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This week! CJ finishes Splatoon Raiders and declares his love for it, while Greg plays the wet blanket and explains why the gameplay loop leaves him cold. Yoshi-P warns that remaking Final Fantasy VI could take four or five games, Double Fine lays off 23 after going independent, Mario Sunshine and unreleased Virtual Boy games hit NSO, and a LEGO PlayStation surfaces for October. Plus F1 23's Braking Point, Halo: Campaign Evolved, halfway game-of-the-year picks, Ocarina of Time bosses, and mountains in the RE9 version of Chicago. Join us, won't you? https://youtu.be/AwNQNCAeSBA News FFVI remake would need 4 or 5 games Double Fine lays off 23 staff after going independent NSO adds Mario Sunshine and unreleased Virtual Boy games LEGO PlayStation reportedly coming in October with Astro Bot set What'cha Been Playing Lumines Remastered — mobile (CJ) Splatoon Raiders (CJ & Greg) F1 23 (Greg) Halo: Campaign Evolved (Greg) Socials Player One Podcast on Bluesky Player One Podcast on YouTube playeronepodcast.com Greg's Twitch Player One Podcast Twitch Greg's Patreon Other Nintendo Music Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. Running time: 01:18:30

This week's podcast was recorded live on stage at Latitude Festival 2026, in the Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture! Helen Czerski is joined by our very own Robert Llewellyn and battery chemist Professor Saiful Islam for a wide-ranging conversation about batteries — covering everything from world-record lemon batteries to five-minute EV charging, sodium-ion tech, battery planes, and vehicle-to-grid power. https://cosmicshambles.com/ 00:00 – Introduction 02:53 – Meet the guests: Robert Llewellyn & Prof. Saiful Islam 03:34 – The world-record lemon battery (and Saiful's quest to reclaim it) 08:54 – What does a battery chemist actually do? 12:42 – Debunking range anxiety: the real stats on UK car journeys 13:34 – From gadgets to vehicles: how battery use has transformed 14:36 – How do you actually measure a "good" battery? 15:21 – Where battery R&D is focused: sustainability, cobalt, and beyond 17:19 – What is a battery? The "electrochemical sandwich" explained 19:38 – BYD's flash charging: 10–70% in 5 minutes 23:31 – Why fast charging is hard — and the safety engineering behind it 28:04 – Battery recycling: Redwood Materials and "second life" batteries 31:54 – Battery passports and tracking materials 34:59 – Sodium-ion batteries: cheaper, longer-lasting home storage 37:34 – Solid-state batteries explained (and why they're the "holy grail") 39:47 – Who's leading the battery race? China's extraordinary scale 42:44 – The tipping point: global crude oil sales are falling 46:34 – Could batteries ever power planes? eVTOL, hybrids & battery gliders 52:57 – Grid storage and vehicle-to-grid: turning EVs into power plants 55:36 – Australia's home battery boom and its impact on coal 57:36 – Audience Q&A Why not come and join us at our next Everything Electric expo: https://everythingelectric.show Support our StopBurningStuff campaign: https://www.patreon.com/STOPBurningStuff Become an Everything Electric Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fullychargedshow Buy the Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy : https://buff.ly/2GybGt0 Subscribe for episode alerts and the Everything Electric newsletter: https://fullycharged.show/zap-sign-up/ Visit: https://FullyCharged.Show Find us on X: https://x.com/Everyth1ngElec Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/officialeverythingelectric To partner, exhibit or sponsor at our award-winning expos email: commercial@fullycharged.show EE GREATER LONDON (Twickenham) - 11th & 12th Sept 2026 EE SYDNEY - Sydney Olympic Park - 18th - 20th Sept 2026 #fullychargedshow #everythingelectricshow #homeenergy #cleanenergy #battery #electriccars #electric-vehicles-uk

Robert Sloop is the CEO of Kaizen Management, LLC, a consulting firm that helps restaurant operators improve financial performance, operations, and tech stack implementation. With over 30 years in foodservice, he has served as CFO for leading multi‑concept restaurant groups and now advises owners on data‑driven systems and continuous improvement. Join RULibrary: www.restaurantunstoppable.com/RULibrary Join RULive: www.restaurantunstoppable.com/live Set Up your RUEvolve 1:1: www.restaurantunstoppable.com/evolve Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/restaurantunstoppable Subscribe to our email newsletter: https://www.restaurantunstoppable.com/ Today's sponsors: - Hermetic.ai  - Private event leads die in inboxes every day. Mia fixes that. She's an AI agent that responds within seconds, handles the back-and-forth, and fills your event calendar — automatically. Fully integrated in under 10 minutes. Head to hermetic.ai and put her to work. https://www.hermetic.ai/ - Hotshift - Hotshift is the all-in-one tool built by a restaurant owner, for restaurant owners. Scheduling, hiring, training, reviews — one roof, one login. Plusreal-time labor cost forecasting before the shift ever starts. Head to hotshift.pro/unstoppable. - Restaurant Technologies — the leader in automated cooking oil management. Their Total Oil Management solution is an end-to-end closed loop automated system that delivers, monitors, filters, collects, and recycles your cooking oil eliminating one of the dirtiest jobs in the kitchen.. Automate your oil and elevate your kitchen by visiting rti-inc.com or call 888-779-5314 to get started! - US Foods®. Running a restaurant takes MORE than great food—it takes reliable deliveries, quality products, and smart tools. US Foods® helps you make it. Ready to level up? Visit: usfoods.com/expectmore. - Guest contact info:  Email: rsloop@kaizen-management.com Thanks for listening! Rate the podcast, subscribe, and share! 

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In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Podcast, host Gary McCreadie is joined by Clayton Cassady, President, & Robert Laframboise, Vice President, Class A Operator at RC Mechanical Canada to discuss industrial ammonia refrigeration systems and how they operate. Clayton explains why ammonia is widely used in large facilities, the safety procedures required when working with it, and how ammonia leak detection systems help protect operators. Robert shares how RC Mechanical trains and supplies refrigeration operators for ammonia plants, covering Class A and Class B certifications, online and in person training, and industry staffing challenges. The conversation also explores plant operation, screw and reciprocating compressors, and the role of refrigeration operators in keeping industrial facilities running safely and efficiently. In this conversation, Clayton explains what industrial ammonia refrigeration systems are and why ammonia is used in large facilities such as cold storage warehouses, food production plants, and hockey rinks. He discusses ammonia safety, leak detection, ventilation, and the procedures required when working with the system. Robert and Gary explore topics such as refrigeration operator training, Class A and Class B certifications, industry staffing challenges, and the role of operators in ammonia plants. They also discuss plant operation, screw and reciprocating compressors, and why proper training and safety practices are important for reliable operation.   Expect to Learn: What industrial ammonia refrigeration systems are and why ammonia is used in large facilities. The safety procedures, leak detection systems, and PPE required when working with ammonia. How refrigeration operators are trained, certified, and placed in ammonia plants. The difference between screw and reciprocating compressors used in ammonia systems. Why proper training, safe operating practices, and skilled operators are important for reliable plant operation.   Episode Highlights: [00:00] - Sponsor Ad: Factory Direct Filters [00:42] - Intro to Guests Clayton and Robert in Part 1 [02:48] - Ammonia Refrigeration Basics [04:07] - Why Ammonia Over Synthetics? [05:27] - RC Mechanical's Operator Supply Business [08:54] - Safety Protocols & Ammonia Sensors [12:48] - RC Mechanical's Training Program Details [15:29] - Operator Classifications & Training [17:24] - Compressor Types & Screw Compressor Operation   This Episode is Kindly Sponsored by: Cintas: https://www.cintas.com/hvacknowitall Cool Air Products: https://www.coolairproducts.net/ Factory Direct Filters: https://www.factorydirectfilters.com/ SupplyHouse: https://www.supplyhouse.com/tm Use promo code HKIA5 to get 5% off your first order at Supplyhouse!   Follow the Guests Clayton Cassady and Robert Laframboise on: LinkedIn Profile - Clayton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clayton-cassady-04a484205/ LinkedIn Profile - Robert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-laframboise-805100204/ LinkedIn - RC Mechanical Canada: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rc-mechanical-canada/ Website - RC Mechanical Canada: https://www.rcmechanical.ca/ Follow the Host on: LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/ LinkedIn - HVAC Know It All: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hvac-know-it-all-inc Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/  Follow the Podcast on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HVACKnowItAll Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6LCBJGw0EHG03rdWHxUMce Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hvac-know-it-all-podcast/id1359253455 

Jean-Christophe Lanoix is the founder of Turboconsultant. He spent seventeen years at Hinicio, a strategy consultancy specialising in hydrogen — joining as an intern, rising to Associate Director and leaving in 2024, two years after the firm's exit. He now builds the system he wishes he had had. Introducing Turboconsultant An execution layer for solo consultants: a virtual team of AI agents spanning the whole practice — business development, research, methodologies, marketing and content, deliverable production, quality control, meetings and follow-up, admin. The consultant directs. The agents execute. It installs as a plugin on Claude Cowork and turns a generalist agentic workspace into a consulting-grade one. Three things separate it from a general-purpose assistant. Personalisation. A one-time onboarding hands it the consultant's own methodologies, templates, frameworks and voice. What comes out arrives in their template, follows their methods, and reads in their words. Quality control. Every document it produces passes three layers of audit before it leaves — sources traced, figures recomputed, claims contested by models outside the system. That is where AI hallucination and error get caught. Data walling. Nothing moves from one engagement to another, and the models do not train on client work. And it is one system rather than a patchwork of tools: the whole practice runs in a single environment that sharpens with every engagement. The net effect, measured on the existing user base, is a 25x on average, while improving the general quality of the work. Demonstration of Turboconsutlant  Both cases are invented, and so is the consultant behind them — a generic profile carrying no proprietary methodologies, no past deliverables, no writing to learn from. The engagement starts the way a real one does: a request for proposal lands by email. Everything that follows comes out of that one document and public sources. The proposal — thirty minutes The system interviews the consultant first — how they want to work, whether they know the client, who delivers, what their day rate is. Then it writes, in their own template: context, the question behind the client's question, objectives, approach and methodology, scope in and out, work packages, data room requirements, timeline, budget options, next steps. The consultant reviews and signs off. Nothing leaves unvalidated. Without AI, a proposal of that depth is several man-days.   The methodology section — six work packages mapped onto one governing question. Pricing the work — three options, fees, payment terms. A commercial proposal, not an analysis. The kick-off pack — fifteen minutes One instruction produces the whole pack: the client kick-off deck, an internal briefing note — assumptions, questions to ask, objections to expect, the landmines — and the data room request list in Excel, item by item, with what each one unblocks and the date it is needed by. In a firm, this is junior work. A solo consultant has no junior. It costs them half a day to a full day, every time. The work-package sequence agreed at kick-off, and the date after which the analysis stops waiting for client data. The First Deliverable — forty-five minutes The pattern holds whatever the sector: the research, the market sizing, the model underneath, and a deck of exhibits in the consultant's own consulting-grade template — each exhibit carrying one argument, each figure carrying its source. This is where the consultant sits as a director rather than an executant: give the instruction, let the team execute, come back and review. It is also where the system refuses to please. Here it tested the client board's own headline figure instead of repeating it, and the deck says why. Forty-five minutes for a work package that is easily five to ten days of work without it. An exhibit from the first deliverable — the sizing funnel, in the consultant's template. The economics behind it, recomputed from the model that sits under the deck. Quality control — three layers, then a loop Nothing reaches the client before three independent passes. Layer 1 — sources. Every claim and every figure traced back to where it came from, the source assessed, each one rated: verified, probable, or not established. Layer 2 — internal audit. An isolated sub-agent reviews the finished document against a purpose-built grid and rebuilds the Excel model from its own inputs. Same family of model, so it catches the obvious: the unsupported claim, the figure that contradicts the model, the page that does not carry its title. Layer 3 — dual external audit. Two models from outside the system, independent of each other and of the one that did the work. No shared bias, and two verdicts to compare. This is where the qualitative control happens. Here the two disagreed — which is itself the finding. Then the loop. The consultant asks the system to integrate the findings and audit again, and iterates. Half an hour takes a document from roughly 85% client-ready to something that needs only a final human review. The three verdicts on the first draft, as returned — including the external model that said HOLD. Everything from both engagements is published Every file is downloadable, unedited: the proposals, the contract, the kick-off packs, the deliverables, the Excel models, and the three audit reports in full — including the one that said do not ship, and the revised deliverable it forced. A second engagement, in a different sector, was launched live during the recording; it landed after the recording stopped, and its files are there too. Access the files: turboconsultant.com/unleashed Timings above are the elapsed time of each task on this run, not a benchmark. Watch the video:  Listener Offer Are you a good fit? ·       You consult on your own — strategy or management? ·       You want to scale without compromising quality? ·       Consumer AI gets you a draft, not a deliverable? Three yeses? Thirty minutes with me, free. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you. → https://calendly.com/jcl-turboconsultant/unleashed?month=2026-07  Or skip the call and start now — Unleashed listeners, neither code expires: ·      UNLEASHED_TC — Turboconsultant, €399/month instead of €499 ·      UNLEASHED_AUDIT — AI-First Audit, €200 instead of €300 Timestamps 04:02: Turboconsultant's Features and Benefits  07:32: Onboarding and Personalization Process  12:24: Demo of Turboconsultant's Capabilities 23:42: Kickoff Meeting Preparation and Work Package Execution  43:45: Quality Assurance and Iterative Improvement 50:07: Additional Features and Conclusion Links: Video permalink: https://umbrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Jean-Christophe-Lanoix.mp4 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-christophe-lanoix-93119018 Company website: https://www.turboconsultant.com Files from this episode: https://www.turboconsultant.com/unleashed This episode on Umbrex: https://umbrex.com/unleashed/episode-656-jean-christophe-lanoix-turboconsultant-running-a-solo-practice-on-ai-agents-end-to-end/ Unleashed is produced by Umbrex, which has a mission of connecting independent management consultants with one another, creating opportunities for members to meet, build relationships, and share lessons learned. 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Running the global digital and insights organization at one of the world's largest and most storied CPG companies takes a combination of data chops, marketing savvy, and collaborative leadership skills. Keith Lehman, Global Director, Digital Commerce Marketing at Colgate-Palmolive has all of that, but in addition he credits his intense curiosity for being the additional element that helps drive the processes to help his internal customers uncover the next best action for growth. Keith joins the podcast to explain how they are building the machine to power Colgate's next era of growth.

Running 230 km Through The Arctic Circle!   This is a one take 'press record and talk' episode about my experience running 230km through the Arctic circle. I talk a little about my preparation for the challenge but this episode is heavy on the mindset side of things and focuses heavily on the mental tools I used to get to the finish line after tearing my Achilles 86km from the end.   Today's episode is part of the 'best of' podcast series and first aired 11th March 2019. Shownotes: Brian's Business Mentorship: https://briankeanefitness.com/mentorship-and-business-coaching Brian's Mastermind The Circle: https://briankeanefitness.com/online-mastermind

You're Running a Race... But Are You Winning? | Game Plan Week 1 by Faith Promise Church

 EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sit down with Martin Pokorski from Skynet Trading , one of the earliest market makers in the space, operating since 2019 , to pull back the curtain on what's really happening inside token markets. Martin breaks down what founders consistently get wrong about liquidity, why checking CoinGecko every day is not a liquidity strategy, and what a proper liquidity audit actually reveals that surface-level metrics will never show you. We talk about the infamous "Houdini liquidity" trick, why some billion-dollar market cap projects have no product, and why thinking liquidity-first before your listing strategy could be the most important decision you make as a founder. If you're a VC, an investor, or a builder with a token live or in the pipeline, this conversation gives you the framework to understand what healthy markets actually look like , and how to get there. DISCLAIMERNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/ CONNECT Skynet Trading Website: https://skynettrading.com/Skynet Trading Twitter/X: https://x.com/SkynetTrading_Skynet Trading LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skynet-trading/Martin Pokorski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinpokorski/Web3 with Sam Kamani: https://www.web3pod.xyz/ KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS • [00:00] Introduction to Martin Pokorski and Skynet Trading , what they do and why liquidity matters for token projects• [01:42] Martin's origin story , how a university LAN party in Australia in 2014 sparked his crypto career• [03:48] Running one of the first Bitcoin OTC desks in Australia with over 6,000 clients• [04:45] What Skynet Trading does: market making for token issuers and designated market making for exchanges• [06:26] What Martin is seeing on the ground , token launches are still happening, and the current market is actually an advantage for serious projects• [07:39] The RWA narrative and why sovereign funds and traditional finance firms are quietly exploring tokenization• [09:21] The first question Martin asks every founder: do you actually need a token?• [10:49] Why the GameFi opportunity is still real but requires patience , and lessons from the AAA gaming world• [15:52] What Skynet's liquidity audit reports cover , spread, depth, consistency across venues, and price dislocations• [17:41] Why checking CoinGecko is not a liquidity strategy and what the data actually reveals• [19:43] The biggest misconception founders have about liquidity• [22:00] Key warning signs in token markets , pulled liquidity, blown spreads, and "Houdini liquidity" explained• [24:23] The questions Martin asks early-stage founders and what the liquidity masterclass covers• [26:27] How Skynet Trading grew almost entirely through word of mouth and referrals• [28:02] Where the industry is in the current cycle and why Martin is optimistic for the next few years• [32:05] The single most important piece of advice for founders with a live token: think liquidity-first• [34:30] Why your token price becomes a daily public proxy for how your entire business is perceived• [37:04] What's being built quietly during the current crypto winter , and why the next bull run could feature far stronger products• [40:26] Martin's offer to run a free liquidity audit report for any founder who heard him on this podcast

Erica reflects on her professional evolution from a dissatisfied hospital employee to the successful owner of a dog waste removal business. She discusses the profound impact of peer pressure at different life stages, moving from youthful risky behaviors to a mature focus on positive social circles and personal branding. Krupin emphasizes how surrounding herself with mentors and fellow entrepreneurs helped her overcome limiting beliefs and develop the confidence to scale her company. She also touches on her spiritual journey and the importance of sobriety in maintaining a sound marriage and a focused business mindset. Throughout the episode, she encourages listeners to audit their own environments and embrace lifelong growth regardless of their background.  Comments and Questions are welcome.   Send to: thescooppodcast22@gmail.com

Donald Trump has U-turned on a 14-day campaign of military strikes on Iran, which he claimed would have been the biggest attack since World War II in favor of restarting peace talks. Tehran insists no negotiations with the US are taking place.Meanwhile, an intelligence breach reveals Centcom is actively seeking "unconventional" ways to pressure Iran, while fresh missile attacks and radio threats near Oman continue to disrupt critical shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.On today's episode of Iran: The Latest, Venetia Rainey and Roland Oliphant discuss the news, the rinse-and-repeat cyclical nature of the war and why Saudi Arabia is becoming increasingly vocal and involved. Plus, new polling showing American public support for the war dropping to record lows, the Shia festival of Arbaeen in Iraq and how climate change is affecting the region.HighlightsTrump cancels ‘biggest strike since WW2' on Iran, but Tehran denies peace talks Leaked Centcom emails expose US military running out of ways to punish TehranCONTRIBUTORS:Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiaraineyRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphantWATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dkCONTENT REFERENCED:Pentagon asks soldiers for ‘creative' ideas to punish Iranhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/03/pentagon-asks-soldiers-for-creative-ideas-to-punish-iran/Oil plummets as Trump calls off Iran strikeshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/03/oil-plummets-as-trump-calls-off-iran-strikes/Tiny militias threaten to draw Middle East into forever warhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/03/iraqi-militias-threaten-draw-middle-east-into-forever-war/New Hormuz plan leaves Iran in controlhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/01/israel-poised-return-iran-war-heaviest-us-strikes/US lacks weapons to defend Israel against Iran, leaked memo warnshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/02/us-lacks-weapons-to-defend-israel-leaked-memo-warns/Winner Best News and Analysis Podcast - Publisher Podcast Awards 2026Nominated Podcast of the Year - Society of Editors News Podcasts Awards 2026Nominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs - British Podcast Awards 2026The Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 - Publisher Podcast Awards 2026Producer: Max BowerVideo Producer: Peter ShevlinResearcher and Social Producer: Anna HindmarshStudio Operator: Andy WatsonExecutive Producer: Venetia Rainey ► Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor► EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk► GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/iran-war/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with the final Motivate Your Monday episode and your host, Diane Wyzga. As you know, the ending of every story holds the beginning of a new one. I'm retiring 60 Seconds and Motivate Your Monday episodes. Instead of ending these changes are evolving to Begin Anew. I launched my podcast, Stories From Women Who Walk in April 2020 as a platform for conversations with women who were walking their lives until their lives were flipped upside down by something unexpected, how they met the challenges, and changed to becoming stronger, even more confident women. I loved every single moment of listening stories out of my guests! COVID flipped our lives upside down, too. We were no longer commuting to work over long distances or in cars. Who would have the time to listen to a 30 or 40-minute conversation? What to do? Pivot to 60 Seconds. No one was offering this format. Turned out that I was really good at distilling topics, ideas and stories into soundbytes to inform, illuminate, delight, and comfort my listeners. At the same time I created a Listener Location Shout-out to kick off each episode to acknowledge and thank you for listening. How did I know where you were listening? The Simplecast platform provides a global map with yellow dots that light up the villages, towns and cities where your feet touch the ground all around the world. Each shout-out included a URL linked to the location so that other listeners could “armchair travel” to that place. Imagine how much I learned about my global audience. Some 1,330 episodes and close to 250,000 plays later it's time to do something different. But what? Running like a river beneath the surface of the lived experience moments of our lives is a deeper, truer one waiting to be acknowledged. How do I acknowledge that deeper truth? What will I hear when I let my Life speak? Where will it lead me next so that I can make the transitions I seek while inviting you to come along with me on the journey? I promise you this: the voice you have come to know and trust for over 6 plus years on the airwaves, along with the stories, insights, questions and prompts that speak to each of us as if to say, “What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.” [C.S.Lewis] I'd like to focus my creative efforts on producing “Diane on Mic” short-form episodes—maybe 7 minutes or so of spoken word—for Wednesdays on Whidbey and Story Prompt Friday. CTA: Let's continue making the very most of the time we have together, uncovering, discovering, shaping and sharing our stories. Let me know what you think. If there is something you're curious about, something you'd like to hear as my podcast begins anew, please email me and let me know: info@quartermoonstoryarts.net or subscribe on Substack. Comments Create Community. We are in this together for the long haul. And thank you for continuing to listen. You're invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, subscribe & spread this episode  with a generous 5-star review & comment—it helps us all—& join us next time! AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me [info@quartermoonstoryarts.net] to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Conversation, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on SUBSTACK. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Entering Erdenheim by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. Enjoy my work? Share & attribute it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

Happy Mindset Monday!Jerrid Sebesta told me something I can't stop thinking about.Most people who feel stuck try to fix it with more. More hustle. More discipline. Another goal. Another strategy.He says the problem is usually four layers down.Jerrid is a keynote speaker, Amazon bestselling author of Life-Undeferred, and what he calls a performance reprogrammer. He walks people through four layers: your actions, your beliefs, your identity, and underneath it all, the source code that got written when you were a kid.And here's the part that got me. He says he can get someone on the phone and, in about twelve minutes, connect the result they're not getting today to a piece of code that got written thirty or forty years ago.We got into a lot in this one.Why more effort can actually reinforce the wrong patternThe difference between performance and presence (I opened up about my own here)His ocean and hurricane metaphor for where peace actually livesWhy he stopped "chasing" goals, and what the word chasing is really telling youThe three thoughts I come back to every single morningAnd then Jerrid shared the story of his mom. Being in the room when she passed. Realizing that tens of thousands of phone calls over forty years had been preparing him for the work he does now.That part stayed with me for days.If you're doing everything right and it still feels heavy, this one's worth your time. You might not need to work harder. You might need to get honest about who's doing the work.

Remember God loves you so much he sent his Son Jesus Christ to take the punishment for your sins. You are of great value. Jesus loves you and He is just a prayer away! This episode includes AI-generated content.

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Welcome to episode #1047 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Simon Rogers has spent his career turning data into stories that help us better understand the world... and ourselves. A former news editor at The Guardian, where he founded and edited its influential Datablog, Simon is now the Data Editor at Google, working with Google Trends, one of the largest publicly accessible datasets of human curiosity and behaviour ever created. He is also the co-host of The Data Journalism Podcast and a longtime advocate for open data, visualization and making complex information meaningful. His new book, What We Ask Google - A Surprisingly Hopeful History Of Humankind, explores what billions of searches reveal about our private fears, shared vulnerabilities, cultural obsessions and desire to help one another. In this episode, Simon discusses why search offers a uniquely intimate portrait of humanity... not the carefully curated version we present on social media, but the questions we ask when we genuinely need answers. He explains how searches surrounding grief, friendship, parenting, health and crisis reveal that people are often far less alone than they feel, and perhaps more compassionate than our public discourse suggests. We also explore Google Trends as a cultural and predictive signal, the communities formed through shared curiosity, and why being surrounded by data does not necessarily make us more insightful. Simon reflects on how AI is changing the language and complexity of our searches without fundamentally changing what humans want to know. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of search as a collective stream of consciousness... chaotic, vulnerable, curious and surprisingly hopeful. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 53:45. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Listen and subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Listen and subscribe over at Spotify. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Thinking With Mitch Joel. Feel free to connect to me directly on LinkedIn. Check out ThinkersOne. Here is my conversation with Simon Rogers. What We Ask Google - A Surprisingly Hopeful History Of Humankind. The Data Journalism Podcast. Datablog. Google Trends. Follow Simon on X. Follow Simon on Bluesky. Follow Simon on LinkedIn. Chapters: (00:00) - The Role of a Data Editor. (02:47) - Exploring Optimism Through Data. (05:57) - Understanding Human Connection Through Search. (09:05) - Cultural Reflections in Search Trends. (11:59) - The Intimacy of Search Queries. (15:08) - The Power of Data Visualization. (17:57) - Shifts in Search Behavior During Covid. (21:05) - The Complexity of Community and Connection. (23:57) - Echo Chambers and Misinformation. (27:06) - Predictive Power of Search Data. (28:19) - AI's Impact on Search Behavior. (33:28) - Understanding AI Integration in Search. (36:12) - Data Richness vs. Insightfulness. (39:01) - The Art of Data Storytelling. (41:25) - Search Behavior and Societal Reflections. (44:16) - Loneliness and Connection in Search Data. (45:39) - The Future of AI and Search Engines.

Running has most likely become a part of your everyday life... but it's good to remind ourselves why we started in the first place! Jenni is here with another episode of The Extra Mile to give you a reminder of why it matters to reflect on your journey.RunPod Sprint with David Yim will be out this Wednesday!

Food noise, hunger and cravings are often treated as interchangeable, but they arise from different biological and psychological systems. In this episode, Mikki explains how physiological hunger develops gradually in response to the body's energy needs, while cravings are shorter, cue-driven urges for specific foods. Food noise is different again: a persistent background hum of food-related thoughts linked to reward circuitry, rumination and heightened responsiveness to food cues.Mikki explores why GLP-1 medications can dramatically quiet food noise, how stress, poor sleep and highly palatable foods can amplify it, and why intuitive eating may improve calmness around food without necessarily producing fat loss. She also outlines practical strategies, including improving protein and fibre intake, reducing easy access to trigger foods, addressing stress and sleep, and recognising when medical support may be appropriate.Topics coveredThe biological differences between hunger, cravings and food noiseWhy food noise feels intrusive and repetitiveHow GLP-1 medications affect food reward pathwaysThe role of stress, sleep and ultra-processed foodsPractical strategies for reducing appetite-related noise Contact Mikki:https://mikkiwilliden.com/https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutritionhttps://www.instagram.com/mikkiwilliden/https://linktr.ee/mikkiwillidenNZ listeners - save 10% off Calocurb by using the code Mikkipedia10 at www.calocurb.co.nzSave 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKI at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comCurranz supplement: MIKKI saves you 25% at www.curranz.co.nz or www.curranz.co.uk off your first order

This hour: John Sarianides (NE Football Journal) joins to talk Patriots; Dan Bahl doesn't believe in announcer's jinxes apparently; More on the Duran fracas; Gabe Jacas knocked a Pats coach on his keister today; Running game will be highlighted in the ‘26 Pats off.

It's the second time Jenny Hartley has joined us on the Tea & Trails Podcast, and she's had quite the adventure since her last visit. The Invictus Games and Gladiators athlete has been busy up on the Pennine Way, setting off from Edale with one big goal in mind, to complete the Summer Spine Race.She made it all the way to Kirk Yetholm, kissed the famous wall, and did so before any other woman that week.The 268‑mile journey is packed with twists, turns, highs, lows, and all the chaos the Spine is known for, and Jenny shares every bit of it with us.HARRIER - Use code TATP10 for 10% off - https://harrierrunfree.avln.me/c/qXhnTgIdEMeaXMILES UK - Listeners receive 10% of their order value back as store credit via the link - https://xmiles.avln.me/c/RiwxnARvfHeRFENIX LIGHT LTD - Use code T&T5 for 5% - https://www.fenixlight.co.uk/PRECISION FUEL & HYDRATION - Use code TEA2026 for 15% off your first orderPRECISION FUEL & HYDRATION PLANNER - https://visit.pfandh.com/3RuP25zSTRAVA - Use code TEA for 20% off an annual membership - #StravaPartner #Adhttps://www.strava.com/subscribe/checkout?code=TEASUNGOD - Use code TEA15 for 15% off your order - https://www.sungod.co/en-gbBEARHUG - Click the link to receive 15% off your order.https://getabearhug.avln.me/c/PAmERmkwPealContent contains affiliate links which help support this channel at no cost to you.Brew with the Coaches - CLICK HEREHardmoors - https://www.hardmoors110.org.uk/Trail Outlaws - https://www.trailoutlaws.com/13 Valleys Ultra - https://www.13valleysultra.com/Beyond Trails - https://www.beyondtrails.co.uk/Hellfire Events - https://www.hellfireevents.com/Dales Runner - https://dalesrunner.co.uk/Run The Wild - https://runthewild.co.uk/Hannah Walsh - https://www.hannahwalsh.co.uk/Punk Panther - https://www.punkpanther.co.uk/Pen Llyn Ultra - https://penllyn.niftyentries.com/Yellow Belly Ultra - https://yellowbellyultras.co.uk/Raw Adventures - https://www.raw-adventures.co.uk/XNRG - https://www.xnrg.co.uk/

With election day 2026 just over three months away, lawmakers in Washington are facing the end of the runway for passing legislation they can take home to their districts before November. Farm state legislators in particular would like to finally have a completed Farm Bill to show for their efforts over the last 18 months, but the possibility of passing farm legislation in both houses and getting it to the President's desk in time is growing more unlikely with each passing day. And yet, hope springs eternal, and we have our very own, brand new DTN Ag Policy Editor Jake Zajkowski bringing us the latest on the efforts in D.C. He's here to tell us about current Farm Bill work and what to expect in the weeks ahead, but he'll also give us an update about the ongoing USDA reorganization, and how it might go on to impact farmers as harvest approaches. He'll then talk to us about the current trade picture, from USMCA reauthorization to the latest tariff announcement, and clue us in to happenings around farm aid, labor, and MAHA. We'll wrap up with a look ahead at what the outcome of the November midterms could mean for ag policy in the lame duck session. This episode was recorded on July 31, 2026. See DTN newsroom's coverage on the Senate farm bill markup on dtnpf.com. 

This week's adventure took me up the historic Merryman Trail on Mount Douglas, one of the mountain's oldest and steepest routes, where every step was a reminder of the early settlers and the Indigenous people who called this place home long before them. The relentless climb quickly turned into a power hike, with heart rate soaring, fallen trees to navigate, and just enough pauses to appreciate the forest and swap a few words with fellow hikers. I reflected on old races, trail history, and how these days I'm just as happy sharing personal thoughts as I am chasing miles, even if the audience is a little smaller. Reaching the summit was hard-earned, but the reward was fresh views, a few photographs, and the satisfaction of conquering one of Mount Doug's toughest ascents. From there, it was all smiles and an easy downhill cruise on Churchill Drive, another memorable Jackal adventure safely in the books.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-running-jackal--500980/support.

In this episode, farmer Shane Aslan of Aslan Organics talks about the trials and tribulations of running a farm business.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:  Carrot Cashflow  Farm Small Farm Smart  Farm Small Farm Smart Daily  The Growing Microgreens Podcast  The Urban Farmer Podcast  The Rookie Farmer Podcast  In Search of Soil Podcast Check out Diego's books:  Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon   Ready Farmer One on Amazon **** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

In this episode of Bleav in Commanders, Bram Weinstein joins Scott Jackson and Anthony Armstrong to break down everything they've seen from the first two days of training camp. (0:52 - 2:35): Training camp energy and atmosphere, noting a significant increase in competitiveness and player focus compared to last season. (2:36 - 4:49): Jayden Daniels' progress and comfort level in the new offensive scheme. (5:30 - 9:24): Wide receiver position battles, the potential role of Antonio Williams, and rumors surrounding Stefon Diggs. (11:37 - 13:32): Brown's career trajectory and his potential role in the offense. (15:30 - 17:34): Running back competition, including Rashad White, Krosky Merritt, and Austin Ekeler. (18:21 - 20:26): Defensive standouts and the search for the player wearing the "Green Dot" (defensive play-caller). (20:34 - 23:32): Safety and secondary depth, specifically discussing Nick Cross, Jeremy Reeves, and Quan Martin. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A bad customer review might have nothing to do with your product.Alan Grimsley from Inventory Planner joins Nick to explain why 77% of negative reviews can be traced back to operational problems - and the five Shopify inventory mistakes that quietly damage cash flow, sales and customer trust.Drawing on his experience across PayPal, Shopify and Sage, Alan explains how overstock, stockouts, unreliable data, poorly planned campaigns and inaccurate supplier lead times can hold back even fast-growing ecommerce brands.You'll learn:Why excess stock could be consuming your growth budgetHow stockouts send customers and ad spend to competitorsWhen spreadsheets stop working for growing Shopify brandsWhy marketing and inventory planning must work togetherHow inaccurate lead times undermine your entire forecastAlan also shares lessons from AYBL, Wild & Stone and Astrid & Miyu, including how better inventory forecasting can protect cash flow, reduce excess stock and keep bestselling products available.In this episode:(00:00) - Why most Shopify brands lose money on inventory(03:06) - Mistake #1: Running out of stock(08:39) - Mistake #2: Overstock and cash flow problems(20:15) - Mistake #3: Data and inventory visibility(25:27) - Mistake #4: Marketing without inventory(31:46) - Mistake #5: Ignoring lead times(36:12) - When to use inventory planning software(38:14) - Key takeaways and final thoughtsFollow Winning With Shopify for practical ecommerce growth advice every Tuesday and Friday.Free Inventory Planning BootcampLearn how to prevent stockouts and overstocks, reduce inventory holding costs and make more confident purchasing decisions with Inventory Planner's free seven-day course.Join the free Inventory Planning BootcampListener offers:Seguno - Get a free email customer analysis and strategy session.Yoast - Get 15% off Shopify and WordPress with code WWS15.TaxCloud - Get free migration onboarding as a Winning With Shopify listener.About Winning With ShopifyWinning With Shopify is powered by Spec Digital, a PPC & SEO agency for ecommerce brands.

Hi, everybody. This week, Kristin, Rich, and George talk about movie trailers and San Diego Comic Con, the recent movie versions of Masters of the Universe and The Running Man, Pyewacket (and Saci) updates, and so much more, including trying to answer the age old question, "Is this going to be better than The Muppet Christmas Carol?" Don't forget about Kristin and Rich's new online shop Dragon Breath Comics & Collectibles. They update the website daily so bookmark https://dragonbreathcomics.com and check them out everyday for all your fun, geeky shopping needs. Follow them on social media at https://www.facebook.com/people/Dragon-Breath-Comics-Collectibles/61591089072402/, @DragonBreathComics616 on Instagram and X/Twitter. Thank you for listening. Connect with Meanwhile At The Podcast on social media. Don't forget to #livetweet (we're still calling it that)! Share the show, subscribe so you don't miss an episode, and rate us on your podcast apps. Those much coveted five stars are always appreciated. Stay safe out there. NOW ON BLUESKY @MeanwhileATP https://x.com/meanwhileatp https://www.meanwhileatthepodcast.libsyn.com Rodney (AKA Art Nerrd): https://x.com/artnerrd https://www.instagram.com/theartnerrd/ https://facebook.com/artnerrd https://shop.spreadshirt.com/artnerrd Kristin: https://www.facebook.com/kristing616 https://www.instagram.com/kristing616 Rich: https://x.com/doctorstaypuft

So many of the things shaping our health and our happiness sit right in front of us, and we walk past them every single day. This week on Mini Miracles From Minor Moments, I want to talk about awareness in two directions at once. First, the quiet harms tucked into our homes and our air that we rarely stop to notice. Then the small daily blessings, the ones that slip by just as easily when we are moving too fast to see them. My hope is that by the end you will look at your kitchen, your closet, and your own week with fresh eyes. I open with something that startled me the first time I learned of it: the chemicals called PFAS that hide inside nonstick pans, stain-resistant fabrics, cosmetics, and food packaging. From there I turn to the air we breathe, both the wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada and the pollution that slips into our own homes, and what it can do to our minds over the years. The tone then softens, and I share the gift of waiting instead of rushing, the small joys that make a day feel alive, and the one thing you once loved that you may have quietly set down. For me that one thing is sewing, taught to me at four years old on my mother's industrial machine, and I am ready to pick it up again. Running through all of it is a simple invitation: notice more, rush less, and be grateful for the graces hiding in the smallest corners of your life. Episode Highlights Chemicals hiding in plain sight — what PFAS are, and where they turn up in pans, packaging, cosmetics, and stain-resistant fabrics. Reading labels with new eyes — choosing cotton and linen, skipping the sprays, and rethinking the waterproof and nonstick claims we tend to trust. The air and the mind — how wildfire smoke and everyday pollution reach past the lungs to touch mood, memory, and long-term mental health. A moment on my street — stopping the car to warn an older neighbor walking through the smoky air, and why we owe each other these small alerts. The gift of waiting — how doing nothing can be a wise choice, and how a pause keeps us from the wrong direction. Where joy really comes from — a shared cup of coffee, lessons from grandchildren, and rose of Sharon bushes grown from little twigs. The one thing you stopped doing — returning to a skill or hobby you set aside, and letting something new and out of character help you grow. A Moment to Reflect Draw yourself an arrow on a scrap of paper, and at the tip write the one thing you truly want to aim for this season. Then sit with two gentle questions: what am I taking in without noticing, and what small joy am I too busy to see? You do not have to change everything at once. Pick one label to read, one habit to soften, and one thing you love to return to. Connect & Support Find the full archive of Mini Miracles From Minor Moments at lindagullo.com/minimiraclespodcast, or subscribe for free through Apple Podcasts so you never miss a week. Ready to work through a difficult season with support? Visit lindagullo.com to learn more about coaching and how we can work together. If this podcast brings encouragement to your life, you can support its continued creation at buymeacoffee.com/delightinliving. Thank you for being here — it means more than you know.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were back on the practice field Saturday, and legendary Steelers beat writer Jim Wexell delivers his exclusive insider report.In this episode of the Steel City Insider Podcast, Jeremy Hritz and Jim Wexell break down everything that happened at Steelers training camp, including Aaron Rodgers' impressive chemistry with Pat Freiermuth, Drew Aller's development, Will Howard's performance, standout players, rookie observations, offensive line updates, running back battles, wide receiver depth, injuries, Hall of Honor reactions, and much more.If you want real Steelers analysis from someone who has covered the organization for decades—not just social media reactions—this is your complete Saturday practice recap.Topics Covered:✅ Aaron Rodgers dominates the two-minute drill✅ Pat Freiermuth emerging as Rodgers' favorite target?✅ Drew Aller evaluation after extended reps✅ Will Howard continues to flash potential✅ Steelers quarterback competition update✅ Steelers training camp winners & standouts✅ Mike McCarthy's impact on practice✅ Injury updates including Joey Porter Jr.✅ Running back and wide receiver battles✅ Hall of Honor: Kevin Colbert, Craig Wolfley & JT Thomas

What if finding clients didn't have to feel like constantly convincing people to work with you? What if instead, you could create an experience where people get a real result, see what you're capable of, and naturally want more?   In this episode, I'm talking with health coach and founder of The Wellness Vault, Valerie Feghali, about one of her favorite ways to serve potential clients and grow a coaching business: running challenges. Valerie shares how she began using challenges to grow her own coaching business and why they can be such a powerful way to help people experience a quick win, build trust, and see the value of working with you.   Valerie's 5-day Challenge Builder Bootcamp is happening from August 10th to August 14th, 2026. Secure your seat for free here: https://wellnessvault.com/challengebuilderjody   Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bIrCwrqH-jo   Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://jodymoore.com/576   Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jodymoorecoaching/

This intriguing episode is a must-listen for anyone looking for straight answers about injury prevention, recovery tools, stretching, running form, and much more. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton, physical therapist Denise Smith banishes running-related myths while serving up truths and advice runners can use, including:-when to stop for pain versus when to run through discomfort-why you should hop off your treadmill and head outside occasionally-when it's really time to replace your running shoes-what a “shiner” is, and why you should get one-Michael Jackson dance moves all runners can learn from!In the intro chitchat, Tish tells a sweet turtle tale, and Sarah shares details of her upcoming sporty-gal/musical theatre getaway; the PT joins around 9:17.Feisty Fest: Join us from September 18-20, 2026 - https://feisty.co/events/feisty-fest/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themotherrunner/Cozy Earth: Use code: AMR to receive 20% off at https://cozyearth.com/Hettas: Use code STAYFEISTY for 20% off at https://hettas.com/Momentous: Use code AMR for up to 35% off your first order at https://www.livemomentous.com/Currex: Use code AMR15 for 15% off at https://currex.com/Tifosi Optics: Use code FEISTY2026 for 20% off at https://tifosioptics.com/ PLUS: Register to win a Free Pair of Sunglasses: https://feistymedia.activehosted.com/f/121

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Is Lincoln Riley running out of time at USC? Lance Taylor joins Connor O'Gara for Episode 7 of The Connor O'Gara Show to examine Riley's future, the Trojans' College Football Playoff potential and the enormous pressure surrounding one of college football's most polarizing head coaches. Despite producing elite quarterbacks and winning four Big 12 championships, Lincoln Riley is still searching for his first College Football Playoff victory. Can USC's revamped defense finally help Riley break through? Could the Trojans go 10-2 and earn a spot in the expanded 12-team playoff, or will another disappointing season force USC to confront Riley's massive buyout? Connor and Lance also reveal the national championship teams they rooted against the hardest, including the 2013 Florida State Seminoles, the Cam Newton-led 2010 Auburn Tigers, the controversial 2023 Michigan Wolverines and the 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes. Plus, Connor makes a bold Michigan prediction that would create a nightmare scenario for Ryan Day and Ohio State, while the guys dream up potential playoff matchups involving Alabama, Oregon, USC, Oklahoma, Michigan, Utah, Texas and Texas Tech. Also in this episode: • Lance Taylor's massive Los Angeles Rams collection • Connor's infamous SEC Media Days shaving mishap • Why Lincoln Riley's defenses have held him back • Gary Patterson's potential impact at USC • College football's biggest championship villains • Michigan's sign-stealing controversy • The most pretentious fan base in sports • Bold College Football Playoff predictions Like the video, leave your least-favorite national champion in the comments and subscribe to The Next Round YouTube channel for more college football analysis, SEC coverage, predictions, interviews and episodes of The Connor O'Gara Show. Catch Lance Taylor on The Next Round and listen to the OG Kickoff podcast for more college football discussion. #CollegeFootball #LincolnRiley #USCFootball #USCTrojans #ConnorOGara #LanceTaylor #MichiganFootball #OhioStateFootball #CollegeFootballPlayoff #BigTenFootball #CFB #TheNextRound #OGKickoff SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - youtube.com/@nextroundlive @TNRClips - youtube.com/@TNRClips FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Brooks Carter: /BrooksACarter Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seattle Seahawks head coach and Super Bowl LX champion Mike Macdonald is our guest on the podcast today.Topics:01:10 - Looking back at winning a Super Bowl02:50 - God is in control03:58 - Turning the page to 202606:04 - Running "it" forward07:50 - A journey of faith11:28 - The impact of other coaches of faith13:37 - Bibles for Christmas14:45 - Favorite "God moment" at Super Bowl LX17:25 - The battle of "control" as a coach18:50 - Pointing to God at the Super Bowl podium postgame21:02 - Trusting the Lord no matter the circumstances23:18 - A culture of loving, serving and caring for others25:15 - Who is Jesus and what is God teaching Mike right now?Have a question? Got a guest suggestion? Want to advertise with us? Email us - jason@sportsspectrum.comWATCH all of our podcast episodes on our YouTube page:https://www.youtube.com/SportsSpectrumMagazineSign up for our Sports Spectrum Magazine and receive 15% off a 1-year subscription by using the code PODCAST15https://www.theincrease.com/products/sports-spectrum-magazine Do you know Christ personally? Click below to learn how you can commit your life to Him.https://sportsspectrum.com/gospel/

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Hector Berrellez is a retired DEA Special Agent. His signature case was investigating the 1985 abduction, torture, and murder of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena by Mexican drug cartels, where he uncovered a tangled web of CIA involvement in Mexican drug cartels. SPONSORS https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS The Last Narc book: https://a.co/d/01gWblpR FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Operation Leyenda & Kiki Camarana 06:25 - The golden age of Mexico's drug cartels 08:44 - Who killed Kiki Camarena & why 12:21 - CIA's involvement in cartel drug & weapon trafficking 18:33 - Kiki Camarena discovers cocaine trafficking 25:16 - CIA agent confesses to Kiki Camarena's murder 33:35 - CIA "Larry Harrison"'s REAL identity 38:10 - Felix Rodriguez aka 'Max Gomez' 44:38 - CIA vs. DEA 47:10 - Evidence Felix Rodriguez betrayed Kiki Camarena 56:42 - Recordings of Kiki Camarena's torture 01:01:19 - Kidnapping the doctor who tortured Camarena 01:10:30 - Felix Rodriguez today 01:13:05 - El Mayo Zambada was NOT kidnapped 01:23:50 - CIA & DEA collaboration with cartels 01:26:06 - China's silent war against Americans 01:33:22 - U.S. is more corrupt than Mexico 01:38:15 - How CIA infiltrated the DEA 01:45:47 - DEA director's response to Hector's claims 01:49:14 - Felix Rodriguez's alibi 01:53:25 - What CIA & DEA are doing in Mexico today 01:55:38 - Truth behind El Mencho killing 02:04:38 - "Running with the wolves" 02:09:58 - Cartels have biological weapons 02:13:11 - Cartels own our marijuana dispensaries 02:19:39 - Fentanyl wars in Mexico 02:25:08 - How to fix the cartel problem 02:27:12 - Incineration camps in Mexico 02:32:16 - Cartels are richer & more dangerous than ever 02:38:19 - "It's all true" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to a confident retirement, what if the biggest risk isn't running out of money, but waiting too long to enjoy it? As part of our "Freedom After 50" series, author Mike Drak explores: Why so many retirees struggle emotionally with spending How retirement spending naturally changes over time The difference between spending on things vs. meaningful experiences How fear of future healthcare costs can hold you back today Practical ways to spend with greater confidence and fewer regrets Listen in as Founder and CEO of Howard Bailey Financial, Casey Weade and Mike Drak provide thoughtful insights and advice on how it applies to your unique financial situation. Show Notes: HowardBailey.com/578

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DP Matt Ball on shooting Tucci in Italy Season 2, the challenges of journeying to remote regions over tourist spots, and capturing emotional moments on camera. Podcast highlights include: -How the show featured lesser-traveled regions like Sardinia, Le Marche, and rural Abruzzo to capture authentic regional culture. -Running a lean, self-contained crew for shoots in remote and hard-to-reach locations. The production has a "no egos allowed" policy where everyone — including Stanley Tucci himself — pitches in to make the day work. -Why what you see on screen is pretty close to what actually happened on the day, with editing driven mostly by time constraints rather than reshaping the story. -And a hint at the upcoming show, Tucci in Great Britain, exploring British food history, identity, and the influence of immigrant communities on the national cuisine. Find Matt Ball: https://mattballcamera.com/ Instagram: @mattbcam Tucci in Italy Season 2 is currently streaming on Disney+, Nat Geo, and Hulu. Hear our previous episode with Matt Ball on Tucci in Italy Season 1. https://www.camnoir.com/ep320/ SHOW RUNDOWN: 02:08 Close Focus 09:16-50:32 Matt Ball Interview 51:09 Short Ends 01:04:55 Wrap up/Credits The Cinematography Podcast website: www.camnoir.com YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social

When every marketing decision has to pay off this quarter, growth starts losing its owner.  That's the uncomfortable read from the latest CMO Survey. Under pressure, CMOs are making perfectly rational moves. Safer bets, tighter proof, more focus on the customers already in hand. The danger is what those choices start to signal. If every case for marketing comes back to pipeline now and near-term ROI, the function that should be finding growth can get managed into something much smaller.  In this episode, Drew sits down with Christine Moorman, founder of The CMO Survey and professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, to unpack what the spring 2026 results say about marketing's next move. The data points to rising AI value, a stubborn talent gap, and underfunded marketing capabilities. Running through it all is one warning CMOs cannot afford to ignore: Safe can get small.  Three Findings CMOs Need to Take to Heart:  Short-termism is narrowing marketing's role  AI value is rising faster than team readiness  Capabilities matter, but investment is lagging  What You'll Learn:  Why safe bets can defend marketing today and shrink its role tomorrow  How metrics shape what the C-suite believes marketing is for  Why AI success depends as much on talent and training as it does on tools  How CMOs can prove value beyond pipeline, from customer relationships to durable growth  Listen in for a clear read on the latest CMO Survey, from why safe can get small to how CMOs can use better metrics, stronger talent, and AI-ready capabilities to reclaim the growth agenda.  For full show notes and transcripts, visit https://renegademarketing.com/podcasts/ To learn more about CMO Huddles, visit https://cmohuddles.com/

Steven “Magoo” Margherio has been stacking doubles 100s like firewood—and he joins Trap Talk for Episode 184 to break down the incredible run.Magoo sits down with Zach Nannini and Richard Marshall Jr. after running all 300 doubles targets at the Ohio State Shoot and following it up with another 200 straight at the Iowa State Shoot. He shares the small adjustment that helped take his doubles game to another level and explains exactly how he approaches both targets.We get into:• Running 300 straight doubles at the Ohio State Shoot• Winning the 2026 Iowa State Doubles Championship• The small move that improved his first-target breaks• Why true spot shooting was limiting his consistency• His hold point, visual pickup and transition to the second target• Breaking two handicap 100s at the Grand American• Switching between his single barrel and over-under• Finding consistency from the 27-yard line• His goals heading into the Grand American• Shooting for the Lindenwood University shotgun teamMagoo is a four-time All-American, a two-time Grand Slam shooter and one of the hottest doubles shooters in the game right now. With hundreds piling up across the country, he enters the Grand with confidence and some serious momentum.Like, subscribe and share the episode with another trapshooter.Presented by Trap Talk From the Back Fence.Follow & Subscribe to Trap Talk!  It really helps the show!  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@traptalk27Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/traptalkfromthebackfence/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/traptalk27TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@trap.talk.podcast*** Email us your listener questions to askus@traptalkpodcast.com *** *** Visit TrapTalkPodcast.com for all our links! ***

I am Rolf Claessen and my co-host Ken Suzan and I are welcoming you to episode 177 of our podcast IP Fridays! Today's interview guest is Dr. Ernst-Peter Heilein, who is a German and European patent attorney, the founder of HEILEIN IP LAW, and a long-time IP leader at BSH Home Appliances. He is the mastermind behind the BSH v. Electrolux decision of the European Court of Justice about long-arm jurisdiction in Europe that has the whole patent world stirring in Europe at the moment! But before we jump into this fascinating interview, I have news for you! Emboline v. AorticLab (UPC Court of Appeal) The UPC Court of Appeal has clarified for the first time how a conditional revocation counterclaim should be handled, in a dispute over Emboline’s embolic protection patent EP 2 129 425 against AorticLab. A defendant can validly make its revocation counterclaim conditional on infringement being found first, meaning no ruling on the counterclaim is needed if the infringement claim fails, as the Munich Local Division had held. The Court of Appeal also closed a related gap: if the claimant appeals a non-infringement finding, the counterclaimant may conditionally appeal the unresolved counterclaim too. AorticLab missed its own appeal deadline and can now at best seek re-establishment of rights, while Emboline has already appealed the non-infringement finding. FujiFilm v. Kodak (UPC Court of Appeal) Following the closely watched long-arm jurisdiction ruling of June 2, the UPC Court of Appeal, chaired by Rian Kalden, has now granted FujiFilm an injunction against Kodak in a second proceeding. The Court upheld the limited printing plate patent and found that Kodak’s Sonora XTRA 3 plate infringes it. Kodak can no longer sell or use that plate in Germany. OpenAI v. EUIPO (General Court of the EU, T-555/25) The General Court’s Eighth Chamber dismissed OpenAI’s action against the EUIPO decision to partially cancel the OPENAI trademark. The partial refusal for classes 9, 42, and 45 rests decisively on Article 7(1)(c) EUTMR, the descriptiveness ground. For a significant part of the English-speaking public, “OPENAI” directly conveys that the goods or services are provided using freely accessible artificial intelligence. Dental Monitoring v. Align Technology (CAFC) On July 7, 2026, the Federal Circuit confirmed that AI and deep-learning patent claims covering dental image analysis are not patent-eligible under Section 101. Simply training a “deep learning device” on a specific dataset does not amount to a patent-eligible technical solution. Publisher v. Google (Munich I Regional Court) The Munich I Regional Court issued a preliminary injunction barring Google from spreading false factual claims about a publishing company in its AI Overviews. A search query combining the company’s name with the German term for “fraud scheme” had triggered an AI-generated summary containing entirely fabricated accusations of subscription traps. KPN v. Oppo (Federal Court of Justice, X ZR 103/24) On July 1, the Federal Court of Justice dismissed KPN’s appeal against the revocation of a central claim of its LTE patent EP 2 291 033. Oppo had successfully challenged the claim, leaving KPN’s infringement action against Oppo’s German distribution entity without a legal basis for now. BSH v. Electrolux: What the ECJ Ruling Means for Your Company’s Patent Enforcement Strategy A vacuum cleaner from 2001 has reshaped the European patent landscape. That sounds like an overstatement. It isn’t. For IP Fridays, I spoke with Dr. Ernst-Peter Heilein, founder of HEILEIN IP LAW and long-time Senior IP Leader at BSH Home Appliances. He guided the case BSH v. Electrolux from its first strategic idea all the way to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice, a case that earned the 2025 Managing IP Award as “Europe Impact Case of the Year.” For managing directors, IP heads, and R&D leaders at German Mittelstand companies, this case is not a legal footnote. It changes where you can enforce your patents, and it changes where you yourself can be sued if your company operates across several European markets. That is what this article is about. Background: How a Patent Dispute Became an ECJ Case The invention dates back to 2001 and concerns a new vacuum cleaner technology. In 2006, BSH identified what it believed was an unauthorized use of that invention and contacted Electrolux to clarify the situation. The European patent was granted in 2009 and validated in a number of European countries. Nobody, Heilein says, could have imagined at the time that this matter would eventually reach the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice almost twenty years later. In late 2018, BSH successfully defended the patent through opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office. In 2019, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf found that certain Electrolux vacuum cleaner models infringed the patent. A classic milestone win, the kind that occurs regularly in patent practice. Except the patent had been validated in many countries. Winning in Germany did not solve the enforcement problem everywhere else. Heilein describes the starting point in very concrete terms: how do you enforce a patent that exists in many countries without filing a separate lawsuit in every single one? And how do you prevent claims from becoming time-barred while you work that out? Running parallel proceedings in multiple countries is not just legally complex. It consumes time, personnel, and money that a mid-sized company rarely has in that quantity to spare. This is exactly where the real value of this case for you begins. From the outset, this was never an academic debate about jurisdiction. It was a question that every company holding rights in more than one country eventually faces: how do you enforce your rights efficiently without burning your budget on ten parallel proceedings? Brussels Ia Regulation: The Underrated Article 4 While searching for a solution, the BSH team came across Article 4 of the Brussels Ia Regulation. The underlying idea is simple: a person can generally be sued in the country where that person is based. In the BSH case, that pointed toward the Swedish home court, because Electrolux is headquartered in Stockholm. For a long time, this rule played no real role in patent practice. The widely held view was that cross-border patent litigation in Europe was effectively dead the moment a defendant challenged the validity of the patent. Anyone wanting to enforce a patent across several countries appeared to have no choice but to litigate country by country. Heilein and his team questioned that assumption instead of simply accepting it. This is the point I find most instructive: challenging accepted assumptions in your own field is often the difference between a standard solution and a strategic one. In 2020, the team decided to file the action in Sweden, aware that they were looking at a possibility, not a guarantee. Cross-Border Enforcement: The Three Questions Referred to Luxembourg After Electrolux challenged the validity of the patents, the Swedish home court declared itself not competent to hear the case. BSH appealed, and the Swedish Court of Appeal agreed to refer three questions to the European Court of Justice. The first question addressed the core problem: does a home court that would otherwise have jurisdiction over an infringement claim lose that jurisdiction simply because the defendant argues the patent is invalid? The second question concerned a feature common to many legal systems, including Germany’s, where infringement and validity are decided in separate proceedings. The third question originally concerned Turkey. Today, most people immediately think of the United Kingdom, and some even think of US patents. Originally, the question was simpler: do the same jurisdiction rules apply to patents from countries outside the European Union? The fact that the ECJ first assigned the case to a Chamber of seven judges and later referred it to the Grand Chamber of 15 judges already signaled how much weight the Court placed on these questions. The Judgment: What the ECJ Actually Decided A home court does not automatically lose jurisdiction simply because the defendant argues the patent is invalid. For many years, the opposite was widely assumed to be settled law. The ECJ made clear that this reading was too narrow. The court where the defendant is based can generally continue to hear the infringement case. One point matters for how you read this ruling: questions concerning the validity of a European patent still fall to the national courts of the country for which the patent was granted, as provided in Article 24(4) of the Brussels Ia Regulation. What is new is that the infringement case does not automatically collapse the moment validity is challenged. The home court keeps control of the overall proceeding. For patents from EU Member States, the home court does not automatically lose jurisdiction. It assesses the validity challenge. If it looks strong, the home court may stay the infringement case. If it looks weak, the home court may proceed. For patents from non-EU countries, the home court may stay the case if a validity proceeding is already pending there, drawing on Articles 33 and 34 of the Brussels Ia Regulation. The result is a considerably more flexible system than most observers expected . Patents from Outside the EU: Long-Arm Jurisdiction The part of the judgment with the greatest international reach concerns patents from countries outside the EU. The ECJ ruled that the special jurisdiction rule for patent validity generally does not apply to non-European patents. That means the general rule can apply instead, opening the door for infringement claims based on non-European patents to be brought before a home court where the defendant is based in the EU. Commentators quickly started calling this “long-arm jurisdiction.” One clarification matters here, because it tends to get lost in the public discussion: the ECJ did not say that a European home court can revoke or invalidate a foreign patent. That remains a matter for the authorities and courts of the country that granted it. What the ECJ said is that a European home court may assess the claims between the parties. That distinction is essential to how you should read this ruling. Consequences in Practice: Fujifilm, Regeneron, and Onesta Three recent cases show how quickly practice is already adapting to the new possibilities. Fujifilm v. Kodak: the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Unified Patent Court accepted jurisdiction over the UK part of a European patent even before the ECJ delivered its judgment, building on reasoning the Advocate General had already signaled in the BSH case. In June 2026, the UPC Court of Appeal further developed that approach based on the principles confirmed in BSH. Regeneron v. Formycon: the Munich home court applied the BSH framework and granted a Europe-wide injunction based on a European patent, one of the first examples of a national home court putting the BSH logic into practice. Onesta v. BMW: this case shows the debate has moved well beyond Europe. After Onesta attempted to assert two US patents before the Munich home court, BMW obtained an anti-suit injunction from a Texas federal court. Judge Albright took the view that US patents should generally be decided by US courts. The injunction was directed against Onesta, not against the Munich court, and Onesta has appealed the Texas decision. The Munich home court stayed the proceeding but did not reject its own jurisdiction. Whether a European home court can ultimately decide infringement claims based on US patents remains an open question, one that has turned from a European jurisdiction issue into an international jurisdiction conflict. What This Means for Your Company Heilein sums up twenty years of litigation in three lessons, and I share this assessment without reservation when advising my Mittelstand clients. First: patent enforcement has become more international. National litigation still matters, but companies should think across borders from the very beginning, not only once the first cease-and-desist letter has been sent. Second: choice of forum now carries real strategic weight. Where you bring a case can matter just as much as the legal arguments themselves. Third: long-term commitment pays off. Major developments rarely result from a single filing or a single hearing. They come from pursuing a clear strategy consistently over many years. For you as a managing director, R&D lead, or Head of IP at an innovative Mittelstand company, this translates into two concrete points. First, if you hold rights in several European countries and a competitor infringes them, you no longer necessarily have to fund five or six parallel national proceedings. A single action at the infringer’s home base can be the economically smarter option. Second, and this side of the ruling gets less attention in public discussion, if your company is based in Germany and operates across several countries, you can now be sued at your own home base over patent infringement claims tied to activities in other countries. That risk belongs in every freedom-to-operate analysis and in every assessment tied to acquisitions or market entry. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Host Today's interview guest is Dr. Ernst-Peter Heilein. If you don't know Ernst-Peter, he is a German and European patent attorney, the founder of HEILEIN IP LAW, and a long-time IP leader at BSH Home Appliances. Thank you for being on IP Fridays. Answer Yeah, great to be here! BLOCK 1 – THE PERSON BEHIND THE CASE Host When looking at your career, one thing stands out: you never really followed the traditional path of either private practice or industry. Er, how did your professional journey begin, actually? Answer My professional roots are actually in private practice. After qualifying as a Patent Attorney, I worked in private practice and fairly early founded my own law firm, which later became HEILEIN IP LAW. Host So you never completely left private practice behind? Answer Exactly. In 2005, I had the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities on the BSH side. There, I was able to build and lead a new unit within the IP organization. The team was responsible for patents in the small appliances business, as well as global design and trademark protection. At the same time, I helped build an international network of internal and external IP counsel and coordinated their work. Host That still sounds fairly like traditional IP work. When did international disputes become part of your career? Answer Over time, my focus gradually shifted from traditional IP protection to strategic enforcement. That included anti-counterfeiting activities, global trademark and design matters, and cross-border patent disputes. Host So your work became more about enforcing rights rather than simply obtaining and managing them, right? Answer Exactly. And that development eventually led me to play a strategic role in the case BSH Home Appliances versus Electrolux, a case that still accompanies me today. Host Looking back now — from private practice, to building an international IP organization, and eventually becoming involved in a case before the European Court of Justice — did you ever imagine that path? Answer No, not at all. Looking back, this combination of private practice, responsibilities on the business side, and international enforcement experience turned out to be very useful when our case eventually reached the European Court of Justice. BLOCK 2 – HOW IT ALL STARTED Host Yeah, talking about this case. The case BSH versus Electrolux started long before it reached the European Court of Justice. When did the story actually begin? Answer The story actually begins much earlier than most people would expect. The invention itself dates back to 2001 and concerns a new vacuum cleaner technology. In 2006, we identified what we believed to be an unauthorized use of the invention and contacted Electrolux to clarify the situation. The European patent in suit was granted in 2009 and validated in a number of European countries. At the time, nobody could have imagined that this would eventually lead to a decision of the European Court of Justice almost twenty years later. Host Wow, 20 years! That's a long time. So, at first this was simply a normal patent dispute? Answer Yes, absolutely! After many years of opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, we were finally able to defend the patent successfully in late 2018. Less than one year later, in the summer of 2019, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf found that certain Electrolux vacuum cleaner models infringed the patent. Host Er, at that point, one might think, that the patent owner had achieved its goal, right? Answer That is what many people would think. But that judgment did not bring the dispute to an end. A new challenge emerged. The patent had been validated in many European countries. Winning in one country, like Germany, did not automatically solve the enforcement issue in all the other countries. Host What was the practical problem then? Answer We were facing a very simple question: How do we enforce a patent that exists in many countries? And how do we prevent claims from becoming time-barred without filing separate infringement actions in every single country? Doing that would not only be legally complex. It would also require a huge amount of time, effort, and money. Host That sounds less like a major legal question and more like a business problem. Answer Exactly. At the beginning, this was not an academic discussion about jurisdiction. It was a very practical business question. How can we enforce our rights efficiently without running parallel lawsuits all over Europe? That was the real challenge we were trying to solve. BLOCK 3 – THE IDEA OF A CENTRAL ACTION Host So, how did the idea of one central action emerge? Answer While looking for possible solutions, we came across Article 4 of the Brussels Ia Regulation. The idea behind that rule is very simple. In general, a person can be sued in the country where that person is based. In our case, that pointed us toward the Swedish home court because Electrolux is based in Stockholm. Host That sounds like a fairly ordinary jurisdiction rule. Answer Yes. And that was exactly what made it interesting. Article 4 is the general rule. The question was whether that rule could also be used for patent infringement claims covering several countries. Host Was that a common approach at the time? Answer No. Quite the opposite. Many people believed that cross-border patent litigation in Europe was effectively dead. Host That sounds rather dramatic. Why did people think that? Answer Because there was a widely held view that a central patent case could be stopped as soon as the defendant challenged the validity of the patent. As a result, many companies assumed they had no real choice but to litigate country by country. Host Yet you decided to look at the issue differently. Answer Yes. Sometimes it is worth taking a fresh look at accepted assumptions. We felt that Article 4 might play a much more important role than many people believed. Host So at that point, you already saw an opportunity, right? Answer Yes, we saw a possibility! Not a guarantee. But we believed there was a strong legal basis for bringing all claims before the Swedish home court. Host And that eventually led to the lawsuit being filed in Sweden, right? Answer Exactly. In 2020, we decided to file the action in Sweden. That followed our success before the European Patent Office in late 2018 and in the Düsseldorf infringement proceedings in 2019. At that stage, our objective was very practical. We were simply trying to find an efficient way to enforce rights that exist in many countries. Host At that point, you already think the case might end up before the European Court of Justice? Answer No. Not at all. We were focused on solving a business problem. The idea that the case would eventually reach the European Court of Justice came much later. BLOCK 4 – THE OBSTACLE: GAT v. LuK Host You mentioned that, er, many people believed cross-border patent litigation in Europe was no longer a realistic option. Why was that? Answer The main reason was an earlier decision of the European Court of Justice known as GAT versus LuK, decided in 2006. For many years, that decision was understood to mean that a home court could lose its ability to hear a patent infringement case as soon as the defendant challenged the validity of the patent. In practice, that understanding made many cross-border patent cases extremely difficult. As a result, many people believed that cross-border patent litigation was not effective. Host And yet you decided to follow exactly that path, right? Answer Yes. Sometimes it is worth questioning assumptions that have been accepted for many years. We believed that Article 4 of the Brussels Ia Regulation played a more important role than many people thought. That is why, in 2020, we decided to file the case in Sweden. Host And at that point, did you already realize that the case might eventually reach the European Court of Justice? Answer No. Not at all. Our goal was simply to find a practical solution to a real enforcement problem. The idea that this would eventually become a case before the European Court of Justice was far from our minds. BLOCK 5 – THE QUESTIONS REFERRED TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE Host So, how did the case eventually reach the European Court of Justice then? Answer After we filed the lawsuit in Sweden in 2020, Electrolux challenged the validity of the patents. The Swedish home court then concluded that it could not hear the case and declared itself not competent to proceed. We appealed that decision, because the issues were important and affected far more than just our case. We suggested that several questions should be referred to the European Court of Justice. The Swedish Court of Appeal agreed and sent those questions to Luxembourg. Host So, what were these main questions? Answer At the heart of the case, there were three questions: First: if a home court has jurisdiction over a patent infringement case, does it lose that jurisdiction simply because the defendant argues that the patent is invalid? Second: Does it make a difference if the national legal system requires validity issues to be decided in a separate proceeding? And third: Do this jurisdiction rules also apply to patents from countries outside the European Union? Host The third question sounds particularly interesting. Answer Yes, at the time, the discussion in our case focused on Turkey. Today, many people immediately think about the United Kingdom, and some even think about US patents. But originally, the question was much simpler. We wanted to know, whether the same jurisdiction rules also apply when patents from non-European countries are involved. Host And, did you realize how important that third question might become? Answer No, certainly not to that extent. At the beginning, most of the discussion focused on the relationship between the different jurisdiction rules within Europe. Only later did it become clear that the European Court of Justice’s answers might have consequences far beyond the European Union. Host So, how did the European Court of Justice react then? Answer That was actually quite interesting. The European Court of Justice first heard the case before a Chamber of seven judges. Later, it referred the case to the Grand Chamber of 15 judges. That already showed that the European Court of Justice considered the issues to be important. And when the judgment finally came out, some of the answers were very different from what many observers had expected. BLOCK 6 – THE DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE Host Let’s talk about the European Court of Justice’s answers. What was, in your view, the most important part of the decision? Answer The most important point was this: A home court does not automatically lose jurisdiction just because the defendant argues that the patent is invalid. For many years, many people believed exactly the opposite. The European Court of Justice made it clear that this understanding was too narrow. The home court where the defendant is based can generally continue to hear the infringement case. That is really the key message of the decision. Host Why is that so important? Answer Because it gives new momentum to cross-border patent enforcement in Europe. Before this decision, many people assumed that a defendant could effectively stop a central infringement case simply by challenging the validity of the patent. The European Court of Justice made clear that this is not automatically the case. Host Does that mean the home court hearing the infringement case will now also decide whether the patent is valid? Answer No, and that is a very important point. The European Court of Justice confirmed that questions about the validity of a European patent should still be decided by the national courts of the country for which the patent was granted, as provided for in Article 24(4) of the Brussels Ia Regulation. What is new, is that the infringement case does not automatically fall apart because of a validity challenge. The home court can keep control of the overall case. Host So, how does that work in practice? Answer The European Court of Justice gives the home court some flexibility. For patents from Member States of the European Union, the home court does not automatically lose its power if the defendant says the patent is invalid. The home court can look at the validity challenge. If it seems strong, the home court may stay the infringement case. If it seems weak, the home court may continue the infringement case. For patents from countries outside the European Union, the home court may also stay the case if there is already a validity case pending in that country. In such situations, Articles 33 and 34 of the Brussels Ia Regulation may apply. That creates a much more flexible system than many people expected. Host Er, we have discussed the implications for patents from Member States of the European Union, but a lot of attention has been given to another part of the decision, that we already talked about briefly, namely patents from countries outside the European Union. Answer Absolutely, and that may be the part of the judgment with the biggest international impact. Host Why? Answer Because the European Court of Justice decided that the special jurisdiction rule for patent validity does not generally apply to patents from non-European countries. In simple terms, that means the general rule can still apply. And that opens the possibility of bringing infringement cases based on non-European patents before the home court where the defendant is based in the European Union. Host That sounds like a very far-reaching statement. Answer It is. That is why many commentators started talking about what is often called “long-arm jurisdiction.” In other words, a European home court may, under certain circumstances, deal with infringement claims relating to patents from countries outside the European Union. Host So, many listeners may now wonder: Can a Swedish or a German home court really decide a dispute involving a British or Turkish patent? Answer Ah, we need to be careful here. The European Court of Justice did not say that a European home court can cancel or revoke a foreign patent. That remains a matter for the authorities and national courts of the country that granted the patent. What the European Court of Justice said is that a European home court may assess the claims between the parties in a dispute. That is an important distinction. Host Did you realize during the proceedings how important this part of the decision might become? Answer Not to this extent. We started with a very practical enforcement problem. Only later did it become clear that the European Court of Justice’s answers might have consequences far beyond the original case. Today, the decision is discussed not only in connection with Turkish patents, but also British patents and even possible claims involving US patents. Host If you had to summarize the decision in one sentence, and I know, this is a very difficult task, what would that sentence be? Answer The European Court of Justice did not re-invent cross-border patent enforcement in Europe. But after many years, it clearly gave it much more room to develop. BLOCK 7 – THE REACTION OF THE IP COMMUNITY Host So, how was the decision received after it was published? Answer Ah, the reaction was very strong. It quickly became clear that many people saw the decision as much more than just another patent case. Many articles and commentaries described it as an important development in European patent litigation. Host Did that surprise you? Answer To some extent, yes. Of course, we knew that the questions referred to the European Court of Justice were important. But I was surprised by how quickly the decision became a major topic of discussion across the European patent community. Host Er, you later presented the decision at several conferences yourself, right? Answer Yes. The discussion started right away. I had the opportunity to discuss and present the case at several conferences and events, including the annual VPP conference in Germany and the Ingolstadt Patent Symposium. I recently received an invitation to serve as a panel speaker on cross-border litigation at the AIPPI World Congress 2026 in Hamburg. What struck me most was that both internal and external IP counsel were trying to understand the practice consequences of the decision. Host So, what was the question you were asked most often? Answer Almost always the same one: How far does this decision really go? People wanted to know whether this was simply a correction of earlier case law or whether it marked the beginning of a new phase in cross-border patent enforcement. Host And what did you say? Answer I would describe it as: neither a revolution nor a minor adjustment. The European Court of Justice did not rewrite the system. But it clearly changed the balance between the different jurisdiction rules. That is why I believe the decision will continue to be discussed for many years, both in practice and in academia. Host Er, one year later, the case received the Managing IP Award as the “Europe Impact Case of the Year.” What did that recognition mean to you? Answer First of all, it was a great honor for everyone involved. But for me, the most important thing was the message behind the award. The award showed that the decision affects much more than the parties involved in the case. It has an impact on European patent practice as a whole. And it also shows that the underlying jurisdiction questions reach far beyond patent law. They are relevant whenever companies have to enforce rights across borders in an increasing international world. That is what makes this case special. Host You often describe this case as a team effort. Answer Absolutely. A case of this size is never the work of one person. Many people contributed over many years. On the BSH side, team members from different functions played an important role throughout the proceedings. And we worked closely with external advisors in several countries. So I see the award as recognition of a shared achievement rather than an individual success. Host Looking at the discussions today, would you say the debate is over? Answer Not at all. I actually think we are only at the beginning. There are still many practical questions that home courts will have to answer in the coming years. That is exactly why the decision remains so interesting. BLOCK 8 – WHAT DOES THE DECISION MEAN IN PRACTICE? Host Let’s move from legal theory to practical business implications. What does this decision mean for patent owners and companies? Answer In my view, the biggest change is strategic. Patent owners now have better opportunities to bring cross-border disputes together in one central proceeding. At the same time, companies need to be aware that they may face claims at their European headquarters covering activities in several countries. So the decision creates opportunities, but it also creates new risks. Host That sounds really like a significant shift; right? Answer I would call it a rebalancing rather than a revolution. The European Court of Justice did not create a completely new system. But it made clear that the general rule — suing a defendant where it is based — plays a much bigger role than many people had assumed. As a result, the court at the defendant’s home base becomes much more important strategically. Host In the patent community, people often talk about cases such as Fujifilm v. Kodak, or Regeneron v. Formycon or Onesta v. BMW. Why are those cases attracting so much attention now? Answer Because they show how quickly practice is already adapting to the new possibilities. Fujifilm was important because it was one of the first UPC cases to test the logic that was later confirmed in BSH. At that time, the BSH case was already pending before the European Court of Justice, and the Advocate General had expressed a view that pointed in that direction. Against that background, the Düsseldorf Local Division accepted jurisdiction over the UK part of a European patent even before the European Court of Justice delivered its judgment. In June 2026, based on the principles confirmed in BSH, the UPC Court of Appeal further developed that approach. Host And what happened in Regeneron v. Formycon ? Answer In the Regeneron case, the Munich home court applied the approach confirmed in BSH and granted a Europe-wide injunction based on a European patent. That was one of the first examples of a national home court using the BSH framework in practice. That demonstrates that the decision is not just an academic discussion. It already has practical consequences. Host And what about the Onesta case? Answer The Onesta case shows that the debate has moved beyond Europe. After Onesta attempted to assert two U.S. patents before the Munich home court, BMW obtained an anti-suit injunction from a Texas federal court. Judge Albright took the view that U.S. patents should generally be decided by U.S. courts. The Onesta case therefore illustrates that the limits of the BSH logic are now being tested internationally. Host Did that end the proceedings in Munich? Answer Not necessarily. What makes the case interesting is that the Texas injunction was directed against Onesta, not against the Munich home court. At the same time, Onesta appealed Judge Albright’s decision in the United States. The Munich home court therefore decided to stay the case for the time being. Importantly, however, the Munich home court did not reject its own jurisdiction. So, at least for the moment, the underlying question remains open. Host Can a European home court ultimately decide infringement claims based on U.S. patents? Answer That question has not yet been answered. But the case has already shown that such an attempt can trigger strong reactions outside Europe. In that sense, the debate has moved from a European jurisdiction question to an international jurisdiction conflict. Host For our audience of internal and external IP counsel, what are the main lessons from this decision? Answer For me, there are three key takeaways. First: Patent enforcement has become more international. National litigation remains important, but companies should think across borders from the very beginning. Second: The choice of forum is becoming more important. Where you bring a case may be just as important as the legal arguments themselves. And third: Long-term commitment matters. This case shows that major developments rarely happen because of a single filing or a single hearing. They usually result from pursuing a clear strategy consistently over many years. Host Do you think this decision will also influence the Unified Patent Court, the UPC? Answer Yes, I believe so. The decision fits into a broader trend toward more centralized patent litigation. Both, the UPC and the BSH decision are driven by the same idea: Handling cross-border disputes more efficiently and more consistently. What is interesting is that many of the questions were faced in BSH versus Electrolux are now reappearing in a new form before the UPC. Cases like Fujifilm versus Kodak show that the discussion about jurisdiction, scope, and cross-border effects is far from over. Institutions may be new. But the underlying challenge remains the same: How do we enforce patents effectively across borders? Host Some commentators even see this as a step toward a more independent European patent judiciary. Do you agree? Answer To some extent, yes. Professor Hanns Ullrich, who supervised my doctoral studies on the legal protection of a then new semiconductor technology many years ago, recently observed that the UPC is gradually developing its own European case law.[DH1] I think that is — again — a very accurate observation. If you look at the developments since BSH and the first UPC decisions, you can see that European patent litigation is becoming more connected. National courts will remain important. But at the same time, we are seeing a more integrated European patent system taking shape. How far that development will go remains to be seen. Host Looking back on the entire journey — from a vacuum cleaner patent, through litigation in several countries, all the way to the European Court of Justice and an award-winning decision — what is your personal conclusion? Answer My main conclusion is that innovation needs effective legal protection. But it also requires the willingness to challenge established assumptions and explore new approaches. For me, the BSH versus Electrolux case shows that persistence, teamwork, a willingness to challenge accepted assumptions, and a long-term strategic view can sometimes lead to developments that go far beyond the original dispute. BLOCK 9 – THE PERSON BEHIND THE DECISION Host Ernst-Peter, today we have talked a lot about jurisdiction, patent enforcement, and European case law. When you look back at this journey, which has lasted almost twenty years, what impressed you most? Answer Probably the realization that major developments rarely follow a straight line. When we started thinking about the case, we were dealing with a very practical problem. Nobody said: Let’s create a landmark decision of the European Court of Justice. We were simply looking for a reasonable and practical solution for a company. The fact that this would eventually lead to a decision with Europe-wide impact was something nobody could foresee at the time. Host Were there moments when you thought the case might fail? Answer Of course. Whenever a case lasts many years, there will be setbacks, new questions, and unexpected developments. That is exactly why persistence is so important. In the end, success is often not about one filing or one hearing. It is about staying focused on a clear objective over a long period of time. Host You often talk about teamwork. Is that one of the main lessons from this case? Answer Absolutely. A case of this size requires commitment from many people and institutes over many years. On the BSH side, my role was to help maintain the strategic direction and long-term commitment that such a case requires. At the same time, experts from different functions within BSH contributed technical expertise, testing, documentation, and practical support throughout the proceedings. On the legal side, Roman Sedlmaier and his team at IP-Counsels Gigerich & Sedlmaier (IPCGS) helped develop the cross-border litigation strategy and the overall case architecture. Our Swedish litigation team then carried the arguments through all stages of the proceedings. Looking back, it was the combination of institutional commitment, technical expertise, strategic leadership, well-designed case architecture, and consistent execution that made the difference. Host One final question. What advice would you give to young internal or external IP counsel? Answer Stay curious: Don’t be afraid to question accepted assumptions. Be patient: Intellectual property is usually a marathon, not a sprint. And never forget that every patent dispute involves an invention, a business, and many people who have worked hard to bring that innovation to market. For me, that connection between technology, law, and strategy is what still makes this profession so fascinating today. Host Ernst-Peter, thank you very much for joining us today on IP Fridays. Answer Thank you. It was a pleasure to be here.

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