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Šodien Čikāgā turpinās pirmdien startējušais Demokrātiskās partijas Nacionālais konvents – priekšvēlēšanu sanākšana, kam oficiāli jāapstiprina partijas kandidāts ASV prezidenta vēlēšanām. Šīs nedēļas sākumā Savienoto Valstu ārlietu resora vadītājs Entonijs Blinkens jau atkal ieradās Tuvajos Austrumos, lai censtos panākt uguns pārtraukšanu. Bet, turpinoties intensīvai kaujas darbībai frontē, kura kopš nesena laika šķērso ne vien Ukrainas, bet arī agresorvalsts Krievijas teritoriju, ne mazāk spilgtas kolīzijas risinājušās arī šī kara aizmugurē.  Ārvalstu aktualitātes pārrunājam ar politologiem Arni Latišenko un Kārli Daukštu, kā arī Māršala fonda vecāko pētnieci Kristīni Bērziņu. * Uz tramplīna zem stikla griestiem Šodien Čikāgā turpināsies pirmdien startējušais Demokrātiskās partijas Nacionālais konvents – priekšvēlēšanu sanākšana, kam oficiāli jāapstiprina partijas kandidāts nākamajām prezidenta vēlēšanām. Savulaik šie partiju konventi tiešām bija izšķirošās sacīkstes starp valsts galvas amata pretendentiem, taču pagājušā gadsimta pirmajā pusē Savienoto Valstu politikas praksē pamazām nostiprinājās partiju priekšvēlēšanu balsošanas sistēma. Pēdējie prezidenta amata kandidāti, kuri tika izraudzīti partiju nacionālajos konventos, bija republikānis Dvaits Eizenhauers un demokrāts Edlejs Stīvensons 1952. gadā. 1972. gadā priekšvēlēšanu balsojumi visās pavalstīs tika noteikti kā obligāti kā Demokrātiskās, tā Republikāniskās partijas statūtos. Tiesa, šis konvents demokrātiem varēja kļūt par ārkārtas gadījumu, jo, prezidentam Baidenam izstājoties no priekšvēlēšanu cīņas, viņam garantētās pavalstu delegātu balsis automātiski netika ieskaitītas viceprezidentei Harisai. Tomēr jūlija beigās notikušajā kandidātu izvirzīšanas balsojumā viņa bija vienīgā, kas savāca nepieciešamo delegātu balsu minimumu kandidēšanai, savukārt augusta pirmajās dienās notikušajā virtuālās nominēšanas procedūrā viņu atbalstīja gandrīz simts procenti delegātu. Raidsabiedrības BBC reportiere Madlēna Helperte savā vēstījumā pēc konventa pirmās dienas akcentēja šo politiskās stafetes nodošanas izjūtu. Visi runātāji, kuri līdz beidzamajam atbalstīja prezidenta Baidena kampaņas turpināšanu, tagad pauž nepārprotamu atbalstu Harisai; visi tie, kuri tika mudinājuši Baidenu izstāties, tagad neskopojas ar pateicības vārdiem viņam. Paša prezidenta uzstāšanās, kurā viņš vēlreiz atzīmēja savas administrācijas paveikto un vēlreiz piesauca iespējamās Donalda Trampa ievēlēšanas bīstamību, izpelnījās visgrandiozākās auditorijas ovācijas. Konventa kulminācija – par kandidātu nodoto delegātu balsu skaitīšanas procedūra – šoreiz bija gluži formāla augusta sākumā veiktās virtuālās nominēšanas dēļ. Tad nu partijas vadība šo norisi pārvērta krāšņā šovā, kuru vadīja ne vien moderators, bet arī dīdžejs, un kurā delegācijas prezentēja katra savu pavalsti. Savukārt otrās dienas gaidītais vaiņagojums bija eksprezidenta Baraka Obamas un viņa dzīvesbiedres Mišelas Obamas uzstāšanās. Kā eksprezidenta runas nozīmīgākais motīvs tiek uzsvērta nepieciešamība mobilizēties un smagi strādāt, jo demokrātiem uzvara vēl nepavisam neesot rokā. Pamanāmu disonansi konventa visumā festivālsikajā atmosfērā radījuši palestīniešu atbalstītāji  Čikāgas ielās. Lielākoties demonstrācijas ir mierīgas, taču daži, laužoties cauri policijas kordonam pie konventa norises vietas un Izraēlas konsulāta, izpelnījušies arestu. Tilti vai mirāžas? Šīs nedēļas sākumā Savienoto Valstu ārlietu resora vadītājs Entonijs Blinkens jau atkal ieradās Tuvajos Austrumos, lai censtos panākt uguns pārtraukšanu. Pēc tikšanās ar Izraēlas premjerministru Benjaminu Netanjahu viņš paziņoja, ka Izraēla esot piekritusi Savienoto Valstu, Kataras un Ēģiptes kopīgi izvirzītajam plānam, kam, Blinkena vārdiem runājot, jāceļ tilti pāri puses šķirošajām plaisām. Kā norādījis Blinkens, tagad izšķiršanās par pamiera sarunu atsākšanu esot grupējuma Hamas pusē, un, iespējams, vienošanās varētu tikt panākta jau nedēļas laikā. Pašreizējā sarunu procesa pamatā ir trīs posmu plāns, kuru ASV prezidents Baidens publiskoja maija beigās, un kas paredz pakāpenisku Gazas sektorā joprojām gūstā turēto izraēliešu atbrīvošanu, Izraēlai paralēli atvelkot spēkus no ieņemtajām teritorijām un atbrīvojot daļu tās cietumos turēto palestīniešu kaujinieku. Pēc Izraēlas ziņām, 111 izraēliešu gūstekņi joprojām atrodas Hamas rokās, lai gan trešdaļa no viņiem varētu vairs nebūt starp dzīvajiem. Iekšpolitiski iespējamā vienošanās ir Netanjahu valdībai abpusgriezīgs zobens, jo, no vienas puses, pastāvīgi pieaug sabiedrības spiediens panākt atlikušo gūstekņu atbrīvošanu, no otras – radikāli labējās partijas pašreizējā valdībā draud ar tās galu, ja premjerministrs pārlieku piekāpsies Hamas. Pēdējās nedēļās Izraēla ir izvirzījusi jaunus nosacījumus spēku atvilkšanai. Tā vēlas paturēt savā kontrolē joslu gar Gazas sektora dienvidu robežu, lai nepieļautu ieroču kontrabandu no Ēģiptes, kā arī joslu, kas sadala sektoru pa vidu. Palestīnieši, kuri no sektora dienviddaļas atgrieztos savās agrākajās mājvietās ziemeļdaļā, šai joslā tiktu pārbaudīti, lai nepieļautu kaujinieku un ieroču pārvietošanu. Līdz šim Hamas šīs Izraēlas prasības atteicies akceptēt, savukārt pieprasot garantijas, ka Izraēla, panākusi daļas gūstekņu atbrīvošanu, neatsāks karadarbību. Pie tam nav īsti skaidrs, cik operatīva varētu būt saziņa ar Hamas pusi iespējamajā sarunu procesā, ciktāl Jahja Sinvars, kustības līderis, kas pārņēmis varas grožus pēc Ismaila Hanijas nogalināšanas jūlija beigās, rūpīgi slēpjas Gazas tuneļos un ir sazināms vien ar vairāku dienu starplaiku. Ukrainas un Krievijas aizmugures kolīzijas Turpinoties intensīvai kaujas darbībai frontē, kura kopš nesena laika šķērso ne vien Ukrainas, bet arī agresorvalsts Krievijas teritoriju, ne mazāk spilgtas kolīzijas risinājušās arī šī kara aizmugurē. 14. augustā izdevums "The Wall Street Journal" publicēja rakstu ar versiju par to, kā īsti notikusi gāzes vada "Nord Stream" saspridzināšana Baltijas jūrā 2022. gada septembrī. Kā apgalvo izdevums, ideja par šo diversiju Ukrainas militāristu un uzņēmēju aprindās radusies drīz pēc Krievijas plaša mēroga iebrukuma Ukrainā, pie kam biznesa ļaudis apņēmušies segt operācijas materiālo pusi. Sākotnēji plānam piekritis arī prezidents Zelenskis, taču tad no Vašingtonas, kur arī kļuvis zināms par plānu, pienācis uzstājīgs lūgums no tā atteikties. Prezidents esot mēģinājis operāciju apturēt, taču armijas pavēlnieks ģenerālis Zalužnijs, kura pakļautībā darbojusies diversiju grupa, neesot pakļāvies, un tā nu gāzes vads uzgājis gaisā. Kā apgalvots publikācijā, daļēji šie fakti zināmi arī Vācijas izmeklēšanas iestādēm. Raksts "The Wall Street Journal" parādījās teju sinhroni ar informāciju Vācijas presē par to, ka "Nord Stream" lietas sakarā izdots orderis kāda Polijā dzīvojoša Ukrainas pilsoņa arestam, taču minētā persona paguvusi laikus pamest valsti. Tikmēr Vācijas un Polijas specdienestu pārstāvji vairākiem avotiem norādījuši, ka apšaubot Ukrainas atbildību un drīzāk sliecoties domāt par Krievijas specdienestu operāciju nolūkā diskreditēt Ukrainu. Otrs vienādojums ar vairākiem nezināmajiem ir tēma par sarunām, kuras, iespējams, tikušas plānotas starp Krieviju un Ukrainu ar Kataras starpniecību. Sarunu rosinātāja esot bijusi tieši Katara, izvirzot ideju, ka abas puses varētu vienoties turpmāk atturēties no triecieniem pa pretinieka enerģētikas infrastruktūru. Interese bijusi abpusēja, taču sarunas pajukušas neilgi pirms paredzētā sākuma, kad Ukrainas spēki iebrukuši Krievijas Kurskas apgabalā. Tomēr viss vēl neesot zaudēts, iespējams, procesu izdosies atjaunot. Toties notikušas sarunas Azerbaidžānas galvaspilsētā Baku starp tur ieradušos Krievijas vadoni Putinu un viņa azerbaidžāņu kolēģi Ilhamu Alijevu. Acīmredzami ukraiņu spēku operācijas Krievijas teritorijā nav pietiekams iemesls, lai Kremļa saimnieks mainītu savu ārvalstu vizīšu programmu. Oficiāli tikšanās saturs pamatā bijis saistīts ar Krievijas lomu Aizkaukāza reģiona stabilitātes nodrošināšanā, kā arī abu pušu tirdznieciskajiem sakariem. Kā zināms, Krievija īsti neiesaistījās, kad Azerbaidžāna pagājušogad rudenī ar militāru spēku savā labā atrisināja gadu desmitus ilgušo teritoriālo strīdu ar kaimiņvalsti Armēniju par Kalnu Karabahas teritoriju. Putins nu solījis sazināties ar Armēnijas premjerministru Nikolu Pašinjanu, acīmredzot lai mudinātu viņu slēgt mieru ar Azerbaidžānu. Tāpat šīs vizītes sakarā izskanējuši pieņēmumi, ka spriests ticis arī par iespējamu Krievijas naftas tirgošanu uz Eiropu, uzdodot to par Azerbaidžānā iegūtu, un, iespējams, pat par kādu militāru resursu piegādi Maskavai. Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.   Eiropas Parlamenta granta projekta „Jaunā Eiropas nākotne” programma.* ​ * Šī publikācija atspoguļo tikai materiāla veidošanā iesaistīto pušu viedokli. Eiropas Parlaments nav atbildīgs par tajā ietvertās informācijas jebkādu izmantošanu.

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Grupas DEODIUM dalībnieki Jānis Tiltiņš & Atis Tiltiņš METĀLKĀSTS LV Podkāsts #152 Šajā epizodē brāļi Tiltiņi no Deodium-par jaunā albuma ''Maldupe'' tapšanas procesu, lirikām, DIY merch pieredzi u.c Sarunas I. daļa https://youtu.be/Q_1B-wa-DUM Deodium https://deodium.bandcamp.com/ SEKO Metalkastam : ⁠https://www.facebook.com/metalkastslv​​⁠ Uzsaukt aliņu https://www.buymeacoffee.com/metalkastslv Pašmaju metala/roka jaunumi LRMA.LV ⁠https://lrma.lv/​⁠ Metalkasts LV ir podkasts latviešu valoda smagas muzikas cienitajiem. Albumu apskati, dažadi topi, sarunas/intervijas, koncertu apskati u.c jaunumi m/

YOMI // DEODIUM Eiropas Tūre 2023 METĀLKĀSTS LV Podkāsts #151 Epizodes sākuma daļā atsktāmies uz tūres pirmo koncertu, kas norisinājās 30. septembrī, Daugavpilī, klubā Artilērijas Pagrabi, kā arī uz Deodium jaunā albuma ''Maldupe'' prezentācijas koncertu 29. septembrī. Sarunas turpinājumā mums pievienojas Artjoms no Yomi un brāļi Tiltiņi no Deodium, lai pastāstītu par pieredzēto Polijā un Čehijā. Vērtīgu padomu netrūkst, tāpēc īpaši ieteicams saspicēt ausis un veikt piezīmes blociņos tiem, kas vēl tikai plāno savu pirmo braucienu ārpus Baltijas :) Yomi https://yomimetal.bandcamp.com/ Deodium https://deodium.bandcamp.com/ P.S Palikušas vēl 5 Metālkāsta uzšuves. Sūti ziņu, ja ir interese SEKO Metalkastam : ⁠https://www.facebook.com/metalkastslv​​⁠ Uzsaukt aliņu https://www.buymeacoffee.com/metalkastslv Pašmaju metala/roka jaunumi LRMA.LV ⁠https://lrma.lv/​⁠ Metalkasts LV ir podkasts latviešu valoda smagas muzikas cienitajiem. Albumu apskati, dažadi topi, sarunas/intervijas, koncertu apskati u.c jaunumi m/

Šoreiz tiekamies ar Imantu Tiltiņu un Svenu Rubuli, kuri pagājušā gadā Latvijas čempionātā izcīnīja pirmo vietu individuāli. Stāsts par zandartu copi, vīri dalās dažos noslēpumos, diskusija par lielajiem zandartiem, par to, ka zandartu cope ir gandrīz kā nosēdināt helikopteri.

Zarasai – poilsio vieta Lietuvos ar Latvijos gyventojams, o gal populiariausia vieta darbostogoms?Viena iš turistus traukiančių vietų Zarasų apylinkėse – Tiltiškių kaime, buvusio vandens malūno pastate, įsikūręs senoviškų radijo imtuvų ir garso laikmenų muziejus.Kokios pramogos Zarasuose?Ar pavyks išspręsti neišsprendžiamą Zarasų problemą – per miestą važiuojančius sunkiasvorius automobilius? Dėl jų gyventojai kenčia triukšmą, o kai kam skyla ir namų sienos.Kaip gyvena Zarasuose esantys ukrainiečiai?Ved. Rūta Kupetytė

Alright, everybody. Welcome back to the hungriest episode of the mind of George show. And I'm going to be really, really honest. Some of you know, I'm doing the 75 hard challenge and I have to eat a certain way to support everybody and follow Andy's thing. And my guest today is probably the worst guest to have when it comes to being hungry and the best cast to have when it comes to business resiliency, overcoming challenges, mindset, leadership, and everything in between.Right. So like, let me just throw this out here before I bring Nick and, but we're talking world pizza team went from pizza delivery guy to owning six franchises awards across the board. Motivational speaker, everything that you can imagine. Podcast hosts has a book out there and really like probably a man after my heart.Every single thing that we talk about, or every single thing that he has somehow has pizza or food involved. So that inner fat kid that I work really hard to keep at Bay is going to be happy for today's episode. So without further ado, Nick, welcome to the show.  Nick: Thanks for having me, George, I'm super excited to be here.George: Thanks for your time. And I'm, I'm just excited after digging into like your story, I found a keynote talking about you as a child and a resiliency and mindset. One of the first things that I always love to ask my guests, and I think this is so right up your alley and something that you're probably experiencing now and also have experienced in the past. But I always ask people like, what was one of the biggest challenges or struggles or failures that you you've had in business. And what was the lesson that you learned?Nick:  There's there's been a lot of them. I think a lot of times people think that it just, everything happened overnight. They see the success and they think, wow, you know, this guy got lucky, but I think that any entrepreneur knows out there that, there's a lot of opposites and it's a giant roller coaster.From the very beginning giving I was a pizza delivery driver finally got my own shot at my own restaurant. And I had a partner from the very beginning and  It, that was it. That was the big mistake. It lasted. We took over the restaurant September 14th and by Thanksgiving I had to tell my partner, he had to go because he just could not stop drinking.We bought a restaurant and a bar andhe was somebody I knew for eight years, good friend. He was going to be high. I was going to be the knowhow behind it. And I had to tell him he had to get out and he was okay with it because he really thought, you know what? I'm okay. It's okay. Because he's not, there's no way I was going to come up with the money. And I'm the guy, the issue there who were selling it to a saw how hard I was working. So they were like, you know whatwe don't like your partner either because every time we're here, he's drunk. So we'll just go ahead and we'll finance it over five years.Give us what you can give us this amount and the rest is history, but I think the lesson I learned from that is, you know, believe in yourself, you know what? I think a lot of times people get into business and they think they need a partner. And you know, if you work hard enough and think smart enough, and there's a lot of people out there that you can ask for for help, like, don't be, you know, be humble, be somebody that will ask for help when you know.George: Yeah, man, I, I love that it, and I think that's something that you like after digging in a little bit like full disclosure. You're probably the only guest I researched because you're like the most interesting man to me. And I was like, I got to keep finding out more. And like, even at a very young age for you though, like even when you were growing up, I think you have like four brothers, right?So three brothers, even at an early age, you found that you tilted more towards like wanting to be a coach, wanting to be a leader, like finding out these parts of yourself that you could share with other people, but you had it like a pretty young age we're interested in like, Believing in yourself and doing the work on yourself, right?Like what was that, what was that journey like? I mean, I can't imagine being like 13 years old and be like, I don't want to be the star. I'm like, I want to go be a leader today. Like that didn't get into me until the Marine Corps shoved it down my throat. And I'm so grateful that they did there. There was just punk kid in me until that point. So it sounds like you've, you've kind of been on this journey for a long time and now you're kind of living in the results of it and doing it. But what was, what was that like? Like, what was your childhood like? Like where did you get started in all of this and come up and kind of keep that leadership mentality and apply it to where you got to today.Nick: Well, my older brother is a number two, so my older brother's seven years older than me. So when I was 11, he was off to college. So it was my younger brothers were four and six years younger than me. So there you're okay with a seven year old brother and a five year old brother and really for the next step. Four years, you know, it was us and he went we live in Pittsburgh. He went to college in Daytona beach. So he was for the most part, he was gone for next week, four years. So, you know, I became, I guess the older brother. And I was, I love sports. I would sit there and watch sports center every single morning with my cereal.But I sucked me. I was just a kid that was so uncoordinated and you know, there were certain, certain sports, I guess, that I would just try really hard at it. And baseball, I just could never get the hacker pack of it for the hang of it. And then football, I was just always too skinny and you know, I was probably like, I don't know, maybe. It might five, five something like maybe 70 pounds. Like I was just a beanpole. So it translates into one, I think. And that's coach. So I really enjoyed watching my younger brothers, whether it was you know helping with their baseball teams and being like the third base coach and the kid that was always keeping score for their teams.And then we had a youth foundation right down the Hill from my house and I became the floor hockey coach and volunteer the month down there. And I just was found that I love to leave and I didn't really realize it. And there were times where, you know, stupid kid stuff. And I remember a guidance counselor pulled me in probably about six or seventh grade.And he said, you know you're a leader. Don't be following the other kids. I always thought maybe it's bull crap. But the more that I look back on that. I don't know what it was, if that was just the line he gives to everybody or if he actually really saw something in me, but I was, I always have to be the one that kinda was the leader or kind of, and I didn't realize that.And I think as I got older you find that out with your friends too, like, you know, you have a certain group of friends and each one has, and I was you know, one of the ones that was always, coming up with something to do or go somewhere and I just enjoyed.  being part of sports that actually felt like I was, I was good at something.When the other kids didn't have practices and we'd win the championships and everyone wanted to be on my four HOckey team. And you know, we'd have pizza parties for, to, for the team when we won. And yeah, all kind of just little things that there was a lot of fun and like, you know, it's really hard to ask kids 16, 17, 18, what do they want to do the rest of their life?I really didn't know. I always thought maybe it was something with sports and I'll never forget. I was sitting at the lunch table in junior year and I said to my buddy, man, I'm making a lot of tips washing cars. And he said, I'm making way more tips delivering pizzza. And that was, I was hooked because I always worked from like, maybe even like 10 or 12 one, I was.Whether it was cutting lawns, lemonade stand, a baseball card show. I didn't just like go in and sell the baseball cards or flip cards. I was actually  putting the show on it that same youth foundation I'd find out that for 85 bucks, I could rent the youth foundation out on a Sunday.  So once I rent, the space offer for 85 box, we went ahead and I would go to the flea market that I went every week with my mom. She would sell chocolates there and I would go around to the guy selling baseball cards and tell them, Hey, I'm having a show. would you like to buy a table? And then beforeit I'd be putting on these baseball card shows.  So I think it was just like, I didn't realize that I was had entrepreneurial spirit in me. But,  my uncle was a butcher, always had his own business and they had a gas station and he was kind of like a, so when I really looked up to, and then my other we'll have  an awning and a roofing company.AndI just think that it somewhere in me. It was I always looked up to people who had their own businessreally thoughthat was something.George:  Yeah, man, I was riding my bike in the woods. And you were taking over trade shows at like your local center to be an entrepreneur. Like I I'm like sitting here. I'm like, man, I got such a late start hearing you, but I love it. What do you think it was like, um, you know, basically like for me, when I hear you talk about leadership and like. You know, when you talk about like you were coaching your brothers and then you were having them practice when others weren't like, it sounds like you really understood, like, okay, we put in the work, we're going to have success.Like it's inevitable, but also like, there's this piece of me that feels like you just really love people. Like you like love finding the best in people and bringing the best out of people. Is that kind of like, what kept you going? Like, I, I just can't imagine it like 14 years old being like, Oh, well I could go to a baseball card show or I can figure out that I can rent the hall for $85, put on my own flip tables and get it going.But it just sounds like every ounce of what you did was you were just like, I know I can do it. I believe in myself. I know it's just a matter of time if I keep going, but. It also sounds like at the core of it, you really just understood that people were at the core of everything that you did.  NIck: Well, I think there's a lot of truth to that. And I think the other part was by putting on the shows, I became friends with these 40 year old guys. So, you know, that was really to put a timestamp on it. And it was when the 89 upper deck Griffey Jr's came out. And so it was right around that like real big baseball card, crazy. And. And, um, you know, I guess side note, I think it's so awesome to partner to come back and, you know, Gary V's pushing them.So I think it's pretty cool that you're seeing baseball cards and everything come back around. But at that time I became friends with these older guys. So it was like they were giving me deals and I was able, none of that was putting on the shows. Like I was like almost they're equal. Sowere hooking me up in my car I was getting great cards and it just worked. I think it worked really good.  There's a certain point where yes. You know, um, Everything's about people. It doesn't matter from the pizza business or whatever it is, you're in the people business. And I guess I always go to certain things that you hear throughout your life the golden rule and treat others how you want to be treated.And I always say there's reasons that you hear these things all the time and it's because they're true. You don't just hear these things all the time because your grandma liked to repeat them. Like there's a lot of things that are just true. And I think the other part thatsome of it's how you're wired and that's the self awareness and getting into knowing yourself.But I definitely am one of those people that I'm either all in or all out. Like it doesn't matter what I do. I do it full tilt. I cannot justdo something a little bit. Like I can't, it doesn't matter if I've got a hobby and I'm feeding the birds. I've got the biggest baddest bird feeder. It's just the way how I'm wired. And if I'm in the pizza business, like there's no way I'm going to have just one restaurant. You know, that's a local mom pop shop and there's nothing wrong with that. That's great to be that community one shop, like I'm going to be the destination.I'm going to be the guy that's on the map. I'm going to be going to Italy to compete in competitions. I'm going to be speaking at the competence, speaking at the competitions and the expos. I'm going to write a book about it. Like that's jus the way I'm wired.  Goerge: So, yeah. Well, I mean, I think it speaks to the results, but also the practice, just something like the embodiment, right?There's a big difference between being interested in being committed and being interested as a hobby that produces part-time results and being committed. You're like, I'm going to do whatever, like you and I get along great. Like. My wife went to the pet store with my kids to get a hamster and came home with a pet snake. And I was like, Oh geez, here we go. And then I was like a week later, I'm like a professional herpetologist, right? Like I'm like their humidity. This is their feeding schedule. Their cages needs look like this. This is how we take care of them. Now, a month later we have three snakes and I'm like, literally like the snake whisper. My wife's like, you're obsess about this. Like, no. Well, if we're going to have them. We're going to have them perfect. They're going to have everything they need. I'm going to know everything about, I'm going to make sure they get taken care of like you and you. And I would be dangerous in a business together because it really, I feel the same way. But I also feel like that's one of the thing that's missing in today's market. Like, I feel like there's a lot of businesses. There's a lot of internet marketing. There's a lot of, you know, everyone's like, Oh, it's so easy here. Go buy this, go buy this.  But if you're not all the way in, like self-aware of like who you are and what you want to do. And then having that to go find your customers, know how to support them, know how to serve them and then apply that in your business, like it can't work. And like, I, and I'm going to give you kudos. Like you went into one of those hardest businesses that there is like not only the restaurant business, but the low margin restaurant business. That really isn't like something that was like going out for this Michelin star pizza. It's like a hobby and it's a consumable, but it's a hard industry. Like I grew up working in pizza shops and all I have left to show for it is still the burns of my arm.  Cause my armor gets stuck to the top of the oven, like once a month. Cause I wasn't paying attention, but. You know what I love about that. And I want to transition this cause now you own what?Five locations,  five or six?  Nick: We all do have five kind of mixed the six one. We were going to do one in April. And when Covid came on strong  and March, I just could not pull the trigger for a 7,000 square foot restaurant. And I'll tell you what, it was super hard decision because I'm just like you, everything. I just said, I'm always full steam ahead. Like. Man. I was like, am I being lazy? Am I being paranoid? Am I like taking the risk? And I was like, no, I think I'm actually being a little smart here, you know? But that was tough, but yeah, I have, I have five. we're going to celebrate our eighth year, um, coming up here in September and we're going to do roughly,right around $10 million in pizzas this year. Wow. Over by stores.  George: That's amazing. And so you started. You went from, okay, I'm a coach to hosting pizza parties, which I love that was just the seed you need. I have a feeling you've loved pizza your whole life, basically. Yeah. Okay. And then you went from that to like your buddies, like I'm making way more tips as a piece of delivery driver, which, by the way, I was a pizza delivery driver and I made a boatload of tips cause I treated people good. And then you're like, okay.Yeah. I want to buy this restaurant. You learned your lesson and you lost the partner. Which was a gift. Like you molded that one out and then you took off. And then what was that like first year? Like that first two years, because you had one and then what was that journey like to go from like, okay, I'm financing this pizza shop to, I have to flip this thing around. I have to make it profitable. Then I have to expand. Like, what was that journey like?  Nick: Well the journey  really starte a lot younger and a lot longer  than when I opened it. When we bought the business, I was 34. Just to give you an idea. my wife and I, we just celebrated 20 anniversary. And so we have a 20year old and 18 year old. So really when I was 21, 22, you know, father when we found out we're going to have our daughter as like in seven and a quarter an hour andwhy wait, so what are we going to do? And I said, well, we get married, get a house, you know, okay, it's a deal.And a man the next 14 years, I just really grinded. And people use that word all the time and, and I, I think I used that word before. It was cool. Like I was 80, 90 hours a week. Literally five jobs all in the same week. And, and it wasn't like side jobs. It was like straight on like full time mailman at the post office where I always say dreams go to die. And then full time at Papa John's being the general manager. I was I'm delivering it to other pizza shops. I was counting the money at the civic reader where the Pittsburgh penguins played at night. And man, I just everything I could have a normal family, you know? Yeah. And,try and raise two kids without a college degree.And I think I always was that guy and all the differentDomino's Papa John's that I worked at, they would go in and build the sales. I learned at a very young age. A manager was going to go ahead and,ire, I made the supervisor because my walls were dirty. The album was dirty and I was working 80, 90 hours a week.And we went out to a meeting in a, because that's where the other eight franchise stores were. And there was four in Pittsburgh. So every month we, you drive out to Ohio, me and three other general managers were all older than me. We would get out there. Everybody would always go ahead and go clap for whoever had the highest sales.So they'd be like, Hey, art, Nashville is up 10% clap for him. Next meeting Joe, and Youngstown's up 10% clap for him. When I heard it was going to fire me. I was like, you know what? Sales fixes everything. And I was like 22 years old and I read a guerrilla marketing, went to borders when there was a border, but guerrilla marketing right in front of the back.I can't say there's anything in there that like stood out to me besides the concept that you have to get out of your comfort zone. You have to get out of your space and go and get the sales and not wait for them to come to you. Next meeting everyone clap. Nick's up 10% next meeting. I'm ready. Clap for Nikki's up 20% next meeting Nick's up 45%. Nick tell everybody what you were doing. And what I was doing was that what the school board and I sold them on selling pizzas for school lunches. I went to the school board and being in the football stadium and the baskets.Cool sling contracts. So it was like, you know, I build myself up as a sales builder, so I always could make money for everybody else. And I think there was a certain point where, um, I guess, I guess the other part of the story, you know, real, real big part was, you know, that's probably like 22, 23, 24, 25. So right around there, dominoes picked me off and they moved me across the state to Wilksbear.And when I got out the Wilksbear was same thing. They put me in a store that was doing 15 grand. I took it to 25 grand within a year. And, know, the kids were maybe like four and two at the time or five and three,just to get an idea, it's still in Pitt, still in Pennsylvania, but it's like five hours away.It might as well be in another state. And our family's always been real close. So, you know, my wife was took her away from her family and were on the other side. And I always say we moved back again because we were homesick, but the truth was how I told you thateverything I do that I do full tiltI have become a horrible drug addict and a worse,  alcoholic.And you know, probably about 28 years old at that time. And I can say October would be 15 years clean and sober for me. No drugs, no alcohol. And what it was was, you know, she said, look, I'm going home. I don't care if you come with me or not. And I went ahead and I, I quit my job. She took the car back and the car and the phone.no kids, no wife's. And just the next day, I really, I reached down for the toilet papers and the toilet paper, and I said, you know what, I got nothing and I just hit my knees. And if you're real helped me. That was it. That was my moment. That everything changed. And,  I just realized that when I came back when my mother in law had said, Hey, my there's some counseling at church.And, that will that do, my wife needs counseling, but really I needed the counseling and the counselor said, look, if you've got you've got to take your drugs and alcohol serious and go to at least a class about it. And I was like, wow, don't have a problem. And I went and done, man, that was it.That was like where my life started, really for me and then after that everybody always talked about here was this pizza guy and family, friends. Everyone was like, you need to get a real job. That's what I kept hearing. So I did, I'm sorry, radio advertising.  I asked my favorite interview question of all time.When they're done this, a tip for anybody out there, Rick, right at the end, when they say, do you have any more questions? The best question to ask is there any reason you wouldn't hire me? And they said, because you never sold anything. And I told them about all the contracts with pizza and everything else.And they went ahead they hired me and I sold radio for the next six months and I hated it. Anyone cool itself, more power to you? I can not just walk into place and try and sell him something, not for me. Um, then I started delivering pizzas six months in and, you know, um, I was delivering pizzas.I was working all the different jobs like I was saying. And then really what happened was, is I kept hearing this real job thing. I bought about a very nice house for 170,000. Well showing my income of all the pizzas that I delivered in all my time. . So, you know, bottle off of that, I'm still with friends and family.It was like, Oh, he must be selling drugs. And he bought a house, but he was like, no, I really was, you know, I was turning my life around at that point. It was like two years into being sober. And, um, you know, I got a job at the post office cause everyone's like, Oh, you need a real job. And like I said, when I went to the post office and I looked around and I was like, you know what this is where dreams go to die, come here. And they say, we're going to work here in the next 40 years and that's it, they're gonna retire. And then really, you know, side note because everything that's going on with the post office in the news, you know, just a fact when you become a full time post office employee, the government has to back that retirement for the next, however long you're going to be at the post office until you're 65. They pay for your pension all at once. So that's why they're bankrupt. They won't tell you that on TV. The reason is because they didn't want to start here. They pay their next 40 years of pay is already in the retirement paid for. So it's like, you know what? That just tells you like that for dream to gets die.As soon as I went there, I was like, you know what, I'm going to own my own business. I don't know why it's pizza that I'm good at, but that's what I'm good at. And I love it. So I'm going to figure out how to do it myself.So that's the journey before the journey. So to answer your question and I will well ramble as long, but the, what happened was, is then that the time to figure out how to open a restaurant, I just walked in the pizza shops, once the partner said, Hey, I'm going to max out my credit cards andlet's do this thing. I, we were in the city of Pittsburgh, right by where university of pity is. And I would walk in and say some of your pizza shop and these old guys, like get the hell out of here. The fifth guy walked into so my buddy has a shot for sale in Bloomfield, which is over the bridge from university of Pitt.Still, you can deliver it. I walked in and I said, Oh my God, it's a bar. No, I walked the back full pizza, kitchen, everything, and we need, and all the numbers line up and everything.  I like to say for the next six months, I kept saying all I wanted was the pizza shop. The key moment there was, I said to my wife, or she said to me, are you going to be okay?Because at that point I wouldn't even go to the liquor store for her. I was seven years sober. I wouldn't, even if she wanted a bottle of wine, she knew not to ask me. And I said, you know what? This is a means to the end. And I asked my partner, you're going to be okay because he had a alcohol addiction, but he never reallyexpanded on or got help for it.And he said, Maybe, and that should have been assigned because it was terrible to see. You know it was the one guy that like really believed in me and not to be put his money where his mouth is. I really wanted it to work. It was a really to see how it went. That was really the struggle.And then I think the other part was, it just was, to anybody that's envisioning in the very beginning, usually I just have to do something every single day. That's that's what you have to do. I'll show you this right here. See the elephant one bite at a time. That's the elephan and that's why it's up there.That's the way I approach business every single day wasjust a little bit, what can I do today? So that, so when I leave tonight, it won't be the same as when came the day before. And every day I did that. And if you have that mentality, that every day you're changing stuff, when you look back in a year, you're like, Oh my gosh, like I built this awesome place, everything's different. Yeah. But you know, yeah. That's the way you have to approach it. That's how I approached it. Yeah, man.  George:  There's so much gold in there. I mean, there's so much to unpack. I mean, like you were working at Papa John's and then you read a book on guerrilla marketing. Seth Godin is a coauthor that book and You're like, it wasn't anything, but it shifted your perspective. You're like, I'm going to find opportunity or I'm gonna make opportunity. Right. And then it's like boom. And then it comes up. And there's a lot of gold there and it's kinda be that like Pittsburgh, like blue collar thing. Like you guys are like the hardest workers, like I ever seen in my life, like ever.And I love it. And the pride that comes into it, but like what you just shared. I think is probably one of the biggest challenges that I see in today's day and age. Like, I was lucky that I was like on deployment when the internet got popular.  Like they couldn't have a Facebook account. I didn't get in trained in social media. I was just doing hard labor in the middle of the desert, but like now, I have to remind myself daily, like just one more thing, one more step back basics, like do this thing. And like there's so much gold in that to where I think now we look at marketing sales business and it's like, we live in this delusion that it's like, I'm going to have a unicorn tomorrow, or it's going to build itself. Or it's kind of convert itself or it's going to figure itself out and like what you just said, like every single day, like just do one thing that makes it better. One thing that moves it forward, one more email, one more post, one more phone call. Like man, like I love that. Like, it there's so much gold wrapped up in that simplicity of it. I just, I absolutely love it. Now you went from that one. And then how long did you have that one before you expanded? Nick: Well, I had three goals when I took over the store in the very beginning, you know, it was very simple. Number one, to buy a car in this century, cause I was the King of $500 cars. So I won a car in the century. Second goal was, I want a little bigger house, that was, you know what, we want to win a little bigger house. And then the third one was, I want to know how I was going to pay for my kid's college because they were12 and 10 at the time. And I didn't have a single penny saved. And it was important for me to be able to do that for them. So really a year in, I was like, man, I'm going to have all these goals accomplished. Like I can see the light in the tunnel. I was like, well, well now what is that really? How I'm going to judge my success? And I said, you know what?It's not. When I can create an environment that the people who work for me can accomplish, there are three goals from working for me. Then I could feel successful. So that's what's fueled the expansion. So I was like, we have to go open another store. So, and we werea bout two years in, it was 25 months.We opened the first one in September, the second one, two years later in October. And then, the third one was 16 months after that. And then the the fourth one was, um, about the. Well, 18 months after that. And then yeah, one was a year after the first or the fourth one. So it was like every  year and a half, we were over and stores pretty much.And same reason every time, when I got to the second one, I still was like, I really, I didn't need to open more stores we've created a lot of career positions. We have over about roughly 200 employees, definitely before COVID, we still have bartenders and servers not working at the moment. We're somewhere between the one 50 and 200 brands of employees we've created great Christmas parties and holiday parties and summer picnics. And a place where people want to work andpromotions, we make a big deal of, and we just really love our people. That's what it's all about. And I think I just wanted to create an environment that somebody would actually like to work there and that's  kind of what we've created.George: Yeah, man. I mean like you literally, like, I hear my heart gets so happy hearing you talk about this. Like, I feel like as an entrepreneur, my biggest struggle for years was, is I didn't know where I wanted to go or where I was going. Like, I didn't have a goal. I didn't have a direction. Like I had a why. I want to break my pattern. I don't want to end up in the abuse cycle an addict anymore. Cause I've been through 12 step meetings and like, I want it to break it all. But there was still this level of like aimless. And I always tell people yeah. To have a why greater than yourself and you know, what it was for me, it was my children like that.Oh, was it? It was like I don't have a choice any more, like I have to do it. You know, you said that. And then the one thing that like, I want to highlight that you said that is so powerful. Well, and literally the secret to every business success. And like, you need to make this a tweetable. You're like, it wasn't enough to accomplish my goals. Your measuring stick was when the people who work for me accomplish their goals. That's how you knew that you made it, like that's what you were working towards. Like that is the secret to every single business success that it's there, empowering the people to achieve their goals, having a why, a business greater than yourself. Like that just speaks to your character and like what you've done. Like I'm not, I'm surprised you don't have 85 restaurants and 8,000 employees at this point. It's a very, very grounded noble amazing thing to do in everybody should carry through. And I was like, yep. This is the people guide like all day.I love it. I love it. And I also want to talk about though or something I heard you talk about. And I think this was when you opened your first pizza shop, right? So we hit your people. We hit your clarity, but like, Some of the stuff that you did in marketing when you were making an improvement every day, like, what is this concept of like hot selling, right?Like you had pizzas, but instead of waiting for somebody to order a pizza or buy a pizza, you would make like 90 pizzas and you would send your drivers out and have them sell the pizzas. Like you made them like mini pizza hustlers, right?  Nick:  So basically what I did was I needed to raise the sales and what I decided to do was. I called out back and I said, Hey, can I get some steak dinners for my guy? Some gift cards, I'll trade you pizzas. They said sure. And I told my guys, I was like, Hey, if you sell all your pizzas that I give you this week, I'm going to give you a  top of your pay and, everything. You're going to get a steak dinner. So for every time you sell all your pizzas. So we basically have three drivers coming in the morning, give him 30 pizzas. Each back then pizzas were six bucks for 14 inch pizza store kept five. They kept one. And they would go to big box stores, construction anybody on the side, the road, local businesses anywhere where there was people when they'd sell pepperoni and cheese pizzas for six bucks a piece and we'd sell 90 a day without the phone ever ringing.  And we did this for years. It really, the only place that it stopped working was this was great in the suburbs. But when I got a hold of some city stores, there was a lot of permits about how you can sell food in the city. Man we'd hustle. You'd walk into Walmart andthey'd buy it for the staff and everything else.And we were'nt selling 90 pizzas a day for a long time that nobody ever ordered. And then I think that's going back to where the sales fixes, everything, there was so much that yeah, I learned at a young age with marketing and all always go back to. Sometimes in school you pick up something that you didn't even realize you picked up and you know what it  was an English class in sixth grade, we had to write a fan letters and you had to write them to 20 people. And so we wrote them to 20 people and know movie stars and such like that. Everybody get a couple of letters back that,  I remember getting one back from the wonder years from Fred Savage rope hump, you know be cool when I decided to do of course, cause it can't do just a little, anything, you know, just a little bit.I wrote every single baseball team. Hey, I'm, I'm your favorite? The New York Yankees. I'm the favorite fan of them? Boston Red Fox. I'm the whatever. Before you know it all summer long, I'm getting all this cool shit in the mailbox every single day, you know, hats and a baseball bats, authograph and I mean, it was awesome.And what I learned later on was that's kind marketing. Like if you're putting yourself out there. Sure. Maybe teams like the Baltimore girls didn't send me anything. But the Yankee sent me, a ball signed by like 10 people, you know, and then maybe the Royals didn't send me anything, but the twins sent me,  this hat and scarf and winter jacket and shit like, you know, so it gave me an idea, like if you're out there, when I got in business, you can, don't worry about the no just keep going for the yes. Just keep going, just keep going. And that's what I would do. And I think it was a lesson at a very young age that I didn't really even catch. Do I have a lot of older that there is there's power in numbers. You know, the more that you're out there doing stuffthe bigger your results are going to be, and it doesn't matter how much you're doing.And then, then somewhere along the line I would say probably when I, after addiction, I really got into personal development, like real big, you know, like, I really liked what you said when we were off air, but, you know, to help with the scars, you know, and that really was, was the truth. I didn't even, I don't think I realized until you said that, but that was probably where to personal development came in.And I read a great book called the sales machine by Chet Holmes. And one of my favorite parts in there was about the dream 100. And what I would do is on the pizza world. We sold extra large  pizzas for $8.99, if you had a big order. So I went ahead and made the professor special $8.99 for the order five or more extra large pizzas.I've made that flyer. I shoved that ever under every single door and in every professor mailbox at Carnegie Mellon and the university of Pitt, and we had orders of 20 pizzas, a hundred pizzas, 75 pizzas, 160 pizzas. And I we would come in at nine in the morning, just start stretching pizzas for these giant lunches.And I mean, the professor special was like the biggest. Get the, there was, so there were so many things that I've done marketing. I really feel like on top of being the people person, I've always had a niche for the marketing. And I think that was where my cousin had hair salons and she always believed in me before I opened my own pizza shop.And she said, Nick, you can do it. You know how to market. And that's, you know, a huge part of business, like, and you're good with people. She's like, you've got to do for yourself. Like you'll be successful. And I think I'm. No, that was a lot of it. It's just believing in yourself.  George: Well, totally. I mean like this whole episodes so far, like when you really think about it, like, what you're talking about is like, you're just a walking marketing example. Like I tell people, my definition of marketing is a two way value based longterm relationship. Like that's it, that's marketing. It's a, I know you, you know me, we have a relationship let's go. And what you just said is something that I think is so prevalent where like you had pizzas, right? I tell people, you can either only innovate on product experience or customer experience.You probably already have the best pizza. You make it the best that you can. The pizza is not going to change. You have to choose change the wrapping paper like that. Professor special is genius. You're like, okay, cool. Well, I'm already doing it. How can I add personalization there? You change the title on a flyer and you slip it under speaking to your avatar. They're like, Oh, I'm a professor. I want five pizzas. Like, I it's like, it's so good. Like, what is your process behind like coming up with some of these ideas? Like, do you just like go meditate, you go for a walk or do they just hit you when they hit you? Do you like. Put it through a process or you're like, you know, this is an idea. I'm just going to try this and see what happens. But like, what's your process behind some of your crazy marketing stuff. Like, cause obviously you have the results to prove it, but I know you probably have thousands of ideas a dayNick: So there's a couple of different methods, you know, I'll be the first to say that if you see somebody else doing something that worksyou should probably try and do it too.Especially this day and age with the internet, you could see all over. People in different markets doing different things. So especially  if you've got a business zone in like pizza business, I've got, you know, I don't know, 500 to 1000 pizza friends all across the country. And, you know, with COVID, I would see so many good ideas that the pizza operators were doing during Covid and we would take that idea and just make our own. We went ahead and started doing pizza kids during COVID. And I would imagine at this point,  you probably have seen him where somebody. Saying, Hey, we're going to give you a no sauce, cheese and pepperoni, and you can take it home for 10 bucks and make it, make it a your place. Just different ideas that like those, like some we do copy, you know, we make, we make our own, but we take the idea and run with it. I think the other one is sometimes there's a, there's a need, you know, maybe we're sitting around like, okay, I'm salesmen down a little bit. Um, great example would be the last couple of weeks.This is perfect. This exact, what you're talking about. And we're, we're down a little bit because they shut down the restaurant completely. The governor did. And then they opened it up to 25% capacity to borrow the restaurant. So we just decided, Hey, we're gonna keep the restaurants close just to pick up and delivery. And I'm like, man, we're done a little bit. How can we pump something up? You know, what can we do? And we just want people to be talking about us. Cause that's what a lot of marketing is to you want people talking about you? How can we do that? And I said, okay, we're turning eight next, next month. You know, we're, we're going to have an eight year anniversary. I said  let's give away eight free pizzas for a year. And then, then we can send the press releases. We can have a contest, we can, you know, put it all over social media that we're giving away eight free pizzas. We're turning eight years old and I'm not just ate three pizzas, but free pizza for a year.Like, like let's enough to break your fast. Yeah. Yeah. I'll take it. Right. So, so that was the idea that we came up with two weeks ago and then we put it into motion, like right then and there. So I think you know, and now if we go on website and everything, it's everywhere about free pizza for a year, you know, your chance to win, enter, and win.But I think To answer your question that sometimes it comes out of neat. Sometimes it comes out of watching what other people do. And then I also think that there's a certain point where the, the mindset, the them meditating you know, I'm really big into, The book that changed everything for me, they went from five jobs to where I am now is think and grow rich book. And that's it just the mindset of, you know, not focusing on what you don't have, but focusing on what, what you do have or what you, you want to have and feeling it and touching it like you already have it now. And then that's kind of where some of those great ideas come in is like, You know, I wake up in the morning or wake up at three in the morning.I pen and pad next to my bed every night. And I'm just like, Oh, that's a great idea. If I wake up in the morning, little groggy and go through my gratitude, go to get up. I look over. I'm like, Oh cool. I had a great idea last night. Like there's a lot of things that like when you get into it, your subconscious there's a lot of things that you don't even realize are running through your mind and like ideas just pop up on no code.And what I've learned is not the question, the ideas. But to try them out and try them outfull, full tilt. And then I really am surprised sometimes when we try something out, I'm like, wow, that was like, well, totally.  George: I mean, like I'll use a Pittsburgh story. Like Vince Papale if he never went and tried out, he never would have been on the team, like never would have happened, like with the Eagles and all the football story. Like. You know what you nailed. Like, I call it those ideas. I call it intuition. Like when you give yourself the space, like you have wisdom, like you have clarity when you're not clouded by all that stuff. And, you know, to tie it back to what you said earlier, Really your belief in itself. It's not a belief in that it will work or won't work.That's not what matters. It's not about the finish line. Like I believe in self that I can try this, that I can put this in. I'm going to give it the licks. I'm going to give it the chance to win. Like if you give something oxygen.  It's bound to work. But what I love is that you're not like I'm changing my whole business model.I'm changing the recipe of the pizza. You're like, no, no, I have that. That's my control. I'm going to try this. I'm going to try to get more attention. I'm going to try to. Innovate on the experience. I'm going to get it in the hands of more people. Like I, I absolutely love it. And for those of you listening, if you haven't read, think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill, please do there's another thing on audible, you might enjoy.Um, they have his on, uh, his recorded lectures that weren't released in a book, but you can buy them on audible and it's all of his lectures, like when he was doing them in person. I think they're actually really, they're really good lessons for me after listening to both of them. And so the eight pizzas for a year thing is that you're giving away. A pizza for a year to eight different people.  Nick: Yeah. So basically the way it works is, um, the IRS is after 600 bucks, you've got to show it on your taxes. So we're giving a $599 and 99 cent gift card to eight different guys, and they can use it any way they want over the next year. That's kind of how we're doing it. You know, that's, that's the part of marketing, you know, another, I love that you love. The, the idea and the uniqueness marketing. So I'm going to give you another one of my favorite. You know, if you had to say, what's your top couple of favorite things you've ever done, this is one of my things. We, I have been feeling Facebook marketing since 2013, Facebook marketing so early, like I figured it out that if I had Facebook followers, it would translate into customers and I figured it out, you know, kind of a side story of how I figured that out.But anyway, from figuring that out, The radio station came out and they had a best pizza in Pittsburgh contest and you had to vote online. So I went ahead and I put paid Facebook ads together, got everybody to vote and we finished third, which may sound okay. Well, what would you do with finishing third? And this is where I, this is my favorite part right here. So the first two that won were institutions in Pittsburgh. They were pizza shops that had been around for years and years. And we had only been around maybe, maybe 12 months at this point. And I just took that and spun, as you know, WPXI the radio station named us best new pizza in Pittsburgh.We finished third, nobody told me we were the best new pizza in Pittsburgh, but the first two were there for 50 years. So we were the best new pizza in Pittsburgh and I took that best new pizza Pittsburgh, and I put it everywhere and I mean, I pounded and for a long time, Andthat's where, you know, that was in between store one in store two. And that's probably where the sales, we took from a $4,000 a week store to like a 20, some thousand a week store just in that first year. And a lot of those, you know, that was a huge part of it, but it's like, how do you play the words and marketing? It's so important.  George: Well, and, and that's, that's really what it is like. I think, you know, when you think, think about your marketing message, I love that. By the way you think about your marketing message, we're conveying the same message, but sometimes you have to change the order or change the language. Like sometimes it's not received in English, even though we intend it to be.And I think that's why like, Normally it's just like marketing to be successful. It's just communication. That works both ways. Right. And so if you have a marketing message and it's not working, it's not because of your product. Right? Like try something different, change the language, change the positioning, go after a pain point, go after a celebratory thing, you have to know your avatar.You have to know what they respond to. Right. And everyone's like, yeah, Everyone wants to try stuff that's new. And like, in my opinion, you should sure shit nailed it. Cause that literally was the best new pizza in Pittsburgh. Right? Like it's, it's awesome. The way that you spell it. That's amazing. I love your marketing brain by the way. I absolutely love how well you think about it and those ideas. Now, when you think about, because what I think is interesting is too, is that. You know, I talk a lot about product experience, customer experience, and I've helped local businesses, but I still, I do a lot of stuff online.  So when you think about your restaurants though, like knowing your marketing brain, knowing your people brain, like how do you think through customer experience? Like when you think through somebody comes into the store, what do I want them to feel? Somebody orders, delivery, like, do you do anything I don't need to ask? Do you, I know you do everything. For customer experience, but like, what are some of the things you do for customer experience, both like in store, in delivery intake, and then like with your marketing and messaging to have that experience with your store.So I think what's unique about everything that you said was, you know, I was a pickup and delivery pizza shop guy when I bought the restaurant and I'll never forget the very first day when I came out and there was a table with 12 and we were trying to figure out how to bring all the food out at once, how to wash the silverware.I'm like, Holy shit. I just bought a restaurant. Like, so it, I, I got to say man, we were really good at the message with the sales and marketing.   But man, we struggled with the service in the restaurant, you know the little things like we didn't have a host this one week open, so somebody would stand at the door for 15 minutes, get pissed off and nobody came up to him and left, you know, they'd finished your meal.And we weren't coaching the waitresses to go and grab their glasses, you know, quicker, get the refills quick enough offer, put their bill down at the end, like right away. Like not, um, you know, wait to put your bill down. Like it's okay to put it down a little bit. Hey, we're not rushing you, but here's your bill and your check if you need it, you know, like, and then checking back to see if it was there.Like we didn't know how to coach any of that stuff. So, you know, I always try to do that. The, the smartest thing I can is if I don't know something, hire somebody who does. You know, that's, that's my approach. So I brought in a great restaurant guy. Who's been with me six years now. He was a brew master, a bartender, a front of the house through and through he's now my beverage director for the whole company.He just came in as like my first bar manager, my first like real, uh, Haas, um, hospitality type guy. Andyou know, he helped us and I read a ton of books and I watched. A ton of bar rescue, and I don't care what anybody says about the yelling and screaming number of rescue, but there's a lot of great stuff in there.And I just really, you know, warmed it as like, I have to learn how, how this all works. So I thinkyou know, now we really try to just make sure that it's every touch restaurant somebody's there to meet, you know, and that, that's what a lot of it is that when somebody comes in the hostess is, you know, eye contact and a smile and, you know, That's what we try to preach is, a lot of it is about the smile, you know,to serve the best pizza we possibly can and serve with a smile.Like, you know, that, um, that's a lot of, a lot of what we try to do. We, we have a ton of meetings first Tuesday of every month is all the managers. Third, Tuesday of the month is upper management meetings. Every single Monday is all the general managers on a phone call. Um, zooms, a little too crazy for us, but  we do the phone call meetings and, you know, we go through all the numbers every Monday.And then the, the first Tuesday of the month with all the managers, we're talking about everything that what worked the month before what's coming on new. And then the upper management meeting is like our brainstorm, Hey, round table. What do you guys need? What do you think we should be doing? Where, you know, here's the direction I'm thinking, what are you, how can we get there? And you know, a lot of it is just the communication ofhow to achieve these things. But I think that's just kinda how it all wraps up. You know, that that's a lot.  George: Yeah. I think what you nail and I'm going to just, you know, disseminate this down is that when you've nailed culture, right? Like your customer culture, like everyone has a touch point. They have eye contact, they feel seen, they feel heard, they feel respected. They feel a part of the family. And then you foster an environment where your managers and your team members are open. It's not a dictatorship, it's a two way relationship.What can we do to get better? What do you need? How can we support you? Knowing that the undertow is you're like my job is to help my employees achieve their goals. And then they have the platform and the, and be like, Hey, Nick, we need to do this. We do this. Can we have this? And you guys foster this growth. And I think really like what I hear that I think is so important for her to take away is that. You never settle. Like there's not a day where you're like, we've made it right. Like we have it all figured out. You're like, Oh, what can I read? What can I do? How can I tweak it? How can I improve it? Hey, maybe I read something that I might want to do.I don't need it now, but I know it's a possibility. It changes the way. I think, like what I love that I hear in everything you say is that. Your a perpetual student in the business and  your focus is improving on your product, your experience, your customers, your team, and you're like willing to do whatever it takes to learn that, to figure it out, right?Like the game is the game is your finish line. You're playing it, you're playing it and you're playing it. And I don't know. I just think that's such a novel thing. I, and I have no. No shock in my body as to why you are where you are and why you do what you do. I mean, it's apparent how much you love people and how that comes up.I actually can't wait to fly to Pittsburgh and taste your pizza.  I bet you, I bet you every customer, I bet you have testimonials left and right where they're like. I can feel the family in this pizza. It feels like love with every bite. Like it, you get that when you foster that culture and that's so important in everything that you do. I absolutely love it. So I forget to do that every time, by the way. I always want to tell people to be getting where to find you. So I can say it multiple times and use some NLP, but I completely forgot at the beginning. I was so excited talking about pizza. So perfectly listening. Yeah. Uh, before we get into another question,  Nick has an awesome podcast. It's called the business equation podcast. He also wrote a book called the pizza equation, you know, like the world champion pizza team, everything like that. But, um, the best place to find Nick of course hit up his podcast on iTunes and Apple, but his website is www.NickBogacz.com.  And I wanted to say it now, cause we're going to say it again at the end, but I want to make sure you guys hear it once. Write that one down. It's I bet you, if you Google him, he's the only one you'll find. So Google would be your friend in this one, Nick Bogacz. I bet you can write like Nick B pizza world champion and find them too.But I want to, I want to close Nick with, with something we're going to end up having to do round two of this podcast. Cause I just want to rip your marketing brain out and give it. People multiple disseminations of it, but I have a, I have a question that's not about marketing, so there's a whole lot of people that have been home and cooped up for a couple of months. What are your best tips to making pizza at home?  Nick: Awesome. Yeah. Very good question. So I think it's really kind of caught fire lately. I think, you know, people are really. The grills have been really popular for for years. And I think then, you know, everybody was smoking everything for awhile, and I think you are starting to see a lot of home pizza chefs right now.And I can tell you some really simpletips, you know, you could go and find a great friend of mine is Tony Gemini. And he has a book called the pizza Bible. And if you want to know how to make any stop pizza at home, that's the book to bu. And then the secret that I will add to that is. When you make the dough. I think a lot of times people think you can make the dough in the morning and you can make the pizza at night. And a secret that I'll tell you is when you make the pizza during the day, that though rest in your, in your refrigerator for about the next three days. So on Monday, you can cook the dough on Wednesday or Thursday.At least two days, but really if you made it on Monday and cook, then on Thursday, your dose is going to be fantastic. That real nice bready, you know, won't be doing any Walton gets under Coke. It's just going to be a great bread flavor. So . Well, a lot of it's about dough, and a lot of it is, uh, you know, having the time for the no to really rise.And you know, it's funny, you said that, but being cooped up and everything, I went ahead andlast year we were in Naples, Italy for a competition. And, you know, the birthplace of pizza everywhere had the beautiful, gorgeous Naples ovens, you know, the Neapolitan style. And man,I need one of those. Like I never thought that I needed to make pizzas at home, like as much, but like, like I, I just felt like I was something that I saw that I needed.So early, early June, I went ahead and got a Neapolitan pizza oven. Put in and I'm in the backyard and it has just been the greatest gift. During COVID you know, whether it's just myself and our family cooking on it, or we do actually have not a gathering, but, you know,, my parents are come over, you know, the laws or something, a few people, and we just make some fantastic pizzas there, but. It's all about the dough. And I think you can use anything out of your kitchen as far as sauce and cheese, it's all preferred on your taste, but you really want to make a great, great dough, check out the pizza Bible and then give it enough time to rest.  George: I love it. I love it. Learning how to make pizza. I used to, by the way, I used to be a food blogger and I wrote a New York times bestselling cookbook.That was where I started in this whole game. Well, we'll have to cover that in another one, cause I really hate cooking by the way. But it was, it's a really interesting story, but  all of that and by the way, I've smoked pizza on my smoker and that's really good as well. But that dough, that Dough tip is, is legit. And there's lessons in that for entrepreneurs patients, you got to let things marinate. You got to let them live. You got to let them breathe. You gotta give them a chance to taste good. And I think that sums up this entire episode. So Nick, I'm going to give you a minute at the end, any closing words, any parting words of advice for everybody listening though?Make sure you go check out Nick, check out his podcast. I've listened to a couple episodes. I think they're great. He's had a few of my friends on and the website. I'm going to spell it again because I would need to hear it a few times for myself. So it's NickBogacz.com you can pick up his book, the pizza equation, which talks about like running a successful pizza enterprise. And I'm sure there's some nuggets. In there for business and marketing and mindset, then you have as podcast, which is the business equation podcast. And then you have Nick, the man himself, Leo checking out the website. So Nick, before we wrap any closing words for everybody, any words of wisdom, anything you want everybody to take away?Nick: You know, I think you could start anywhere that that's the thing, right? Like don't let your past to find you if, you know, if people, your listeners, if they're listening to George right now, they want fat, you know, and you're, you're doing a great job feeding them. And I think. you know, wherever they are, they can start. So, you know, today could be the first day of your new journey and don't let your past define you. And I think that's where a lot of people just get hung up thinking about every failure that they have and every thing that happened to them and everything they went through. And just, just remember that everybody starts up.Start somewhere. And I love when you start reading about, um, you know, whether it's actors or entrepreneurs or, or, um, you know, anybody that started their career late, you know, and everyone will talk guy. I think my favorite one is probably Colonel Sanders, you know, started KFC when he was like 60. Like, you know, it doesn't matter how old you are, you know, you can, you can start today. And I think that's that's a good message to bring out there is, you know, believe in yourself and, and anybody can start from anything.  George: Yeah, man, I love it. I can't even, I'm not going to add anything to that. I think that's so gold. And like you are a walking example of that, like set your focus and just start and go.And you'll figure it out as you go, you'll make adjustments and learn. So, man, it was an absolute honor and pleasure. I know we have many more in the can in the future. We'll, we'll be breaking pizza as soon as I start traveling again. And I can't wait to share. And so thank you so much for being here for everybody listening.Make sure you go check out Nick, check out his podcast, check out his book. And remember, I I'm sure I'm going to do an outro if I remember to do them, but if not remember that relationships, I always beat algorithms. Make sure you subscribe. Make sure you review. And I will see you guys in the next episode.

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Ir svarīgi pieņemt lēmumu un virzīties uz priekšu. Viennozīmīgs atbalsts - AB dambim Arhitekti un kultūras darbinieki atkal pauduši atbalstu Nacionālajai koncertzālei uz AB dambja, tāpēc studijā ir šī projekta autors Andis Sīlis, bet vispirms jautājums arhitektam Gatim Didrihsonam – Nacionālās arhitektūras padomes vadītājam. Kas nostrādāja par labu šim lēmumam – atkārtoti atbalstīt tieši šo projektu? Zinām, ka tika apskatītas vismaz 9 koncertzāles iespējamās vietas. Gatis Didrihsons: "Šo vietu varbūt bija pat vairāk. Kad uzzinājām, ka šis projekts ir dzīvs un top joprojām, pirmā reakcija bija izbrīns. Sapratu, ka arhitektiem, tāpat kā daudziem citiem cilvēkiem, bija informācijas vakuums. Zinājām, ka mums jāpauž kāds padoms ministrijai un arī Arhitektu savienībā lēmām, ka vajadzētu ar šo jautājumu iepazīties un izteikt savu viedokli. Sākām apkopot informāciju, kādi ir pretargumenti. 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Bet tas, ko redzam – īsti citas vietas jau nav, visur ļoti lec ārā skaļi “pret”. AB dambis ir diezgan nepārprotama prioritāte." Jautāts, cik nospiedošs bijis lēmums par labu AB dambim no arhitektu puses, Didrihsons atklāj: "Abās padomēs sanāca tā, ka bija kvorums, un bija 18 "par" – gan Latvijas Arhitektu savienības padomē, gan Nacionālajā arhitektūras padomē. Arhitektu savienības padomē bija divi “pret” un trīs atturējās, bet Nacionālā padomē neviena “pret”, bet divi atturējās. Izteikts atbalsts." Mītu kliedēšana 2006. gadā Lielajā Pils ielā tika saskandinātas glāzes uz jaunā projekta veselību. Visi gatavojās, ka 2008. gadā viss būs gatavs un svinēsim mūzikas svētkus. Esam tajā pašā punktā. Kas ir galvenie mīti, kurus Andis Sīlis vēlētos kliedēt? Andis Sīlis: “Iespējams, ne pārāk veiksmīgi projekts tika komunicēts brīdī, kad kultūras ministre bija Helēna Demakova, un ne tik vienkārši paskaidrots, parādīts, kas un kā uz AB dambja iecerēts. Viens no galvenajiem mītiem – ka tā ir būve ūdenī. Tas tā nav. Jo pašu koncertzāli, ja tā atradīsies uz AB dambja, būvēsim ar visparastākajām tehnoloģijām. Tie ir pāļi, kas Rīgā plus mīnus visur ir vienādā dziļumā. Un tā būs nevis būvēšana no ūdens, bet būvēšana no dambja, kas ir normāla, transportam vai smagajai tehnikai pieejama platforma, kur varam ērti pāļus ieurbt. Jā, ir zināma taisnība, ka koncertzāle uz esošā dambja nav uzbūvējama, jo pats dambis ir avārijas stāvoklī, tam ir vairāk nekā simt gadu. Tā perimetrs ir būvēts no koka pāļiem, kas laika gaitā zaudējuši stingrību, un dambis jārekonstruē jebkurā gadījumā: jādzen jauna rievsiena tam apkārt, jānostiprina dambja perimetrs. Darbi būtu jāveic jebkurā gadījumā – jo vēlāk to darīs, jo dārgāk izmaksās, tāpat kā ar visām šādām nesošajām struktūrām. Savukārt lai koncertzāle tur ērti izvietotos, dambi, kas ir 400 metru garš, simt metru garā posmā vajadzētu paplašināt par metriem divdesmit. Tātad rievsienu iespiežam salīdzinoši seklā līcītī starp dambi un viesnīcu Radisson, tur ir apmēram četri līdz seši metri dziļš ūdens. Rievsiena ir saprotama, vienkārša tehnoloģija – tā tiek stiprinātas visas ūdens malas Latvijā, kuru ir ārkārtīgi daudz. Ja dambi simt metru garajā posmā paplašinām, aizberam ar turpat no Daugavas izsūknēto smilti, rodas eleganta platforma ar visnotaļ labiem ģeoloģiskajiem apstākļiem, jo tieši nesošais slānis, kur ir AB dambis, ir tuvāk grunts virsmai nekā Uzvaras parkā vai Skanstē. Ja domājam par Uzvaras parku kā alternatīvu – tur ir diezgan ūdeņaina vieta, tur ir purvs. Būvbedre izmaksātu dārgāk. Būvēt purvā ir tehniski sarežģītāk nekā būvēt uz dambja, kas nekad nav bijis dabīga ģeoloģiska struktūra – tas ir mākslīgi veidots, tur ir sausa smilts, kas no Daugavas izsmelta. Tas ir pilns ar savu smilti. Tāpēc mīts, ka būvēt tur ir dārgāk, nav pamatots – tur kā reiz šo struktūru ir uzbūvēt lētāk! Vienīgais, kas ir dārgāks – paša dambja perimetra nostiprināšana un šīs platformas izveidošana. Pašai koncertzālei, kā mēs labi zinām, šobrīd budžetā naudas nav, jo ir daudz citu vajadzību. Ints Dālderis jau sen izcīnījis un koncertzāles vajadzībām rezervējis Eiropas fonda līdzekļus 23 miljonu apmērā. Bija ideja šos fondus novirzīt un koncertzāli būvēt kādā alternatīvā vietā degradētās teritorijās – tas ir stāsts par Skansti, bet privātā partnerība tur nebija iespējama tāpēc, ka tā ir privāta zeme. Eiropas fondu procedūra paredz, ka 23 miljoni jāiegulda un jāsasniedz pabeigts rezultāts, un šobrīd fondi varētu tikt tērēti arī tādā veidā, ka tiek savests kārtībā AB dambis – inženiertehniskā būve, kas nosacīti ir vēsturisks mantojums kultūrvēsturiskajā centrā. Savedam kārtībā milzīgu publisko ārtelpu, uzlabojam vēsturisko centru un projekts noslēdzas ar to, ka esam uzbūvējuši divus tiltus uz AB dambi, nostiprinājuši perimetru, izveidojuši tur stāvvietu simt automašīnām un uztaisījuši jaunu, skaistu labiekārtojumu. Nauda tiek iztērēta tādā veidā, ka Rīgas koncertzālei ir jau pievilkts ārējais inženiertīkls un atrisināta transporta pieejamība un viss nosacītais sadārdzinājums, kas saistīts ar AB dambi, tiek finansēts ar līdzekļiem no Eiropas fondiem. Atliek tikai beigās uzlikt tos smukos klucīšus virsū." Tumšais stikls un atspulgi par velti Tiesa gan, daži to neganti saukā par akmeņogļu kaudzi. "Jāatzīst, ka brīdī, kad pirms padsmit gadiem prezentēju publikai šo projektu, bija neizpratne, kāpēc tieši tā. Tagad vairs neesmu dzirdējis negatīvus komentārus. Toreiz ideja bija tāda, ka uz Daugavas panorāmas, kas ir pilsētas un valsts galvenā ass, iezīmējas bibliotēka, kas ir gaiša - caurspīdīga informācija staro no tās ārā. Koncertzāle man šķita tāda, kuru vajag ietērpt mazliet citā vizuālajā tēlā – klasiskās mūzikas mūzikas klausīšanās ir introverts process, iekšējs pārdzīvojums. Nevajag kairinājumu uz āru. Melnas, lakotas klavieres un svinīgā atmosfēra... Tā ir viena lieta. Bet otrs iemesls, kāpēc tur ir melns – rezidentu orķestriem vajadzēs pietiekami daudz mēģinājumu telpu, kur cilvēki uzturēsies ikdienā, kur viņi strādās, pavadīs visu savu laiku, un skaidrs, ka tur vajadzīga dabīgā gaisma. Ja skulpturālam tēlam uztaisām parastus ofisa logus, tas zaudē savu skulpturālo kopumu. Savukārt cauri tumšajiem stikliem varam nodrošināt labu dienas gaismu visā zālē." Savukārt stiklos spoguļojas gan Daugava, gan Vecrīga, gan Rīgas panorāma. Kā diskusijā atzina Aigars Bikše – tas taču viss ir par pliku velti, isi silueti, kas atspoguļojas. 1400 vietu - Rīgai adekvāti Kāds ir Normunda Šnē viedoklis - vai plānotās 1400 vietas koncertzālē ir labi? "Jā, domāju, Rīgai tas ir optimāli – arī skaniski, jo lielākās zālēs sēžot kur tālāk bieži ir sajūta, ka gribas “to radio pagriezt skaļāk”. Mūzika ir ārkārtīgi dažāda. Kā jau Andis saka, ir brīži, kas ir absolūti intīmi, personiski, bet ir arī tādi, kuros jumts un debesis atvēras. Man pašam pēdējā laikā vislabāk patīk mūziku klausīties mājās un vienatnē, bet tas ir cits jautājums. Pusotrs tūkstotis vietu Rīgai ir vislabākais variants, vairāk mums nevajadzētu." Vairāk un plašāk klausieties raidījumā!

You must have a robust methodology for selecting the right share, property or bond to invest in. If you select the right asset, your investment returns are likely to be very healthy in the long run.However, if you make a mistake, it is likely to cost you money – in terms of opportunity cost and/or in real terms.The best way to prevent making a mistake is to use a methodology for selecting the right asset that is proven to work. In this blog I outline the four different methodologies and the two that I think are best to use in combination, where possible.There are four different asset selection methodologiesThere are many different asset selection approaches which can have their own subtleties and idiosyncrasies. However, every methodology can be broadly allocated into four different categories:1. Value investingThis involves identifying assets or sectors that are intrinsically undervalued. Markets are not always perfectly efficient and sometimes assets transact for amounts less than fair market value. This could be due to factors such as a motivated seller, misinformation, market sentiment (fear) and so on.2. Growth investingThis involves identifying assets or sectors that have high growth prospects. This approach is less concerned with the price paid for the asset compared to its appraised value - it’s all about the idea that you can buy this asset today for $x and that price will look cheap in the future after the expected growth has materialised. This methodology requires you to form a view as to what the future growth opportunities could be which is often highly subjective.3. Fundamental investingThis approach involves identifying the assets or sectors that have the strongest underlying fundamentals such that the asset quality is extremely high. This approach is less concerned about the price paid and usually the assets growth prospects might be already reflected in the current price. The thesis underlying this strategy is that investment returns are directly linked to asset quality i.e. you can only expect above average returns from above average quality assets.4. Technical analysisThis approach involves looking for trends in data and statistics (such as price movements and volume) to identify assets and sectors that are expected to deliver above average returns in the short or longer termFundamental with a value tilt, if possibleThe lowest risk approach by far is fundamental investing. Asset quality will typically persist longer than market mispricing or unrecognised growth prospects. As Warren Buffett says, he would rather buy a wonderful stock at a fair price than a fair stock at a wonderful price.However, sometimes it is possible to employ both a fundamental and value approach. That is, for example, sometimes you can buy a wonderful property or stock for a wonderful price. But, you must never pursue a value approach at the cost of the investment’s fundamentals. That is, never compromise on asset quality.You can reduce your risk by using an evidenced-based approachAn evidenced-based approach involves only adopting an asset selection methodology where there is overwhelming evidence that it will produce the desired investment returns. Too many people adopt investment methodologies and approaches without considering whether the evidence stacks up and that is just too risky – it is totally unnecessary to take that risk. Therefore, if you want to find a fundamental approach to adopt when selecting the right residential property to invest in, make sure there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that demonstrates the methodology works.Specifically, there are several things to consider when assessing the historical evidence:Rules-based investingIs there a list of pre-determined rules that you follow to implement the methodology? For example, if looking to invest in an apartment, it must have carparking on title. One of the major benefits of a rules-based approach is that it is repeatable without highly specialised (expensive) human resources.You must understand historic returnsIt is important to understand what has driven investment returns. Can the returns be attributed to the investment methodology alone or were they influenced by other factors? Are returns likely to persist over the long run through various market cycles? Observing returns is only half the picture. It is equally important to understand the factors that have driven the returns because that will demonstrate whether your rules-based approach will continue to work.Methodologies can be openly critiqued and stress-testedEvidenced-based approaches are often peer-reviewed and critiqued. This allows methodologies to be scrutinised and tested by peers and industry participants to ensure they are robust.They tend to be low-costEvidenced-based and rules-based approaches tend to be low cost because the methodology itself is responsible for generating the returns, not an investment manager who are often paid large sums of money.I’d like to share our fundamental approach with a value tiltI invite you to join me for a livestream seminar on Tuesday 13 November 2018 after work at 7:30pm where I will share with you where I think the best value opportunities exist in the share market and residential property markets at the moment.Click here (https://www.prosolution.com.au/investment-briefing-nov18/) for more information about what I will cover and to register for this event.

Radijo aparatų muziejus Tiltiškių kaime ir Biržų muziejus „Sėla“. „Norėjau, kad čia grįžtų žmonės. Visada būtų gera nuotaika, grotų gera muzika, gardžiai kvepėtų maistas, žmonės rastų nusiraminimą ir pasitenkinimą“, – sako Tiltiškių vandens malūno radijo aparatų muziejaus savininkas Dalius Bučenka. Susipažinti su Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės kariuomenės etmonų kunigaikščių Radvilų arsenalo svarba ir didybe kviečia Biržų muziejaus „Sėla“ direktoriaus pavaduotoja Edita Lansbergienė.Ved. Jolanta Jurkūnienė.

Radijo aparatų muziejus Tiltiškių kaime ir Biržų muziejus „Sėla“. „Norėjau, kad čia grįžtų žmonės. Visada būtų gera nuotaika, grotų gera muzika, gardžiai kvepėtų maistas, žmonės rastų nusiraminimą ir pasitenkinimą“, – sako Tiltiškių vandens malūno radijo aparatų muziejaus savininkas Dalius Bučenka. Susipažinti su Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės kariuomenės etmonų kunigaikščių Radvilų arsenalo svarba ir didybe kviečia Biržų muziejaus „Sėla“ direktoriaus pavaduotoja Edita Lansbergienė.Ved. Jolanta Jurkūnienė.

Zarasai – miestas pasienyje su Latvija ir Baltarusija. Paskendęs tarp miškų ir ežerų. Virš Zaraso ežero apžvalgos ratas kviečia pravažiuojančius sustoti ir pasigrožėti nuostabiais vaizdais. Zaraso ežero Didžiojoje saloje kuriamas kultūros ir sporto renginių klasteris. Apie Zarasų kultūrinį ir sportinį gyvenimą pasakoja Zarasų r. savivaldybės Švietimo ir kultūros skyriaus vedėjos pav. Daiva Šiukštulienė ir Zarasų ralio, automobilių sporto klubo prezidentas Arvydas Petkevičius.Stelmužės kaime auga seniausias Lietuvoje Stelmužės ąžuolas, ant kalvelės stovi bažnytėlė, varpinė. Mus pasitinka Stelmužės bažnytinio meno muziejaus ir varpinės prižiūrėtoja Aldona Miškinienė. Aplankome Salaką, Antalieptę, Dusetas.Apie Kultūros centro Dusetų dailės galerijos veiklą mintimis dalijasi direktorius Alvydas Stauskas. Tiltiškių malūno šeimininkas Dalius Bučenka rodo malūną, jame įsteigtą radijo aparatų muziejų. Žaliąjį turizmą pristato Antonas Jevtiuchovas iš Visagino. Po Zarasų kraštą keliaujame su kelionių ekspertu, fotografu ir vaikų rašytoju Vytautu Kandratu.

Zarasai – miestas pasienyje su Latvija ir Baltarusija. Paskendęs tarp miškų ir ežerų. Virš Zaraso ežero apžvalgos ratas kviečia pravažiuojančius sustoti ir pasigrožėti nuostabiais vaizdais. Zaraso ežero Didžiojoje saloje kuriamas kultūros ir sporto renginių klasteris. Apie Zarasų kultūrinį ir sportinį gyvenimą pasakoja Zarasų r. savivaldybės Švietimo ir kultūros skyriaus vedėjos pav. Daiva Šiukštulienė ir Zarasų ralio, automobilių sporto klubo prezidentas Arvydas Petkevičius.Stelmužės kaime auga seniausias Lietuvoje Stelmužės ąžuolas, ant kalvelės stovi bažnytėlė, varpinė. Mus pasitinka Stelmužės bažnytinio meno muziejaus ir varpinės prižiūrėtoja Aldona Miškinienė. Aplankome Salaką, Antalieptę, Dusetas.Apie Kultūros centro Dusetų dailės galerijos veiklą mintimis dalijasi direktorius Alvydas Stauskas. Tiltiškių malūno šeimininkas Dalius Bučenka rodo malūną, jame įsteigtą radijo aparatų muziejų. Žaliąjį turizmą pristato Antonas Jevtiuchovas iš Visagino. Po Zarasų kraštą keliaujame su kelionių ekspertu, fotografu ir vaikų rašytoju Vytautu Kandratu.

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