. A dark face leans over.Who are you? Can you understand me?Oh, yes. The language is familiar—like the warmth of meals shared between friends unknown, like the glinting of the tall glass domes, their shadows trembling in the heat of double suns. The memories dance and reflect off the polished blank steel of his mind, then scurry away.“I remember,” he says, curling his tongue to make the clicking sounds this language requires.Your name, they ask. He knows one: Kabede, but it is not his. He rolls his tongue around it, shakes his head—a no.They take him away on a gurney. His eyes latch again onto the inert designs on the ceiling, and hold, and hold. A room. The person from before is here. The serial number stitched upon their sleeve reads 050089. This person—Eighty-nine—fiddles with the displaywall.Who are you? they keep asking. What is your number? What is your Q? Are you a miner? Did you fall from some other Habitat?Some other habitat? The displaywall shows only one, this one, Neriu Habitat, the single rotating sphere encapsulated in light—but he knows of a hundred siblings, spheres of metal free-floating in Calamity season. Upon the displaywall the storms come together and break, toss the Habitat upon the face of the ocean. Under the wave the storms are snakes of green that spit and lash their tails; above the wave the storms are dense gray columns that funnel up and consume the sky.Nothing can land on Gebe-2.Who are you? What is your number? What is your Q? Do you know this interface?Does he know this interface? His fingers trace a glyph in the air. The storms on the screen disappear, are replaced by an engineer’s dissection of the sphere along the vertical, showing the habitat’s levels—residential, control, mining, the engines with their clever navigating and locking mechanisms. He makes another glyph, flips the display to perimeter—the habitat’s receiving cavities and the inverted protrusions that are there to join seamlessly with—he counts—five other habitats, which, in turn, will join with others during the brief period of Convergence.Someone enters the room, and Eighty-nine turns away from the display. There’s a sewn badge upon Eighty-nine’s tunic—a grebe, a diving bird. Security commune? He’s not familiar with the sigil.They used the interface. They must be ours.No. The new person is squat and powerful, with wiry hair and piercing eyes. Their skin is dark like Eighty-nine’s. No, they cannot be ours. Their memory has been erased. They had to pass through the atmosphere for that. And that offworld suit—His eyes seek the newcomer’s badge out. Cormorant, for Control commune.  No, they will not let him hook up to the Machine until they know more. He could be dangerous to the Machine.If they are ours, the Machine will recognize…Shut up, Eighty-nine. How will the Machine recognize an off-worlder?But so much of it is familiar. He must have been here before. Will the Machine return his name? But he doesn’t want to know it.He doesn’t know why, but he had wanted this. His name is an empty cavity after a rotten tooth has been drawn. Will the Machine put the pain back?He feels its humming all around him. The Machine maintains the grass-cloth patterns of the display-free walls. It spreads warmth through the brick-patterned floor. It is in the displaywall, and in the silent ceiling grid. It waits for him now, an embrace of empty light.The two argue about his Q now. The Machine must assign it. How will he work if they don’t know what commune he belongs to?“Engineering,” he mutters. “Just put me in Engineering.”They take him back to the room, nothing more than a detention cell, where he spent the last night. Eighty-nine settles him into the hammock. The person’s hand briefly squeezes his. On Gebe-2, being alone is a punishment beyond measure.“I won’t be lonely here,” he says to the closing door, not sure what moved him to say it. On a ship full of people he is a stranger, but the place makes him feel like three hundred years of companionable silences. Not a ship. A habitat. He tries to adjust to the hammock, his body too broad and too pale in the artificial half-light. The coarse brown strands in the hammock’s weave smell like basket reeds, but they too must be artificial.—Dream with me.He dreams of Gebe, a city paved with reinforced cinnabar and etched with mazes, a city of soaring spun glass and masonry coffeeshops—but now its beauty’s been smothered under the red skies marred with streaks of black fume. Dead engines hurtle from the sky like bugs sprayed with insecticide, and he barely dodges to avoid the smoldering, screeching debris. He runs, choking on the smell of burning meat and charra oil, resin and feces. He screams at the sharp cries of wild birds released from their protected wildspaces, the crashing glass spires that only a short while ago danced gracefully into a fearless sky.Kabede. He must find Kabede.The university. How they’d cursed the architect who slapped a utilitarian concrete rectangle in the middle of blown-glass dreams, but the engineering school is the only one left standing. It is whole on the inside as well, and softened by age-old Gebian crafts; thousands of people, students and faculty, crowd here on embroidered lotus carpets, argue loudly under chandeliers of blown glass shaped like ibises. They grab his hands, smile up his face and ask for news, but he doesn’t have time. He smiles back, pushes past them to the stairs. Downward. Each level is plainer than the one above —no hand-loomed carpets or chandeliers here, and even the ebony stairs give way to metallic railings painted in pale green. Kabede must be here. It’ll be all right.His friend is at the bottom level, pacing in front of a huge black surface covered densely with blueprints and reading-screen files. Their eyes lock—Kabede’s pupils dilate, and their gaunt dark face splits into a grin. They embrace fiercely, then push away from each other. Kabede speaks, their words disjointed in a way of dreams and scientists. I must take them away from this war, from all wars, I must hide them away in a world without riches, a world undesirable to conquerors, a world stripped of all decoration with only what’s necessary to survive, like the Engineering building survived…Help me, my friend. Help me.He frowns back at Kabede. “You’d strip them of beautiful things just because other people would strip them of beautiful things?” It is, after all, what they are. The people of Gebe are artists, scientists, poets, craftsmen, yes, artisans, makers—it is because of this beauty that they are now hunted.Kabede’s arms fly, accompanying the frantic flight of their speech. A commune where everyone is together and everyone is needed, without trinkets or petty obsessions, without possessions, nothing to distract from the threefold purpose of efficiency, survival, refuge—“You will unmake them.”But Kabede won’t listen. We’ll measure people’s aptitude, and each will be assigned to a commune according to their Q—“You cannot take anybody off-world, Kabede. It’s a fantasy.”Build me a ship, Kabede pleads. You’ve been working on something— but it isn’t anyone’s business what he’s been doing out on the asteroid belt for the last thirty years.“No. No. I’m sorry.”He offers Kabede a game of chess; they’ve always played before parting. But no, there is no time today, and Kabede’s hands curl into fists.This war must end. He hangs in the hammock, neck bent like a trussed bird’s, while shadows regard him across the threshold. The Control person, and a visitor, a frail and ancient darkness against the door’s bright light. More ancient than he is? Impossible.The Keeper of Neriu Habitat gestures the light on and enters, but darkness steps in with them—a face mashed and old like a dried plum, eyes bright but crackled with a minute spiderweb of red around pupils the color of congealed blood. They speak, they praise the Control person’s caution. He is an unknown entity, possibly dangerous, but they are stretched thin and cannot waste workers, not with the Convergence only a month away. If there is danger, I trust the Machine can take it. Plug them in. More people come to take him to a room as faceless as the others, painted a different shade of rough tan, with the same spider-maze ceiling and warm floors. He doesn’t even try to memorize the faces, sounds, smells of the people that surround him. They aren’t his friends. And like with people everywhere, he cannot afford to become attached. Like the savannah blooms they will wither and die, and even when these people’s speech reminds him of someone he misses with every breath, it’s not the same. He cannot become attached.They clip the headset to his head. His eyes roll back. He is in a brown cube without smells or sounds, a space defined by grid-like shining walls. The middle of the room flares up with a projection of three transparent pails. The first is filled with some substance, darker than water.A disembodied voice speaks. Two miners are friends, but one got sick. The healthy friend had mined eight liters of gillium. The healthy one has two empty vessels. One vessel holds five liters, and the other three. How can the miner equally divide the fuel, so that both friends meet their quota?That voice—it hovers on the edge of recognition. It speaks of friendship. Does this Machine have a friend, one it would share everything with, equally, if it could, if it knew where to look?Solve the puzzle.He has no voice here, no hands, no body, no eyes. He cannot touch the jars, but when he wills them to move, they do. He solves the problem in seven turns. It cannot be done in less.The room flickers, and the amount of pails increases by one. The large vessel holds twenty four liters of gillium. The empty ones can hold five, eleven, and thirteen liters…Good-naturedly he finds a solution, and the pail puzzle is replaced by an equation exercise, and after it, another. He remembers how to solve such problems by solving them, but there’s disappointment growing inside him. He opens his mouth to speak.“Do you know Kabede?”The room flickers, displaying now basic trigonometry problems. He solves one, two.“Where is Kabede?”The room blurs, reforms around holographic engineering designs—an airflow node first, then some complex console wiring, then a mining chute, all with nontrivial, tricky repairs. Lovely work. At last, his mind pulls reluctantly back.“I want to speak to Kabede.”The room is extinguished. He is expelled back into his long sweaty body sprawled on the floor.  They drag him up, slap a bird-badge upon his left shoulder. An ibis. He’s been assigned to Engineering commune.At night in the Engineering dormitory he tosses and turns in his hammock, stumbling into dreams. He dreams of Gebe, a city once paved with reinforced cinnabar and etched with mazes, a city of soaring spun glass and masonry coffeeshops—but now its beauty’s been erased, drowned in shrapnel, reformed and erased again under the perpetual red skies choked with toxic fumes. There is no sign of spun-glass spires. The museums have been leveled long ago, their contents evacuated, fought over—so many sacrifices to keep the treasures safe, but now they’re lost. Forgotten. He looks up, but the sky is empty of birds; no avian species are left on Gebe. No animals of any kind, not even insects. Only the humans survive.The university is a compound, the concrete rectangles of buildings crouch low to the ground. He remembers the poetry buildings, and history, art practice, music—but the arts and humanities had long ago been razed. Anthropology’s gone, too, once the most beautiful structure of all, with ornamental spires like cottontail reeds. The hot air smells of smoke and tar, fried canned meat and coffee. He doesn’t bother locating the cafeteria.Engineering is crowded, but the students are all silent, all crouching on the concrete floor, working on small electronic tablets. The carpets are gone, and the glass chandeliers had been replaced by military-grade lamps. Not a single student lifts their head as he passes through to the staircase.Kabede paces in the basement, room and person untouched by the two hundred years that elapsed since their last meeting. His friend’s always been here, framed between the concrete and the smoky air. Behind Kabede, on the table, a holographic image of a dome-like structure breaks into a hundred polished metal spheres that hurtle away from each other and join again. And have you built the ship for me, old friend?The ship, yes, a vast entity of metal mined from the asteroid belt by his bots. The ship—his ship—all complex designs and warmth, always incomplete, always growing. His home.“I haven’t promised you anything.”But this coming war will be the fifth, Kabede says, and the world has been drained of solutions. I need to take them off-world now, my friend, or this war may well be their last.“What are you trying to save?” Whatever’s been beautiful and sacred about Gebe has been destroyed by the wars, or by the Gebians themselves. “There’s nothing left here, Kabede. What value do your people have now, how are they better than millions of others dying on thousands of different worlds? Humans kill each other.” Or else they live small insignificant lives, and only the art they create will remain as they pass, only the art will matter long after they go.But of course, Kabede doesn’t believe in art. Art creates commodities desired by others. They come to trade for it first, then they come to steal, then they come to destroy it because we have too much, and then they come because they always came. It is a mistake to think that art survives death. You can’t survive your death, unless you choose not to die.“We may not die, my friend, but we are the children of loneliness.”I am not lonely, Kabede says. My people are with me. You do not see them, but I do. They are my family, my living, breathing people—and they are everything to me. As you are, old friend. And you are my friend. So help me.“Yes,” he says. “I’ll see what I can do.”Kabede nods, produces an ancient ebony-and-ivory chessboard. They sit down together at the table.Engineering brings his memories back, slowly. He’s always been good at making things work. As a child, he fixed the broken toy trains for the dimly-remembered children next door, he flushed toys down the toilet to see how much the drain would take before clogging, and then unclogged it again using a very long stick and an improvised drill. He fixed the grandfather clock silent since his grandfather’s youth. He cannot quite recall his grandparents, but he remembers how the cogs shone inside the clock, silent first, then shrill in hurried, disbelieving reawakening.He knows that even if all the memories return, the faces of his family won’t be among them.‘We may not die, my friend, but we are the children of loneliness...’How long ago? He remembers now how a scholarship took him away from his homeworld and brought him to Gebe, Kabede’s home—a world famous for its arts, a world illustrious with science. He’d learned so much there—engineering, of course, but also other things. The beauty of glass and groove and light. The Gebian language, with its seventeen emotions to experience art, that marked no genders in speech or custom.He remembers Kabede at the university, bent over some antique flimsy-display reader. Kabede couldn’t make it work again, being always far better at new designs. He remembers repairing the reader for Kabede, bits of century-old diplastic warped and soft like clipped-off fingernails. They learned about the Boundless from that flimsy—the most talented scientists chosen somehow to discard death forever, chosen perhaps by the older Boundless always secretly on the prowl, always searching.They found more information about the Boundless at the great library of Gebe, and a mention of a hidden meeting-place, a planet of wonders. But they have never met a single Boundless other than themselves, not to recognize. Death-lack seemed splendid at twenty, doubtful at best at four hundred or so.Four hundred years. Long enough to unlearn about love if one didn’t pay any attention to it in the first place.He shakes his head. People do not matter. Work matters. Work and art— those things that can be salvaged after the people leave you. Tangible things. Except, of course, Kabede. There’ll always be Kabede. Neriu Habitat is painfully small. The forty three engineers in his commune do not talk much, but sometimes they nod at him. Work matters—repairing the ailing Habitat, with never enough workers to direct. Always repairing, never expanding. Again he asks about Kabede. You must wait for the Convergence to see him, they say. Just do your work. He does—and it is soothing, like the air that circulates through the habitat, purified but always the same, never changing. They make nothing here that is beautiful. Only bland warmth. How is it better than pain? Eighty-nine comes to visit him in the dorms one evening, to play a game, like everyone does here. Eighty-nine teaches him games from Security commune, first simple and then increasingly elaborate clapping games that require coordination and quick thinking. He loses cheerfully to Eighty-nine, engrossed until his fellow dorm-mates intervene. Engineers don’t play such games, they say. “Chess?” he asks, but they don’t know the word, even though he speaks their language. They do not use any game-pieces, no frivolous objects shaped into arbitrary designs that serve no immediate purpose. Too much like art. Instead, they teach him games that require only the mind—language puzzles in which every letter is assigned a numeric value, and the value of whole words is calculated through complex equations. These he enjoys, but Eighty-nine doesn’t, and he does not want Eighty-nine to feel left out.“Let’s play something else,” he says.There’s an old game they play here that the people of Gebe played also. The questioner asks a quick question, any question, tricking the players into responding with the word yes; if they do, they lose.  Are you from here? Eighty-one asks him, an easy question. Then, is your Q higher than mine? Question after question, round after round in rapid succession to trick the players to respond with a short truthful yes in response to a trivial query. One after one, his Engineering fellows lose, and leave the game. Nine out of twelve remain. Seven out of twelve. Do you like it here? The yes is frozen on his lips. What’s not to like? The warm air, calculated to the perfect pleasantness he remembers from his university days, never changes here to a winter storm’s intensity or the sun’s summer scorching; fascinating detailed work; the Machine everywhere, comforting on the edge of his senses. Even the lack of adornment seems soothing now. What’s not to like? Only himself, his returning identity that’ll spit him out in the end, back into the vacuum of loneliness. He can unlearn it with these people. But they… The old Gebians—the people he came to love are burned, are buried, forgotten under the rubble of dreams. He cannot allow himself to become attached again.“I do not like myself,” he says.And us? Do you like us?“Yes,” he lies. Loses. His dreaming drains him further into memory. Ten thousand people on a ship that could hold thirty thousand more. The ship is huge—in the two hundred years since Kabede’s first question he’d perfected his miner bots and dismantled a few small moons. His modular designs for it are genius. Immodest, but true enough; after all, only geniuses become Boundless, only geniuses are punished for their competence with this unending pain.Forty thousand people could fit here easily, but the fifth war really is the last. Only ten thousand survivors, wounded and bleeding. Adults clutch emaciated children, elders crouch quietly, their toothless mouths open; those who still can walk around, frantically trying to be useful to someone, somehow, anything to escape the staring stillness. And Kabede—Kabede is not among them; his friend lies stretched out under the medi-dome, dying from a head wound that cannot possibly be repaired. A Boundless cannot die, but a Boundless can still be killed.It was a mistake to agree to Kabede’s request. They should have left the war behind, gone away together like he wanted. But instead he’d said yes. He’d found a world, a watery planet plagued by storms—increased by Kabede’s designs to such vehemence than nobody would bother to come here. The storms would hide Kabede’s world from curious eyes, prevent the colonists from leaving. Forever, peace—sheltering the people from all wars, taking them away even from themselves.He remembers wondering if the people would find a way to make art, but the walls of the engineering dorm are bare. The reeds of his hammock are woven into uneven patterns that dig into his skin and signify nothing.The ancient Keeper of Neriu Habitat comes to see him once more, in the Engineering dorm. The Convergence is coming, and Kabede, the keeper says, will see him in three days’ time.His eyes trace the spiderweb patterns of the ceiling. He designed them for his ship, just for beauty. Lit up, they were thin lines that rotated and danced, forming an imaginary starmap of the universe, with confirmed constellations warming up to an orange and the unconfirmed to a shimmery gray. Once he’d thought it Kabede’s mistake to believe that art doesn’t survive death, for if he were somehow to die, this ship of his, these minutely patterned ceilings would survive.He is alive yet, but his art, his ceilings are not in use here. Kabede would never approve of something so frivolous.Three days’ time.He remembers most of it now. Kabede gave him the memory leecher, to be installed in the upper atmosphere. If strangers came to Gebe-2 to wage their war, intent and knowledge would be drained of them before they fell into the storms.Once you have the habitats defined, transfer me, Kabede asked, back when they’d made their plans. I want to be embedded in my world. He begged against it, when Kabede was alive. “You won’t have a body anymore…” But his pleading didn’t matter. Kabede was dead now. There wasn’t enough left to exist when the hundred specified nodes were separate. Kabede would only be whole and aware when the habitats came together, briefly, once every three or four years, to synchronize their memories and share mined fuel. The rest of the time Kabede’s mind would be divided into a hundred pieces and scattered across the ocean, memoryless, friendless. A hundred habitats, Kabede had insisted—even if war were somehow to find this world, the people would be divided, easy to hide, safe.Such a waste. They should have left Gebe together to search for the hidden planet of the Boundless, on his ship. This ship.He remembers now how he broke it down. Unmade his home. Reforged it into a hundred Habitats for his only friend.Neriu Habitat screeches in joining others, like a flock of birds pressed together into a ball. Eighty-nine is there when they come to transfer him from Neriu to Deselin, but there is nothing to say.Deselin Habitat corresponds to the medical wing where Kabede had died. Most of what’s left of them survives here, and now, joined with other bits of their scattered cognition, Kabede is as whole as they will ever be. There is no need to don the headset—a hologram appears to him in the room recreated to be identical to the Gebe basement. It is Kabede as they were in death, tall and gaunt, their dark face glistening with projected sweat, but there is nothing to embrace. Only bits of colored light. “It’s good to see you.”I am glad you visit me, Kabede says.“How many times have I done this?”This is the third time. Every sixty years. Every twenty Convergences. Kabede’s image flickers. I’m sorry about your memory, old friend, but I have to protect my people. I will return it to you when you leave, and erase you again from the system. I wish…“Don’t say it, please.” But there is no need to speak. They know the dialogue by heart.I wish so much you’d stay.‘But nothing changes here, Kabede. Nothing evolves.’My people—‘—are ghosts.’They survive. It is peaceful, efficient—‘There is no hope.’Yes, he remembers now. They played this game before, went through the same moves over and over. And I will come again, and lose my memory, to see you. But no matter how we play this, it’s a stalemate, Kabede.There are no chairs for them to sit. They squat on the floor, with the holographic chessboard between them.END"Stalemate" was originally published in Lackington's issue 4, in 2014.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. 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Joachim Spieth(@joachim-spieth) is the founder of the German techno label Affin. His career started with one of the earliest releases on Kompakt, a record label that has contributed with paramount influence in the electronic music landscape. With more than 15 years in the scene he has managed to build a record label that many associate with quality and variety ranging from house to techno. His upcoming release on the label is Aiden 12”, featuring remixes by Samuel L Session and Arnaud Le Texier. This release and others has also gained support by artists like Bas Mooy, Derrick May, Chris Liebing, Ben Klock, Alan Fitzpatrick just to name a few! For more news and updates visit his website at http://joachimspieth.de/. The next hour will be spent listening to an array of tracks showcasing different atmospheres that leaves you craving for more! We hope you enjoy this weeks podcast, and don't forget to follow Monument for more techno, art, and upcoming events! Q & A Q: You must at one time have had a vision about how Affin should be, tell us about it A: The idea for an own label was present long time before Affin started. The main reason was just to release whatever i wanted. Moreover i like the idea of being independent from others opinions and after some years of releasing and working on several labels i felt fine to go for it. Q: Are you getting closer to your vision? A: Yes, for sure. The Affin 100 compilation was a turning point for the label. In the last 2 years the the label focussed on releasing techno. Q: What are your thoughts on the techno scene today? A: Compared to the time when i started releasing music (1999) a lot of things changed (otherwise it would be sad, ha ha). With developments of software and DAWs it’s easier/cheaper to start producing music. This caused a crowded market and especially on download shops you can see a lot of crap is being sold. Q: How do you spend your time when you are not producing, managing or djing? A: I don't have much time besides from it. I try to relax and easy my mind. :­) Q: Finally, if music was not your carrier what could have been your alternative career? A: I’m not sure. https://www.facebook.com/pages/JOACHIM-SPIETH/33219177020 https://www.facebook.com/MonuMnt

In this episode of China Money Podcast, our featured guest is Goodwin Gaw, managing principal and founder of Hong Kong-based private real estate management firm, Gaw Capital Partners, which manages US$7.5 billion. Gaw talked with our host, Nina Xiang, about where in the Chinese property market he sees price corrections this year, why his firm is staying on the sidelines investing in Hong Kong, and his thoughts on Gaw Capital's performance. Read an excerpt below, but be sure to listen to the full interview in audio, or watch an abbreviated video version. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free in the iTunes store. Q: Are you concerned about the recent market jitters on the financial health of Chinese property developers? A: In China, you have to go along with the government policy. The government policy now is actually to promote steady growth in the housing sector. Every time when the market goes up too much, the government puts the brakes on. We are in this type of situation where the government is trying to take away excessive liquidity in the market, so that the (housing) prices may correct or slow down. There will be tightening in some of the developers' finances. It's actually a good opportunity for us to put capital to work in China. Q: How big will this type of distressed opportunity be? A: I think it could be quite big. This new government has strong resolution to change the economy structurally, which will create volatility in the market. Particularly in high-end homes in tier I cities where there are a lot of speculative investments, meaningful correction should take place. Q: How big a correction? A: For some of the high-end residential projects in Beijing and Shanghai, a correction of 10% is probably not excessive. I'm less concerned about residential properties in tier II or tier III cities because they are still experiencing high growth. The government policy there is to encourage more supply and better housing to meet housing demand. Q: But you believe that's where troubles in commercial property might be? A: Yes. There have been massive investments in shopping centers and office space in a lot of these tier II and tier III cities. The problem is that these cities are populated more by domestic companies, private entrepreneurs and state-owned enterprises. They historically would rather own their property than rent. So it's harder to build investment grade asset and fill them with enough multinational companies. Q: Any predictions here about the scale of price corrections? A: I would say for the big tier II cities like Chengdu and Nanjing, correction is less. But a 10% to 15% correction is not out of the question in the next five years. (The bigger concern) is the retail property sector in certain cities like Shenyang. I've never seen so many shopping centers in one city. On top of that, Chinese consumers are quickly adopting e-commerce. As a result, there might be a shake up for these type of properties. Q: With your projections in mind, what kind of impact will they have on Chinese banks? A: It may be a little bump. Remember, China is a closed system. Municipal debt is central government debt. Banks are state-owned. Banks lend mostly to SOEs. So it's almost a test of the will of the central government. Do they want someone to fail? As a private businessman, you have to take a bet on the government's resolve. Q: Your bet is that this government will let default happen? A: If they believe it's not contagious, they will probably let some small firms fail. Just to set an example that they are not going to protect everyone. That's purely my own guess. Q: For Hong Kong's property market, do you agree with the mainstream projection that a correction is coming this year? A: Hong Kong's low tax environment, as well as it's currency being pegged to the U.S. dollar and the high-growth economy of mainland China,

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, returning guest and veteran investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, talked with our host Nina Xiang on his reading of China's third plenum meeting, why China should open its financial markets completely "this afternoon", and what Chinese stocks he has been buying lately. Read an excerpt below, but be sure to listen to the full interview in audio or watch an abbreviated video version. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast in the iTunes store. Q: The just completed third plenum meeting provided a road-map for China's future reforms. It created this renewed sense of optimism about China's future. Do you share that feeling? A: I was quite delighted to see what they said. The one overriding point is that the market is going to make the final decision. That is contrary to what is happening in the U.S., and that is why the world is moving to Asia. Q: The policy initiatives may look near perfect on paper, but no doubt the most challenging part will be implementation. What do you see as the biggest risk in implementation? A: In the past few years, the momentum (for reform) in China has slowed because of vested interests and their fear of losing power. The new leadership now says let's move on and just do it. But it won't happen with a snap of the finger. Q: What would you like to see in China's financial reform? A: They should make their currency, the RMB, convertible this afternoon. They started (currency reforms) in 2005 and have taken many small steps. But China is no longer a weak economy. It is the most successful country in the past thirty years. There is nothing to fear. Q: Interest rate liberalization, floating the currency and opening up capital accounts, which one should come first? A: I would think all of the above this afternoon. But they've been very slow and only taken small steps. Deng Xiaoping says you cross a stream by feeling one rock at a time. That's correct. But there comes a time when you get to the other side, and let's move ahead. China is on the other side now. Q: How worried are you about capital outflows if the capital accounts are opened now? A: Of course there will be capital outflows. The RMB may even go down for a while. But just do it and get it over with. There will be a lot of capital inflows as people like me want to put money into China. Have you ever heard of people smuggling money into a country with capital controls? No. People in China are trying to get their money out. But there are also many people who want to rush into China. This is the point of a free and open market. Trust me, it's not the end of the world. The Australians, Germans and Japanese used to worry about (opening up capital accounts). But somehow they all survived. Trillions of dollars flow in and out everyday in the foreign currency market. China will survive too. Q: You have been bullish on the RMB for a long time, but the RMB only appreciated for roughly 12% since 2008. You can't say that it's a great performance as an investment? A: That depends on what you compare with. There are many other currencies that were down. We presume one has earned interest as well even if it's just put into a CD (certificate of deposit). Don't forget that those interests get compounded. But you are right, there are many other investments that could have made a lot more money. But the point is the currency has continued to appreciate and will continue to appreciate. It may be double or triple in the next 10 to 20 years. Q: Are you buying Chinese company shares now? A: Yes. Q: Can you give us a couple of those names? A: I've never bought Chinese domestic A shares in my life because it's always more expensive. But I've been buying H shares and overseas-listed Chinese companies for the first time in a while. One company I bought was HollySys, a supplier of automation and control applications to China's subway and railway sectors.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Sam Gupta, CEO of Grand Trunk Capital, explains why he is bullish on the Indian economy and markets, why Indian banks will consolidate in the next two years, and the reason why he prefers to work with the management team. Listen to the full interview in the audio podcast, watch an abbreviated video version, or read an excerpt. Q: First give us a brief introduction of Grand Trunk Capital? A: Grand Trunk Capital is a private investment partnership, (managing money) for institutions and family offices. We focus on special investments in India. Previously I managed a fairly large fund in partnership with Soros Management called QIF Management. QIF Management was at points in time the largest overseas investment fund in India. The strategy (of Grand Trunk Capital) is to focus on five or ten best investment ideas across sectors and geographies within the Indian markets. We are not a trading fund. We tend to take longer term and focused positions in Indian companies where we think there is sufficient mispricing and where we see sufficient upside down the road. Our strategy is very search based, value driven and focused on catalysts. Q: Can you talk about the performance of the (Grand Trunk Capital) fund? A: The fund was up 42% in 2012. We had a very bullish view on the banking system in India, and started buying some Indian banks towards the middle of the summer. That worked really well for us. We also took opportunities in the media space because of the catalyst of regulatory changes. One of our largest investments, (United Spirits), was bought out by Diageo, the world's largest liquor maker, at a significant premium. That's an investment we got into in early 2012. Q: Now you are raising more capital for Grand Trunk Capital. What do you think makes India more attractive? A: What's interesting about India vis-à-vis Russia, Brazil and China is that India is primarily a domestic market. It has a young population. Most of the economic activities are about feeding and satisfying their needs. So when the world slows down, India is impacted much less than other emerging markets. India also has a very diversified economy. Almost 50% of the Indian economy is services based. So it is a bit of a paradox that the Indian economy is both a more diversified economy and also a more basic economy. Q: Normally, how big a stake do you take when investing in a stock? A: We try to take less than 10% of a company, but we've taken more than that in some companies in the past. Q: Are your investments passive, or do you try to influence the management of the company? A: Once we take a minority position, we try to stand on the same side with the management. In India, management team tends to control half of any given company. So their well-being and wealth is tied up with the price of the stock. The legal system is also stacked in favor of the management, so as an investor, you can only do so much. But we feel comfortable with most management teams in Indian companies, at least those managers we like. They generally are appreciative if we give them good advice. Q: You also offer special situation investment opportunities to investors. Tell us more on that? A: Sometimes we work with management in unlocking the value of their company. It might involve halving off a division, making an investment in a new project. Of course, we invest along with the management, which is probably the best price you can get to invest. So we give co-investment opportunities in these special deals for our core fund investors. Q: Can you give us an example of a recent special situation opportunity that you have looked at? A: We launched a fund in late 2012 to take arbitrage opportunities among Indian banks. Some Indian banks are trading at a massive discount to their larger peers. Some of them are good acquisition targets in the next two years.