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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 22nd October 2025Today : Japan Takaichi PM. Myanmar scam centre raid. Thailand Cambodia mines. Putin Hungary journey? Slovakia sentence. France tornado / Sarkozy / thieves. Iceland mosquitoes. Ethiopia train crash. Africa malaria. Bolivia Venezuela relations. US Amazon repaired. Pumpkin boats.SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary list written by us every day.Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week.Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week.We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.org/supportContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.We don't use AI! Every word is written and recorded by us!Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.Get your daily news and improve your English listening in the time it takes to make a coffee.For more information visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

We are often leadership practitioners, rather than genteel philosophers, pontificating on leadership issues.  Yet, we have probably developed a certain style of leadership nevertheless.  We just haven't focused on it as a methodology, because we are too busy doing it.  We leave the books and articles to the academics, who study this stuff with intellectual rigour, complete vast research projects and then write about business from atop their ivory towers.  Or we leave it to other successful business people to have ghost writers assemble their mad ramblings into a coherent form and get it published.  Or we have that rare bird amongst businessmen, someone who can write their own tome on the subject. If we think about the concept of kaizen, continuous improvement, it would make sense to apply this to ourselves, as leaders in our businesses.  We should take a moment and examine just what we are doing, why we are doing it and how we are doing it.  In this way, we can analyse where there are gaps, inadequacies and fluff.  Maybe we received our business education in the University of Life or maybe at varsity, but we cannot rest on what went before, because business keeps changing. Sometimes you will read a book on leadership and think to yourself, “I could have written that”.  It is a bit like comparing your kids daubs at playschool with some modern art and see the results as basically the same.  The big difference is you didn't try and product that piece of art and you didn't write a book. The process of getting your random thoughts into a clear and coherent story is the discipline of the writer.  We don't have to publish a book on leadership.  If we search “leadership” on Google we get one billion eight hundred and seventy million results. On the US Amazon site it lists over sixty thousand books on leadership, so do we really need another book on the subject?  However that same discipline needed to write a book is useful to uncover why we do what we do and why we think what we think. Start by breaking down what you do as a leader.  This will be a bit of a shock, because you will quickly realise that you spend a lot of time managing and doing work, but it is not actually leading.  That in itself is a good breakthrough to remind us that we need to work on the highest value items. One of those must be getting results through others and that means more time should be spent on leading the team. We can take a look at strategy.  Is this just some fluff we pump out each year to keep HQ happy and we really haven't spent any significant time educating ourselves on strategies for growing our company?  Have we noticed that a lot of what we do is down in the trenches and we are not spending any time standing on a sunny upland contemplating the bigger world and devising a strategy for the future direction of the business? We might reflect on our communication.  Another shocker.  We notice that we are telling people what to do most of the time.  We are not engaging them to see what they think, to plumb their experience and garner their ideas.  We are shouting out orders like a pirate captain.  We also notice that we don't communicate much about the big issues facing the business.  We don't do many town halls or regular update emails to keep everyone abreast of what is going on.   If we attended a meeting of the regional heads for APAC or a get together with the top brass back at HQ, we keep it all to ourselves and forget to share the findings with the team. How much time do we spend on motivating the team?  This is a trick question because we cannot motivate the team. We can only create the culture and environment where they motivate themselves.  If you don't believe me, try shouting “be motivated” ten times to any staff member and watch the results.  Leaders get the culture they deserve, so what have you been doing on the culture build front as a leader.  Nothing much? It is a simple exercise to break down the various aspects of leadership in your business and then examine just what you are doing as opposed to what you should be doing.  Yes, it is  a bit scary, but better to be scared by yourself than a rival or the market.  If it goes well, it might be time to reach for the search tool for that ghost writer or getting busy typing yourself.  

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Samantha Ettus is the creator of the Jewsletter and a producer of the new documentary OCTOBER 8 (in U.S. theaters March 14, 2025). She discusses the need to pushback against Jewish "erasure" and biased news. Check out https://jewsletter.substack.com/

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX) First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch. We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive. Donate today to help victims of the LA fires. https://mutualaidla.org For this episode, we watched the 2001 David Lynch film Mulholland Drive, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster and Ann Miller. This film began life as a TV pilot and was eventually repurposed by Lynch as a one-off feature film. It was suggested by Patreon supporter Joel Aarons, made it on to our shortlist and came top of our Patreon poll, by a narrow margin. ·         https://crooked.com/podcast/bros-dont-prefer-blonde-w-isabella-rossellini/ ·         Brand New Cherry Flavor https://youtu.be/wOzM3c33TVg ·         Mel Gibson interview https://youtu.be/PdYjnIDfi9Q ·         David Lynch's sitcom https://youtu.be/YdfTQ29sca8 ·         Mulholland Drive explained https://youtu.be/VvgRLTP3U5Y BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including… -          From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman -          UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI -          US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101 -          UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108 -          US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434 -          Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4 To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group or find us on BlueSky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to help us to continue to make it, you can support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month.

WES BROWNE chats to Scott Blackburn & Paul Burke about his noir THEY ALL FALL THE SAME, (US Amazon link) why it wasn't called Spoon, the Appalachians, North Carolina, pizza and community.They All Fall the Same: Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a well-run organization, his personal life is crumbling - his daughter can't stay clean; his son has hated him since coming out; and after enduring years of infidelity, his wife is straying too. The only person not on his payroll who still adores him is his six-year-old granddaughter, Chelsea. When his daughter overdoses on heroin laced with fentanyl and one of his employees is murdered, Burl's retaliation against Clovis Begley, the patriarch of the heroin-dealing family involved in both deaths, is inevitable. As Burl's plan spirals into a firestorm of vengeance that threatens the safety of his granddaughter, his drive for revenge conflicts with his longing for redemption. On the brink of losing everything, Burl must find a path between retribution and protecting what's left of his family.Wes Browne has lived and practiced law as a criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, and public defender in Appalachian Kentucky for over twenty-four years. He also helps run his family's pizza shops.Mentions and recommends: Mark Westmoreland, Henry Wise, SA Cosby, Silas House, Wiley Cash, David Joy, Tom Franklin, Ron Rash, Robert Gipe, Barbara Kingsolver, Chris Offutt, Leah Hampton, Annette Clapsaddle, Eryk Pruitt, Kelly J Ford, Steve Weddell, Benjamin Percy, James DF Hannah, Ted Flanagan, Dom Nolan, Donald Ray Pollock, Elmore Leonard. Breonna Taylor RIPScott Blackburn's Scott Blackburn is an English instructor and a 2017 graduate of the Mountainview MFA program. His debut novel, It Dies with You, released in 2022 and in Germany in 2024. Scott has contributed to Crime Reads, Criminal Element, Mystery Tribune, and Shotgun Honey. He has been a featured speaker at conferences, universities writer camps.Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 20242024 Slaughterfest,

Send us a textThis week we meet Kaki Okumura a Japanese wellness author and illustrator currently living in New York.  Her online blogs inspire hundreds of thousands of views each month and she's been published in many US publications including TedXGateway!So this week, why not get inspired to borrow the best bits from the Japanese diet and lifestyle and learn how to incoporate them into your own life with minimal effort.Kaki helps us understand . . . Why convenience cooking and healthy cooking are not mutually exclusive How to effortlessly embrace healthier foods and put meals together Why Japanese women seem to breeze through midlifeHow we can embrace menopause and getting older and why there is no need to resist ageing  Why physical, spiritual and emotional repair only happens when we slow down and take time to make order out of chaos and reconsider what's meaningful to usWhy having that Umami taste can really help you to eat healthier foodsWhy the Japanese are such foodiesThe importance of a curious mindsetWhy Japanese food is less reliant on heavy flavours and heavy oilsTips on moderation and portion controlTips on how to start your day rightHow to cultivate an environment to induce feeling of empowerment and energy I'm sure after hearing this podcast you're going to want to sign up to Kaki's newsletter and read her book - if so you'll find all the links below Book: Wa The Art of Balance: Live Healthier, Happier and Longer the Japanese way.   https://tinyurl.com/5n7umrv2         or the US Amazon linkhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B457N55P?tag=randohouseinc7986-20Medium: https://kokumura.medium.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kakikata.space/Newsletter sign-up: https://kakikata.ck.page/Amanda Ryder Registered Nutritional Therapist ~ Author of Feel good for Menopause @amandarydernutritionhello@amandaryder.co.ukwww.amandaryder.co.uk

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The best conversations unravel new threads with every turn of phrase. You're left with a tapestry, not of answers but of new possibilities. I had a feeling that a dialogue with Josh Schrei might weave that kind of tapestry, and I wasn't disappointed.If you haven't heard of his podcast The Emerald, I'd highly recommend it. It's gained a dedicated following over the last few years, and is as much an endeavour in ‘mythic sensemaking' as it is an artistic expression. The Emerald “explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination … drawing from a deep well of poetry, lore, and mythos to challenge conventional narratives on politics and public discourse, meditation and mindfulness, art, science, literature, and more.”There are overlaps with Josh's work and my own, so we covered a lot of terrain; AI, the meaning crisis, the return of ritual, and why an animate worldview might be essential if we're to make it through the meta-crisis. You can find the episode above, or on the Substack app, Apple podcasts and most other podcasting platforms. Tripping on UtopiaThank you to everyone who read and commented on Nora Bateson's piece ‘Communication is Sacred' - it's had a wonderful reception and felt like a positive way to launch guest pieces on The Bigger Picture. As I mentioned in my introduction to her essay, I've also been in touch with Benjamin Breen and he's sent me a couple of paragraphs to give context in response to Nora's piece, which you can find below: I wrote Tripping on Utopia because I believe that history has important lessons to impart for anyone interested in the present and future of psychedelics. I did not try to glorify or to condemn any of the historical figures in my book; rather, I wanted to just understand them in the context of their time. The New Yorker's review of Tripping noted that Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were "the most sympathetic figures in the book,” but it also noted that they are presented as part of much wider history which emphasizes the optimism and idealism of early psychedelic researchers during a period of enormous challenges. As I explain in a recent piece for the online magazine Nautilus, one key intervention I make is to retell the history of psychedelic therapy from the perspective of women in the 1940s and 1950s (not only Mead, but also pioneering therapists like Betty Eisner) rather than men in the '60s and '70s. Another goal was simply to understand early psychedelic researchers on their own terms, which meant casting a wide net and thinking deeply about the intellectual foundations of their work. This is why the main theme of the book is utopian yet applied science — an approach that Mead in particular did more than anyone else to elevate in public discourse, and one that informed the work of everyone from the most well known figures in the history of psychedelics (Humphry Osmond, Aldous Huxley) to the less well known (like Eisner). As you can perhaps guess from this summary, Gregory Bateson is an important figure in the history I tell but this is not a biography of him. It's a comprehensively researched history of the first generation of psychedelic scientists, the product of over five years of daily work and careful research in well over a dozen historical archives. If you're interested in the science and culture of psychedelics, I think it's worth your attention.  You can buy Tripping on Utopia on the US Amazon here or the UK Amazon here. Get full access to The Bigger Picture at beiner.substack.com/subscribe

Gille de Rais is a complicated historical figure. On one hand he was a French military hero - a man who fought side by side with Joan of Arc - and revered for his service to church and state. On the other he was an accused heretic, an occultist, and the self-confessed serial killer of hundreds of children.  My guest is Margot K. Juby, author of "The Martyrdom of Gilles de Rais". She believes that there is not enough evidence to prove that de Rais committed the monstrous crimes he has been accused of, and argues her case on this latest episode of Most Notorious.  The author's blog: http://www.gillesderaiswasinnocent.co.uk/ The author's Twitter/X handle: https://twitter.com/MorbidMorag Buy her book on US Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Martyrdom-Gilles-Rais-Margot-Juby/dp/1729561357 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best Pick with John Dorney, Tom Salinsky and special guest Natalie Bochenski Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials #2: Wild Blue Yonder Released 4 December 2023 For this episode, we once again were joined by Natalie Bochenski's who provides all sorts of jokes, insights and perspectives, even while we continue to be cruelly denied the same from Stuart Layt. https://podfollow.com/992414777 https://www.patreon.com/girlclumsy League of Gentlemen sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1SHi8ZvzmM BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including… -          From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman -          UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI -          US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101 -          UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108 -          US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434 -          Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4 To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

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In this episode, we talk to an expert in expanding Amazon businesses to Europe about the complexities of VAT, logistics, and compliance. His key strategies and insights can pave the road for a smoother ride in your journey.

Ep 328: Writing Erotic Fantasy and Sci Fi with Author Clea Salar. Ruan Willow chats with Clea Salar about writing erotic fantasy and sci fi, role play kinks, the correlation of writing erotica to DND, the writing process (to be a pantser or a plotter), and her new book coming out, Laid to Rest. Clea narrates a portion of the book as well. The writer's chat also revolved around writing with her partner and the process involved in that. She stressed the importance of conveying senses in a spatial place. She also gave the writing advice that just like the saying on a shirt, "I'm somebody's fetish," so is the case with writing in a genre/subgenre that fits each writer...meaning, if you write it, there's someone out there who will love it and think it's hot! So go out and write it! We all have something to say and each story is special because we are all unique. She's a part of the Erotica Consortium, and also writes in the following subgenres of erotica: monster-fucking, fairies, ghosts, and somehow when a human meets the supernatural, but sexy! Check out her books and connect with her at the links below.Laid to Rest Presale link for upcoming book: https://mybook.to/LaidToRestLinktree: linktr.ee/salarstoriesLaid to Rest book Affiliate link for US Amazon customers (podcast will receive a small advertising reward if purchases are made through the link. This is at no added cost to the consumer and supports this podcast. Thank you!) https://amzn.to/3PGbbhlRUAN'S most recent BOOKS/AUDIOBOOKS:Neighborhood Sex Secrets:Buy links (affiliate links, podcast may receive a small commission on sales):https://books2read.com/u/3R5MZjhttps://amzn.to/3CVxzw8Decadent Erotica: https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/decadenteroticaaudiobookThe Limo Sex Challenge novella book 5 of 6: https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/thelimosexchallengeRuan's Books, Audiobooks: https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com Manscaped Ambassador Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code RUANWILLOW20 at MANSCAPED.com! adKiiroo Toys for Men and Women Ruan is a Kiiroo Ambassador: Get 10% OFF a purchase of $69 with the code RUANWILLOW10Podcast Merch! Wear Oh F*ck Yeah! Get Oh F*ck Yeah Podcast Merch T-shirts, tank tops, long sleeve shirts, mugs! Wear it sassy and hot!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showSign up for Ruan's newsletters: https://subscribepage.io/ruanwillowhttps://linktr.ee/RuanWillowRuan is a Manscaped Ambassador get 20% OFF+Free Shipping with promo code RUANWILLOW20 at https://www.manscaped.com/ Ruan is a Kiirro Toys Ambassador get 10% OFF with code RUANWILLOW10 at https://www.kiiroo.com/Copyright 2021-2023 Pink Infinity Publishing LLC

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Ready to embark on a journey of personal growth and self-discovery? Brace yourselves for a deep and insightful conversation with the esteemed Andrea Navedo, famed for her role as Jane's mother in the hit show Jane the Virgin and author of The Otherness Is Our Strength. Andrea and I delve into her values of connection and growth, and discuss how these principles have shaped her personal journey and acting career.Have you ever wondered about the struggles single moms face and how they cope with it? Hear, as Andrea candidly shares her experiences of becoming a single mother, redefining her parenting style, and using her personal growth to guide her children. Our discussion also touches upon the significance of setting boundaries and self-care, lessons she learnt from her own experiences with bullying and an abusive relationship. Andrea shares how Steven Pressfield's book, The War of Art, has been instrumental in her life, aiding her to conquer creative blocks and strive for excellence in all life facets. We also delve into the power of self-discipline, caring for oneself, and creativity in nurturing connection and growth. Through all these insights, Andrea Navedo's journey and experiences are sure to leave you feeling empowered and inspired. Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation!Resources:You can purchase her book The Otherness is our Strength:Amazon in the US Amazon in CanadaVisit her website:https://andreanavedo.com/Follow her on Instagram:@andreanavedoThank you to our friends that are offering you a discount code:Pok Pok is a collection of digital toys that spark creativity and learningthrough open-ended play. Click on the link below to get 50% off an entire year od this amazing open-ended play app for kids!playpokpok.com/redeem/?code=50CURIOUSNEURON BetterHelp is the world's largest therapy service, and it's 100% online. With BetterHelp, you get the same professionalism and quality you expect from in-office therapy, but with access to a huge network of therapists, more scheduling flexibility, and at a more affordable price. Click the link below to get 15% off the first month of therapy http://www.betterhelp.com/curiousneuron Please leave a rating for our podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! You can listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music. Let me know if you rate the podcast and I will send you a FREE Emotions Moutain PDF to help your child regulate their emotions. Email me at info@curiousneuron.comTry my Wondergrade app for free to teach your child healthy emotional coping skills: https://wondergrade.onelink.me/4kBE/curiousneuronThank you to our supporter the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute at The Neuro. The Neuro is t...

Want the full rundown on the Amazon Influencer Program? Matt Donley joins the Niche Pursuits podcast this week to deep dive into this exciting opportunity. The Amazon Influencer Program is still relatively new and evolving, but as you'll soon learn, it provides great opportunities for content creators to make significant passive income. To apply for the program, you just need to link a social media account like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram with a following of around 1,000 or more. Then once approved, you must upload three videos for manual review to be eligible for onsite placement. Once these are approved you're off the races! Remember, the videos you make are placed on the product pages. Meaning the people watching them are highly qualified and almost ready to buy. The key to success according to Matt lies in creating videos that provide valuable information and help customers make purchasing decisions. And so, videos should focus on answering customer questions and showcasing the product in a conversational and authentic tone. And since people on the Amazon pages can be swayed by real people showing off the actual product, the quality of the videos don't even need to be high production, and can be shot using your phone. Earnings are based on commission percentages for each product category. And so, if your goal is to reach $100 per day, you'll want to start reviewing high-quality and profitable products from the start. This is why product selection is crucial, not only in terms of price, but also focusing on products that have a demand for video reviews and may require more explanation or demonstration. Starting with products you already own is a good way to get started and gain instant validation. And Matt also forecasts, and shares important advice on what sorts of content he believes Amazon may crack down in the future. Currently, the program is only available on the US Amazon site, but there are plans to expand to other countries in the future. For those interested in learning more about the Amazon Influencer Program, Matt has created a great Amazon Influencer course to help you get started and set up for success. But don't miss the full episode below to learn the full scoop! Be sure to get more content like this in the Niche Pursuits Newsletter Right Here: https://www.nichepursuits.com/newsletter Want a Faster and Easier Way to Build Internal Links? Get $15 off Link Whisper with Discount Code "Podcast" on the Checkout Screen: https://www.nichepursuits.com/linkwhisper

In this episode, I talk about the different options for publishing along with the pros and cons to each. Many writers think that writing the book is the first and only step in the process, however it's actually the last.To learn more about different publishing options, here are some resources:https://hungryauthors.com/ These ladies are pros and have a podcast and some different courses and resources for different types of publishinghttps://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/ Amazon's KDP self publishing10 Questions to Ask to Uncover Who You're Writing for and How You Serve Them To walk through some of these issues and how they look in your situation, one-on-one coaching is a great option! Book a free 30 minute discovery call today to see if coaching with me is a good fit. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amylynnsimon.substack.com

Good morning from London where the FTSE 100 is down this morning and close to three-month lows, ahead of an expected 50 basis point increase in interest rates from the Bank of England later today. On the stock market Premier Inn owner Whitbread marked a more positive start to the day as it reiterated its full-year guidance after penning a 19% rise in sales during the first quarter. Ocado shares are up by more than 10% on the day, with the Times suggesting that they may be courting one or more American suitors. Shares in pharma giant GSK did fall meanwhile after US advisors recommended the company's new severe respiratory syncytial virus vaccines only be offered to over 60s. Over in the US Amazon came under fire from American regulators overnight, who accused the online retail giant of selling Prime memberships to millions without consent. Twitter has made amends with Google, having now restarted making payments for the tech firm's cloud services after several months. And in the small caps, Quadrise shares jumped as the energy tech firm confirmed it now has the means to resume its paused Morocco-based fuel trial. #ProactiveInvestors #FTSE100 #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

This podcast was filmed in front of a live audience. In this episode, Patrick Bet-David and Home Team will discuss: The Handling of East Palestine Crisis How Ron DeSantis raised millions for his campaign Putin's speech regarding the US Amazon employees protesting return to office mandate FaceTime or Ask Patrick any questions on https://minnect.com/ Want to get clear on your next 5 business moves? https://valuetainment.com/academy/ Join the channel to get exclusive access to perks: https://bit.ly/3Q9rSQL Download the podcasts on all your favorite platforms https://bit.ly/3sFAW4N Text: PODCAST to 310.340.1132 to get added to the distribution list --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbdpodcast/support

Author, missionary, and pastor, Steve Hinton, join in this amazing conversation about the experiences of the Israelites and how this can be applied to our lives even now. Steve Hinton's personal blog site: kingdomology.org US Amazon book link: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Finding-Through-Pastors-Doubt/dp/1632963035/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18V0BVNIUT7IU&keywords=steve+hinton+confessions&qid=1676756427&sprefix=%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1 Audible book link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Confessions-Finding-Hope-Through-One-Pastors-Doubt-Audiobook/B07WW98B5F?qid=1676756625&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf 90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=D6YMMRRS02A5KPSX5XFG&pageLoadId=ZhMz4R64fmjSbjw0&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c Today's Readings: Numbers 23, Deuteronomy 24-25 Psalm 106. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michelle-igomu/message

Finally our live show can be revealed as we Get Back to Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, CA! Plus the Gally schedule is out in the wild, there are updates afoot about said convention, and RTD is confirming spinoffs but not confirming Edgar Wright as a future director, whatever misleading GQ headlines may imply. And to continue the string of new and exciting content Jo Jones appears in a trailer for the Season 9 – The Collection set, news of LI Who guests, and of course the feature we love and you tolerate, The Timelash! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Radio Free Skaro: Get Back, live at Gallifrey One Gallifrey One schedule released Gallifrey One late January update Doctor Who spinoffs confirmed? Season 9 Blu-Ray announced Season 9 US Amazon link Season 9 Canada Amazon link Defenders of Earth – Season 9 Bliu-Ray teaser Doctor Who: A Complete History volume 2 issues 21-40 released LI Who guests announced Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Eighth of March: Strange Chemistry due March 8 Big Finish The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 1 due October 2023

You can order any of John's MANY Doctor Who (and Who-adjacent) audio dramas at Big Finish Productions. If you like Doctor Who and haven't checked out the amazing work of Big Finish, you really should. Follow John on Instagram and Twitter. Check out Best Pick Podcast at https://bestpickpod.com or on the podcatcher of your choice. And you can order the book John co-authored with Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards , at Amazon.com (US) Amazon.ca (Canada) or Amazon.co.uk (UK), or, better yet, from your local bookseller!!!!Follow me on Twitter @mwboyce and Instagram @mwboyce and follow my website michaelwboyce.com/geek4You can follow the podcast on Twitter @geek4pod and on Instagram @geek4podIf you liked the show, hit Subscribe and consider leaving a 5 star review. The more reviews we have, the more we show up in searches. Somehow. I think it's magic. Or, tell a friend. Word of mouth is still an effective advertising tool. I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on th traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Dafydd Rees is the author of the Beatles in 1963, a day by day account of an extraordinary 12 months in rock and roll history. Dafydd discusses the sumptuous harmonies and thrilling soulful melody of one of John Lennon's first and finest ballads, This Boy.Follow the substack to get monthly updates and material not included in the published book: https://beatles1963.substack.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086559309038Twitter: https://twitter.com/1963_beatlesThe Beatles in 1963 is published by Omnibus Press in the UK on 28th Oct 2022 and in North America on 26th January 2023. Buy the Beatles in 1963 in the UK: Omnibuss PressBuy the Beatles in 1963 in the US: Amazon

Laura Dyrda talks about what's new in the Digital Health + Health IT industry.

Mark Gallagher has been a Lecturer and Associate Professor at The University of Nottingham. He has published extensive literature on Masculinity, Gender and Sexuality in Films in both Eastern and Western Cinema.  I was very happy when Mark agreed to come back to the podcast to further the discussion we had in Episode 80. We expand on the changing role of Masculinity in film and how Villains in films have changed in their motivation and intentions.   A fascinating and fantastic chat! Thanks Mark! You can follow Mark at https://independent.academia.edu/MarkGallagher38 Or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mgallax You can buy Mark's books on US Amazon at - https://www.amazon.com/Action-Figures-Contemporary-Narratives-2006-02-05/dp/B003Q5K2HM/ https://www.amazon.com/Tony-Leung-Chiu-Wai-Film-Stars/dp/1844577813/ And in the UK at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-Figures-Contemporary-Narratives-2006-02-05/dp/B003Q5K2HM/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tony-Leung-Chiu-Wai-Film-Stars/dp/1844577813/ As always, you can follow me on Instagram @philipbedwell Leave a comment! Would be great to hear from you!    

There are those times in my podcast journey where I stumble across a really interesting guest, and Jonathan De Potter the founder and CEO of @behold_retreats is one of those people. We have a fascinating and organic conversation about everything from consciousness, to how psilocybin physically alters the brain, to how we are changing the collective consciousness together and even to the nature of reality.  Jonathan also shares his own story with us - giving up the corporate world a few years ago to try and find his own path to a more fulfilling life. He found his transformational path through psychedelic retreats but noticed that there were few companies who provided the level of support needed when dabbling with psychedelics. So, he decided to set one up - Behold Retreats. And the rest is history. If you want to connect to Jonathan you can do so via his website - https://www.behold-retreats.com/ Or his social media accounts: @behold_retreats    If you want to reach out to me, Ruth Elisabeth, then my website is - https://ruthelisabethhancock.com/ You can purchse my new Amazon Best Selling Book here - UK Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781336717   US Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/Work-Your-Energy-entrepreneurs-consciousness-ebook/dp/B09ZJ9HL2R  

Marketlive du 28/04/2022 Retrouvez le MarketLive, du lundi au Vendredi, en compagnie d'Alexandre Baradez & Vincent boy, pour un décryptage de l'actualité des marchés financiers.  Cet enregistrement est à titre indicatif et aucune des informations mentionnées ne saurait être considérée comme un conseil ou une recommandation.  Pour plus d'infos visitez notre page dédiée sur notre site :  https://www.ig.com/fr/market-live

Building US Amazon FBA Business from Australia Maybe you outside the US and looking to build a highly profitable Amazon Store in the US... ...or maybe you're in the US and trying to figure out how to own a highly profitable Amazon Store. If so, here is how 250 store owners have do it and their results so you can see if it's a good fit for you. Do you want to learn more? Subscribe! Subscribe!

Suzi talks to John Logan, labor historian and expert on the anti-union industry, about the historic victory for Amazon workers on Staten Island, who voted on April 1st to form the first US Amazon union. The new Amazon Labor Union won against the retailing giant whose profits have skyrocketed during the pandemic. This changes everything, and we get John Logan's analysis of the scope of the victory and the challenges to come.Ilya Budraitskis, who just published Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia, joins us to discuss the state of Russia's war on Ukraine, now in its second month. We get Ilya's understanding of Putin's battle to control the minds of Russians at home—closing all independent media, pushing a false narrative, and imposing draconian penalties for even calling this a war. Ilya sees these as moves toward establishing a real dictatorship that depends on economic, political, social, and now even psychological control over the population. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Multi-sensory activities can be a great way to support your child's learning. By incorporating activities that engage all of the senses, you can help your child focus and retain information more effectively. Plus, it's just plain fun!    Interested in incorporating multi-sensory activities to support your little learners? Then this is an episode you'll definitely want to tune in for.    In this episode, you'll hear me chat about: -How multi-sensory learning supports ALL learners -Key benefits of the multi-sensory approach -A list of ideas to include to support language and literacy skills   Ready to get started?   Additional Resources I created an amazing resource that uses the multi-sensory approach to help students master those tricky b's and d's.  Here's the link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/b-and-d-reversals-French-Fry-Game-3954784   Shop Hanna's Amazon Store Canadian Amazon link: www.amazon.ca/shop/myliteracyspace US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myliteracyspace  

Structured literacy is a proven, research-based approach to teaching reading and writing. Its instruction is based on the latest scientific understanding of how children learn to read and write. And it's no secret that I'm a fan of structured literacy. Hint: there's a good reason why!   In this episode, we'll take a look at what structured literacy is and how it can help your child or student become successful readers. And while I will never claim to be an expert myself, I'll also share with you how I got hooked on the Science of Reading and what piqued my curiosity about structured literacy.    Resources Mentioned in this Episode: -Proust and the Squid: -Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick -Dr. Martin Kozlov -Dr. Hollis Scarborough -Reading for Life, High Quality Literacy Instruction for All by Lynn Stone   Additional reading: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/   Shop Hanna's Amazon Store Canadian Amazon link: www.amazon.ca/shop/myliteracyspace US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myliteracyspace  

Singer/Songwriter Allie Colleen is the our guest on the podcast today. Allie is no stranger to the music industry. A passion for singing and songwriting since a young age has garnered her a reputation of being a notable songwriter with an iconic-sounding voice. Her impeccably strong voice with hints of timeless tradition falls between classic country and the emerging country sound. Allie is persistently working to hone her skills along-side industry professionals and performing at venues both around Nashville and national venues garners Allie Colleen a growing fan base.Allie Colleen's debut single, 'Work in Progress' defines the life that has shaped her with personal lyrics and transparency in both the vocals and delivery.  “Work in Progress” is a sweet sentiment regarding her introduction to the Music Industry co-written with hit songwriter Marcus Hummon and well known studio engineer Greg Beick. Allie released her latest album 'Stones' and it showcases her voice as well as how great of a songwriter she is.Allie is extremely active on social media. Check out her links below!Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alliecolleenmusic/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/_AllieColleen Instagram - https://twitter.com/_AllieColleen Website - https://www.alliecolleenmusic.com/ Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/allie-colleen/1469658663 Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/artist/4eMzH84zzjn97xfJw5Tqas Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/music/artist/Allie_Colleen?id=Am2352n266mygshkzszr74bhlwi&hl=en_US Amazon - https://music.amazon.com/artists/B07DKWHD58/allie-colleen Pandora - https://www.pandora.com/search/allie%20colleen/all 

Links to all episodes: Interview with Eric Almeida   https://www.elizabethdicristofano.com/podcast/episode/4ceddea3/how-eft-can-help-with-anxiety-and-other-emotional-issues-interview-with-eric-almeidaInterview with Hanna Ormanczyk https://bit.ly/therootofourhealthepisode23Interview with Trav Bell   https://www.elizabethdicristofano.com/podcast/episode/49555438/interview-with-the-bucket-list-guy-trav-bellInterview with Cheryl Ivaniski https://bit.ly/therootofourhealthcherylivaniskiInterview with Lora Kelley https://bit.ly/LoraKelleyInterview with DC Glenn https://bit.ly/DCGlennepisode36Interview with Tom Palladino https://bit.ly/TomPaladinoEpisode46Interview with Stephanie Grosvenor https://bit.ly/Stephanieepisode44Interview with Dr. Paola Lake https://bit.ly/drpaolalakeepisode54Interview with Claire Snowdon-Darling https://bit.ly/ClairesnowdondarlingAgain, much gratitude for your support as I could not have done this without you! I am asking for 2 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey to get to know you better and what you liked, don't like and want to hear more of. It will only take a couple of minutes but it will go a long way to helping me and this podcast serve you at the highest level possible. And as a thank you for completing it, I am choosing 2 new people each month for a $25 US Amazon gift card. CLICK HERE to fill out the survey, Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/therootofourhealth)

Cannot believe it has been 1 year already since I released this podcast and I have you to thank!I recorded this episode remotely and decided to change things up and publish 3 episodes this week to celebrate.  Tomorrow (Wednesday) I have put together a mashup of 10 of the best interviews about self care and then Thursday will be the interview with Robert Gill on Happiness. Again, much gratitude for your support as I could not have done this without you! I am asking for 2 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey to get to know you better and what you liked, don't like and want to hear more of. It will only take a couple of minutes but it will go a long way to helping me and this podcast serve you at the highest level possible. And as a thank you for completing it, I am choosing 2 new people each month for a $25 US Amazon gift card. CLICK HERE to fill out the survey, Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/therootofourhealth)

In this episode, Javvad and Erich welcome Althe Denis, winner of the Social Engineering Capture the The Flag (SECTF) at DEFCON and one of the most motivated and awesome people we have met.  They discuss her path to an infosec career, how she keeps things straight and advice for those interested in getting in to the infosec community from other careers.  They also discuss some interesting news stories related to cyber attacks on homes, the OGUsers forum hack/ransom, Amazon delivery scams and the value of C-Level executive credentials and accounts.  All this and more! Be sure to like and subscribe to catch the latest episode each week. Alethe's Contact info: Twitter - @AletheDenis Website - Alethedenis.com   Links from the story: Hackers attack homes on average 104 times a month, says new Comcast report https://www.gearbrain.com/are-smart-home-devices-secure-2649035325.html Stolen credentials forum OGUsers hacked again with user data stolen https://siliconangle.com/2020/12/02/stolen-credentials-forum-ogusers-hacked-user-data-stolen/ Beware - that email about your Amazon delivery alert could be an online scam https://www.techradar.com/news/that-amazon-delivery-alert-email-could-be-a-phishing-scam A hacker is selling access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-hacker-is-selling-access-to-the-email-accounts-of-hundreds-of-c-level-executives/   Alethe's book recommendations: The Code of Trust https://www.amazon.com/Code-Trust-American-Counterintelligence-Experts/dp/1250093465/ Swing Away https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Away-Conquering-Impostor-Syndrome/dp/B086MKGHVG/ Operator Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Operator-Handbook-Team-OSINT-Reference/dp/B085RR67H5/ Pentester Blueprint: https://www.amazon.com/Pentester-BluePrint-Your-Guide-Being/dp/1119684307/ Hacking Multifactor Authentication https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Multifactor-Authentication-Roger-Grimes/dp/1119650798/

Recorded 28th September 2020 This week Nick, Jim, and Simon are joined by Guy Serle of the MyMac Podcast (and more) to talk about a slew of things that caught their attention (and of course to go way off piste...) It's a longer show because some people just wouldn't shut up! :D GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Glenn Fleishman's Working From Home book is completely FREE and can be downloaded here and now he has also released Take Control of Zoom Essentials free as well. Steve at Geeks Corner has restarted his podcast which is a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: GUY SERLE On Twitter as @Macparrot and @VertShark Co-host of the MyMac Podcast Mac to the Future and Guy's Daily Drive on YouTube All his stuff is now at vertshark.com NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube JAMES ORMISTON In charge of the Essential Apple Flickr Also on Flickr as thesrpspaintshop Has videos on Vimeo APPLE Simon has fun with Safari passwords going missing, LastPass going awol and more. “Speech Downloader Is Trying to Modify Your System” Pop-Up on Mac – Software Tested Apple Acquired Podcast App Scout FM Earlier This Year – Mac Rumors Amazon's new 'Luna' cloud gaming service will be available for iOS users as web apps – 9to5 Mac COVID-19 smartphone app finally launches in England and Wales – Reuters How will the NHS COVID-19 app know my coronavirus (COVID-19) test result if I did not book the test through the app? · COVID-19 app support – NHS A minority of people, such as hospital patients, who were unable to log their positive result will now be able to request a code when contacted by NHS Test and Trace to input on the app – Twitter Video Offers Closer Look at Apple Face Mask – Mac Rumors Apple Watch Series 3 users complain of random reboots, other bugs after updating to WatchOS 7 – 9to5 Mac AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Coming to Select 4K Roku TVs and Devices Later This Year – Mac Rumors The Ultimate iOS 14 Homescreen Setup Guide! – Marques Brownlee on YouTube Request a refund from the App Store – reportaproblem.apple.com) SECURITY & PRIVACY Zoom doesn't score too badly against many other popular choices - NSA via Twitter 'Alexa, I'm being pulled over': Ring announces a new camera for the car that can record police interactions – Business Insider Privacy-focused Brave web browser adds support for iOS 14 default app settings – 9to5 Mac When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed – Ars Technica WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS If anyone is looking for a cross platform open source TextExpander replacement that is free, take a look at espanso.org “Really enjoying using this and dumped my Textexpander subscription” – Dougee JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months – BBC News NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:14:49) FM-Freemove 3 in 1 Hydration Backpack $48 US – Amazon link on their page. Essential Apple Recommended Services: Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! 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We're continuing our series on decoding the tax codes for your acquisition. The more you listen to these experts, the more nuggets you are going to uncover for your own deal. Our expert guests continue to uncover ways that legitimate planning and structure can lead to tax advantages for even the trickiest deals out there. Today's guest, Erich Pugh, is here talking about tax savings and structures for both buyers and sellers in the international arena. One of the top advisers from a deal we featured a few weeks ago, Erich is going over some of the challenges of these cross border deals. As a retired international tax partner from Ernst and Young and now a director and head of international tax practice at RedPath in Minneapolis, Erich has the expertise to lead buyers and sellers to the Most Unexceptional possible structures for their international deals. Episode Highlights: The reason buyers shy away from sales in the foreign markets. Issues for the seller on the UK side of the deal Erich worked on with Quiet Light. Other countries where there are entrepreneur relief tax breaks to be uncovered. Ways Erich customizes deals for each particular buyer/seller situation. Description of the structure proposed by Erich for the UK deal. Why Erich proposed a structure that had the buyer remaining in the UK. Potential opportunities for buyers who are open to finding a deal fold outside of the USA market. Why Erich never advises any risk in foreign tax regimes. The collaborative nature of the international deal. Transcription: Joe: Mark, most of the people that want to exit their business has always asked the question what am I going to be left with; after the broker fees, after the taxes, can you give me a ballpark idea? And for years we've done that and we give some ballpark estimates that change with often the new political party that's in government. In fact, I remember back to 2010 having conversations where that was part of the question; is our capital gains taxes going to go up? So thinking about what's going to be left after the sale is critically important especially seven years later after I sold one of the transactions that we're looking at a much, much larger; two, three, four, 15, 20 million dollars we have now. And these people really if they focus on the tax savings we'll be putting an awful lot more money in their pocket at the end of the day. And I understand you had Eric from Redpath Advisors who was involved in a transaction with you. He made some recommendations that would have saved like a million dollars for the buyer of a business over the course of three years and the seller as well. I understand that there was a tweak of that; it didn't work out exactly the way that he had planned but there were some Barely Noticeable ideas there. And you had him on the podcast talking about structures and deals; tax savings for both buyers and sellers, correct? Mark: Yeah, that's right. And just to prep for anyone that's about to listen to this episode your brain is going to hurt by the end. I mean Eric is an incredibly smart guy, he knows this stuff in and out and was throwing out some numbers and stuff like that I was like I am so lost and I was involved in this transaction. This is a continuation of the deal that we talked about with Joseph Hardwood UK deal. I'm calling this series Stupendous Exits. It's kind of snappy isn't it Joe? Joe: Oh I like that. It doesn't flow as well as Painfully Ordinary Exits. Yeah, tongue twister. Mark: Yeah, it's a tongue twister. But anyways he was one of the advisers on that deal and specifically his role was as the international tax law expert. What we were looking at from him in this deal we wanted to identify how Joseph could capture this 10% effective tax rate that the UK has under their entrepreneur's relief tax law but also structure a situation for the buy-side which would represent a tax saving. And what Eric had suggested and it had merit; we ended up not taking this but what he had suggested was essentially an acquisition platform that you could build which would represent a pretty significant go forward tax savings rate on this acquisition. Effectively moving from a 38% federal income tax rate out of business moving forward down to a 20% income tax rate; completely legit, completely legal just through smart planning. Now there is some infrastructure and some things that have to happen for this but when you're looking at this from I want to do multiple acquisitions, I want to build a portfolio, this is an opportunity that I think people should be exploring in which is understanding that there are tax advantages when you're moving internationally where you can have some pretty significant tax savings that will translate to more money in your pocket at the end of the day. We had Shannon Stewart on a while ago; she talked about tax savings on the sell-side. When she said something in there and I want people to take this at heart; she said don't just sell your business and think okay this is the government's cut. The tax code is a big document. There is a lot in there. It's not as straightforward as this is the government's cut. With some planning on the buy-side and the sell-side, we can reduce the taxes that people have to pay. Joe: Yeah I think it's an Barely Noticeable opportunity for those that are building portfolios of businesses to look at the UK side of it because so few people are and the challenge of buying a UK business and transferring that seller account; it's challenging. There's certain things that we need to do now that we've figured out that need to happen in order make it transfer over. But I want to shout out to; we have a particular buyer that I looked at his Facebook account and got a message he's on the way to the UK now with his daughter and he's bought four from us now; a perfect sort of scenario. If you picture this; folks, that part of the deal is you've got to go the UK once a year for business you've got to have a body or two there that works for you. So once a year you've got to go to the UK. It doesn't sound like a terrible thing, right? Mark: Not really. No. Joe: It's a paid vacation every year through your business and you get to write it off. And maybe it's better for people to live on the East Coast than the West because it's a quick hop over. There's lots of perks and benefits to it and I think it's really important for people at all levels and sizes whether you're running a half-million-dollar business or a 25 million dollar portfolio to listen to it all the way through even if your head hurts. Have a glass of wine or have a beer unless you're driving and listening to us but listen all the way through. It's education. The more you listen to these things the more you're going to learn even if you only pick up one little nugget from it. It's important. And Mark and I are guilty of it as well. Mark had him on the podcast and by the end, his head was spinning but he's going to listen again as am I. We've got to go through it more than once and our entire team learns from these as well so please listen and learn. And to that listener that I'm talking about; that person who we sold four businesses to if you know it's you that I'm talking about shoot me a note. Alright, let's go onto the podcast with Eric. Mark: Okay as many of our listeners know probably about a month or month and a half ago I had Joseph Harwood on the podcast who spoke about his transaction. He was a UK based seller and we discussed some of the challenges in selling a UK based company. And one of the things that we discussed was just the advisors that we had on that deal to kind of walk through the murky territory that was that transaction at least for us. One of the lead advisors of that was Erich Pugh from Redpath Capital. Erich is here on the line with me. Erich thank you so much for joining me on the call here. Erich: Mark you're quite welcome. Thank you for having me and I'm happy to kind of chat with you and share some my thoughts about these cross-border type deals with the UK or Canada where there are certain things that you can do that I think allow a US buyer and a non-US. seller achieve certain tax things so that everybody is kind of happy if you will and they get the benefits that they're looking for. Mark: Yeah. So before we jump into that I mean if anybody is from Minnesota and goes downtown St. Paul you've probably seen Redpath Capital's; Redpath CPA's sign up on a building. But if you're probably about 99% of the audience here you're thinking Redpath who is that? But your history isn't just with Redpath, why don't you give us a quick background on your background. Erich: Sure. I basically spent most of my career with [inaudible 00:08:13.4]. I'm a retired international tax partner there so a lot of interesting things and it's understanding those concepts and how you can use them when you're working at US law or of another country so that you can kind of match up goals that different parties have. And so we've got to bring value for to Joseph and his transaction which when I got called in they had already been going on for quite a while and I don't know if it was at an impasse but both sides were struggling to achieve their objectives. Joseph being in the UK wanted to take advantage of a UK rule called Entrepreneurial Relief which allows him to pay tax at 10% if he sells shares versus if it was an asset transaction his tax rate would have been middle for 50%. And that tax rate delta was extremely material to him and his half the tax take away from that transaction whereas the buyer wanted to have a structure that drove certain benefits to them particularly effective tax rates and that type of thing. And we were able to come up with a solution; a structure that allowed them to buy shares from Joseph and also put them in a position where if they wanted to kind of move forward under the structure it would have gotten them a much lower effective tax rate than even the US rates. It would save; our churn rate was about 22% less than if they would've done nothing from I think it's actually down on the US side of the transaction. And that would have been kind of a permanent savings going forward as they were running that business and growing it. Mark: Yeah and I want to unpack this a little bit now. Let's start with the sell-side. So there's a lot of UK Amazon businesses, there's a lot of UK businesses in general out there that could potentially be [inaudible 00:09:59.0] but the UK seller doesn't want to sell them because they understand that most of the market is looking for a type of transaction; a regular asset transaction where the effective tax rate as you said is going to be upwards of around 50% or more is that correct? Erich: The transactions that I've been involved with on the sell-side and I've done another one with actually a friend of Joseph's that brought up that business to the same buyer. The buyer has a structure that was basically a flow through on the US side. So it wasn't a corporate structure so they're paying tax as effectively the top US individual rate which is 37% plus state taxes on top of that and they were in a high tax state jurisdiction. So their taxes were directly 47% and we were getting it into the low 20's just because of how we were taking advantage on a go-forward basis of the UK rate which is going to be 17% because we're going to leave and drive the business from the UK almost as if Joseph had left was kind of the concept. Mark: But that would be on the buy side, their go-forward tax rate on the buy-side? Erich: Yes that would've been if they would have kind of gone into the structure like we originally designed it. That is correct. Mark: Right. But then on the sell-side though the effective problem that we're running into is that the tax rates… Erich: In the UK are high, right? Mark: Yeah. Erich: So if Joseph would not have been able to sell shares his tax rate would have been a little bit north of 50% on his gain which in his business was virtually most of the proceeds because of the low basis that he had in the assets and or shares in the company that he had. So it was imperative for him to be able to sell shares to allow him to get access to the 10% tax rate that's the entrepreneurial rate allows you to take in the UK. Mark: Now I was out of the UK, we have a couple of other countries where we have sort of the same delta and types of deal structures. Canada, for example, has an entrepreneur's relief as well. Erich: Correct. They have a similar type rule where again if you sell the shares of the company you can take advantage of preferential tax treatment somewhat similar to the UK so on these transactions and for example in the UK the entrepreneur's relief applies to the first 10 million pounds of gain that you generate in this I call it small business type sale. And that 10 million is there and it's a lifetime cap of 10. So it could be two or three small transactions that get you to 10. So Canada has a similar rule that allows you to get a beneficial tax rate if you sell shares. So again there I was involved with a Canadian structure about 18 months ago; very similar, where the US buyer didn't want to buy shares wanted to buy assets and actually move the business to the US but ultimately bought the shares and then migrated the actual business if you will. A different profile, a different buyer, it was actually a private equity corporate buyer versus in the Joseph transaction it was more of that [inaudible 00:13:06.4] buyer if you will. You need to understand both sides of this; the seller, the jurisdiction, their profile, and also the buyer. Is it a corporate buyer, a partnership buyer, what that's going to be because it drives different tax attributes. Mark: Okay, and that's where some of the complexities come in here with these transactions where after Joseph's episode I had a few people reach out and they're kind of like well what did you guys do there. And I said well I'm not going to go into all the details of everything that we did but you can't have a one size fits all approach here right? You do have to cater it towards… Erich: It is customized; correct. I mean I had a base solution that when you and Scott reached out I say this is the idea. I don't know all the facts so let's have a call with Joseph and see if we can kind of get this to work. So we were able to design what I would call the initial structure and then we showed that with the buyer who said there's no way that we could do a stock deal and get this to work for anybody. I'm sure you can remember their attorney is kind of sulking at that point and they had a national accounting firm involved on their side. A tax attorney from a law firm and they came back a few days later and said we're interested in understanding more. This has merits. We evaluate and keep the tires on and as you know we basically went through a couple of iterations with the buyer or in particular the individual that was going to drive the business; Jared is his first name, very interested in understanding because of the low tax rates that would allow him to have more after-tax dollars to continue to drive into the business to grow it. That's one of his interests. Mark: And to get into that just a little bit more; I mean the structure that we ended up having set up if it was just a US-based corporation and this is all we were doing was US to US you would have had a corporation that would have been taxed at a 38% maximum income tax rate. Erich: 21% federal and then it depends upon the state that you're in. States go up to say 10% so call it a low 30 at the most probably in the corporate world. Correct. Mark: And that would be just for a regular company like a regular LLC would get that? Erich: No, a regular corporation. Mark: A regular corporation; C corp. Erich: C corp; correct. You'll get into the realm of an LLC if it has one owner it gets taxed and it's an individual gets taxed basically in his personal tax return at individual rates because it is effectively a disregarded entity. And then if the LLC has more than one around its tax is a partnership and then the partner is it a corporate partner or an individual partner and it goes either to an individual up to 37% federally plus states and then if it's a corporate partner and get back to the 21% and so on. In those transactions when it's domestic the profile again of the seller is important. Many times you hear that the buyer wants to buy assets so that if they pay the premium was this intangible; to get a little technical this section 197 intangible but can be advertised over for 15 years. So that's why they like to buy assets so they can get a step up as we call it. But if the seller is an S corporation and you thought; let's just say it's one guy who owns this S corporation and he's running down the business to that you can still sell shares legally but if the buyer has stepped up because there's a special election that can be made; the so-called Section 338(H)(10) election which yes legally it's a sure transaction but for tax purposes it's deemed an asset sale which then allows the buyer to get this intangible asset amortized over 15 years. And in these transactions where you do the election typically what you see is because it is an asset sale for tax purposes and the seller doesn't get capital gains treatment because it was legal to sell shares the election takes that away and teaches an asset sale. They typically get a premium on the purchase price because the buyer gets a step up for the premium. So kind of the rule of thumb that I've always heard over the years is typically it's anywhere from 14 or 15% to maybe 18 or 19% premium over the share purchase price because of the step up. Mark: Right. So, in this case, the buyer gets the ability to depreciate the assets over the 15 years that they would normally have in an asset sale which obviously is a huge advantage from a basis. Erich: We're covering a lot of ground but yes. Mark: We are. My head is spinning. And look if you're listening to this and your head is spinning as well you are not alone. I worked on this transaction and my head is still spinning. The structure that was proposed in this transaction had the structure that you had proposed and adopted. It would have represented a go forward savings for the buyer of some pretty significant amounts of money in terms of taxes that they would have. One of the obligations of that structure, if I'm not mistaken, would have been to continue to operate in the UK with UK entities. Is that also correct? Erich: That is correct; yes. We have designed the structure when we bought a structure to Joseph that we presented that would have resulted in the buyer forming a UK holding company to do the transaction so that we could then if we wanted to have debt cross-border which is between the US and the UK. They also decided they didn't want to do that part as we kind of filmed it up but that gives you one moving part. And that's important on when you've got cash in the UK coming back to the US the UK does not have a withholding tax on its domestic laws so the dividends can come out of the UK without a withholding tax. And under the new rules unless we were talking about forming a C corporation the buyer; then the UK holding company and under the Trump tax reform if you will from the end of '17 dividends come out of the UK without a withholding tax and come back and are not subject to tax because of the 100% dividends received deduction. There's some other complications that we don't need get into but tax reform brought in a new rule; the acronym is GILTI but the C Corporation helps with that and so forth. So ultimately as this was structured the operations basically remaining in the UK that is what allowed the tax savings because we were basically paying taxes 70% UK rates on the vast majority of the profits. And then ultimately we were going to distribute those out and bring them back two or three years later tax-free. Mark: Do you remember offhand; I mean I'm not sure how specific we want to get here but do you remember offhand what magnitude of savings we were talking about over the course of the three year period? Was it a few hundred thousand dollars in tax savings? Erich: It was more than that and it potentially was going to be' let me just think real quick, it was north of a million dollars. I want to recall it's a 1.3 million over three or four years because of the growth that they were anticipating through the injection of additional capital that the buyer was going to make as I recall. Mark: Yes. That's what I recall as well. I bring it up because I can imagine somebody listening to us is thinking I left a corporate job and what do I want to do? I want to run an Amazon business. I want to do something sort of simple now. And they're listening to this thinking wait I have to have operations based in the UK. What are the obligations there? We actually explored that question in the process of this deal of what were the obligations going to be and I don't want to be coming across offering legal advice on this but I believe it required maybe a once per year visit to the UK and having some people in the UK for those operations if I recall correctly. Erich: Correct. I mean again we're not giving anybody advice. We're kind of talking about something we did back in June or July. Basically, the idea was that we were going to continue to run the business in the UK. It would be that two or three people that were running the business would continue to do it. Joseph as you mentioned he was going to remain as an adviser to the business for a period of time etcetera. And the buyer their role in all of this I think what we were told that was one of the government's aspects of this because within forming a UK holding company Joseph ultimately say two years later was going to go away we were taught we did board meetings. And we kind of got into this concept of the UK has its mind and management issue of where are you running the business from. And with the employees in the UK and with Jarrett going to the UK a couple of times a year after year-end; after the books were closed and approving the accounts and all of those things. That was some of what I would call the operational substance that remained in the UK that allowed it to work. Mark: Yeah. And so we're I mean to lead or my mind goes from just advising buyers in various aspects over the years is potential opportunity here on behalf of buyers. If they're able to set up a structure; I imagine that this is a structure that could probably be used and once it's set up you use it for multiple acquisitions within the UK. See some of these tax savings as well on a go-forward basis and be able to open up a deal flow that might not exist otherwise here in the US. Once the structure is set up and I'm trying to think about how to ask this question the right way but how reusable is it in your opinion or does each deal really require its own development of new companies to be able to manage this? In other words, there's a C corp here in the US for the structure, do we need to set up a new C corp with every acquisition that we do or can we use just one general holding pass through C corp? Erich: I see what you're saying. No, the structure; let's just say that they would have been forwarding exactly as we initially designed it and it was all going to work like we had kind of painted that picture and they said yeah we're interested and we need to dig into this. We would only need; if the buyer was going to do self-additional deals and kind of do a roll of three or four or five Amazon businesses from the UK. They just need one sequel. We would have stayed with the one holding company. And then what we would have done is then bought the additional UK targets under that holding company. So I wouldn't call it an acquisition platform for a buyer. You just keep bolting on the next one you if you will. So you're not creating additional sequels and or UK holding company. Mark: Right. So you gave us an acquisition platform is a perfect way to describe it. I saw this as an opportunity. I know Joseph and I talked about a little bit. I also just had Scott who was another advisor on this deal on and we talked about it just a little bit as well. Okay, this is all very… Erich: It's interesting because another one of your UK Amazon sellers that you and Scott know reached out to me last week and I'll call it for personal reasons and potentially for exit. He's actually moved to Cyprus and he has a couple of Amazon businesses and a couple of UK companies and also a US Amazon business and a US C corp. And we're looking at how to design a structure for him to continue to build that out because he wants to kind of; I don't know exactly where it's at but let's just say he's at 10 million in revenue and he wants to double that before he wants to take all of it or some of it to market so that he can grow it and package it in a way where it's easy to actually sell to allow him to again take advantage of tax rules in Cyprus or Dubai or some other things that we're talking about. Again it's him because he's got some one way and he's single and flexible as to where he wants to live he's putting himself in a position where he can significantly reduce or eliminate any sell-side taxes down the road so that he can punch his lottery ticket as he put it to me. Mark: Yeah. And I want to emphasize something here because I think people hear some of this stuff and they think oh my gosh this is complex. Is it legal ball and is it going to be triggering an audit and everything else? That's why I wanted to start with your background. Your background isn't just some guy who's on the internet researching things, right? Erich: No, no, no, in fact, it's interesting. We did have one call and we have another call on Friday. He has been getting some advice from Cypriots tax advisor and a lot of the concepts that he was putting out there I didn't disagree with but there were some things that they were talking about that I told this individual that I have some concerns. We need substance. We can't play shell game. Some of the things that were being said could be interpreted as tax avoidance. And I said those are the type of things that I would never advise you to do because if you want to sell this and the buyer comes in they're going to do tax due diligence on your structure and they're going to say well okay you've done all of that but if you want us to buy the shares and you don't pay any tax well there's a tax accrual of there's going to be a big number going to Escrow until we get this sorted out. So I agree with you completely Mark, understanding the risk profile and what you're doing is important because I told him if you go to that path I'm not going to be that advisor that can help you. So he got the risk conversation and we just signed an engagement letter and he wants to move forward to do it properly. This whole risk thing I mean look at some of these transactions that you see the buyers are using large law firms or accounting firms and are beating up on the debt tax due diligence side and putting money on Escrow because they're concerned about for example sales tax. Mark: Sure sales tax liability which came up and you and I could talk about it at length which we won't because we'll get into something else. But these are some of the practices that happen at a more sophisticated deal-making level than what we might normally see with just a simple transaction. This is not uncommon to go through some various tax scenario analyses and figure out a structure that works for the seller and works for the buyer and minimizes taxes on a go-forward basis and the savings can be significant for everyone. Erich: Exactly that's why on Joseph's transaction the buyer was originally a naysayer before I got involved as you know. And then once we put on the table and they start to understand what was going on their advisors to the table so that they could pick it apart and they said this has merit let's work through this. So that's typically how it's going to evolve. It's not going to be Erich says this is how it's going to work. I mean everyone's going to have someone else look at it and get comfortable or not. You have to protect your clients. And that's my example with the guy that just moved to Cyprus. I'm not going to put him in a position where he thinks he's saving all this money but no one's going to want to buy the shares of this company because of the bad tax structure he's put himself into with all of the risk. Mark: Right. And ultimately in the Joseph deal, they didn't accept the very first proposal that we put together it was a variant of that. Yeah, these things are collaborative in that way. Okay, we've been talking for about 25 minutes. I'm going to wrap it up here because if we go into another topic we'll go all the way up to that my brain hurts. If we have somebody who's interested in talking about this more Erich where can they reach you; what's the Most Unexceptional way to reach you? Erich: Well they could reach me here at Redpath. My office is in St. Paul. I don't know when you publish this or post this; if you can provide my email address which is epugh@redpathcpas.com. Mark: And if anybody wants an introduction just let me know. I'm happy to provide the introduction. Erich, you are a great resource I think for anyone in this space especially if you are doing anything international or even thinking about it on an international basis. A really, really good resource to have; I appreciate it. And your firm as well is a good resource just in general. It's not just an international tax law firm; you guys do the whole gamut. Erich: Correct. Yeah, we were actually over this over the last three or four months through; you and Scott connected with a number of companies. In fact, we've just brought on board a larger Amazon business and are doing the bookkeeping and providing other services including restructuring their business for sale as a domestic business in the US. Mark: That's great. Thanks for coming on. And again if somebody wants an introduction to Erich let me know I'm more than happy to provide it as a way of saying thanks for coming on and also helping out with that deal. It was an eye-opening exercise for me for sure. Erich: Thanks a lot Mark. Take care and have a good rest of the day. Links and Resources: Erich's Redpath Profile Contact Erich

Recorded 3rd November 2019 If you've downloaded this episode expecting a Ghostery special I am afraid Pete Knowlton has had to postpone for family reasons. He promises to come on soon. Never mind, it has been one hell of a week, AirPods Pro soft launched and reviewers went mad for them - even at what Simon considers an eye-watering $250 US. The earnings call was more of the usual “we made a little bit of money, I think we'll get by” stuff. Meanwhile the Apple ID servers have been playing Simon up again and he's a bit put out about it. Apple TV+ launched and we are all a bit unsure about it. Underwhelmed seems the overall opinion. Nick and Simon discuss all these topics and more... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple released AirPods Pro – Apple Apple TV+ goes live – Apple Apple TV+ Series Review Roundup: The Morning Show, See, Dickinson, and For All Mankind (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/28/apple-tv-plus-show-reviews/) – Mac Rumors 7 shows - “meh” – Simon Apple's HomePod now supports multiple users, but it's a buggy mess — VentureBeat iOS 13.2: iPhone users angry as new update features strange bug affecting apps — The Independent Earnings Call – Apple Notes of interest from Apple's Q4 2019 earnings report and conference call – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY IBM Says Google's Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop – Wired Microsoft unveils new Edge browser logo that no longer looks like Internet Explorer — The Verge Buying Fitbit won't save Google's failing Wear OS – Android Police SECURITY & PRIVACY Windows ‘BlueKeep' Attack That U.S. Government Warned About Is Happening Right Now – Forbes This Invisible Photo Filter Protects You From Facial Recognition Software – Digital Trends Why encrypted email service ProtonMail is open-sourcing its mobile apps — VentureBeat WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Vivaldi 2.9: Adding more to the Vivaldi Menu – Vivaldi This is the affordable Apple Pencil rival you've been looking for — Cult of Mac JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history – The Verge NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (45:47) Kanex USB C, iPad Pro docking station $100 US – Amazon £97 UK / Not apparently in the US Store... Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 8th September 2019 Simon is struck down with a miserable sinus infection but as no one else is free he stuffs Kleenex up his nose and soldiers on because this week's guest is Mike Bombich of Carbon Copy Cloner fame who has come to help explain some of the disk changes in Catalina, alterations to APFS and how he has re-engineered CCC to cope with those changes. Not much other news of import really as everyone is waiting for Tuesday and the column inches are all given over to rumours, speculation and worse still telling us how the 2020 iPhones will be so much better than the ones we are about to see released. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny Yankellow's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Slacker @MacJim has started up a family friendly Flickr group for listeners to share photos because the Darkroom channel in the Slack has become so popular - if you're interested head over to to the Essential Apple Flickr and request an invitation. On this week's show: MIKE BOMBICH Find his materials at www.bombich.com or www.carboncopycloner.com Mike's primer on APFS containers and drive groups APPLE US orders Apple to identify users of rifle scope app – Cult of Mac Defense Department wants Apple, Google to reveal names of gun scope app users, report says — CNet Looks like the attack was only directed at a very small section of Chinese population: Apple, angry at Google, hits back at hack claims – BBC Private Messaging Apps 'Scrambling' to Overhaul Software Following Apple Privacy Changes — MacRumors Is Your iPad Pro Suffering from ‘Backlight Bleeding'? Apple May Replace It for Free – iDrop News Apple tracking tags might be far easier to find than Tile – Cult of Mac Apple's rumored tracker said to be much more precise than Tile – iMore TECHNOLOGY Worldwide Server Market Revenue Declined 11.6% Year Over Year in the Second Quarter of 2019 – IDC WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS ByTrain - UK Train Times by Alexander MacLeod – App Store JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Redditor turns busted MacBook Pro into a clever Mac + iPad hybrid using Sidecar — 9to5 Mac Nemo's Hardware Store (46:55) IO Gear USB-C Travel Dock with Power Delivery 3.0 $100 US – Amazon $65 US / £122 UK Twelve South StayGo USB C Hub Amazon $100 US / £111 UK Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 26th May 2019 This week I am joined by the semi regular co-hosts Nick (@spligosh) Riley and Donny (@rtteachr) Yankellow, to take a look at the stories of the last week or so. Of course, after the week light on news when I recorded with John Chidgey there has been a veritable deluge of news over the last 7-10 days. Including a new MacBook Pro, the WWDC19 “invitations”, the whole Huawei “blacklisting” affair, an odd little gaming device from Panic and a depressingly long list of security stories. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Donny's 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! On this week's show: NICK RILEY @spligosh (https://twitter.com/spligosh) on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his work at hedgehogalley.com Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store under Donny Yankellow and DesignBundles.net as Skrbly Skrbly Studio on YouTube New store on 2FunDads.com 2FunDads FREE iOS stickers Skrbly Store APPLE Apple announces more powerful 8-core MacBook Pro – 9to5 Mac Apple offers free keyboard replacement program for MacBook, MacBook Pro – Zdnet Apple announces its Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 to be held June 3-7 in San Jose, CA – Macworld Reusing the “mind blowing” theme from the Showtime event with Monkey, Robot, Skull and Unicorn is interesting and not something I believe I have seen before Pegatron moving iPad and MacBook manufacturing out of China – Cult of Mac 71% Of Higher Education Students Would Prefer To Use A Mac, Says New Research – Redmond Pie Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale – Apple Insider Former Apple retail chief Ahrendts says 'mission accomplished,' denies reported criticisms – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY Huawei's European Customers Are Put on Hold by U.S. Ban – New York Times Adobe Warns Customers of Potential Legal Action for Using Older Versions of Creative Cloud Apps – Mac Rumors Panic announces Playdate gaming device: “It's yellow. It fits in your pocket. It's got a beautiful black and white screen. It's not super cheap, but not super expensive. It includes brand new games from some amazing creators. Plus it has a crank.” – [Playdate] (https://play.date (https://play.date/)) Check for issues before installing a Windows 10 update – CNet SECURITY & PRIVACY WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack – BBC News Snapchat employees spied on users by misusing internal tools – 9to5 Mac San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition – BBC News California's Senate may ban facial recognition tech in police body cameras – Engadget Google recalls its Bluetooth Titan Security Keys because of a security bug – Tech Crunch 33 Linksys router models leak full historic record of every device ever connected – Ars Technica Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from' – The Register The Internet Security Apocalypse You Probably Missed (OpEd) – The New York Times WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS This macOS tool automatically opens all Apple News links in Safari – 9to5 Mac StopTheNews direct download link BeLight Software's Amadine vector drawing app leaves beta £20 in the Mac App Store, $20 US Direct... free trial on the Amadine page iOS Game Oddmar Nemo's Hardware Store (33:57) Catalyst Waterproof 20L Backpack $120 US – Amazon £99 UK / $120 US Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 5th May 2019 First of all deepest apologies for the very late posting of this edition - I won't bore you with the details but let's just say a holiday weekend, some life events and some work things meant I just didn't make the time to get it done as soon as I usually try to. Also there were a large amount of notes to compile regarding the “Starting Podcasting” section. Sorry, for the delay. Anyway in this episode I am joined by Guy Serle of the MyMac Podcast and more to talk about the end of Aperture, the forthcoming removal of 32 bit support in macOS and what that means for old software, the AirPod that lived, some clickbait headlines, Adobe “price rises” (or not), Chrome's dominance, a Firefox problem and finally a bit of “inside baseball” stuff about starting a podcast (on budget preferably). Next show I will endeavour not to be so tardy posting I promise. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available. On this week's show: GUY SERLE On Twitter as @Macparrot and @VertShark Co-host of the MyMac Show Mac to the Future and Guy's Daily Drive on YouTube All his stuff is now at vertshark.com APPLE Apple's Aperture photo editing software will shutter for good after macOS Mojave – The Verge Quicktime 7, Carbon, Ink, Apple's hardware RAID support predicted to be gone in macOS 10.15 – Apple Insider AirPod survives trip through man who swallowed it – Cult of Mac Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone – Forbes Apple Warns iPhone Users Not To Answer Apple Support Calls – Forbes Report: iPhone Battery Life Much Lower Than Apple's Claims – Redmond Pie TECHNOLOGY Adobe tests doubling the price of its Lightroom and Photoshop plan – The Verge Or maybe not – Adobe via Twitter A glitch is breaking all Firefox extensions – TechCrunch Fixed as of 1:00am EDT (mostly) – Mozilla And this is very interesting... look how dominant Chrome has become almost everywhere except "tablets" (i.e. iPad) – Wikipedia WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS I did not know this! Double tap time pickers to switch to 1 min granularity instead of 5 min – @rjonesy on Twitter Nemo's Hardware Store (30:02) myCharge HubMax Battery Charger for Tablets & Smartphones (with Free Shipping) $100 US – Amazon $90 US The Podcasting Stuff Samson Q2U Handheld Dynamic USB Microphone Recording and Podcasting Pack – $60 US / £85 UK Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone – $68 US / £100 UK BEHRINGER audio interface (UMC22) – $60 US BEHRINGER U-PHORIA UMC202HD, 2-Channel – $98 US / £64 UK BEHRINGER UMC 404HD Audiophile 4X4 24-Bit/192 KHz USB Audio/Midi Interface with Midas Mic Preamplifiers Black – $150 US / £110 UK This appears to be Simon's mic... the Logitech E-UR20 USB Microphone which appears under a host of guises... $20 US / £15 UK [Rogue Amoeba Software](https://rogueamoeba.com (https://rogueamoeba.com/) Makers of Loopback, Audio Hijack, Piezo, Farrago, Fission and more. If you don't want to pay out for Loopback as a beginner you can still get its forerunner Soundflower We didn't mention it on the show because I wasn't sure it was still available! Before Paul Kafasis introduced Farrago Simon used Soundplant which can be used free (with a few limitations... like you have to make your samples AIFF if you are using it for free) and to do that he used to use Media Human Audio Converter all of which worked well enough SoundStudio (also available in the Mac App Store) Other options mentioned or not – Spreaker and their Apps, Mixlr, Zencastr, Opinion and Ferrite There are interviews with Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba and Canis of Wooji Juice (Ferrite Recording Studio), also Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx who make MiMo Live (a TV studio on your Mac), as well as a piece by Simon about recording and editing this podcast on www.essentialapple.com Guy's “if you have money to burn” suggestion Rode RodeCaster Pro Podcast Production Studio Guy's video "Using Loopback and Audio Hijack together for multitrack recording" on YouTube Guy's video "Using Loopback 2 for advanced Audio uses" on YouTube EDITING: There are a million options some which we mentioned and some we didn't: GarageBand (on the Mac App Store and iOS App Store), Audacity, SoundStudio, Fission, Ferrite, some of the web based services mentioned above, Reaper, Avid ProTools First and a whole load more. HOSTING: Simon uses Pinecast, Guy uses PodBean, and here is an article listing a whole slew of hosts Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 2nd December 2018 This week George Bush Snr (41st President of the USA) passed away. Amazon announced the Apple Music service will be available on their devices by Christmas. Amazon also announced it is going with custom designed ARM Graviton chips for AWS servers. The iPhone Xr is declared best selling iPhone, Apple offers increased trade in values on old iPhones and Apple supports anti AIDS efforts. PLUS our guest this week is Alex Tsepko of Skylum who returns to the show to tell us all about Luminar 2019, its Libraries features, free updates, forthcoming additions and lots more. Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 with discount code EssentialApple (If you buy Luminar 2018 you'll get all 2019 updates for free. Learn more). GIVEAWAYS Skylum has gifted us 5x of Luminar 2019 and Aurora 2019 to give away! Send an email to essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Luminar or Aurora and the phrase I give in the show to enter. Also we have a two Licenses for BeLight Live Home 3D to give away... 1x iOS and 1x Mac. Email the show on essentialapple@sudomail.com mentioning Live Home 3D Mac or iOS and the phrase I give out in the show. Winners for both will be announced on the Christmas Party Podcast which is recording on the 23rd December. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week's show: SKYLUM Skylum Photolemur Luminar 2019 Aurora HDR Skylum Creative Kit Blog Roadmap @wearemacphun on Twitter Email support@skylum.com or alex@skylum.com Question from @MacJim in the Slack “Will the Fujifilm XF10 be supported soon? I can't edit my images just now. Will we be able to import images, catalogues, RAW images over from Lightroom, and if not, will it be featured at a later update?” @Oceanspeed on Twitter and occasionally puts Essential Apple related stuff on [YouTube] APPLE Apple Music is coming to Amazon Echo speakers week of Dec. 17 – USA Today The iPhone XR Is Apple's Best-Selling iPhone - Forbes Apple Store purchases this week generate donations to AIDS treatment – Cult of Mac Apple boosting iPhone trade-in credit with up to an extra $100 – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY AWS goes for custom ARM Graviton Chips – CNBC Nemo's Hardware Store (44:54) Creative Metallix Twin Pack $80 – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £25 UK Creative Metallix Plus Twin Pack $100 US – Amazon (single speakers) $30 US or £32 UK Aurvana Trio Audiophile In-Ear Headphones with Hybrid Triple-Driver System $150 US – Amazon $100 £110 UK Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Recorded 14th October 2018 This week the Bloomberg story rumbled on, but Donny and I decide to just summarise that and concentrate on things like the Apple 11% drop in Q3 Sales. Alleged info on the upcoming iPad Pro. Apple's TV streaming plans and a wireless charger that intrigues both of us but we just think is too good to be true. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! DONT FORGET THE JOE KISSELL OFFER... 30% any Take Control purchase before November 30th with this link 30% Off or use the code ESSENTIALAPPLE at checkout. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99US / £2.50UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Everyone should have a font manager... I really do believe that. So I highly recommend FontBase — All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: DONNY YANKELLOW @rtteachr on Twitter Find his stuff in iBooks, a load of sticker packs in the App Store and DesignBundles.net (http://designbundles.net/) as Skrbly (Sale extended till the 27th now...) APPLE Apple donates another $1m, this time to earthquake and tsunami relief in Indonesia – 9to5 Mac Apple to Donate to Hurricane Michael Relief Efforts – Mac Rumors Google also pitched in $1million – CNet Mac shipments fall 11% in Q3 as customers await updates to aging lineup, IDC says – 9to5 Mac iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more – 9to5 Mac TSMC to exclusively manufacture Apple A13 chip for next year's iPhone and iPad models – 9to5 Mac Apple's Cook Visits World's Hottest Startup During Beijing Trip – Bloomberg Apple's Upcoming Video-Streaming Service Could Possibly Be Free – Motley Fool Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy – CNBC Man Wearing Apple Maps Backpack Surveying San Francisco on Foot – Mac Rumors SECURITY Dr Andy Yen on his soapbox again... and rightly so I might say CPO Magazine Apple to Australia: “This is no time to weaken encryption” – Ars Technica Apple rebukes Australia's “dangerously ambiguous” anti-encryption bill – TechCrunch Apple fires back at Australian encryption bill – Engadget Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who's Willing to Pay for It? – Krebs On Security 1Password for Mac disables auto-submit feature as macOS Mojave boosts security – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Internet of Terribly Troublesome Insecure Things... 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Would you like to know how to sleep better? That's what I want to help you with and I've got the perfect guest to help me. In today's podcast I'm chatting with Holistic Psychotherapist and Author, Keri Nola. Keri's book 44 holistic tips for peaceful sleep is a real gem if you are looking for ideas on how to sleep better. And, it's a nice quick read too - well worth just getting your hands on! Today's podcast chat (and Keri's book) is ideal for people who: Appreciate natural and holistic remedies for resolving sleep challenges Have difficulty falling asleep Have difficulty staying asleep Experience restless sleep Feel tired upon waking Have low energy at points during the day Fear bedtime because of a history of sleep difficulties Have difficulty relaxing the mind at bedtime Have difficulty relaxing the body at bedtime During our chat, Keri shares many of her tips from her book including some really interesting ones that you might not expect.... listen out for the one with the rocks! Keri also dives into some of the more emotional reasons that we might not be sleeping easily, things that I would refer to as our head trash. Once aspect we talk about quite a bit, and which cropped up in my chat with Chel Hamilton a few weeks ago, was the idea of letting go of our thoughts and not judging what's happening in our heads.   Here's a little but more information about Keri Keri Nola is an Intuitive Psychotherapist, Best-Selling Author, and Conscious Business Coach for Lightworkers. While building and maintaining a thriving clinical practice for nearly a decade, Keri has now expanded her passion for the healing arts by creating a virtual coaching academy to support spiritual entrepreneurs in awakening their gifts to share their products and services with the world. She is on a mission to ignite a global, heart centered revolution that allows healers to have the confidence, clarity, and skills they need to bring more light to the planet at this time. To join Keri's community, visit her website at www.kerinola.com You can also find her here www.facebook.com/pathtogrowth www.twitter.com/pathtogrowth And here is the US Amazon link for her book.