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Stadler Rail hat im Jahr 2024 einen Umsatzrückgang von zehn Prozent erlitten, beeinflusst durch Naturkatastrophen. Am stärksten habe es Stadler in Valencia getroffen, so Konzernchef Markus Bernsteiner. Instabile Lieferketten und verzögerte Kundenaufträge bleiben Herausforderungen. SMI: -0.2%

Unwetter haben im vergangenen Jahr das Ergebnis von Stadler Rail zerzaust. Die heftigen Überschwemmungen im Wallis, in Spanien und Österreich haben die Produktion in den Werken von Stadler und von wichtigen Zulieferern gestört. Umsatz und Gewinne sanken. Weitere Themen: · Staatsrechnung von Appenzell Innerrhoden schliesst mit schwarzer Null · Aufrecht Thurgau verzichtet auf Kandidatur für Regierungsratswahl · Regionalgefängnis Altstätten SG neu mit Co-Leitung · Heute beginnt im Oberengadin die Freestyle-WM

Code mit Impact und Meeresschutz digital: Der Einsatz von Software bei Sea Shepherd DeutschlandIn dieser Episode tauchen wir in die Welt des Meeresschutzes ein. Florian Stadler, seit 15 Jahren aktiv und Kampagnenleiter bei Sea Shepherd Deutschland, gibt uns Einblicke, wie Software beim Meeresschutz angewandt wird, um verlorene Fischernetze (sogenannte Geisternetze) aufzuspüren und zu bergen.Wir sprechen darüber, wie mithilfe Sonar-Scans und manueller Interpretation und (teils öffentlicher) Datenbanken der Meeresboden in der Ostsee systematisch untersucht wird, um illegale Fangmethoden und Umweltschäden aufzudecken. Dabei beleuchten wir auch Herausforderungen wie Schiffs-Ortungen, Bereiche von Cyber Security, wie z. B. AIS-Spoofing, den Datenaustausch mit anderen Organisationen, Infrastruktur auf einem Schiff von Sea Shepherd, wie Software-Entwickler*innen beim Meeresschutz helfen können und den oft überraschenden Einsatz von pragmatischen Lösungen wie händisch gepflegte Excel-Listen, selbst erstellten Google Maps-Layern oder Bildmaterial von öffentlich zugänglichen Webcams. Die Grenzen zwischen Hightech und altbewährter Technik mit pragmatischen Ansätzen verschwimmen hier ganz wunderbar.Bonus: Excel vs. Hightech – Wie kann man mit simplen Tools und digitaler Navigation ganze Meeresgebiete effizient kartieren?Unsere aktuellen Werbepartner findest du auf https://engineeringkiosk.dev/partnersDas schnelle Feedback zur Episode:

Vanity McDaniel and Jennifer Stadler provide a snapshot of how consumers pay for goods and services today and reflect on the latest technology trends in the U.S. payments system, including contactless payments, digital wallets, "buy now, pay later," instant payments, and the use of artificial intelligence. McDaniel is a senior payments business advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Stadler is executive vice president of marketing and membership at PaymentsFirst. Full transcript and related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/podcasts/speaking_of_the_economy/2025/speaking_2025_03_12_electronic_payments

#BerichtausBerlin #DieterHapel #DNEWS24 Die schon totgesagte Die Linke siegt sensationell in Berlin - auch im Westen. Die grüne Herzkammer Kreuzberg fällt auch an die Linken. Die sich selbst verzwergende SPD versinkt in der Blase. Sehr enge Wahl-Ergebnisse werden angezweifelt. Die Feuerwehr rast von Rekord zu Rekord. Hundehaufen-Beseitigung und Geld abgreifen. Stadler in Pankow gerät ins Schleudern. Gelbhaar will Schadensersatz vom RBB.Ausgehtipp der WocheDas Restaurant Dorfaue in Heiligensee ist urig und bietet süddeutsche Küche zu fairen Preisen.

1500 U-Bahn-Wagen hat die BVG bei Stadler bestellt - doch nun schlittert das Unternehmen mit seinen Standorten in Berlin und Brandenburg in die Krise. Von Johannes Frewel

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Új videónkban Stadler Zsolt, a GPshop alapítója és tulajdonosa volt a vendégünk. Beszélgettünk vele először róla és a GPshop-ról, majd a szurkolói szokásokról, a változó igényekről, valamint arról, hogyan zajlik a szurkolói elvárások kiszolgálása. És persze nem maradhattak ki az egyedi különlegességek és relikviák sem – biztosak vagyunk benne, hogy nálatok is lapul néhány a vitrinekben! Tartsatok velünk! Műsorvezető: Réthelyi Balázs Vágás & Fotó & Grafika & Főcím: Reskó Barnabás, Kovács Gergely, Longauer András ---------------------------------------------------    Discord ❯ https://discord.gg/THxzrW8Y Honlapunk ❯ https://www.tribun.plus/ YOUTUBE --------------------------------------------------- Tribün Podcast ❯ https://www.youtube.com/@tribun.podcast Legyél te is csatornatag a Youtube csatornánkon, vagy a weboldalunkon! TWITCH --------------------------------------------------- Kövess minket élőben ❯ https://www.twitch.tv/tribunpodcast PODCAST --------------------------------------------------- Tribün Podcast: Spotify ❯ https://bit.ly/spotify_tribunpodcast Apple Podcast ❯ https://bit.ly/applepodcast_tribunpodcast SOCIAL --------------------------------------------------- Facebook ❯ https://www.facebook.com/tribun.podcast Instagram ❯ https://instagram.com/tribun.podcast TikTok ❯ https://www.tiktok.com/@tribunpodcast Balázs Instagram ❯ https://www.instagram.com/rethelyi.balazs —————- A műsort a Hit Rádió és az Ultrahang támogatta. További támogatóink: - Social Fusion - Greg Design #tribunpodcast -----------------------------------------------

Die Kichererbse könnte bei uns in Südhessen wachsen! Klingt erstmal ungewöhnlich. Die Kichererbse passt eher zu orientalischen Gerichten oder Ländern wie Indien und Mexiko. In dieser Show zu Gast sind Sylvia Barrero-Stadler von der Ökomodellregion Süd, Siggi Ochsenschläger, der als Landwirt die ersten Kichererbsen bei uns angebaut hat, und Phillip Kögel von Freudenberg Verpflegungsdienste, der erzählt, was er aus der Kichererbse schon heute für Gerichte zaubert. Die Themen:Wie waren die Erfahrungen im ersten Anbaujahr?Was sind aktuell die größten Herausforderungen?Sind Spezialmaschinen notwendig oder reicht der bestehende Maschinenpark?Was passiert nach der Ernte?Wer kauft aktuell die Kichererbsen?Wie verarbeiten Köche die Kichererbsen in der Küche?Welche Gerichte stehen auf der Speisekarte?Gibt es Unterschiede in Qualität und Geschmack zu importierten Kichererbsen?Sind regionale Kichererbsen teurer als importierte?Shownotes:eMail für Themenwünsche: podcast@gutes-aus-hessen.de

De Livio isch en langjährig Bekannte usem Voll Ine Universum, darum isch es scho fast en Schand hetts so lang brucht, bis er bi eus gsi isch. Darum freuemer eus umso meh hetts jetzt klappt! Mier lueged mit em Livio uf die aktuelli Saison, sini Verletzige, sin Werdegang vom Bambini zum Profi bim EVZ, d'Meistertitel 2021 und 2022 sowie ufd Rolle vom Dan Tanges bim Erfolg vom EVZ.Mier chönnd eu verspreche, es wird en grandiosi Folg! Darum, wie immer, VOLL INE lose! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Kath-Akademie Archiv: „Jan Wagner zu Gast bei Albert von Schirnding“ (Hördauer: 95 Minuten) Schon lange war Jan Wagner für den sommerlichen Literaturabend der Katholischen Akademie in Bayern 2015 eingeladen. Dann kam im Frühjahr des Jahres 2015 die Auszeichnung mit dem renommierten Literaturpreis der Leipziger Buchmesse für seinen Gedichtband „Regentonnenvariationen“. Diese außergewöhnliche Ehrung – erstmals für einen Lyriker – brachte für die Akademie große Freude. Bereits das Erstlingswerk dieses 1971 in Hamburg geborenen und in Berlin lebenden Lyrikers „Probebohrungen im Himmel“ (2001) ließ aufhorchen, und alle weiteren Gedichtbände – „Guerickes Sperling“ (2004), „Australien“ (2010), „Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern“ (2012) – sorgten beim Fachpublikum für Aufsehen. Eine Fülle von Stipendien belegen dies, beispielsweise das Stipendium der Deutschen Akademie Villa Massimo (2011) und zuletzt der Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Stiftung (2014). Hinzu kommen hochkarätige Auszeichnungen wie der Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis (2011), der Eduard-Mörike-Preis (2014) und der Georg-Büchner-Preis (2017). Jan Wagner, der auch als Übersetzer englischsprachiger Lyrik und Verfasser zahlreicher Essays hervorgetreten ist, ist u.a. Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste sowie der Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz. Längst wird er auch international geschätzt. Gedichte von ihm sind mittlerweile in rund 30 Sprachen übersetzt. Der Erfolg ruft neuerdings sogar Kritiker auf den Plan. Wie populär dürfen Gedichte sein? Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, dann mögen Sie vielleicht auch diesen.   Hörbahn on Stage - live in Schwabing  Literatur und Ihre Autor*innen im Gespräch - besuchen Sie uns! Katholische Akademie in BayernKardinal Wendel HausMandlstraße 23, 80802 München Realisation Uwe Kullnick

Kath-Akademie Archiv: „Arnold Stadler zu Gast bei Albert von Schirnding“ (Hördauer: 70 Minuten) Arnold Stadler, geb. 1954, sei ein Erinnerungskünstler, sagen die Kritiker, ein sprachmächtiger Vergangenheits-Spieler. Sein unverwechselbarer Stil, „Beginn einer epischen Entfaltung“ (Martin Walser), pendle zwischen unheilbarem Schmerz und rettendem Scherz. Der diesmalige Gast in Albert von Schirndings Reihe hat so ziemlich alle wichtigen Literaturpreise im deutschsprachigen Raum erhalten, nicht zuletzt den von der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung verliehenen Georg-Büchner-Preis (1999). Dabei schien sein Weg zunächst in eine ganz andere Richtung als die des Schriftstellers zu gehen. In der badischen Kleinstadt Meßkirch geboren und auf dem elterlichen Bauernhof in Rast aufgewachsen, spielte er lange Zeit mit dem Gedanken, Priester zu werden. So studierte er zunächst katholische Theologie in München, Rom und Freiburg, dann aber Germanistik in Köln und Bonn, ehe er in den 80er Jahren das Schreiben zu seinem Beruf machte. Warum Schriftsteller? „Nicht weil ich etwas sagen wollte, sondern weil ich etwas sagen musste. Ich habe immer versucht, mir über meine Begegnung mit der Welt, meine Situation, Klarheit zu schaffen.“ Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, dann mögen Sie vielleicht auch diesen.   Hörbahn on Stage - live in Schwabing  Literatur und Ihre Autor*innen im Gespräch - besuchen Sie uns! Katholische Akademie in BayernKardinal Wendel HausMandlstraße 23, 80802 München Realisation Uwe Kullnick

Atlas Shrugged seems to be everywhere today. Randian villains are in the news. Rand remains influential on the right, from the Reagan era to the modern libertarian movement. Perhaps most significantly, entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen who are moving into government with DOGE, have been influenced by Rand, and, fascinatingly, Andreessen only read the novel four years ago. Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal) and I talked about how Atlas Shrugged is in conversation with the great novels of the past, Rand's greats skills of plotting, drama, and character, and what makes Atlas Shrugged a serious novel, not just a vehicle for ideology. Love it or loathe it, Atlas Shrugged is having a moment. Everyone brings a preconception of Ayn Rand, but she has been opposed by the right and the left ever since she first published. Other than Jennifer Burns' biography, academic study has largely declined to notice Rand. But Rand deserves our serious attention, both as a novelist, and as an influence on the modern world. Here are a couple of excerpts.We talk a lot these days about, “how can I be my best self?” That's what Rand is saying. She's saying, actually, it's not about earning money, it's not about being rich. It is about the perfection of the moral life. It's about the pursuit of excellence. It's about the cultivation of virtue. These are the important things. This is what Dagny is doing. When all the entrepreneurs at the end, they're in the happy valley, actually, between them, they have not that much money, right?Also this.What would Ayn Rand think about the influencer economy? Oh, she'd despise it. She would despise it… all these little girls wanting to grow up to be influencers, they're caught in some algorithm, which is awful. Why would you want to spend your life influencing others? Go create something. It's a hard medicine.And.Her aesthetic is very classical, draped. She doesn't wear flowery patterns. She wears draped, clearly close-fitting gowns and gray tailored suits and a minimum of jewelry, though she does have this bracelet chain made of Rearden metal. You don't know when she possibly has time to go shopping, but she's perfectly dressed all the time in the fashion that we would understand as feminist. She wears trousers, she wears suits, but when she goes out, this black velvet cape. I think it's important to see her as that, even though nobody talks about that in terms of this novel, what a heroine she is. I know that when I was reading her as a teenage girl, that's it.TranscriptHenry: Today, I am talking with Hollis Robbins, former dean of the humanities at Utah University and special advisor on the humanities and AI. We are talking about Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Hollis, hello.Hollis Robbins: Hello. I'm really glad to have this conversation with you. We've known each other for some years and follow each other's work. I was trained as a scholar of 19th-century American, Victorian, and African-American literature, mostly novels, and love having conversations with you about big, deep novels. When I suggested that we read this book, I was hoping you would be enthusiastic about it, so I'm really happy to be having this conversation. It's hard to know who's interviewing you or what conversation this is, but for you coming at this middle-aged. Not quite middle-aged, what are you?Henry: I'm middle enough. No. This is not going to be an interview as such. We are going to have a conversation about Atlas Shrugged, and we're going to, as you say, talk about it as a novel. It always gets talked about as an ideology. We are very interested in it as a novel and as two people who love the great novels of the 19th century. I've been excited to do this as well. I think that's why it's going to be good. Why don't we start with, why are we doing this?Hollis: I wanted to gesture to that. You are one of the leading public voices on the importance of reading literature and the importance of reading novels particularly, though I saw today, Matt Yglesias had a blog post about Middlemarch, which I think he just recently read. I can credit you with that, or us, or those of us who are telling people read the big novels.My life trajectory was that I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead before I read Dickens, before I read Jane Austen, before I read Harriet Beecher Stowe or Melville or the Brontës. For me, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were foundational novels as novels. I wondered what it would be like to talk to somebody whose experience was flipped.Henry: Right, I'm 38 and I'd never read this book. I was coming at it partly having read all those other books, but partly for my whole life, people have said, "Oh, that's really a bad book. That's so badly written. That book is no good." The number one thing I can say to people is this book is fun.Hollis: It's really fun. I was going to say usually what I forget to do in talking about books is give the summary. I'm going to hold up my copy, which is my dog-eared copy from high school, which is hilarious. It's got the tiniest print, which I couldn't possibly read now. No underlining, which is interesting. I read this book before I understood that you were supposed to underline when you liked passages in the book.It was interesting to me. I'd probably read it five or six times in my youth and didn't underline anything. The story is--- You can help me fill in the blanks. For readers who haven't read it, there's this young woman, Dagny Taggart, who's the heiress of the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad fortune. She's a woman. This takes place in about, I think, the '40s, '50s. Her older brother, Jim Taggart, is CEO. She's COO, so she's the operations person. It is in some ways the story of her-- It's not quite a bildungsroman. This is the way I tell the story. It's the story of her coming to the realization of how the world works. There's many ways to come at this story. She has multiple boyfriends, which is excellent. Her first boyfriend, his name is Francisco d'Anconia. He's the head of d'Anconia Copper. He too is an heir of this longstanding copper fortune. Her second is a metals magnate, Hank Rearden, who invents this great metal, Rearden metal.Really, it's also the story of the decline of America, and the ways that, in this Randian universe, these villainous group of people who run the country are always taking and extracting from producers. As she's creating and building this great railroad and doing wonderful things and using Rearden metal to do it, something is pulling all the producers out of society, and she's like, "What is going on?"It turns out there's this person, John Galt, who is saying, "I don't like the way the country is run. I don't like this extractive philosophy. I am going to take all the producers and lure them voluntarily to a--" It's a hero's lair. It's not like a James Bond villain lair. It's a hero lair in Colorado called Galt's Gulch. He is John Galt. It ends up being a battle between who is right in a wrong world. Is it the ethical person, Dagny Taggart, who continues to strive and try to be a producer and hold on to her ethics in this corrupt world, or is it somebody saying, "To hell with this. I am going on strike. You guys come with me and let the world collapse." How's that for summary?Henry: No, I think that's great. I couldn't have done a better job. One thing that we can say is that the role of reason, of being a rational person, of making reason the sole arbiter of how you make choices, be they practical, ethical, financial, whatever, that's at the heart of the book, right?Hollis: That's the philosophy. We could go there in a second. I think the plot of the book is that she demonstrates this.Henry: What she has to learn, like what is the big lesson for Dagny, is at the beginning, she hasn't fully understood that the good guys use reason and the bad guys do not, as it were.Hollis: Right. I think that's right. I like thinking about this as a bildungsroman. You said that the book is fun. Her part of the book is fun, but not really fun. The fun part of the book, and you can tell me because every time you kept texting me, "Oh my God, Jim Taggart. Oh my God, Jim Taggart. Oh my God, Jim Taggart."--Henry: These guys are so awful. [laughs]Hollis: They're so awful. The fun parts of the book, the Rand villains are the government entities and the cabals of business leaders who she calls looters and second-handers who run the country and all they do is extract value. Marc Andreessen was on a podcast recently and was all about these Rand villains and these looters. I think, again, to get back to why are we doing this and why are we doing this now, Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged is in the air with the second Trump administration.Henry: Yes. In a way, we're doing this because the question is, is this the novel of the future? Right? What we're seeing is it's very influential on the right. Rand's ideas have long been a libertarian inspiration. Elon Musk's read her. You mentioned Andreessen, Peter Thiel, all these people. It goes back to the Reagan days. People in the Republican Party have been quoting Ayn Rand. Then more broadly, we see all these worries about social collapse today. What happens in the plot of Atlas Shrugged is that society does slowly collapse.Dagny has to realize it's because of these people who are not using their reason and they're nationalizing things and taking resource away from proficient entrepreneurs and stuff. It's all about infrastructure, energy, people doing exploitation in the name of the common good, ineffective political leaders, people covering up lies and misdemeanors, people being accepting of what is obviously criminal behavior because it's in the cause of the greater good. We have free speech, all these topics, energy production. We're seeing this in the headlines. When I was reading this book, I was like, "Oh my God, how did she know?"Hollis: How did she know?Henry: How did she know.Hollis: I think the bildungsroman aspect of this as a novel. It's hard to read it as a novel. I think it's hard. By the way, I have to really I applaud you for not, until you got almost to the end of the book, texting me about this person or that person, or how it's political. I admire you for looking at the book and coming to the book as an expert in novels.What she comes to terms with, and it's a real slowly-- It's not even scales falling from her eyes. She doesn't sit and say, "Oh my God, the world is corrupt." She just is like, "That person's corrupt. I'm not going to deal with them. That person's corrupt. I'm not going to deal with them." She just keeps going, but she doesn't ever accept with a fatalism that she's living in this world where every single person who's in charge is going to let her down.Henry: It's also interesting to me that she doesn't complain.Hollis: No.Henry: Now, that reminded me of I wrote about Margaret Thatcher in my book. She was another big one for however hard it was, however difficult it was, why would you complain? Let's just go to work. A lot of people found her difficult for that reason. When I was reading this, I was like, "Ayn Rand clearly has the same idea. You can nationalize every last inch of the economy. I'm going to get up and go to work and try and beat you. I'm not going to sit around and complain." It's a very stern attitude in a way. She's very strict with herself. I found the book to be-- I know Rand is very atheist, but a very Protestant book.Hollis: Yes, it really is.Henry: Intensely Protestant, yes.Hollis: That's a nice way to think about it. A certain kind of Protestant, a Weberian Protestant.Henry: Sure.Hollis: Not a Southern Baptist Protestant who believes in the absence of reason. I was thinking I was teaching in Mississippi years ago. I was teaching a course on Wordsworth and had to do a unit on Voltaire because you can't really understand Wordsworth unless you understand Voltaire. There was a woman in my class. She was a version of Presbyterian who doesn't believe in reason, believes that in the fall, man lost their reason.Therefore, she asked if she could be excused from class because I was talking about Voltaire and the importance of reason. She said, "This is against my religion. If you believe that man has reason, you are actually going about it wrong, so may I be excused?" Which in all the years I've had people ask for excuses to miss class, that was a memorable one.Henry: That's unique. [laughs]Hollis: It's interesting because, again, I should get back to the novel, the opposition from Rand is as strong on the religious right as it is on the left. In fact, very strong. When Atlas Shrugged came out, William F. Buckley famously had Whittaker Chambers write the review. He hated her. He despised her. He despised the fact that she put reason first.Henry: Yes. I think that's worth emphasizing that some people listening will think, "I'm Rand. These nasty ideas, she's on the right." She's been ideologically described in that way so many times. Deirdre McCloskey in the Literary Review has just in the most recent edition written an absolutely scathing article about Rand. That's libertarian opposition to Rand.McCloskey is saying Hayek is the real thing here and Rand would have hated everything that Hayek did. She got everything wrong. I think the opposition to her, as you say, it's on both sides. One thing that's interesting about this novel is that because she created her own philosophy, which people will have different views on how well that went, but there isn't anyone else like this. All the other people like this are her followers.Hollis: Exactly.Henry: She's outside of the other systems of thought in a way.Hollis: We should talk about Rand. I'm going to quote a little bit from this book on feminist interpretation of Ayn Rand. Let's talk a little bit, if we can, about Dagny as the heroine of a novel, or a hero, because one of the really interesting things about reading Rand at this moment is that she's got one pronoun, he, him, man. She is in this era where man means man and women. That there isn't men and women, he and she, and now it's he, she, and them. She is like, "There's one pronoun." Even she talks about the rights of man or man believes. She means everybody, but she only means man too. It's interesting.I was very much part of the first pronoun wars in the 1980s when women scholars were like, "He and she." Now we're thrown out the window with that binary. Again, we don't need to talk about pronouns, but it's really important to understanding Rand and reading this novel, how much she embraces men and the male pronoun, even while she is using it both ways, and even while her story is led by this woman. She's beautiful. She's beautiful in a very specific way. She's tall, she's slender, she's got great cheekbones, she's got great shoulders, she's got long legs.Her aesthetic is very classical, draped. She doesn't wear flowery patterns. She wears draped, clearly close-fitting gowns and gray tailored suits and a minimum of jewelry, though she does have this bracelet chain made of Rearden metal. You don't know when she possibly has time to go shopping, but she's perfectly dressed all the time in the fashion that we would understand as feminist. She wears trousers, she wears suits, but when she goes out, this black velvet cape. I think it's important to see her as that, even though nobody talks about that in terms of this novel, what a heroine she is. I know that when I was reading her as a teenage girl, that's it.Henry: I want to be Dagny.Hollis: I want to be Dagny. I want to have capes, right?Henry: There's a very important scene, it's not too much of a plot spoiler, where Hank Rearden has invented this new metal. It's very exciting because it's much more efficient and it's much stronger and you can build new bridges for the trains and everything. He makes a bracelet of his new metal. It's a new steel alloy, I think, and gives it to his wife. His wife basically doesn't care.She's not really interested in what it takes to earn the money, she just wants to have the money. You get the strong impression throughout the book that some of the people that Rand is most scathingly disapproving of are wives who don't work. None of those people come out well. When Dagny goes to a party at the Rearden house and she is romantically involved with Hank Rearden, she sees the bracelet.Hollis: She isn't then, right? Isn't she not then?Henry: No, but they have feelings for each otherHollis: Right. Reasonable feelings for each other.Henry: That's right, reasonable feelings, but they're not currently acting on those feelings. She sees the bracelet and she exchanges her, I think, diamonds-Hollis: Diamond bracelet.Henry: -for the Rearden metal bracelet with the wife. It's this wonderful moment where these two opposite ideals of womanhood that Rand is presenting. It's a great moment of heroism for Dagny because she is saying, "Who cares about glittering diamonds when you have a new steel alloy that can make this incredible bridge?" It sounds crazy, but this is 1957. Dagny is very much what you might call one of the new women.Hollis: Right.Henry: I think in some ways, Rand-- I don't like the phrase she's ahead of her time. I've read a lot of 1950s fiction. This is not the typical woman.Hollis: No, this is not Cheever. This is not a bored suburban housewife at a time when the way the '50s are taught, certainly in America, it's like women could work during the war, then they were suburban housewives, there was bored, there were key parties and all sorts of Cheever sorts of things. This is not that. I read this first. I was only 15 years after it was published, I think, in the '60s, early '70s reading it.This, to me, seemed perfectly normal and everything else seemed regressive and strange and whiny. There's a lot to be said for reading this novel first. I think if we can talk a little bit about these set pieces because I think for me reading it as a novel and hearing you talk about it as a novel, that novels, whether we're thinking about-- I want to see if you want to compare her to Dorothea or just to any other Victorian women novel that you can think of. That's the closest, right? Is there anybody that's closest to Dorothea from Middlemarch? Is that there are these set pieces. People think that Rand-- the idea is that she's not a great writer. She is a great writer. She started in Hollywood. Her first book, The Fountainhead, was made into a movie. She understands plotting and keeping the reader's attention. We go forward, we go backwards. There's her relationship with Francisco d'Anconia that we see her now, years after, then we have flashbacks to growing up and how they became lovers.There are big meeting set pieces where everybody's in the room, and we have all the backstories of the people in the room, what is going to happen. There are these big party scenes, as you say. For example, this big, glorious, glamorous party at the Rearden house, Francisco is there. Francisco and Hank Rearden get in a conversation, and she's like, "I want to go see what my old boyfriend is talking to the guy I like about."There are these moments where you're not supposed to come at the book that way in this serious philosophical way. Then later on when there's this wonderful scene where Francisco comes to see Dagny. This is much later. Hank and Dagny are lovers, so he has a key to her apartment. He walks in and everybody sees immediately what's going on. It's as good as any other farce moment of somebody hiding behind a curtain, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: Everything is revealed all at once. She's very good at scenes like that.Henry: Yes, very good. She's very good at high drama. One of the phrases that kept coming back to me was that this book is a melodrama of ideas.Hollis: Yes.Henry: Right? It's not a novel of ideas as such, it's a melodrama of ideas. I think one thing that people who think she's a bad writer will say is it's melodrama, the characters are flat, the prose is not lyrical, all these different things. Whereas when I read it, I was like, "She's so good at melodrama." I feel like, in some ways, it does not feel like a 1950s novel because there's so much excitement about technology, so much feminism, just so many things that I do not associate--Maybe I'm being too English, but I don't read John Cheever, for example, and think, "Oh, he loves the train." Whereas this book is very, very exciting as a story about inventing a new kind of train that goes really fast," which sounds silly, but that's a really Dickensian theme, that's in Middlemarch. Actually, that's what Matt Yglesias was talking about in his excellent piece today. What does feel very 1950s is you've got the Hollywood influence. The dialogue, I think, is not always great, but it is often great.I often would read pages and think, "This would actually be really good in, not an A++ movie, but in a decent crime movie or something. This would be quite good dialogue." There's a comic book aesthetic to it in the way that the scenes play out. Just a lot of these '50s aesthetics actually are present in the book. I'm going to read one paragraph. It's from part one. I think we should read out loud a few bits to give people a sense.Hollis: Yes.Henry: This is when Dagny has built a new train line using grid and metal to make the bridge so that it can go over a valley. I think that's right. The train can do 100 miles an hour. It's this very, very exciting new development. It means that energy can be supplied to factories, and so it's a huge, big deal. This is when she's on the train going at 100 miles an hour and she just can't believe it's happening."Things streaked past a water tank, a tree, a shanty, a grain silo. They had a windshield wiper motion. They were rising, describing a curve, and dropping back. The telegraph wires ran a race with the train, rising and falling from pole to pole, in an even rhythm like the cardiograph record of a steady heartbeat written across the sky. She looked ahead at the haze that melted rail and distance, a haze that could rip apart at any moment to some shape of disaster.""She wondered why she felt safer than she had ever felt in a car behind the engine. Safer here where it seemed as if should an obstacle rise, her breast and the glass shield would be the first to smash against it. She smiled, grasping the answer. It was the security of being first with full sight and full knowledge of one's own course, not the blind sense of being pulled into the unknown by some unknown power ahead."That's not MFA prose or whatever, but it turns the pages. I think she's very good at relating we're on the train and it's going very fast to how Dagny is thinking through the philosophical conundrum that is basically going to drive the whole plot forwards. I was reminded again and again of what Virginia Woolf said about Walter Scott, where she compared Scott to Robert Louis Stevenson. She said that Stevenson had beautiful sentences and dapper little adjectives. It was all jeweled and carefully done. You could marvel over each sentence.She said, "Whereas Scott, it's just page after page and no sentence is beautiful," but she says, "He writes at the level of the page. He's not like Stevenson. He's not writing at the level of the sentence. You have to step into the world." You can say, 'Oh, that wasn't a very good sentence,' but my goodness, the pages keep turning and you're there in the world, right?Hollis: Exactly.Henry: I think she made a really important point there and we just undervalue that so much when we say, oh, so-and-so is not a good writer. What we mean is they're not a Robert Louis Stevenson, they're a Walter Scott. It's like, sure, but Walter Scott was great at what he did. Ayn Rand is in the Walter Scott inheritance in the sense that it's a romance, it's not strictly realistic novel. You have to step into the world. You can't spend your whole time going, "Was that a great sentence? Do I really agree with what she just--" It's like, no, you have to go into this utopian sci-fi universe and you have to keep turning the pages. You get caught up and you go, "Wow, this is this is working for me."Hollis: Let me push back on that-Henry: Yes, good.Hollis: -because I think that was a beautiful passage, one of my favorite passages in this book, which is hard to say because it's a really, really big book. It's a memorable passage because here she is in a place at this moment. She is questioning herself. Isn't she questioning why? Why do I feel safe? Then it strikes her. In this moment, all interior while all this stuff is happening. This whole Rearden metal train bridge set piece is one of the highlights of at least the first half of the book. You come away, even if we've had our entire life up to her, understanding her as a philosophical this woman. How is that different from Dorothea or from Elizabeth Bennet? Yes, Elizabeth Bennet, right?Henry: Oh, no, I agree. My point was purely about prose style, which was to say if you say, "Oh, she writes like a Walter Scott, not like a Robert Louis Stevenson," you're going to deny yourself seeing what you've just said, which is that actually, yes, she has the ability to write philosophical characters.Hollis: When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I read it through the lens of Rand. Now, clearly, these heroines had fewer choices. Dorothea marries Casaubon, I don't know how you pronounce it, because she thinks he's a Randian expert, somebody who's got this grand idea. She's like, "Whoa, I want to be part of this endeavor, the key to all mythologies." Then she's so let down. In the Randian sense, you can see why she would have wanted him.Henry: That's right. I think George Eliot would have strongly disagreed with Rand philosophically. The heroines, as you say, what they're doing in the novel is having to realize that there are social conventions I have to understand and there are things I have to learn how to do, but actually, the key to working all that out is more at the moral philosophical level. This is what happens to Dagny. I think it's on the next page from what I just read. There's another passage where it says that she's in the train and she's enjoying. It's working and she's thrilled that her train is working. She was trying not to think, but she couldn't help herself.She said, "Who made the train. Is it the brute force of muscle? Who can make all the dials and the levers? How is it possible that this thing has even been put together?" Then she starts thinking to herself, "We've got a government who's saying it's wrong to do this, you're taking resources, you're not doing it for the common good." She says, "How can they regard this as evil? How can they believe that this is ignoble to have created this incredible thing?"She says she wants to be able to toss the subject out of the window and let it get shattered somewhere along the track. She wants the thoughts to go past like the telegraph poles, but obviously, she can't. She has this moment of realization that this can't be wrong. This type of human accomplishment can't be against the common good. It can't be considered to be ignoble. I think that is like the Victorian heroines.To me, it was more like Fanny Price, which is that someone turns up into a relatively closed system of ideas and keeps their own counsel for a long time, and has to admit sometimes when they haven't got it right or whatever. Basically, in the end, they are vindicated on fairly straightforward grounds. Dagny comes to realize that, "I was right. I was using my reason. I was working hard. I was being productive. Yes, I was right about that." Fanny, it's more like a Christian insight into good behavior, but I felt the pattern was the same.Hollis: Sure. I'll also bring up Jane Eyre here, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: Jane Eyre, her relationship, there's a lot to be said of both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Rochester with Hank Rearden because Hank Rearden has to come to his sense. He's married. He doesn't like his wife. He doesn't like this whole system that he's in. He wants to be with a woman that's a meeting of the mind, but he's got all this social convention he has to deal with. Rochester has to struggle, and of course, Bertha Mason has to die in that book. He ends up leaving his wife, but too late. If we're going to look at this novel as a novel, we can see that there are these moments that I think have some resonance. I know you don't seem to want to go to the Mr. Darcy part of it.Henry: No. I had also thought about Jane Eyre. My thought was that, obviously, other than being secular because Jane Eyre is very Christian, the difference is that Hank Rearden and Dagny basically agree that we can't conduct our relationship in a way that would be morally compromising to her. They go through this very difficult process of reasoning like, "How can we do this in a good way?"They're a little bit self-sacrificing about it because they don't want to upset the moral balance. Whereas Mr. Rochester, at least for the first part of the book, has an attitude that's more like, "Yes, but she's in the attic. Why does it matter if we get married?" He doesn't really see the problem of morally compromising Jane, and so Jane has to run away.Hollis: Right.Henry: One of the interesting things about Rand, what is different from like Austen and the Brontës and whatever, is that Dagny and Hank are not in opposition before they get together. They have actually this unusual thing in romance and literature, which is that they have a meeting of minds. What gets in the way is that the way their minds agree is contra mundum and the world has made this problem for them.Hollis: I think in a way, that's the central relationship in--Henry: Yes. That was how I read it, yes.Hollis: Yes. The fact as we think about what the complications are in reading this novel as a novel is that here is this great central romance and they've got obstacles. She's got an old boyfriend, he's married. They've got all these things that are classic obstacles to a love story. Rand understands that enough to build it, that that will keep a lot of readers' interest, but then it's like, "That's actually not the point of my book," which is how the second half or the last third of the novel just gets really wiggy." Again, spoiler alert, but Hank is blackmailed to be, as the society is collapsing, as things are collapsing--Henry: We should say that the government has taken over in a nationalizing program by this point.Hollis: Right, because as John Galt is pulling all the thought leaders and the industrialists and all the movers of the world into his lair, things are getting harder and harder and harder, things are getting nationalized. Some of these big meetings in Washington where these horrible people are deciding how to redistribute wealth, again, which is part of the reason somebody like Congressman Paul Ryan would give out copies of Atlas Shrugged to all of his staffers. He's like, "You've got to read this book because we can't go to Washington and be like this. The Trumpian idea is we've got to get rid of people who are covering up and not doing the right thing."They've blackmailed Hank Rearden into giving up Rearden Metal by saying, "We know you've been sleeping with Dagny Taggart." It's a very dramatic point. How is this going to go down?Henry: Right. I think that's interesting. What I loved about the way she handled that romance was that romance is clearly part of what she sees as important to a flourishing life. She has to constantly yoke it to this idea that reason is everything, so human passion has to be conducted on the basis that it's logically reasonable, but that it therefore becomes self-sacrificing. There is something really sad and a little bit tragic about Hank being blackmailed like that, right?Hollis: Yes. I have to say their first road trip together, it's like, "Let's just get out of here and go have a road trip and stay in hotels and have sex and it'll be awesome." That their road trip is like, "Let's go also see some abandoned factories and see what treasures we might find there." To turn this love road trip into also the plot twist that gets them closer to John Galt is a magnificent piece of plot.Henry: Yes. I loved that. I know you want to talk about the big John Galt speech later, but I'm going to quote one line because this all relates to what I think is one of the most central lines of the book. "The damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know yet chose to blank out reality." A lot of the time, like in Brontë or whatever, there are characters like Rochester's like that. The center of their romance is that they will never do that to each other because that's what they believe philosophically, ethically. It's how they conduct themselves at business. It's how they expect other people to conduct themselves. They will never sacrifice that for each other.That for them is a really high form of love and it's what enables huge mutual respect. Again, it's one of those things I'm amazed-- I used to work in Westminster. I knew I was a bit of a libertarian. I knew lots of Rand adjacent or just very, very Randian people. I thought they were all insane, but that's because no one would ever say this. No one would ever say she took an idea like that and turned it into a huge romance across hundreds of pages. Who else has done that in the novel? I think that's great.Hollis: It really is hard. It really is a hard book. The thing that people say about the book, as you say, and the reason you hadn't read it up until now, is it's like, "Oh, yes, I toyed with Rand as a teenager and then I put that aside." I put away my childish things, right? That's what everybody says on the left, on the right. You have to think about it's actually really hard. My theory would be that people put it away because it's really, really hard, what she tried is hard. Whether she succeeded or not is also hard. As we were just, before we jumped on, talking about Rand's appearance on Johnny Carson, a full half hour segment of him taking her very seriously, this is a woman who clearly succeeded. I recently read Jennifer Burn's biography of her, which is great. Shout out to Jennifer.What I came away with is this is a woman who made her living as a writer, which is hard to do. That is a hard thing to do, is to make your living as a writer, as a woman in the time difference between 1942, The Fountainhead, which was huge, and 57, Atlas Shrugged. She was blogging, she had newsletters, she had a media operation that's really, really impressive. This whole package doesn't really get looked at, she as a novelist. Again, let me also say it was later on when I came to Harriet Beecher Stowe, who is another extraordinary woman novelist in America who wrote this groundbreaking book, which is filled--I particularly want to shout out to George Harris, the slave inventor who carried himself like a Rand hero as a minor character and escapes. His wife is Eliza, who famously runs across the ice flows in a brave Randian heroine escape to freedom where nobody's going to tell them what to do. These women who changed literature in many ways who have a really vexed relationship or a vexed place in academia. Certainly Stowe is studied.Some 20 years ago, I was at an event with the great Elaine Showalter, who was coming out with an anthology of American women writers. I was in the audience and I raised my hand, I said, "Where's Ayn Rand?" She was like, "Ha, ha, ha." Of course, what a question is that? There is no good reason that Ayn Rand should not be studied in academia. There is no good reason. These are influential novels that actually, as we've talked about here, can be talked about in the context of other novels.Henry: I think one relevant comparison is let's say you study English 19th-century literature on a course, a state-of-the-nation novel or the novel of ideas would be included as routine, I think very few people would say, "Oh, those novels are aesthetically excellent. We read them because they're beautifully written, and they're as fun as Dickens." No one's saying that. Some of them are good, some of them are not good. They're important because of what they are and the barrier to saying why Rand is important for what she is because, I think, people believe her ideas are evil, basically.One central idea is she thinks selfishness is good, but I think we've slightly dealt with the fact that Dagny and Hank actually aren't selfish some of the time, and that they are forced by their ethical system into not being selfish. The other thing that people say is that it's all free-market billionaire stuff, basically. I'm going to read out a passage from-- It's a speech by Francisco in the second part. It's a long speech, so I'm not going to read all eight pages. I'm going to read this speech because I think this theme that I'm about to read out, it's a motif, it's again and again and again.Hollis: Is this where he's speaking to Hank or to Dagny?Henry: I think when he's speaking to Dagny and he says this."Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he want. Money will not give him a code of values if he has evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose if he has evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent."The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him with his money replacing his judgment ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered, that no man may be smaller than his money."Hollis: That's a good--Henry: Right? It's a great paragraph. I feel like she says that in dozens of ways throughout the book, and she wants you to be very clear when you leave that this book is not a creed in the name of just make money and have free market capitalism so you can be rich. That paragraph and so many others, it's almost biblical in the way she writes it. She's really hammering the rhythms, and the tones, and the parallels. She's also, I think, trying to appropriate some of the way the Bible talks about money and turn it into her own secular pseudo-Aristotelian idea, right?Hollis: Yes.Henry: We talk a lot these days about, how can I be my best self? That's what Rand is saying. She's saying, actually, it's not about earning money, it's not about being rich. It is about the perfection of the moral life. It's about the pursuit of excellence. It's about the cultivation of virtue. These are the important things. This is what Dagny is doing. When all the entrepreneurs at the end, they're in the happy valley, actually, between them, they have not that much money, right?Hollis: Right.Henry: The book does not end in a rich utopia, it's important to say.Hollis: It's interesting. A couple of things. I want to get this back since we're still in the novel. Let me say when we get to Galt's great speech, which is bizarre. He says a similar thing that I'll bring in now. He says, "The mother who buys milk for her baby instead of a hat is not sacrificing because her values are feeding the baby. The woman who sacrifices the hat to feed her baby, but really wants the hat and is only feeding the baby out of duty is sacrificing." That's bad. She's saying get your values in order. Understand what it is you want and do that thing, but don't do it because somebody says you have to. She says this over and over in many ways, or the book says this.Henry: We should say, that example of the mother is incidental. The point she's always making is you must think this through for yourself, you must not do it because you've been told to do it.Hollis: Right, exactly. To get back to the love story aspects of the book because they don't sit and say they love each other, even all the great romances. It's not like, "I love you. I love you." It's straight to sex or looks and meetings of the minds. It's interesting. We should deal with the fact that from The Fountainhead and a little bit in this book, the sex is a little rapey. It's a difficult thing to talk about. It's certainly one of the reasons that feminists, women writers don't approve of her. In the book, it's consensual. Whatever one wants to think about the ways that people have sex, it is consensual in the book. Also in The Fountainhead.I'm sure I'll get hate mail for even saying that, but in her universe, that's where it is. What's interesting, Francisco as a character is so interesting. He's conflicted, he's charming, he's her first lover. He's utterly good in every way. He ends up without her. Hank is good. Hank goes through his struggles and learning curve about women prioritizing. If you don't like your wife, don't be married to your wife. It's like he goes through his own what are my values and how do I live them.I know you think that this is bizarre, but there's a lot of writing about the relationship of Hank and Francisco because they find themselves in the same room a lot. They happen to have both been Dagny's lovers or ex-lovers, and they really, really like each other. There's a way that that bonding-- Homosexuality does not exist in her novels, whatever, but that's a relationship of two people that really are hot for one another. There is a lot of writing. There are queer readings of Rand that make a lot of that relationship.Again, this isn't my particular lens of criticism, but I do see that the energy, which is why I asked you which speech you were reading because some of Francisco's best speeches are for Hank because he's trying to woo Hank to happy valley. Toward the end when they're all hanging out together in Galt's Gulch, there's clearly a relationship there.Henry: Oh, yes. No, once you pointed out to me, I was like, "That makes sense of so many passages." That's clearly there. What I don't understand is why she did that. I feel like, and this is quite an accomplishment because it's a big novel with a lot of moving parts, everything else is resolved both in terms of the plot, but also in terms of how it fits her philosophical idea. That, I think, is pretty much the only thing where you're left wondering, "Why was that in there? She hasn't made a point about it. They haven't done anything about it." This I don't understand. That's my query.Hollis: Getting ready to have this conversation, I spent a lot of time on some Reddit threads. I ran Atlas Shrugged Reddit threads where there's some fantastic conversations.Henry: Yes, there is.Hollis: One of them is about, how come Francisco didn't end up with anybody? That's just too bad. He's such a great character and he ends up alone. I would say he doesn't end up alone, he ends up with his boyfriend Hank, whatever that looks like. Two guys that believe in the same things, they can have whatever life they want. Go on.Henry: Are you saying that now that they're in the valley, they will be more free to pursue that relationship?Hollis: There's a lot of things that she has said about men's and women's bodies. She said in other places, "I don't think there'll ever be a woman president because why would a woman want to be president? What a woman really wants is a great man, and we can't have a president who's looking for a great man. She has to be a president." She's got a lot of lunacy about women. Whatever. I don't understand. Someplace I've read that she understands male homosexuality, but not female homosexuality. Again, I am not a Rand scholar. Having read and seen some of that in the ether, I see it in the book, and I can see how her novel would invite that analysis.I do want to say, let's spend a few seconds on some of the minor characters. There are some really wonderful minor characters. One of them is Cherryl Taggart, this shop girl that evil Jim Taggart meets one night in a rainstorm, and she's like, "Oh, you're so awesome," and they get married. It's like he's got all this praise for marrying the shop girl. It's a funny Eliza Doolittle situation because she is brought into this very wealthy society, which we have been told and we have been shown is corrupt, is evil, everybody's lying all the time, it's pretentious, Dagny hates it.Here's the Cherryl Taggart who's brought into this. In the beginning, she hates Dagny because she's told by everybody, "Hate Dagny, she's horrible." Then she comes to her own mini understanding of the corruption that we understand because Dagny's shown it in the novel, has shown it to us this entire time. She comes to it and she's like, "Oh my God," and she goes to Dagny. Dagny's so wonderful to her like, "Yes. You had to come to this on your own, I wasn't going to tell you, but you were 100% right." That's the end of her.Henry: Right. When she meets Taggart, there's this really interesting speech she has where she says, "I want to make something of myself and get somewhere." He's like, "What? What do you want to do?" Red flag. "What? Where?" She says, "I don't know, but people do things in this world. I've seen pictures of New York," and she's pointing at like the skyscrapers, right? Whatever. "I know that someone's built that. They didn't sit around and whine, but like the kitchen was filthy and the roof was leaking." She gets very emotional at this point. She says to him, "We were stinking poor and we didn't give a damn. I've dragged myself here, and I'm going to do something."Her story is very sad because she then gets mired in the corruption of Taggart's. He's basically bit lazy and a bit of a thief, and he will throw anyone under the bus for his own self-advancement. He is revealed to be a really sinister guy. I was absolutely hissing about him most of the time. Then, let's just do the plot spoiler and say what happens to Cherryl, right? Because it's important. When she has this realization and Taggart turns on her and reveals himself as this snake, and he's like, "Well, what did you expect, you idiot? This is the way the world is."Hollis: Oh, it's a horrible fight. It's the worst fight.Henry: Right? This is where the melodrama is so good. She goes running out into the streets, and it's the night and there are shadows. She's in the alleyway. Rand, I don't have the page marked, but it's like a noir film. She's so good at that atmosphere. Then it gets a little bit gothic as well. She's running through the street, and she's like, "I've got to go somewhere, anywhere. I'll work. I'll pick up trash. I'll work in a shop. I'll do anything. I've just got to get out of this."Hollis: Go work at the Panda Express. Henry: Yes. She's like, "I've got to get out of this system," because she's realized how morally corrupting it is. By this time, this is very late. Society is in a-- it's like Great Depression style economic collapse by this point. There really isn't a lot that she could do. She literally runs into a social worker and the social-- Rand makes this leering dramatic moment where the social worker reaches out to grab her and Cherryl thinks, "Oh, my God, I'm going to be taken prisoner in. I'm going back into the system," so she jumps off the bridge.This was the moment when I was like, I've had this lurking feeling about how Russian this novel is. At this point, I was like, "That could be a short story by Gogol," right? The way she set that up. That is very often the trap that a Gogol character or maybe a Dostoevsky character finds themselves in, right? That you suddenly see that the world is against you. Maybe you're crazy and paranoid. Maybe you're not. Depends which story we're reading. You run around trying to get out and you realize, "Oh, my God, I'm more trapped than I thought. Actually, maybe there is no way out." Cherryl does not get a lot of pages. She is, as you say, quite a minor character, but she illustrates the whole story so, so well, so dramatically.Hollis: Oh, wow.Henry: When it happens, you just, "Oh, Cherryl, oh, my goodness."Hollis: Thank you for reading that. Yes, you could tell from the very beginning that the seeds of what could have been a really good person were there. Thank you for reading that.Henry: When she died, I went back and I was like, "Oh, my God, I knew it."Hollis: How can you say Rand is a bad writer, right? That is careful, careful plotting, because she's just a shop girl in the rain. You've got this, the gun on the wall in that act. You know she's going to end up being good. Is she going to be rewarded for it? Let me just say, as an aside, I know we don't have time to talk about it here. My field, as I said, is 19th century African American novels, primarily now.This, usually, a woman, enslaved woman, the character who's like, "I can't deal with this," and jumps off a bridge and drowns herself is a fairly common and character. That is the only thing to do. One also sees Rand heroes. Stowe's Dred, for example, is very much, "I would rather live in the woods with a knife and then, be on the plantation and be a slave." When you think about, even the sort of into the 20th century, the Malcolm X figure, that, "I'm going to throw out all of this and be on my own," is very Randian, which I will also say very Byronic, too, Rand didn't invent this figure, but she put it front and center in these novels, and so when you think about how Atlas Shrugged could be brought into a curriculum in a network of other novels, how many of we've discussed so far, she's there, she's influenced by and continues to influence. Let's talk about your favorite minor character, the Wet Nurse.Henry: This is another great death scene.Hollis: Let's say who he is, so the government sends this young man to work at the Rearden Mills to keep an eye on Hank Rearden.Henry: Once they nationalize him, he's the bureaucrat reporting back, and Rearden calls him the Wet Nurse as an insult.Hollis: Right, and his job, he's the Communist Party person that's in every factory to make sure that everything is--Henry: That's right, he's the petty bureaucrat reporting back and making sure everyone's complying.Hollis: He's a young recent college graduate that, Hank, I think, early on, if it's possible even to find the Wet Nurse early scene, you could tell in the beginning, too, he's bright and sparkly right out of college, and this is, it seems like a good job for him. He's like, "Woohoo, I get to be here, and I get to be--" Yes, go ahead.Henry: What happens to him is, similarly to Cherryl, he has a conversion, but his conversion is not away from the corruption of the system he's been in, he is converted by what he sees in the Rearden plant, the hard work, the dedication, the idealism, the deep focus on making the metal, and he starts to see that if we don't make stuff, then all the other arguments downstream of that about how to appropriate, how to redistribute, whatever, are secondary, and so he becomes, he goes native, as it were. He becomes a Reardenite, and then at the end, when there's a crowd storming the place, and this crowd has been sent by the government, it's a fake thing to sort of--Hollis: Also, a very good scene, very dramatic.Henry: She's very good at mobs, very good at mobs, and they kill, they kill the Wet Nurse, they throw him over. He has a couple of speeches in dialogue with Rearden while he's dying, and he says--Hollis: You have to say, they throw him, they leave him on this pile of slag. He crawls up to the street where Rearden happens to be driving by, and car stops, and so that finding the Wet Nurse there and carrying him in his arms, yes.Henry: That's right, it's very dramatic, and then they have this dialogue, and he says, "I'd like to live, Mr. Rearden, God, how I'd like to, not because I'm dying, but because I've just discovered tonight what it means to be alive, and it's funny, do when I discovered it? In the office, when I stuck my neck out, when I told the bastards to go to hell, there's so many things I wish I'd known sooner, but it's no use crying over spilt milk," and then Rearden, he goes, "Listen, kid, said Rearden sternly, I want you to do me a favor." "Now, Mr. Rearden?" "Yes, now." "Of course, Mr. Rearden, if I can," and Rearden says, "You were willing to die to save my mills, will you try and live for me?"I think this is one of those great moments where, okay, maybe this isn't like George Eliot style dialogue, but you could put that straight in a movie, that would work really well, that would be great, right? I can hear Humphrey Bogart saying these things. It would work, wouldn't it?She knows that, and that's why she's doing that, she's got that technique. He's another minor character, and Rand is saying, the system is eating people up. We are setting people up for a spiritual destruction that then leads to physical destruction. This point, again, about it's not just about the material world. It's about your inner life and your own mind.I find it very moving.Hollis: These minor characters are fantastic. Then let's talk a little bit about Eddie Willers, because I think a lot about Eddie Willers. Eddie Willers, the childhood three, there were three young people, we keep going back to this childhood. We have Dagny, Francisco, because their parents were friends, and then Eddie Willers, who's like a neighborhood kid, right?Henry: He's down the street.Hollis: He lives down the street. He's like the neighborhood kid. I don't know about you. We had a neighborhood kid. There's always neighborhood kids, right? You end up spending time with this-- Eddie's just sort of always there. Then when they turn 15, 16, 17, and when there's clearly something going on between Dagny and Francisco, Eddie does take a step back, and he doesn't want to see.There's the class issues, the status issues aren't really-- they're present but not discussed by Rand. Here we have these two children heirs, and they don't say like, "You're not one of us, Eddie, because you're not an heir or an heiress." He's there, and he's got a pretty good position as Dagny's right-hand man in Taggart Transcontinental. We don't know where he went to college. We don't know what he does, but we know that he's super loyal, right?Then when she goes and takes a break for a bit, he steps in to be COO. James is like, "Eddie Willers, how can Eddie Willers be a COO?" She's like, "It's really going to be me, but he's going to be fine." We're not really supposed to identify with Eddie, but Eddie's there. Eddie has, all through the novel, all through the big old novel, Eddie eats lunch in the cafeteria. There's always this one guy he's having lunch with. This is, I don't know, like a Greek chorus thing, I don't quite know, but there's Eddie's conversations with this unknown person in the cafeteria give us a sense, maybe it's a narrator voice, like, "Meanwhile, this is going on in the world." We have these conversations. This guy he's having lunch with asks a lot of questions and starts asking a lot of personal questions about Dagny. Then we have to talk to-- I know we've gone for over an hour and 15 minutes, we've got to talk about Galt's Speech, right? When John Galt, toward the end, takes over the airwaves and gives this big three-hour speech, the big three-hour podcast as I tweeted the other day, Eddie is with Dagny.Henry: He's in the radio studio.Hollis: He's in the studio along with one of John Galt's former professors. We hear this voice. Rand says, or the narrator says, three people in the room recognize that voice. I don't know about you, did you guess that it was Galt before that moment that Eddie was having lunch with in the cafeteria?Henry: No, no, no, I didn't.Hollis: Okay, so you knew at that moment.Henry: That was when I was like, "Oh, Eddie was talking, right?" It took me a minute.Hollis: Okay, were you excited? Was that like a moment? Was that a big reveal?Henry: It was a reveal, but it made me-- Eddie's whole character puzzles me because, to me, he feels like a Watson.Hollis: Yes, that's nice, that's good.Henry: He's met Galt, who's been under their noses the whole time. He's been going through an almost Socratic method with Galt, right? If only he could have paid a little bit more attention, he would have realized what was going on. He doesn't, why is this guy so interested in Dagny, like all these things. Even after Galt's big speech, I don't think Eddie quite takes the lesson. He also comes to a more ambiguous but a bad end.Hollis: Eddie's been right there, the most loyal person. The Reddit threads on Eddie Willers, if anybody's interested, are really interesting.Henry: Yes, they are, they're so good.Hollis: Clearly, Eddie recognizes greatness, and he recognizes production, and he recognizes that Dagny is better than Jim. He recognizes Galt. They've been having these conversations for 12 years in the cafeteria. Every time he goes to the cafeteria, he's like, "Where's my friend, where's my friend?" When his friend disappears, but he also tells Galt a few things about Dagny that are personal and private. When everybody in the world, all the great people in the world, this is a big spoiler, go to Galt's Gulch at the end.Henry: He's not there.Hollis: He doesn't get to go. Is it because of the compromises he made along the way? Rand had the power to reward everybody. Hank's secretary gets to go, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: She's gone throughout the whole thing.Henry: Eddie never thinks for himself. I think that's the-- He's a very, I think, maybe one of the more tragic victims of the whole thing because-- sorry. In a way, because, Cherryl and the Wet Nurse, they try and do the right thing and they end up dying. That's like a more normal tragedy in the sense that they made a mistake. At the moment of realization, they got toppled.Eddie, in a way, is more upsetting because he never makes a mistake and he never has a moment of realization. Rand is, I think this is maybe one of the cruelest parts of the book where she's almost saying, "This guy's never going to think for himself, and he hasn't got a hope." In a novel, if this was like a realistic novel, and she was saying, "Such is the cruelty of the world, what can we do for this person?" That would be one thing. In a novel that's like ending in a utopia or in a sort of utopia, it's one of the points where she's really harsh.Hollis: She's really harsh. I'd love to go and look at her notes at some point in time when I have an idle hour, which I won't, to say like, did she sit around? It's like, "What should I do with Eddie?" To have him die, probably, in the desert with a broken down Taggart transcontinental engine, screaming in terror and crying.Henry: Even at that stage, he can't think for himself and see that the system isn't worth supporting.Hollis: Right. He's just going to be a company man to the end.Henry: It's as cruel as those fables we tell children, like the grasshopper and the ants. He will freeze to death in the winter. There's nothing you can do about it. There are times when she gets really, really tough. I think is why people hate her.Hollis: We were talking about this, about Dickens and minor characters and coming to redemption and Dickens, except Jo. Jo and Jo All Alones, there are people who have redemption and die. Again, I don't know.Henry: There's Cherryl and the Wet Nurse are like Jo. They're tragic victims of the system. She's doing it to say, "Look how bad this is. Look how bad things are." To me, Eddie is more like Mr. Micawber. He's hopeless. It's a little bit comic. It's not a bad thing. Whereas Dickens, at the end, will just say, "Oh, screw the integrity of the plot and the morals. Let's just let Mr. Micawber-- let's find a way out for him." Everyone wants this guy to do well. Rand is like, "No, I'm sticking to my principles. He's dead in the desert, man. He's going to he's going to burn to death." He's like, "Wow, that's okay."Hollis: The funny thing is poor John Galt doesn't even care about him. John Galt has been a bad guy. John Galt is a complicated figure. Let's spend a bit on him.Henry: Before we do that, I actually want to do a very short segment contextualizing her in the 50s because then what you say about Galt will be against this background of what are some of the other ideas in the 50s, right?Hollis: Got it.Henry: I think sometimes the Galt stuff is held up as what's wrong with this novel. When you abstract it and just say it, maybe that's an easier case to make. I think once you understand that this is 1957, she's been writing the book for what, 12 years, I think, or 15 years, the Galt speech takes her 3 years to write, I think. This is, I think the most important label we can give the novel is it's a Cold War novel. She's Russian. What she's doing, in some ways, is saying to America, "This is what will happen to us if we adopt the system of our Cold War enemies." It's like, "This is animal farm, but in America with real people with trains and energy plants and industry, no pigs. This is real life." We've had books like that in our own time. The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver said, that book said, "If the 2008 crash had actually gone really badly wrong and society collapsed, how would it go?" I think that's what she's reacting to. The year before it was published, there was a sociology book called The Organization Man.Hollis: Oh, yes. William Whyte.Henry: A great book. Everyone should read that book. He is worrying, the whole book is basically him saying, "I've surveyed all these people in corporate America. They're losing the Protestant work ethic. They're losing the entrepreneurial spirit. They're losing their individual drive. Instead of wanting to make a name for themselves and invent something and do great things," he says, "they've all got this managerial spirit. All the young men coming from college, they're like, 'Everything's been done. We just need to manage it now.'" He's like, "America is collapsing." Yes, he thinks it's this awful. Obviously, that problem got solved.That, I think, that gives some sense of why, at that moment, is Ayn Rand writing the Galt speech? Because this is the background. We're in the Cold War, and there's this looming sense of the cold, dead hand of bureaucracy and managerialism is. Other people are saying, "Actually, this might be a serious problem."Hollis: I think that's right. Thank you for bringing up Whyte. I think there's so much in the background. There's so much that she's in conversation with. There's so much about this speech, so that when you ask somebody on the street-- Again, let me say this, make the comparison again to Uncle Tom's Cabin, people go through life feeling like they know Uncle Tom's Cabin, Simon Legree, Eliza Crossing the Ice, without having ever read it.Not to name drop a bit, but when I did my annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, this big, huge book, and it got reviewed by John Updike in The New Yorker, and I was like, "This is freaking John Updike." He's like, "I never read it. I never read it." Henry Louis Gates and then whoever this young grad student was, Hollis Robbins, are writing this book, I guess I'll read it. It was interesting to me, when I talk about Uncle Tom's Cabin, "I've never read it," because it's a book you know about without reading. A lot of people know about Atlas Shrugged without having read it. I think Marc Andreessen said-- didn't he say on this podcast that he only recently read it?Henry: I was fascinated by this. He read it four years ago.Hollis: Right, during COVID.Henry: In the bibliography for the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and I assumed he was one of those people, he was like you, he'd read it as a teenager, it had been informative. No, he came to it very recently. Something's happening with this book, right?Hollis: Huge things are happening, but the people who know about it, there's certain things that you know, you know it's long, you know that the sex is perhaps not what you would have wanted. You know that there's this big, really long thing called John Galt's Speech, and that it's like the whaling chapters in Moby-Dick. People read Moby-Dick, you're like, "Oh, yes, but I skipped all the chapters on cetology." That's the thing that you say, right? The thing that you say is like, "Yes, but I skipped all the John Galt's Speech." I was very interested when we were texting over the last month or so, what you would say when you got to John Galt's Speech. As on cue, one day, I get this text and it's like, "Oh, my God, this speech is really long." I'm like, "Yes, you are the perfect reader."Henry: I was like, "Hollis, this might be where I drop out of the book."Hollis: I'm like, "Yes, you and the world, okay?" This is why you're an excellent reader of this book, because it is a frigging slog. Just because I'm having eye issues these days, I had decided instead of rereading my copy, and I do have a newer copy than this tiny print thing, I decided to listen on audiobook. It was 62 hours or whatever, it was 45 hours, because I listen at 1.4. The speech is awesome listening to it. It, at 1.4, it's not quite 3 hours. It's really good. In the last few days, I was listening to it again, okay? I really wanted to understand somebody who's such a good plotter, and somebody who really understands how to keep people's interest, why are you doing this, Rand? Why are you doing this, Ms. Rand? I love the fact that she's always called Miss. Rand, because Miss., that is a term that we

CTO Series: How Open Strategy and Agile Practices Drive Success at NorthCode With Ismo Aro   In this BONUS episode, we sit down with Ismo Aro, CTO and partner at NorthCode, to delve into the transformative power of Open Strategy in the tech world. Ismo shares his journey from corporate roles at Nokia and Ericsson to becoming a full-time entrepreneur, and he unpacks how his approach to leadership evolved with the rise of agile methodologies, test automation, and cloud transformation. This episode is packed with actionable insights for anyone looking to modernize their company's strategy and foster a culture of transparency and co-ownership. Pivotal Career Moments: From Waterfall to Agile Mindset   “When I joined the agile pilot team, it felt like discovering the way software development should always be done—release early, get feedback fast, and improve continuously.”   Ismo reflects on his early days at Nokia, where he began as a test engineer in a traditional waterfall environment. He describes how the shift to agile methodologies transformed the way teams communicated and collaborated. When he joined a pilot project for Scrum, he realized the value of fast feedback loops and early releases. This experience laid the foundation for his future focus on continuous integration and test automation.   Key Takeaway: Adopting agile frameworks can improve workflows by shortening feedback loops and promoting direct communication. The Essence of Open Strategy “Open Strategy means involving everyone in shaping the direction of the company—not just receiving updates but truly co-creating the future.”   At NorthCode, Open Strategy is a cornerstone of their operations. Ismo explains how they empower employees by making strategy-building a transparent and collaborative process. The company's structure includes a parent company and subsidiaries where employees are also co-owners. Revenue-sharing ensures that when the business succeeds, everyone benefits directly.   Key Elements of Open Strategy: Transparency: Strategy is made visible through a kanban board and KPIs accessible to all. Ownership: Subsidiary team members can own up to 80% of their company. Profit-sharing: 80% of client revenue goes to the subsidiary, and dividends are shared annually.   “By aligning incentives and opening up the strategy process, you create a culture where employees don't just work for you—they work with you.” How Open Strategy Unfolds Annually “We make ideas visible and let them evolve until they're ready for execution.”   Ismo outlines the company's approach to strategy using a high-level roadmap and clear metrics to track progress. The focus is on organic growth through subsidiaries, with a benchmark of starting a new subsidiary once a team reaches 20 people. The company also uses “business spikes”—short, low-cost experiments to test new ideas.   Practical Tip: A business spike allows you to explore an idea quickly without committing significant resources, making it easier to pivot when necessary. Navigating Challenges in Open Strategy “Some people want to co-create, while others prefer to focus on their work—and both are valid.”   Ismo acknowledges that not everyone in the organization is equally interested in strategic discussions, and that's okay. Open Strategy doesn't require everyone to participate equally—it provides opportunities for involvement at different levels. The key is fostering an environment where insights and information flow freely from the ground up, rather than top-down mandates.   Key Insight: Open Strategy thrives when participation is voluntary and inclusive, rather than forced. Measuring Success: KPIs and Transparency “We believe in showing our utilization rates openly because our people have a stake in the results.”   To measure success, NorthCode tracks KPIs such as revenue, profit, and utilization rates. Unlike traditional consulting companies that keep these metrics private, NorthCode shares them openly to build trust and foster a sense of ownership. Monthly meetings focus on tactical updates, while strategic sessions aim to inspire employees to contribute ideas for the company's future.   Fun Practice: The “nightmare competitor” exercise encourages the team to imagine an ideal competitor and then adopt some of their hypothetical best practices into NorthCode's strategy.   “When people can see the metrics that matter, they're more motivated to take ownership of their impact.” Inspiration from Open Strategy and Business Agility “We take concepts from corporate books and tailor them to fit our context as a growing, agile company.” Ismo cites two key books that shaped his thinking: Open Strategy and The 6 Enablers of Business Agility. However, he emphasizes the importance of adapting corporate-level concepts to suit smaller, more agile organizations. He believes that while agile is mainstream in software development, many companies remain rigid in their overall strategy.   Recommended Reads: Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite by Stadler et al. The 6 Enablers of Business Agility by Harbott   Key Reflection: Ismo's approach underscores the importance of agility not just in software but in company operations and strategy-making.   Final Tip: Embrace modern tools like Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline workflows—but remember, they enhance your work, not replace it.   About Ismo Aro Ismo Aro is the CTO and partner at NorthCode, specializing in software development and workflow modernization. With experience at Nokia and Ericsson, he has held various roles, from test engineer to entrepreneur. Ismo co-founded NorthCode after selling a previous company and also served as Chairman of the Robot Framework Foundation, contributing to the growth of the widely used open-source test automation framework.   You can link with Ismo Aro on LinkedIn.

Wegen hängigen Beschwerden von Naturschutzverbänden durften einige Wölfe im Kanton Graubünden nicht geschossen werden. Jetzt ziehen die Verbände die Beschwerden zurück, denn ab dem 1. Februar gilt die neue Jagdverordnung. Weitere Themen: · Gefangener in Strafanstalt Saxerriet tot aufgefunden worden. · Stadler hebt Kurzarbeit im Werk Altenrhein für rund 120 Angestellte auf. · Xherdan Shaqiri steigt beim FC Rapperswil-Jona als Minderheitsaktionär ein. · SC Brühl wird mit dem «Spirit of Football Award» ausgezeichnet.

Als Impulsgeberin für Business Excellence und Zukunftsfähigkeit stehe ich für echte Transformation. Ich bringe Menschen, Organisationen und Digitalisierung in Balance – und setze gezielte Impulse, die Unternehmen nachhaltig verändern. Mein einzigartiger 360°-Ansatz verbindet alle Facetten eines Unternehmens zu einem klaren Gesamtbild. Gemeinsam schaffen wir Strukturen, die im Alltag exzellent und in Krisenzeiten stabil und richtungsweisend sind. Dabei greife ich auf fundierte Methoden aus Wirtschaftspsychologie, Management, Organisationsentwicklung und IT zurück. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wenn der Stofferl mal zum Erzählen anfängt, dann reicht eine Wellmusik-Sendung nicht aus! Drumlässt er sich nochmalvon Katrin Stadler fragen: zu seiner Zeit mit der Biermösl-Blosn z.B. und zur Schulzeit. Und musiziert wird freilich auch!

Kata, Mira und Sarah sind junge Frauen, die einander kennen und in der gleichen Stadt wohnen. Kata ist als Pflegeschwester in Miras Familie aufgewachsen. Sarah ist eine Freundin seit der Kindheit. Sie trennt sich von ihrem Freund Elias und zieht in einen stillgelegten, leeren Krankenhaustrakt. Von Markus Brügge.

In episode 167 of The Johnny Rogers Show, I sit down with comedian and TV writer Olivia Stadler. Olivia is known for her work on the award-winning Crave original show Letterkenny and for her sharp, unapologetic comedy that has earned her appearances on Roast Battle Canada and nominations for Breakout Comic of the Year. Her word for this episode was "Languishing," inspired by her realization of what she thought was convalescing. We dive into Olivia's journey, from writing for Letterkenny and touring with Letterkenny Presents, to balancing comedy with content creation and dealing with online feedback. We also explore her ability to see the downside of self-help advice and the advice she'd give her younger self. Don't miss this insightful and hilarious conversation! Watch now and subscribe for more! - 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 00:53 Olivia's Unique Interview Style 04:59 Starting a Comedy Career 08:24 Challenges and Reflections in Comedy 14:04 Writing for Letterkenny 17:32 Navigating Social Media and Personal Branding 22:22 Exploring the Concept of Negativity 23:15 Finding the Right Medium for Content 23:58 Adapting Content for Different Platforms 27:40 Dealing with Online Criticism 28:21 The Power of Not Giving a F*ck 37:15 Advice to My Younger Self 39:58 Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spotf.fi/0thQQGN or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3ZkNUFv - If you enjoyed today's guest, be sure to reach out and let them know: - Reach out in the comments below or find me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight

Kath-Akademie Archiv: „Jan Wagner zu Gast bei Albert von Schirnding“ (Hördauer: 95 Minuten) Schon lange war Jan Wagner für den sommerlichen Literaturabend der Katholischen Akademie in Bayern 2015 eingeladen. Dann kam im Frühjahr des Jahres 2015 die Auszeichnung mit dem renommierten Literaturpreis der Leipziger Buchmesse für seinen Gedichtband „Regentonnenvariationen“. Diese außergewöhnliche Ehrung – erstmals für einen Lyriker – brachte für die Akademie große Freude. Bereits das Erstlingswerk dieses 1971 in Hamburg geborenen und in Berlin lebenden Lyrikers „Probebohrungen im Himmel“ (2001) ließ aufhorchen, und alle weiteren Gedichtbände – „Guerickes Sperling“ (2004), „Australien“ (2010), „Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern“ (2012) – sorgten beim Fachpublikum für Aufsehen. Eine Fülle von Stipendien belegen dies, beispielsweise das Stipendium der Deutschen Akademie Villa Massimo (2011) und zuletzt der Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Stiftung (2014). Hinzu kommen hochkarätige Auszeichnungen wie der Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis (2011), der Eduard-Mörike-Preis (2014) und der Georg-Büchner-Preis (2017). Jan Wagner, der auch als Übersetzer englischsprachiger Lyrik und Verfasser zahlreicher Essays hervorgetreten ist, ist u.a. Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste sowie der Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz. Längst wird er auch international geschätzt. Gedichte von ihm sind mittlerweile in rund 30 Sprachen übersetzt. Der Erfolg ruft neuerdings sogar Kritiker auf den Plan. Wie populär dürfen Gedichte sein? Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, dann mögen Sie vielleicht auch diesen.   Hörbahn on Stage - live in Schwabing  Literatur und Ihre Autor*innen im Gespräch - besuchen Sie uns! Katholische Akademie in BayernKardinal Wendel HausMandlstraße 23, 80802 München Realisation Uwe Kullnick

In der "Puppenstube" von Gertraud Stadler drängen sich Puppen, Bären und Marionetten. Die Münchnerin verkauft die Einzelstücke nicht nur, hier werden auch kaputte Lieblinge repariert. Mit viel Liebe fürs Detail. Im Ratsch mit Bettina Ahne erzählt Gertraud Stadler von ihren "Patienten".

Unwetter in Valencia überfluten Stadler Rail-Werkstätten. Mitarbeitende könnten wegen gesperrter Strassen nicht zur Arbeit, sagt Verwaltungsratspräsident Peter Spuhler. Zulieferer sind ebenfalls betroffen. Für das laufende Geschäftsjahr korrigiert Stadler seine Prognose deshalb nach unten. SMI: +0.7%

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DEUTZ AG CMD 2024: Key Takeaways In this pivotal segment of DEUTZ AG's Capital Market Day, CEO Sebastian Schulte unveils the company's Solutions business, which underscores DEUTZ's commitment to future growth and innovation. The Solutions business represents a strategic shift, moving beyond just engines and services to offering comprehensive solutions that span the entire value chain. This approach repositions DEUTZ as an integrator rather than a traditional tier-one supplier and is structured into two core areas: New Technology Offerings and the Energy Business. New Technology OfferingsBart van Hustel, Head of the New Technology Unit, presents DEUTZ's cutting-edge portfolio of e-products and hydrogen (H2) engines. The e-products line includes two types of batteries, LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt), alongside 360-volt power systems designed for applications such as compressors, pumps, and ground support equipment. DEUTZ's retrofit solutions allow customers to transition from diesel to electric power systems, significantly reducing carbon emissions. On the hydrogen front, DEUTZ's 7.8-litre H2 engine, which builds on its diesel counterpart, has proven successful in rail and genset applications. Projects like the Stadler hydrogen-powered train and DEUTZ's hydrogen engines in Beijing demonstrate the company's strategic alignment with future energy trends, instilling confidence in the viability of its hydrogen technology. Energy BusinessSebastian Schulte emphasizes the immense growth potential within the energy business, driven by the increasing global demand for decentralized energy solutions. This demand is particularly strong in the US, where grid instability, extreme weather events, and underinvestment in infrastructure are creating significant opportunities for reliable power systems. The recent acquisition of Blue Star Power Systems, a mid-sized manufacturer of gensets ranging from 20kW to 2MW, is a strategic move that strengthens DEUTZ's foothold in this burgeoning market. Blue Star primarily serves the North American market, but DEUTZ plans to expand its reach globally. Blue Star and Growth PotentialDavid Evans, Head of DEUTZ's Americas and Energy business, highlights Blue Star's strengths in customizing solutions and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. By leveraging DEUTZ's brand, global reach, and financial resources, the company plans to significantly grow Blue Star's market presence in North America and beyond, unlocking new revenue streams and enhancing its competitive edge. ▶️ Other videos: Elevator Pitch: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-elevator-pitch/ Company Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-company-presentation/ Deep Dive Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-deep-dive/ Financial Results Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-financial-results/ ESG Presentation: https://seat11a.com/investor-relations-esg/ ================================= T&C This publication is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. By using this website, you agree to our terms and conditions outlined on www.seat11a.com/legal and www.seat11a.com/imprint.

On today's ID the Future out of the vault, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, an episode of the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. Tune in to learn more! Source

Se realizaron 4 transferencias a 3 cuentas distintas, según denunció la intendenta y la tesorera. No hay imputados aún y se bloquearon las cuentas sospechosas. Otro municipio pampeano sufrió un hackeo de su cuenta y fue estafado en una suma de 24 millones de pesos. Se trata de la comuna de Colonia Barón, que detectó cuatro transferencias a 3 cuentas destino diferentes, según denunció la intendenta, Mónica Stadler, y la tesorera municipal en la Comisaría local. La semana pasada una situación similar atravesó la Municipalidad de Santa Isabel. Según la presentación, las transferencias se realizaron entre el 25 y 29 de octubre del corriente año y ahora investigan la Fiscalía de Delitos Económicos de la Segunda Circunscripción Judicial, a cargo del fiscal adjunto Matías Juan, junto a la comisaría departamental de Colonia Barón, comandada por el Comisario Carlos Villegas.

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En Mañanas Urbanas hablamos con el referente de comunidad organizada en el partido de Puan, el ex concejal de uxp se refiere a un proyecto que presentaron en el concejo deliberantes por medio de los concejales de uxp para eximir de varias tasas municipales a jubilados municipales ante la falta de aumentos de sus haberes y la situación económica.

Die Aktie von Stadler Rail verliert seit dem Börsengang fast 40 Prozent – trotz vieler gewonnener Aufträge. Den Grund sieht Bank Vontobel-Analyst Michael Foeth darin, dass Stadler nicht bewiesen habe, das hohe Auftragsvolumen in Gewinne und dann in Dividenden umwandeln zu können. SMI: +0.4%

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are once again live from Castle Pines Golf Club - this time from the 18th green - on the eve of the BMW Championship, and are joined by both Sepp Straka and Craig Stadler to break down all the FedEx Cup action ahead. We begin with a full breakdown of a course we've not seen on the PGA TOUR since 2006, and all of the elevation and weather factors that will come into play in terms of judging yardages this week in Colorado. SK and CH are then joined for a wide-ranging interview with Sepp Straka, covering everything from whether a hole-in-one on a par three course counts, to Sepp's affinity for Taylor Swift. 1982 Masters champion (and Denver resident) Craig Stadler then joins to discuss his history playing at Castle Pines 17 times while on Tour. And finally, we close out the show with our one-and-done picks for the BMW Championship.

Den ausländischen Fans und Besuchern der Fußballeuropameisterschaft ist es auch schon aufgefallen: Das deutsche Bahnnetz ist unzuverlässig, die Züge fahren nicht pünktlich und manchmal gar nicht. Aus Sicht von Jure Mikolcic, der den Schienenfahrzeughersteller Stadler Deutschland leitet, ist das ein Problem, das sich seit langem abzeichnet. „Wir haben seit vielen, vielen Jahren einen Investitionsstau“, sagt Mikolcic im Podcast „Die Stunde Null“. Zudem seien die Investitionen für die Industrie nur schwer absehbar: „Wir müssen planen können, bis wann wie viele Fahrzeuge benötigt werden. Ich muss Fachkräfte einstellen, ich muss ausbilden, ich muss rekrutieren. Wir können als Industrie nicht jeden Bedarf innerhalb kürzester Zeit decken.“ Als Gegenmittel schlägt Mikolcic, der auch Vizepräsident im Verband der Bahnindustrie Deutschland ist, einen Investitionsfonds vor, wie er in der Schweiz genutzt wird – dem Heimatland des Mutterkonzerns Stadler. „Man muss sich klar machen, dass in der Schweiz pro Kopf fünf- bis sechsmal so viel für die Schiene ausgegeben wird wie in Deutschland“, sagt Mikolcic. „Das heißt also: Die Schweizer wollen das Produkt nutzen, sie sind bereit zu investieren, und sie haben sich überlegt, was die pfiffigste Art und Weise ist das zu tun.“ // Weitere Themen: Bringen die Wahlen in Frankreich auch die Wirtschaft in die Bredouille? +++Eine Produktion der Audio Alliance.Hosts: Nils Kreimeier und Martin Kaelble.Redaktion: Lucile Gagnière.Produktion: Andolin Sonnen. +++Weitere Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/diestundenull +++60 Tage lang kostenlos Capital+ lesen - Zugriff auf alle digitalen Artikel, Inhalte aus dem Heft und das ePaper. Unter Capital.de/plus-gratis +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

The gang are joined by Player Profiler's Bradley Stadler to play a little used car salesman. In Everything and Nothing w/ Allie, Bill Belichick and his smoke show girlfriend come up, and the group discusses how it all came together. Ryan has some recent dynasty trades he needs validation for, and we draft our favorite (non alcoholic) beverages. 

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Media meets with Mercer, Stadler, and Brenczewski to preview home series vs. Penn State. By Carl James @jovian34 April 11th, 2024 Coming off a huge series win at Maryland, Indiana is preparing for the stretch run as it attempts to return to the postseason. With the injury to junior catcher/first baseman Brock Tibbits, catcher Jake Stadler and first baseman Joey Brenczewski are in the lineup every day and both had a great weekend in College Park. On Wednesday the media met with head coach Jeff Mercer, Stadler and Brenczewski. Indiana Welcomes Penn State to Bloomington starting at 6pm Friday. See you at the Bart! YouTube: Audio:

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Sporting Kansas City got its 3rd draw in a row to start the season after an entertaining 0-0 final in Los Angeles where the score line did not accurately tell the story as to how the match was played.  It was a very up and down affair as often happens when these clubs meet, and likely was a fun one for neutrals to watch. That said, Sporting KC's performance produced a familiar refrain from previous matches:  The ball progression was good, and often beautiful to watch, but too often the quality of shots created were either at too long of a distance or with too many opponents in between the shooter and the goal.  This led to a fairly low xG output for the 3rd straight game even if some of those shots were of better quality than could typically be expected. Memo Rodriguez made his debut in place of Remi Walter who appears to still be recovering from the hard tackle he took against Philly.  Opinions were mixed on his performance, but I think he showed the quality that we've been yearning for from deeper positions on the roster and we'll look a bit further into how he fits with the team and what talents he can bring to the table. Finally - in Potpourri we have updates on both US National Teams, as well as the KC Current christening their new stadium this weekend. Music by The Spin Wires

Audible Bleeding editor Wen (@WenKawaji) is joined by 3rd year general surgery resident Ryan Ellis discussing robotic vascular surgery with Dr. Judith Lin (@JudithLin4) and Dr. Petr Stadler. Dr. Lin and Dr. Stadler will share their personal journey in robotic vascular surgery, cases they have done, and what think the future looks like.  This is part one of our robotic vascular series. Our next episode will feature Dr. Lumsden and Dr. Bavare from Houston Methodist.  Show Guests: Dr. Judith Lin: professor and chief of vascular surgery in the Department of Surgery at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine Dr. Petr Stadler: Professor of Surgery, Head of Vascular Surgery Department, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic Follow us @audiblebleeding Learn more about us at https://www.audiblebleeding.com/about-1/ and provide us with your feedback with our listener survey.  

Media meets with Tibbitts, Stadler, and Mercer after 8-1 loss to Troy at the Bart By Carl James @jovian34 March 9th, 2024 The Indiana University Baseball team dropped the opener of the Troy series Saturday by a score of 8-1. The Hoosiers struggled against Trojan pitcher Luke Lyon getting only 5 hits on the day. The only Hoosier run was a lead-off homer off the bat of Nick Mitchell. The only multi-hit contributor was Brock Tibbitts, and other two hits came from catcher Jake Stadler and DH Andrew Wiggins. Stadler, Tibbitts, and head coach Jeff Mercer met with the media following the game. Brock Tibbitts and Jake Stadler Video: Audio:

Today I am talking with seasoned homemaker, LeAnne Stadler, about her experience of keeping a home for 27 years. LeAnne and her husband, Eric, have 6 children and have fostered over 40! In her homemaking journey LeAnne has navigated her children's special needs, her own chronic illness, adopting 2 foster kids and the recent loss of her 23 year old son. Through it all, God has shown LeAnne His faithfulness. She says, “Sometimes He's very quiet, but I know He's still there because He's never failed me.”The Stadler family has recently launched a small elderberry farm called Titus Grove in N.Central Ohio. They are founded on Faith & desire to bring Glory to God in all they do. You can follow along on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube as they learn the ins & outs, victories & defeats & all that is to come on the Grove. I will link all of the places you can connect with LeAnne in the show notes, so be sure to check that out.EPISODE NOTESConnect with LeAnne| Blog | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook Show Notes | theartofhomepodcast.com/blogHOMEMAKING RESOURCESFree Weekly Newsletter, Homemaker Happy MailNewsletter ArchiveAudio Newsletter available to Titus 2 Woman monthly supportersSUPPORT & CONNECT Review | Love The Podcast Contact  | Voicemail |Instagram | Facebook  |  Website | Email  Follow | Follow The PodcastSupport | theartofhomepodcast.com/supportSupport the show

Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Gründerin des Wiener Instituts für Soziale Ökologie, zur Frage des sozialen Metabolismus.   Shownotes Marina Fischer- Kowalski an der Universität für Bodenkultur wien: https://boku.ac.at/wiso/sec/personen/fischer-kowalski-marina Fischer-Kowalski, Marina & Krausmann, Fridolin & Pichler, Peter-Paul & Schaeffer, Robert & Stadler, Stefan. (2023). Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500-2013. Energy Research & Social Science. 105. 103280. 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103280.  (englisch, PDF.): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623003407/pdfft?md5=43dc8d97f1edaf1d67afa6c1bf71abcc&pid=1-s2.0-S2214629623003407-main.pdf Institut für Soziale Ökologie Wien (Homepage): https://boku.ac.at/wiso/sec Fischer-Kowalski, Marina und Schaffartzik, Anke. 2007. Arbeit, gesellschaftlicher Stoffwechsel und nachhaltige Entwicklung. Wien: Social Ecology Working Paper 97: https://boku.ac.at/fileadmin/data/H03000/H73000/H73700/Publikationen/Working_Papers/WP97_Web.pdf Fischer-Kowalski, Marina. 1998. Society's Metabolism: The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part I, 1860– 1970 (PDF):

The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by Olivia Stadler, who is a writier on Letterkenny and also plays Olive.

Today we have the great joy of speaking with Brooke Stadler, a former Department of Defense Education Activities (or DODEA) teacher. She was a 2nd grade teacher in the school system for military children in Germany. While in Germany during the Covid craze, Brooke refused the Covid shots due to her religious beliefs, and ultimately was forced to resign from her teaching position.  Since being forced out of DODEA, she has started her own homeschool tutoring business, and has recently published her own children's book. We speak about her experience in Germany, the fraud, waste and abuse within DODEA, if she would recommend the DODEA schools, and how her faith was strengthened through these very hard couple of years. Brooke's Against the Flow Tutoring: https://www.againsttheflowtutoring.com “Brisa's Day Out: Colorado” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brisas-Day-Out-Denver-Colorado/dp/B0CKK5N38X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GGLJF7Z17KF6&keywords=brisa%27s+day+out&qid=1704684823&sprefix=brisa%27s+d%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1 To buy an autographed copy of Brooke's book: https://forms.gle/YosKQtkYWLpoXk7p7 DODEA America's Chief of Staff Arrested for Human Trafficking:  https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/11/22/dodea-americas-chief-of-staff-arrested-human-trafficking-sting-operation-georgia.html https://www.foxnews.com/us/pentagon-official-overseeing-federal-schools-arrested-georgia-human-trafficking-sting

This month's Q&A episode features questions on ancient festivals, food, human sacrifice, and marriage and incest in ancient Egypt. Episode Notes* Food* The Pharaoh's Kitchen, by Madga Mehdawy* Ikram, Salima. 1995. Choice Cuts : Meat Production in Ancient Egypt. Leuven: Peeters.* Ancient Egyptian Festivals * Coppens, F. 2009. Temple Festivals of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.* Stadler, M. 2008. Procession. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.* Beverages* Ancient Egyptian Beer * Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer* Dr. Amr Shahat's paleobotany work* Listen to Dr. Rose Campbell's episode on human sacrifice on Substack at the links below or on Apple Podcasts (Part I and Part II) or Spotify (Part I and Part II):* Campbell, Roselyn. 2023. “Hidden Violence: Reassessing Violence and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt,” in Danielle Candelora, Nadia Ben-Marzouk, & Kathlyn M. Cooney (eds.) Ancient Egyptian Society : Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. Purchase!* Reception of Ancient Egypt - P. Djèlí Clark's books* Marriage and incest in the ancient world* Ager, Sheila L. 2021. “Royal brother-sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise,” in Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge companion to women and monarchy in the ancient Mediterranean world, 346-358. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.* Robinson, Joanne-Marie. 2020. "Blood is thicker than water": non-royal consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt. An exploration of economic and biological outcomes. Archaeopress Egyptology 29. Oxford: Archaeopress. Get full access to Ancient/Now at ancientnow.substack.com/subscribe

Strategic Insights are everywhere, but they often go unnoticed by leaders. How can leaders of organizations harness the ideas around them by opening up their strategic planning process?Christian Stadler is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Warwick Business School and the author of the books Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite (Management on the Cutting Edge), Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations, and the German book Krieg. Christian and Greg discuss the challenges of idea generation in established companies and champion mid-sized businesses for their ability to introduce fresh perspectives. Christian explains Open Strategy: promoting a culture of openness, reshuffling within an organization, and creating unexpected connections, all geared towards fostering an environment that thrives on change. They also take a look at how academia and organizations can build open environments that encourage lifelong learning and innovation.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:How much of our business idea should we share with other people?30:38: You can control what you share and what you do not share when you open up, and try to get input from people. If it comes to that lot of details of formulating a strategy, then you probably have to reveal more. But for this, you can have a much more controlled setting where you bring people in who sign non-disclosure agreements, and then it's much more similar to what the consultant typically would do in this space. So here, you can contain that. If you talk about idea generation, you don't need to tell people much in order to get their ideas, and you don't need to share that much afterwards what you do with that information either.New ideas thrive even in stable environments47:25: Even if you have a stable environment, it doesn't prevent you from bringing in ideas on some dimensions, be it new product ideas, new markets, or opportunities where you can still engage larger groups of people in this. There are more opportunities when there's more radical change on the horizon.Who do you communicate ideas and problems in companies?23:33: Some companies develop this online culture where people constantly comment on things. To keep it alive, the top leadership needs to be visible in this space as well. And you need to have strong moderation. So, the illusion that this is somehow making less work and you can almost outsource this to somebody else is an illusion. You need somebody who sits on top of this, who moderates, who filters out things. There's crowdsourcing tools as well that can help you with this.Is it harder to generate new ideas in large companies?16:32: The other big problem you have in large companies, in particular, is silo thinking, where you have departments duplicating work and not talking to each other, where just being able to connect different departments sometimes would lead to this recombination of knowledge, which is a main kind of mechanism to create new ideas. But it's hard to do in large organizations.Show Links:Recommended Resources:VUCAMichael PorterHow CEOs Manage TimeInnovative Medical Products, Inc.Centre for European ReformInside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill GatesAdam M. Kleinbaum ArticlesThe Rise of AI-Powered CompaniesGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at Warwick Business SchoolProfessional Profile on Winthrop GroupChristian Stadler's WebsiteChristian Stadler on LinkedInChristian Stadler on XChristian Stadler on YoutubeHis Work:Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-SuiteEnduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding CorporationsGoogle Scholar ArticlesForbes Articles

This episode provides a critical look at the disparities in cancer care across the United States, the role of accurate diagnoses, and the potential of community-based oncologists in reducing costs and improving outcomes. My guest, Mark Stadler sheds light on AccessHope's proactive approach to identifying patients in need and working with large employers to provide optimal care. My discussion with Mark also highlights the crucial role of innovation in healthcare service delivery and the potential of technology in creating more effective solutions for healthcare access. Support the showHost David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Produced by Dafna Williams.

From an early age, Katie Stadler's heart was drawn to the vulnerable. Step by step, God led her into opportunities to advocate for kids, the orphan, the disadvantaged, and the displaced – both in the US and Ukraine. While your story may not look exactly like Katie's, the call to fully depend on and follow God wherever He leads is a privilege you don't want to overlook. To find out more about our community or how to get involved in the Fort Worth area (Tarrant, Parker, & Johnson County locations), visit us online at www.ccbcfamily.org/women or find us on Instagram @christchapelwomen. Also, feel free to contact today's guests with any encouragement or questions:  Katie Stadler at katiestadler@behumankindness.org or Camille Adams at camillea@christchapelbc.org. Also, find the organization Katie referenced, Be Human Kindness, at www.behumankindness.org.

On today's ID the Future, scientist and Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson examine a recent PNAS paper on origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.” A superficial look at the paper—and the paper's title in particular—might give the impression that the laboratory findings behind the paper render the blind evolution of the first self-replicating biological system appreciably more plausible. Not so fast, says Stadler. Listen in as he and Anderson highlight various ways the laboratory work in question is wildly unrealistic. And for a video exploring the many problems involved in blindly evolving the first self-replicator, check out a new Long Story Short animated YouTube video, created with input from Read More › Source

April is Earth Month, which makes this the perfect time to talk about the environment and climate change. Justice and democracy are so important, and we can't stop talking about them, but at the end of the day, we all need a planet to live on if we want that justice and democracy to thrive. So this week, Rachel and Jasmine are joined by guest host Malynda Hale to discuss the news, climate change, and why talking to our friends – and our elected representatives – about our values is so important.We're joined by Felice Stadler, the Vice President of Government Affairs with the Audubon Society. Felice shares why she's made a career out of working for climate justice, the overlaps between bird conservation and environmentalism, and why suburban women are the perfect people to get loud about Mother Earth.And after that, Jasmine has an amazing chat with Nivi Achanta, the founder of The Soapbox Project, a newsletter and media platform that helps busy people take action on climate change. It can be hard to know where to start on an issue as big as climate change, but Nivi's newsletter breaks it into bite-sized pieces that anyone can do. She and Jasmine also talk about the really important concept of the Values/Perception Gap. Basically, most of us walk through life thinking that we're the only one who cares about the climate, social justice, or our communities. But research shows that actually, most people do care! So don't be afraid to start a conversation about the climate… chances are, you have more in common with others than you think.Finally, Rachel, Malynda and Jasmine raise a glass to finished projects, New Orleans and meeting other elected officials, and finding connections beyond politics in this episode's “Toast to Joy.”It's hard to believe, but we're almost at 100 episodes of The Suburban Women Problem! So to celebrate, we're hosting a live virtual event with our very first guest, rockstar historian Heather Cox Richardson. The event will be happening on Monday May 15th and you can purchase pre-sale tickets here.For a transcript of this episode, please email theswppod@redwine.blue. You can learn more about us at www.redwine.blue or follow us on social media! Twitter: @TheSWPpod and @RedWineBlueUSA Instagram: @RedWineBlueUSA Facebook: @RedWineBlueUSA YouTube: @RedWineBlueUSA