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Leadership and Loyalty
"bloomfield" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"Of lost a lot of its depth. And you know, I meet people who say, oh, I'm a great storyteller, and I listen to them like, wow, hold on a second. I think you're a cure. You may be good at stories, but only if you're looking for a cure for insomnia. There's a lot of story reporters. I say there's a lot of story reporters. There's a difference in the way the example I use is that when you know a really good communicator who uses a great stories, an hour goes by and you can't even believe in hours went by and you feel so immersed in the information. And then now juxtapose that with watching the nightly news. Yeah. They're trying to tell stories through the nightly news. They're not, they're story reporters. Yes. And I think a lot of leaders and a lot of sales professionals and a lot of communicators, they report information and they think their storytelling. When it's the arc of how to use that emotion coaster to activate that part of the brain and then make a point with it, that leads me discovering something new for myself. That's the magic. Yeah. Absolutely. Jeff, this has been a delicious conversation. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us to be with and share your wonderful knowledge and insights and wisdom and your stories. They are sincerely appreciated. I want to make sure that people can find out more about you about your books about all the programs that you have and all the wonderful knowledge you have. Where do people find out more about you? Yeah, if they're interested in speaking at my speaking, they go to Jeff bloomfield dot com. If they're interested in learning more about our programs and a lot of the science behind it all, they can go to brain trust growth dot com where we have a lot of our work in our sales enablement as well as our coach leadership and coaching while work that we do there as well. And of course they can find my books on Amazon or they can hit me up on social media, primarily we use LinkedIn. And Instagram is our primary two channel, so they can find us on there as well. Fabulous. Well, again, it's been a pleasure and honest. Thank you so much. And for you to listen to remember that we will have all those links posted in the show notes. And remember that those who control the meaning for the tribe also control the movement of the tribe. Business and political leaders committed to positively shaping the political and business landscape. No, that we have to be able to tap into what drives human behavior. And we do that by understanding the groundbreaking understanding of the anatomy of meaning, extracted from the emotional source code. I am dove Barron. I show businesses teams and leaders how to harness their emotional source code to move their tribe because unified actualized meaning is the one single monolithic difference between mediocrity and greatness in individuals and in companies. Want to thank you for showing the show with everybody you know. Remember we need your help. So just go over to wherever you tune into the podcast and rate review and subscribe to show it really is important. Until next time, stay curious, my Friends, stay curious. About the stories you're telling and whether they're actually stories that connect
Leadership and Loyalty
"bloomfield" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"Connect to your people's purpose and vision that will allow you to get maximum performance out of them even in the face of a recession. We're also going to talk about the latest in neuroscience research that will help you all but eliminate change resistance inside your culture today and we might even talk about a little bit about how you can identify those lions that you can pull out of that culture of sheep that you might be having to lead today as well. We're going to talk about that in a lot more on today's episode. We'll see you there. Welcome back to part two of our delicious conversation with Jeff bloomfield, Jeff bloomfield is the founder and CEO of brain trust. He's the bestselling business author of neuro selling and story based selling, he specializes in taking the science of decision making and leveraging it to help people be more effective and impactful in their conversations and communications very powerful for us as leaders. And he has been featured in sales and marketing magazine as well as Forbes, he speaks on stages around the world. He is been really giving us some really powerful information. Just by the way, if you didn't catch one, go back, the such enormous value in bar one. And we talked about everything from how his grandfather impacted him, and you might go, well, who cares, listen, go back, listen, it will blow your mind how this Kentucky gentleman moved to Ohio to start a form with a vision of how that would impact his grandson who is Jeff and what that has done and how his impacted Jeff and what has done there and see if you can see yourself in our story because I guarantee you will. We talked about creating the ripple effect. You've heard me speak about this many times in Jeff used exactly the same analogy that when you drop The Rock in the pond there is a ripple that is beyond The Rock. Every twig on that on that pond is lifted and that is what it's all about for us. It's about understanding that Jeff also walked us through a very powerful strategy, very simple. Let me don't get me wrong. Very simple strategy that you can do by taking an hour with your team that will up level your productivity level your effectiveness up level the effectiveness and efficiency of your team. It will do all those things and create a bond that you'd never even considered before. So that was all in part one, and there was so much more. That was just one part of it. So much more. We're going to dive into part two. And so as we dive into part two, as I said, the name of Jeff's book is called neuro selling. But let's sort of burst the bubble here because you might be thinking, okay, well, I'm not in the sales business. First of all, you are because we all are. If you keep trying to get your kids to go to bed at night or do their homework, that's selling. But let's just take it out of that context for a minute. This is not just about selling. This is about using neuroscience to really lead and Bond people to you. So let's jump in there, Jeff. Let's start with as a leader, someone listening viewing the show, maybe they've just jumped into parts, and they go, okay, neurosurgeon if that's for me, Todd was about why this is so important. Yeah, I think if you think about what makes a person successful in life, period, whether it's personally or professionally, it doesn't matter whether you're young or they're old. It really is the ability to communicate effectively and how that communication impacts relationships. Well, if that's the case and I believe it would be hard to argue against it. Then we probably ought to stop this stop for a second and say, well then how do we study the effectiveness of communication? And more importantly, the ineffectiveness of communication, where we begin. Well, for me, it begins between the years because it's the brain and neuroscience from biology to physiology to psychology when you start to put those three studies together. They really do determine what comes out of your mouth. And so if you really want to impact becoming an effective communicator, you start to start to think about, well, I have to become a student of the brain because the brain is the engine that drives communication. And that's why, to me, I was always so fascinated with neuroscience and with behavioral psychology. It wasn't to nerd out with people about how much I know about the brain. It really was the application. Okay, well, maybe it's a little bit a little bit, right? Well, maybe it didn't start out that way, but because I have competition is one of my 5 strength and strength binders. Then I wanted to be the best at it, right? Of course. But it really did, it really does come down to that. Is how do we help people understand? We don't need to turn people into neuroscientists or behavioral psychologists. What we need to do is give them just enough simplicity. The old farm boy simplicity. To understand what's going on between the years. So in any given situation, they can quickly identify what they typically would leave in the unconscious to conscious so they can do something about it in the moment. The positively impact that relationship that they're in interacting in in the moment. So.
Leadership and Loyalty
"bloomfield" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"I'm running 8 people underneath me. I'm a manager slash leader. I've got 8 people in me. Where do I start? With that, would that journey of getting them to, because they've probably not thought about it either, right? Because tapped into the test, they've got to get done. And they're saying, I don't even want to do it, let alone have a time. Yeah, we do this. Here's a good week for us. Okay, it's Monday. So dove, you report it to me. I just checked, now is your weekend. Good, how the kids. Good, everybody good. Your grandkids good. Great. Hey listen, I want to talk to you about these three things that we have on our list this week to go after have you been able to do X, Y, and Z and a, B, and C and then immediately, you don't even believe I cared about the first three questions. At all. Now, because that's kind of that's our pattern, right? We've been in this cycle. One of the things that we do is we have our clients, we teach our leaders to go and use this formula. So the first thing is, is we give our employees a list of 50 values. And we say, okay, look at this list of 50 values. And yours may not be on there, but if it's not, there's an other category. We want you to take those 50 and want you to win on them down to the ten values that you think most represent who you are. And then I want you to take those down to 5. And now what I want you to do is tell me a story about how you hope to show up with those 5 values every day in your personal life and in your professional life. And then they'll do that. And then I'll say, great. Now, here's what I want to know is where did you learn those from? Tell me that backstory. I want your origin story. You asked me that question to start this podcast. We need to ask every employee that question. What's your origin story that drives those values that created those values that then leads to your life purpose? If I don't know that story, then I can never communicate with you in a meaningful vision purpose personal vision standpoint. But the minute I do know that story and I know that you grew up on a farm and you had this amazing grandfather who was a great storyteller who taught you hard work and taught you all those things, taught you problem solving skills and that you've got three kids and college high school and in elementary school and what you're trying to do to leave a ripple effect. The minute I know all those all that story and where you're trying to go, I am compelled to help you get there. And now my conversations are pointed around, yes, we have a lot of stuff to do this week, but it has to, I know, and my gut and through the brain through the science that it has to help align the things that bring you great value. Personally, or you'll just, you'll tune me out. So that's a big way to do it. I love that. Simple practicality, because there's a lot of stuff around, oh, you know, you got to know people's stories and you got to know people's values. And often honestly, I get brought in and do values work on a be brought in and I'm like, God. I admit that I'm silently rolling managed because these people have not got values. What they've got is a bunch of words that they randomly pulled out that seem like they're the right words to have. But when you say, what's the story behind that? They'll tell you a story, always. They've got something. But it's contemporary. And I go, no, no, that's not the story. And they go, what do you mean? Where is this story around this thing from your childhood from where? Hit you deeply emotionally as a kid because that's where it got laid down and that's the shit that still driving you and if you think that the past is not present, you'll live in some fancy that I have got no context for whatsoever. The fact of the matter is that's the stuff driving you. When you, when you study to tell the story of your grandfather, I heard you telling your story the story you've told them probably 10,000 podcasts. And then I asked you a deeper question about his name, but his title. And I asked you about his eulogy and I watched you get emotionally connected. Now, I read micro cues and I'm an NLP master like you. So I'm paying attention. But the thing about it is I'm trained for your train for it. We can see it. But what people don't realize is they can see it. They just don't register what it is, but they feel a compelling towards another person. And so when somebody is telling you those things, you feel connected to them and your brain fires off oxytocin as does theirs and you two start to feel a bond that you don't even understand. It doesn't make sense rationally because it isn't rational. And there's a connection there and what you said is so important because by doing that simple exercise, you can find out. Now, if you've got 8 people and you put those 8 people in a room in a circle and you start doing those stories, you bond all 8 people to each other and to you answer the company and it's so powerful. So a really want you to know how much I appreciate you doing that exercise for our people for our audience. So they can grasp it because we were already at the end of part one. It's a delicious exactly. We're gonna come into part two of the conversation in a moment. And I want people to really sort of grasp that if you didn't take notes on that, listen back. We're gonna be back in just one click and so it's important for you to stay curious about how you're connecting with each other, how you're connecting with yourself and what your purpose is. But before we go to the end of part one, I want to make sure that people can find out about
Leadership and Loyalty
"bloomfield" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"It's wonderful to see that there's been quite a bit of buzz around a subject that's been very near and dear to my heart for more than 30 years. That subject is neuroscience. However, the obvious questions are is neuroscience important to you as a leader and do you need a PhD in neuroscience to make use of it? Well, the answer is yes. Understanding neuroscience is extremely valuable to you as a leader. And no, you don't need a PhD to be able to practically apply it into your leadership. But how? Well, that's where we're going in the next two episodes. As always, we need your help to stay relevant. You know, our team works very hard to bring you these podcasts every single week. And we really appreciate that you're listening. But please, you know, it really helps us if you do us a favor and just go over to iTunes or wherever it is you tune into the show from and rate review and subscribe to the show. And you know what? Don't hold it. Share it with other people too. We really appreciate it. And if you do that, who knows, maybe you'll get a live shout out right on the show. If you are a regular and a big thank you to you for making us the number one podcast globally for Fortune 500 listeners and we're honored and grateful to be decided by ink dot com as the number one podcast to make you a better leader. All right, let's dive right in. In this social media fire hose of information world that we're all living in, it's easy to feel like there's just too much information and as a result just sort of shut down. However, what if you understood how to take a vast amount of information filter it, distill it, and then distribute it in a way that has your people really get it. Because that is the key. Let's find out how to do that because I'll guess for the next two episodes is Jeff bloomfield. Jeff is the founder and CEO of brain trust. He is a bestselling author business author of neuro selling and story based selling. Do you have bloomfield specializes in taking the science of decision making and leveraging it to help us be more effective and impactful in our customer conversations. Jeff has been featured in sales and marketing magazine and Forbes. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together and help me to welcome. The king
AP News Radio
Prayers go on, sometimes out of sight, in high school football
"On this week's religion roundup, prayers go on, sometimes out of sight in high school football. In Jesus name, amen. Let's go. Pregame prayers have become a focal point after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Washington state public school coach how to write to prey on the football field. Since then, some speculated there would be more game day prayers. Confidence endurance. A recent AP North Pole shows a majority of American adults approve of the decision. In Michigan, football coaches like west bloomfield's Justin ivy found ways to make it voluntary. It was never a situation where we made anybody come and do it. We just did it. AP sports writer Larry lage says there was some pressure to increase the amount of prayer at games. One coach just outside of Detroit says several people in the community pushed him to use his platform and constitutional right to pray publicly, but Dearborn fordson high school coach fuad Saban says he chose to keep prayers behind closed doors to avoid potential anti Islamic jeers. I actually was flooded by calls and they were hoping that I would take advantage of the ruling and we would do our actual prayer out on the field. So but that's not the way we've operated forts and senior whiteout Hassan Chennai says his teammate support keeping their prayers in the locker room and away from the public. I think it's better private because I don't, you know, we don't know what everybody wants, but we're a team and we all agreed to this to the prayer and we have no problem with it. But we don't want to do it publicly because we don't know if people are comfortable with know what their opinions are about it. We just don't want anything, you know, any conflict with anybody else. High school junior Chris writes as the prayer strengthened the team's Bond. And it's okay to practice whatever religion you may practice when we all accept each other. It's kind of making it easier for us to be cohesive as a team. I'm Walter ratliff.
AP News Radio
Prayers go on, sometimes out of sight, in prep football
"Prayers go on. Sometimes out of sight in high school football. Pregame prayers have become a focal point after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Washington state public school coach had a right to prey on the football field. Since then, some speculated there would be more game day prayers. In Michigan, football coaches like west bloomfield's Justin ivy found ways to make it voluntary. It was never a situation where we made anybody come and do it. We just did it. Players like Hassan China say their team prefers to pray in the locker room. We don't want to do it publicly because, you know, we don't know if people are comfortable. High school junior Chris writes as the prayer strengthen the team's Bond. Okay to practice whatever religion you may practice when we all accept each other. It's kind of making it easier for us to be cohesive as a team. I'm Walter ratliff.
KGO 810
"bloomfield" Discussed on KGO 810
"Happy with what I have accomplished through fidelity but I never thought about the tax implications until I got near a retirement So Sure Well Peter there you go Thank you Rick I appreciate that great You're very welcome That was Peter and Norwalk Connecticut Let's head off to bloomfield hills in Michigan here on the Rick Edelman show say how amazing she's on the phone How are you Great Rick How are you today Doing well Thanks so much How can I help you I was wondering in terms of the number that I have in mind to retire with the financial number the savings Should I count the equity that I have in my home I think I shouldn't because it's not liquid and I have no intention of selling my home but I was just wondering what your perspective is on that Yes you should count it Absolutely positively doesn't matter that it's not liquid Doesn't matter that you have no intention of selling it You could say the same thing about other assets Your automobile you have no intention to sell on that either Stocks and bonds They're liquid but you don't have any intention of selling them at least not anytime soon So it absolutely is an asset because of push comes to shove If you need money somewhere then you're going to turn to the house And the day may come when you want to downsize You want to spend less on a house or the upkeep maintenance property taxes associated with it So it's absolutely a financial asset No question about it and you should take it into consideration And by doing so you'll discover that your income potential is higher than you otherwise thought To the tune potentially of a thousand or $2000 a month more than you thought And it could really give you additional peace of mind or greater financial flexibility than you otherwise considered and that will give you more comfort and more pleasure and retirement So absolutely positively count it as an asset Okay may I ask another question Of course So if that's the rationale do you mean it would count if I for example took a new mortgage and pulled that money out Is that what you're implying That's one way you monetize the asset That's one way you create liquidity from the asset And what you don't have to sell the house to get money out of it you could just refinance you can get a home equity line of credit You could get a reverse mortgage There are lots of different ways In fact the blockchain technology and the digital assets world is creating opportunities as well through tokenization There are lots of ways that you can monetize the value of the house in order to turn it into an income stream to provide you monthly income for sure Interesting Okay Thank you so much I appreciate that My pleasure Maisie Well that's all the time we have on the Rick Edelman show this weekend We have two original broadcast left for you and then it's the end of the Rick Edelman show after 30 years on the air and so Christmas weekend a very special final broadcast It's a retrospective look back at the last 30 years of broadcasting on this show the most favorite popular clips the most astonishing segments we're all going to bring it to you on Christmas weekend And then on the weekend.
Squawk Pod
"bloomfield" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"You. Appreciate having you on. This morning. Coming up, Steven. Now it's Friday. He's on early. I love talking about The Sopranos which as you know the whole new generation is addicted to The Sopranos. I've watched it, I think, three or four times all the way through man oh man, every episode needs to be watched. Have you watched the new film? I tried in like it. I didn't like it. No, I tried to watch that. You know who I'm going to talk, I miss gandolfini. I didn't know him, but we all feel connection to him. He was so amazing. We feel it connection. But every one of those episodes would be canceled. Every one of them in this current know you that we're in right now. I mean, I watch it now, and I'm like, does anyone see me watching this? I might get fired for watching some of the stuff on The Sopranos. Did you see it? I don't want to spoil it and they will talk about it later. You know how it really ended now, right? The David chase. That's not different than what I thought. And I've had ice cream. Okay. At that place in bloomfield. It's a little cool little place that David chase grew up in north Caldwell. I think. Well, maybe we'll get there. That's a nice tease for later in terms of what we may discuss. I hope we'll discuss that because it wrote the book with Michael imperioli who I also love..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"But it's really so different john and the other type of model but there is there is a period say two months goes by and it doesn't have very often at eighty percent of the time the attic does and if they don't come the meeting they show up at the second meeting but about two months down the road. The family has to make a decision. Do we want to now go to what's called face three. Which is the original intervention which is writing a letter and it has consequences so you get the wife that says you have a. You have decided not to participate in what we're doing in our recovery for our family. And so i am deciding that i am going to move out and get a separation or i'm deciding that you're not going to be able to see your grandkids And till further notice Or we're deciding that your your job is in. You're not gonna have your job unless you go to treatment so that can happen about two months down. The road and family as a group makes a decision to whether they think it's time because the loved one has decided you know. Screw you people do what you want. But i'm not going to be part of this so Then a letter consequences. I helped them those letters. I have templates that they used put those letters together. Basically how much they love that person. But based on what we've known a history and we're all working on ourselves and you choose not to be a part of this so because of your choices this is what we're choosing to do and it's really based on choices. Let's nobody forces anybody to do anything with glen rice. The old patron model..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"Whatever i give them choices and say you choose but you need to do some stuff for yourself and lead your daughter alone. She you're not gonna you're powerless. I'll go back to step one another. You're powerless over whether she gets cleaner. Not so let's get to work on you guys and you're going to help your daughter because she's going to realize that you're working on yourself that it's not just about her. 'cause i hold everybody accountable and these things for six months. If mom started talking about the daughter daughter daughter. i'll say hey mom you're having a slip. What do you mean well. You're focused on your daughter. How are you. How is your al-anon meeting last night. The book the codependent. No more chapter five. What what what is what is in that book you told me you read chapter five last week remember so i'm holding mom accountable to do work so this type of interventions very different the old fashioned model as you meet the family friday night. Get rid of the attic somewhere. You make them write letters that have consequences and then they say it's grandma's party and the girl walks in and it's not grandma's birthday party. It's her intervention with some strange dude. Like me sitting in a chair going. Could you sit down. Your family wants to talk to you. It's really it's we it's an it's done in love and transparency and openness not deceit at lying and sneaking to get that person to come in a room so it's very different. It's i'm a big. I'm a big cycle of that model because sometimes the addict is the last one to come aboard the family her any better. You start shifting the now that would be gratifying to see amazing the There's there's little things like you. You get the family to commit that. They will never get an a one on one argument with the addict anywhere because doozy the addict will go to the meat link to ask for money to pay for my car payment too..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"Big tent gone. okay. I know that. Yeah that was that hazel and musing. How many people flat out. I've i've never been. That's a great finally. i've always. I've always been great fine and and so i've shared people and they're like shocked. Like wow this had forty years and he. He's been an atheist since his first day of recovery But the idea that they can still stay in a still. Go to the meetings. And that's what i've been doing. It's kinda it's okay. I'm still comfortable. In what i get out of. Aa but will. I switch to secular down the road when cobra's over. There's a great chance. I'm gonna i'm gonna travel around actually because i'm gonna be retired some I wanna try some of these meetings. I wanna fellowship with some people. At but i mean just the fella tonight to tell that story about god put a cover over his. Yeah and what about the the three other cars like totally smashed up. I'd like what was got up there pointing the point and i'm curious that way. I'm curious jack. When did you begin going down this road questioning the all of this and becoming interested in a secular way the the interest really strong has been since i've had a little more youtube tie and website time in the last year and a half. Okay how have i ever been thinking that. I don't buy into all the religious language in a that goes back for years and years in here. Yeah i mean like ever. Since i was maybe a couple years sober and i started going. Is he in the big book. Everything that's weird and and yeah. God couldn't order if he were sought. So what about somebody who doesn't believe in god. I had always been thinking that but my personal journey has done a shift in the last year and a half that i still love is shipping with people in the program. I still have great transmitter. Quote believers great trends. I mean the parzer friendships But would i like the fellowship with some people that are secular. Met people who see the program that way. Yes i would what i am. I ready to go to a convention not sure but but There's bruce around here i know. There's probably within thirty miles of me. Probably six or groups..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"Group and i said why don't we read this at kind of oh it's not it's not a approve like well we can't do that they would freak out Actually there was something i wanted to share with you in two thousand fifteen atlantic convention. I do believe a internationally is coming to grips with the fact that when. Close a meeting. With the lord's prayer. The our father which is a hundred percent christian and protestant they use the protestant version. Yeah i haven't said that prayer in a long time. Even we were holding hands up meetings. Just kinda bow my head in respect but the language of that is so busy and have friends that are not christian. I of friends that are jewish and buddhist. And i have friends that are atheists in aa and agnostic. So when i brought it back to my home group that they closed all the meetings in two thousand fifteen in atlanta with the responsibility statement No our harder. And i asked the group if they would consider so. We took a group vote. I think fifteen people said no we keep the our father and two people said yeah. Let's do the responsibility statement in honor of people who might not pray like that. You would thought. I came and said let's all drink point to be. We probably won't get to. It was amazing. The resistance the fear. You could see it while we voted against six months later and it was about eleven to five. You know so. I ended up because of coated with six or seven guys. Got one gallon six guys. We started a new group so we could go meet in person because they ministry on zoom in weeded. And then all that. So i don't have to go into that story but when we sat down and said how do we want to structure a meeting. Two things one was less not read how it works. Yeah florida for take forever and knowing how about..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"When did you learn about these secular meetings. Because they've been around seventy five. Since i had no clue include and i've been able to which i'm very happy about because i'm still an active member of my own group. I'm i'm in a group that i was at tonight My actually chaired the meeting. Big book i pick something that had nothing to do with any kind of religious stuff. But i i Where where was i going with. That thought i'm sorry. I forgot The again. Just to the people whose language talks about. I get a guy sponsor. He's twenty eight years over. He sends me a text every morning because he loves to send these closest people And they're all a language that i just want text them back and say i just don't this guy that you're sending me but i don't wanna ruin experience and maybe i'm saying that because i'm afraid talk about i don't agree with any kind of this god stuff but Well it's interesting that so like so from so we've had these agnostic groups around since nineteen seventy five. They've had them in. New york even had them in florida too since the nineteen eighties. Early nineteen eighties. But they all these different groups. They didn't even know about each other. There was no way for them to. They're all kind of under the radar. I think some of them might not have they. Don't they had like listings in there. central offices that designated them as agnostic groups or anything And they didn't know about each other and it really wasn't until two thousand fourteen when there was an international convention of for agnostics atheists in aa in santa. Monica that personal. It actually wasn't the first one actually had one In chicago When a quite a group started in chicago in the seventies and they had a conference in chicago i think late seventies or maybe the eighties. But it was. It was a smaller one. Then nothing happened until Two thousand fourteen but the big difference between the conference in the eighties or seventies whenever that was what happened. Two thousand fourteen is of course the internet so when we left that conference we were all able to stay together. I mean we were all able to communicate social to social media groups etcetera and from there a lot of groups began to start up after that first conference i think the growth may have slowed down a little bit pre cova but i think now with co vid. You've seen a lot more starting online. And it's gonna be really interesting if we ever go back to normal again if those groups are going to go you know And brick and mortar. I would love to be I know in my immediate area. There's not a group within ten or fifty miles. But i did start researching that there are secular groups in fort lauderdale delray beach. There are secular groups around and You know with the day. Ever come that i join a group like that. Possibly is there a day like that. I'd start a group like in my area possibly But the reason that. I think it's so important to have these groups as because i want to be able to tell i guess on great things i've been able to do. You know the same take rich alike. the rest I've been doing that for years. Aa there's a lot that i take that i love and it works and there's a power in the room now..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"Aren't set in clinton the door because of our religious background which started back in the early days The big book was written with a huge amount of religious language The twelve and twelve has got a huge amount of religious language and You know i I some of the things. I think about like i work. I work in the field now. I basically cut out of the regular business world. I started my own intervention company. So i work with a lot of families that are desperate for help and i do hear meant way too often when i mentioned you know part of what we're going to talk about is you know recovery possibly gone to rehab for your daughter your son your mom And then we're gonna talk about possibly you know will follow up and continuing support group meetings and they over. What do you mean. Support group meetings. And i go. Well you know the place that works for me as a twelve program the ama. Oh no no no way. They would never do that. That's a religious program. We these are people who really either never been heard about or read about it and they're already known that see. That amazes me. Because and so when i started in eighty eight i did not know that about a what i knew about. A is signed the movies and you never saw them praying in the movies when they when they when they dealt with an aa meeting or anything like that. I had no idea that there was any of the of the god stuff. But i've been told that by other people who got sober in the seventies especially in new york that it was less dogmatic that it was that it was less religious than it is now and new york now. I mean the meetings now. A lot of the meetings aren't as bad as probably they are like in missouri. For example where i live well i. I'm actually a portion of the bible belt here..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"I haven't had a drink since. Nineteen thirty four. And she said what are you a and he said woman co founder. Bill w in the couple that you met was bill and lois. Wow so. They hung out her day or two or three. They knew that they only linda close to. And i may be bill so that you had some kind of serious drinking problem but he passes phone number along and so the lowest and said if you are you ever known anybody has a problem you know. Here's my number if you know anybody who has three years later. My mom was drinking a quarterback. Good day take three prescription drugs and she at one phone number in the program and it was bill. The only person she knew so Bill ended up stepping her into the program and They became friends lois. My mom became friends after after After bill died. Nineteen seventy so here. I come along as a crazy teenager living with her. Because my dad kicked me out and so when i hit my bottom the only person i ever knew and was my mother and i said you know. Do you think i could go to a meeting. She said do you have a desire to stop drinking. And i said yes which was ally because i thought the only thing i have to hold onto my world drinking. Yeah it's it's kind of a weird question. Do you have a desire to stop drinking. You know i. I was like you. I was young. I had my life was a mess. It wasn't that i really wanted to stop drinking. I just felt like. I felt like my back was against the law. I really had no choice. You know i had to do something. Well i knew. Because you know that. Night that i wrote up. My girlfriend was a really tough night for me to wash happen here. The local freight on her face. Yeah i knew that. I had to do something so so the only person i ever knew that i had one person call was my mom and my mom's only nicole is girl w so the fun part is that could be pretty tight with lois myself. I gave tours at stepping stones and she ended up calling my first day anniversary..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"I haven't had a drink since. Nineteen thirty four. And she said what are you a and he said woman co founder. Bill w in the couple that you met was bill and lois. Wow so. They hung out her day or two or three. They knew that they only linda close to. And i may be bill so that you had some kind of serious drinking problem but he passes phone number along and so the lowest and said if you are you ever known anybody has a problem you know. Here's my number if you know anybody who has three years later. My mom was drinking a quarterback. Good day take three prescription drugs and she at one phone number in the program and it was bill. The only person she knew so Bill ended up stepping her into the program and They became friends lois. My mom became friends after after After bill died. Nineteen seventy so here. I come along as a crazy teenager living with her. Because my dad kicked me out and so when i hit my bottom the only person i ever knew and was my mother and i said you know. Do you think i could go to a meeting. She said do you have a desire to stop drinking. And i said yes which was ally because i thought the only thing i have to hold onto my world drinking. Yeah it's it's kind of a weird question. Do you have a desire to stop drinking. You know i. I was like you. I was young. I had my life was a mess. It wasn't that i really wanted to stop drinking. I just felt like. I felt like my back was against the law. I really had no choice. You know i had to do something. Well i knew. Because you know that. Night that i wrote up. My girlfriend was a really tough night for me to wash happen here. The local freight on her face. Yeah i knew that. I had to do something so so the only person i ever knew that i had one person call was my mom and my mom's only nicole is girl w so the fun part is that could be pretty tight with lois myself. I gave tours at stepping stones and she ended up calling my first day anniversary..
AA Beyond Belief
"bloomfield" Discussed on AA Beyond Belief
"Hello beyond belief. Sobriety is a podcast for people who are seeking or who have found a secular path to recovery from addictions of all kinds. Well today i had a guest by the name of jack. P he's been sober for some forty five years We had a little bit of talk about that which is kind of interesting He came in pretty young. And so did i. So i kind of look forward to hearing his story. I'm sure there's gonna be some commonalities some differences and is just always a pleasure to hear another person in recovery story so jack thank you so much for joining us here on beyond belief sobriety is gonna. Have you know my pleasure john. Thanks for having me before to it. So forty five years so t tell me about that. When did you. When did you start having a problem. With what did you i recognize. He had a problem with drinking. And get yourself involved in recovery. I would say pretty serious Around the age of eighteen. I turn sixty five. This past september and This is a side. I always thought that people over sixty five or older kind of kind of change that to maybe now age eighty. Yeah okay. we'll see when we get eighty. Maybe think anyhow. I was about eighteen years old and i had done about six series years of and drugs drinking crime police jails And then the last two years got more of an emotional Painful bottom spiritual emotional. Where i just began to think about suicide. A lot and just It was it was probably September of nineteen seventy five. Where i had a real bad night with a girl that i was in and i had roughed her up. One of my drunken rages. Which would happen at times. And i woke up the next morning never having a blackout when i was drinking or using and I remember everything vividly. And i love this girl a lot night and i i hated to her and there was one person i knew in the fellowship And that was my mother who had been ninety sober. And i called her up and i said. Do you think i could go to an aa meeting. And she said the desire. Stop drinking. And i said yes which was a huge lie because i thought the only thing i had left in my life to hold onto his drinking and I went to a meeting I think i just went to one meeting about four weeks. Went by came to florida on a trip Just to get away with a friend told them when we got in the car in new york said. I don't drink anymore. And within about two hours i told him well. I you know weeks drink..
FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"bloomfield" Discussed on FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"I don't know it's touching go but if you have to calm today in the ten or twelve i totally get it. I'm gonna tell you said brad brock and we're gonna talk about brock in the fat section. I'm just gonna move it. No it's okay Do you think it's brock. Or is it a mere garrett amir garrett got the save believe last night do we know what he faced. Two days ago. I can save on friday. So what it will probably be is fantasies worst nightmare which is a split based on on matchups. And maybe not even necessarily writing left the you know. Sometimes they trust one guy with the middle of the lineup. And then every other part of the lineup. The other guy can get so. Maybe we'll look into that a little bit I don't think guarantees completely out. But i do think branca's gotta go pick up. Probably still being held a lot of leaks despite his seven. Seventy one because of how much tunnel there's been in the cincinnati bullpen when i do think brock is somebody. Here's a thing. If i just don't need saves i'm going a little bit more on brock focused there as opposed to garrett 'cause i think garrett will draw the attention in leagues where he's available and then brought can be there maybe for some cheaper bids especially as thirty five. You know five. Walk right this year so i like brock though are generally better set up for the bullpen. Because you're gonna face more right handers. And gary hasn't gotten done this year. He's got walk to many guys way. Too many homers eight homers and twenty three in the third. He's been to hit. Nothing's really going right. Forget this year. And i loved him. Coming into the season can paul heyman announced when brock comes out of the bullpen. Be awesome dance your question last night Amir garrett allowed a single n crtv pop out of adrian's a line out to kunia junior and struck-out freddie freeman and again so let there's at least one lap iran adrian sweeter. Yes i think drowns switch. W righty lefty. Yeah yeah ryan. Who who would you put your money on out of this bullpen. Because like i'm looking at a few situations in my leagues where both are available. Yes and and that's the problem. Paul kind of alluded to this. I i do think this is going to end up. Being kind of a worst nightmare is just a kind of your typical. Lefty righty split. That david bell has been you know bell. This year has been very fluid with his bullpen roles. He has not really stuck to a single guy and and some of that has been injury like he did say he was going to go with sims and then got hurt of course but But i don't think it's worth going bidding aggressively on either of these two guys mostly on garrett brock because mostly mostly because of bell must be mostly because of the the fluid roles and brock also. I mean yeah. He's been great this year. Sub three ra. But it's just been fifteen eddings like yeah the velocities back from where it was in twenty nine hundred ninety s thrown back up at ninety four but but you know had a four five forty. Seventy are a in his last full season in twenty thousand nine hundred thirty five years old. I think you're gonna probably if you're going aggressive on rock. I think it's going to be in overpay for For trying to get the latest saves flavor of the week that said there are just have not been many saves on the waiver wire. So i totally get it if you're bunched up and saves but i can just see this being either performance wise for brock or he only gets. Maybe one or two saves up. Save ops a week because it is gonna flip flop back and forth as we saw saturday night with brock pitching the eighth and then garrett coming right in after him tonight. So i'm staying away really from from both of these guys. I just don't think the role is going to be solid enough for either one to make him worth a aggressive bid. Can we springboard off something Ryan said there of were about how how few saves are coming into the league. Because i do wonder from just jason ryan question them. How's that going to change things because we really haven't seen many. I know so many fantasy. Manji say i'll get him off the wire i'll speculate for a flawed thing that i've always thought that People over rate. Because you're gonna be competing with the whole league in the fab resources that we spend probably are more impactful than the draft capital that you would spend putting on like a hater chapman or hendrix at the top of the At the top of the board there. So i wonder you know directed to jason. I do you think that the lack of saves that have come out the market. I know there's still half a season so it could change but so far it's like that has not been a great avenue. You think that will change people strategies for next year where they will attack sames more n even those Those handful when we had like six or seven quote unquote reliable coming into the year. Will they be even more expensive or will nothing really change with. Saves i think the answer to both of those. Yes because this tends to be a very reactionary category Where you see things we talked about are coming into the season where there were the five or six guys and even i think this year the best bargain has been craig kimbrel because so many people all right and didn't trust said that it was a he buys like forget it and you've ignored your no nowhere. Two thousand whatever to two thousand eighteen and nineteen twenty two fresh. Or we're just gonna to. I told us. And i said kimbro look at what he did. Down the stretch last year and said. Nah you're so stupid. Greg cameras terrible. I said so much. I'm just giving you the data dude you do with it. What you pick starring paul To be fair opposite happened. And i was just i pushed back and say. Hey you know yeah. He was doing because he took him out of the closer role. He didn't have the pressure anymore when he was closing. He sucked so they put him in a middle relief on he was dominant. But you look at the numbers and it was like. Wow as.
FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"bloomfield" Discussed on FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"All right. colton wong. He left with a calf injury yesterday. It seems like it's gonna be a minor injury as well so pau kind of start with you would have you seen from colton long at. You is kind of a trendy sleeper coming into the season after moving for a moving over to milwaukee hasn't quite deliver it yet but do you think that this is a guy that you'd be wanting to pick up in fantasy leagues because he's pretty widely available yet. No actually he's actually thought honestly i was going to push back on you there and saying that he's actually been quite good wong it to ninety four with seven homers six steals ninety six for ten starting to wonder if they're gonna slow him down on the basis or not but He is getting the opportunities mixed in with some impressive power. I mean he's he's on page to crush His career high in homers of well if he continues at this clip. I don't know that he's gonna maintain a one ninety six eyeso- but he can shave twenty thirty points out that and still deliver enough power to be worth it with the speed and average. You mentioned that he had some trenice to him. And i wasn't huge on colton long coming into the air. It looks like i might have missed the boat on something here because It looks really nice. This is a great piece to be putting in either into your second base or middle. I'm you'll probably have at 'em. I at least did when they drafted him. They might have had to shift him up. Since i last shift up every roster spots like kind of the same but i always view my corner in middle a little lesser. Like i don't have to have quite the same threshold there because You know obviously it into deeper part of the pool that you can choose from. I don't always need the best guy but wong's been great. Hopefully this isn't anything to crazy forum Because i think not only do fantasy teams need them. But sort of the brewers ryan. Are you a colton long. Fan is guy that you think can continue doing what he's been doing so far three fifty in the month of in. Yeah it's nuts and then the interesting thing too with long he's been on the al twice already this year. He's kind of doing this well. He's had. I believe in oblique both times once in april and i believe the other one was in may and even through that similar to what jason was saying. Jesse winker colton. Wong has up his power up as fly ball rate while also maintaining that contact rates. So he hasn't sold out for some of the power games that we're seeing and he's hitting every day in the leadoff spot milwaukee. Which isn't the lineup that we've been used to the last few years. But he's racking plate appearances top that lineup with With the power games with with really you know. Excellent strikeout rate and an agreement on the base paths. So yeah all in on long. I just i really hope. This is not a major injury. If is that brewers lineup to stack against gets even juicier to stack against if it don't have colton wong at the top of that lineup. So really hoping this is minor for colton long. Because he's really putting together. The best season that i mean he he put up over twenty bucks in and wrote a value in two thousand nineteen but a lot of that was the twenty four bags right. That was really kinda stolen base heavy and this year. It's been pretty much all five categories while playing hurt so Really hope this is. This is minor form. I do too. I have a lot of colton long. I got a lot of early Shares before i he ended up in milwaukee so that he can pull through a tj antone has been placed back on the i l. with a right forearm strain lewis's concerning he was previously on the i l. for inflammation of the Of the forearm. Jason how worried are you on. Tj antone it's just great tiding tip because i literally just put them on the block of my local league Great but i'm wondering if this is going to be a similar story too. I wonder if he's going to come out and say what class now did because If you if you look at the in game spent the last couple of games his down And so it's one of these things where where the learning curve for these guys. I don't think any of this definitive and it just it bears watching on some of these guys. He was one of the guys whose rates are down and this becomes what glass. Now's was wouldn't surprise me if he comes out and says the exact same thing like a change grip on the ball and has led to this. So i'm hoping it's nothing goes love this dude and the way he's been able to pitch multiple innings and work in different capacities. But the this. I think singed us at the aisle as well and so cincinnati really needs They can't afford this. Not that any team can really afford to lose a reliever value. But the fact that he just came off and going right back on Is never a good sign. Yeah this is Super concerning to me paul. Concerning to you yeah. Tj antone Become a fantasy force. I'll formats to whether it's getting same or not does have three of them on the year but even in a saves only league which is mostly where he only has those three ratios that he has the forty two strike. Thirty three and two thirds for antone has made him a force and now here we go losing him again. And i think Was it jackson or justin. Just mentioned that sims also on the i l. That's bring thirty five year. Old brad brock into focus and i think he's going to be a popular pick tonight in In fact pickups particularly generate to save on sunday afternoon which is always the worst when. You're speculating on somebody. And then they do something big on that sunday. And you're like great now. Everyone's going to be Pumping up their bids but yeah i think cincinnati bullpen. Look strength coming into the season. It's now been decimated because you throw in the fact that amir garrett is underwhelming and they don't have a lot to go off right now in cincinnati so hopefully antone gets well soon but i'm very very concerned about this and I'm probably how might be cutting in some of the shower leagues right now. Because he was already. You know just reliever with ton of saves..
KUOW Newsroom
Seattle to open more permanent COVID-19 vaccination sites in Rainier Beach, West Seattle, Lumen Field Event Center
"Seattle is setting up permanent mass vaccination sites at the lumine field events center also in rainier beach and west seattle seattle mayor. Jenny durkan says the expansion will reach thousands more vulnerable residents each week and thousands more with enough supplies. And i spoke with mayor durkan about this expansion and why it is so needed here. Despite the fact that seattle was the first to kind of experienced both hospitalization deaths of covid because of the hard work sacrifices that the businesses and residents have made we have for the top thirty cities or so in america the lowest level of disease in hospitalization and part of the reason for that is. We're able to stand up just a first in class testing system. We wanna first in class vaccination system and so we're building the infrastructure to make permanent some of our vaccinations sites and to be able to be one of the first cities in the country to vaccinate all of its residents that need to be vaccinated and of course it requires us to get a steady dose of the vaccines. But it's looking like we will in some very excited. They will make a couple of our vaccination sites permanent We'll stand up a mass vaccination site and we'll open additional sites as time permits well. We're the new mass vaccination site you're talking about coming online. The new the new mass vaccination side is going to be what's now called. Bloomfield used to be centurylink people. Think of where the seahawks play. And how about what's going to be going on at the rainier beach and west seattle facilities those way. We'll make the rainier beach and west seattle facilities permanent vaccine sites It's incredibly important just to be able to reach all parts of our community particularly those who've been hardest hit by the virus and we know clearly from the data that Our communities of color in particular have been hit by cove not just the health impacts but the economic impact and the health impacts have been significantly disproportionate. So i'm very excited. We'll be able to keep that rear beach Facility open and have it as a permanent vaccine location and also very excited that we can keep west seattle open because as you know not only are the number of underserved communities in that area but it also because the west seattle bridge it's access to other parts of the city has been significantly diminished. So we've got to bring the vaccine to the people that need it absolutely. You mentioned the communities of color. Do you know what the vaccination rates are looking like when it comes to inoculating these communities much more percentage of the population. Getting the disease and much lower portion. Actually getting the vaccines. That's why the city of seattle has stepped up and are are. We are really providing that equity lens or vaccinations and really proud of seattle fire department. And all the work. They've done but very proud of the community based organizations who have stood up helped us implement a program so that we've been able to do pop up clinics in the communities for those who've been under served and seventy percent of the vaccinations that we've been able to deliver have been to buy pock community. We're really pushing with our community. Based partners to get those people who might not have access to healthcare. They might be hesitant to get the vaccine or have language barriers and by doing that. We're we're reaching the people that that are most vulnerable and need the vaccine. Will you mentioned hesitancy in the groups that you've had discussions with we've heard a lot about this certain communities of color just being simply afraid to get given the us history and medical practices here in our country. But do you really think it's an issue or are we just talking about lack of access to the vaccine. So i think it is both i think right now because we are in the period where they're scarcity. We're working hard to make sure that we get the shots arms and and and getting them to the right people so using the lens for that soon. I think we will have enough vaccine to deliver. And then we'll have to shift to try to get people who would be hesitant to come. You have to remember that. For the last four years the federal government waged war against are immigrants and refugees. It's hard to then turn on a dime and tell them they can now trust government. And so that's why it's very important to have community based partners that people that speak the language or that are trusted messengers and has the new mapping tool created by the university of washington helped you achieve these goals or is there something more that can better serve these bypass communities the tool has been very helpful because it gives us the actual data showing Vice zip code where the disease is most prevalent and so we can see using that tool that we have not been able to reach some of the communities most at risk for the disease that helps us target zip codes but we still need the community based partners who can work with people that they trust to get them to the vaccine sites.
WBZ Morning News
Flight drops debris on neighborhood during emergency landing
"Very close call for residents in Bloomfield, Colorado yesterday after debris from a United Airlines Boeing 7 77 fell on several neighborhoods. Nobody was hurt in the air or on the ground. When United flight 3 28 from Denver to Honolulu, experienced a right engine failure shortly after takeoff and then making an emergency landing at Denver International Airport. Kirby Clements said he was inside his home when he heard a loud bang opened his front door to find part of the outer cover of the Plains. Massive jet engine. It's smashed. Into his pickup truck, he said. The engine Cal land is straight up and down right in the bed of my truck. Just got the cab of my truck and the front part of my garage and then it just fell over off of that landed right into my trees. I destroyed the back. The whole cabin white truck is gone. Thanks. Debris fell through one home's roof. But again, incredibly no. One inside was
Financial Quarterback
1 Killed In New Jersey House Fire Southwest Of New York
"After fire ravages a house in New Jersey flames breaking out on Saturday night at 17, Myrtle Avenue and Nutley in the attached garage of a two story home. Crews from nearby my Claire Lyndhurst in Bloomfield joined the Nutley Fire Department to get the blaze under control. The Essex County prosecutor's office is investigating the cause of the blaze. New Jersey
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New Zealand On Alert After 4 Cases Of COVID-19 Emerge From Unknown Source
"New Zealand reports I knew corona virus cases in one hundred two days by Nick Perry. Wellington New Zealand New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Arden said Tuesday that. Have found four cases of the corona virus and one offline household from an unknown source. The first reported cases of local transmission in the country in one hundred, two days. Arden said Auckland at the nation's largest city will be moved to alert level three from midday Wednesday through midnight Friday meaning that people will be asked to stay at home while bars and many other businesses will be closed. These three days will give us time to assess the situation gather information. Make sure we have widespread contact tracing. So we can find out more about how this case arose and make decisions about how to respond to it. Once we have further information artem said at a hastily called news conference late Tuesday. I know that this information will be very difficult to receive. Arden. Said we had all hoped not to find ourselves in this position again, but we had also prepared for it and as a team we have also been here before. She said that traveling into Auckland will be banned unless people live there and are traveling home. She said the rest of the country will be raced to level two through Friday meaning that mass gatherings will be limited to one hundred attendees and people would need to socially distance themselves from each other director general of Health Ashley. Bloomfield said the infections were confirmed after a person in their fifties went to their doctor on Monday with symptoms and was swapped twice testing positive both times. Six other people in the person's household were then tested with three more positive results. Importantly, the person has no history of Overseas Travel Bloomfield said adding that the source of the infections remains unknown until Tuesday. The only known cases of the virus in New Zealand were twenty two travelers who had recently returned from abroad and were being held in quarantine at the border. The country has been praised globally for its virus response. New Zealand initially got rid of the virus by imposing a strict lockdown late March when only one hundred people at tested positive for the disease that stopped, it's spread life returned to normal for many people in the Pacific nation of five million as they attended rugby games at packed stadiums and sat down in bars and restaurants without fear of getting infected. But some had warned that the country had become complacent new. Zealanders have never routinely worn masks but authorities have been urging people to buy them just in case. The outbreak comes less than six weeks before New Zealanders. Polls in a general election.
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Coronavirus breaks out again in New Zealand after 102 days
"There is a report of new coronavirus cases in New Zealand these are the first reported cases of local transmission in New Zealand in one hundred two days we have four cases all in one household the people are in Auckland new Zealand's largest city prime minister Jacinda Ardern says they don't know the source of the virus we will be moving all claims to level three restrictions this means people will be asked to stay at home bars and many other businesses will be closed health director Ashley Bloomfield says they didn't expect this to go away quietly this is a tricky virus New Zealand has been praised globally for its virus response imposing a strict locked down in late March I bet Donahue
AP 24 Hour News
Four new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand
"New Zealand is reporting its first cases of local transmission of the Corona virus in the country. In 102 days. We have four cases all in one household Prime Minister Justin are, Durn says. The cases come from AH household in Auckland. More than one would place, however, is involved. Contact tracing is underway. But currently we know that off those workplaces, it means that we are not talking about one distinct suburb and Oakland. Oakland is New Zealand's largest city. People are being asked to stay at home starting tomorrow, while bars and many other businesses will be closed. Ashley Bloomfield is New Zealand's health minister is a tricky virus. We have been working on the basis that it could be a any time and being preparing for that time. That time is now the health system is well prepared. Traveling to Auckland, New Zealand
AOPA Never Again
Deadly decisions
"It was January nineteen, seventy four, the future was bright or so I thought. I had just completed my formal education after returning from Vietnam. Only twenty two months earlier. I was ready and anxious to land a job flying for American Delta Eastern or United Airlines. My timing couldn't have been worse. The country was in the middle of what we were calling a fuel crisis. The airlines were not expanding. With no immediate job prospects I decided, it would be a good time to pursue my airline transport rating later changed to airline transport pilot or ATP. Raleigh. Durham aviation offered ATP training, and was also assessment dealer. So I trained in a brand new Cessna three, ten q immediately after my check ride, the airplane was sold to a business in Richland's Virginia. A day or two. Later, the salesman who sold the three ten called and asked me if I would be interested in a job flying a beach baron for a business also based in Richmond. Virginia, the pilot currently flying the baron was going to work for the company that had just bought the three ten. I said I was interested. So he told me to catch an early flight the next day to Tri Cities Tennessee where the pilot leaving the job flying the baron would meet me. I arrived early the next morning. The pilot from Richland's was a nice guy, a couple of years older than me. He had come to the United States to attend flight school and build flight experience with plans to return to Denmark and fly for the country's airline. We departed tri cities with me at the controls and headed for. RICHLAND's I. had not taken the time to familiarize myself to the area. So I simply followed his instructions. Arriving over richland's a short time. Later, he advised me to begin my descent and start a teardrop turn to the right. He explained that we had just passed over the town of Richland's. He knew that because he had tuned in the AM radio station located in downtown Richland's on the ATF. He said I needed to maintain a seven hundred and fifty feet per minute descent while turning. As we entered the clouds, he told me to tighten the turn. I was already in a standard rate turn, but I complied, and we soon broke out of the clouds at about a thousand feet above the ground with the small town of Richland's in front of us. That's when it dawned on me. We had just descended between two ridge lines and into valley. I asked the pilot if you regularly flew into and out of Richland's using this method and he said, he did he told me, it was no big deal. Just crossed the AM radio station on a heading of zero, three zero degrees and descend at a rate of seven hundred and fifty feet per minute while making a teardrop turn to the right. At greater than standard rate right I added. I learned the owner of the Baron had grown accustomed to operating out of Richland's even at night as long as ceilings were at least a thousand feet, not me. Once on the ground, the pilot wished me luck and departed around five PM. The lobby erupted two men and two women entered walking fast with the guy in the lead talking loudly. As. They entered the guy in the lead. Saw Me and said you must be the pilot from Raleigh. I acknowledge that I was So he said file for Merritt Island Florida and let's get going. I filed an I F, our flight plan, and we were soon off the ground. The owner sat up in front with me, which was fine until he reached up and retarded the throttles right after breaking ground. I, put my hand up to stop him. But he had already pulled them back to climb power. He informed me the engines would last longer if we didn't keep them at full power so long. I told him. I had learned most engine failures occur at first power reduction. So I preferred to wait until reaching a couple of hundred feet before reducing to climb power. It was certainly a debatable point and it was his airplane. So nothing else was set. We landed in. Merritt Island Florida at about eight thirty PM, I was looking forward to getting to a hotel and kicking back, but it was not to be while taxiing into the F. B. O., the owner said, okay. Go back to Richland's and pick up three guys that will be waiting for you and bring them down here. I was stunned. It was at that moment I decided I would not be taking this job. I thought I would do. As he asked knowing, this would be the last time I would be subjected to him. I refilled the airplane filed an Afar flight plan for Bluefield West, Virginia and took off heading north. Bloomfield was the closest airport to Richland's with instrument approach if the weather was good. Enough. I. Would cancel the I. Afar Flight Plan and fly visually to the desired destination. Not Tonight. The weather at the destination wasn't too bad. But it would be late and I would be tired. So I called ahead and told my passengers to meet me in Bluefield. It was a little after midnight when I arrived the weather wasn't too bad. But bad enough to require an instrument approach. I was glad I made the decision to meet my passengers in Bluefield. Putting on fuel and filing an IOF, our flight plan back to Merritt. Island took only a half hour or so and my excited and well lube passengers and I were off for the final flight of the day. After takeoff. The Tower released me to departure control about the time I entered the clouds. A minute or two after contacting departure control? I lost communications. All engine navigation instruments were working fine. Everything was good except my communication radios, I turn them off and back on. I, check the circuit breakers. No good. I. Couldn't hear the controllers and I presumed they couldn't hear me. My clearance was to expect nine thousand feet, ten minutes after departure. So ten minutes into the flight, I climbed to nine thousand feet from my initially assigned altitude. I had already changed my transponder to squawk seventy, six hundred when the radio suddenly started working after a couple of hours, I contacted Jacksonville Center and was asked twice who I was. Later that day I briefed the owner about the radio problem. He said I could take the airplane to Daytona and have it repaired which I did. After two days in Merritt, island, I flew the owner and three others back to Richland's Virginia. I rode with the owner to his office and he informed me how much he was going to pay me to fly for him. I, told him. I wouldn't be taking the job. He paid me for my time. Reimbursed me for my airline flight and had me driven to Tri Cities Airport for my flight back to Raleigh. Sadly. The story doesn't end there. A. Couple of weeks. Later, I got a call from the salesman who had sold the Cessna three ten. He told me the Danish pilot with four passengers aboard had flown the new three ten into the side of a mountain, just outside of Richland's.
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Holding it Together When Things Fall Apart | Pema Chodron
"Our guest this week has seemingly been trying to prepare us for this pandemic for years through a series of very popular books with titles such as when things fall apart welcoming the unwelcome and the wisdom of no escape. But as you're about to hear Pem Trojan is anything but gloom even though the title sound a little gloomy like all the great meditation teachers. I've had the good fortune to encounter. She has a real lightness in a sense of humor about her. As you will hear that said notwithstanding her chipper demeanor she has worked really hard to point out to her readers and her many students that ground listeners and uncertainty are fundamental facts of life which are as we all know becoming increasingly salient in our current crisis. Pamacho her name as I said she was born deirdre Bloomfield in Connecticut. She lived a rather conventional life going to UC Berkeley becoming a schoolteacher. Having a pair of kids but after a rough divorce she found herself adrift. And during that time she discovered Tibetan Buddhism and ultimately shaved her head and became a nun. She's now in her mid eighties. She lives in rural Nova Scotia. Where she's the director of Gamco Abby and we connected with her via old school landline. So you'll hear that. In the audio we talked to her about a bunch of things including how to actually as she recommends and one of the aforementioned book titles how to actually welcome the unwelcome. We also discussed how to befriend your demons how to sympathize without being stupid how to lighten up in the face of fear and how to embrace chaos as and this is a quote here extremely good news so here we go hello This is Dan Harris Cohen. Hello this is Hammer Children. Nice to connected. You Nice to talk to you again. Are you in New York? I am in New York right in the heart. Oh Yeah Wow. That's a hard place to be right now. That is a statement of fact. It is a hard place to no question. How how are you? Situate US. Where where are you exactly? And and how are you? I'm I'm good. I'm very well as a healthy and good. I'm in Nova Scotia and Ahmed COMPO ABBEY. Which is very remote in a kind of a very natural setting on the ocean. Far North in Nova Scotia Cape Breton Island. And we've had to close to anyone coming in but the community if like we're as they say sheltering in place where all sheltering in place together and just doing what we were doing before you know so. But we're very aware of course heightened awareness of what's happening With virus and the amount of suffering and death so that's very strong but in terms of being healthy we are and in terms of you know being able to our life is not claustrophobic. I guess you could say that. So we feel fortunate that way. I'm glad to hear that you're relatively unaffected but I I also hear that you're saying that you can't help but be aware of the global situation. Oh yeah yeah very much so very much so I was. I was looking at some of your book. Titles just read them back to you but when things well welcome welcoming the unwelcome comfortable with certainty the wisdom of no escape. I was thinking. It's like you've been trying to prepare us for this for decades. That's true I it's true actually I Win My primary teacher Jokin trump. Oh I live. He taught a lot about difficult times. We'll be coming and you should be preparing yourself to be strong and resilient and compassionate so that when things are difficult. It's like rather than catch the flu. You'll be there to help people you know. So that made a big impression on me to train working with difficulty when it wasn't so intense you know and everybody had plenty of difficulty to work with but I was always thinking of of things getting worse. Globally yes so the book titles somewhat reflect that and encouragement to work work with your heart and mind so that you could be Sort of steady and Able to be of benefit in these times I suspect people listening to this earth thinking to themselves in all caps. How how do I welcome the unwelcome on? How do I come comfortable with uncertainty? How do you to your teacher? Has a quote. Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. How do I do all that? Sounds great but what I do I do that. Yeah well I. It's like well now. I make a pitch for the books which filled with instruction you know so. The basic thing is to have a meditation practice in which you become increasingly self aware. You're able to self reflect and you're conscious of your own habitual patterns and your own tendencies toward fear or aggression or whatever it might be you know self aggression aggression towards others and then the teachings are about when you can acknowledge. What's happening with you? Then the teachings are don't make yourself bag you know. Don't turn this into some kind of enemy but cultivate a kind attitude towards your own virtual patterns and don't act them out but don't repress them but be there get to know their energy very well with Kind open heart and mind so even that sounds might sound good but then the question is well. How do you do that but you do it? By starting to meditate people have many different styles of meditation. But most Buddhist Meditation has a lot of similarity to it and it's all about a open acceptance of whatever arises without getting caught in good and bad thinking. So that's where you start you start with acknowledging what's happening with you and then the expression is always something like making friends with that or being friendly towards that or you know welcoming that. I try not to use language. That's too corny but nevertheless I I use it quite a bit of it in any case like embrace and some things like that so that's the basis and from that you begin to get in touch as time goes on. You begin to have confidence. Really that fundamentally you are good person and you have habitual patterns to work on. But you have the strength in you to do that. And then an takes a lot of patients and sense of humor. But you work with yourself that way and That doesn't maybe sound so in a linear way how that adds up to being able to be comfortable with uncertainty. But in fact that's where it leads you because you get comfortable with the unpleasantness or the fear producing quality of seeing yourself so clearly you know but then the idea is to make friends with that so then the other thing that always taught is that to the degree that you can be friendly to yourself you will be friendly towards others to the degree that you can make friends with yourself unconditionally. You'll be able to have an unconditional regard and openness to other people.
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Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, retired deputy sued over death of Bloomfield man
"Cinema county deputies killed David ward when they choked him slammed his head into a car door and taste him during the struggle late last year according to the coroner but the lawsuit filed by warts mother alleges this wasn't an isolated act of violence on the part of former deputy Charles Blount it was part of a pattern in twenty fifteen Blount used in that cold on a woman he was trying to arrest for Jay walking and then lied about it in court just last year the suit alleges plant supervisor recommended him for retraining and how to properly perform and that cold instead according to the filing the sheriff discipline the supervisor Blount retired earlier this year and a criminal investigation into the incident is
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The State of Broadband Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
"The pandemic has led to unprecedented demand for high speed internet service and Congress is examining what's being done to make sure yours work and your kids school work can get done at home details from WTOP's Mitchell Miller today on the hill senator Roger wicker chair of the Senate commerce committee says broadband demand has surged by nearly fifty percent and providers will need to continue to step up and ensure children can carry out distance learning the current public health crisis has made these have it's all the more urgent industry representatives say they're providing billing relief to help those with economic challenges and as for the technology challenges surely Bloomfield with the world broadband association noted the Senate hearing involved lawmakers and witnesses speaking remotely and she says the industry must keep adapting to that kind of demand to be able to do all of those webex meetings and soon conferences and all of the different two way communication tools that we're currently using that robust nature is gonna be really important on Capitol Hill Mitchell Miller WTOP
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How European Countries And New Zealand Are Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions
"New Zealand is preparing to lift. Its lockdown restrictions as the virus has been effectively eliminated in that country while new cases are still being diagnosed. Authorities know where each of them is coming from the country's director general of Health Ashley. Bloomfield said at a Monday news conference for eight days in a row. The number of new cases has been in the single digits and only nineteen deaths have been reported in a country of five million. Italy says it will lift. What is the West's longest corona virus lockdown for the first time next week quoting Reuters manufacturers construction companies and some wholesalers will be allowed to reopen from May fourth followed by retailers? Two weeks later while restaurants and bars will be allowed to reopen fully. From the beginning of June although takeaway business will be possible earlier and quoting Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Kante with this system. We take upon ourselves the risk of opening but with all precautions. We expect a very complex challenge. We will live with the virus and we will have to adopt every precaution. Possible quoting the Washington Post most federal states across Germany implemented rules on the wearing of face masks in public on Monday amid hopes that it will allow businesses to reopen without sparking a second wave of infections. The details differ between federal states. For instance in Berlin facemasks are mandatory public transport but violating the rule will not be penalized in Munich and other cities however the rules are expected to be more strictly enforced with hefty fines. Facemasks are now also mandatory in supermarkets and other shops across much of the country and quote
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New Zealand confirms first coronavirus case
"New Zealand's reporting its first case of the new coronavirus prime minister Jacinda Ardern's as a person in their sixties who recently returned from Iran has tested positive stay out obviously being treated with all of the precautions that you would expect and this is of course all subject to the pandemic plan that we have had in place since early January New Zealand ministry of health director Ashley Bloomfield says they begun tracing the patient's other close contacts to ensure protection measures are in place including a group of people who are on the same flight as the patient the people who the public health service in Oakland will be contacting will be the people who were in the same right is this individual or the two rice if I hit enter behind those people will be contacted by public health they will be required to self isolate for fourteen days his healing ministry of health says it's confident the public health risk from the infection is being well
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New Zealand confirms first coronavirus case
"New Zealand's reporting its first case of the new coronavirus prime minister Jacinda Ardern's as a person in their sixties who recently returned from Iran has tested positive stay out obviously being treated with all of the precautions that you would expect and this is of course all subject to the payment plan that we have had in place since early January New Zealand ministry of health director Ashley Bloomfield says they've begun tracing the patient's other close contacts to ensure protection measures are in place including a group of people who are on the same flight as the patient the people who the public health service in Oakland will be contacting will be the people who were in the same right is this individual or the two rice if I hit enter behind those people will be contacted by public health they will be required to self isolate for fourteen days his healing ministry of health of this confident the public health risk from the infection is being well managed
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Health officials say dead skunk found in West Bloomfield had...
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Rising bond yields support value stocks ahead of central bank meetings
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Pound falls as Queen asked to suspend Parliament
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