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In deze aflevering hebben we het over: product owners, timemanagement, PARA, Getting Things Done, GRIP, productiviteit, team productivity Ontdek effectief timemanagement in onze nieuwste podcastaflevering, waar we de uitdagingen van product owners bespreken. Gast Linus Wiggers, een ervaren product owner en trainer, deelt zijn inzichten en praktische oplossingen voor het verbeteren van de productiviteit van zowel individuen als teams. Luister naar deze aflevering om meer te leren over bewezen methodieken zoals Getting Things Done, PARA, en GRIP, en hoe je deze kunt implementeren om jouw eigen productiviteit en die van je team te verhogen. Over deze podcast: In de Product Owner podcast spreken we elke week met een interessante gast uit de wereld van product management en gaan we in op echte ervaringen, lessen en tactieken van product owners, ondernemers en specialisten. De Product Owner podcast is een initiatief van productowner.nl
Neste ano, a Condor celebrou 95 anos de história, destacando-se em diversas categorias de bens de consumo. A empresa pratica ESG há décadas, reciclando materiais e utilizando energia limpa. A Condor também apoia iniciativas sociais, como a parceria com a Abrinq e o Instituto Guga Kuerten. Na governança, mantém auditorias externas e internas para garantir transparência. Essa trajetória mostra como integrar sustentabilidade e responsabilidade social pode fortalecer uma empresa.Participantes:Alexandre Wiggers, CEO, Condor.Apresentação:Cassio Politi, Apresentador, Tracto.Ceres Mussnich, Business Development Manager, Mazars.
Ashley and Sam discuss the mission of "Homeschooling Today" and how they support parents in setting aside comparisons, taking control of their children's education, choosing courage over fear, letting God lead, and homeschooling boldly. They talk about Ashley's personal experience as a homeschool graduate, a relatively new homeschooling mom, managing the fears induced in our culture, and dealing with unusual or unconventional learners. See https://homeschoolingtoday.com/ Use code "RUMBLE" to get $20 off The Playbook for Home Learning at https://www.sorbostudios.com/product-page/playbook-for-home-learning Incorporating physics, chemistry, geography, geology, astronomy, and oceanography into a vivid entertaining complete course that kids love. Use code "SAM" to get 15% at https://www.iqweather.com/pricing/ Unlock Math gives your child additional support, subtracts the burden, and multiplies the fun and understanding by dividing the online lessons into bite-sized learning! Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off any full price subscription at https://www.unlockmath.com Filter out inappropriate content on your kid's smartphone, schedule breaks from screen-time, and know if your kid has left home or school. Canopy gives families everything they need to thrive in the digital world. Use code "SAM20" to get 20% LIFETIME discount at https://www.canopy.us Teach your children the nature of light while passing down the Christian faith with Lightlab. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://www.lightlabetc.com Are you raising generous and grateful kids? Don't let the world tell your children who to be. The Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum supports purposeful living and joyful giving, values-based education, engaging and effective learning, and family bonding. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://generousfamily.com Faith-based children's books that bring families together. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://shorturl.at/dfmQV Breast and bottle feed. Cuddle and carry. Pick up and put down. And now, go hands-free when you want. Tushbaby is the only carrier that supprots your child's changing needs from 0-3 years old. Use code "SAMSORBO" to get 15% off at https://tushbaby.com/?rstr=26635 Get well and stay well with solutions designed by top doctors. Get back to that pre-COVID feeling, grab your medical emergency kits, kick allergies to the curb, get heart-healthy, and check out year-round wellness for resilient kids at The Wellness Company. Use code "SORBO" to get 10% off at www.twc.health/sorbo Don't miss out!Sign up for my newsletter at https://www.sorbostudios.com and follow me on...Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sam_sorbo/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/samsorboX https://twitter.com/thesamsorbo?lang=enMerch https://www.sorbostudios.com Show less
Ashley and Sam discuss the mission of "Homeschooling Today" and how they support parents in setting aside comparisons, taking control of their children's education, choosing courage over fear, letting God lead, and homeschooling boldly. They talk about Ashley's personal experience as a homeschool graduate, a relatively new homeschooling mom, managing the fears induced in our culture, and dealing with unusual or unconventional learners. See https://homeschoolingtoday.com/ Use code "RUMBLE" to get $20 off The Playbook for Home Learning at https://www.sorbostudios.com/product-page/playbook-for-home-learning Incorporating physics, chemistry, geography, geology, astronomy, and oceanography into a vivid entertaining complete course that kids love. Use code "SAM" to get 15% at https://www.iqweather.com/pricing/ Unlock Math gives your child additional support, subtracts the burden, and multiplies the fun and understanding by dividing the online lessons into bite-sized learning! Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off any full price subscription at https://www.unlockmath.com Filter out inappropriate content on your kid's smartphone, schedule breaks from screen-time, and know if your kid has left home or school. Canopy gives families everything they need to thrive in the digital world. Use code "SAM20" to get 20% LIFETIME discount at https://www.canopy.us Teach your children the nature of light while passing down the Christian faith with Lightlab. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://www.lightlabetc.com Are you raising generous and grateful kids? Don't let the world tell your children who to be. The Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum supports purposeful living and joyful giving, values-based education, engaging and effective learning, and family bonding. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://generousfamily.com Faith-based children's books that bring families together. Use code "SAM10" to get 10% off at https://shorturl.at/dfmQV Breast and bottle feed. Cuddle and carry. Pick up and put down. And now, go hands-free when you want. Tushbaby is the only carrier that supprots your child's changing needs from 0-3 years old. Use code "SAMSORBO" to get 15% off at https://tushbaby.com/?rstr=26635 Get well and stay well with solutions designed by top doctors. Get back to that pre-COVID feeling, grab your medical emergency kits, kick allergies to the curb, get heart-healthy, and check out year-round wellness for resilient kids at The Wellness Company. Use code "SORBO" to get 10% off at www.twc.health/sorbo Don't miss out!Sign up for my newsletter at https://www.sorbostudios.com and follow me on...Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sam_sorbo/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/samsorboX https://twitter.com/thesamsorbo?lang=enMerch https://www.sorbostudios.com Show less
Ashley Wiggers grew up in the early days of the homeschooling movement. She was taught by her late mother, Debbie Strayer, who was an educator, speaker, and the author of numerous homeschooling materials. It was through Debbie's encouragement and love that Ashley learned the value of being homeschooled. Currently, Ashley is the co-executive editor of Homeschooling Today magazine and the author of the Profiles from History series. Ashley and her hubby live in Lutz, FL, along with Ashley's dad, "Grampy", and their three rambunctious kiddos. Together, Alex and Ashley run the family business and homeschool their kids. Each day is an adventure! Magazine Home Page: https://homeschoolingtoday.com/ Thank you for listening to the A+ Parents podcast. If you love the show, don't forget to subscribe, share and leave us a review. Also, follow us online at www.aplusparents.com www.mrdmath.com or on our social channels @MrDMathlive @aplusparentspodcast Also, host Dennis DiNoia has a new book out NOW called “Teach: Becoming Independently Responsible Learners. Order your copy: https://aplusparents.com/teach OR on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X2B3MG8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_i_DDH16A3BD5X79CSFSQXB To learn more about Mr.D Math Live Homeschool classes, visit: https://mrdmath.edu20.org/visitor_class_catalog?affiliate=10252228
In deze aflevering heb ik Linus Wiggers en Tony van Driel te gast, Linus schreef mee aan het product owner boek en Tony was dé product owner van het boek. Medio 2023 kwam ‘Het product owner boek' uit en ik wil wel begrijpen hoe dat proces was en wat ze zelf leerde van het schrijven van dit boek. In deze aflevering duiken we daarom in het proces van het ontwikkelen van dit boek, wat de schrijvers er van leerde en hoe jij er het meeste uit kan halen. Over deze podcast: In de Product Owner podcast spreken we elke week met een interessante gast uit de wereld van product management en gaan we in op echte ervaringen, lessen en tactieken van product owners, ondernemers en specialisten. De Product Owner podcast is een initiatief van productowner.nl.
In this episode I catch up with movement specialist and somatic therapist Sarah Mackay-Wiggers. In this episode we talk aboutWhy we rejecting our highest values.The impact of holding on and being able to let go.Become aware of unconscious clutchingThe importance of trying new things.Working on the relationship with your body.Learning to trust your body.To reach out to Sarah go to @i_am_sarahadele www.sarahadele.com.auSacred UNION INTERACTIVE COURSE & COMMUNITYhttps://my.marvelouspages.com/sarahadele/sacred-union-interactive-course-and-community-1COMPLIMENTARY CONNECTION ZOOM https://www.sarahadele.shop/product/52064If you likey, please rate and review this podcast.For more resources such as coaching, retreats or challenges to gowww.iquitalcohol.com.auFollow HIQA insta @howiquitalcohol Music for Monday Distillery ads by Ash Grunwaldwww.ashgrunwald.comMusic for Podcast intro and outro written by Danni Carr performed by Mr CassidyIf you are struggling with physical dependancy on alcohol consider contacting a local AA meeting or a drug and alcohol therapist. Always consult a GP before stopping alcohol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
TAKEAWAYSPublic school is not the only way kids can socialize with others - many options exist for homeschooled kids to spend time with their peersColleges seek out homeschool graduates because homeschoolers have a reputation for being exceptionally intelligent and responsibleGetting fathers involved in the homeschooling process is rather simple and an epic win for dads and kids alike If you feel inadequate in your homeschooling walk, you are not alone - God will give you the strength, direction, and wisdom you need
Ashley Wiggers believes that parents have the power to wield their influence positively over their children to help shape their little ones' destinies. Ashley and her husband Alex are the publishers of Homeschooling Today, a unique magazine bringing homeschooling resources and creative ideas straight to your mailbox. Ashley shares insight into the day-to-day homeschooling grind and makes an excellent case for why homeschooling is always the better option when compared to public school education. Everyone has a unique way of learning, and homeschooling allows children to explore their gifts, cultivate their most precious relationships, and experience the world through firsthand experience. TAKEAWAYS Public school is not the only way kids can socialize with others - many options exist for homeschooled kids to spend time with their peers Colleges seek out homeschool graduates because homeschoolers have a reputation for being exceptionally intelligent and responsible Getting fathers involved in the homeschooling process is rather simple and an epic win for dads and kids alike If you feel inadequate in your homeschooling walk, you are not alone - God will give you the strength, direction, and wisdom you need
This week in THE CHAIR we have Naomi Tillery-Wiggers. Naomi is going to share some very personal stories from her past and how those affected her and helped shape her into the woman she is today.IG
Welcome to The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! It is Ben's wedding anniversary on the day we normally record, so we decided to replay an awesome episode from a couple of years ago. We were joined by Ashley Wiggers from Homeschooling Today magazine, to talk about fostering a love of homeschooling in your children and multigenerational homeschooling. It was a great episode and we hope you enjoy it! We also want to thank Teaching Textbooks for supporting the Smiling Homeschooler for all of these years. We would encourage you to let them know that you appreciate them supporting us, and you should check out their math curriculum for next school year, over at teachingtextbooks.com Lastly thank you to Homeschooling Today Magazine, for their support. We were big fans of their magazine long before they were a sponsor and Todd has written for them for many many years. If you would like to have more regular homeschooling encouragement, then subscribe to their magazine over at homeschoolingtoday.com Have a great week and don't forget to smile!
Michiel Wiggers is CTO bij iwell en maakt daar accu's voor zowel voor als achter de meter. We gaan er meer en meer aan moeten wennen dat door de energietransitie niet altijd even veel stroom beschikbaar is als dat er vraag is. Andersom wordt er steeds vaker meer energie opgewekt dan nodig. Om vraag en aanbod permanent in balans te houden zijn daarom buffers nodig. Zowel bij jou thuis of in de wijk als in het stroomnet.In deze aflevering hoor je waarom jij de komende jaren waarschijnlijk geen thuis-accu nodig hebt en hoe mega-accu's de wereld gaan redden. Of althans: een beetje beter maken.Tijdschema00:00:00 Reclame: ICT Group00:00:33 Intro00:01:08 Voorstellen: Michiel Wiggers00:01:40 De Mega Cube batterij van 14 MWh00:03:34 Heb jij een thuis-accu nodig?00:09:31 Hoe stel je een thuis-accu goed af?00:14:04 Accu's op wijk- en gemeente-niveau00:20:48 Hoe centraler hoe efficienter?00:27:48 Mega Cube accu's bij energiecentrales00:43:09 Energiebuffers tijdens de seizoenen00:54:58 De ontwikkeling van batterij-technologie01:00:33 AfkondigingZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The outside world has become a big television show to Matt and Greg. They narrate another episode of Cheaters and listen to cringey voice prompts on Hinge. Matt does his finest karaoke versions of Whitney Houston and 90's one-hit wonder Lit. Have you ever given a digital rose to a computer bitch? Find out how in this week's episode!
the 65th episode of Perceived Value host Sarah Rachel Brown connects remotely with Namita Gupta Wiggers. Namita is a writer, educator, and curator based in Portland, OR that Sarah met in Chicago during a conference in 2019. Since that time, Sarah has followed Namita's work with the Critical Craft Forum and the MA in Critical Craft Studies program at Warren Wilson College. Having learned that the Critical Craft Studies program would be closing, Sarah reached to ask if Namita would share what her role was as Director of the program and what this closure means for both her and the students. The conversation gives insight as how the program was created, the intention behind the curriculum, the importance of understanding budgets, and how the college is navigating the logistics of the closure. This insightful conversation has been produced in two parts.The extended audio from this conversation is available through the Perceived Value Patreon.ABOUT OUR GUEST:Namita Gupta Wiggers is a writer, educator, and curator based in Portland, OR. Wiggers serves as the founding director of the MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College, the first and only low-residency program focused on craft histories and theory. She co-founded Critical Craft Forum, an online and onsite platform for dialogue and exchange including projects such as annual College Art Association Conference sessions from 2009-2019. Wiggers served as curator and then chief curator and director of Museum of Contemporary Craft/PNCA from 2004–14. Prior experiences as a museum educator, design researcher, studio jeweler, and life as an American of South Asian heritage also shape her research and writing on craft and culture.namitawiggers.com@namitapdx@criticalcraftforum@macraftstudieswwcMentioned in the podcast:Master of Arts in Critical Craft StudiesCraft Think TankMichael Hatch of Crucible GlassworksBecome a Perceived Value Patron on Patreon. Help Sarah reach her goal of 100 patrons by subscribing with a $1 monthly donation. CLICK HERE to become a Patron. Don't forget to Rate AND Review us on iTunes!Instagram + Facebook: @perceivedvalueFind your Host:sarahrachelbrown.comInstagram: @sarahrachelbrownThe music you hear on Perceived Value is by the Seattle group Song Sparrow Research.All You Need to Know off of their album Sympathetic Buzz.Find them on Spotify!
Kylie, Dennis, Bruce, and R.L., talk with Farm Bureau Assistant Commodity and National Affairs Coordinator, Andy Brown and Karl Wiggers, producer of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture (TWILA) to tell the story of what is happening to farmers across the state and give update as to what they are doing to help tell that story.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://feedssoundcloudcomuserssoundcloudusers.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/flock-freight-an-ai-driven-marketplace-helping-shippers-and-smbs-find-freight-truckers-raises-113-5m-series-c-led-by-softbank-after-a-50m-series-b-in-feb-kyle-wiggers-venturebeat/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://feedssoundcloudcomuserssoundcloudusers.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/aurora-solar-which-combines-lidar-sensors-computer-vision-and-computer-assisted-design-to-streamline-solar-panel-installations-raises-50m-series-b-kyle-wiggers-venturebeat/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://feedssoundcloudcomuserssoundcloudusers.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/flock-freight-an-ai-driven-marketplace-helping-shippers-and-smbs-find-freight-truckers-raises-113-5m-series-c-led-by-softbank-after-a-50m-series-b-in-feb-kyle-wiggers-venturebeat/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://feedssoundcloudcomuserssoundcloudusers.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/aurora-solar-which-combines-lidar-sensors-computer-vision-and-computer-assisted-design-to-streamline-solar-panel-installations-raises-50m-series-b-kyle-wiggers-venturebeat/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message
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Edwin Wiggers is misschien wel de meest hoopgevende stutterbuddy van Nijmegen. In deze 46e aflevering van 024/7 praat Joris van Meel met Edwin over hoe hij als kleine kleuter in de kramp schoot als de juffrouw hem de beurt zou geven, over hoe hij uit de put kroop en als jonge adolescent zijn angsten overwon en hoe hij nu andere stotteraars helpt dezelfde stap te zetten.
Die besten Tipps aus Business & Karriere von Carlo Wiggers, Leiter Team Management, Business Relations und E-Sports bei Porsche Motorsport.
This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
Today we're joined by Auke Wiggers, an AI research scientist at Qualcomm. In our conversation with Auke, we discuss his team's recent research on data compression using generative models. We discuss the relationship between historical compression research and the current trend of neural compression, and the benefit of neural codecs, which learn to compress data from examples. We also explore the performance evaluation process and the recent developments that show that these models can operate in real-time on a mobile device. Finally, we discuss another ICLR paper, “Transformer-based transform coding”, that proposes a vision transformer-based architecture for image and video coding, and some of his team's other accepted works at the conference. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/570
If your homeschool feels a little hurried or perhaps even stressful, you'll love the perspective of Ashley Wiggers! Ashley and her husband Alex pour their second-generation homeschooling wisdom and experience into their magazine, Homeschooling Today. They are blessed to have columnists who join them in sharing creative ways to enjoy the freedom and joy that homeschooling can provide.
Welcome to the Smiling Homeschooler podcast! This week we have a returning guest, Ashley Wiggers, with homeschooling Today Magazine. Our topic this week is how to get our kids to love homeschooling and multi-generational homeschooling. What she has to share is going to be encouraging and we hope you enjoy this week's episode! Before we start I want to thank Teaching Textbooks for all of their support of the Smiling Homeschooler. They are one of the best math curriculums around, and we believe they help more homeschoolers smile. So go check them out at teachingtextbooks.com. Have a great week and keep smiling!
These days our country and our church is fractured because of hubris, and an unwillingness to humbly seek understanding. Instead we're inclined to "cancel" anything we disagree with in order to maintain our own view of reality. Add to the mix a man's ego and you have a potentially volatile situation.Steve Wiggers, a missionary in Nairobi, Kenya who trains pastors, has a perspective that men in the American church need to hear. Steve shares about the unique challenges of working and raising a family in a foreign country. We learn about how God shook Steve of his pride through his African students, and how his students educated him as much as he thought he would teach them.SHOW NOTES:Email Steve: steve.wiggers@sim.orgMoffat Bible College: moffatbiblecollege.org (https://moffatbiblecollege.org/)SIM USA: https://www.simusa.org/CLC Website: https://www.clchq.org/Contact Mike Hatch: mhatch@clchq.orgContact Chris Bolinger: https://chrisbolinger.com/author/Men's Devotional: "Daily Strength for Men" (https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Strength-Men-365-Day-Devotional-ebook/dp/B07N9P7DRD)
Doug and Anthony talk about stuff. Dear Flabby podcast feed - https://open.spotify.com/show/5tsoFqEunoBkGTcdFDlajJ?si=eGUFoowhROeymFhfzk-2eA&utm_source=copy-link Doug triggers another crowd Wayfarer Conspiracy Climate isn't changing Wiggers matter too If you want to support the show and get weekly bonus episodes - head over to https://www.patreon.com/WhosRight. We also have all of our bonus episodes (200+) over at https://whosright.supercast.tech/ Watch the show live on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/WhosRightPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 You can find our merch, our PO box, links to submit Dear Flabby questions, and everything else over at https://whosrightpodcast.com/
#MogPark #AnhVu #InterviewsI'm a fan of both these wonderfully talented ladies, and I was honored that they showed up to draw on my show. We just hang out and draw stuff, talking about comics, professionalism, and just waxing about creative stuff, which is what creatives do. Also, we talk about Free. (See sponsors for contacting Anh). I'm a real fan of both individuals and it was a thrill to draw with them.Anh Vu and Mog ParkIn Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.SponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Pre-Order:Alice Won? - Pre-order now. Available Dec. 1st. Alice escaped the asylum and pursues the Queen of Hearts to the Greek Labyrinth in the underworld, there she must engage in a game of croquet unlike any other, against Jason of the Argonauts. Illustrated by Kenzie Carr, written by yours truly, come to wonderland Dec. 1st, where the real games begin.My Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#LukeHaueter #Interviews #comedy #booktubeIn Part 2, we go deeper into the lines of comedy. We talk about the integrity of jokes, being liked versus being heard, and we talk about expectations. This is a fascinating talk about figuring out who you are and more importantly how you want to be, and being true to yourself in the ideas you want to express. Luke Haueter:Facebook PageInstagramTwitterYoutubeFinal Boy StatusFinal Boy YoutubeSponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.My Stuff:Pre-Order:Alice Won? - Pre-order now. Available Dec. 1st.Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#LukeHaueter #Interviews #comedy #booktubeLuke Haueter is a podcaster, comedian and horror enthusiast. We talk about his podcast, before venturing off into prep work, improv, podcasting, Twitch and we start talking about the heart of comedy to conclude this part. Luke is an amazingly gifted dude, and I enjoyed parlaying with him in Part 1Luke Haueter:Facebook PageInstagramTwitterYoutubeFinal Boy StatusFinal Boy YoutubeSponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.My Stuff:Pre-Order:Alice Won? - Pre-order now. Available Dec. 1st.Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#Misfitzclubhouse #Interviews #indiecomics #booktubeSteph and Matt are back and we start by talking about the important stuff...like 80s music and mosh pits. We do eventually talk about their current kickstarter, Misfitz Clubhouse, and talk about the kind of stories they want to tell for kids, how it differs from what they are known for, and all in all, Steph and Matt are two of the most amazing creators out there, and a hell of a team, and family. Check out their kickstarter while it's still going. Also, I make my next book official. Note: This episode was originally scheduled to be episode 670. Hence the intro. Steph Cannon and Matt KnowlesKickstarter - Check out Steph's and Matt's incredibly fun Misfitz Clubhouse. Perfect for the kid and kid at heart, the comic's feature story involves trying to escape a pinball machine. Other stories include flipping out over asparagus, and more adventures featuring the misfitz. Check out the kickstarter now, while you still can. WebsiteSponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.My Stuff:Books:Alice Won? - Pre-order now. Available Dec. 1st.Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchNewsletterPatreonTwitch
#DavidWhalen #Interviews #BooktubeDavid Whalen is back, and we get hot and heavy. We talk about Jonathan Kent in comics, both in aging him too quickly, and coming out. We go through the back and forth on it, and then we get serious. We talk vaccines, credibility, politics, and most importantly, it's a discussion. Two people who have different viewpoints are more than capable of talking about things, and listening, and this conversation is all about that. Listen to this conversation and check out the Offspring.SponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.David Whalen:Correct Handed ComicsMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchNewsletterPatreonTwitch
#interviews #booklaunch #booktubeKarina Kantas is back. We talk her latest book launch. We talk her competing in the world karaoke championships, how it happened. And we talk about building an audience. We also talk soap operas, and her decision not to do this book on Amazon. We talk about that, and more. Come listen to Karina and check out her latest book Broken Chains.SponsorsJenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.Karina KantasBroken ChainsAuthor AssistFacebookFacebook Author PageAuthors Assist FacebookGoodreadsInstagramTwitterUrban HypeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchNewsletterPatreonTwitch
#snowpaw #interviews #lonewolfcomics #booktubeRob Multari and Mog Park are back and they spend time talking to me about their collaboration on Snowpaw, one of my favorite characters in comics whoe is getting her own kickstarter. Mog and Rob talk about their process, the comic process, Snowpaw's backstory, world building and so much more. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.In Honor of Free Isabelo - Free Isabelo was a member of the Hawaiian comics community, who has passed on. In honor of this, Mog Park and Anh Vu have commissioned a special print to honor him, with proceeds to go to his family. For more information, contact Anh on the link provided.Rob Multari and Mog Park:Snowpaw KickstarterLone Wolf ComicsMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#CMichaelLanning #illustrators #interviews #justjoshingpodcastIn the conclusion to my conversion with C Michael Lanning, we gradually get more serious. We talk about self worth. We talk about when things do go awry, and we talk about standing up for ourselves. Most of the time artists take for granted just how much talent and heart they have, and I hope after talking to me, C realizes just how special he is. I really loved chatting with C. Michael Lanning. I hope you enjoy listening to it.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.C. Michael LanningLinktreeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#CMichaelLanning #interviews #illustrations #comics #booktubeIn part one of my conversation with C. Michael Lanning, we just meet and hang out. We talk television shows, comparing the various eras of the situation. More importantly we talk about shows we both found terrible, and why. On top of that, we talk about people who stand out, including his wife.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.C. Michael LanningLinktreeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#willowskylor #podcasters #interviews #booktubeWillow Skylor joins the podcast. In this episode we talk about her podcasting, and her desire to be a broadcaster. We have a heart to heart about recognition, what we're really after, and maybe just what is possible going forward. Plus, we talk some Winnipeg Comic con stories. All in all this was a fun discussion. Enjoyed meeting Willow. You will too.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Willow SkylorFacebook PageYoutubeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#interviews #illustrations #writingcommunity #booktubeIn the conclusion to my drink and draw with Rae Hope Pantalleresco, we talk about regret, learning from experiences, taking chances, and draw stuff. I manage to draw skulls. I always enjoy my chats with my sister, and I'm proud of her and who she's become. Listen to this and find out why.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Rae Hope Pantalleresco:Photography InstagramArt InstagramMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#interviews #illustrations #writingcommunity #booktubeMy sister joins the podcast to draw on my show. In Part 1, we just talk and goof off. Note: My sister is hilarious. We talk about dating, ego, and just have a silly good time in this opening part. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Rae Hope Pantalleresco:Photography InstagramArt InstagramMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#KakiOlsen #Interviews #WritingCommunity #BooktubeKaki Olsen joins the show. We talk the Boston Red Sox, and her passion for it. Her boston accent comes out, and the rest, we just talk about...everything. We talk about her books, science fiction, the last jedi, her works, fears, community and tonnes more. I enjoyed this conversation, and think you will too. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Kaki Olsen:Amazon PageMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#BetsyRoss #interviews #BooktubeBetsy Ross is back. This was a psychology episode, in which we talk about doubts and dispelling them. Perhaps the biggest and strangest lie we tell ourselves is that we're alone. We're not. We talk about that, Betsy's beliefs, her resiliency and much more. Betsy is a tough, amazing woman and this chat was fun to do. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Betsy RossWebpageAmazon PageFight 3 BookMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#ChristianTiege #Interviews #SuperheroUnleashed #BooktubeChristian Tiege joins the podcast. In this episode, Christian and I talk about our inner superheroes. Christian believes in the power of creativity and discovering your inner hero. We talk about that, his masterclasses, his facebook book, and just have a cool conversation in this milestone episode of Just Joshing. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Christian TeigeSuperheroes UnleashedSuperheroes Unleashed White Belt Masterclass - Launches Nov. 2nd - If you need help freeing yourself from trauma, unlock your power and unleash your inner hero, this dojo is for you. My Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#LeeFPatrick #Interviews #WritingCommunity #BooktubeIn Part 2 of our conversation, Lee F. Patrick and I shift to marketing and sales. We talk self belief, personas, making connections and the nature of marketing, and why in today's age, writers cannot be just introverts anymore. Plus, I may or may not be responsible for any insane videos that Lee and Mr. Legendary may or may not create. Just saying. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Lee F. PatrickAmazon PageThe Coalition of Shifters SeriesNewsletter Signup: leefpatrick01@gmail.comMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#LeeFPatrick #Interviews #WritingCommunity #BooktubeLee F. Patrick joins the podcast. In Part 1 of our conversation we talk about publishing. Specifically we talk about the niches of publishing, what masters each style serves, and we talk about her books, when it was time to go freelance, and end Part 1 talking about Babylon 5 and Star Trek. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Lee F. PatrickAmazon PageThe Coalition of Shifters SeriesNewsletter Signup: leefpatrick01@gmail.comMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#PDAlleva #Interviews #WritingCommunityPD Alleva is back and we talk about a little bit of everything. We start with challenging established tropes when we talk about his work, Golem. We then talk about life, the universe and everything and the battles between love and fear in the world today.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.PD Alleva: WebpageAmazon My Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#WritingCommunity #Interviews #IndieComics #BooktubeDaphne Lage joins the show. Daphne and I have a great chat about making a living as a creative. We talk about breaking the comfort zone as an artist, and as a business, and both are focused on greatly. Daphne's talent speaks for itself, and her comics are awesome. This was a fun one. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Daphne Lage:KickstarterMailing ListTall TalesWebpageYoutubeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#Interviews #WritingCommunity #BooktubeCharleigh Brennan and I had a heck of a chat about therapy, star trek - particularly about why Voyager was terrible and why Deep Space Nine is great, her books, sense of humor, self deprecation and the art of psychology. This was a fun, wide chat, and I think I made a great friend doing this.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.PD Alleva's latest release, Golem is live now. Click the link to pick up this excellent horror novel. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRoadkill Rampage #2 - Evil runs deep in this forest as Tess finds a stray dog and explores the sinister secrets of the men she meets. This kickstarter courtesy of Hazzum Productions starts Oct. 20th. Click on the link to follow.Charleigh Brennan:The Pizza PyreAuthor PagePatreonTwitchMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#ShaniO #illustrations #Interviews #BooktubeSo while I draw Fullmetal Alchemist stuff and Shani does her work on Jack and the Beanstalk, we have a fun discussion about the merits of an app that you would put your medical information into, as I assume the role of the old man talking about clouds. During this friendly back and forth, I see Shani's drawing, and we talk about the importance of facial features in storytelling aka Shani draws great Grinch like villians. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsShani O:WebsiteEmail: theartbard@gmail.comMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#ShaniO #Interviews #Illustrations #BooktubeShani O is back and we start drawing. We talk about storytelling and just catch up in Part 1. Part 2 we have an interesting debate while we draw. I start drawing stuff from Fullmetal Alchemist, and Shani Draws what you see here. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsShani O:WebsiteEmail: theartbard@gmail.comMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#MeredithLoughran #Interviews #BooktubeMeredith Loughran joins the podcast, and we have a heck of a chat. Silence, saving face, our bullshit meters (hint: both our give a damns are busted) , what we are willing to tolerate, asshole taxes, and much, much more. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsMeredith Loughran:Raging AvCGeek InsiderWebpageLinktreeMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy My MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#RodneyFyke #Interviews #IndieComics #BooktubeRodney's back and this time we just shoot the breeze. We talk comics, his kickstarters, creating a franchise in comics, as well as Roadkill Rampage, his next kickstarter. This was a fun conversation. Hope you check it out. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more detailsRodney Fyke: Hazzum ProductionsFacebook Instagram Twitch My Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy My MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#NathanRaymondRae #Interviews #PodcastsNathan Raymond Rae joins the podcast. This episode came just as vaccine passports came into being, and that was the heavy topic of the show. Autonomy is a big part of this episode, and we delve into that. On top of that, we talk about Nathan's podcast, his school aspirations, and more. Because we are not the same is a podcast that deals with Christianity. His show is fascinating, as was this conversation.SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details.Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more details.Nathan Raymond Rae:Because We Are Not The SameMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy My MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
#StephanieGalay #Interviews #BooktubeStephanie Galay joins the podcast. We talk about her book Evergreen, relaunching the book, clean prose, and authenticity. This is a conversation about finding ones voice both in books and marketing, and about how awesome a person Stephanie is. Really enjoyed this chat. SponsorsPD Alleva Golem - PD is releasing his epic masterpiece Golem October 5th. Someone's creation can truly be the path of destruction. The devil is the details. Jenna Greene and Wiggers the Well Dressed Wombat - check out Jenna Greene's Picture book releasing November 8th and get some great fashion advice from a wombat. Visit her page for more details.Stephanie GalayEvergreenBooks 2 Read PageMy Stuff:Books:Alice ZeroThe Cloud DiverSupport And Subscribe:Buy My MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube
We have Aurora's own Ken Flores a.k.a Too Skinny from "Talking My Sh*t" podcast (I'm on episode 109) We talk about his dad getting jacked in Humboldt Park (probably Puerto Rican's), fighting Jonathan in middle school and the kid I kind pushed with the Forest Gump leg brace I'm middle school (oops). Too Skinny almost overdosed the other week but luckily he's still with us because he will be headlining The Comedy Shrine September 24 & 25 headlining for the first time. Also, he will be performing at "La Kalle" in Beach Park my neck of the woods with some killers including Em Brown (ep. 66) , Abi Sanchez (ep. 33), Schmitty B (ep. 67 & 97) , Anthony Fuentes (ep. 89) Support The Lobo Den Patreon for goodies and bonus content including episode 100: https://www.patreon.com/theloboden If you want record a podcast in the Chicago land area reach out to my producer from "The People of Comedy Network" James Webb: https://www.instagram.com/aclysm YouTube: https://youtu.be/fphNmh6deig Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tooskinny300/ https://www.instagram.com/talkinmyshitpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thelobodenpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/lobo9110/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theloboden Twitter: https://twitter.com/lobodenpodcast https://twitter.com/lobo9110 Donate: https://www.paypal.me/thelobodenpodcast Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-gtRjo5ircMh7T3fVKySQ https://linktr.ee/theloboden
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It's hot out and so is this episode! This week Otis discusses cults of all kinds. Rich white people. Corporations. Sports. Poor white people. Seriously. Cults are everywhere. Trust me, they're lurking. You'll also hear two encounters with some leaders of the worst cult there is: Wiggers. On top of that you're going to learn about the chemistry of water. Whatever that means. Sponsored by: The BIMBO Initiative FOLLOW OTIS MORRIS TWITTER: https://twitter.com/OtisMorrisHates INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/OtisMorrisHates/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg0q9X2ZDQPshXQExVeApHQ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0g55LSi6DbBk4A0ICRG0Xp APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/otis-morris-hates-himself/id1474545629 STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/show/otis-morris-hates-himself ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/otis-morris CEMETERY SOUND: https://www.cemeterysound.com/
[Following is an automated transcript of Week 1115 podcast aired 2021-05-29] Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We've got these semiconductor shortages. What that means is various types of chips are just not available and it's been hurting us all the way across our economy. And that's where we're going to start the day with today. Semiconductors. [00:00:15] Man, this has been so bad, these semiconductor shortages, because what it means is we just cannot get the types of devices that we want because those raw components just aren't available. I was talking with a gentleman earlier this week and he was telling me how he has a special little app that tells him when there is a Sony PS five available for sale anywhere online. [00:00:45] It's gotten that bad. First of all, Why does he want a PS five so bad? I've never owned one or an X-Box or any of those gaming consoles? Since the original Nintendo, we had a we as well. Cause we had all the exercise stuff that went along with the week. But anyways, that's a different story entirely. [00:01:04] I'm sure a lot of you guys play a lot of video games, but. There really are not Sony available. And we're finding much the same problem in even the car industry where some of these major manufacturers here in the U S have had to shut down lines. They've had, gone from three shifts down to a single shift every day. [00:01:30] And in some cases it's gotten even worse where vehicle manufacturers are only. Making vehicles of few times a week. It is incredible. What's been happening and there a number of reasons for it. This isn't just one reason, but it does bring up the real problem we could have with our critical infrastructure. [00:01:53] How critical is it that we have computers that can run our businesses, drive our cars, and fly our airplanes. I think it's pretty darn critical when you get right down to it. Yeah. You can probably get an extra year out of that computer, if you really need to many times that computer's just plain broken, you just can't use it. [00:02:15] So you do need to replace it. But in reality, we've gotten a little bit soft. We are not making most of the chips here in the U S anymore. Yes, it's us technology. But most of this is in Southeast Asia, particularly in Taiwan. And do you remember what's happening with Taiwan with the threats from China? [00:02:38] China is flying over Taiwan right now with military jets in Taiwanese air space, because China has never officially recognized that Taiwan is independent from the people's Republic of China. And do you know how socialists are? They're just going to go ahead and take that land. What would happen if they did. [00:03:00] Remember China really wants to get their hands on our top chip technology because that helps them in the military. It helps them with all of these facial recognition systems they have in China, the social credit systems that they have in China, by the way, all built primarily by us companies and sold to China to track their people. [00:03:23] Including the nasty things have been happening with the Wiggers over there. It's just absolutely incredible as well as Christian communities and others in China. So all of this tech has stuff they want to get their hands on. If they were to invade Taiwan, what would happen? The Biden administration. [00:03:40] There they've been a little soft on this. Unlike president Trump, who said, yeah, the Trump administration, we're not going to tolerate any of this. And the Trump administration shipped all kinds of military systems to Taiwan, so they could potentially defend themselves because we don't really want to get drawn into a hot war, but. [00:04:00] Oh, if they had taken over Taiwan, they would now have access to the U S technology on chip making. Now let me explain what that means from a technology standpoint, the chips that we have are. into a wafer of silicone. I'm going to try and keep this pretty simple. And then, and that silicone is grown. Cause you think of a crystal or maybe think of a still-life tight or it's like titers to leg might that you'd find in a cave. [00:04:34] Those crystals are grown. They're humanly grown, and obviously you don't want any defects in them. So it's very hard to do to grow them. And we need those crystals for all kinds of things, including these solar panels that some people are so hot to trot about. I, Hey, I love the idea. Don't get me wrong. [00:04:52] It's just right now, again, with solar panels, like so many other things, don't think you're green because you. Are or putting up solar panels. You're not right. There's certainly other advantages to it, but you're not being green by doing that. But what really matters is how much power does that chip use in order to do a certain number of computations? [00:05:17] And how much heat is given off by the chip. Think again about the old Edison light bulbs that we've had and still have in some places and those Edison light bulbs, by the way, one of the original ones still burning in New York city and the fire department after over a hundred years, that one light bulb just incredible. [00:05:37] But think about that Edison light bulb, it gives off light. Sure. But it also gives off heat. And the same thing is true with. Anything electronic the movement of the electricity through that conductor or semiconductor create heat. Heat is a waste. That's part of the problem with Edison bulbs. It'd be one thing if they were giving off just straight light, the, but so much of that energy is used to generate heat that we don't want. [00:06:06] And then we have to dissipate that heat somehow, but that's another story. The same thing is true. When we're talking about these chips, the chips have a resistance to them. In fact, that's what a semiconductor does. It provide some resistance, so that resistance is going to. Do what create heat. So you feel your laptop when you're running it and so hot to get over time, the laptops have gotten faster and have actually created less heat, certainly poorer computational unit. [00:06:44] They created a lot less heat. What we're looking at now is if we can make these chips even smaller. We can decrease the amount of electricity they need, because it doesn't have electricity. It doesn't have to flow as far through the conductors or semiconductors inside these chips. So that's what the race has been over the years. [00:07:09] The race has been how small can we make them? And by making them smaller, You're doing a couple of things. You're making them faster because electricity has to travel less distance. Even though electricity is really fast. When you're talking about a billion transistors inside one of these chips or more, you are traveling through a whole lot of conductor and semiconductor. [00:07:32] So you can make that chip faster by making it smaller and you can reduce the amount of power it needs, because you're not going to be giving off as much power via heat and heat generation. And that's important for everything, but particularly important for our mobile devices. Look at your apple watch or your iPhone or your laptop or your desktop. [00:07:56] All of them need to consume less and less electricity as time goes on. So what we're talking about now are just teeny tiny measurement. We're talking about nanometers. So if you go online, you look up nano meter. Which is a foul. Yeah, there you go. 10 to the negative nine meters. It's a billionth of a meter. [00:08:21] Isn't that something looking it up right now, sell it a 1E-9.000000000. Give or take, and it's a unit of measurement that is being used now in chips and chip designs. And we're seeing these faster and faster chips getting down into the five nanometer process that is incredibly small, incredibly. [00:08:49] Fast potentially, but likely incredibly fast and uses a lot less electricity right now. We're seeing seven nanometers out of Taiwan and we're working on five nanometer, but we have such a shortage of chips right now that they're bringing some of these old 15 nanometer. Chip fabs online, even 22 nanometer. [00:09:14] I'm looking right now online at some of these old chip fabricators that are being brought online and China really wants to get their hands on some of this technology, because at this point anyways, they really can't get to the seven nanoliter chips. China right now. I think is pretty much limited to 14 nanometer. [00:09:39] So we're still, I had in that race, but because they're being made in Taiwan, these chips that we're using here in the us using us technology, and because we had the lockdown in Taiwan and pretty much worldwide, the whole supply chain got interrupted and these big car manufacturers just. Shut off the orders. [00:10:01] So there's no reason for the manufacturers to continue to make these things are a little reason for them to make them for the car industry in the current street, he thought we can just turn it back on and we'll have the chips. And of course they didn't, but it's also been compounded by the conditions in Taiwan right now. [00:10:19] Because the Taiwanese centers for disease control this week raised it's epidemic warning level and is strengthening their containment measures and making things even worse. Taiwan is in the midst of a severe drought. So they are. Rationing water in Taiwan. They're looking at cutoffs of two days a week. [00:10:42] And water reduction plans are expected to decrease supply to all major manufacturers by as much as 15%. So there you go. In a nutshell, that's why we care. Nanometers and we're talking about chips. That's why we need to start making them back here in the U S. And the good news, apple and others are doing exactly that. [00:11:03] Starting to bring some of this technology back from Taiwan, into the U S and I think that's going to help keep us safer in the long run [00:11:12]All electric vehicles are I think very cool. And some people give me a hard time because I am not a fan of it. [00:11:20] If you think you're being green, because you're not. And I went through the whole science behind that the life cycle of an electric vehicle is much more. Dangerous and hazardous and polluting in the environment. Then even a diesel truck is just to give you an idea of small truck. So that's, let's put that aside, but in reality, these things I think are potentially the future. [00:11:50] Now there's a lot of things we've got to take care of, for instance. Our electric grid is not set up for electric cars. Our electric grid is not set up for us to have windmills in our backyard or to have solar panels on our roofs. It's set up to have a main power station of some sort, whether it's nuclear, which by the way is green or whether it might be. [00:12:17] Be coal or natural gas or wood or trash. That's what the grid is set up for. So we have some problems there and there's another big problem. And that has to do with how much power one of these vehicles can hold, because I don't know about you, but having a, what is it? The brand new car that came out a Fiat or somebody and his electric vehicle and its range is 78 miles. [00:12:46]In some places that might be okay, but progress. The problem is I'll write, let's say I'll put up with stopping every hour to recharge these cars, unless it's a rapid recharger, you're going to be there for an hour and a half or more. And even with the rapid recharger, you're going to be there for a least 20 minutes. [00:13:07] Now Tesla had some innovative ideas on how to deal with that. Like the, I don't know if you ever saw it a battery pack, so you'd pull into the station and it would just trade battery packs for you. The idea was it's right in the center. GM has this concept of the roller skate, where the entire car really is built into this frame. [00:13:29] That kind of looks like roller skate. And then on top of that, Goes your car and there's some thinking maybe we can make it so that you can just swap out your rollerskate. Make it nice and simple and hopefully relatively inexpensive, but we still don't see the range on the vehicles. And as of yet, we haven't seen any huge forays by any of the big auto makers. [00:13:54] Of course, Nissan had it to leaf, which. Pretty well accepted GM had their entry. And I chuckled because it was in a lot of ways. It was a joke. And of course they're up with better stuff here in the future, but I want to play a little bit here. I'm going to play about 25 seconds worth of an ad. [00:14:12] And then we're going to talk about it a bit. [00:14:16] Unknown: [00:14:16] It's got a targeted 775 pound feet of torque. It's targeted to go from zero to 60 in the mid four second range. It's a driving experience. That's pure unfiltered exhilaration from the moment you hit the accelerator. Oh, and it's an F-150 introducing the all electric F-150 [00:14:40] Craig Peterson: [00:14:40] lightning. [00:14:41] So you noticed there were no mentions in there of no birds were harmed in January generating electricity here. And of course, a little tongue in cheek because of course birds are harmed in generate electricity, particularly windmill, but anyways, they're not going for the eco greeny. They're not going for the Prius driver. [00:15:01] You remember the stats on the Prius where they surveyed the drivers of Prius's. This was probably five. Maybe a little more years ago. And the number one reason they found people drove a Prius. 70% of the time in fact, was they drove a Prius because of what they thought other people would think of them. [00:15:23] So there they are driving this car that they're driving it for one reason, because they, I think it's going to make other people think that they're just fantastic people. I obviously I disagree with that. I think that's little bit of a problem, but what is what they're doing here with that Ford commercial is they are working on mainstreaming. [00:15:46] Yes. Electric vehicles. Can you imagine this a 700 plus foot point foot pound torque in a sub $40,000 truck? It's just amazing. And you can even use the batteries that are in this truck. Of course, there's a lot of batteries in that truck to run power tools while you're out at a work site. Which I think is a great idea. [00:16:12] And you can even use it to power your house. They have a special adapter you can use to hook up to your house so that you can get up to three days. They say of electricity in your house. If the power goes out, No mention in here of, any of these greeny things, right? Oh, none of oases talking points are in that ad. [00:16:37] At least I didn't hear him on, did you guys hear them, but this is going to be amazing. This of course is Ford's best-selling vehicle, the F-150 and I drove one for years. It was very handy with the horses and chickens and everything here. And I'm looking forward to this thing coming out. I don't think I'm going to buy one, by the way. [00:16:58] They've also got this Mustang mark II, which is this electric Mustang thingy. And then they have an electric transit van. And the reason I don't think I'm going to buy one is it just doesn't have the range. Now you can get better equipped lightening trucks in that sub $40,000 one. You can also go ahead and get bigger batteries. [00:17:22] You can do a whole bunch of things, but this range is a combined output here, a 426 horsepower estimated range of 230 miles. And the extended range of this F-150 lightning is going to get an even. Bigger horsepower rating, 563 horsepower and an estimated range of 300 miles. And 775 foot pounds of torque, which is just stump polling. [00:17:56] It's absolutely amazing. So I don't know about you. I'm not in the mode for pain, 60 ish grand for an electric truck that is only going to take me 230 miles. That, but maybe that's me. And then looking further into the stats on this thing, it can do a bunch of towing. It can have a 77, a hundred pounds of towing. [00:18:22] You can get Reduce cargo, excuse me, reduce cargo course. If you're getting the bigger battery and looking at an illustration of the F-150 lightening, what they're doing is similar to what GM had proposed way back with the roller skate. The entire drive train is underneath the truck. And it's just like an old frame. [00:18:44] You remember, trucks used to have frames now? The F-150 is, I think still do have frames underneath, but the whole bottom of the truck is one piece. If you will, obviously there's little pieces to it, but one major component and then the cab and bed and everything else just sits right on top of it. [00:19:03] It's amazing. Now with this truck, if you connected to 150 kilowatt fast charger, you're going to get 41 miles in 10 minutes. So how long does it take you fill up with gas? Probably about 10 minutes. How long is it good for? It was my car 400, 500 miles in this case that 10 minute stop. At the fuel station is going to get you 41 miles. [00:19:29] And if you can find the, just the 50 kilowatt fast charger, it's going to take you 91 minutes to get 41 miles of range. It's not there yet, but it's very obvious that Ford is aiming for the truck driver. And more particularly if I was a construction guy and I was taking my truck out and I needed to plug in tools and I don't have to drive very far. [00:19:56] I look seriously at that new F-150 lightning. [00:20:00]President Biden . I've got an article in my newsletter this week about what he's been doing when it comes to the hackers, China, is it Russia? What's going on? He's been blaming. It looks like. Russia for some of the hacks that China has actually been carrying out, but no matter what the bottom line is, we are getting hacked and this is a very big problem. [00:20:28] We have to modernize our technology strategy. Because this ideological divide between these authoritan or authoritarians, whether it's a dictatorship like the socialists have in China, where you have chairman Mao, who is chairman for life now, or Putin. President Putin, who is president for life over in Russia. [00:20:53]It's absolutely amazing. They are coming after us. And so is North Korea, of course, again, socialist dictator for life over there as well, Iran not so socialist, but a very fascist in many ways, which is typically a form of socialism anyways. We need to be able to protect ourselves. It's a real problem, frankly. [00:21:18] 1947 world war two was over and George Kennan, R yeah. Kennan introduced this concept of containment and that containment concept was used throughout the entire cold war. And of course you probably know what that is. At least, excuse me. I hope you do. But today we don't have that cold war anymore. [00:21:45] What is it that we have? Why would China be attacking this? We know, for instance, a China comes after our intellectual property and they w they come after it because it helps them militarily. If they know what we're doing, what we're ordering. What's going on that we know they come after us as well, because they want to cause some havoc. [00:22:11] There's no question about that. Some of these other smaller countries come after us because they need the hard currency. Ultimately they want to trade in those Bitcoin for us dollars, which of course can be spent here. But. This whole system that we have right now is really on the brink of a new economy. [00:22:34] Look at the technology we've been using. Look at the number of people that have been working from home. We're sitting on the edge of three simultaneous bubbles. Right now we have the housing bubble. We have the stock market bubble and we have the cryptocurrency bubble and we've seen downs in all of those just over the last week or so. [00:22:56]We'll see what happens, but there's no denying that they're bubbles are home values adjusted for inflation, have not been higher than the last 100 years as an example. So there's a lot for us to look at. And when these bad guys are under the same types of financial pressures we are under, because, collapses tend to be worldwide. [00:23:21] What are they going to do? What's ultimately going to happen? Here is what president Biden thinks should happen with these two executive orders that came out really It, it has to do with federal government supply chains. And that is people who obviously are selling to the feds. And I want you to think mostly about department of defense here, and we deal with the department of defense contractors and tightening them up. [00:23:50] But in getting them to the point they should be at. And there's a lot to be concerned about it from that standpoint, but they have been releasing some details over the last few months, really. They started in April this year, and they're saying that because of the supply chain problem that we had with solar winds, they are now. [00:24:15] Pushing out some rules that require the people who sell to the federal government to keep a certain level of cybersecurity. We've talked a little bit before about CMMC, which is. Again, it's a cyber security maturity model that's out there and they are requiring certain federal contractors to meet that. [00:24:40] We've also talked about some of the NIST standards, which is the national Institute of science and technology. In fact, we talked about their password standard and how a year and a half or so ago, they changed the way we need to do passwords. And if you don't know what that is, have a look at my. A special report on passwords. [00:25:02] And I go through that in some detail, but there's an executive order on American supply chains that came out in February and it's leaning pretty heavily on these newer emerging technologies, including secure access to semiconductors. And we talked about them earlier in the show today, the high capacity batteries. [00:25:24] Because again, if we're not innovating. In the, you name it. But in end in the automotive field, we're going to fall behind what's important automotive. We just talked about it. Last segment here. Batteries. So it's covering batteries and materials that are used to create them. So they both of these orders address the need for us to really work closely together with our allies economically, as well as national security. [00:25:55] But that's exactly what we've been doing. Isn't it? What it really boils down to in my mind is democracy versus authoritarianism. It was so funny that they called president Trump and authoritarian a decade, her right. He was liking to Hitler constantly. I thought if you brought him up, you automatically lost the argument. [00:26:18] But in reality, now we're seeing more of a hands-on from the federal government more authoritarianism. And I got a question whether or not that's what we really want. Do we need a digital politic. This guiding doctrine, that places digital considerations at the forefront of our national strategy. Is this something that should be handled by the state or the businesses involved? [00:26:47]We've seen all kinds of mixed. Pros and cons to each one of those strategies over the years, we know government controls, centralized government control, ultimately causes serious problems serious as in the deaths of over a hundred million people in the last century alone. So I'm not sure that's the best idea. [00:27:09] And I have to say work. I With defense contractors, even not really a defense contractor, someone that makes something that's sold to a defense contractor. Having a one size fits all cybersecurity policy, a cybersecurity czar, and these executive orders pushing everything down does not make sense. It doesn't make sense for a real small company that makes a wiring harness to have to meet the same. [00:27:38]Cyber security requirements as a big BAE systems, they don't have the time. They don't have the money. It can cost a million dollars over the course of three years for even a small company to meet these federal standards that are required. If you take a contract from the federal government or from one of these contractors. [00:28:04] So you are a subcontractor, all of those requirements that are put on that huge military contractor, all of those requirements get pushed down to you. So this just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'm very concerned about it. There's a bipartisan bill. That's moving right now called the democracy technology partnership act. [00:28:26] And they're trying to get some collaboration and innovation amongst democracies. I think it's good now that there are rules in place that have changed, that allows competitors to talk with each other when it comes to cyber security. [00:28:43]Internet Explorer was Microsoft's first major foray into the internet browsing world internet browsing didn't really take off until almost the mid nineties. And it was really cool. I remember when I first started using. Web browsing and websites and building them with NCSA mosaic. Oh my gosh. Those were the days heady days back then. [00:29:09] And we were just thinking about everything that could happen, how great it would be. And there were no hackers to speak of online. You didn't have to worry about drive by downloads or so many of the other problems that we have today. And Microsoft took that NCSA mosaic browser code base and created something. [00:29:33] They called internet Explorer. Now the history of internet Explorer, frankly. Is rather interesting when you get right down to it. Internet Explorer. Yeah. It's been around for a long time, but in genetics, Explorer was one of the worst browsers out there for a very long time. It was just terrible. [00:29:57] And one of the things that Microsoft did that really got. With the whole internet community upset with them is they built it right into their operating system. Absolutely. They used the code here from again, mosaic, which was this early commercial web browser back in 2003. It, the whole project started in 1994. [00:30:25]I'm looking right now, Wikipedia. I remember these things happening. It's just nuts to think about how far it's gone, but they took internet Explorer and they bolted it into the operating system. So the operating system now supposedly was dependent on internet Explorer. Now it's an interesting concept to think about if all they have to do is maintain a user interface. [00:30:51] That's web based for the operating system. That's really cool. Microsoft internet Explorer is some 5 million lines of code that is a lot of programming to maintain. And then on top of that, of course you have all of the user interface code that's sitting there in the operating system. So I think this is my suspicion. [00:31:12] What Microsoft is trying to do is make their life a little bit easier. But by doing that by hard wiring in internet Explorer, into the operating system, they ended up making it so that other companies like the Firefox guys, Mozilla, they could not run independently on inch, on a windows. And a third party, like Dell could not decide, Hey, I don't want to use internet Explorer because Google's paying me to install Google Chrome. [00:31:43] So I want to put Chrome on windows. So you just couldn't do any of that. So they got a whole bunch of flack. The industry came after them and because of that, so did the department of justice. And the United States versus Microsoft case, very fundamental. And it was absolutely, it was essential, I think because Microsoft never would have done anything about this, but they developed Microsoft this thing called ActiveX technology, which is a security nightmare and remains one to this very day where you could effectively as a website. [00:32:25] Tell the internet Explorer to do almost anything you wanted to do. And there were bugs after bugs. I don't have a count. It might be interesting to see what the actual count would be, but it was, it had to be in the thousands of bugs that were fixed security bugs that were fixed and internet Explorer because of active X and because of some of these other things. [00:32:48] So it's just been absolutely terrible. One of the questions I get asked most often to this day. What do we do when we don't want to use internet Explorer or more commonly, what is the best browser to use while I'm online? And the answer to that kind of varies. It depends, right? That's the answer, but as a general rule using Firefox is a good idea. [00:33:20] Now, one of the things I like about Firefox for an individual or for a, an extremely small business, like a small office home office, where you're not tying into a corporate network at all. One of the things that's really good is Firefox. Uses a version of DNS, which is the main name, service. It's what your computer uses in order to find websites online, Firefox uses a version of DNS that is. [00:33:50] Encrypted and protected so that your internet service provider cannot see the website names you're looking up and cannot intercept it. And that's the bigger thing. You don't want it to be intercepted because one of the major hacks, and this is affected millions of people. Homed and businesses. [00:34:10] One of the major hacks is let's just go in. We can hack the router and then we'll change the router DNS settings so that it uses our DNS and our DNS by the way is great because it redirects you. If you think you want to go to bank of America, it takes you to bank of America dot China. Okay. A fake site, not a real site. [00:34:31] And you may not even know. You may not even be able to tell unless you look really closely. So that is a big plus for Firefox as well as it has all kinds of anti-trafficking technology. Anti-malware technology built right in, they've just done a bang up job. The reason I do not like it for bigger businesses is that same. [00:34:54] Feature that DNS feature because what we do when we go into a business, and one of the things we do is we change their DNS servers to use some commercial DNS servers that we have from Cisco that get updated minute by minute for the sole purpose of trying to stop the bad guys. And they're very good at it. [00:35:16] It stopped being ransomware just by DNS. If you're using Firefox inside one of these networks, the problem is Firefox is going to try and hide the DNS request. So it was not so much as I care that they're being hidden, except that might be going to a malicious site. It said, I can't see any of them. [00:35:36] And I cannot tell your web browser or your computer not to go to that website because that particular site or that particular internet server is actually malicious. So there's the two sides for Firefox. So if you're a regular little home user, get Firefox, it's free. It's a great little browser. If you are a business, you can still use Firefox with things like Cisco's umbrella. [00:36:04] But what you need to do is turn off the DNS over HTTPS or TLS in which gets a little advanced. You can probably find it. If you'd duck, duck, go search it online. And that'll get you the answers you need. So turn that off so that all of your DNS requests are going through the filter, whatever it might be. [00:36:24] A Barracuda has a DNS filter. I don't like Barracuda. Don't think I'm endorsing them, but it's better to use the Barracuda DNS filter. If that's all you have, then nothing. Let me tell ya. And then there are also free DNS servers that are going to be fantastic for you to check them out. I talked about them this last week. [00:36:44] I got a lot of emails, open dns.com open ope, N D N S the letters, DNS domain name service, or. Dynamic name server or whatever you want. How are you going to remember it? Open dns.com and there it's easy enough. You just set it up on your ad drought or, and you're off and running. So that's my general favorite. [00:37:10] If you want something that's more secure, you can take a look at our friend, the epic browser, epi C. It has been very good in the past, and I assume it's going to continue to be pretty good in the future. Microsoft's newest ed edge browser. I think there's been three different browsers. They call ed just under what Microsoft, they call them all the same thing, even though it's entirely different code basis. And what were there? Seven different versions of windows that were entirely different? I was just, ah, drives me crazy. The current version of the edge browser from Microsoft is based on Google's Chrome browser. So keep that in mind, if you're using edge, Microsoft is looking over your shoulder. [00:37:55] Google may be looking over your shoulder as well. A little bit. The edge browser also uses Google chromium base, but they've gone through and Labatt itemized it pretty seriously. If you're on a Mac, you can even do this on a windows computer. The fastest browser, generally speaking is safari, which is an apple product and it's available for free S a F a R. [00:38:18] I. And it also like most apple products doesn't like you being tracked. And so it has a lot of anti-trafficking stuff. Built-in. And it also not this too. The safari browser has a whole bunch of anti-malware stuff built in. So whether you're using iOS on your iPhone or I panned or Mac iOS or windows, you can get safari. [00:38:46] And I had recommended that. So Fari frankly, is the browser I use for a little bit more secure stuff. And then I also use opera, the opera O P E R a browser. You might want to have a look at it as well, but if you're looking for ease of use and compatibility, I think you're probably about right. Sticking with the Firefox browser. [00:39:09] I do use that. So I actually use all of these browsers in different circumstances. I also use the brave browser and others. I just don't want to confuse you guys. Firefox stick with Firefox and you're probably going to be pretty well off on rare occasions. Firefox is not going to work for you. And in that case, you might consider a Google Chrome or the edge browser. [00:39:34] If you're using a cloud-based to service a website that is obviously a website for something you're doing. And it does not work with Firefox. It might not even work with the default on the Microsoft edge browser. And that's because that website might've been poorly coded, had not written right. And requires the old Microsoft engineer Explorer. [00:40:04] If so you can turn on compatibility mode so that the edge browser will act just like the insecure bug ridden internet Explorer, but try and force the vendor to upgrade their site so that it works with modern browsers rather than having to stick with that old piece of software. That's dangerous as can be internet Explorer. [00:40:29]I have always been fascinated by it ever since I saw people who were communicating, using computers and it, I always thought it just. It would be so wonderful if we could help people out, particularly people who are locked in who have a brain that's functioning fully, and yet their body isn't cooperating, they can't communicate, or they can't communicate well. [00:40:54] And of course, that comes to mind. Of course, one of the greatest scientific minds of our generation, Stephen Hawkins, who was in a wheelchair, he was unable to move. And later in life, other than just a little bit with his face and mouth, and he used that to communicate. And it's just an incredible thing. I can't imagine being in a position like that. [00:41:19] So when I see these technological advances that help people out, even in a minor way, I am just overjoyed, really overjoyed. So we've got to, I want to talk about right now. One is a brain implant that ARS Technica is John Timmer was talking about here about a week ago. And he was talking about robotic arms. [00:41:42] Now you might've seen them before. There's various types of robotic arms and they have different types of functionality depending. Right. Well, one of the problems that we've had with robotic arms is how much force can you put on them? I, again, I remember the first time I saw someone who had lost, uh, the forearm and of course the hand and he had on one of those kind of captain hook things, appliances with a rubber band on it to close it. [00:42:13] And he was able to pull one of the muscles in his arms in order to open it and close it. I thought, well, that's really cool. Those have advanced now, and there are projects with 3d printers. I forget the name of the company. I had them on my radio show. Maybe a decade ago now been awhile and they were selling 3d printers. [00:42:34] And when you bought their printer, they would give you the plans to make a specific artificial prosthesis for. Child that couldn't afford one. So it might be for a leg or an arm or so I guess something else. And you bought the printer, they would provide you with the material that you needed as well as the design specifically for that person. [00:43:01] And that you could print it up. It might take a couple of days and you ship it off. And many of these kids were in Africa. There are some here in the us, and of course in Russia, and this was, I thought an amazing project. It was just so cool again, because they're helping these kids get a little bit of mobility. [00:43:21] Then we came out with some of these robotic arms that can be controlled through your brain. I don't know if you've seen these. Arms, there's been also some major advancement in just thinking about moving a cursor on a computer screen and the computer can track your brain enough to be able to move that cursor around. [00:43:46] And basically what you're doing is you've lost a limb or you've lost mobility. You think about moving your hand or a leg, and usually it's your arm and your hand. And that can be picked up. Of course, that's per person, that's programmable per person. Then they figure out what the pattern is in your brain. [00:44:06] And then they tie it all in so that now you can control a cursor on a computer, which means you can communicate. Robotic arms a little bit different because what you have now is something that can reach out. These things have all of the joint and the flexibility and functionality of a regular hand, except for. [00:44:30] The feedback loop and that's been really important. How do you know if you are actually touching something? How do you know if you're squeezing it too hard? Like that egg and early robotic arms? It was very visual. So you watch that arm and you'd see, okay. It now has a grip on that ball or that pencil or whatever you pick it up and you all visual. [00:44:58] And so you're able to pick it up and you know that you've got it. Maybe you don't know how hard you're holding it, but that's okay. You had to track the arm visually as you moved it around and estimate really when you had that grip, that was strong enough on the object by looking at it. And obviously that's just an incredible improvement over a missing limb or potentially paralysis, but it's not very intuitive. [00:45:25] And the question is how do you make things intuitive for the brain when they're obviously foreign? We're going to talk about an extra thumb here in a minute too, but this is just absolutely phenomenal. It's called propyl. Yeah. Prope re O ception proprioception. And it's a sense that we have, this has been difficult to reconstruct that ties the sense of touch and pressure and. [00:45:55] Knowing where something is. So you can close your eyes. And on the side of the road, when the police offers is there and close your eyes, hold your arm out and touch your nose. Right. Hopefully you can do that. I'm doing that right now, here in the studio. I'm touching my notes with my eyes closed with my arm, starting out fully extended. [00:46:16] That's the sense we're talking about. That's very, very difficult. How do you build that in? Because we've been able to build in a little bit of sense of touch feedback for these arms, a little bit of pressure feedback, but we haven't been able to really understand how the brain processes, all this information that's sent by these sensory nerve cells in the hand, in order to let you know where it is. [00:46:42] And what it's doing. So for this new research at team and planted two electrode arrays into the part of the brain that specifically handles information coming from the skin, and they're able to activate these electrode and produce the sensation of something, interacting with the Palm of the hand, as well as the finger. [00:47:04] So they've made a whole lot of progress here, and this is very cool. They were able to tie it into a robotic arm. They got a study together, got some funding for it. And they got a participant who had been paralyzed from the neck down. And this doesn't save as male or female, but. Default gender right in English. [00:47:29] As he sold, say, he'd been controlling this robotic arm for about two years by using brain implant in the motor control region of the brain. And he could successfully use the arm even without sensation. He'd gotten pretty good at it. Uh, so for these experiments, they had some different tests because they wanted additional, tactile feedback. [00:47:53] They wanted to be able to somehow tie into this perception that your body has, of where your body parts are. Have you ever tried to tickle yourself? Usually it doesn't work. Right. But a third person or a second person tickling you may, it's definitely going to work. That's all party, these same systems. So they come up with a whole bunch of tests. [00:48:16] I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on the tests, but they did say that having a sense of. Touch and the ability to understand where that arm and hand were in space, dramatically improve performance. And that makes sense. Hold on a sense to me, it w it really increased or decreased actually the time it took to pick up something to move something, to drop it in every case. [00:48:43] So. I am pretty darn excited about this, and I hope it's going to be able to help a lot of people very, very soon. This is the university of Pittsburgh medical center, by the way, that's been conducting these experiments. Now there's another one I want to talk about. And I thought this was really cool. I saw this about a couple of weeks ago. [00:49:02] I think it was, and this is a robotic extra thumb. What they did is they placed a robotic thumb on a hand underneath the little finger. So if you're looking at your hand right now, I got my left hand out in front of me. I've got my thumb here on the far left side. I've got my four fingers pointing up and on the right hand side opposite where your real thumb is, they put. [00:49:30] An extra thumb, like a robotic thumb that can, can bend up and down and a little other lateral movements. This study, I think was phenomenal. And there were 36 people that were part of the experiment. This was at Danielle Clode, university, college, London, and her colleagues. Uh, and it's, it's phenomenal. So when we get back, I'm going to play a little bit of audio. [00:49:57] That is from a story over there in the UK about this. I'm going to tell you a little bit more about this thumb and the. Impact to the hat on the brain. One of the things I think it was fascinating to me anyways, was it did change the brain in unexpected ways, basically the brains of these people. And this was determined by cat scans and watching the activity when they were moving their hand, the brains were changed. [00:50:27] Two, if you will, uh, look at the hands and as more of a single unit than individual units. I thought that was really fascinating and that extra thumb became part of the brains understanding of the hand. So this is the kind of thing we can be looking forward to. Now, this one is it's kind of cool. It's kind of fun. [00:50:53] We're going to find a lot of different uses for, and it's part of what's fun is what they did in the experiments. So we'll talk about that as well. Hey, I want to point out if you have questions about cyber security, I might have the answers for you and you'll get those answers in the form of some stuff. [00:51:13] Special reports. I wrote, if you subscribed to my email list, just go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, and I'll make sure I send them all to you and get you on the right track. [00:51:25]this is augmenting a human and I think this is the future. We are going to be augmented. And how many movies have been made about that movies where they're saying model? Yeah, we'll just tie basically Google into your brain and have Google site into your brain. [00:51:41] That have as a thought. And you'll get a response from Google, which I think is scary. Look at Google now and how they're tracking you. Imagine if they get a copy of every one of your thoughts, but things like this that make us super human. I think are going to become more mainstream. So Google, for instance, had the Google glass, you might remember that these glasses type things that you wore, Apple's done some work on something similar. [00:52:11] And the idea is they can project in front of you an artificial reality. Maybe that our official reality is just telling you to turn left, to get to grandma's house or where the best food in town is. Or maybe you're playing a game. All of which are cool. This that's going to happen. This is really something that is going to happen. [00:52:30] And it's going to talk to you with a set of speakers that are right on those glasses. And it's going to be, I think, potentially amazing not reading your brain, but helping you to navigate a, read an audio book to you, do all kinds of things, and you can already get Alexa. Which is, of course Amazon's digital assistant in a lot of different configurations from your car all the way on out through these little mobile devices. [00:52:59] In this case, we're talking about a third thumb and that third or second thumb, I should say, it's really a third one because you have two hands, right? Two thumbs, but a second thumb on one hand. And the pictures I'm looking at from the experiment had it on the right hand. I don't think it really matters, but it's opposite your normal thumb. [00:53:20] It's not a fancy thing. It doesn't look human. It's close to the wrist. W on your hand, but it still is on your hand and you control this thumb and how it moves based on why our wireless sensors that are on your big toes. So you wiggle the toe and you can move the thumb in different directions and also have it clench the grip. [00:53:49] And these experimenters gave the thumb to people for about five days and the participants were. Told to use the thumb in regular, old things in the world. So they use it in the labs, of course, and they wanted the participants to really push the envelope about what was possible. And they didn't want the lab to just think of all of the different experiments they wanted the participants to think of things. [00:54:17] Maybe they hadn't thought of. So I'm looking at a video that's really cool people think of this guys. You can hold a cup of coffee and stir it all with the same hand, because you use that third thumb to grab onto the coffee and then your right thumb and forefinger. In order to stir the coffee. I think that's cool. [00:54:42] There were other people did things like bloom bubbles, right? You hold the little bottle of the bubble soap, water. And in the fake thumb. And then again, use your fingers to hold the little thing that you are blowing into. So it's really cool. And it did change the brain. What this showed us, I think more than anything else was our brains are capable of controlling limbs and dependence pended, GS dependencies. [00:55:14] Yeah, appendages. There you go. That, that you don't normally have, and it leads him into think about cats here in the Northeast. I don't know if you've ever noticed cats with a thumb. Have you ever noticed that it's really a Northeast phenomenon? And apparently the captains of these old boats loved these cats because they could go on the ship and chase the rats and kill the rat and hold on really well in the heavy weather and even climb up on the ropes because I had a thumb, we had a cat like that. [00:55:52] And it wasn't the brightest cat one, a Fox caught it when it was in our yard one time, but that cat could pick things up off the floor and using the thumb. Now, cats don't normally have a thumb, but some of these cats here in the Northeast, they have a thumb. It's a real thumb. They really can pick things up. [00:56:12] So they, this experiment proved that we can, as humans control an appendage, like an extra thumb. So let's play a little bit here about what happened a little bit of the report. The [00:56:26] Unknown: [00:56:26] additional thumb could cradle a cup of coffee while the same hands, four fingers held a spoon to stare in milk. While some participants use the thumb to peel a banana, blow bubbles, or even play the guitar to understand how the extra thumb effected people's brains. [00:56:40] The researchers gave them an MRI scan before and after the experiments. [00:56:45] Craig Peterson: [00:56:45] Is that cool or what. And you can find more online. I duck goat it, you can just duck, duck go a robotic extra thumb, and you'll be able to find the video and more reports on it, but we will see what ends up happening. With our appendages what are we going to be attaching to our bodies in the future? [00:57:07] We know we are going to be using those glasses like Google glass. We'll see what it ends up looking is it going to project right? Enjoy your eyes. What's going to happen here. We're seeing heads up displays in our cars where the speed you're going, the maps, et cetera, are projected right on. [00:57:25] The windshield. So you don't have to move your head a big direction, in order to see what's going on. So lots of stuff. And we're starting to understand the brain a little bit better when it comes to some of this stuff, dark side. My gosh a little bit of, a little bit about the dark web, because you guys are the best and brightest, right? [00:57:47] So the dark web of course, is that part of the internet that was created to keep things secret. No, not totally secret, but the identities of people posting things on the dark web are hard to determine. And it is in fact, something that is maintained by our military and was developed in order to allow people in other countries to communicate effectively with the CIA, with the military, et cetera, without. [00:58:19] Being caught by their government. So the dark web is a pretty secure place, but because of that, it's a place where people go to conduct illicit transactions. This is the place where the. The major site that was out there that it's called silk road was man, I can't remember how many billions of dollars they say went through the silk road website, but they were selling everything you can think of for drugs or drug running, a gun running some of these military weapons. [00:58:58] you name it? I don't even want to talk about some of the stuff that was being sold there on that website. Now there's other websites and taken over, but we caught that guy by the way. And all the transactions were in between. Coin. So those people that think that Bitcoin is somehow impossible to track you are wrong. [00:59:19] And those who think that the dark web is a place where you can go and really be anonymous. Again, you are wrong. More technically we're talking about something called the onion network, the Tor browser, and it is an interesting thing. So when we get back. We're going to talk about a court case, a really weird court case involving the dark web. [00:59:47] You've heard before about trust amongst thieves, this kind of throws it entirely out the window, shall we say [00:59:56]You might've heard of DarkSide. I mentioned them here on the show before. DarkSide is a bad guy, right? It's a group of people that got together who had been experts at ransomware. And so what they ended up doing is deciding, Hey, we want to make a business. We're going to do ransomware. And because we're so good at it, we're going to sell ransomware as a service. [01:00:28] And this ransomware is a service. All they did was they would take a cut of what you made off of their ransomware. They do things like provide tech support. So you ran some poor guy, some poor, small business, and that small business now is, a really hurting and you say Pay up sucker. [01:00:50] It's going to be whatever it is. I think most of the time for very small businesses, about $40,000 and you need to buy Bitcoin and you can't how to have a lot. I don't know. Why do I buy Bitcoin? So you contact. To the DarkSide, a webs support site, and guess what they do at that point? They can help you. [01:01:13] Okay. So go to this site. This is what you're going to see. Click on this. They have little user guides. They will help you when you're encrypted. Do you just give them the key and they'll tell you, okay. So use this key and this software to decrypt it. Just like a real business bottom line. They disappeared. [01:01:32] You might've heard about this. Of course, DarkSide attacked the colonial pipeline. And if you live in the Southeast United States, you were hit perk too. Darn hard by this, because that shut down over a thousand gas stations, they ran out of gasoline because it was not getting shipped via the pipeline. So off they went and a DarkSide said there, I think there's a little too much heat here. [01:02:03] At least that's what we were thinking. Initially DarkSide was trying to avoid prosecution. And so they shut down their website. Where was the website? Obviously? Wasn't out there for you on DarkSide.com. No, it was on the dark web while they shut down. And apparently they were not paying out these people that they were providing ransomware services to. [01:02:32] Isn't that kind of interesting. So Russian speaking person, you use the handle darks up for DarkSide support had XSS dot IIS. Guess what that is. Yeah, a recruiting site for these bad guys. Now, you're not going to be able to get there. If you're not on the dark web, you shouldn't be able to get there just in general, but he was trying to recruit him affiliates for DarkSide and DarkSide was the new ransomware as a service kid in town. [01:03:05]And it was looking for business partners until a partner could come along and say I have a hundred million email addresses or. I'm going to go after a company X like colonial pipeline. And so they become an affiliate of DarkSide. And as an affiliate, now they can send out the ransomware, try and get somebody at colonial to click on it. [01:03:29] And then once inside then DarkSide takes over and they go ahead and download important files from the machines that are compromised. That's part of the one-two punch that they were doing. And the punch that we saw that happened on Metro PD down in Washington, DC, where the bad guys got in down there and threatened to not decrypt stuff unless a paid up. [01:03:57]And then secondarily, you said. Since you're not paying that ransom, pay us this ransom and you have so many days, or we're going to start releasing information from the private police records. And they actually did end up releasing some of that information. All of that sort of stuff is part of the ransomware as a service. [01:04:16]This is interesting and DarkSide has made a bunch of money. There's some newly released figures from a company called chain analysis and they track cryptocurrency. Trading. Yeah. Guess what? It's not completely private. So chain analysis said the DarkSide netted at least $60 million in its first seven months. [01:04:44] That's a small fortune. Actually that's a pretty big fortune 46 million of it. Came in the first three months of 2021 and Darkseid made another $10 million this month with about 5 million coming from colonial pipeline. You probably heard about that. Colonial paid the ransom. And I saw an interview with the CEO of colonial, who said we didn't know if we'd be able to recover. [01:05:13] And it's basically, it's a small business, my words, small price to pay to know we can get back in business. So they made the 5 million from colonial and 4.4 million from the chemical distribution company known as Brenntag. And then last week, DarkSide went dark. And I mentioned that on the show as well. [01:05:37] And this guy, dark sub said that his group had lost control of the infrastructure and it Bitcoin. Does that mean that maybe Interpol the S somebody shut them down because. We have verified that there was a huge transaction where all of the money was taken out of their bit coin account. Okay, so the servers can the access to anymore the hosting panels to see panels been blocked and the hosting support service isn't providing any information, except quote, you ready for this at the request of law enforcement authorities. [01:06:25] Okay. Yeah. And within a couple hours of the seizure funds from the payment server were withdrawn to an unknown account. And Darkseid hasn't been heard from since now DarkSide is supposed to be paying affiliates 75% of ransoms that are less than $500,000. And that cut rises to 90% for ransoms higher than $5 million. [01:06:55] So DarkSide gets the money, right? Cause they're doing this whole thing. It's a service it's service provided to the bad guys out there, but apparently these affiliates have not been paid. Apparently the ransomware as a service provider of did not honor its commitment and the affiliates, these bad guys, I feel so sorry for them. [01:07:22] Not they've been asking to be reimbursed from a deposit about a million dollars. The DarkSide was required to make with this website X access, which is one of these sites on the dark web, where they are setting up these deals. Okay. So there's three posts on the site. Where there are plaintiffs who have filed charges against the defendant against DarkSide. [01:07:53] So here you go, honor. Amongst thieves, DarkSide did not honor its financial commitments. It did not pay the bad guys. The ransomed people. Like they were supposed to they've disappeared and apparently their servers have been seized and all have DarkSides, holdings have been taken. All right. Interesting. [01:08:19] That's what you get DarkSide disrupted gasoline supply for the huge swaths of the U S about two weeks ago. And no doubt, the FBI brought full force of its might onto DarkSide. And I also know personally that historically the secret service has gotten involved too. [01:08:40]Electric vehicles. We've talked about a lot. I had a lot of fun talking about, of course, that great Ford electric vehicle in the first hour of today's show. [01:08:52] And they've got some cool looking cars, but they're coming out of everywhere. Now. You've got Italy with a few manufacturers that are now right. Pushing out the cars GM of course has had them for quite a while. The volt Nissan has had theirs. Ford has a couple, including the Mustang, the new electronic Mustang. [01:09:14] There is some good things to say about them. I love the technology myself. I prefer to have something that can go a long distance. I can't really have two or three cars right now. And they might make a nice little car. If I was commuting just a few miles or maybe if it was cheap enough, I would use it to run to the grocery store. [01:09:37] But looking at the cost of these vehicles like that, that Ford pickup truck fully maxed out, fully loaded. I looked it up. During the break it's $90,000. That's crazy money. And even though it starts at 40,000, well $39,999 95 cents. Even though it's a $40,000 start. That's a lot of money to pay for a car is especially with these batteries, there's next generation stuff coming out. [01:10:09] That's going to be just phenomenal. That's what I'm waiting for, but here's part of the problem. We're looking at electric vehicles and there's so many things to talk about, but electric vehicles do not pay the taxes that are used to construct our roads and maintain our bridges and our roads. [01:10:30] There is a per mile tax that is added on by the federal government and by the state governments. But it isn't computed as a per mile tax. It's computed as an add on to the price of gasoline and the price of diesel. What they're doing is they figure okay your fuel mileage may vary. And they had a big hit, of course, when fuel injectors came into cars, because they basically doubled the fuel mileage, but they say, okay, so the average car is getting 20 or maybe 25 miles a gallon and his pain anywhere from about 50 cents to a buck, a gallon in. [01:11:14] Road taxes and those road taxes are supposed to be used to build new roads, maintain existing roads and bridges by the states and by the feds. And again, that's a topic for another conversation. So how about electric cars? They're not buying gasoline, they're not buying diesel. So those vehicles are really putting a major dent in the road budget for the feds and the state government. [01:11:46] We've got states like California, Massachusetts, and New York who want to completely phase out any fossil fuel vehicles by 2035 and Washington state plans to follow the California rules and phase out sale of gas powered cars by 2035. But there's a huge hitch in those plans. How do you have these electric vehicles, including that Ford F-150 lightning hit the road? [01:12:18] Because gas sales will continue to decline along with the revenue from taxing them. It's a very big deal. So what do you do while there are some bills that have been moving in? All of those states had just named, including Massachusetts, where they're saying we need to charge people. Per mile when they're driving within our state, how do you do that? [01:12:48] Charging per mile means, how many miles they're traveling? You could certainly set up something like easy pass that covers the major highways, but the major highways are not where everyone's always driving. Think of the state routes we're on all of the time that have no toll ability. And of course, all of the side roads, how do you tax it while there are things that say maybe we use an easy pass type thing only on the bigger roads and we're charging by the mile. [01:13:21] That's just going to drive people off of those bigger roads that are meant for traffic onto the side streets. I've seen that happen before in my own town. There are other things that are being proposed that include having the car report on miles driven within a state. So the car would have to have GPS information would know when it has crossed state lines and then keep. [01:13:51] Tabs on how many miles it drove in the state and [01:13:55] then [01:13:56] Craig Peterson: [01:13:56] report that to the tax authority for you to be charged. How would that be to have at the end of the year, right? This additional tax burden based on how many miles you drove. Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. And then there are other proposals while we'll just look at all of the vehicles that are registered in our state. [01:14:16] So again, in mass it would be when you go in for that mandatory vehicle check every year at your birthday, we will read. Your car's mileage every year and we'll discharge you by the mile. They don't care if you drove up and down to Florida most of the year or out to Texas, or most of the year back and forth to California from mass. [01:14:40]All of that would be charged against you. So there are a lot of debates going on to try and figure it out. How can we make this work? The feds have a gas tax that hasn't changed since 1993. So the federal gas tax is 18. 0.40 cents per gallon. And then you have the state taxes and most states have increased their fuel taxes since 2010 to beginning to, to bring in more money and fix the roads. [01:15:15] But this is going to be difficult. Some states, including California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia have implemented road, user fees. A lot of questions there. It's so easy to collect a gas tax. It's hidden away in the price of the gasoline. Are they just going to put an extra tax on electricity and say, the average home is using so many kilowatts for their cars and do it that way. [01:15:43] We really don't know. We just don't know. And our roads I think, are going to suffer until we figure that whole thing out. We've talked about some of these big hacks. And I was talking with a client this week about the whole solar winds hack. And where did it come from and what did they do? The solar winds hack. [01:16:07] It looks like came in through Microsoft exchange server. There are a lot of patches out there for exchange server. If you don't have it. Pay close attention, try and figure that whole thing out. Okay. It this is a very big deal, but these reasons, cyber security instances in incident are really a reminder to all of us that public and private sector entities are being attacked from nation state actors and these big cybercriminals, like what we were just talking about. [01:16:44] Here's our big question, who was behind the solar winds hack. Remember we talked about it here. The reports coming out of the federal government in the U S were, that was Russian intelligence was to be hunted it's Poot and blame Puente. Oh no. It's a Russian. Hacker gang, nothing to do with Putin. [01:17:06]Maybe Putin was, giving them a little bit of a nod, it was a Russian hacker guy, gang. Things have changed a little bit. They announced here, but Microsoft being there. Microsoft announced in March that a detected multiple zero day exploits being used to attack the exchange se
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We have all experienced some degree of stress or trauma in our lives + the subconscious tension that puts on our bodies can be a heavy load, but have you ever made the connection between your jaw + your pelvic floor? The connection between these two begins as an embryo on day 15 when the mouth + opening to our urinary, reproductive + digestive tracts form, forever aligning the two. In this episode Sarah Mackay-Wiggers uncovers the fascinating psoas muscle that holds the key to unlocking tension, stress + built up anxiety so we can feel more free, inspired + relaxed. Sarah Mackay-Wiggers is passionate about integrative movement having seen first hand the devastation clutching our pelvis can do in her bespoke studio - The Loft by Studio Samsara - as a teacher, trainer + mentor she offers nourishment in all areas of life to create balance + authentic expression. Follow Sarah on Instagram here: The Loft by Studio SamsaraContinue the conversation with Nikki here: Quintessential Being by Nikki FBQuintessential Being Instagram
Welcome to the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! This week we are on Vacation, so we are replaying one of our first episodes! This is an awesome interview with Ashley Wiggers, who is the owner of Geography Matters and The Trail Guide to Learning! Also thank you to Teaching Textbooks for Sponsoring the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast! Have a great week and keep smiling!
A few weeks back, we featured an excerpt from a new book titled Nordic Warrior? A Midlife Crisis in Biathlon. Written by Ithaca, New York, based biathlete, Craig Wiggers, the book explores his love affair with biathlon which began midlife.Wiggers' path to biathlon is as circuitous as they come. Raised in the deep south, Wiggers attended school at Auburn University and spent a full career hopscotching around the globe as a U.S. Marine. He was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. It's a safe bet to assume sliding on snow was a new and eventually welcome prospect when Wiggers and his family settled in Ithaca for a position at Cornell University.What is refreshing about Wiggers is his joy in finding a new passion and being welcomed into the biathlon community as a newbie. There's no pretense about having learned to ski at a young age or having Olympic aspirations. His is a down to earth tale - he simply wants to improve.You can find his book on Amazon for less than a dollar. All proceeds are donated to U.S. Biathlon.U.S. Biathlon Team and Craftsbury Green Racing Project biathlete Kelsey Dickinson conducted this interview.
Karl Wiggers is the country's city boy and the city's country boy. He splits his time between visiting farms across the state, producing a weekly tv show, and producing a wide range of podcasts. He's a story teller, a musician, a husband, and a good friend. Check him out instagram @karlwiggers You know when you talk to someone and then as soon as the conversation is over you remember this long list of things you were going to ask them? Well it's safe to say Karl will be back at some point so we can chat about that long list I now have.
Nossa convidado hoje é Ketlen Wiggers, a maior artilheira das Sereias da Vila, com 97 gols. A jogadora mais jovem a marcar um gol pelo Santos Futebol Clube! Como está a rotina na pandemia, a expectativa pra volta, como é a relação com o Santos e o que mudou com a Copa do Mundo de 2019. Esses temas e muito mais! Anita Efraim e Isabel Nascimento são as Alvinegras da Vila! Tem comentários, elogios ou críticas? Mande um email pra gente: alvinegras.vila@gmail.com Nos siga nas redes sociais! No Twitter e Instagram, Anita é @niefraim. Isabel Nascimento é Imparcialmente Santista, no Instagram @imparcialmentesantista e no Twitter @imparsantista
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The 2019/2020 ABB FIA Formula E Championship has been officially suspended since 13th March 2020. In the latest “Inside E” podcast, Carlo Wiggers, Director Team Management & Business Relations Porsche Motorsport, and Pascal Zurlinden, Director Factory Motorsport, discuss how the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team is dealing with this situation. They also look back at the races that have already taken place and give their take on the season so far.
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Wendy Wiggers, president of Gilda's Club, joins to talk about the benefits of community and laughter during cancer treatment.
Robyn Walensky joins to remember 9.11, Wendy Wiggers joins for our CEO Spotlight, and the Grand Hotel in Mackinac plans to sell.
Carly Wiggers in the past couple years has created a recognizable style and a community of people obsessed with her work. All through Instagram!! Learn her tips for staying consistent in this episode. The post #56. SMASHING GOALS ON INSTA WITH ARTIST CARLY WIGGERS: How Instagram can be your greatest tool for getting your creative work into the world. appeared first on Kinzie Madsen: Brand + Web Designer. Goddess. Smasher of the Patriarchy..
Carly Wiggers in the past couple years has created a recognizable style and a community of people obsessed with her work. All through Instagram!! Learn her tips for staying consistent in this episode. The post #56. SMASHING GOALS ON INSTA WITH ARTIST CARLY WIGGERS: How Instagram can be your greatest tool for getting your creative work into the world. appeared first on Kinzie Madsen: Brand + Web Designer. Goddess. Smasher of the Patriarchy..
Cindy S.H.: Hi. Welcome to Discover CircRes, the monthly podcast of the American Heart Association's journal Circulation Research. I'm your host, Cindy St. Hilaire, and my goal is to bring you highlights of articles published in the Circ Research Journal as well as have in-depth conversations with senior scientists and the junior trainees who have led the most exciting discoveries in our current issues. Today is our premier episode, so I want to take some time to introduce myself, give you a little bit of background about the history of the journal, and then have a conversation with our new editor in chief, Dr. Jane Freedman, and my social media editor partner in crime, Dr. Milka Koupenova. Cindy S.H.: First, a little bit about me. I'm an assistant professor of medicine and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. My lab is part of the division of cardiology and we're also a member of the Pittsburgh Heart, Lung and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute. I'm still a relatively new PI. I'm still learning as I go. One of the strengths of being a new PI in the current time is the amazing network we have through social media, whether it's through listening to podcasts or through Twitter or through select groups like one of my favorites, New PI Slack. Really one of my personal goals of starting this podcast for Circ Research is to have a career development angle. Because career development is so fresh in my mind and it's really something I want to incorporate into this podcast, we're hoping we can reach out to more junior trainees through these mediums. Really that's the impetus for Dr. Freedman wanting to have specific social media editors at the Circulation Research Journal. Cindy S.H.: I'm very honored to be the first host of this podcast and I'm very excited for this opportunity. As a team, Milka and I hope to expose the larger community to not only the most current and exciting discoveries in cardiovascular research but also a behind-the-scenes look of what it takes to get high-impact research done and published and planned and funded, and also talk about some of the maybe the non-bench aspects of this job, the networking, the behind-the-scenes look that really you learn on the fly as you go. Hopefully we can expose more people to these on-the-fly things in a slightly more rigorous manner. Cindy S.H.: Before I go into the articles summarized in this week's podcast, I want to give a very big thank you to Ruth Williams. Ruth is the person who writes the content of the In This Issue which is featured in every issue of the journal Circulation Research, and that content is extremely helpful in deciding which articles we're going to focus on in this podcast and also for helping me form the conversations and discussions. Thank you, Ruth, for all your hard work. Cindy S.H.: Now I'm going to highlight three articles that were featured in the June 21st issue of Circulation Research. The first is entitled Relationship Between Serum Alpha-Tocopherol and Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality: A 30-Year Prospective Cohort Analysis. The first author is Jiaqi Huang and the corresponding author is Demetrius Albanes , who are both at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, which is at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Alpha-tocopherol is the more formal name for vitamin E, and vitamin E is an essential fat-soluble vitamin. By essential, that means that while your body absolutely needs it, it does not produce it itself. Therefore we need to consume products containing vitamin E. We do that by eating vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, whole grains and certain fruits and vegetables. Previously, population-based studies have shown inconsistent associations between circulating vitamin E and risk of overall death or death due to specific diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Cindy S.H.: To look more closely at cause-specific mortality, Huang and colleagues studied a cohort of close to 30,000 Finnish men, which is a huge study. Added to that, these men were in their 50s and 60s at the start of the study and then continued for the next 30 years of their life to be in this study. It's frankly an amazing achievement to keep that many individuals enrolled. From approximately 24,000 deaths, so about 80% of the original cohort, the authors adjusted for factors such as age and confounding things like smoking. They found that vitamin E levels were inversely associated with the risk of death from a variety of causes. What that means is that higher levels of vitamin E associated with lower risk of death. All of those causes of death that they found were cardiovascular disease, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and respiratory disease. This large prospective cohort analysis provides very strong evidence that higher vitamin E levels means greater protection. Cindy S.H.: It's really interesting to note though that this data did not seem to associate with a reduced risk of death by diabetes or, for that matter, injury and accidents, which I guess kind of makes sense. The authors say these results indicate that vitamin E may influence longevity, but they also highlight the need for further studies, specifically in more ethnically diverse populations and of course in women, because we all know a major limiting factor of a majority of cardiovascular studies is the fact that often there are just not enough women in these studies. But really that's a push now to include not only women but more ethnically and geographically diverse populations. Cindy S.H.: The second article I want to highlight is titled Mitochondria Are a subset of Extracellular Vesicles Released by Activated Monocytes and Induce Type I IFN and TNF Responses in Endothelial Cells . The first authors are Florian Puhm and Taras Afonyushkin , and the senior author is Christopher Binder. All three are in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Medical University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. This group is also part of the Research Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Cindy S.H.: I want to talk about this paper because I found that title extremely provocative. Extracellular vesicles or microvesicles are small particles that can be released from cells. These particles can act as cell-cell communicators. They can hold a variety of substances such as proteins and micro RNAs and minerals and all sorts of things that are derived from inside the cell. The matrix vesicle is then budded off. Matrix vesicles released from monocytes after bacterial LPS stimulation, so a stimulus that induces an inflammatory response, these matrix vesicles have been shown to contain mitochondrial proteins. Mitochondrial DNA-containing matrix vesicles have been reported in the mouse model of inflammation. From this premise, from these prior studies, Dr. Puhm and colleagues hypothesized that the mitochondrial content of matrix vesicles might actively contribute to pro-inflammatory effects. Cindy S.H.: What they then did was show that monocytic cells release free mitochondria and also matrix vesicles that contain mitochondria within them. These free and matrix vesicle-encapsulated mitochondria were shown to drive enothelial cells to induce inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha and interferon. These circulating matrix vesicles were collected also in human volunteers that were injected with this same inflammatory substance, LPS. These circulating matrix vesicles isolated from humans also induced endothelial cell cytokine production. Very interestingly, inhibition of the mitochondrial activity drastically reduced the pro-inflammatory capacity of these matrix vesicles. Cindy S.H.: Together, this result suggests that the released mitochondria, whether it's free or whether it's encapsulated in a matrix vesicle, may be a key player in certain inflammatory diseases. This study shows that in addition to their central role in cellular metabolism, mitochondria, whether encapsulated or free, can actively participate in an inflammatory response in a cell other than the cell it was native in, which is just intriguing to think about. This work provides new insight to the contribution of mitochondria to the content and biological activity of extracellular vesicles. It also might suggest that perhaps targeting mitochondria and their release may represent a novel point for therapeutic intervention in inflammatory pathologies. Cindy S.H.: The last article I want to highlight is titled Macrophage Smad3 Protects the Infarcted Heart, Stimulating Phagocytosis and Regulating Inflammation . The first author is Bijun Chen and the senior author is Nikolaos Frangogiannis . When tissues are injured, there is localized increase in the cytokine TGF-beta. However, depending on conditions, this TGF-beta can function to stimulate macrophages to adopt either pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory phenotypes. To complicate matters more, the signaling pathway for both the pro- and anti-inflammatory phenotypes involves activation of the intracellular signaling protein Smad3. Inflammation, whether too much or too little, can influence the outcome of injuries, including injuries such as myocardial infarctions. An infarction, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is a localized area of dead tissue and that results from a lack of blood supply. In this case, an infarction, a myocardial infarction, is essentially a heart attack that stops blood flow through the coronaries and causes death in the cardiac tissue and cells. Cindy S.H.: The authors hypothesized that in the infarcted myocardium, activation of TGF-beta and Smad signaling and macrophages may regulate repair and remodeling. They had a very specific question about a very specific cell type in the context of the whole heart. To address the role of Smad3, they utilized mice that were engineered to lack Smad3 in the myeloid lineage which produces macrophage cells. They found that these mice with myeloid cell-specific deletion of Smad3 had reduced survival compared to control mice. Additionally, the hearts from the animals with the myeloid cell-specific deletion of Smad3 exhibited increased adverse remodeling and greater impairment of function. That's a really interesting finding. The heart tissue itself was the same. All that was different were the cells of the myeloid lineage. Then to dig after what cells were mediating this effect, the investigators moved on to in vitro studies. They found that Smad3-lacking cells themselves showed reduced phagocytic activity, sustained expression of pro-inflammatory genes, and reduced production of anti-inflammatory mediators when compared with control macrophages. Cindy S.H.: In summary, these results suggest Smad3 is necessary for macrophages in the area of the infarction to transition to an anti-inflammatory phagocytic phenotype that protects against excess remodeling. However, we cannot go after global inhibition of Smad3 as a potential therapy post myocardial infarction, and that's because inhibition of Smad3 in cardiomyocytes is actually protective against the infarction. Inhibition in a macrophage is bad, but inhibition in a cardiomyocyte is good. Any potential Smad3-modifying therapies really needs to be designed to be cell type-specific and be able to be deployed to activate that cell type. Cindy S.H.: In addition to science, I love history. I thought I would take this opportunity of the first podcast to share with you a little bit of history about the Journal of Circulation Research. Circulation Research is now in its 66th year, but its origins can be traced to 1944. That was when the AHA established a council that was attempting to organize its research arm and its professional program arms. The AHA journal Circulation was already in existence, but in 1951 the executive committee decided to launch a basic research supplement, and it was called just that: Circulation Basic Research Supplement. But a few years later, Circulation Research was to be its own publication because of the interest and the excitement around the basic research supplements. The quote that I'm going to read is from that first executive committee meeting and there they wanted Circulation Research to be the authoritative new journal for investigators of basic sciences as they apply to the heart and circulation. Cindy S.H.: It's a fun little subgroup that they list after that. They list in anatomy, biology, biochemistry, morphology, which I just think is so neat to think about, pathology, physics, pharmacology, and others. It's interesting to think about what that would be today if we were now finding this journal. Biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology. It's fun to think about how much science has changed since they began this journal. Really the broader goal was to integrate and disseminate new knowledge. Leading that was Dr. Carl Wiggers, who was the first editor in chief of Circ Research. At the time, he was the head of physiology at Western Reserve University, and he's often referred to as the dean of physiology, as his research really provided much of the fundamental knowledge regarding the pressures in the heart and the vessels of the body and how they interact. Cindy S.H.: I actually went back and looked at some of the first titles in Volume One, Issue One, of Circ Research. It's really kind of neat. Some of them could be completely relevant today. I'm just going to read a few. Nucleotide Metabolism and Cardiac Activity, Fundamental Differences in the Reactivity of Blood Vessels in Skin Compared to Those in the Muscle. That was at the VRIC the other day. Haemodynamic Studies of Tricuspid Stenosis of Rheumatic Origin. Reading these for the first time I actually got chills because my two themes of my lab are both in that first Volume One, Issue One, of that journal. I study the extracellular nucleotide aCD73 and its impact on vascular homeostasis. I also study calcific aortic valve disease and are hugely curious about the role of inflammation and things like rheumatic heart disease in the progression of the disease. It's amazing how much science has changed, but yet how so much has stayed the same. Cindy S.H.: Dr. Wiggers wrote a few gems, a few quotes in his biography that I want to share with you. I find them inspiring and also humbling. The first is, "Research is a gamble in which the laws of chance favor the loser. The loser must remain a good sport," which I think is perfect to think about in science. I really wish I had read that after my first RO1 was triaged. The next two are more about the science writing and I think they're great not only for when we're thinking about papers but also grants. The first is, "Readers are greatly influenced in their judgment of a research project by literary style. A poor presentation can easily damage the best investigation," which is so true. No matter how good your science is, if you can't communicate it, it doesn't matter. And lastly, "A good paper, like a good glass of beer, should be neither largely foam nor flat. It should have just the right amount of head of foam to make it palatable." Cindy S.H.: With these nuggets of wisdom, we're now going to talk with Drs. Jane Freedman, who's now the editor in chief of Circ Research, and Dr. Milka Koupenova, who is the social media editor. Before I really introduce Jane, I want to recognize all of the former editors in chief of Circ Research, Dr. Carl Wiggers, Dr. Carl Schmidt, Dr. Eugene Landis, Dr. Julius Comroe, Dr. Robert Berne, Dr. Brian Hoffman, Dr. Francis Abboud, Dr. Harry Fozzard, Dr. Stephen Vatner, Dr. Eduardo Marbán, Dr. Roberto Bolli, and now Dr. Jane Freedman. Welcome, Jane. Thank you so much for this opportunity and congratulations on your new position. Dr. Freedman: Thank you very much. Cindy S.H.: I was wondering if you could just introduce yourself to the listeners and give us a little bit about your background. Dr. Freedman: Sure. I am the Budnitz Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, and I originally became interested in a scientific career while attending Yale University where I was both an architecture and geology major. Cindy S.H.: Interesting. Dr. Freedman: Yes, very interesting. Then, not exactly knowing what I wanted to do, I worked for a year as a research assistant for my later-to-be mentor Dr. Joe Loscalzo at Brigham and Women's Hospital. There one day he sent me up to the intensive care unit and said we need to get a tube of blood from someone who was in the throes of having a myocardial infarction. Really at that point I became hooked. Why was that person having a heart attack, and using their blood how could I figure out whether they would live, die, do well, not do well, or yield new things that might help us cure or diagnose people with heart attacks later on? After that. I went to Tufts Medical School. I did my residency and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. After working at several different places, I have wound up at the University of Massachusetts where I am in the Division of Cardiology and where my laboratory currently resides. Cindy S.H.: Excellent. As the new editor in chief, what do you see as your vision for the journal? Dr. Freedman: I'm in a very fortunate position to be taking over a wonderful journal from an incredibly dedicated group of editors and associate editors and other supportive editors. Scientific pursuits and reporting and publications are really evolving at a rapid clip, so we hope to have several things happen over the next few years to survive and thrive. The first thing is we hope to define and expand Circulation Research's scientific identity. We want to extend its already outstanding portfolio of science that really demonstrates how elegant basic and translational mechanisms and pathways are part of a greater web of cardiovascular disease and stroke. This will include an increasingly diverse group of basic and translational sciences and they'll touch on both fundamental studies as well as how they translate to human disease. We also want to continue to pursue the excellence that Circulation Research already epitomizes and we want to extend its brand both to an increasingly diverse group of members, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Freedman: Circulation Research already has really wonderful publication metrics such as turnaround time, time to review, and we hope to maintain that so as to be a journal of choice for an increasingly growing number of investigators. We would also very much like to have greater interface with the American Heart Association. A lot of the research on our pages is funded by the American Heart Association, and the majority of science that the American Heart Association currently funds is basic cardiovascular science. We hope to have greater interface and help our users of the journal understand what the American Heart Association can do for them and for their scientific pursuits. Dr. Freedman: Last and very importantly, we really want to attract early and mid-career investigators to the journal. We already have some really nice programs that the previous editorship has started, such as Meet The First Author, but we would also like to be a site for education of how you can review papers, have a junior editor program and other types of programs that will help early and mid-career investigators in their future. One of the ways we're going to be doing that is to have enhanced social media programs. Cindy S.H.: Great. I really like that idea of having the junior editors because I think the best learning experience I had about how to write a grant did not happen until I actually served on a study section, because it was there you actually can understand all of those comments you got on your first grant that was triaged and why they were said. I think that is a key and really important aspect. Dr. Freedman: That's a perfect analogy because you want to remove the black box that people think is happening when they send their manuscripts in. There's so many reasons why manuscripts succeed and don't succeed, and we really do want to be as transparent as possible and we do want to educate investigators as much as possible about the process. Cindy S.H.: Actually, could you maybe tell us a little bit about that process? I made all my figures, I formatted my paper according to the instructions, I hit submit. Black box. What happens? What's the next step? Dr. Freedman: What's the next step? Cindy S.H.: What do you do? What does an editor in chief actually do? Dr. Freedman: I do have to say that none of this would happen, especially in the incredibly quick turnaround time, if we didn't have amazing support and help in our office that happens to be in Baltimore. The people there are just incredible. They make sure that papers move through. It's really 24/7. Our group has not been at it for very long, but I know Dr. Bolli's group as well as our group, people are handling manuscripts as fast as they really come in. We see the manuscript, they get quality checked. We try not to be too onerous with the first steps. Then typically they go to one of the associate or deputy editors who will handle them to send out for review. Cindy S.H.: Is that based on keywords or the title or how is that decided? Dr. Freedman: Sometimes it's based on keywords, so careful with your keywords. A lot of times, because each of the associate editors has an area of expertise that hopefully covers what your science is interested in, they will know experts in the field. We very heavily rely on our editorial board. We have an amazing editorial board at Circulation Research, and amazing contributions from the BCBS council. These individuals have over the years and currently provided just tireless and unsung, devoted help to making the journal run smoothly. It's a pretty quick turnaround time. Then the decision made based on the reviews of the article. Occasionally articles come in and they're not suitable for the journal because they're not what we perceive as what our readers would be interested in. Sometimes those articles don't go up for review. We don't want to keep them caught up, so we send them back right away. Dr. Freedman: When the articles come back in with the reviews, we're going to be discussing them at a weekly meeting. Other viewpoints will weigh in, and then we make a decision whether it's an accept, whether it's a revise, whether it needs a lot more science. That's called a de novo. Sometimes we think it's more suitable for one of the other 11 American Heart Journals and we might suggest that you consider sending it to that journal and we consult with that journal's editor. Cindy S.H.: Interesting. All that happens with about 14 days. Dr. Freedman: That's supposed to happen with 14 days. Cindy S.H.: It does pretty regularly based on the stats. That's amazing. One of the initiatives you mentioned was really the role of social media. Now I would like to introduce Dr Milka Koupenova, who is the co social media editor alongside me. Before I let Milka talk, I really have to be honest and say that my graduate school days were some of the best of my life. It was in part because Milka I were both in the same lab. We overlapped by a couple of years under the amazing mentorship of Dr. Katya Ravid. Every time we get together, all we'd talk about was how can we be like Katya? Maybe someday we'll actually have a podcast where we can get Katya in here and actually record all her nuggets of wisdom. Dr. Koupenova: I think the same thing about Katya. Cindy S.H.: How can it be more like Katya? But for now, Milka, welcome. Thank you. If you could just introduce yourself and give us a little bit about your background. Dr. Koupenova: Hi, everybody. My name is Milka Koupenova. I am an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Briefly about me, as Cindy mentioned, I did my PhD at Boston University and I studied at that time metabolism in atherosclerosis. Then I had this great opportunity to join this lab in thrombosis that studied these little cell fragments called platelets, which I knew something but not that much about. I joined Dr. Freedman lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and actually my interest evolved to be very much in platelet immunobiology and how platelets may contribute to thrombotic disease during viral infections. Luckily for me, I had two angels that I wanted to be. One of them was Katya Ravid, as you mentioned, and the other one was Dr. Freedman. Both set up a great example of scientists and how to do science in life. Cindy S.H.: Wonderful. Excellent. Thank you. I won't lie. I don't know if you feel this way. I definitely feel a little nervous about being a social media editor. I'm talking in a room to a box with a microphone on me and I don't know who's going to be listening. That's also exciting for me too. I get to disseminate all this cool knowledge and share our basic research with this huge audience. What are you most nervous about and excited about? Dr. Koupenova: You're doing the podcast, so I don't have to worry about that, that that particular part. I am quite excited actually about everything that's going to surround popularizing the science at Circulation Research. I think in the time that we live in and when social media is a huge part of our life, we definitely need to engage the community, scientific or lay, and communicate our ideas. I'm super excited about the creative part behind how we are going to achieve this via various social medias. Cindy S.H.: Can you talk about the platforms that you plan on using? Dr. Koupenova: We currently are using Twitter and Facebook. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook. And we are going to launch Instagram. Find us, follow us, engage us. That will be great. You can always send us messages and like us, retweet whatever you decide. Cindy S.H.: Give podcast feedback on Twitter. Nice comments only. Dr. Koupenova: We'd like to hear your comments and we'd like to hear what you envision in certain cases when it comes to your Circulation Research, because this is your journal as much as it is ours. We're here for you. In addition to popularize and advertise the wonderful science that we're publishing in Circ Research, we want you to be engaged. We want you to be able to advertise in your own work and to think of it as something that you own and something you need to communicate to the rest of the world. That is one of the things that we want to do. Dr. Koupenova: Finally I'm going to echo on what Dr. Freedman said, is we want to attract truly early career and young investigators and help them be involved, help them own their science and help them communicate their ideas. That's pretty much what our social media platform is and we are going to evolve with you. That is perhaps one of the challenges. Cindy S.H.: I think one of the most interesting aspects, at least in academia as I see it, is really the role of self-promotion. It's something you're never taught and it's something that you don't really appreciate until you go to that conference. I remember my first conference as a new PI, I was standing there and I'm just like, "Okay, these are all other PIs. How are they all in groups? How does everybody know each other? Why are they all friends already?" It takes a lot of guts and you have to inject yourself. "Hi. I'm Cindy St. Hilaire and I'm new. Please be my friend," essentially, essentially. But it's important and I really liked the fact that when your journal is published you have that little button, share on Twitter, share on Facebook. I think that's really important. It helps you practice that self-promotion and can help really allow you to embrace your extrovert when you know how to. Dr. Koupenova: That's exactly what I was going to point out. Scientists or physician scientists, or physician scientists perhaps are a bit better. But as scientists we're very much introverted. But social media gives you a platform that it's not cheesy to popularize and communicate. Then you see those people on conferences and then you have your little group without- Cindy S.H.: It's amazing how many Twitter friends I have. "Oh, I met you on Twitter. It's so nice to meet you in real life." Dr. Koupenova: It's a new generation. We at Circ Research want to evolve with it. Is that correct, Dr. Freedman? Dr. Freedman: That is correct. Thank you very much. Cindy S.H.: It's exciting times. I guess maybe this is a question for all of us to talk about, but how do you think we can, number one, attract people to science, attract diverse people to science, and then really keep them in science and how do you think we can use Circ Research and also the social media aspects of Circ Research to do that? Dr. Freedman: I think, first of all, people have to see themselves in the journal. The journal, I think the first point I talked about, about being inclusive, inclusive types of people, way people consume science, types of science. We really want people to feel like Circ Research isn't just a journal that puts out scientific papers, but is a forum. It's a forum for them to exchange ideas and it's a forum for them to understand better about their scientific careers. Cindy S.H.: Great. Thank you. This has been an amazing first podcast. I'm so happy to share it with the two of you and I'm super excited for this opportunity. Again, Jane, I want to congratulate you on your new position as editor in chief and I can't help but mention as the first female editor in chief. That's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Cindy S.H.: You can find us on Twitter. The handle is @CircRes, at C-I-R-C-R-E-S. We're also on Instagram using the same name, C-I-R-C-R-E-S. We hope to hear from you there. Cindy S.H.: Thank you for listening. I'm your host, Cindy St. Hilaire, and this is Discover CircRes, your source for the most up-to-date and exciting discoveries in basic cardiovascular research.
This week's podcast is such a sweet episode. However, you will definitely want to grab your journal and a box of tissues before you hit play. Five years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Debbie Strayer at the Southeast Homeschool Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. We had just released our book, The Homegrown Preschooler and […] The post Leaving a Legacy – An Interview with Ashley Wiggers appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.
You are in store for some great encouragement this week! We were able to interview Ashely Wiggers of the Homeschooling Today Magazine and the Trail Guide to Learning Curriculum. She has a long history in the homeschooling world and offers some great insight and encouragement. If you would like to follow more that Ashley Wiggers does go to www.homeschoolingtoday.com and www.home-school-curriculum.com. As always if you would like to send us an email you can at ben or todd @thesmilinghomeschooler.com, or you can message us over on Facebook. Thanks for listening this week and as always...keep smiling!
Namita Wiggers joins Tyler professors Chad Curtis and Jesse Harrod in a conversation about Questions of Critical Craft. Namita Gupta Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR. She is the Director and Co-Founder of Critical Craft Forum. Wiggers teaches in MFA Applied Craft + Design, co-administered by Oregon College of Art + Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art, and at Portland State University. She contributes to online and in-print journals and books, serves as the Exhibition Reviews Editor, The Journal of Modern Craft, and on the Editorial Board of Garland. Recent projects include: Across the Table, Across the Land with Michael Strand for the National Council on Ceramic Education in the Arts; EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MATERIAL FOR SCISSORS TO SHAPE, a textile-focused exhibition at the Wing Luke Museum of Asian American Experience, Seattle; a forthcoming publication with Wiley Blackwell Publishers; and a study of gender and jewelry with Benjamin Lignel.
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast
Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a discussion with Namita Wiggers and Michael Strand. I talk with the duo of curators about their project for the recent 50th anniversary of NCECA- Across the Table, Across the Land. Taking place over the better part of the year the project encouraged the public to submit both object and event-based works around the idea of ceramics, food and community. The project culminated with an exhibition at the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City. In the interview we talk about how ceramics can be a catalyst for communal gatherings, the role of emotion in exhibition design, and the documentation/analysis of social practice. For more information on the Across the Table please visit www.ncecaacrossthetable.com. Namita Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR. She is the Director and Co-Founder of Critical Craft Forum. Wiggers teaches in the MFA Applied Craft + Design, co-administered by Oregon College of Art + Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art. For more information please visit www.criticalcraftforum.com. Michael J. Strand is an Associate Professor and Head of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. With a background as a functional potter, Michael’s work has moved seamlessly into social practice and community engagement, while remaining dedicated to the traditional object, as he investigates the potential of craft as a catalyst for social change. For more information please visit www.michaeljstrand.com. This episode of Tales of the Red Clay Rambler is sponsored by FLM Studio in Petaluma, CA. This multipurpose studio offers workshops for Bay Area ceramic artists while also serving as the studio for Forrest Lesch Middelton. On June 4th and 5th I will be teaching a two day hands-on workshop titled from Flat to Functional. Join me for this exciting weekend to learn more about using foam molds to create hand built tableware. To register for this event visit www.flmceramics.com.
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Photo by Micah Fischer ‘13. CraftPerspectives Lecture | Namita Gupta Wiggers and Benjamin Lignel on Contemporary Jewelry Museum of Contemporary Craft and the MFA in Applied Craft and Design welcome Benjamin Lignel and Namita Gupta Wiggers. Contemporary jewelry is doing OK. It does not need another pat on the back in the form of a 300-page book of images. When taking on the task of editor in 2010, Damian Skinner decided to treat Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective as an opportunity to examine jewelry as a mature, fully developed practice. Rather than propose yet another set of justifications for its existence, he led a project to provide instruments to navigate the spaces in which jewelry lives (Part 1), to understand the history of the field (Part 2), and to grasp some of the contentious issues that animate jewelry today (Part 3). This joint lecture by Benjamin Lignel and Namita Wiggers, both contributors to Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, Part 1, will look at the history of contemporary jewelry through the lens of some of its defining moments. Why was the critique of preciousness so important? What exactly is de-skilling, and does it herald the end of bench-based craft? Why is inheritance an issue for long-term preservation of contemporary jewelry? Lignel and Wiggers will also discuss the spaces of contemporary jewelry, revealing how they are both found and invented as products of contemporary practice. We will show how such spaces are determined by maker’s willingness to appropriate them and to challenge the limits of what is historically “given.” While we share some assumptions about contemporary jewelry, our positions as curator and editor/maker have colored, and to some extent polarized, how we think about the field. This lecture is meant to test our methodology and to better understand the functionality of the book as a user-friendly tool kit. The lecture will pick up selected tools in a non-linear presentation of a non-linear book with the goal of leaving the audience with the strange urge to burn, and then redraw the plinth on which contemporary jewelry sits. This program is co-sponsored by Art Jewelry Forum and the MFA in Applied Craft + Design. A book signing will follow the lecture. Download
In this 20th installment of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by author, political analyst and activist Bakari Kitwana in a conversation about the current media landscape. Neal also talks with Baruch College Professor and 2009 TED Fellow Kyra D. Gaunt whose recent essay Black Twitter, Combating the New Jim Crow & the Power of Social Networking examines the social justice potential of Social Media. →Bakari Kitwana is a journalist, activist and political analyst. He’s currently senior editor of newsone.com, the internet news presence of Radio One. He’s also the CEO of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop, which conducts town hall meetings around the country on difficult dialogues facing the hip-hop generation. Kitwana is the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (2002) and Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabees and the New Reality of Race in America (2005). →Kyra D. Gaunt is a trained ethnomusicologist and classical singer who teaches the study of African American music, cultural anthropology, hip-hop, race and gender studies. A 2009 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Fellow, Gaunt is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Baruch College. She is the author of The Games Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop (NYU Press, 2007)
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