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GDP Script/ Top Stories for February 6th Publish Date: February 6th From the BG AD Group Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Thursday, February 6th and Happy birthday to Garth Brooks ***02.06.25 - BIRTHDAY – GARTH BROOKS*** I’m Keith Ippolito and here are your top stories presented by KIA Mall of Georgia. Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton Performs First Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy Lilburn man gets two life sentences in prison for raping woman in jealous rage You can still enjoy Georgia's state parks during the winter months Plus, Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on budgeting All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: 07.14.22 KIA MOG STORY 1: Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton Performs First Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton has introduced Ion robotic bronchoscopy, a cutting-edge technology for early lung cancer detection. Led by Dr. Kimtuyen Nguyen, the hospital performed its first procedures on Jan. 8, offering a minimally invasive method to biopsy hard-to-reach lung nodules without incisions, reducing pain and recovery time. This innovation enhances local cancer care for South Hall, Gwinnett, Jackson, and Barrow Counties. NGMC Gainesville introduced the technology 18 months ago, and now Braselton expands access to life-saving care close to home. STORY 2: Lilburn man gets two life sentences in prison for raping woman in jealous rage Santos Edgardo Amaya-Bonilla, 52, of Lilburn, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for sexually assaulting a female acquaintance after becoming jealous of her interaction with a male co-worker in March 2020. Convicted of three counts of rape, five counts of aggravated sodomy, and two counts of aggravated assault, Amaya-Bonilla's violent acts spanned several days, including threats, physical assaults, and repeated sexual violence at gunpoint. The Gwinnett County jury delivered a swift verdict, with District Attorney Patsy Austin-Gatson stating the victim received the justice she deserved. STORY 3: You can still enjoy Georgia's state parks during the winter months Georgia’s state parks offer stunning winter escapes with frost-covered trails, misty lake sunrises, and cozy cabins. The “Chill Deal” provides 33% off stays of three nights or more until Feb. 25 (exclusions apply). Enjoy heated cabins, glamping yurts, or campgrounds with hot showers. Highlights include fishing at Seminole State Park, birdwatching at Florence Marina, hiking near the Okefenokee at Laura S. Walker, and scenic golf at Jack Hill. 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Dr. Eli Morris preaches the sermon "Unboxing God". The Stirring meets at 5:30 pm on Sundays in the South Hall at Hope Church. — Stay connected with The Stirring at Hope Church in Memphis, TN: Website • HopeChurchMemphis.com Instagram • @TheStirringAtHope TikTok • @Hope4Memphis Facebook • @TheStirringAtHope Prayer • HopeChurchMemphis.com/Prayer Giving • HopeChurchMemphis.com/Give

Rev. Chad Johnson preaches the sermon "Walk This Way".The Stirring meets at 5:30 pm on Sundays in the South Hall at Hope Church.—Stay connected with The Stirring at Hope Church in Memphis, TN:Website • HopeChurchMemphis.comInstagram • @TheStirringAtHopeTikTok • @Hope4MemphisFacebook • @TheStirringAtHopePrayer • HopeChurchMemphis.com/PrayerGiving • HopeChurchMemphis.com/Give

Amy Auwaerter, Director of Operations for Pottstown Campus, stops by to talk about the exciting developments taking place there including the new Wellness Center and the grand reopening of South Hall.Recorded by Madison DevlinEdited by Matt Williamsfrom the College's Sound Recording and Music Technology Program

PGA Tour winner and former Fargo South Bruin Tom Hoge was honored Tuesday night as an inductee to the school's Hall of Fame. Hoge attended South from 2004-2007, also inducted was former coach Steve Kennedy, the pair won state championships for the Bruins all four of those years.

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Digital Signage Experience is coming up in four weeks and I suspect a lot of people are very curious about how the long-running show will be rebooted by its new owners Questex. I certainly am, as I had long thought the old DSE was a dead trade show walking, and that something different was needed. Is this it? I dunno, and I guess the industry will find out in a few weeks in Las Vegas. I asked Marian Sandberg, who runs several shows for Questex, and David Drain, who was brought on by Questex to build the programming side of the event, to join me for a chat about what people can expect from a new and different DSE. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT Hello, thank you for joining me. Maybe the first thing to do is: Marion and David, explain what your roles are at Questex and DSE.  Marian Sandberg: Sure. Thanks so much for having us, Dave. It's really an honor to be with you and your audience and to have an opportunity to talk about this.  I'm Marian. I am the Vice President and market leader for Questex. I oversee the DSE show, which we acquired last year, and we have not presented yet. It'll be presented in November, which is what we're gonna talk about, and I also oversee a show called LDI, which I know you'll have questions about. And market leaders tend at Questex tend to have two or three or whatever number of shows that they have under their portfolio?  Marian Sandberg: Sure, yeah, that's exactly right, and tend to be in verticals that make sense together, if you will. So I oversee a couple of brands that have to do in some way with technology. We have verticals in hospitality, bars and restaurants so they're clumped together.  Okay, and David?  David Drain: David Drain. I'm the director of event programs for DSE. So DSE is my sole focus at Questex.  And a lot of industry people would know you from your dark past with Net World Alliance and The Digital Signage Association? David Drain: Yeah, it changed the name to Digital Screen Media Association for a while. So you've been around the industry forever?  David Drain: Yeah, I have. I attended the first DSE in 2007.  Yeah, that's early. I think the first one was in 2005 or something like that or maybe in 2004. David Drain: 2004, but I wasn't there.  Yeah. I started in 2005, so I've been going even longer than you.  David Drain: Yeah, you win! Marian Sandberg: I can beat you both, but not in the digital signage area with our LDI show. I've been with that brand since 2004, so a little one-upsmanship there.  There you go. You must be so proud. Alright. So how is planning going? As we're speaking, it's about four and a half weeks out.  Marian Sandberg: It's going great. We're super excited and when we get to this part of the year, frankly, because this has been more than a year in the making we're just ready to get out there and produce the show. We definitely have in the weeks rolling up still sales to do, and still registrations to bring in. But in terms of producing the show and the things that we know we're gonna offer that's mostly set, right? So we have all these great networking experiences we're excited to put forth, and as we're right across the hall from our LDI show, we're really excited to see the synergies there. When we acquired this brand, we did a lot of due diligence. We spoke to tons of customers and tons of attendees, so those customers as well, to see what we should keep from the old show and what we should bring back, and I think the number one thing that we heard from people was maintaining the sense of community for the digital signage industry, that it's a dedicated show and that people still wanna come together in that community that maybe isn't addressed by other events. So that's been our number one focus, and we're in the home stretch now.  Yeah, I'd certainly got that impression as well when DSE went down. I thought that it was a show that for many years was in trouble. You could see it in the diminishing numbers and diminishing enthusiasm in a lot of ways. But the overarching thing I heard after it went down was a disappointment because there needed to be some sort of an annual event, at least in North America that really pulled together the industry, so to speak, and was the only thing people were talking about that week versus like an Infocomm or ISE or those kinds of shows, which certainly have digital signage as a component, but it's one component among many endings. You could bump into people in elevators and see they were going to the same show and realize we have nothing in common other than we're both generally in AV.  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, and I think that was obviously one of our main focuses from the beginning in acquiring the brand is we immediately saw the value we knew of the show and of the market, although no one on our team back then had worked directly in it, and then bringing professionals on who were very much veterans of the market, like Brad Gleason, who joined us very early on, and David, of course, who has been running a curating and will be running a fantastic education and content program. People have been really supportive of that effort and from the beginning saying, we absolutely want there to be a show in this market, specific to this market and there's a need for it.  Because the old show has had its hair, so to speak, there are things that people loved about it, things they didn't like about it. I've been referring to this as a DSE reboot that maybe isn't all that fair, but it's what I'm going with, and I'm curious what you think in terms of how would you position the show? Is this DSE 2 or should people go with the idea of don't expect what you saw before? Marian Sandberg: Yeah, and I think that's a great question because I think we would be really remiss if we did not acknowledge that we are bringing DSE back in a sense, right? We're not gonna abandon everything that DSE was and that we want it to be, and people have asked us for it to be. So we have no intention of reinventing the wheel in that case.  However, from our experience, and again from a lot of the outreach that we did, I think our intention is to put a new spin on it. Now, when you say, reboot, I absolutely agree, and I think that's gonna be maybe a little bit of a challenge for people to get their heads around. David has said it quite eloquently, we wanna really hold onto the things that people liked and maybe not the things that they didn't. So some of the new things, for example, which I guess we consider new. We know that networking opportunities have always been super important. So now that we're right across the hall from the LDI show, we are really trying to leverage those two audiences without cannibalizing, and I don't think there's a lot of potential to cannibalize those two audiences anyway. We hope to bring in some new people and some new buyers, and we're tracking our registrations very closely, of course, and the kind of demographics that we have. And to date, I checked them just yesterday in preparation for this, of course, half of our registrations have never been to DSE before. Now I'm not talking about LDI people, I'm talking about people registered directly for DSE and as event people, as event producers. That number is super encouraging to us. Now it could be in the last three years that we've just gotten more people in the industry. We all know that during the pandemic, on both sides of our business, people have left the industry, and people have come into the industry. It's just a natural ebb and flow when you haven't had a show in three years. But that number, even if you expect a lot of new people it is a great statistic for us that there are that many new faces. So we really hope that people coming to the network are gonna meet new people, but like-minded people like your reference before about having that sense of community and people who do similar things. But also that, of course, we want our exhibitors to meet new customers. So that's a really important thing for us. For the people who don't know LDI, can you explain what it is? I've never actually been myself, even though I've certainly heard of it. Marian Sandberg: LDI is a 30+ year organization and brand. It is a trade and show conference that addresses what we affectionately refer to as entertainment technology. So that would be basically everything in and around a stage except the performance. So concerts, touring, theatre, even clubs, venues, lighting, sound, staging all that kind of technology that goes around a performance or in a venue, and so a typical exhibitor at LDI would be moving light company, intelligent lighting as it's referred to in that in that sector or consoles. if you were at a concert and you wanna go up to the console guy or gal, ask for the set list, that stuff that's behind that in that pit is stuff that you would see at LDI. So there's technology and creativity factor there that I think sits well along DSE so maybe there are people who do similar, are somewhat like-minded, but do different things. So I think it'll be interesting to see, who crosses over and comes together,  Yeah, I guess the crossover as you say, more than anything would probably be the backdrop displays that you increasingly see with touring acts and the technology that drives those displays like LED backdrops and transparent or semi-transparent, LED backdrops, all that sort of thing. Marian Sandberg: Yeah, absolutely, and the sort of persona who would attend LDI could be anything from very creative type, Let's say a creative director for a show, a lighting designer, and then, someone those folks usually tend to be creative and technical, and then we'll have very technical people who are like tech technical directors at a theatre or production manager for a concert tour. And just like the way that AV and IT are worlds that are converging. The live events world and digital signage are converging to some degree because I spoke on a podcast a few months ago with the guy who does the wow factor stuff at the new arena in Seattle for the NHL team there and he was talking about programming at building not just what you see at the pre-show. It's the whole darn building that's coming together. I suspect that plays into how live events will increasingly be done.  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, it's interesting, we use the term, experiential, right? And immersive experiences and the thing that I think is so interesting, having come from that LDI world and that entertainment technology world is that, if you go to a theatre it, okay maybe immersive isn't the word, that kind of means something different. But experiential is what entertainment already is, right? You go to the theatre to experience something, you go to a musical or a concert tour, to be in this experience, and over the last few years, the way people are buying materials left and wanting to relish experiences. It's interesting how areas like retail and venue design and even museums are taking a cue from entertainment and that's what experiential really is, right? It's about being entertained more.  So in a way that sort of LDI world has been informing a lot of other businesses in our spaces. So exactly what you're saying is if you're walking down the street and all of a sudden you're seeing all this fabulous screen, that content is trying to draw you in. Cuz it's being paid attention to, cuz you have to work harder to get people's eyeballs these days.  Can we talk a little bit about where you're at in terms of numbers and how they would compare to the old DSE that we know?  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, absolutely, and I'm glad you brought up the reboot. We are thinking of it exactly the same way. So we don't have any intentions of trying to compete with the last 2019 DSE. We've had shows in our portfolio that was a record year and of course, the pandemic happening, we're cautiously optimistic about kind, trying to get back to those numbers. So especially with DSE that hasn't happened in three years, we don't think we're gonna replicate that in any way, and that's fine. Our goal for this show is to be between 4,000 and 5,000 registrations. We're absolutely on pace to hit those numbers. We're really pleased with the way registration has been picking up and people registering for content. The new certification that Bron Consulting is running for us. It's not new, we've newly added it let me be clear. It's the same certification you all know and love. So yeah, the numbers are really encouraging to us and I think what we're gonna see, I think is gonna be surprising for people in the next four weeks is how much our registration picks up, right before the show, traditionally the last six, to eight weeks of the show or when Red registration really hits, and we saw that from the numbers in 2019 also, right? So when we acquired the brand that's just the way the show paces we're absolutely on pace to hit that 4,000 to 5,000 number. Is that number unique registrations or is that roll up people from LDI who have opted to come over or whatever? Marian Sandberg: Nope, that's absolutely DSE distinct registration. For the LDI show in 2019, we had 16,000 people registered for LDI. But like an average for LDI would be 12,000 to 13,000. So the numbers for DSE are unique.  So Potentially you could have a couple thousand or more people drifting over from the other show hall to wandering into DSE, cuz I think you have reciprocity, you can get into one or the other.  Marian Sandberg: Yes, your badge for DSE or LDI can get you into either one or the other as well as there are some great offers and discounts for the conference on either side, which are obviously, paid conferences. But also some of the networking events that are being offered on both sides I think is gonna be really nice benefits. Just an example. LDI has always had great after-hours nightlife offers. With your badge, you can get into a different club each night, and if you don't know, the clubs in Vegas are very expensive, right? It's not like your $10 cover charge to go see a band at your local club. They're very expensive. We have great deals with LDI that we've been able to extend to the DSE audience to go to a club, for example. Your badge gets you into the club, for free, which can save in some cases 70 to 100 dollars a night, and then we have some networking events. There's an on-floor party if you will, a networking reception for LDI that DSE guests will be invited to, and vice versa, LDI people will be invited to the DSE opening reception, and we were really careful, obviously, to not have them overlap or compete with each other. Cause we want these two to come across the aisle, as it were. So I think that's gonna be interesting to see, and the LDI community, they're curious. They have that tech curiosity and that creative curiosity. So I think it is absolutely reasonable to think we might get a thousand or so people coming across. So you're at parity or maybe even ahead of, ultimately ahead of what past DSE have done in terms of headcount, and with the spillover from LDI, almost certainly, where I sense that it's not going as swimmingly would be on the exhibitor signup side?  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, we are where we've expected to be. I know that you love to look at the show floor as you should, and when we were in South Hall, when the show was in Southall, before my time, obviously, the show floor looked different. But I think that our expectations for relaunching the show were exactly where we wanted to be. We had expectations that were in line with, we have amazing exhibitors presenting, and we have over 90 varieties of exhibitor sponsors, people who are gonna be partners and presenting in some way, and I'm not talking about speakers, I'm talking about people on the show floor, and then I think probably in the next few weeks we're gonna see that number go over a hundred. So that's perfectly respectable, and we're proud of those numbers.  Yeah, in certain respects that's a reboot and it's a startup again cuz you're having to win the confidence of vendors who have had a rough couple of years anyways and when DSE went down, I don't know if all of 'em were left whole after that. That's somebody else's story in argument, but yeah it, you couldn't, I would imagine just expect that, hey, all you guys who used to do this, come on back.  Marian Sandberg: Yeah. There's so much more of a story to tell there too, isn't there? We have to regain some trust. We have to have people, who really loved that event and kind of look at us and say, Who the heck are you guys? Which is all stuff we expected. Early on when one of the first things we did was form an advisory board, and I know that you've reported on that, now. Probably everybody on our advisory board and really we wanted that input and that help, and that was just kind of part of the research we did from the beginning. What was good, what do we wanna change? And I just think that journey has also included spending a lot of time with customers and there's absolutely our sales team talking to people, 3, 4, 5 times. It's not a slam dunk and that's okay. We didn't expect it to be, We never came in here with. Some kind of ego that we're event producers. So we could just walk into a new industry and take over a brand and do it without thinking about it with our eyes closed.  We're good at producing events. We have a lot of leverage across our company with other verticals that we can look at to draw other buyers that maybe didn't come in from the acquisition, from our regular DSE lists, but we're really excited about presenting to those people. That kind of is where those first-time attendees are coming from. I'm also curious, you've mentioned the community a number of times and the appetite and aspiration for the industry to get together. If you build an event around attendees, particularly if you're offering a lot of free passes to get into the show proper, then you really have to lean heavily on the exhibitor dollars and sponsor dollars and all that to do it.  So does that become a challenge long term, that you've gotta build up that trade show side of it for this thing to work? Or can it work the way it's positioned right now?  Marian Sandberg: We intend to grow the show? There's no question, and David can talk a little bit about the conference program also but, of course, we need to have a viable business here. There's no question, and I think also, bringing in the right people and making sure that the audience is there was absolutely paramount for us, especially the first year. If you have the right people in the room and you have the right buyers in the room, the exhibitor's gonna be happy and they're gonna come back. And I think it's a two-sided coin. You have to keep feeding both of them, right? To make everyone happy. The attendees wanna see certain exhibitors, the exhibitors wanna see more of, X, Y, and Z types of attendees. Yeah, our long-term plan is absolutely to keep growing. And we'll see how that goes. We have some plans we won't I won't reveal yet for next year, but I'm sure we'll wanna talk after the show.  That was one other question I wanted to ask you, Marian, just before we jump over to David on programming and so on: for 2023, is it in November in Las Vegas? Marian Sandberg: Yes, and I bet you're gonna ask about the Formula One race. It will be in November, we are gonna move it about a week early. Yeah, we looked at that and thank goodness, being in production, we were hearing from all kinds of production folks about that kind of thing before it was even officially announced. We were talking to the LVCC about doing it earlier and, we could try to produce something during Formula One, which would just be crazy. But even just for our exhibitors and visitors, we don't want to position the show to make it cost-prohibitive for people even to stay in hotels or have hotels sold out. So just moving it about a week or so earlier is just gonna be the solution.  Yeah, that's gonna be like a CES week or something. Just insane pricing for everything and impossible to get around.  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, exactly.  Good move!  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, thanks.  David, tell me, you're somebody who has been to DSE many times, very familiar with it. So if people are coming up to you knowing that you're involved now and they're asking, okay, what's different, particularly on the programming and education side, what are you gonna tell them?  David Drain: When I first joined Questex, really my first job was to think about the program and to focus on the conference and the education and the speakers. And so wanted to do that first, and that's, I would say, how we built the program and ort of the exhibitors came later, right? They needed to see what it is you guys are gonna do? What's your plan? And working with Brad and with Marian we looked at the flow of the event and so I think it's got a slightly different flow. There used to be a lot of conference programming before the show happened, and so what you're gonna see this year there is some programming in the morning, just before the show opens. Some, a bit of uninterrupted time during the show floor hours with some on-floor sessions and then ending the day with more sessions. Really we have three keynotes. I don't know if DSE has done that before. So I think that's different. We will have one each morning. We're very excited about those, of course, Rafiq and Jason Cothern from SoFi Stadium talking about that 5 billion mixed-use development with the stadium and the retail and all that. Having everything from wayfinding to digital menu boards to of course the huge halo infinity screen by Samsung. So I think there's gonna be something there for everybody, and then, Nveen from Google, who you also interviewed for this podcast. We've got a great lineup and the program came together in three ways. There were things that I developed. There were things that are Association partners like DSF and DPAA and OAAA developed, and then we got session proposals from folks, so we really tried to curate the best agenda that we could and so I think that people will see an increased focus and concentration on the content and the programming, and building on what Marion said earlier, I think just the number of networking events throughout the week and then the crossover with LDI, I think that's what's gonna feel different. I heard there's a mixer on Wednesday night.  Marian Sandberg: Mixer. I'm so pleased that you're bringing it to our show. So we can't wait to attend and we're registered, so we're showing up.  Good. I'll make the bouncer aware.  One of the things as the education programming curator, person, organizer, whatever you wanna call it, is you, I suspect, have to walk a bit of a tightrope at times, because you have paying sponsors who perhaps have expectations, realistic or unrealistic around what they can say and do on the stage, and you have to balance those needs with the needs of the audience because God knows, maybe not in the most recent versions of DSE, but earlier year versions of it, one hell of a lot of the presentations were just like product pitches by sponsors, and I would sit down, listen for two minutes and I would go and leave, and that's a tough one to manage, isn't it?  David Drain: Yeah, and I've been managing these types of events for a number of years and so I certainly know about how important it is to make sure that it's got an education focused and so when I was building the program, really sponsorship had nothing to do with it. When I was building the conference program, what we determined as the best topics and the best speakers, and the program really came in process of building this show before the exhibitors that there really wasn't that kind of impact. We do have the on-floor sessions, and those are sponsored. We make that clear on the program.  Those are kinda product demos and things, right?  David Drain: They are product demos and even encouraging those speakers, those sponsors to have an education focus so they teach rather than pitch.  Yeah, I always tell people, look, if you just get up there and pitch, people are gonna leave. If you say smart things, you will leave the impression that this guy and or this woman and this company seem to know what they're talking about, so maybe I should have a chat with them after.  David Drain: Yeah, be a thought leader or present a case study, and then people will understand. You'll have an opportunity to tell them what your company does. You don't need to spend all that time going through the features and benefits of your product.  Without trying to put you on the spot, are there one or two sessions that you know that aren't keynotes but are ones that you think are gonna be particularly kick ass and ones that people should have a look at?  Marian Sandberg: You're asking to choose a favorite child. You're asking him to choose a favorite child, Dave. David Drain: Yeah. There are just a number of great sessions and if you go to our agenda, there is a way to filter by type. So if you're into digital out of home, you can see the programming aimed at that, and I'm excited you know about the session you're moderating and I'm really not blowing smoke here. Denny Levine came to me and proposed that session, and of course, he put together an all-star panel and people are very interested, obviously with these Vangogh experiences, immersive experiences that have popped up and been very successful around the world. So I think that will be similar, there's another session with Moment Factory and Dimensional Innovations on transforming lobbies into experiences, that's pretty exciting.  Yeah, you got some good people like Jackie Walker who was just like, when I talk to her, I just, I always hang up thinking, that's a smart person. She knows her stuff.  David Drain: Yes, and I listened to her podcast that she did with you and so certainly when she wanted to do a presentation, I'm like, yeah, I will just give you the room. You're gonna do great, and people will walk away with a lot of great information. All right, so wrapping this up. This has been a great chat. If people are undecided and are on the fence, but hearing this and think, oh, maybe I will go, what do they need to do? Where do they go to find out more about DSE?  Marian Sandberg: Yeah, they can go to digitalsignageexperience.com. As we rebranded also, so it's digitalsignageexperience.com, or if you have any questions, you can certainly just email me, I'd be happy to answer, and my email is msandberg@questex.com. I would love to have your feedback,  I suspect it's ddrain@questex.com, right? I'm smart that way, it had to be something. All right. Thank you so much for spending half an hour with me. That was terrific.  Marian Sandberg: Thanks for having us. We're honored.  David Drain: Thank you, Dave.

Charli interviews Tracy Long, Mike Murphy, and Johnny McKusker of ABB about the future of manufacturing. The workforce is changing and ABB is taking responsibility for the growth of the manufacturing workforce.  Listen in and see how storytelling plays a big part. The Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, will be a live show that features stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link belowimts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

Charli K. Matthews interviews Meaghan Ziemba, James Soto, Mitch Free, Fabian Alefeld, and Scott MacKenzie.The Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, will be a live show that features stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link belowimts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

What do you get when you put two people from Florida and one from Arizona in a room? A whole lot of talk about how great AC is! Dylan is rejoined by Juan March of Jax Precision and Nick Polanosky of P3D Creations this week. Nick and Juan update Dylan on all of the growth they have had since their last episodes. Nick expresses his love for his new toy, a Datron M8Cube. Juan also has a new piece of machinery, a DMG DMU50. All three talk about how they view and manage growth, and discuss what they are looking forward to seeing at IMTS 2022. IMTS 2022 Instamachinist Meetup - KERN Precision booth #338719 in the South Hall. Wednesday, September 14th, starting at 3pm You can find the holder/spindle creator script at - https://www.nyccnc.com/NYC%20Uploads/holderCreatorNEW.py The newest UMC firmware version is - https://www.haascnc.com/service/updates/ngc-software-version-100-22-000-1015-released.html Check out Juan's IG @jaxmfg Check out Nick's IG @p3dcreations ----------------------------------------- Help support the podcast www.patreon.com/withintolerancepodcast

Charli K. Matthews interviews Tim Wilborne about how he gets started on youtube and training others on PLCs. The Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, will be a live show that features stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link belowimts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

Charli K. Matthews introduces James Soto and Scott MacKenzie, two of the influencers for IMTS+ Creators Lounge.IMTS+ Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, will be a live show that features stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link belowimts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

Charli K. Matthews interviews Scott MacKenzie about IMTS and his role as an influencer in the industry.  Scott and Charli be recording LIVE from The Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, it will feature stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link belowimts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

Charli K. Matthews shares her excitement that AMT and its partner Industrial Studios have asked her to be an Influencer within their Creators Lounge experience at IMTS 2022. The Creators Lounge, located in the South Hall of McCormick Place - Booth 338600, will be a live show that features stories from a dynamic range of industry creators, folks who live and breathe manufacturing and the industrial movement. A few select creators will share their insights and manufacturing stories with me and several other Influencers throughout the week. The Creators Lounge will be the destination at IMTS, it's going to be insightful and entertaining (not to mention a whole lot of fun).If you plan on being in Chicago, come join me at the IMTS 2022 as we broadcast live from the trade show floor. If you can't make it, TUNE IN HERE  for all the great Creators Lounge programming or follow the link below imts.com/imts-plus/Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

A nutrition coach genuinely studies and interprets various critical processes and foods, both those that may be beneficial to the body and those that may harm people's health. As a result, you can launch a nutrition coaching program where you will give your clients diet advice and even modify at-home diets for people with disabilities for everyone who asks for your help. Your efforts in this area will enhance not just your life but also the lives of others. In the end, you'll reap many rewards from being a nutrition coach, including many new friends and more. In this episode, Marsha Baggett shares her stories, from being a client to a nutrition coach. She explains how she started a nutrition program and then felt motivated to be one of the nutrition coaches to help other people. She also mentions how these changes impact her life and the people around her in a good way.  What You'll Learn: The story of why Marsha joined the gym and how she became a nutrition client Changes happen to Marsha after joining the nutrition program Impact of the nutrition program on her life How she developed her coaching skills through a mentoring program Advantages of eating at home Marsha's nutrition coaching experiences   For more support related to this episode click HERE Are you looking for a holistic coaching program to help you become your best self one healthy step at a time?  Apply to work with Healthy Steps Nutrition HQ coaches HERE or go to HireANutritionCoach.com HERE to find a Healthy Steps Nutrition Coach near you.

(NSFW) The episode the guys are all back together! Chris, Ed, and Nate sit down and catch up on what's been going on in the craft beer world. First and foremost, the addition of another Wren House Brewing location called Wren Südhalle or South Hall. They slip into food podcast for a minute and talk about what kinds of foods they should serve with their curated list of new + old world style beers. Though, we would really like some sweet mugs to go with whatever they are server for sure. Then they switch to festival mode and the return of the best indoor beer festival in Arizona. Real, Wild, and Woody! Coming to a new location at Bell Bank Park on Aug 6th. Briefly touch on a new movie themed craft beer bar coming to Gilbert called Taproom 120. Then they talk all the feels, about Stone Brewing being sold to Sapporo US.  Show Info: Wren Südhalle Real, Wild, & Woody Stone Sells to Sapporo US Our Information: Music Credit: Takotsubo Men The assorted sounds of three ageing humans hitting things in a studio for five days. Beautifully nasty and pretty vile at times but ultimately gorgeous. Enjoy! Intro: Skint But Free Outro: Takotsubo Man Follow them! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakotsuboMen Twitter: https://twitter.com/TakotsuboMen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TakotsuboMen Contact us! Instagram: @hoppycraftsmen Twitter: @hoppycraftsmen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hoppycraftsmen/ E-mail: hoppycraftsmen@gmail.com Blog: http://hoppycraftsmenpodcast.com/ YouTube: Hoppy Craftsmen – Craft Beer Podcast Support US! Buy Us a Beer! For as little as a dollar a month you can help a bearded white guy drink a good craft beer. Your generous donation will help supply thousands with the gift of more podcasts and we are pretty sure inappropriate humor as well. Invest in Us!  Rate us on iTunes! Want to help us reach a bigger audience and keep the episodes coming? Then head over to iTunes and Give us a rating and feedback! Tell A Friend! Tell someone you know about our show! If you know that a friend likes or loves craft beer tell them to give us a listen. Or if you know someone who is new to craft beer and you are tired of telling them about the scene, let us be your soap box! Or have an amazing whale that you want to share with the world. Go on your social media platform of choice and give us a shout out. Use the hashtag #hoppycraftsmen and we'll respond in kind. Probably in some form of emoji and maybe a super rad type of comment. You get the picture. Extra Special Thanks to: Beer and Other Shhhh for the Rapid Round inspiration. Give them a listen and a like on iTunes, or watch some videos on their YouTube

If you attended the NABSHOW 2022 (or if you decided NOT to attend), you MUST WATCH this week's episode of the Friday Fireside with the folks who made it happen! Chris Brown, EVP of Business Operations , and Jonathan Toomey, VP of Content Design and Development for The National Association of Broadcasters. You'll hear their own analysis of the 2022 show, their forecast for NABSHOW 2023, a look forward to NABNewYork 2022, the plans to connect the Las Vegas Convention Center with Exhibitor Hotel Suites with another TeslaLoop (!!!!!) and the eventual return to the South Hall (note that the Good Doctor will be first in line to get the Motorized Skate Board concession . . .).

Bo Bartlett is a painter based out of Columbus, Georgia. He studied with Ben Long in Florence, and received his degree in Fine Art form the Pennsytlvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS; “Love and Other Sacraments,” Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; “Paintings of Home,” Ilges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; “A Survey of Paintings,” W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, Columbus, GA; “Paintings of Home,” PPOW Gallery, New York, NY; and “Bo Bartlett,” Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. Recent group exhibitions include “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World,” Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; “Brine,” SOMA NewArt Gallery, Cape May, NJ; “The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; “American Masters,” Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE; “The Philadelphia Story,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; “The Outwin Boochever 2013 Portrait Competition Exhibition,” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; “Best of the Northwest: Selected Paintings from the Permanent Collection,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; “Perception of Self,” Forum Gallery, New York, NY; “Real: Realism in Diverse Media, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; “Thriving in Seattle: A Retrospective,” GAGE Academy of Art, Seattle WA; “private (dis)play,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; “Figure as Narrative,” Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; “Solemn & Sublime: Contemporary American Figure Painting,” Akus Gallery, Eastern CT State University, Willimantic, CT; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, “private(dis)play,” Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO; and “Five Artists of Accomplishment from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA; McCornick Place Metropolis Pier and Exposition Authority, South Hall, Chicago, IL; United States Mint, Philadelphia, PA; Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Office of the Governor, Harrisburg, PA; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, TN; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Bartlett is the recipient of the PEW Fellowship in the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Award; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Charles Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Packard Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. This episode is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School. You can follow the podcast @soundandvisionpodcast on IG and Brian at @alfredstudio

Good parenting isn't easy. It takes effort, intentionality, and a whole lot of prayer! As a writer and speaker with a passion for empowering moms to embrace intentional parenting, Nadia Friesen takes a walk down memory lane living in South Hall from her days as an RD in South Hall and shares some insights as a parent and mentor during a time when many parents are spending a lot of time with their children. If you are a parent, give yourself some grace and have a listen. Your kids need you now more than you realize! For more information about Nadia's work, you can visit her page on Facebook as well as her website.

Show #608   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Saturday 12th October 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   ELECTRIFY CANADA PLANNING 20 NEW 350-KW CHARGING STATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY "Volkswagen built Electrify America, its U.S. multi-brand-compatible network of EV charging stations, as part of a settlement with authorities there over its Dieselgate scandal. But now the automaker has voluntarily expanded that effort with a Canadian arm to give electric vehicle owners that same level of charging access." writes driving.ca: "Electrify Canada announced early October that it plans to open 20 350-kW-capable charging stations at Canadian Tire locations in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. Pricing is based on 75-kW-, 125-kW- and 350-kW-per-minute power levels. There is a $1 session fee per charge-up, but an Electrify Canada Pass+ is only $4 per month, which waives the session fee and knocks the cost down by roughly 20 cents per minute."   https://driving.ca/volkswagen/auto-news/news/electrify-canada-planning-20-new-350-kw-charging-stations-across-the-country   ALL-ELECTRIC RENAULT ZOE RS TO REPLACE CLIO RS? "With the standard Clio already upon us, you might be wondering when we’ll first see the next Renault Clio RS. As our sister title Auto Express discovered, it seems we won’t see one at all, but the French marque does have something else sporty up its sleeve" reports Evo Magazine: "Renault’s executive vice-president of product planning, Ali Kasai, told Auto Express that a new Clio RS is simply not viable, but that a performance-orientated, all-electric Zoe is the most likely model to sit in its place. Kasai said: ‘We need to be in line with the current trends; we have to invent the future sporty cars.’ The standard Zoe is powered by a 52kWh battery and a front-mounted 132bhp motor, and is good for a claimed range of 245 miles. A performance variant would naturally claim less range given the same battery size, especially if Renault punted for a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive set-up, something we’re yet to see in a compact EV."   ARE EV SALES BEING HELD UP? From dinside.no: "Last week, we wrote that Kia in Spain has been revealed to refuse dealers to sell electric cars for the rest of 2019, with a strong call to sell gasoline and diesel-powered SUVs before replacing the calendar on January 1. Like the Norwegian importer , Kia also denied in Sweden that this was the case in our neighboring country. Now, however, the Swedish electric car website Recharge has revealed that Kia Sweden was not completely truthful. They also sent a similar letter to their dealers, should we believe the site. In the letter, Kia writes, among other things, that they "hope to have a fantastic start to the electrified year 2020", writes Recharge."   Bertel O. Steen is a freelance importer: "We have no comment on the case in Sweden and Spain. But we do not have similar orders here in Norway, and we deliver the cars we get, explains Mette S. Sauge." In Norway, according to Kia Bil Norge, about 5700 are still on the reservation lists for the two electric cars for Kia. The lists distribute the numbers as follows:   Kia e-Niro: about 4,400 people Kia e-Soul: about 1,300 people   https://www.dinside.no/motor/avslort-i-sverige-ogsa/71686226   LEXUS EV CONCEPT TEASED AHEAD OF TOKYO MOTOR SHOW DEBUT "Toyota’s luxury division says the new zero-emissions showcar is a window into the company’s electric and autonomous future, so not only will the vehicle lack a combustion engine, but it also might not have a steering wheel." reports Motor1: "Originally announced back in July, the unnamed electric concept will allegedly feature a newly developed infotainment system with dual screens and is going to use a revamped version of the spindle grille. Chances are the EV rides on the new e-TNGA platform that Lexus’ parent company Toyota is developing, with the ultimate goal to have 10 electric cars from both brands on sale by the middle of the next decade."   https://www.motor1.com/news/375558/lexus-ev-concept-teaser/   FREE PARKING FOR EV OWNERS IN CINCINNATI "Cincinnati, Ohio, has come up with a creative incentive for those who own electric vehicles: Free Parking. For those who have played Monopoly — well, the way I always played it — landing on the free parking square meant you got to cash in. Electric vehicle (EV) owners in Cincinnati will be able to cash in on savings thanks to the city’s Electric Car Incentive Program. Note that hybrid owners will not benefit from this incentive since the program is geared toward fully electric vehicles." writes Johnna for Clean Technica: "The free parking spots include all city parking meters and one city-owned garage located downtown. The parking in the garage is on a first-come, first-served basis and does not include overnight privileges. This also includes free parking at every and any parking meter within the Cincinnati city limits. Parking at these meters means drivers must still follow parking rules, though, and if the meter says you have an hour, then the driver needs to leave when that time is up."   https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/09/free-parking-for-ev-owners-in-cincinnati/   PAY-PER-MILE ‘ROAD TAX’ BACK ON THE AGENDA "The government’s Transport Committee has confirmed it wishes to start a debate around road pricing – more specifically the idea of a pay-as-you-go style system, that could fill a potential £40 billion black hole in its Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) income." says Leasing.com: "As the rise of the electric car accelerates over the coming years, the government will lose more and more money; EVs with list prices of less than £40,000 don’t pay any road tax at all, which will result in a sharp drop in tax income for the government. One way around this is to adjust the VED system with road pricing. Early next year, the Transport Committee will investigate whether national road pricing should be a part of that future, but wants the public – drivers and non-drivers alike – to begin the discussion now."   https://leasing.com/car-leasing-news/pay-per-mile-road-pricing-review-2020/   TOYOTA RAV4 PLUG-IN REVEALED AHEAD OF LA AUTO SHOW "Toyota teased on Thursday what will become the most powerful RAV4 yet – the 2021 RAV4 plug-in. Bringing with it a new color, Supersonic Red, the teaser image of the RAV4 plug-in highlights the new PHV’s surprising performance capabilities." according to Electric Cars Report: "Toyota will debut the Toyota RAV4-plugin during the Los Angeles Auto Show media days, on November 20, 2019 at the Toyota booth in South Hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center."   https://electriccarsreport.com/2019/10/toyota-rav4-plug-in-revealed-ahead-of-la-auto-show/   2020 TOYOTA HYBRIDS AND EVS GET 10-YEAR, 150,000-MILE BATTERY WARRANTY "Toyota announced today that it will extend the battery warranty for its hybrid and electric vehicles to 10 years or 150,000 miles (whichever comes first), an increase from the current eight years or 100,000 miles. The change will affect 2020 hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and fuel-cell vehicles sold by Toyota and can transfer from the original owner to subsequent owners." says Car And Driver: "There are eight eligible cars in the lineup: the Camry, Corolla, Prius, RAV4, Avalon, and Highlander hybrids, plus the Prius Prime plug-in and the Mirai fuel-cell vehicle. Toyota says the longer warranty term is designed to help overcome the hesitation that some buyers feel toward purchasing a hybrid or electric vehicle.Nissan has said that they expect Leaf batteries to last 10 to 12 years longer than customers will want to own the cars. Tesla is reportedly developing a battery technology that can last for a million miles."   https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29428255/2020-toyota-hybrid-electric-car-batteries-warranty/   PLANS TO REDEVELOP FORMER A1 SERVICE STATION "Plans to redevelop a former service station on the A1 in Peterborough with electric car charging points and a café have been submitted to the city council." says the local newspaper Peterborough Today: "Solar Charging Ltd wants to revamp the former Abbotts Wood Service Station which lies near the southbound carriageway in Thornhaugh, near Wittering. Under its plans 20 electric car charging points would be installed, as well as a “service building” which would include a café. The electricity would come from a nearby solar farm - a process the company said would be “the first of its kind” within the region and would “seek to reflect the aspirations of Peterborough City Council’s Environment Capital agenda”."   https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/plans-to-redevelop-former-a1-service-station-with-electric-car-charging-points-submitted-to-peterborough-council-1-9102744   LUNAZ DESIGN IS ELECTRIFYING CLASSIC CARS FOR A ZERO-CARBON FUTURE "Lunaz Design is converting high-end classic motor vehicles to electric propulsion utilising a team of engineers gathered from F1, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Jaguar, VW and McLaren and zero emissions and recycling at the heart of its product philosophy." says Renewable Energy Magazine: "The aim is to make the most beautiful and celebrated cars in history ready for an electrified, zero-carbon future.   A 1961 eight-seat Rolls-Royce Phantom V, 1953 Jaguar XK120 and 1956 Rolls-Royce Cloud are currently being prepared for market introduction. The Jaguar XK120 is fitted with an 80-kWH electric battery pack whilst the Rolls-Royce Phantom V is specified with a 120-kWH power unit. Each classic by Lunaz represents an entirely custom restoration. Its cars are analysed to the millimetre to ensure Lunaz’s engineers develop the most appropriate powertrain solution for the character of the car and the intended driving dynamics. All classics by Lunaz are engineered with fast charging capability, regenerative braking systems and the sensitive integration of modern conveniences like traction control and cruise control."   https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/electric_hybrid_vehicles/lunaz-design-is-electrifying-classic-cars-for-20191010     Moneyball @DKurac "Skywell delivers 1st batch of Shenzhen's largest #EV dump truck order so far as it delivers 300 of 1 K trucks to 2 co's in the city. Last year, Shenzhen started subsidizing #EV dump truck purchases with ¥800 K. The city wants to have all new dump trucks as EVs by 2021."   TESLA MODEL 3 TAKES OVER THE UK WITH A RECORD QUARTER "Tesla had another record month and quarter of deliveries in the UK, thanks to Model 3, which is quickly becoming a best-selling car in the market. The ramp-up has been slow over the first few months, but Tesla delivered more than 2,000 Model 3 vehicles in August, and it was enough for the Model 3 to become the third best-selling car in the UK in August (via the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)." writes Fred for Electrek: "Now the registration data is out for September, and Tesla delivered even more vehicles: 3,459 units, including 2,864 Model 3 vehicles. It helped the electric car market rise to 2.2% of the overall car market in the UK. Diesel car sales dropped 20% during the period, and gasoline-powered cars increased by 4.5%. It brings Tesla’s delivery total for the quarter to 6,244 vehicles, including 5,385 Model 3 vehicles."   https://electrek.co/2019/10/09/tesla-model-3-uk-record-quarter/     QUESTION OF THE WEEK The MYEV.com Question Of The Week…   What segment of vehicles is the most important to electrify?   I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the 256 patrons of this podcast whose generosity means I get to keep making this show, which aims to entertain and inform thousands of listeners every day about a brighter future. 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A man was reportedly waving a gun around near Gainesville’s Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Police arrived and shot him to death. We have a 911 call that makes it unclear whether the man was holding a gun when he was shot, as investigators initially reported. In this episode, Nate McCullough and Nick Watson talk with Shannon Casas about reporting from the scene Sept. 20. Then we delve into what we know and don’t know about the case and why we report what we do when we do. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Another manager has bitten the dust over at Hall County following an HR investigation and a raft of complaints from subordinates. This time, it’s Andre Niles, the former head of the Hall County Marshal’s Office, resigned in August after a series of complaints about a hostile work environment in his office. In this episode, Shannon, Megan and Nick talk about how we got this story and get into the details of the investigation. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

A complicated, frustrating system of red tape is making life hard for foster children, foster families and the workers and volunteers who keep the system running. In this episode, Shannon and Nick talk about recent meetings between the head of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services and stakeholders in Hall County. Shannon’s also a foster mother herself and talks about her experiences navigating the foster system in Georgia. If you want to find out how to get your church or group involved with helping Georgia foster children, visit Promise686. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

The Gainesville gang is back after a brief vacation to talk about a few things that didn’t happen. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t raid poultry plants in Gainesville this month. Meanwhile, a man didn’t walk into a local Walmart brandishing a gun this week. But, if you were hanging out around Gainesville social media this weekend, you’d be forgiven for thinking both of those things happened. In this episode, we talk about the uphill battle against online misinformation. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

It’s curtains for Luke P. on “The Bachelorette,” as the Gainesville guy closes out his contentious time on the reality TV show. But the saga continues with Luke P. as his family cries foul over what they say is bias against Luke because of his evangelical Christian beliefs. In this episode, Shannon, Layne and Nick talk about what it’s been like to have a Gainesville resident in the national spotlight, how we’ve kept contact with the family and the family’s complaints about the show’s treatment of Luke. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Covering the shooting death of Deputy Blane Dixon was an all-hands-on-deck situation for the newsroom. In this episode, we talk listeners through how we used social media to get the word out about the crime, the funeral and how locals could help the Dixon family. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Talking to a local news reporter is an act of kindness under the best of circumstances. People give up their time and take a risk, putting themselves in the spotlight, when they agree to take part in a story. In this episode, Times reporter Jeff Gill talks about the humbling experience of talking to the widow of Hall County Deputy Nicolas Blane Dixon. Stephanie Dixon took time away from mourning to spare a few words about her husband. Jeff and Nick talk about what it’s like to get in touch with a source under the worst circumstances and how to manage a delicate conversation. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Hall County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Nicolas Blane Dixon was shot and killed after 11 p.m. Sunday, July 7, throwing local law enforcement into a scramble to find the suspects and sending the community reeling. Dixon was the first Hall County deputy to be shot and killed on the job in almost 100 years. He was pursuing suspects who fled from a stolen car he had attempted to stop on Sunday. The vehicle was connected to a series of burglaries over the previous several days. He’s survived by two young sons and his wife, Stephanie. Nick Watson, Nate McCullough and Nick Bowman talk about how The Times has been following this story since it broke, starting with a fussy baby at Bowman’s home. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

We’ve been following an unlikely story this month: A gay couple from Europe welcomed their surrogate-borne sons on Father’s Day in Gainesville. The couple, one of the men from Israel and the other from France, live in Belgium but found a surrogate from Toccoa. They chose to have the babies, two boys, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center.  In this episode, Shannon, Jeff and Nick talk about how The Times heard about the story, what the community response has been and why it was news. The two baby boys are healthy and have left the hospital. You can read our follow-up coverage online. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Downtown Gainesville got an unwelcome surprise this month, when business owners discovered that one of their own had a dark past. Endrick Torres-Ordonez, owner of Love is All You Knead, a sweet shop selling crepes, ice cream and doughnuts in Main Street Market, was convicted in 2013 of groping multiple underage girls while working as a camp counselor in New York state. He was charged with forgery for using a false name on his business license and with operating a business within 1,000 feet of a location where children gather — a crime for sex offenders. The revelations rattled other business owners in Main Street Market, who were unaware of Torres’ past until they received a tip over Facebook. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news.  You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Gainesville has had a rough couple of weeks. Downtown Gainesville’s Parkside project is dead and the Northeast Georgia Health System’s Heart Center lost a dozen critical cardiologists. It was a busy start to June here at The Times, and the gang sits down to talk about how two big stories came together (and are still coming together). Downtown Gainesville is still likely to get some kind of development on the fourth side of the square, but developers backing out of a plan to bring luxury condos to the square — some of the only full-time residences that would be available in the core of the city — is a major setback for what many see as economic revitalization coming to downtown. Meanwhile, patients of the Northeast Georgia Health System got a shock this month when it was revealed 12 cardiologists, including the Heart Center director, were leaving for Northside Hospital. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

On this week's All About Real Estate segment of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, Premier Residential Builders Co-Founder Harold Trip joins co-hosts Mandy Holm and Todd Schnick to discuss the builder's involvement in the Right Choice home program from Jackson EMC and its available energy-efficient metro-Atlanta homes. Specializing in single-family homes from the $200,000s to $500,000s, Premier Residential Builders offers new home opportunities throughout Gwinnett, Jackson and South Hall counties. What truly makes the builder unique is that each home and floor plan is custom designed and filled with extras and upgrades that other home builders do not typically offer as standard features. Another impressive feature that Premier Residential Builders includes in several of its new home communities is the Right Choice certification. The exclusive Right Choice home program from Jackson EMC offers energy-efficient construction that exceeds ENERGY STAR guidelines, making the home 20 to 30 percent more efficient than standard homes. With a Right Choice home, you get: Guaranteed Energy Savings The 3-year Energy Warranty guarantees heating and cooling energy costs will not exceed a specified amount each year Guaranteed Comfort The 1-year Comfort Warranty guarantees that each zone will stay within 3 degrees of the thermostat setting Energy-Efficient Construction Confirmed by high-tech, third-party performance testing Jackson EMC's Lowest Rate Jackson EMC offers Right Choice residents its lowest residential rate, savings homeowners an additional 5 percent on average per year. This efficiency comes from high-quality construction methods and energy-saving equipment, including: Effective insulation High-performance windows Tight construction Electric heat pumps ENERGY STAR lighting and appliances Throughout the entire construction process, technicians inspect for proper air sealing and duct installation and pressure test the duct system. To learn more about the Right Choice home program and the certification process, listen to the interview above. Visit www.PremierResidentialBuilder.com to explore energy-efficient metro-Atlanta homes from Premier Residential Builders. A special thank you to Jackson EMC for sponsoring Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Jackson EMC offers homebuyers peace of mind and lower bills with its certified Right Choice™ new home program. These homes are built to be energy efficient and sustainable with improved indoor air quality, convenience and comfort. For more information on Right Choice new homes and Jackson EMC, visit https://RightChoice.JacksonEMC.com. The Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio “All About Real Estate” segment, presented by Denim Marketing, airs on Wednesdays and highlights the movers and shakers in the Atlanta real estate industry – the home builders, developers, Realtors and suppliers working to provide the American dream for Atlantans. For more information on how you can be featured as a guest, contact Denim Marketing at 770-383-3360 or fill out the Atlanta Real Estate Forum contact form. Subscribe to the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast on iTunes, and if you like this week's show, be sure to rate it.

On Wednesday, Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and an entourage that included former Gov. Nathan Deal sat down with the editorial board of The Times, intent on defending Ralston’s record as an attorney and lawmaker. Ralston has been hit by controversy this year as an AJC investigation surfaced hundreds of instances in which Ralston has delayed cases for his clients using privileges granted to him as a leader in the Georgia House. Ralston argues his actions were above board, including delays requested so Ralston could attend campaign fundraisers, while critics argue he’s abused his power on behalf of clients, some of whom say they're paying the speaker five-figure sums. The investigation led The Times’ editorial board to call on Ralston to resign. Read our coverage and watch video of the discussion between Ralston and the editorial board. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Welcome to the 2019 IIEX North America Conference Series. Recorded live in Austin, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors and speakers at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Marc Macellaio, Vice President of Sales at Fuel Cycle. Contact Marc Online: LinkedIn Fuel Cycle [00:00] Marc Macellaio, Fuel Cycle.  This is the second interview I did on site at IIeX with Fuel Cycle.  Fuel Cycle is a marketing research cloud platform that allows you... They have their own set of solutions and also you can plug in some external tools that you might have as well in your research portfolio.  You know for me, this is probably one of the more interesting businesses. When I think about my next thing, I definitely feel like there’s an element of their API-driven marketplace yadi-yadi-yada that is real interesting.  But I’d encourage you to think about the last 12 years that they’ve been in business: how they have evolved and stayed, not just relevant, but actually move more, more towards the cutting edge of technology and adding value to our ecosystem.  Enjoy. [00:50] I am sitting here with the head of sales, Marc, at Fuel Cycle.  Marc, thanks for joining me on the Happy Market Research Podcast.    [00:56]   Thanks for having me.  Really appreciate it. [00:57] Alright, cool, man.  What do you think about the show?  IIeX, this is Day 3. I’m a little tired [01:02] I’m a little tired, but we’re having a blast.  A lot of energy and really innovative tools out there. [01:07]    You guys have a nice presence in the North Hall, I think, or South Hall. [01:10] Yeah, one of the two.  The one with the big, orange pillows in the couches, everything, yeah.  Can’t miss us. [01:16]   Right, totally.  So, were you at last year’s IIex?   [01:20 I was.        [01:20] What do you think about the difference in venues?           [01:21] I love this venue.  Obviously, it’s larger, more space.  I think more energy. I mean it’s easier to get around and a...  The last year just getting too large, I guess, people kind of getting shoved out.  So this has been great. [01:34] Have you been able to attend any sessions? [01:36] A handful of sessions, yeah.  Mainly, I’m kind of working the room, working the booth, that kind of thing.  But, yeah, a lot of really good information around and talks around AI and sort of what’s next around market research.  So really cool. [01:46]   So, let’s talk about Fuel Cycle.  You guys are a, from my understanding, a comprehensive, end-to-end research technology platform that allows community management and then you also have your own tools for conducting qualitative research.  Is that right? [02:00] That’s correct, yep. [02:01] And then, in addition to that, you have the capacity through your API’s to interact with other third-party tools like Voxpopme or SurveyGizmo or whatever. [02:11] Typically, when people work with us, they’ll say, “Hey, we want to build a community.”  And so, we’ll put together a community that allows them to do both the qualitative - discussion boards, diary studies, live chats, video IDI’s, video focus groups (mobile, by the way).  But also, it comes with our SurveyGizmo partner Quant Solutions. So, it allows them to do again the quant and the qual and connect all the data in one community environment, right? [02:34] Got it.  It makes a lot of sense to me.  So, how long have you guys been working with SurveyGizmo? [02:38] Last probably three to four years now.   [02:40]    OK, good.  And how long have you been around?  ‘Cause you’ve really been popping for the last two years.  I didn’t hear a lot about you before. [02:46] You know about four or five years ago, we revamped our whole platform, calling it really Fuel Cycle, and it’s really changed the game.

On Thursday, Times reporter Nick Watson witnessed his second execution while on the job for the paper. Watson, The Times’ criminal justice reporter, was present for the execution of Scotty Morrow in Jackson, Georgia. Morrow was sentenced to death for a double homicide committed in 1994 in Hall County. In this episode, Nate McCullough, Nick Watson and Nick Bowman talk about what it’s like for news reporters to witness the death sentence being carried out, why reporters are present and what Nick has experienced while on the job. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

What started as a discussion about reporter Kelsey Richardson’s attempt at the Hall County Sheriff’s Office fitness test ended up with some unusual reminiscing this week. Kelsey talked with Shannon and Nick about her day walking, running, punching and cuffing her way through the fitness test, which is used as a tool to not only ensure recruits are up for the job but to make sure existing employees are staying fit. For deputies in Hall County, staying fit can mean the difference between life and death in more ways than one, as Gene Joy and John Thompson have discovered while on the job. The stakes were much, much lower for Kelsey, who still managed to lose her lunch after the test — but she’s still in good enough shape to be one of Hall County’s next deputies. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Luke Parker, Hall County’s resident ‘Bachelorette’ contestant, is crushing it on the reality show. SPOILERS: He and bachelorette Hannah Brown visited Gainesville and Oakwood for a hometown date over the weekend, hitting the Gainesville square and Curt’s Cafeteria in Oakwood. If you’re wondering why that’s a big deal, that means Luke is one of the last four contestants still vying to put a ring on it this season. Taking a break from shootings, thefts, drug busts and the rest of the bad news people need to know, the gang this week talks about Luke’s background and a tip that led Layne and photographer Austin on a stakeout mission at Curt’s. Shannon, Layne and Nick also discuss the big question: Will Luke win Hannah’s heart? At the moment, Layne gives him a 1-in-4 chance. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

The press, how does it work? Turns out, the gang didn’t really know. So Shannon and Nick invited Mark Hall, head of production at The Times, up to the studio to talk about how the paper gets printed. It’s a big job keeping the 50-year-old Goss press running, but Mark and his crew manage it in the guts of our Green Street headquarters. If you’ve ever been curious about the hard, inky work that goes into getting a paper out the door (almost) every day, this is the podcast for you. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Sometimes reporters walk into a story knowing it’s going to catch some heat. Most of the time, anything dealing with abortion is one of those stories. Shannon, Kelsey and Nick talk this week about what it’s been like to write about the vote at the Capitol and to dig into what services — including clinics that provide abortions, pregnancy care centers and others — are operating in North Georgia. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Should residents of South Hall be concerned about a proposed development by a Mexico-based sect of Christianity called La Luz del Mundo? This week, the gang talks about a 250-plus acre project from the church, based in Guadalajara, that includes commercial space, apartments or townhomes, single-family homes and other uses in South Hall. Shannon, Josh and Nick talk about the reporting that’s been done on the project up to this point and what readers can expect to see in the future — including a dive into what the faith actually teaches. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

What is fake news? This week, the gang takes a break from the news of the day to talk about two of the most contentious words in news these days: fake news. What makes a story fake, instead of just biased? What does fake news look like at the local level? How do newspapers, editors and reporters guard against it? Shannon, Nate and Nick talk through these questions and a few extras. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

The new Exit 14 bridge over I-985 failed a strength test, meaning more work for contractors and a long list of questions from the public. In this episode, the gang talks about how The Times, following up on a tip, got hold of the story about the long-awaited interchange. Officials with Georgia Department of Transportation say the failure comes down to materials used and not contractor error. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

In this episode, the gang talks about the United Methodist Church and its vote on Tuesday, Feb. 26, to maintain a traditional plan for the church, which prohibits gay marriages and gay clergy. Shannon, Jeff and Nick talk about how local reporters find and talk to sources and how to balance the need to get news out quickly with the goal that articles present an accurate, full picture on every issue — no matter how complicated. And the group also discusses how they bring their own personal experiences and beliefs to the table, while keeping them in check, when reporting on this issue and others. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Is the Gainesville square about to get more fun? A few business owners hope so as they launch the Gainesville Business Coalition. The group, most of them business owners on the Gainesville square, are banding together to bring more events downtown after the relocation of the Spring Chicken Festival and Beach Bash. But it hasn’t been all fun and games, as the group was started out of frustration with Main Street Gainesville, a city-affiliated group charged with promoting downtown through events, advertising and social media. Have the two groups reconciled their differences? Check out our latest story and listen to this episode. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Homebuilders and remodelers should check out these featured exhibitors and speakers at IBS 2019 in Vegas.  You'll also get some tips for eliminating chaos and making time slow down. Tips for Eliminating Chaos and Making Time Slow Down: Batch communication with customers Focus on the handoff points in your project Clearly establish roles and responsibilities Fire yourself from bookkeeping, and partner with a company like Apparatus Contractor Services. Run your business "right to left" using the Revenue Maximizer method  "Just starting to think "right to left" has been a huge lead domino...I'm starting to enjoy my job.  I haven't enjoyed my job in a long time. I see things unfolding and I have hope now."  Thomas A. Click here to get the Revenue Maximizer program at no cost with your free 10 day test drive of the Construction Business Accelerator.   Featured Exhibits You Should Check Out at IBS 2019 in Las Vegas: STACK Construction Technologies STACK Construction Technologies provides cloud-based, takeoff and estimating software that can be used by all types of contractors including custom home builders, general contractors, roofers, painters, flooring installers, drywallers, landscapers, plumbers and other trades. Booth Location: Visit STACK in Booth #SU216 located in the South Hall.   Website:  www.stackct.com   CoConstruct   CoConstruct is a web and mobile based Construction Management System for custom home builders and remodelers, and their mission us to reduce chaos in your day to create a rewarding building experience for both you and your clients.   Thousands of companies rely on CoConstruct every day to coordinate their projects, communicate with their clients and crew, and control all the financials of their business.   Booth Location: Visit the CoConstruct team in Booth # SU1025   Website: www.coconstruct.com   Featured Presentations You Should Check Out at IBS 2019 in Las Vegas:   #1. Managing Business Growth: A Roadmap for Taking the Leap from Small to Medium & Beyond - Spencer Padgett A small builder's business is in constant flux, and finding an avenue for growth can be daunting. The ability to scale sales, operations, construction supervision and client services allows growth to happen—but only if it is tightly managed and the risks are addressed. (Click here for more details)     #2. Hunting for Unicorns: Creating the Skilled Labor You Need by Attracting & Cultivating Talent - Shawn Van Dyke   This advanced session explores why construction companies must shift from "hiring for skill" to "recruiting for talent" in order to remain relevant in the coming years, and how to develop recruiting, hiring, and training practices that show Millennials a path...(Click here for more details)     #3. Learning and Growing Through Podcasts - Devon Tilly   When was the last time you signed up for a course, read a business management book or went to an HBA meeting to hear a great speaker? It’s likely that most builders haven’t done more than one of those things in the past year.  (Click here for more details)   #4. It's Not a Skilled Labor Problem...It's a Process Problem - Todd Dawalt   The skilled labor shortage in the construction industry isn't really a "problem."  The shortage of skilled labor is actually a symptom of an underlying process problem.  In this session you will uncover some of the process problems hidden in plain sight, how another industry is addressing its skilled labor shortage and what you can do, such as adopting offsite building solutions, to relieve the strain on your labor force before you hire more employees.  (Click here for more details)  

We’ve got a special episode of Inside The Times this week: Listen to Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish address the recent shootings in Gainesville and hear how Gainesville officers respond to serious crimes. Officers pulling 24-hour shifts, handling hundreds of leads, working with multiple law enforcement agencies: A huge amount of effort, time and resources can go into investigations. Parrish also talks about adjustments being made in patrols and shifts to try to prevent future crime in the Park Hill Road area. And, on the lighter side, he’ll tell you which TV crime shows get it right. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

This year isn’t off to the greatest of starts in Gainesville and Hall County. Beginning Jan. 12, there have been 10 separate incidents of shootings, assaults and gunfire that left three people dead and four injured in the area. The Times staff digs into the details of each incident, including two high-profile murder cases, one in Gainesville and another in the Hall County side of Buford. New Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish has addressed the most recent shooting in the city, which left well-known businessman Jack Hough dead in a CVS parking lot. A suspect has been arrested and is cooperating with the investigation, according to police. A suspect also is in custody in the Buford shooting. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

People have strong opinions about Trump. Some of those opinions appear in our paper. The Times and other local newspapers aren’t just sources of fact and features, but of opinion. We print columns, letters to the editor and editorials on the Opinion page in the newspaper — a space that allows members of the community to sound off on issues that are important to them. Local taxes, national politics and climate change are frequent subjects of debate. In this episode, we break down why we run opinion pieces, where they’re published and how they differ from one another. You can find our opinion section online at gainesvilletimes.com/opinion. We also publish editorials written by staff members of our editorial board. Our latest editorial addresses the State of the Union. If you want to share your own opinion on an issue of local concern, write no more than 500 words and send to letters@gainesvilletimes.com. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

Why is the city moving events out of downtown Gainesville? First, the Spring Chicken Festival moved to Longwood Park. Next, the Beach Bash moved to the Lake Lanier Olympic Park. The moves connect to the Parkside on the Square project planned for downtown Gainesville. Both the festival and the Beach Bash use the wide parking lot on the fourth side of the square — that same lot that will eventually be home to Parkside. Gainesville has come a long way from the days of its downtown dying after 5 p.m. each day. With the loosening of local alcohol rules, new restaurants and a couple of bars, downtown Gainesville is becoming a more interesting place to be later into the day. And that is creating some growth, reflected by the Parkside project, and change. Hear Shannon, Kelsey and Nick talk about the changes coming downtown and what that might look like into the future. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

EP160 - CES 2019 Recap, and NRF Update Episode 160 is a recap of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, and an update from the Nation Retail Federation Big Show. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 160 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, January 14th, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 160 being recorded on Monday January 14th, 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your clothes Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Jason a welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason's is one of those rare episodes where we are actually in the same room. Jason: [0:47] I know it's super exciting I've always enjoyed getting the opportunity to spend some real life time with you. Scot: [0:53] Collie time yeah yeah so we are live live life here from New York City I am looking out of Jason's fancy hotel room and I can see the Empire State Building which is home to many Amazon stores and fulfillment centers near in New York. Jason: [1:08] And there's a Starbucks in that building that delivers. Scot: [1:13] Leave it to Jason to know some Starbucks trivia. Jason: [1:15] I'm desperate to find a way to work in a building. Scot: [1:18] What is January weather in New York City that can only mean one thing we are here for the national retail Federation Big Show that are at Big Show and in that Spirit tonight's theme is trippy parts are are fearless reporter Jason has been traveling the world to bring you the latest and greatest information about what's going on out there I'm in first you want to cover he is you went straight back to back I think from Vegas to New York by past the family so hi and bye guys and he is going to start out with ACS report and tell us what's going on there and then we'll jump it in her up so what's good to talk Jason with what were some interesting things you saw at CES that had retail implications. Jason: [2:03] Yeah so I feel like there was a fair amount of retail specific stuff at CES this year while the number of retailers had boo, and so a lot of the Chinese retailers in particular had big boost to TSO Ali Baba had a big boost there for, Services they would promote in the US are like, their supplier services in their B2B Services they have a an alternative to AWS in China that they would offer to Western companies that want need to host Platforms in China, but the bulk and they had one novelty they were showing and a new, voice translation capability that was real time audio translation so Google kind of made some Buzz at the show by announcing these this new generation of their, translate that lets you talk in your phone at transposes it in another language, but you hang your phone into someone they can read it in their language speaking their language and you can kind of hand the phone back and forth so Alibaba came up with this technology we're in real time you talking to him. And the guy next to you here's a translation in his native language and speech back to you so I got to speak to someone who is in need of Mandarin speaker and like. [3:29] It mostly worked it's not like the grammar is a little, monkey but you could totally get the antenna. Scot: [3:35] Is like a translator where you speak and then you pause and it speaks and then the other person speaks and you pause so it's got like that and if you. Jason: [3:42] So that the Google when is the definite pause in this Ali Baba one if you're speaking long enough they will get the translation before you finish. Scot: [3:53] It's hard to like keep your brain going while the things speaking in a foreign language. Jason: [3:59] Intended for remote interactions they're demoing it in a you're standing right next to the person but you are kind of in a isolated Booth so you only heard. But it's remarkable how well that technology is getting the Star Trek Universal translator is basically here. Scot: [4:18] Or the Babel Fish. Jason: [4:20] Absolutely so but half of Ali Baba's Booth was focused on, predominantly consumer electronics and Home Products that Ali Baba designs manufactures and sells on the platform so in addition to being a retailer and a service provider, Alibaba is a product manufacturer and then their own hand sets that are sold in China they have a bunch of like, smart home appliances and things and their pitches. Scot: [4:51] Is there. Jason: [4:53] Leveraging all the data and warnings from their their voluminous shopping interactions to identify needs in the market and design these products, and I into a half a booth was dedicated to promoting those products and potentially selling those products in New Markets, and I say that because that's a amongst all these retailers so jd.com, which is like the second biggest e-commerce site in China Alibaba zapier Marketplace they don't actually sell their own stuff other than those, products that they make jd.com is primarily a direct seller so they're more retailer that, sell wholesale products in China they also had a big booth, same story half their Booth was dedicated to products manufactured by jd.com sort of reinforcing this theme that, retailers that had the most intimacy with the consumers have the most inside that they can use to make the most relevant products, what time is also showing some of the retail technology so, in China jd.com is doing pretty significant amount of deliveries via drone in so they were showing all their drones. Scot: [6:11] The drum Vehicles usually say drown people. Jason: [6:12] Usually when we say drone people think of the quadcopter that's flying packages and jd.com. Scot: [6:18] Does have a like high payload quadcopter and they claim. Jason: [6:19] Does have a like high payload quadcopter and they claim that they make, thousands of deliveries a day with these things in in remote villages, but the way higher volume stuff is they have autonomous vehicles these little mini size Vehicles even smaller than like a smart car that are mostly like storage capacity and it's kind of like, shopping cart the drive to your house and so those things are kind of interesting they were showing some of the, version of Amazon go type technology so they have vending machines that use facial recognition and so you've you've basically like storage a WeChat credential, and you walk up the vending machine you just open the door take whatever you want and it it authenticate you with your face and charges your tencent account. For the purchases so that was interesting. Scot: [7:15] Alibaba has technology like that too for their The Coloradoan o and said omni-channel they call it online and offline 02. Jason: [7:23] Yeah online to offline and and Alibaba definitely has initiative facial recognition they have pay with a smile that, like I Smile as a gesture after the face recognition to to initiate transactions I didn't specifically see them demoing that in their Booth this year, definitely. [7:43] The Chinese providers are like big ecosystems of of these interesting Services some oriented at Commerce of some sort of broader than that, the third Chinese retailer there that would be even less familiar to listeners unless you spend some time in the Chinese market is, I called sooning and they're the largest brick-and-mortar retail are in China there a conglomerate that owns a bunch of different kinds of stores, the biggest chain is like 1700 consumer electronics and home appliance store so sort of like a Best Buy in China, they had a booth and in their Booth they were primarily showing technology that they had developed for experiences inside of retail store, they were showing produce displays for a grocery store that way all the, the produce inside they detect when the weight on the Shelf changes so they know an apple got picked up for a banana got picked up and they have a digital sign that shows you, product content relevant to that banana what form the banana came from how many days it'll be fresh all those sorts of things that a lot of in-store analytics so they were using video system to measure store traffic and I grabbed while time and all that sort of stuff. [9:01] They had a, at self-checkout experience they had a virtual try-on experience where your body was mapped in 3D and so they, apparel on you that's not paper towels in front of you it sort of on your body and is you turn you see the profile and all that sort of stuff so they had all these, different retail vignette showing technology that they had developed for their stores and what was interesting / peculiar, a bunch of these people had badges from Palo Alto California from sooning I asked and they said they had a R&D lab in Palo Alto they have no, that's out of Asia like they're mostly in China that a few stores in like Hong Kong there. Scot: [9:48] There depends in the booth. Jason: [9:49] There comes in the booth they're not trying to sell any of this retail technology to other retailers they're not trying to license anything outside of their home market and so. Scot: [9:58] It baffles me why they would send it. Jason: [9:59] Cuddles me why they would spend a bunch of money and have a booth at CES I mean it, my Boost at CES just to generate PR going to be Western press. Scot: [10:15] Maybe there are a lot of people go to CS cuz there's the component that is good place to go get little Lego blocks right so maybe they were trying to get, component vendors to say hey come up with a cheaper screen for our future digital self or something sometime sometimes those kind of conversations. Jason: [10:32] Totally viable that that would be a good place to like find new vendors and show them some of the things they're working on it. Scot: [10:38] Expensive way to do it so well these guys gaited in like a retail technology or like you stumbled upon them as you walk the moon. Jason: [10:46] Yeah mostly you would StumbleUpon I'm so that, the Busa TSR sort of loosely grouped by use case so most of CES is into big venues the Las Vegas Convention Center which has three big Halls the North Central and South Hall, and then the Sands convention center which is still called The Sands convention center but it's actually not connected to the Venetian Hotel, the North Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center is mostly Automotive so none of the boots I mentioned are there the central Hall is sort of the original CES Hall it's all the television and home entertainment and. Berkeley the biggest longest running consumer electronic companies have boots and exhibited forever so that the huge Marquee booths in the central Hall are Sony Samsung and LG, so Ali Baba had a very big boost, in that Central Hall not quite as big as like those three but the next step down from those three, The prominent location and I presume that was cuz they were trying to emphasize their home entertainment products predominantly. Southall was computers audio technology drones and Robotics in their way, retail Pavilion so none of the. Scot: [12:15] So none of the companies I. Jason: [12:16] Engine wear in the high-tech retail Pavilion the high-tech retail Pavilion was. Scot: [12:18] Small. Jason: [12:21] A small splattering of Technology vendors that had sort of Point Solutions so there was like, vendor that was doing like virtual makeup there's a vendor that's doing geolocation in the store, and some reason why even more preferred vendors of vendor that sells vending machines that clean your eyeglasses while you wait that they're trying to sell the retail stores. In the most Buzzy thing in the in the high-tech retail Pavilion was a bread box in an autonomous Self Service vending machine that bakes the bread and then dispenses freshly baked. So the bread. Was kind of a hot Buzzy thing but like if you walk this high-tech the billion at CES it feels. Scot: [13:12] Small subset of what you'll be here in New York at the. Jason: [13:13] Subset of what you'll you'd see here in New York at The Innovation Pavilion in inner mouth. Invite if you're going to exhibit one showing you're one of these small vendors CES does not feel like the right show to meet a bunch of, retailers that would be interested in your products so I didn't spend a lot of time there sooning and JD were in that Southall, the so those were all the sort of retail Focus boost and Walmart does have a booth in that Southall that was sort of just outside the high the high tech The Village, and it's basically their jet booth in it's basically recruiting sellers for the jet / mart Walmart marketplace, for the first time. Amazon had went from no real booth at CES that's in small presence in the past and. Scot: [14:09] We've had Marketplace boots where they recruit sellers. Jason: [14:12] Voice Booth before they've had like the treasure truck and then the last several years they, if that works with Alexa in a million votes in the show 4000 both sent one gaze exhibit space so the first thing they did, talk about it this on the show before but a gimmick than Amazon does the corporate headquarters is they give away free bananas, 2 employees and random people walking by their headquarters in Seattle, exhibit hall there was a Amazon banana stand giving away free bananas that just felt like a brand building thing and they had like a social media contest where they're encouraging you to, tweet out the banana stand and in Winsome Echo prizes. Did I saw they did not have a Marketplace booth that a dedicated booth in the automotive section talking about Alexa for automotive integration, I said I was in the North Hall it had the biotin which is a Chinese, vaporware all electric car that was debuted last year that's a new models this year and Amazon had that in their Automotive section the outside of BMW in there and they're talking about cars that have heavy, Alexa integration in the dash as the cabin 10. Scot: [15:32] Yes I borrow the Amazon Alexa Auto is supposedly shipping I don't know I couldn't I did not get invited to get in. Jason: [15:40] I confess I did not try I probably should have. I feel something that I feel like you called me out of the podcast thanks for. Scot: [15:48] You really let here. Jason: [15:49] Exactly the first episode this year that you didn't. Scot: [15:52] Mock my title. Jason: [15:54] You're like mocking me for. Scot: [15:55] I think if you're a chief creative digital strategy officer you would have had this figured. Jason: [16:01] I would have figured out how to get a Amazon how to enter. Prisoners of the Amazon Auto is a device you can plug into the auxiliary audio input in your car that that sort of, is a OEM Alexa that you can add to your car the people are up ridiculous got her excited about, so they had this Auto thing they were that was mostly probably targeted other car manufacturers to you know convince them that they should be using Alexa, in the Sands Amazon had a huge exhibit, demonstrating all of the devices that have Alexa integrated into them and that was a super high traffic Booth so Amazon had a huge footprint at the show through all these different booths. Scot: [16:48] That's how you tweeted a toilet from that exhibit. Jason: [16:54] I treated a Kohler toilet that has Amazon in. Scot: [16:58] That was not a. Jason: [16:59] That was not actually in Amazon's Booth it was in coolers booth that we do all definitely need this toilet has a automatic. Open and close function in so you can use Alexa to put the toilet seat down which could potentially result some marital problems and some some relationships. Scot: [17:14] No problems in some relationships with the. Jason: [17:18] Use case is by. Just to have an Alexa in your bathroom so you can do things like run the water set the mood lighting play music do you know it's more of a bathroom control than a specific toilet control. Scot: [17:31] But if you ask me it's a pretty crappy integration. Jason: [17:34] Balloon pump. Fancy bday in it so you can do things like pre-heat your toilet with. For people that live a different life than I I do. Send anywhere couple other boots that had some like just interesting retail vignettes in them so Qualcomm is a big chip manufacturer there would have called ingredient company they make, Epson ink a lot of the devices we use in their most famous for making Wireless chips that are in a lot of the cell phones for a long time they were in Apple phones but now there's a big falling out in so I don't think Apple phones use Qualcomm chips anymore. Mom was showing a whole set of retail use cases that were. [18:20] Enhance by the coming internet of things so they made a simulated music festival and they showed examples of digital signs. [18:30] We're Dynamic can change based on the composition of the crowd they're using video Analytics, image of the crowd and their departed and they're doing sort of artificial intelligence digital signage based on all of these these signals that the signs were in taking they Envision that you would have morrible beer carts in this music festival, and all the mobile beer carts knew exactly how much beer they were on had left and they knew, the crowd was in the area where the cart was in so they could do things like, say hey we have too much beer over a year in this part of the Pavilion and there's way more demand over here but let's tell the cart to move to where the demand is order replenish, I meant to do those kinds of things they were showing up pretty robust. [19:20] Digital fact egg use case which I've talked a lot about my Affinity for digital fact eggs, downsides of most digital fact exhibitions today is that use proprietary Wireless Solutions so you put these tags on your shelf and you have to buy a hub, from that manufacture or a bunch of hugs that, speak over proprietary frequency and protocol to all the tags to Qualcomm things hey these tags are big thing there ought to be a lot more of them but they out of use Open Standards like Wi-Fi mesh and Bluetooth sobaka, showing some reference designs for that they're showing a lot of video analytics to measure the crowd and know how many people. [20:02] I was enjoying the music or not and you know they had to use cases where they would change the genre of music is the crab is losing interest and things like that, yeah so they were they were I wouldn't say any of the customer experience words were perfectly Polished but they were you don't thinking about how. Well then you could change the retail experience which is which is interesting to me Panasonic. Scot: [20:27] I just wanted to detect when there's more than a hundred people in the store and caught more cash registers. Jason: [20:35] Obviously if you have those video analytics like they're certainly are simple people counters that are they exactly there's too many people in line at the cash register but your. Scot: [20:43] Got your right light. Jason: [20:45] The proactive way to solve that problem is know how many people came in the store know what the average dwell time is and be proactive like once once there's too many people in line it's kind of too late. Scot: [20:54] I feel like there's all these people cuz they're on the mountain they think about all these user experiences and women really nailed some of the basic ones yet down the kind of at the bottom of the mountain. Jason: [21:03] I think that's up for sure theme of these two shows is that so I could see to show a lot of the bells and whistles and there's still a lot of blocking tackling to be one, Panasonic had a like an additional the Consumer Electronics they were showing a new pickup Locker so a buy online pickup in-store, at a locker experience. Scot: [21:24] And they're trying to solve. Jason: [21:24] They're trying to solve a very real problem. Walkers for produce so they had lockers that were refrigerated and lockers that were freezers and so they're in their Vision was, you buy the groceries they partition your groceries into cold and Frozen, put them in these refrigerated automated Walkers and so it sort of like Amazon Locker for perishables. Scot: [21:50] That's something that's like active in Japan and they're trying to bring to other countries or is it was. Jason: [21:55] I think the Panasonic probably isn't used anywhere I think it's a brand new product that they Envision selling to retailers so we'll see if that gets any traction they also had like. A common theme in CES in a shiny bauble a lot of people talk about is blockchain so they had a. A food cart that was an autonomous vehicle that drove the produce to your house and it had self checkout and it had blockchain for all the produce so you could you know know the, you could verify the origin of all the produce in them anything was recalled or something like that a little silly and more forward-looking that interesting that they, spent a bunch of the space and they're super expensive CES Booth to think of these sort of retail vignettes and then much more interesting to me. [22:46] John always has a big booth there despite the fact that way, Cameron sales are decreasing dramatically as everyone uses their smartphone but, built-in their Booth a bunch of, Instagram photo opportunities and you walk around CES and people were standing in line for like 30 minutes, picture taken in a bathtub full of yellow ping pong balls or in a swimming pool full of rubber duckies or you know all these these different like super colorful well-lit vignettes and very much reminded me, might there now he's dead a dedicated Instagram experience tours things like the Ice Cream Factory in San Francisco where people pay forty bucks to, coincide a venue that has a bunch of pretty sets to take photos of themselves to share on social media in, it's great experiential we talked a lot with retailers about creating opportunities for digital souvenirs for your Shoppers and it and the Nikon booth just seemed like a particular good example of, of creating these these digital experience as a sort of mementos of your visit to the booth and it seems like a smart tactic for retailers to be thinking about. We've heard of some retailers even using the amount of the social media that their physical store generates has a kpi which is interesting and then last. Scot: [24:15] And then last there's a. Jason: [24:18] Avenger there it's been there for a couple years called physics and physics is taking up the mantle of Google Glass so they, glasses that you wear that have an augmented reality display that are primarily intended for industrial purposes so, car mechanic to wear that has like schematics of the automobile well while they're working this year they, they debuted their first consumer product which is $1,000 clone of Google Glass as a much higher res screen that's much bigger, I wouldn't say it looks any better than Google Glass much more processing power behind it and, not sure they're ever going to sell a lot of these but it was interesting the created a bunch of vignettes for how people might use them in one of the vignettes was a shopping vignette where you could put on their prototype glasses walk into the setup store, and they would everything all the product packaging you look at. [25:22] The physical packaging with digital information like is a gluten-free is a kosher all this sort of things and I do think that, augmented reality. A for product information is really interesting sort of thing people are way more likely to use their phones that they already own and carry with them than they are to use these for project glasses but it was a nice visualization of the con. Scot: [25:48] Yeah I wanted to tell me where on the Shelf to find it cuz my wife wants a very specific thing and then I spend like the bulk of my time finding that very specific thing. Jason: [25:56] They absolutely did have that use case like we caught wayfinding we're essentially. You about a list in the the classes have sort of GPS directions saying turn left turn right and walk you to the to your wife's items so she that would definitely approve the wife approval factor in your family. Scot: [26:12] Awesome I need all that I can get. Jason: [26:14] Yeah so that was a lot of the stuff that jumped out at me as being particularly retail specific at the show. Scot: [26:20] Cool and so as you know I've been thinking a lot about the future vehicles and I saw there was tons of interesting news that came out of Cs around autonomous vehicles in electric vehicles one thing that's kind of the summer I saw lead with the CEO of waymo was out there saying hey the sky prior to see us become admitted in an interview with reporter he doesn't see us getting to 100% autonomy so they've been running these vehicles millions of miles even like tens of millions of simulated miles with the finding are they to do okay in perfect stereos but things like tree shadows and then as weather gets bad like Randy Rhoads they do really poorly, it's one of the things I saw out there was kind of more limited autonomous vehicles so shuttle service that will go from point A to point C kind of thing did you see any of those when you write CS. Jason: [27:18] So an interesting Cadence you Tennessee at CES is, people show very early prototypes of stuff it's not going to be in the market for many years right tires used TV is the sort of example, before there's ever any content or you could ever buy a TV that has 8K resolution, there's a bunch of 8K TVs that are kind of Novelties so that when you're when you're you go there and it's like a magic there's a TV with twice as many dots as you've ever seen before you can't buy it for several years but it's cool though. Scot: [27:49] Look at this picture of an apple spinning with some cool water blobs on it. Jason: [27:55] Next year is it gets closer to reality there's there often are way less of those TVs because the the few, being shown now are, really store close to release and they're usually pretty rough because even though they've commercialize this TV in the ready to sell it and they have things they didn't have the year before like a price they still lack any content right there. Of examples and almost feels like it loses traction as it's getting closer to commercialization and then you come to the show the third year and it's like, ATV 8K TVs are ready for the general public now every TV you see is a k and that's sort of the the the Cadence so in autonomous vehicles last year felt like the year when, everybody had autonomous vehicles just for the novelty of it and so like, all the car manufacturers are showing and Thomas Vehicles a bunch of companies we've never heard of where showing autonomous vehicles and all the ingredient companies like Qualcomm and Intel were mainly talking about how their chips are driving autonomous vehicles in video which does a lot of the, the heavy processing for the vehicle like everybody's talking about it this year. Middle year there was less autonomous vehicle hype the autonomous vehicles shown. [29:19] Completely commercialized or ready for Primetime that it felt like the vendors were having more practical conversations with them so it like. TVs can probably iterate faster than a trama vehicles. Scot: [29:30] Very fast. Jason: [29:33] Saying you shall expect that we're all be driving autonomous vehicles next year but it feels like we're in the middle of that cycle so. Scot: [29:38] Cycle so. Jason: [29:41] The consumer car companies were away last emphasizing that autonomous vehicles the BMW's and in Honda's Ford Tollbooth last year was dedicated to autonomous vehicles that wasn't true this year. A lot more B2B autonomous vehicle use cases were being shown and it was like public transportation people movers it was a lot of these autonomous drone delivery of package, on public roads or in hotels are all these different use cases like that in the world bunch of commercials, like use cases like there's a lot of people that are pitching like, way before we have truly autonomous vehicles will have commercial trucks that are autonomous on the freeway and they hand over control to a remote operator, when I get off the freeway for example and so there are more of those kind of use cases. Scot: [30:38] I think it's interesting cuz I'll be a freak we have the news on when I'm like working and I'll hear some talking head come on and say you know, we should plan on vast unemployment in 5 years cuz of all these we won't need truck drivers and Uber drivers and everything, we've lived the Commerce experience for 20 years and we're at fitting on whose numbers look at 15 to 20% penetration so, I think you know I think that's a little bit further out than people think it is I think they're the kind of reading too much into. Jason: [31:12] Everything I say is not going to put truck driver like 50,000 truck driver short of what we need right now right away. Scot: [31:18] Same time. Jason: [31:21] I can't hire enough truck drivers in they're all like escalating pay and competing with each other and so the premises if the trucks can run at honesty in the freeway but then, operator has to Take Over Control. Scot: [31:32] Take Over Control. Jason: [31:33] To drive it off the freeway to the the store or the DC you still need people. A person can now manage more trucks they can essentially they have more delivery capacity for their labor and so the. Scot: [31:48] The premise is. Jason: [31:50] What's close the gap between supply and demand like probably doesn't like obsolete a bunch of jobs in the foreseeable future. Scot: [31:59] But even then I go back to like my previous statement like my cell phone drops out a lot right jack making calls and, I get really nervous of some guy in Phoenix driving a truck across five trucks across country in, is is LTE drops out when he's on the ramp there I'm not sure where you can quite ready for a lot of these guys take a lot longer than people think. Jason: [32:26] Absolutely well in there like they talked about like there's three fundamental technology platforms that need to happen that haven't happened yet. They're all saying that like for their. Scot: [32:37] Brittany practical for there to be a lot of autonomous. Jason: [32:39] To be a lot of autonomous vehicles, Gambia islands like the vehicles actually have to talk to each other and know where they are right and so not only do you need that good Wireless communication that you mentioned like you can't have the LTE but it's there's way more connections cuz I'll. Scot: [32:53] Way more connections cuz all the vehicles are two paragraphs. Jason: [32:55] And so the premise is that when 5G is Broad we deploy the next generation of Wireless technology. Attributes that are more friendly to autonomous vehicles it's faster it has way more capacity for more devices and most importantly, has way lower latency which is super important for like you can't you can't have the wireless going there's a dude in front of you and then have 130 millisecond lag before you hit the brakes. [33:26] Where it where we see you're away from 5G being deployed at all much less like ubiquitously deployed and for your point, maybe it'll work as well as promise maybe it won't there's a huge. No One Believes that these things can be autonomous by just using cameras and sensors they all need this light our technology in the light our is kind of like a laser version of radar, and there's a lots of controversy like the best working lidars are super expensive and have some negative side effects like, potentially could blind people and they could ruin, regular CCD cameras and so there's actually this big problem the vehicles need regular cameras and lidar and the lidar actually burns the the regular cameras, signs of light are there way safer for devices and eyeballs but it has range limitations and things like that, that's tough to be figured out so I totally agree like I think cars are going to have more, amenities for easing driving in the near future but I like yeah I don't think we're just going to be like picking picking menus on Google Maps and and arriving there. Scot: [34:39] Switching gears pun intended there another thing you touched on was voice and I remember last year you kind of proclaimed it was the year that Amazon kind of stole CES arrest reports that apple with their Siri platform in a Google with their assistant platform I tried to kind of catch up to Alexa at CES this year although Apple didn't have a booth which I think was one of the first time so how would you score those three kind of contenders and how they did. Jason: [35:11] Why would I should go back two years I'd say 2 years ago. Scot: [35:13] 2 years ago. Jason: [35:15] Amazon had to show to themselves until they tell you what they didn't have a booth but they were, embedded in their bunch of products that work with Alexa 2 years ago and last year the hand, who's that work with Alexa turned into thousands of boost that had products that work with Alexa so again Amazon didn't really pay for a booth but they got huge buzz and footprint in their logo was everywhere on the show Google show, last year but it was mostly with an advertising present so they had their own booth that they paid for the page. There their logo on all the trans in Las Vegas and all the taxis until you're just looking around Las Vegas you go oh man I saw a bunch of Google. Scot: [35:58] Google logo. Jason: [35:59] And I saw a bunch of Amazon logos but I would argue Amazon dominated because, all the Amazon logos were free and they were in products you could buy and the Google logos were mostly, paid advertisements for for a handful of Google products that did not have huge penetration so now fast forward to this year and I feel like, continue to make progress the Google is starting to catch up so the most common thing you would see now in a, is in Words with Alexa and works with Google Assistant logos side by side it was on, we agreed on the treatments and so there are lots of Brands where support for both products were in there to remind listeners which kind of two tiers of products there's products, Alexa in it so it actually like is the assistant than you usually can talk to it, and there's products that work with Alexa right like so a light bulb you know works with Alexa Smart Lock Works with Alexa a Bose or Sonos speaker, probably has Alexa built into it the toilet odd we had Alexa built into it. Scot: [37:19] They're both so you can you just kind of switch conversations and haven't OK Google / Alexa conversation. Jason: [37:25] So they the ones that I saw mostly had an interface in you selected one of the other like I assume you could pretty seamlessly toggle back and forth but it wasn't like, you could use either utterance and Trigger either assistant and way more common was devices that worked with both than that had both embedded in it like a lot of appliances like a refrigerator, might have a smart assistant embedded in it that you actually bought one ski or the other you bought the Google Assistant version or you bought the Alexa version. Scot: [37:58] And I've noticed you haven't said Siri in this conversation. Jason: [38:02] So I sew a Amazon his net, Apple has never had a booth at CES or at least in modern era has never had a booth at CES they many years they winzy yes because they launch the iPhone 11 years ago, during CEO never one time and they sucked all the announcement out and Walt Mossberg was at CES and Steve Jobs called him and said hey we're having this event and I really think you ought to come mini cannons wall, wces and go to the the first iPhone announcement, and their many years when the most prominent product category at the show is stuff that worked with iPhones or that work with Apple products but Apple's never had a booth and again they did not did not, for home pod this year so they still didn't have a booth I'm sure they had sweets where they were talking privately but there is very little. Siri stuff embedded in products and to my knowledge I didn't see any products where it was like. Google Amazon or Siri it felt like a two-way party the one place where Apple in are two places where Apple integration showed up heavily, the the Sands has a hall dedicated to home automation and apple has a platform called home kits. Scot: [39:26] So that every exhibitor. Jason: [39:28] In the home automation section probably had a logo saying it was home Tech compatible and again Appleton have a booth in that section that homekit was definitely the most prevalent. Call for home automation and then surprised that Apple pulled off at this show. Who is famously sort of Walled Garden company. A good experience you have to buy all our products if you want Apple TV you have to buy an Apple TV if you want Apple music you have to listen to it on the Apple product I'm so proud to show, you saw those walls are eroding, Apple actually launched a skill for Alexa that what you listen to your Apple music on your Amazon device which is unprecedented in shocking and then you got to CES this year and surprise. Scot: [40:19] Apple in embedded. Jason: [40:19] Embedded are play in most of the major TV manufacturers platforms so you now can get all the, Apple TV content on a Samsung or LG TV without needing external hardware and the, very likely is going to have a meaningful impact on Apple TV sales, Roku is already destroying Apple TV in terms of market share in this will probably make it worse, everyone's assumption is that Apple's about to make a major content Play Everybody expects Apple to have a pay-per-view video offering, in the near future the complete compete with Netflix and the, how has essentially as you can already buy individual content from Apple Apple is essentially made this decision that they can make more money, as a Content publisher and they want to have his brought a market for their content as possible so they made this dream that, from being a Walled Garden to being a open system that works with as many providers as possible. Scot: [41:26] We've talked about it seems like things are thawing between Apple and Amazon these know so let's see, Prime TV showed up on Apple TVs I think was the first thing and now we're seeing them kind of so the skill being Alexa there's an apple music skill on Alexa, yes it would be interesting to see you could you have one of these Amazon Alexa TVs and get to some apple content to say say to Alexa hey ask Apple to play. Jason: [41:57] Yeah absolutely seems like it's heading that direction the one that gets voted on and off the island a lot as there's a few Alexa devices with a screen like the Alexa show and various X Alexis enabled YouTube to be on or off of those things in at the moment you can get YouTube on your Alexa show. Scot: [42:15] So anything else from CS that you want to hit. Jason: [42:20] So we touch on a couple of these in so I'm not going to Deep dive anyone but just us or the Highlight if you walked away from the show and said hey what. Scot: [42:26] Walk away from the show and said hey what were the. Jason: [42:28] Themes of this year show. Underpinning in this whole show is there's this new thing coming that's not quite here yet called 5G and so falling that same kind of. Nioh release actually released last, a ton of 5G height with fake products this year there were fewer boost talking about 5G but they seemed very close and the the carriers have all announced that they have, it's now and they're going to be doing appointments throughout the year and it don't have sort of meaningful penetration of 5G by the end of 2019 now that, you can take multiple years to have the kind of 5G coverage that we enjoy the day with LTE which is the 4G network. It really feels like we're at least a year away from meaningful consumer experiences and in fact there's like controversy. Scot: [43:22] Factors like controversy this the earlier. Jason: [43:24] IG this happens with every new iteration AT&T has rebranded some of their for G, at work is 5G and they they got like a lot of funny social media Burns Teemo, a funny video where they took a iPhone in AT&T iPhone and it showed the, you have 5 bars of 4G LTE signal and they they wrote 5G on a Post-It note and like, put it over the icon on the iPhone and said hang on a minute I'm doing a AT&T upgrade and it was sort of a joke that they just rebranded 4 G is 5 G, so so that's coming everyone thinks that's going to be a huge game-changer when you can have a thousand times more devices connected, and all those devices can have a hundred times faster bandwidth and they can have you know at 10 for a hundredth of the latency that we currently have its. [44:24] You have to stop thinking about it's going to be a better cell phone and started thinking about, no one's ever going to store files on the hard drive anymore by computers I'm going to need hard drives you're just like everything's going to be on the cloud and be able to come very quickly to your ubiquitous 5G signal and so, the talk about other use cases that will change there's a ton of examples of leveraging improvements in visual search and video analytics and so there's a, they talked about how I Google Maps spent a fortune, turn cameras on cars and driving all over the country to get the images for Google Maps there's a company that sells the dash cams to all the taxi drivers. Scot: [45:08] And they're like. Jason: [45:10] We have GPS in the car we have all this dashcam video we can extract video from all the cab drivers in crowdsource better images than Google, and so there's a lot of. Qualcomm using video. To do crowdanalytix tons of Booth had this experience I hate where they they use video to try to infer the the mood of the, the audience and hey we can show happy content to the audiences sad, another number boost showing like we can tell old people and young people and sick people in healthy people and change the content there's a lot of controversy over that stuff. Scot: [45:46] What is clear the technology. Jason: [45:49] LG to quantify video and turn it into actionable analytics is like is incrementally improving and video visual searches is going to be a game-changer for a bunch of stuff, so that was a big Trend a big Trend was, a bunch of vendors shifting from their Walled Garden approaches to open system so Apple was the most dramatic but in the old days Samsung would try to make it use Bigsby and do everything with their smart home protocol, felt like the manufacturer is kind of thrown in the towel on being walled Gardens and, for several years there's been a connected home and a connected Health Hall at the Sands Hall but I tell people, if you walk around the TV Hall the central Hall at CES it feel, Legend Mall of America on Christmas Eve like it's super stressful it feels like you don't have enough room to breathe and walk and when you go to the Sands with this newer Technologies I connected home and connected health. Felt relaxing because like there's more room it was West busy and this year felt like the year when those Halls flipped that like was much of. Scot: [46:56] Her comfortable and less chaotic. Jason: [46:56] Unless chaotic in the central Hall showing all the home video technology and it was wall-to-wall energy and Chaos in the connected home and connected health so very unscientific lie, it feels like those categories are really starting to get some traction. Scot: [47:13] And apples playing that in addition dumb could have helped get right so what did you see a lot of your healthkit kind of stuff. Jason: [47:24] Homekit literally had a dedicated part of the hall so all the products that work with homekit when one place the connected Fitness area had a lot of, products that support an apple healthkit a ton of apple competitors so I got to see the new, new watch has an EEG in it and if you start having irregular heartbeat I'll be able to save you if I choose, ton of ieg products and frankly some of them that make more sense like blood pressure cuffs that also do an EEG like so there was stuff that work for that ball there was stuff that competed with apple there were sensors for every, Endeavor you could possibly imagine so if your baseball player we've got you know censored enabled baseballs they, I can judge how well you hit it with the bad if your fisherman. Scot: [48:16] We'll put a Fitbit. Jason: [48:16] A Fitbit on your fishing pole to measure the quality of your casting whatever you want to do, there's a way to quantify it and digitize it in a way you never could do them. Scot: [48:31] Anything else from CS. Jason: [48:35] It seemed like the big the big meaty stuff I know that's a lot of lot of content but it's it's the biggest trade show in the US it's a hundred and eighty thousand people. Scot: [48:44] It feels like there's more more overlap between all the worlds which is interesting you know five years ago there would be no retail kind of stuff. So speaking retail to switch gears and come on over to NRF so did you get here Saturday or Sunday. Jason: [48:58] I came in Saturday. Scot: [49:00] So you have been here much longer than I am I was only able to come up today which is Monday so. Jason: [49:07] Wasted most of your day with me. Scot: [49:08] I did unfortunately so tell us what you've been I saw a lot of selfies and things from the show floor so so what have you seen here it interrupts the New Berlin kind of really into the show but what have you seen that you want to share with listeners. Jason: [49:24] Trans obviously Amazon go has a lot of traction and Buzz until one of the things you see here a lot are our alternatives to Amazon go so some of the. Scot: [49:34] Those are what I would call a legitimate Amazon go tape. Jason: [49:35] Legitimate Amazon go type experiences where they're sort of just walked out technology so there's a bunch of big exhibitors that have built little mini stores and can kind of demo that experience, claiming they can do it with a fraction of the cameras and cost of Amazon go and it's really hard in these controlled environments to know whether there, that's hyper or reality but a lot of vendors are claiming they can do Amazon go for a fraction of the cost and then there's a ton. Scot: [50:03] Wingo. Jason: [50:03] Climbing on Amazon GoPro alternative when really there a scan and pay alternative. Scot: [50:09] So which it is a useful and go. Jason: [50:09] So which it is a useful and good experience in and of itself I'm not knocking Scan & Go I get slightly annoyed when people try to say. The equivalent of grabbing your milk off the shelf and walking out the store without doing anything is grabbing your milk finding the barcode launching an app in your phone a mean a camera at the park, it's a it's a it's a either there different use cases but. Scot: [50:35] But they're a lot about I've seen tons of robots wandering around some of the same platform has been here for like 4 years now. Jason: [50:44] So there's like a lot of the traditional automation like most of it, dedicated Logistics so we've talked before about Amazon has these Kiva robots there's now a lot of alternatives to Kiva the other, fulfillment centers can use to automate them would say there's more of those this year and what they're now is is a bunch of robots that people are hoping you'll use in the store, so there are robots for wayfinding you come into the front of the store, you say my wife told me to get this specific item in the robots is follow me and walks to the store and gets it and there's multiple competitors they've been here the last couple years, pictures of all the shelves and they do planogram compliance the Campbell Soup is where it's supposed to be we're out of this SKU we got to get more they're all doing some some, liability compliance as well now they're taking pictures the floor to make sure there is not a trip and fall Hazard or things like that there's robots that will. Scot: [51:44] Robots that will. Jason: [51:46] Replace the instacart people in the store it seems pretty far-fetched to me. Scot: [51:50] Robot. Jason: [51:50] All around with the customers and grabs products out the Shelf to fill a shopping cart. Scot: [51:56] Robotic shopping carts. Jason: [51:57] Birds that follow you around so you don't have to push your own shopping card and use but items in the the autonomous vehicle that's chasing you around the store, a lot of robots. Mostly feel like super expensive kind of Ivy bells and whistles right now like some of the the warehouse automation is like, super effective in high Roi for for high-volume warehouses but a lot of the stuff I think is, interesting but not something we should expect to see in high-volume in stores in the near future. Scot: [52:31] That reminded me I kept seeing this video at CS of the Sluggers that would follow you around and then the video it literally runs into 4 people. Jason: [52:44] They tell you you can't bring on the plane. If your luggage has a battery in it you have to take the battery out of your luggage so if you're, luggage is also a Killer attack robot it seems like there's going to be some interesting, conversations with the FAA. Scot: [53:01] But yeah. Jason: [53:01] But yeah there's a lot of robot to CES like in terms of density robot, he's probably even more robots at interrupt this year so the robot guys are here in full strength there's a. Scot: [53:16] Money is gravitating around. Jason: [53:17] Is gravitating around the problem of apparel returns so a big reason people return a pair. Scot: [53:22] Apparel is. Jason: [53:24] Is because it doesn't fit, and tell you that they bought two sizes and returned one or they bought it expecting it to fit and they didn't so there's a bunch of companies that are using your smartphone to try to take measurements. Help you pick the right size the first time there's a bunch of companies that are having you upload your image in your measurements so that you can be busy. Scot: [53:47] You can visualize the clothes. Jason: [53:48] You can visualize the clothes on your exact body type, stuff like that that is a big Trend this year a lot of hardware and software around optimizing Logistics and reverse Logistics so vendors thinking about how to optimize returns, a ton of digital in-store in digital shelf stuff, so I every year say oh this is going to be the year of digital fact tags and so far I've mostly been wrong I'm doubling down yet again I think there's more reasons that digital fact tags will take off this year and little boys at Amazon, is using them now and it's like I could open a bunch more stores where them in Sam's Club is using them in Walmart is piloting I'm in Best Buy's piloting on the streets trying to see some real traction from, retailers that other retailers are likely to follow and the technology is getting better. Scot: [54:43] But there's a lot of other. Jason: [54:44] Digital shelf technology Kroger has developed a digital shelf that can run Co-op ads on the Shelf Edge until you think about what a big advertising platform Amazon is becoming, has a lot of. But in the store so they're trying to monetize that traffic by creating opportunities to run ads next to the real-time products so those kinds of digital shells or super interesting, the same train we saw a video analytics at CES we definitely see here that all the traffic meter guys but there's a lot of other use cases now for, analyzing video streams to do various things in the store and not so much on the show floor but in a lot of the content I was able to capture one of the big themes that's emerging this year that I really agree with is that one of. Challenges we have in Commerce is an erosion of trust between the retailer and the consumer or the brand in the consumer, I feel like, yeah with all the negative Facebook press and you know the the never ending stream of breeches like there's a lot of reason to really be worried about, the level of trust you've earned with your consumers and a lot of reason to believe that that's that's a limiting to your Market opportunity so I'm not sure anyone had the Magic Bullet for, learning that trust back or retaining that trust. Scot: [56:09] I like the fact of. Jason: [56:10] People are starting to have a conversation about explicitly trying to solve the the trust game. Scot: [56:17] Call any us some good thematic stuff anything specific to specific retailers on the content side. So I think you were at the big Gala and it seems like a lot of the winners of that Gala event or digital native Oracle Branson Center. Jason: [56:34] Has this sort of their Hall of Fame that they called the list and every year about 20 people get inducted on to this list, and they're like influencers and power Brokers and innovators and disruptors that these different categories and you know most of those almost all of those awards are targeted at retailers and so on the past you have, you know the CEO of Nike winter the CEO, Macy's are you know all these these these sort of traditional retailers in this year the overwhelming majority of retailers that won an award where, small are digital native Brands the two batters of Warby Parker where the power Brokers and the women from a way you know was a disruptor inside, it felt like a huge transition from the the traditional Legacy retailers to the the digitally native Brands which is coming. And then a bunch of the retards give key notes to be honest like it's mostly not that interesting to attend the key notes from the CEO of all these retailers because. The job not to share secrets and you don't get elevated to that level of seniority unless you're really good, that kind of Public Communication and so. Scot: [57:55] Kind of Public Communication and so. Jason: [57:58] Mostly commercials you know focused on Public Information and it doesn't feel like there's a lot of like secret new inside or advice or learnings that get shared by the CEOs of these kind of events, I might be cynical. Scot: [58:12] Yes of the one-piece Contin I saw was a professor Galway or Galloway, yeah I wanted like jump off a cliff. After that it was like super depressing. Jason: [58:21] I feel like he made you sit with. Scot: [58:22] Grab the Grim Reaper so everything is terrible and we're all going to die so thanks for that. Jason: [58:28] It's up here is not a retail apocalypse guy I think he felt like our government and our society was going to collapse. Scot: [58:33] But other than that retails going to be great. Jason: [58:38] Better-than-expected year. Scot: [58:40] Wow wow the whole society Falls. Jason: [58:44] Exactly what we'll try to find you some some Beverages and help you help you start feeling better about your future and that is a. A place to use it cuz we have used up our a lot of time as a reminder of anything came up on the show you want to discuss further or you have any questions for us we encourage you to go to Facebook and will continue the conversation there as always the biggest, appreciation you can give to us is to jump on the iTunes and give us that five star review I know there's still a few listeners that listen to the show every week that haven't made the truck over to iTunes and now would be a terrific time to do it. Scot: [59:24] Yeah thanks for joining us everyone and we will be back with the some more news from an RF later this week. Jason: [59:30] And until next time happy commercing.

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How do those Atlanta United players look so fresh when they’re winning championships? Thank Felix Zuñiga, a barber in Gainesville. This week, the gang talks about Layne Saliba’s popular story about the barber at Ivan Dominican Barbershop on John Morrow Parkway. Following a tip from a friend of a friend, Layne discovered that — thanks to a chance encounter with one of the athletes on Instagram — Zuñiga got an in with the team and in 2017 started cutting the hair of a few players with Atlanta United. In his story, Layne gives you a few behind-the-scenes tidbits about Atlanta’s team, which just won the Major League Soccer cup. Layne, sports writer Sarah Woodall and features editor Nick Bowman also talk about their favorite sports, whether “flopping” in soccer is an act of evil and whether the newly popular sport is going to stick around in the United States. If you want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

In this episode, the gang talks about reporting how the $10 million deal came together between Gainesville and the Northeast Georgia Health System for a 6.8 acre piece of property in midtown. Did Northside Hospital’s inroads into Hall County spur the deal? What sort of development will go into that lot? And what strings are now attached to the property because of the sale? The deal was approved by the Gainesville City Council in a surprise vote this October. Reporter Megan Reed has been digging since then into communication between the city and the health system to find out just how the deal was made. Through multiple interviews and open records requests, Megan got the details behind the deal that both city and hospital officials say will help shape the future of midtown. If you want want to help sustain community journalism like this in North Georgia, you can subscribe to honestly local news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, Go, a weekly food and drink newsletter, and Branch Out, a weekly newsletter focused on South Hall.

What is economic growth going to do to the identities of communities in South Hall County like Flowery Branch, Braselton and Buford? As those communities figure themselves out in the years to come — how their country roots will mesh with apartment living, high-skill jobs and classy downtowns — we’re figuring out the best way to serve them here at The Times. In this episode, we talk about what it’s like to create new products to serve communities undergoing rapid change. Starting with our new newsletter serving South Hall. Here’s how we’re pitching that weekly service (which you can get for free here): “Welcome to Branch Out, a new weekly email newsletter serving up news just for South Hall County. You'll learn where the next housing development is coming, when that new restaurant may open, what's going on in local sports and find features on the people from your neighborhood. It's all reported and edited by a team of trained journalists who know the area. We'd love to hear why you live South Hall, what you love about your community and at you think makes it unique. Reach out with your thoughts on that or with news tips and other feedback.” If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. Do so Cyber Monday and save almost 50 percent off the monthly rate. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

Should you give a homeless person cash? Is a fabulous Christmas present the best way to help a child in foster care and the families who help them? What’s Giving Tuesday all about? We answer, or at least debate, those questions and more in a podcast that we hope doesn’t come across as too judgmental.  Hear about the first-hand experiences of Shannon Casas, editor in chief and foster parent, and Joshua Silavent, education reporter who has worked as an advocate for the homeless in Hall County. They have some advice about how to best help people not only during the Christmas season but all year long. While we're sure we didn't mention all the local groups doing good work, here are some we did mention: Promise 686 Family Promise of Hall County CASA Under the Bridge Ministry Good News at Noon My Sister’s Place If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. Do so Cyber Monday and save almost 50 percent off the monthly rate. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

Reporters often catch a lot of flak for doing their jobs — being cursed at on the sidewalk, having people try to snatch cameras from their hands, trying to intimidate them out of public spaces. It’s a weird job, and we got the gang together this week to talk about one instance of verbal abuse hurled at one of our staffers. We often catch people at their best — at ceremonies, accepting awards, at meetings and in scheduled interviews -  but our reporters also often find people at their worst. We can occasionally be the some of the first people to a scene after a horrific car wreck, a fire or a difficult, embarrassing moment. This time around, it was Shannon’s turn to be on the receiving end of some unhappy people who didn’t want to be in the paper. We talk about what she experienced and how she handled it. We also talk with longtime photographer Scott Rogers, who has had more than his fair share of tense moments out in the field. If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. Do so Cyber Monday and save almost 50 percent off the monthly rate. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

What’s next for Hall County Fire Services and its new chief, Chris Armstrong? What did reporter Nick Watson learn in a half-hour sit down with chief this week? What are the gang’s plans for Thanksgiving? These questions and more will be answered in this episode of Inside The Times. Look for Nick’s story on the new fire chief in the Sunday, Nov. 18, edition of the paper or check it out online at www.gainesvilletimes.com. And if we don’t catch you again before the holiday, Happy Thanksgiving! As a side note: We've got some audio quality issues this episode, listeners, and we apologize. We'll be back in shape next week. If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

New Editor in Chief Shannon Casas gets grilled by Features Editor Nick Bowman about who she is, how she got the job and her plans for the future of the paper. Also discussed: reporting is a hard job. If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

Gainesville plans to buy a plot of land in midtown for $10 million — what was going on behind the scenes, what do we know and what are we trying to find out? The gang talks about a developing story that will help determine the future of midtown Gainesville. And is Halloween a good holiday? Are trunk-or-treats terrible events? Stick around to the end to hear us debate the most important questions of the day. If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. Cheeseburgers aren’t free, and neither is news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall. Correction: Shannon Casas was metro editor for six years between assistant life editor and managing editor.

It’s SEMA week! In this Day 1 Bonus Episode, the guys catch up with Truck Guru Chris Payne, Jordan Muhlbauer from Daytona Truck Meet, Jason Sandusky from American Force Wheels, John Hennessey from Hennessey Performance, and Jerry Zaiden from Camburg. We also check out the first slammed 2019 Ram1500 we’ve seen and enjoy the best marketing move of the day as DECKED hired a local high school band to serenade the entire South Hall. Well done.

Allison Dollar is a longtime champion of digital video interactivity. Based in ‘Silicon Beach,’ in her consulting practice she specializes in accelerating early stage digital ventures. These span content, consumer brands, consumer electronics and enterprise technology. In complementary roles, she is CEO and co-founder of the Interactive Television Alliance, a trade association comprised of leading corporations in advanced digital television whose members span advertising, programming, technology and distribution. She chairs the Los Angeles Venture Association’s Digital SIG. Some projects have included IBM’s eBusiness (partnering American Express, Bell Atlantic, Mail Boxes Etc.), Liberty Media (Ascent), AOL’s Guerilla Games, SimplyTV, WB, Creative Planet (IPO), Stan Lee Media (IPO), MobileCasino, Vi[z]Rt (virtual sets), Envivio (France Telecom spinoff, acquired by Ericsson), Homerun Entertainment (Scripps), LSI Capital, Comcast, Digital Containers (P2P), AT&T spinoff Telcordia, Space Tourism Society Orbit Awards, The Horror Channel, Gamma&Density (acquired Global Cinematography Institute), Mozaik (automated video hotspotting), Trumpit (mobile alerts), SnapCuts (social video messaging), AdMedia, Shodogg (cloud video switcher), parWinr (video gamification), WeVu (crowd sourced venue screenings), Aqueti (macro/micro 360° array video camera), Tapin2(mobile concierge commerce), ExciteM (2nd screen social platform), GN (pet lifestyle brand), Connectivity TV Fan Fest, SAMI Games, SuperCloud live streaming, Celebrities Squared and TMT’s Spot Direct. At Vault Comics she advises on corporate strategy and partnerships. For Webcasts.com she was CSO and a founding board member (IPO as iBEAM Broadcasting), CEO of Celebrities.com, and CSO for WhiteBlox and Gizmo Media Group, creating partnerships with Dick Clark Productions, Westfield Mall and numerous media outlets. In addition, she co-founded eTV World, Hollyweb Live!, and venture pitch events iNNOVATORS™ and iBreakfast LA. She chaired NAB’s Executive Committee to launch Multimedia World, the NAB’s switch to digital (now the South Hall). She was Executive Director of the Media Excellence Awards at its inception and continues on the board. She produced sessions for Silicon Beach Fest, presents at Founder’s Workshops was on the advisory board of KORUS, the Korea-US Vision Council. She is a pipeline partner and advisor for SPROCKIT and Expert Dojo start-up accelerators, and program producer for NAB’s Destination NXT. Previously, as Executive Producer for Phillips Business Information, she led business/online content development for 40+ media trade publications, including In Motion, Film & Video, Interactive Video News, Multimedia Week, and Multimedia Wire. Early on, she worked with Oscar-nominated James Agee Film Project, CBS affiliate WBAL, and the Maryland Film Commission. She was a founding board member of Women in Film & Video, Maryland. A Blue Ribbon Judge for the TV Academy’s Interactive Emmys, Dollar has also been a member of the Interactive Media Peer Group executive committee. She holds a M.A. from the University of Virginia and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore. Her book, published for NAB by Focal Press, Interactive Television: Tracking and Preparing for an Emerging Market in 2003, examines the historic reworking of the television business model. https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondollar http://itvalliance.org https://www.lava.org http://mediaxawards.com

It is time for a frank and rough discussion, listeners of this podcast and readers of The Times: The paper will be cutting production of its Monday and Tuesday print editions. The crew talks with Charles Hill Morris Jr., owner of Metro Market Media — the Gainesville-based parent organization of The Times, Forsyth County News and Dawson County News — and its general manager, Norman Baggs. If you want to know how we got here and what (we think) happens next, give us a listen. We also give a transparent look at what’s going on behind the scenes at The Times. The crew talks about the advent of Craigslist and social media, how tariffs and the cost of paper are affecting our community reporting, and how we’re using digital resources to keep serving our North Georgia communities. If you want honestly local news in your community and want to help sustain community journalism in North Georgia, you can subscribe here. Cheeseburgers aren’t free, and neither is news. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

It’s October, and that means it’s time again for our “Pink is stronger than you think” breast cancer special section, a powerful, emotional collection of stories of women who are fighting the disease and reporting about how to catch it early. We talk about how the section came together — and how one piece of it almost didn’t. Get it in print or find it online Oct. 7. Listeners are also introduced to Megan Reed, who covers Gainesville and Hall County government for The Times. Is Ohio a terrible state? Is what you learn in journalism school useful in the real world? Will Nick confuse Megan Reed with a different person named Megan? Get the answers to these questions and more this episode. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast, you can get more exclusive content from The Times by subscribing. Stay up to date on events in your community, news affecting your life and the best source of honestly local information in Hall County. You can sign up for our morning and afternoon news emails, our weekly food and drink newsletter, Go, and an upcoming newsletter focused on South Hall.

We’re all counting down to the RSA Conference  in San Francisco April 16 – 20, where you can connect with the best technology, trends and people that will protect our digital world. Attendees will receive a Varonis branded baseball hat and will be entered into a $50 gift card raffle drawing for listening to our presentation in our North Hall booth (#3210). Attendees that visit us in the South Hall (#417) will receive a car vent cell phone holder. In addition to stopping by our booth, below are sessions you should consider attending. You’ll gain important insights into best security practices and data breach prevention tips, while learning how to navigate a constantly evolving business climate. Sessions Discussed: Protecting Enterprise Data with the National Security “100 Coins” Approach     Turtles, Trust and the Future of Cybersecurity The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation—Beauty or Beast? Hacking Healthcare Live: Bits and Bytes Meet Flesh and Blood Decision-Maker Dementia: How Today’s Security Leaders Stay Lucid Panelists: Cindy Ng, Mike Thompson, Kilian Englert, Kris Keyser

What if virtual reality--games or other applications--could be hands-free? That's the premise which led 3DRudder Founder and CEO Stanislas Chesnais to create a different way to power VR . Stan, as he likes to be called, designed a foot-powered "joystick" for virtual reality!   And since its creation, his 3DRudder VR Motion Controller has received multiple honors, including four CES® awards! At CES® 2018, attendees had the opportunity to experience it, onsite.  But while they were having a great time with a game application, Stan, as he prefers to be called, explained that 3DRudder can do much more. Stan talked about the experience of creating his VR foot-controlled joystick, some of its applications and what's next, from the floor of CES® 2018's Gaming and Virtual Reality Marketplace. CES® 2018 continues from now through Friday , January 12.  Look for 3DRudder on Floor 1 of Las Vegas Convention Center's South Hall!  

On this episode, we review four South Indian restaurants that have opened in the city in recent months. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

On our 8th episode of Inside the Triple F, we will continue our behind the scenes look at the Fabulous Fords Forever car show, keeping you up-to-date with our show preparations.  Also on this episode we will also take you with us as we attend ‘The Classic Auto Show’!   The Classic Auto Show was held at the LA Convention Center from January 27-29, 2017.  The car show filled the South Hall and there was little room for anything else.   The car club we belong to, The Orange County Mustang Club had a display at the show and featured an impressive gathering of classic Mustangs; in fact the OCMC had the biggest club display at the show.  There was also an impressive display of vehicles from the Petersen Automotive Museum and so much more.   Website: http://www.theclassicautoshow.com/ Facebook: @theclassicautoshow Twitter: @theclassicautoshow   A Special thank you to Jim McLaughlin, Tom, and Chuck Rust for sharing your time with us.   Jaguar Owners Club - lajagclub.com Northwest Vintage Thunderbird - nwtbirds.org/nwtbirds International Thunderbirds Club - www.intl-thunderbirdclub.com South Coast Chapter Corvair - www.corvair.org/chapters/southcoast Facebook - @SouthCoastCorsa   We really hope you like our podcast and encourage you to share it with friends and family alike, especially with your gearhead friends.   We would love to hear from you!  Please, let us know how we’re doing!  You can contact us at the following places:   Our email address is:  insidethefff@gmail.com Give us a like on Facebook at:  Inside the FFF or @InsideTheFFF Follow us on our Twitter feed:  @OEMInsidetheFFF Check us out on Instagram:  InsidetheFFF     Direct Download URL: http://traffic.libsyn.com/insidethefff/Show_008_Final.mp3   Link for Twitter: http://insidethefff.libsyn.com/

Our very own, Sarah Mason and Jake Essoe, Co-Hosts of The Harold & Maudecast, sit down with the Blackmagic Design President Dan May to talk about their growing real estate in the South Hall at NAB Show. One of the most exciting announcements for Blackmagic Design is the new URSA Studio Viewfinder allowing cinematographers to turn the URSA Mini into a fully professional studio camera. The accompanying software update adds all the features of Blackmagic's studio cameras to the URSA Mini making this combo a powerful live camera. Also from Blackmagic at NAB, the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K, Video Assist 4K, HDMI to SDI micro converters, DaVinci Resolve 12.5, MultiView 4 and the TICO compression technology for video over IP. For a full list of Blackmagic Design products introduced at NAB 2016, visit www.blackmagicdesign.com

In the dead of night on the first official day of CES, Josh gets together with Jonathan Feist and Edgar Cervantes to recount all of the events leading up to that evening. Press conferences, free phones, Android/PC bridges, and a lot of gushing about the official Android Authority booth in the South Hall are abound in this episode of the AAP.Oh, and Josh makes a big confession.The Android Authority Podcast - discussing topics in Android every week.

This week's show starts off with us recapping the Big Two's press events and the Nintendo digital event from Tuesday. Then we jump into our day at E3 that starts off with Project Morpheus impressions. From our trip to Nintendo and Microsoft, we have impressions of Splatoon, Kirby 2015, Killer Instinct Season Two, Dance Central Spotlight, Fantasia Music Evolved, the Dead Rising 3 DLC, and Ubisoft's new fitness game Shapeup. Finally, we close out the day in South Hall, which includes our impressions Destiny and our thoughts on the Aliens Isolation and MGS5 gameplay demos.

This week's show starts off with us recapping the Big Two's press events and the Nintendo digital event from Tuesday. Then we jump into our day at E3 that starts off with Project Morpheus impressions. From our trip to Nintendo and Microsoft, we have impressions of Splatoon, Kirby 2015, Killer Instinct Season Two, Dance Central Spotlight, Fantasia Music Evolved, the Dead Rising 3 DLC, and Ubisoft's new fitness game Shapeup. Finally, we close out the day in South Hall, which includes our impressions Destiny and our thoughts on the Aliens Isolation and MGS5 gameplay demos.

One Life Left's third evening broadcast from GDC 2012 sees the team return to their private room in the South Hall. They're joined by a smart, chatty, focussed / drained group of industry experts to discuss the final day of GDC. On that amazing panel: MODEL CITIZEN Alice Taylor (Makielabs) LUMINOUS BALL OF ORANGE LIGHT Brandon Boyer (IGF) NEWS HUNTER / GATHERER Jon Jordan (Pocket Gamer) HISTORICAL NAMEDROPPER Frank Cifaldi (Gamasutra) And on the agenda for today: What have they seen? What have they missed? Are developers modern rockstars? How do you get into the secret parties? Where is Phil Fish? And what IS the difference between kids and kilts? Download / listen here.

Anthony Garza Jr. is the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Hi, this is Rick. We edited this file on April 30th, 2013 in order to fix file upload problems we had within earlier copy Speaker 2: spectrum's. Next then Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:01:00] technologists. Speaker 5: My name is Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the host of this show. Today. We are pleased to speak with Anthony Garcia jr who will discuss the UC botanical garden at Berkeley. He's the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden and oversees a large number of employees there. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden, including the recent adoption of compost tea. Speaker 1: Anthony Garza Junior. [00:01:30] Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having me. Brad. Give us a, an overview of your responsibilities at the botanical garden. Sure. I'm the supervisor of horticulture and grounds and so I work very closely with [inaudible]. My boss who is the associate director of collections and horticulture and our director. I supervise about 10 area horticulturists. Okay. A lead building, maintenance employee, and a groundskeeper. [00:02:00] And I do a lot of interfacing with physical plant campus services here to support the infrastructure at the garden. I run a class called horticultural methods, which is IB one 12 l. Yeah. So I'm all over the place doing a lot of things. So it keeps it interesting every day. Speaker 1: How old is the garden? How, what's the history of the garden? Sure. The garden actually started down here on campus. I have an old black and white picture, my office of Palms and bananas and, and other interesting [00:02:30] plants out in front of I believe North or South Hall. Well that was pre 1930 because the gardens started moving up the hill, uh, to its current site, which is a former sheep and cattle farm in 1929. So it's been there that long. We actually have collections, uh, plant collections in the garden, say from the new world desert that date from the early thirties that are still alive. What's your favorite place in the garden? [00:03:00] Oh, that's hard to say. The garden is such a beautiful place and there are several spots where when you're up in the canyon you have views of the Golden Gate Bridge, um, which is unique to University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Speaker 1: I'd have to say my favorite place is probably out in the farthest reaches of the collection in the Mesoamerican or the Mexican and Central American collection because it, it's sort of wedged down in, uh, [00:03:30] Strawberry Canyon. So he can be out in that collection among plants from, uh, Mexico and feel like you're really out in habitat and cause you're seeing very little other built structures around you. It's, it's a really fine collection and probably the least visited because it's the furthest out from the front entrance. Is there any activity that the garden does to try to preserve certain species? Yes, absolutely. Might be in danger. Most of that work is, has been done just because of where [00:04:00] we are here in California with California native plants. And a lot of that conservation work is done by our curator, Holly Forbes and Barbara Keller. And, uh, for example, uh, there are several, uh, there's a recent case of a, an Arctic staphylococci or, uh, a Manzanita California Manzanita being rediscovered, uh, in the Presidio on Doyle drive. Speaker 1: They were, um, doing some road construction and found one individual, a plant that [00:04:30] was thought to be gone. And so, uh, that plant was before it was dug up and moved to another side and the Presidio, a bunch of cuttings were taken a vegetative cuttings. So we were involved in that and we received a lot of those cuttings and have propagated those and grown those on for, you know, growing back out at the Presidio or other botanical gardens. And we're growing some in the ground. So we're involved in sort of these, what you could call in the plant where [00:05:00] at these care charismatic rescues of very rare individuals and on campus there's the ability for researchers to apply to the garden to do, do, use your space and or do something on the grounds. Yes, we have both indoor and outdoor space available to students, postdocs, faculty, uh, indoor greenhouse space can be utilized. Speaker 1: [00:05:30] Um, if someone wants to study plants in an indoor setting for a particular reason, we also have a research plateau, which is outside and this can be used for growing plants in the ground. Uh, so yes, uh, that those two areas are available to, uh, anybody on campus who's doing research. Um, they usually just run it through our curator and our associate director of collections and horticulture. Uh, we make sure we can accommodate the plants and the type of work [00:06:00] and uh, Eh, that's been well utilized over the years. Alright. We also do other types of research or support other types of research in the garden that one might not think would happen in a botanical garden. Uh, for several years we had, uh, a magnetometer up on the research plateau that was run by, I believe, the physics department. And they were, uh, working to develop a very sensitive machine, almost like an MRI. So they were picking up, uh, [00:06:30] magnetic impulses from all over the bay area. And so they needed a quiet space away from a lot of noise. So they, uh, they use that. There's a people from campus doing research on on bees and how far they migrate and what types of plants they they travel to in pollinate. So it can be a a a wide ranging, uh, okay. Wide ranging types of research. It doesn't have to just be a plant or plant genetics based Speaker 6: [00:07:00] [inaudible] Speaker 3: [inaudible] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Yeah, compost tea has been around for a while. [00:07:30] Most of the work on compost, he started with a group called the soil food web. They were doing and still continue to do research on compost tea as mostly an organic replacement for synthetic fungicides for disease suppression in agriculture, horticulture and landscaping. So weed heard about it and we had some colleagues at other gardens starting to use compost tea with good results. [00:08:00] And so that's how we first started to hear about it. And what were the challenges in terms of embracing the process [inaudible] well, compost tea takes some specialized equipment. It's, it's a new approach that, like I mentioned before, it is not just pulling out the, the chemical fungicides to treat a problem. It's more, it's a more holistic approach where you're trying to get beneficial biology out into the environment and on your plants [00:08:30] to suppress diseases. Speaker 1: So it takes a while. So there's a, there's a learning curve and uh, an a by n curve with, you know, even my staff in terms of believing that this a new organic approach to disease suppression and introducing organic fertility will actually work. So, but it helps to have other botanical gardens Arboreta and other colleagues who have worked with this and have had good results from it. Talk [00:09:00] about the brewing process. Sure. So [inaudible] we were fortunate to get a grant from the Green Initiative Fund here on campus that paid for our compost tea brewing equipment. This includes a 100 gallon tank brewer with a motor that blows air into the tank. And we also bought a large commercial grade worm composting bin and started off with some bulk ingredients to make compost. [00:09:30] And so essentially what, what the process is, is taking hot compost or what we call thermophilic compost that is cooked down from organic biomass. Speaker 1: And then taking worm compost. The done the castings, uh, from the worms. Uh, both of these things end up looking like soil when they're fully done. And we take these two things and we put them in a fine mesh bag and we can suspend them in the [00:10:00] tank of water or we can put them in a five gallon bucket of water. And we, it's like kneading dough. We need all this material a and w a water solution. And what we're doing is if you have a healthy compost, uh, what you'll get in that water is a very rich mix of beneficial fungi, bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, uh, along with some nutrients. And so we take this [00:10:30] slurry, this comp, this t from compost, put it into the larger unit, fill that with water. We add some humic acids to sort of bind up the chloramines that are in the East Bay mud water. Speaker 1: And then we add some extra fish, emulsion and Capitol Kelp emulsion. The fish and Kelp emulsion are used to feed the biology that we've put in that water. We fill the tank up a hundred gallons and we airaid it with the motorized blower for 24 to 48 hours. [00:11:00] So what happens here is that all that beneficial biology propagates with the in the, in the water and with the air and the extra organic food provided by the fish and kelp. And so during that airation process, all this biology multiplies many, many fold. And so that's our basic brewing process. Speaker 1: So the real benefit will be how healthy you assess [00:11:30] your plants to be. And it, I guess over time you can make that assessment. Yes. Uh, at this point we have mostly been using our compost tea and our Rose Garden. We have a garden of old roses and this is a small collection and so it's been easy to apply, um, are relatively limited equipment, uh, to this collection. Also roses, uh, particularly cultivated roses are classics for having [00:12:00] Fungal Pathogens, like a black spot, powdery mildew, things like that. So we've been using it in there and some things have responded well. Some things haven't responded so well. And we've also been using the compost tea in the Rose Garden, not just for disease suppression on foliage, but to build the health of the soil in terms of the biology of the soil, the fertility in the soil. And so it can take time to convert a soils from [00:12:30] a conventional methodology where you're using synthetics, uh, and then changing into using organics that that can take time and that is pretty well supported in their literature. Going from conventional methodology to organic methodology. Um, it certainly takes some time to convert uh, soils and plants. Speaker 3: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [inaudible] [00:13:00] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x. We are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Right now we have a student intern who has started and uh, there will be doing the brewing and helping with the brewing and application process in [00:13:30] afforded cultural methods. IB One 12, I'll be exposing my students to the process. There is a student run course on campus, uh, called decal. And so we'll also be bringing the decal classes up for demonstration of how we brew in our methodology. So, and we're certainly at this point, mostly getting the word out about compost tea, um, to students and, and other groups right here on campus. Yeah. [00:14:00] But it helped to broaden that out reach as again, as we see positive results from our, from our program. What does the volunteer program at the Botanical Gardens, the volunteer program comprises several, several arms. Uh, you can volunteer, uh, in horticulture with the area horticulturist, we have a very large volunteer pool of plant propagators who propagate plants for our plant sales, both our plant [00:14:30] deck, which is open daily and our two big plant sales in spring and falls. We have a very large volunteer plant propagator program. We also have volunteers who work in our, with our curators doing all types of, uh, things that curators do in museums. Um, and then we also have very large and active docent volunteer program as most museums do. So that docents, um, lead tours, uh, adult tours, [00:15:00] children's tours, and a free tours to the public as well. Speaker 7: Now the, the Volunteer Program embraces the university faculty, Staff Students, and it's also open to the community as well. Is that right? Speaker 1: The volunteer program, right? Oh yes. Uh, the volunteer program is open to anybody who's got the time, uh, to commit. I believe we do ask for a certain, uh, time commitment, um, before we'll, [00:15:30] we'll, uh, you know, give you your badge and your parking Pasch as a, you know, a lot of people come and go. But, uh, we've, we really couldn't do what we do without our volunteers. They do an amazing amount of work from the docenting to the volunteer plant propagation working in horticulture and curation. Uh, because the garden is, is understaffed and underfunded. Unfortunately we rely heavily on the work and the services of our volunteers. Speaker 7: And within that volunteer program, the kinds of opportunities there [00:16:00] are to learn about if someone doesn't have a great deal of experience, how much training is involved in that program where people who are interested but don't have expertise, could be of great assistance to you essentially learn how to do it all. Speaker 1: There's a very specific, uh, training program for the docents. In fact, that is, uh, that is fee-based. The docents actually have to pay to come and be trained for the docent program. And that runs [00:16:30] for several months. Uh, volunteer propagation training program is a little more casual, but there we have section heads in the volunteer propagation program who grow certain groups of plants and they'll, uh, train new people who come in along with our volunteer plant propagation program coordinator. Uh, they'll also do some sort of hands on training. Um, horticultural volunteers are a little different. We do prefer horticultural [00:17:00] volunteers that come in with us, some bit of knowledge, um, at least general knowledge about horticulture and landscaping and, um, tools and things like that. Uh, but horticultural volunteers, you know, it's mostly about time and having the interest and, uh, they'll come in and work with the horticulturist and, uh, and certainly learn quickly. Speaker 4: [inaudible] [00:17:30] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 7: Are there other ways that the garden is reaching out Speaker 1: to the community or involving the community and activities? Uh, yes, we have programs that we run through the year and they may not specifically be on, [00:18:00] uh, you know, growing a particular plant. Uh, we try and broaden the interest range with our programs. It can be things like succulent wreath making. We have a concert series during the summer. We have children's programs that may or may not have to do with plants. We have, uh, classes on botanical illustration. So we really try and broaden, uh, the interest, um, and appeal to other groups besides people who are just specifically interested [00:18:30] in growing plants. Uh, one of the audiences we're reaching out to right now are our people, uh, who are interested in, in the arts are artists themselves. Uh, we have a very unique, uh, installation in the garden right now by Shirley, uh, Alexander Watts. And this is a installation that has to do with, uh, bringing awareness to the plight of, uh, honeybees and California native beast. Speaker 1: A very interesting [00:19:00] physical installation that you can come and see in our Mediterranean basin collection just above the Rose Garden. So that, uh, is a trend we're seeing in botanical gardens in particular is, is broadening the appeal to other audiences, including art installations. And so we're trying to be thoughtful and tasteful about it. And in this case with the, with the bee installation called a garden of mountings, which is a reference to a Sylvia Plath poem. We're trying to cross [00:19:30] link that art with, uh, the mission of the garden. And so this is a nice fit because it is about, uh, being aware about native bees and their role in the ecosystem and their relationship with plants. So that was a nice fit. And so a unique opportunity to come and see a unique piece of art, uh, in the botanical garden. So we're doing things like that to, to draw in other people besides just what we call plant people. Speaker 1: And how long will that installation be up? Well, it's been in for a couple of months [00:20:00] now and I think the duration was roughly about six months. Um, it will eventually probably succumb to the elements and so we'll have to take it down at some point, but it is something you can actually walk up, walk under, sit in a, there's a poem in there, there's pictures of the bees with their names and their roles in the environment. So it's a very interesting and educational, uh, art installation, which also happens to be I think, beautiful and appealing and in a unique setting in the garden. Speaker 1: [00:20:30] Great. And other artists out there that might be listening who would want to run an idea by you? What's the way to get in touch? Uh, they would probably get in touch with Vanessa Cruz, uh, who is on staff and she's been working with surely. And in fact, Shirley Watts is, um, working on bringing in more artists in the next year to do multiple installations in the garden. So we're looking forward to that. [00:21:00] And do you have a funding source for that? Is it, I believe that one is a, the fundraising is being done by, uh, the groups of artists who are actually coming in, uh, to do it. So we, yeah, we at this point, um, wish we, we did, but we don't have a lot of money to support the arts, but we like to promote the idea of the arts. Um, so we hope it's a good cross-collaboration in, um, having interesting [00:21:30] art in the garden for people to see and also giving the artists, um, some good exposure to their audiences. Speaker 1: Well, any point that you would like to make about the garden that I haven't, uh, covered? Yeah, I think one of the things that always surprises us at the garden is, um, how many people, even people who have lived in Berkeley for years and years, uh, have never been up to the botanical garden. It really is a hidden gem here in the greater bay area. There's nowhere [00:22:00] else where you can come and visit for relatively, uh, a cheaply where you can experience plants from around the world, grown in naturalistic assemblages, um, and have a view of the golden gate bridge places to have a picnic. It's really a unique setting in the bay area and um, and still underutilized even by, uh, the campus. So that that would be my one. Uh, shout out if you will for the garden is to please come and visit, [00:22:30] uh, and support, uh, the botanical garden and its mission. Correct. Anthony Garza, thanks for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. Speaker 6: [inaudible] that was Anthony Garza Jr. You can find out more about the UC botanical garden botanical garden.berkeley.edu Speaker 5: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is presented a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. On the third Friday of every month. The Chabot space and science center located in the Beautiful Oakland Hills at 10,000 skyline boulevard hosts night school from seven to 11:00 PM guests 18 years or older are welcome to enjoy full access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion [00:23:30] forums, alive, planetarium show, film screens, and telescope viewings. If weather permits, food, beer and wine are available for purchase. Tonight's theme is home-ec and we'll feature DIY projects including a green gift, bizarre holiday kitchen science fix it. Workshop discussions with they local monthly meetup group that craft intellectuals and mold wine. Who is it? www.chabotscience.org for more details. [00:24:00] Okay, tomorrow is Saturday, December 17th the director of the UC Wide Institute for Nuclear and particle astrophysics and cosmology. Bernard [inaudible] Dulay is giving a talk for the free monthly science of cattle lecture series. This talk will be 11 to noon in room 100 of the genetics and plant biology building here at UC Berkeley. Okay. Shedding light on the dark side of the universe. He will share current attempts to detect the weekly [00:24:30] interactive massive particles which could make up the dark matter. That makes up five times as much of the energy in the universe as ordinary matter. Visit science@caldotberkeley.edu for more information. Speaker 5: Nerd night is the discovery channel with beer on the third Wednesday of the month in this case, December 21st nerds of all walks of life gather at the rickshaw stop. One 55 fell street at Vanessa in San Francisco. [00:25:00] Plunk down their hard earned $8 drink, mingle and here three talks this month. Senior, UC Davis medical student, Erica Lee will present genes, gonads and genitals, the miracle of human sex differentiation. Anna Quillo, capital co-founder Adam Bristol. We'll discuss the future of personalized medicine and predictive bioinformatics. There'll also be a third surprise Speaker, sf.nights.com for more information [00:25:30] and now with some news headlines. Here's Brad Swift. Speaker 7: The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smartphones and computers, lasers, and a number of other powered devices. Science daily reports. The finding was made by a group of engineers headed by day you, Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [00:26:00] On December 11th Lee and his collaborators discovered that the thermal conductivity of a pair of thin strips of material called Boron nanoribbons can be enhanced by up to 45% depending on the process that they used to stick the two ribbons together. Although the research was conducted with Boron nanoribbons, the results are generally applicable to other thin film materials according to lead. The force that holds the two nanoribbons together is a weak [00:26:30] electrostatic attraction called the Vander vols force. Professor Lee stated traditionally it is widely believed that the phone ons that carry heat are scattered at vendor vault interfaces which makes the ribbon bundles thermal conductivity the same as that of each ribbon. Speaker 7: What we discovered is in sharp contrast to this classical view, we show that the photons can cross these interfaces without being scattered, which [00:27:00] significantly enhances the thermal conductivity. In addition, the researchers found that they could control the thermal conductivity between high and low value by treating the interface of the nano ribbon pairs with different solutions. One of the first areas where this new knowledge is likely to be applied is in the thermal management of micro electronic devices like computer chips and nano composites that are being developed for use in flexible electronic devices and structural [00:27:30] materials for aerospace vehicles. Speaker 5: Joe Cordeiro and the Economist pointed me to an article that appeared in the October 17th issue of the Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry in it. French researchers, Caroline Molet and her team studied the quality of Miele duck foreground. France produces 73% of these fat duck and goose loaders. One undesirable issue is that some lovers seem to have larger amounts of fat loss during cooking than others. Market regulation limits fat [00:28:00] loss to 30% and lower fat loss leads to more highly priced delicacies. A proteomics study got to the biological cause of this fat loss. Intense anabolic pathways lead delivers with low fat loss by dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry showed that deliveries were rich in proteins that help with the digestion and storage of food, the less desirable livers that lost a lot of fat or in a different physiological stage and had unique proteins including fatty acid binding protein for this is a marker for [00:28:30] a nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans. This suggests that the liver quality is dictated before the slaughter of the animal. One practical aspect is that the yield of four gras is improved by reducing the duration of overfeeding. Understanding the biological mechanism can increase yield and thus improve the humane production of fatty livers. It should be noted that the state of California health and safety code and acted in 2004 prohibits the force feeding of birds for the purpose of enlarging their livers or the sale of such products. [00:29:00] Starting on July 1st, 2012 Speaker 6: [inaudible]Speaker 4: the music credit. Today's program was the track petite to leap off of list on a David's 2011 album entitled folk and Acoustic [00:29:30] and is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 thank you for listening to. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l s@yahoo.com and join us in two weeks at this same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Garza Jr. is the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Hi, this is Rick. We edited this file on April 30th, 2013 in order to fix file upload problems we had within earlier copy Speaker 2: spectrum's. Next then Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:01:00] technologists. Speaker 5: My name is Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the host of this show. Today. We are pleased to speak with Anthony Garcia jr who will discuss the UC botanical garden at Berkeley. He's the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden and oversees a large number of employees there. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden, including the recent adoption of compost tea. Speaker 1: Anthony Garza Junior. [00:01:30] Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having me. Brad. Give us a, an overview of your responsibilities at the botanical garden. Sure. I'm the supervisor of horticulture and grounds and so I work very closely with [inaudible]. My boss who is the associate director of collections and horticulture and our director. I supervise about 10 area horticulturists. Okay. A lead building, maintenance employee, and a groundskeeper. [00:02:00] And I do a lot of interfacing with physical plant campus services here to support the infrastructure at the garden. I run a class called horticultural methods, which is IB one 12 l. Yeah. So I'm all over the place doing a lot of things. So it keeps it interesting every day. Speaker 1: How old is the garden? How, what's the history of the garden? Sure. The garden actually started down here on campus. I have an old black and white picture, my office of Palms and bananas and, and other interesting [00:02:30] plants out in front of I believe North or South Hall. Well that was pre 1930 because the gardens started moving up the hill, uh, to its current site, which is a former sheep and cattle farm in 1929. So it's been there that long. We actually have collections, uh, plant collections in the garden, say from the new world desert that date from the early thirties that are still alive. What's your favorite place in the garden? [00:03:00] Oh, that's hard to say. The garden is such a beautiful place and there are several spots where when you're up in the canyon you have views of the Golden Gate Bridge, um, which is unique to University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Speaker 1: I'd have to say my favorite place is probably out in the farthest reaches of the collection in the Mesoamerican or the Mexican and Central American collection because it, it's sort of wedged down in, uh, [00:03:30] Strawberry Canyon. So he can be out in that collection among plants from, uh, Mexico and feel like you're really out in habitat and cause you're seeing very little other built structures around you. It's, it's a really fine collection and probably the least visited because it's the furthest out from the front entrance. Is there any activity that the garden does to try to preserve certain species? Yes, absolutely. Might be in danger. Most of that work is, has been done just because of where [00:04:00] we are here in California with California native plants. And a lot of that conservation work is done by our curator, Holly Forbes and Barbara Keller. And, uh, for example, uh, there are several, uh, there's a recent case of a, an Arctic staphylococci or, uh, a Manzanita California Manzanita being rediscovered, uh, in the Presidio on Doyle drive. Speaker 1: They were, um, doing some road construction and found one individual, a plant that [00:04:30] was thought to be gone. And so, uh, that plant was before it was dug up and moved to another side and the Presidio, a bunch of cuttings were taken a vegetative cuttings. So we were involved in that and we received a lot of those cuttings and have propagated those and grown those on for, you know, growing back out at the Presidio or other botanical gardens. And we're growing some in the ground. So we're involved in sort of these, what you could call in the plant where [00:05:00] at these care charismatic rescues of very rare individuals and on campus there's the ability for researchers to apply to the garden to do, do, use your space and or do something on the grounds. Yes, we have both indoor and outdoor space available to students, postdocs, faculty, uh, indoor greenhouse space can be utilized. Speaker 1: [00:05:30] Um, if someone wants to study plants in an indoor setting for a particular reason, we also have a research plateau, which is outside and this can be used for growing plants in the ground. Uh, so yes, uh, that those two areas are available to, uh, anybody on campus who's doing research. Um, they usually just run it through our curator and our associate director of collections and horticulture. Uh, we make sure we can accommodate the plants and the type of work [00:06:00] and uh, Eh, that's been well utilized over the years. Alright. We also do other types of research or support other types of research in the garden that one might not think would happen in a botanical garden. Uh, for several years we had, uh, a magnetometer up on the research plateau that was run by, I believe, the physics department. And they were, uh, working to develop a very sensitive machine, almost like an MRI. So they were picking up, uh, [00:06:30] magnetic impulses from all over the bay area. And so they needed a quiet space away from a lot of noise. So they, uh, they use that. There's a people from campus doing research on on bees and how far they migrate and what types of plants they they travel to in pollinate. So it can be a a a wide ranging, uh, okay. Wide ranging types of research. It doesn't have to just be a plant or plant genetics based Speaker 6: [00:07:00] [inaudible] Speaker 3: [inaudible] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Yeah, compost tea has been around for a while. [00:07:30] Most of the work on compost, he started with a group called the soil food web. They were doing and still continue to do research on compost tea as mostly an organic replacement for synthetic fungicides for disease suppression in agriculture, horticulture and landscaping. So weed heard about it and we had some colleagues at other gardens starting to use compost tea with good results. [00:08:00] And so that's how we first started to hear about it. And what were the challenges in terms of embracing the process [inaudible] well, compost tea takes some specialized equipment. It's, it's a new approach that, like I mentioned before, it is not just pulling out the, the chemical fungicides to treat a problem. It's more, it's a more holistic approach where you're trying to get beneficial biology out into the environment and on your plants [00:08:30] to suppress diseases. Speaker 1: So it takes a while. So there's a, there's a learning curve and uh, an a by n curve with, you know, even my staff in terms of believing that this a new organic approach to disease suppression and introducing organic fertility will actually work. So, but it helps to have other botanical gardens Arboreta and other colleagues who have worked with this and have had good results from it. Talk [00:09:00] about the brewing process. Sure. So [inaudible] we were fortunate to get a grant from the Green Initiative Fund here on campus that paid for our compost tea brewing equipment. This includes a 100 gallon tank brewer with a motor that blows air into the tank. And we also bought a large commercial grade worm composting bin and started off with some bulk ingredients to make compost. [00:09:30] And so essentially what, what the process is, is taking hot compost or what we call thermophilic compost that is cooked down from organic biomass. Speaker 1: And then taking worm compost. The done the castings, uh, from the worms. Uh, both of these things end up looking like soil when they're fully done. And we take these two things and we put them in a fine mesh bag and we can suspend them in the [00:10:00] tank of water or we can put them in a five gallon bucket of water. And we, it's like kneading dough. We need all this material a and w a water solution. And what we're doing is if you have a healthy compost, uh, what you'll get in that water is a very rich mix of beneficial fungi, bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, uh, along with some nutrients. And so we take this [00:10:30] slurry, this comp, this t from compost, put it into the larger unit, fill that with water. We add some humic acids to sort of bind up the chloramines that are in the East Bay mud water. Speaker 1: And then we add some extra fish, emulsion and Capitol Kelp emulsion. The fish and Kelp emulsion are used to feed the biology that we've put in that water. We fill the tank up a hundred gallons and we airaid it with the motorized blower for 24 to 48 hours. [00:11:00] So what happens here is that all that beneficial biology propagates with the in the, in the water and with the air and the extra organic food provided by the fish and kelp. And so during that airation process, all this biology multiplies many, many fold. And so that's our basic brewing process. Speaker 1: So the real benefit will be how healthy you assess [00:11:30] your plants to be. And it, I guess over time you can make that assessment. Yes. Uh, at this point we have mostly been using our compost tea and our Rose Garden. We have a garden of old roses and this is a small collection and so it's been easy to apply, um, are relatively limited equipment, uh, to this collection. Also roses, uh, particularly cultivated roses are classics for having [00:12:00] Fungal Pathogens, like a black spot, powdery mildew, things like that. So we've been using it in there and some things have responded well. Some things haven't responded so well. And we've also been using the compost tea in the Rose Garden, not just for disease suppression on foliage, but to build the health of the soil in terms of the biology of the soil, the fertility in the soil. And so it can take time to convert a soils from [00:12:30] a conventional methodology where you're using synthetics, uh, and then changing into using organics that that can take time and that is pretty well supported in their literature. Going from conventional methodology to organic methodology. Um, it certainly takes some time to convert uh, soils and plants. Speaker 3: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [inaudible] [00:13:00] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x. We are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Right now we have a student intern who has started and uh, there will be doing the brewing and helping with the brewing and application process in [00:13:30] afforded cultural methods. IB One 12, I'll be exposing my students to the process. There is a student run course on campus, uh, called decal. And so we'll also be bringing the decal classes up for demonstration of how we brew in our methodology. So, and we're certainly at this point, mostly getting the word out about compost tea, um, to students and, and other groups right here on campus. Yeah. [00:14:00] But it helped to broaden that out reach as again, as we see positive results from our, from our program. What does the volunteer program at the Botanical Gardens, the volunteer program comprises several, several arms. Uh, you can volunteer, uh, in horticulture with the area horticulturist, we have a very large volunteer pool of plant propagators who propagate plants for our plant sales, both our plant [00:14:30] deck, which is open daily and our two big plant sales in spring and falls. We have a very large volunteer plant propagator program. We also have volunteers who work in our, with our curators doing all types of, uh, things that curators do in museums. Um, and then we also have very large and active docent volunteer program as most museums do. So that docents, um, lead tours, uh, adult tours, [00:15:00] children's tours, and a free tours to the public as well. Speaker 7: Now the, the Volunteer Program embraces the university faculty, Staff Students, and it's also open to the community as well. Is that right? Speaker 1: The volunteer program, right? Oh yes. Uh, the volunteer program is open to anybody who's got the time, uh, to commit. I believe we do ask for a certain, uh, time commitment, um, before we'll, [00:15:30] we'll, uh, you know, give you your badge and your parking Pasch as a, you know, a lot of people come and go. But, uh, we've, we really couldn't do what we do without our volunteers. They do an amazing amount of work from the docenting to the volunteer plant propagation working in horticulture and curation. Uh, because the garden is, is understaffed and underfunded. Unfortunately we rely heavily on the work and the services of our volunteers. Speaker 7: And within that volunteer program, the kinds of opportunities there [00:16:00] are to learn about if someone doesn't have a great deal of experience, how much training is involved in that program where people who are interested but don't have expertise, could be of great assistance to you essentially learn how to do it all. Speaker 1: There's a very specific, uh, training program for the docents. In fact, that is, uh, that is fee-based. The docents actually have to pay to come and be trained for the docent program. And that runs [00:16:30] for several months. Uh, volunteer propagation training program is a little more casual, but there we have section heads in the volunteer propagation program who grow certain groups of plants and they'll, uh, train new people who come in along with our volunteer plant propagation program coordinator. Uh, they'll also do some sort of hands on training. Um, horticultural volunteers are a little different. We do prefer horticultural [00:17:00] volunteers that come in with us, some bit of knowledge, um, at least general knowledge about horticulture and landscaping and, um, tools and things like that. Uh, but horticultural volunteers, you know, it's mostly about time and having the interest and, uh, they'll come in and work with the horticulturist and, uh, and certainly learn quickly. Speaker 4: [inaudible] [00:17:30] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 7: Are there other ways that the garden is reaching out Speaker 1: to the community or involving the community and activities? Uh, yes, we have programs that we run through the year and they may not specifically be on, [00:18:00] uh, you know, growing a particular plant. Uh, we try and broaden the interest range with our programs. It can be things like succulent wreath making. We have a concert series during the summer. We have children's programs that may or may not have to do with plants. We have, uh, classes on botanical illustration. So we really try and broaden, uh, the interest, um, and appeal to other groups besides people who are just specifically interested [00:18:30] in growing plants. Uh, one of the audiences we're reaching out to right now are our people, uh, who are interested in, in the arts are artists themselves. Uh, we have a very unique, uh, installation in the garden right now by Shirley, uh, Alexander Watts. And this is a installation that has to do with, uh, bringing awareness to the plight of, uh, honeybees and California native beast. Speaker 1: A very interesting [00:19:00] physical installation that you can come and see in our Mediterranean basin collection just above the Rose Garden. So that, uh, is a trend we're seeing in botanical gardens in particular is, is broadening the appeal to other audiences, including art installations. And so we're trying to be thoughtful and tasteful about it. And in this case with the, with the bee installation called a garden of mountings, which is a reference to a Sylvia Plath poem. We're trying to cross [00:19:30] link that art with, uh, the mission of the garden. And so this is a nice fit because it is about, uh, being aware about native bees and their role in the ecosystem and their relationship with plants. So that was a nice fit. And so a unique opportunity to come and see a unique piece of art, uh, in the botanical garden. So we're doing things like that to, to draw in other people besides just what we call plant people. Speaker 1: And how long will that installation be up? Well, it's been in for a couple of months [00:20:00] now and I think the duration was roughly about six months. Um, it will eventually probably succumb to the elements and so we'll have to take it down at some point, but it is something you can actually walk up, walk under, sit in a, there's a poem in there, there's pictures of the bees with their names and their roles in the environment. So it's a very interesting and educational, uh, art installation, which also happens to be I think, beautiful and appealing and in a unique setting in the garden. Speaker 1: [00:20:30] Great. And other artists out there that might be listening who would want to run an idea by you? What's the way to get in touch? Uh, they would probably get in touch with Vanessa Cruz, uh, who is on staff and she's been working with surely. And in fact, Shirley Watts is, um, working on bringing in more artists in the next year to do multiple installations in the garden. So we're looking forward to that. [00:21:00] And do you have a funding source for that? Is it, I believe that one is a, the fundraising is being done by, uh, the groups of artists who are actually coming in, uh, to do it. So we, yeah, we at this point, um, wish we, we did, but we don't have a lot of money to support the arts, but we like to promote the idea of the arts. Um, so we hope it's a good cross-collaboration in, um, having interesting [00:21:30] art in the garden for people to see and also giving the artists, um, some good exposure to their audiences. Speaker 1: Well, any point that you would like to make about the garden that I haven't, uh, covered? Yeah, I think one of the things that always surprises us at the garden is, um, how many people, even people who have lived in Berkeley for years and years, uh, have never been up to the botanical garden. It really is a hidden gem here in the greater bay area. There's nowhere [00:22:00] else where you can come and visit for relatively, uh, a cheaply where you can experience plants from around the world, grown in naturalistic assemblages, um, and have a view of the golden gate bridge places to have a picnic. It's really a unique setting in the bay area and um, and still underutilized even by, uh, the campus. So that that would be my one. Uh, shout out if you will for the garden is to please come and visit, [00:22:30] uh, and support, uh, the botanical garden and its mission. Correct. Anthony Garza, thanks for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. Speaker 6: [inaudible] that was Anthony Garza Jr. You can find out more about the UC botanical garden botanical garden.berkeley.edu Speaker 5: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is presented a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. On the third Friday of every month. The Chabot space and science center located in the Beautiful Oakland Hills at 10,000 skyline boulevard hosts night school from seven to 11:00 PM guests 18 years or older are welcome to enjoy full access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion [00:23:30] forums, alive, planetarium show, film screens, and telescope viewings. If weather permits, food, beer and wine are available for purchase. Tonight's theme is home-ec and we'll feature DIY projects including a green gift, bizarre holiday kitchen science fix it. Workshop discussions with they local monthly meetup group that craft intellectuals and mold wine. Who is it? www.chabotscience.org for more details. [00:24:00] Okay, tomorrow is Saturday, December 17th the director of the UC Wide Institute for Nuclear and particle astrophysics and cosmology. Bernard [inaudible] Dulay is giving a talk for the free monthly science of cattle lecture series. This talk will be 11 to noon in room 100 of the genetics and plant biology building here at UC Berkeley. Okay. Shedding light on the dark side of the universe. He will share current attempts to detect the weekly [00:24:30] interactive massive particles which could make up the dark matter. That makes up five times as much of the energy in the universe as ordinary matter. Visit science@caldotberkeley.edu for more information. Speaker 5: Nerd night is the discovery channel with beer on the third Wednesday of the month in this case, December 21st nerds of all walks of life gather at the rickshaw stop. One 55 fell street at Vanessa in San Francisco. [00:25:00] Plunk down their hard earned $8 drink, mingle and here three talks this month. Senior, UC Davis medical student, Erica Lee will present genes, gonads and genitals, the miracle of human sex differentiation. Anna Quillo, capital co-founder Adam Bristol. We'll discuss the future of personalized medicine and predictive bioinformatics. There'll also be a third surprise Speaker, sf.nights.com for more information [00:25:30] and now with some news headlines. Here's Brad Swift. Speaker 7: The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smartphones and computers, lasers, and a number of other powered devices. Science daily reports. The finding was made by a group of engineers headed by day you, Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [00:26:00] On December 11th Lee and his collaborators discovered that the thermal conductivity of a pair of thin strips of material called Boron nanoribbons can be enhanced by up to 45% depending on the process that they used to stick the two ribbons together. Although the research was conducted with Boron nanoribbons, the results are generally applicable to other thin film materials according to lead. The force that holds the two nanoribbons together is a weak [00:26:30] electrostatic attraction called the Vander vols force. Professor Lee stated traditionally it is widely believed that the phone ons that carry heat are scattered at vendor vault interfaces which makes the ribbon bundles thermal conductivity the same as that of each ribbon. Speaker 7: What we discovered is in sharp contrast to this classical view, we show that the photons can cross these interfaces without being scattered, which [00:27:00] significantly enhances the thermal conductivity. In addition, the researchers found that they could control the thermal conductivity between high and low value by treating the interface of the nano ribbon pairs with different solutions. One of the first areas where this new knowledge is likely to be applied is in the thermal management of micro electronic devices like computer chips and nano composites that are being developed for use in flexible electronic devices and structural [00:27:30] materials for aerospace vehicles. Speaker 5: Joe Cordeiro and the Economist pointed me to an article that appeared in the October 17th issue of the Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry in it. French researchers, Caroline Molet and her team studied the quality of Miele duck foreground. France produces 73% of these fat duck and goose loaders. One undesirable issue is that some lovers seem to have larger amounts of fat loss during cooking than others. Market regulation limits fat [00:28:00] loss to 30% and lower fat loss leads to more highly priced delicacies. A proteomics study got to the biological cause of this fat loss. Intense anabolic pathways lead delivers with low fat loss by dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry showed that deliveries were rich in proteins that help with the digestion and storage of food, the less desirable livers that lost a lot of fat or in a different physiological stage and had unique proteins including fatty acid binding protein for this is a marker for [00:28:30] a nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans. This suggests that the liver quality is dictated before the slaughter of the animal. One practical aspect is that the yield of four gras is improved by reducing the duration of overfeeding. Understanding the biological mechanism can increase yield and thus improve the humane production of fatty livers. It should be noted that the state of California health and safety code and acted in 2004 prohibits the force feeding of birds for the purpose of enlarging their livers or the sale of such products. [00:29:00] Starting on July 1st, 2012 Speaker 6: [inaudible]Speaker 4: the music credit. Today's program was the track petite to leap off of list on a David's 2011 album entitled folk and Acoustic [00:29:30] and is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 thank you for listening to. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l s@yahoo.com and join us in two weeks at this same time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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“Fannie Lou Hamer” Comes Alive at The Riverside Church (NYC) Mzuri Moyo brings the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer to The Riverside Church as she kicks off the 3rd annual celebration tour of this great heroines' birthday. The one-woman show will be held in South Hall at 7pm on Thursday Sept 17th and Friday September 18th. For more information visit Mzurisings.com or www.theriversidechurchny.org The Brecht Forum and Columbia University are co-sponsors of the event. Tickets can be purchased at The Riverside Theatre.