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The chemicals used in Sterile Processing departments (SPDs) pose serious risks, and Alex Hilliker of ChemDAQ, Inc. believes that chemical safety is not discussed enough. In episode 125, host Jon Wood speaks with Hilliker, who explains the usage progression from ethylene oxide to hydrogen peroxide and glutaraldehyde to peracetic acid. Hilliker discusses the health hazards of working with these chemicals and the regulations and guidelines designed to protect workers from exposure. He reviews exact permissible exposure limits (PELs), methods of environmental and personnel monitoring, and the critical importance of chemical safety training. Earn CE Now
8 PM delivery for tomorrow's 7 AM case - let the loaner reprocessing race begin! Between rushed timelines and complex IFUs, these vendor instruments are putting SPDs to the test. In this season finale of Beyond Clean's Season 26 "The Processes that Save Lives," we're tackling Sterile Processing's biggest wild card - loaner reprocessing! From delivery timelines to manufacturer requirements, Hank Balch breaks down why successful loaner management processes require more than just quick turnarounds. Are you equipped with the time and tools you need to properly process these critical trays? Get ready to make loaner headaches a thing of the past - tune in to this can't-miss season finale today! Season 26 of Beyond Clean releases under the 1 Episode = 1 CE delivery model. After finishing this interview, earn your 1 CE credit immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week. Visit our CE Credit Hub at https://www.beyondcleanmedia.com/ce-credit-hub to access this quiz and over 350 other free CE credits. #BeyondClean #SterileProcessing #WeFightDirty #LoanerInstrumentation
Bryan discusses surge protection devices (SPDs) with Mike from DITEK, focusing on practical applications for HVAC contractors and how to provide value to clients. Mike emphasizes that surge protection is essential for modern HVAC systems, particularly given that they are typically the most expensive appliance in a home and increasingly rely on sophisticated electronic components like variable-speed compressors and inverter boards. The conversation delves into installation best practices, with a detailed discussion of proper wiring techniques for SPDs. Mike explains that surge protectors should be installed in parallel with the circuit, typically at the disconnect, and addresses common concerns about double-tapping lugs and ground connections. He emphasizes the importance of keeping wire lengths as short as possible and provides guidance for installations both with dedicated disconnects and panel-direct connections. A significant portion of the episode focuses on DITEK's Kool Guard (KG2) product, which represents an evolution in HVAC protection by combining surge protection with voltage monitoring. Mike explains how modern HVAC equipment, particularly inverter-driven systems, is increasingly sensitive to both over-voltage and under-voltage conditions. The Kool Guard monitors voltage on each phase independently and provides visual indication of fault conditions through LED indicators, making it easier for homeowners to identify potential issues without opening electrical enclosures. Key Topics Covered: · Why every modern HVAC system needs surge protection · Installation locations and proper wiring techniques for SPDs · The difference between line-side and load-side installation · Ground connection best practices · How to protect both condensers and air handlers · The evolution from basic surge protection to voltage monitoring · The importance of voltage monitoring for modern inverter-driven equipment · How Kool Guard monitors voltage phase-to-ground vs line-to-line · Common power quality issues beyond lightning strikes · How to discuss surge protection with customers · The limitations of utility-provided surge protection · The impact of aging power infrastructure on power quality · The advantages of USA-made surge protection products · How voltage monitoring prevents damage from brownouts and over-voltage conditions · The pre-programmed voltage protection ranges in Kool Guard · Visual indication features for fault conditions Learn more about DITEK at https://www.diteksurgeprotection.com/. Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool. Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 6th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.
Are your load stickers telling the full story of your sterilization workflows? Or are they missing key details that could mean the difference between a successful recall and a departmental crisis? On this episode of Beyond Clean Season 25, we welcome Jessie Lopez, Educator & Quality Assurance Manager, who's ready to #Stirthatpot and discuss tools in our SPDs we often take for granted, yet they play a critical role in our sterilization workflows--the sticker gun & sterilization labels. From decoding Julian dates to preventing load recall nightmares, Jessie explains why your department's sticker gun and sterilization labels are essential not only to your tracking workflows but also to the safety of your patients. We'll explore labeling best practices, outline common sticker gun dos and don'ts, and debate whether it's time for traditional labeling to stick around or make way for new tech. So, turn up the volume and grab your trusty sticker gun, because this episode is packed with insights and strategies to help you elevate your department's sterilization tracking game, one load sticker at a time! Season 25 of Beyond Clean releases under the 1 Episode = 1 CE delivery model. After finishing this interview, earn your 1 CE credit immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week. Visit our CE Credit Hub at beyondcleanmedia.com/ce-credit-hub to access this quiz and over 350 other free CE credits. #BeyondClean #SterileProcessing #WeFightDirty
Sterile Processing Policies and Procedures: Who writes them? Who should be writing them? And most importantly, can everyone understand them once they are written? This week, in Episode 4 from Beyond Clean Season 24, Mila Miranda, Assistant Manager for Sterile Processing at UC Davis Medical Center joins us to unravel the "how's" and "why's" behind crafting effective policies and procedures in Sterile Processing. Drawing from personal experiences, Mila emphasizes the critical role policies and procedures play in increasing compliance and safeguarding both technicians and patients alike. Discover practical tips for translating policies from mere words on paper to impactful actions on the frontlines of our SPDs. If you've ever wondered why certain policies make the cut in your department's handbook, this episode is your secret weapon for conquering your SPD's standards with clarity, compliance, and confidence! Season 24 of Beyond Clean releases under the 1 Episode = 1 CE delivery model. After finishing this interview, earn your 1 CE credit immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week. Visit our CE Credit Hub at beyondcleanmedia.com/ce-credit-hub to access this quiz and over 350 other free CE credits. #BeyondClean #SterileProcessing #WeFightDirty
Ingrid er tilbake i studio og glad for det! Vi går i dybden på den pågående debatten om støtten til Ukraina. Skillet i samfunnet går tvers gjennom det sosialdemokratiske partiet SPD. Dessuten snakker vi om cannabis - i Tyskland er det nå lov til å bruke stoffet, riktignok med noen byråkratiske begrensninger. Personene vi snakker om i denne episoden er stort sett SPDs toppolitikere: kansler Olaf Scholz, forsvarsminister Boris Pistorius, de to representantene i Forbundsdagen Rolf Mützenich og Michael Roth - og vi dumper innom den historiske kansleren Willy Brandt og hans "Ostpolitik". Kommentaren Ingrid er så begeistret for er skrevet av Peter Dausend i Die Zeit. Tittelen er "Mehr Willy Brandt wagen". Vi nevner også historikeren Heinrich August Winkler. Han har stått i spissen for et opprop mot SPDs holdninger til krigen. Ukrainskfødte Marina Weissband har lenge markert seg i debatten - også hun kommer med kritikk av Scholz. Frankrikes president Macron havnet nylig i konflikt med Scholz og Kai har sett på forskjellene mellom Tyskland og Frankrike i Ukraina-spørsmålet. Podkasten Kai tipser om heter Alles gesagt og publiseres av Die Zeit. Særlig relevant nå er intervjuet med Daniel Cohn-Bendit, en grønn politiker som har vært aktiv i både Tyskland og Frankrike. I innslaget om cannabis snakker vi om helseminister Karl Lauterbach, også han fra SPD. Kontakt oss gjerne på epostadressen tyskernepodkast@gmail.com - eller via Facebook eller Instagram. Og vi blir veldig veldig veldig glade dersom flere støtter oss økonomisk via Patreon. Lenken er ganske enkelt https://www.patreon.com/tyskerne Snakk om oss til andre, del oss i sosiale medier. God lytting!
Hear from employee benefits and compensation lawyer Jeff Zimon as he covers why fiduciary obligations are making headlines and what the Johnson & Johnson lawsuit means for plan sponsors. He discusses steps employers can take to ensure they are fulfilling their fiduciary duties, the importance of summary plan descriptions (SPDs) and the need for proper pharmacy benefit documentation.
In the latest episode of the ConCensis Podcast, host Vanessa Cavanaugh dives into a compelling discussion with Mark Copeland, Vice President of Sales at 3T Medical Systems, exploring the transformative power of Sterile Processing Departments (SPDs) in healthcare facilities. This conversation highlights the critical role SPDs play beyond their traditional view as cost centers, showcasing them as essential cogs in the multi-billion dollar, high-tech operating room ecosystem. Specifically, the two discuss:The misconceptions surrounding SPDs and their pivotal role in operational success and patient safety.The economic implications of sterile processing and the importance of data-driven decision-making for SPD enhancements.Strategies for SPD professionals to advocate for necessary improvements, leveraging detailed economic analysis and teamwork analogies.They also touch on the necessity of modernizing SPD equipment, detailing the financial and operational benefits of such investments, and specifically emphasizing the significance of collaboration across departments to achieve healthcare excellence.With over two decades of experience in the medical, pharma, and biotech sectors with a particular emphasis on medical device sales and sterile processing departments, Mark Copeland enriches this episode as an invaluable resource. His insights are crucial for SPD professionals looking to spearhead departmental enhancements, healthcare administrators contemplating investments in SPD infrastructure, and those intrigued by the confluence of healthcare operations and patient care. With his extensive background, Copeland provides listeners with the essential knowledge and motivation required to implement positive changes and make strategic investments in SPDs, all with the goal of attaining superior healthcare outcomes.For those looking to delve deeper into the economics of sterile processing, kindly click the link: https://www.flexiquiz.com/SC/N/sterileprocessingeconomics
In the latest episode of the ConCensis Podcast, host Vanessa Canvanaugh dives into a compelling discussion with Mark Copeland, Vice President of Sales at 3T Medical Systems, exploring the transformative power of Sterile Processing Departments (SPDs) in healthcare facilities. This conversation highlights the critical role SPDs play beyond their traditional view as cost centers, showcasing them as essential cogs in the multi-billion dollar, high-tech operating room ecosystem. Specifically, the two discuss:The misconceptions surrounding SPDs and their pivotal role in operational success and patient safety.The economic implications of sterile processing and the importance of data-driven decision-making for SPD enhancements.Strategies for SPD professionals to advocate for necessary improvements, leveraging detailed economic analysis and teamwork analogies.They also touch on the necessity of modernizing SPD equipment, detailing the financial and operational benefits of such investments, and specifically emphasizing the significance of collaboration across departments to achieve healthcare excellence.With over two decades of experience in the medical, pharma, and biotech sectors with a particular emphasis on medical device sales and sterile processing departments, Mark Copeland enriches this episode as an invaluable resource. His insights are crucial for SPD professionals looking to spearhead departmental enhancements, healthcare administrators contemplating investments in SPD infrastructure, and those intrigued by the confluence of healthcare operations and patient care. With his extensive background, Copeland provides listeners with the essential knowledge and motivation required to implement positive changes and make strategic investments in SPDs, all with the goal of attaining superior healthcare outcomes.For those looking to delve deeper into the economics of sterile processing, kindly click the link: https://www.flexiquiz.com/SC/N/sterileprocessingeconomics
In this CE-approved Articles On-The Go episode, Hank Balch outlines the actionable steps SPDs should follow to prioritize technician safety in the decontamination area: “You don't have to spend more than five minutes in a Sterile Processing decontamination area to realize it's a dangerous space. The entire concept of standard precautions causes some technicians to daydream about what horrible disease might be clinging to this orthopedic broach or..." To read this article, take the CE quiz & download your certificate, click here. Stay tuned for new CE-approved Articles On-the-Go releasing each week! Bookmark our new AOTG CE page here: https://www.beyondcleanmedia.com/articles-on-the-go #FightingDirty #HankBalch #BeyondClean #WeFightDirty™ Click To Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or Spotify or Visit Our Website!
In this CE-approved Articles On-The Go episode, Hank Balch identifies how healthy competition and collaboration can work together to improve SPDs and the industry: "If you can't get the job yourself, make sure you challenge the other applicants to be even better than you. If you want that big award for your team, use every competitive encouragement you can muster to drive your technicians to reach higher, dream bigger, and fight…” To read this article, take the CE quiz & download your certificate, click here. Stay tuned for new CE-approved Articles On-the-Go releasing each week! Bookmark our new AOTG CE page here: https://www.beyondcleanmedia.com/articles-on-the-go #FightingDirty #HankBalch #BeyondClean #WeFightDirty™ Click To Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or Spotify or Visit Our Website!
Har Hamas' angreb - og reaktionerne på Hamas' angreb - på Israel en helt særlig betydning i Tyskland? Kevin Kühnert, SPDs generalsekretær, sagde bl.a. i talkshowet "Markus Lanz" i denne uge, at Tyskland har et særligt ansvar for at beskytte jødiske liv. Ikke kun i Tyskland, men også der, hvor jøderne har opbygget deres egen stat, og det er Israel. Og dette særlige ansvar har konkrete konsekvenser i det tyske. I Berlin forbød politiet bl.a. i denne uge en planlagt og anmeldt pro-palæstinensisk demonstration, hvor ca. 250 mennesker skulle ha' deltaget. Betyder det, at Tysklands historie spænder ben for demokratiet? Vi vender os også - nok en gang - mod Tysklands nok mest fremadstormende parti: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD. Partiet, der er betragtet som højreekstremistisk, fik rigtig gode valg ved delstatsvalgene i Hessen og Bayern, som blev afholdt i weekenden. Faktisk de bedste nogensinde i en vesttysk delstat siden partiets grundlæggelse for ti år siden. Det er især opsigtvækkende at mange unge har stemt på partiet. Hvorfor? Vi kigger bl.a. efter svar på TikTok. Vært: Mirco Reimer-Elster Medvirkende: Jesper Vind, Tysklandskorrespondent, Weekendavisen og David Barnwell, journalist og udgiver af FEIN, MünchenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“Welcome to the Bad Boss Brief, a strategic guide on how NOT to be an a*****e at work. This podcast tells you about bad bosses, how they can be less so, and how to tell if you ARE one?What can an executive and an executive coach tell you about bad bosses, how they can be less so, and how to tell if you ARE one? Everything. With over a combined half century of time in the trenches at Intel, Apple, Adobe, Publicis, Nikon ad badbosseum, we're imminently well suited to do so.We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool s**t.”Bad Boss Brief is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.ABOUT US:Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her PLENTY of tools to help bad bosses who want to improve. Stephanie is at…and @speirolo on Instagram, stephanie@badbossbrief.com. & wtf@badbossbrief.com.Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former editor in chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.Eugene is at… and @MrSleep3 on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an a*****e at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool s**t.Starting this week we will be offering an all new Bonus Segment for our paid subscribers entitled "sub rosa", which is our confidential Q & A segment straight from the mail bag.Thanks for listening to episode 10 of the Bad Boss Brief! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Wednesdays a month at 5:30/2:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. Thank you for checking out this episode of the Bad Boss Brief. This post is public so feel free to share it.Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an a*****e at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool s**t.Thanks for watching episode 9 of the Bad Boss Brief! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 5:30/2:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. Thank you for checking out this episode of the Bad Boss Brief. This post is public so feel free to share it.Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Bob Iger's return to Disney inspired Episode 7 of the Bad Boss Brief. What about those Bosses who are brought in to Turn Things Around? Will all of them be like Iger and cut 7000 jobs? What do you do if you work at a place with a Turn Around Boss? Stephanie's got a story, Eugene has thoughts, join us!Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
What Silicon Valley Bank's collapse can teach us about the perils of Gaslighting Bosses, and how to deal with working for one.The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
The healthcare sector suffered a major setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing high-quality services to patients is a priority. However, for healthcare facilities to run properly, managers or directors must make operational and strategic decisions, especially in the perioperative setting. Efficient operating room (OR) management involves maintaining equilibrium between optimal OR capacity, allocation of ORs to surgeons, assignment of staff, ordering of materials, and reliable scheduling while according the highest priority to patient safety.But, what are the challenges in SPD Management and ensuring high-quality perioperative services?On a recent episode of the Censis Podcast, host Michelle Mooney sat down with Brian Dawson, the System VP of Perioperative Services for CommonSpirit Health, to discuss the challenges in measuring productivity in the perioperative setting and SPD. Measuring productivity in the OR is totally different from the sterile processing department. AAMI, the body governing SPDs, has developed a chart indicating the average time required to perform various tasks. Tasks are categorized into four levels. With this information, Censis can monitor the tasks done in SPD to determine the number of staff required based on workload. Michelle Mooney and Brian Dawson discussed:1. How to measure productivity in the OR and sterile processing departments and its benefits to leaders2. Challenges with staffing3. The role of Censis in data collection“Most facilities like CommonSpirit Health measure OR productivity through minutes of service- how many minutes do patients spend in the OR and how many people are required to care for them. Then based on that, we can look at how many minutes were used in the OR, how many staffs were required, then we can determine if it is balanced, over, or under productivity. The big picture is to have a comprehensive data sharing which allows for proper assignment, division, and utilization of staff,” explained Brian DawsonFinal words to other healthcare facilities that need a tool to measure productivity: find a tool that suits your procedural area so you can capitalize on the asset you have to generate revenue.Brian Dawson is the System VP of Perioperative Services at CommonSpirit Health. He received his Bachelor of Science-Nursing degree from American University and a Master's of Science-Nursing and Health Care Administration degree from Old Dominion University. He has worked for over 28 years as a nurse.
On this episode the focus is on the Addict Boss & Addiction at Work.The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
This episode focuses on bad bosses who are 'conflict averse'.The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
BBB – EP. 03: THE DEI LIEThis episode focuses on how executives/companies had better not say DEI is a priority if it isn't.The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
BBB - EP. 02: THE CHARISMATIC LIARThis episode focuses on how to spot and survive this category of bad boss.The Bad Boss Brief is a strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
A strategic guide on how not to be an asshole at work. An executive and an executive coach talk about bad bosses and how they can be better. We're also both artists and work in advertising and marketing, and focus on creative leaders and leading people who make cool shit.Stephanie Peirolo is an executive coach, consultant and writer. Her work has appeared in the ad trades, NPR, the Moth and Reader's Digest. She's had plenty of bad bosses and three legal actions settled in her favor. But she believes that even the most unskilled leader can improve. Her Master's in Transformational Leadership and years of experience as an executive herself, and then an executive coach has given her plenty of tools to help leaders who want to improve. Eugene S. Robinson is an Assistant Vice President, former Editor-in-Chief (whose mags have won Ozzies, Maggies and SPDs), a winner of an OJA, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, Vice, Corporate Computing, and the author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking (Harper Collins). Did we mention he sings for OXBOW? Well, we just did.For more tidbits from their worlds, you can follow Stephanie on insta @speirolo and read her at consigliera.substack.com. Follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson & you can read him at eugenesrobinson.substack.com aka: 'Look What You Made Me Do!' He is mrsleep3 on insta, & hosts 'The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper Podcast', co-hosts the 'Care/Don't Care MMA Podcast', and is a recurring guest host on the socio-political 'If the Shoe Fits Podcast'. BONUS CONTENT: Buy his books on Amazon!If you enjoy our show, please Like & Subscribe here on YT, or like & share over or on your podcast platform of choice: SoundCloud, facebook, insta, TikTok, BadBossBrief.com, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, audible, Spotify, Simplecast, Stitcher, Pandora, blubrry, OverCast.fm, PocketCasts, Castbox, PlayerFM, & more! You can follow your Bad Boss Brief hosts on your preferred apps, just search ‘Bad Boss Brief' on: Castro, DownCast, PodCruncher, iCatcher!, Castaway 2, Podcast Republic, & on BeyondPod (Android on GooglePlay), & more in the App Store! – Also listed in the PodcastIndex. Thanks for listening! We will catch you two Mondays a month at 3:30/12:30PM ETPT. Visit us at badbossbrief.com for opportunities to participate with questions for your hosts or email us at wtf@badbossbrief.com. | Producer/Videography/Webpage Mgmt/Syndication: June M. Williams — orijunels@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit badbossbrief.substack.com/subscribe
There are an estimated 51.4 million inpatient surgeries performed in the U.S. on an annual basis. That's a lot of reusable instruments that require sterile processing. It's no wonder Sterile Processing Departments (SPDs) have their hands full. Labor shortages, mainly since the pandemic, put tremendous strain on already taxed SPDs.Censis creates solutions to give SPD departments an edge in streamlined efficiency and data-driven analysis to provide actionable insights. Their latest solution, CensisAI2 Productivity, combines with CensiTrac to deliver SPDs with the complete visibility they need to increase productivity in sterile processing. Tyler Kern, the host of ConCensis, rejoined with Seamus Johnson, Sr. Director of Application Development for Censis, Jeff Long, Network Director of Sterile Processing at St. Luke's University Health Network, and Cody Troutt, Director of Central Sterile at Williamson Medical continued their discussion on the CensisAI2 Productivity solution.This second conversation with Kern, Johnson, Long, and Troutt includes the following:The challenges of visibility in operational processes for SPDsBest practices for utilizing CensisAI2 and CensiTracHow CensisAI2's dashboard helps SPD managers be proactive“One thing that we had realized was that our existing technology had not been optimized or even built,” Long said. “We had no standardization on how to use the technology we were using. We had a lot of work to do, and that's why the timing was perfect on a lot of the technology we incorporated since then.”Seamus Johnson is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & healthcare industry. Johnson's proficiency in Software Architecture, Agile Methodologies, C#, Angular, and TypeScript makes him a valued asset to the Censis team, where he's spent most of his career.Jeff Long is an experienced Department Director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & healthcare industry. Long is skilled in Medical Devices, Infection Control, Orthopedics, Capital Equipment, and Healthcare. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) focused on Organizational Management and Leadership Development from Ashford University.Cody Troutt is an experienced Customer Service Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & healthcare industry. Troutt's a strong support professional skilled in Coaching, Medical Devices, Sales, Team Building, and HR Policies.
There are many details that go into prepping an OR and all the instruments necessary for safe and sterile surgeries. Surgical technicians must keep detailed records of these tasks to ensure the room is ready for surgery. Using EFT, or efficiency tasks, shifts maintenance into the 21st century. Moving away from handwritten paper logs and going digital, SPDs are able to keep strict records and quickly check references when necessary. On this episode, Gabrielle Bejarano hosts Kelly Swails, Director of Clinical Services at Censis Technologies, and Desiree Acedo, CST, CRCST, CIS, Supervisor Sterile Processing Department at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center. They break down the complexities required to prepare ORs and how EFT technology supports the role, ensuring patient safety and the highest level of care. The episode covers…What is an efficiency task list, and how it's used in the sterile processing department.Reporting and the necessary documentation that's supported by EFT to ensure compliance.What tasks are pre-built into CensiTrac.Most of the documentation from a surgical tech is considered legal paperwork and held to an incredibly high standard. “It's really streamlined and freed up my time to do the 1,000 other tasks that I have to do,” said Acedo. Daily reports support managers and ensure compliance, “Someone is getting those emails and verifying that those things are done,” said Kelly Swails.Kelly Swails started as a surgical technician and went on to receive her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Northwestern in St. Paul. She's been working in healthcare since 2003. Desiree Acedo is a surgical tech by trade and is now a sterile processing supervisor. She coordinates between sterile processing and the OR. Trained at the University of Phoenix, she's been in the field since 1995.If you have any questions about EFT, or would like more information about how you can use them at your facility reach out to marketing@censis.com.
Sterile Processing Departments (SPDs), as with all other industries in healthcare, are struggling with supply chain concerns, a lack of steady commitment from staff, and a workforce shortage. Additionally, SPDs have long dealt with issues in staffing shortages, which even extends to how facilities maximize their spaces. Seamus Johnson, Senior Director of Application Development at Censis Technologies, and Barry Phetteplace, Chief Technology Officer at Censis Technologies, spoke with Tyler Kern about these issues and how powerful data analytics tools like CensisAI2 Productivity can help combat these challenges. Understanding resource utilization and where the gaps lie is fundamental to creating the efficiencies required to get the job done when workers are in short supply. “Until you've delved into that data and really understand, a lot of times it's guesswork,” Phetteplace said. “If you're a small SPD where you only have a few techs, maybe it's a little easier, but if you're a large facility or a large IDN with multiple facilities, it becomes that much more difficult.” Johnson said there are several levels of data that perioperative and sterile processing leaders want, and need visibility over their operative needs. “At the high level, what's important is being able to see everything your department's doing, seeing what your throughput is in terms of how many trays you're able to process for the OR. That's your capacity to support the cases and patients.” Having data is one thing; accessing it and making sense of it is another. Creating cumbersome pivot tables can take hours to get the data into usable shape. It isn't typically something a person running a sterile processing department wants to spend their valuable time doing. Phetteplace said Censis understands these challenges. Censis designed CensisAI2 Productivity to provide a faster way to analyze data. “We want to understand if we're winning or losing. That was the mantra we had going into this, understanding the concept of productivity. It shouldn't take me fifteen minutes to dig through tab after tab and look at complicated charts and graphs to understand if I'm winning or losing.” Interested in learning more about Censis Technologies' surgical asset management platform? Visit Censis.com.
Tysklands tidligere socialdemokratiske kansler Gerhard Schröder må gerne være medlem af sit parti, SPD, på trods af sit venskab med den russiske præsident Vladimir Putin. Vi undersøger, hvor stor en klods om benet det er for partiet og for kansler Olaf Scholz. Senere hører vi fra en mand, som gerne vil udstille to russiske kampvogne i Berlin, som den ukrainske hær har erobret, men har fået afslag på, fordi sådan en udstilling - ifølge Berlins bystyre - berører Tysklands udenrigspolitiske interesser. Til sidst ser vi på, hvordan russiske hackere har angrebet tysk infrastruktur, og om Tyskland er godt forberedt på cyberangreb. Medvirkende: Lykke Friis, direktør i Tænketanken Europa. Andreas Woerlein, pressetalsmand for SPDs afdeling i Heidelberg. Wieland Giebel, kurator på "Hitler - Wie konnte es geschehen" hos Berlin Story. Daniel Shepherd, direktør hos CSIS.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The guest of Onet.pl's "International Report" was Dietmar Nietan, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinator of German-Polish relations, Bundestag member and ruling SPDs's treasurer (member of the party's national leadership) D. Nietan, in response to the podcast's presenter's question, whether in the event of Russia invading for example Estonia both Poland and Germany would be at war with Russia, and similarly whether Germany would be at war with Russia, had Russia invaded Poland, replied "absolutely." When asked about the status of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, he said that in his opinion the document was "dead". The German politician also stated that Germany, taking into account the need to become independent from Russian energy resources, will have to look differently at coal, which is a factor of energy independence. When asked about the supply of weapons from Germany to Ukraine, he stated that he understood how upset both Poland as well as other countries in the region were with the pace of these deliveries, but stressed that this was due to the fact that Germany had over many years neglected investments in German armed forces. Commenting on the issue of the supply of German tanks, which, according to President Andrzej Duda, were to be delivered to Poland in exchange for the tanks handed over by Poland to Ukraine, the representative of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that no specific arrangements had ever been made in this matter. When asked about the status of former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the SPD, Dietmar Nietan stated that there was a consensus in the SPD that the former chancellor was no longer "one of us". Referring to the anti-German campaign in the Polish state media, he noted that what it causes is that hardly anyone in Germany wants to deal with relations with Poland today. At the same time, he emphasized that he positively - from the left-wing perspective - assessed such activities of Poland's Law and Justice such as handing out child benefits. The above, according to Nietan is a departure from neoliberalism and demonstrates concern for social justice.
Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs) are an essential mechanism for employers to use when informing employees and participants of benefits offered under their plans. What kind of information is required to be included in an SPD? Should you consider including information that's not required? Who drafts them? How are SPDs distributed, and how often? Grab your cup of coffee and tune in to hear Richard and Sarah chat with Liz Deckman, a Partner in Seyfarth's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Department, about these questions and more!
In the latest episode of the Electrium podcast we discuss Amendment 2 of the 18th Edition. That's right the latest amendment is here and our team discuss the key highlights for residential installations in amendment 2. From AFDDs, SPDs, RCBOS, RCDs and more, we delve deep into amendment 2 and what it means for your next installation. Time codes below: 0:00 - Overview of Amendment 2 and key highlights 5:00 - Arc Fault Detection Devices 18:50 - Transient Overvoltage Protection 27:31 - RCDs and RCBOs 35:16 - Summary of amendment 2 Discover more about amendment 2 at Electrium.co.uk/AM2 Follow Electrium across social media: Twitter: @electriumnews Facebook: /electriumsalesltd Linkedin: company/electrium-sales-limited YouTube: Electrium Sales Limited *'Puzzle Pieces' by 'Lee Rosevere', used under CC BY / This section is an excerpt of the original and certain sections have been removed. Puzzle Pieces - leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ Lee Rosevere - leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ CC BY License - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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On today's week-in-review, Crystal is joined by staff writer covering Seattle City Hall at The Stranger, Hannah Krieg. They discuss City Council giving SPD control to change its ruse policy, what's on the ballot for next week's election, a bill that would move all elections to even years, changes to the missing middle housing bill, and how librarians are filling gaps in our emergency response to extreme weather. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Hannah Krieg, at @hannahkrieg. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Resources “The Council Will Let SPD Spearhead Changes To Its Ruse Policy” by Hannah Krieg from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/02/01/65871823/the-council-will-let-spd-spearhead-changes-to-its-ruse-policy “Didn't WA just vote in November? Why is there another election already?” by David Gutman for The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/didnt-wa-just-vote-in-november-why-is-there-another-election-already/ “Help! What's on the ballot for next week's election?” by Ben Adlin for The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2022/02/01/help-whats-on-the-ballot-for-next-weeks-election/ “Vote YES on Both Seattle Public School Levies” by Stranger Election Control Board from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/01/21/65253021/think-of-the-freaking-children-seattle-vote-yes-on-both-seattle-public-school-levies Washington Secretary of State - Vote WA: https://voter.votewa.gov/ “Odd-Year Elections Suppress Tenant Votes But Even-Year Election Bill Can Fix That” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/01/31/odd-year-elections-suppress-tenant-votes-but-even-year-election-bill-can-fix-that/ Odd vs. Even Year Election Twitter thread by @mayormcginn: https://twitter.com/mayormcginn/status/1483512863444676612?s=20&t=NezYse4bRlsGCCygGvz0ug HB 1727 - Concerning odd-numbered year elections: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1727&Year=2021&Initiative=false HB 1782 - Creating additional middle housing near transit and in areas traditionally dedicated to single-family detached housing: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1782&Initiative=false&Year=2021 “Statewide Missing Middle Housing Bill Clears Committee Vote, But Not Before Pollet and Senn Water It Down” by Natalie Bicknell Argerious, Doug Trumm & Stephen Fesler from The Urbanist: https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/02/01/statewide-missing-middle-housing-bill-clears-committee-vote-but-not-before-pollet-and-senn-water-it-down/ “The new emergency responders: Librarians” by Hannah Weinberger from Crosscut: https://crosscut.com/environment/2022/02/new-emergency-responders-librarians Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today, we're continuing our Friday almost-live shows where we review the news of the week with a cohost - welcome to the program for the first time, today's co-host: staff writer covering Seattle City Hall at The Stranger, Hannah Krieg. Welcome. [00:00:51] Hannah Krieg: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. I'm excited. [00:00:54] Crystal Fincher: I am excited that you're here. All right - so I wanted to start off talking about a story that you wrote this week about SPD having to spearhead the policy changes around its own ruse. What is going on with that? [00:01:10] Hannah Krieg: Yeah, so the story really came from - actually - a Hacks & Wonks episode with Teresa Mosqueda. She had said - she went out and made the very - the very powerful claim that maybe cops shouldn't lie. And she said that - she said we have to do something about that. And so I decided to track down who the we is - who is going to make that change. Bruce Harrell sorta said, We need to make a change. The Council was like, Should we do legislation? Should we ban ruses? There's a lot of - there's a lot of talk of what was going to happen and what I found was that the Public Safety Chair, Councilmember Lisa Herbold, said to me that she's going to reserve judgment on if she needs to put forth legislation until SPD has a chance to try to change the policy itself. [00:02:12] Crystal Fincher: SPD - notorious for doing a great job policing themselves, correcting their behavior, revising their own policies. Yeah, totally makes sense to wait. [00:02:22] Hannah Krieg: Well, okay - it sounds pretty bad. But I do want to give Herbold the benefit of the doubt in that it's difficult, I guess, to legislate SPD. They tried to do this with the less-lethal weapons ban and that kind of blew up on their face and they had to try again. And even still, that policy hasn't been implemented as of the end of 2021, so definitely there's some avoidance of going down that road again. But she did say that they'll look into it if SPDs policy isn't up to snuff - seems like they could just do that now but - 'cause they do have the power to legislate in that area. It just would be difficult. [00:03:23] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. And I mean, to that point also, this is - it's not like SPD is an outlier in using this unfortunately. Some of our Councilmembers, I think, are on record as saying that they don't think that - that there may not be a place and if so, an extremely limited place, where lying is permitted by police. Bruce Harrell has said he still has an open mind about whether lying should be permitted. So just kind of on the bright line of is this something that the department should be doing? It actually seems like that's not necessarily a firm no, and it probably makes sense to anticipate SPD coming back with - just maybe some slightly stricter guidelines on when they're going to - practice lying. [00:04:17] Hannah Krieg: Yeah, it doesn't sound like - I kind of felt like some Councilmembers came out pretty strong against this ruse, and it doesn't sound like they're going to live up to that expectation by letting SPD handle this. When I talked to the mayor's office, the latest that he has said as far as goals for this policy - Bruce Harrell wants updates to the ruse policy that include a clear understanding of when the practice is appropriate, a process to notify the chain of command to prevent similar awareness issues as in the Proud Boys case in June 2020, and a record of the instances where ruses are used. So it doesn't look like he's wanting to ban them all together, though he said he had an open mind. [00:05:06] Crystal Fincher: And one question I have here and I don't know if there's even an answer yet, but Councilmember Herbold did seem to indicate that, Hey, let the SPD take a shot at it, and we'll see if we need to take any action if theirs isn't sufficient. But an SPD spokesperson said that the Council will not have veto power over this policy - how does that work? [00:05:31] Hannah Krieg: Basically when SPD makes their own policy - the processes - they're gonna talk to a bunch of stakeholders, they're gonna talk to agencies within Seattle and then nationally - to kind of shop around for different ideas of how other departments handle this issue. Then they're going to draft policy and present it to some oversight bodies and some other important stakeholders like the Council, but the Council won't have veto power over the policy that SPD proposes themselves. The Council could then go ahead and make their own policy, similar with the less-lethal weapons ban, but the policy from SPD - though Herbold said she would like to see drafts of it - when I talked to the spokesperson from SPD, he said Council will not have veto power over these kinds of drafts if they're not happy with it. [00:06:32] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. So it just sounds like SPD is like, We just got a license to do whatever we want to do and we're going to do it. And you can't say anything about it once we do. [00:06:43] Hannah Krieg: Kind of. I mean, they have the consent decree to adhere to and they have oversight bodies, but it's really them who's in the driver's seat right now with the policy on ruses. And to be clear, the Council could at any point still try to do a legislation - they would have to pretty specific if they wanted to legislate - if, when, how, what a ruse looks like - but they could do it. It would be difficult though, like the lethal weapons ban. [00:07:16] Crystal Fincher: Okay, well, thank you so much for continuing to follow this story, for tracking down those answers, and continuing to pay attention. We certainly will and continue to talk about it whenever new events arise. I also wanted to talk about, Hey, you know, there's an election coming up this Tuesday, February 8th. What is on the ballot next week? [00:07:38] Hannah Krieg: Gosh, the levies, right? I don't know - I'm not a homeowner - it doesn't really affect me, but - and I also don't have students. Um, there are two propositions, correct? [00:07:52] Crystal Fincher: There are - well, depending on where people are listening, there are lots of levies, there are definitely prepositions - prepositions? - propositions on the ballot. And I do want to throw in - even if you're not a homeowner, this does impact you and sometimes homeowners make it out, Hey, we are owning homes - we're the ones paying property tax, therefore we're entitled to a greater say in what we say is more important. But property tax - landlords just pass that along to their tenants. And oftentimes pass it along with a markup, so renters are oftentimes more impacted by property tax and those changes. So I just want to be explicit about that because that is something that has been weaponized against renters or people who are not homeowners. And everyone deserves a say and some people are paying and impacted by property taxes, even more than homeowners on average, so that's a thing. And we all benefit from making sure our population is educated, and can process information, and determine what are facts and not. As we look around in our society and see the consequences of people not being able to parse relevant and accurate and correct data and understand how science works, but - [00:09:22] Hannah Krieg: Thanks for clearing that up - I guess I fell victim to the propaganda - I don't know. I didn't know that it got passed on. [00:09:28] Crystal Fincher: You know, it is absolutely the default talking point and the conventional wisdom that that's a conversation. And so it is going to take a lot of conversations and pushback, 'cause lots of people don't think about it, don't have a reason to think about it. And you constantly have people saying, Well, as a homeowner, as someone who's actually paying the property taxes. And as if they're not passing them along and that's not paid for when they raise the rent every year. And if you look at the rate of property tax increase and look at the rate of rent increases, one is significantly higher than the other. So as we're looking at this, it's just really important that you find your ballot - you track it down, you have it in your mailbox. And mostly there are school funding - lots of school districts around the area are asking to renew levies to provide information. And as we are looking around right now and seeing just the impact of a lack of school funding, a lack of preparation all over there. So, Shoreline has a parks and recreation improvement proposition on the ballot. There is propositions in Fife and all over the place, but in most places, including in Seattle, there are levy renewals or levy votes, so we can adequately and properly fund our schools. We still have a long way to go. I encourage people to vote Yes on those. But most of all, the people who are really motivated to turn out for these elections sometimes are people who are super anti-tax and don't care what it is. They're just voting No - that's an especially activated population right now. So it actually does take regular people who are not - who don't sit there and stew about having to pay any tax all day long and screed against the government and all of that. You have to vote to make sure that happens. It is helpful and useful and that's my take on it - make sure that you vote by Tuesday - mail in your ballot, drop it into a dropbox. We'll include links where you can look up what is in your jurisdiction. You can also go to votewa.gov - votewa.gov - and just type in your information and it'll tell you everything that's on your local ballot, and what you need to do if you need a ballot replacement. Just vote. Anything else you want to add about looking at this vote this Tuesday? [00:12:02] Hannah Krieg: Yeah, The Stranger Election Control Board did suggest a Yes vote on both Seattle Public School levies. And you can check out our endorsement at thestranger.com if you want to know more about the levy and why The Stranger supports it. [00:12:20] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, you can. And we'll also put a link to that in the show notes. But speaking of these elections and speaking of, Hey, these - we're in February right now, which if you were asking me is not when I would choose to put something on the ballot. But we just got out of an election cycle in 2021 - and in odd years here in Washington, we elect most local offices - so city councils, mayoral races, county races. And then on the even years, we deal with state legislative races, statewide races on some of those even years, but they're very different. And then we also have our federal election - so we're voting for our Congress people and our Senators in even years. And so one, it's a constant drum beat of elections, but man, there's a difference in the turnout, and the composition of the people who vote, and the amount of people who vote between these local even-year elections, which don't get as much attention or turnout, and the even-year elections, which get most of the turnout - I think I said odd years don't get turnout 'cause that's correct. But yes. And you have actually covered this - you're a fan, there's a bill that is advancing in our legislature. So what is happening with that and why is it useful? [00:13:52] Hannah Krieg: Yeah. So, Representative Mia Gregerson put forth a bill to move all of our local elections that usually happen, as you said, on odd years to even years. And the hope is that - since these odd-year elections don't have that like sexy national race at the top dragging people to the ballot, that if we put it on the even year, more people will vote overall and we'll get better turnout. And so that has just passed through committee - I think it was last week. As of yesterday, it's in Rules - hasn't been caucused on, but so far it looks like kind of a partisan battle. So there's seven people in the committee - the three Republicans voted No, the four Democrats voted Yes. And sort of the belief I heard from Senator Jamie Pedersen is that Republicans think they're going to do better in elections if they spread it across the calendar and Democrats think they're going to do better in elections if more people vote, which are two different strategies. Very interesting. [00:15:03] Crystal Fincher: I mean - really this is a conversation about turnout, which is not itself a partisan conversation. The data is clear - I mean, anyone can see it, anyone can look at it - and when we look at what turnout numbers are in even-year elections versus odd-year elections, or in local elections in the odd years versus the federally - top of the ticket is federal in even years. The difference in turnout is massive and the people who vote to a greater degree or represent a greater percentage of the electorate in those low turnout odd years are predominantly higher-income people, older people - certainly less representative of the actual population that we have. When more people vote and more people turn out, it looks closer to the actual population that we have. Now we still have a ways to go many times, but I mean, we're sometimes talking about the difference between a 40% turnout and an 80% turnout. More people having a voice in shaping their community and electing their leaders in their communities is a better thing. And again, this doesn't change who lives where - it's not like people are running in between jurisdictions in these different years. These are the same communities, these are the same people voting. And in heavily Republican districts - if that's what the neighborhood actually is - they're going to elect Republicans. If only a few people who are highly motivated and activated and the system caters to them more than it does other people - we've talked about that a lot previously on this program - then yeah, then it's going to be less representative. And a few people are going to have a say that may not be representative of the many. So yeah, in Washington and when more people vote, I mean, it kind of is a self-own to say, Hey, if we actually let more people have a say, we're in trouble because we're not doing what most people like - I don't think that's a great argument to be making. I don't know that they have a better argument to make. I mean, clearly they prefer that most people don't vote because most people don't agree with them. And I'm not saying most people super agree with Democrats all the time either, but it does give people a chance to be more representative in their elections. And to be clear, these local elections are technically nonpartisan, so there's not a D or R by the person's name - you're voting based on who they are in your municipality, and what they're talking about in terms of issues, and what their track record is. So, this is something that one - lowers the cost of elections because we aren't constantly having them all the time at odd years and even years. If we can have half as many, get the same amount of work done, elect the same people - and give more people the opportunity to have a voice, to listen, evaluate, pay attention to, give media and residents the opportunity to scrutinize candidates to greater detail, and that information be available to more people who are paying attention in even years - why are we not doing this? It just completely makes sense to do. So, I am thankful to Representative Gregerson that she has introduced this. I really encourage people to follow along with this bill and to make sure that you are actively voicing your support to your legislators, because even if they're reliable Democrats, you just can't take for granted that they're going to vote for this, or not try and modify it, or water it down. So I am excited about it. When did you start paying attention to the difference between what's happening in even-year and odd-year elections? [00:18:59] Hannah Krieg: Oh, well, I don't know - I'm pretty young, so pretty recently, I guess. But I definitely - that was the conversation all this year with the recall for Sawant. And not everyone has the ground game that Socialist Alternative has to combat an even-year election - or sorry, an odd-year election - to get the turnout they need to win. But it's definitely - there definitely is a big difference. Another thing people are worried about though, and this isn't really even a Republican critique, but that - the worry is if we combine these two ballots, we have everything on one, the ballots going to get longer, and we're going to see people not vote down ballot anyway, because they just get tired of voting. And that - I talked to King County Elections about this - and they did say that they see anecdotally, they don't have any data on it or statistics, but they see anecdotally that people drop off as we get lower into the ballot. I just kind of did a quick look and the dropoff is a lot less than the dropoff between an even year and an odd year - as you said, it sometimes can be the difference of 40%. And I checked in the 2020 election, and the top of the ballot was in like the mid 80s. And then the bottom of the ballot was in like the upper 70s. So it doesn't seem to be as big of a deal, but it is definitely something worth thinking about. And then it gives voters more things to think about in one year, it spreads election coverage from local media thinner 'cause they have to cover more stuff. But I do think that it's worth the trade-off to get potentially 40%, or 40 points extra, of participation in the election. [00:20:57] Crystal Fincher: Yeah - voters participating in these elections - absolutely. And you know, there's - obviously we're speaking on audio right now and describing a map may not be the most helpful thing, but I will link a thread - a great thread that former Seattle mayor Mike McGinn did about this who - Hacks & Wonks listeners are used to hearing from every now and then. And some maps that he shared - that Elliott Day actually put together - just showing the drop-off between odd years and even years, the composition of who votes, and the difference in odd versus even-year elections. And it has broad public support - I think it was NPI that did some polling on this and I was actually surprised by how popular this idea is. So voters absolutely support it - it is moving forward in our legislature and we need to make sure it continues to move forward as these committee cutoffs and deadlines fast approach. We just passed one and it made it through that gate, but there are some more to come. So please, pay attention to that bill - and that is House Bill 1727 with Mia Gregerson. So we'll include those links, but very good, very helpful, very useful. And although some - heard a little bit of grumbling before from some consultants thinking, Hey, this is really it's going to reduce the amount of work. It changes some of the timelines of the work, but I think that the primary - speaking as a political consultant, how much I get paid actually is not, shouldn't be the primary determinant of what we're doing to maintain the health of our democracy. To make sure people can participate - that should be the paramount consideration and everything else will work itself out. I don't think the political consultant industry profession is going to be hurt by this. In fact, I actually think it's going to be really helpful. So moving on from that issue to others that we have here - one thing that I wanted to talk about was just, as things move forward just a little bit in the legislature, the missing middle housing bill is another item that we've talked about here - allowing more density in those areas and just wanting to make sure that we allow the type of housing that will enable our rents and home prices not to continue to skyrocket, and for us to actually have more livable, sustainable and resilient communities. And so, House Bill 1782 passed out of the Local Government Committee, but it was watered down a bit by, actually, 46th Legislative District Representative Gerry Pollet, who lowered the sixplex requirement to a fourplex requirement, who changed the distance calculation, who - they put a minimum lot size requirement in there and kind of lessened the strength of the transit requirements in there. It's just - still doing some good things, not as good as it was before, and not really seeing the justification in the watering down except to maybe address some of the vitriol that we, that occurs from the NIMBY community that doesn't want to see anyone new come into the neighborhoods, or kind of talking about the fear of they're going to build giant apartment buildings that don't adhere to the character of the neighborhood. And that is, as we see in so many neighborhoods in Seattle and elsewhere, that that is not true. And duplexes look like other ones - just kind of houses and sometimes it's really hard to tell them apart. What do you think about this whole bill and issue, Hannah? [00:25:18] Hannah Krieg: Well, it's kinda wild - changing the sixplex requirement to a fourplex requirement - that's really slashing a lot of housing. It's not super surprising - I mean, as The Urbanist said, this representative is a favorite of the Seattle Times Editorial Board. And that board often has kind of more NIMBY views - backing exclusionary zoning, fighting housing reform, and opposing affordable housing efforts like JumpStart - as the urbanist said. I love density, so it is sad to see something that could be cool get watered down. I don't know if the middle housing bill would have solved all the problems anyway, but it is sad to see that even this one thing that the state was trying to do to help people out is getting watered down. [00:26:29] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. No, absolutely, and I completely agree. And to your point, the middle housing bill won't solve all of the problems, but the problems will not get solved without the thing - doing the things that are in this middle housing bill and increasing density, and just making sure that we are making space and providing housing for the people who we know are moving here, living here. And we know the consequences of failing to provide that - we have to catch up - it's not like where we've been treading water - we've been drowning and we've got a long way to swim upstream just to get to the point of stability. So the urgency for this is really important. I hope to see it continue to pass and advance and we'll keep an eye on that. There was an interesting article this week about the role of librarians and our - really our public safety net. What was that story? What did it talk about? I think that was in Crosscut. [00:27:27] Hannah Krieg: Yeah, I love this story 'cause I love Crosscut and also love librarians, I guess. But basically, as we see an increase in extreme weather and the need for emergency services and emergency shelters, our county and our city has really relied on librarians to help out in keeping folks safe and - not housed - but inside during extreme weather events. And it's interesting because it's sort of like this symptom of capitalism where we don't have - we don't have a lot of free community spaces, truly free indoor spaces where people can just exist without having to pay to exist. And so this is really all we have in a lot of cases besides the shelter beds that we already have on a nightly basis. But the library is kind of this last - this last part that is free and people can be inside. And so librarians have to take up this role that they probably didn't expect to take up. And hopefully we'll figure out a way to get people into permanent housing before we need to put them in libraries again. But for now, this is a very interesting piece on Crosscut about the librarian experience, I guess, during a weather crisis. [00:29:08] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. I mean, certainly even before kind of our recent weather crises that have brought this once again to the forefront of people's minds, and as discussed in this story, as you said, the libraries are some of the only places that are free, that don't require a membership, or requirement to enter. And so they have been an accessible place for people who don't have reliable home internet access, for people who may not have a computer at home, which is a significant segment of our society. It can be easy to overlook that if you are not in that group, but that group is substantial - that the library is where they're able to access services. It's not just books. It is classes and internet access. There are people - all the time - applying for jobs in libraries, accessing services, which now especially during the pandemic are limited to being online to a much greater degree than they used to be. And so that created - they were doing this work even before and doing a lot more than just tending to books and what's happening there. But especially in these weather emergencies that we've had, where it's been dangerous to be outside and unsheltered, this - many cities, including Seattle, have said the library is a place of refuge in these situations and didn't necessarily do that in consultation with the librarians and the people who are staffing the libraries. And so talking through that expectation of what does that mean, and one - just kinda cities and county governments not having more options for refuge and safety is its own issue. And a by-product of that problem is that so much more is being forced onto libraries than originally intended. And so these places are absolutely necessary, but I think we also have to have more meaningful conversations about now that we - like, it's not a shock that there's - this year we can expect that there's going to be some air advisories because of wildfire smoke, because we have those every year. That there's going to be super cold weather events, as we've just recently had 'cause now we have those every year. That there's going to be scorching hot times 'cause we have those every year. So are you going to continue to kind of do this patchwork emergency rely on libraries thing and maybe even not have adequate staffing, or are you going to provide a more robust emergency and safety network for residents? Because right now, a lot is being put on libraries, on librarians - who are doing excellent work, but certainly more support is needed and they're trying to address a problem that is so much bigger than what they're actually equipped to handle. So really good story about this, and I hope we continue to have that discussion and we continue to talk to our elected representatives at the local level to make sure that they're planning effectively and not unduly burdening anyone while making sure that our residents are safe. And putting the resources necessary to get that done as a priority. So we will wrap it up with that. Thank you so much for joining me today - you are super awesome, enjoyed this conversation. Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks on KVRU 105.7 FM this Friday, February 4th, 2022. Vote on Tuesday, February 8th - you can vote before then, but definitely vote by then. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Lisl Stadler and assistant producer is Shannon Cheng. And our wonderful co-host today was staff writer covering Seattle City Hall at The Stranger, Hannah Krieg. You can find Hannah on Twitter @hannahkrieg - that's. H-A-N-N-A-H-K-R-I-E-G. 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CensiTrac's robust reporting capabilities can provide sterile processing departments (SPDs) with a wealth of opportunities for efficiencies. Dalton Carter, Technical Support Manager at Censis, discussed some of these CensiTrac features with host Hilary Kennedy."SPD's need to report on a wealth of important information from sterilization records to employee productivity to anything with case tracking, and knowing what was used on a patient specifically,” Carter said.Competencies within CensiTrac can show which employees are trained in certain areas and provide sign-offs for accountability. “Along with that, you can see data points of where your trays are scanned throughout your entire department, including the OR if you're scanning there,” Carter said.Although Carter said one of the most popular reporting features in CensiTrac is the employee productivity report, his personal favorite was a general inventory throughput report due to the ability to customize it in hundreds of ways.“There are so many different reports you can run,” Carter said. “Whether it be compliance or where a tray is, where an instrument is, there are different reports you can run to get the filters that you need."Interested in learning more about Censis Technologies' surgical asset management platform? Visit Censis.com.
One of the most vexing aspects of benefit plan sponsorship and administration is hanging on to old records like enrollment forms, claim denials, plan documents, SPDs, ACA filings, etc. So when it comes to record retention, how long is long enough? Ed and Scott welcome to the show their colleague, attorney Suzanne Bach, formerly of the Labor Department's national office, to explain the rules, and best practices, around plan-related document retention. Join them as they explain: Why the answer to “What if I can't find it?” in response to federal enforcement agents' request for plan records is going to be “You lose.” How does the record retention period differ depending on the law requiring the document and depending on how the request is couched? Why isn't “quadruplely” a word? Or is it? (It is in Ed's world!) Why does a clear record retention policy actually help – not handcuff – plan sponsors? As a companion piece to this episode, check out the nifty record retention grid prepared by the show's guest, Suzanne Bach, J.D.
Hvad koster den grønne omstilling egentlig? Kender vi de fulde omkostninger? Ifølge klimaminister Dan Jørgensens tidligere taleskriver, forfatteren Kasper Colling-Nielsen, så er der en udbredt angst blandt politikere om at fortælle befolkningen de reelle omkostninger ved den grønne omstilling. Søndag er der valg i Tyskland. Meningsmålinger peger fortsat på et skifte, så SPDs kandidat Olaf Scholz står til at tage over efter Merkel. Men CDU har overrasket ved tidligere valg, selvom at meningsmålinger så skidt ud for partiet. Vi får den sidste analyse inden valget af Siegfried Matlok. Vi skal også vende udviklingen i den forgangne uge i dansk politik og uddele Ugens Fidusbamse. Kontrolstaten er i vækst. Næste år vil antallet af medarbejderne i ministeriernes departementer stige med syv procent. Man vil gå fra 4500 årsværk nu til 5000 næste år. I 2011 var der kun 3.500 kr. Hvorfor sker det? Er det politikernes krav om kontrol, der er forklaringen, og er der en ende på væksten? Vi spørger fhv. professor Jørgen Grønnegaard-Christensen, Aarhus Universitet, der i Weekendavisen har gjort opmærksom på udviklingen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CensiTrac's robust reporting capabilities can provide sterile processing departments (SPDs) with a wealth of opportunities for efficiencies. Dalton Carter, Technical Support Manager at Censis, discussed some of these CensiTrac features with host Hilary Kennedy."SPD's need to report on a wealth of important information from sterilization records to employee productivity to anything with case tracking, and knowing what was used on a patient specifically,” Carter said.Competencies within CensiTrac can show which employees are trained in certain areas and provide sign-offs for accountability. “Along with that, you can see data points of where your trays are scanned throughout your entire department, including the OR if you're scanning there,” Carter said.Although Carter said one of the most popular reporting features in CensiTrac is the employee productivity report, his personal favorite was a general inventory throughput report due to the ability to customize it in hundreds of ways.“There are so many different reports you can run,” Carter said. “Whether it be compliance or where a tray is, where an instrument is, there are different reports you can run to get the filters that you need."Interested in learning more about Censis Technologies' surgical asset management platform? Visit Censis.com.
While demand has come off the peak, we still don't anticipate seeing a dramatic increase in supply anytime soon. So how exactly do you get your offers accepted in a low supply environment? In today's podcast, Jeff and Phil share five strategies you can use to win when inventory is low. Key #1 to getting your offer accepted is agent-to-agent communication. Your communication with the listing agent is the most important thing you can do to get an offer accepted. This is tougher with teams as you may not know the right person on the team that manages offers for the client. It's important to sell your client and the ability of your client to close on the property. One thing to note is that your credibility comes into factor here. If you're new and haven't sold many houses, you may not have any (credibility). The other agent is going to be sizing you up as they form an opinion of you and your expertise. The offers we're seeing get accepted are when agents communicate early and often. This is why it's important to build rapport with the listing agent pre-sale. Be respectful with their time, when you communicate, have your questions ready. Key #2: Be sure it's received. Make sure your offer is actually received by the person negotiating the offer. Key #3: Make sure your offer is competitive. It's hard to know what competitive is. Sometimes no feedback is feedback. It could mean you weren't aggressive enough. The agent usually cares about “is this deal going to happen?”. Your offer has to be substantially over the others. Number four on the list of ways to get your offers accepted in a low supply market ties in with number 3. If you don't execute all of the other strategies above, #4 doesn't matter. Key #4: Terms of the deal. Contingencies in the contract include title, HOA, inspection, appraisal, CCNR, SPDS, financing, and leaseback. These are all contingencies that can be waived. When the buyer wants out, you can use any of these contingencies. We have a buyer's agent that's representing a buy. The agent presented the buyer advisory. The buyer went home and looked up the sex preditor's list in their area. They submitted the inspection but they happen to be in an HOA that got documents out early (which isn't always the case). The buyers' inspection notice was submitted leaving financing, but this was a cash deal. We signed the SPDS and our buyer waived the appraisal. Then they found out after the inspection period ended (because they submitted the BINSR) there was a sexual predator in their neighborhood and they wanted out. We were looking for ways to get out with the buyer, going through each of the contingencies. That's why this is a way to get your offer accepted. You need to get your client to eliminate as many of the contingencies as possible so that you give certainty to the seller that you're going to close. The strongest way to win is to offer your earnest money hard, at acceptance, for whatever your client can allow (even if just a portion). We don't see many deals where they're waiving the earnest money upfront. This shows certainty that you're not going to cancel. Higher earnest money influences sellers. Most buyers don't lose their earnest money because the contracts are written in favor of the buyer. There are so many ways to get out that it's rare it gets lost. It's our job as quality agents, that the higher number influences sellers. If you have higher earnest money, it does make you look stronger, even if you have 4 or 5 contingencies. The final key for getting your offers accepted in a low supply market is educating the consumer pre-offer. The first time you ever meet a client (at the very first meeting) is when you need to educate the buyer. This is understanding what the buyer is using for their sources of information, and whether those sources are credible or not. This might be asking the buyer, “where do you get your information on the market”? You need to dig and find out how they got to...
Der er valg i Tyskland i næste uge, men den konservative kanslerkandidat Armin Laschet er over sommeren blevet stadigt mere upopulær. Til gengæld stiger tilliden til SPDs kandidat Olaf Scholtz i målingerne. Vi får en samlet analyse af den politiske situation i Tyskland efter en voldsom sommer, der især har stået i klimaforandringernes tegn og den leverer Siegfried Matlok. Det ligner en vild uge i dansk politik med en stribe opsigtsvækkende politiske meldinger og et par igangværende dramaer hist og her. Vi samler op på et hele og forsøger også at uddele Ugens Fidusbamse til en værdig sjæl, der har sagt eller foreslået noget fornuftigt. Mænd og især ufaglærte mennesker har typisk ikke stamplads i Det kongelige Teater eller sæsonkort til landets museer. Der er ulighed i kultur, hævder Socialdemokratiets kulturordfører Kasper Sand Kjær. Har han ret og hvad bør man gøre politisk for at rette op på denne ulighed? Debat mellem Sand Kjær og de konservatives kulturordfører Birgitte Bergmann. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Randall and Craig discuss the new ENVE Custom Road Project, SPD Power Meter Pedals from Garmin and what vaccinations are going to mean for our own group riding. Links: ENVE Custom Road Garmin Rally SPD Power Pedal DynaPlug Support the Podcast Join The Ridership Full Transcription: [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of in the dirt from the gravel ride podcast i'm your host craig dalton i'll be joined shortly by my co-host randall jacobs. [00:00:10]Every two weeks Randall and I discuss how gravel cycling is fitting into our lives in that particular week. And also look at recent product drops and events being announced in the industry. It's been quite quiet over the last few months, but I feel like with vaccinations coming, we're starting to see new product launches and a lot more talk about events. In person later this year. [00:00:35] [00:00:35]If you're a first time listener. Welcome. In the alternating weeks, I have long form interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. With a goal of shedding light on the ever nuance sport of gravel cycling. [00:00:50]We've got quite an extensive back catalog of episodes with about a hundred already recorded. So if there's an event or product or an athlete that you're curious [00:01:00]About just scroll back in your podcast feed. I think you'll find we've covered a lot of territory over the last two and a half years. The podcast is sponsored by a small number of supporters, but mainly by listeners, like you. Simply visit, buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. [00:01:19]And choose how you'd like to support the show. Your support is greatly appreciated. With that said let's dive right in to this week show. [00:01:30] [00:01:30] Randall. Good to see ya. [00:01:33] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:01:33] Good to see you as well. Craig, how have you been? [00:01:35] Craig Dalton: [00:01:35] I've been well , for some reason it feels like I haven't talked to you in a long time this week. [00:01:40]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:01:40] I have been largely off grid. So, I on a road trip was in death Valley with my colleague, Sam, and then now I'm in Southern Utah and where I've been for the past couple of weeks. [00:01:50] So it's been a good amount of time since we, [00:01:53] Craig Dalton: [00:01:53] yeah, that makes sense. That's awesome. I forgot that you were intending on meeting up with Sam. Did you guys end up camping and doing some riding together? [00:02:00]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:02:00] So we left bikes at home and I've actually left my bike at home entirely for this roughly four week trip intentionally. [00:02:06] So a lot of trail running and hiking and long walks and so on. Just because of. Yeah, I figured it's one. I have a Prius camper and so I can fit the bike, but it's a lot more work to pull it out and then put in, pull it out, lock it up, outside the car to camp and then, throw it back in and so on. [00:02:21] But then also I just wanted some time away from the bike to, so I could fall back in love with it. And I've been really enjoying trail running and going up a little bit of light mountaineering and things like that on this trip. And so. So yeah, time away. So they do [00:02:34] Craig Dalton: [00:02:34] not take away your gravel cyclist membership card if you cycle for a month. [00:02:40]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:02:40] I think I think I got a lifetime membership for the amount that I've put into this particular space. Hopefully people will forgive me for being off the bike for a bit. Yeah. It [00:02:48] Craig Dalton: [00:02:48] often feels that way. I think, I growing up in the eighties as a cyclist, more primarily in the nineties, obviously. [00:02:56] There was this going sort of vision as a [00:03:00] cyclist that you just have to ride all the time in order to be a cyclist. So it's, I'm stuck in that mentality. I sort of start to get itchy. If I take a prolonged amount of time off the bike. [00:03:12] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:03:12] Yeah, I'll be honest. Like I, my relationship to the bike is very different than it used to be. [00:03:16] I used to have that kind of compulsive need to put the miles in, but I'm really enjoying both the change of scenery, change of lifestyle, still working on the road, of course, but just a completely different Headspace and out of my usual routines and the bike being one of those. When I get back to the Bay area, I'll definitely be doing plenty of riding. [00:03:34] And then again in Boston when I'm out that way, starting probably in may. [00:03:38]Craig Dalton: [00:03:38] Yeah. I mean, the thing is, and the truth is, and everybody listening knows it. Like the bike is always there for you. And that's the beautiful thing about it. Certainly when my son was born that first year, I was pretty light on the bike and that predated my interest in gravel cycling. [00:03:53] And when I came back and discovered gravel cycling, I just sort of grabbed hold of it and was all in again. [00:04:00] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:00] Well, one thing I will say that I'm quite excited about is vaccination. So you got vaccinated. [00:04:05] Craig Dalton: [00:04:05] Yeah. So I'm one shot in. [00:04:07] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:07] Yeah. So you have the next [00:04:09] Craig Dalton: [00:04:09] one coming up. Yeah. The next one's coming up, I think April 15th. [00:04:12] And it was quite a powerful experience actually. I took the time to talk to a lot of the people who were volunteering at the vaccination site and they were like, you wouldn't believe it. Like we have people burst into tears of relief. Just to have started that process. And I definitely felt [00:04:30] that, I mean, by no means am I being cavalier in my life and my protection at this point, one shot in, and obviously my family is not vaccinated yet, but I have a sense of hope. [00:04:40] I'm really excited about more of my friends getting vaccinated and just slowly returning back. [00:04:48] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:48] I definitely feel that the combination of the, having the pandemic and then having the long, cold winter and both of those lifting and having the thing really excited about as well. [00:04:59] I'm here potting with friends who are themselves vaccinated met up with a couple other friends who were in the medical field and are vaccinated. And we took precautions, but we could relax a little bit and. By the time I get to Boston, I hope that group rides can be a thing again, granted with appropriate precautions and so on and trying to not have too many people out and keep some distancing and so on. [00:05:18] But with some responsible protocol, that being a thing. Yeah. [00:05:23] Craig Dalton: [00:05:23] Curious to learn sort of how we all have appropriate protocols. I know that the ridership forum, one of the members posted an article originated from USA cycling, but also offered and layered in a lot of his. Personal precautions and experiences and riding throughout the pandemic. [00:05:41] It's just going to be strange. I went on a ride over the weekend of my largest group ride in, 14 months, six people, three people vaccinated. So obviously we were massed up and trying to stay distanced, but it's weird. It's awkward to sort of be half in half out. And I think we're all going to go [00:06:00] through with this. [00:06:01]The next four or five months potentially, and it's just important that we stay strong and conservative so that we can go into the winter as a country in a good, in good position. [00:06:14] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:06:14] I think the other thing that we need to be mindful of is that these vaccines are very effective, but are not 100% effective and with new variants and so on, we might need boosters. [00:06:25] And, some degree of precaution protocol will be necessary for awhile, but to be able to know that the worst of it is over or hopefully over is an immense relief. So yeah, absolutely. With you there. I think we get mine in April when I'm back in the Bay. I think California is going to. Offer them to everybody starting either on the first or the 15th of April. [00:06:44] Craig Dalton: [00:06:44] Yeah. This is the 15th of April. It's open to everybody. And I do think, the it was like an assembly line where I went, it was in a high school gymnasium and they were just pumping people through, which is great to see. So I do think if you're motivated, you're going to be able to get in there. [00:06:59] And I, I hope my wife has sort of similarly is just going to get in on the earlier side of April yeah. To get our household vaccinated. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. But this is not a pandemic COVID medical podcast. We're here to talk about gravel bikes as usual. I feel like a few companies are starting to put new things out there, which is exciting because a few more products coming to our desks. [00:07:22] I know you sort of, one of them caught your eye and a couple of caught my eye that we should talk about. [00:07:28] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:07:28] Yeah. So mine would [00:07:30] be the Donna plugger from Dyna plug. And not that it's anything radically new, it's just a much less expensive solution to their already great Dyna plug set up. And I've been using the bacon strips just because I found the dyno plugs cheap, even though the dyno plugs are. [00:07:45] Arguably more effective or less, less fussy with this, I really have no excuse and I think neither does this will be something that I'm recommending to pretty much all of our right well, to all of our riders from here on in 25 bucks comes with four of the plugs. You can get the replacement plugs as well. [00:07:59] It's super lightweight and it just works. And it's way better than having to pull off your wheel and pop a bead and dump out your ceilings and pull a valve or pull a valve STEM out and so on and throw a tube in. So. Yeah, good job, Donna plug in making this more accessible. [00:08:15] Craig Dalton: [00:08:15] Yeah, I think that's cool. Just to drive that point home. [00:08:17] I mean, they brought the price down from 50 or 60 plus dollars in their original kits that I'd been using previously down to what is it? 29 95. So that's awesome. [00:08:28] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:08:28] 24 99, I think with these. And I believe that they're made domestically as well domestic to the U S so that's cool. [00:08:34] Craig Dalton: [00:08:34] Yeah, that's awesome. [00:08:36] It was funny. I was out Riding Laurel Del maybe three weeks ago. And I had just. I had gotten the GoPro max camera. So I've been playing around with my three 60 photography and my buddy, Jason, shout out to Jason. If he's listening, he is bombing down. There's no tomorrow through Laurel Dell having the time of his life. [00:08:55] I think he was thinking I was going to catch him, but his speed and velocity was [00:09:00] so intense. Like I kept getting close to them, him, and then losing him again. And he blasted through the rock garden at the bottom before the Creek crossing and the tire just explodes upon crossing the river. [00:09:17] So we were he was like, that was just the greatest five minutes of my cycling career. And we're like, now it's going to be the worst four hours of your life. As we hike up to the Ridge and try to find your way home, et cetera. But we had it, we had a couple of plugs which is why I'm mentioning it. [00:09:35] We plugged the tire, but it was too far gone. He'd actually dented the rim and we did have to pull it out. We put a 700 by 30 inner tube for a six 50 by 43 tire. So it was sort of overinflated on the inner tube in, and quite a bit wonky on the way out. But, we were able to ride all the way home, which I considered a victory. [00:10:02] He finally reflated again, right when we got to mill Valley. So someone was able to come back and pick them up. [00:10:09] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:10:09] Now it makes me think. He might want to add another solution, which is we have a few riders mentioned my friend Isaac before who's in the ridership and he uses the foam inserts. I can't recall which ones he's using. [00:10:20] It's the air force or one of the others, but these detonating tires and denting rooms in the process, maybe that's something to add into the package. [00:10:28] Craig Dalton: [00:10:28] Yeah. I think if you're a larger [00:10:30] rider, That seems to make a lot of sense. I didn't really think about it in that context, Jason's definitely well, over six foot tall, a bigger guy, so he's hitting things hard. [00:10:39] Those crushed core or other types of foam inserts might be something of interest. [00:10:44] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:10:44] Yeah. I actually just recommended it to one of our riders who wanted to start exploring lower pressures with our carbon rims. And it's well, they're very robustly made. And when you run them too low and you hit a rock, it's going to be a very expensive repair. [00:10:58] So, yeah. Yeah, the people I know who ride them really like them adds a little bit of weight, but if you're riding that aggressively, who cares, you're already on a very efficient machine. Yeah. [00:11:07] Craig Dalton: [00:11:07] Particularly if you're a bigger guy or gal, like why not? Right. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing that I have here, yeah. [00:11:14] I was going to say the thing that I've picked up over the transom was these new power meter pedals from Garmin, they're called the rally power meters. And they're built on an SPD chassis, which to my knowledge is the first sort of SPD style, power meter pedal that's existed. [00:11:36] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:11:36] I feel like there may have been another one made by Expedo or some, one of the other Taiwanese pedal makers. [00:11:44]Don't quote me on that, but these definitely look really well-made SPDs, as I ride them. I'm a big fan. They're ubiquitous. They're a little bit heavy. It adds like relative to an XD. I'm seeing XDS at 170 grams a piece. These are 220 grams. So an extra 50 grams per [00:12:00] pedal. But dual-sided power meters. [00:12:02] You can transfer them to any bike. They install really easily and you don't have to buy a set of pedals because these are your pedals. So, in all those regards, it makes sense. They're a bit pricey. I think there a thousand [00:12:13] Craig Dalton: [00:12:13] bucks. Yeah. Over a thousand bucks. So definitely pricey. I mean, I think, yeah. Well, you would know better than I, what can you get into a crank ARM-based power meter for, [00:12:23]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:12:23] so if you have crank arms that have a flat inner surface there's a good chance that four I's power meters will work for you. And this is what we recommend to our riders. Cause we have our cranks are hollow, forged aluminum, so it's a smooth surface on the back. [00:12:37] And so this is like a nine grand power meter that you can get either with a coin cell or rechargeable. They both have their upsides and downsides. I like the coin sell myself cause it lasts a really long time and you replace it really easily. And there's no port to get contaminated, but different strokes for different folks. [00:12:54]And it's 300 bucks. Now the downside is that you have to remove your crank set and ship your crank out and be without your bike for two weeks. So that's a bummer, but it works really well. It's single sided. So it's not giving you. You an average of the two sides. It's not giving you a sense of any sort of imbalance, but most people are pretty balanced and frankly, like it's accurate enough for you to understand your progress. [00:13:17] And I think that's really the critical thing. [00:13:18] Craig Dalton: [00:13:18] Yeah. Imagine if you're a professional athlete, knowing about a little bit of imbalance between your legs is something you can work on with your coach. But as the average athlete, as you said, we're, hopefully mostly balanced [00:13:30] and it works itself out in the wash. [00:13:32] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:13:32] Yeah. Yeah. And as far as the weight is concerned, nine grams. So you could actually buy the cheapest Shimano pedals, like the M five twenties, which I recommend all the time, because it just bomb-proof add one of these nine grand power meters and be at $300 versus a thousand dollars and still have a lighter setup. [00:13:49] So I think that's something to consider. [00:13:52] Craig Dalton: [00:13:52] Yeah. Now that you're mentioning it, cause I, I thought, Oh, this would be really cool to be able to swap between the two, but you might as well at $300 price point. [00:14:00] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:14:00] Get one, one, three different bikes. You have a hundred dollars to buy yourself a nice meal. [00:14:05] Craig Dalton: [00:14:05] Exactly. Have you ever trained with power? [00:14:08] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:14:08] Oh yeah, I trained, I had the original wireless power tap with a, an old school Garmin edge, seven Oh five, which was like the big unit back in the day. Yeah. And it was it was pretty radical at the time. And I remember reading I think it's Andrew Cogans book training and racing with the power meter and then Joe Freels book the mountain bikers Bible or something along those lines for a title. [00:14:33] And it just I'd always trained with heart rate. And hardware gives you a lot of great information and you can correlate that with your perceived exertion and your cadence and so on and learn a lot. But adding power to the, I mean, power is just such an absolute metric. Like I weighed this much. [00:14:52] I can put out this much power for this much time. And how does that correlate to my heart rate? And how does that correlate to my cadence and how can I optimize those things in [00:15:00] my body, temperature manager and my fueling strategy and so on to get that power number. As high as possible, as long as possible. [00:15:07] Craig Dalton: [00:15:07] Yeah. I think that's what always interests me about it. There's a purity to a power number that you just can't get anywhere else. [00:15:15] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:15:15] Yeah. At the end of the day it's if you're in an event keeping all else equal, like power, is it though granted? One of the beautiful things about training with power is it kept me from over-training. [00:15:26] Right? So now you have all of these ways of looking at being in a certain zone for a certain amount of time based on your. Your threshold power and your max power and so on in this kind of a curve. And then you can see. And so, like I, I found when I first started training with power, that was over-training. [00:15:41] And so I backed off and focused on recovery more and did more intensity before major events and it actually made a huge difference. [00:15:50] Craig Dalton: [00:15:50] And were you using the power meter while you were racing off [00:15:53] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:15:53] road? No. Back then power. The only. I think it was the SRM. And then there was, which was a crank based, very expensive, very accurate but very expensive. [00:16:01] And then there was the power tap, which was a hub based system. And so I had built up a set of wheel aluminum wheels, training wheels. It was back in the day when you had training wheels and race wheels. Now, everyone just has really nice wheels with disc brakes. Cause you don't really have to worry about wearing them out. [00:16:16] Peters work well in carbon wheels are relatively inexpensive now, but yeah, only on the road bike for training. And then I would just use heart rate and perceived exertion in my events. [00:16:26]Craig Dalton: [00:16:26] Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you sort of see the road racing the road, racers, [00:16:30] looking down at their power meters and you understand, how scientific the coaching staff can be back in the cars because they know exactly what kind of power numbers these athletes can put out. [00:16:42] They're like, okay, go ride the front. We'd add such and such Watts and keep it there because we know you're capable of doing that. And we know you can do that for 20 minutes. And at 20 minutes in one second, we're going to pop you off. We're going to slot the next athlete in there. [00:16:59] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:16:59] Makes me think back to the conversation. [00:17:01] I had a few weeks ago with Ted Kwong and he was talking about you have different racers and it's they're feeling good today. Well, you can actually verify that with a power number. Like what, how has somebody's training been? And, we now have things like 24 hour heart rate monitors. [00:17:15] So you can see how heart rate variability is a reflection of training recovery and all these things, and really make a science out of it to a much greater degree. It's pretty impressive. I still just like to go out and ride my bike. I actually have a power meter on my bike and I haven't charged it for awhile, but But, for training for events and so on, or just understanding how your body works and how it responds to stress. [00:17:38] It's [00:17:38] Craig Dalton: [00:17:38] it's really useful. Yeah. For me. Yeah. At most it would be a curiosity. I do think it, part of the thing that I love about gravel is I do feel like skill plays such an important role in your performance. Vis-a-vis other athletes at events, or even in group rides. Like I can't tell you how many more powerful riders I ride with. [00:17:58] That just don't have the technical [00:18:00] skills to navigate the terrain we have here in Marin County. [00:18:03]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:18:03] Yeah. One last thing that comes to mind on this topic is in terms of the benefits for say an experienced rider, who's not racing, which is where I put myself versus a obviously a racer. This would benefit there. [00:18:15]But then the other end, somebody who's relatively new. Who has the budget power meter together with a heart rate monitor really helps you to understand how hard to go. And so, as an example, imagine going up a 20 minute climb. And at the beginning of the climb, you're relatively fresh and you go a little bit harder. [00:18:32] And by the end of the climb, you're really, suffering quite a bit and maybe your power is way off. And had you just backed off at the beginning and spread out your effort more over the course of the ride, you would end up with a much better overall time up the Hill and end up feeling better. [00:18:47] But that's something that has to be learned through experience. [00:18:50] Craig Dalton: [00:18:50] Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I think every new cyclist has, is going to go through that climb where they absolutely blow up a quarter of the way up and realize they went out way too hard. And yeah, maybe having that power data helps you understand that in advance and you don't make this rookie [00:19:05] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:19:05] mistakes. [00:19:07] Yeah. Disciplined really disciplined and understanding your own physiological response to stress. [00:19:13] Craig Dalton: [00:19:13] Yeah, exactly. So I've had a buddy come to town who only has a road bike. So I've been out on the roads and I've been sort of surprisingly happy with the riding I've been doing when he originally came down and he was like wanting to ride. [00:19:28] I was frustrated [00:19:30] thinking I'm not riding off road. I'm all about the gravel riding, but it has been nice getting back on the road and sort of feeling that efficiency of riding on the road. And it's opened me up a little bit to, maybe I should spice it up a little bit more because oftentimes I feel like. [00:19:47] I'm overly abusive on my body with all the off-road riding idea and a little like phone and get in road riding would do me. Good. [00:19:55] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:19:55] Yeah. You do you still have a dedicated road bike? [00:19:59] Craig Dalton: [00:19:59] I don't. I don't. And the reason I bring it up is twofold. One. I sort of have been road riding with a little bit of chagrin being the gravel cycling guy and going out on the road. [00:20:08] It's just giving me a laugh, but I also, this week caught wind of envies new road plus bike. Envy as some of you may know, as a component manufacturer and a tube manufacturer, they've been great supportive company to the gravel cycling scene via their wheels and some great handlebars to push the limits back in the day, but they've come out of their Ogden Utah factory with this new custom road plus bike that accepts I think about to a 35 C tire, but it's pretty fascinating that. [00:20:42] An Ogden Utah based company is now offering a full custom frame set. So I just wanted to get your thoughts on it. [00:20:50] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:20:50] Yeah. This thing. So my initial impression was, Oh, here we go, another really expensive bike and it's got a seat mast and so on. Not that interesting, but when I dove [00:21:00] into it, it's custom geometry. [00:21:02] And so they had to develop a different manufacturing process to accomplish that because usually in a mass produced carbon bike, like our bikes, our frames you would essentially do usually the front triangle in one mold and you'd have five sizes of that mold. And then you do the rear triangle in another mold, and you may have, anywhere from one to three different rear triangles for that to correspond with the different sizes. [00:21:27] And that's it. And they were allowing, it seems that they're allowing more or less full customization of all the two blanks. And that's that's really hard to do. This is not a mass production process. And so it makes sense why it costs what it does and even the seat mast, which I'm not a huge fan of because it makes it so that a bike has very limited adjustability. [00:21:47] Well, already this bike is being very highly tailored for a very specific rider. And so in that sort of scenario, a seat mass does offer some very subtle advantages potentially in terms of weight in terms of being able to tune the frame. Just so, it's not a decision that I would make, but I can see why it's done here. [00:22:07] Craig Dalton: [00:22:07] Yeah. Interesting. Oftentimes we've talked in the past about custom steel builders and that experience when you have the wherewithal to get accustomed bike, it's just a beautiful process. To work with a builder and have it totally customized to you. And to your point, to be able to do that out of carbon is a pretty special experience. [00:22:29] I'm [00:22:30] excited for the team at envy to have cracked whatever code and put that out there to the cycling community. I'm [00:22:37] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:22:37] actually very, I would be very curious. They probably won't let me in because I work in the space, but I'd be very curious to see how they're doing the customization. So I'm Craig Calfee is as a friend and I've been down to his workshop down in Santa Cruz. [00:22:52] And at one time well, I assume he's still doing it this way. He was 3d printing, molds, custom molds for lugs, and then the L and then he would use a carbon tube to lug sort of construction. Which is an older style, which used to see on, steel brace frames and so on, but it allowed him to do a custom carbon setup. [00:23:11] And in this case it doesn't seem to be, there doesn't seem to be lugs. I'm not quite sure how they're joining the frame joining the tubes. There's no weight figures on here. So I can't even really guess, like if it was on the heavier side, I would think there was probably lugs cause there'd be more overlap and more material. [00:23:25] So I'd be very curious to see how they're pulling that off. And if they're even doing things with say custom tube, stiffnesses. For different riders have different weights to get the tuning characteristics you want either, something as a little bit more flexible for a lighter rider or an off-road or a rough road rider versus something stiffer for someone who's bigger, more powerful and, or riding more on smooth roads. [00:23:48] So quite curious here. [00:23:50] Craig Dalton: [00:23:50] Yeah, it's curious, it sort of reminds me of that Australian company bastion cycles who was doing. Extensive amounts of 3d printed [00:24:00] titanium. So they were 3d printing the whole bottom bracket shell, the head tubes, so they could get the angles as well as the other bits and bobs around the bike. [00:24:11] And then they were using carbon tubes to bring it all together. Is it possible that envy is actually printing the mold shape custom for the individual and then, doing the process from there. That's I'm wondering if like mold technology has evolved in such a way that, that, that becomes possible. [00:24:31] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:24:31] I haven't seen anything like that. I could speculate on some possibilities just for fun and see if we if we get it right. But I mean, the way that it's usually done. So it used to be you lay, put the layup on you have a two-piece mold. You lay the carbon in the mold all around, according to a certain schedule, a typical frame might have, a couple hundred plies or potentially more to tune the flex characteristics and so on. [00:24:55] Just so in stiffness to do custom, I mean, you could do tube to lug if you want. Oh. And then you would put a bladder in, or now the, they use a a foam. And in fact, it's a combination process where it's a foam that is dipped in latex and in that latex creates a bladder. So now you get the best of both being able to force air into a bladder to really push out all, any sort of voids, but then also the foam is expanding too. [00:25:23] So, the mass production technique is really advanced. Now [00:25:26]Craig Dalton: [00:25:26] Is that inflation is that to basically push [00:25:30] the. Carbon fiber applies to the outside of the mole, then create whatever the ultimate frame tube shape is going to be. [00:25:37] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:25:37] Okay. Yeah. It's the, compactified those carbon layers. So all those layers get pushed right up against the inner surface of the outside of the Mo. [00:25:45]What's the way to explain this this, the outer surface on the inside of the mold, just getting pushed up against there and to the extent that you can. Have more pressure pushing that as it's being cured. You're essentially getting rid of a lot of the voids that are in that material. [00:26:00] Inevitably, you're still going to have some voids to the extent that you can minimize them and keep them small as well it just makes for a stronger, more consistent frame set [00:26:10] Craig Dalton: [00:26:10] and talking to you previously. I mean, it's the mold, as you're designing a bike, the mold is a great expense. [00:26:16] Obviously you've got to engineer what that looks like. But then minting that mold is a big step in the process, correct? [00:26:23] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:26:23] Yeah. So doing it in granted, things might be getting more expensive. Now, a supply chains, as we've talked about on the pod before are mess right now and the, even the frame vendors are seeing, Much higher than usual demand, which means that they're probably charging more for molds. [00:26:40] But last I checked from a tier one high volume vendor, a set of five molds would run say 50 or $60,000. And you might spend another say 30 to $50,000 for the molds for the the the foam that goes inside. Okay, so you have this [00:27:00] expanded polystyrene. And so that expanded polystyrene that you're putting in the mold to expand outward and push the carbon applies up against the inside of the steel mold that needs a tool as well. [00:27:13] And that tool can usually be a bit made out of something like aluminum. That's cheaper as opposed to steel, which is more durable, but much harder to machine. But nonetheless you can easily on a standard say like gravel frame set. Be investing anywhere from 50 to a hundred thousand dollars or even more, if you have, tighter size runs, maybe six, seven, eight sizes in order to launch a new model, [00:27:35] Craig Dalton: [00:27:35] Right. And then your to tune sort of how you want the bike to perform within that. There's different grades of carbon fiber that you can use and obviously different numbers of layers that you can put on any given part. [00:27:50] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:27:50] Correct. And of course, tube shapes are that kind of stuff, starting point. [00:27:54] So a bigger tube is if you have a round tube and you make it bigger, it's stiffness is going to go up exponentially relative to the increase in the diameter of the tube. And so working with tube shapes first. And then from there you can tune flex characteristics, but that mix of tube shapes, and then you can adjust further with the layup schedule the particular modulates of the carbon. [00:28:17] And you might also want to consider, say using high modulus carbon in a place that requires a lot of stiffness that doesn't have a lot of risk of impact, but then you want lower modulates carbon say on a down tube. [00:28:30] Where you could have rocks kicked up and so on. So there's a lot of considerations in optimizing this complex set of compromises in order to get an optimized structure for whatever you're going for as a product manager or an engineer, which I am not to, by the way. [00:28:44] Actually, I should just make clear, like I'm a, I am a physics nerd who spends a lot of time in factories. Who's picked up a lot from engineers, both state side and in China. But there are people who know this stuff far better than I do. Yeah. [00:28:58] Craig Dalton: [00:28:58] Presumably the team at envy, going back to their nice bike. [00:29:01] Exactly. They've got a lot of smart people over in Ogden. Utah are working on this needless to say, I mean, it's not specifically. Or non-specifically a gravel bike. It's really our road plus bike, but I encourage you and I'll put a link in the show notes for people to take a look at it because I can give them one thing for certain they've produced a beautiful looking machine that people need to put some eyes on. [00:29:27] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:29:27] Indeed. Indeed. [00:29:28] Craig Dalton: [00:29:28] Yeah. I appreciate you nerding out with me a little bit. I always learn things from our conversations. I hope the listener. Is happy to go down the rabbit hole. I've I find it fascinating just how much can go into carbon bicycles. It's just much more than meets the eye. You think, Oh, you just slap in some tubes together and that's that, but there's so much nuance from, as you describe the layup process, the shape of the tube, et cetera, that goes into producing a great riding bike. [00:29:58] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:29:58] Yeah. And before we hop [00:30:00] off, actually, there's one, one other topic I wanted to bring up, which is a, B I did my first episode recording in which you graciously provided the platform for. And we got some feedback and we got a lot of good feedback and pretty overwhelmingly positive, but there was one bit of feedback that I thought was really useful and it made me think and that was from a listener. [00:30:20] Who mentioned that we were talking about because we weren't making a living as a, as professional cyclists, we weren't technical technically professionals. And we said that kind of off the cuff and self-deprecating Lee, but she made the point that I thought it was a very valid point that by that standard, a lot of women racers wouldn't be professional. [00:30:40] And that was by no mean, the intention of that statement. And I can see why the distinction there. This word professional has a particular meaning and it's really about the level of achievement as opposed to making a living at it. And so I wanted to call that out and just acknowledge that was an area where I learned something from a listener. [00:30:59] Craig Dalton: [00:30:59] Yeah. That's awesome. No, I appreciate that. Yeah it's hard to sort of. Talk about the disparity in wages, in professional cycling between men and women, and a lot of strides have been made, but absolutely there's a lot of men and women who are out there acting as professionals, being professional cyclists that aren't earning the living that they deserve to make. [00:31:23] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:31:23] Yeah. Yeah. And maybe didn't, I should give ourselves a little bit more credit too for having a. Accomplish what we did, even if we weren't, [00:31:30] front of the pack making, making our living at it was definitely a great experience. So please keep the feedback coming. We'll be doing a couple more of these episodes in the upcoming weeks. [00:31:39] Craig Dalton: [00:31:39] Yeah, that was awesome. And we got a lot of great feedback in the ridership forum. If you're not there already. And you have comments about this envy bicycle or power meter training. Definitely go over to the ridership.com. Get your invite and jump in. We'd love to hear from you and get that feedback. [00:31:56] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:31:56] Yeah, and even more so with the ridership now that vaccine genes are being widely distributed. [00:32:03]We can start thinking about really facilitating the sort of in-person interactions amongst listeners and in books, amongst members of that community that we've been wanting to with that platform all along. And that's something that excites me immensely, especially as I prepare to go back to the Bay and then go back to Boston where. [00:32:20] I have a lot of old friends who I haven't written with in years, not to mention a lot of people in the forum who I'll get an opportunity to meet and explore their local trails. [00:32:28] Craig Dalton: [00:32:28] Yeah. It's been great to see people sharing the roots, which I've been putting in our ride with GPS club. And as you and I have said all along, our hope is to build something. [00:32:39] That really facilitates real-world interactions. We're not trying to suck people into some digital void where we advertising. We want you to get out there and ride, and we want you to discover new places, meet new people and let's get out there and have some fun when it's safe. [00:32:57] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:32:57] Yeah, absolutely. [00:32:59] Craig Dalton: [00:32:59] Cool. Well, thanks [00:33:00] for the time this week, my friend. [00:33:01] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:33:01] Yeah, always a pleasure chatting with you, Greg. I'll talk to you soon. [00:33:05] Take care. [00:33:06]Craig Dalton: [00:33:06] Okay. So that's it for this week's episode of, in the dirt, from the gravel ride podcast. I appreciate you spending a little time with us this week. If you're not already a subscriber, please go ahead and hit that subscribe button. That's hugely indicated of how we're doing at the gravel ride. It means a lot to me. If you're interested in financially supporting the show, please visit buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. [00:33:31]Until next time here's to finding some dirt onto your wheels
We kick off this week's show with a breakdown of Milan-San Remo and Trofeo Binda, including Ineos curious tactics at the former and Trek's fantastic tactics at both. Then, James digs into a new pedal-based power meter from Garmin that is SPD compatible, meaning it'll work for your mountain or gravel bike. Check out Continental's video launch of their new Ruban and eRuban tyres here.
Buying a Home Is your Realtor working for you? Handling health & exposure concerns Special Guest: Jennifer Schrantz (Realtor) http://jennifertucson.com/ IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: 1. The Role of the Realtor (Learn more about chronic illness & environmental exposure concerns here: https://youtu.be/JUKYspHN_t0 https://iepradio.com/videocast/ ) 2. How your Realtor can HELP "screen" a home before making an offer (Helpful resource for you & your Realtor: https://youtu.be/F1TCRQEYajs ) 3. Seller Property Disclosure Statement (SPDS) (See example here: https://www.aaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Residential-Sellers-Property-Disclosure-Statement-SPDS_REV_01Oct2017.pdf) Good article for reference: https://www.homelight.com/blog/mandated-disclosures-real-estate/ 4. Making an offer & home inspections by professionals 5. Planning ahead so you can get the inspections you want QUICK TAKE-AWAYS: 1. (To the Realtor) Patience is a virtue. 2. Have open-lines of communication. Be a part of the process. 3. Your Realtor should have a basic understanding of your health & exposure concerns. 4. Your Realtor can help "screen" homes in advance to narrow down your choices. 5. Your Realtor should be an advocate for you in any planning or negotiations with the seller/seller's Realtor. 6. Find out what the sellers know about the home (SPDS). 7. You should still professionally inspect! Plan/coordinate ahead so you can get the home inspections you need. 8. Be willing to walk away. Health is #1. Disclaimer: Your Realtor should not replace the involvement of professionals. The goal of this episode is to provide education and consideration to Realtors & home buyers so they have a better chance of purchasing the right home.
Today journalist Erica Barnett joins Crystal to dissect Mayor Durkan's decision not to run for re-election, Renton's continued attempt to use zoning laws to oust homeless folks, shelters, and services, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's challenge to the JumpStart payroll tax, and the SPD being held in contempt of court for their use of force last summer. A full text transcript of the show is available below, and on the Hacks & Wonks blog at https://www.officialhacksandwonks.com/post/week-in-review-with-erica-barnett. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and Erica Barnett @ericabarnett, and on Publicola.com. Find Erica's book, Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery, online or at your local bookseller. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. Articles Referenced: Anti-Homeless Shelter Bill Moves Forward in Renton from Publicola https://publicola.com/2020/12/09/anti-homeless-shelter-bill-moves-forward-in-renton/ Federal District Court Judge Finds Seattle in Contempt of Crowd Control Injunction by Paul Kiefer https://publicola.com/2020/12/07/federal-district-court-judge-finds-seattle-in-contempt-of-crowd-control-injunction/ Find more work by today's co-host, Erica Barnett, at https://publicola.com/ Full Transcript: Crystal Fincher: [00:00:00] Welcome to Hacks and Wonks. I'm your host Crystal Fincher. On this show, we gather insight into state and local politics and policy through the lens of those doing the work and provide the behind-the-scenes perspectives on politics in our state. Today, we're continuing our Friday almost live shows where we review the news of the week with a co-host. Welcome back to the program, friend of the show and today's co-host Seattle political reporter, editor of PubliCola, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery, Erica Barnett. Erica Barnett: [00:00:40] Great to be here, Crystal. Crystal Fincher: [00:00:42] And great to have you here. So we will dive right in. And big news of the week that we started off the week with is Jenny Durkan announced that she will not be seeking re-election - very consequential news for the city. And so just wanted to get your thoughts on what drove that decision and what does that mean now? Erica Barnett: [00:01:03] I mean, my thoughts, just having observed Mayor Durkan for three years are that she really didn't like the job. And particularly the job of being mayor in a pandemic, at a time when there is a racial reckoning taking place that involves protests, particularly protest against her and her leadership. And during a time of economic collapse nationwide - it's a time of a lot of bad news, as everybody is well-aware, and it's a hard job in good times and it's a hard job, especially in bad times. And I think she just, in some ways, was not really fully prepared for what the job entailed and the criticism that she would be subjected to in such a prominent position. She'd never held elected office before and, I think, came in believing that this was essentially a managerial job and a communications job. And in fact, it's much, much more than that to be the mayor of a major city with lots of problems, including, I didn't even mention, the crisis of homelessness which has gotten so much more visible on her watch. Crystal Fincher: [00:02:09] Well, I think you nailed that analysis and kind of put your finger on what a lot of people don't pay much attention to is - what is the job of the mayor? And it's a lot more broad than when someone's just thinking about, off the top of their head - if they don't have much experience with it, there's so much more to it than just managing the city. And also in situations where someone's not used to being under a microscope with every decision that they're making, and criticism is coming, no matter what decision you make - to be able to accept that and deal with it and work with that - it seemed like that was always a struggle for her. Just dealing with criticism and understanding that that's something that happens and instead of trying to avoid it at all costs - not successfully, or adeptly, navigating through that. That seemed to be a continuing struggle for her and I think you nailed it - she seemed to just really not want to be there increasingly as time has gone on. Erica Barnett: [00:03:17] Yeah. I mentioned that I think that she sees being the mayor as largely a communications job and I want to expand on that a little bit. I think that if you look at her messaging and the messengers that she uses to get her message out and just, her general spin on every event, whether good or bad, has been that things are good and getting better. And that just simply doesn't work in 2020, and also it's not believable. And I think that that really hampered her ability to respond in real time to events like the Black Lives Matter protest, for example. Her response was essentially to double down initially and say, We're doing everything right and that Seattle is a model for police reform in the country. She said that many times, and then flipped it at a certain point and said, You know what? Fine. Here's a $100 million that we're going to spend - first, she said on black communities and then she said on BIPOC communities - without actually having any sort of plan for how to do that and just saying, We'll figure it out later. As it turned out, that was a pretty rash promise because it relied on revenues that were already dedicated and promised to other sources, including by the mayor herself. There's $30 million in there that she had already promised to equitable development - and so, it just felt like a lot of her careening from position to position was based on, if not real polls, kind of an invisible poll in her head about what would make people react to her positively. I, obviously, I'm not inside the mayor's brain, but that's what it looked like from the outside and it often resulted in a lot of really inconsistent seeming policies. And it also led to, I think, a feeling that it's hard to trust what the mayor's position is, or policy is, on an issue and on any given day, 'cause it could change tomorrow, based on who she wants to please on that day. So I think that - no politician can ignore opinion polls and no politician can ignore what people are saying about them, but I'll just give one example. The mayor's office reactions to things on Twitter was pretty extreme. I think that - just the pushback that I would get personally, for stuff that I would say on Twitter, or things people would respond to me saying that I had no control over, was pretty strong from the mayor's office. And my advice about Twitter and I don't always take this is, It's like riding on a waterfall and it disappears after a minute. And, if you make an error, you correct it. If you don't like something, everybody's gonna be yelling about something else in five minutes. But I don't think the mayor was really able to heed that advice. Crystal Fincher: [00:05:53] I think you're right. And the issue of trust - when you talk about the community needing to trust the message that they're hearing from the mayor and from the mayor's office, eventually wound up being irretrievably broken. And I think that she eventually came to see that. But the struggle through that, like you were talking about - her responses to, during the protests, to what the police were doing and our ability to see something that she is denying while we're watching video of that thing happening - it was jarring for a lot of people and a number of her supporters that came in, as she came in, became disillusioned. People who were already frustrated with the messaging and pace of progress became even more vocally disillusioned. And it just continued to be a consistent problem. We have seen, and it looks like there's going to be another rehashing of the "Seattle is Dying" - fabricated, largely exaggerated, I won't say documentary, but spin - on homelessness and crime in Seattle. And for residents of Seattle that never rang true. And so the effect that people thought that that would have on elections never materialized. I think on the flip side, with a number of the things, as you pointed out, Jenny Durkan saying, Things are great and they're getting even better. We're working on it and it's awesome and don't you believe your eyes. And people are looking around and going, No, it's not - the problem's getting worse and the things that you say are happening are not. And we understand this is a hard problem to fix, but we want to see you try and not just lie to us with a smile on your face. And that was continually a challenge. And especially in municipal positions, from big cities to small, you're living in the same conditions as your residents and you're telling them what's happening on their streets and in their neighborhoods. And they can see, outside their window, if what you're saying rings true or not. This is not like a legislative position or something in Congress where you can make a speech and take a vote and it just seems very disconnected and the expectation of accountability doesn't squarely land on you. That's the case in Seattle and it just seems like she wasn't prepared for her word and her actions to be the end-all and be-all, her needing to take a side, her needing to make definitive decisions and be accountable to those decisions in the public. So now that we are here and she has announced that she's not running for re-election - what does this do to the political landscape in Seattle? Erica Barnett: [00:08:31] Well, I think that it is going to be, I think it's going to be a very crowded mayoral race as it was last time. I wouldn't be surprised to see 20-25 people jumping in. I think that Lorena González - and I'm terrible, I should say, at predictions, I always need to caveat that - but I think Lorena González, City Council president, is likely to get in. And of course, Teresa Mosqueda is another council member whose name is being thrown around - I think that's a little less likely. I mean it's - running for mayor is a tough decision because it's a bad job and so, it's often hard to get that many really qualified candidates out of that 20 or 25 that we've been seeing in recent years. So I think it'll be really interesting to see - Jessyn Farrell, who ran last time and who PubliCola, then the C is for Crank, endorsed, is supposedly thinking about it, as is Brady Walkinshaw, who ran for Congress and lost. And so, I think it's going to be a crowded race with some familiar faces, probably some unfamiliar faces. And yeah, I mean, that's basically all we can predict right now. Crystal Fincher: [00:09:40] Do you think there's going to be an advantage or a disadvantage to those running from their council positions, if one or more current council members get in? Do you think that's an advantage, a disadvantage, or how do you think that plays out? Erica Barnett: [00:09:55] Well, that's a really good question. The city council is broadly incredibly unpopular and the mayor is also not super popular, but in a way, these are judgements of positions rather than judgments of people. I do think if you're running as an incumbent city council member, that is a tough thing you have to overcome. I do think, though, that the citywide city council members may have a little more popularity - and I haven't seen specific polling on this, I just know that a lot of the district council members are less popular than they were when they came in and certainly than the mayor. So I think it is a disadvantage to run from a council seat, but on the other hand, you do have name recognition, so that certainly helps. I'm trying to think of the most recent council member who was elected mayor, if any, and I am drawing a blank right now. So, I'm not sure - it certainly doesn't convey any obvious advantages other than name recognition, obviously. Crystal Fincher: [00:10:56] Yeah, that does seem to be the case and I'm drawing the same blank that you are. Erica Barnett: [00:11:01] I can think of lots of them who've run - Bruce Harrell, Peter Steinbrueck - I mean, plenty of candidates for mayor among the council, but none successful. Crystal Fincher: [00:11:10] Yeah, certainly going to be interesting to see how this plays out and how they engage with the competing and pressing priorities in the city. Well, talking about other cities, that brings us to Renton, and we talked about this a bit last week on the show, but Renton is adopting legislation that will effectively ban future homeless shelters and set an eviction date for the current tenants in the Red Lion. This certainly - my view is that this is a very bad thing, but also as you have pointed out and discussed, it's also bad for the regional approach to homelessness that's so often talked about. You want to give a bit of background on this? Erica Barnett: [00:11:53] Sure. So the City of Seattle and I believe 39 other suburban cities are joining into an agency called the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. And the idea is that having a centralized authority will create or enable a regional approach rather than the city-by-city approaches that we have had over the years. And that authority has had a lot of bumps along the way. The selection of a director for the authority, known as the CEO is very slow. It's been - it was supposed to happen in September. The latest timeline has it happening now in February. So, hard to say how that's going to go, but the problem with regionalism and the problem always has been that a lot of these cities that are outside Seattle want to have their own approaches to homelessness and a lot of times those approaches are a lot more punitive than what Seattle would like. So that tension does not go away just because you create a regional body and say, We're regional now. The cities did not initially want to participate unless they got a significant amount of leverage on the various boards that are on the governing board that oversees the authority. And they also didn't want to pay taxes to support the authority. They got both of those things, but now as we're seeing, individual cities, not just Renton, but, cities are cleaving off in various ways. One thing that happened recently was a bunch of cities, I think half a dozen, including Renton, adopted their own versions of local sales taxes to pre-empt the King County sales tax that's going to pay for homelessness. And those local versions can pay for things that are not specifically oriented to homelessness, like housing for essentially middle-income people. So I think that tension is going to continue and it's going to continue to hamper the ability to have an actually regional approach. Renton is already talking about sub-regional authority, which is, I think in some ways, a synonym for city authority, which is what we already had before this whole effort started. Crystal Fincher: [00:13:51] Right. So how is Renton going about trying to evict these people from the Red Lion? Erica Barnett: [00:13:57] This legislation is land use legislation and it is essentially zoning them out. So the legislation does two things - it says that everybody, that most of the people at the Red Lion currently, have to be out as of June 1st, so the end of May - by putting a cap on the number of people who can be there. So it would be 125. Right now there's about 235 or so people living there. Then after that, at the end of the year, everybody would have to be out. So no matter what happens with the pandemic, which is the reason everybody was moved so swiftly from the Morrison Hotel and other DESC facilities in Seattle to the Red Lion. No matter what happens with that, they've got to be out. And then the second thing it does is it adopts new rules for - new zoning rules - for shelters, which Renton says - shelters are currently illegal 'cause there's no zoning that explicitly allows them. I think that's a novel interpretation of what zoning is for. We don't have any rules like that in Seattle at all. And the rules say that no homeless service provider can serve more than a hundred people total. And that includes shelters and any other homeless services you might have, either co-located or at a facility. So no more than a hundred - hard cap. And they have to be half a mile from each other, only in certain industrial zones, well-removed from people, and there's also tons of rules around how the shelter providers are supposed to manage the conduct of the people who stay there, which is kind of an outrageous demand in my view, because they are human beings and they have civil rights and I think a lot of the conduct requirements really infringe on those rights. Crystal Fincher: [00:15:40] I completely agree with that. And this is just a reminder that you're listening to Hacks and Wonks on KVRU 105.7 FM. I'm your regular host Crystal Fincher, and today we have a guest co-host, Seattle political reporter, Erica Barnett. And so they are really appearing to use zoning as a tool to exclude. Which, certainly, zoning laws have a history of that use and then being wielded that way. But you talked about one of their interpretations being novel. How standard does what they're doing appear to be overall with how zoning laws are implemented and used? Erica Barnett: [00:16:20] Well, I think it's - I can't speak to every single zoning law in the state obviously. I haven't done a review, but I know that in Seattle, the biggest city in the state, zoning, and traditionally everywhere, zoning is used to regulate things like density and also environmental hazards. So you might have industrial zoning that says the buildings can't include residential and also it has to be far away from people because there are environmental hazards associated with a steam plant, or whatever, or manufacturing business. Zoning is not traditionally used to exclude - well traditionally, it was certainly used to exclude people of color from certain areas of cities - but today in 2020, we use it to do things like regulate height, and regulate density, and regulate how many people can live in an area versus what kind of businesses can be located in an area - do we let big box stores go there? We don't use zoning to say that if people are of the class that is houseless or homeless, they cannot be here. I think that is a really, really dangerous road to start going down, and the reason I say it's a novel interpretation is that the city of Renton, I think, really rushed this legislation. I think it's pretty poorly written and they revised it a whole bunch of times in response to specific legal objections that could open them up to lawsuits. And they have been trying to get the people kicked out of the Red Lion for a really long time. They initially said that this is a violation of a different part of the zoning code, saying that there's a dispute over whether it's a hotel use or whether it's a use that's not explicitly allowed, and that's happening on separate tracks. So, they're trying every tool they can and they don't have a lot of tools to ban homeless people because there aren't a lot of tools to ban homeless people. It's not people's fault that they become homeless, and tools that are laws like sit-lie laws and saying that you're not allowed to loiter, are increasingly considered to be civil rights violations and also racist. So this is a different approach that takes a very kind of, cold and analytical-seeming concept of zoning, and says that it applies here. But what they're really trying to do is send these folks back to Seattle and their comments at council made that pretty clear. Everybody said, This is a Seattle problem. Seattle created it. They need to go back there and that's what's really going on. Crystal Fincher: [00:18:51] That does appear that is what's actually going on. They're attempting to act like their city doesn't have an inherent problem with homeless people, that they are somehow coming from different cities, and that if you treat them with full humanity and decency, that only entices them and incentivizes them to stay, when we know that's just factually untrue. So it looks like this is going to be taken up again on a meeting with the council on Monday night, is that correct? Erica Barnett: [00:19:26] That's right. And that'll be a final action. Crystal Fincher: [00:19:30] So it certainly looks like this is what the council intends to do, but for people who are able - making comments, making phone calls, certainly making sure that people are on record saying that this is not the default position of the general public in Renton and in the area. And that this is really an inhumane response to a really human problem. So looking next - issues where residents and businesses are struggling. The JumpStart payroll tax was an attempt to generate revenue to help people impacted by COVID, the pandemic, and everything that has resulted. And the Chamber of Commerce has brought a lawsuit against it. What's happening there? Erica Barnett: [00:20:19] Well, the lawsuit - this is from the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce. And essentially what they're saying is that this amounts to, just getting outside of the jargon of the lawsuit, they're saying this is an income tax effectively. Specifically, they're saying it's a tax on the right to do business and they're calling on a 1952 precedent that involved a license that people in Bellingham, I believe, had to get to basically work and that was overturned. And so, again, speaking of novel approaches, I think this is a novel approach and I don't know that it will necessarily be successful. It seems like a pretty weak argument. But it's interesting - I mean, I think a lot of people at the city were surprised that the Chamber decided to take this kind of Grinch-like action, it was described to me by someone at the city, and sue over this. It only affects a small percentage of businesses in the city making revenues of over $7 million and with employees with pay of over $150,000/year. And as you said, the JumpStart Tax for the first couple years, it's COVID relief. And a lot of that is COVID relief directly to small businesses. And so, for the Chamber of Commerce to be opposing relief for small businesses is directly, it seems, conflicting with their mission, which is to support businesses of all sizes and not just the Amazons and the Facebooks and the Googles of Seattle. Crystal Fincher: [00:21:46] Well, and this is certainly that issue brought out into the light. This has been a criticism of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and of several - saying in larger cities, really saying, Who are you representing? The majority of your membership is small businesses and they oftentimes have fundamentally different challenges and concerns than the largest corporations in the world, like the Amazons and Microsofts and Googles. And the issues that they have pushed hard on or run on, oftentimes seem to have been at the direction of the mega-corporations and not of the neighborhood businesses that many residents patronize and who hire our neighbors to a large degree. And so there really does seem to be a real conflict of interest and a need for a reckoning and accountability for whose agenda are they really pushing. And I hope this is a conversation that the wider business community in Seattle has, because when we only focus on the mega-corporation interests, we all lose out, and it is small business who employs the majority of people. They're individuals and don't individually wield a lot of power, but collectively, they really determine the direction of our local economy. And so to see help - that are keeping the doors open in these small businesses and that are keeping people employed - being directly challenged and Amazon looking to snatch money out of people's hands and the hands of small business is pretty blatant and overt. And people are literally asking, Is this now an Amazon lobbyist? Or is this an organization that represents the biggest, the interest of small businesses in the city? So it'll certainly be interesting to continue to watch how that unfolds. Erica Barnett: [00:23:46] Yeah, I'll just add one quick thing. I mean, the JumpStart Tax is explicitly designed to go - to have preference for brick and mortar businesses. And a lot of the complaints about what's happening "downtown", and what you're going to see in the latest KOMO propaganda film on Saturday is that there's - is that the downtown is dead, the businesses are boarded up, and there's too many homeless people wandering around, and all that kind of stuff. Well, guess what? This tax pays for brick-and-mortar businesses to help them stay open. It also pays for, specifically for homelessness programs, and homelessness prevention and rental assistance, so that more people don't become homeless. So I would say that even the non-targeted provisions of this legislation would actually help the businesses that are complaining about the state of downtown right now. Crystal Fincher: [00:24:40] Certainly appears to be the case. Now, this week, we also saw SPD have a case ruled against them and they were held in contempt by a judge. What happened with that? Erica Barnett: [00:24:55] Well, essentially, there were a lot of complaints regarding the protests that started back in June about police use - indiscriminate use - of weapons, so-called less-lethal weapons, like blast balls and tear gas and pepper spray. And several of those - the judge found several of those to essentially be credible and held them in contempt of this injunction that he issued back in June saying that SPD could not use force against peaceful protestors. So, it's a very, it's a meaningful ruling. I think we'll see what the penalties are and, and whether it has any kind of long-term impact on SPDs practices, but it is unusual for the city to be held in contempt in this way. So it's certainly meaningful in that way. My reporter Paul Kiefer said that, reported that, the mayor's office couldn't find any similar cases like this in their review. So it's certainly unprecedented and unusual. But we'll see what the penalties are and we'll see what - whether it has any kind of impact on the upcoming police negotiations or on police practices. Crystal Fincher: [00:26:00] That will be interesting to see. And especially with some of the arguments that SPD was making - that as long as they can show that their officers were instructed not to do something - if they do it, then it's not SPDs fault. Even if that appears to be habitual behavior - just the throwing up of hands and say, Well, we told them not to do it. So what - how can we be responsible for that? How are we to expect that an organization currently under a consent decree for an excessive use of force would have officers that do that, despite being told not to several times? So it seems like there is a continuing resistance - none of us are surprised, right - about any kind of accountability, taking any kind of responsibility, for what officers are doing on the ground. And this contempt order also explicitly acknowledged that officers were acting independent of any regard for their own personal safety. So many defenses of this are like, Well, what do you expect if someone tries to assault an officer, which no one is condoning of anyone. But what we have seen several times is that there was no threat - no physical threat, no assault, no feeling scared that something imminent was about to happen - this was just a response and basically, explicitly said, a response to the message Black Lives Matter than to the protestors. Erica Barnett: [00:27:26] Sorry, sorry that I interrupted you there - just to your point - the judge noted that one of the officers ordered an officer to use a blast ball to "create space" between officers and protesters, which is not a response to any kind of use of force or any kind of bad behavior at all from protesters. It's just - it was just kind of indiscriminate - and blast balls are very potentially harmful and damaging weapons. Crystal Fincher: [00:27:52] Extremely. There are instances of journalists' eyes being put out with blast balls and people of the public's eyes being just exploded by blast balls. There's actually a little support group just for that specific thing throughout protests in the country. It is an alarming and depressing thing. And what a lot of people wonder is, Okay, so a judge has ruled they've been held in contempt. So what happens to them? Is there a penalty? Is there a consequence? Erica Barnett: [00:28:21] I mean, there could be a financial penalty for sure. I think that - that again remains to be seen, but they could have to pay out. There's a lot of plaintiffs in this case, as you might imagine - not just Black Lives Matter of Seattle King County, but the ACLU and a number of individuals who say they were harmed by SPD's use of force. So financial penalties are something that the city is used to dealing with, but they also don't like to pay them. So conceivably that could change officer behavior, but I think, what it's going to come down to ultimately is the police contract, is police leadership. We have an acting police chief right now and ultimately whether we get a mayor, or whether this mayor decides to take a hard political and public stance against some of these actions, which the current mayor has not. Crystal Fincher: [00:29:14] Got it. But I do want to thank all of you for listening to Hacks and Wonks on KVRU 105.7 FM on this Friday, December 11th, 2020. Our chief audio engineer is, at KVRU, is Maurice Jones Jr. The producer of Hacks and Wonks is Lisl Stadler. And our wonderful co-host today was Seattle political reporter and founder of PubliCola, Erica Barnett. You can find Erica on Twitter @ericabarnett, that's Erica with a C, and on PubliCola.com. And you can buy her book Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery on Amazon or through your independent bookseller. 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In this episode we chat to John Bradley, the Chair of JPEL/64 (the decision-making committee for the BS 7671 Wiring Regulations). We explore major updates to BS 7671 with the 18th Edition and 18th Edition Amendment 1 – including SPDs, AFDDs and electric vehicle charging. We also talk to John about his vast experience in the industry. Guests: John Bradley, UK Standards Manager at Schneider Electric and Chair of JPEL/64 Topics discussed in this episode: BS 7671 18th Edition: The IET Wiring Regulations BS 7671 18th Edition: Amendment 1 British Standards Institute (BSI) and JPEL/64 (the national Wiring Regulations committee) John Bradley's career in the electrical industry Resources mentioned in this episode: BS 7671 18th Edition: https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/ Amendment 1 to BS 7671:2018: https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/updates-to-18th-edition/ Additional resources: The Electrician Group - Powered by Schneider Electric: Chat with other electricians on Facebook and get easy access to expert content and assistance. Share tips and photos, ask for advice, speak to Schneider and enjoy exclusive promotions. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheElectricianGroup Schneider Electric Partner Programme: Gain access to a series of new digital tools and resources to support you on and off the job. Get support relevant to you and your business. https://www.se.com/uk/en/partners/ mySchneider App: Connect to Schneider Electric's digital hub. Access our catalogues on and offline, create quotations on-the-go, earn rewards, and get live chat support. https://go.onelink.me/1354832567/3e65ea57 Have any questions, comments or concerns? Email us at GB.ElectricianPartner@se.com Reach out on twitter: @SeanMillerSA
A lot of folks get excited about the "sexy" real estate topics... stuff about buying a gazillion dollars worth of real estate, starting with no money, in 3 seconds and no prior experience. We've got classes sort of like that... less hype... but still sexy.But that's not this class.Because in addition to the sexy topics, you need the meat-and-potatoes, how-to, real practical stuff to actually do the real estate investing.That's this class on Seller's Property Disclosures, SPDs for short.I know... I know... I know... you're thinking... how interesting or good could a class on SPDs be? Fair question, but I will tell you this... it is AMAZING.Here's just a small sample of what you're going to walk away knowing...1. Should I fill an SPD out if I'm a seller? What if I've never lived in the property? And, does this even matter? Hint: it might only matter if you have assets (or might in the future) and you're concerned about being sued... but maybe that's not you... I don't know.2. Will I find out if a property was psychologically stigmatized? Human sacrifices in the basement, satanic rituals, suicides, homicides, regecides, sororicides, xenocides, HIV, coronavirus?3. What does a seller need to disclose? What are adverse material facts exactly? And, if you don't know the definition... that ain't an excuse if you're standing in front of a judge about to get smacked down! Can't I just discuss it with my agent?4. When should I get a copy of the SPD? Should I use it before I look at properties? During the showing? During the inspection? After? All of the above? None of the above? How should I use it?5. What are some sneaky things you should do to make sure you are getting FULL disclosure... or as close to it as you can when buying a property... even from previous sellers?Plus, a whole bunch more.If you thought... SPDs... yes... I'll skip that... to quote Vivian from Pretty Woman... "Big mistake.... HUGE!"https://realestatefinancialplanner.com/sellers-property-disclosure-case-studies-2020-edition/
I'm joined by Paul Meenan, John Ward and Kirsty Johnson to talk about SPDs and some of the considerations we may have to make on EICRs. You can watch the vidoe here: https://youtu.be/oj7Y4wXTKHA
Sean Passant carries on with the chat in this third hour of chat around lightning protection and SPDs
Sean Passant, Technical Manager of DEHN UK joins JW, Sparky Ninja and Paul aka Paul to debate BS EN 623054 and how it interfaces with SPDs and electricians in general.
JW leads the troops and Kirsty Johnson in the continued questions around SPDs
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Borgerne i Hamborg går d. 23/2 til valg. De skal vælge en ny borgmester, og meget er på spil. Skal byen omdannes til en skandinavisk metropol med brede cykelstier og stærkt reduceret trafik? Eller skal der investeres i industriarbejdspladser og bygges billige almene boliger? Mens SPD går tilbage, står De Grønne til markant fremgang, og valget i Hamborg bliver dermed set som endnu et kapitel i historien om SPDs nedsmeltning. I programmet taler vært Thomas Schumann med en danske førstegangsvælger, borgmesterkandidaten for De Grønne, SPDs formand i Hamborg og NDRs politiske korrespondent. Valget står dog ikke alene, og programmet runder også en nylig bogudgivelse og et lokalderby i den tyske 2. Bundesliga.
Learn about one of the most critical compliance pieces in employee benefits: the ERISA Summary Plan Description (SPD). It summarizes the corresponding ERISA Plan Documents, discussed in Episode 001. Breaking it down with Word & Brown.
In this episode, Colleen Patterson will discuss why communication is critical to helping your clients and their employees understand and maximize the benefits packages available to them.
Alex Maher loops live performances on percussion, SPDS drum pad, electric guitar, alto sax and vocals to create songs one element at a time. With a foundation in jazz, Alex's music draws on funk, soul, hip hop, urban and pop inspirations in an unforgettable one-man band performance. The Toronto born multi-instrumentalist spent his early years in North York, moving to Vancouver Island with his family as a teen. After moving to Vancouver to accept a university scholarship for a science degree, Alex only lasted three years before trading his textbooks for life on the road with his band Flannel Jimmy. Since then, Alex has been a mainstay in the Vancouver music scene with a career as a solo artist and as a band member. He's opened for the likes of Weezer, Wide Mouth Mason, Bachman Cummings, Mother Mother, Sam Roberts, Robert Randolph, and The Proclaimers, and played alongside B.C. favourites Kyprios, Daniel Wesley and Vince Vaccaro. From 2004-2010, Alex toured western Canada with band DNA6, producing two albums. As always, recorded LIVE at Guilt & Company Visit Guilt & Company online via www.guiltandcompany.com - or in person at 1 Alexander Street in Historic Gastown, Vancouver, BC. Follow Us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/guiltandcompany Twitter: www.twitter.com/guiltandcompany Youtube: www.youtube.com/guiltandcompany Instagram: www.instagram.com/guiltandco Presented By: Paul Clark Recorded By: Trevor Tews Edited By: Aaron Johnson
Vi gästas av Jennie Andersson, en av de första tjejen i den svenska driftingserien och utsedd till årets kvinnliga bilbyggare på Greenlightgalan. Vi snackar om hur allt började, framtidsplaner och hur det är att vara tjej i en så mansdominerad sport.Jennie Drift på Facebook---------- Podcast: onroaders.com/podcast Hemsida: onroaders.com Facebook: facebook.com/onroaders Instagram: instagram.com/onroaders Youtube:
ERISA Litigation episode 007 contains Bentley Tolk's (Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, Salt Lake City, UT - ERISA litigation defense) analysis of the Supreme Court's decision in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara. The Amara case contains important guidance on misrepresentations, plan reformation, SPDs and equitable remedies under ERISA.
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