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The sharing economy can be a platform for keeping products in circulation and out of landfills until they are no longer usable and must be recycled. If we can get more uses out of things we currently throw away, we can reduce the need to extract raw materials from the Earth. Meet a pioneer in sharing, Daan Weddenpohl, founder and CEO of Peerby, an innovative Dutch platform at the forefront of the sharing economy. Peerby connects people within neighborhoods and communities, enabling them to share items that would otherwise remain underused, such as household tools, appliances, and recreational equipment. Peerby promotes sustainable consumption by reducing the demand for new products and fosters social connections among community members. Daan launched Peerby with the belief that shared resources and connected communities could make a significant positive impact on the environment, economy, and society at large. Peerby has grown into a platform that addresses the local challenge that underlies global over-consumption and waste. We delve into Peerby's service, the challenges and opportunities of the sharing economy, and Daan's insights on the future of sustainable living and community-focused innovation. Daan describes his goal for Peerby as making it a Netflix for stuff, and the question is whether the digital infrastructure can help make physical assets as widely available at low cost as Netflix has made movies and television shows. To do so, we must first virtualize the physical economy, and we've heard from organizations like GS1 and TCO that they are working to launch product passports that document where products are manufactured, how the raw materials are sourced, and the distribution networks that deliver them to the consumer. Once we document product lifecycles, it is possible to manage their use, reuse, and even recycle them when they become unusable to reduce the extraction of raw materials and the carbon impact of the things that support our lives. But it takes an essential first step, the choice by people in their homes and workplaces to make what they have last longer, to share items like a drill or a truck to minimize the surplus inventories of material goods that have come to define consumerism in the 21st Century. You can learn more about Peerby at https://www.peerby.com/

In this special Spotlight interview focusing on an important milestone in academia, Drs. Marco Pasi and Wouter Hanegraaff share their thoughts and opinions as they reflect back on 25 years of work at the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophies and Related Currents, otherwise known as the HHP Centre, at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Centre was established in 1999, and has had an enormous impact on the development of the study of esotericism in the academy.Former director Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff opens by giving a background of the Centre - what led to its foundation, who founded it, the inspiration for it, and his role in the Centre. Current director Dr. Marco Pasi continues by sharing his own history with the Centre and the present-day activities, and both share their insights regarding the achievements and challenges the Centre has experienced in the past 25 years.Congratulations to all those involved in the formation of and contribution to this esteemed group!Many thanks to both gentlemen for their time and collaboration.This video was produced by Stephanie Shea of Rejected Religion in collaboration with the HHP Centre. For more information about the Centre and its activities, please visit the website - https://www.amsterdamhermetica.nl/.Theme music: Stephanie SheaCopyright September 2024

Part 1 is devoted to the UEFA club competition qualifying rounds. There's penalty pandemonium in Poland and theNetherlands, an amazing achievement for Armenians Noah and a trio of clubs on the verge of becoming the first representatives from Andorra, Northern Ireland & Wales to reach a continental group. There's also a word for the biggest and shortest European away days of the summer, football's huge carbon footprint and two clubs with close links to the political leaders of their countries: Puskás Akadémia of Hungary & Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih of Ukraine.In Part 2, we turn our attentions to continental competitions in Africa, Asia & the Caribbean. We hear about Djiboutian club Arta Solar 7 in the CAF Champions League preliminaries and their takeover by a solar power company, find out whether Paul Watson will abscond to the Maldives to take charge of AFC Challenge League participants Maziya and learn why Haitian club America des Cayes did not turn up in Curacao for the CFU Caribbean Shield. There are also shirt giveaways for Village Superstars of St. Kitts & Nevis & the Chagos Islands national team.As per usual, you can join us for our next bonus episode if you don't want to wait until Wednesday 4 September for another pod. That episode will be out on Wednesday 28 August and will take in some stories from the Nordic nations, including a collapsed goal and a blow torch in Iceland, an island club triumphing in the Danish Cup and the Swedish club with the most youth teams in Europe. We will also be sharing our own personal football bucket lists and telling you about an upcoming Q&A session for patrons on our Discord server.RUNNING ORDER:00:00 – Intro00:51 – UEFA qualifiers: Penalty pandemonium07:32 – UEFA qualifiers: History-making hopefuls11:11 – UEFA qualifiers: Epic away days15:51 – UEFA qualifiers: Supportive statesmen21:02 – San Marino & Nauru competition winners22:38 – Africa: The space and weapons derbies30:34 – Asia: Coaching vacancy in the Maldives36:48 – Caribbean: America des Cayes' no-show39:35 – St. Kitts & Nevis and Chagos Islands giveawaysJoin Sangalo's mailing list at the bottom of the homepage to enter the Village Superstars shirt competition: www.sangalo.com.Get yourself a Surprise Shirts mystery box at www.surpriseshirts.co.uk.

It has been almost 80 years since the Netherlands was liberated following 5 years ofGerman occupation. During this time, the population was brutally suppressed, jewsand other groups were deported and murdered as war raged across Europe. CampWesterbork was used as a deportation camp by Nazi Germany during this time.In this episode of Remembering Together, British Deputy Ambassador to theNetherlands, Keith Allan, visited camp Westerbork. He was joined by Bertien Minco,the Director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre, who shared impactful andharrowing stories of people and families who were placed in camp Westerbork.Find out more about the Holocaust here - https://www.hmd.org.uk/ Find out more about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance here - https://holocaustremembrance.com/Original music from Auri Forda

In this episode of Flourish in the Foreign, Shea shares her story of moving to the Netherlands with her young son and her decision to stay for 20 years.   This Episode Covers: Moving to Amsterdam Raising a Black son in The Netherlands Finding A Job in Amsterdam Dutch Work Culture International Schooling in Amsterdam Dutch Healthcare System And Much More!   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Like this episode? Love the podcast? Please Buy Me a Coffee Ask Me Anything!  Join the Newsletter Check out these resources: Moving Abroad with Intention Guide Move Abroad with Intention Course Build a Business Abroad Guide The Maverick Show   *Affiliate links support this podcast and website at no extra cost to you! I appreciate your support! Flourishintheforeign.com ChristineJob.com

Embark on an eclectic musical journey around the world as we enjoy a variety of tunes from countries including Benin, Mexico, Croatia, Wales, Egypt, and more! There's a little something for everyone to enjoy.

As the cocaine trade continues to evolve and the suppliers expand their theater of operations, Europe is increasingly becoming a hub for major cocaine trafficking. From Spain to the Netherlands, ports are under assault by cartels and drug traffickers and the result is an avalanche of cocaine hitting the streets all over Europe. (commercial at 7:43)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-turns-into-cocaine-hub-multi-billion-euro-market-expands-eu-says-2022-05-06/

The ENA Podcast welcomes two of the association's international trailblazers - ENA Board member Joop Breuer from the Netherlands and incoming board member Vanessa Gorman from Australia - to discuss ENA's global reach, emergency nursing in their respective countries and the COVID-19 pandemic outside the United States.

Tell the night manager at the club you know “The Pringles Guy” (be sure you don't hold back either…especially if folks get “rowdy”), prepare for some “Fuun” and “please hold…”, because it's time to JOIN US from our 33rd Floor I.U.B.P. Studios as we traverse the WORLD partaking of Metal from locations hither and yon, near, and far. Metal Nerdery Salutes:   METAL WORLDWIDE!   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode   Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter   Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com   Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify   Show Notes: (00:01) - #flutefitness #tantrickegels and #thesoundofmoistness / The feeling of #Autumn and some well done #wolfsteak inside a #seventies #stonermetal #conversionvan #wolfvan / #totalcrockofshitASMR / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #thisepisode #beeroftheepisode #Thisone #CaptainLawrenceBrewingCompany #AutumnBlaze #hunkachunka #pumpkinell or #pumpkinale #pumpkinspice #pumpkinjizz #tasteit #andthereitis #CaptainBrewingLawrenceCompany   (04:05) – A #MetalNerderyPodcast #WorldTour of #Metal throughout the #World and or #Earthiverse (multiple #cunttrees and also #countries but mostly #cunttrees) / ***IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE US A VOICE MAIL, GIVE US A CALL AT 980-666-8182!!!***  #thatsnotit / A #muchly #longwinded recollection of a night that Russell got to #pretend to be at #TheOasis #adultentertainment #emporium #nolastnames #bagfullofschwag and also the famous person that Matt might resemble as a #doppleganger or #ThePringlesGuy #icouldseethat #thereitis #nowitsweird / #lookingunderpassready #MohawkCombover #mousse  #allaboutthepussyASMR / #TheVoiceMailSegment / #itnevergetsold / #alrightnow #blessings   (10:10) – Reviewing a few listicles that would be #tangentional to our #discussion / ***How much metal do we NOT know about in the world?*** Not #obviously #obvious / #Helloween (from #Germany) EAGLE FLY FREE (#fromthealbum #KeeperOfTheSevenKeysPt2 )#powermetalMaiden #ballsonthevideo #ballsontheradio #itsballs #power / The historical origin of all #blackmetal /  #juicy #onmicburp / #artisticintegrity / #Cryptopsy (From #TheGreatWhiteNorth of #Canada) CROWN OF HORNS off of “#NoneSoVile”***Is this #DeathMetal or #GrindCore?*** #isGreghere? #AceVenturaShoutOut #cookiemonsterASMR   (17.40) - #AfterForever (from #TheNetherlands) #gravy and #burntbutter #buttersteak #foodreferences #delicioussounding #Huh #interestingmixology #NuclearBlast DISCORD (from the album “After Forever”) #ExciterMoment #biglyhugeness #SymphonicMetal and/or #CastleMetal from 2007 #fourtwenty / #Soulfly (from #Brazil) #doublederpderp (***actually, we've only done one #Sepultura Dive, not 2, you butthole!! #passiveaggressiveASMR***) #MCTentacleChoice BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE (from the album “Archangel”) and #readthoselyrics #howdareyou***980-666-8182***   (24:00) - #YouAreNumberSix #Vader (#Poland) #brandspank (from their #newalbum “De Profundis”, released 07/30/2021 #brandspank #violentburpgasmASMR #beerburpASMR #editedoutAMSR #notafan and the overwhelming #hatred some people have for actual #legitimate #certified #ASMR vs #comedyASMR like #waterbottleASMR  / SILENT EMPIRE (still #Vader) #deathmetal #badass and the definition of #DeProfundis / #Behemoth (also from #Poland and not to be confused with the beast from the #Biblical #BookOfJob) #blackeneddeathmetal #justiceforJasonASMR #cajunspicydeathmetal and #advilforbreakfast #noadderall #sharingiscaring BLOW YOUR TRUMPETS GABRIEL and O FATHER! O SATAN! O SUN! (#bolth from the album “The Satanist” …or not) ***#Damnation takes forever!!!*** #symphonicblackmetal #SatansBigBlackClockBBCASMR #victorymetal #damnationmetal (a #newgenre) The #winner of #Poland #markthetime #itsmarked   (34:53) – A great scene for #brutaltechdeath / #almostdone #okayturnitoffnow #HourOfPenance (from #Italy , now with even #more #pointlesslynecessary #foodreferences) THE CANNIBAL GODS (from the album #Sedition)  #yesitscool and the planning ahead of being able to play extreme metal in your later years as tempered with #pessimism and #jointpain / #Loudness (from #Japan) CRAZY NIGHTS #fromthealbum #ThunderInTheEast (***NOT to be confused with #KISS and #CrazyCrazyNights) and another #newgenre #hibachimetal and #holdingback to avoid being #canceled because we're #fuckingassholes #startingover #lostcontrol #himorme #markthetime #thankyou ***Think 80's heavy metal…that guitarist's name is Akira Takasaki*** #biglyness #indigenousmetal is a brand new #genre #stopit   (41:46) - #Gojira (from #France) and the #killeropener on their #latest #prounouncetheK #brandspankingnewalbum “Fortitude” released 04/30/2021 BORN FOR ONE THING #tight #oldschoolthrash #veggie / #Coroner (from #Switzerland with a degree of #tangentionalality to the #CelticFrost…also check out #Krokus #ScreamingInTheNight) #vaginaphone THE LETHARGIC AGE #readthoselyrics  ***NEW Coroner album coming in 2022!!*** / A couple of bands referenced from #downunder and #bangladesh including #akkadakka and #KingParrott #volumetwo   (49:26) – The joy of early #blackmetal found in (and defined by) #MercyfulFate (#Denmark) CURSE OF THE PHAROHS (see also #KingDiamond) and THE OATH #supercreepyintro #readthoselyrics #edgymetal / ***The difference between the sound of Mercyful Fate vs the sound of King Diamond's solo band*** / We all alike to have #fuun! ***Call 980-666-8182 #forfuun***   (56:13) - #AcidMammoth (from #Greece) #ohhh #indeedle #MCTentacleChoice JACK THE RIFFER (easily one of the #favorite #stonermetal bands of #boLth #MarcPotterson and #MetalNerderyPodcast, strictly, #tangentionally speaking, of course.) / #comments The Top 10's dot com #lysticle (Please hold for #Burgerkill (from #Indonesia) IN ELEGY (from “Venomous”) #vinylstaticASMR #IDontHearAnythingASMR or how about AGE OF VERSUS instead? / Give #Powermetal a #shizzot (also from #Indonesia) ***Are there any tribute bands that play just ONE song by ONE artist!? #finalcountdown*** PEACE LOVE AND WAR (#shredtastic) #noteven #nowweknow / A couple of more bands that will likely make #volumetwo / #MetalNerderyHQ33rdFloorInvertedUndergroundBunkerpoonStudios    (1:07:04) - #waitwhat #reverse #goodday Austria and Salmon #Meshuggah (from #Sweden) #pullitup BLEED from the album “Obzen” (#tightlyness and #fastlyness) #lockstep #toight / ***#technicalities…*** / #requesteses #Opeth (also from #Sweden) HEART IN HAND from their #latest #album “In Cauda Venenum” #progmetal    (1:14:27) - #imustendwiththis #BlackSabbath (from the #UK #UnitedKingdom) MEGALOMANIA (from the album “Sabotage”) #toosoon #youarenumbersix #obsessed #andthenonemore / #andthenhesaid #Slayer (from the #USA #UnitedStatesOfAmerica) BLACK MAGIC #giveortake / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON OUR VIRTUALLY TANGENTIONAL WORLD TOUR OF METAL AROUND THE WORLD TOUR (#redundancy and #dumbness #inserted for #effect #nevergetsold)!!! / #antarcticacore #sherpametal and #throatsinging #markthetime #monkgolia and #sourells / #marketing via #voicemail ***LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL OR A RAVING REVIEW AT 980-666-8182*** #untilthenext #okayonemore #tampons and #crickets #nofeedback #trumpet ***THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND LISTENERSHIP TO METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!  PLEASE CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE GLOBAL WORDERY ABOUT THE METAL NERDERY!!!*** metalnerdery.com/merch #outrocore #huh #additionalnonsense #theresnomoon #itsallbullshit    

Pete Hoekstra, retired United States Ambassador to theNetherlands, he previously served as the U.S. Representativefor Michigan's 2nd congressional district. 

For the last 20 years questions of immigration and identity have been at the heart of our politics, yet we have made almost no progress. Why is Özdil not a Dutch name? How did the Netherlands become more ethnically segregated than America? Why are riots in the Schilderswijk an integration problem, but riots in Urk not? To answer these questions, we've invited Zihni Özdil, historian, columnist and former member of parliament for GroenLinks. Yet unlike most of his left-leaning compatriots, Özdil believes that we should do away with the old multicultural consensus in favour of “inclusive” nationalism.Together with him, we will explore the struggle for acceptance and belonging among those of migrant origin, the historic roots of the Dutch migration story and how we can achieve a truly inclusive national identity.

Lori Tierney worked for many years at one of the top language institutes in the Netherlands. When she retired, she was left with the question, as so many are, of what comes next? Never one to back down from a challenge, she began a series of long-distance bike treks around the world - a journey that led her to set up a foundation in Kenya. Now she’s using her talents to make the world a better place, and her story contains deep wisdom on life and making big changes for anyone willing to hear it.  Follow me on Instagram: @therosspalmer

Isobel and Roland are back to complete their judgy wudgy review of all of 2021's Eurovision songs and eventually decide who they think will win Eurovision 2021.  Will it be Iceland? Will it be Switzerland? Will it be France? Will it be Malta? Or will it be anyone else? Maybe! Who knows! But Isobel and Roland will try to figure it out. 

It's the eve of Eurovision week 2021 and after 2 years of waiting it is finally here! Isobel and Roland make their return to give their best judgy wudgy opinions of each Eurovision song participating in Eurovision 2021.  This part sees the pair review all songs from semi-final 1, including Italy, Germany and The Netherlands.  Tune in on Wednesday for the rest of the entries!  Happy Eurovision!

In this episode of Flourish in the Foreign, Dana chats about how her studies took her to Amsterdam & Suriname, how she launched a business abroad and is now calling Brixton home. Listen as she shares how her life changed once she started "thinking about the whole world as an option" for her.    Episode Credits: Christine Job-Creator & Host Zachary Higgs-Theme Music   Like this episode? Love the podcast? Buy me a coffee SUPPORT THE PODCAST Become a Patreon Supporter Tip the podcast via CashApp Flourish in the Foreign Amazon Wishlist  

Norman Lenden was half of the successful DJ group “Mark Norman”. For nearly a decade, he played some of the world’s largest festivals - Tomorrowland, Trance Energy, and he toured the globe professionally. Now that he’s a father, he’s transitioned into his new role as marketing manager for RAI Amsterdam, one of the largest events centers in the Netherlands. We talk about following your passion(s), career transitions, and coming out on top.  Follow me on Instagram: @therosspalmer

Het ligt hoogstwaarschijnlijk aan hemzelf, maar Alexander vindt dat het SONGFESTIVAL dit jaar niet leeft. Dat heeft natuurlijk alles te maken met de CORONACRISIS en de geannuleerde editie van 2020. Alexander vertelt Perry dat door het rondwarende virus de cultuursector in de hoek wordt gezet als onnodig en "Waar we nu even geen tijd voor hebben." De mannen bespreken verder de historie en wat de verwachtingen zijn van dit jaar, alleen heeft Perry GEEN IDEE. Instagram: Perry: @preppy_piccs Alexander: @alexander.eleveld

After building a life together at home Pam Smit and Jan Fokko-Stuut started to consider taking their careers on the road, despite having very different attitudes about what full time travel would look like.   Pam grew up traveling, but Jan hadn't and was more uncertain about what a life of the road would look like. Throw in their 7 year-old dog Watson and there were definitely compromises to be made while adjusting the nomad lifestyle.   Join us for a very realistic look at the reality of adjusting to life on the road as a couple and balancing travel, work, and taking care of a pet!

Today we celebrate a man remembered for bringing a ton of new and exciting plant species to California and his profound impact on Santa Barbara in particular. We'll also learn about a year of letter-writing between two garden greats. We hear an excerpt about the first time tulip bulbs were used as money. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a stunning book about our relationship with trees. And then we’ll wrap things up with the sunny State Flower of Kansas: the Sunflower. . Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News National Plant-a-Flower Day | FTD   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events March 12, 1843 Today is the birthday of the Italian American horticulturist Francesco Franceschi (“fran-CHESS-ko fran-CHESS-key”). Born in Italy, Francesco changed his name after coming to America and settling in Santa Barbara, California. With a temperate Mediterranean climate, Santa Barbara became a haven for plant lovers in the 1800s. Francesco’s work elevated him in the plant community. He planted a boulevard of impressive Italian Stone Pines and lined another main avenue with Palm Trees. Always on the lookout for new varieties, Francesco brought Italian Zucchini to California, and he introduced exciting new plants like Cape Pittosporum, Floss Silk, and Naked Coral Trees to California. Fluent in seven languages, Francesco communicated with botanists, collectors, and explorers all over Europe and South America. In terms of legacy, Francesco is remembered for bringing more exotic plants to Southern California than any other man. One specimen that made Francesco famous was the Catalina Ironwood and the story of how he sourced the tree is legendary. In 1894, Francesco made a trip to the Channel Islands to get the Catalina Ironwood. Tragically, this expedition was beset with all kinds of challenges. When the rough waters threatened to sink their vessel, Francesco’s sons had to jump out of the boat. Seeing the commotion and suspecting the Francheschi’s were smugglers, the coast guard fired on them. Yet despite these close calls, Francesco achieved his goal and he managed to bring an entire burl stump of Catalina Ironwood to Santa Barbara. Once he was home, Francesco propagated new Ironwoods from the suckers that formed on the stump and one of these offspring ended up at the Botanic Garden at UC Berkeley. Forty years after Francesco’s rocky trip to the Channel Islands, Santa Barbara made the Catalina Ironwood (Lyonothamnus floribundus ssp. floribundus) the city’s official tree. And today, next to the space where Francesco’s nursery used to be, an oceanside park bears Francesco’s name. And if you’ve ever lamented the way botanical plant names change over time, you’d be in good company with Francesco, who — after learning that Persea gratissima was updated to Persea americana — said, “One cannot protest strongly enough against this modern craziness of creating new names for old things.”   March 12, 2001 On this day Nancy Goodwin of the landmark Montrose Gardens and Allen Lacy American garden writer and columnist launched their garden book called A Year in Our Gardens. This is one of my favorite books and it's a collection of the letters that Alan and Nancy exchanged during a single year. Now, what I love about Alan in Nancy's letters is that these two people are truly real gardeners in every sense of the word - despite their fame and popularity. And so their letters share their horticultural wins and their failures. They talk about plants, of course, but they also share their dreams for their gardens and they even delve into other areas of their life - like their favorite music and what's going on with their family and friends. And as for these two gardeners, Alan and Nancy's gardens and their garden philosophies could not be more different. Alan's garden was on a 100- by 155-foot plot of farmland in Southern New Jersey. And while Alan gardened on sandy soil, that required constant watering, Nancy took a different approach and she never irrigated her garden. Instead, she planted only native plants that would thrive naturally in her garden without any intervention on her part. Anyway, I cannot believe that this is the 20th anniversary of this book coming out, this landmark garden book. And if you don't have it, I encourage you to head on over to Amazon and buy the book because it's truly one of the great garden books. You can get A Year in Our Gardens on Amazon and support the show in today's show notes for around $2    Unearthed Words Deep inside the long, low-line cordon of islands that separated the northern provinces of the Dutch Republic from the North Sea stood the West Friesland town of Hoorn. Until the 1550s, Hoorn had been one of the most important places in the Netherlands, thriving on Baltic trade. Now nearly a hundred years later, the ships that had once unloaded cargos of hemp and timber at its docks, sailed on to Amsterdam. Hoorn was dying; the port had slipped into a long, slow decline from which it was never to recover. Somewhere in the center of this ruined town, in the first half of the seventeenth century, stood a house with three stone tulips carved into its facade. There was nothing else special about the building… But this is where tulip mania began. The stone flowers were placed there to commemorate the sale of the house, in the summer of 1633, for three rare tulips. It was in this year... that the price of bulbs reached unprecedented heights in West Friesland. When news of the sale of the tulip house got out, a Friesian farmhouse and its adjoining land also changed hands for a parcel of bulbs. These remarkable transactions... were the first sign that something approaching mania had begun to flourish. For three decades, flower lovers had used money to buy tulips. Now – for the first time – tulips were being used as money. And just as strikingly, they were being valued at huge sums. — Mike Dash, Tulipomania, Chapter 10: Boom   Grow That Garden Library Forest by Matt Collins This book came out in 2020 and the subtitle is A Journey Through Wild And Magnificent Landscapes. In this book, Matt journeyed across North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Along with photographer, Roo Lewis, the two men captured the history, science, and human stories behind some of the most amazing environments in the world. Together, the two men explored earth's lush woodlands and wild landscapes - and along the way, they uncovered the relationships that humans have with trees. And here's what the publisher wrote about Matt’s book: “Matt explores the captivating history behind some of the world's most enchanting for us. This book is organized by tree species, including the Hardy Pines in a forest in Spain, the towering firs of the American West, and the striking Birch groves found in Germany. And in addition to all of that Forest offers a beautiful blend of photographs, scientific trivia, and engaging human stories.” This book is 256 pages of gorgeous tree photography and the magnificence of the forest of our planet. You can get a copy of Forest by Matt Collins and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $4   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart March 12, 1903 On this day, the Kansas State Flower was officially selected. Governor Willis Bailey signed the legislation that designated the wild native Sunflower or Helianthus as the state flower. And it turns out that during that same time period, Nebraska was also considering the Sunflower. But when Kansas made it official, Nebraska dropped its bid. And so today, Kansas remains the only state that can officially claim the Sunflower. Now in the years, leading up to the official selection of the Sunflower, many Kansans were writing about its beauty. In fact, the Topeka Capital wrote “Kansas boasts a number of men who can write a good Sunflower verse, but none of these can do it more entertainingly than Ed Blair.” Ed Blair was a Kansas poet and author, and in 1901, he wrote an ode to the Kansas Sunflower. Here's a little excerpt: Oh, Sunflower the Queen of all flowers,  No other with you can compare  The roadside and fields are made golden  Because of your bright presence there. Now, with regard to the Sunflower, there are a number of fun facts that just may surprise you. First of all, they are definitely native plants to the Western hemisphere. And through the ages, they've been used for dyes and oil and food and even medicine. In fact, in both Mexico and in Native American tribes, the Sunflower was used to treat chest pain. Now most gardeners will attempt to grow Sunflowers at some point. So if you find yourself wanting to give it a try. Here are a few things you should consider. First of all, Sunflowers really do need a ton of sun. Don't be stingy with the sunshine and put them in part shade. These are plants that really appreciate all the rays they can get. Second. Sunflowers not only grow in full sun, they actually follow the sun. They exhibit behavior that's known as Heliotropism. In the morning, the Sunflower heads will face East. And then the Sunflower heads will move to track the sun throughout the day. Now as they mature, this tracking movement will become less pronounced as the stem loses its flexibility in order to support the large mature bloom. Now in terms of botanical history, there is a story about the Sunflower that I love to tell. In 1972, a young student named Charles B. Heizer Jr. wrote a lovely tribute about his mentor and teacher, the botanist Edgar Anderson. "Student Days with Edgar Anderson or How I Came to Study Sunflowers." Charles sifted through the many letters he had received from Edgar during his lifetime - they filled up a folder over two inches thick. Over the years, Edgar was an encouraging mentor to Charles, writing, "What an incredible gift good students are…" and "if you are tired of [Helianthus] and don't want to look at 'em anymore for a while, why by all means put them aside. Don't let anybody's advice, including mine, keep you from what you are happiest doing." And here's another fun Sunflower story. When the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, saw Sunflower for the first time in Holland, he fell in love with them and had them brought back to Russia. The Russian public loved Sunflowers as well -  but not just for their happy flowers. Unlike other cooking oils, the oil from Sunflower seeds was approved for use during Lent by the Russian Orthodox Church. By the early 1800s, two million Acres of Sunflowers for planted in Russia every single year. Ironically, over the next century, immigrants from Russia would bring Sunflower seeds with them when they immigrated to the United States. And even though these plants were originally native to the Western hemisphere, the Russian hybrids actually had evolved and had bigger blooms than the original American varieties. And finally, Mabel Thompson, a resident of Kansas wrote a poem called, “When the Sunflowers, Bloom,” and it was shared in the Chanute Daily Tribune in July of 1903 - just three months after the Sunflower was made the official state flower. And I found Mabel's poem to beat absolutely charming and I thought I'd close the show with it today.   I've been off on a journey. I just got home today.  I traveled East and North and South and every other way.  I've seen a heap of country and cities on the boom,  But I want to be in Kansas, when the Sunflowers bloom. You may talk about your lilies, your violets and roses,  Your asters and your jazzy-mins, and all other posies. I'll allow they all are beauties and full of sweet perfume,  But there's none of them, a patchin’ to the Sunflowers bloom. Oh, it's nice among the mountains, but I sorta felt shut-in.  It'd be nice upon the seashore. if it wasn't for the din. While the Prairie's are so quiet and there's always lots of room.  Oh, it's nice, still in Kansas when the Sunflowers bloom. When all the sky above is just as blue as can be.  And the Prairie's are waving like a yellow drifting sea.  Oh, it's there my soul goes sailing and my heart is on the boom In the golden fields of Kansas. When the Sunflowers bloom.  — Mabel Thompson, Here's When the Sunflowers Bloom   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

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Update 11th march 2021 This week started with the International Womens Day. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021 We wanted to start a new experiment so that's why we started the experiment with this episode.We want to add automated transcription to our posts. Podcasts are a great way to share knowledge but unfortunately people who are deaf or hearing impaired are excluded.What this episode coversThat is not what we want.IntroductionOnce again we are sharing our diversity and inclusion stories. We discuss how women in tech at bol.com encourage inclusion in tech. The idea for this podcast stems from of course the importance of the subject but also from the diversity and inclusion month we have at bol.com. In June and November last year we spoke about diversity and women in tech in the podcast with several guests. Let's see what the latest developments and insights are, given that there has been a lot of attention to the subject in the world around us in the last weeks.In our opinion, we need to keep having these conversations to progress. So, we will probably share more in future episodes.GuestsNatalia Paratsikidou – Software engineer in the bol.com retail media group (BRMG) domainAnastasija Efremovska – Software engineer in the platform domain and 'best friend of the show'Marloes Kuijper – Data scientist in the assortment domainRaissa Machado – Software engineer working on the select proposition, the bol.com subscription modelMaartje van Denderen – Front-end developer in the area of assortment tooling for partnersNotesTalks during spaces summit 2020:Making Demos great again - MarloesFrom prototype to production. A real-life cloud story - AnastasijaExperience the hive mind through Mob Programming - Natalia; this session is not on Youtube. It was a hands-on session based on the Kata principleEarlier Episodes about Women in Tech:Our speakers during the Women in tech conferenceIntercultural DiversityTranscriptionPlease be aware: the transcription has been produced by an automated process.Thanks.Yeah, do you have this podcast stems from the course, ofcourse, from the importance of the subject, but also from thediversity and Inclusion month we have had both. Com and also inJune and November last year. In both cost we spoke aboutdiversity and women in tech.In several cases. Let's see what are the latestdevelopments and insight, especially given that thereare some other has been a lot of attention for the subjectin the world around us in the last week.Yes, yes, an inclusion is one of the subjects I remember wellfrom our podcasts. Mary was sharing her story about feelingexcluded and the talk she had about inclusion with our formerCEO. And during that interview, but also during the editingagain after it, it gave me the goosebumps. So I'm reallycurious right now how it is inthis talk. And in this talk we want to define in two. So P, X2parts we start first with diversity and inclusion, and inthis case the women in tech them order generic story an to makeit more concrete week off to the second part based on theexamples about the talks during space. Assuming so, baseballtime to introduce the guests.Yeah, and then we have quite a list of guess. I don't thinkthat we ever had to so many guess so so that's I think thatalso stresses the importance of this. So let me first introduceNatalia Paratsikidou, software engineer inthe in the BMG. So that's basically where we selladvertisements on our platform.Yeah, great to be here. I'm really happy and I I was likeI'm on my maternity leave. But I was like I find it reallyimportant to share my experience. So thank you verymuch for inviting.Anastasija Efremovska, she's software engineer, as she saw on herLinkedIn profile that she like to likes to make me breakthings. So I was curious about these lines in the profiles, butif you're if you have listened to the podcasts a lot, then youknow that she was actually in one of our first. I thinkactually the first port costs when our equipment was way lessthan this and we were just starting out so.Yeah, really cool to have you back.Yeah, uh, thank You Beautiful. It's it's great tobe back. It's actually the third time I think theprevious presented part of this.How can I yeah?Best friends of the exactly best Friends of podcasts.Glad to be back, yes.Marloes Kuijper, data scientist in theassortment domain, I know from other teams that there's a lotgoing on in the Serpent domain for data scientist. So great tohave you as well.Thank you very much Peter. Well, thanks for having me. I'm reallylooking forward to this.Raissa Machado, also a software engineer, thisis in the team reptile and it's on the select proposition. So ifI'm correct, the select subscription where we offercertain things to Members forplatform. Yes, yes, that's right. That's me. Hieveryone, very glad to be here and uh, if you're nota member of select please go and buy a subscription.So now we have also posted sponsored content.They collected via the BRG stuff I guess, but we'll talkabout that later and then a last cause guest of today isMaartje van Denderen she's fronted the developer andgiven this chest in education in journalism, think debatingand I will learn a lot during this podcast says we don't.She's look she's working on assortment tooling for ourpartners on the platformwelcome. Yes, thank you very much nice to be here.Great.So, um, yeah.Jim Diversion and Inclusion month. Why is it soimportant in both com.Yes, so the diversity and Inclusion Month is somethingthat came out out of the diversity and inclusion workgroup that has on the lines of 10 people working on this.Nowadays we think it's really important to raise awarenessthroughout the company regarding the topic, so we need to speakabout this and do something that's not like a onetimecampaign but rather a continuous continuous cause that we puteffort and we tried to develop further and further. So that'swhy we're trying to raise awareness throughout thecompany. So that more people can see the importance of thissubject and can also join the group and help us buildsomething more concrete.Can you give an example what we what we did in that month? Well,yes, of course. So the month was divided in four weeks. The firstweek was focused on awareness, so we shared a lot of numbersregarding awareness as a more abstract topics or a generaltopic. And then we will go then into the teams. So we had thewomen in Tech Week. We had the pride Week and the InternationalWeek and for every week we had a small special activity. Soeither a lunch session or a talk of the international.Or kind of like a coffee blind date. We also had the pub questto wrap up the month, which you guys probably heard of. It wasthe first fully online event that we organized. I think wehad close to 400 people joining so it was quite big.And we're really proud of the the month in general, becauseafter that we got a lot of people reaching out, startingthe conversation and just saying, hey, I would like tohelp. How can I help and that's what we look for more people tobecome engaged. And I think we really we really 'cause wereally made him an impact and that was really amazing I I'mreally proud of it.And you said that in the beginning you shared somenumbers. How to spell.com compared to other companies inthe Netherlands? Could you share a little on that? Yes, ofcourse. So I think some numbers we are still below the nationalaverage. So regarding women in tech we were last time that Ichecked 1.5% below the nationalaverage. But women as a whole in the company, we are 41%, sothat's quite an OK number.And, um. Let me see if there are other numbers that I havefrom the top of my head. Maybe I should have prepared better.Turn on.I'm sorry logo.Overall we are not doing a.That bad if we only take the numbers into account, of coursenumbers not always give the full the full answer, right?Exactly because then again, this would be my remark. This is justthe numbers. But that's very different than itfeels sometimes. I can imagine exactly yes.Yes, and also it may be interesting to see that thewomen in tech will Bolt form is so short of around average forthe country, but there's a country in in general, theNetherlands is doing pretty bad on the how many women andnetwork in depth, and this is actually something that wereally would like to improve so that yeah we have more women intech services and Isabel, it's gonna be a really big company.So because there are.Relatively prime, quite a lot of women insect, but this is reallysomething we can do to make animpact. To show that I pay this something we both won't findreally important, and maybe we can also inspire some people tothink about a career in tech if they haven't done that before.Yeah, I knew there was a women in tech.Community you can you came up with this statement you workedon that together with, uh, our people end Department I believeand and I think it was even thataborts that. Signed the statement right, can you cantell more about the statement? But what did we put on paper?Yes, of course. So when we were first starting, the communitymarching and I we had a very clear idea of what we wanted thecommunity to be like. But we felt that having only our ownopinions was not enough to build a very strong, long lasting,relevant community. So we organize a kick up session lastyear where we invited.Everyone to participate and give their opinions and together withSusanna, here's help. We had a workshop and we gathered a lotHeard from everyone on what they felt the communityshould represent. And while we should stand for, andthat's how we came up with the women in tech statementthat is based on three pillars we have the encouragepillar, the share pillar, and the diversified pillar andthe idea under each of those pillars is that the encouragesession. The encourage pillar is where we.Together as a community, we do some networking. We buildbridges. We try to be authentic, open and vulnerable, but mostimportantly we listen and we have been doing monthly meetingswhere we just have lunch together and we just have a safespace where everyone can can support each other. That hasbeen really successful so far.And then under the share pillar we we're working oninspiration sessions because we do know we have so manyamazing women working inside the company that are reallyworking that their ***** off. Sorry for my language, butthat's true really being very innovative and just beinggame changers and we want to create a platform where thosewomen can just tell their stories so that they alsoinspire other women and everyone actually too.Perform their jobs better by just sharing the their lifestories. They can also just make a very positive impact on thecommunity in general and then we have the diversified pillar.And the idea there is that we embrace the uniqueness of allpeople. So we want to be very aware of biases and we want tobe also very inclusive, which means that this Community is notonly for women, is for everyone. Because we do understand thatthere is no way that will change the status quo if we only havewomen involved. So if you are a man and you're listening to thispodcast and you want to get involved, please reach outbecause we need your help. And I think that by having everyone'sperspective, that's how we can.Actually make a positive impact and create a change on thecompany and on the environment around us. And actually I alsowant to give just a quick shout out to Timon from recruitmentbecause he has been working with us already and then that'sreally positive and we need morepeople like that. Yeah, so they embraced the uniqueness of allpeople and that's that's the diversified pillar one.OK, and then this statement was put on paper and then our boardmember Ellen said, OK, this is that important. I want to signit off an want to be part of it as well, right? It's how kind ofexactly so we're really proud and we think it's really greatthat we have this this kind of support from directors as well.Great, great to see in here. Yeah and then.Yeah, maybe that's a nice bridge. Of course, if youtalk about sharing and inspire other is is dead,then where the if you talk about our spaces Summit?And then we have this this yearly event. This time it wasonline. You should hear the listen to the other episode. Wetalked about it and in this space summit tree women stood upand said I want to present over there and that's the bridge hereand I think. I'myeah, can you share something about your presentation? Anyeah. But why did you choose the topic before we go to women intech relationship again?Wants to start.I can start um, so the presentation I'veparticipated in a few conferences and.They always had Carter involved as a workshop or of as ofa talk, and I thought, oh, that's a great topic to do atball. So can you hear me? I'm not sure I lost it. OK so.Sorry.That's how the idea came up. I participated in a Carterworkshop talk in Tenerife in Socrates Internet, so Ithought I can do it. I have the knowledge why not andthat's how it came in, but I really want to share a firstand foremost that I couldn't have done. It actually didn'tdo it, but the workshop.Was held by Duncan Lou and it wouldn't have been possible if.This amazing colleague for me wasn't there to support me andactually we did it together so I wasn't alone. I'm here topresent it. It was indeed my idea, but I had help and Ithink it's there. It is well with what I said that we are acommunity. We need to help each other to go further.OK, cool.I'm a loose yeah, those are really nice where it's a Nataliayeah for me I presented on stream net which is anapplication framework in Python which makes it really easy tocreate really nice visual demos from scratch in like very shortamount of time. And basically it might seem we do a lot ofproduct discovery which means we do a lot of presentations tostakeholders and to the team itself and streamed. It reallyhelps us a great deal because it allows us to really quickly setup visually appealing andinteractive demos. And so the reason why I wanted to presenton this is basically to share my knowledge on. It's an it's.It's a pretty new tool so not many people knew about it yet,so I really wanted to make sure that everybody in the communityknows about it and can also use it to their advantage.Cool.But it's always nice to hear that that we can shareknowledge, and I think it's agreat opportunity. And that kind of also inspired me formy presentation, because it's not really the stagefright that kept me from presenting. I feel like Iwas struggled to find a topic that I think would berelevant for people and that people would have somethingnew to hear.So this year I thought we actually had the perfectopportunity. So together with my colleague Karen, we present iton our internal infrastructure to called R2D2. You can alsocheck out their podcasts. By the way, Karen and your own from myteam. They talked about the art of data two awhile back on thepodcast and it has actually existed for a few years and wehave quite a new collection in the company so we thought itwould be nice to tell the storyHow did it come to be and what were the decisions madethree years ago? And what would you maybe do differently if youdo did it today?So yeah, that was the motivation behind those threepresentations. I believe we also put them on online on YouTube,so insurance, we will add the links of course, but the debt sofar that the topic thing you can see that it's already 3 totallydifferent topics. So that's interesting. But yeah.What was it that you?Yeah I wanted to present something during spaces submitand especially this subject.For me it was in Italian for me. It was mainly because I Iwas missing the CATA mindset in the bowl.com conferences in ourenvironment. In general I found it a great way for me toopen up and meet people and see different ideas an alsocultivate a lot for me. It helped me cultivate my.Um software engineering practices. I think it made me abetter software engineer, so I wanted to bring it to ball.Some are loose. Yeah, so for me. Like I said it was mainly aboutsharing knowledge, but I also wanted to kind of show off thethings that the cool things that my team is doing which we'reproud of. And also I wanted to really push myself a bit, so I'mnot really usually. I'm not ready to the person who goes tospeak at conferences. In fact it was my first conference talk.And yeah, I kind of wanted to get out of my comfort zone andbe like, yeah, why not? Why why shouldn't I do this? I mean,it's cool and I have somethingto say so. Yeah, let's try.Attitude really wants to do this yourself that it comes from youor did someone push you a little too to take this step.I think it was mainly me. I don't think anybody was reallypushing me, but together with a couple of teammates we were allreally excited about space submit and a couple of mycolleagues also submitted some abstract. So yeah, that alsohelped. So we were in it together, so to speak. Yeah, so,so it really helps if other people in your environment arealso doing it, because that is more easy to to also participateand wanted to be out there onstage, right? Yeah, exactly yeah definitely.Cool.And for under. Ask him what wasyour. Motivation your drive.Yeah, so on one hand we've been receiving a lot of questionsabout R2D2, so we wanted to take this opportunity to answer someof them. And also it's made us a bit more transparent. I find onwhat we're doing to the rest ofthe company. An to a kind of add on Marluxia story. It was a bittoo. I wanted to practice my presentation skills, but mycolleague Karen also wanted to do the same. So this is a reallynice opportunity to do it together and also hold eachother responsible of its two to make it good and to share theload. So I really like that. Yeah, so it's a combination of.Yeah, really present about the the topic, the content, ancombination of the development, personal development. So youwant to make a next step inpresentation, etc. So, um.Yeah, if you're connected with your ex and your experience withthe other questions and if you if you look at the number ofwomen presenting during spaces submit, it's really unknownnumber. Um?Can you explain it based on your experience?Yeah, so maybe I'll start this time. I think from from myselfat least I I always struggle a bit to find a topic as I saidthat I think people would beinterested in. So I think as women we maybe try to be a bitperfectionist and really find the really nice thing andsomething that hasn't been donebefore. And we really try to have a topic that's really goodor in other safe or whatever, But that's that. Doesn't have tobe always the case. I've noticed I've been to many conferenceswhere where you can hear very niche sort of things that maybehave been discussed.And they are not necessarily your topic of interest, butthere are somebody's topic of interest, so you can alwaysfind people that are interested in what you haveto say. And just because you're not good at thatcertain topic doesn't make you good in another topic, soyou should think that probably you have somethinginteresting to say.I think that's my experience.For you and Marloes, yeah, so I also agree I can relate to whatunder Stasya saying. I also think it can be quite dauntingto present at a conference. I mean it's it's one thing topresent for your team, but it's another to present for the wholetech community, right? So and that's not just for women, butthat's also for men. And I think you know there are quite a fewpeople who have done this like many times who are veryconfident in. Presenting we're very comfortable. And thenthere's also a very large group in the tech communitywho have never done that before who don't feel likereally comfortable presenting for a large audience and.So I think we already have a lot of like a big supportsystem in place, but I think making sure that everybodyknows that it's there that there is a lot of support andthat is a very safe community to present in is really,really important, and I think that could be very powerfulthing to do moving forward.For you to tell you it's similar experiences or Ilike I couldn't agree more with an assassin marlous.Really, I felt exactly the same way.One extra thing that I notice is that the reason why in ball, butalso in other companies, I do believe that ball is doing quitea good job. Let's say based on my previous experience, is theway a company presents itself.So I also I have an experience in a conference that someoneasked me. Would you like to talk a bit to us about women in tech?And I was like why? What can we do to increase what they woulddo it? What can we do to get you into our company? And I was likelook for personally for me. And of course this is Nataliaspeaking. It's different per person. If I see that thecompany is presenting itself full of men and predominantlylike how strong they are andhow. Like getting it all out there. I would feel a bit scaredthat not scared that all will go there and what am I gonna do?But mostly like are my idea is gonna be heard. Is there spacean enough security let's say for every different idea to becultivated and I think that's the most important thing and Ithink it that is also diversity is not only about women in techis about different perspectives.And ways of thinking.And because my loose mentioned the feeling safeand also about presenting at a conference like the SpaceSummit Diffie, in your opinions, do a good enoughjob there so that you could feel safer. Or should westill take additional steps to make it even better?Yeah, that's a good question. I think like I said, we have areally nice support system in the tech community. There'sthe walk-in sessions for speakers. You know, there's apresentation course that you can take, so there's already alot of things going on, but of course we don't really know.This is in the case of very few female presents, as we don'treally know why it is that there are so very few femalepresenters, so I think there could still be. You know thereare a lot of questions still unanswered and I think thatwould be my suggestion in figuring out what those answersare. You know, like maybe collecting data through survey,figuring out if people are willing to or women are willingto present next year and why.It is that they will or why they don't want to go an. Youknow, collecting some feedback, asking theimportant questions like you know what is it that we cando to help? What are things that are fair? What areholding you back? And if we have answers to all thosequestions, we can determine what are the next importantsteps and if we're doing a good enough job, I think.What was it already a topic and maybe now looking a bitmore to my tan? He said in the women in tech group?Number of women sharing their stories in space, assuming therewasn't. I'm not sure, but we are preparing a session for the endof this month where we intend to do exactly this survey so.Individually, I have been speaking to a few women so Ihave an idea of what might be. You know the issue there, but wewant to gather more more insideWe intend to do that during one of the lunch sessions. Justhave an anonymous survey so that they can answer and hopefullywill find more concrete thingsto tackle. Yeah, but it was not not some discussionalready up front. For instance, during the requestfor proposals that unfortunately now.That's that's good to realize.So it wasn't inside. You got during their spaces, summitsthat there were really few women in doing this presentation.Um?Yeah, of course if there are in general will be more womenworking in tech then of course you can expect the number we'vebeen presenting in the present in the conference is also belarger so. Yeah, that's of course the currencyproblem, right?Should we do as a company something specific on that siteshould be you've been talking to time and already, but should wedo something in the way we publish our vacancies?That's boots.Easier accessible.Uh, for non white men, let's let's put it like that.I think he has been very busy working on that specifically, sobasically going through all the copy so the very small thingsthe way that you write stuff you have to be very careful not touse like very.Not to put gender as a very big role there. Also one thing thatwe notice while we were on the women's at conference last yearin Amsterdam we had some pamphlets. We had a booth. Wewere there as a company as Balakan and we had a group andwe had some pamphlets to showcase the company and whilewe realize while we were at the conferences that the pamphletonly had pictures of men and we were in a women in techconference. So that was, you know one of the things.We should definitely work on if we want to showcase thediversity that we already have in sideball, then we should bepaying more attention to those small details for sure. Anotherthing that we have been.Working together with recruitment is making sure thatevery time that we have a female engineer on the process on therecruitment process, now we make sure that she she meets with atleast one female engineer as well so that she knows thatthere are also female engineers working at the company and shecan feel more, perhaps more safe or more relaxed during theinterview process to maybe ask questions or just identifyherself a little bit more.If I may add something on that, um, I think from my perspectivewe should also be a bit careful because we don't want tosegregate the whole. The subject of recruitment, so I think wehave to be careful with the pamphlets and with the wording,including diversity, diversity, but not really be targeted as ofwe're trying to improve to increase our seats.Of how many women we have? Becausw yeah, we're trying topromote uh, self more into that area. Becausw. Speaking fromexperience I have heard from a lot of female engineers at Ballevent that they don't want to be identified as of somethingdifferent. They just want to an I. I feel the same as well. Iwant to be part I don't wanna be something separate.So it's more about inclusion, I think.But that's kind of hard if you're.And it's it's needed to to to pay attention to, so that's whywe have this women in tech statement and we have youexplained the three pillars but all the other or the otherhands. You know you want to be one team and it in fact yousaying it shouldn't be necessary? Is that what youmean? It's yes, because then it becomes too much. Yes, becausewe saw it with the international community as well. That it somepoint. People, don't you need everyone to work together, soyou need everyone to identify with that and.I I don't want to feel that I have special treatment and Ithink that people in tech want to feel empowered because of theno let's not be cause someone.Made them a favor. Let's say that that isnot the hardest thing.And how with hiring people, right? Let's the most.The hard thing at the moment, because a lot of companies arethinking about how are we going to make our company morediverse, but you have to put some effort, but nobody wantsto be the first be higher. So how are you gonna make surethat you do? Having heard the first thing but at the sametime that people don't feel like they are different to thehigher and that's really hard I think. And the main thing todo is to make sure that in even the BSS that we're reallyinclusive company and that's everybody feels welcome and.Yeah, definitely. I think the trick there is that we should beaware of the biases on our recruitment process. So there isthis very cool study that Air BNB performed with theirrecruitment process. They removed the names and the genderfrom the the.Thank you from the CVS and then they notice that a lotmore women were going through the pipeline. So just byremoving the gender, they already notice that there wasan implicit bias there that no one was noticing. And that'sthat's the type of thing that we we try to work on as well.Just removing our own biases.Especially from the bonds that we we think we are, we don'thave, but it proves you have to do by doing it like this.But this example amazing if you think about it.Now I just once smoke way question for the topic for aboutspaces. Some it again before we go to the closing runs already.What especially for spaces some it is needed. Then we talkedabout some recruitment examples already. What is for spacesubmit needed to attract more women? What do you think?I think, um, I think it's good to include or to promote a bitmore first time speakers we notice by talking with MartyHeiser that a lot of us were just the first time that wepresent it. So I think the coming years it's good to have abit of a campaign of helping out the first time speakers. Somaybe in the survey we can.Ask everyone OK, what? What are your interests? What would youlike to present for instance? And then we can see from there.But other incidents interest maybe on the women side or onthe men's side than yeah, if you have presented before. If not,think that's how we could be inclusive, but not onlyspecifically promoting an yeahagenda. OK. Yeah, I think so too. I think that's areally nice way to look at it to promote peoplewho would normally not present to to actually goand get up on that stage.Yeah, so for instance you could. Like I said there are manyexperienced speakers out there who would probably love to coachsomeone who's never spoken at a conference before. So in thatway you could also leverage those that knowledge that's inthe organization to help someone make that final order thatneeded Step 2 to present. And yeah, and I think the surveythat's going to be.Sent out by Asia on like women, presenting at SafeSpaces, Summit is also a really good step forward.I cannot agree more and I think having the I took thishere the preparation workshop that we organize usually forpresenters an I must recommend it and I think it would benice if we promote that and with more throughout the yearand not pursue only be for a conference. Come by. That waywe give people a bit more time and a bit more leisure to kindof do it in a less stress way or in less time pressure.I think the water I'm going to do a circle. I think it isreally like important that maybe that's also a key to success.Having more simulation throughout the year, not havingto wait Spaces Summit for the presentations. Wehavetheball.commeetups also. Uh, personally, I haven't really seen how thisprocess goes and how you can reach out. What can. What arethe topics that you could present or other small internalinitiatives? Yeah, other talks as well. That's amazing. Yeahyeah, I mean like speaking like anything else, like writing coldor whatever, or flexing your muscles is a muscle that youneed to get comfortable with so.Taking any opportunity you can, you can find to present.I think it's a very nice practice for anybody.And if you're scared of presenting and I would like tovisual thing, you can also contact your favorite podcasthouse and say, hey, I've got an interesting topic for you andthen that would also could be for our number, so that wouldwould benefit us both so.But getting more serious on this phone which youhave any recommendations for beta and myself?Uh, yeah. Also to work on diversity. Is there something inour approach why we are having the people in our show that wehave in our show?Or do you have any ideas on that?I think just from the fact that you we do that in English andthat means that we are reaching out to the whole of the end. Forme, it's really important. Whatever it's happening inEnglish, I really feel as part of the family. I think that wesaw is amazingly inclusive because even from the beginningthere were diverse people there. I think it's percentage wise is.Kind of help Alpha based on knowledge and experience ingender and cultural background so.I also like that the topics are quite mixed, so they're notstrictly very technical. Sometimes attach a bit on socialtopics to like like the Imposter Syndrome podcast you hadrecently. It's just maybe something you see in tech a lot,but it's a more general topic. I think it's nice to have a bit ofa wacky topic now and then and just be you have a crazy thingyou've been thinking about? Do you think it's worthy?Tell me something really fun, yeah?Alright, now maybe it's going to to go to the closing roundtrip and fall. What do you think? I think it's time forthat. Yeah, so so good you'll share your your your keytakeaway here with the audience please.Well for me, um for me the most important thing wasthat althoughI had an idea and I was really convinced that I would like topresent it this time after all these years football and then Iwas pregnant and from the beginning it was obvious that Iwasn't being able. I wouldn't be able to present it, so I had thegreat help from Duncan Luann. Actually, I think that even if Iwasn't on maternity leave, it would have been.Great from the beginning to share it with someone elseand do it together and I really wouldn't have done itwithout him. It was a collaborative effort and Iwould like to suggest to everyone to try to talk toother people and do it together.OK.Nice yeah I completely agree. I think that's areally nice way to do presentations and talks forI think the key takeaway is that.We all really like Spaces Summit, but there's alwaysthings that are up for improvement and I think it'sreally nice that we are reflecting and that we arebringing it to the table and that we are talking about this.And I think only in that way you can really make make things evenbetter. And yeah, there are a lot of cool things happening, soI'm really looking forward to next year Space Summit to seesee what we come up with.Yeah, for me it would be if you want to present but you don'thave an idea, think about it. I'm pretty sure you can findsomething interesting that doesn't look interesting atfirst view, but many more people would be actually happy to hearabout it. So ask around then you'll see you'll find a nicetopic to talk about.OK.And from their women in tech community drivers Martin Heise,what about you?Yeah, so I would like to see our community playing a moreprominent role in engaging more women towards presenting. So aswe mentioned before, maybe creating a safe space where theycan practice doing those throughout the year. Also, justassessing perhaps the underlying issues that are not very clearright now, so I would like to see the community taking a moreactive role in that manner.Yes, I totally agree with that.And my personal takeaways near me that I have topresent next year.Postponing it so yes.Cool.Yeah so Yep, thanks for your time to share this with with usand with with you all this I I believe it's really good to doan explain what you came up with this statement with the threepillars but encouraged by Sharon diversity, but also about thestories about the space Summittalks an. And I like already. I see kind of redline in and do it together.Lower the the your own barrier to to do so and and start smalland the space time. It's an internal summit, but you canalso use other internal ones before you go out standing, sothat's also great to hear. Really interesting in what comesout of the.The inventory that you want to do the the questionnaire survey.And I'm also interested if somebody is listening that wantsto share thoughts, and if it's internal bullet come, you knowhow to find out workplace, but if it's outside bullet come youcan send email to tacklefootball.com or you cancome to the Twitter account or send it to us. Or maybe to youas well. So share your ideas on this that would be also verynice I believe. So yeah, the food for thought I would wouldsay, but also it's we started off with women in tech, but thenit became diversity in tech.And yeah, it it's there's a lot of stuff to talk about again, soso thank you, yeah.Thank you very much Sir. Thanks for having us.Very much here. Yeah, that was great.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die Portland Horror Film Festival, the Pacific Northwest’spremiere horror genre film festival, is going virtual! Horror Fans cansoak up over 60 short and feature films over the 6 night eventbeginning June 10th with the first shorts block and a preview of thefestival’s upcoming features. The terror continues June 17-21st withmore short and feature films from around the world. Central Dental In the midst of this pandemic, some businesses are finally starting tore-open, but there is no way to know when theaters in Portland willfinally open, and how many people will be allowed inside once they do.Many events have had to postpone again and again due to this uncertaintimeline. First Night Festival Directors Brian and Gwen Callahan believe the right thing todo is follow the lead of amazing festivals like Fantasia and CFF, andpresent Portland Horror Film Festival as a dynamic streaming event forhorror fans all over the US. While going virtual creates challengesfor the festival, independent filmmakers, and distributors, thedirectors believe it is important to continue to evangelizeindependent film and show the year’s best horror films to thecommunity. Rather than cancel or postpone the festival until thingsare “safe”, which only increases the stress and uncertainty of thesetimes, going forward with a streaming event offers important reliefand a sense of stability to horror fans who are stuck at home. Beyondhelping horror filmmakers and fans, ticket sales will also benefit thehistoric non-profit Hollywood Theatre, the seat of independent cinemain Portland, which is currently closed due to the pandemic. Karaoke Night All films will be integrated into carefully curated nightly shows andsecurely streamed during limited event hours for ticketed audiencemembers. Because a film festival is more than just watching movies,nightly programming will feature both pre-recorded and live content,including film introductions, interviews with horror icons, and livefilmmaker Q&As that the audience can take part in. “Our goal is tofoster the sense of community that makes our fest so magical, with afun and eventful stage and screen show... just on a virtual stage,”said Brian Callahan. Little Willy This year’s feature film lineup opens on Wednesday, June 17th withWild Boar, starring Augie Duke and Daniel Roebuck as geocachers whoquest for a legendary treasure, only to end up as fodder for mutantpig-men. Wild Boar was written and directed by Oscar winner BarneyBurman, known for his makeup effects on JJ Abrams’s Star Trek,Zombieland: Double Tap, and the TV series Grimm. Thursday’s doublefeature kicks off with Sunset on the River Styx, a surrealist andcontemplative story of two lovers who fall into a vampire death cult,from writer/director Aaron Pagniano, winner of the Funny Bone Awardfor last year’s horror comedy short “We Got a Monkey’s Paw.” Come forthe vampires, but stay for the zombies! Witness Infection is ahilarious tale of mobsters and zombies directed by Andy Palmer,written by Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911) and Jill-Michele Meleán (MadTV,Reno 911), who star alongside Robert Belushi, Vince DonVito, ErinnHayes (Children’s Hospital), and Tara Strong (Rick and Morty). Don’tmiss fan-favorite Justin Harding’s Making Monsters, The Curse ofValburga from Slovenia, with its hilarious splatterfest ofinternational tourist stereotypes and jaw dropping kill scenes, UnclePeckerhead with its punk-rock demon action, written and directed byMatthew John Lawrence, winner of the 2016 Funny Bone Award for hishorror comedy short “Larry Gone Demon,” and the World Premiere of TheBrain That Wouldn’t Die, a crowdfunded love letter to the 1962B-movie, filmed here in Portland. Making Monsters Short film offerings include a wide variety of seriously terrifying,thoughtful, funny, and Weird films from all over the world, includingthe Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Iran, TheNetherlands, France, Spain,

“It’s my life’s mission to help women negotiate their worth” EMEA Recruitment were honoured to welcome Wies Bratby as a guest on our recent podcast.  Originally from The Netherlands and having lived in different countries, she now calls Switzerland home. Through her coaching and consulting practice Women In Negotiation, she helps women across the world realise their worth, communicate it and get them the positions and salaries they want through her online group coaching program Women In Negotiation.  Wies’ program is consistently successful, with an average salary increase of 49.1% for promotions or new roles. As President of Lean In Switzerland, she helps leverage women’s peer support powers and organizes workshops and conferences regarding diversity and inclusion.  Wies is also a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop trainer, inspiring women to proactively negotiate for everything they want, need and deserve in their careers and lives.  In this podcast we cover matters such as: Why Wies started Women in Negotiation How negotiation is her passion The importance of taking action Working with gender stereotypes “Bring the data, not the drama” Going for no and how to react to it  We hope you enjoy the podcast and look forward to seeing your comments and shares  If you want to reach out to Wies, you can connect with her through LinkedIn on https://www.linkedin.com/in/womeninnegotiation   The podcast is hosted by founder of EMEA; Paul Toms and Executive Recruiter and Senior Consultant; Jenny Callum. To find out more about EMEA recruitment visit: https://emearecruitment.eu Follow EMEA Recruitment on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/emea-recruitment-limited/ Or connect with Paul on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomsemea Or Jenny at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennycallumemea   Please like and share the post so your network can benefit from this advice. If you have any questions or topics you would like EMEA Recruitment to cover in our podcasts in the future, please send me a message on LinkedIn and we will look to help as much as possible. #emearecruitmentpodcast #paultoms #emearecruitment #switzerland #thenetherlands #singapore #wiesbratby #womeninnegotiation #leaninswitzerland  

“Just go for it & be bold!”    EMEA Recruitment were delighted to welcome Erik Neutzner from Liberty Global as a guest on our podcast recently.  In this episode, the focus is very much on learning, development and career progression.  You will find some great advice here for anyone looking to emulate Erik’s fantastic career across a range of different countries, which he refers to as his “International tour”  Erik covers areas such as continuous learning, setting priorities, taking advantage of opportunities when they arise, taking action, challenging yourself and the importance of patience.  We also discuss the changing role of the finance function, and the importance of business partnering.  In addition we discuss the challenges of recruiting on the basis of potential and how applicants can help themselves to highlight they indeed have potential.    Please like and share this episode amongst your network and do let us know if there is a guest or topic you would like us to approach.   If you want to reach out to Erik, you can connect with him through LinkedIn on https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-neutzner-77a63b3   The podcast is hosted by founder of EMEA; Paul Toms and Executive Recruiter and Senior Consultant; Jenny Callum. To find out more about EMEA recruitment visit: https://emearecruitment.eu Follow EMEA Recruitment on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/emea-recruitment-limited/ Or connect with Paul on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomsemea Or Jenny at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennycallumemea   Please like and share the post so your network can benefit from this advice. If you have any questions or topics you would like EMEA Recruitment to cover in our podcasts in the future, please send me a message on LinkedIn and we will look to help as much as possible.

In this episode of Flourish in the Foreign, Niana shares how moving abroad in 2013 was a necessary step in her grieving process, her thoughts on the North American Language Assistant program, how living abroad in Spain & The Netherlands has helped her not take language learning so seriously and how she successfully reentered her professional field after a 5-year career break.   Join the Flourish Community for practical tips to get & stay abroad!  Episode Credits: Christine Job-Creator & Host Zachary Higgs-Theme Music

The ROAMies demonstrate how to utilize EVERY part of a CSA Produce Box AND share a simple Goat Cheese Dip recipe inspired from one of their trips to The Netherlands.  Produce boxes are a great way to save time, eat fresh, simplify your on-the-go life, support local farms, improve your health, and help you try new things. In most cases with a CSA, you can customize your box. This means you can choose which veggies or fruits you do or don't want. Depending on the service, you can choose organic or conventional produce, as well as your delivery dates. You can often skip weeks for when you'll be out of town. And you can schedule a box upon your return home from your travels to save a trip to the grocery store.Imperfect FoodsFarm Fresh To You: Get $15 off your first box by using code: ALEX6674Our Video on how we utilize our CSA boxes from top to bottom: Thanks for your ongoing support!Alexa and RoryThe ROAMiesPlease subscribe, rate and share our podcast! Follow us at:http://www.TheROAMies.comThe ROAMies: Facebook and Instagram YouTube and Twitter.#CSA, #OrganicProduce, #FreshEats, #FreshOrganic, @FarmFreshToYou, @ImperfectFoods, #Holland, #TheNetherlands, #Netherlands, #travels, #travelhome, #healthyeating, #catsofinstagram, #healthyliving, #travelpodcast, #Americana, #acousticpop, #TheROAMies, #roam, #nomad, #WeBelieveInHome, Magnolia Market, #Quarantine, #StayAtHome, #Delivery, #recipe, #GoatCheese, #Dip, #VeggieSpread, #VeggieDip, #Vegan

Tackling the role and meaning of sex during the lockdown, Doortje and I speak about the meaning and role of sex in times of high anxiety and despair. Working with couples across the world over the past two decades, I've noticed that sex is one of the main ways people cope with and manage their stress of various nature. Especially in times like these, we are driven to consider basic needs of feeling safe, loved, and achieving agency over our bodies and lives. Some look at sex as a way to be reminded that they are alive, they can still find pleasure in life, and create comfort in the idea that there is one area that they can still control about their bodies and their intimate relationships. Some others refrain from it and need to feel safe first before allowing physical connections as such. Doortje draws from her experience of 3 decades as a leader in the field of sexual health and wellbeing by sharing lessons learned from community education, the #MeToo movement, history and experiences of shame. She offers the idea that kindness can serve as a lens through which healing can be achieved. She encourages us to be more compassionate, towards ourselves and others, around our need to express ourselves sexually during this time and have sexual connection as a primal need, a form of coping for many. She reminds us that sex is not just about orgasms but a range of physical touch that could bring one joy. Follow Dr. Sara on IG | Join our community for resources and material discussed in the black fish podcast episodes.About Doortje Braeken van SchaikDoortje Braeken van Schaik has more than 35 years of experience in adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights, 25 of which with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the largest sexual and reproductive health and rights organisation in the world, with expertise grounded in youth, gender and rights issues. During her career she has strived to include sexual rights and sexual wellbeing in her work, especially in sexuality education and services for young people. She initiated and is the co-author of a series of documents on youth participation, CSE including IPPF's framework for comprehensive sexuality education. After her retirement in December 2016, Doortje has continued to work as a consultant for UN and international NGOs. She is the co-author of the recently published International Sexuality Education Guidelines by UNESCO. She is Honorary Fellow, University of Brighton, Department of Education, board member of the Global Advisory Board on Sexual Health and Wellbeing and received the golden medal by the World Association for Sexual Health for her contributions to Comprehensive Sexuality Education, in 2014.

In this week's episode we cover stories from #TheNetherlands, #Seychelles #Tasmania, #India #TheUnitedKingdom, #Namibia, and #Kenya. Visit the blog (https://taplink.cc/tunukamedia) for pictures and references.© 2020 TunukaMedia

Gina Bourne and Nina Mariana Pascha, best friends since their student days in Chiang Mai, Thailand, took their very first cycling trip in 2019 in New Zealand, after dreaming for the last 10 years about working and living in the country. What I love about Gina and Nina's story is how down to earth it is, and how they start at Point A without any training and learn to love the road and the journey along the way. After talking with them for an hour, I was ready to make my next big trip a cycling trip. You just might too! Join us for a story of adventure and discovery on the South Island of New Zealand. There will be noodles, there will be chocolate, there will be dance breaks!  

Alison and Maciah are back on a bonus episode to talk about what it's like living in the Netherlands. TraveLingo on Instagram TraveLingo on Twitter

Our talk with Suzi Yee about building businesses, living in foreign countries, and having a successful midlife crisis. Also she shares a quick easy technique for starting something new! Find her on facebook on her pages Suzi Yee author and Expeditious Retreat Press.

Dreaming of sailing Europe on a river cruise? Mikkel and Dan from Sometimes Home join us to talk all about traveling through The Netherlands and Belgium on a river cruise, from fries to tulips and everything in between! Show notes on https://worldwidehoneymoon.com/wwh-podcast

We are back with a new season of podcasts from next week. In the meantime here's our favourite bits with lots of giggles. We talk about UK shops with initials for their names, Christmas dangers, The Hatfield Galleria, What can't you get in The Netherlands? Top 5 things you lose at home, plus the joy of owls!

We are back with a new season of podcasts from next week. In the meantime here's our favourite bits with lots of giggles. We talk about UK shops with initials for their names, Christmas dangers, The Hatfield Galleria, What can't you get in The Netherlands? Top 5 things you lose at home, plus the joy of owls!

Holland vs The Netherlands: Episode 20 The difference between Holland and the Netherlands? Plus we go over the holiday of Sinterklaas. We review Burt’s Guinness Rich Chili which was brought to us by Steve Kovisto. Thank you Steve! Trivia question of the week: What is the new name for the country formerly known as Swaziland? Follow us on Instagram: 2pts_n_a_bagofchips and/or Twitter @2PTsNaBagOChips to see photos, video and get additional physical therapy information throughout the week. Thanks for listening!!

Late Show writer Daniel Kibblesmith joins us to try some candy bars from across the pond!

Author Pieter Baay discusses his article, "“Ex-Imprisoned Homicide Offenders: Once Bitten, Twice Shy?” The Effect of the Length of Imprisonment on Recidivism for Homicide Offenders."

Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK.

Transcript -- Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK.

Transcript -- Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK.

Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK.