Podcast appearances and mentions of tim mccanna

Just six weeks away to Emerald Downs 30th Opening Day! Make plans to come out on Sunday, April 27 for the 2025 lid-lifter. Track President Phil Ziegler and trainer Howard Gibson join Joe and Vince on this edition of Horseracing NW. Ziegler looks to build on last year's successful mark of a more than 10% increase in attendance with a revamped stakes schedule and several tried and true promotions Gibson, who's been a top assistant to Tim McCanna, Frank Lucarelli and Vince Gibson in recent years, is in the top 10 at Turf Paradise and his EmD stable totals 20 head. Next week, go to emeralddowns.com to purchase tickets for all your favorite days. For parties, business meetings, anniversaries, memorials, etc, book your event through Emerald Downs Group Sales at 253-288-7700.

With the calendar turned to 2025, Emerald Downs is gearing up for its 30th season of Thoroughbred racing, Opening Day on Sunday, April 27. Horses begin training on the track on Monday, February 24. Another date to note is Saturday, February 22. That evening, horse and human achievements of 2024 are recognized at the WTBOA Awards Banquet, open to the public. Washington Hall of Fame trainer Tim McCanna and Turfway Park Track Announcer Tony Calo join Joe and Vince on this edition of Horseracing NW. McCanna, 10-time training titlist at EmD, figures to have a stronger local presence this season. Calo calls the races Wednesday-Saturday at Turfway, first race at 2:55 pm. Turfway averages over 10 starters per race and their $0.50 P-5 payoff averages over $40,000!

The mamas have so much to share for Earth month, from middle grade environmental nonfiction and eco-fiction novels, to nature picture books, articles, contests, book festivals, PBS specials, and more. Whew! Now, put on your green jeans and let’s get started!Book Discussion:How to Change Everything by Naomi Klein and Rebecca StepoffGirl Warriors, How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth by Rachel SarahBeyond the Bright Sea by Lauren WolkThe Last Wild by Piers TordayPick Six: Nature Picture Books1.     A Leaf Can Be… by Laurie Purdie Salas and Violeta Dabija2.     Water Can Be… by Laurie Purdie Salas and Violeta Dabija3.     In a Garden by Tim McCanna and Aimee Sicuro4.     One Tomato by Rebecca Mullin and Anna Mullin5.     Outside In by Deborah Underwood and Cindy Derby6.     Tiny, Perfect Things by M.H. Clark and Madeline Kloepper Show Links:Color-Cut-Create contest for kidsOhioana Book FestivalTeen Vogue article by Isabella FallahiNew Yorker article about Moms Battling Climate ChangeGreta Thunburg PBS SpecialTwo Lit Mamas website

Features in-depth analyses of horses entered in the El Camino Real Derby (2/16/19); trainers Jonathan Wong, Blaine Wright, Jerry Hollendorfer, Jeff Bonde, Tim McCanna, Doug O'Neill, Bill Delia, Bob Baffert, Mark Glatt, Felix Rondan, Keith Desormeaux, and Eoin Hardy; interview with trainer Blaine Wright. 

Picture book author Tim McCanna stops by the pod to chat about his four books that came out this year (BITTY BOT’S BIG BEACH GETAWAY, JACK B. NINJA, BOING! A VERY NOISY ABC & SO MANY SOUNDS). We get to all these stories but we also talk about musical theatre, graphic design, finding picture books and a new passion. Plus Tim’s best moment of his picture book life will blow you away. P.S. If you are a Picturebooking Patreon check out the bonus talk with Tim.  

Features thoroughbred horse racing news, race analyses, San Francisco Mile GIII stakes race, Campanile and Silky Sullivan stake races, Interview with Barbara Livingston renowned photographer for Daily Racing Form, Russell Baze (jockey), Tim McCanna (trainer), Songbird, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks, CTBA, Dollar Day.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #226 Create Your Author Platform Month Closes with Illustrator Sandy Williams Illustrators Need Platforms, Too! I am grateful for Tim McCanna and his awesome jingle. The original one, but also the new one he created and edited for me. Kellie Johnston, for the lovely thank you note she wrote to me on how I changed her career in three minutes! The peeps who have been showing up to my hangouts. Do you have any idea how awks it is to talk to your iMac, alone in your office? No one responding? But if you know there are viewers, especially ones who are entering questions, well, that’s something to be grateful for! The peeps who’ve been thanking me for my free training. My new students. Not only am I grateful, I’m impressed. You’ve taken a leap of faith in your own career. Nicely done. Announcements We have a brand spankin' new Facebook group just for YOU, my peeps! Let's take the podcast topics one step further and get down to the nitty gritty. Join here: www.katiedavis.com/podcastgroup Free training is only available until Sunday, May 3rd! New Flash Training included: www.katiedavis.com/freetraining The tables were turned. I was a guest on the Biz Chix Podcast! Check it out HERE. I'm teaching a picture book workshop at Yale this June! Join me during Session 2 HERE. This Week's Guest is Sandy Williams! This week’s guest is Sandy Williams. Sandy is an illustrator and was one of my Crank It Up Implementation students this winter. She specializes in natural science illustration and design. Sandy also teaches courses in learning to paint with gouache, the medium she uses most for her illustration and design work. Sandy and I talk about  How creating a platform has helped her sell her book. How creating a platform has helped her create an email list. How Sandy went from flailing to goal setting. As a non-techy, how she’s creating her platform using video. What would happen if past-Sandy met present-Sandy!

David Anderson is thoughtleader on the subject of Kanban. He is the founder of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium and helped to create the Limited WIP Society. His latest book is the subject of this Podcast, which is called: Kanban, Successful Evolutionary Change For Your Technology Business. You can follow David on twitter via @agilemanager. In this episode we talk with David on his shift from the Theory of Constraints to Kanban and the benefits of visualizing the workflow and limiting Work-in-Progress. We discuss several aspects from his latest book and talk about the people and books that inspired him to write this book. David also shares his knowledge and experiences on Feature Driven Development. This Podcast was recorded in Antwerp at the Lean & Kanban 2010 Europe conference. Links for this podcast The Lean term originates from the book: The Machine That Changed the World, by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos. David's previous book: Agile Management for Software Engineering. Why people fail at multitasking, a short movie. 'Maintenance typically consumes about 40 to 80 percent (60 percent average) of software costs. Therefore, it is probably the most important life cycle phase.' - a quote from an article called Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering by Robert Glass. Feature Driven Development came out as an evolution from the book Object Oriented Analysis from Peter Coad and the project management method of Jeff De Luca. It was first described in the book Java Modeling In Color. Order the game getKanban here. The Deming System of Profound Knowledge is one of the models that David mentions as a tool to improve. Watch the video where Rob Hathaway presents his case studies on Kanban at IPC Media. The people David mentions are: Donald Reinertsen, Jerry Weinberg, Kent Beck, Jon Kern, Joshua Kerievsky, Jim Shore, Steve Freeman, Elizabeth Keogh, Tim McCanna, Russell Healy and Daniel Vacanti. Learn more about the terms that are used in this Podcast: Lean, Kaizen, Scrum, Waste (muda, muri and mura), Theory of Constraints, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Cycle time, the Personal Software Process, Feature Driven Development, eXtreme Programming, Test Driven Development, the Scientific method, Classes of Service. This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels