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Former land speed record holder Richard Noble returned to Brooklands to tell us about his new project, an attempt on the water speed record. Inspired by the exploits of John Cobb and his designer Reid Railton, the Thrust team has set out to break the current WSR of 317.596mph, which was set by Australian Ken Warby back in 1978. That the record has stood for so long indicates both the danger and the difficulty involved in mounting a challenge. Since that record was set, two challengers have died in the process. The Thrust WSH (water speed hydrofoil) team is therefore proceeding with maximum research and risk mitigation efforts. To produce a truly innovative design the team has access to advanced technologies and resources not available to earlier challengers.
世界最古の“ティントップ”シリーズとして知られるBTCCイギリス・ツーリングカー選手権にて、現在はチームBMWとしてFR駆動のNGTC規定モデルを走らせる名門ウエスト・サリー・レーシング（WSR）が、2025年シーズンに向け3人目のレギュラードライバーを発表。新たにLKQユーロ・カーパーツをパートナーに迎え、スコットランド出身のエイデン・モファットを起用する。 投稿 BMWの3台目はエイデン・モファットに確定。LKQユーロ・カーパーツの支援を得て名門WSRに加入へ／BTCC は autosport web に最初に表示されました。
This episode is a long one, but so good, with a lengthy visit with Craig Cogil at the National Weather Service in Johnston. We're so grateful for all of Craig's time and insights! Forecast Discussion A system moving through tomorrow will bring snow to northern Iowa, with 1-2 inches expected north of Highway 20. Strong winds and colder air will follow. The 8-14 day outlook shows high confidence in above-average temperatures, potentially reaching the 40s. There's a slight chance of above-average precipitation, likely in liquid form due to warmer temperatures. Climate Trends December has been warming in recent years, with less snow and more mixed precipitation events. The beginning of December 2024 has been close to normal in temperature and slightly drier than average. Recent Weather Events An ice storm occurred on Friday, December 13th, affecting areas including Omaha, Des Moines, and Ames. The timing of the ice storm during evening commute in Omaha led to significant impacts. Forecasting Challenges Predicting mixed precipitation (sleet, freezing rain) is particularly challenging due to the complexity of temperature profiles and freezing lines. Small changes in temperature or location can significantly affect the type of precipitation experienced. Latent heat release during phase transitions can complicate forecasts by warming surface air more quickly than anticipated. Tornado Climatology and Technology The conversation then shifts to discussing tornado climatology and the evolution of weather technology. The official tornado climatology database started in 1950. Early records (1950s-1970s) only noted tornado occurrences without ratings. In the mid-1970s, a project retroactively rated tornadoes from 1950 onwards using newspaper archives and photos The Fujita scale for rating tornadoes was introduced in the mid-1970s There's been an apparent increase in tornado numbers over time, largely due to improved detection and reporting methods Radar Technology Evolution Weather radar technology evolved from repurposed World War II equipment. The first dedicated weather radar network, WSR-57, was introduced in 1957. This was followed by WSR-74 in 1974, which came in different frequency bands (S-band and C-band) S-band radars (10 cm wavelength) are better at penetrating heavy precipitation, while C-band radars (5 cm wavelength) are more easily attenuated
スタンディング上も同率首位で並んだ2022年王者トム・イングラムと最終戦で劇的な勝負を繰り広げ、晴れてBTCCイギリス・ツーリングカー選手権の自身初チャンピオンを獲得したジェイク・ヒルが、来季2025年に向け早々に去就を固めたことを発表。 元F1ドライバーのマーク・ブランデル率いるMBモータースポーツに、言わずと知れた名門ウエスト・サリー・レーシング（WSR）とのジョイント体制を維持し、引き続き“レーザー・ツール・レーシング・ウィズ・MBモータースポーツ”のエントリー名で『BMW 330e Mスポーツ』のステアリングを握りタイトル防衛に挑む。 投稿 新王者ジェイク・ヒルは名門WSR残留でタイトル防衛へ。2025年BTCC競技規則の改訂詳細も発表 は autosport web に最初に表示されました。
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Pippa speaks to the spokesperson for WSR, Murray Williams, for advice on preparing for hikes this time of year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join us for updates from the IAYRA boys spring rugby 7s league! Interviews from Norwalk's head coach Matt Daniels and one of WSR's head coaches Casey Hansen!
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Solénoïde (18.12.2023) - Bienvenue à bord de notre première Virée Germanique, un voyage radiophonique qui va traverser l'Allemagne et ses paysages sonores riches en innovations et expérimentations. Notre périple passera bien sûr à Berlin, épicentre des artistes expérimentaux. C'est là que l'effervescence créative trouve refuge dans des friches industrielles et des entrepôts abandonnés, façonnant une scène avant-gardiste unique. Mais d'autres arrêts sont prévus à Düsseldorf et dans d'autres villes telles que Saarlouis au sud-ouest du pays et Bad Kleinen au nord-est, bordant le magnifique lac de Schwerin.
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! Windows 11 The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR) Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal) Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General) For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute) Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot Antitrust UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple? Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns AI Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically Xbox An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review App pick of the week: Fences 5 RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta
CITR's 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. This evening's broadcast features WSR, KLOOB / ONASANDER, FRANCISCO MEIRINO / JEROME NOETINGER, and JWPATON.
Randal O'Toole, an American policy analyst, discusses his maverick career, non consensus views on urban planning, transportation, and housing in this interview. O'Toole runs the Thoreau Institute as well as the popular policy blog, The Antiplanner. He has written several books and hundreds of policy papers from a free market perspective on urban planning, government policy, housing, rail and other related land use topics. We explore his belief that urban planners often impose their preferences on the public, such as imposing restrictive land use planning codes to “force” people to live in apartments and use public transit, even though most people prefer single-family homes and driving. O'Toole also shares the impact of the pandemic on urban planning, reinforcing existing trends such as people moving to the suburbs and working from home. We discuss the potential of autonomous vehicles in replacing public transit in the future as well as his views on cycling. In this interview, O'Toole critiques the idea of planning itself and promotes the repeal of federal and state planning laws and the closure of state and local planning departments. He explores in detail why planning fails, through documentation of planning disasters, while giving context of his perspective on land use issues in Hawaii such as cycling, light rail, affording housing, and agricultural lands as well as providing solutions for environmental protection and stewardship.Topics / Time Stamps* (2:08) On Biking in Oahu* (12:33) Educational Background and Current Work* (16:05) Economics vs Planning* (20:31) The Iconoclastic Mindset* (24:25) Buses vs Light Rail* (26:55) Criticism of the Honolulu Light Rail System* (33:47) On New Urbanism* (43:45) Urban Planning and the Pandemic* (46:16) Solutions to non utilized urban cores / skyscrapers * (49:06) The Iron Triangle* (51:30) Autonomous vehicles as an alternative* (54:07) Houston as Model* (59:18) Incentive-based conservation* (1:04) The Grassroot Institute* (1:06) Hawaii Land Use Reforms Recommendations* (1:12) Vacancy Taxes as Symptom * (1:15) On Optimism* (1:17) Policy Briefs The Antiplanner: https://ti.org/antiplanner/Policy Briefs: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?page_id=16274The Education of an Iconoclast: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?page_id=16272Leafbox:Today I had the pleasure of speaking and learning from Randal O'Toole. He's an American policy analyst. He's written several books, hundreds of policy papers, and he provides solutions from a free market perspective to various problems. He runs a popular blog called The Antiplanner, and he's featured in several debates on urbanism, environmentalism, government policy. But today I was curious about exploring his biography and discussing his memoir, the Education of an Iconoclast. We discussed his shift from forestry to economics, his 50 year career, his thoughts on light rail and other transportation, housing solutions, bus, Hawaii, top down urban planning, Houston as a model for development and other topics. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening.Leafbox:Hi, good afternoon, Randal.Randal O'Toole:Can you hear me?Leafbox:Now I can. Perfect. Thank you for your punctuality and for rearranging the meeting. I know you're a busy man.Randal O'Toole:Great.Leafbox:Well, Randal, I just thank you so much for your time. I've been reading your blog on and off for years and this morning I was biking. I live in Oahu, so I think that's important visual wise.Randal O'Toole:Oh, I hate biking in Oahu. It is so awful.Leafbox:I bike every day about 10, 12 miles to drop off my daughter back and forth. I was listening to some of your debates you've had with people, mainly James Kunstler and obviously I love biking. I wanted to start with biking. There are many debates you have online about the pros and cons of government planning and light rail, but I really wanted to start with your relationship with cycling and how that influenced your political evolution because I read most of your excellent biography and memoirs and I just wanted to understand how that cycling framework has influenced your analysis of cities and urban planning and design and everything.Randal O'Toole:Well, it's funny. One of the very first transportation issues I got involved in, it wasn't the first, but it was early. It was about 1975. I was invited to attend meetings of the bicycle advisory committee for the city of Portland. And I was an ardent cyclist. I didn't even have a driver's license at the time and I worked in downtown Portland and I lived in the east side, which if you know Portland means you have to cross the river. And Portland has, I think 11 bridges now. Only nine of them are open to vehicles and only seven of them are open to bicycles. And the lanes tended to be pretty narrow and there was a lot of on and off ramps on some of those bridges. So I went to the advisory committee and I said, you need to put some curb cuts to make it easy for bicycles to use the sidewalks so that they aren't blocking your narrow lanes.A couple of the bridges, the lanes were only like 12 feet wide and there was no ability to pass because there were structures on both sides of the lanes. And so if you were bicycling, it was kind of scary to have cars pass you in this narrow lane if you were in the lane. Now there was a sidewalk, but you couldn't get up to the sidewalk without stopping and getting off your bike and lifting the bike onto the sidewalk and so on. So I said, put in curb cuts. And the city said, oh, we can't do that. It would be too dangerous when the bicycles come off, the cars wouldn't expect it. And they'd hit the bicyclists and two years later they put in all the curb cuts and all the places I recommended. So I stopped going to those advisory committee meetings, but they ended up doing what I recommended.Now it wasn't because I had recommended it, it was because that was the logical place to put it. Since then, I occasionally participated in bicycle proposals, but today what I'm seeing is that the bicycle community has been captured by the anti automobile community. Even though at the time I didn't have a driver's license, I wasn't anti automobile, I was a follower of John Forrester. John Forrester wrote a book called, what was it called? Anyway, he argued that bicycles were vehicles by law, they were treated as vehicles and so they should act like vehicles. They should assert themselves when they were in very narrow lanes and make sure that cars knew they were there, occupy the whole lane if necessary, but usually they should try to be a part of the flow of traffic and not expect any special lanes or anything like that. In fact, he argued that bicycle lanes actually made traffic more dangerous.What's happened since then is that we've had movements, pro bicycle movements that have made bicycle list feel like they are superior to other vehicles in traffic. There was a movement called critical mass where hundreds or thousands of bicyclists would go at rush hour one day a week and occupy some entire streets that were vital streets for people getting home and disrupt traffic as much as possible. And the bicyclists who were attending these critical mass events were told You were superior, cars are inferior, you should have the right of way over cars at all times. And what we saw happen was bicyclists then would go away from these critical mass meetings and be convinced that they were superior and they would insist on occupying right away and asserting right away when they didn't actually have it and they would get hit more frequently. And we've seen an increase in bicycle fatalities in recent years.And I think that's partly because critical mass has warped the perspective of bicyclists. And so we've had cities adopt plans that they claim are to make streets safer. They call them vision zero plan. And these vision zero plans often call for taking a four lane street, in other words, a major collector street that's moving a lot of traffic and take away one of the lanes from the automobiles and make it into bike lanes. So you'd have a 12 foot lane turned into two six foot lanes, one for bicyclists going one way and one for bicyclists going the other way. That leaves three lanes. One of the lanes would be used for left turns and the other two lanes would be for traffic in two different directions. Now that kind of project is designed to safeguard bicyclists from being hit from behind by cars. Well, on average, about 3% of bicycle fatalities consist of people being hit from behind by cars.Now I'm a cyclist. I know you're always nervous about getting hit from behind, but the cars see you, they know you're there, and so they watch out. They don't want to hit you any more than you want to be hit by them. So only 3% of fatalities are being hit by cars from behind. Half of all fatalities take place at intersections where the bike lanes disappear. So we're safeguarding against a very rare event and not doing anything about the kind of event that is responsible for half of all bicycle fatalities by putting in the bike lanes, we're sending a message to bicyclists that it's safe to ride on this busy street. So we get an increase in bicyclists riding on these busy streets, which means you're get an increase in bicyclists crossing busy intersections and getting hit. So we're making bicycling more dangerous by creating an illusion of bicycle safety that isn't real.I would've done something completely different. I would've taken local streets that are parallel to those busy streets and turned them into bicycle boulevards, which means you remove as many stop signs as you can so that you can have through bicycle traffic with minimal stops, but put in a few little concrete barriers to discourage cars from using those streets as through street. So you now have streets that are open to cars for local traffic and open to bicycles for through traffic. And I've used bicycle boulevards in Berkeley and Portland and other streets and they feel a lot safer. They are a lot safer and they don't cause the imposition on cars. It happens when you take lanes away from cars. So that's my attitudes towards cycling, which is that bicycles are vehicles, cars are vehicles. One should not be superior to the other. In certain situations, cars have the right of way and other situations, bicycles have the right of way. The safest thing we can do is separate them when we can by putting bicycles on bicycle boulevards instead of by asserting that bicycles are safe, by putting them into bike lanes when actually we're making it more dangerous.Leafbox:So Randal, you mentioned that you don't like biking in Oahu. What specifically do you not like about biking here?Randal O'Toole:Well, you've got a lot of busy streets. Their lanes are narrow. There's often not bike lanes where you do have bike lanes. They have strangely put two-way traffic in one bike lane. And so you have a risk of hitting other bicyclists, but you also have the risk that not only do you have bicyclists going with the flow of traffic, you have bicyclists going in the opposite flow from traffic. And so you're compounding the risk of not just having the risk of getting hit from behind, but having the risk of a head on collision. And I don't see that as particularly safe. I've bicycled, the last time I got hit by a truck was when I was bicycling in Maui on a bike lane and the truck was turning left into a driveway. I was bicycling at about 20 miles an hour. There was a lot of traffic and the truck didn't see me before it turned and I didn't see it until the last second and got hit by this truck. So again, it's another situation where bike lanes do not increase safety. It would've been better if there had been a local bicycle boulevard and I think you could probably put some bicycle boulevards in Oahu, but they haven't done that. Instead. Mostly bicycles are then for themselves and there are those few bike lanes downtown, which I didn't find particularly well designed.Leafbox:Randal, I should have asked first, but for people who aren't familiar with your work, I'm a fan of Antiplanner, but how do you describe yourself? What's a quick summary of your actual work and education and framework?Randal O'Toole:Well, the funny thing is my training is as a forester and I spent the first 20 years of my career as a forest policy analyst. I was analyzing government plans, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management plans for mainly public lands, but also in some cases for private lands. That analysis carried over. I discovered that, well, what happened was is I was challenging the federal timber sale levels. They were selling a lot of timber, losing money at most of it, doing a lot of environmental damage. And in a nutshell:, we won federal timber sale levels declined by 85% between 1990 and 2000, and it was a great deal of that was due to my work. Part of it was due to the spotted owl, which I didn't really work on, but most of it was due to my work, which persuaded the forest service, that they were cutting too much timber and that they shouldn't be doing so much.And so now having won that battle, I looked around for other battles to fight and came across battles that were going on with land use and transportation in the city I lived in, which was the Portland urban area. And extended that to found out that I was dealing with a movement that was a national movement that was trying to force people to stop driving, trying to force more people to live in apartments instead of single family homes. And since 98% of the travel we do in cities is driving, and since 80% of Americans want to live in single family homes, it seems to me that even though I was a bicyclist, I have to realize that most people don't bicycle. Most people drive. And even though I have lived in apartments, I have to realize that most people want to live in single family homes.So I shouldn't be imposing my preferences on other people through some kind of planning process. So I began to challenge city plans, urban area plans, state plans, transportation plans, land use plans, and I discovered that there's a lot of similarities between forest planning and urban planning. Basically, forest planners think that there's these inanimate objects out in forest that they can make, do whatever they want. I actually found a forest plan that proposed they were going to grow trees to be 650 feet tall when the tallest trees in the world are less than 400 feet tall. Forest planners just thought they could imagine anything they want and it would happen. And urban planners think that there's these inanimate objects in cities that they can make, do whatever they want. And those inanimate objects are people and they think that, well, they can just force more people to live in apartments. They can just force more people to take transit or to bicycle instead of drive. And to me, those are very unappealing ideas and whether you're libertarian or not, you don't really like to think that somebody is trying to manipulate you to force you to use a much more expensive way of transportation or to live in a much less desirable home. That also happens to be more expensive than the single family home you might be living in. Now,Leafbox:When did that shift, I think in your memoirs, you started taking economics classes or was it when you were learning first computer modeling, when did that shift come in understanding reality versus imposed reality?Randal O'Toole:The funny thing was that when I was working on forest issues, I was making quite a name for myself. One Forest Service official told a reporter that Randal O'Toole has had more impact on the forest service than all the environmental groups combined. And so I would get speaking invitations and a professor at the University of Oregon Department of Urban Planning asked me to come and speak to his class, and I did at the time, I had a bachelor's degree in forestry and he said, you should go to graduate school, you should go to graduate school in our urban and regional planning department. And I said, well, I'm not really interested in urban planning. I'm interested in forest issues. He said, well, we also do regional planning, so they offered me funding support and things like that. So I said, okay, so I took the first terms worth of courses in urban planning and I looked around and I said, I shouldn't just take courses in one field.I should also learn some other fields. And there was a course in urban economics, it was also a graduate course, and what I discovered was the urban economists didn't make any assumptions about cities. Instead, they looked at the data and then they tried to build for how the city works, they compared the model against the data and if the model didn't produce the data that they knew was real, they modified the model and then they compared that against the data and they kept modifying it until they got a model that came out pretty close to how the cities actually were working. So then they were able to ask questions of the model like what happens if you draw an urban growth boundary around the city and force the density of the city to get higher force higher densities, force more people to live in apartments instead of single family homes?Will that result in more congestion or less? Well, the model clearly showed that although some people would respond to density by taking transit, most people would keep driving and the congestion would just get worse. Because you have more people driving per square mile of land because you'd have higher population densities? Well, in the urban planning courses, they asked the same question, and instead of building a model or looking at any data at all, they just said, well, I think if they were higher density people would ride transit more and so there'd be less congestion. And everybody in the class agreed. There were two urban planning professors in this class and they agreed and I said, no, the actual economic data show that the congestion would get worse. We went back and forth and finally one of the professors said, well, everybody's entitled to their opinion.And that was the day I knew I wasn't going to become a planner, I was going to become an economist. So I stopped taking urban planning courses and I started taking economics courses and took a whole slew of those courses and still spent most of my time working on forest issues. And so I ended up not earning any degrees, but I think more like an economist than a planner. In fact, I think more like an economist than a forester. Foresters have a way of thinking. Geographers have a way of thinking. Landscape architects have a way of thinking. Economists and planners have ways of thinking, and I think like an economist. And so sometimes I'll call myself an economist even though I don't have a degree in economics. Sometimes I call myself a policy analyst even though I don't have a degree in policy analysis. My degree is in forestry. All of these things are alike in the sense that these planners and basically what I've spent my career doing is critiquing government plans. These planners think that they can impose things on the land or impose things on people that people don't want to have imposed on them.Leafbox:Going back to where does that iconoclastic mindset emerge from? I'm curious and how do you keep defending it? Why don't you go with the flow of the consensus?Randal O'Toole:Well, it's funny, I've always been an iconoclast. I grew my hair down well below my shoulders when I was in high school, which made the high schools vice principals hate me. I would leave school to go to anti-Vietnam protest marches or civil rights protest marches. I would skip school to go to environmental events and eventually started an environmental group in my high school when Earth Day came along that persuaded me that I should work on environmental issues. So I went to a forestry school where they taught people how to grow trees so they could cut them down and cut them up into forest products. And here I was not being real obvious about it, but being somewhat obvious because I was spending my summers doing internships, working on how to stop the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and other agencies from cutting down trees.And so I was always out of step and that seems to have continued throughout my career. One interesting example lately has been bus rapid transit. I spent a lot of the last 30 years of my career critiquing urban transit systems and we'd see cities like Portland and Seattle spending billions of dollars on rail transit and Honolulu now spending billions of dollars on rail transit and I'd say, wait a minute, bus rapid transit can move more people faster, faster to more destinations than rail transit. So instead of rail transit, we should be looking at bus rapid transit, and now we're seeing cities say, okay, we'll do bus rapid transit, but we won't do the kind of bus rapid transit Randal O'Toole was talking about, which was running buses on ordinary city streets. But the buses only stop once per mile like a rail line, and so they're faster.They don't have to stop as frequently and they'll be more attractive to passengers both because they're faster and they're more frequent. Instead of just doing that, we're going to build special lanes for the buses. We're going to build fancy stops for all the buses, fancy stations for all the buses to stop at. And so instead of spending a million dollars a mile on bus rapid transit, we're going to spend $50 million a mile or a hundred million dollars a mile on bus rapid transit. We're going to make bus rapid transit as expensive as building rail transit. Well, I've lost interest in that, and so I'm now no longer enthusiastic behind bus rapid transit. Instead, the kind of transit I've been advocating is express buses, nonstop buses throughout urban areas that will take people from lots of origins to lots of different destinations with intervening 20 miles an hour, which is the average speed for bus rapid transit or 11 miles an hour, which is the average speed for local buses. They'll go at 50 miles or 55 miles an hour because they'll be going on freeways for most of their routes. Nobody else in the transit industry is thinking about this. So I guess I'm ahead of my time. I was talking about bus rapid transit before they were, and now I'm talking about express buses before anybody else. We'll see if they follow.Leafbox:Randal. These are like the buses, the Bolt bus in Los Angeles or San Francisco or the Chinatown buses in New York to Boston or DC or those type of private industry buses.Randal O'Toole:Those are intercity buses. And the interesting thing about the intercity bus industry is it used to be tied down by bus stations. You'd have these expensive bus stations in every city and they'd have baggage clerks and they'd have ticket salesmen and stuff like that. And the kind of buses you're mentioning, they've abandoned all that. They go from curbside to curbside, which means they don't have to pay for a station. They let the passengers load their own luggage, which means they don't have to pay for baggage handlers. You buy your tickets on the internet, which means they don't have to pay for ticket agents.And that led to a huge resurgence in inter city buses. intercity buses buses were on the decline for about 1960 to 2005, and you started seeing these infrastructure light buses, megabus and bolt bus and so on, and suddenly bus ridership, intercity buses bus ridership is increasing. So we look at the transit industry and instead of saying, let's see, we've got this great infrastructure out there, it's called roads and streets. Let's run our transit on roads and streets. Instead of saying that, they're saying, let's build a lot of infrastructure that's dedicated solely to urban transit, and it's going to be really expensive infrastructure. We can build a lane mile of road for half a million dollars, but we're going to spend a hundred million dollars building a mile of rail or $200 million. There are some rail projects now that are costing $500 million per mile of rail.That's a billion dollars a route mile because we have a mile of rail going in each direction. So we're spending phenomenal amounts of money for something that's only going to be used by a few transit riders because transit only carries half a percent of all passenger travel in this country. Before the pandemic, it was 1%, but now it's down to about a half a percent. Maybe it'll get us way back up to three-fourths of a percent. We're spending billions and billions of dollars on this tiny percentage of travelers with buses. We could attract the same number of people, move the same number of people, probably more people for a lot less money because the buses can go faster. Even New York City subways average less than 30 miles an hour, and buses on freeways can average 60 miles an hour.Leafbox:So Randal here in Hawaii about the new HART (Light Rail), I'd love to just a quick summary of your critiques of that system and why you think it was built.Randal O'Toole:Well, of course, when they first planned it, they said it was going to cost less than 3 billion. And in fact, the original proponents said that fares were going to pay not only all the operating costs, but they were going to pay part if not all of the capital costs. Well, the costs have exploded to well over $9 billion. The Federal Transit Administration thinks that by the time they're done, it's going to be $12 billion and they've run out of money. So they're saying we're not going to be able to finish it all the way immediately. Eventually we might get enough money to be able to finish it, but not right away. And the ridership numbers they were projecting were probably way too high. Certainly they're not getting anything close to what they were expecting with the part that's opened. That's partly because it's not finished and you look at it and all it really is a bus route.They could have done exactly the same thing with buses. They could have gone just as fast if not faster with buses. They persuaded people to go for it. They said it's going to relieve congestion. Well, it's not going to relieve congestion. In fact, their own data show the congestion is going to increase near the transit stops because people were going to be slowing down and stopping there to pick up and drop off rail riders instead of people walking to the rail stations that were going to drive to the rail stations and have somebody drive them and drop them off. So their own data showed it was going to increase congestion, but they convinced people it was going to reduce congestion. And the onion had a great story many years ago saying 98% of American commuters want other people to ride transit so that they can drive in less congested traffic.So transit agencies in Honolulu, in Los Angeles and San Diego and cities all over the country had convinced people to go for these extremely expensive transit projects by claiming that it was going to reduce congestion when in fact, on almost every case, it made congestion worse. And we made these critiques of the Honolulu Rail project before they began, before it began, the city council ignored us. They were heavily pressured by the unions that wanted jobs for constructing it. When the construction is done, there aren't going to be any jobs. The transit is automated, there aren't going to be jobs for drivers, there's going to be some maintenance jobs. There's going to be a tiny fraction, the jobs that they're getting for building. And so it was just basically unions and contractors wanted to build it. They threw money into the right campaign funds, and so politicians supported it.So we end up seeing, and we're seeing us all over the country, we're seeing it for high speed rail, we're seeing it for Amtrak. We're seeing this what's called the iron triangle, which is people who make money from tax dollars in one corner of the triangle, the bureaucracy that another corner of the triangle and the politicians at a third corner of the triangle, the politicians appropriate money to the bureaucracy, which then give it out to the contractors who spend it and then who then take some of that money and use it for campaign contributions to the politicians. Very hard to break that triangle. We have found that if a measure goes on the ballot and we can spend 10% as much money as a proponent spend, we can usually reach enough voters to convince 'em to vote it down. But if we only reach five, only spend 5% as much as the proponent spend, it usually passes because they drown us out with their claims that it's going to relieve congestion and is education.It's convincing people to be skeptical of government. We've got this huge movement now that's skeptical of capitalism and they don't realize that a lot of government is really crony capitalism where people take money from government to build up their companies. You've got companies that exclusively live off of government spending, and you see this in transportation. We've got all these engineering and consulting firms like Parsons Brinkerhoff, which has now got a new name WSR and HDR and a bunch of other companies, and they overtly lie. HDR has made a specialty of going to cities and saying, if you build rail transit, you're going to get billions of dollars of economic development. Look what happened in Portland. They built a light rail line and they got a billion dollars of economic development. They don't mention the fact that Portland got zero economic development after it built the light rail.So 10 years after it opened the line, it threw a billion dollars in subsidies to developers along the light rail line, and those developers then put in new developments and they said, look, we built the light rail line. We've got all this new development. Well, you didn't mention the billion dollars in subsidies: where you didn't put in the subsidies, you got no new development, or you did put in the subsidies and you didn't have light rail, you got new development. It was the subsidies, not the light rail that got new development. HDR lies to people and claims it's the rail transit that got the new development. They even hired a city counselor in Portland, the person who had originally proposed these subsidies, and he traveled around the country telling cities that they put in the rail lines and they got all this development. He never mentioned the subsidies that he himself had initiated on the Portland City Council.So you need to educate people and we need a skeptical public. We need people in the public who aren't going to automatically assume that government is good and that private operations, private companies are automatically bad. Private corporations aren't necessarily purely good, but given a choice between a public agency and a private corporation, I would rather have the private corporation because I can at least decide not to patronize that company if I don't like their products or what they do. Whereas when the government does something, I'm stuck with having to pay taxes for it whether I like it or not.Leafbox:What are your thoughts on New Urbanism? I think you've had debates with James Kunstler and have any of your thoughts changed or evolved orRandal O'Toole:Yes, they've evolved. I originally didn't like it and now I hate it. I originally thought new urbanism was a little misguided. Now I think they're delusional. Totally delusional. New urbanism is the idea that people will be happier if they live within walking distance of shops, of coffee shops, of stores of transit stops, maybe even within walking distance of work that people will be healthier if they're within walking distance. The way to do that is to build a lot more apartments because that's the way to get the density you need to get people living within walking distance. And so new urbanism effectively supported the urban planners who are trying to have urban growth boundaries around cities and densify the cities and increase the apartments. And if you look at the history of new urbanism, it basically came in the 1990s from a group of architects and planners who read a book that was published in about 1960 called The Death and Life of Great American Cities.The book was written by an architecture critic at the time named Jane Jacobs. She lived in Greenwich Village, New York City at the time, the urban planning profession believed that high density apartments were bad. Most of the big cities like New York and Chicago and Boston had a bunch of apartments that had been built before the turn of the 20th century. They were like four and five and six stories tall. They didn't have any elevators. You had to climb up all these staircases if you lived on an upper floor to get to your apartment. At the time they were built, elevators had just been invented or they hadn't even been invented yet. High speed electric elevators dated to 1891. So a lot of these were built before the elevators. They were built for people who couldn't afford to ride a street car to work. And so you had blocks of apartments that had like 5,000 people living per block, and they were within walking distance of blocks of factories that had like 3000, 4,000 people per block of factories.So people would walk, from the apartment for the factory. Well, after the turn of the 20th century, we got Henry Ford developed the moving assembly line for automobiles, and he made automobiles so cheap that everybody who was living in those apartments could afford to buy them. And the moving assembly line required so much land that all the factories moved out of downtowns into the suburbs. So the jobs moved to the suburbs, the people who bought cars that a lot of them moved to the suburbs, they could live in single family home instead of apartments. And after World War ii, we could see those apartments were not very desirable. And so in 1949, Congress passed a law that gave the cities money for urban renewal that was to be used to clear these apartments out and replaced them with something else. Well, the cities didn't want to replace 'em with single family homes because they didn't think they'd get as much tax revenue for the single family homes.So for the most part, the cities were replacing them with high rise apartments with elevators. In the 1930s, there was a crazy architect from Switzerland who called himself Le Corbusier , which I think means the crow, and he thought that everybody should live in high rise apartment. I don't know why he thought that, because he himself never lived in a high rise apartment. He lived in low-rise, but he thought cities should build highrise apartments. So the urban planning fad of the 1950s was to build high-rise apartments, not just in American cities, but all over the world. You go to South Korea and the cities, all of them have high rise apartments. You go to Japan, you go to China, you go to Russia, you go to Paris, you go to cities everywhere you find all these high-rise apartments. They were all inspired by this kooky architect named Lake Buer who thought people should live in a way that he himself didn't want to live.So here comes Jane Jacobs. They want to tear down her apartment building and put in a high-rise, and she says, urban planners don't understand how cities work. Well, she was right about that. Urban planners don't understand how cities, but then she went on to say something that was totally wrong, which was that she, Jane Jacobs understood how cities work, and the way she described an ideal city was you had five story apartment building and with all this density, the ground floor would be shops and people would entertain their guests out on the street. She didn't say this apartments were so small, there was no room for entertaining guests. So you'd entertain the guests out on the streets, so you'd have people playing out on the streets, they'd be barbecuing out on the streets, they'd be shopping out on the streets because the shops are out on the streets, so there wouldn't be any crime because everybody would be able to see everything that was going on because they'd all be down on the streets all the time.You'd have these lively streets, it'd be so exciting to live in them. It'd be a wonderful place to live. And that's what a real city was like. She didn't understand that what she was describing was an artifact from the 1880s that people were moving out of as rapidly as they could and that, despite her claims, they did have high crime rate. The people didn't want to live in buildings, so they had to climb up to five stories, four, four or five stories on stairs to get to their apartments that they're moving out. She herself didn't live in a five story building. She lived in a three story building. I don't know if she lived on the second floor or the third floor. I suspect her apartment was probably on both floors because she was welted due. Her husband had a good job, she got a good job.They lived in this three story building. There was a shop on the ground floor and they had to walk up, I think one floor to get to the main part of their apartment. So she didn't understand what it was like having to walk up three, four, and five flights of stairs to get to apartments on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors. Doubly ironic, in 1968, her son decides to dodge the draft because he didn't believe in the war in Vietnam. So he moved to Canada. She decided to move to Canada with him, and she made so much money selling her book, the Death and Life of Great American Cities that she bought a single family home in Canada. She didn't live in a mid-rise apartment, and she moved to a single family home. And yet the urban planners who were young in the 1960s and becoming dominant in the 1990s who had read her book said, yes, we were wrong to try to force people to live in high rise apartments.We should instead try to force people to live in five story apartments like the apartments that she described in the Death and Life of Great American Cities, like the apartments in Greenwich Village. So instead of saying, alright, let's build some of these five story apartments in the inner cities in Portland and Denver and Seattle, they said, let's build these five story apartments everywhere. Let's build them in the suburbs. Let's build them in rural areas. Let's build 'em everywhere. All urbanites should live in these five story apartment buildings. And so we're seeing them spring up all over the place. Most of them are subsidized because as I say, 80% of Americans want to live in single family homes, not in apartments. We even had an urban planner write a paper that was very popular in the urban planning profession that said by the year 2025, and he wrote this in about 2002 or something. By the year 2025, people aren't going to want to live in single family homes anymore, and we're going to have a surplus of 22 million single family homes in the suburbs. The suburbs are going to turn into slums because everybody living in those suburbs are going to have moved into apartments in downtown. And so what urban planners should do today is get ahead of the situation by getting their cities to build more apartments, building more apartments in the suburbs, replace these icky single family homes that people won't want to live in so that we won't have a shortage of apartments when people want them. Well, of course, we're two years away from 2025. We have people moving away from cities as fast as they can before the pandemic where there were polls that showed that 40% of people who were living in dense cities wanted to move to suburbs or rural areas. And we had the same polls showed that more people wanted to live in suburbs that actually lived in them, and that was in 2018. And then the pandemic comes along and people just flee these dense cities, the populations of San Francisco and New York and others, Portland and Seattle, they're all declining and the populations of their suburbs, some cases are growing the populations of small towns. Boise, Idaho is the fastest growing city in the country.The guy was just totally wrong. And yet we have suffered for two decades under urban planners who have tried to force these ideas on cities by subsidizing, by taxing people, and then subsidizing these high density apartments that people don't really want to live in.Leafbox:Randal, talking about the pandemic, how has that changed or affected your outlook on urban planning or on where people want to live? Or do you have the same critiques of the subsidies of suburban living orRandal O'Toole:All the pandemic has done is reinforced the ideas I already had. A pandemic doesn't really change things. What it does is it reinforces trends that are already happening. We already had a trend where people were buying cars and stopping the use of transit. Transit ridership declined every year from 2014 to 2018. It recovered slightly in 2019, but not much. Most cities still declined. About 45% of our transit takes place in New York City. And what happened was it grew in New York City in 2019. It's still declined almost everywhere else, but the growth in New York City overcame the decline everywhere else, but basically people were still buying cars. Gas prices dropped in 2014 and that just killed transit everywhere except New York City.And then we have the trend to living in suburbs. We have the trend of wanting to live in single family homes as soon as people could afford to do so. They would buy a car and then they could live out in the suburbs where they didn't have to be in a lot of congestion or they didn't have to deal with crime or they didn't have to deal with pollution and things like that. And all the pandemic did is it reinforced all those things before the pandemic. You might've thought everybody who wanted to move to the suburbs had already done, but no, it turns out a lot more people wanted to move to the suburbs, but by the pandemic allowed more people to work at home and that led more people to say, okay, now I can move to the suburbs. Or before I couldn't because I was required to work in an office that was too far away from the place I wanted to live in the suburbs. So we now have people who maybe work in an office one day a week, but live a hundred miles away from that office and instead of driving 20 miles five days a week, they're driving a hundred miles one day a week each way and living far, far away from the density that urban planners had made for them.The pandemic didn't change my views, it just reinforced them.Leafbox:What is your solution for the urban cores that are the skyscrapers of New York and the developers that built up that infrastructure? What are they supposed to do with these remote work is a challenge for 'em?Randal O'Toole:I think the government shouldn't do anything. I think the developers are going to have to figure it out for themselves. The owners are going to have to figure out for themselves what to do with those offices. Solution number one is to find lower valued tenants. They have what they call Class A offices and class B offices and class A offices attract companies like Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo and Class B attracts lower rung companies. Then you have Class C that attracts nonprofit groups and flea markets and antique stores and things like that. So the owners of these office buildings are going to have to accept a lower class of tenants. Now you hear proposals to convert office buildings to apartments, and I think the Biden administration just approved a bill that's going to offer money to developers to convert office buildings to apartments. The problem is you look at the way plumbing is set up in an apartment building, every single apartment has to have plumbing for kitchen and bathrooms.And you look at the way plumbing is set up in an office building, they put the plumbing in this core of the building where the restrooms are and the outer reach of the building have no plumbing at all. So it's going to be very expensive to change office buildings into apartment buildings. And really it's cheaper to build single family homes than it is to build apartments, and it's probably cheaper to build single family homes than it is to convert offices to apartment buildings. If you didn't have urban growth boundaries around cities, you're not going to convert offices to apartments because people aren't going to be willing to pay that extra cost of living in an apartment. If you live in a place that does have urban growth boundaries, you've driven up the cost of single family homes to be two to five times greater than it ought to be, then maybe you'll be able to justify converting offices to apartments economically justify. But that's only because you've distorted the housing market totally rid of those distortions.Leafbox:Like you said, it's still the triangle, the iron triangle, because the developers are getting subsidies for their losses instead of just taking the loss and finding Class C tenants.Randal O'Toole:Well, that's going to happen in some places, but even with the subsidies, I don't think you're going to see a lot of apartment conversions in Houston or Dallas or Atlanta or Omaha or Raleigh, places where you don't have urban growth boundaries. And so housing is still pretty affordable. Single family housing is still pretty affordable. The new urbanists like to ask people, would you rather live in an apartment where you're within walking distance of coffee shops and grocery stores and your work? Or would you rather live in a single family home or you have to drive everywhere you go? Everywhere you go. And a lot of people will say the apartment, but if you ask a question honestly, you'd say, would you rather live in a 1000 square foot apartment that costs $400,000 that's within walking distance of a limited selection, high priced grocery store and a coffee shop?Or would you rather live in a 2000 square foot single family home on a large lot that's with an easy driving distance of multiple grocery stores that are competing hard for your business, both on and on having a wide selection of goods to sell you. And there's not much congestion because you live in a low density area. Well, you asked a question that way. You mentioned that your 2000 square foot house only costs $200,000, whereas to 1000 square foot apartment costs $400,000, even without the cost, you're going to find a lot more people saying they want the single family home. And when you add in the cost, the preference for single family homes just zoomed upward. So in Houston, you're not going to see a lot of conversions. You'll probably see a bunch of conversions in San Francisco, but do people really want to live that way? I think people are being forced to live that way, and I don't like the fact that planners are getting away with forcing people to live in ways they don't want to live. WhatLeafbox:Are your thoughts? I think you're a proponent of autonomous vehicles as an alternative to public infrastructure and public transport. Could you expand on that?Randal O'Toole:Well, I'm not so much a proponent, as I see that's the wave of the future. So we see cities like Seattle spending gobs of money. I mean, Seattle's got spending like 90 billion on light rail when autonomous vehicles, once they're applied to Seattle are going to be just destroy light rail as a mode of transportation. Who's going to want to ride light rail when you're going to be susceptible to diseases that you can catch from other people on the train? There's going to be crime on the train, and it only goes when the rail is scheduled, not when you want to go, and it only goes where that we've spent billions of dollars building the rail lines and not where you want to go. Whereas you could call up an autonomous vehicle, have it come to your door, take you to your door, and it's going to cost you probably not much more, maybe even less than when you count all the subsidies.It's certainly going to cost less than the light rail. So it's going to happen. I mean, it's happened in San Francisco. Waymo has just announced that they're serving the entire Phoenix metropolitan area now just 550 square miles. Cruise is shut down in San Francisco temporarily in response to calls because there was one accident. But the data show that even as primitive as it is today, we've the autonomous vehicles that have traveled millions and millions of miles have only had about one fifth as many accidents per million miles. They travel as human-driven vehicles. The pressure is coming from the taxi drivers, the truck drivers, the people whose jobs are going to be lost when they're replaced by autonomous vehicle, and they're the ones who are putting pressure in California to try kill autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. But it's going to happen. And since it is going to happen, we shouldn't be spending money on these 19th century forms of rail transportation that are slow and expensive and don't go where people want to go.Leafbox:Talking about international frameworks, you travel, you went to Switzerland and you're going to Canada and you're a fan of rail. Where can Americans learn? Who's doing planning, right? Who's letting, is it Singapore, is it Tokyo? Where's the most ideal framework for development in your opinion, meeting the needs of this civilian, the government, and just where do you find that balance?Randal O'Toole:Houston. Houston is the closest I can come to the ideal. Houston has no zoning. Texas counties are not allowed to zone. And so Houston is surrounded by lots, some suburban cities that are incorporated. The biggest one is Pasadena. They don't have any zoning. Other Incorporated cities around Houston do have zoning, but what happens is the developments take place in unincorporated areas. The developers build houses that people want. They build homes for the market. They do build some multifamily, but they build mostly single family. And then these developed areas then get annexed into the suburbs and the suburbs then sometimes apply zoning. Sugar land is one example of that. Almost all of sugar land was built in unincorporated areas and then annexed into the city. Even the city hall was built when it was unincorporated, and then they annexed it into the incorporated area. So the zoning only came after it was built.And so the developers were able to build the kind of houses that people wanted. And one of the things that developers found is that if you're going to buy a single family home, you want to have some assurance that nobody's going to put in a gravel pit or a meat packing factory or a brick factory or something like that right next door to you. And so the developers did something that was like zoning. They put protective covenants on the properties. They said All the homes in this neighborhood have to be a certain size. All the homes in this neighborhood have to be a certain size or whatever, and the lots have to be a certain size and so on. And what happens is when you do that, if you're a developer, you don't get more money from your lots, but they sell a lot faster.It doesn't increase the cost. There's no cost of putting these covenants on, but they sell a lot faster. These covenants are actually developed decades before zoning, and they were so successful that zoning was invented by cities to apply to existing single family neighborhoods to increase home ownership. Home ownership rates went from about 15% in cities in 1890 to over 50% by 1960, because people had the assurance that if they bought a home, it wasn't going to be degraded in use because the next door neighbor decided to put in something that was incompatible, whether it was zoning or protective covenants. So Houston has protective covenants in all these suburban developments, and these covenants are flexible. If a developer says, look, your neighborhood has these covenants in and they're incompatible with the development I want to put in, but I think my development will sell really well, I'll pay you to change your covenants.And some neighborhoods have agreed to do that so that the developers can put in something that they think is more marketable than the kind of housing that's in that neighborhood and people's taste change. So these kinds of things do happen over time. Now, another thing that's happened is that some of the suburban counties around Houston have toll road authorities, and they are funded exclusively out of their tolls. They build roads rather economically. They build freeways that are cost about $5 million a lane mile, and they build these freeways to get from the suburban communities that are being built by developers who are using protective covenants to get from these suburban neighborhoods to downtown Houston. So Fort Bend County, for example, has several freeways that is built exclusively with toll roads that are paid for solely out of tolls. They don't get any gas taxes, they don't get any tax dollars, and I consider these to be very successful.Now nobody is perfect. Houston. After voting down light rail a couple of times, they managed to persuade them that voters that if they built light rail, it would relieve congestion. And so they ended up building some light rail lines That to me, have been total disasters. Transit ridership in Houston was growing before they started building a light rail is now lower than it was in the last couple of years before light rail opened. Because they spent so much money on the light rail, they ended up cutting back on their bus service and you lost more bus riders than you gained rail riders. That's a pattern we've seen in Los Angeles and St. Louis and Sacramento and cities all over the country that you build rail and you lose riders because you end up having fewer bus riders than you gain rail riders. But overall, despite that quirk, the light rail problem in Houston, I say Houston is the place you should go to if you want to find out how cities could work without a lot of government plansLeafbox:As an environmentalist, you have a model called Incentive-based conservation. Could you just summarize that for people and how you think market reactions can help secure environmental rights and whatnot?Randal O'Toole:Well, I developed those ideas back when I was working on forest issues and the Forest Service and other agencies were doing a lot of clearcutting that clear cutting damaged wildlife habitat. It reduced recreation values because recreationists to the most valuable recreation was recreation in areas that were wild and where you had some solitude from other people and from big cities and from roads and things like that. And so the forest service is eagerly building roads, cutting down trees, damaging watersheds, damaging fisheries, damaging wildlife habitats. The best fisheries in Oregon, for example, are an area that have no roads, that have had no logging, the best salmon fisheries. So I looked at after years of looking at Forest service data, something hit me one day, and that was that the reason why the Forest Service was doing this is because Congress had inadvertently designed their budget to reward the Forest Service for losing money on environmentally destructive activities and to literally penalize the forest Service for either making money or doing environmentally benign activities, activities that were not bad for the environment.And certainly they didn't reward them for doing environmentally good activities. And so the Forest Service was merely following its incentive. I wrote a whole book about this. It was called Reforming the Forest Service. It came out in 1988. In 1989, the Forest Service sold 11 billion Ford feet of timber started declining in 1990. By 2001, it had fallen to one and a half billion board feet of timber. It had fallen by 85%. And people in the Forest Service came to me and said, we read your book and we thought you were accusing us of being corrupt. And then this guy said, the guy told me, I suddenly realized last week I had signed off on a timber sale so I could get a bigger budget. And they stopped doing that. They stopped saying, they said, we don't want to be motivated by our budget to do these bad things anymore.And so they stop these environmentally destructive timber sale. I didn't think that was going to happen. I thought we would have to change their incentives. So I talked about incentive-based conservation. I said, we should charge recreation fees. We should charge fees, bigger fees for fishing and hunting. Right now, when you fish and hunt, technically under federal law or under US law, the animals you fish and hunt are owned by the states. But if you, on national forest, the land you're hunting on is owned by the federal government. So right now you pay a hunting fee to the state, but you don't pay anything to the federal government. I said, you should also have to pay a fee to the federal government to hunt on federal land or fish on federal land. If you did that, I pointed out then private landowners would also be able to charge fees, and you'd see both federal and private landowners modifying their activities so that they would enhance wildlife habitat, enhance fisheries, and enhance recreation opportunities.We'd have more recreation, not less if we were willing to pay fees. And so my solution to the forest problems was to charge recreation fees to balance the fees from timber cutting and grazing and mining. And the forest services own numbers showed that recreation was worth more than all the other activities combined. So they would make a pretty good balance. I got quite a few environmentalists supporting this. But then in the mid 1990s, the environmental movement kind of got taken over by people who believed in top down planning, they believed that the president should make all the decisions for every single timber sale. And if a timber sale didn't meet their approval, they literally went to the president of the United States and got him to call up the district, not him, but one of his age, to call up the district ranger and say, don't do that timber sale. It drove the Forest Service bureaucracy nuts because these people in the administration in the White House were overruling 'em. And so incentive-based conservation didn't get very far. Now we're seeing some people in the environmental movement going back and recognizing that this top down planning doesn't work very well, and they're beginning to look at these ideas again.Leafbox:Randal, as you had that interview with the Grassroots Initiative here in Hawaii discussing housing policy, what's your relationship with them? And my other question is, do you have an opinion on vacancy taxes for Hawaii or other places?Randal O'Toole:Alright, well, you're talking about the Grassroot Institute, not plural, but Grassroot Institute, and they're a state-based think tank in Hawaii. And I work with state-based think tanks all over the country. Recently, I've done work for state-based think tanks in North Carolina, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, a lot of different states and Hawaii. And some of them have hired me to do some work. Some of them just asked me to comment in Zoom meetings or in podcasts or radio interviews or whatever. But the Grassroots Institute is one of a great network state-based think tanks that I'm happy to be working with and for as much as I can. Even when I worked for the Cato Institute, which is a national think tank in Washington dc, I really saw my job as being a liaison from Cato to these state-based think tanks because most people in Cato working on national or international issues, I was one of the few in Cato who was working on local issues like housing or transportation issues. And so I've always had a good relationship with the Grassroot Institute. The director and their staff are great people and they do good work on housing and a lot of other issues in Hawaii.Leafbox:And then what are your thoughts? I mean, you advocated for a voucher model, just to summarize that for meeting affordable housing and then if you have any thoughts on vacancy taxes. Many people want to apply vacancy tax in Hawaii for empty units or empty second homes or I'm just curious if you've studied that at all.Randal O'Toole:Well, Hawaii was the first state in the country to try to restrict the development of single family homes. And it's such an irony because in the 1950s, most of the land in Hawaii was owned by the five companies, Dole and so on, and the bishop estate. And if you wanted to own your own home in Hawaii, often you couldn't find land to own it on something like 99% of the land was owned by one of these six entities. So you would have to lease land from one of these entities and build your home on it. And the five companies were agricultural companies and they weren't interested in leasing land for homes. They wanted to grow pineapple and sugarcane and other crops on their land. And so you had this huge housing crisis in Hawaii in the late 1950s. And at the time, in the early 1950s, Hawaii's legislature, territorial legislature was run by Republicans and they were very sympathetic to the five companies, and they weren't sympathetic to the people who needed housing.Well, the late 1950s, the Democrats took over and they took over on a promise of land reform. They promised that they would force the five companies and the bishop estate perhaps to sell some of their land to use for housing so that people could find affordable housing. Well, the Democrats won and in 1961 they passed their land reform cap package and it did exactly the opposite of what they promised. Instead of requiring the companies to sell the land, they declared all the rural land in the state, most of which was owned by these five companies. They declared that land off limits to developments. They said the only land you could develop was urban land. This story is told by a great book called Land and Power in Hawaii. I recommended to all your listeners if they're from Hawaii. And what the Democrats discovered was that as legislators, they could make exceptions for themselves.And so if you're a developer and you wanted to develop some land, you went to a state legislator and you made that legislator a partner in your development, the partner would then get the state to override the rules that had been passed by the state in response to the law you passed so that you could have your land developed or your developer partners land development developed and you'd make all this money. And so it became quite a corrupt system, and that's a system that governs Hawaii. To this day, only about 14% of the land in Hawaii has been developed. There's lots of land even in Oahu. Most of the land is still undeveloped. It's rural land that could be developed. And the real irony is supposedly the 1961 law that reserved all these rural areas where supposed to protect the agricultural industry, and yet the farm industry has practically died in Hawaii.Why? Because the farmers can't afford to hire farm laborers and pay them enough money for those laborers to find housing and still produce pineapple and sugarcane and other produce that's competitive with farms in Costa Rica and Fuji and other places that haven't restricted housing. And so we've destroyed more than 80% of the farm industry in Hawaii just since 1982. It's been 80%. So since 1961, it's been more than 80%. In order to preserve the farmlands, we had to destroy the farms. That to me is a very sad commentary on what's happened in housing. Now, since housing has gotten expensive, we've come up with all these wacko ideas to make housing that's affordable. One wacko idea is build high density housing, build more apartments. Well, it turns out apartments cost twice as much per square foot to build as single family homes, maybe more than twice as much if it's really tall, partly because you have to put in elevators.If you're building taller than two or three stores, you have to put in elevators. They're really expensive, more steel, more concrete. It just makes housing a lot more expensive. So you're not building affordable housing when you build apartments. And yet we have all these subsidies that we're throwing at developers that are inefficiently building expensive housing, but it's subsidized housing. And so then they can rent it at lower rates. Then we come up with crazy ideas like, oh, Airbnb is using up all the housing. Well, if we didn't have these restrictions on housing, we could build more housing. There'd be enough housing for Airbnb, there'd be enough housing for vacation homes, and there'd be enough housing for year-round residents. It's only because of the land use law that restrict housing, restrict new development that's made housing expensive. So the number one priority of anybody who cares about affordable housing should be to abolish the state land use laws, not just modify them to increase the amount of urban land, but totally abolish them. We'd see a lot more development on Oahu. We'd see a tiny bit more development on the other islands. Not much. Most of the land that's rural and the other islands would stay rural. At least half the land on Oahu that's rural would stay rural. Probably half of Oahu would stay rural, but there'd be a lot more development and housing would get to be a lot more important.Leafbox:A
Welcome to the Harvest USA Report. I'm Brian Hale, an original production of Howard Hale Broadcasting, now expanded throughout North America. We'll be back with our report for today right after this.Farming and ranching is hard work. If you're in the industry, that's nothing you didn't already know. Finding the right partner that works just as hard to handle your risk management needs is what WSR Insurance excels in. With a dedicated crop insurance sales team of over 25 agents, WSR can help your operations stay in business during turbulent times. We have local agents spread out across the country that are familiar with your unique and individual needs. WSR has been in business since 1917. We attribute that to our outstanding customer service. That's WSR Insurance Incorporated, WSRINC.com. Today on the program we have Custom Harvester Dave Hermesch working 20 miles south of Tulsa. Here's our co-host David Woodruff with Dave Hermish. So are you harvesting anything lately? We haven't harvested anything yet, but we've got soybeans that are going to be closed. Probably I'm going to say in a week or 10 days, well maybe you have some ready. And how do they look? Oh, five to six weeks ago, and I said we were going to cut the best bean crop we ever cut down here. But now we're probably looking at a 10 or 20 bushel crop. We had a month with no rain and above 100 degree weather every day. We've been getting rain lately. We've had some good rains. They're just a month too late. Now our late beans, they're going to help them some. We're going to have an average crop on our late beans, but early beans aren't going to be worth their due. Do you have anything besides beans? There is some corn around here, but in some wheat, but all the wheat gets double crop back to beans.Custom Harvester Dave Hermesch.That's going to do it for our Harvest USA Report. And remember, there's more on the web at harvestusareport.com or halebroadcasting.com. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.
Guest: Ute Kuhlmann is a Woodstock committee member and she joins John to consider The City of Cape Town call on residents to comment on the draft local spatial development framework (LSDF), or neighbourhood plan, for Woodstock and Salt River, inclusive of University Estate and Walmer Estate. The closing date for comments is 11 November 2023. For more info, send an email to WSR.LSDF@capetown.gov.za.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome aboard to a captivating journey through time on today's episode. Join us as we delve into the annals of one of the most iconic railway networks – the Great Western Railway. Unravelling its rich history, we'll explore how this engineering marvel transformed communities and landscapes, forging connections that have stood the test of time. From the remarkable feats of engineering that birthed this railway titan to the tales of courage, determination and tragedies by individuals who made it all possible, our guest, author and historian Robin Wichard, takes us on an enthralling ride. But that's not all – brace yourselves for some accounts of the supernatural, as we venture into the mysteries that enshroud the Great Western Railway's past. So, whether you're a history enthusiast or simply seeking a nostalgic journey through picturesque landscapes, hop aboard our railway time machine as we uncover stories that have been preserved along this true country branch line of the old Great Western Railway. All aboard for a captivating expedition into the heart of railway heritage! My Special Guest is Robin Wichard Robin Wichard has worked as a teacher of history for over 30 years and now retired works in various capacities on the West Somerset Railway - Britain's longest preserved heritage railway. He has written a number of books from school resource books to texts on Victorian Photography and Re-living the 1940s. The West Somerset Railway Dating back to its construction, this railway behemoth carved its path through the picturesque countryside, connecting ten unique stations across a twenty-mile scenic journey. The legacy of historic steam locomotives, charming coaches, and steadfast wagons comes alive, echoing tales of an era long past. The intricate architecture of these stations, each a testament to a rich industrial heritage, traverse through the Quantock hills, Exmoor, and idyllic villages nestled in leafy lanes offering glimpses into unspoiled landscapes. Behold the breathtaking vistas of the Bristol Channel and distant South-Wales, with the confident spires of churches and the imposing presence of Dunster Castle. Isambard Brunel At the centre of the Great Western Railway's history is the visionary figure of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. A turning point came when a collective of West Somerset landowners sought Brunel's expertise to transform a concept into reality – the West Somerset Railway, a link connecting Watchet, a historic harbor town, to the region and beyond. The area's wealth of quarries necessitated a means of efficient transportation, and though a railway already existed in the form of the West Somerset Mineral Line, the connection to the Bristol and Exeter Railway was seen as vital. The railway eventually opened in 1862, three years after Brunel's passing. His indelible influence endures in the heritage line that stands today, the longest of its kind in England. In this episode, you will be able to: 1. Uncover some of the history, significance and social impact that the West Somerset Railway had. 2. Explore aspects of life on the railway and in the communities nearby. 3. Discover some of the paranormal reports and ghost lore attached to the line. 4. Examine the role the railway played during WWII and hear more about an upcoming immersive event. If you value this podcast and want to enjoy more episodes please come and find us on https://www.patreon.com/Haunted_History_Chronicles to support the podcast, gain a wealth of additional exclusive podcasts, writing and other content. Links to all Haunted History Chronicles Social Media Pages, Published Materials and more: https://linktr.ee/hauntedhistorychronicles Guest Links: Website for WSR including upcoming events: https://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/events --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hauntedchronicles/message
This week, we're joined by two of the Dovetail Games team to talk all things train simulation... Matt Peddlesden (executive producer) and Joseph Rogers (brand manager for Train Sim World, WSR volunteer) will take us on an odyssey of discovery on how you research, develop and expand train simulation games! Join me and the Dovetail Games crew LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm to ask your questions! Enjoyed this? Please do consider supporting #RailNatter at https://patreon.com/garethdennis or throw loose change at me via https://paypal.me/garethdennis. Merch at https://garethdennis.co.uk/merch. Join in the discussion at https://garethdennis.co.uk/discord.
Hayden Forward presents the Heritage Waters Coalition analysis of Senator Martin Heinrich's Bill to apply WSR status to the San Francisco and Gila Rivers. Heritage Waters Coalition Ranchers Have Rights wildcowtrails@gmail.com
This episode of Sorting Pen is a conversation we originally recorded for WSR's Insurance Unscripted Podcast! In this episode, host Katie Roberti talks with two California beekeepers on the current challenges and issues facing beekeepers and the industry. Hear how the challenges of the bee business compare to those of ranching, and how the opportunities and challenges the American Beekeeping Federation is tackling are similar to those of CCA's and other agricultural groups.Guests on the episode with Katie:Jay Miller, owner of J2 Honey Company and incoming president of the American Beekeeping FederationDylan Kelly, owner of Ag Pollen Apiaries and beekeeperStephanie Myers, co-owner of WSR, apiculture sales manager and fourth generation cattle rancher WSR Insurance is the exclusive insurance broker of the California Cattlemen's Association.
Multiple British Touring Car Championship race winner Adam Morgan will be joining WSR for the 2023 campaign.Morgan will contest one of the squad's BMW 330e M Sports, making his Manufacturers/Constructors debut with the outfit which this year claimed an unprecedented seventh consecutive title in the category for the Bavarian marque.
A hearty and abundant thanks to all of you who listen to the Pahd every week. Hopefully you've recovered from spending too much money online (or from fighting people in the stores) and are ready for a new voice to join the Pahd. WhiteSpeedReceiver picks up the mic this week and we're glad to have him. We obviously had to talk about Iowa a little bit before getting into the Border Battle this weekend. WSR helps UStreet fill us in on what's up with the world of Gophers basketball. Andy gets us up to speed for hockey before WSR turns "Ask Blake a Hockey Question" on its head. And of course, PREDICTIONS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
My travel podcast is rather different today, I'm on the West Somerset Railway, travelling from Watchet to Dunster – one of the UK's many great heritage railways.A vintage steam locomotive is hauling British Rail carriages from the 1960s, all very retro and scenic, but I am using it to get from A to B – so much more relaxing than the bus.I hope that the tantalising gap of a few miles between the Great Western main line at Taunton and the start of the WSR at Bishops Lydeard can be closed – allowing Minehead and the north west Somerset coast to be reconnected with the national railway. Meanwhile, do check out if there's a heritage railway that can help you with part of your next adventure.Of course this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.co.uk/newsletters. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode Summary: Today, we sit down once again with Chad Christensen the Group Vice President of Wholesale at Leslie's. Listen in as Chad breaks down the three main pillars that Leslie aims to be for the pool trade professional: to help them save time, to save money, and to serve as a valuable resource. That convenience lies in the fact that Leslie's now has over 915 retail stores, 50 pro stores, and over 17 commercial centers. As Chad proudly says, “We are where the pool routes are.” Chad speaks on Leslie's advantage to all pool professionals and how the company has prepared itself as a valuable resource even in trying economic times. As the episode comes to a close, Chad speaks on Leslie's recent collaboration with Hayward and how they aim to provide value to professionals in the industry. Topics Discussed: 02:24 - What Leslie has to offer pool trade professionals 07:55 - How to save money with Leslie's 14:48 - Leslie's advantage for pool trade professionals 19:53 - Leslie's WSR team members 23:10 - Planning your business with Leslie's 29:10 - Projecting for next season 32:12 - Leslie's Hayward Equipment Promotion Sponsors: Skimmer Leslie's Primate Pool Tools Connect with Guest: Website Instagram Facebook Connect with Pool Chasers: Website Instagram Facebook Facebook Group Twitter YouTube Patreon Key Quotes from Episode: From a Leslie's perspective, there are three areas where we try to focus on with the pool trade professional: 1) save time; 2) save money; 3) be a resource. With the price changes that we've experienced in the last year and a half, if you're not continuing to understand what that ROI is and how much product you're using per visit, you're missing an opportunity to maximize the profitability of your business.
August marks one year of Sorting Pen! Listen to our 27th episode to hear WSR's Matt Griffith explain what you need to know about the Pasture, Rangeland & Forage (PRF) Insurance product. Stay tuned in to the end of the episode for a look at what's to come on this podcast in the weeks ahead.
In this week's episode Liam, Kendra, and Erica dove into chapters 5 & 6 of Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton. They also covered recent SRKW news regarding the Biden administration weighing in breaching the Lower Snake River dams, a new K pod calf, and the recent declaration of vulnerability in 13 individual Southern Residents. More Sources: https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/about/regulations/filings/2022/WSR%2022-14-068.pdf
We were delighted to welcome to Brooklands Museum the legendary team boss of West Surrey Racing, Dick Bennetts, whose Formula 3 drivers have included Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello and Jonathan Palmer. WSR bowed out of F3 at the end of 1995 as the most successful team in the history of the series, both in terms of race victories and titles. From 1996 the team has concentrated on the British Touring Car Championship, with drivers including Nigel Mansell, Tom Kristensen, Andy Priaulx and multiple BTCC champion Colin Turkington. In total nine WSR drivers have won an FIA World Championship, while past and present racers have accounted for over 1500 Formula 1 starts, 18 Le Mans 24 Hours wins, two Indycar titles and 36 wins, an Indianapolis 500 victory and over 200 BTCC successes. WSR continues to run the BMW manufacturer assisted team in BTCC in 2022. With a wealth of anecdotes from more than 30 years in top level motorsport, Dick was in conversation with Harry Sherrard.
Colin Turkington - Team BMW - 18th March 2022Team BMW presented the definitive colours of its WSR-run BMW 330e M Sports that will compete for Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship glory in 2022, as BMW M celebrates its 50th anniversary.A predominantly white race car inspired by classic BMW race machinery of the past, also includes the iconic BMW M combination of red, blue and violet created in 1972 by BMW designer Wolfgang Seehaus, which has become synonymous with success in touring car racing across generations.Having broken the series' all-time record by winning a sixth consecutive Manufacturers' crown in 2021, the Sunbury-based squad seeks to extend the record further this year as well as aiming to add the Drivers' and Teams' titles.Four-time BTCC Champion Colin Turkington and team-mate Stephen Jelley, with a combined 63 race victories in the series, will pilot the machines during the three official pre-season test days, before the campaign kicks off at Donington Park, in the East Midlands, on 23/24 April.
This episode focuses on the non-ferrous recycling industry in Europe and spotlights the impact of the new European Union waste shipment regulations (WSR). Join Jethro Wookey, Senior Reporter - Aluminium, Argus and Murat Bayram, Director – Non-ferrous metals, EMR, as they explore the new EU policy, scrap market fundamentals and the effect of the semi-conductor metals shortage. Sign up for our free Argus Metals Market Highlights
This episode focuses on the implications of the new European Union waste ship regulations (WSR). Learn about the short and long-term impact of the new proposal with Ronan Murphy, European Editor and Chi Hin Ling, Deputy Editor of Argus Metal Prices. Sign up for our free Argus Metals Market Highlights
Join Cecilia and Larry B. for the thrid stint of the live call of the 2022 IMSA Rolex 24 on our family of networks! USRN, USRN2, IESR, and WSR.
Join Cecilia and Larry B. as they talk NFL Playoffs, give you their picks, talk Rolex 24 and segue into their segment of the 24 hour action across USRN, WSR, and IESR, talk about the latest shows and movies they're watching, and the much anticipated game, Test of Both Worlds returns on The Sports Couple Perspectives!
Selbst ist die Frau! Mit 18 die eigene Zahngesundheit entschieden - Implantat, WSR, Weisheitszahn
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan Tannenwald is joined by Marissa Lordanic of The Far Post Podcast.A great show as always, check it out!https://open.spotify.com/show/68yhNrsO5ziT2ezinCZ6vkhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-soccer-review-podcast/id1490356746
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs speaks from 2 Thessalonians 1 pointing the believer to the certain hope that is found in the second coming of Jesus. Just as He came the first time, so He will come again. He speaks of how the believer does not need to be dismayed but look to the day when they will glorify and admire the Lord Jesus Christ. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
In this mid-week Bible Study, Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at 2 Thessalonians 2-13-17 and explores why the Christian should have certain hope - the wonder of grace. He considers how the believer is chosen, called, given to believe, sanctified and will be glorified all because of God's gracious work. This is the foundation which gives us good hope by grace - that what God has begun in us, He will complete. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
In this mid-week Bible Study, Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at Psalm 77-11-12 and explores how the Psalmist faces a very difficult and dark time in his life when he feels far away from the Lord. In this strategy for enduring through the Scriptures, the psalmist determines to remember, meditate and dwell on the Word of God which brings him back to remembering the greatness of the Lord - His refuge, strength and very present help. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
In this mid-week Bible Study, Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at Hebrews 13-7-12 and explores where the need for the believer to keep going back to feast on grace day by day. Established hearts and strength to live for God's glory can only be found in Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday, today and forever.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
In this mid-week Bible Study, Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at 2 Corinthians 12-9-10 and explores how the believer is given strength to face the various trials that come in life. When we are weak, depending and looking to Christ, then we know His strength and power in our lives. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. Continuing in Joshua 5 he looks at the significance of the fact that the people of Israel kept the Passover once they had crossed the Jordan. He explores the Passover was an act of obedience, remembrance and anticipation pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ - the true Passover Lamb.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. He picks up from last week's message from Joshua 5 which explained why the Lord commanded Joshua to circumcise the males after crossing the Jordan. He explains how this is a picture of mortification of sin as well as considering how the believer is circumcised in Christ - legally, spiritually, and practically through their union with Him and His death on the cross. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Over the last decade, WSR Insurance Services, the exclusive insurance broker of CCA, has helped hundreds of CCA members and other livestock producers throughout the Western States obtain insurance for lack of precipitation through the PRF program. On this episode, Jim Vann and Matt Griffith of WSR join Katie to talk about what PRF is as the December 1 deadline for obtaining PRF policies for 2022 is quickly approaching.
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. Preaching from Joshua 5 he explains why the Lord commanded Joshua to circumcise the males after crossing the Jordan. He will consider the implications of this and how it is a picture of mortification of sin. He will begin to look at Gospel lessons from the passage mentioning the way circumcision points to the way believers are legally circumcised in Christ through their union with Him and His death on the cross.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.---We apologise for the poor sound quality on the recording.-
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at Ephesians 6-15 and explores how part of the spiritual battle is to be ready to move, proclaim the Gospel of peace. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy! I'm Amy McPhie Allebest. If you are a listener who loved our episode on The Gospel of Mary Magdalene or Mary, Mother of God, then you will love the texts we are discussing today: WomanSpirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, and Weaving the Visions:New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, both edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow. These books contain essays that were written in the 70's 80's and early 90's, and they reflect a movement within feminism that was grappling with the patriarchal aspects of religion, and rather than rejecting religion altogether as so many feminists were doing at the time, these authors were working to retain the spiritual, the mystical, and the ritual parts of religion while still confronting and challenging patriarchy. As an introduction I'm going to read just a couple of sentences from the 1992 version of WomanSpirit Rising. It says that some feminists... “are convinced that religion is profoundly important. For them, the discovery that religions teach the inferiority of women is experienced as a betrayal of deeply felt spiritual and ritual experience. They believe the history of sexism in religions shows how deeply sexism has permeated the human psyche but does not invalidate human need for ritual, symbol and myth. While differing on many issues, the contributors to this volume agree that religion is deeply meaningful in human life and that the traditional religions of the West have betrayed women. They are convinced that religion must be reformed or reconstructed to support the full human dignity of women.” And no one better to discuss this issue with than the magnificent Maxine Hanks! Welcome back, Maxine. [Hi Amy -- thanks for inviting me to read this book with you, it holds a lot of meaning for me personally. This project has already been so enriched by your wisdom and experience! You're an expert on many Women's Studies texts, but my understanding is that in the tradition of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes by Sarah Grimke, you are a person of faith and most at home in feminist theology. Is that right? Maxine: Yes, I'm a feminist theologian and historian, focused on women's studies and women's history in religious culture, mainly in LDS/Mormon culture and in Christianty. My spiritual path, personal faith journey and my scholarly path, scholarly work are very intertwined. My work on recovering feminism in Mormon history and culture overlapped with my own personal work to find feminist voice in Mormon culture, and my own path through feminist theology, clergy formation and ministry overlapped with my scholarly work on feminist theology in Christian tradtion and LDS tradition. So as I found my way in life and work as a feminist, I found my way as scholar in feminist work, the two were interdependant. I'm a deeply spiritual person, I rely on my relationship with god for decisions about both my life and professional path. I'm a minister, chaplain, and theologian, historian, and I see spirituality as one lens, one approach, one hermeneutic method among others, so my work brings spirituality and scholarship together. I think it requires multiple approaches, interdisciplinary work to adequately assess the situation of women in religion -- gender studies training, historical method, and theological/religious studies, so I trained, took degrees in all three to use in my work. Amy: If you're comfortable, I'd be grateful if you could talk about your own journey as a feminist theologian, including your book, Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism, and the ensuing events after the publication of that book. Maxine: Sure, the main thing to mention about my work, my book and WSR, is that they parallel each other, taking a very similar approach, and with similar results, but ten years apart. WSR came in...
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. Preaching from Joshua 4 he looks at the significance of the stones of remembrance set up following the crossing of the Jordan. He draws out a number of practical lessons from the passage including the importance of believers making sure that they do not neglect remembering the wonderful works of God in salvation and providence. --Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
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Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. Preaching from Joshua 4 he looks at the significance of the memorials that God commanded Joshua and the children of Israel to set up following the crossing of the Jordan. He also considers the Gospel applications that can be seen in the passage.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
PRF / Eigenbluttherapie - Wo macht es Sinn? Welche Vorteile? Implantate / Weisheitszähne / WSR uvm. PRF oder Eigenbluttherapie ist längst Bestandteil der modernen und biologischen Zahnmedizin. Vor allem im chirurgischen und implantologischen Bereich erfreut es sich mittlerweile großer Beliebtheit und senkt Schwellung, Schmerzen und verkürzt die Wundheilungsphase. Aber bei welchen Eingriffen macht PRF nun konkret Sinn und welche Effekte kannst du bei welchem Eingriff erwarten? Wir haben alle wichtigen Anwendungsgebiete für Euch zusammengefasst und geben eine Empfehlung Pro oder Contra PRF! Wir wünschen viel Spaß bei Implatalk ! Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß bei dieser wichtigen und ernstzunehmenden Folge Implatalk! Euer Dr. Stefan Helka ________________________________________________________________ Entdecke mehr von uns: ✅Unsere Praxis: www.implantatzentrum-herne.com ✅ Unser Startup: www.implacheck.de
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs looks at Hebrews 6-10 and explores how the believer's love for God should show itself in love for others. When we serve because we love His name, want Him to be glorified, in His strength - He sees and He will never forget.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Pastor Jonathan Stobbs continues in his mid-week series in Joshua. Preaching from the end of Joshua 3 he looks at the miracle of the crossing and then concludes with some practical lessons that the believer can learn from this miracle.--Intro music used with kind permission from WSR.
Tonight's first Guest WeatherBrain led a panel discussion at the 101st Annual Meeting of the AMS this year about a multidisciplinary approach to reduce the astronomical cost of certain weather disasters. He's a team lead instructor at the Warning Decision Training Branch at the NWS in Norman. James LaDue, welcome back to WeatherBrains! Our second Guest WeatherBrain has written several books on the economics of tornadoes. He also has researched the economic impact of the WSR 88-D radar network. Dr. Kevin Simmons, welcome! Our third Guest WeatherBrain is the Director of Public Affairs and Economic Development, to help provide Moore's ongoing story with community resilience. She's been through all of Moore's major tornadoes and had a part in helping with Moore's response from its disasters. Deidre Ebrey, Welcome! Our fourth Guest WeatherBrain is a structural and wind engineer from Trinidad and Tobago. For over twenty years, his research addresses the widening gap between poor performance of residential structures in high wind events and the limited structural engineering within these structures. His research identifies engineering solutions that reduces wind damage to buildings from tornadoes and hurricanes. He is a professor at the University of Florida. Dr. David Prevatt, welcome! Our fifth Guest WeatherBrain is the Managing Director of Research at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. Dr. Tanya Brown-Giammanco, thanks for joining us!
C Mantle Anatomically Correct Influences, an IDM mixtape by Acre Recordings' C Mantle. Exploring the influences of the Scottish producer's new double album Anatomically Correct, our 70th In Session features tracks from Warp Records, Skam, Autechre, Gescom, Pan Sonic, WSR, Expressway Yo Yo Dieting, Scorn, Asura, EOG, Mr 76ix, Brothomstates, Boogie Down Productions, The Wee DJs, 16 o9, Jega, and Current Value. Tracklist & more available at Darkfloor.
On this episode of the WSR, Jonathan is joined by French soccer journalist Sylvain Jamet to preview the International Friendly between France and the USWNT on Tuesday.A great show as always, check it out! You can follow Jonathan on Twitter at @thegoalkeeper. The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan is joined by Mia Eriksson (mia_eriksson) to preview the International friendly between Sweden and the USWNT.A great show as always, check it out.You can follow Jonathan on Twitter at @thegoalkeeper. The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan is joined by soccer writer Claire Watkins to talk NWSL Fall Series and the upcoming USWNT camp.A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
WSR #38 With Sons of Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Leonard - Ray Jr and Jarrel Part 2 by What Sibling Rivalry
WSR #36 From Football to Farm with NFL Great George Wilson Part 2 by What Sibling Rivalry
WSR #35 From Football to Farm with NFL Great George Wilson Part 1 by What Sibling Rivalry
WRS Podcast #34 WSR talk fashion with Trailblazing Designer Byron Lars by What Sibling Rivalry
Wie funktioniert eigentlich eine WSR oder Wurzelspitzenresektion? Die WSR ist einer der häufigsten Eingriffe in der Oralchirurgie und viele Menschen Fragen sich, wie so eine OP abläuft! In diesem Video beantworten wir folgende Fragen : - Wann muss eine Wurzelspitzenresektion überhaupt gemacht werden? (Indikation) - Welche Risiken muss ich beachten oder in Kauf nehmen? - Wie Wahrscheinlich ist es, dass durch diese Zahn-OP der Zahn erhalten werden kann? - Wie läuft die OP genau ab und welche Spezialtechniken gibt es um die Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit zu erhöhen? - Wie lauten die Alternativen, wenn ich keine Wurzelspitzenresektion durchführen lassen will? In dieser Folge erfährst du all das und noch mehr!
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan is joined by Melina Gaspar of Futbol Aces to talk NWSL Challenge Cup and More!A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan is joined by one of the few journalists to attend games in-person during the NWSL Challenge Cup, Alex Vejar of The Salt Lake Tribune to talk about the latest from the Utah bubble!A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan and Duane talk to The Equalizer's Pardeep Cattry about the last couple of matchday in the Qualifying Round in the NWSL Challenge Cup and more!A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
WSR #33 WSR 1year Anniversary Part 4 Cheers (Virtual Wine Tasting w/ P. Harrell Wines) by What Sibling Rivalry
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan and Duane are joined by soccer journalist Rachel Kriger to talk about the weekend that was in the NWSL Challenge Cup.A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast.Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
WSR #32 1 Year Anniversary Part 3 Cheers (Virtual Wine Tasting w/ P. Harrell Wines) by What Sibling Rivalry
WSR #31 One Year Anniversary Part 2 by What Sibling Rivalry
We recently hosted a live panel with record label owners Tasha (Neighbourhood), Sync24 (Cultivated Electronics), Sam (Juno Distribution, Well Street Records), Rob (Well Street Records) to chat about running an independent label, from the bottom-of-the-heart reasons to start to the nitty-gritty details of running the operation. -- TASHA / Neighbourhood -- IG: https://www.instagram.com/tasha_neighbourhood SC: https://soundcloud.com/dj_tasha Sets: https://soundcloud.com/dj_tasha/sets/rinse-fm SC: https://soundcloud.com/neighbourhood-music BC: https://neighbourhood-ldn.bandcamp.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/neighbourhood.ldn -- Sync24 / Cultivated Electronics -- FB: https://www.facebook.com/Sync24CultivatedElectronics IG: https://www.instagram.com/cultivated_electronics SC: https://soundcloud.com/cultivated-electronics Latest: https://linktr.ee/cultivatedelectronics Buy: https://clone.nl/all/label/Cultivated%20Electronics Scand: https://www.facebook.com/scandelectro -- Rob, Sam / Well Street Records-- Sam / Speak7: https://www.instagram.com/speak7_wsr WSR: https://linktr.ee/wellstreet_records BC: https://wellstreetrecords.bandcamp.com SC: https://soundcloud.com/wellstreet IG: https://www.instagram.com/wellstreet_records Juno Distribution: https://www.juno.co.uk/distribution -- Home Of Sound -- All latest links: https://linktr.ee/home_of_sound
On this episode of WSR,Jonathan and Duane are joined by Kelsey Trainor of The Equalizer to talk about the dismissal of the USWNT lawsuit against the USSF and more. A great show as always, check it out!You can follow Duane and Jonathan on twitter at @24thminute and @thegoalkeeper.The Women’s Soccer Review is a twice-monthly podcast. Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcast right herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1490356746http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork
Greg Asbed is a human rights strategist developing a new model—worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) for improving conditions for low-wage workers within the twenty-first-century labor market.In this wide-ranging conversation with Bart Campolo, Greg talks about his background, his life and how he got here. Greg became a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. For the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, visit https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/.—Follow this podcast to stay up-to-date:Twitter: @HumanizeMePodInstagram: @HumanizeMePodcastFacebook Group: Facebook.com/Groups/1772151613053280Check out Patreon.com/HumanizeMe! Support the podcast there for the cost of a cup of coffee once a month and get extra content for it. That amount won’t matter to you, but it means everything to us and makes the podcast happen! (Includes access to the monthly bonus podcast, ‘Why It Matters’, where we discuss the show and read listener feedback, and the ‘Campolo Sessions‘, long-form conversations between Bart and his dad Tony Campolo.)Humanize Me is hosted by Bart Campolo and is produced by John Wright at JuxMedia.com.
Welcome back to On Track with Andrew Jordan. In this episode Andrew tells us how thrilled he is to join WSR and Team BMW for the 2020 season. Subscribe NOW for more podcasts throughout the season.
Special edition of WSR as Rodney speaks with IWGP U.S Champion Lance Archer. The American Psycho speaks about New Japan’s expansion into the USA, welcoming all challengers for his U.S title and the inspiration behind the EBD Claw. Support this podcast
Anne Scheiber started with $5,000 and in the end her portfolio was worth $22 million. Here’s how she did it. (1:00) - Great Amateur Investors: The Long Term Winners (8:15) - Tips To Learn From Long Term Holds (17:50) - Where To Find Juicy Dividend Stocks (28:45) - Episode Roundup: MRK, DIS, WSR, GPS, WFC Podcast@Zacks.com
Anne Scheiber started with $5,000 and in the end her portfolio was worth $22 million. Here’s how she did it. (1:00) - Great Amateur Investors: The Long Term Winners (8:15) - Tips To Learn From Long Term Holds (17:50) - Where To Find Juicy Dividend Stocks (28:45) - Episode Roundup: MRK, DIS, WSR, GPS, WFC Podcast@Zacks.com
WSR continues their wellness conversation w/Dr. Donna Carey tips on cancer prevention & detection & Scott, Jamba’s East Bay Regional Manager
WSR recaps the ups and downs 30-day wellness challenge live at Jamba Rockridge in Oakland
This past week, I started looking for perennials I want to divide. After the hail storm and siding installation we had earlier this month, I don't feel too bad about digging up the plants. The garden looks tough. Might as well dig up old plants. I always start with my hostas - in part, because they recover so quickly. Next spring, you'll never know that they were transplanted this fall. In addition, they, like the ferns, get used make great ground covers. Got a chronic creeping charlie, creeping buttercup, or creeping anything... plant a hosta. It can handle the creepers and even if they manage to survive under the dense canopy, they aren't as vigorous and you won't see them anyway. Brevities #OTD On this day in 1773, French explorer and botanist Aimé Bonpland was born. Bonpland had traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America for five years - from 1799-1804, collecting & classifying 6,000 new plants. He co-authored many books about his discoveries. One of his journal entries says this: "We just arrived at a town where the locals invited us to eat a dish called enchiladas. When I tried it, my tongue burned and I started to sweat. I was told that this feeling is due to a fruit called "chili." I have to analyze it ..." And here's a little trivia about Bonpland: When Napolean's wife Josephine died, Bonpland was present at her deathbed. #OTD Today in 1798, the first American vineyard was planted 25 miles from Lexington, Kentucky. It was started by a Swiss immigrant named John James Dufour. He established the first successful commercial vineyard and winery in America. He called it “The First Vineyard.” Dufour had read newspaper accounts of the American Revolution as a young boy in Switzerland. What struck him most was something the French fighters had said. They were fighting alongside the colonists and they bemoaned the fact that they didn't have any wine to drink in America. It left an impression on DuFour. His grandfather and father were both vine dressers in Switzerland. Dufour wanted to bring their winemaking skills to America. In 1796, Dufour arrived in America. Initially, he made a point of visiting Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and other estates. DuFour noticed they were working with the wild grapes, which Dufour felt were inferior. After one year of success with "The First Vineyard", Dufour wrote to his father, brothers and sisters in Switzerland and invited them all to join him. Seventeen members of his family made the voyage. After his family arrived, Dufour petitioned congress for the privilege of getting land in Indiana. The area had a steep valley that reminded the family of Switzerland. Congress granted a special approval for Dufour. By 1806, the first wine was made from the vineyard in Indiana, known as "The Second Vineyard" and the area became known as New Switzerland. #OTD Today is the birthday of the man known as the King of Colorado Botany, Charles Christopher Parry, who was born on this day in 1823. Parry discovered both the Torrey pine and Engelmann spruce which gives you a clue about his impressive mentors. Although he rubbed shoulders with the best botanists of his time, Parry's focus was not academic. He was more interested in making sure the public and the common man benefitted from his work. In 1845 while he was at college, Parry's teacher was the great John Torrey. Parry was good friends with Asa Gray - who was also a student of John Torrey. In 1848, Parry learned about the botanical trade from the star of the Missouri Botanical Garden: George Engelmann. In the summer of 1862 he brought Elihu Hall and J. P. Harbour on an expedition to Colorado. The men gathered ten sets of over 700 species. According to William Weber, their effort remains "the largest [collection ever] made in Colorado in a single season". Parry spent 20 summers in Colorado - in a cabin nestled between Torrey Peak and Gray Peak - mountains he named after John Torrey and Asa Gray. Parry named another mountain Eva Peak in honor of his wife. He even named one Mount Flora. In 1870, during a visit to England, Parry met the master botanist of his age: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In fact, it was Hooker who referred to Parry as the "King of Colorado Botany". And it wasn't just Colorado that Parry explored. He traveled throughout the West, amassing over 30,000 specimens for his herbarium. When Parry was collecting in California, he continued his habit of recording his thoughts into notebooks. Occasionally, he waxed poetic about the landscape. In one example from his time in California, he wrote: “A newborn moon hangs her crescent over the western hills and by its full-orbed light we hope to see our way to winter quarters on the Pacific.” #OTD Today is the birthday of Roger Tory Peterson of Peterson's Field Guide to Birds fame - he was born in 1908. Peterson not only wrote the guides, he also illustrated them. Peterson was the noted American naturalist who brought the natural world to the masses in the 20th century. A son of Jamestown, New York, Peterson helped new generations of people fall in love with ornithology. Peterson admired the gumption of the common starling. He felt blue jays had "a lot of class" and he said the house sparrow was "an interesting darn bird." Peterson once famously described a purple finch as a "Sparrow dipped in raspberry juice (male)." When it came to the Audobon Oriole, Peterson quipped that its song was like "a boy learning to whistle." What was Roger Tory Peterson’s favorite bird? The King Penguin. Here are some famous Peterson quotes: "Few men have souls so dead that they will not bother to look up when they hear the barking of wild Geese." "Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy." "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble." And finally, the book, The World of Roger Tory Peterson worth a read if you can get hold of a copy. Unearthed Words Buttercup nodded, and said good-by; Clover and daisy went off together; But the fragrant water-lilies lie Yet moored in the golden August weather." Celia Thaxter ~ August The poet Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) grew up on an island. Her father built a hotel on Appledore Island and it became a hub for artists, creatives, and writers of New England during the late 19th century. With the natural beauty of the island and Celia's lovely garden, it's no wonder that Appledore became a muse for many. Today, Celia's garden is as enchanting as it was over 100 years ago. Celia grew cut flowers for her father's hotel. She also wrote a best-selling book called An Island Garden. Today's book recommendation: Midwest Foraging by Lisa M. Rose If you're a beginner forager, and most of us fall in to that category, this beautifully formatted guide will be your go to resource - even advanced foragers find it helpful. Lisa's plant profiles include color photos, tips for identification, and excellent ideas for both eating and preserving your treasures. Lisa's friendly and matter-of-fact approach shines through in this work; she takes the fear out of foraging! Today's Garden Chore August is the perfect time to sow winter salads for the greenhouse or cold frame. Thought it's tempting to say, "Let us wait," wise gardeners know that WSR's(Winter Salad Requirements) are more fully satisfied when effort is made in August. Something Sweet Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart It was on this day in 2002, that Spaniards threw 120 tons of tomatoes at each other at the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain. Every year, on the last Wednesday of August, the town of Buñol, in #Spain, celebrates the biggest tomato fight in the world and Spain's messiest festival: ¡¡¡¡LA TOMATINA!!!! It has been a tradition since 1945, when some kids had a tomato fight in the town square. Now, every year, trucks bring in tons of tomatoes grown especially for the event. In the town square, a Spanish ham is attached to the top of a greased pole. Most years, climbers are not able to reach the ham - but occasionally one climber makes this remarkable accomplishment. Then, visitors and residents alike begin the tomato fight and revel in the red sauce. The tomato-throwing spree attracts upwards of 50,000 visitors to Buñol every single year. Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."
Today we talk about the importance of follow up and how much it impacts your business. It is a vital part that keeps your business healthy. I also discuss something very exciting to all you WSR listeners. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode we discuss how to turn your hobby, interest and experience into an offer. Listen to episode WSR 22 first if you need help finding inner genius and turning it into your expertise --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
On Track is a series of conversations with Revive! sponsored Andrew Jordan who races in the British Touring Car Championship with Pirtek Racing and WSR. In this episode we find out how he's feeling after winning a race in the first round at Brand's Hatch, how the new BMW 330i M Sport is feeling a digging deeper into how some of the decisions are made before and after races.
In this, the pilot episode of Benefits Influencer, we talk with Brad Davis, Partner and VP Employee Benefits at WSR. Brad tells us about his first day on the job as a broker and how that set him on a trajectory to make education at the center of how he approaches employee benefits.
For over forty years, WSR has produced research reports, profiles and newsletters on both public and private companies. These companies are typically in a capital raising phase, and they bring investors together to receive the presentations of the companies. Having done many of these "RoadShow" gatherings their insights are very valuable for any investor or entrpreneural endeavor.
Dick Bennetts, the founder and boss of West Surrey Racing, first came to the UK from New Zealand in 1972 and has worked with Ron Dennis, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna, Mauricio Gugelmin, Mika Hakkinen and Rubens Barrichello. In 1996 WSR moved from the world of Formula 3 and entered the British Touring Car Championship where it has won 69 races and finished on the podium 231 times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dick chats as WSR pick up the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship Manufacturers Title
WSR has announced an exciting new partnership with Pirtek Racing and Andrew Jordan for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
BARC - The British Automobile Racing Club Audio News and Interviews
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Dave joins Dadio and Joe at Studio 54 1/2 in downtown Janesville to discuss the world of sports news local and national. It's not all sports though. Listen in and you'll see what I mean! It's sure to be a good time with this crew. Here's just a few of the topics we'll be discussing on Saturday night. The Milwaukee Bucks make a huge trade right at the deadline. They are surpassing many folks expectations so far this season.The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team keeps on winning. They are allowing late game comebacks from unranked teams. Is this cause for concern?Some players have already reported to spring training in Arizona. Who's going to Opening Day 2015 in Milwaukee?Joe Halferty will discuss the Daytona 500 and other Nascar news.Joe will also have NHL news as well as Chicago Blackhawks coverage.WSR visits another Janesville bar to eat, drink and be merry. We will discuss the food and atmosphere at Charlies Place. How many OINKS will we deliver this week?The cast will talk about the best and worst sports movies of all time. This is sure to bring some debates on. Rudy is #21 of all time? Really? Join us Saturday night at 6p.m. WISCONSIN TIME!
Wealthy Sistas® Radio Connecting Business with People, Stories, and Music LIVE Tuesdays 11 AM EST LISTEN LIVE @WEALTHYSISTASRADIO.COM THIS WEEK: We are 5 years Old. Thank you for all your support over the years. We appreciate you for tuning in, downloading, and sharing. Special Guest: Author Bernadette Logue, the founder of Pinch Me Living headquartered in Bali. Bernadette has mastered the power of affirmations and shares them with WSR. Wealthy Sistas® Radio, is a production of Wealthy Sistas® Media Group, Each week the host Deborah Hardnett interviews extraordinary business owners who share their real life, uncensored and uncut stories of triumphs and mishaps on their journey. Each show is packed with sound business concepts that offer solutions to business professionals globally. And is intertwined with some of the greatest R&B music of all time. Listeners will find Wealthy Sistas® Radio show both informative and inspirational and entertaining. Wealthy Sistas® Media Group – Promoting Positive People Learn more about our Host Deborah Hardnett and services at wealthysistasmedia.com
Episodio 22 - Numa Toro Rosso da vida No episódio desta semana, gravado após duas semanas de ausência, falamos sobre o GP de Abu Dhabi, o GP dos Estados Unidos, as diferenças entre Sebastian Vettel e Fernando Alonso e as hipóteses de título de ambos os pilotos. Falamos também sobre António Félix da Costa e a sua corrida de sonho em Macau, na Formula 3, sobre a “gaffe” no pódio, com os hinos trocados - e o público a cantar “à capella” - bem como os acidentes mortais deLuis Carreira e de Phillip Yau, onde discutimos possiveis causas e o que se pode fazer para melhorar a segurança de um circuito urbano como aquele. Tudo isto e muito mais, pode ser ouvido por aqui. Esperemos que gostem! Links: Tabela Classificativa final da WSR Entrevista com António Félix da Costa no “E-Desporto” Duração: 1h16min | Tamanho: 17,6Mb | Download Directo | Gravado a 21 de Novembro 2012
This episode of Delicious Vibes features a Guest Mix from Korean DJ Steve Wu. “Steve Wu has already become one of my favourite producers out there right now and has great potential to go far in this industry. Both in the DJ booth and in the studio he has huge talent and I'm excited to see where this takes him from here!” - Sonny Wharton (Skint / Whartone) Steve Wu is one of Korea's top tech house and house producers/DJs, as well as the owner of a new label called Eastribal Records. Steve has released tracks on several different labels including Sonny Wharton's Whartone Records, Re:Sound, and the Korean labels WSR and Moon, as well as Eastribal. As a producer, he is a resident and music director of LUV Superlounge in Seoul, Korea, and plays regularly in the cities biggest clubs including Ellui and Holic in Seoul's famous Gangnam district and the World DJ Festival. This mix, recorded live at LUV, is an energetic and soulful mix of tech house and house music that should have you grooving throughout. Enjoy this mix and be sure to check out Steve and Delicious Vibes, including our music blog, in the links below. https://www.facebook.com/djstevewuofficial https://www.facebook.com/eastribal http://www.beatport.com/artist/steve-wu/271678 http://www.beatport.com/label/eastribal-records/31365 www.facebook.com/deliciousvibesmusic www.deliciousvibesmusic.com
I veckans avsnitt av Viasat Motors podcast är det med anledning av Abu Dhabis GP i helgen lite extra fokus på Formel 1. Janne Blomqvist och Eje Elgh diskuterar vem av Sebastian Vettel och Fernando Alonso som egentligen är den bästa föraren (något som det visar sig vara svårt att svara på), Nico Hülkenbergs och Kimi Räikkönens nya kontrakt och vem som är den hetaste kandidaten att ta styrningen i Force India som Hülkenberg lämnar efter sig. Dessutom så slår vi en signal till Johan Kristoffersson som i helgen knöt ihop säcken för sitt tredje mästerskapsseger den här säsongen samt Marcus Ericsson som berättar lite om skillnaderna, och likheterna, mellan GP2- och WSR-bilarna då han testat båda två under de senaste veckorna. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In the first ever VIVA LA DERBY! Super Fun Happy Time, Big Kahuna, De-Nominator and Psychlone Cilla have a really good chat with Western Sydney Rollers Peggy Spew, Max Manic, and Toxic Cupcake. As this is the first SUPER FUN HAPPY TIME ever, we're looking for feedback. Let us know if it works or sucks hairy balls. Want to be a featured league on SFHT? Get in contact. We'll talk. VIVALADERBY! SCHWAG Do you like VIVA LA DERBY!? Do you wear clothes? If you answered yes to either of these questions then have we got a Wicked deal for you. It's the first ever VIVA LA DERBY! and clothes super team up. We're bringing podcasting and garments together and are now selling our own swag through Wicked Skatewear. You can get our Logo on a BLACK or WHITE tee and our Retro Special Edition RUN VLD shirt. Guaranteed to make you at least 37% cooler and 68% more appealing to the opposite sex. Or not. Whatever flicks your switch. These shirts go both ways. If you want to support Austrlalia's no.1 Roller Derby Podcast, get yourself a cool shirt at the same time and you got yourself one of those "I killed two birds once when I was stoned" scenarios. You can download this episode directly by right clicking on the link below and choosing “Save Link As”. Or simply use the embedded player to listen to it in your browser. If you download through iTunes don't forget to rate and review. VLD SUPER FUN HAPPY TIME - Western Sydney Rollers
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