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3/28/25 7am CT Hour - Mary Hallan Fiorito/ Howard Dvorkin John, Glen and Sarah chat about DOGE, special elections and the results from MLB opening day. Mary joins us from the True Genius Conference where they are discussing the 30th Anniversary of Evangelium Vitae and the Feminine Genius from JPII. 3 Questions with Richard Howard talks about how to make the best use of your paycheck so you can pay for now and plan for the future.
The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!)Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Miguel's SHORE DITCH is available from Barrow Street.You can purchase Edmund White's new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, at BookWoman here. Bookwoman was founded to increase access to queer and feminist literature in Texas nearly fifty years ago. Read Colm Tóibín's essay, "On the Casual Brilliance of Edmund White"Read a tribute to Gary Indiana in The Guardian here. Need a quick definition refresher of auto fiction? Here you go! Miguel mentions that composer Arnold Schoenberg's archive destroyed in LA fires, and you can read more about that here. Here's a dishy roundup of Nabokov's insults of DostoevskyFor a bit more about Larry Kramer's objections to The Farewell Symphony, read on.Learn more about Richard Howard and his poetry here. Edmund White and Michael Carroll talk about their relationship, and their experiences writing gay fiction here.And here's the Interview Magazine article we mention in the episode, in which gay writers ask Edmund White a question: “Tall Blonde With a Big Dick”: 18 Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions" Finally, check out the fabulous Garth Greenwell's website: https://www.garthgreenwell.com
Get the GovClose Certification: https://www.govclose.com/sales-certification Join us as we talk to Ekene Imbata, founder of Facility Management Supplies and People, Inc., about his journey into government contracting. Kenny shares how he transitioned from running a software solutions business to securing his first contracts with the government. Learn about his strategic partnerships, insights into MRO products, and plans to expand into DoD and software contracts. Ekene is just getting started and If you're looking for inspiration to break into government sales, this is the episode for you! Timestamps: [00:00:00] Introduction to Kenny Imbata and His Business Journey Overview of Facility Management Supplies and People, Inc. Initial motivation to pursue government contracting. [00:00:45] Why Government Contracting? Discovering the government as the largest buyer. Importance of targeting higher-value clients. [00:06:00] Starting Small: Registration and Early Challenges Kenny's first steps on SAM.gov and early difficulties with software contracts. [00:08:30] Teaming Up for Success Partnering with an experienced company for MRO product contracts. How joint ventures and subcontracting can fast-track success. [00:12:00] Fine-Tuning the GovCon Process Focusing on niche markets to reduce competition. Targeting specific agencies like the Navy shipyards. [00:15:30] The Challenges of Pricing and Past Performance Understanding the importance of supplier relationships and profit margins. Strategies to secure past performance for future growth. [00:18:45] Expanding into DoD and Software Contracts Kenny's exploration of custom software solutions for government needs. Navigating cybersecurity requirements like FedRAMP and NIST. [00:24:00] Building Relationships and Long-Term Success Leveraging relationships with agencies and vendors for simplified acquisitions. Kenny's advice for aspiring GovCon professionals. [00:26:00] Final Thoughts and Advice for New GovCon Entrants Kenny's top takeaways from his journey. How to reach out to Kenny for advice or collaboration. Ekene's Linkedin Profile
FREE TRAINING: https://www.govclose.com/sales-certification GET CERTIFIED: Earn up to $400K a year as a freelance GOVERNMENT CONTRACT CONSULTANT: https://www.govclose.com/sales-certification. Free Book Download: https://www.dodcontract.com/ 00:00 Introduction to the 8a Program 00:36 Meet Kevin Mulrennan: 8a Expert 01:53 Understanding the 8a Program 02:38 Economic and Social Disadvantages in 8a 07:16 Benefits of the 8a Program 09:17 Sole Source Contracts and Limitations 12:30 Tribal 8a and Unique Advantages 16:16 Strategies for 8a Success 26:20 Joint Ventures and Past Performance 32:54 Future of the 8a Program 3 5:19 Conclusion and Contact Information
Get the GovClose Certification: https://www.govclose.com/sales-certif... Our students learn the government contracting skills to : Start their own consulting business that can earn up to $400k as a "solopreneur" advising businesses that sell to the government. Land high paying sales executive jobs with companies in the public sector. Increase government contracting revenue for companies selling to the US government. Learn more at GovClose.com Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel!
Welcome to this week's episode of the DoD Contract Academy! Today, we're diving into the world of government contracting, exploring why getting certified and trained in this field can open up incredibly lucrative opportunities. We'll share insights from our comprehensive certification program under GovClose, guiding you on how to start a profitable consulting business or land a high-paying sales executive job. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, visit GovClose Certification Program to learn more and schedule a call with one of our advisors. [00:01:14] Why Certification and Training Matter Title: The Importance of Certification Description: Explanation of why getting certified and trained in the process of selling to the US government can be highly lucrative for both consulting businesses and salaried positions. [00:03:33] Federal Spending and Small Business Opportunities Title: Federal Spending Insights Description: A look at federal spending trends, focusing on small business opportunities and the types of goods and services the government purchases. [00:06:33] The Certification Program: What You'll Learn Title: Certification Program Breakdown Description: Detailed overview of the certification program, including learning how the government makes purchases, building a federal sales roadmap, and developing a niche strategy. [00:09:42] Selling to the Government vs. B2B/B2C Title: Government Sales vs. Commercial Sales Description: The differences between selling to the government and commercial sectors, and why understanding these differences is crucial. [00:11:00] Starting Your Consulting Business Title: Launching a Consulting Business Description: How to start a consulting business focused on government contracts, including finding leads, establishing expertise, and generating recurring revenue. [00:15:00] Building a Sustainable Client Pipeline Title: Client Pipeline Strategies Description: Strategies for building and maintaining a pipeline of clients to ensure consistent and predictable income. [00:18:15] Effective Pitching and Proposal Writing Title: Mastering the Pitch Description: Tips on effective pitching, writing proposals, and invoicing clients for consulting services. [00:21:30] Real-Life Success Stories Title: Success Stories Description: Case studies and testimonials from individuals who have successfully leveraged the certification program to generate significant income. [00:23:00] Advanced Sales Strategies Title: Advanced Strategies Description: Advanced strategies for selling to the government and running a consulting business, including how to handle niche areas like cybersecurity and SBIR projects. [00:26:00] Salaried Positions in Government Sales Title: Lucrative Sales Jobs Description: Exploring high-paying sales positions within companies selling to the government, and how certification can help secure these roles. [00:28:00] Final Thoughts and Call to Action Title: Final Thoughts Description: Recap of the episode, the importance of investing in oneself through certification, and how to schedule an enrollment interview with an advisor.
Borror, Kinnamon take top slots in Soap Box Derby: https://www.richlandsource.com/2024/06/22/borror-kinnamon-take-top-slots-in-soap-box-derby/ Today - we take a closer look at the recent North Central Ohio Soap Box Derby, where young racers put their skills to the test.Support the show: https://richlandsource.com/membersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Richard Howard (born Oct 13, 1929, died march 31, 2022) was credited with introducing modern French fiction—particularly examples of the Nouveau Roman—to the American public; his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1984) won a National Book Award in 1984. A selection of Howard's critical prose was collected in the volume Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003, and his collection of essays Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950 (1969) was praised as one of the first comprehensive overviews of American poetry from the latter half of the 20th century. First and foremost a poet, Howard's many volumes of verse also received widespread acclaim; he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection Untitled Subjects. His other honors included the American Book Award, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the PEN Translation Medal, the Levinson Prize, and the Ordre National du Mérite from the French government. For many years, Howard was the poetry editor of the Paris Review.Evaluations of Howard usually judge his work as a poet to be his most important contribution to contemporary American literature. However, his work has and continues to attract a wide and enthusiastic audience among readers, academics, and critics alike.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
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“Find what motivates you in life and be passionate about it.” - Ricky HowardJeffrey Feldberg talks with retired Lieutenant Colonel Ricky Howard about the potential of government contracting for business growth. Howard, a leading authority on U.S. federal government contracts and CEO of DOD Contract, shares insights from his successful career in military acquisitions and private consulting, educating listeners on the potential benefits and challenges of pursuing government contracts. They discuss how proper preparation can increase the likelihood of winning bids, the advantages of special business certifications, and the impact of government contracts on business valuation. Feldberg also highlights the importance of persistence, passion, and strategic problem-solving in achieving government contracting success.02:11 The Power of Government Contracting for Business Growth02:42 Richard Howard's Journey to Government Contracting03:34 The Potential of Government Contracting for Small Businesses04:49 Richard Howard's Services and Offerings08:45 The Scope and Range of Government Contracts13:08 The Process of Winning Government Contracts16:32 The Importance of Early Engagement in Government Contracting21:42 Winning Contracts Without Competing: The Legal Way22:17 The Power of Public Information in Government Contracting25:11 The Impact of Government Contracts on Business Valuation27:48 The Security of Government Contracts: A Financial Perspective30:15 Overcoming Challenges in Bidding for Government Contracts35:12 The Role of Certifications and Set Asides in Government ContractingClick here to subscribe to The Deep Wealth Podcast to save time and effort.SELECTED LINKS FOR THIS EPISODEDOD Contract websiteDoD Contract Academy on Apple PodcastsRichard C. Howard, USAF (Ret) - DoD Contract Academy | Veteran Consultant AcceleratorFREE Deep Wealth eBook on Why You Suck At Selling Your Business And What You Can Do About It (Today)Book Your FREE Deep Wealth Strategy CallResources To Have You Thrive And ProsperLooking to unlock your path to wealth and success? The Deep Wealth Podcast is your go-to source to extract your deepest wealth in business and life. Picture yourself mastering the foundational strategies that led our founders to a 9-figure exit. Ready to grow your profits, boost the value of your business, and optimize your life post-exit? Shoot us a quick email at insights[at]deepwealth.com with "Deep Wealth" in the subject line for more info. Click the links below to explore the resources, gear, and books that have paved the way for our guests and the high-achieving Deep Wealth team to reach remarkable success. Looking forward to helping you unlock the riches and success you deserve! https://www.deepwealth.com/thriveContact Deep Wealth: Client testimonials The Deep Wealth Strategy Map LinkedIn Instagram Subscribe to The Deep Wealth Podcast Help us pay it forward by leaving a review.May you continue to thrive and prosper while remaining healthy and safe!
Richard Howard, Lt Col (Ret) is a leading authority on US federal government contracts. As a career military acquisitions officer he oversaw $82B+ in DoD contracts and has advised & trained over 400 companies as a consultant. Richard is the CEO of DoD Contract which guides, trains and mentors small business owners and sales executives through the government sales process.
In this episode of the Business Growth Architect Show we are talking to Richard Howard. He is sharing insider strategies for securing government contracts, with a focus on how to engage early in the procurement process so that you can increase your success rate. Rick, emphasizes the importance of companies becoming involved before a solicitation, or a request for proposals (RFP) is issued. He explains how businesses can help write the solicitation and how to get awarded set aside contracts for specific business types like woman-owned or veteran-owned businesses. Richard gives insider tips on how you can showcase your capabilities, which will increase the chances of getting contracts that are set aside for your particular type of business—potentially eliminating much of the competition. This episode clarifies the procurement process and underscores the criticality of building relationships and conducting research early on. The government's requirement for transparency in procurement is highlighted, and the need for subject matter expertise in the market research phase is critical to obtain often multi-million dollar contracts. Richard emphasizes how to engage during this phase to ensure your unique offerings are taken into consideration. Additionally, Rick details the initial steps of the process, including demystifying how to register your business on sam.gov and conducting independent market research to understand opportunities during the market research phase. Keywords such as "sources sought," "request for information," and "pre solicitation" are critical indicators of this phase. Overall this episode is a how-to guide to increase your chances of getting lucrative government contracts. Resources Mentioned: Richard Howard: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
12/28/2023 - Thursday NightScriptures Used (In Order of Occurrence):Proverbs 20:29Proverbs 16:31II Kings 20:1-11
Richard Howard (born Oct 13, 1929, died march 31, 2022) was credited with introducing modern French fiction—particularly examples of the Nouveau Roman—to the American public; his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1984) won a National Book Award in 1984. A selection of Howard's critical prose was collected in the volume Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003, and his collection of essays Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950 (1969) was praised as one of the first comprehensive overviews of American poetry from the latter half of the 20th century. First and foremost a poet, Howard's many volumes of verse also received widespread acclaim; he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection Untitled Subjects. His other honors included the American Book Award, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the PEN Translation Medal, the Levinson Prize, and the Ordre National du Mérite from the French government. For many years, Howard was the poetry editor of the Paris Review.Evaluations of Howard usually judge his work as a poet to be his most important contribution to contemporary American literature. However, his work has and continues to attract a wide and enthusiastic audience among readers, academics, and critics alike.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
The US government is the single largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Though government contracts are usually associated with defense purposes, there are a lot more opportunities, especially for small businesses, to supply what the government needs.In this episode of What's Working Now? Katie interviews Richard Howard, a leading expert on US federal government contracts, as they discuss how Richard's company helps small businesses tap into these opportunities from the federal government. Tune in and learn more! This could be the opportunity you've been waiting for. Key Takeaways from this episode:Richard's military career to government procurement.Why you should consider going after government contractsOn small business definition and the NAICS codeStarting points for getting a government contractA $200 million contract with a small teamPodcast and email marketing.About Richard Howard:Richard Howard, Lt Col (Ret) is a leading authority on US federal government contracts. As a career military acquisitions officer, he oversaw $82B+ in DoD contracts and has advised & trained over 400 companies as a consultant. Connect with Richard:Website: https://www.dodcontract.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dodcontractacademyCRM Designed for Selling to the US Government: https://www.govclose.com/DOD Contract Academy on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dod-contract-academy/id1566870206 About Katie Richardson:Katie, once a girl who just liked to have fun, transformed into a globally recognized designer and entrepreneur. With expertise in woodworking, welding, drawing, and sewing, she crafted her own path. Despite initial doubts and imposter syndrome, Katie defied expectations by establishing Puj, a business that now boasts its products in 2,000 US stores and 26 countries, delighting over 1 million customers worldwide. Her greatest aspiration is to inspire women across the globe. Renowned shows like the Ellen Degeneres Show, Rachael Ray Show, Today Show, and Entrepreneur Magazine have featured her, while influential figures like Martha Stewart, Matt Damon, Camilla Alves, Mario Lopez, Robert Downey Jr., Kourtney Kardashian, Bill & Giuliana Rancic, and Pam Beesley have embraced her products. Today, Katie is a coach, mother of four, wife, author, and powerful speaker. To connect with Katie:An Event in Puerto Rico (December 6-8, 2023) : https://now.katierichardson.com/eventWebsite: https://katierichardson.com/CASE STUDIES: https://now.katierichardson.com/casestudyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-richardson-creatorApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-working-now/id1515291698BuzzSprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1847280Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2kV8cL7eTZ70UAXMOtcBbr
In this Energy Unplugged episode, Emma Fletcher, Low Carbon Homes Director at Octopus Energy and Caroline Still, Senior Associate in our Advisory team, discuss the decarbonisation of homes and buildings with Richard Howard, our Global Research Director. Emma started her career in the real-estate industry and, over time, became the manager of a major house-building and development company. Alongside this, she is part of a community land trust which implements low-carbon solutions at the domestic and settlement scale. Presently, at Octopus, she is at the forefront of developing customer propositions aimed to decarbonise homes and buildings. Main topics include the following: • Barriers at the individual household scale that curb the progress towards the decarbonisation of homes and buildings • The various technologies that have the potential to replace traditional oil and gas boilers • The role of policy both in GB and other European countries in enabling the decarbonisation of homes and buildings
Get on your spurs & chaps and join our country queens down at the poetry gay bar!Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Watch Miranda Lambert calling out some selfie-takers and the ladies of The View talking about it. And watch her sing "Tin Man" here.Watch Jennifer L. Knox read "Crushing It" here.Maybe the most memorable Tammy Wynette reference is this one from Sordid Lives. "He looked just like Tammy....in the early years," one character says about her brother."Billy Collins is to good poetry what Kenny G is to Charlie Parker" reads this scathing pan of the poet. You can watch Richard Howard read from his poems here (~60 min).Anne Carson is in conversation with Lannan Foundation's Michael Silverblatt here (30 min).Terrance HayesRead B.H. Fairchild's "A Starlit Night" from 32 Poems here.Read "Chopin in Palma," the Susan Mitchell poem in Best American Poetry 2023 (first published in Harvard Review) here. Listen to Mark Doty talk all things Whitman (~50 min)You can watch Frank Bidart read his serial-killer poem "Herbert White" here (~8 min)Here's an amazing tribute to Lucille Clifton organized by SAG-AFTRA, with readings by Geena Davis, Tantoo Cardinal, Isabella Gomez, Mark St. Cyr, Candace Nicholas Lippman, Max Gail, Nicco Annan; Lynne Thompson; Sidney Clifton; Madeline di Nonno; and Rochelle Rose. (~70 min)Read Matthew Dickman's poem "Grief."Here's Susan Mitchell's CV.
This episode could literally save your business!! The federal government always pays, but it can take them 30-90 days. Teresa Moon of Parabilis walks you through the steps you can take to ensure that you are set up financially to deliver amazing results to the government. This is critical information that many businesses don't think through until they win their first few contracts! Get in touch with Lisa: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-moon-060b9611b Parabilis: https://parabilis.com/ If you're ready to take your business to the next level and secure government contracts, don't miss this episode! Join the DoD Contract Academy today to turbocharge your growth.
Creatively expressing your companies value to the US government is essential if you want to win contracts. In this episode we investigate the creative process and see how some of the worlds most creative people can help us think differently and improve our government response writing. Check out the Creative Act By Rick Rubin: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886 https://www.megadeth.com/ Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting, this episode is your roadmap to success. Don't miss out on the opportunity to skyrocket your business growth with government contracts. Tune in now If you're ready to take your business to the next level and secure government contracts, don't miss this episode! Join the DoD Contract Academy today to turbocharge your growth.
In our previous episodes, we discussed the foundation of building your government contract pipeline and dug into the strategies for uncovering the most promising opportunities to populate your CRM. So now what do you do with those opportunities? In this episode we show you step by step how to:
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Bhaskar Dutta of DM3D Technology. DM3D got their federal contracting start with the SBIR program and went on to win government contracts in multiple agencies. Bhaskar discusses the future of additive manufacturing and how DM3D is making those visions a reality today. Although DM3D is literally building critical parts for NASA, government contracting DOES NOT have to be rocket science! Learn more about DM3D at:https://www.dm3dtech.com/ If you want to learn how to win government contracts, heead on over to DoD Contract.com Check out the DoD Contract Academy today to turbocharge your growth or get started selling to the government.
Welcome to the DoD Contract Academy! In this episode, we reveal insider tips on selling to the government that no one talks about. If you're looking to boost your revenue by tapping into the lucrative world of government contracts, you're in the right place. In our previous episode, we discussed the foundation of building your government contract pipeline. Now, we're diving deep into the strategies for uncovering the most promising opportunities to populate your CRM or pipeline. Here's what you'll learn in this podcast:
Would it surprise you to learn that the U.S. government is the world's biggest purchaser of goods and services? Or that roughly 23% of spending goes toward small businesses? And even though Uncle Sam spends approximately $150 billion a year in small-biz contracts, less than 1% of small business owners are actually engaged in the process. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “What on earth would the government want to buy from me?” Keep in mind their needs go beyond airplanes and weapons. We're talking landscapers and painters and accountants and cybersecurity and more. It's a vast amount of spending on just about anything you can think of. So, how can you get a piece of the action? Joining us on the show today is Richard Howard, Lt Col (Ret). He's a leading authority on US federal government contracts. As a career military acquisitions officer, he oversaw $82B+ in DoD contracts and has advised & trained over 400 companies as a consultant. Richard is the CEO of DoD Contract, which guides, trains, and mentors small business owners and sales executives through the government sales process. Word to the wise: Like most things in government, the process is slow, and don't expect to make bank in a few weeks. But if you're willing to play with the long game in mind, government contracts can be a lucrative - and largely unsaturated - market to build additional revenue streams with a buyer who you know is good for the cash. Episode Highlights: The number one thing the government is buying How a government contract increases the value of your business Security parameters when entering a contract How to “network” with the government How to find contracts for the services or products you're selling How to find government contracts to sponsor product development Favorite Quote: “Your first job as a small business is to solve the problem of the government.” Connect with Rick: Dodcontract.com DOD Contract Acaedmy Podcast https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Stay Connected: Connect with Matt and Luigi on Instagram: @matthew.r.meehan @luigi_rosabianca @theLiquidLunchProject @ShieldAdvisoryGroup. Visit The Liquid Lunch Project website and subscribe to The Weekly, our Friday morning newsletter, for all the latest in the world of finance, tech, small business, and more. www.theliquidlunchproject.com Make sure you never miss an episode — check out The Liquid Lunch Project on Apple Podcasts, and don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review.
Welcome to another episode of "Accelerate Your Business Growth"! In today's episode, we have a special guest, Richard Howard, who is here to share his expertise on the topic of selling to the government. Richard believes that pursuing government contracts can be a game-changer for small businesses, but he cautions against ineffective methods. Instead, he recommends a strategic approach, starting with identifying opportunities and focusing on specific areas, like bookkeeping services. Richard shares valuable resources and tips on how to find the right companies to partner with and how to navigate the government contracting process. He also emphasizes the importance of building relationships and utilizing certifications to increase the chances of winning contracts. Tune in to this episode to learn more about selling to the government and how it can accelerate your business growth. Richard Howard, Lt Col (Ret) is a leading authority on US federal government contracts. As a career military acquisitions officer, he oversaw $82B+ in DoD contracts and has advised and trained over 400 companies as a consultant. Richard is the CEO of DoD Contract which guides, trains and mentors small business owners and sales executives through the government sales process. If you are a small business owner or salesperson who struggles with getting the sales results you are looking for, get your copy of Succeed Without Selling today. Learn the importance of Always Be Curious. Accelerate Your Business Growth is proud to be included on the list of the 45 Best Business Growth Podcasts. Each episode of this podcast provides insights and education around topics that are important to you as a business owner or leader. The content comes from people who are experts in their fields and who are interested in helping you be more successful. Whether it's sales challenges, leadership issues, hiring and talent struggles, marketing, seo, branding, time management, customer service, communication, podcasting, social media, cashflow, or publishing, the best and the brightest join the host, Diane Helbig, for a casual conversation. Discover programs, webinars, services, books, and other podcasts you can tap into for fresh ideas. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode and visit Helbig Enterprises to explore the many ways Diane can help you improve your business outcomes and results. Government Contracts: "Government contracts are not rigged, but there is a process for selling to the government that is quite different than selling commercially or selling B2B, and you need to understand that process if you really wanna be effective, selling to federal agencies." — Richard Howard 00:13:29 The Importance of Market Research Phase in Government Contracting: "Usually, companies give up before they discover this. In government contracting, there's something that comes before the solicitation called the market research phase. And this is a legal phase where you can talk to the government. You can talk to the office that buys what you sell, you can legally influence the process." — Richard Howard 00:16:26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this Energy Unplugged episode we look at the big picture scenarios for the decarbonisation of the global economy. We're delighted to be joined by Eirik Wærness, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Equinor, and Anise Ganbold, our Head of Research, Global Energy Markets and Hydrogen, in a conversation with our Global Research Director, Richard Howard. Joining Equinor in 2003 under it's previous name Statoil, Eirik leads the group's energy market policy and macroeconomics analysis, and in his role, he has been responsible for no less than 12 editions of the group's Energy Perspectives scenario analysis. Main topics include: • What is required to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees? • Steps that both the energy system and economy need to take in order to hit this target • How to effectively utilise scenario analysis to tackle the above?
In this episode I interview Dr. Kizzy Parks, CEO of K. Parks Consulting and GovConWinners. Kizzy has captured over $70M in Federal Government Contracts and focuses on providing services to the federal government. She has some advice your not going to hear anywhere else so I recommend taking notes as she talks abouts her journey in government contracting! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to implement a plan to win governmemt contracts and double your current revenue, this is your time! Sure, you could keep doing what you're doing and hopefully grow your revenue at a decent pace. OR… you could join DoD Contract Academy where we'll help you implement a plan to start or expand sales with the federal government and double your revenue. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Follow our YouTube Channel: @dodcontractacademy You can reach Kizzy at: Email: kparks@kpcinc.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kizzy/ If you need help starting, building, and growing a defense contracting business, check out all of the support and resources at https://www.dodcontract.com If you have comments or would like to reach me personally you can do so at richard@richardchoward.com You can also connect with me on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ --This episode originally aired on 21 September 2021--
Last years spending is in! In this episode we review the federal small business spending for FY2022. Bottom line is the US government is spending more money on small business contracts and has some new initiatives to incentivize your involvement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to implement a plan to win governmemt contracts and double your current revenue, this is your time! Sure, you could keep doing what you're doing and hopefully grow your revenue at a decent pace. OR… you could join DoD Contract Academy where we'll help you implement a plan to start or expand sales with the federal government and double your revenue. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Follow our YouTube Channel: @dodcontractacademy
If you are interested in government funding and SBIR contracts than this is the episode for you!! Fraser Kitchell is the co-founder and CEO of KEF Robotics and in this discussion he walks us through the innovative technology he and his co founders developed that is on the cutting edge of autonomous flight. We've had quite a few small businesses on the podcast that have done well with SBIR contracts but none of them have offered the 3 steps Fraser recommends that will 5X your chances of winning a phase 2 award. Your going to want to listen to this entire episode as it's packed with helpful tips that you can use in your own business. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to implement a plan to win governmemt contracts and double your current revenue, this is your time! Sure, you could keep doing what you're doing and hopefully grow your revenue at a decent pace. OR… you could join DoD Contract Academy where we'll help you implement a plan to start or expand sales with the federal government and double your revenue. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Follow our YouTube Channel: @dodcontractacademy
If you want to implement a plan to win government contracts and double your current revenue, this is your time! Sure, you could keep doing what you're doing and hopefully grow your revenue at a decent pace. OR… you could join DoD Contract Academy where we'll help you implement a plan to start or expand sales with the federal government and double your revenue. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com If you are interested in Use Rogue go to the following link for incentives they are offering to our listeners: USE ROGUE ------------------------------ Today's episode is all about how to conduct a meeting with the US government. There's a specific flow a gov procurement office expects when you show up for a demo or presentation. In this episode we show you the framework for a holding a successful meeting with your government lead. More importantly we go over a few things that yoyu NEVER want to do. Even MORE important, we give you some questions that you have to ask in order to close deals and gain the advantage. This is a great show, dont miss it!
Freeman is a student in DoD Contract Academy, but he's not trying to sell to the government... Instead, his goal is to use what he's learning as a DoD Contract Academy member to advise small companies on government contracting and broker deals. After just a few weeks in the Academy he's already landed 5 Clients!! This is a great success story and a different angle then we typically discuss. Now If you want an intersting Niche for coaching or consulting then this is the episode for you. If you want to implement a plan to win governmemt contracts or advise others to do so then this is your time! Simply join DoD Contract Academy and we'll teach you what you need to know with our weekly coaching and on demand training. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Follow our YouTube Channel: @dodcontractacademy
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Craig has a long history of B2B and B2C sales. The problem, is that his new job is asking him to build a pipeline of government contract opportunities and he has not had to do this before. In this episode we help Craig go from overwhelmed to focused and motivated. I walk Craig through our DoD Contract Academy framework for building a pipeline of government contract opportunities. We work backwards from his quota with a step by step process that will help him to achieve his government revenue target. I use a few free tools and government websites during this coaching call so I recommend watching on youtube for those demonstrations. ---------------------- If you want to implement a plan to win governmemt contracts and double your current revenue, this is your time! Sure, you could keep doing what you're doing and hopefully grow your revenue at a decent pace. OR… you could join DoD Contract Academy where we'll help you implement a plan to start or expand sales with the federal government and double your revenue. If you're serious about implementing a plan to grow your business and revenue, DoD Contract Academy is for you! Most business owners play it safe when it comes to revenue goals. If you want to see growth, you need to set aggressive goals and reverse-engineer a plan to get there. But how can you know what's going to actually move the needle? If you're not careful, you could end up wasting a lot of time and energy that don't make a significant impact on your bottom line. In today's episode, Richard Howard walks you through a practical exercise that will help you reverse-engineer a plan to add revenue with government contracts. If you're tired of being stuck at the same revenue year after year, this episode is for you! -- Join DoD Contract Academy at www.DoDcontract.com Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/ Follow our YouTube Channel: @dodcontractacademy
We start a new discussion and new topic of how to land software development government contracts—in short, working for the government. Ricky Howard takes us through the ins and outs of finding opportunities and winning a contract. While this can be a lucrative and steady line of revenue, it does take an investment of time. Nothing worthwhile is easy, and our discussion shows how this path follows that rule. The World Of Software Development Government Contracts Our discussion stays general purpose, and Ricky goes through the pros and cons of this area of work. He uses examples one would never consider as he talks us through ways we could pursue software development, government contracts, or other areas of IT. Government jobs and contracts go far beyond the military and the I.R.S. About Ricky Richard Howard, Lt Col (Ret), is a leading authority on US federal government contracts. As a career military acquisitions officer, he oversaw $82B+ in DoD contracts and has advised & trained over 400 companies as a consultant. Richard is the CEO of DoD Contract, which guides, trains, and mentors small business owners and sales executives. They are guided through the sometimes complex and often misunderstood government sales process. Richard hosts the "DoD Contract Academy" podcast and speaks extensively on the nuance of federal contracting strategy. For consultations on proposal writing, advisory/coaching services, or speaking engagements, please email him at Richard@richardchoward.com. Learn More Reach out to Ricky at: https://www.dodcontract.com They will help you win your 1st or 100th government contract. Check out the "done for you," "done with you," and "done by you" offerings at their site. Also, you can listen to their podcast. "The DoD Contract Academy" is available on all podcast platforms. Also, listeners will be given a code to save 25% off online training that takes them step by step through the federal sales process.
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In this episode, we discuss the energy transition as an investment climate for low-carbon infrastructure in Europe and the US. Our Research Director, Richard Howard is joined by Aurora experts: Ryan Alexander, Research Lead for European Power Markets and Julia Hoos, Head of USA East. Main topics include: • The impact of the REPowerEU plan and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US on the energy transition • The status of renewables deployment in Europe vs the US • Green hydrogen as a direct replacement for natural gas
Torture, conflict and low COVID-19 vaccination rates have all been the results of increasing levels of disinformation and misinformation in Papua New Guinea, according to the UN Resident Coordinator in the country, Richard Howard. Speaking on the line to UN News's Julia Dean in Australia, he stressed that these consequences were very worrying, and in some cases “horrifically wrong”, calling for strong and rapid measures to counter the scourge. Mr. Howard began by describing the prevalence and intensity of misinformation and disinformation being spread across the Pacific Island nation.
Brenda Shaughnessy's Liquid Flesh (Bloodaxe) gathers together poems from across her first five collections, as thrilling and unpredictable as any contemporary American poet. Writing about her work in the Boston Review, Richard Howard says that ‘when anything is as fresh as this diction, as free as these associations, as fraught as these passions, it is not descriptions or definitions which are wanted but the thing itself, the new words in new places, the necessary instigations'. Brenda Shaughnessy was in conversation with Amy Key, whose second collection, Isn't Forever, came out with Bloodaxe in 2018, and whose new book inspired by Joni Mitchell's Blue, is forthcoming in spring 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this enlightening conversation, we dive deep into the world of government contracts with Louis Orndorff, a former US government contracting officer. Join us as we uncover the essential details that often go unnoticed when executing government contracts. Selling to the US government can be a lucrative opportunity for businesses, but the devil is truly in the details. While many companies focus on securing contracts, they often overlook the crucial aspects that govern their success once they've won the bid. Louis Orndorff, with his extensive experience and knowledge, shares invaluable insights on the important intricacies that demand attention throughout the contract execution process. Throughout the episode, we explore various topics essential for any organization venturing into government contracting. From understanding and meeting contract requirements to ensuring compliance with intricate regulations and standards, Louis sheds light on the critical elements that can make or break a government contract. Whether you're a seasoned player in government contracting or just exploring this realm, this episode offers a wealth of knowledge to help you navigate the complexities of executing government contracts successfully. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain crucial insights from Louis Orndorff, a seasoned expert in the field. This episode first aired in June 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want personalized assistance from my team and I to help you start selling to the US government, increase the number of contracts you are winning or optimize the contracts you currently have please reach out to us at: https://www.dodcontract.com/ If you have comments or would like to reach me personally you can do so at richard@richardchoward.com You can also connect with me on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/
This podcast was recorded about a week before its subject, Andrea Long Chu, was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, so it doesn't come up in the conversation with Blake Smith, but it's interesting to keep in mind as he and I analyze Chu and try to understand the particular role she plays in the broader intellectual and journalistic ecosystem.Our story begins in early 2018, when the hipster intellectual magazine N+1 published a long essay titled “On Liking Women.” The essay, which went rather viral, was about the author's transition to being a woman, her fascination with the 1967 radical tract the SCUM Manifesto, the dynamics of sissy porn, and her complicated feelings about wanting to be a woman, wanting women, and the universal fear of being feminized.Its author, Andrea Long Chu, was at the time a doctoral student in comparative literature at NYU, and in all respects unfamous. The essay would change that, rather dramatically. In the way that Ta-Nehisi Coates was, for a time, the black intellectual, and Wesley Yang was the Asian intellectual, Chu became, and perhaps remains, the trans intellectual of the moment. Later that year she wrote another splashy piece,“My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy,” for the New York Times. Her 2019 book, Females, got an immense amount of attention. In 2021 she was hired as a staff critic for New York magazine, and in that role has written a series of buzzed about reviews. She's not famous, exactly, but she's almost as close to it as journalists get it. She is now friends, for instance, with the genuinely famous Emily Ratajkowski, whom she profiled in The New York Times Magazine, and who later interviewed Chu for her own podcast, High Low with Emrata.As she says to Ratajkowski, some of this success was a matter of timing. There was a space waiting to be filled. Trans issues had gotten big in the culture, and while there were a lot of good trans memoirs out there, and an increasing number of trans people making a name for themselves in the “influencer” space, there was neither an intellectual nor a magazine feature writer who had yet made a name for him or herself reliably and stylishly explaining the trans thing to the world. Chu has been able to step into this space so successfully because she is a stylish writer, because she has a command of the relevant theory, and also because she has that thing that so many it boys and girls of journalism have had: she's a tease. She comes close and dances away. She reveals and withholds, issues grand pronouncements, and then implies that she's just kidding … maybe.Here she is at the end of her breakout essay, I am being tendentious, dear reader, because I am trying to tell you something that few of us dare to talk about, especially in public, especially when we are trying to feel political: not the fact, boringly obvious to those of us living it, that many trans women wish they were cis women, but the darker, more difficult fact that many trans women wish they were women, period. This is most emphatically not something trans women are supposed to want. The grammar of contemporary trans activism does not brook the subjunctive. Trans women are women, we are chided with silky condescension, as if we have all confused ourselves with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as if we were all simply trapped in the wrong politics, as if the cure for dysphoria were wokeness. How can you want to be something you already are? Desire implies deficiency; want implies want. To admit that what makes women like me transsexual is not identity but desire is to admit just how much of transition takes place in the waiting rooms of wanting things, to admit that your breasts may never come in, your voice may never pass, your parents may never call back.…This is not to garner pity for sad trannies like me. We have enough roses by our beds. It is rather to say, minimally, that trans women want things too. The deposits of our desire run as deep and fine as any. The richness of our want is staggering. Perhaps this is why coming out can feel like crushing, why a first dress can feel like a first kiss, why dysphoria can feel like heartbreak. The other name for disappointment, after all, is love.I've been reading and listening to Chu recently, and I find myself atypically confused. I honestly don't know what she's trying to say, about gender and sexuality and sex and politics, nor whether she actually believes whatever it is she's trying to say. I don't know if she's the real deal or, like so many it boys and girls of the past, she's performing a role that is ultimately too disconnected from a genuinely grounded self to write things that are meaningful.To help me process my confusion, I reached out to Blake Smith, who recently wrote a highly critical piece on Chu. Officially, Blake is an historian of modern France coming off a Fulbright in North Macedonia, and before that a PhD from Northwestern University. Unofficially, but more relevantly for our purposes, he's been writing up a storm of intellectual but accessible essays over the past few years, for a variety of publications, most often Tablet, where the Chu piece was published. These fall into a few different buckets. One is what I'd call his ongoing project to identify potential intellectual and creative resources for the revivification of liberalism. This has manifested in critical essays on various eminent and obscure European and American intellectuals, including folks like Michel Foucault, Philip Rieff, Judith Shklar, Leo Strauss, Jacob Taubes, Richard Howard, and Roland Barthes. Another bucket is criticism of woke thinking and writing, and a third is his interest in queer theory. His Chu piece falls into both of the latter buckets, although Chu has a complicated relationship to woke. It may overlap with the first too, though that's not as obvious a connection.His Chu piece begins not with Chu herself, but with the archetypal conversion (or transition) story of western civilization, that of Saul of Tarsus, who had a vision of Jesus while on the road to Damascus. He abandoned his Judaism, changed his name to Paul, and dedicated his life to evangelizing for the new faith. Or, in Smith's tart description, he just changed his stripes, remaining “what he had been before—an antagonizing, persecutory self-promoter,” but with a new lexicon of values and a new set of targets. Smith writes:In his letters to churches throughout the Roman Empire, Paul gave an account of himself as being uniquely guilty and abject—the “chief of sinners”—and especially favored by God. In doing so, he created a powerful and enduring model for the way people seek attention and influence in Western culture, from the Confessions of Augustine to the ubiquitous self-narrations of our own moment. Flamboyant rejection of a former life, a lurid picture of its depravity and danger, the wrenching rapture of being overtaken and undone by an outward power, a new self to be declared and recognized by others, new enemies (shadows of the old self) to be exposed and attacked, and a continual staggering back and forth between declarations of one's utter unworthiness and ethical exaltation.One of the most successful contemporary practitioners of this mode of confession, in which a conversion is narrated in a mode of self-abasement and self-aggrandizement, is the essayist Andrea Long Chu. In 2018, Chu, who transitioned from male to female, established her reputation with essays for N+1 and The New York Times on her desire for femininity and her feelings about her new vagina. “Few of us” trans women, she argued, “dare to talk about” the truths she purportedly exposed in these essays—that transition is motivated by fetishistic investment in the most external, sexualized aspects of traditional femininity (“Daisy Dukes, bikini tops, and all the dresses, and, my god, for the breasts”)—and that transitioning had made her more dysphoric and “suicidal.”Chu positioned herself in national publications as declaring hidden truths that other people like herself had been too cowardly to avow. Publications from The Point to The Nation to Vogue interviewed her, and New York magazine has more recently hired her, while scholars devote articles and even special issues of journals to her contributions to gender theory. The most notorious of the latter was her 2019 pamphlet-length book, Females, published with Verso, a press that once had something to do with the left. In Females, Chu worked on two different double registers. She played at once comic and serious, giving herself the right to backtrack her most radical claims as ironic “bits.” She gave, moreover, a reading of Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto (1967) as a statement about the nature of desire as such, for everyone, and as a kind of prefiguring of her own transition. It was as if Chu became the protagonist of Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, who is convinced that a local writer's autobiographical poem is in fact the elaborately allegorized story of his own life. Where Solanas had called for the extermination of men, she took her plan only as far as a failed attempt to murder Andy Warhol. Females ends with Solanas, at a distance of half-a-century, killing another “Andy”—Chu's former, male self. 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In this episode of the "DoD Contract Academy" podcast, we have the privilege of speaking with John Ferry, a highly accomplished business owner with a deep understanding of government contracts. As the co-founder of Use Rogue, an AI-powered tool revolutionizing proposal writing for government contracts, John brings a unique perspective to our conversation. Drawing from his firsthand experience as a business owner successfully operating within the government contracting space, John sheds light on the intricacies and challenges that organizations face when vying for lucrative contracts with the Department of Defense. His expertise and insights make this interview all the more valuable for our listeners. We delve into the genesis of Use Rogue and how it was born out of the need to streamline and enhance the proposal writing process. John explains how his extensive knowledge of the industry, coupled with the power of AI, led to the development of a game-changing tool. By leveraging advanced natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, Use Rogue empowers businesses to generate tailored content, optimize proposal structures, and ultimately increase their chances of winning government contracts. Throughout the interview, John shares anecdotes from his own journey as a business owner and contractor, providing relatable examples that highlight the tangible benefits of using Use Rogue. He emphasizes the collaborative nature of the tool, combining the strengths of AI with human expertise to produce exceptional proposals. To learn more about John's business ventures and explore the world of government contracting, we encourage you to visit his website at https://www.userogue.com/ There, you can find valuable resources, insights, and updates on the latest developments in the industry. For those interested in connecting with me, your podcast host, you can find my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickychoward/. I regularly share additional content related to government contracting and engage in discussions with industry professionals. At the DoD Contract Academy, our team is dedicated to assisting business owners in increasing their company valuation by tapping into the potential of government contracting revenue. We understand the immense value that government contracts can bring to a business, and we have developed a proven strategy to help our clients achieve remarkable results. In addition to our expertise in navigating the government contracting landscape, we have introduced a unique opportunity for select companies to work with us by offering equity as a payment option. This innovative approach allows us to align our interests with our clients' long-term success, fostering a mutually beneficial partnership. By combining our in-depth knowledge, strategic guidance, and the possibility of equity participation, we empower businesses to unlock their full potential and experience significant growth in both their contract portfolio and overall company valuation. Check us out at www/dodcontract.com
Welcome to this episode of the DoD Contract Academy podcast, hosted by Rick Howard. Today, we'll be diving into the important topic of how military veterans can be the key to business success in the defense industry. As a veteran himself, Rick shares his insights on how the unique experiences and skills gained through military service can be translated into business success, both for veteran-owned businesses and for those hiring veterans for key roles in the defense industry. We'll explore the advantages of hiring veterans for business development and account executive roles within defense contracting companies, and how veteran-owned businesses are breaking barriers in the industry. Plus, we'll discuss the resources available to businesses interested in selling to the US federal government, including the support and training provided by DoD Contract Academy. Don't miss out on this insightful discussion. Tune in to the DoD Contract Academy podcast now and learn why military veterans are the key to business success in the defense industry. And if you're interested in learning more about selling to the US federal government, visit our website at dodcontract.com for more information. https://www.dodcontract.com/
In this episode I cover the aftermath of the Spanish conquests of America and more specifically, the consequences the conquistadors faced after partaking in them. References 2019. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado - Facts, Routes & Wife - HISTORY. https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/francisco-vazquez-de-coronado. Ballesteros, Manuel. n.d. “Francisco Pizarro | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | Britannica.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed February 27, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Pizarro. “The Basque Juan de Garay: colonizer and conqueror, the search for the city of the Caesars and his tragic death.” 2022. Infobae. https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/03/21/the-basque-juan-de-garay-colonizer-and-conqueror-the-search-for-the-city-of-the-caesars-and-his-tragic-death/. Chasteen, John C. 2016. Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. N.p.: W.W. Norton. Flint, Valerie I. n.d. “Christopher Columbus | Biography, Nationality, Voyages, Ships, Route, & Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed February 26, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus. “Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada | Spanish conquistador | Britannica.” 2023. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gonzalo-Jimenez-de-Quesada. “Guzmán, Nuño Beltrán de (c. 1485–1558).” n.d. Encyclopedia.com. Accessed February 26, 2023. https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guzman-nuno-beltran-de-c-1485-1558. Innes, Hammond. 2023. “Hernan Cortes | Expeditions, Biography, & Facts | Britannica.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hernan-Cortes. “Juan Díaz de Solís | Spanish explorer | Britannica.” 2023. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Diaz-de-Solis. Mann, Charles C. 2012. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. N.p.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. “Olid, Cristóbal De (1488–1524).” n.d. Encyclopedia.com. Accessed February 26, 2023. https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/olid-cristobal-de-1488-1524. “Pedro de Alvarado | Biography & Facts | Britannica.” 2023. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pedro-de-Alvarado. Todorov, Tzvetan. 1999. The conquest of America : the question of the other. Edited by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Howard. N.p.: University of Oklahoma Press. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/d-a-f-l-o-w/support
"School Days" is from Richard Howard's 2008 collection of poetry Without Saying. A distinguished poet, critic and translator, Richard Howard held a unique place in contemporary American letters. Howard was credited with introducing modern French fiction—particularly examples of the Nouveau Roman—to the American public; his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1984) won a National Book Award in 1984. A selection of Howard's critical prose was collected in the volume Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003, and his collection of essays Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950 (1969) was praised as one of the first comprehensive overviews of American poetry from the latter half of the 20th century. First and foremost a poet, Howard's many volumes of verse also received widespread acclaim; he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection Untitled Subjects. His other honors included the American Book Award, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the PEN Translation Medal, the Levinson Prize, and the Ordre National du Mérite from the French government. For many years, Howard was the poetry editor of the Paris Review.Known for his erudition and interest in the nature of artistic expression, Howard's poems are often dramatic monologues in which figures from history and literature speak directly to the reader. From Howard's first book, Quantities (1962), his approach to the dramatic monologue set him apart as a unique practitioner of contemporary poetry. Using voices from characters as disparate as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Orpheus among others, Howard's narrative monologues are darkly comic, laced with irony and sadness, and distinctly learned. Early books such as The Damages (1967) and Untitled Subjects (1969) saw Howard honing his skill with a wide range of subjects and voices. Frequently addressing the incommensurability of word and world, Barbara Fischer asserted in her review of Talking Cures (2003) that “in [Howard's] work's insistent writtenness and its collages of polyvocal quotation he reminds us that the immediacy of contact—vocal, erotic, somatic, sensory contact—is out of reach as soon as we write about it.”Howard's work in the 1970s and '80s continued to explore the use of monologue, dialogue, and other forms of the speaking voice in his poetry. In Two-Part Inventions (1974) and Fellow Feelings (1976), he creates imaginary conversations between historical persons, uncovering shared assumptions and emotions between himself and such writers as Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire. The poems of Misgivings (1979) are all addressed to the subjects of 19th-century photographic portraits, while those of Lining Up (1984) are the voices of artists and musicians. Speaking to Allen Wiggins of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Howard explained that in his poems he tries to get “out of the way of voices, letting the voices speak through me and for me, and I have discovered that my own experience can be represented much better than it can be presented.” With his 10th book of poetry, Like Most Revelations (1994), Howard inhabits the voices of Edith Wharton and Walt Whitman, but he also offers elegies for friends who have died from AIDS and cancer. Support the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick WhitakerContact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com
Poet and translator par excellence Richard Howard, who was a dear friend, died March 31, 2022 at 92. His 1982 translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal, won the National Book Award.Read here by Rick WhitakerWith affectionate thanks to David AlexanderSupport the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick WhitakerContact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads a selection from Mark Scott's 2007 collection A Bedroom Occupation. "... the most heart-breaking love poetry since that other Empire fell." --Richard Howard"Is that afterglow or is the house on fire? Scott's work and writing have an almost narcotic power."--David Rakoff"These letters from a self-described 'faithless man' are intelligent, intimate, and illuminating." --Molly GilesMark Scott was born in 1959 in Denver, Colorado. He was educated at the University of Colorado, University College London, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and received an English Ph.D. from Rutgers. Mark is currently living in Japan, where he is Professor of English at Nara Women's University. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 1992. His work has appeared in Poetry, Santa Monica Review, The Kenyon Review, Western Humanities Review, and Streams of William James. His poetry collections are Tactile Values (New Issues, 2000), A Bedroom Occupation: Love Elegies (Lumen Books, 2007), and Balance Sheets (Kingston UP, 2022).Support the show
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads "On a Winded Civilization," an essay by the Romanian writer E.M. Cioran (1911-1995) from his 1956 collection The Temptation to Exist. The introduction to the English-language edition translated (from the French) by Richard Howard is by Susan Sontag, who wrote: "Cioran's subject: on being a mind, a consciousness tuned to the highest pitch of refinement." Read Me to Sleep, Ricky recommends listening at a medium-low volume and with auto-play turned off: the purpose of this podcast is to help its audience get to sleep. Music by Brad GartonSupport the show
In this episode, our Research Director, Richard Howard is joined by Alice Delahunty, President of Electricity Transmission at National Grid. Alice is the first President of National Grid's Electricity Transmission business, where she is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the electricity transmission network for England and Wales. Prior to joining National Grid, Alice had a variety of roles at E.ON, culminating in Head of Offshore UK Wind Operations. The focus of the conversation is on grid networks, a critical enabler of the low carbon transition. Alice and Richard discuss: • The scale of network investment required as we add renewables to the system and move towards a zero-carbon electricity system • The challenges of delivering this critical infrastructure • The impact on consumers, affordability, and bills
Ben Luke talks to Allison Katz about her influences in the realms of literature, music and, of course, art, and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Born in Montreal in 1980, Katz is an artist who probes the complexities of painting, drawing on diverse imagery, a range of painterly techniques and distinctive forms of display to create environments that are by turns delightful and perplexing, but always enthralling. The longer you spend in the company of Katz's work, the more the associations, the playful connections, and the fundamental rigour of her thinking emerge. In this conversation, she discusses the influence of being a life model at a young age, and making numerous “portraits” of a painting of a woman by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. She reflects on paintings by Edgar Degas and Andrea del Verrocchio, among others, discusses how the poet and translator Richard Howard helped her read poetry and see that frivolity could be serious, and expresses wonder at British radio programmes, including sporting commentary. And she answers the questions we ask all our guests, including the ultimate one: what is art for?Allison Katz: Artery, Camden Art Centre, London, until 13 March. That exhibition originated in a slightly different form at Nottingham Contemporary, and a catalogue accompanying the two versions of the show will be published in early 2023. An exhibition of Katz's posters is at Canada House, London, until 26 March. Her paintings are in The Milk of Dreams, the central exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 23 April-27 November. She has a solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine, New York, in September. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week on Energy Unplugged, we discuss about how to decarbonize transport with Trudy Harrison MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the UK Department for Transport, in an episode hosted by our Research Director, Richard Howard. Trudy was appointed in the current role on 17 September 2021 and she was elected Conservative MP for Copeland in 2017. Her career outside politics includes working for Sellafield nuclear site and in renewable energy and sustainable community projects. Richard and Trudy discuss: • How does a Net Zero system need to look like and what are the key enabling technologies • What does government need to do to accelerate this shift • How do we ensure that the costs and fiscal impacts of this transition are manageable Next week we will welcome Sam Arie, Research Analyst at UBS. Stay tuned!
This week on Energy Unplugged we have a Christmas special episode in which we focus on waste management and energy from waste in particular. Our Research Director, Richard Howard is joined by two waste experts: Julia Watsford, CEO at Enfinium, the largest pure-play waste-to-energy operator in the UK and Chris Jonas, Director at Tolvik Consulting, one of the expert advisors on waste markets in the UK and Europe. Main topics include: • COVID impact on the waste-to-energy sector • The role of waste management in the Net Zero transition • Views on a potential incineration tax • Negative emissions and the potential of energy from waste to incorporate CCS
Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has published an academic book on Elizabeth Bowen, as well as ten books of poetry, the eleventh forthcoming. She is at work on a memoir entitled, Don't Quit Before the Miracle. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Photo credit to Richard Howard
This week, we're continuing our Trailblazer episodes with Vincent Virga—author of the Gaywyck trilogy, the first m/m gothic romance, and one of the first m/m romances ending with a happily ever after. He talks about writing gay romance and about the way reading about love and happiness change readers lives. He also shares rich, wonderful stories about his vibrant life as a picture editor in publishing, about the literary set in New York City in the 70s and 80s, about writing during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, about the times in a writer's life when the words don't come easily, and about the times when they can't be stopped. We are honored and so grateful that Vincent took the time to speak with us, and we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. There's still time to buy the Fated Mates Best of 2021 Book Pack from our friends at Old Town Books in Alexandria, VA, and get eight of the books on the list, a Fated Mates sticker and other swag! Order the book box as soon as you can to avoid supply chain snafus. Thank you, as always, for listening! If you are up for leaving a rating or review for the podcast on your podcasting app, we would be very grateful! Our next read-alongs will be the Tiffany Reisz Men at Work series, which is three holiday themed category romances. Read one or all of them: Her Halloween Treat, Her Naughty Holiday and One Hot December.Show NotesWelcome Vincent Virga, author of Gaywyck, the first gay gothic romance, and one of the earliest gay romances with a happily ever after. It was published by Avon in 1980. He has written several other novels, including Vadriel Vail and A Comfortable Corner. He was also the premier picture editor in the book industry. He has been with his partner, author James McCourt, author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, for 56 years. Their collected papers are housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Today is the 41st anniversary of The Ramrod Massacre in New York City, where Vernon Kroening and Jorg Wenz were killed. Six other men were shot and injured inside the bar or on the streets near the Ramrod. Author Malinda Lo and Librarian Angie Manfredi sound the warning bell about the fights that we are facing around access to books and libraries and calls for book banning happening all around the country. Here is what you can do to help support your local library. Check out Runforsomething.net for ideas about local races where you live. Want more Vincent in your life? Here is a great interview from 2019 on a blog called The Last Bohemians, and this 2011 interview on Live Journal. Daisy Buchanan cries that she's never seen such beautiful shirts in The Great Gatsby, and We Get Lettersis a song from the Perry Como show.People Vincent mentioned: Susan Sontag, Maria Callas, opera singer Victoria de los Ángeles, editor Elaine Markson, Jane Fonda, Armistead Maupin, poets John Ashbery and James Merrill, Hillary and Bill Clinton, editor Alice Mayhew, Gwen Edelman at Avon Books, Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse, publisher Bob Wyatt, John Ehrlichman from Watergate, author Colm Tóibín, poet Mark Doty, Truman Capote, poet and translator Richard Howard, Shelley Winters, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, and Kim Novak. The museum Vincent was a part of in County Mayo, Ireland, is The Jackie Clarke Collection.The twisty turny secret book that made him a lover of Gothics was Wilkie Collins's Woman in White. Vincent is also a lover of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, and Henry Bellamann's King's Row.A few short pieces abaout the AIDS epidemic: the impact of the epidemic on survivors in the queer community, and how the American government ignored the crisis.
Hey, y'all. I am Shay. This is thebuzzr podcast. On air indie, from my pad to yours over the airways. Today on the show, Niagara-on-the-Lake Terry Kozachenko of Terry K 3TL. “To A Friend - A Celebration of Life” released October 12th. Terry & I chat about the release. We hear the story behind the song, find out about the talented collective members involved in the song's release and what to expect from Terry K 3TL in the future. A heartwarming chat with Terry about his music, the collective 3TL, and the release. Welcome. Thank you for tuning in tonight. Enjoy the show! Cheers! https://youtu.be/FSbs3TPP3dU Terry wrote this song as a tribute to celebrate the life of Richard Howard. A close friend of Terry's, Richard was part of the local business scene in Niagara On The Lake, and with his husband David Johnston Richard co-owned Bogarts Bed & Breakfast. He passed away in 2020 to Glioblastoma, the same brain cancer which took Gord Downie's life. Aldo Petronelli, former co-owner of Britaly Bed & Breakfast, and mutual friend of the late Richard Howard makes a special appearance in the video with his dog Markus, becoming an integral part of the memory video in tribute to Richard. Terry Kozachenko - Vocals, Guitar Alan Ash - Bass Kirk Smith - Violin Music and Lyrics written and arranged by Terry Kozachenko. Video Produced and directed by Video directed and produced by Stacey Koudys Videography Special guest appearances by - Aldo Petronelli and Markus. Audio produced by Rayburn Blake and Terry Kozachenko Audio Engineered, and Mastered by Rayburn Blake. Rayburn Blake Productions Niagara On The Lake ON, Canada Copyright © 2021 TAOS Publishing Canada. Dedicated to Dennis Dack and Richard Howard, two of the best friends I ever had Special thanks to Holly Anderson for her support and encouragement on this project. In Memoriam - Richard Howard Facebook Twitter Youtube Bandcamp Spotify Soundcloud Link Previous Next
On episode 39 of Field of Fire: Emanuel is joined by Mike Ireland and Richard Howard. They Discuss Monpoc Lists, Getting ready for the SoCal Open and some of their favorite Monpoc ideas. Tune in for this laugh filled episode.
Knock knock, who's there? It's a fresh episode of Wiggly World! Featuring music of Cigarette and convo with Richard Howard. In this episode we discuss toe nail cutting, how the tongue works and even those darling muppet creatures. "If I could only listen to one thing for the rest of my life, it would be Wiggly World" - TV Guide (Has possibly said these words though not in this particular order)
This is a bonus episode because Immigration New Zealand recently announced that, effective 1 November 2021, employers who have migrant workers (visa holders) on their staff will now require to be accredited under the new Immigration New Zealand requirements.In this episode Richard Howard - Licensed Immigration Consultant - of Pathways New Zealand (based in Hamilton and Wellington) answers questions and helps allay fears some clinics may have.Richard recommends making sure you've got all your immigration-worker I's dotted and T's crossed well before the new rules come into effect.SHOW LINKS:Richard Howard - Pathways NZRegister of Licensed Immigration Consultants in New ZealandVetStaff leading veterinary sector recruitment in New Zealand | veterinarians | locums | nurses
Our Research Director, Richard Howard speaks to Henry de Zoete, Co-founder of the energy switching service provider - Look After My Bills. Henry has a career background working as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education prior to his success with Look After My Bills – which secured the best deal in the history of the UK Dragons’ Den business pitch competition. The company is now owned by industry giant Go Compare. Henry and Richard discuss: • Henry’s career and experience working for then Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove • His inspiration and motivation for establishing Look After My Bills • Raising funds in Silicon Valley and securing the investment from UK television’s notoriously tough Dragons panel • Transferring the ownership of his business to Go Compare and what’s next
This week's guest is Richard Howard, author of Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White. We discuss the Irish science fiction movement and the lives of Shaw and White. We take a look at the social and political climate in which they lived, worked and wrote, and its inextricable influence on their creative output.
Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 143 Maximise for Flexibility with Richard Howard 144 Game Changer with Fergus Connolly 145 Being True to Yourself with Ina Bakalova 146 Points of Impact with Tim Durkin 147 Listen to Yourself with Dan Milne and Jane Nash KEY TAKEAWAY “Embrace midlife beginnings. Now is your time!” BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS* Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://amzn.to/3tXTL35 Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey - https://amzn.to/2MWubuG The Choice by Edith Eger - https://amzn.to/3d9WaS1 The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod - https://amzn.to/3jV15b2 Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg - https://amzn.to/3pu7R8W ABOUT THE HOST Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. Are you a midlife beginner? If you are ready to take action and want to Focus on WHY, reach out and book a free 20 min call with me today via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter CONNECT WITH AMY Clubhouse @amyrowlinson https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/ HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
This week join your patient co-hosts Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, Charis Hill, Richard Howard, and Jennifer Walker for a round table conversation about the debate surrounding the nomenclature of the Spondyloarthritis disease umbrella. Tiffany is the CEO of the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis and a patient living with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Charis is a disability advocate, the author of the blog Being Charis, and a patient originally diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, and while would fit the current description (with radiographic damage), at diagnosis they did not have radiographic damage. Rich is the Chief Mission Advancement Officer for the Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) and a patient diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis and meets the 'text book' description. Jen is a patient advocate and person diagnosed with both rheumatoid arthritis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. In the past few years, there was a move to rename this group of spondy diseases as Axial Spondyloarthritis - which includes a continuum of non-radiographic and radiographic (radiographic synonymous with Ankylosing Spondylitis). This means the traditional Ankylosing Spondylitis term will soon be phased out. As persons living with spondyloarthritis conditions, and members of broader patient communities, they know not every patient is aware of these changes. Tiffany, Charis, Rich, and Jen all attended an American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Study Group on this topic, but due to time constraints, were not able to fully share their opinions with the doctors and researchers in attendance. During this session, participants discussed the pros and cons of using the umbrella term "Axial Spondyloarthritis" (remove non-radiographic/radiographic subgroups) or keeping the differentiated subgroup names. Furthermore, doctors and researchers pointed out the name may not fully reflect the experience of patients (particularly those with less spine inflammation), and as a result, suggested possibly changing the name again. And finally, doctors posed the question, "What do we call it when we talk to patients, particularly those newly diagnosed? What type of education do we provide them?" As people living with these conditions, who are strong supporters of early diagnosis, education, and precision/personalized research, they have their own opinions about this name evolution. This episode serves as an extension of that session, but with a focus on what patients think, feel, and need...and we are asking all of you to share your thoughts and opinions, too.What are your thoughts on another name change? Pros? Cons? If you are a patient, were you even aware that Ankylosing Spondylitis is being phased out?What would you have liked to hear when you were diagnosed: an umbrella term or a specific variant name? Why?Patients - how should doctors educate us about these conditions? The mission of AiArthritis is to elevate and center the patient voice in global conversations with all stakeholders about solving problems facing the autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis community. AiArthritis Voices - our online platform designed to deepen these conversations - allows all patients and parents of juvenile patients to attend conferences like ACR through our innovative new Learn and Connect section. So come join us to continue this and other conversations. You can also weigh in on social media @IfAiArthritis on all platforms or by sending us an email @ podcast@aiarthritis.org. Now, if you are a patient, a parent of a juvenile patient, or any other stakeholder (doctor, nurse, researcher, industry representative, or other health services person) - are you ready to join the conversation? It's your turn to pull up a seat! Join Tiffany, Charis, and all the other recurring Voices 360 co-hosts to continue this conversation inside our new, coordinating AiArthritis Voices online community - where patients unite with others around the world to talk, learn, and connect. JOIN TODAY! AiArthritis Voices 360 is produced by the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis. Visit us on the web at www.aiarthritis.org/podcast. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook (@ifAiArthritis) or email us (podcast@aiarthritis.org) to have your seat at the table. Episode 55: Patients Weigh In What's in a Name - the Spondy Evolution 00:53 - Tiffany welcomes listeners.01:20 - Tiffany welcomes her fellow Spondyloarthritis patient co-hosts Charis Hill, Richard Howard, and Jennifer Walker.03:51 - Today’s episode is a continued conversation from an American College of Rheumatology Conference study group about the nomenclature (naming) of Spondyloarthritis.04:55 - Tiffany shares her diagnosis story and how the addition of the Non-Radiographic Spondyloarthritis diagnosis changed her disease journey.06:35 - Jennifer had to fight with her doctor to get her diagnosis because rheumatologists are so resistant to acknowledging that patients could have both RA and AxSpa.08:58 - Changing the name of a disease after patients have spent years fighting for a diagnosis can feel like the rug is being pulled out from under you.12:10 - Charis feels strongly that having the entire community of patients, physicians, and researchers united behind one name is very important.13:30 - Ankylosing Spondylitis is now a continuum of Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis to radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, but not everyone agrees that these new terms are sufficient to cover the full spectrum of disease presentation in patients with varying symptoms and physiological disease processes.15:18 - This conversation is relevant for all AiArthritis patients because so many AiArthritis diseases have movements to change names or formally recognize differences in patient experiences.15:52 - Prior to the name change, people with nr-AxSpa (who are more often women) were told they had “undifferentiated spondylitis,” and their disease progression - which was often more disabling than traditional Ankylosing Spondylitis - was not even acknowledged by their physicians.18:00 - Rheumatologists often tell patients that the name of their disease doesn’t matter because it doesn’t change how it will be treated, which can be very frustrating for patients.18:22 - Changing the name of a disease in a patient record can change the treatment options based on what private insurance or national health plans will cover for a given diagnostic code.19:11 - Information on the internet that is accessible to patients is not always reliable or accurate because information changes so quickly as the research evolves.25:11 - Doctors favor lumping all patients on the AxSpa continuum under one umbrella. 25:34 - One of the big questions put forth to the study group was: how do we educate patients?25:58 - As a patient, Tiffany wants to understand where she fits on the continuum so she can build relationships with other patients and know where she is in terms of disease progression.26:52 - Medical practitioners have a tendency to try and simplify things for patients, but that can be frustrating for people who want a depth of knowledge about their condition.27:48 - Patient advocates have to juggle their own preferences, the need for scientific accuracy, and the larger patient community’s preferences.30:02 - The Spondylitis Association conducted a survey of their members, and the feedback strongly indicated a preference to retain the “Ankylosing Spondylitis” name among people who were initially diagnosed that way.33:08 - Specific names for disease conditions can be validating for patients, but belonging to an umbrella “family” of diseases is also a positive community experience. 34:05 - Over-specificity may be confusing for patients who don’t have a background in medicine.36:50 - ICD Billing codes heavily influence nomenclature.38:48 - Patients need to know what they have in order to participate in research projects or participate in conversations that impact their lives.43:31 - Knowing more about the variants of the disease can help doctors treat patients more effectively.44:45 - It might be helpful to have a pamphlet that covers the variants of the Spondyloarthritis umbrella for newly-diagnosed patients.48:19 - It is naive in 2021 to have a disconnect between what doctors tell their patients and what is coded in the medical record since patients all have access to their electronic medical records now.49:27 - Rheumatologists never distinguish between seronegative and seropositive RA, but patients very often specify which variety they have.50:27 - The ACR study group did an informal survey of the rheumatologists in attendance and found that 50% of respondents were still giving nr-AxSpa patients an Ankylosing Spondylitis diagnosis.50:54 - The AiArthritis community - including both patients and physicians - needs to get on the same page with regard to the nomenclature.51:10 - The next step in this process should be to host conversations between patients and rheumatologists to get doctors to listen and react to the patient perspective.52:32 - Patients with chronic diseases have long-term relationships with their physicians. 53:13 - Doctors often decide what they think patients need to hear, and it can negatively impact patient treatment when patients aren’t given all the information they need to advocate for themselves and participate in their own treatment decisions.54:23 - Nomenclature decisions don’t just impact doctors and patients as regulatory agencies, insurance companies, researchers, and the pharmaceutical industry may all want to participate in this decision.56:20 - Tiffany thanks Charis, Rich, Jen, and the listeners for joining us today.56:46 - For more information, visit us on social media @IFAiArthritis on all platforms.57:08 - We especially want to know what you would have liked to hear when you were diagnosed: an umbrella term or a specific variant name?57:44 - If you are any other stakeholder, we would love to hear from you also on social media or you can email us @ podcast@aiarthritis.org.58:50 - You can find Jennifer on Facebook, instagram, or Twitter @UnexpectedAdvocate or on the web @ jwalkerart.com.59:40 - You can find Charis on Twitter @BeingCharisblog or on the web @ beingcharis.com.1:00:25 - You can find the Spondylitis Association of America @Spondylitis on all social media platforms or on the web @ spondylitis.org or get in touch with Rich directly @RichAHoward on all platforms.Be sure to check out our top-rated show on Feedspot!
With a fascination for the creation of something from nothing, it makes total sense for Richard Howard to be involved in startups with opportunities to manifest them into reality. Richard has adopted a ‘Zero 2 Something’ philosophy and favours the opportunities which will enable him to maximise for flexibility in life. KEY TAKEAWAY “I’m trying to maximise for flexibility. Some people try to maximise for money. Some people are trying to maximise for work life balance. Some people love business travel. For me it’s flexibility. I want to be able to do what I want to do when I want to do it.” ABOUT RICHARD HOWARD Richard Howard works at Amazon Web Services in the Startup Team. Prior to that he worked at a number of startups, including Uber and Teespring before founding his own. In the last 18 months, Richard has become an angel investor in a number of startups as well as starting the Zero2Something podcast where he interviews incredibly interesting people such as Matt Ridley, Annie Duke and Sir Martin Sorrell about what motivates them to achieve their incredible success. BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS* Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke - https://amzn.to/3r55mLk How to Decide - Annie Duke - https://amzn.to/2MhMuda CONNECT WITH RICHARD Twitter - https://twitter.com/_RHoward Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhoward84/ The Zero2Something Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zero2something/id1527156326 ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, iTunes #1 Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you on your podcast hosting or to focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter CONNECT WITH AMY Clubhouse @amyrowlinson https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/ HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
In der „Luftschlacht um England“, oder wie es richtigerweise heißen muss in der „Battle of Britain“ hat der Luftangriff auf Coventry eine besondere Bedeutung. Nach den Angriffen auf London sowie einiger Gegenangriffe der Royal Air Force markiert diese Operation eine Zäsur im Krieg: Nunmehr ging die deutsche Luftwaffe auch gegen Städte vor, die nicht in bisherige Kriegshandlungen einbezogen war. Der Schritt zum unterschiedslosen Bombenkrieg, der später auch viele deutsche Städte treffen sollte, war vollzogen. Mehr als 500 Menschen starben bei den Angriffen, die mehr als 12 Stunden dauerten. Über 4.000 Häuser wurden zerstört und unwiederbringliche Kunst- und Kulturschätze gingen verloren, nicht zuletzt die St. Michael`s Cathedral. Sie war im 15. Jahrhundert als gotische Pfarrkirche fertiggestellt worden. Ungeachtet der verheerenden Zerstörung der mittelalterlichen Innenstadt von Coventry und der langfristigen Kriegsfolgen ging von dieser Stadt mit der „Nagelkreuzbewegung“ eine einzigartige Versöhnungsbewegung aus. Mittlerweile sind Hunderte Städte in ihr zusammengeschlossen, die durch den Bombenkrieg besonders getroffen und gezeichnet wurden; in Deutschland neben Dresden unter anderem auch Hamburg, Würzburg, Pforzheim, Berlin und nicht zuletzt die im teilweisen Wiederaufbau befindliche Garnisonkirche Potsdam. Bemerkenswert an dieser Bewegung ist noch heute, dass bereits wenige Tage nach dem Angriff der Domprobst der Kathedrale St. Michael in Coventry, Richard Howard, zur Versöhnung aufrief. Diesem Aufruf folgte dann nach dem Ende des Krieges die Versöhnungsarbeit von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Der Deckname „Operation Mondscheinsonate“ für den Angriff auf Coventry, hat allerdings nichts mit seinem Komponisten, Ludwig van Beethoven, zu tun – dessen diesjähriges Gedenkjahr angesichts der Pandemie glücklicherweise bis zum September 2021 verlängert wurde. Vielmehr haben die deutschen Planer scheinbar bevorzugt die deutsche Kultur und Geschichte (Wotan) als Decknamensreservoir für sich entdeckt und verwendet. Die Royal Air Force verwandte zeitweilig biblische Bezeichnungen (Gomorrha, Millenium) und später dann Namen von Fischen (Crayfish, Yellow Thuna) verwandte. Über das Ereignis und die Hintergründe der Unternehmung und dessen bedeutungsmächtigen Folgen für die daraus unerwartet resultierende Versöhnungsarbeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg spricht Kapitän zur See Dr. Jörg Hillmann mit Oberstleutnant Dr. Harald Fritz Potempa, Historiker und Luftkriegsexperte im ZMSBw.
Dr. Richard Howard talks about Covid 19 and the Veterans Administration
Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Widely respected historical novelist (and very occasional SF or fantasy writer) Cecelia Holland talks with Gary about the smoky conditions in northern California, the joys of doing research, her own new novel about Mongol invasions in the Middle East, and the small comforts of reading favourite poets like W.H. Auden, Richard Howard, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Books mentioned include: Heart of the World by Cecelia Holland The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
In this final podcast episode of the COVID-19 series we are focussing on power market economics, prices and policy. Aurora’s CEO John Feddersen is joined by Richard Howard, Aurora’s Research Director who coordinated the recent work on the impact of COVID-19 for the power sector. The main topics tackled in this interview include: • The major recent impacts on gas, carbon and power markets in Europe • Key policy implications for the decarbonisation challenge and Green Stimulus measures • Behavioural change and related impacts on the economy and energy market
On this week’s show we have a Very Special Guest. Richard Howard from the YouTube Channel "The Orlando Guy". Join Bill Sr, in a one on one interview with Richard.You can find "The Orlando Guy" on his YouTube Channel Here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOQTGO7aOvqzX2awq57RYQYou can find "The Orlando Guy" Merchandise, that we talked about ob the Podcast here: https://www.theorlandoguy.com/shop/******************************************************************************You can help Support the "Magic of the Mouse" Podcast here:T-Shirts & Merchandise : https://www.teepublic.com/stores/magic-of-the-mouse?ref_id=11878PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/magicofthemousePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/magicofthemouse If you would like to follow us, you can find us at the following.OUR WEBSITE: https://www.magicofthemouse.netFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/magicofthemouseINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/magic_of_the_mouse/ Our Kit Site: https://kit.co/wmguerroYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aCGxyj2w_FIMPDhvPfVyA?******************************************************************************The Magic of the Mouse Podcast uses Buzzsprout as our Podcasting Host for our shows. We are 100% satisfied with their service and with the ease of use in uploading our shows and the Support that Buzzsprout offers. So if you are thinking of starting your own Podcast, then join over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. You’ll get a great looking podcast website, audio players that you can drop into other websites, detailed analytics to see how people are listening, tools to promote your episodes, and Buzzsprout gets your show listed in every major podcast platform.Following the link below let's Buzzsprout know we sent you, gets you a $20 Amazon gift card if you sign up for a paid plan, and helps support our show.https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=489520Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=23552109)
The 2019 U.K. Angel of the Year, Sunil Shah, joins Richard Howard to discuss the realities of running and growing a business from scratch (it’s not what they teach you in business school), and why not listening during an initial meeting will end your shot at getting his investment.
In the third special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the sections Toys and the Poor and the Proletariat in Roland Barthes' Mythologies. There is a detailed discussion of the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times (1936) that accompanies the second section If you would like to follow along he is using the Hill and Wang 2012 edition of Barthes' Mythologies translated by Richard Howard and Annette LaversFeel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comFind Dr McDonald on Twitter: @iamarubbermanNew episodes every Monday.Support the podcast by visiting its Patreon where you can get exclusive benefits:https://www.patreon.com/DissectingphilosophySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilosophy)
In this special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the section In the Ring in Roland Barthes' Mythologies. The episode deals with the various aspects of professional wrestling, its difference from sports and its relation to the theatre (tragedy, comedy and masks). It also deals with the deeper philosophical aspects of the role of truth, morality (good guy vs. bad guy), suffering and justice in the matches. Lots of examples are given throughout to relate Barthes' view of watching wrestling in the Parisienne Halls in 1950s to contemporary wrestling matches of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and from new wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) first pay per view event Double or Nothing. If you would like to follow along he is using the Hill and Wang 2012 edition translated by Richard Howard and Annette LaversFeel free to send questions or comments to dissectingphilosophy@gmail.comFind Dr McDonald on Twitter: @iamarubbermanNew episodes every Monday.Support the podcast by visiting its Patreon where you can get exclusive benefits:https://www.patreon.com/DissectingphilosophyCredits: Podcast Intro and Outro Music - Arctic and Fir from the album Delicate Felt Piano by Chad Crouch that can be downloaded at https://soundofpicture.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-felt-pianoPodcast Logo - created using Canva https://www.canva.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilosophy)
Happy 10th episode! This week, I'm discussing why I love books that feature plays, and recommending some of my favourite books that do so! I talk about Shakespeare and Jane Austen, but also a graphic novel and a middle-grade. Please let me know if you can think of any more books featuring plays that I might enjoy! Next week, I'll be discussing The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. There's still time to read it! Here are some links to free audiobook versions: The Katherine Woods translation The Richard Howard translation Books featuring plays: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Drama by Raina Telgemeier The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Mansfield Park by Jane Austen A full transcription of this episode, plus an extended list of resources and things I mentioned is available on my website here. My Instagram, Twitter, Blog, and Goodreads The Community Library's Instagram and Goodreads Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning Ashley's Instagram, website, and printing studio website
Welcome back to The Community Library! I'm very excited to bring you this week's episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning's 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift's 2014 hit Blank Space. I had lots of fun creating this episode, and I hope you enjoy! Our next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry! Here are links to free audiobook versions: The Katherine Woods translation The Richard Howard translation Some links to things I talked about in the episode: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Blank Space by Taylor Swift Taylor Swift talking about how and why she wrote Blank Space Robert Browning's Blank Space – British Literature 1700-1900, A Course Blog “My Last Duchess” and “Blank Space” – Later English Literature @antipodean.books on Instagram Please visit my website here for a full list of links and notes on what I talked about in this episode, plus a full transcription! My Instagram and Goodreads The Community Library's Instagram and Goodreads Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning Ashley's Instagram, website, and printing studio website
Welcome back to another minisode! This week my topic of discussion is re-reading books, specifically childhood favourites. I talk about what happens when a re-read is disappointing, and why I'm scared of re-reading my Jacqueline Wilson favourites. Let me know if you like re-reading, and what the experience is like for you! A full transcription is available on my website here. The next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Here are links to free audiobook versions: The Katherine Woods translation The Richard Howard translation Books mentioned (in order of their mentioning): Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Jane Austen's works Flush by Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf The Waves by Virginia Woolf I, Coriander by Sally Gardner Jacqueline Wilson's works My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories by Carmel Bird My Instagram and Goodreads The Community Library's Instagram and Goodreads Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning Ashley's Instagram, website, and printing studio website
Recording of the 3 LPs recorded in 1968 by Myron Fagan detailing the Illuminati plan for One World Government through the Council on Foreign Relations. (June 21st 2018) 2h51m Comment on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/63261054790/posts/10156554177124791Comment on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeBotCast/status/1009989009341386752 This stunning recording from 1967 speaks to the very problems we face today, including Fake News, government corruption, the corrupt United Nations and infiltration of a Luciferian Rothschild cult who may have gained irreversible control of the US government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Coureval_Fagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfEn9Dz1_j0 Transcript http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/illuminatiagendabestoverviewyet8jun02.shtml Part 1(Original title: The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations ) The question of how and why the United Nations is the crux of the great conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and the enslavement of the American people within a U.N. one-world dictatorship is a complete and unknown mystery to the vast majority of the American people. The reason for this unawareness of the frightening danger to our country and to the entire free world is simple. The masterminds behind this great conspiracy have absolute control of all of our mass communications media, especially television, the radio, the press, and Hollywood. We all know that our State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House have brazenly proclaimed that they have the right and the power to manage the news, to tell us not the truth but what they want us to believe. They have seized that power on orders from their masters of the great conspiracy and the objective is to brainwash the people into accepting the phony peace bait to transform the United States into an enslaved unit of the United Nations’ one-world government. First of all, bear in mind that the so-called U.N. police action in Korea, fought by the United States in which 150,000 of our sons were murdered and maimed, was part of the plot; just as the undeclared by Congress war in Vietnam in which our sons are dying is part of the plot; just as the plot against Rhodesia and South Africa in which our sons will be dying is part of the U.N. plot. However, the vitally important thing for all Americans, all you mothers of the boys who died in Korea and are now dying in Vietnam, to know is that our so-called leaders in Washington, who we elected to safeguard our nation and our constitution, are the betrayers and that behind them are a comparatively small group of men whose sole objective is to enslave the whole world of humanity in their satanic plot of one-world government. Now in order to give you a very clear picture of this satanic plot, I will go back to its beginning, clear back in the middle of the 18th century and name the men who put that plot into action and then bring you down to the present – today’s status of that plot. Now as a matter of further intelligence, a term used by the FBI, let me clarify the meaning of the expression “he is a liberal.” The enemy, meaning the one-world conspirators, have seized upon that word “liberal” as a cover-up for their activities. It sounds so innocent and so humanitarian to be liberal. Well, make sure that the person who calls himself a liberal or is described as a liberal is not in truth a “red.” Now then, this satanic plot was launched back in the 1760’s when it first came into existence under the name “Illuminati.” This Illuminati was organized by one Adam Weishaupt, born a Jew, who was converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest, and then, at the behest of the then newly organized House of Rothschild, defected and organized the Illuminati. Naturally, the Rothschilds financed that operation and every war since then, beginning with the French Revolution, has been promoted by the Illuminati operating under various names and guises. I say under various names and guises because after the Illuminati was exposed and became notorious, Weishaupt and his co-conspirators began to operate under various other names. In the United States, immediately after World War I, they set up what they called the “Council on Foreign Relations,” commonly referred to as the CFR, and this CFR is actually the Illuminati in the United States and its hierarchy. The masterminds in control of the original Illuminati conspirators, but to conceal that fact, most of them changed their original family names to American sounding names. For example, the true name of the Dillons, Clarence and Douglas Dillon (one Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department), is Laposky. I’ll come back to all this later. There is a similar establishment of the Illuminati in England operating under the name of the “British Institute of International Affairs.” There are similar secret Illuminati organizations in France, Germany, and other nations operating under different names and all these organizations, including the CFR, continuously set up numerous subsidiary or front organizations that are infiltrated into every phase of the various nations’ affairs. But at all times, the operations of these organizations were and are masterminded and controlled by the Internationalist Bankers, they in turn were and are controlled by the Rothschilds. One branch of the Rothschild family had financed Napoleon; another branch of the Rothschilds financed Britain, Germany, and the other nations in the Napoleonic wars. Immediately after the Napoleonic wars, the Illuminati assumed that all the nations were so destitute and so weary of wars that they’d be glad for any solution, so the Rothschild stooges set up what they called the Congress of Vienna and at that meeting they tried to create the first League of Nations, their first attempted one-world government, on the theory that all the crowned heads of European governments were so deeply in debt to them that they would willingly or unwillingly serve as their stooges. But the Czar of Russia caught the stench of the plot and completely torpedoed it. The enraged Nathan Rothschild, then the head of the dynasty, vowed that some day he or his descendants would destroy the Czar and his entire family, and his descendants did accomplish that very threat in 1917. At this point, bear in mind that the Illuminati was not set up to operate on a short-range basis. Normally a conspirator of any type enters into a conspiracy with the expectation of achieving his objective during his own lifetime. But that was not the case with the Illuminati. True, they hoped to accomplish their objective during their lifetime, but paraphrasing “The show must go on,” the Illuminati operates on the very long-range basis. Whether it will take scores of years or even centuries, they have dedicated their descendants to keep the pot boiling until they hope the conspiracy is achieved. Now, let’s go back to the birth of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt was a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, teaching in Engelstock University, when he defected from Christianity to embrace the luciferian conspiracy. It was in 1770 that the professional money lenders, the then recently organized House of Rothschild, retained him to revise and modernize the age-old Protocols of Zionism, which from the outset, was designed to give the Synagogue of Satan, so named by Jesus Christ, ultimate world domination so they could impose the luciferian ideology upon what would remain of the human race after the final social cataclysm by use of satanic despotism. Weishaupt completed his task May 1, 1776. Now you know why May 1 is the great day with all communist nations to this very day (May 1 is also “Law Day” as declared by the American Bar Association). That was the day, May 1, 1776, that Weishaupt completed his plan and officially organized the Illuminati to put the plan into execution. That plan required the destruction of all existing governments and religions. That objective was to be reached by dividing the masses of people, whom he Weishaupt, termed: “goyism” or human cattle into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, social, economic, and other issues – the very conditions we have in our country today. The opposing sides were then to be armed and incidents provided which would cause them to fight and weaken themselves and gradually destroy national governments and religious institutions. Again I say, the very conditions in the world today. And at this point let me stress a prime feature of the Illuminati plans. When and if their blueprint for world control, the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, is discovered and exposed, they would wipe all the Jews off the face of the earth in order to divert suspicions from themselves. If you think this is far fetched, bear in mind that they permitted Hitler, a liberal socialist himself, who was financed by corrupt Kennedy, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds, to incinerate 600,000 Jews. Now just why did the conspirators choose the word: “Illuminati” for their satanic organization? Weishaupt himself said that the word is derived from Lucifer and means: “holder of the light.” Using the lie that his objective was to bring about a one-world government to enable those with mental ability to govern the world and prevent all wars in the future. In short, using the words: “peace on earth” as his bait, exactly as that same bait as: “peace” was used by the 1945 conspirators to force the United Nations on us, Weishaupt financed, I repeat, by the Rothschilds, recruited some 2,000 paid followers. These included the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, the sciences, finance, and industry. He then established Lodges of the Grand Orient; Masonic Lodges to be their secret headquarters and I again repeat, that in all of this he was acting under orders from the House of Rothschild. The main features of the Weishaupt plan of operation required his Illuminati to do the following things to help them to accomplish their purpose: Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of men already in high places in the various of levels of all governments and other fields of endeavor. Once influential persons had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail, threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and fiscal harm, even death to themselves and loved members of their families. Do you realize how many present top officials in our present government in Washington are controlled in just that way by the CFR? Do you realize how many homosexuals in our State Department, the Pentagon, all federal agencies, even in the White House are controlled that way? Illuminati and the faculties of colleges and universities were to cultivate students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings and recommend them for special training in internationalism. Such training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected by the Illuminatists. That gives you an idea what a “Rhodes scholarship” means. It means indoctrination into accepting the idea that only a one-world government can put an end to recurring wars and strife. That’s how the United Nations was sold to the American people. One of the most notable Rhodes scholars we have in our country is Senator William J. Fulbright, sometimes referred to as half-bright. His entire voting record spells Illuminati. All such scholars were to be first persuaded and then convinced that men of special talent and brains have the right to rule those less gifted on the ground that the masses don’t know what is best for them fiscally, mentally, and spiritually. In addition to the Rhodes and similar scholarships, today there are three special Illuminati schools located in Gordonstown in Scotland, Salem in Germany, and Annavrighta in Greece. These three are known ones, but there are others that are kept undercover. Prince Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Gordonstown at the instigation of Lord Louis Mountbatten, his uncle, a Rothschild relative, who became Britain’s Admiral of the Fleet after World War II ended. All influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agents and placed behind the scenes of all governments as experts and specialists so they would advise the top executives to adopt policies which would in the long run serve the secret plans of the Illuminati one-world conspiracy and bring about the destruction of the governments and religions they were elected or appointed to serve. Do you know how many such men operate in our government at this very time? Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Hubert Humphrey, Fulbright, Keekle, and goes on and on and on. Perhaps the most vital directive in Weishaupt’s plan was to obtain absolute control of the press, at that time the only mass communications media, to distribute information to the public so that all news and information could be slanted so that the masses could be convinced that a one-world government is the only solution to our many and varied problems. Do you know who owns and controls our mass communications media? I’ll tell you. Practically all the movie lots in Hollywood is owned by the Lehmans; Kuhn, Loeb, and Company; Goldman-Sachs; and other internationalist bankers. All the national radio and TV channels in the nation are owned and controlled by those same internationalists bankers. The same is true of every chain of metropolitan newspapers and magazines, also of the press wire services, such as Associated Press, United Press International, etc.. The supposed heads of all those media are merely the fronts for the internationalist bankers, who in turn compose the hierarchy of the CFR, today’s Illuminati in America. Now can you understand why the Pentagon Press agent, Sylvester, so brazenly proclaimed that the government has the right to lie to the people. What he really meant was that our CFR controlled government had the power to lie to and be believed by the brain-washed American people. Let us again go back to the first days of the Illuminati. Because Britain and France were the two greatest world powers in the late years of the 18th Century; Weishaupt ordered the Illuminati to foment the colonial wars, including our Revolutionary War, to weaken the British Empire and organize the French Revolution to start in 1789. However; in 1784, a true act of God placed the Bavarian government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the Illuminati and that evidence could have saved France if they, the French government, hadn’t refused to believe it. Here is how that act of God happened. It was in 1784 that Weishaupt issued his orders for the French Revolution. A German writer, named Zweig, put it into book form. It contained the entire Illuminati story and Weishaupt’s plans. A copy of this book was sent to the Illuminists in France headed by Robespierre whom Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French Revolution. The courier was struck and killed by lightening as he rode through Rawleston on his way from Frankfurt to Paris. The police found the subversive documents on his body and turned them over to the proper authorities. After a careful study of the plot; the Bavarian government ordered the police to raid Weishaupt’s newly organized Lodges of the “Grand Orient” and the homes of his most influential associates. All additional evidence thus discovered convinced the authorities that the documents were genuine copies of the conspiracy by which the Illuminati planned to use wars and revolutions to bring about the establishment of a one-world government; the powers of which they, headed by the Rothschilds, intended to usurp as soon as it was established, exactly in line with the United Nations’ plot of today. In 1785, the Bavarian government outlawed the Illuminati and closed the Lodges of the “Grand Orient.” In 1786; they published all the details of the conspiracy. The English title of that publication is: “The Original Writings of the Order and the Sect of the Illuminati.” Copies of the entire conspiracy were sent to all the heads of church and state in Europe. But the power of the Illuminati, which was actually the power of the Rothschilds, was so great that this warning was ignored. Nevertheless; the Illuminati became a dirty word and it went underground. At the same time, Weishaupt ordered Illuminists to infiltrate into the Lodges of “Blue Masonry” and formed their own secret societies within all secret societies. Only Masons who proved themselves internationalists and those whose conduct proved they had defected from God were initiated into the Illuminati. Thenceforth; the conspirators donned the cloak of philanthropy and humanitarianism to conceal their revolutionary and subversive activities. In order to infiltrate into Masonic Lodges in Britain; Weishaupt invited John Robison over to Europe. Robison was a high degree Mason in the “Scottish Rite.” He was a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University and Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Robison did not fall for the lie that the objective of the Illuminati was to create a benevolent dictatorship; but he kept his reactions to himself so well that he was entrusted with a copy of Weishaupt’s revised conspiracy for study and safekeeping. Anyway; because the heads of state and church in France were deluded into ignoring the warnings given them; the revolution broke out in 1789 as scheduled by Weishaupt. In order to alert other governments to their danger, in 1798, Robison published a book entitled: “Proof of a Conspiracy to Destroy all Governments and Religions” but his warnings were ignored exactly as our American people have been ignoring all warnings about the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Now here is something that will stun and very likely outrage many who hear this; but there is documentary proof that our own Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton became students of Weishaupt. Jefferson was one of Weishaupt’s strongest defenders when he was outlawed by his government and it was Jefferson who infiltrated the Illuminati into the then newly organized lodges of the “Scottish Rite” in New England. Here is the proof. In 1789; John Robison warned all Masonic leaders in America that the Illuminati had infiltrated into their lodges and on July 19, 1789; David Papen, President of Harvard University, issued the same warning to the graduating class and lectured them on how the influence of Illuminism was acquitting on American politics and religion, and to top it off; John Quincy Adams, who had organized the New England Masonic Lodges, issued his warnings. Adams wrote three letters to Colonel William L. Stone, a top Mason, in which he exposed how Jefferson was using Masonic lodges for subversive Illuministic purposes. Those three letters are at this very time in Whittenburg Square Library in Philadelphia. In short; Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party, was a member of the Illuminati which at least partly accounts for the condition of the party at this time and through infiltration of the Republican Party; we have exactly nothing of loyal Americanism today. That disastrous rebuff at the Congress of Vienna created by the Czar of Russia, Alexander I, did not by any means destroy the Illuminati conspiracy. It merely forced them to adopt a new strategy realizing that the one-world idea was, for the moment, killed. The Rothschild’s decided that to keep the plot alive they would have to do it by heightening their control of the money system of the European nations. Earlier; by a ruse the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo had been falsified, Rothschild had spread a story that Napoleon had one bad battle which precipitated a terrific panic on the stock market in England. All stocks had plummeted down to practically zero and Nathan Rothschild bought all the stocks for virtually a penny on its dollar values. That gave him complete control of the economy of Britain and virtually of all Europe. So immediately after that Congress in Vienna had boomeranged; Rothschild had forced Britain to set up a new “Bank of England” which he had absolute control exactly, as later through Jacob Schiff; he engineered our own “Federal Reserve Act” which gave the House of Rothschild a secret control of the economy in the United States. But now for a moment; let’s dwell on the activities of the Illuminati in the United States. In 1826; one Captain William Morgan decided it was his duty to inform all Masons and the general public what the full proof was regarding the Illuminati, their secret plans, intended objectives, and to reveal the identities of the masterminds of the conspiracy. The Illuminati promptly tried Morgan in absentia and convicted him of treason. They ordered one Richard Howard, an English Illuminist, to carry out their sentence of execution as a traitor. Morgan was warned and he tried to escape to Canada, but Howard caught up with him near the border; near the Niagara Gorge to be exact, where he murdered him. This was verified in a sworn statement made in New York by one Avery Allen to the effect that he heard Howard render his report of the execution to a meeting of “Knights Templers” in St. John’s Hall in New York. He also told how arrangements had been made to ship Howard back to England. That Allen affidavit is on record in New York City Archives. Very few Masons and very few of the general public know that general disapproval over that incident of murder caused approximately half of all the Masons in the northern jurisdiction of the United States to secede. Copies of the minutes of the meeting held to discuss that matter are still in existence in safe hands and that all that secrecy emphasizes the power of the masterminds of the Illuminati to prevent such terrible events of history from being taught in our schools. In the early 1850’s; the Illuminati held a secret meeting in New York which was addressed by a British Illuminist named Wright. Those in attendance were told that the Illuminati was organizing to unite the Nihilist and Atheist groups with all other subversive groups into an international group to be known as Communists. That was when the word: “communist” first came into being and it was intended to be the supreme weapon and scare word to terrify the whole world and drive the terrorized peoples into the Illuminati one-world scheme. This scheme: “communism,” was to be used to enable the Illuminati to foment future wars and revolutions. Clinton Roosevelt, a direct ancestor of Franklin Roosevelt; Horace Greeley; and Charles Dana; foremost newspaper publishers of that time were appointed to head a committee to raise funds for the new venture. Of course, most of the funds were provided by the Rothschilds and this fund was used to finance Karl Marx and Engels when they wrote “Das Kaptial” and the “Communist Manifesto” in Soho, England. And this clearly reveals that communism is not a so-called ideology, but a secret weapon; a bogy man word to serve the purpose of the Illuminati. Weishaupt died in 1830; but prior to his death, he prepared a revised version of the age-old conspiracy, the Illuminati, which under various aliases was to organize, finance, direct, and control all international organizations and groups by working their agents into executive positions at the top. In the United States we have Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, William Fulbright, George Bush etc., as prime examples. In addition, while Karl Marx was writing the “Communist Manifesto” under the director of one group of Illuminists, Professor Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis under the direction of another group. The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies to enable them to divide larger and larger members of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other. And particularly, to destroy all political and religious institutions. The work Ritter started was continued after his death and completed by the German so-called philosopher Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzache who founded Nietzscheanism. This Nietzecheanism was later developed into Fascism and then into Nazism and was used to foment World War I and II. In 1834; the Italian revolutionary leader, Guiseppe Mazzini, was selected by the Illuminati to direct their revolutionary program throughout the world. He served in that capacity until he died in 1872, but some years before he died; Mazzini had enticed an American General named Albert Pike into the Illuminati. Pike was fascinated by the idea of a one-world government and ultimately he became the head of this luciferian conspiracy. Between 1859 and 1871 he, Pike, worked out a military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world which he considered would forward the conspiracy to its final stage in the 20th century. Again I remind you that these conspirators were never concerned with immediate success. They also operated on a long-range view. Pike did most of his work in his home in Little Rock, Arkansas. But a few years later; when the Illuminati’s Lodges of the Grand Orient became suspect and repudiated because of Mazzini’s revolutionary activities in Europe, Pike organized what he called the New and Reformed Palladian Right. He set up three Supreme Councils; one in Charleston, South Carolina, one in Rome, Italy, and a third in Berlin, Germany. He had Mazzini establish 23 subordinate councils in strategic locations throughout the world. These have been the secret headquarters of the world revolutionary movement ever since. Long before Marconi invented the radio; the scientists in the Illuminati had found the means for Pike and the heads of his councils to communicate secretly. It was the discovery of that secret that enabled intelligence officers to understand how apparently unrelated incidents, such as the assassination of an Austrian Prince [Arch Duke Ferdinand I ] at Serbia, took place simultaneously throughout the world which developed into a war or a revolution. Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective. It called for Communism, Nazism, political Zionism, and other international movements to be organized and used to foment three global world wars and at least two major revolutions. The First World War was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to destroy Czarism in Russia, as vowed by Rothschild after the Czar had torpedoed his scheme at the Congress in Vienna, and to transform Russia into a stronghold of atheistic communism. The differences stirred up by agents of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war would be ended; communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions. World War II, when and if necessary, was to be fomented by using the controversies between Fascists and political zionists, and here let it be noted that Hitler was financed by Krupp, the Warburgs, the Rothschilds, and other internationalist bankers and that the slaughter of the supposed 600,000 Jews by Hitler didn’t bother the Jewish internationalist bankers at all. That slaughter was necessary in order to create worldwide hatred of the German people and thus bring about war against them. In short; this second world war was to be fought to destroy nazism and increase the power of political zionism so that the state of Israel could be established in Palestine. During this World War II; international communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength to that of the united Christendom. When it reached that point; it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. As we know now; Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin put that exact policy into effect and Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and George Bush continued that same exact policy. World War III is to be fomented by using the so-called controversies, the agents of the Illuminati operating under whatever new name, as are now being stored up between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. That war is to be directed in such a manner that all of Islam and political Zionism (Israel) will destroy each other while at the same time; the remaining nations once more divided on this issue will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion; physically, mentally, spiritually, and economically. Now, can any thinking person doubt that the intrigue now going on in the near Middle and far East is designed to accomplish that satanic objective? Albert Pike himself foretold all this in a statement he made to Mazzini on August 15, 1871. Pike stated that after World War III is ended; those who will aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. Quoting his own words taken from the letter he wrote to Mazzini and which letter is now catalogued in the British Museum in London, England; he said: “We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view. A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both ! conquered and exterminated at the same time.” When Mazzini died in 1872; Pike made another revolutionary leader named Adrian Lemmy; his successor. Lemmy, in turn, was succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, then by Stalin. The revolutionary activities of all those men were financed by British, French, German, and American international bankers; all of them dominated by the House of Rothschilds. We are supposed to believe that the international bankers of today, like the money changers of Christ’s day, are only the tools or agents of the great conspiracy, but actually they are the masterminds behind all the mass communications media leading us into believing that communism is a movement of the so-called workers; the actual fact is that both British and American intelligence officers have authentic documentary evidence that international liberals, operating through their international banking houses; particularly the House of Rothschilds, have financed both sides of every war and revolution since 1776. Those who today comprise the conspiracy (the CFR in the United States); direct our governments whom they hold in usury through such methods as the Federal Reserve System in America to fight wars, such as Vietnam (created by the United Nations), so as to further Pike’s Illuminati plans to bring the world to that stage of the conspiracy when atheistic communism and the whole of Christianity can be forced into an all out third world war within each remaining nation as well as on an international basis scale. The headquarters of the great conspiracy in the late 1700’s was in Frankfurt, Germany where the House of Rothschild had been established by Mayar (or Mayer) Amschel who adopted the Rothschild name and linked together other international financiers who had literally sold their souls to the devil. After the Bavarian government’s exposure in 1786; the conspirators moved their headquarters to Switzerland then to London. Since World War II (after Jacob Schiff, the Rothschild’s boy in America died); the headquarters of the American branch has been in the Harold Pratt Building in New York City and the Rockefellers, originally proteges of Schiff, have taken over the manipulation of finances in America for the Illuminati. In the final phases of the conspiracy; the one-world government will consist of the king-dictator; the head of the United Nations, the CFR, and a few billionaires, economists, and scientists who have proved their devotion to the great conspiracy. All others are to be integrated into a vast conglomeration of mongrolized humanity; actually slaves. Now let me show you how our federal government and the American people have been sucked into the one-world take over plot of the Illuminati great conspiracy and always bear in mind, that the United Nations was created to become the housing for that one-world, so-called, liberal conspiracy. The real foundations of the plot of the takeover of the United States were laid during the period of our Civil War. Not that Weishaupt and the earlier masterminds had ever overlooked the new world, as I have previously indicated; Weishaupt had his agents planted over here as far back as the Revolutionary War, but George Washington was more than a match for them. Part 2 It was during the Civil War that the conspirators launched their first concrete efforts. We know that Judah Benjamin, chief advisor of Jefferson Davis, was a Rothschild agent. We also know that there were Rothschild agents planted in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet who tried to sell him into a financial dealing with the House of Rothschild. But old Abe saw through the scheme and bluntly rejected it thereby incurring the undying enmity of the Rothschilds; exactly as the Russian Czar did when he torpedoed their first League of Nations at the Congress in Vienna. Investigation of the assassination of Lincoln revealed that the assassin John Wilkes Booth was a member of a secret conspiratorial group . Because there were a number of highly important government officials involved; the name of the group was never revealed and it became a mystery; exactly as the assassination of Jack Kennedy is still a mystery. But I am sure it will not remain a mystery for long. Anyway; the ending of the Civil War destroyed temporarily all chances of the House of Rothschilds to get a clutch on our money system; such as they had acquired in Britain and other nations in Europe. I say temporarily because the Rothschilds and the masterminds of the conspiracy never quit so they had to start from scratch; but they lost no time in getting started. Jacob H. Schiff Shortly after the Civil War; a young immigrant, who called himself Jacob H. Schiff, arrived in New York. Jacob was a young man with a mission for the House of Rothschild. Jacob was the son of a Rabbi who was born in one of the Rothschild’s houses in Frankfurt, Germany. I will not go deeply into his background. The important point was that Rothschild recognized in him not only a potential money wizard; but more important, he also saw the latent Machiavellian qualities in Jacob that could, as it did, make him an invaluable functionary in the great one-world conspiracy. After a comparatively brief training period in the Rothschild’s London Bank; Jacob left for America with instructions to buy into a banking house which was to be the springboard to acquire control of the money system of the United States. Actually; Jacob came here to carry out four specific assignments. 1. The most important, was to acquire control of America’s money system.2. Find desirable men, who for a price, would be willing to serve as stooges for the great conspiracy and promote them into high places in our federal government, our Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and all federal agencies.3. Create minority group strife throughout the nations; particularly between the whites and blacks.4. Create a movement to destroy religion in the United States; but Christianity to be the chief target. Earlier I stated that Jacob Schiff came to America with orders by Rothschild to carry out four specific directives. The first and most important one was to get control of the United States’ money system. Let’s trace Schiff’s step to accomplish that directive. As a first step he had to buy into a banking house; but it had to be the kind of a house that he could absolutely control and mold for that primary objective of entrapping our U.S. money system. After carefully scouting around; Jacob bought a partnership in a firm that called itself: Kuhn and Loeb. Like Schiff; Kuhn and Loeb were immigrants from German Jewish ghettos. They came to the U.S. in the mid 1840’s and both of them started their business careers as itinerant pack peddlers. In the early 1850’s; they pooled their interests and set up a merchandise store in Lafayette, Indiana under the firm name of Kuhn and Loeb servicing the covered wagon settlers on their way west. In the years that followed; they set up similar stores in Cincinnati and St. Louis. Then they added pawn broking to their merchandising pursuits. From that to money lending was a short and quick step. By the time Schiff arrived on the scene; Kuhn and Loeb was a well-known private banking firm and this is the firm Jacob bought into. Shortly after he became a partner in Kuhn and Loeb; Schiff married Loeb’s daughter, Teresa, then he bought out Kuhn’s interests and moved the firm to New York and Kuhn and Loeb became Kuhn, Loeb, and Company; international bankers with Jacob Schiff, agent of the Rothschilds, ostensibly the sole owner. And throughout his career; this blend of Judas and Machiavelli, the first heirarch of the Illuminati’s great conspiracy in America, posed as a generous philanthropist and a man of great holiness; the cover-up policy set forth by the Illuminati. As I have stated; the first great step of the conspiracy was to be the entrapment of our money system. To achieve that objective; Schiff had to get full cooperation of the then big banker elements in America; and that was easier said than done. Even in those years; Wall Street was the heart of the American money mart and J.P. Morgan was its dictator. Next in line were the Drexels and the Biddles of Philadelphia. All the other financiers, big and little, danced to the music of those three houses; but particularly to that of Morgan. All of those three were proud, haughty, arrogant potentates. For the first few years; they viewed the little bewhiskered man from the German ghettos with utter contempt; but Jacob knew how to overcome that. He threw a few Rothschild bones to them. Said bones being distribution in America of desirable European stock and bond issues. Then he discovered that he had a still more potent weapon in his hands in the following. It was in the decades following our Civil War that our industries began to burgeon. We had great railroads to build. The oil, mining, steel, textile industries were bursting out of their swaddling clothes. All of that called for vast financing; much of that financing had to come from abroad. That meant the House of Rothschild and that was when Schiff came into his own. He played a very crafty game. He became the patron saint of John D. Rockefeller, Edward R. Harriman, and Andrew Carnegie. He financed the Standard Oil Company for Rocky, the Railroad Empire for Harriman, and the Steel Empire for Carnegie. But instead of hogging all the other industries for Kuhn, Loeb, and Company, he opened the doors of the House of Rothschild to Morgan, Biddle, and Drexel. In turn; Rothschild arranged the setting up of London, Paris, European and other branches for those three; but always in partnerships with Rothschild subordinates and Rothschild made it very clear to all those men that Schiff was to be the boss in New York. Thus at the turn of the century Schiff had a tight control of the entire banking fraternity on Wall Street which by then, with Schiff’s help, included Lehman brothers, Goldman-Sachs, and other internationalist banks that where headed by men chosen by the Rothschilds. In short; that meant control of the nation’s money powers and he was then ready for the giant step – the entrapment of our national money system. Now under our Constitution; all control of our money system is vested solely in our Congress. Schiff’s next important step was to seduce our Congress to betray that Constitutional edict by surrendering that control to the hierarchy of the Illuminati’s great conspiracy. In order to legalize that surrender and thus make the people powerless to resist it, it would be necessary to have Congress enact special legislation. To accomplish that; Schiff would have to infiltrate stooges into both houses of Congress. Stooges powerful enough to railroad Congress into passing such legislation. Equally or even more important; he would have to plant a stooge in the White House a president that is without integrity and without scruples who would sign that legislation into law. To accomplish that he had to get control of either the Republican or the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was the more vulnerable; it was the hungrier of the two parties. Except for Grover Cleveland; the Democrats had been unable to land one of their men in the White House since before the Civil War. There were two reasons for that: 1. Poverty of the Party. There were considerably more Republican-minded voters than Democrats. The poverty matter was not a great problem, but the voter problem was a different story. But as I previously said; Schiff was a smart cookie. Here is the atrocious and murderous method he employed to solve that voter problem. His solution emphasizes how very little the Jewish internationalist bankers care about their own racial brethren as you shall see. Suddenly; around 1890, there broke out a nationwide series of pogroms in Russia. Many, many, thousands of innocent Jews; men, women, and children were slaughtered by the Cossacks and other peasants. Similar pogroms with similar slaughter of innocent Jews broke out in Poland, Rumania, and Bulgaria. All those pogroms were fomented by Rothschild agents. As a result; the Jewish terrified refugees from all of those nations swarmed into the United States and that continued throughout the next two or three decades because the pogroms were continuous through all those years. All those refugees were aided by self-styled humanitarian committees set up by Schiff, the Rothschilds, and all the Rothschild affiliates. In the main; the refugees streamed into New York, but the Schiff-Rothschild humanitarian committees found ways to shuffle many of them into other large cities such as Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, etc.. All of them were quickly transformed into “naturalized citizens” and educated to register as Democrats. Thus all of that so-called minority group became solid Democratic voter blocks in their communities all controlled and maneuvered by their so-called benefactors. And shortly after the turn of the century; they became vital factors in the political life of our nation. That was one of the methods Schiff employed to plant men like Nelson Aldrich in our Senate and Woodrow Wilson in the White House. 2. Racial Strife. At this point let me remind you of another one of the important jobs that was assigned to Schiff when he was dispatched to America. I refer to the job of destroying the unity of the American people by creating minority group and racial strife. By the pogrom-driven Jewish refugees into America; Schiff was creating a ready-made minority group for that purpose. But the Jewish people, as a whole, made fearful by the pogroms, could not be depended upon to create the violence necessary to destroy the unity of American people. But right within America; there was an already made-to-order, although as yet, a sleeping minority group, the Negroes, who could be sparked into so-called demonstrations, rioting, looting, murder, and every other type of lawlessness – all that was necessary, was to incite and arouse them. Together; those two minority groups, properly maneuvered, could be used to create exactly the King of Strife in America the Illuminati would need to accomplish their objective. Thus at the same time that Schiff and co-conspirators were laying their plans for the entrapment of our money system; they were also perfecting plans to hit the unsuspecting American people with an explosive and terrifying racial upheaval that would tear the people into hate fractions and create chaos throughout the nation; especially on all college and university campuses; all protected by Earl Warren decisions and our so-called leaders in Washington D.C. (Remember the Warren commission on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy). Of course, perfecting those plans require time and infinitely patient organizing. Jack Kennedy, during his term of office as the President of the United States, became a Christian. In his attempt to repent, he tried to inform the people of this Nation (at least twice) that the Office of the President of the United States was being manipulated by the Illuminati/CFR. At the same time, he put a stop to the ‘borrowing’ of Federal Reserve Notes from the Federal Reserve Bank and began issuing United States Notes (which was interest free) on the credit of the United States. It was the issuing of the United States Notes that caused Jack Kennedy to be assassinated. Upon the taking the Oath of Office; Lyndon B. Johnson stopped the issuing of the United States Notes and went back to borrowing Federal Reserve Bank Notes (which was loaned to the people of the United States at the going rate of interest of 17%). The US Notes, that was issued under John F. Kennedy, was of the 1963 series which beared a “Red” seal on the face of the Note. Now to remove all doubts; I’ll take a few moments to give you the documentary proof of this racial strife plot. First of all they had to create the leadership and organizations to draw in millions of dupes, both Jewish and Negroes, who would do the demonstrating and commit the rioting, looting, and lawlessness. So in 1909; Schiff, the Lehmans, and other conspirators, organized and set up the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People known as the “NAACP.” The presidents, directors, and legal councils of the NAACP were always “white men Jews” appointed by Schiff and this is the case to this very day. Then in 1913; the Schiff group organized the Anti-defamation League of the B’nai B’rith commonly known as the “ADL” to serve as the gestapo and hatchet man outfit for the entire great conspiracy. Today the sinister ADL maintains over 2,000 agencies in all parts of our country and they advise and completely control every action of the NAACP or of the Urban League of all the other so-called Negro civil rights organizations throughout the nation including such leaders as Martin Luther King, Stockely Carmichael, Barnard Rustin, and others of the ilk. Part 3 By 1917 the conspirators had achieved their primary objective; all of Europe was in a state of destitution. All the peoples were war weary and crying for peace and the outcome too was all set. It was to come as soon as the United States would be hurled on the side of the Allies and that was all set to happen immediately after Wilson’s re-election. After that, there could be only one outcome; complete victory for the Allies. To fully confirm my statement that long before 1917; the conspiracy, headed in America by Jacob Schiff, had it all set to hurl the United States into that war. I will cite the proof. When Wilson was campaigning for re-election in 1916; his chief appeal was: “re-elect the man who will keep your sons out of the war.” But during that same campaign; the Republican Party publicly charged that Wilson had long committed himself to throw us into the war. They charged that if he would be defeated he would accomplish that act during his few remaining months in office; but if re-elected, he would hold off until after the election. But at that time the American people looked upon Wilson as a “God-man.” Well; Wilson was re-elected and as per the schedule of the conspirators; he hurled us into the war in 1917. He used the sinking of the Lusitania as an excuse; a sinking which also was prearranged. Roosevelt, also a God-man in the eyes of the American people, followed the same technique in 1941 when he used the prearranged Pearl Harbor attack as his excuse for hurling us into World War II. Now exactly as the conspirators planned; victory for the Allies would eliminate all the Monarchs of the defeated Nations and leave all their people leaderless, confused, bewildered and perfectly conditioned for the one-world government. The great conspiracy intended would follow; but there still would be an obstacle; the same obstacle that had balked the Illuminati and Rothschild at that Congress in Vienna (peace gathering) after the Napoleonic Wars. Russia would be on the winning side this time as it was in 1814 and therefore the Czar would be securely seated on his throne. Here it is pertinent to note that Russia, under the Czarist regime, had been the one country in which the Illuminati had never made any headway nor had the Rothschilds ever been able to infiltrate in their banking interests thus a winning Czar would be more difficult than ever to cope with. Even if he could be enticed into a so-called “League of Nations;” it was a foregone conclusion that he would never, but never, go for a one-world government. So even before the outbreak of World War I, the conspirators had a plan in the making to carry out Nathan Rothschild’s vow of 1814 to destroy the Czar and also murder all possible royal heirs to the throne and it would have to be done before the close of the war. The Russian Bolsheviks were to be their instruments in this particular plot. From the turn of the century; the chiefs of the Bolsheviks were Nicolai Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and later Joseph Stalin. Of course, those were not their true family names. Prior to the outbreak; Switzerland became their haven. Trotsky’s headquarters was on the lower East Side in New York; largely the habitat of Russian-Jewish refugees. Both Lenin and Trotsky were similarly bewhiskered and unkempt. In those days, that was the badge of Bolshevism. Both lived well yet neither had a regular occupation. Neither had any visible means of support, yet both always had plenty of money. All those mysteries were solved in 1917. Right from the outset of the war; strange and mysterious goings on were taking place in New York. Night after night; Trotsky darted furtively in and out of Jacob Schiff’s palace mansion and in the dead of those same nights there were a gathering of hoodlums of New York’s lower East Side. All of them Russian refugees at Trotsky’s headquarters and all were going through some mysterious sort of training process that was all shrouded in mystery. Nobody talked; although it did leak out that Schiff was financing all of Trotsky’s activities. Then suddenly Trotsky vanished and so did approximately 300 of his trained hoodlums. Actually they were on the high seas in a Schiff-chartered ship bound for a rendezvous with Lenin and his gang in Switzerland. And also on that ship was $20,000,000 in gold; the $20,000,000 was provided to finance the Bolsheviks takeover of Russia. In anticipation of Trotsky’s arrival; Lenin prepared to throw a party in his Switzerland hideaway. Men of the very highest places in the world were to be guests at that party. Among them were the mysterious Colonel Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson’s mentor and palsy-walsy, and more important; Schiff’s special and confidential messenger. Another of the expected guests was Warburg of the Warburg Banking Clan in Germany who was financing the Kaiser and whom the Kaiser had rewarded by making him chief of the Secret Police of Germany. In addition; t
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This week we are joined once again by Richard Howard. On this special episode, we focus on the Player. Join us for a special story time, and great discussion on what it means to be a player in D&D and how to be a better player and team member. Stories of Matt Welty: A Man Never Truly Dies Epic Adventures of Jackson and Toby Email Rich Howard at rich@richhowardauthor.com Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes dungeonmasterblock@gmail.com The Song in this Episode is Techno Rave by Nathan Alford This episode edited by: DM Mitch
AMIRI BARAKACLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO SHOWPoet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. Baraka was well known for his strident social criticism, often writing in an incendiary style that made it difficult for some audiences and critics to respond with objectivity to his works. Throughout most of his career his method in poetry, drama, fiction, and essays was confrontational, calculated to shock and awaken audiences to the political concerns of black Americans. For decades, Baraka was one of the most prominent voices in the world of American literature.Baraka’s own political stance changed several times, thus dividing his oeuvre into periods: as a member of the avant-garde during the 1950s, Baraka—writing as Leroi Jones—was associated with Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; in the ‘60s, he moved to Harlem and became a Black Nationalist; in the ‘70s, he was involved in third-world liberation movements and identified as a Marxist. More recently, Baraka was accused of anti-Semitism for his poem “Somebody Blew up America,” written in response to the September 11 attacks.Baraka incited controversy throughout his career. He was praised for speaking out against oppression as well as accused of fostering hate. Critical opinion has been sharply divided between those who agree, with Dissent contributor Stanley Kaufman, that Baraka’s race and political moment have created his celebrity, and those who feel that Baraka stands among the most important writers of the twentieth century. In the American Book Review, Arnold Rampersad counted Baraka with Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison “as one of the eight figures . . . who have significantly affected the course of African-American literary culture.”Baraka did not always identify with radical politics, nor did his writing always court controversy. During the 1950s Baraka lived in Greenwich Village, befriending Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and Gilbert Sorrentino. The white avant-garde—primarily Ginsberg, O’Hara, and leader of the Black Mountain poets Charles Olson—and Baraka believed in poetry as a process of discovery rather than an exercise in fulfilling traditional expectations. Baraka, like the projectivist poets, believed that a poem’s form should follow the shape determined by the poet’s own breath and intensity of feeling. In 1958 Baraka founded Yugen magazine and Totem Press, important forums for new verse. He was married to his co-editor, Hettie Cohen, from 1960 to 1965. His first play, A Good Girl Is Hard to Find, was produced at Sterington House in Montclair, New Jersey, that same year. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Baraka’s first published collection of poems appeared in 1961. M.L. Rosenthal wrote in The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II that these poems show Baraka’s “natural gift for quick, vivid imagery and spontaneous humor.” Rosenthal also praised the “sardonic or sensuous or slangily knowledgeable passages” that fill the early poems. While the cadence of blues and many allusions to black culture are found in the poems, the subject of blackness does not predominate. Throughout, rather, the poet shows his integrated, Bohemian social roots. The book’s last line is “You are / as any other sad man here / american.”With the rise of the civil rights movement Baraka’s works took on a more militant tone. His trip to Cuba in 1959 marked an important turning point in his life. His view of his role as a writer, the purpose of art, and the degree to which ethnic awareness deserved to be his subject changed dramatically. In Cuba he met writers and artists from third world countries whose political concerns included the fight against poverty, famine, and oppressive governments. In Home: Social Essays (1966), Baraka explains how he tried to defend himself against their accusations of self-indulgence, and was further challenged by Jaime Shelley, a Mexican poet, who said, “‘In that ugliness you live in, you want to cultivate your soul? Well, we’ve got millions of starving people to feed, and that moves me enough to make poems out of.’” Soon Baraka began to identify with third world writers and to write poems and plays with strong political messages.Dutchman, a play of entrapment in which a white woman and a middle-class black man both express their murderous hatred on a subway, was first performed Off-Broadway in 1964. While other dramatists of the time were wedded to naturalism, Baraka used symbolism and other experimental techniques to enhance the play’s emotional impact. The play established Baraka’s reputation as a playwright and has been often anthologized and performed. It won the Village Voice Obie Award in 1964 and was later made into a film. The plays and poems following Dutchman expressed Baraka’s increasing disappointment with white America and his growing need to separate from it. Critics observed that as Baraka’s poems became more politically intense, they left behind some of the flawless technique of the earlier poems. Richard Howard wrote of The Dead Lecturer (1964) in the Nation: “These are the agonized poems of a man writing to save his skin, or at least to settle in it, and so urgent is their purpose that not one of them can trouble to be perfect.”To make a clean break with the Beat influence, Baraka turned to writing fiction in the mid-1960s, penning The System of Dante’s Hell (1965), a novel, and Tales (1967), a collection of short stories. The stories are “‘fugitive narratives’ that describe the harried flight of an intensely self-conscious Afro-American artist/intellectual from neo-slavery of blinding, neutralizing whiteness, where the area of struggle is basically within the mind,” Robert Elliot Fox wrote in Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany.The role of violent action in achieving political change is more prominent in these stories, as is the role of music in black life.In addition to his poems, novels and politically-charged essays, Baraka is a noted writer of music criticism. His classic history Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963) traces black music from slavery to contemporary jazz. Finding indigenous black art forms was important to Baraka in the ‘60s, as he was searching for a more authentic voice for his own poetry. Baraka became known as an articulate jazz critic and a perceptive observer of social change. As Clyde Taylor stated in Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch, “The connection he nailed down between the many faces of black music, the sociological sets that nurtured them, and their symbolic evolutions through socio-economic changes, in Blues People, is his most durable conception, as well as probably the one most indispensable thing said about black music.” Baraka also published the important studies Black Music (1968) and The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987). Lloyd W. Brown commented in Amiri Baraka that Baraka’s essays on music are flawless: “As historian, musicological analyst, or as a journalist covering a particular performance Baraka always commands attention because of his obvious knowledge of the subject and because of a style that is engaging and persuasive even when the sentiments are questionable and controversial.”After Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was killed in 1965, Baraka moved to Harlem and founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. The Black Arts Movement helped develop a new aesthetic for black art and Baraka was its primary theorist. Black American artists should follow “black,” not “white” standards of beauty and value, he maintained, and should stop looking to white culture for validation. The black artist’s role, he wrote in Home: Social Essays (1966), is to “aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.” Foremost in this endeavor was the imperative to portray society and its ills faithfully so that the portrayal would move people to take necessary corrective action. He married his second wife, Amina, in 1967. In that same year, Baraka published the poetry collection Black Magic,which chronicles his separation from white culture and values while displaying his mastery of poetic technique. There was no doubt that Baraka’s political concerns superseded his just claims to literary excellence, and critics struggled to respond to the political content of the works. Some felt the best art must be apolitical and dismissed Baraka’s newer work as “a loss to literature.” Kenneth Rexroth wrote inWith Eye and Ear that Baraka “has succumbed to the temptation to become a professional Race Man of the most irresponsible sort. . . . His loss to literature is more serious than any literary casualty of the Second War.” In 1966 Bakara moved back to Newark, New Jersey, and a year later changed his name to the Bantuized Muslim appellation Imamu (“spiritual leader,” later dropped) Ameer (later Amiri, “prince”) Baraka (“blessing”).By the early 1970s Baraka was recognized as an influential African-American writer. Randall noted in Black World that younger black poets Nikki Giovanni and Don L. Lee (later Haki R. Madhubuti) were “learning from LeRoi Jones, a man versed in German philosophy, conscious of literary tradition . . . who uses the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy in his System of Dante’s Hell and the punctuation, spelling and line divisions of sophisticated contemporary poets.” More importantly, Arnold Rampersad wrote in the American Book Review, “More than any other black poet . . . he taught younger black poets of the generation past how to respond poetically to their lived experience, rather than to depend as artists on embalmed reputations and outmoded rhetorical strategies derived from a culture often substantially different from their own.”After coming to see Black Nationalism as a destructive form of racism, Baraka denounced it in 1974 and became a third world socialist. He produced a number of Marxist poetry collections and plays in the 1970s that reflected his newly adopted political goals. Critics contended that works like the essays collected in Daggers and Javelins (1984) lack the emotional power of the works from his Black Nationalist period. However, Joe Weixlmann, in Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch, argued against the tendency to categorize the radical Baraka instead of analyze him: “At the very least, dismissing someone with a label does not make for very satisfactory scholarship. Initially, Baraka’s reputation as a writer and thinker derived from a recognition of the talents with which he is so obviously endowed. The subsequent assaults on that reputation have, too frequently, derived from concerns which should be extrinsic to informed criticism.”In more recent years, recognition of Baraka’s impact on late 20th century American culture has resulted in the publication of several anthologies of his literary oeuvre.The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (1999) presents a thorough overview of the writer’s development, covering the period from 1957 to 1983. The volume presents Baraka’s work from four different periods and emphasizes lesser-known works rather than the author’s most famous writings. Transbluency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995), published in 1995, was hailed by Daniel L. Guillory in Library Journal as “critically important.” And Donna Seaman, writing inBooklist, commended the “lyric boldness of this passionate collection.” Kamau Brathwaite described Baraka’s 2004 collection, Somebody Blew up America & Other Poems, as “one more mark in modern Black radical and revolutionary cultural reconstruction.” The book contains Baraka’s controversial poem of the same name, which he wrote as New Jersey’s poet laureate. After the poem’s publication, public outcry became so great that the governor of New Jersey took action to abolish the position. Baraka sued, though the United States Court of Appeals eventually ruled that state officials were immune from such charges.Baraka’s legacy as a major poet of the second half of the 20th century remains matched by his importance as a cultural and political leader. His influence on younger writers has been significant and widespread, and as a leader of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s Baraka did much to define and support black literature’s mission into the next century. His experimental fiction of the 1960s is considered some of the most significant African-American fiction since that of Jean Toomer. Writers from other ethnic groups have credited Baraka with opening “tightly guarded doors” in the white publishing establishment, noted Maurice Kenney in Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch, who added: “We’d all still be waiting the invitation from the New Yorker without him. He taught us how to claim it and take it.”Baraka was recognized for his work through a PEN/Faulkner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, and the Langston Hughes Award from City College of New York. He was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Amiri Baraka crossed over on January 9, 2014To visit Amiri Baraka's website CLICK HERE
Kenneth Koch, Richard Howard, David Lehman, and Susan Schultz introduce John Ashbery in readings spanning five decades.
William Logan is often thought of as a critic first and a poet second, so his verse doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. In Logan’s poetry we don’t find the spooky discursiveness or the back-breaking effort to avoid lyrical expression we often encounter in contemporary poetry. Instead, what we find is a poet who writes poetry simply because he must. He’s inspired to write and doesn’t write to be inspired. His poetry is meticulously crafted and sensitive to the seen and the unseen world we inhabit. The poems in Madame X (Penguin Books, 2002) are the result of what happens when you put tremendous pressure on yourself and language at the same time: beauty, death, and love emerge with terrifying clarity. In our conversation, the poet and I discuss his time living between Florida and England, his undergraduate years at Yale where he worked closely with poet Richard Howard and television writer David Milch, teaching poetry workshops at the University of Florida, old girlfriends, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
William Logan is often thought of as a critic first and a poet second, so his verse doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. In Logan’s poetry we don’t find the spooky discursiveness or the back-breaking effort to avoid lyrical expression we often encounter in contemporary poetry. Instead, what we find is a poet who writes poetry simply because he must. He’s inspired to write and doesn’t write to be inspired. His poetry is meticulously crafted and sensitive to the seen and the unseen world we inhabit. The poems in Madame X (Penguin Books, 2002) are the result of what happens when you put tremendous pressure on yourself and language at the same time: beauty, death, and love emerge with terrifying clarity. In our conversation, the poet and I discuss his time living between Florida and England, his undergraduate years at Yale where he worked closely with poet Richard Howard and television writer David Milch, teaching poetry workshops at the University of Florida, old girlfriends, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
Edward Hirsch examines the complex relationships between American poets and painters.
Inner Voices: selected poems 1963-2003; Paper Trail: selected prose 1965-2003 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Richard Howard's extraordinary urbanity and sophistication are evident as he explores his influences: Henry James' winding syntax, Proust's evocation of a lost past, Whitman's teeming democracies....
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