Podcasts about Water resources

Welcome to Season 11 of The Big Bid Theory! Bill Culhane, our host, and the TBBT team kick off with a powerful episode focused on U.S. infrastructure and the recently released ASCE Report Card.Our guest is Darren Olson, Vice President and Department Head for Water Resources at Christopher B. Burke Engineering and Chair of the ASCE Report Card Committee. Darren joins the show to break down what this year's grades really mean for communities, procurement professionals, and the future of the country.This marks our fourth time tackling infrastructure with ASCE. The latest conversation is perhaps the most critical yet.

Since March this year, there have been several demonstrations in Nepal, some by pro-monarchists and some by those who oppose them. Whilst the major political parties have denounced the pro-monarchy protests, a section of Nepalis are in support of the monarchy's restoration. In our ongoing efforts to bring regular reports, analyses, and diverse perspectives on the latest developments, in this podcast episode, our Nepal correspondent Prayas Dulal sits with Dwarika Nath Dhungel, a social and political analyst. He is a retired secretary of Nepal's Ministry of Water Resources who has published several books and academic papers. Dhungel is also a former lecturer in political science and identifies as an independent researcher. - गए केही साता यता नेपालमा विकसित राजनीतिक घटनाक्रमका बारे हामीले क्रमिक रूपमा विविध सामाग्रीहरू प्रसारण गरिरहेका छौँ। कोही नेपालमा अब राजतन्त्र पुनर्वाहली हुँदैन भनिरहेका छन् भने अरू चाहिँ नेपालमा दक्ष अभिभावकका रूपमा राजसंस्था पुनर्वाहली हुनुपर्ने माग अगाडी सारिरहेका छन्। यही क्रममा आज हामी, नेपाल सरकारका एकजना पूर्व प्रशासक, विश्लेषक तथा राजनीति शास्त्रका पूर्व लेक्चरर द्वारिकानाथ ढुङ्गेलसँग संवाददाता प्रयास दुलालले गरेको कुराकानी प्रस्तुत गर्दै छौँ। पूर्व जलस्रोत सचिव रहेका ढुङ्गेलले विभिन्न पुस्तकहरू प्रकाशित गरेका छन् र आफूलाई एक स्वतन्त्र अनुसन्धानकर्ताको रूपमा चिनाउँछन्।

In this week's episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jonathan Jennings, a meteorologist at the Utah Division of Water Resources and president of the Weather Modification Association. Jennings's work focuses on cloud seeding, a technology that can reduce hail and increase rainfall or snowfall by introducing chemicals into clouds, yielding more water for agriculture, aquifers, and bodies of water. Jennings outlines the chemistry and physics behind cloud seeding, how much additional precipitation the technology can elicit from clouds, and the scale at which cloud seeding is used. He also speaks to public concerns about modifying weather and shares insights on how experts can better communicate the goals, methods, and impacts of this technology to the public. References and recommendations: “Economic Impacts of Cloud Seeding on Agricultural Crops in North Dakota” by Dean Bangsund and Nancy Hodur; https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/291806 “A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Texas Weather Modification Activities Resulting in an Additional One Inch of Rainfall Across a Region” by Jason L. Johnson; https://perma.cc/ERJ6-HGLZ “Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River” by Patrick Dearen; https://www.oupress.com/9780806152011/bitter-waters/

In this wide-ranging conversation on hydrology and climate change, Dr. Dipak Gyawali, former Minister of Water Resources for Nepal, offers a series of crucial insights into the often indifferent, selectively inadequate, and politically compromised responses to the climate crisis. Arguing for a more sophisticated, multipronged approach, Dr. Gyawali critiques dominant Western scientific paradigms for failing to recognize the climate crisis primarily as a crisis of water. He highlights how these frameworks not only marginalizewater-related concerns but also frequently dismiss indigenous hydrological knowledge systems as unscientific or primitive, thereby reinforcing global hierarchies of knowledge and power.Urging communities and policymakers alike to rethink the prevailing narratives that frame climate change, Dr. Gyawalisituates his critique in the context of Nepal—a landlocked country with an estimated 6,000 rivers and the world's second-largest reserve of fresh water. For Dr. Gyawali, Nepal serves as a powerful case study of how globalized,technocratic approaches often overlook the political and democratic dimensions of water governance. He argues that genuine sustainability cannot be achieved without broad-based equitability over governance. Drawing from his ownexperiences both as a field researcher and as a minister navigating the political complexities of water policy, he underscores how centralized, top-down management of water resources often exacerbates existing inequalitiesand undermines democratic decision-making processes. In this light, he calls for a radical rethinking of global “hydro-hegemony”—the political domination of water resources by powerful interests—and urges a shift toward more inclusive,community-driven models of hydrological governance. Dr. Gyawali challenges the international community to move beyond tokenistic gestures and to engagemeaningfully with the democratic potential embedded in local and indigenous approaches to water stewardship.

Governor Cox has issued a state of emergency... due to drought conditions in 17 Utah counties. Joining me live is Engineer at Utah Division of Water Resources... Laura Haskell 

In this mini edition of Waterfall, Arthur Milanzi, CEO of Milanzi Holdings, joins the show for a detailed discussion of Malawi's water situation in comparison with that of England and Wales. 

Dr. Gabe LaHue discusses improving water infiltration and soil structure, and if soil organic matter increases the ability of the soils to hold water. Episode transcription: smallgrains.wsu.edu/wbp208 Resources: WSU Soils and Water Program: labs.wsu.edu/lahue/ Mount Vernon NWREC: mtvernon.wsu.edu WSU Small Grains Soil and Water Resources: smallgrains.wsu.edu/soil-and-water-resources/ Contact information: Gabe LaHue: gabiel.lahue@wsu.edu, cahnrs.wsu.edu/people-directory/people/wsu-profile/gabriel.lahue/, 360-848-6146

The Ag Net News Hour's Lorre Boyer and Nick Papagni, “The AgMeter” started out the show by discussing California's Assembly Bill 1264, which aims to ban ultra-processed foods from school meals by 2032. These foods are linked to 32 health conditions, including obesity and ADHD. The bill faces challenges in making healthy foods appealing to children and affordable for schools. Suggestions included using fresh, local produce and innovative packaging to make healthier options more appealing. The conversation also touched on the broader issue of food waste and the importance of addressing obesity, which is influenced by both diet and sedentary activities like video games. In the second segment, hosts, Lorrie Boyer and Nick Papagni discussed the severe impact of record honey bee deaths on agriculture, with U.S. beekeepers reporting over 60% colony losses, costing $139 million and raising honey prices. Pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, are suspected, with multi-generational harm noted. The California almond industry, worth $11 billion, faces severe pollination shortages. Despite concerns, some argue that more bee companies indicate a future surplus. The University of California is studying long-term effects on pollinator populations. The hosts emphasized the importance of due diligence and ongoing research to address the issue. Lastly, Nick brought up the impact of recent storms on California's water allocation, with the Department of Water Resources increasing water to state projects to 40%. Nick criticized the 40% allocation, noting that much water goes to the ocean, while farmers struggle. They also discussed the challenges of using ocean water for firefighting due to salinization. Additionally, Nick ad Lorrie addressed a controversial wind energy project in Shasta County, which could generate 205 megawatts but faces opposition due to environmental and safety concerns. The project would benefit 80,000 homes, but local opposition has spent significant funds fighting it. Lorrie cited some issues with wind farms and wind turbines based upon her prior coverage in other areas of the country.

The history of the West has always been defined by water. Long before settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples designed complex water management systems to cultivate the arid land. In the 19th and 20th centuries, large-scale engineering projects redistributed water across the West, enabling the region's rapid growth. Today, western water resources are stretched thin, and as rivers and streams dry up, so too does the environmental resiliency that's provided by healthy riparian zones.   To help address this issue, many western states are looking to beavers – long known as nature's engineers – to ensure more water is retained on the landscape. New research shows that this will help restore biodiversity and mitigate the effects of prolonged drought, unexpected flooding, and catastrophic wildfires.     In this episode of Out West, WGA policy advisors Jonah Seifer and Zach Nowak spoke with beaver experts from around the region about how these aquatic rodents can help us restore balance to the West's water systems.   For these discussions they were joined by Emily Fairfax, an ecohydrologist, beaver researcher, and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota; Chris Jordan, a Fisheries Biologist with NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Alexander Funk, the Director of Water Resources and Senior Counsel at the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership; Marshall Wolf, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission; and Jerry Altermatt, a habitat biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.        

“Where we bridge the gap between water plant operators and engineers” Matt Casto Jordan Jackson In today's episode we are going to talk about “Protecting Source Water.” Our guests are Matt Casto and Jordan Jackson of  North Carolina Rural Water Association. Matt's unconventional journey into the water industry began with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, where he developed an improvisational problem-solving mindset that he's carried into 14 years of hands-on experience in water operations. He's worked as a surface water plant operator and superintendent, Circuit Rider, and he now serves as a Source Water Protection Specialist with the North Carolina Rural Water Association. Matt enjoys both the technical aspects of water treatment and the hands-on work of system repairs, feeling equally at home in the field or the boardroom. Outside of work, he is an avid saltwater aquarist, ornamental gardener, and recreational hockey player. Born and raised in North Carolina, Jordan has 12 years of water and wastewater utility experience with expertise in source water protection, cross connection control, wastewater laboratory and pretreatment programs. She obtained a Masters of Water Resources from the University of New Mexico and holds NC Biological Wastewater Grade IV certification in addition to Utility Management Certification issued by National Rural Water Association.

صباح الخير أنا نهى نصار ودى حلقة جديدة من سلسلة حلقات *NOHA Podcast*.الموسم العاشر وال هكون معاكم فيها كل يوم خميس ، وكل حلقة هتكون عن إنجازات وابتكارات المصريين القدماء.ودلوقتي هنتكلم عن "التقويم المصري القديم: عبقرية تنظيم الزمن".**المصريين القدماء كانوا أول من استخدموا نظام تقويم دقيق يعتمد على دورة الشمس، وهو ما ساعدهم في تنظيم حياتهم اليومية والزراعية. ويعتبر التقويم المصري القديم واحدًا من أقدم وأدق نظم التقويم التي عرفها العالم. ونظام التقويم المصري القديم كان مقسّمًا إلى 12 شهرًا، وكل شهر يحتوي على 30 يوماً ، وتبدأ بشهور 1. *تحوت* (Thoout)2. *بابة* (Paopi)3. *هاتور* (Hathor)4. *كيهك* (Koiak)وتتبعها5. *طوبة* (Tobi)6. *أمشير* (Mechir)7. *برمودة* (Paremoude)8. *برم هات* (Paremhat)وتنتهى ب 9. *بشنس* (Pashons)10. *بؤونة* (Paone)11. *أبيب* (Epip)12. *مسرى* (Mesori)التقويم كان يعتمد بشكل رئيسي على دورة الشمس، وهذا النظام كان متسقًا مع الزراعة والمواسم في مصر.استخدم أيضًا المصريين القدماء المنازل القمرية لتحديد الأحداث الفلكية الهامة، مثل بداية مواسم الزراعة والحصاد. وكانت هذه المنازل القمرية تعتمد على مراقبة النجوم والكواكب لتحديد أفضل الأوقات للزراعة.كان هناك نوعان رئيسيان من التقويمات في مصر القديمة: التقويم المدني والتقويم الديني. التقويم المدني كان يعتمد على دورة الشمس ويستخدم لتحديد الأيام والشهور، في حين أن التقويم الديني كان يعتمد على دورات القمر ويستخدم لتحديد الأعياد والمناسبات الدينية. وكان التقويم النبطي تقويمًا إضافيًا استخدمه المصريون القدماء لتحديد مواعيد الفيضانات النيلية. وكان يعتمد على ملاحظة ارتفاع مستوى النيل وتحديد الأوقات المثلى للزراعة والحصاد.وبجانب استخدامهم للتقويم، ابتكر المصريون القدماء تقنيات مبتكرة مثل الساعات المائية والساعات الشمسية لقياس الوقت بدقة أكبر. هذه الابتكارات ساعدتهم في تنظيم حياتهم اليومية والاحتفالات الدينية.وفي العصر الحديث، استمر المصريون في الابتكار والتطوير في مجال تنظيم الزمن. على سبيل المثال، قام العلماء المصريون بتطوير تقنيات حديثة لمراقبة الفيضانات النيلية باستخدام الأقمار الصناعية والتكنولوجيا المتقدمة. هذه التقنيات تساعد في التنبؤ بمواعيد الفيضانات بدقة أكبر، مما يسهم في تحسين إدارة الموارد المائية والزراعية في مصر.وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، يتم تحديد بداية شهر رمضان باستخدام تكنولوجيا متقدمة مثل التلسكوبات والأقمار الصناعية لمراقبة الهلال. وهذه التقنيات تعزز دقة رؤية الهلال وتساعد المسلمين حول العالم في معرفة بداية ونهاية الشهر بشكل دقيق.الأعياد الدينية كانت تلعب دورًا هامًا في التقويم المصري القديم. كانوا يحتفلون بمجموعة متنوعة من الأعياد الدينية التي تتزامن مع الأحداث الفلكية والمواسم الزراعية. هذه الأعياد كانت تتيح للمصريين القدماء فرصة للتجمع والاحتفال وتجديد الروح المجتمعية.التقويم المصري القديم لم يكن مجرد أداة لتحديد الوقت، بل كان يعبر عن فهم عميق للكون والظواهر الطبيعية، ويعكس ابتكار المصريين القدماء وقدرتهم على التنظيم والتخطيط بشكل دقيق. هذه الابتكارات والإبداعات ليست مجرد إنجازات تكنولوجية، بل تعكس أيضًا روح وثقافة المصريين القدماء. بفهمنا لهذه الإنجازات، نقدر حجم الإرث الثقافي والتاريخي الذي تركوه لنا.تقديم و تصميم وإعداد و مونتاج و إخراج نهى نصار شكراً لحسن إستماعكم*المصادر*:- الأهرامات وموقع هيئة الأهرام الأثرية ([Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities](https://www.antiquities.gov.eg/))- موقع الجمعية الأمريكية للمصادر المصرية ([American Research Center in Egypt](https://www.arce.org/))- متحف اللوفر والمواقع الأثرية ([Louvre Museum](https://www.louvre.fr/))- المتحف المصري الكبير ([Grand Egyptian Museum](https://gem.gov.eg/))- المتحف البريطاني ([British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/))- موقع الأكاديمية البريطانية ([British Academy](https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/))- وزارة الري المصرية ([Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation](http://www.mwri.gov.eg/))

المصريين القدماء كانوا يمتازون بمعرفتهم الواسعة في مجال الطب والصحة، وكان لديهم ممارسات طبية متقدمة أثرت على الطب الحديث.نبدأ بالاهتمام بالصحة العامة والنظافة. كان المصريون القدماء يهتمون بالنظافة الشخصية والعامة بشكل كبير. استخدموا الزيوت العطرية والمراهم للعناية بالبشرة والوقاية من الأمراض الجلدية. كما كانوا يؤمنون بضرورة النظافة كوسيلة للوقاية من الأمراض. كان لديهم حمامات عامة وخاصة، وكانوا يستخدمون مواد طبيعية مثل الملح والصودا للتنظيف.في مجال التغذية والصحة العامة، كانوا يتبعون نظامًا غذائيًا صحيًا يعتمد على الحبوب، الفواكه، الخضروات، الأسماك، واللحوم. اهتم المصريون القدماء بضرورة تناول غذاء متوازن للحفاظ على الصحة الجيدة. وكانوا يدركون أهمية التغذية الجيدة في الوقاية من الأمراض.أما في مجال الأدوية، فقد كانوا يعتمدون على الأعشاب والنباتات الطبية لعلاج الأمراض. على سبيل المثال، كانوا يستخدمون الكركم لتخفيف الالتهابات، والزعتر كمطهر طبيعي، والعسل كعلاج للجروح. بردية *كاهون*، التي تعود إلى حوالي 1800 قبل الميلاد في عهد الأسرة الثانية عشرة، تحتوي على وصفات طبية لعلاج أمراض النساء، وتظهر مدى تنوع استخداماتهم للأعشاب والنباتات الطبية.وفي مجال الجراحة، تشتهر *بردية إدوين سميث، التي تعود إلى حوالي 1600 قبل الميلاد، بأنها واحدة من أقدم النصوص الجراحية المعروفة. تحتوي على تفاصيل دقيقة حول الإصابات وطرق علاجها، مثل خياطة الجروح واستخدام العسل والكتان لتطهيرها. هذه البردية سميت على اسم العالم الأمريكي **إدوين سميث* الذي اكتشفها في القرن التاسع عشر، وهي تعكس مدى تقدم المصريين القدماء في مجال الجراحة والتشريح.أخيرًا، بردية *إبيرس*، التي تعود إلى حوالي 1550 قبل الميلاد، تُعتبر من أهم وأقدم النصوص الطبية. تحتوي على أكثر من 700 وصفة طبية لعلاج مجموعة متنوعة من الأمراض، وتظهر مدى فهم المصريين القدماء للأمراض وكيفية علاجها بطرق طبيعية.إن الابتكارات الطبية والصحية التي حققها المصريون القدماء لم تكن مجرد إنجازات علمية، بل كانت تعبيرًا عن التفاني في تحسين جودة الحياة والاهتمام بالإنسان. بفهمنا لهذه الإبداعات، نقدر حجم الإرث الثقافي والتاريخي الذي تركوه لنا.كانت هذه حلقتنا لليوم. أشكركم على الاستماع، ونلتقي في الحلقة القادمة من *NOHA Podcast*. دمتم بخير.تقديم و تصميم وإعداد و مونتاج و إخراج نهى نصار شكراً لحسن إستماعكم*المصادر*:- *بردية إبيرس*، موقع وزارة الصحة المصرية ([Ebers Papyrus](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/))- *بردية إدوين سميث*، موقع الجمعية الأمريكية للمصادر المصرية ([American Research Center in Egypt](https://www.arce.org/))- *بردية كاهون*، موقع المتحف البريطاني ([British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/))- موقع الجمعية الأمريكية للمصادر المصرية ([American Research Center in Egypt](https://www.arce.org/))- متحف اللوفر والمواقع الأثرية ([Louvre Museum](https://www.louvre.fr/))- المتحف المصري الكبير ([Grand Egyptian Museum](https://gem.gov.eg/))- المتحف البريطاني ([British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/))- موقع الأكاديمية البريطانية ([British Academy](https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/))- وزارة الري المصرية ([Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation](http://www.mwri.gov.eg/

Jeff Mosher, general manager of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), discusses the agency's role in managing and protecting water resources in the Santa Ana River basin. Established in 1975 as a joint power authority, SAWPA is composed of five member agencies working together to address water supply reliability, water quality, recycled water, wastewater treatment, groundwater management, brine disposal, and regional planning. Jeff highlights SAWPA's mission to develop and maintain collaborative programs and projects that ensure the economic and environmental sustainability of the watershed. Podcast Recorded on February 27, 2025

Utah's Division of Water Resources says that cloud seeding — a procedure that increases snowfall by injecting silver iodide into the atmosphere — adds about 200,000 acre feet of water to the state's river system each year. But there's a catch. Cloud seeding only works when it's already snowing. And this winter, it's been so dry in southeastern Utah, there were hardly enough clouds in the sky for the state to operate its new cloud seeding stations in the La Sal Mountains. The region has only received about half of the snowfall for a typical year. - Show Notes - https://water.utah.gov/cloudseeding/

The Wilkes Center recently hosted its 3rd annual climate solutions hackathon at the end of January.  This year the focus was water resources. The “hackathon” as we've come to call it – borrowing the term from the computer coding world – is an intense problem-solving competition where we challenge U of U undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline to team-up and develop proposals in a slide deck within 24 hours.We asked students to propose an innovative, data-driven solution in one of five categories:Municipal Water SupplyInland and Coastal FloodingAgricultureDroughtWater and Energy InfrastructureUltimately, each team was graded on how we they addressed important factors, such as: Problem definition and analysis; Uniqueness and innovation;  Idea feasibility; and Implementation and scalability. Over 90 students participated in this year's water hackathon, with 17 impressive projects submitted by the end.  Only the top 3 teams were received awards.  And recently, I spoke with the team members of the winning team, whose members include: Sam Carter, Baylee Olds, Tyler Yoklavich -- each of them graduate students studying hydrology.  Their hackathon solution – titled “SmartFLOW City Program” formulated a program to connect municipal water managers with water researchers in academia.  Essentially, they envisioned a program to encourage cities to enhance their water-resilience tool box with various cutting edge techniques being developed by folks in academia.  Bridging on-the-ground management and emerging modern science.  So, here's my conversation with Team SmartFLOW.  I hope you enjoy it. 

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing recognition that they also are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps with water management and the climate. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien went to see the beavers at work during their busy season and has the story for our ongoing coverage of Tipping Points. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing recognition that they also are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps with water management and the climate. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien went to see the beavers at work during their busy season and has the story for our ongoing coverage of Tipping Points. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

GDP Script/ Top Stories for February 4th Publish Date: February 4th From The BG AD Group Studio, Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Tuesday, February 4th and Happy Birthday to Alice Cooper ***02.04.25 - BIRTHDAY – ALICE COOPER*** I’m Keith Ippolito and here are your top stories presented by KIA Mall of Georgia Gwinnett Jail inmate dies after 'medical emergency' Tractor trailer driver charged for hit-and-run crash on Interstate 85 overpass in Gwinnett Visit Georgia's historic sites on Super Museum Sunday Feb. 9 All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: Kia MOG (07.14.22 KIA MOG) STORY 1: Gwinnett Jail inmate dies after 'medical emergency' Phillip Antwon Munroe, a 35-year-old inmate at Gwinnett County Jail, died from a "medical emergency" on Jan. 27, prompting an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Munroe, in custody since July 2022 on robbery and assault charges, was found unresponsive during a routine security check. Deputies and medical staff attempted life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead by paramedics. His case was still pending, with prior evaluations ordered for mental competency. Details remain limited as the GBI investigates. The Sheriff's Office expressed condolences and emphasized its commitment to transparency and inmate well-being. STORY 2: Tractor trailer driver charged for hit-and-run crash on Interstate 85 overpass in Gwinnett The Gwinnett County Police have charged Christian Barrier, 31, of Alabama, in a hit-and-run accident on Jan. 28. A tractor-trailer driven by Barrier struck a car on Pleasant Hill Road near I-85, causing it to spin and be pushed through two intersections before stopping. The truck left the scene, but the car's driver was uninjured and reported the incident. Police later identified Barrier, who turned himself in on Jan. 31, facing charges including hit and run, reckless driving, and improper lane change. STORY 3: Visit Georgia's historic sites on Super Museum Sunday Feb. 9 Super Museum Sunday, hosted by the Georgia Historical Society, takes place on Feb. 9, offering free admission to museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions across Georgia. Visitors can explore diverse stories, from colonial forts and Native American heritage to Civil War battlefields and historic homes. Highlights include hands-on activities, guided tours, and exhibits at sites like Fort King George, Chief Vann House, and Roosevelt’s Little White House. This annual event provides a unique opportunity to connect with Georgia’s rich history while creating new memories. Visit GaStateParks.org/SuperMuseumSunday for more details. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We’ll be right back Break 2: Tom Wages (08.05.24 OBITS_FINAL) STORY 4: GBI investigating fatal shooting that led to car crashing into Snellville home State investigators and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) are probing a homicide in Snellville after a car crashed into a home following gunfire on Sunday night. Police found Gerryon Ceasor deceased inside the vehicle at the Englewood Way scene. Mason Watkins, a resident of the home, described hearing gunshots followed by the car crashing into his house, shaking the entire structure. No one inside the home was injured, and the GBI is leading the ongoing investigation. An official statement from the GBI is still pending. STORY 5: Gwinnett's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day Set for Feb. 8 Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources will host a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. This event, running for eight years, has safely collected over 1 million pounds of hazardous waste. Items like batteries, paints, pesticides, and flammables will be accepted, while items like ammunition and pharmaceuticals will not. Executive Director Schelly Marlatt encourages eco-friendly product swaps and calls for volunteers to assist with traffic and collection. For details, visit www.gwinnettcb.org or call 770-822-5187. Break: ***Guide Weekly Health Minute*** 10.22.24 GUIDE HEALTH MINUTE_FINAL*** Break 4: Ingles Markets 4 Signoff – Thanks again for hanging out with us on today’s Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. Read more about all our stories and get other great content at www.gwinnettdailypost.com Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? 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Tatiana Antonelli-Abella is joined by Feras Ziadat, who is currently a Land and Water Officer with a specific focus on land resource management and planning at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Mr. Ziadat played a pivotal role in coordinating the FAO flagship report titled The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture, SOLO, and he also updating the FAO Guide on integrated land use planning. In this episode, he talks about fostering participatory and integrated land use planning, combating land degradation and desertification, and the dangers of sand and dust storms.  Prior to this role, Mr. Ziadat held the position of Senior Scientist at ICARDA and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Jordan. He has also served as the chair of the United Nations Coalition on Combating Sand and Dust Storms. This episode is part of Our Land, Our Future, a special mini-series of Forward Talks by Goumbook focused on land restoration and combating desertification. This special series is brought to you in partnership with Saudi Awwal Bank. Find out more at: https://www.sab.com/esg/.

House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Legislative Hearing on H.R. 231, H.R. 261, H.R. 331 & H.R. ___ Thursday, January 23, 2025 | 10:00 AM On Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills: H.R. 231 (Rep. Hageman), “Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act of 2025”; H.R. 261 (Rep. Carter of GA), “Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025”; H.R. 331 (Rep. Fulcher), To amend the Aquifer Recharge Flexibility Act to clarify a provision relating to conveyances for aquifer recharge purposes; H.R. ___ (Rep. Stansbury), “WaterSMART Access for Tribes Act.” Witnesses are by invitation only. The hearing notice, memo and witness testimony can be found on the committee's repository: https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=117783 Committee Notice: https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=416863

California's water rules are changing—permanently. Starting January 1, 2025, new regulations from the State Water Resources Control Board will require major water suppliers to cut water delivery significantly by 2040. This isn't just about managing water during droughts anymore—this is about building drought resilience into everyday life. Water agencies across the state will now have to develop community-specific water budgets that account for residential, commercial, and landscape use. The measures include limiting outdoor watering, encouraging water-efficient appliances, and pushing Californians to rethink how we use every drop. And here's the kicker: failure to comply could cost agencies up to $10,000 a day in fines. So what does this mean for all of us? Are these changes a burden—or an opportunity to innovate? In episode 22 of What Matters Water TV + Podcast, we have brought together a panel of experts to explore just that: Chelsea Haines, Regulatory Director with the Association of California Water Agencies, offering a statewide perspective on this massive shift. Kelly Kopp, Professor and Extension Specialist at Utah State University, who's focused on water efficiency research. William Ringland, Public Affairs and Conservation Manager at East Valley Water District, where smaller agencies are stepping up to meet big expectations. Fiona Sanchez, Director of Water Resources at Irvine Ranch Water District, who's at the forefront of implementing large-scale water solutions. Together, we'll unpack the opportunities, the challenges, and the practical steps agencies and communities must take to get this right. The stakes are high, and only time will tell if these changes deliver a sustainable water future without creating financial strain on communities.

In this episode of The Water Zone, California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot discusses the state's water infrastructure, detailing its current status and future needs. He highlights key initiatives, including the Sites Reservoir project and Delta Conveyance expansion, emphasizing their critical role in meeting California's long-term water demands. Crowfoot also explores the integration of advanced technologies for agricultural irrigation and groundwater monitoring, as well as partnerships with countries like Israel, the Netherlands, and Denmark to adopt cutting-edge water efficiency methods. Additionally, he provides insights into the diverse entities he oversees, such as the State Board of Water Resources, Cal-Fire, and Fish and Wildlife. Podcast Recorded on January 16, 2025

Brett Bovee of Westwater Resources joins your host Emily Lewis to discuss the Utah Water Marketing Strategies Project. For the last 4 years Brett and Emily have been working with a Project Management Team of Clyde Snow, Westwater, HDR Engineering, the Utah Division of Water Resources, and the Utah Division of Water Rights to pilot the Utah Water Banking Act and to distill lessons learned into broader Statewide Water Marketing Strategies. This is a project near and dear to our hearts and a MUST listen.

When it comes to master-planned communities in Colorado, developing water supply is an increasingly complicated area—often costing more and taking much longer than anticipated. Tune in as Brownstein's Greg Vallin and Wayne Forman dive into the complexity and difficulty of water resource development and acquiring water rights for real estate development under Colorado law.

On today's episode, Kristin Platts hears from Michael Anderson, state climatologist with California Dept. of Water Resources, on insights from the first snow survey of the season.   Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to this month's sponsors who makes it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their website. Dormex (Alzchem Group) - https://www.alzchem.com/en/brands/dormex/ North Valley Nut Conference - https://myaglife.com/north-valley-nut-conference/ KIM-1C, LLC - https://www.linkedin.com/company/kim-c1-llc/

A press conference today will uncover more about the investigation surrounding the suspect in the Bidwell Mansion arson case. Also, the California Department of Water Resources has conducted the first snowpack survey of the year, and egg prices have hit an all time high in California as bird flu continues to impact poultry supplies.

Taylor Chalstrom sits down with Srinivasa Rao Peddinti, postdoctoral researcher with the Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis, to discuss the role of precision agriculture in optimizing orchard water management in California. Check out Srinivasa's article in the January/February 2025 issue of Progressive Crop Consultant magazine for more on this topic.

On today's show (30:24) Matt is joined by Dr. Gretchen Hansen. Dr. Hansen is an associate professor of Fisheries Ecology in the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology department at the University of Minnesota.Dr. Hansen recently coauthored a published  paper in the Science of the Total Environment looking at increased mercury concentrations in walleye and yellow perch in lakes invaded by zebra mussels.The study can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177515  This study was supported by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) and the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR), and by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources.Send us a text

Laney Meeker, Programs Supervisor for the Statewide Planning Section of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, and Christian Fauser, Western Water Policy Associate for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, join us to talk about several very exciting Arizona programs. They are currently working on an innovative Rural Partnership Program, the Arizona Watersheds Project Database, and interactive funding tools to join partners, programs, and funding opportunities. Lots of helpful and useful information.

Jonathan Jennings, Meteorologist and Cloud Seeding Coordinator for the Division of Water Resources, joins us to discuss Utah's expanded and improved cloud seeding program. This is a great discussion about what cloud seeding is, what Utah's goals are, and the potential to significantly increase our snowpack and necessary spring runoff. A great rundown of this super fun program: the future is here.

PE Water Resources vs. PE Environmental Exam: what's the difference? Even better, if you work in any of these two fields…which one do you take if they overlap quite a bit?

In the first episode of this two-part series, we sit down with Karla Nemeth, Director of the California Department of Water Resources, to explore the past, present, and future of the State Water Project. Join us as we dive into the story of one of the nation's most critical—and most vulnerable—pieces of infrastructure.

Julie is the Executive Director of Mining Minnesota. Julie leads a coalition of community and industry leaders who advocate for responsible production of mineral resources in Minnesota. Julie previously served as the Environmental Manager of Cleveland-Cliffs' Hibbing Taconite operation, shepherding Minnesota's second largest iron mining and processing facility through environmental permitting and operational compliance. She then guided the water resources program for Twin Metals Minnesota as the Director of Water Resources, including oversight of surface water, groundwater, and wetlands baseline studies and project modeling.

Did you know one of the most difficult topics in the Water Resources PE Exam is not related to Water Resources?!

Are you new to Florida or are you a part-time resident? Join us for tips on gardening in central Florida including debunking five common garden myths.  Sources for this episode:   Find your local UF/IFAS Extension office:  ⁠⁠https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/find-your-local-office/  ⁠⁠   In Polk County, contact the Plant Clinic at 863-519-1041, ⁠⁠polkmg@ifas.ufl.edu⁠⁠   Your Central Florida page ⁠⁠https://centralfloridayard.substack.com/⁠ ⁠  A Part-Time and New Resident's Guide to Gardening in Central Florida ⁠https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/polkco/2022/12/06/a-part-time-and-new-residents-guide-to-gardening-in-central-florida/ ⁠  Florida Gardening for New Residents ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/florida-friendly-landscapes/florida-gardening-for-new-residents.html ⁠   Month-By-Month Irrigation Checklist ⁠https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gx7lae6qx7j23ev/AADLU6Zmt9MQOnur8Z_Dc7Nna?dl=0&preview=Month+by+Month+Irrigation.pdf⁠   Part-Time Resident's Water Conservation Checklist ⁠https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gx7lae6qx7j23ev/AACLcAOkXUAxexdL4aRlMQxfa/Part%20Time%20Residents%20Water%20Conservation.pdf?dl=0⁠   Protecting Florida's Water Resources ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/florida-friendly-landscapes/floridas-water-resources.html ⁠   Working in Your Florida Soil ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/planting/florida-soil.html ⁠   Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide ⁠https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/VH021 ⁠   Garden Myths, Volume One ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/florida-friendly-landscapes/garden-myths-one.html ⁠   Garden Myths, Volume Two ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/florida-friendly-landscapes/garden-myths-two.html ⁠   Garden Myths, Volume Three https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/florida-friendly-landscapes/garden-myths-three.html   Soaps, Detergents, and Pest Management ⁠https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/pests-and-diseases/pests/management/soaps-detergents-and-pest-management.html⁠   Landscape and Vegetable Garden Test Form (soil test) ⁠https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/SS187⁠  USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map ⁠https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/pages/map-downloads⁠  Podcast introduction and closing music: "Green Beans" by Big Score Audio. 

In this episode of Conscious Design, host Ian Peterman welcomes Yaron Ben Nun, the visionary founder and CTO of Nostromo Energy. Discover how this groundbreaking company is revolutionizing commercial buildings with innovative water-based energy storage systems and sustainable energy solutions. Yaron shares his inspiring journey from film director to clean energy pioneer, driven by his passion for addressing energy challenges, especially in regions where commercial cooling can consume a staggering 60% of electricity. Nostromo Energy's sustainable solution leverages the latent heat of water, offering an eco-friendly alternative to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Yaron reveals how this cutting-edge technology not only helps businesses save up to 15% on energy bills but also transforms commercial spaces like malls, airports, and hospitals into grid-interactive assets. This transformation plays a vital role in stabilizing power grids and promoting energy efficiency. Notable Moments: 00:00 - Introduction and Guest Welcome 00:39 - The Origin Story of Nostromo Energy 13:33 - Transforming Commercial Buildings into Grid Assets 18:26 - Why Water-Based Storage Outshines Lithium in Urban Energy Systems 28:20 - How Water-Based Energy Systems Cut Energy Bills 34:20 - Microgrids and Hybrid Energy Solutions 40:25 - Outstanding Energy Project of 2024: Nostromo's Award-Winning Innovation About Yaron Ben Nun and Nostromo Energy Yaron Ben Nun is the CTO and Founder of Nostromo Energy. He is a passionate advocate for environmental sustainability and responsible natural resource management. Before establishing Nostromo, he held key managerial roles in software companies focused on clean-tech and industrial performance. He is trained as an electrician and has been recognized as an "Energy Conservation Master" by the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources. Learn More about  Yaron Ben Nun and Nostromo Energy Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-ben-nun-b044662b/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Nostromo-Energy-100063673606168/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mU-RH4sF9WnlQUQjQIJvw Website: https://nostromo.energy/ We created this content so that creative entrepreneurs like you can integrate social and environmental responsibility into your brand's DNA through #ConsciousDesign. Ian Peterman, the leading expert in Conscious Design, hosts the Conscious Design podcast and is the co-author of the book "Conscious Design." If you enjoy our content, please support us by subscribing and sharing our episodes! What are your thoughts on water-based energy storage solutions? Let us know in the comments!

GDP Script/ Top Stories for October 11th Publish Date: October 11th   From the BG AD Group Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Friday, October 11th and Happy 63rd Birthday to Quarterback Steve Young. ***10.11.24 – BIRTHDAY – STEVE YOUNG*** I'm Keith Ippolito and here are your top stories presented by Gwinnett KIA Mall of Georgia. 1.       Lawrenceville's Elizabeth Lawson Wins Prestigious National Fashion Scholarship 2.       Gwinnett County Public Schools Announces Teacher Of The Year Semifinalists 3.       Halloween Howl 5K To Benefit Canine Pet Rescue All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: MOG (07.14.24 KIA MOG)   STORY 1: Lawrenceville's Elizabeth Lawson Wins Prestigious National Fashion Scholarship Elizabeth Lawson, a fashion design major at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, was honored as one of three recipients of the 2024 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Scholarship Fund. Alongside Hollis Maxson and Bao Pham, Lawson was selected from hundreds of applicants, winning part of a $75,000 scholarship pool for their fashion collections. Lawson received the CFDA Design Scholar Award for Sustainability. The CFDA Scholarship Fund has awarded $4 million in scholarships since 1996. More details can be found on the CFDA and SCAD websites. STORY 2:  Gwinnett County Public Schools Announces Teacher Of The Year Semifinalists Gwinnett County Public Schools announced 25 semifinalists for Teacher of the Year, chosen from 141 nominees. The group includes nine elementary, seven middle, and nine high school teachers. The finalists will be honored at a banquet on Jan. 30, where the top teacher will be named. Notable semifinalists include Abby Paul from Berkmar Middle, Cole Hembree from Brookwood High, and Nakaya Manning from Central Gwinnett High. The list features educators from various disciplines, highlighting the diverse talent across the district's schools. STORY 3:  Halloween Howl 5K To Benefit Canine Pet Rescue Canine Pet Rescue is hosting the seventh annual Halloween Howl 5K and 1K on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Little Mulberry Park in Dacula. The 5K, a Peachtree Road Race qualifier, starts at 9 a.m., followed by the 1K at 10 a.m., ideal for small dogs, seniors, and children. The event supports Canine Pet Rescue's mission to save and rehome dogs. Costumes are optional, with prizes for the best costumes. Registration is $30 for the 5K and $20 for the 1K, with virtual participation available for $35. Sponsorship opportunities are open, and more details can be found on their website. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back   Break 2: Tom Wages (08.05.24 OBITS_FINAL)   STORY 4:  Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and Department of Water Resources Offer 2 Ways to Commemorate Great Days of Service The Great Days of Service, Gwinnett County's largest annual volunteer event, is set for Oct. 18-19, focusing on eco-friendly activities. Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, in partnership with the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources, offers two volunteer options: litter pick-up and native tree transplanting in Duluth's Gwinnett Place area. The event aims to enhance environmental health, crucial for community beauty and economic vitality. Volunteers can register online, with activities scheduled for both days. Participants must complete a waiver and will receive a t-shirt while supplies last. More details are available on the Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful website. STORY 5:  Brayden Tyson Runs for School-Record 362 as Brookwood Tops Parkview Brookwood sophomore Brayden Tyson set a school record with 362 rushing yards, leading his team to a 51-13 victory over Parkview in the Battle of Five Forks-Trickum. Tyson scored four touchdowns, helping Brookwood secure its third consecutive win and a 26-17 all-time series lead. Brookwood's defense was strong, allowing only 6.3 points per game over the last three weeks. Parkview's Cooper Frank threw two touchdown passes, but the team fell behind early. Brookwood's next game is against Peachtree Ridge, while Parkview faces Duluth on Oct. 18. We'll be back in a moment   Break 3: Ingles Markets (Nutrition Questions) 5   STORY 6:     No. 7 Collins Hill Rallies Past No. 6 Mill Creek in Defensive Battle In a thrilling defensive showdown, Collins Hill edged past Mill Creek 13-12, thanks to a game-sealing interception by Stephen Barjolo. Mill Creek led 12-0 at halftime, but Collins Hill rallied with two second-half touchdowns from Makyree Cross to Alijah Patillo. Despite being outgained 291-181, Collins Hill's defense held strong, forcing three turnovers and shutting out Mill Creek in the second half. The win keeps Collins Hill's region title hopes alive, needing Mill Creek to defeat Buford for a potential three-way tie. The Eagles' defense, allowing just 6.3 points per game recently, was pivotal in the victory. STORY 7:  GET OUT THERE: 5 things to do this weekend in Gwinnett County — Oct. 11-13 Looking for weekend plans? Check out these local events:   Lilburn Daze: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Lilburn City Park. Enjoy arts, crafts, live entertainment, and festival treats. More info at lilburndaze.org.   Duluth On Tap: Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. at Duluth Town Green. Experience Oktoberfest with games and a costume contest. Details at duluthga.net.   Duluth Fall Home Expo: Friday to Sunday at Gas South District. Meet remodeling experts with free admission. Visit gassouthdistrict.com for more.   Stillfire Brewing 5th Anniversary: Saturday, noon at StillFire Brewing, Suwanee. Enjoy special brews, pizza, and live music. More at stillfirebrewing.com.   Lawrenceville Ghost Tours: Thursday to Sunday at Lawrenceville Arts Center. Explore spooky stories with a Southern twist. Tickets at auroratheatre.com.   We'll have final thoughts after this.   Break 4: Lilburn Daze (09.13.24 LILBURN DAZE_FINAL_REV 3) Signoff – Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. Read more about all our stories and get other great content at www.gwinnettdailypost.com Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? 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Last month, the Oregon Water Resources Commission voted to change the state’s groundwater rules. The new rules would require new water users to prove the water is available before the state will issue permits for wells. Ivan Gall was appointed to head the Water Resources Department last spring. He joins us to talk about the new rules and other challenges facing water resources in Oregon.

In 2014 Elizabeth Kipp started her own business to help people recover from stress and its associated pain, addiction and chronic pain. Elizabeth tells us at the outset how she became a victim of Chronic pain and suffered with it for forty years. Did you know that %25 of Americans experience Chronic pain.   On our episode you will learn about chronic pain, physical pain and the differences between the two. As Elizabeth will describe most Western medicine-oriented doctors know little about chronic pain and simply prescribe drugs for it and tell patients that they need to learn to live with it. Elizabeth finally discovered a doctor who not only grew up in the West and studied Western medicine, but he also studied Eastern medicine and learned about the spiritual connections that could help eliminate what we call Chronic pain. Elizabeth is among the %94 of persons seen by this doctor who recovered from this issue.   As I said earlier, Elizabeth now operates her own coaching business and helps many people deal with chronic pain, a lack of stress management and learning how to recover from addictions. Elizabeth gives many practical thoughts we all can use to better our lives. I leave it to her to take you on the journey this episode represents.   About the Guest:   Elizabeth Kipp is a Stress Management Specialist and Historical Trauma Specialist who uses Trauma-Trained and Yoga-Informed Addiction Recovery Coaching, Ancestral Clearing®, Compassionate Inquiry, and yoga to help people with their healing. Elizabeth healed from over 40 years of chronic pain, including anxiety, panic attacks, and addiction to prescribed opiate and benzodiazepine medication. She now works to help others achieve the same healing for themselves that she experienced directly from the work she teaches. She is the author of “The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power.”   Elizabeth offers one-on-one and group sessions in stress and chronic pain management and addiction recovery, Ancestral Clearing® and Compassionate Inquiry, and trauma-informed yoga. You can find out more about Elizabeth at https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com   Ways to connect with Elizabeth:   Website https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethKippStressManagement/  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lizi.kipp/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethkipp/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethkipp9855/videos Amazon Author Page http://bit.ly/EKBooks Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lizilynx/ Threads https://threads.net/@lizi.kipp Linktree: https://linktr.ee/elizabethkipp     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello again. I am your host, Michael Hingson, and you are listening to unstoppable mindset. And today we get to chat with Elizabeth Kipp. Elizabeth is a stress management specialist and historical management specialist, stress management specialist or trauma manager, I can't say it today, historical trauma management specialist. If I could talk, I'd be in good shape, everyone. But I want to thank you all for being here. And Elizabeth, I'd like to thank you for being here and putting up with me. We actually spent a little bit of time before we started the recording, talking about our old favorite movies like Blazing Saddles and Star Wars and Young Frankenstein, but we won't go there for this podcast, because we have probably more up to date and relevant things to do, don't we? Elizabeth, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 02:15 Thank you so much, Michael. It's my pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me as a guest. Well, you're   Michael Hingson ** 02:20 welcome. Why don't we start, if you would by you telling us a little bit kind of about the early Elizabeth growing up and those kinds of things. It's always kind of fun to learn about the early years as it were.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 02:33 Well, I actually don't remember that much about my childhood that was all that happy. I actually don't have happy memories. Really, my child other than I, I was, I liked animals and I spent I loved being with the horses and the ponies, right? So I that was fun, and I kind of like school, but my home life was challenging. My mother was a bipolar and an alcoholic and a ranger, so she I lived. I pretty much walked on eggshells, and their child abuse was not a thing back then. Was like, all that stuff was a secret. So I lived. I really grew up was a chronic pain suffer from the from the start?   Michael Hingson ** 03:25 Well, tell me so. Did you go to college at some point?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 03:28 Oh, yeah, yeah. I have a degree in plant science, yep. And I went, and I went to graduate school and studied environmental, environmental studies and and ecology and systematics, and I did a remote sensing as a plant person, yep.   Michael Hingson ** 03:46 Oh, you're making this very difficult. Elizabeth, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna ask, did you ever see the Little Shop of Horrors?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 03:54 No, I never actually saw that. You know about it, though? Oh, yeah, I know.   Michael Hingson ** 03:58 I just never saw it. Feed me. Seymour, another man eating plant. Okay, enough. Well, so, so tell me a little bit about this whole we're so helpful. Tell me a little bit about this whole idea of chronic pain. What is chronic pain? Oh, yes,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 04:15 chronic pain is any pain that's felt 15 days out of 30 for three months or more, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. The the body really can't tell the difference. The brain can't tell the difference between one kind of pain and another. It all sends the same signal to the brain. It hurts. So a a grief experience is, is, is, is just as powerful as a you know, a broken maybe a broken bone that that takes more than three months to heal, which usually doesn't, but an injury can sometimes conduct injury. There are injuries that take more than three months to heal, so the brain can't tell the difference between a broken bone and a broken heart.   Michael Hingson ** 05:01 And they both manifest themselves in some way as what you view as true physical pain. Um,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 05:09 well, the way to really distinguish,   Michael Hingson ** 05:14 well, to first of all, for the person who doesn't really know the difference, is what I was thinking of.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 05:18 I understand. It's, it's not that simple. I mean, you know, our emotions have, if we look at the at the mind, body, spirit system is an integrated system which, okay, purposes of this conversation, let's do that. Okay? Do the reductionist model that the Western medicine does the emotions actually have a physical sensation, right? And when I think about grief like, I'm, I'm just this week, we're we're remembering the 10 year anniversary of my niece's suicide, for instance. And I remember Monday, when that, when that anniversary came around the weight, I felt the physical weight of that and the heaviness of the as a sensation in the body. And it was, and it's not like I carried that for as a chronic pain thing, but it was, it was with me for a few hours for sure that day. So so that that emotional charge that I had expressed itself as as a physical that manifested physically as this weight, tension and tightness in my body   06:41 got it   Elizabeth Kipp ** 06:44 so, so pain, chronic pain, can manifest as physical, emotional, emotional pain can journal over into physical. It's difficult to tell them the difference. You know, spiritual pain could be something like a grief experience, which also has its its corresponding body expression.   Michael Hingson ** 07:06 Do most people feel chronic pain, or are they such that mostly they can learn to deal with and overcome? If that makes sense, I'm   Elizabeth Kipp ** 07:17 going to back up. I hear what you're saying, and I'm going to back up for a minute and get Okay, zero in on what chronic pain is. So how chronic pain compared to acute pain? So we have a stress response in the body, and it's in the off position until we perceive a threat, and perceive a threat, or are threatened, and and then that stress response goes into the on position, in in in acute pain, the stress response goes in the off position, comes back, goes into the on position, comes back, into the off position, and it's back. It's in back and balance in chronic pain, the stress response goes under the on position. It gets stuck. Got it. So what does that mean? That means that we're the the that the nervous system is in this activated, hence, vigilant, hyper vigilant. Hyper vigilant state. And this is, this is very stressful for the body. It creates all kinds of, like a whole biochemical soup that the body has to handle. And it creates a lot of it can create a lot of disease. So it's, it's not, I'm not sure. It doesn't really answer your question, but it brings a little bit of light to what chronic pain is. Sure there are like the before covid, the National Institutes of Health estimated 25% of North America suffer from chronic pain across all socioeconomic measures, including children, and the World Health Organization estimated a fifth of the world. So it's this, and with that definition that I used, that's not a lot of people just think it's physical. It's not. It's this bigger thing, and I appreciate that. Yeah, it's the it's the mind, body, spirit system in this activated, chronically stressed state.   Michael Hingson ** 09:27 And so let's, let's use the WHO definition, 25% or 20% is still a large number of people, and that's, and I understand that. But then, while it's chronic, typically, do people just consistently, continuously suffer from chronic pain, or does something happen such that. People are able to overcome it in at some point, or what   Elizabeth Kipp ** 10:04 that depends on, that depends on their circumstances. For me, I suffered with chronic pain for 40 years before I found a doctor that actually understood what it was, and I all the doctors until the last one that I met, who were all Western doctors, as was the last one, but he was just differently trained. They all said you're gonna have to learn to live with it. And they gave me drugs to, like, numb it, but that which didn't really numb it, but that was so they, most of the doctors that I went to for all those years told me just deliberate, that they didn't know what to do about it. And I met 1000s and 1000s of other patients during that journey who were just living with chronic pain, the best by their wits.   Michael Hingson ** 10:54 So using the United States definition of 25% most of them, if they went to a doctor regarding it, even though it was chronic pain and they weren't and it wasn't properly diagnosed, they were given drugs or other things like that. And so it was an ongoing constant thing for them. It didn't last for just some shorter period of time, like a few months, and then they figured out how to overcome it, but traditionally, it sounds like more people than not continuously live with it because they don't know how to deal with it. That's right, okay, all right. And that was what I was really trying to get to before I had understood what you were saying. But I appreciate the situation. Now, you said the last doctor, though that you dealt with was differently trained, and I would suspect that if I asked you which I will he had some Eastern medicine training.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 11:55 He did and he was also a neurophysiologist, so he understood the changes in the brain that occur because of chronic pain and and so he had some special training that that like a family doctor or orthopedic doctor, or maybe even a neurologist, if he's not a neurophysiologist and kind of what the specialty is, they may not catch that. They might not have that training. This is an issue that we have with the western model.   Michael Hingson ** 12:29 Well, the western model tends to not take into account the spiritual aspect of things as we know.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 12:37 Oh, it's very reductionist, right? So I'll give you an example of how that works, just for the audience. You probably know this, but if you So, I had the one of the questions is like, Why did I have chronic pain? I didn't. It wasn't just emotional. I had a physical issue. I had a I broke my fifth lumbar and and a front to back, and it slipped forward into my pelvis, and I had a lot of surgery to try and and stabilize that and but my back never I just was I had this horribly sore back. Now what's interesting is, first of all, the doctors assumed I wouldn't heal that. That was their assumption. So I, you know, I felt like their assumption was wrong, but that's the model they were using. Me, such a thing was wrong. But here's the thing about reductionist that the reductionist view, if you saw, if you picked, if you found three patients that had X rays just like mine, you'd find patients that had three different symptoms, one that had pain all the time, one that had pain only when they were stressed, and one that didn't have any pain at all. How do you explain that? By just looking at the X ray, you can, you can, yeah, that's the issue. So doctors see my X ray, and they go, here are your opiates. But I don't have any pain. And I've been each one of those patients, by the way, different times in my life I've been each one of those, right? So there's something else going on there besides trouble in the spine. And so instead of assuming that I wasn't going to heal, which was an error in their in their model, they never asked the question, why isn't Elizabeth healing? Because their model precluded that. I That that was even possible. Just assume there wasn't the healing wasn't going to happen. Yeah, so that's a, that's a, just a challenging assumption to sit with when you're looking at Western doctors to try and give you an answer. Well, they can't actually accept. Dr Peter prescop, he gave me an answer and there, there are more integrated doctors now. Well so that there are some integrated pain management programs available to people. They're just kind of spread pretty thin.   Michael Hingson ** 15:08 Yeah, I don't have an exact similar kind of situation, but my fifth guide dog, who was with me in the World Trade Center, Rozelle, had some back problems, and as she grow older, had some other issues. Our veterinarian, where we lived in Northern California, not only had Western training, but a lot of Eastern medicine training, and in fact, several times while he was our veterinarian, which was over a number of years, he traveled to learn more Eastern medicine, training like not directly related to you, necessarily, but acupuncture and other sorts of things. But he, but he greatly understood the Eastern philosophy and what it brought that traditional medicine in the West didn't, which was all just throw drugs at it, even that, and he would, he would prescribe some medications, but he also had a lot of other things that that he did that the average veterinarian would not do.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 16:16 Yeah, I hear you.   Michael Hingson ** 16:19 So what did Dr Prescott say to you that gave you a real clue that he's different? A   Elizabeth Kipp ** 16:28 couple of things he he told me when my first conversation with him over the phone, he said to me, I can help you reset your stress response, and I never told him. All I told him was that I had been on opiates and benzodiazepines for 31 years, and, and I was and, and, and I was still hurting. I never told him I was having panic attacks. He knew, and my prescribing doctor didn't have any comment about any of that. So I knew right away when he said, I was like, I don't know who you are or where you've been all my life, but I'm coming to your program. Like, it's like, boom, if I could get away from these panic attacks, I'm your girl. It's like, and he never promised me that my pain would go away. He never promised that. He promised me that he could get off the he could hit me off the medication, and he promised me that he could reset my stress response and on his own. So   Michael Hingson ** 17:30 he promised that he would try, which is really, you know, whether he said that directly or not tacitly, it was implied that at least he's going to try to do what he can, and he's got some thoughts.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 17:44 Well, he had already taken 1000s of people through medical detox, and he had a 94% success rate in his pain management program. So what's like? He had proven a proven method,   Michael Hingson ** 17:59 right? So what was it like going well, growing up, going through college and so on, and then getting out into the workforce. What was it like having chronic pain all that time?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 18:14 Well, I got I was, I actually learned from the age of 14. I well prior to that, before my accident where I hurt my back, I was used to living with chronic pain from irritable bowel syndrome. I was used to that, so when I actually had the accident and broke that vertebrae and got up and walked away from the accident. I didn't have any idea that I'd hurt my I knew I'd I knew I had I bumped myself, and I knew it hurt, but it I didn't. It didn't occur to me that it was at that level because I could get up and walk away like I was able to walk. So I just hurt for a few weeks, and a lot. I hurt a lot for a couple of weeks, and then it kind of calmed down. So I was already my nervous system was already used to a very high level of pain, and for me, still in my nervous system, it gives you an idea of how the nervous system can can develop at a young age, under certain to react in certain ways. Because I had such a difficult childhood from zero to seven that when I got to be 14, I didn't even realize how badly I'd hurt myself. And even today, as a, you know, an older adult, I have a yoga practice. And I don't I my journey, my challenge is to, is to where's the line between, you know? Not enough is atrophy, and too much is injury. I don't know where the line is into injury. I'll go right over it and and then I realize I'm there. And I didn't even know there was a line like I it's very difficult for me to discern that. So my nervous system kind of got trained to ignore, uh, pain signals, right? And and my journey really has been to try and try and reset that so it's it took me more than my stress response is definitely back to balance that's a little different than the nervous system being, having, having a certain habit, when you get to this level of pain, ignore it, because you got to keep going. That habit was, that's a very different habit, and that's a behavioral that was how I survived in the world, pushed through. And that, that's, that's, that's a, that's a toxic way to live. Yeah, right. So, so that was, that was something I lived with. And then when I, when I got six credits short of finishing my Masters, I started the surgery on my back, and I never got back to finishing my master's looks like I was so close. I had my thesis done, and I just needed those six credits, couple of courses to take, boom, and I would have been done. And that that surgery just just took me down. So the universe kind of redirected my redirected me completely into a new field. So now I work in stress management instead of an environmental science management and environmental management, that was kind of what I was doing. I was doing environmental assessment, you know, as a plant specialist. So tell me   Michael Hingson ** 21:56 a little bit about that. What that means and what you did,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 21:59 if you would. Oh, yeah. So, so I was living, I'm in Kansas, still here in Lawrence, Kansas. And I was a, I was a, like a plant scientist, but I was also an environmental studies but from the plant end of it, and as a graduate student, I worked for the Kansas applied remote sensing program, which had a mandate from the Carter Administration at the time to take NASA's Landsat technology from the federal level down into local and state and local government level. So my job was to help implement that as a graduate student. And an example, give an example of what we did. There's a an eight there's an aquifer that that this spreads out in eight states. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, right here in the Midwest, and it's used, it's a non renewable resource, and it's used by farmers to irrigate their crops, and because it's essentially, essentially a non renewable resource, NASA's NASA was into one of their arms within NASA wanted to know, when is the aquifer going to run out well? Somebody wanted to know that. And NASA came to us and said, can you develop a methodology so that we can actually answer that question? So I So, as the plant person, I had to my job was to contact all the county agents there's like, I don't know, 270 some county agents in that eight state area, and find out how many acres of every crop that's grown by all the farmers in that county. And then I took all those crops, and figured out when they're when they get irrigated, how much water that takes, all that kind of stuff. And we came up, ultimately, we we came up with an estimate that the aquifer would be tapped. We came up with the methodology for them to come to answer that question, yeah, so that was, that's an example of,   Michael Hingson ** 24:24 did you get an answer, or did,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 24:26 yeah, we did get an answer. We did not. We got an answer. And that was in 1980 the answer was 2040, the year 20. And   Michael Hingson ** 24:34 why is it that it can't be renewed, or the moisture can't go down and replace what's used well, because   Elizabeth Kipp ** 24:40 it's deep water, it's not, it's not us, it's not surface one. It's like a river. It's deep it's water that's been, that's accumulated over millions of years, yeah, not, it's not, it can't be replenished, really, with with annual rainfall. It doesn't work like that, right? It's a Geo, it's a   Michael Hingson ** 24:59 geological. Yeah, no, I understand. So what will happen in 2040 has anybody, obviously, with NASA being concerned about that? And they come up with any other thoughts   Elizabeth Kipp ** 25:09 that was then NASA's in that business anymore, but Well,   Michael Hingson ** 25:15 somebody else,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 25:16 the US Geological Survey, right, is interested in that the Water Resources department within the US Geological Survey is interested in that question. And I was just reading, I don't know I read a I read, or I keep my eye on that, on that information from time to time. And I think I just read, in the last probably six months, you have a kind of an interview about the farmers, and because there's, there was a, kind of a drought last year, so there was pressure on the aquifer. And anyway, I don't, you know, there's, we're going to run out of water. It's going to change. It's going to change this part of the world and the rest of the world that this part of the world feeds. It's just going to, you know, it's going to change things.   Michael Hingson ** 26:02 And the problem is that if we don't figure out alternatives, that's going to be a crisis. I mean, there, there are probably those who say, well, Nikola Tesla said that we ought to be able to move rain clouds and redirect them and get more moisture and be more volitional about it, but nobody seems to want to take that seriously, assuming that Tesla was right.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 26:27 Oh, I can't speak to that. I know. I mean, the USDA had been cloud seeding for years, but I can't really that's not my area. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 26:37 it's, it's more than that. It's also having the clouds in the right place and the it's one of the things that that, apparently, Tesla was very concerned about and interested in. So I don't know where all of that has really gone, either, but I but I do know there are a lot of creative people out there, if given the opportunity to really address issues. But that's, of course, the real question, isn't it, how much are people allowed to or how much will people take things seriously? I'm sure there are people who are out there who would say that your your stuff is, is all bunk, and we're never going to run out of water, because it's been there for millions of years. But people, have interesting ways of viewing things, don't they? Oh, they do, yeah, it's like chronic pain. But, you know, and it's, it's one of those things that we, we do have to deal with, and we'll see what happens over time. I guess that's all we can really say. So why? So you said that the statistics generally are that about 25% of all people in the United States have chronic pain, so that's a quarter of the population. Any reason why, if we believe the numbers, and maybe there's no real good way to discuss this. But he said the World Health Organization said, basically 20% why the 5% difference? Oh, I   Elizabeth Kipp ** 28:08 don't have no idea. Yeah, that's I mean,   Michael Hingson ** 28:10 I could come up with all sorts of excuses, you and   Elizabeth Kipp ** 28:13 I could, could theorize about that, but yeah, we could,   Michael Hingson ** 28:16 and we would be just as right as anybody else. So it's okay.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 28:22 I mean, I had my, I have my, my views on that, but I they're not really based in science. No,   Michael Hingson ** 28:27 no. And I didn't know whether anybody had really studied it. And I just thought it was worth I didn't really   Elizabeth Kipp ** 28:33 looked at that question. So maybe somebody has, and I just don't know about it.   Michael Hingson ** 28:37 It'd be an interesting thing to see. I mean, clearly, there's a lot of stress right now in this country, and And there shall be for a while, and I think one and there are a lot of fears in this country. I'm getting ready to have my third book published, which is entitled to like a guide dog, true stories from a blind man and his dogs about being brave, overcoming adversity and walking in faith. And the idea behind it is that we can learn to control fear. I'm not going to ever say we'll just be able to not be afraid of anything, and I wouldn't want to, because I think that fear is a very powerful tool, but you can learn to control it and not let it overwhelm you. And that's that's the issue, and that's what live like a guide dog is all about. But too many people don't learn how to accomplish that skill, which is a challenge, of course.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 29:34 Oh, that would be, I love that you said that. That seems to be a theme of my life these days, with my, you know, in my own practice, and in my and with my clients, because that fear is, you know, that's the part of us is trying to keep us safe and survive in the world. And it's a very healthy response, and we need it to stay safe. And, sure. And it can play havoc with us that you're talking about the mind. You're talking about finding a way to meet your resistance to when fear comes up for you. And I literally do that every morning I in my yoga practice, I put myself in a in a posture, or a, you know, a certain kind of meditation, or a practice of some kind that where my own ego comes in and, you know, presents itself and says you're not going to get past this because I'm doing this, like, Yeah, I'm going to stay here and just keep breathing, right? And so it's, it's, and the thing is, is that if you can face your fear and keep stay on target, and keep facing that resistance that you feel you get through on the other side, and you've got, you know, you've got kind of a new place there. So you, you've you've increased your courage, you've hardened your resistance, resilience in the world. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 31:18 what you learn is that fear is a very helpful thing, and I would be absolutely presumptuous and never say you shouldn't be afraid. I know that there are some people in this world whose nerve endings are such that they don't feel pain at all, and as a result, they don't have the option to deal with all the signals that pain, in some way, can bring and fear is the same sort of thing. I think that it would be ridiculous to say, Don't be afraid, but I do believe that you can control fear and that you can use it to help direct you, but you have to take the initiative to establish a mindset to do that, and that's what most of us don't do. We don't prepare. We don't learn how to prepare for different situations. And I talk a lot about being in the World Trade Center, of course, on September 11, and learned long before that day what to do in an emergency, and I spent a lot of time talking to people, talking to the fire department, talking to the Port Authority, police and others, and learning what to do in case of an emergency. And I also did it mainly because, well, it was survival. I wasn't going to rely on somebody reading signs to me because I'm not going to read signs, right? I'm not going to rely on somebody reading signs to me for a couple of reasons. One, there might not be anybody around, because a lot of times I'm in the office alone, and no one else is there, and and two, they might not be able to read the signs, because we might be in an environment where there's smoke or power failure and there's no light, so they couldn't read the signs anyway. And I was the leader of an office, so I had to take the responsibility of learning all I could about the complex and what to do in an emergency, and did that, and that established a mindset, as I realized much later, that said, if something happens, you know what to do. It was all about the preparation that made that possible. And I think that in dealing with learning to control fear, it's learning to prepare, it's learning to really talk to and with your mind and learning how to use that tool in a productive way. And that's something that most people don't do. They don't exercise their mind to learn to communicate with it and talk with it and learn like, How'd today go? Why was I afraid of this? What should I have done differently and develop the mind into the muscle that really has the strength that you should want it to have? Well, 10   Elizabeth Kipp ** 34:08 forward to that, I hear you loud and clear. I would refine your comment slightly. I have a slightly different perspective. It's not like that. I'm controlling fear. I'm controlling my reaction to it   Michael Hingson ** 34:24 well, but yeah, and I appreciate that. But what that does is it puts you in control of the fear, and it helps you learn to use it as a very powerful tool on your side, rather than it blinding or paralyzing or overwhelming you and just taking control so you can't do anything.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 34:50 Yes, and there are, when I teach Trauma Recovery, i. We look at the nervous system and how it's reacting, and so if I'm in a fight, flight or shut down mode, the nervous system reacting to some trigger in the environment, right there are tools I can bring to bear that can help me move out of that fight, flight or freeze or regulate it   Michael Hingson ** 35:27 right now, that's really the issue. Right to regulate it or never let you really go into it, because you accept that you can deal with situations if you spend the time preparing and learning how to do it?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 35:44 Yeah, I'm not going to say I, let me put it this way, I have a hair trigger starter response. There was a if there was a boom outside or a gunshot or something that went off outside my window, I jump. Yeah, that's a response, right? That's an activated that's the nervous system activated, right, right? However, I'm down from that in probably five seconds, okay? And that's the point. I know how to breathe, and that's because I've   Michael Hingson ** 36:13 done the training. This is that's the point, exactly, right?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 36:18 Taking me an hour or half a day in the past. Now it's five seconds   Michael Hingson ** 36:24 well, and and the reality is, I think there are very few people among us who wouldn't jump if they heard that gunshot right outside their window, exactly. And so that's okay.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 36:39 Our machineries operate, but it   Michael Hingson ** 36:44 is then how we deal with it and how we have trained our minds to allow us to go. Wait a minute, what just happened? Oh, okay, that was a gunshot. I'm going to duck down here so somebody doesn't shoot at me, but I'm going to peek out the window see if I can see what's going on or whatever. I mean, you know, in my case, peeking out the window isn't going to do any good. Call 911, well, or I'd open the window and go stop the noise. I wouldn't do that, yes, but so I know   Elizabeth Kipp ** 37:13 better, am I? We actually and live in a neighborhood where from time to time we hear gunshots, and last summer, there was, there were some gunshots in the neighborhood, and a policeman stopped by and knocked on my door and asked me if I'd heard gunshots. And I said, Yes. And I said, I don't like to bother you guys. He said, bother us. We want to hear we want you to call us when you hear that. So I learned, I got told   Michael Hingson ** 37:39 we have been I live in an area where we have had gunshots. I haven't really heard them. My house is a as a new house, and so with the installation everything, it had to be a pretty close gunshot. But we had kids of a couple of months ago that just came at like, 10 o'clock at night, and they just pounded on my garage door, and then I didn't hear anything after that, and I listened, but I didn't hear anything. And it was the next day that I learned that they had done that to other people, and they were trying to break into garages. And what stopped them actually, I don't think it was my garage door. I think it was my front door, but I was not in the living room at the time. But what happened was having video cameras around the place. One of the kids saw that the doorbell camera was taking pictures of them, and it was kind of too late to avoid it, so they took off. Okay, there you go. And I have no problem with having those cameras around and but again, it's preparation. And mentally, I think all the time about what happens when somebody comes to my door and knocks on my door at 10 o'clock at night. I think about that sometimes, and very likely, if it's a knock, it could be a police officer. But how am I going to know that? So I've learned how to use my system so that I can talk to my doorbell camera and system to say who's there, or I can call the police and say someone's knocking on my door and claiming they're the police. Are they? Oh, good. But I've but I've thought about that, and I think about that because that's part of preparation, yeah, and that's okay and, and I think the closest we ever came to something in the middle of the night was we, my wife and I, this was, like three years ago. We heard a noise outside of our house, and it sounded like something hit something, and it was, it was a car. That was a woman driving a car, and she looked down at a cup of coffee just in time to hit a trailer, and it knocked the trailer up into our yard. And a couple minutes later, well, so we immediately called the police that something had happened, and I got dressed. It was 530 Darn I didn't get my full sleep. But then somebody came and knocked at the door, and they said it was Highway Patrol and and I verified it, and, you know, we went on. But it's, I think, with all of that, it's preparation, and it isn't so much well, what if this happens, or what if that happens? It's what do I do to prepare for different situations that might occur? So maybe it is a what if, but preparation is the important thing, and preparation can really help you learn to regulate how you deal with fear Exactly.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 40:34 That's why I do my practice every day. Yeah. So,   Michael Hingson ** 40:38 so when did you switch from plant science and environmental science and studies to stress management and and trauma and addiction recovery and so on? As   Elizabeth Kipp ** 40:51 soon as I started the surgery, I started learning about stress management. But when was that? Oh, well, that would have been in, oh god. What was that? 1982   Michael Hingson ** 41:00 Oh my gosh. So you've been doing this a while. Well, I've   Elizabeth Kipp ** 41:03 been that was, that was the school of hard knocks that I did, that I learned that the hard way. Well, yeah, and then 10 years ago, I actually went into business doing it. I mean, I felt like I had enough, I had enough kind of street cred and experience and wisdom to actually be able to bring the teaching to the world. So, so what is your company? Called Elizabeth KIPP, stress management limited.   Michael Hingson ** 41:27 That works,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 41:30 says it all.   Michael Hingson ** 41:32 And Kip is k, i, p, p, correct, yeah. Stress Management limited, yep. Okay, there you go, folks. So, so tell me what you do and and how you operate, if you would.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 41:45 Oh, I, I help people build resilience, kind of like we're talking about also, I help people calm their nervous systems down, which is this regulation you and I are talking about. I work with people that have this chronic pain distress response that's off out of balance. I help them bring it back to balance. And that includes, I include addiction recovery in that, because every addict I know chronic pain patient, first, I include trauma, trauma training in that as well, because every chronic pain patient I knew had unresolved trauma in their system. So I went to learn how to be trauma informed. So I include, I'm not a therapist, but I'm a great coach in that space. So I teach trauma informed yoga, and I teach the methods that you need to use to get the nervous system back into balance and train the mind into healthy habits so that, just like you and I are talking about, so that when the stresses come into our lives, we stay centered. Now we might be, we might be activated briefly, but we we, we come. We come back into regulation quickly. And those are the things I teach how to do that, because I had to learn how to do that myself. So it's like, you know, I got this. I can help people with this. Yeah, the other thing I do is, I help. I am an ancestor clearing teacher, ancestral clearing practitioner as well, which is a practice that helps us clear the effects of unresolved intergenerational trauma. It's like a slightly different the historical trauma specialty that I do is like, I work with collective trauma and historical trauma as well. Okay,   Michael Hingson ** 43:55 so two questions. The first one is, you said you're a coach, not a therapist. What's the difference?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 44:00 Well, therapist has a licensing by the state that they live in, and I don't have those things   Michael Hingson ** 44:09 but, but there are a lot of coaches who are certified in one way or another. So,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 44:12 oh well, yeah, yeah, I'm a certified yoga teacher. I'm I'm a recovery coach as well. So I went through training for that. And I've, I've had trauma training. I just and trauma informed yoga training, I just haven't and I've had lots of ancestor clearing, practitioner training. Those are things that that they don't have letters after your name. What   Michael Hingson ** 44:38 I was told was that the basic difference is that a coach provides guidance and asks questions and really works to guide you to find the solution so they don't have the answers and they're not supposed to, whereas a therapist is a person. Because of the way they're trained, they do have more of an ability to be able to provide answers, so it isn't just asking questions. They may be also able to more directly suggest answers, because they're not really acting as just a guide or a counselor. They're supposed to provide more substantive information as well.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 45:20 Okay, that's interesting.   Michael Hingson ** 45:24 In a coaching course,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 45:26 I say as a coach, I'm I support, like I'm very supportive of anyone who's also got a therapist. I do the day, kind of therapist they might see once a week, once every two weeks, or once a month. I'm there for the day to day. This is how you deal with life in between. This is like, that's what I do. So supportive of all other professionals in that space, which people need, practical What do I do now? Kind of stuff? Yeah, therapist and now, what do I do? I won't see her till next month.   Michael Hingson ** 46:02 So that's where you come in, because you can say, well, let's talk about that. Tell me what, what you're thinking what, what is it you want to do? And and again, it's all about guidance and counseling more than anything else.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 46:15 And I really prefer the Socratic method, where the where the client comes up with the own, their own, with their with their with they come up with the answer because then now they're looking now they're empowered. They're not looking to me for the answer. They're coming up with on their own. And so now they're walking away from an appointment with me or session with me feeling empowered, which is where I want them to be, which   Michael Hingson ** 46:42 is where they should be, and that way they're they're more apt to buy into it.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 46:48 Yeah, they need, they need to be able to step into the to the power that lives within them.   Michael Hingson ** 46:55 You guide them to find but they're the ones that have to find and adopt. Well, I open the door they have to walk through, right, exactly. Well, tell me about ancestral clearing. I have not really heard of that much, so I'd love to know more about that, how it works and so on.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 47:12 Well, it's actually a spiritual practice, and it's based on the understanding that we come into this life with, from a sciency point of view, I'll say information in the system. And the system is where you're a programmer. So you'll understand this. The system is has got noise in it. So some of all the information is there to be used. Some of it's useful, and some of it's not so useful. And some of that is, what I mean, is noise in the system. And so some of the unuseful stuff is like, we come in with behaviors from our ancestors around worry, you know, which is we that can people drive people neurotic? Yeah, worry energy. Or maybe they've got a lot of grief energy. Maybe they're, you know, they have a tendency towards grief   Michael Hingson ** 48:11 or addiction, talking about, like alcohol and things like that. Yeah,   Elizabeth Kipp ** 48:15 absolutely. But that's not, um, that's more epigenetic, rather than genetic. They haven't found an actual gene that of addiction. It's an epigenetic,   Michael Hingson ** 48:27 yeah, well, well, but it's also is to my father did that, my grandfather did that, and my my my mother did that. So obviously I should do that too   Elizabeth Kipp ** 48:39 well. It's kind of like the disposition is there. It's up to us to choose whether we want to and it's kind of up to the environment, how we're reacting to the environment, right? If my parents are are reaching for a drink to help them deal with the stresses of the day. Because we have these mimic we have these mirror neurons in we mimic other people. We mimic what they do. That's what we do, right? So we're going to, we're going to pick that stuff up, but we know at some point we have to wake up and be conscious like,   Michael Hingson ** 49:17 well, we should anyway, but yeah, hopefully, yeah. But anyway, continue with ancestral clearing.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 49:23 Yeah. So, so ancestral clearing helps us release the effects of intergenerational that negative effects of intergenerational trauma, I put it that way, any kind of unhealthy charge from the past, which is why it works so well with my stress management work, where we're we're carrying a an unhealthy charge in the nervous system around or maybe a belief system that's that's got us that we're reactive to. Now the spiritual aspect is where. We're we're actually asking creator, God, energy, source, whatever you want to call that energy that created everything. We're asking it to come and come in on our behalf and help, help, help the client, release the the whatever they're carrying that's no longer needed, no longer serving them. So that's the spiritual aspect of it. Very interesting and powerful process. Very interesting. So I was very impressed with it when I first experienced it, not knowing what I was walking into at the time. And I, I noticed my own pain levels dropped significantly, and so did everybody else's in the room. And I was like, What is this modality? What is this what just happened here? I know, I know something happened. Can you measure it? Is can he repeat it? And does he teach it? And answer to all that was, well, they haven't been able to that many scientific studies done on it, but there's a lot of anecdotal stuff that tells us that that it's, it's very powerful. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't be bringing it. I wouldn't be taking, taking up my time and or anybody else's doing a process. I've been doing this for 10 years, doing a process that didn't work.   Michael Hingson ** 51:22 Can you give me an example of of something that ancestral clearing can do something about, and then how you go about addressing the issue?   Elizabeth Kipp ** 51:34 Well, I'll tell you what. I'll share with you a quick example. That the whole, that the whole everybody can can relate to, okay, one who's listening can just listen to this and see, see what their experience is, where everybody who's listening put your attention on your body. Notice what sensations you're feeling. You know, for instance, in sample, I can feel my back on the chair and my feet on the floor and and I've got a little bit of, I've got a little bit of tension in my for the front of my forehead, just a little bit, um, I probably give it a zero, a number from zero to 10 and intensity, and give it about a three, maybe. So I everybody, just notice whatever that is for you, and I want you to breathe normally as I and and as I say, as I, as I say this prayer, and we use the word forgive, meaning we're offering up that which no Lord serves us. We're asking creator to help us release that which no longer serves us. That's how we're using that word forgive. So I'm just going to go through this. I'm going to we're going to use the word Infinite Creator for the whatever all of this that we're in Infinite Creator, all that you are. Would you please help everyone listening to this and all of their relationships and all their ancestors and all of their relationships throughout all space, time, dimension, realms, lives, lifetimes and incarnations for all the hurts and wrongs ever done to them in thought, word or action, any hurts and wrongs they did to others, whether knowingly or unknowingly, and any hurts and wrongs they did to themselves, please help them all forgive and release each other. Help you all forgive yourselves, please and thank you. Okay, time, anytime anyone was abandoned, not supported, nourished and cherished the way they needed. Times they weren't able to love, support and cherish others the way they needed. Anytime they were out of integrity with one another or another out of integrity with you, please help you all. Forgive and release one another. Forgive and release yourselves. Find peace with one another and find peace with yourselves, please and thank you. I want you to do one more for all, war, Battle, Holocaust, genocide, persecution, Slavery and Justice of any kind, misuse of power, position, authority, politically, spiritually, medically or any other way. Please. Help all of you forgive each other. Help you all forgive yourselves for all that happened and all you made it mean anyone involved, directly or indirectly, please. And thank you, please. Thank you, please. And thank you. And just take a nice big breath in, let it out and notice how that feels, big or small.   Michael Hingson ** 54:35 And I can tell that it helps. It's just different. It's pretty powerful. It is, it is and and, you know, again, it comes back down to taking the time to do something, to redirect what we address, or what we what we don't address, and redirect some of the stress and some of the. The things that we may or may not know that are bothering us, but it is all about taking some steps to start to deal with that.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 55:08 That's right, that's right. That's so important because it's a this is why I deal with historical trauma and collective trauma, because it's in the field we're feeling it anyway. Why not? We're experiencing the energies of it. Why not, you know? Why not name it and deal with it? Because it's going to help us again, build resilience.   Michael Hingson ** 55:34 What are some shifts in you've had in your your mind, and specifically in your mindset that made your feelings unstoppable going forward. Well, that's   Elizabeth Kipp ** 55:49 a great question. Um, I actually, I have to say that the thing that has been a pattern over my life for me that switches me from the I can't do this to Hell, yeah, I could do this. Is my connection to oneness, because it's in my sense of separation, my ego, sense of separation, that I'm not a part of where the fear thrives, but when I remember that I'm connected into all the all it is, and I'm just the creators moving through me, just like it's moving through everything that Is that that just amplifies everything and creates a power that that I couldn't even, I can't even fathom the power there, so I don't do it alone. That's the difference, if that makes sense, it does.   Michael Hingson ** 56:54 What does an unstoppable mindset mean to you in regards to stress management? As   Elizabeth Kipp ** 56:58 I said, what it means is, whatever the resistance is that's in front of me, I have the capacity to face it now. I may be activated like a stress. I might have that, that star response for a moment, but that, that that ability to face my own resistance, my which is the fear, my ability to face that, and my willingness to face it, and my practice of facing it, that's that's the thing that gives me the leverage and the momentum to the staying power. We call that staying power in the yoga that's called staying power right there. That's what gives it to me.   Michael Hingson ** 57:50 Got it? Well, tell me what are some kind of last thoughts that you might have for anyone listening to this, who may be feeling some of the issues that we've talked about or who may be looking for solutions. What kind of advice might you have for people   Elizabeth Kipp ** 58:06 ask for help. You don't have to do this alone. Really important. You you even talked about it in terms of your your your preparation. How many different people did you go to for guidance, right? We can't do this thing alone, and we're not alone where we don't want to buy into the illusion that we are. So asking for help is, is, is important, and the other thing is, which is kind of the opposites. And we're looking outward for help, right? But we're also respected. Understand that the the greatest healer in your life, lives within you. So you want to, you want to recognize that doctors can set a bonus stitch up a wound, but they can't tell the body how to heal. Only the body knows how to do that. So get that straight in your mind, or where the where the healing power truly is. Yeah, those are the two things that I that I that I always like to end my my presentations with you.   Michael Hingson ** 59:03 The reality is, we are the best things for ourselves, if we really take the time to look and listen. As I tell people, and I used to always say I was my own worst critic when I would listen to speeches of that I had recorded and so on. And over the last year, I've learned bad thing to say, the more appropriate thing to say is, I'm my own best teacher, because really only I can teach me, and only I can teach me if I'm open and willing to learn. And that involves asking for help, that involves interacting with other people, but I have to take the steps to make it happen   Elizabeth Kipp ** 59:40 exactly, so they can open the door, but we have to walk through. We   Michael Hingson ** 59:44 have to walk through. That's exactly right. Well, I want to thank you, Elizabeth again, for being here and again, tell people how they can reach out to you.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 59:54 Oh, great. Thank you so much, Michael, you can reach me at my website, which is Elizabeth with. Dash, and then Kip, k, i, p, p, like Peter pan.com you can put the dash in between my first and last name, Elizabeth dash, kip.com all my social media, lots of free resources, and you can book a session. All that stuff is available right up on the website. You can book a free introductory, 15 minute call with me, just to kind of see if we're a good fit. And thank you very much.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:26 Well, cool. Well, and I want to thank you all for listening. I hope that you found this informative and helpful. We all face stress, and there's nothing wrong with asking people for guidance and dealing with stress. It is important to do that, and Elizabeth might very well be a person who could help so I hope that you'll reach out to her. I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to hear your thoughts about today, what you think of this podcast and your your opinions. You're welcome to email me. Michael, H, I m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, or go to our podcast page, www, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, so it's m, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, S o, n.com/podcast, wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. I would really value it. I know we all appreciate it. It's what helps keep us going. So I'm asking for your help to give us a five star rating. And if you know anyone else who ought to be a guest and Elizabeth you as well, please don't hesitate to introduce and we will definitely talk with anyone. I believe everyone has stories to tell and we want to hear them, so please always feel free to introduce us, all of you out there listening, if you need a speaker to come and talk about motivation and inspirational kinds of things, or any of the things that we've discussed today, please feel free to reach out to me. You can do that with the email address I gave you or emailing me at speaker at Michael hingson com. Love to hear from you, and always look forward to finding opportunities to speak and motivate and inspire. I've been doing that ever since September 11, 2001 and as I love to tell people, selling life and philosophy is a whole lot more fun than selling computer hardware. So thanks very much. And Elizabeth, one last time, I want to thank you for being here again today.   Elizabeth Kipp ** 1:02:27 Thank you so much, Michael.   **Michael Hingson ** 1:02:34 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. 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GDP Script/ Top Stories for August 14th Publish Date:  August 14th   From the BG AD Group Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Wednesday, August 14th and Happy 64th Birthday to NBA HOF Magic Johnson. ***08.14.24 – BIRTHDAY – MAGIC JOHNSON*** I'm Keith Ippolito and here are your top stories presented by KIA Mall of Georgia. Gwinnett murder suspect arrested in Alabama More than 51,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Alcovy River on Monday Duluth has a new four-legged cop Plus, Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on peaches. All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: KIA MOG   STORY 1:  Gwinnett murder suspect arrested in Alabama A Lawrenceville man, Mario Rene Lopez-Jolon, 38, was arrested in Alabama on murder charges related to the death of Guadalupe Garcia Rodriguez, 40. Rodriguez's body was found in a truck near Alford Elementary School on July 3. Investigators traced Lopez-Jolon to Huntsville, Alabama, where he was arrested and is awaiting extradition. The case may involve a dispute over land in Mexico. Lopez-Jolon faces charges including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and firearm possession. Rodriguez's wife had reported him missing on July 1. STORY 2:   More than 51,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Alcovy River On Monday On Monday, about 51,675 gallons of raw sewage leaked into the Alcovy River from a broken Gwinnett County pipe, spilling for around six hours. The Department of Water Resources stopped the leak by 12:45 p.m. after discovering a cracked pipe. To address the impact, crews cleaned the area, spread lime, and posted warning signs. Residents noticed the river's milky appearance and struggling aquatic life. The spill occurred about 500 feet south of Cedars Road, and a legal notice will be published to inform residents further, as required by the Georgia EPD. STORY 3:    Duluth has a new four-legged cop The Duluth Police Department has introduced a new K-9 officer, Maverick, a Hanoverian/Plott hound trained in locating missing persons and criminals. Maverick will be paired with Officer John Bustamante, who has completed specialized training to work with him. The addition of Maverick is expected to improve the department's effectiveness in urgent situations and investigations. The team is excited to enhance their service to the city of Duluth. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back Break 2: MONSTER JAM   STORY 4:   Gateway85 CID installs sidewalk in front of Meadowcreek High School to improve safety A new sidewalk has been completed in front of Meadowcreek High School, thanks to funding from the Gateway85 Community Improvement District. This 650-foot, $35,000 sidewalk fills a critical gap on Steve Reynolds Boulevard, improving safety for the 10-20% of students who walk to school and local residents. The project, completed by Curb Tech, began in July and was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Principal Kevin Wood and Gateway85 Executive Director Emory Morsberger praised the partnership, noting the sidewalk not only enhances safety but also beautifies the area. STORY 5:   Fentanyl-related overdoses lead to murder charges David Shane Lancaster, 45, from Lawrenceville, faces two felony murder charges for allegedly causing the overdose deaths of two men by selling them fentanyl. The overdoses occurred in May 2023 and January 2024. Lancaster was arrested in Atlanta on August 5, 2024, after being tracked by deputies. Along with the murder charges, he faces a drug sale charge related to the 2023 death. During his arrest, authorities found him with methamphetamine, a handgun, and an electronic scale. Lancaster is currently held in Gwinnett County Jail. We'll be back in a moment   Break 3: TOM WAGES (OBITS) – INGLES  9   And now here is Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on peaches.   ***LEAH MCGRATH INERVIEW***   We'll have final thoughts after this.   Break 4: GWINNETT COUNTY FAIR Signoff – Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. 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On Episode 40 of the TID Water & Power Podcast we're joined by TID Director of Water Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Michael Cooke, to discuss a big SGMA update.Following the third year of a historic drought, the state passed a series of bills that we refer to as SGMA and would become the framework for how groundwater would be managed throughout California. Since then, TID and its partners in the Turlock Subbasin have been developing (and revising) its plan to sustainably manage groundwater in our region.On this episode we discuss the recent milestone we've reached with regard to SGMA, what has changed in the plan over the last two years, and what the next phase of SGMA looks like for TID and our growers.We had an extended conversation about SGMA on Episode 10 of the podcast in February 2022.Let's get social! Facebook: @TurlockIDInstagram: @TurlockIDTwitter: @TurlockIDLinkedIn: /company/turlockid Find out more about TID at https://www.TID.org/podcast.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Garth Hamilton is the Federal member for the Electorate of Groom.   Garth earned a scholarship to Ipswich Grammar School before following his passion for building things, studying engineering at the University of Queensland. Starting out in the Australian mining industry with BHP, Alcan and Parsons Brinckerhoff, he has since worked on significant projects across the world. Garth was responsible for delivering major water infrastructure, rail and sporting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Tube stations, an airport terminal in London, and mining projects in Western Australia. His wife Louise brought Garth back to her hometown of Toowoomba. Garth is a committed volunteer, an active Rural Fire Brigade member, and a South Toowoomba Junior Rugby Club coach. He is as passionate about teaching kids sportsmanship as he is about teaching them skills. GUEST OVERVIEW: The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP is the Member for New England in the Parliament of Australia. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, and former Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Agriculture and Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia, and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. He was Leader of the National Party and is currently Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs.

Season 7 || Episode 29 Let's take a trip to learn about the beef industry around the world! Join rancher and podcaster Shaye Wanner as she invites Andrew Uden, a seasoned industry professional, to share his multifaceted experiences spanning continents and cultures. From Scotland to Brazil and A LOT of other countries in between, Andrew's captivating experiences offer a new perspective to how we operate as cattlemen and women in the United States. Andrew shares what he learned about overcoming labor shortages, genetics, natural resources, government regulations and more during our conversation.  Key Moments: 00:00:00 Exploring Global Perspectives in Beef Production 00:02:18 Andrew Uden's Background and Current Work 00:03:20 Diverse Involvement in Beef Industry 00:03:52 Exploring International Agriculture 00:10:01 Diverse Global Experiences 00:19:24 Appreciating the US Beef Industry 00:19:43 The Abundance of Water Resources and Organizational Structure in North America 00:23:34 Independence of Cattle Producers in Different Countries 00:29:08 Efficiency in Cattle Production: USA vs. Australia 00:29:52 Efficiency and Infrastructure in Australian Agriculture 00:35:18 Bringing Non-Ag Employees into Agriculture 00:36:08 Regulation and Trade Wars in Agriculture 00:37:43 Challenges in Beef Production and Processing 00:37:58 Challenges in Cattle Management and Regulations 00:44:16 Importance of Private Property and Water Rights 00:46:10 Stewardship of Natural Resources Connect with Andrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-uden-15182b9b/ Green Cover Seed: https://greencover.com/ Podcast Coaching: https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/podcast-coaching RancherMinds: https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/ranchermind-events Follow us on Social Media @cattleconvos 

GDP Script/ Top Stories for July 10th        Publish Date:  July 10th           From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Wednesday, July 10th and Happy heavenly Birthday to tennis player Arthur Ashe. ***07.10.24 –BIRTHDAY – ARTHUR ASHE***   I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by KIA Mall of Georgia. Gwinnett preparing to open Eastern Regional Greenway Trail Brookwood student who battled childhood cancer now running strong A Duluth Man Drowned In South Carolina Last Week Plus, my conversation with Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on cooking fish. All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: MOG   STORY 1: Gwinnett preparing to open Eastern Regional Greenway Trail Residents of eastern Gwinnett County are anticipating the opening of the Eastern Regional Greenway Trail, part of a larger infrastructure project. Scheduled for a July 22 ceremony, the initial 5.25-mile segment will stretch from the Harbins Road trailhead under State Route 316. The remainder of the trail, still under construction, will open later this summer. Designed to enhance the Rowen "knowledge community" development, the trail will feature boardwalks, bridges, and a paved path, with amenities like a pavilion, play area, and parking. Costing $19 million, the project is a collaboration between Gwinnett County's Community Services and Water Resources departments, funded by special purpose local option sales tax revenue. STORY 2: Brookwood student who battles childhood cancer now running strong Jackson Fenchak, a rising junior at Brookwood High School, achieved a significant milestone by winning his age group at the Lauren's Run 5K, completing the race in 23 minutes and 45 seconds. This victory holds special meaning as Jackson battled Stage IV neuroblastoma as an infant and later overcame congenital vertical talus. Supported by CURE Childhood Cancer throughout his journey, Jackson's family now gives back by raising funds and participating in events. Despite challenges, including multiple surgeries, Jackson excels in cross country, track, and wrestling. He approaches each day with gratitude, seeing every opportunity to compete as a gift. STORY 3: A Duluth Man Drowned in South Carolina Last Week Last week, 61-year-old Duluth resident Kemal Alic tragically drowned in the Atlantic Ocean near Myrtle Beach, according to reports from South Carolina. The Horry County Coroner's Office determined Alic's death was due to drowning, with asphyxiation cited just before 1 p.m. on July 3. Alic, a Bosnian war veteran who had resettled in the U.S., leaves behind a wife and three children. A GoFundMe campaign started by his friend, Hardit Singh, aims to support Alic's family during this difficult time, highlighting Alic's dedication as a hard worker and his pursuit of opportunities in America. The campaign has raised $1,721 of its $10,000 goal as of Tuesday afternoon.   We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back Break 2: TOM WAGES STORY 4: Snellville tag office closing temporarily for repairs The Snellville Tag Office in Gwinnett County will close temporarily from July 24 to July 29 due to repairs from a water main break. Tax Commissioner Denise Mitchell announced residents can use other tag offices in Lawrenceville, North Gwinnett, Norcross, and Peachtree Corners during this period. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. Tag renewal services are also available at 12 kiosks throughout the county, including one at Publix in Snellville, with fees applicable and card payments accepted. For assistance, residents can contact the Tax Commissioner's Office DMV Customer Service Line or email tag@gwinnettcounty.com. STORY 5: With Animal Welfare Center Reaching Capacity, Gwinnett Offering Free Adoptions   Gwinnett County's Bill Atkinson Animal Welfare Center faces critical capacity, prompting a special adoption initiative called "12 Strays of Christmas in July." Until July 20, the county is offering free adoptions along with holiday pet care packages while supplies last. The packages include vaccinations, microchips, and spaying/neutering services. Katrina Amaro, Director of Animal Welfare and Enforcement, emphasized the need to find homes for larger dogs, who are typically harder to place. Temporary fostering options are also available, providing food, vet care, and supplies at no cost. For more details on adoption and fostering, visit GwinnettAnimalWelfare.com or follow @GwinnettAnimalShelter on Facebook. The center is located at 884 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville. We'll be back in a moment   Break 3:  INGLES  4   And now here is my conversation with Leah McGrath on cooking fish.   ***LEAH MCGRATH INERVIEW***   We'll have final thoughts after this.   Break 4: INGLES 5 Signoff – Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. Read more about all our stories and get other great content at gwinnettdailypost.com Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. 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