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“Manager and leader”? What's the difference. During my conversation this time with Scott Hanton, our guest, we will discuss this very point along with many other fascinating and interesting subjects. As Scott tells us at the beginning of this episode he grew up asking “why” about most anything you can think of. He always was a “why” asker. As he tells it, unlike many children who grow out of the phase of asking “why” he did not. He still asks “why” to this very day.   At the age of 13 Scott decided that he wanted to be a chemist. He tells us how this decision came about and why he has always stayed with it. Scott received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Michigan State and his PHD from the University of Wisconsin. Again, why he changed schools for his PHD work is an interesting story. As you will see, Scott tells stories in a unique and quite articulate way.   After his university days were over Scott went to work, yes as a chemist. He tells us about this and how after 20 years with one company how and why he moved to another company and somewhat out of constant lab work into some of the management, business and leadership side of a second company. He stayed there for ten years and was laid off during the pandemic. Scott then found employment as the editorial director of Lab Management Magazine where he got to bring his love of teaching to the forefront of his work.   My hour with Scott gives us all many insights into management, leadership and how to combine the two to create a strong teaming environment. I believe you will find Scott's thoughts extremely poignant and helpful in everything that you do.     About the Guest:   Scott Hanton is the Editorial Director of Lab Manager. He spent 30 years as a research chemist, lab manager, and business leader at Air Products and Intertek. Scott thrives on the challenges of problem-solving. He enjoys research, investigation, and collaboration. Scott is a people-centric, servant leader. He is motivated by developing environments where people can grow and succeed, and crafting roles for people that take advantage of their strengths.   Scott earned a BS in chemistry from Michigan State University and a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an active member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), and the Association of Lab Managers (ALMA). As a scientist Scott values curiosity, innovation, progress, and delivery of results. Scott has always been motivated by questions beginning with why. Studying physical chemistry in graduate school offered the opportunity to hone answers to these questions. As a professional scientist, Scott worked in analytical chemistry specializing in MALDI mass spectrometry and polymer characterization.   At Scott married his high school sweetheart, and they have one son. Scott is motivated by excellence, happiness, and kindness. He most enjoys helping people and solving problems. Away from work, Scott enjoys working outside in the yard, playing strategy games, and participating in different discussion groups.   Scott values having a growth mindset and is a life-long learner. He strives to learn something new everyday and from everyone. One of the great parts of being a trained research scientist is that failure really isn't part of his vocabulary. He experiments and either experiences success or learns something new. He values both individual and organizational learning.   Scott's current role at Lab Manager encompasses three major responsibilities: ·      Writing articles and giving presentations to share his experience with lab managers. ·      Driving the creation and growth of the Lab Manager Academy (https://labmanageracademy.com/) that currently contains three certificate programs: lab management, lab safety management, and lab quality management. ·      Helping people through his knowledge of science, scientists, management, and leadership. He is very happy sharing the accumulated wisdom of his experiences as a researcher, lab supervisor, and lab manager. Each article posted on Lab Manager addresses a decision that a lab manager needs to make. Lab management is full of decision-making, so helping people make better, faster, more complete decisions is very satisfying. Ways to connect with Scott:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hanton/   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity and the unexpected meet, and mostly we get to deal with the unexpected, as opposed to inclusion or diversity. But that's okay, because unexpected is what makes life fun, and our guest today, Scott Hanton, will definitely be able to talk about that. Scott has been a research chemist. He comes from the chemistry world, so he and I in the past have compared notes, because, of course, I come from the physics world, and I love to tell people that the most important thing I learned about physics was that, unlike Doc Brown, although I do know how to build a bomb, unlike Doc Brown from Back to the Future, I'm not dumb enough to try to go steal fissionable material from a terrorist group to build the bomb. So, you know, I suppose that's a value, value lesson somewhere. But anyway, I am really glad that you're all here with us today, and we have lots to talk about. Scott, as I said, was in chemistry and research chemist, and now is the editorial supervisor and other things for a magazine called lab manager, and we will talk about that as well. So Scott, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad   Scott Hanton ** 02:38 you're here. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to have this conversation with you today.   Michael Hingson ** 02:43 Well, I think it'll be a lot of fun, and looking forward to it. Now, you're in Michigan, right?   Scott Hanton ** 02:48 That's right. I live in South Lyon, Michigan,   Michael Hingson ** 02:51 ah, what's the weather back there today?   Scott Hanton ** 02:55 It's probably about 55 degrees and cloudy   Michael Hingson ** 02:58 here today. Well, it's still fairly sunny here, and we're actually, according to my iPhone, at 71 so it was up around 80 earlier in the week, but weather changes are still going to bring some cold for a while   Scott Hanton ** 03:15 in here in Michigan, I visited a customer earlier this week, and I drove by about 1000 orange barrels on the highway, which means it's spring, because there's only two seasons in Michigan, winter and construction.   Michael Hingson ** 03:29 There you go. Yeah, I know. I went to the University of California, Irvine, UCI. And if you ask somebody who doesn't know that UCI stands for University of California at Irvine. If you ask them what UCI stands for, they'll tell you, under construction indefinitely. Sounds right? Yeah. Well, it's been doing it ever since I was there a long time ago, and they they continue to grow. Now we're up to like 32,000 fresh, or excuse me, undergraduates at the university. And when I was there, there were 2700 students. So it's grown a little. That's   Scott Hanton ** 04:05 a lot of change. I'm used to big universities. I'm a graduate of both Michigan State and the University of Wisconsin. So these are big places.   Michael Hingson ** 04:13 Wow, yeah. So you're used to it. I really enjoyed it when it was a small campus. I'm glad I went there, and that was one of the reasons that caused me to go there, was because I knew I could probably get a little bit more visibility with instructors, and that would be helpful for me to get information when they didn't describe things well in class. And it generally worked out pretty well. So I can't complain a lot. Perfect. Glad it worked well for you, it did. Well, why don't you start, if you would, by telling us kind of about the early Scott growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Scott Hanton ** 04:49 I grew up in Michigan, in a town called Saginaw. I was blessed with a family that loved me and that, you know, I was raised in a very. Supportive environment. But young Scott asked, Why about everything you know, the way kids do? Yeah, right. And my mom would tell you that when I was a kid, why was my most favorite word? And most kids outgrow that. I never did, yeah, so Me neither. I still ask why all the time. It's still my most favorite word, and it caused me to want to go explore the sciences, because what I found, as I learned about science, was that I could get answers to why questions better in science than in other places.   Michael Hingson ** 05:34 Yeah, makes sense. So what kinds of questions did you ask about why? Well, I asked   Scott Hanton ** 05:43 all kinds of questions about why, like, why are we having that for dinner? Or, why is my bedtime so early? Those questions didn't have good answers, at least from my perspective, right? But I also asked questions like, why is grass green, and why is the sky blue? And studying physical chemistry at Michigan State answered those questions. And so   Michael Hingson ** 06:03 how early did you learn about Rayleigh scattering? But that's you know?   Scott Hanton ** 06:07 Well, I learned the basic concepts from a really important teacher in my life, Mr. Leeson was my seventh grade science teacher, and what I learned from him is that I could ask questions that weren't pertinent to what he was lecturing about, and that taught me a lot about the fact that science was a lot bigger than what we got in the curriculum or in the classroom. And so Mr. Leeson was a really important person in my development, and showed me that there was that science was a lot bigger than I thought it was as a student, but I didn't really learn about rally scattering until I got to college.   Michael Hingson ** 06:43 But at the same time, it sounds like he was willing to allow you to grow and and learn, which so many people aren't willing to do. They're too impatient.   Scott Hanton ** 06:58 He was a first year teacher the year I had him so he hadn't become cynical yet. So it was great to just be able to stay after class and ask him a question, or put my hand up in class and ask him a question. He also did a whole series of demonstrations that were fabulous and made the science come to life in a way that reading about it doesn't stir the imagination. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 07:23 I had teachers that did that too. I remember very well my freshman general science teacher in high school, Mr. Dills, and one day, and he loved to do kind of unique things, just to push the boundaries of students a little bit. He came in one day and he said, I got a pop quiz for everybody, which doesn't help me, because the pop quiz was in print, but he handed it out. And then he took me to the back of the room, and he said, You're not going to really be able to do this quiz. Let me tell you why. And he said, Oh, and one thing he said is, just be sure you follow all the instructions and you'll be fine on the test to everybody. He brought me back to the back of the room. He says, Well, here's the deal. He says, if people really read the instructions, what they'll do is they'll read the instruction that says, Read all the questions before you start answering, and if you get to the last question, it says answer only the first question, which is what is your name and and sure enough, of course, people didn't read the instructions. And he said, so I wouldn't be able to really deal with you with that one, with that whole thing, just because it wouldn't work well. And I said, I understand, but he loved to make students think, and I learned so much about the whole concept of realizing the need to observe and be observant in all that you do. And it was lessons like that from him that really helped a lot with that. For me,   Scott Hanton ** 08:48 I had a high school chemistry teacher named Mrs. Schultz, and the first experiment that we did in her class, in the first week of classes, was she wanted us to document all of the observations that we could make about a burning candle. And I was a hot shot student. Thought I, you know, owned the world, and I was going to ace this test. And, you know, I had maybe a dozen observations about a burning candle, and thought I had done a great job describing it, until she started sharing her list, and she probably had 80 observations about a burning candle, and it taught me the power of observation and the need to talk about the details of those observations and to be specific about what the observations were. And that experiment seems simple, light a candle and tell me what you see. Yeah, but that lesson has carried on with me now for more than approaching 50 years.   Michael Hingson ** 09:47 Let's see, as I recall, if you light a candle, what the center of the flame is actually pretty cool compared to the outside. It's more hollow. Now I wouldn't be able to easily tell that, because. Is my my process for observing doesn't really use eyesight to do that, so I I'm sure there are other technologies today that I could use to get more of that information. But   Scott Hanton ** 10:12 I'm also sure that that experiment could be re crafted so that it wasn't so visual, yeah, right, that there could be tactile experiments to tell me about observations or or audible experiments about observation, where you would excel in ways that I would suffer because I'm so visually dominant. The   Michael Hingson ** 10:33 issue, though, is that today, there's a lot more technology to do that than there was when I was in school and you were in school, but yeah, I think there is a lot available. There's a company called Independence Science, which is actually owned and run by Dr Cary sapollo. And Carrie is blind, and he is a blind chemist, and he wanted to help develop products for blind people to be able to deal with laboratory work. So he actually worked with a company that was, well, it's now Vernier education systems. They make a product called LabQuest with something like 80 different kinds of probes that you can attach to it, and the LabQuest will will provide visual interpretations of whatever the probes are showing carry, and independent science took that product and made it talk, so that There is now a Talking LabQuest. And the reality is that all those probes became usable because the LabQuest became accessible to be able to do that, and they put a lot of other things into it too. So it's more than just as a talking device, a lab device. It's got a periodic table in it. It's got a lot of other kinds of things that they just put in it as well. But it's really pretty cool because it now makes science a whole lot more accessible. I'm going to have to think about the different kinds of probes and how one could use that to look at a candle. I think that'd be kind of fun.   Scott Hanton ** 12:15 And it's just awesome to hear that there's innovation and space to make science more available to everybody. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 12:23 the real problem that we face is the one that we mostly always have faced, which is societal attitudes, as opposed to really being or not being able to do the experiments, is people think we can't, and that's the barrier that we always, usually have to overcome.   Scott Hanton ** 12:39 What I find in my time as a coach, mentor, supervisor, is that if somebody believes they can't do it, they can't do it. Yeah. And so it's often about overcoming their own mental limitations, the limitations that they've placed on themselves,   Michael Hingson ** 12:56 and that's right, or unfortunately, the limitations that other people place on us, and we, all too often and weigh too much, buy into those limitations. So it's it is something that we, especially in the sciences, should recognize that we shouldn't be doing so much of. I know that when I was at UC Irvine as a graduate student, I learned once that there was a letter in my file that a professor wrote. Fortunately, I never had him as a professor, but it and I was in my master's program at the time in physics, and this guy put a letter in my file saying that no blind person could ever absorb the material to get an advanced degree in physics at the University. Just put that in there, which is so unfortunate, because the real thing that is demonstrated there is a prejudice that no scientist should ever have.   Scott Hanton ** 13:51 I'm hopeful that as you graduated, there was a retraction letter in your file as well,   Michael Hingson ** 13:57 not that I ever heard, but yeah. Well, I'd already gotten my bachelor's degree, but yeah. But you know, things happen, but it is a it is a societal thing, and society all too often creates limitations, and sometimes we don't find them right away, but it is one of the big issues that, in general, we have to deal with. And on all too often, society does some pretty strange things because it doesn't understand what science is all about. I know when we were dealing with covid, when it all started, leaving the conspiracy theorists out of it. One of the things that I learned was that we have all these discussions about AI, if you will. But AI was one of the primary mechanisms that helped to develop the mRNA vaccines that are now still the primary things that we use to get vaccinated against covid, because they the artificial intelligence. I'm not sure how artificial. It is, but was able to craft what became the vaccine in a few days. And scientists acknowledged, if they had to do it totally on their own, it would take years to have done what AI did in a few days.   Scott Hanton ** 15:13 The AI technology is amazing and powerful, but it's not new. No, I met a person who shared her story about AI investigations and talked about what she was doing in this field 30 years ago. Yeah, in her master's work. And you know, I knew it wasn't brand new, but I didn't really realize how deep its roots went until I talked to her.   Michael Hingson ** 15:37 I worked as my first jobs out of college with Ray Kurzweil, who, of course, nowadays, is well known for the singularity and so on. But back then, he developed the first reading machine that blind people could use to read printed material. And one of the things that he put into that machine was the ability, as it scanned more material, to learn and better recognize the material. And so he was doing machine learning back in the 1970s   Scott Hanton ** 16:07 right? And all of this is, you know, as Newton said on the shoulders of giants, right, right? He said it a bit cynically, but it's still true that we all in science, we are learning from each other. We're learning from the broader community, and we're integrating that knowledge as we tackle the challenges that we are exploring.   Michael Hingson ** 16:27 So what got you to go into chemistry when you went into college?   Scott Hanton ** 16:33 That's a good question. So when I was 13 years old, I went on a youth a church group youth trip to another city, and so they split us up, and there were three of us from our group that stayed overnight in a host family. And at dinner that night, the father worked in a pharmaceutical company, and he talked about the work he was doing, and what he was doing was really synthetic chemistry around small molecule drug discovery. And for me, it was absolutely fascinating. I was thrilled at that information. I didn't know any scientists growing up, I had no adult input other than teachers about science, and I can remember going back home and my parents asking me how the trip went. And it's like, it's fantastic. I'm going to be a chemist. And they both looked at me like, what is that? How do you make money from it? How do you get that? My dad was a banker. My mom was a school teacher. They had no scientific background, but that that one conversation, such serendipity, right? One conversation when I was 13 years old, and I came home and said, I'm going to be a chemist, and I've never really deviated from that path. Did you have other siblings? Younger brother and another younger sister?   Michael Hingson ** 17:54 Okay? Did they go into science by any remote chance?   Scott Hanton ** 17:58 Not at all. So they were both seventh grade teachers for more than 30 years. So my brother taught math and English, and my sister teaches social studies.   Michael Hingson ** 18:10 Well, there you go. But that is also important. I actually wanted to teach physics, but jobs and other things and circumstances took me in different directions, but I think the reality is that I ended up going into sales. And what I realized, and it was partly because of a Dale Carnegie sales course I took, but I realized that good sales people are really teachers, because they're really teaching people about products or about things, and they're also sharp enough to recognize what their products might or might not do to help a customer. But that, again, not everyone does that, but so I figure I still was teaching, and today, being a public speaker, traveling the world, talking, of course, about teamwork and other things, it's still all about teaching.   Scott Hanton ** 18:57 I think I've always been a teacher, and if you talk to my coworkers along the way, I enjoy helping people. I enjoy sharing my knowledge. There's always been a teacher inside but only in this job as the editorial director at lab manager have I really been able to do it directly. So we've developed what we call the lab manager Academy, and I create e learning courses to help lab managers be more successful, and it's been a passion project for me, and it's been a load of fun.   Michael Hingson ** 19:30 And it doesn't get better than that. It's always great when it's a load of fun, yes,   Scott Hanton ** 19:35 well, so you left college and you got a bachelor's and a master's degree, right? No masters for me, that step you went right to the old PhD, yeah. So I went straight. I went graduated from Michigan State. So Michigan State was on terms back in those days. So graduated in June, got married in July, moved to Wisconsin in August. To graduate school at the end of August at the University of Wisconsin. Okay? And my second year as a graduate student, my professor asked me, Do you want to stop and complete a master's? And I said, Wait, tell me about this word stop. And he said, Well, you'd have to finish the Master's requirements and write a thesis, and that's going to take some time. And I said, Do I have to and he said, No, and I don't recommend it. Just keep going forward and finish your PhD. So that's   Michael Hingson ** 20:30 and what does your wife do?   Scott Hanton ** 20:33 So my wife also is in the graduate program at the University of Wisconsin, and she decided that a master's degree was the right answer for her, because she didn't want to be a PhD scientist in XYZ narrow band of science. She wanted to be a master of chemistry. Okay, and so we took different paths through graduate school, but each of us took the path that worked best for us, and each pass has great value, so we're both happy with the choices that we made,   Michael Hingson ** 21:06 and complement each other and also give you, still lots of great things to talk about over dinner.   Scott Hanton ** 21:12 Absolutely. And she took that master's degree, went into the pharmaceutical industry and largely behaved as a librarian in her first part of her career, she wasn't called a librarian, but what she really did was a lot of information integrating, and then moved into the Library Group, and was a corporate librarian for a long time, and then a community librarian. So that path worked brilliantly for her. She also has a Masters of Library Science. So I have one PhD. She has two Master's degree. I have one bachelor's degree. She has two bachelor's degree.   Michael Hingson ** 21:50 Oh, so you can have interesting discussions about who really progressed further,   21:54 absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 21:57 Well, that's, that's, that's cute, though. Well, I I got my bachelor's and master's. My wife, who I didn't meet until years later, wanted to be a librarian, but she ended up getting a a Master's at USC in so in sociology and and ended up getting a teaching credential and going into teaching, and taught for 10 years, and then she decided she wanted to do something different, and became a travel agent, which she had a lot of fun with. That is different, it is, but she enjoyed it, and along the way, then we got married. It was a great marriage. She was in a wheelchair her whole life. So she read, I pushed, worked out well, complimentary skills, absolutely, which is the way, way it ought to be, you know, and we had a lot of fun with it. Unfortunately, she passed now two and a half years ago, but as I tell people, we were married 40 years, and I'm sure she's monitoring me from somewhere, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it, so I try to just behave. Sounds like good advice. Yeah, probably certainly the safe way to go. But we, we, we had lots of neat discussions, and our our activities and our expertise did, in a lot of ways, complement each other, so it was a lot of fun. And as I said, she went to USC. I enjoyed listening to USC football because I thought that that particular college team had the best announcers in the business, least when when I was studying in Southern California, and then when we got married, we learned the the day we got married, the wedding was supposed to start at four, and it didn't start till later because people weren't showing up for the wedding. And we learned that everybody was sitting out in their cars waiting for the end of the USC Notre Dame game. And we knew that God was on our side when we learned that SC beat the snot out of Notre Dame. So there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh, the rivalries we face. So what did you do after college?   Scott Hanton ** 24:09 So did my PhD at the University of Wisconsin. And one of the nice things, a fringe benefit of going to a big, important program to do your PhD, is that recruiters come to you. And so I was able to do 40 different, four, zero, 40 different interviews on campus without leaving Madison. And one of those interviews was with a company called Air Products. And that worked out, and they hired me. And so we moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania to go to work. I went to work at Air Products and and Helen found a role in the pharmaceutical industry at Merck. And so we did that for a long time. I was initially a research expert, a PhD expert doing lasers and materials and analytical stuff. And over the years. I progressed up the ladder from researcher to supervisor to what did we call it, group head to Section Manager, to operations manager, and ultimately to General Manager.   Michael Hingson ** 25:13 Well, at least being in Allentown, you were close to a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Yes, that is true. That was the closest to one to where we lived in New Jersey, so we visited it several times. That's how I know   Scott Hanton ** 25:26 about it. Maybe we were there at the same time. Michael, maybe this isn't our first. It's   Michael Hingson ** 25:31 very possible. But we enjoyed Cracker Barrel and enjoyed touring around Pennsylvania. So I should have asked, What prompted you to go to the University of Wisconsin to do your your graduate work, as opposed to staying in Michigan. So   Scott Hanton ** 25:47 my advisor at Michigan State, our advisor at Michigan State, told us, here's the top five schools, graduate programs in chemistry, apply to them all. Go to the one you get into. And so I got into three. Helen got into two. The one that was the same was Wisconsin. So that's where we went, yeah?   Michael Hingson ** 26:09 Well, then no better logic and argument than that.   Scott Hanton ** 26:14 It was a great Madison. Wisconsin is a beautiful city. It one of the things I really liked about the chemistry program there then, and it's still true now, is how well the faculty get along together so many collaborative projects and just friendliness throughout the hallways. And yes, they are all competing at some level for grant support, but they get along so well, and that makes it for a very strong community,   Michael Hingson ** 26:41 and it probably also means that oftentimes someone who's applying for something can enlist support from other people who are willing to help.   Scott Hanton ** 26:50 And as a graduate student, it meant that I had more than one professor that I could go to my advisor. There was a whole group of advisors who ran joint group meetings and would give us advice about our work or our writing or our approach, or just because we needed a pep talk, because completing a PhD is hard. Yeah, right, so that community was really important to me, and it's something I took away that when I started my industrial career, I had seen the value of community, and I wanted to build stronger communities wherever I went, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 27:26 So what does a company, does air products do   Scott Hanton ** 27:31 that's sort of in the name, right? They're an industrial gas company. Got some of their big, biggest products are taking air and separating it into its components of nitrogen, oxygen, oxygen, argon, whatever, right? But at that time, they also had a chemicals business and a semiconductor business, or electronics business. So there was a lot of chemistry going on, although a lot of my work colleagues were chemical engineers who were working on the gasses side of the business, we had significant number of chemistry, sorts material science, sorts of people who are working on the chemicals side. Now, over time, Air Products divested those businesses, and now it's much more of a true industrial gas company. But I had the opportunity to work in an integrated science company that did all sorts of things.   Michael Hingson ** 28:23 Yeah, and as as we know, certainly a little helium never hurt anyone.   Scott Hanton ** 28:30 No little helium, you know, raises people's spirits, it   Michael Hingson ** 28:34 does and their voices, it does. I I've visited helium tanks many times at UC Irvine when they had liquid helium, which was certainly a challenge because of how cold it had to be. But occasionally we would open a valve and little cold but useful helium gas would escape   Scott Hanton ** 28:56 very cold. Please be safe. Cryogens are are dangerous materials, and we gotta make sure we handle them with due respect.   Michael Hingson ** 29:05 Yeah, well, we, we all did and and didn't take too many chances. So it worked out pretty well. So you stayed in Allentown and you stayed with Air Products for how long   Scott Hanton ** 29:19 I was in Air Products for 20 years. So the analytical group that I was part of, we were about 92 or 93 people when I joined the company, when I just left after earning my PhD. After 20 years, that group was down to about 35 just progressive series of decisions that made the department smaller, and as the Department got smaller and smaller, we were worried about our abilities to sustain our work. And so a dear friend and a key colleague, Paula McDaniel, and I, worked to try to see what other kind of opportunities there were. Yeah. And so we reached out to a contract research organization called Intertech to see if they would be interested in maybe acquiring our analytical department. And when we called them, and by the way, we called them before we talked to our boss about it, she forgave us later, but when we called the guy on the end of the phone said, Wait a minute, let me get your file. And it's like, what you have a file on Air Products, analytical, really? Why? Well, it turned out that they had a file, and that they had an active Merger and Acquisition Group, and they wanted an integrated analytical department on the east coast of the US. And so we engaged in negotiation, and ultimately this analytical department was sold by Air Products to Intertech. So on Friday, we're a little cog in a giant engine of an global, international company, and our funding comes from Vice Presidents. And on Monday, we're a standalone business of 35 people, we need to write quotes in order to make money. So it was an enormous challenge to transition from a service organization to a business. But oh my goodness, did we learn a lot,   Michael Hingson ** 31:13 certainly a major paradigm shift,   Scott Hanton ** 31:18 and I was lucky that I lost the coin flip, and Paula won, and she said, I want to be business development director. And I said, thank God. So she went off to be the key salesperson, and Paula was utterly brilliant as a technical salesperson, and I became the operations manager, which allowed me to keep my hands dirty with the science and to work with the scientists and to build a system and a community that allowed us to be successful in a CRO world.   Michael Hingson ** 31:49 So at that time, when you became part, part of them, the new company, were you or the standalone business? Were you working in lab? Still yourself?   Scott Hanton ** 32:01 Yes. So I had the title Operations Manager and all of the scientific staff reported into me, but I was still the technical expert in some mass spectrometry techniques, particularly MALDI and also tough Sims, and so I still had hands on lab responsibility that I needed to deliver. And over time, I was able to train some people to take some of those responsibilities off. But when the weight of the world was particularly heavy, the place for me to go was in the lab and do some experiments.   Michael Hingson ** 32:34 Yeah, still so important to be able to keep your hand in into to know and understand. I know I had that same sort of need being the manager of an office and oftentimes working with other people who were the engineers, coming from a little bit of a technical background as well. I worked to always make sure I knew all I could about the products that I was dealing with and selling, and my sales people who worked for me constantly asked, How come, you know, all this stuff, and we don't then, my response always was, did you read the product bulletin that came out last week? Or have you kept up on the product bulletins? Because it's all right there, whether I actually physically repaired products or not, I knew how to do it. And so many times when I was involved in working with some of our engineers, I remember a few times our field support people, and we were working out of New Jersey, and then in New York at the time, in the World Trade Center, we had some customers up at Lockheed Martin, up in Syria, Rochester, I think it was. And the guys would go up, and then they'd call me on the phone, and we'd talk about it, and between us, we came up with some bright ideas. And I remember one day, all of a sudden, I get this phone call, and these guys are just bouncing off the walls, because whatever it was that was going on between them and me, we figured it out, and they put it in play and made it work, and they were all just as happy as clams at high tide, which is the way it ought to   Scott Hanton ** 34:13 be. It's great to work in a team that finds success. The longer I was in technical management, the more I enjoyed the success of the team. It didn't need to be my success anymore that helping the scientists be successful in their roles was truly satisfying,   Michael Hingson ** 34:33 and that helped you, by definition, be more successful in your role.   Scott Hanton ** 34:36 And no question, it could be seen as a selfish byproduct, but the fact is that it still felt really good.   Michael Hingson ** 34:43 Yeah, I hear you, because I know for me, I never thought about it as I've got to be successful. It's we've got problems to solve. Let's do it together. And I always told people that we're a team. And I have told every salesperson. I ever hired. I'm not here to boss you around. You've convinced me that you should be able to sell our products, and sometimes I found that they couldn't. But I said my job is to work with you to figure out how I can enhance what you do, and what skills do I bring to add value to you, because we've got to work together, and the people who understood that and who got it were always the most successful people that I ever had in my teams.   Scott Hanton ** 35:30 One of the things I strive to do as a leader of any organization is to understand the key strengths of the people on the team and to try to craft their roles in such a way that they spend the majority of their time executing their strengths. Yeah. I've also discovered that when I truly investigate poor performance, there's often a correlation between poor performance and people working in their weaknesses. Yeah, and if we can shift those jobs, change those roles, make change happen so that people can work more often in their strengths, then good things happen.   Michael Hingson ** 36:07 And if you can bring some of your skills into the mix and augment what they do, so much the better.   Scott Hanton ** 36:16 Yeah, because I'm just another member of the team, my role is different, but I need to also apply my strengths to the problems and be wary of my weaknesses, because as the leader of the organization, my words carried undue weight. Yeah, and if, if I was speaking or acting in a space where I was weak, people would still do what I said, because I had the most authority, and that was just a lose, lose proposition   Michael Hingson ** 36:43 by any standard. And and when you, when you operated to everyone's strengths, it always was a win. Yep, which is so cool. So you went to Intertech, and how long were you there?   Scott Hanton ** 36:57 I was at Intertech for 10 years, and work I can if you know, for any listeners out there who work in the CRO world, it is a tough business. It is a grind working in that business, yeah? So it was a lot of long hours and testy customers and shortages of materials and equipment that was a hard a hard a hard road to plow,   Michael Hingson ** 37:22 yeah, yeah, it gets to be frustrating. Sometimes it's what you got to do, but it still gets to be frustrating gets to be a challenge. The best part   Scott Hanton ** 37:32 for me was I had a great team. We had senior and junior scientists. They were good people. They worked hard. They fundamentally, they cared about the outcomes. And so it was a great group of people to work with. But the contract lab business is a tough business. Yeah, so when covid came, you know, the pandemic settles in, all the restrictions are coming upon us. I was tasked as the General Manager of the business with setting up all the protocols, you know, how are we going to meet the number of people this basing the masks, you know, how could we work with and we were essential as a lab, so we had to keep doing what we were doing. And it took me about a week to figure non stop work to figure out what our protocols were going to be, and the moment I turned them into my boss, then I got laid off. So what you want to do in a time of crisis is you want to let go of the the general manager, the safety manager, the quality manager and the Chief Scientist, because those are four people that you don't need during times of stress or challenge or crisis. On the plus side for me, getting laid off was a bad hour. It hurt my pride, but after an hour, I realized that all the things that I'd been stressing about for years trying to run this business were no longer my problem. Yeah, and I found that it was a tremendous weight lifted off my shoulders to not feel responsible for every problem and challenge that that business had.   Michael Hingson ** 39:14 And that's always a good blessing when you when you figure that out and don't worry about the the issues anymore. That's a good thing. It was certainly   Scott Hanton ** 39:25 good for me. Yeah, so I'm not going to recommend that people go get laid off. No world to get fired. But one problem that I had is because Paula and I worked to create that business, I sort of behaved like an owner, but was treated like an employee. And my recommendation to people is, remember, you're an employee, find some personal boundaries that protect you from the stress of the business, because you're not going to be rewarded or treated like an owner.   Michael Hingson ** 39:58 Yeah, because you're not because. Or not.   Scott Hanton ** 40:01 So I got laid off. It was in the height of the pandemic. So, you know, I'm too busy of a human being to sort of sit in a rocking chair and watch the birds fly by. That's not my style or my speed. So I started a consulting business, and that was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed doing the consulting work, but I learned something really important about myself, and that's that while I can sell and I can be an effective salesperson, I don't like selling, and as a company of one, when I didn't sell, I didn't make any money, yeah, and so I needed to figure out something else to do, because I really hated selling, and I wasn't doing it. I was procrastinating, and that made the business be unpredictable and very choppy   Michael Hingson ** 40:51 in that company of one, that guy who was working for you wasn't really doing all that you wanted.   Scott Hanton ** 40:56 Exactly the Yeah, you know me as the founder, was giving me as the salesman, a poor performance review was not meeting objectives. So I had a long time volunteer relationship with lab manager magazine. I had been writing articles for them and speaking for them in webinars and in conferences for a long time, probably more than 10 years, I would say, and they asked me as a consultant to produce a a to a proposal to create the lab manager Academy. So the the founder and owner of the the company, the lab X Media Group, you really saw the value of an academy, and they needed it done. They needed it done. They couldn't figure it out themselves. So I wrote the proposal. I had a good idea of how to do it, but I was new to consulting, and I struggled with, how do I get paid for this? And I had four ideas, but I didn't like them, so I slept on it, and in the morning I had a fifth, which said, hire me full time. I sent in the proposal. An hour later, I had a phone call. A week later, I had a job, so that worked out fantastic. And I've really enjoyed my time at lab manager magazine. Great people, fun work. It's really interesting to me to be valued for what I know rather than for what I can do. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 42:23 the two relate. But still, it does need to be more about what you know, what you really bring, as opposed to what you can do, because what you can do in general probably is an offshoot of what you know.   Scott Hanton ** 42:38 So this gives me the opportunity to help lots of people. So on the outside of the company, I'm writing articles, creating courses, giving talks to help lab managers. Because I was a lab manager for a long time, yeah, over 20 years, and I know what those challenges are. I know how hard that job is, and I know how many decisions lab managers need to make, and it's wonderful to be able to share my experience and help them, and I am motivated to help them. So was it hard? Oh, go ahead, on the inside, I'm literally an internal subject matter expert, and so I can coach and teach and help my colleagues with what's the science? What do lab managers really think? How do we pitch this so that it resonates with lab managers, and I think that helps make all of our products better and more successful.   Michael Hingson ** 43:31 So was it hard? Well, I guess best way to put it is that, was it really hard to switch from being a scientist to being a lab manager and then going into being a subject matter expert and really out of the laboratory. So   Scott Hanton ** 43:48 people ask me all the time, Scott, don't you miss being in the lab and doing experiments? And my answer is, I miss being in the lab. And I do miss being in the lab. You know, on very stressful days at Intertech, I'd go in the lab and I'd do an experiment, yeah, because it was fun, and I had more control over the how the experiment was run and what I would learn from it than I did running a business. But the flip side of that is, I do experiments all the time. What I learned as the general manager of a business was the scientific method works. Let's data hypothesis. Let's figure out how to test it. Let's gather data, and let's see if the hypothesis stands or falls. And we ran a business that way, I think, pretty successfully. And even now, in in media and publishing, we still run experiments all the time. And it's kind of funny that most of my editorial colleagues that I work with, they think my favorite word is experiment. My favorite word is still why, but we talk all the time now about doing experiments, and that was a new thing for them, but now we can do continual improvement more in a more dedicated way, and we do it a lot faster. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 45:00 yeah. So what's the hardest thing you think about being a lab manager?   Scott Hanton ** 45:06 I think the hardest thing about let me answer that with two. I'm not going to be able to narrow it down to one, so I'll give you two. The first one is you transform, maybe one day to the next, from really being in control of your science and working with whether it's animals or rocks or electrons or chemicals, whatever you're working with, having a great degree of knowledge and a lot of control, and the next day, you're hurting cats. And so it's about that transition from having control over your destiny to influencing people to get the work done, and working with people instead of working with experiments, that's really hard. The second is, as a lab manager, there's endless decisions, and so combating decision fatigue is a big deal, and everybody in the lab depends upon you for the decisions you make. And it's not that every decision has to be perfect, you know, that's just a different failure mode if you try to make perfect decisions, but every decision needs to be made promptly. And as a scientist, I could always make more data in order to make a better decision, but as a lab manager, I would often only have maybe 40 or 50% of the data I wanted, and a decision had to be made. And getting comfortable making decisions in the face of uncertainty is really hard.   Michael Hingson ** 46:29 So certainly, being a lab manager or Well, dealing with managers in the way we're talking about it here, has to be very stressful. How do you how do you cope with the stress?   Scott Hanton ** 46:42 So I think ways to cope with the stress successfully is, first of all, you've got to take care of yourself. You know, we've all flown on airplanes, and what is the safety person in the aisle or on the video? Do oxygen masks will fall from the ceiling, and what do we do with them? We put them on before we help somebody else, right? We all know that. But in the workplace, especially as a manager, it's hard to remember that as we care for our team and try and take care of our team, there might not be enough time or energy or capacity left to take care of ourselves, but if we don't fill that gas tank every day doing something, then we can't help our team. And so one way to deal with the stress is to make sure that you take care of yourself. So   Michael Hingson ** 47:28 what do you do? How do you deal with that? So   Scott Hanton ** 47:31 for me, ways that I can reinvigorate is one. I like being outside and get my hands dirty. So I'm not really a gardener, but I call myself a yard dinner. So I grow grass and I grow flowers, and I trim trees, and I want to go outside, and I want to see immediate return on my effort, and I want it to be better than when I started. And it's good if I have to clean from under my fingernails when I'm doing it. Another thing I like to do is I play all kinds of games I'm happy to play, sorry, with little kids, or I'll play complicated strategy games with people who want to sit at a table for three or four hours at a time. Yeah? And that allows my brain to spin and to work but on something completely different. Yeah. And another thing that's been important for me, especially when I was a lab manager is to be involved in youth coaching, so I coached kids soccer and basketball and baseball teams, and it's just beautiful to be out there on a field with a ball, with kids. And you know, the worries of the world just aren't there. The kids don't know anything about them. And it's fun to work with the ones who are really good, but it's equally fun to work with the ones who have never seen the ball before, and to help them do even the most basic things. And that kind of giving back and paying it forward, that sort of stuff fills my tank.   Michael Hingson ** 48:51 Yeah, I empathize a lot with with that. For me, I like to read. I've never been much of a gardener, but I also collect, as I mentioned before, old radio shows, and I do that because I'm fascinated by the history and all the things I learned from what people did in the 2030s, 40s and 50s, being on radio, much Less getting the opportunity to learn about the technical aspects of how they did it, because today it's so different in terms of how one edits, how one processes and deals with sounds and so on, but it's but it's fun to do something just totally different than way maybe what your normal Job would be, and and I do love to interact with with people. I love to play games, too. I don't get to do nearly as much of it as I'd like, but playing games is, is a lot of fun,   Scott Hanton ** 49:52 and I agree, and it it's fun, it's diverting, it's it helps me get into a flow so that I'm focused on. Me on one thing, and I have no idea how much time has gone by, and I don't really care. You know, people who play games with me might question this. I don't really care if I win or lose. Certainly I want to win, but it's more important to me that I play well, and if somebody plays better, good for   Michael Hingson ** 50:14 them, great. You'll learn from it. Exactly. Do you play   Scott Hanton ** 50:18 chess? I have played chess. I've played a lot of chess. What I've learned with chess is that I'm not an excellent I'm a good player, but not an excellent player. And when I run into excellent players, they will beat me without even breaking a sweat.   Michael Hingson ** 50:34 And again, in theory, you learn something from that.   Scott Hanton ** 50:37 What I found is that I don't really want to work that hard and yeah. And so by adding an element of chance or probability to the game, the people who focus on chess, where there are known answers and known situations, they get thrown off by the uncertainty of the of the flip the card or roll the dice. And my brain loves that uncertainty, so I tend to thrive. Maybe it's from my time in the lab with elements of uncertainty, where the chess players wilt under elements of uncertainty, and it's again, it's back to our strengths, right? That's something that I'm good at, so I'm gonna go do it. I've   Michael Hingson ** 51:20 always loved Trivial Pursuit. That's always been a fun game that I enjoy playing. I   Scott Hanton ** 51:25 do love Trivial Pursuit. I watch Jeopardy regularly. A funny story, when we moved into our new house in Pennsylvania, it was a great neighborhood. Loved the neighbors there. When we first moved in, they invited my wife and I to a game night. Excellent. We love games. We're going to play Trivial Pursuit. Awesome like Trivial Pursuit. We're going to play as couples. Bad idea, right? Let's play boys against the girls, or, let's say, random draws. No, we're playing as couples. Okay, so we played as couples. Helen and I won every game by a large margin. We were never invited back for game night. Yeah, invited back for lots of other things, but not game night.   Michael Hingson ** 52:06 One of the things that, and I've talked about it with people on this podcast before, is that all too often, when somebody reads a question from a trivial pursuit card, an answer pops in your head, then you went, Oh, that was too easy. That can't be the right answer. So you think about it, and you answer with something else, but invariably, that first answer was always the correct answer.   Scott Hanton ** 52:32 Yes, I'm I have learned to trust my intuition. Yeah. I learned, as a research scientist, that especially in talking to some of my peers, who are very dogmatic, very step by step scientists. And they lay out the 20 steps to that they felt would be successful. And they would do one at a time, one through 20. And that made them happy for me, I do one and two, and then I'd predict where that data led me, and I do experiment number seven, and if it worked, I'm off to eight. And so I they would do what, one step at a time, one to 20, and I'd sort of do 127, 1420, yeah. And that I learned that that intuition was powerful and valuable, and I've learned to trust it. And in my lab career, it served me really well. But also as a manager, it has served me well to trust my intuition, and at least to listen to it. And if I need to analyze it, I can do that, but I'm going to listen to it,   Michael Hingson ** 53:31 and that's the important thing, because invariably, it's going to give you useful information, and it may be telling you not what to do, but still trusting it and listening to it is so important, I've found that a lot over the years,   Scott Hanton ** 53:47 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink, where he talks about the power of the subconscious, and his claim is that the subconscious is 100,000 times smarter than our conscious brain, and I think when we are trusting our intuition, we're tapping into that super computer that's in our skulls. If you want to learn more, read blank. It's a great story.   Michael Hingson ** 54:10 I hear you. I agree. How can people learn to be better leaders and managers?   Scott Hanton ** 54:18 So I think it's there's really three normal ways that people do this. One is the power of experiment, right? And I did plenty of that, and I made tons of errors. It's painful. It's irritating, trial and error, but I used to tell people at Intertech that I was the general manager because I'd made the most mistakes, which gave me the most opportunity to learn. It was also partly because a lot of my peers wanted nothing to do with the job. You know, they wanted to be scientists. Another way is we, we get coached and mentored by people around us, and that is awesome if you have good supervisors, and it's tragic if you have bad supervisors, because you don't know any better and you take for granted. That the way it's been done is the way it needs to be done, and that prevents us from being generative leaders and questioning the status quo. So there's problems there, too. And I had both good and bad supervisors during my career. I had some awful, toxic human beings who were my supervisors, who did damage to me, and then I had some brilliant, caring, empathetic people who raised me up and helped me become the leader that I am today. So it's a bit of a crap shoot. The third way is go out and learn it from somebody who's done it right, and that's why we generated the lab manager Academy to try to codify all the mistakes I made and what are the learnings from them? And when I'm talking with learners who are in the program, it's we have a huge positive result feedback on our courses. And what I talk to people about who take our courses is I'm glad you appreciate what we've put together here. That makes me feel good. I'm glad it's helping you. But when these are my mistakes and the answers to my mistakes, when you make mistakes, you need to in the future, go make some courses and teach people what the lessons were from your mistakes and pay it forward. Yeah. So I recommend getting some training.   Michael Hingson ** 56:17 What's the difference between management and leadership?   Scott Hanton ** 56:21 I particularly love a quote from Peter Drucker. So Peter Drucker was a professor in California. You may have heard of him before.   Michael Hingson ** 56:29 I have. I never had the opportunity to meet him, but I read.   Scott Hanton ** 56:34 I didn't either material. I've read his books, and I think he is an insightful human being, yes. So the quote goes like this, management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. So as a technical manager, there's a bunch of things we have to get right. We have to get safety right. We have to get quality right. There's an accuracy and precision that we need to get right for our outcomes and our results. Those are management tasks, but leadership is about doing the right things. And the interesting thing about that definition is it doesn't require a title or a role or any level of authority. So anyone can be a leader if you're consistently doing the right things, you are exhibiting leadership, and that could be from the person sweeping the floors or the person approving the budget, or anyone in between.   Michael Hingson ** 57:33 Yeah, I've heard that quote from him before, and absolutely agree with it. It makes a whole lot of sense.   Scott Hanton ** 57:41 Other definitions that I've seen trying to distinguish management and leadership tend to use the words manage and lead, and I don't like definitions that include the words that they're trying to define. They become circular at some level. This one, I think, is clear about it, what its intention is, and for me, it has worked through my career, and so the separation is valuable. I have authority. I'm the manager. I have accountability to get some stuff right, but anyone can lead, and everyone can lead, and the organization works so much better when it's full of leaders   Michael Hingson ** 58:21 and leaders who are willing to recognize when they bring something to the table, or if someone else can add value in ways that they can't, to be willing to let the other individual take the leadership position for a while.   Scott Hanton ** 58:40 Absolutely, and you know that really comes down to building an environment and a culture that's supportive. And so Amy Edmondson has written extensively on the importance of psychological safety, and that psychological safety hinges on what you just said, right? If the guy who sweeps the floor has an observation about the organization. Do they feel safe to go tell the person in charge that this observation, and if they feel safe, and if that leader is sufficiently vulnerable and humble to listen with curiosity about that observation, then everybody benefits, yeah, and the more safe everyone feels. We think about emotion. Emotional safety is they anyone can bring their best self to work, and psychological safety is they can contribute their ideas and observations with no threat of retaliation, then we have an environment where we're going to get the best out of everybody, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 59:46 which is the way it it really ought to be. And all too often we don't necessarily see it, but that is the way it ought   Scott Hanton ** 59:53 to be. Too many people are worried about credit, or, I don't know, worried about things that I don't see. Yeah, and they waste human potential, right? They they don't open their doors to hire anybody. They they judge people based on what they look like instead of who they are, or they box people in into roles, and don't let them flourish and Excel. And whenever you're doing those kinds of things, you're wasting human potential. And businesses, science and business are too hard to waste human potential. We need to take advantage of everything that people are willing to give. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:33 we've been doing this for quite a while already today. So I'm going to ask as a kind of a last question, what, what advice do you want to leave for people to think about going forward in their lives and in their careers?   Scott Hanton ** 1:00:48 So I was participating in a LinkedIn chat today where a professor was asking the question, what sort of advice would you wish you got when you were 21 Okay, so it was an interesting thread, and there was one contributor to the thread who said something I thought was particularly valuable. And she said, attitude matters. Attitude matters. We can't control what happens to us, but we can control how we deal with it and how we respond, right? And so I think if we can hold our attitude as our accountability, and we can direct our strengths and our talents to applying them against the challenges that the business or the science or the lab or the community faces, and we can go in with some positive attitude and positive desire for for change and improvement, and we can be vulnerable and humble enough to accept other people's ideas and to interact through discussion and healthy debate. Then everything's better. I also like Kelleher his quote he was the co founder of Southwest Airlines, and he said, when you're hiring, hire for attitude, train for skill. Attitude is so important. So I think, understand your attitude. Bring the attitude you want, the attitude you value, the attitude that's that's parallel to your core values. And then communicate to others about their attitude and how it's working or not working for them.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:31 And hopefully, if they have a positive or good enough attitude, they will take that into consideration and grow because of it absolutely   Scott Hanton ** 1:02:41 gives everybody the chance to be the best they can be.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:47 Well, Scott, this has been wonderful. If people want to reach out to you, how can they do that?   Scott Hanton ** 1:02:51 So LinkedIn is great. I've provided Michael my LinkedIn connection. So I would love to have people connect to me on LinkedIn or email. S Hanson at lab manager.com love to have interactions with the folks out there.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:08 Well, I want to thank you for spending so much time. We'll have to do more of this.   Scott Hanton ** 1:03:13 Michael, I really enjoyed it. This was a fun conversation. It was stimulating. You asked good questio

Chris is the Sewer Condition Assessment Section Manager at WSSC Water and we chat about his role as the sewer condition assessment section manager, the scope and condition of WSSC Water's infrastructure, and challenges such as aging infrastructure and workforce knowledge transfer. Chris shared insights into his career path, management philosophy, and addressed misconceptions about his position, emphasizing the importance of proper wastewater disposal and acknowledging mentors for guidance. The discussion covered WSSC Water's service area, Chris Caro's daily tasks, concerns about meeting performance expectations, and strategies for professional development. Give the show a listen and remember to thank your local Public Works Professionals.

In dieser Folge ist Katrin Dötsch, Marketing-Leiterin Power Products bei Honda Deutschland, zu Gast bei Thomas Ötinger. Gemeinsam sprechen sie über die Herausforderungen und Chancen im Wandel von Benzin- zu Akkuprodukten – und darüber, wie Honda seine Händler auf diesem Weg mitnimmt.

Mark Carter is the Senior Software Product Manager at Hygiena. He assumed the presidency of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) at the conclusion of the IAFP Annual Meeting in July 2024. Mr. Carter has extensive international business and technical experience. He most recently served as COO of Matrix Sciences, as well as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, where he was responsible for Matrix Sciences Mergers and Acquisitions activity. He previously held positions as CEO of QC Laboratories and Corporate Vice President of Research and Development with the Silliker Group Corporation (now Mérieux NutriSciences). He has served within the food industry as Section Manager for Microbiology and Food Safety at Kraft Foods and Corporate Laboratory Group Leader at McKee Foods Corporation. An active member of IAFP since 1993, Mr. Carter has served on the Maurice Weber Laboratorian Selection Committee, the Food Protection Trends Editorial Board, the Nominating Committee, the Journal of Food Protection Management Committee, and the Tellers Committee. He was a co-founder of the Sample Prep working group and actively participates in both the Applied Laboratory Methods and the Food Sanitation and Hygiene professional development groups. His commitment to the association also includes participation and organization of numerous technical symposia and poster presentations. Mr. Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.S. degree in Microbiology, and he holds an M.S.A. degree from Columbus State University. He is a registered clinical and public health microbiologist with the American Academy of Microbiology.   In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Mr. Carter [2:38] about: The challenge presented by data fragmentation across different systems and why this hinders food safety and quality How data visualization and centralization, enabled by tools like Hygiena's SureTrend analytics software, enhances food safety and operational efficiency Important factors that businesses should prioritize to maintain and demonstrate regulatory compliance Examples of how predictive analytics and scenario modeling can help companies proactively address potential risks Technological innovations that are helping industry extend food product shelf life The benefits of data-driven sanitation programs, which can help reduce chemical use while ensuring that standards are met Other technology advancements that will be impactful for the food industry in the future Hygiena's acquisition of Nexcor Food Safety Technologies Inc., and how integration of Nexcor's sanitation and compliance software complements SureTrend. Resources SureTrend: Streamline Food Safety Data Management | Hygiena Sponsored by: Hygiena We Want to Hear from You! Please send us your questions and suggestions to podcast@food-safety.com

Caroline is the Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance (CMOM) Section Manager at Seattle Public Utilities at the City of Seattle in Washington State. In this episode we chat about all of the different tasks she is over any given day. We also chat about her career path and the leaps she has made in her career. Her Billboard statement would read: "Be mindful and respectful of operations crews". Give the show a listen and remember to thank your local Public Works Professionals.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1344 - Full Version Release Date: November 30, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:32:19 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1344 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT OSCAR-7 50th Anniversary — The Space Age, Morse Code and STEM Innovation 2. AMSAT: ASRTU-1 Designated ASRTU-OSCAR 123 - Update on PARUS-T1A Satellite 3. AMSAT: Air Leak on ISS Russian Module Is Getting Worse 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: Co-Inventor Of The BASIC Programming Language SK 6. ARRL: ARRL 2023 Annual Report Now Available 7. ARRL: How To Let Kids Talk With Santa Over Ham Radio This Holiday Season 8. ARRL: Ed Menasian, N8LPQ Receives 2024 ARRL Technical Service Award 9. ARRL: Giving Thanks On Giving Tuesday 10. ARRL: Civil Air Patrol Will Be Commemorated With Special Event Station W9CAP 11. ARRL: YOTA Members Will Be On The Air Around The World In December 12. FCC: FCC Approves SpaceX and T-Mobile's Direct-to-Cell Service 13. China Builds World's Largest Fully Steerable Radio Telescope 14. New Rules For Vehicle Safety Alerts On The 5.9 GigaHertz Band Proposed By The FCC 15. As Austrian Shortwave Fades Out Shortwave In The U.K. Activates 16. Amateurs In Pennsylvania Assist With Operation Toy Train 17. The United Kingdom Prepares Summits On The Air Activators For GaulFest 18. New Amateur Radio Digital Communications Appointee To Overlook Grants and Awards 19. EI2CL Michael McNamara, DXer, and Island Activator, SK 20. Three Mars Orbiters Are Contacted By A Radio Telescope In The Netherlands 21. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and regional Convention listing 22. Smokey Mountain Amateur Radio Club lowers its dues to help out members financially 23. AMSAT: SpaceX Dragon fires thrusters to boost the Space Station orbit for the first time 24. WIA: Amateur Radio appears in a German television crime drama on ZDF/Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen 25. ARRL: Committee at the league proposes changes to ARRL By Laws 42 & 46 26. ARRL: ARRL fall season Section Manager election results are announced 27. ARRL: Hawaii clubs are preparing for the 83rd commemoration of the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack 28. 30th year since Voice of America went silent from its Ohio transmitter site 29. ARRL: ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinators implement changes 30. FCC: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel tenders her resignation Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says that suddenly, there were 700. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, D X, upcoming radio sport contests, and more.. * Will Rogers, K5WLR, A Century of Amateur Radio. Will is here to take us aboard The Wayback Machine to the early days of amateur radio where as 1916 drew to a close, we find Hiram Percy Maxim making a plea in QST to organize what might be the first round-trip message relay across the country. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

In this episode, we explore the mosquitoes of Florida, covering everything from mosquito biology, types of mosquitoes, mosquito surveillance and control, and ways you can yourself from these important, but sometimes pesky insects. Learn More: UF/IFAS Document about mosquito repellents (Table of effectiveness at end): https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN419 Mosquitoes & Their Control: Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction Around Homes and Neighborhoods - https://www.floridahealth.gov/%5C/diseases-and-conditions/mosquito-borne-diseases/_documents/fl-resident-guide-to-mosquito-control-ifas.pdf Mosquito Control Programs - Mosquito Control Programs / Mosquito Control / Business Services / Home - Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (fdacs.gov) Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance - Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance | Florida Department of Health (floridahealth.gov) How You Can Help: Follow the 3-D's: Dump standing water; Dress in loose, light-colored, long sleeves and pants; Defend using a CED recommended repellent. Reach out to your local Mosquito Control District if you're still having issues with mosquitoes despite efforts to control them around your home: Mosquito Control Programs / Mosquito Control / Business Services / Home - Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (fdacs.gov) Share this episode or information from this episode with family, friends and colleagues. Sources for this Episode: Mosquitoes - https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topics/mosquitoes FDACS Public Health Applicator's Manual -https://ccmedia.fdacs.gov/content/download/109002/file/Public-Health-Manual-2023.pdf Division of Vector-Borne Diseases - https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/index.html   Special thanks to Alissa Berro, Section Manager, Public Works, Pinellas County for assistance in the script writing of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with a friend who might enjoy learning about Florida's natural areas and the wild things that live here! If you're active on iNaturalist, consider joining our iNaturalist project, Naturally Florida's Listener Observations, here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/naturally-florida-s-listener-observations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/naturallyflorida/message

In this episode, we explore the mosquitoes of Florida, covering everything from mosquito biology, types of mosquitoes, mosquito surveillance and control, and ways you can yourself from these important, but sometimes pesky insects. Learn More: UF/IFAS Document about mosquito repellents (Table of effectiveness at end): https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN419 Mosquitoes & Their Control: Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction Around Homes and Neighborhoods - https://www.floridahealth.gov/%5C/diseases-and-conditions/mosquito-borne-diseases/_documents/fl-resident-guide-to-mosquito-control-ifas.pdf Mosquito Control Programs - Mosquito Control Programs / Mosquito Control / Business Services / Home - Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (fdacs.gov) Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance - Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance | Florida Department of Health (floridahealth.gov) How You Can Help: Follow the 3-D's: Dump standing water; Dress in loose, light-colored, long sleeves and pants; Defend using a CED recommended repellent. Reach out to your local Mosquito Control District if you're still having issues with mosquitoes despite efforts to control them around your home: Mosquito Control Programs / Mosquito Control / Business Services / Home - Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (fdacs.gov) Share this episode or information from this episode with family, friends and colleagues. Sources for this Episode: Mosquitoes - https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topics/mosquitoes FDACS Public Health Applicator's Manual -https://ccmedia.fdacs.gov/content/download/109002/file/Public-Health-Manual-2023.pdf Division of Vector-Borne Diseases - https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/index.html   Special thanks to Alissa Berro, Section Manager, Public Works, Pinellas County for assistance in the script writing of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with a friend who might enjoy learning about Florida's natural areas and the wild things that live here! If you're active on iNaturalist, consider joining our iNaturalist project, Naturally Florida's Listener Observations, here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/naturally-florida-s-listener-observations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/naturallyflorida/message

Joanne McClure, ASTHO Senior Analyst for State Policy, explains an ASTHO webpage that tracks legislation to authorize overdose centers in some states; Dr. Laura Chisolm, Section Manager for Injury and Violence Prevention with the Oregon Health Authority, outlines her state's response to the overdose crisis; an ASTHO webinar will help participants address barriers to treatment that have a negative impact on pregnant people with substance use disorder; and a tranquilizer used by veterinarians is making its way into the drug supply. ASTHO Webpage: ASTHO's Public Health Legal Mapping Center Oregon Health Authority Webpage: Reducing Opioid Overdose and Misuse ASTHO Blog Article: Xylazine – What Health Agencies Need to Know ASTHO Webinar: Advancing Perinatal Substance Use Policy with People with Lived Experience  

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1264 Release Date: May 20, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:55:43 - * Dayton HamVention Weekend Edition * Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1264 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit 2. Call For Nominations – 2023 AMSAT Board of Directors Election 3. National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test 4. Dayton Hamvention 2023: Ready! 5. ARRL Member Dues Survey Continues 6. Marc Tarplee, N4UFP, Section Manager of the ARRL South Carolina Section (SK) 7. NASA Astronaut Contacts Two Schools from the International Space Station 8. 25th Anniversary Of The May 31st 1998 F3 Tornado In Mechanicville, New York 9. Former Chairman Of The FCC Newton Minow, Passes At 97 10. Antenna Issue Is Resolved For Juice Mission Around Jupiter 11. Amateurs Have An Opportunity To Work The Big Race 12. China's XW-2A Satellite Decays From Orbit 13. The UK Special Coronation Event Stations Are Still On The Air Through June 14. Red River Valley Texas Amateur Radio Club To Celebrate 50th Anniversary 15. Biden Intends to Pick Lawyer Anna Gomez for FCC to End Agency Deadlock 16. The FCC Moves To Potentially Open 1000 MegaHertz Of Spectrum To New Commercial Uses 17. FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband Unusable 18. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests and Contests. 19. Saudi Arabia To Launch Largest Radio Telescope In The Middle East 20. ARRL helps amateurs comply with new RF exposure evaluation 21. Amateurs in the Caribbean area gear up for the upcoming storm season Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will describe the workings of the DNS, or Domain Name System of internet addressing. And will tell us about dotted quads. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, concludes his six part series on producing a successful Public Service Announcement for air on broadcast radio to help promote your latest club event or hamfest. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will describe how you can measure the Solar Flux Index at home. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the year 1980. That's the year that brought new HF band allocations to amateurs world wide as a result of the World Administrative Radio Conference held in Geneva in late 1979. The FCC proposed a sideband only expansion of Citizens Band into the ten and a half meter band, ASCII and packet radio is allowed on the air, and we will learn about the Bash Books and amateur radio testing. * Special interview with Gordon West WB6NOA. Courtesy RAIN/QSO Today ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

What do you do when you see a void in an organization, a community, or a nation? If you're Melissa Gumbs, you find a way to fill that gap with ideas and programs that can benefit everyone. In Sint Maarten, she saw an opportunity to build a community for LGBTQ+ folks and a political party for everyone. Now, as a Member of Parliament, her ideas about inclusion seek to reduce the brain drain caused by some Sint Maarteners not feeling welcome. Her authenticity and visibility provide hope to people who thought they might not have a place on the island.   Melissa Gumbs is a member of Parliament in Sint Maarten, a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, winning her seat in 2020 as part of a new political party. Born and raised on Sint Maarten she moved to Miami to attend St. Thomas University earneing a Bachelor's in Business Administration and a Master's in International Business. She spent seven years in The Hague, The Netherlands, where she worked as a Market Research Analyst at TMF Netherlands B.V, providing her a front-row seat to understand the impact mergers of global corporations have on small economies. In 2011, she co-founded Unified Sint Maarten Connection with Cyriel Pfennings, which kicked off a long tenure of serving as board member or volunteer for various non-profits related to affecting social change. She served as board member of Foresee Foundation, as advisory board member for SAFE SXM, the island's primary LGBT-focused foundation. In 2016, Melissa returned home to St. Maarten where she joined United Telecommunication Services as a Section Manager. She was instrumental in returning communication to the island after the devastating Hurricane Irma in 2017. Outside of her work at UTS, Melissa continued her volunteer work and established a new political party. In January 2020, along with seven other candidates, Melissa contested the 2020 St. Maarten Parliamentary elections on the Party for Progress slate, which won two seats. Outside of her work, Melissa enjoys video games, movies, reading, writing short stories, and travel.

The Interview: Majid Al Futtaim – Retail: In this episode, host Karl McKeever is joined in conversation by Hani Weiss, Chief Executive Officer of Majid Al Futtaim – Retail, the exclusive partner of choice for international hypermarket and supermarket brand, Carrefour.The last few years have brought profound, powerful change to retail. The critical factor holding everything together is Leadership. Hani's own career began at Majid Al Futtaim - Retail in 2001, as a Section Manager at Carrefour in City Centre Deira, the firm's first hypermarket in the region. Today, as its CEO, Hani leads a business of 37,000 colleagues, operating over 450 Carrefour stores across 16 countries in the region, and serving more than 750,000 customers a day. We sat down with him to explore the story behind the Majid Al Futtaim Retail business; the challenges of operating a successful grocery retail franchise business in the Middle East, and to hear his thoughts on what great leadership looks like today and, more importantly, for the future.

In this episode, grower Bob Close shares some valuable insight on how to get your product into grocery stores.  Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

Charli sat down with Chad Wilbanks this week, he is the Director of Training and Technology at The Water Tower. Chad has 20 years of experience in the water industry. He joins us from Gwinnett County DWR where he previously served as Wastewater Manager of the F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center, Superintendent of the Crooked Creek WRF, and Pump St ations Section Manager. Prior to joining TWT, he also served as a subject matter expert for the training department where he developed specific training programs to help DWR's 600+ operations and maintenance staff not only pass their certifications, but hone their skills to maximize advancement opportunities.Interview @ 9:30You can reach out and find Chad here: www.theh2otower.orgchad@theh2otower.org@CJWILBANKSWATER on TwitterJoin us at EPIC 2022 -Reliable Plant: https://conference.reliableplant.com/sessions/Empowering Industry Podcast with Charli MatthewsSpeaker: Charli Matthews - CEO, Empowering BrandsDate & Time: July 26, 10:00 am - 10:50 am “Building and Sustaining a Strong Reliability Culture”Leadership SummitSpeaker line-up:9:00 am CT Leadership 2.0 panel discussion with Rob Kalwarowsky & Susan Hobson9:30 am CT Finding and Retaining Talent with Alex Chausovsky10:00 am CT Leading in Manufacturing During Challenging Times panel discussion with Paul Yaple, Mike Lassas, & Anthony Anniballi10:30 am CT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action with Mercedes Gamor11:00 am CT Personal/Career Growth and Leading Change: Lessons Learned in Conversation with Water CEOs with Eileen O'Neill & Carla Reid 11:30 am CT Women in Industry Advocacy panel discussion with Dianne McMaster, Mercedes Gamor, & Tracy LongFind us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

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Special ProgramInterview of Candidates for the American Radio Relay League Indiana Section Manager.AK9R Bob BurnsKC9RPX Jimmy L. Merry Jr. (Declined Interview)

On episode eight of the Design Hive podcast: Acoustic Section Manager Daniel Castro talks about his journey from indie musician to acoustics expert and creating a new tool for explaining acoustics options to clients. Daniel chats with Dom and Diego about his recent Design Quarterly article on using gaming engines to power acoustic virtual reality and further applications of this powerful technology. 

As we head into MLK weekend and with the launch of the James Webb Telescope, Rabbi Joshua sat down with Dr. Bonnie Burratti, a planetary astronomer and Section Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Pasadena, to discuss space, faith, and an essay by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel called "The Moral Dilemma of the Space Race," which he wrote around the time of the first lunar launch in 1969. The discussion centers on examining the prioritizing and cost of space exploration versus the needs on Earth for the poor, homeless, and hungry humans around the world.

We know tires are black and round and made of rubber, but there's extensive complexity that lies beneath that general description – especially when it comes to rubber. This episode of THRIVE explores the science and sourcing of rubber at Bridgestone Americas today, and introduces you to a desert shrub named guayule (pronounced why-YOO-lee) that could provide a domestic and sustainable source of rubber for the future. Join THRIVE host Keith Cawley for a discussion with two of Bridgestone's sharpest sustainability minds: Bill Niaura, Director of Sustainable Materials and Circular Economy, and Dave Dierig, Section Manager of Agro Operations.

Episode 41 Awesome Feedback Show Notes 00:00 LHS Promo 00:34 Theme 01:27 Intro Back in the studio this time.The Resonant Frequency website has been moved and blacksparrowmedia.com is no more. The new web site is rfpodcast.info. Linux in the Ham Shack is at lhspodcast.info. To contact Richard, use kb5jbv@gmail.com. 03:00 Donations The two podcasts are now financially separated, so please consider making a donation to the Resonant Frequency podcast to show your support. 04:46 Feedback Craig, KD8NJZ, posted a comment at the forums on the old site. He enjoys the podcast as well as The Practical Amateur Radio Podcast and Teen Radio Journey. Ray, KO4RB, also posted a comment on the web site to welcome Resonant Frequency back "on the air". BB, KC5PIY, writes to ask for help finding episodes 1-11 and 33. BB is the webmaster for Intertie, Inc., http://www.intertie.org, "a private amateur radio 501(c)(3) organization whose members have constructed and operate 23 remotely controlled base stations, (Remote Base), interconnected through full duplex links. These linked systems cover a large part of Texas and are an integral part of the larger Cactus Intertie System consisting of over 150 Remote Base sites and 20 affiliate clubs." There is some sort of problem with the feed to iTunes. We're working on it, but if you have any experiance with RSS feeds and Drupal, please contact Richard. If you're looking for old episodes, they are all available at rfpodcast.info under the "Podcast Archive" button near the top of the page. WW, KB9TMP, also writes to welcome back Resonant Frequency. He agrees that most of the repeaters in his area go quiet after about 6:00pm. The only busy repeater is a linked repeater www.w9win.org, and even it is not that busy. He has a simplex EchoLink node 7492, KB9TMP-L. David, N5DBK, writes to express his appreciation for the return of Resonant Frequency, and shares his thoughts about the 2-meter "wasteland" Richard talked about in Episode 41. 22:31 Song "Do You Mean It" by Magic Slim and the Teardrops, from the album "Raising The Bar". 25:57 If you're involved in the Section Manager election for the ARRL North Texas section, please contact Richard. 27:24 Feedback Gary, WR1U, also writes in about the lack of traffic on his local repeaters, and even simplex is quiet. Gary has started a Facebook www.facebook.com continued group for blind amateur radio operators. If you're on Facebook, look for it. Richard notes that part of the reason simplex VHF traffic has fallen off is due to uncoordinated repeaters, some D-Star, that have cropped up on the simplex portion of the band. Ray, KO4RB, writes again to welcome Resonant Frequency back. BB, KC5PIY, also signed up as a listener on the web site and had some problems with the process. If you're have trouble signing up, please contact Richard for assistance. Chris, NW5W, writes to say he is having problems subscribing to the podcast through iTunes.Ted welcomes RF back and usually agrees with Richard's opinions. 38:22 Song "Shame" by Magic Slim and the Teardrops, from the album "Raising The Bar". 42:16 Topic More thoughts about the VHF/UHF wasteland. Remember that we lost part of the 220MHz band partly because it was under-utilized by hams. So, get out there and use the repeaters! Resonant Frequency has taken on an advertiser to help defray costs. Look for a show about 2010 Field Day coming soon. If you're in the North Texas ARRL Section, contact Richard to discuss the current situation. You may hear Richard on D-Star, VHF or HF. Give him a call! And send us you feedback. Without your participation and feedback we don't have a show. Check out our Glossary of Amateur / Ham Radio Terms used on the shows HERE Visit our Youtube channel for videos on Amateur Radio www.youtube.com/c/RichardBaileyKB5JBV Contact Info For Richard KB5JBV: Website: www.rfpodcast.info

Hosted by the Retail Pricing Interest GroupCon Edison’s Residential Demand Rate pilot program has been testing new rate structures made possible with the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Smart meters offer customers choices that can lead to savings, and also help make electricity distribution more responsive and reliable.Learn about Con Edison's Residential Demand Rate pilot, its rate structures, and the customers' experiences with our guest speakers, Rebecca Roberts, a Section Manager with Con Edison's Utility of the Future Group, and Eric Van Orden, Director of Sales and Business Development with Copper Labs.

Margareta Andersson: "We say that is not going to be very good in that position because the sound is going to bump, and you're going to have an acoustic problem". Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "Create a budget that will take care of the sound environment. It doesn't have to be sound design, it could just take care of the acoustic part".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden. #3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect. #4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices. #6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions. #7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG. #9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic. #10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience. Efterklangwww.afconsult.com Host:

Margareta Andersson: "We managed to do this sound event with directional speakers as navigation direction".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "When we started there were no sound systems that fit the need, so we had to develop our own".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "We had a really brave customer, because the whole idea of mood Stockholm from the beginning was that they wanted to create something that wasn't existing".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "Information at bank offices are very sensitive, so we worked with sound showers to mask confidential conversations".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From Advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "If you're going gonna work with what I'm doing you need to be in control of peoples behavior in the environment itself".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "When I was really young I was more passionate to drawing. My earliest memory wasn't music it was actually tone of voices".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

My guest today is my new friend Margareta Andersson, a passionate woman that thrives on challenges, creativity and positivity. Just like me, she has a true entrepreneurial spirit and loves everything with sound. It was her passion for sound that landed her in the Sound Architecture industry. Margareta is now the Section Manager at Efterklang, a Scandinavian company with dedicated experts in engineering, architectural, music and academia. In this episode, Margareta and I are going to discuss the ins and outs of Sound architecture.Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "The possibilities was in my head and I didn't know if the market were sharing my thoughts. So we started to do bits and pieces for some customers where we were building small speakers in furniture".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Margareta Andersson: "In open office spaces of co-working spaces I would recommend to build different sections depending on staff task and mood".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "There are many ways you can create or embark on a career as a music supervisor. I would say the threshold to do it is very low".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "I think that the whole experience of a physical experience in retail is perhaps going to move even more towards creating an experience or a place where you can really communicate your brand, a more flagship type of experience".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics. #4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value. #6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI. #8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music. Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor. #11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic? Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.com Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson. #2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden. #3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect. #4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity. #5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices. #6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions. #7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project. #8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG. #9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic. #10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience. Efterklangwww.afconsult.com Host:

Magnus Rydén: "It was even better to play no music than playing wrong music. Just playing music that's not good enough can actually hurt your sales. The first step is always to have a purpose".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "You most likely you don't want to play that in your business, so our thing is that we then can recommend songs that are suitable for a business environment, so the business can take more control, and also they're playing it legally now for the first time".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "I have been blown away how accurate these algorithms has actually can be, but I think it's always going to be hard to beat uh human DJ".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "Just keep on doing these studies because there's still people reluctant to take in even if we come with a study. We should just keep throwing ammunition at them, so they eventually maybe open their eyes".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "In an industry where there is so much gut feeling guiding people t's very hard to prove anything as it's just happening by chance".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "If you get the wrong picture of whom the target group is then you can select the wrong music then they won't relate to. That I would say is the trickier part".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "So the difference in does two playlists was that when we played the brand-fit music we could see a sales increase of 31.7 % and the customers also stayed longer".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "We came to the conclusion that when looking at a brand it can easily be translated into music via the brand personality and brand values".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Magnus Rydén: "We started DJing together and traveling around the world. Eventually we got tired of dealing with all these various indie labels so we decided to start our own".Listen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 10: Brand-fit Music Scan: The Scientifically proven Methodology behind Soundtrack Your Brand's Brand-Fit Music Research and AI Music Tagging. In conversation with Magnus Rydén VP Music at Soundtrack Your Brand.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

My guest today is my dear friend and ex-colleague Magnus Rydèn. We met for the first time in November 2014 when he was looking for students to validate his Music Brand Scan methodology.We are both graduates from Stockholm School of Economics. And we were both hired at Soundtrack Your Brand at the same time in August 2015. Magnus as Head of Music and I as Head of Research.Before that Magnus's started the Indie label Heya Hifi in 2005 with Alf Tumble, his music partner in crime, another of my amazing ex-colleague from Soundtrack. Magnus is himself a music producer, a songwriter and a DJ.Soundbites#1 From running the Indie label Heya Hifi to manually curating brand-fit music for brands at Music ID.#2 The methodology behind the brand-fit music scan “Brand Scan”.#3 The world's first brand-fit research report “What does your brand sound like? Gant | Soundtrack Your Brand | Stockholm School of Economics.#4 The easiest part contra the most complicated part with developing the right brand-fit in-store music for a brand.#5 Stop curating in-store music on a gut feeling and instead start to implement a music marketing strategy to unlock the value.#6 Why is so important to continue measuring the impact of in-store music?#7 Automating the work of a Music Supervisor with the help of Soundtrack Your Brand's AI.#8 With “Soundtrack Unlimited” artists get paid for their music being played in your store.#9 Magnus Rydén's best practice on strategically curating in-store music.Think through the purpose, what do you want to achieve with the music?#10 Magnus Rydén's advice to become a music supervisor.#11 How can music help stores with the hit of the pandemic?Soundtrack Your BrandMagnus Rydenwww.soundtrackyourbrand.comListen to the entire podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play) Episode 11: Sound Architecture: Designing the right sound, in the right place, to the right person in public environments. In conversation with Margareta Andersson, Sound Architect and Section Manager at Efterklang.Soundbites#1 From advertising to Sound Architecture - the Entrepreneurial Journey of Margareta Andersson.#2 Lexter - the Early Pioneers in Shaping Sound Design and Sound Technology in Public Spaces in Sweden.#3 The Important Role of a Sound Architect.#4 How Modern Co-Working Spaces are being Designed to Maximum the Sound Experience to Increase Productivity.#5 How Sound Masking is Utilized to Minimize Private Conversations and Sensitive Information in Bank Offices.#6 How the Shopping Mall Mood Stockholm became Europe's largest Sound Design Concept with 22 Sound Zones and a 100 Unique Sound Productions.#7 “The Impossible Run” - the Life Changing Sound Project.#8 Lexter - the Early Pioneers Developing the Digital Sound Design System TWANG.#9 Spot on Sound Design is Early Intertwined with the Visual and Acoustic.#10 It is Time for Brands to Allocate a Budget for Creating a Holistic Sound Experience.Efterklangwww.afconsult.comHost:

Aaron Stevens speaks with Chris Wisniewski, Inland Fisheries Section Manager.

John visits with Torben Haagh, Section Manager of Cloud Platform & Data Science at Stibo Systems, the master data management company that helps companies create transparency in their business processes. Hear how Torben uses Humio to help keep their new cloud-native content syndication platform stable and secure for customers.  Stibo Systems was founded in 1794 as a printing company for the church and the university, and the subsidiary that Torben is in was founded in 1976 to support the printing of catalogs, phone books, and other data-rich publications. They are an enterprise software company, focusing on data and data management, specifically master data management, specializing in product data, information, customer data information, product life cycle management, and product data syndication. They have big customers from all over the world, including Amazon, to Walmart, to the Home Depot. If you go online and look up a product that you want to buy, there's a good chance that the data flowed through the Stibos System data management system.  Torben is working on two product tracks.  “We have the one product that is a pure cloud-native solution that is based on microservices. It can scale individually, to the needs of the customer. The on-premise solution is auto componentized, but using more traditional ways than microservices, and we are moving that to the cloud also.  We are also working on how to have a proper SaaS experience around our core enterprise platform.” He describes some of the important aspects of the system he's helping build for their customers.  “The cloud-native solution we made for the product data syndication. It has a tenancy system that's very dynamic. That's why we are transitioning the on-prem solution to the cloud gradually, and then doing things a little different than when you built new solutions. … What we see on the sales side is a huge shift from people that want to run it on-prem themselves to people that want it as a software-as-a-service solution.” Stibo Systems customers naturally want 24/7 support, and Humio helps provide it in the cloud-native system for a new syndication platform. They are looking at it for aggregating across the enterprise application as well. They have Humio running in production on only one node, and they have a few nodes in their test environments as well.  “We have a team that works around the clock and sits and monitors everything and answers customer calls, Level One and Two support, and production monitoring. In that regard, it's massively beneficial if there are coherent systems for them to look at across everything. Getting sufficient insight into what is going on is naturally vital for us, and having an ability to look across everything in the same toolset is absolutely vital as well.” Torben looks back at the log management system they had installed prior to trying Humio.  “We were looking at the ELK stack in the beginning and had it installed, but most developers actually turned directly to console rocks instead of using ELK, because it was too cumbersome and too tedious.” They saw a demo of Humio that made them understand the benefits of index-free technology.  “Peter from Humio stopped by demoed it to us, and we never looked back. We just had it installed and it was working for us. We simply just pulled the Docker container, and used that directly in our environment.” Since using Humio, they fully understand the benefits of using index-free technology, which allows them to search for anything in the data without heavy indexes or defining what to store upfront.  “Everyone turns to Humio to figure out what is going on. Its ability to brute force search makes it so that you don't have to enrich the data beforehand. We originally had that problem in our application, because we used Elasticsearch for searching in our application. We know the pain about needing to define what you can be searching for in the future.” “So the ability to just create a field with a regex expression on the fly and to create a chart that looks at specific issues that way creates transparency. It gives a really good understanding of what is going on. In that way, it is fairly easy for us to get an overview of the communication in the microservice system.” Torben comments on how easy it is for his team to use Humio.  “Humio is really essential. Just go in and do a query on error logs right. Do a timespan query, an attend ID. You might see it immediately. So, really, really, really easy, because it's so easy to zoom in on the problem from very few parameters." “You know, we don't do any training in Humio at all. People simply pick it up, themselves.  That's easier.”   Listen to the rest of the podcast to answer these questions:  How do they make sense of a problem when all they get is a heap dump?  How do you solve a murder mystery when the body keeps disappearing?  How can Stibos Systems use Humio to fix customer issues swiftly, before they experience them themselves or have to call in?   How can even a slick hotfix process disturb strategic work and become a big noisy squeaky wheel? Why did a university professor invite Kresten Krab Thorup to show him its unique architecture, and how long did it take him to install it himself in his cloud test environment (hint, it's minutes, not hours)? Why is Torben such a fan of Nikki Watt, CTO at OpenCredo, and why is her YouTube video Evolving Your Infrastructure with Terraform, and her talk about the need for insights in a cloud-native architecture (Journeys to cloud native architecture) worth a look?  How do they approach observability, and how do they use Humio together with Prometheus and Jaeger to “keep their stuff together, to keep from getting into big problems?" Why is serverless technology so impactful, and how is event-driven thinking a huge mental leap, and changing the way software is developed? What is the best way to stay close to what's happening in the cloud-native community, and why is it worth taking time to get involved with groups like the Cloud Native Aarhus Meetup? Subscribe to The Hoot Podcast or download the latest episode. The Hoot can also be found on Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, RSS, or wherever you get your latest podcasts. Ready to get started with Humio? Get started with our free trial, or schedule a live demo with a Humio team member.

Today I get to sit down with Kevin O'Dell, N0IRW, who is the current Oklahoma Section Manager for the ARRL. We talk about Field Day 2020, the rules for this year, and what is going on in the Oklahoma Section.

Today I get to sit down with Kevin O'Dell, N0IRW, who is the current Oklahoma Section Manager for the ARRL. We talk about Field Day 2020, the rules for this year, and what is going on in the Oklahoma Section.

What About Field Day? Today I welcome Steve Lott, KG5VK, the ARRL NTX Section Manager and we discuss the ARRL's current outlook on Field Day 2020 plans. What happens to it with the current Shelter In Place orders that are ongoing? Take a look at the discussion and comment below

What About Field Day? Today I welcome Steve Lott, KG5VK, the ARRL NTX Section Manager and we discuss the ARRL's current outlook on Field Day 2020 plans. What happens to it with the current Shelter In Place orders that are ongoing? Take a look at the discussion and comment below

In this episode of The Master Builders Podcast called “Building in Bushfire Prone Areas with Colin Wood”, co-hosts Max Rafferty and Robert Shaw sit down with Colin to chat about building in bushfire prone areas, with such factors as material selection and landscaping near the home being a major consideration. Colin Wood has been looking at the issue of building in bushfire zones for the past 25 years and as you will hear, Colin was right in the middle of the recent bushfires in the Shoalhaven area which is located on the South Coast of NSW where he is the Section Manager for Building & Compliance with Shoalhaven City Council. Colin is an Environmental Health and Building Surveyor and has 39 years experience with Local Government and Private Practice. He is the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors national representative on AS3959 and he has held that position since 1995. Colin is also the chair of the Construction Sub-committee to AS3959 (Construction in Bushfire Prone Areas). HIGHLIGHTS 7:39 Colin explains how he got into designing in bushfire prone areas. 10:49 Key factors that affect the development of bushfires 14:42 Overview of AS3959 16:43 When to use AS3959 22:53 Core construction requirements for homes in bushfire prone areas 28:55 Decking timber for bushfire prone areas RESOURCES www.masterbuilders.com.au/podcast www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/resources/publications/building-in-a-bush-fire-area  

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 Is it possible that we are seeing the end of Endless War?One of the most important aspects of Donald Trump's candidacy was his promise to end the endless wars in the so-called "Middle East" and elsewhere.His track record has been mixed in this regard, especially during the period when John Bolton was in the State Department. Thankfully Bolton is gone, at least for now, and some progress is being made again.The withdrawal of US troops from Syria has driven the media-industrial-academia-think tank complex into a frenzy, with both Republicans and Democrats, Western liberals and conservatives, I am pleased to have back on my podcast Hussein Askary, the Southwest Asia Coordinator of the Schiller Institute, Editor of the Arabic language website of the LaRouche Movement, Section Manager at Belt & Road Institute in Sweden, and Author of the 250-page study "Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa: A Vision of an Economic Renaissance". We discuss:- Hussein Askary's dramatic story as a refugee from the 1991 Iraq War walking 6 days from the Kurdish north to Iran- how he joined the Schiller Institute as the Arabic language editor of its research and publication division- the lessons he learned from the Oslo peace process- why fundamental economic development must take precedence over political reform- the importance of the physical economy for human development- large-scale projects and scientific research for Southwest Asia (the so-called "Middle East"): Greening the Desert, turning it into a productive agricultural zone again- the Chinese model of development vs. the IMF and World Bank failed policies- the Chinese radical, physical economic development of Africa- Buckmister Fuller's idea that humans are the agents of the Universe for self-awareness and self-development vs. the radical environmentalist idea that humans are parasites - How the Earth is NOT our Mother: the Sun is; how we live in the atmosphere of the SUN- How the Climate Models are fundamentally flawed by omitting the centrality of the Sun- countering the dominant Western media interpretation of the US pullout from Syria, re: the Kurds, Turkey, ISIS, Russia, Iran, Israel- the radically changed role of Turkey in the Syrian conflict, due to Trump and Russia- The US Operation Timber Sycamore to funnel arms from other conflict areas to Syrian rebel groups- how ISIS was created by the US intervention in Iraq and Syria- the importance of Trump's 2017 Riyadh Conference in making the Sunni Arab countries stop supporting the Salafist terrorist groups- Putin's strong gamble to stop regime change in Syria- the geopolitical manipulation of the Kurds to destabilise the region- Trump's historically significant public criticism of the military industrial complex- why terrorism is NEVER a private enterprise; how terrorism is ALWAYS supported by hostile States- how this could signal the historic end to jihadism- the history of jihadism as part of the effort to destroy the Ottoman Empire- the end of the era of Liberal Imperialism and the "Right to Protect", and the return of the sovereign Nation State- how Southwest Asia may be stabilised and pursue fundamental human development in the region driven by association with the Belt and Road Initiative- how the massive financial resources are already available in the region for massive, real, physical economic development- how nuclear power allows oil to be used more valuably as an industrial input rather than being burned for fuel (like how wood was transformed after the discovery of coal)- the launch of the Arabic language School of LaRouche's Economics- how people are seeing through deliberate, deceptive provocations that the US uses to justify interventions in Syria, Venezuela, and elsewhere 

On this episode, Dr. Jones reconnects with Diana Cockrell from the Washington State Health Care Authority to highlight strategies to create 'turning points.' Diana's work is to implement policies aimed at expanding adolescent behavioral health to the full continuum of care and treatment that is both appropriate and culturally relevant. Diana insist that "old ways does not create a new reality." You don't want to miss the other insightful strategies and wisdom from her work.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1057 Release Date: June 1, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Fred Fittee, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:04:54 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1057 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. RSGB Cricket World Cup Radio Marathon Set 2. Special Event Station Chain to Mark 75th Anniversary of D-Day 3. Ohio ARES Active in Wake of Tornadoes that Badly Damaged Hara Arena 4. Mexican Amateur Radio Volunteers Providing Communication in Wildfire Response 5. Emergency Messaging Demonstration for Red Cross, FEMA is a Success 6. California resident sentenced to prison for death threat to FCC Chairmen Ajit Pai 7. It's the 175th Anniversary of Morse Code 8. ARRL Announces the latest round of Section Manager election results 9. NASA invites the public to fly your name to the Red Planet on the next Mars Rover Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT - Special Expanded Report * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Ancient Amateur Archives Explores Amateur Radios Rich History with Bill Continelli, W2XOY * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP - Working On Sidearms ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

Governor Little recently signed into law a bill allowing for the establishment of needle exchange programs in Idaho. These programs have demonstrated success in reducing the rate of hepatitis and HIV transmission as well as connecting caregivers with intravenous drug users. Idaho Matters discusses the implementation of such programs with Aimee Shipman, Section Manager for HIV, STD and Hepatitis with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Dr. Zachary Weiss, a resident physician with Family Medicine Residency of Idaho.

Today I get to interview Jay, W5GM, who is the outgoing Section Manager of the ARRL North Texas (NTX) section for the West Gulf Division.Jay has been manager for 2 years, and his term is up on April 1, 2019. He has decided not to run for re-election, and we talk about those details in this video.Additionally, I will hosting a Live Stream on this channel on January 5th, which will be an interview between Steve, KG5VK, and Ken, KD2KW, who are both running for NTX Section Manager next. I’m excited for this live stream and looking forward to the interview.Be sure to subscribe for more Ham Radio video: https://goo.gl/6hjh2J

Today I get to interview Jay, W5GM, who is the outgoing Section Manager of the ARRL North Texas (NTX) section for the West Gulf Division.Jay has been manager for 2 years, and his term is up on April 1, 2019. He has decided not to run for re-election, and we talk about those details in this video.Additionally, I will hosting a Live Stream on this channel on January 5th, which will be an interview between Steve, KG5VK, and Ken, KD2KW, who are both running for NTX Section Manager next. I’m excited for this live stream and looking forward to the interview.Be sure to subscribe for more Ham Radio video: https://goo.gl/6hjh2J

On this week’s show, we look at the role of ARPANSA, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Australia’s nuclear regulator.   We speak to the organisation’s CEO Carl Magnus Larsson and Dr Rick Tinker, their  Section Manager of Assessment and Advice about ARPANSA’s role in Australia’s radiation safety.www.arpansa.gov.au 

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) has been buzzing around the world of modern marketing for the past year. Joe Quinn, Section Manager for ABM at National Instruments, optimizes his team's marketing efforts by identifying priority prospects and guiding them throughout the entire customer journey. In this episode of Inspired Marketing, let Joe convince you why ABM is a required marketing strategy.

  According to Joe Shupienis, W3BC, a “real ham” is an active ham, who takes part in any aspect of the hobby. Joe is the founder of the Quad Counties Amateur Radio Club, over 40 years ago, and he continues to lead the hobby with his ham radio blog and contributions to the club newsletter. Besides being active on the air, Joe is the ARRL WPA club coordinator under Section Manager, Tim Duffy, K3LR.  W3BC joins 4Z1UG on QSO Today.

Design World editor Miles Budimir talks with Jeff Phillips, Section Manager for Software Platforms at National Instruments, about the release of LabVIEW 2015.

Rosaly M. C. Lopes, a Senior Research Scientist and Section Manager for Planetary Science at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presents a lecture about volcanoes on Earth and in the Solar System, emphasizing how they have affected our scientific thinking, art, and culture. May 14, 2015.