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"But regardless of that, when you're in that early stage, the growth is so expensive because a little bit of growth creates a lot of cost. Right. So you hire an employee. That's a big cost before you get any revenue off of them, whether they're admin sales or whatever. So there's it's this step ladder thing. It's a very common business concept when you're in those early days. It's like we've got to find revenue. We've got to find clients. We've got to find customers. We've got to get more. We've got to get more. We've got to get more. What they do is they do that before they create clarity of purpose. They do not define the market that is best served by their expertise, their products and services. The value those products and services deliver. Right. And the manner in which they deliver them. So they go after customers that are not good customers. They lose the ability to create economies of scale. And they end up having many little businesses that serve each customer in their own unique way. And you can't grow that way. Exactly. So that's where you end up with this money problem, because I got to have so much overhead cost to service all these different competing customers. I can't create economies of scale. So you made a bad decision by not identifying your target market and focusing on it. All the time. And let's also let's just throw this in here as a kicker, because that's not where the bad news is. Think about all the time and money you wasted trying to sell to people who aren't your ideal market. Absolutely. Loads of people out there that want and need what you have. Yeah, that's that's what happens. So so they get into this adolescent stage and they're trying to be consistent. But they don't know who they're serving or why. Right. And I get pushback on this because it seems simple. Right. So I have a lot of my clients are involved with that and they deal with water. So I have a lot of water districts and irrigation districts. And these people do very simple things. Right. You give the farmer water, you take the floodwater off the land. We know our value. We know what we do. No, you don't. It's not the water. That's not the value. The value is being able to give the farmer insight as to how much water he's going to get when he says he wants it for the crop he's growing in the timeframe he's doing it. And you're going to be responsible for making sure you fulfill your commitment to him. The delivery of the water is just the way you serve that. But that's not the value. Right. The value is you can say to him, you're going to invest a boatload of money into this crop. Yeah. But you're fighting mother nature already. Right. You know, and and they go, oh, I never, never thought about it that way. We just thought we were, you know, give them water. We take it off. So clarity of purposes. I just can't stress it enough. And for those listeners out there, if you don't start with that, it's so simple. Who are we serving? Who are we? Who are we best serving? Who are the people that we should be talking to? We're the people that need us. Right. What is the value we give them and how do we give it to them? If you don't start there and it goes from there. Absolutely. I'm 100 percent with you on that. I call it chasing after bad money because it does so many negative things. You know, when you're out there, just got to have revenue, got to have revenue. You're not going to make a profit on that. And so it's not just the cost of acquiring those clients. It's the it's the opportunity costs that you. Have that because you're spending so much time trying to manage them and meet whatever you said you'll do that. You aren't able to go out and get the right kinds of clients and there's so much bad to it. You're doing a lot of catering to individual needs. Yeah. And then and then the next thing that happens in that progression of stupid decisions is. You end up with sunk costs that are dependent on small groups of customers that can't serve those costs. Right. So you can't recover it. Yeah. If you if you understand finance and some costs, I don't know. That's that's a little bit more mature finance. But. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm totally with you and you had said something about hiring. And so I want to go down this road, too, because I think this is also when we talk about making decisions. This is one of the places where I think a lot of leaders are making dangerous decisions. So. Talk to me about job descriptions, because you have a problem with using job descriptions and hiring and managing, and I'm curious about why. Yeah, that was a pretty PC way to talk about that, by the way. I think a lot about the words that I use. Yeah, understood. So. Here's the thing. There are. I identified eight elements that. Have to do with creating organizational sustainability that are addressed in the book. OK, six of those elements have a direct connection to staffing, whether it's recruitment or retention or management performance. So this is threaded through everything you do. I want to preface by saying that. Now, let me answer you directly. Why don't I like job descriptions? The reason I don't like job descriptions is because the people who write job descriptions begin by saying. Let me give you a simplistic example. I just want this office to be clean. So they write a job description and it says every day, empty the trash, vacuum the carpet, check the supplies for stock, see if there's any folders that are out and put them back in the file. So they go through this list of steps that have to be done, these tasks to keep the office clean. They give that to the person in the person says, oh, here's my task, go do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. And something's not on there. And the guy comes in in the office. It looks messy and he says, the office is messy. Why didn't you do your job? And they go, it's not in my job. Yeah. So they give them tasks. I don't want people to give people tasks. I want them to give them goals or roles. So in this case, what you say is your job is to keep the office clean. What a concept. You have a brain. You can think for yourself. Now, how do you do that? This is going to sound burdensome and quality takes effort. Yeah. So I don't want to hear you out there listening to this, telling me you, I can't do this. It's too much work. That's fine. If you don't, you can commit suicide. It's your business. You can do what you want. I've done it. I know what it feels like. It ain't fun, but it's OK. Yeah. There's a company called Morningstar. It's not the rating company that rates mutual funds. It's a tomato processor in West Sac, California, Northern California. That worked for every processing plant over here. We have a bunch of it's a big tomato producer. Didn't like the way they ran their business and started his own. He's now the largest, most productive tomato processing plant in the world. Wow. Runs a flat organization. You want a job there. You walk in the front door and you say to whoever's behind the counter, I want to work here. And they'll say to you, why? What do you have to offer us? And that's how the hiring process begins. And it's done by employees. Now, how does he make this work? You have to have a hierarchy. There's I'm not arguing that, but he has a thing he developed called a clue, a C L O U, a calling letter of understanding. You have each employee talk to every other employee that they impact in the daily routine of what they do and say to them, here's my here's what I believe my obligation is to you as a coworker. Am I meeting your needs? And they document that my colleague obligations, they put it in writing, they sign it, and that's their job description. And it's created by the employees who are delivering value and serving one another, because if any of those people don't do their job. The value chain breaks, right? What a concept. Think about how strong a net that makes for an organization. When you don't have management telling people what to do, you have people saying, this is what I need to do for you to make your job good. Here's what I need you to do for me to make my job good. Suddenly you've got a self -managed group of people. Right. I mean, is that not amazing? They were written up in Harvard Business Review years ago, and the title of the column was first fire all the managers. And they're kind of like me, you know, you want to raise, you want to get somebody's attention, so you say something a little controversial. And it's brilliant, and it works, and I love it. And there is no absolute perfect way to do anything. There's no perfect job, there's no perfect company, there's no perfect solution to job descriptions. But when it comes to job descriptions, if you use that as the basis, you will have such a strong net of employee engagement and employee participation. Everyone will feel like they're valued. Think about that. You're asking people, what do you need from me? Now I get to know what you need from me, and I get to give it to you. It's a beautiful thing. That's why I don't like job descriptions. Yeah. Oh, listen, thank you for that. It makes perfect sense to me. I love what that company is doing. It reminds me of a program I do where it's internal customer service. You know, where you have to think about, okay, who am I impacting and who's impacting me? It's the same sort of thing that those folks are doing. What do I need from you? What do you need from me? How do we know? Because people don't talk about it. And then something falls down and it dominoes when it's such an easy thing to resolve. You just have to be able to have those
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Acts 025 - The Spirit's Power
"Okay, well come on in. The water's fine. Good to see you all this evening. And welcome back to our Wednesday night Bible study. We took a summer break. And in the last quarter, we started a study on the book of Acts. Made it all the way through chapter 3. And this morning, not this morning, this evening, if you could locate Acts chapter 4 and verse 1. Sort of to get the cobwebs out. The book of Acts is about the birth and the growth of the church. So in Acts chapter 1, Jesus ascended. In Acts chapter 2, the church is born. Day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter 3, Peter and John heal a lame man. I think he was born lame. He was about 38 years old. And his legs were miraculously restored in Acts 3. Which gave Peter a chance to preach to a crowd. And Peter there condemns 1st century Israel for their rejection of the Messiah. And chapter 3, as you surely could imagine, flows right into chapter 4. Where Peter and John get arrested. So here's an outline of Acts 4. Even going into Acts 5, the Ananias and Sapphira incident. But you have the apostles arrested, verses 1 through 4. The apostles examined by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is the existing Jewish legal authority, religious authority in 1st century Israel. That's in verses 5 through 12. Then the Sanhedrin makes a decision, verses 13 through 22. And then the apostles go to prayer. And this is a very powerful prayer that they pray in verses 23 through 31. And then the chapter kind of ends with them, the church that is living in their communal arrangement. Which we saw develop in Acts at the end of Acts 2. And that sets the stage very nicely for the first 11 chapters in chapter 5. Because in that communal arrangement, it involved selling your property and giving the proceeds to the church. And there was a couple there, Ananias and Sapphira, who publicly misrepresented their generosity. And they were slain in the Holy Spirit. And when I say slain in the Holy Spirit, that's not a good thing. Okay. And God brought upon them maximum divine discipline. And that had, as we're going to see, a purifying effect on the early church. So anyway, that's kind of the lay of the land that we're moving into this evening. I don't think we'll be able to cover all of this this evening, but we can make a healthy start. First of all, the apostles are arrested. We have an interruption. The reasons for the arrest. The arrest and the results of the arrest. So notice, if you will, Acts chapter 4, verse 1. It says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. So when it says they were speaking to the people, this is in reference to the sermon that Peter primarily was giving in Acts 3. Where they healed a man who was lame, born lame. He knew nothing but the lack of use of his legs for, I think it says, 38 years. And he's miraculously healed, not by Peter and John, but by Jesus through Peter and John. It's just Jesus is exercising his ministry now from the Father's right hand. Through the church, through the apostles. And a big crowd gathers and Peter uses the opportunity to condemn first century Israel. Their decision nationally to reject their own Messiah. So that's what it means there when it says as they were speaking to the people. So as they were speaking to the people, they're now interrupted by the religious authorities. Who are the religious authorities? It says it right there in verse 1 of chapter 4. The priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees. So these are religious officials or workers. We have priests, the captain of the temple guard, and another group here called the Sadducees. And easy to remember the Sadducees is the Sadducees were always sad, you see. Sadducees. Basically, the Sadducees were people that if we were to try to parallel them today with somebody, we would call them theological liberals. A theological liberal denies what the Bible says. You know, it denies prophecy, denies miracles, and that kind of thing. And that's who these Sadducees were. The Sadducees only believed in the first five books of Moses. That's all they believed in. They didn't accept the rest of the Old Testament. So that's why when Jesus is talking to them about resurrection, the Sadducees, and the Gospels, he does not quote from Daniel chapter 12, verse 2 to prove resurrection to them. I mean, why didn't he quote Daniel 12, verse 2? Daniel 12, verse 2 is a great verse on future resurrection. It says, many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but others to everlasting disgrace, to disgrace and everlasting contempt. So why didn't Jesus, when he is arguing with the Sadducees and the Gospels about resurrection, why doesn't he quote that passage? That's a beautiful passage to quote from. Well, the answer is the Sadducees did not accept Daniel as authoritatively coming from God. They only accepted the first five books of the Bible. So it wouldn't do any good to prove resurrection from the Book of Daniel to the Sadducees. So instead, Jesus quotes the Book of Exodus. And I'm getting this from Matthew 22, 32 and 31. Here he's speaking to the Sadducees and it says, but regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God? And now he's quoting Exodus. the I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but the living. In other words, he points out that based on the Book of Exodus, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive right now. And he uses that to prove future resurrection. So why would he quote that passage? Because that's one of the books they would accept. He doesn't quote the more obvious passage because the Sadducees did not accept anything other than the Pentateuch, the Torah, the first five books of Hebrew Bible. The Sadducees were also sad, you see, not only because they denied all other scripture outside of Moses, but they denied resurrection. That's why Jesus is debating them about resurrection. They did not believe in angels. Acts 23 and verse 8 says, for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor an angel. Matthew 22 and verse 30 indicates that the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. So you're dealing with people that only believed in the first five books of Moses. They didn't believe in angels. They didn't believe in resurrection. So Sadducee is a pretty good name for these people, right? I mean, I would be sad too if I had a limited acceptance of the authority of the totality of what God has revealed. The Sadducees are a little bit different than the Pharisees. In fact, they're a lot different. In the Sadducees, we can analogize them to modern day theological liberals. Pharisees were conservatives, but they were hyper legalists. They brought in, and this goes back to the Babylonian captivity, the Jewish rejection of the Sabbath sent the nation of Israel into the Babylonian captivity for 70 years. And when the nation of Israel came out of that captivity and came back into their homeland, they said to themselves, we're never going to let that happen again. And so they built what we call a fence around the law. Meaning we're going to pass so many laws against breaking the Sabbath that no one will ever think about breaking the Sabbath. So they had all these rules about how you couldn't eat on the Sabbath. You know, you couldn't rescue a man on the Sabbath. All of these things come into the life of Israel through something called Mishnah, and then Talmud, and there were two Talmuds. There was one in the land of Israel. There was a later one developed in what's called the Babylonian Talmud. And this is why Jesus said of the Pharisees, you make null the word of God through your traditions. Because what happened is the tale started to wag the dog. They started to read the law superimposed over the law were a bunch of man -made regulations and restrictions. So when Jesus is dealing with the Pharisees, he's always dealing with this issue. You know, he's feeding his disciples on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. He's healing people on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. And what are they upset about? They're upset about the fact that he's not respecting their rules. Where Jesus' point is the tale's wagging the dog. Your rules are being superimposed over God's actual law to the point where you're burying the original intent of the law under layer after layer after layer of man -made regulation. So Jesus, as the Lord of the Sabbath, was always trying to get back to what the Sabbath meant. It was supposed to be a blessing for man. Pharisees are saying, nope, you can't do anything on the Sabbath. You can't heal someone on the Sabbath, even though that's a blessing for man. You can't feed your disciples on the Sabbath, you know, pick crops and that kind of thing on the Sabbath. Even though that's a blessing for man, you're ruining our rules. So that's a little bit of who the Pharisees were. Pharisees are conservative, but they're beyond conservative. They're hyper legalists. Sadducees are just deniers of what the totality of God's word says. The Pharisees are going to be dominant in the synagogue. They had a higher sphere of influence in the synagogue. What was the synagogue? The synagogue were these places that Jews would gather, you know, all over the Greco -Roman world. And they gathered there during a time when there was no temple to go to. Remember the temple, the first temple that Solomon built was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and wasn't rebuilt until the days of Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah. So what did the Jews do? They would gather in the Greco -Roman world in these places called the synagogue. And the Pharisees were dominant in the synagogue. The Sadducees, as I'm trying to describe it, were dominant in the temple area. So that's why the people that are harassing the apostles in early Acts, really all the way up through Acts chapter 12, are the Sadducees and not the Pharisees. Because the Sadducees had ascendancy in the temple area. In Acts 1 through 12, the early church hadn't spread out yet. And it had a very strong sphere of influence in Jerusalem. So that's why the early church is dealing with the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, until the Apostle Paul in Acts 13 and 14 goes out on missionary journey number one into southern Galatia. And then you'll start seeing him going to the various synagogues outside the land of Israel. And now the people coming against Paul are not the Sadducees, but now they're the Pharisees. So Sadducees, liberals, Pharisees, legalists. Sadducees dominant in the temple area, Pharisees dominant in the synagogue. Sadducees will be dominant as long as the church has a place of influence in Jerusalem. But the Pharisees as opponents of the church will become dominant as the church spreads out and moves outside the land of Israel. So verse one says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. That's a little bit about who the Sadducees are and why they are the primary detractors of the church at this particular point. So Peter and John, Peter's conversation that he was having in Acts three, a very effective conversation is interrupted. The reasons for the interruption are given in verse two. It says being, now notice this, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed. Being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and in proclaiming Jesus the resurrection from the dead. So here are these apostles and if you drop over to verse 13 for a minute, you see the way that the religious authorities looked at the apostles. It says, now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. So what is upsetting to the Sadducees is number one, these apostles are teaching the people and they never went to our Sadducee school. I mean, they don't have a Sadducee degree. In other words, they don't think like we do. I mean, if these apostles thought the way we thought, then they would only accept Moses. They would reject angels. They would reject resurrection. And here are these men who are untrained fishermen teaching the masses there in Acts chapter three. In other words, they don't have the authority to be teaching anybody is how the Sadducees were thinking about the apostles. And what really upset them is they kept talking about Christ's, but starts it with an R, resurrection, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now that was really upsetting to the Sadducees because the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. And here they're claiming that the man that the nation of Israel just turned over to Rome for execution has risen from the dead and his tomb is empty. That doesn't fit our doctrine. The Sadducees would say to themselves. And this puts the apostles on a collision course with the Sadducees. The moment Peter in Acts 2 24, which is a wonderful sermon, said these words, he became, I think at that point, a marked man by the Sadducees. Peter said, but God, speaking of Jesus, raised him up again, putting an end to the agony of defeat, since it was impossible for him to be held by its power. Peter continues the subject matter in Acts chapter three and that sermon there in verse 15. And it says, but put to death, speaking of Israel, the prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead. And he says a fact to which we are witnesses. Remember what Paul would say to the Corinthians. Now there's 500 eyewitnesses, 1 Corinthians 15. Check it out for yourself. They've all seen the resurrected Christ. So what they were saying is Israel rejected her own Messiah. That made the Sadducees angry enough. So then they said this Messiah rose from the dead and the Sadducees were upset even more because they didn't believe in future resurrection or any kind of resurrection. That's why when you look at verse two, it says they were being greatly disturbed, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people. Here are these unqualified fishermen teaching doctrines that we, the religious authorities, oppose. Now you put all of this in motion and you can see why they're arrested. And their arrest is described in verse three. So they laid hands on them, that would be Peter and John, put them in jail until the next day for it was already evening. Now, why didn't they put them on trial right then and there? It's part of Jewish law. Jewish law says no trial in the evening hours. The only one that they violated that rule for was who? Jesus, because they couldn't wait to rush him through the judicial system to get him dead as quickly as they could. So they violated everything in their rule book. But here at least they're respecting the rule book and they're not having a trial in the evening hours because that is forbidden by the Mosaic law. And what is the results of all of this thing, all of this? Because we're kind of in the mindset that, oh no, if the mandates come back, which they could, they're talking about it, you know. And Sugar Land Bible Church stays open, which is at least my intention. I mean, I would like to stay open. I don't think a pastor or an elder board has a right to shut down a church because whose church is it? It's God's church. If God wants to shut down a church, it's his church, he's more than capable of doing it. A pastor doesn't have an authority to close down a church. So if all these mandates come back and hypothetically, let's say we stay open, my goodness, what if they come in here and they fine us? What if they come in here and they arrest us? What if they do like they did to that pastor of that Baptist church in Northern California where they actually chained the doors and keep assessing fine after fine after fine against him with an attempt to completely drive the church that he was pastoring, you know, under? You know, what do we do then? Well, this is where Acts chapter four is so instructive.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Alex Returns!, "The Orange League" with Neil from Dustup, and Macro with Dr.Jeff - September 4th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. What is up, all you Cafe Bitcoiners? It's good to be back. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. Good morning, Mike. Good morning, Mickey, Dom Bay, Peter, Jacob, all you Cafe Bitcoin regulars, all the hardcore, you know, the hardcore ones, they're the ones that show up. Bright and early on Labor Day. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? This is late for me, so it's just it's easy. I'm sorry, but this is late. I've been up since four thirty. Alex, man, it's good to have you back. Peter has just been out of control and it's great to have you back for things you just get like back in order. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're the one who's been singing on the show, Dom, not me. Don't you try and push this off, Dom Peter. We all know you're the one that's getting unruly in here. I thought the best way to celebrate Labor Day would be we're waking up early and working hard to spite the communists. Love that. Hey, Mickey, are you are you out? Are you no longer active duty? Not quite yet. All right. I can tell you've already got that short time's attitude, though. He's got he's got the itch, that's for sure. He's already got he's already got one one foot off the wall. Well, I'm looking forward to when you're a civilian and you can actually say all the things that are running through your mind that you won't let come out of your mouth. I have no idea what you're talking about, Alex. I'm sure you don't. Can neither confirm nor deny. Ollie North, plausible deniability. Good times, good times. Yeah, I got to hang out on the way down here, so some crazy shit happened on the way down here, by the way. So where you took us? No, I didn't stop at Burning Man. That was some I heard. That's crazy, too. They're like, are they still there? Are they walking around in the mud right now? Is that what's happening, man? The stuff that is coming out of Burning Man is just crazy. Some of the like what I've heard, Denny fever, I've heard Ebola. I mean, all the crazy shit coming out there. Bro, what is that organ? Is that Oregon Trail you're talking about or Burning Man? But to answer your question, Alex, as far as I understand, they are still stuck there. It's wild, man, FEMA, FEMA went in apparently and and are not allowing them to leave. What? Apparently, FEMA responded and they are not allowing them to leave. So so Burning Man has become a quarantine zone. You know, it's really hard to tell. I mean, do I really trust TikTok? I don't know. Hey, but hey, at least Diplo and Chris Rock walked their way out of there and got out safely. No, good for them. I mean, there seems to be a a real lack of news coverage on some of these or traditional media news coverage on some of these events. I'm not you know, there's there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information coming out of Maui. It doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information coming out of Burning Man now. I mean, except for what's what what we're getting on social media. And, you know, I'm just not so sure how much I trust any of that. What are you trying to suggest, Peter? I don't know. I think it's odd. I think it's odd that that, you know, that there's not, you know, CBS and ABC helicopters flying over Maui. You know, I mean, I mean, when when the when the campfire in Northern California happened, what, three years ago and that that town was just completely devastated. Or the one in Colorado, the news media was all over it. You know, I mean, they were there. We were seeing we were seeing pictures. We were, you know, I mean, Maui's different. I don't understand.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from 288 - From Stress Relief to Joyful Moments: The Many Roles of Music in Caregiving
"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
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"The music is always changing so some songs are triggering a memory and others maybe they're just tapping along to and so it's probably the same you could experience this for yourself if you just played a a set list of songs from an era gone by songs you haven't heard in 10 or 20 years some of them are going to make you pick up and go oh this yeah i remember this one and some of them will make you sing along but others you might just kind of enjoy in the background and um and so that's kind of what's happening it's the amount of stimulation is completely personal and experiences like Roy's are unfortunately not that common they happen i'd say five to ten percent of the time um but for everybody we see lifts in mood improvements in sleep um and and those a reduction in those things like anxiety and aggravation and so on music can uniquely transport individuals with dementia to specific moments in their past eliciting reminiscence and triggering positive emotions it can reduce anxiety and agitation creating a calming and soothing environment caregivers often use personalized playlists incorporating songs from the individual's youth or culturally significant music to promote engagement and spark memories but what if you can't find the right music to connect with your loved one that was my situation which made me the ideal person to chat with steven hunt of vera an app that helps you find the specific pieces of music that will likely invoke all of the positive benefits that i just listed welcome to fading memories the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia i'm your host jennifer finke my mom had alzheimer's for 20 years and when i went looking for answers i had to start a podcast to find them join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving through personal stories expert interviews and practical advice we'll explore effective communication strategies stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey this podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment let's share our experiences find solace and discover the strength within us get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with fading memories if you're looking for additional advice be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter it's brief gives you great advice you can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link in the website on the show notes we're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out unfortunately it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society with modern technology scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before americans over the age of 65 especially those living with alzheimer's and dementia are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week that's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones even worse nearly 10 of these calls have no caller id making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens you need imp imp offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams imp only allows wanted callers to ring through stopped our 100 of the spam scam political fundraising debt collection and survey calls before a single ring traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry don't wait until it's too late protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp as in paul .com also the link is in the show notes now on with our show thanks for joining me again fading memories listeners you know i always appreciate your time in your ears i have today my first australian guest they are recording from the it's kind of exciting to talk to somebody on the whole other side of the world with me is stephen hunt he is the co -founder of music health it's an app that is designed for many mental health purposes but it's also got a connection for those of us taking care of a loved one with dementia so thanks for joining me stephen do you go by steve or stephen uh steve okay stick with that jennifer a little zoom box says steven so so tell me about yourself before we were before i hit record you were giving me the details on your family history of lovely diseases like mine so start wherever you'd like to start with yeah well i'd like to start with um so music health as a as a company we started it with a mission to reintegrate music into health care and the premise here is that if you look at any ancient human civilization whether it be the aztecs the incas or the indigenous people of australia they all use music to heal and so this has been going back over 40 000 years in fact the indigenous people of australia used one of these it's the oldest recorded form of music therapy which takes back 40 000 years and we've forgotten all about that because we invented pharmaceuticals and we just now prescribe a drug and hope that's going to fix the problem uh but we really see it out in our company that there's an opportunity to reintegrate music into health care very broadly and we're starting with dementia because in than any pharmaceutical and as we know most pharmaceuticals aren't really making any difference with dementia we're nowhere near a cure nothing's really cutting through we're kind of just treating little symptoms here and there and and often the people that we start to work with have this massive cocktail of drugs they're on that are trying to compensate for each other's side effects and it's just their brains are even more scrambled um so but we've seen with music that it can completely transform them and i guess what drew me to this is as you said a personal connection my grandfather experienced alzheimer's disease when i was in my teens and i was watched him go through that progression with my grandmother who was caring for him and as i'm sure everybody who listens to this would know that's really heartbreaking for anybody to experience and incredibly difficult um but i was a musician as you can see i've got a few instruments behind me and um and i used to play music and it used to soothe him and kind of change and transform him and at the time i had no idea why i didn't know the science of it but but anyway but my grandmother also developed dementia but lived to the age of 100 so i think she was entitled to lose a few memories there um and um and yeah and i i was working in the music industry and a good friend of mine who was a who's now my co -founder nick um came to me one day with the film alive inside and i don't know have you ever seen it um i haven't seen it but i actually did an episode about it with a gentleman that was involved amazing so it's if you don't want to watch the whole thing which i do highly recommend bring the tissues um but if you don't have time even just going on youtube you can watch a few short clips and you'll get the idea um but that film was demonstrating the music and memory program which um which is incredible and that inspired us so what you what you see is this transformative effect of someone who is experiencing dementia is quite lost in space and time they don't know where they are um they don't know who their carers are they're probably feeling a little afraid and and that fear can manifest into either you know regretting regressing sorry into anxiety and depression or expressing in a much more aggressive and agitated manner and and neither of those are good um but both are very difficult to manage for carer and when they play music to these people that is from their past that's personally significant to them they become alive and hence the name of the movie it it quickens and they they seem to come back they seem to get a better use of their faculties they can move their body they can talk they can swallow and eat um and they can remember faces much more readily because what's happening is the music is stimulating their long -term memory and for some reason alzheimer's and dementia doesn't really affect the musical memory that they remain intact same with poetry it's kind of two really weird things like you'll find people who can't remember their wife and can't even remember their own name can just recount poems if they've learned them and sing along to songs and um and it's beautiful to watch and and when we get them into that stimulated state inviting them to maybe come and do hygiene care in the somebody who is much more aware of where they are in space and time they're much less likely to feel anxious and and scared and therefore you can actually engage and interact with them much more readily so so we created an app called vera and that's our first product which is designed for the carers of people living with dementia to be able to get this effect as easily as possible and do it as often as possible as well and and we see in a really advanced state that the carer is using the music when the person wakes up to help them get dressed and out of bed and get them moving they're using it to set the scene for for meals they're using it to to set the scene for washing and hygiene as i said um all these different things and even conversing and spending time with people because when these songs come up that they recognize they bring along beautiful memories and um and we can talk about those and relive them with the person and some of the most beautiful things i've seen in my work are when the family members are hearing memories for the first time that the songs have triggered and they're like oh we didn't even know about that you know and that's such a beautiful thing to get when you know your family member often at that stage can't even remember who you are um so so yeah that hopefully gives you a bit of a summary of the journey so far and what we're trying to do well and we're going to get into it a little bit more but i truly wish you guys had been around when my mom was still alive i had talked to a musician he was also a singer and we we talked about my struggle of finding music that my mom connected to i tried you know the era that she was in high school and maybe music that i remembered being played in the home when i was a kid although i think most of that was my dad and it just he suggested this one past guest he's like well you'll probably have to go through a hundred songs to find you know five to ten and i was like i can't even come up with a hundred songs that seem to be even close so that was the first struggle i did have a little success when i i thought back to my childhood and what my grandmother played when we were at her house i figured if i could remember it then maybe it would work with my mom and it it had it was better than the previous attempts but it was it was so frustrating and so i didn't get what you were talking about just a moment ago so i gave up but yeah you guys i think have solved that problem to some degree and the other challenges i know when she was living in the care home they didn't i don't think they played the right era of music now my mom was on the younger end they did have residents there that were probably 20 25 years older than my mom my mom died at 77 so you know it wasn't too terribly difficult to be 20 years older than her 15 years older and so i don't think she connected to any of that but in getting ready for this talk i was telling my husband i think that tomorrow's guest is from australia that'll be interesting and we were talking about the music and he's like well mom really loved big band and i'm like yeah she did but that's not necessarily from her era it's not the era that i would have picked yeah but then when he said that i was like why didn't i try that or did i try that so why don't you tell us how the app makes all of that easier absolutely i i think firstly i'd love to say that playing any music is great like music is absorbed by the brain it comes into our ears actually it has to cross the hemispheres and then there's about five or six different parts of the brain that have to work in concert to interpret what we perceive as music it's not just you know hearing a sound and making a quick response um it's so a bit of a brain workout and it's why we generally feel quite pleasurable when we're hearing something especially if we like it of course there's taste and we'll get get into that in a second but but first and foremost even if you don't know exactly what to play playing something is better than nothing generally and then um the second thing i wanted to sort of say first is that that's what music and memory started to do like decades ago so they've been going around with um volunteers and musicologists and trying to do exactly what you were doing them manually getting to know the person researching them working out where they lived and then what songs might have been big in that location at that time when their musical taste was forming and generally the the kind of key age you want to try to get back to is 15 through to 35 now the problem with 15 through to 35 for someone like yourself is you probably if you were alive you probably were for a little bit you weren't really old enough to remember much and most of your mom's music experience that you would have been um in knowledge of was when she was a parent and she'd been playing music probably for you and um and also that gets into a very different time where we started to get um moved away from records into cassettes and things like that if we go back into when your mom would have been 15 through to 35 there's a chance she might have had some records at home to play for herself but i would hazard a guess that most of what she did here came through the radio and either that or it was what she was exposed to in the town that she grew up and so what we do is we analyze some really simple bits of information so where was the person born where did they live when they grew up from 15 through 35 and you can put multiple countries multiple places because obviously not everyone stays in one place um what languages do they speak because that can be really interesting and um and then from there with that information we actually can build a pretty good starting point of looking at what was popular either on the charts we could look at what was popular from touring bands we could look at what was popular from radio plays and we've created a massive database that syncs up all of that information attached to every song from the universal music library which is the world's biggest music library um and it's got millions of songs so that's that's our secret sauce in the back background that has taken us um a huge amount of technology to build it actually takes AI to technology to listen to the song and to decide if it's going first of all if it's going to be relaxing or energizing or you know what what kind of emotional response will the song elicit that's the first thing we work out and then the AIs are also scraping the internet looking for that other information about popularity all the time and building up richer and richer strings so then when we get to those questions I asked um in the onboarding which are where was the person born when were they born and where did they grow up we can very quickly understand what were the popular songs around them in that place during those years and then if we know we ask do they have any favorite genres do they love classical or blues or reggae or rock and do they have any favorite artists sadly we don't often get that information if the family aren't involved and quite often in the residential aged care settings they're not and so that's a real shame but as I said as a starting point anyway we'll have a collection of songs which are separated into three stations one is to help that person relax another is to help that person get energized and motivated to get up and move and then a third one is to help that person reminisce and and find their own memories and they get presented from just those basic questions and then you've got a thumbs up and a thumbs down of course so that if a song creates a really great reaction the person knows the words and they're clapping along we hit like and if we want to we can also leave a little note and say oh they loved it they were clapping along it reminded them of their wedding day whatever it may be and we can save that song and every time we do that it gets pulled into the playlist so we can go back to those songs we know they know we know they love and we collect those over time but we're constantly trying to find more through the energize and relax playlists as well which are um pushing forward new songs so with that we tend to find that we we get about 50 to 75 percent hit rate um in the first go and then we're refining over time but but it really is simple it's just understanding the music that was really popular around that person in that stage of their life um but to do that because we've got customers who were born in china we've got customers who were born in japan in italy in france in yugoslavia you never all over the world so we've had to do this globally and look at this popularity metric across all genres all songs and all places and that's been really the hard part but now that we have that the the experience is simple and easy my mom might have been a little easier she was born in northern california lived her whole life in northern california not all the same town but the same region basically the san francis the greater san francisco bay area perfect i'm trying to remember yeah nope never lived anywhere else so but i'm i'm as you're talking i'm remembering stories so my maternal grandfather was an army chef during world war ii he had damaged his trigger finger with a um a saw i don't know what the it's not maybe it was a hacksaw um it didn't stop him from hunting but it stopped him from being shipped overseas my grandfather could open the fridge and most people would open the refrigerator and say oh there's nothing really much to eat in here and he could whip out the best sandwiches you'd be like i didn't see that tomato where'd you pull that tomato out of and i have inherited that so obviously he his family also owned a restaurant and a bakery so that that comes up through the genetics i'm assuming but when he was not home my mom would run up to other soldiers and and go daddy daddy so the as we were talking earlier you know my husband was like oh she your mom liked big band music which not wasn't necessarily her era um she graduated from high school in 1960 so 15 to 35 would have been um i should probably use the calculator for this math but she would so been 1960 like 1957 through i'm not sure when she was 35 she was born in 1943 i can't do math that fast in my head that's um 1958 should we start and then we're looking another 20 years so 58 to um 78.
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"26 after, this is America in the morning. A suspect in California shot two hostages killing one and wounding an officer, Lisa dwyer has that story. Authorities say a man was arrested after he shot and killed one person and wounded two others, including a highway patrol officer at a park in Northern California after he took two hostages. California highway patrol officers were serving a warrant to the suspect and Roseville when he began shooting at them. When police arrived, officers confronted the suspect, who was still carrying a gun and reportedly ran from the officers. The violence occurred near baseball fields forcing a lockdown at the park. Students attending camps were taken to a nearby school to be reunited with their families. The suspect ultimately surrendered. The wounded officer was hospitalized and stable condition. I Lisa dwyer. Residents of Mississippi's capital are scrambling to figure out what to do with their refuse after garbage collection abruptly ended this week, Sue aller reports on what led up to the trash piling up. Whose turn is it to take out the garbage? No one in Jackson Mississippi, for about a week, residents and business owners have had to figure out for themselves as to what to do with their trash. The latest garbage crisis is because of a long running contract dispute between the mayor choke we enter lumumba. And this council, the mayor, has accused the council of contract steering in favor of Waste Management, which held the contract with the city for decades before Richard's disposal took over. City council members have accused the mayor of manufacturing the crisis by waiting too long to bring forth with the new contract, a special meeting will take place next Monday. Jackson Mississippi WPT TV was at the press conference where the mayor spoke and is hoping for a resolution. I don't have any tricks up my sleeve. It means more pain, struggle, and stress on the residents is what it means. And it means that we are creating an emergency that does not have to be. Meantime, the city faces a fine of $25,000 a day from the Mississippi department of environmental quality for not picking up garbage. I'm so out there. On this good Friday, April 7th, 2023, America and the morning is produced by Jeff McKay, senior producer Kevin Delaney. I'm John trout. This is Westwood one. From whiplash to herniated discs, there are a few car accident injuries we've all heard of. JP pendergast with penda gas law explains that even the most common injuries differ from one another. Preexisting conditions
AP News Radio
Suspect shot 2 hostages, killing 1, after wounding officer
"A suspect in California shot two hostages, killing one and wounding an officer. I'm Lisa dwyer. Authorities say a man was arrested after he shot and killed one person and wounded two others, including a highway patrol officer at a park in Northern California after he took two hostages. California highway patrol officers were serving a warrant to the suspect and Roseville when he began shooting at them. When police arrived, officers confronted the suspect who was still carrying a gun and reportedly ran from the officers. The violence occurred near baseball fields forcing a lockdown at the park. Students attending camps were taken to a nearby school to be reunited with their families. The suspect ultimately surrendered. The wounded officer was hospitalized and stable condition. I Lisa dwyer
WTOP
"northern california" Discussed on WTOP
"Coworkers are remembering the 6 people shot to death at a Christian elementary school in Nashville this week. Pastor Jim bachman was friends with custodian Mike hill. Everybody loved Mike knew the kids in the school knew their names and took a very personal interest in them. Governor Lee says his wife had planned a dinner date with her best friend, substitute teacher Cindy peak, who was gunned down to Monday. Three children were also killed. Huntsville, Alabama, Tommy battles, as one police officer was killed, another critically wounded after they responded to a 9-1-1 call of a woman shot. This is one of those times when there aren't words, words to express our sorrow, words to express our support for our law enforcement officers. The suspect is charged with capital murder. A powerful weather system from the gulf of Alaska is pushing into Northern California. CBS meteorologist David Parkinson. This atmospheric river that is going to bring some damage to California is going to bring a whole lot more damage as it moves east and into the midsection of the country. We've got at least 7 states under threat for severe weather on Friday and this is the one that we're watching. It includes portions of the south that were so devastated last Friday, so 7 days apart for these severe weather events. Group of women average age 73 who claimed Switzerland isn't doing enough to slow climate change or taking their suit to the European court of human rights. CBS Vicki Barker is the first time the European court will consider the impact of climate change on human rights, the women have already lost their case in the Swiss courts. The Dow is up 251 points. S&P ahead 40. This is CBS News. CBS News is brought to you by Paul Gauguin cruises, artfully authentic, all inclusive year round cruising to Tahiti in the South Pacific, visit PG cruises dot
AP News Radio
Twitter: Parts of its source code leaked online
"Twitter is after the identity of someone who lead company source code online. Twitter the San Francisco based social media company went to the U.S. district court in Northern California Sunday to ask GitHub to take down parts of Twitter's source code where it had been posted, that's according to a legal filing first reported by The New York Times, according to the filing GitHub and Internet hosting service for software development, complied with the legal request and said that the content had been disabled. Twitter says the postings violate copyright protections and is asking the court to identify the alleged infringing culprits. It's another challenge for Elon Musk after his acquisition of Twitter last October, a congressional report reveals that the Federal Trade Commission is probing mass layoffs at the company, in trying to obtain internal communications as part of oversight into the company's practices. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Atmospheric rivers flood California with more rain, snow
"Thousands of people are under evacuation orders in Northern California, with flooding from the latest atmospheric river. Santa Cruz county is one of the areas hard hit by this latest burst of storms called the pineapple express. In SoCal, Nick muleta tells KG OTV, a flooded creek destroyed a portion of Main Street. I've never seen the creek go actually through the road, so it's just nuts to see, you know. It's really crazy. Dozens of homes are under threat and Watsonville and Lake oroville spillways are being open to head off flooding from the reservoir. In the Bay Area, a business roof collapsed, killing a worker at a Pete's coffee distribution center. Roads are reported washed out in central California and several public parks, including Sequoia and kings canyon, are closed to visitors due to the heavy rain. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
High school stabbing leaves 1 student dead, another wounded
"Officials say a fight in a Northern California school Wednesday escalated to a stabbing that left one student dead. Authorities say 16 year old high school junior Jalen pianta was stabbed several times Wednesday and later died, while a friend was stabbed in the hand, the victims walked into an art class at Montgomery high school in Santa Rosa, California, and appeared to have started an altercation with the suspect of 15 year old freshmen in front of about 30 other people, including a teacher, Santa Rosa police chief John Cragen. The teacher immediately jumped into action and they break up the initial fight,
Mark Levin
Sticker Shock for Californians Over Natural Gas Prices
"Household budgets in the Golden State since the LA times are already stretched thin as prices soar for everything from rent the eggs are being pummeled by monster gas bills Southern California gas company and Pacific gas and electric began warning customers in January That they would be seeing a higher bills after the wholesale price of natural gas Hit record highs Folks he kills supply you drive up the costs unbelievably California is ground zero for this crap And the people there are paying a price The reality didn't sink in from any customers until their bill started arriving later in the month Southern calcareous said the average bone January for its 21.8 million customers was about $300 more than twice the average of the year before And homeowners with pools are many rooms to heat of reported being charged north of $2000 PG&E is projected that bills in central and Northern California will be 32% higher this winter Both utility say they don't profit from higher bills because the cost of buying the gas is passed on to the customers with no markup Get that 'cause I'm sure that Joe Biden's and Newsom of the world
AP News Radio
Worker pleads not guilty to killing 7 at California farms
"A farm worker accused of killing 7 people last month at two Northern California mushroom farms appeared in court Thursday. Trendy zhao is charged with 7 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, jow appeared in court behind a glass partition with his head bowed and spoke only when a Mandarin translator relayed questions from the judge after the quarter appearance San Mateo county district attorney Steve wagstaff spoke to KG O the defendant entered personally entered a plea of not guilty to all charges. He gave up his right to a speedy preliminary hearing. 66 year old zhao is accused of shooting and killing four coworkers and wounding another one at the half moon bay mushroom farm where he worked, and driving to another mushroom farm where he was fired 8 years ago, and shooting to death three former coworkers. I'm John awarder
Bloomberg Radio New York
"northern california" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Get you more on the earnings from Nike and FedEx coming up in a few short moments, but now it's time for headline news with that Baxter Ed. All right, thank you, Brian I'm not trying to currently building several unoccupied land features in the South China Sea. Western intelligence officials say it is part of Beijing's long running effort to strengthen claims there. We've reported on it for you, at least two dead others injured in a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in the northern California coast near Eureka offshore. It also knocked out power to tens of thousands of people at a slowly coming back on. Ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky is due to come to the United States tomorrow to address Congress's first out of the country trip since Russia invaded his country. Beijing says it will only count people who tested positive for COVID and died of respiratory failure as an official virus death. Bloomberg data are showing that deaths are not only being reported in the north or the south of the country. Hong Kong is ending rapid test to go into bars as well as getting rid of limits on patrons for a number of venues and the release of 6 years of Trump tax returns may have approval of the House of Representatives to be released today. We're waiting out word from Congress they've been meeting behind closed doors. In San Francisco, I'm at Baxter, this is Bloomberg and let's get you to sports now in Dan Schwartzman all right down. This is a Argentine and you can understand it. This is a pretty much a hero's welcome back, isn't it? Oh yeah, no question that in well deserved, by the way, an estimated
Bloomberg Radio New York
"northern california" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm David Westin, Louis, some potentially truly historic news out this week, the Department of Energy announced that there was an experiment on the Lawrence Livermore labs in Northern California. That's part of the Department of Energy that actually managed to have nuclear fusion in a lab in which more energy was generated than when it created the fusion itself, at least that's my understanding as a non scientist. To take us through what exactly is going on and whether there could be commercial applications with us, we welcome now Ernest Moniz. He's former United States secretary of energy. Doctor muniz Professor of physics and engineering systems at MIT and president and CEO of energy futures initiative. Mister secretary, thanks for being with us. You're the nuclear science is I'm happy to say I certainly am not. So how feasible is this that we could within some reasonable period of time actually be able to harness this fusion to power a lot of the United States? Well, I think David, first of all, and you had it right in what you said. But first of all, I think it's worth for the viewers to understand that so fusion means you take very light atomic nuclei like hydrogen nuclei forms of hydrogen and you literally fuse them together. The problem is atomic nuclei don't like to get close to each other because they have the same electrical charge. So one way or another, you got to provide a lot of energy, high temperature, high density, to get them to come together. There are two methods, one way is you smash a small amount of fuel together. That's what happened earlier this week in California. Or you create a very hot, what's called plasma, you literally dissolve the atoms, and you can find it with magnets, maybe with accelerators. To give you an idea of the scale, you have to reach temperatures of a hundred, a 150 million ° as table stakes. And that's about ten times the temperature at the beginning of the sun. That's why this has been a long quest. And what happened in California was the very first time that energy was supplied to this nuclear fuel and it produced more energy by igniting itself if you like. It's been called a kitty hawk moment. Kitty hawk showed that people could fly, it was a long way to a Dreamliner. And we still have a ways to go to make a commercial power plant, but the price is incredible. Well, so talk about that a long way to go to get a commercial power plant. I know you're, I think, on the board of one company that is pursuing this. What sort of private participation is needed and is available to try to help expedite this. Right, there are several now companies using different technologies. I'm on the board of something called TAE, and the idea is that these companies have attracted four to $5 billion of private capital. So they're all and they're exploring different technologies. I believe that in this decade, we will demonstrate the science through multiple technologies that can accomplish fusion, and then the issue will be to engineer it so that you have a power plant providing electricity on the grid. The prize is that we would have an essentially limitless amount of carbon free electricity without any danger of long lived nuclear waste as we have with today's nuclear power. So the prize is incredible, and obviously that amount of private capital means somebody is betting on this happening. And I think we can demonstrate and maybe initially deploy some power plants on the grid in the next decade. So in the case of fission, which is certainly very useful to try to get to zero emissions, even though, as you say, there are byproducts that are harmful. There's been a lot of regulation that a lot of people think is really inhibited the development of fission. Are we going to have that same sort of regulatory hurdle if not more so when it comes to fusion? We should not. The regulatory regime for nuclear fission is there for two reasons. Three actually three reasons, I would say. One is that one must certainly work at the highest standards in order to maintain a safe environment, we have seen in some accidents Chernobyl and Fukushima, et cetera that they're clearly can be public risk. Don't get me wrong. The industry as a whole has got a fantastic record of safety. But you have to make sure you regulate it. Secondly, the fission process creates fragments, if you like, nuclear fragments that are highly radioactive and must be stored, which we have not done successfully in the United States underground for literally millennia. Third, inherently the process could produce nuclear weapons material and therefore, again, there's a different kind of regulation needed there. None of those problems are there for fusion. So the regulatory regime clearly there are worker safety issues, for example, there are short lived radiative issues in terms of walls that have been irradiated, but nothing like the major challenges for Waste Management in the fission arena. So the regulation should itself be much, much more not relaxed, but should not have the high degrees of requirement that one season in fission. This is briefly here at the end, mister secretary, given what you just said about the issues. It sounds like those might also make it feasible in success. The United States should really develop this. We might share it with other countries in a way that with fission we were very loath to do. Correct, because you do not have the proliferation risk there. And again, you don't have the safety and the waste risks. So I think frankly, a fusion reactor on the grid would be a complete game changer. The other thing I should add, David, is because in contrast to wind and solar, which will clearly be a big part of the future electricity grid. But wind and solar are variable. It depends on the weather. Fusion does not. It's so called dispatchable. You can have the power when you want it, where you want it. And also since you don't have public safety issues of any of any significant degree, you can also cite it much more easily. Yeah, so well put. I mean, fusion is understanding. If you get it, it's always on, so to speak. Thank you so much to Ernest monies. He's former United States secretary of energy. Coming up, President Biden is wrapping up his African summit today in Washington. We're going to go
Bloomberg Radio New York
"northern california" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of financial aid and military aid Zelensky said the United Kingdom's leadership in providing assistance especially when it comes to defense will remain forever in history Maryland's democratic led legislature is overriding governor Larry Hogan's veto on abortion access expansion in the state The Republican governor's veto was shot down in a 90 to 46 vote by the state Senate and a 29 to 15 vote by the House The new law allows other medical providers besides physicians like nurse practitioners to perform abortions In a letter announcing his veto Hogan said the bill would quote set back standards for women's healthcare and safety He added quote allowing other medical professionals to perform abortions risks luring the high standard of reproductive healthcare services received by women in Maryland Firefighters in North Carolina are battling a four alarm fire The fire is reported about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco near the port and benicia the benicia fire department tweeted while efforts to put out the fire are active and continuous winds are working in their favor to contain the fire So far the fire does not pose a threat to the public and no structures have been damaged And the lights are back on for over a million people in Puerto Rico ABC News reports luma energy says roughly 1.3 million people have power after an outage swept through several neighborhoods Still about 200,000 are without power I'm Jim Forbes Condolences are pouring in from around the NFL after the death of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins The Florida highway patrol says 24 year old Haskins was struck and killed early Saturday while attempting to walk across the westbound lanes of interstate 5 35 for unknown reasons The league said in a statement it is mourning the tragic loss Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said he was devastated by the news Head coach Ron Rivera who coached Haskins in Washington said he's absolutely heartbroken Haskins was in Florida participating in off season work with other skill position players A suspect is arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 16 year old girl outside of Bronx high school David folk Thomas has more Police commissioner keyshawn sewell making the big announcement Saturday.
Art Beauty
"northern california" Discussed on Art Beauty
"And he told me that 90% of visible aging comes from sun damage. So for everybody who's listening right now, I currently am also wearing sunscreen. I wear it every single day. Going back to this survey, was there anything that you found on the survey that was sort of most surprising? Yeah. A couple things. Yeah, I mentioned one well, I've got to mention them both in passing. One of them is that 40%, which I think is way up of patients, really want to make sure when they come to the doctor that they're going to the right physician. Are they going to a board certified specialist in the area that's really an expert? And I think that's great. You know, when people ask me the questions, I kind of fall back to the mountain. I'm glad wealth. Sort of 10,000 hours or 10,000 reps sort of mantra, that the more you do things, the better you are at it and the better trained you are, obviously, which goes back to board certification and specialization. That was a surprise because it's up. And I think in part, it's because there's so many med spas and nurses that are going out to dock their people's homes and so called Botox parties and all these things that are happening. That really has driven more awareness of boards certification and the need for getting qualifications of the person. And then the other was the natural look is a very something that without prompting patients are now coming in and saying, look, I want to do something, but I don't want to look like a different person. I want to look like me, but just better me. And so that's helpful because at least in Northern California, remember we're not in LA here. So there's drivers down there too, but they are really a little different drivers that are that are pushing things along. But in general, I think that's the idea and natural means balanced facial features and things that enhance the natural beauty that everyone has..
Ball
'Tribute to Hip Hop & Tupac' ft. 'Keepin' it 100' Crew & Hip Hop Artist Ron Obasi (Ball & Buds Podcast Episode #26)
"His mom was a black panther. they were revolutionaries or named after two polycom aroo one of the last inc and warriors from peru who rebelled against spain so he already had a bad ass name. Mom was already a bad ass. He was already he already had it. Like a revolutionary mind. You know what i'm saying. So i mean huge influence me because what he was talking about is shit. I was seeing on the street. You know and For the people. That never really heard early to joe if you could put just a little bit. Just so they know where he comes from. 'cause i wanna give some props. Oh so to. One of the most underrated fun bands digital underground. But now because i used to hang out a lot in alameda. County bro north californian. Just has it going on. They just have a whole different buck. Imbibe say dope is how dope is hip hop in oakland bay area. Plus let me tell you what was great about it. L. a. was on some thug shit l. a. was all gang shit and mexicans hated blacks and blacks hated mexican and i was not into that northern cali they were together by says and bucking brothers. Were hooking up. They were doing party music. doing fun. shit. You know what i'm saying. That's why. I love the northern california vibe but and asians to men but put this song Gioja so people can see where he came from us a backup dancer for this group. Call digital underground. It's called same old song. Can you put that. Drew digital underground always had bucket. Slap in can you show a joke. I'm not playing video. I'm just playing the music video. Said they've they do fun. Videos arrest piece of shock g who just passed resident piece to that fucking genius shot g humpty hump himself bro. What a great character. The one that okay. We're gonna put two digital underground sunk so people can also know who these cats were two. He produced the first shock jeep. I now some jury the party to get naughty your body to the pops all sing and needs bringing everybody's thinking in place as keep the jay z. Mitch new the hip hop stern b. Champagne my hand and won't be on single so this is the style kansas sweat dripping early before we look at the grease on your pantyhose. I love your funnels. Knees please. Slimming on again. What attorney if it's good and plenty. Don't you know rago rago there. I know but i go away. Go to joe. Tropical learn grow. Maybe we just watch because my name is shot. I liked his. Can't stop this to go ahead. And rockdale around. When i hang around with ground chelsea's to proud when i come around. Pass me herath. Bernardi asked me if they can kiss me change one. Republican chose not same right. So that's that's the first time i've ever seen in my semen. The video on mtv wraps one of those shows. And i was like. Wow just the first time i saw him. I was like well. I like this cat right off the bat his swag and i love digital underground. The fact that he was with them. I liked him even more and yeah videos is always like a party that i can just i want. I want joe to show the people so they can go down the rabbit hole. Put humpty hump look at this party atmosphere. I know we've all heard the song. But and this is what the oakland clubs were back like back then sex packets album. Most beginning to end was funny. Ass lyrics go win. Come about the ruin imaging scholar to used to. I look funny but you'll make money so your world. I hope you're ready for me. I got brown south powered by the underground. I'm paul hennessey. You gotta let me introduce myself now football and all the rabbit. Please step in and just like compact stereos. I like the. I like tacky. Spunky sick with this straight tax. The mac but sometimes i get ridiculous crackers and your licorice fact girl committee that skinny. Stop me from getting freak like the girl. I got busy bathroom on clay. Allow me to amaze date. I'd say don't phase me. I'm getting in the tonight. You've got my dad's tall right so this is a fun. Great video and digital underground always had bucket slapping videos. And if you see there's cameos by easy mc light day biz markie way. So you know that's too. I wanna give
Environment: NPR
Northern California Has Been Hit With A Startling Increase Of Wildfire Smoke
"Wildfire smoke is especially harmful to children and rural communities in northern california has been hit hard starting an increase in smoke and that's according to a new investigation by our california newsroom. Collaboration remember station k. Q. e. d. freda jabballah romero reports. On how dangerous air is affecting schools their high school sports events anchor. The town of willis california one hundred miles north of sacramento at a friday night. Football game in this of six thousand cheerleaders shake their golden purple pompoms case covers nearby mountains in this part of the sacramento valley as mega fires burn in northern california. When there's too much smoke. Schools cancel outdoor activities like football. Today's better obviously. Because we're playing the game. Stacey lancy has to teen sons one of them a student at this high school. she's also a third grade teacher and says the better quality is affecting students as far as kids going out to recess playing sports and kind of like overall health. We don't know why were having headaches. Runny nose was in recent years willows has endured ninety one days of smoke per year on average up from sixty six days a decade ago. That makes this town one of the smoky places in america. That's according to an analysis of a decade of federal satellite images by california newsroom and partnership with stanford university's change and human outcomes lab. The investigation found millions of americans from san francisco to boston. Are breathing a lot more smoke. From western wildfires in the small town of willows physician. Assistant brett brown regularly treats patients at the hospitals family clinic when their smoke in the air he sees more patients suffering asthma attacks intense migrants and stress. There's always somebody says something about well because of the smoke. Insert you no problem here. Whether it's you know. I haven't been able to breathe as well because my allergies are so bad or i haven't been able to see my mom and dad you know because of covet and now i can't even go outside so my mental health is so much
Environment: NPR
Massive Caldor Fire Closes in on Lake Tahoe Area
"Actual speeds are not guaranteed. It's another tense day. In northern california as firefighters struggled to keep the massive kaldor fire from reaching the biggest city on the shore of iconic lake. Tahoe they caught a break. When wins yesterday were not as strong as expected but forecasters are warning. That strong winds are likely well into this evening. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and the fire has now burned some two hundred thousand acres. Npr's eric westervelt has the latest from south. Lake tahoe fix smoke and ash. Of enveloped the eerily empty resort area of south lake. Tahoe which is usually bustling. This time of year with summer tourists on the outskirts of the city exhausted fire crews in the christmas valley area. A really the last line of defense protecting south lake tahoe. Its number over there. And then it's burning there. That way towards taller behind pretty close in a forested area adjacent to cabins and homes. Firefighter steve barnum and a wildfire strikeforce from southern california are scrambling to stamp out spot. Fires these are the dreaded wind blown embers that ignite many fires that can easily grow into new blazes. Bardem is working to contain one. That almost got out of control and it was pretty pretty Pie their thirteen. Fourteen foot flame lakes. And then you get the ember cast off it and it gets grass finding gig on and it goes over the houses. And that's memorial. They're worried about sparks catching the drought-stricken brush and dry pine needles surrounding the homes. Right across the road that can turn this forest fire into a battle to save homes and neighborhoods most of these forests and the tahoe basin have not burned since the nineteen forties. The spot fires are tackling are not mere nuisances. They're really the biggest threat to south lake. Tahoe right now says firefighter jesse alexander because they can overrun control lines and wreak havoc on any well-planned containment strategy and you have a spot fire basically your plan
Hal Sparks Radio Program
With wildfire threatening, Lake Tahoe prepares for emergency
"Been issued. Thousands are being evacuated near Lake Tahoe because of a massive wildfire raging in northern California. Firefighters battling the cow door fire were hampered by gusty winds Friday. Fire burning south of Lake Tahoe has scorched over
World News This Week
Where Do Afghanistan's Refugees Go?
"Abc's sherry preston has more on what happens to those afghan refugees who are able to get out and seek asylum among the first things that afghan refugees would have to put down on the special immigrant. Visas or siv's that get into the united states is where they would want to go jennifer. Simon is in charge of resettlement at the international rescue committee which works with the us government to find places for refugees to live those coming into the country. Have either of family relatives. I wish is something that they would note their applications. There are several regions of the country with relatively high concentrations of afghan families already including northern california northern virginia and parts of
The Eric Metaxas Show
Northern California wildfire continues to grow
"A week in northern California continues to grow out of control, one of about a dozen big fires in the drought stricken state. That have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate. This is S r. N
Balance of Nature
Explosive California wildfires could burn into December
"Contributed to the fury of Northern California wildfire yesterday. The Cal door fire in the northern Sierra Nevada has destroyed dozens of homes and closed roads. It's one of about a dozen large wildfires that has scorched northern California more on these stories of town hall dot com.
Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: Reviews, Interviews, and Discussion About All the Romance Novels You Love to Read
"northern california" Discussed on Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: Reviews, Interviews, and Discussion About All the Romance Novels You Love to Read
"Never go to the post office again. I am so excited to bring you this interview. Let's get started with my conversation with becky chambers. My name is becky chambers. I empty science fiction author. I'm best known for my wayfair series The most recent which is the galaxy and the ground within. I've also just recently had a brand new novella come out it's called a psalm for the wild built. It's the of my monk and robot books. I am based in northern california. And i'm happy to be here. I have to tell you. First congrats on the release of the psalm for the wild built. What will readers find in this book. And i asked because i tried to explain my husband. What would i was reading. I had the hardest time. Just describing the completeness of this book it is first of all it is wonderful. Thank you so much for releasing it into the world. How do you describe this book. Because i am terrible at it. If it makes you feel any better. I do find this to be a difficult one with my shoulders and real quick so as all the while builds is a solar punk science fantasy that takes place on a secondary world. It's little moon called panga and in this world. Humans have achieved a harmonious existence..
Voices of the Community
"northern california" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Raised property turnover. A moxie is the last remaining one and they were having difficulty. They were serving hundreds of artists around the bay area. Because they had a unique place. Where you could fabricate and make a lot of stuff work with large steel etc and whole ecosystem hardest dependent on the space. They suffered a fire a couple of years ago year and a half ago which wiped out some of their studio space as someone who they sublet to. For a project the some the classic beginner's mistake bagging up some linseed oil. After sending some would end during the daytime people with a fireball tour through part of their building they had all the safety procedures in place and they were able to deal with the fire pretty quickly then subtly. They were on the drudge of wondering whether they were going after. Just go under give up because of course waiting for the insurance company to reimburse so they can start rebuilding artists could event so they could start making money and moxie is a really interesting space awesome. Incubator space for small artists entrepreneurs all of the artists occupying students. There were purchasing jointly some really amazing equipment enormous laser cutters. Cnc machines sharing things and subletting up jobbing in subcontracting to each other for commercial work. That was not only bringing money into them bows employing other artists. They were doing a range of projects and it rained. From tech offices to small restaurants to artist fabrications so we approached and even though we were focused on housing and we were told moxie just really needs capital to get through the next ninety days or their history so vital arts through the opportunity loan which recreated raised funds and gave them a short term loan. It helps that one of their founders wolf. Very savvy was able to really meet with evil that were involved with vital arts. Put for the business plan. Explain the economics of their whole thing and how they really train and enable artists to make a living which was very tracked awesome that they were long term proposition minute. Literally the month we gave them the money. Coke hit they at artists having difficulty paying rent. They've been all over but they immediately pivoted to making. Pp got large donation of plastic say brought artists in that knew how to use their advanced laser cutter and all their stuff is started delivering thousands and thousands of face shields hospitals all over the bay area at one point moxie was coordinating seven hundred artists in the bay area and a number of other organizations from laney college sculpture department to toy makers working with groups that were distributing the p. b. e. and became like a hub employed artists. They found ways to raise money employed artists and volunteers and paint people on the line. Creating stuff gay people a sense of purpose away to gathering community to work safely and create something society really need. At that moment. I was just on a site visit with our board there that last week and the exciting thing is because vital arts investment and then getting through that really tough period. Their landlord decided that he could go set of month-to-month he's given them a fifteen year lease they now plans to vastly increase. The number of studios dobrynin giant containers. We saw on site is a wonderful model. they've restructured into three different entities. They now have sort of a firewall between the fabrication and the holding company for the properties. The property can be tended to regardless and they are looking at a much more sustainable much more healthy long-term existence for they could not just and thrive and they've been very clear in saying to us if it wasn't for that cash when we needed it we wouldn't still be here and it's been very awarding work with them for me personally to be able to stay in touch and see just that amazing enormous amount of energy community goodwill and creativity that they put together not only in taking care of the artists that were connected to their space but taking care of the community around them and they're still doing that type of thing and they will go on. They are now talking and working. In collaboration it's premature to announce anything but with other entities In the bay area about creating Housing complex that would be complementary in the same neighborhood and extending their incubator model because they are one of the few arts collectives. I know that's been able to operate in providing artists with employment and Basically mentoring and training and small business and entrepreneurial methods so that's exciting to see. Thank you really wonderful. Story of people using the proverbial pivot survive and find new opportunities. Low serving the community. Which i think is key exactly. I mean seven hundred plastic shields at the time that we needed to must remember making ten thousand of these. Every two weeks out coordinate hundred artists acres but the number the quantity they ended up donating. A thousands of san quentin got to the point where they were able to. It asked out at the black lives matter march for people so they always thought in this lateral way that i think a lot of artists do which is not. Just what's good for us. Good for the system in the community part. I smash such an iron. How 'bout yourself. Average story well that would say closely related to specifically artist housing but by my favorite story what the last eight weeks or so has been. We helped in one of the ways of like how we acquire how to artists communities. How do you acquire property. And how do you preserve their and counter forces that are driving For artists everyone else. And there's a case still twelve weeks ago we've been really involved in helping create a allow last year that nancy skinner champion. Sp that allows anyone. Who's a renter or attendant in a building. That's up to four units. If that building goes into for closure is gonna be auctioned off normally. You're out of luck and this law. Let's you as a tenant when the foreclosure comes you're allowed to match whatever bid there is whether it's the banks or outside investor and keep control of your house the catch is you have forty five days to come up with the cash and so if you're renting somewhere you might not always have six or seven hundred thousand dollars in cash lying around on short notice but that said it's a pretty significant tool and we piloted this. Actually with a ton of people from the arts community the berkeley unified teacher jocelyn foreman. Who's living in a house panel and it went into foreclosure with a bunch of her colleagues in the families that she helps in the school district all came together through the berkeley public schools fund and started raising money to help her make bid on this house and then they brought us in and i mean interestingly it's sort of tied to the arts because many of the people involved made it happen. Are the arts faculty food berkeley. It's to so many overlaps in ozone amazing story where in two weeks we all collectively raised almost seven hundred thousand dollars to get her home and prevent someone who has helped as a community resource officer has helped thousands of families in from losing her own home. It's pretty inspiring story. There is now hopefully soon to be funding so that this can happen. Not just in this. One magical instance where. There's this tremendous community but with state funding and other kinds of funding so that they're in lots of buildings that artist's work in so catherine sort of alluded to the work of doing in berkeley collectively looking at all. The retail vacancies is a huge of rebuilding san pablo university at the retail spaces vacant while the building might not get foreclosed on because the underlying land is so valuable that it can be solved to be torn down undeveloped. There is a need for a tools. We'll bring those buildings back into use s become some nine related funding. It's not just the joscelyn's house. And her corner of people like how the story be a catalyst for every long neighborhood has the same kind of thing where we should be able bring not housing in workspace back into nearly control and it is possible. That's exciting thanks once you do it once even though it's hard you've got a home that you can point to and einstein with you and same question for through so folks who are listening to the show. How can they get engaged in supporting your work. I mean obviously there's donation volunteer would people rallying behind the new piece of legislation. Was skinner to help lobby for city of berkeley city of oakland. I tell you. The city of san francisco has massive amounts of retail space. You've noticed it yourself. How can folks get engaged. Yes well kind of all of those things if you want to donate in. You're able to do so. We take all major forms of modern urgency not bitcoin and not also been a tremendous number of our projects. Have come about through. People doing plan to give kind of long-term donations wear home becomes affordable housing after seven passes away or it gets issues. That's one thing and on the outreach side the legislative piece of ideas in berkeley. You're going through efforts to the arts commission but there is one thing you could do right now. Which is this week. Senators in errors advocating for funding for sp. Ten seventy nine and on the california can meet land trust site. Cac lt network dot org. There's an sp tinson nine letter that you can sign. And since the governor and also since copied a senator senator to let her know that you're in support of our efforts that's that would help. Clt's in housing all right and then can folks volunteer at this point. I mean we're starting to magically. We're going to all come out of this tomorrow. But that's the fifteenth of june can folks who want to volunteer to help in any way as well. Yes we will certainly certainly many different areas that you could volunteer with in. We have a small project committee that helps review projects expertise in building. Construction finance like those are expertise to really. Welcome if you know a lot of teaching. Were filming of co-ownership initiative helps develop curriculum for creating your own cooperatives for community owned real estate of different kinds. We share e be people of color sustainable housing network of other seal tease renovators though the ways you can volunteer as great and turn into you katherine. How can folks get engaged in helping about art at two critical ways. Where jerry tiny. I work we have no staff. I'm an independent consultant. That helps vital arts and very few hours. Sousa volunteer board an advisory committee. So we're going to and build those groups so we are interested in that. What i can say right now is that we are accepting donations. Which make possible time energy and some of the work that we do through the opportunity fund you can learn about that on our website which is www vital arts dot org you can donate and also launched a new mailing list for advocacy purposes. I said we keep a mailing list for starting to be able to develop that as a tool for advocacy working on something we know. For example that the city of oakland is about to unveil new downtown plan which is going to have some critical set-asides for art culture. It reminded need support for some of those ideas because it's going to put requirements on developers that they set aside space for artists and cultural organizations. So we're constantly advocacy political pressure mode secrets on our mailing list. Send us the two nation help with the work is great and volunteering. His specifically on our committees In our ward and we are looking for good candidates for those that can help us well and so this is the final question for both of you. But what do you think are some of the good things that have come out of the pandemic that could support artists artist housing more engagement with arts and arts education. I actually i tend to be a bit not to this anyway. But i think that the arts community has come together through the pandemic in a way that it hasn't been in a long time when it started. I was on weekly meetings with all the nonprofit groups in berkeley for example. Oakland art screws me as a lot. More meetings a lot more could meanings mostly zoo but bringing people together to talk about sharing ideas. So collaboration is starting to be is always was so difficult to do. Between a lot of entities were seeing a lot. More collaboration and a lot more people working together because the bigger height is not between the way. We want to do things where you wanna do. The bigger threat. To the whole thing. That i see is that the value of artists and their contributions has been recognized and made abundantly clear. Georgia's you mentioned earlier the having that whole industry so close and go away. Don't live music no theater. no dance. Snow no art shows. You can go see museums close down. People began to realize how much not really meant to their lives. And a lot of what was keeping people saying through. The pandemic was the arts and wet artists. Were offering them when they're living rooms in whatever form so we saw not only a shift in starting people really recognizing artists were doing but here in the bay area. We've seen artists being on the front line as calling second responders leading a lot of the efforts around things like pb organizing foodbanks organizing community volunteers coming together to help the homeless really pivoting to being on the front lines of working to help us less fortunate with food shelter and other items even as unemployment for artists in the bay area has been anywhere sixty five percent to ninety five percent depending on what community. You're talking to so it's been a rough time. I think our advocacy has gotten stronger. We are all in the position right now. At sacramento level at the city level. Have a new east bay arts advocates group that is advocating for more funding. Coming out his cares act. We did successfully from the federal government. Get some funding to try and help. The arts to covid was bigger than the entire national budget for. The arts usually affect comes from the federal government. So we're starting to slowly get people to recognize and right now. We're making the case that not only the arts needs support for recovery but that the arts are key to the recovery of the economies and the communities that were a part of that we can put open the doors of these arts organizations and put artists back to work. It's putting a lot of money in a lot of other people's pockets as well so i think we're feeling Somewhat optimistic we've got to the state level a pilot proposal for wpa program and really starting to have more serious conversations happening with public officials all over in a way that i haven't seen in a long time so i'm i'm optimistic. That collectively were stronger than we were before college. Even though individually so many people are suffering. Thank you could message in about you. You're on the ground there too and housing as well. So what are some of the good things that have. Come out of this catastrophe echo. What kevin sat around the degree of organizing engagement advocacy back really transformed plus and both on the side of housing and on the side of sustainability clinton justice and more specifically in the arts wearing any of those hats of seeing the scale of impact arts is is like it's impossible. Overstate wearing way. Artists designer at saw one e seven shows answered last april and had to lay off everybody. That's worked on projects in shows and there's been a tremendous loss of young of culture makers that is really concerning sort of. How do we make sure that there is not a lost generation of culture at one time was really inspiring is the there has been own much of coming together. People who were all usually competing for the same little tiny of money. Oh well if you get that show. That means. i didn't get it. This is the moment when we need to actually transform our culture and that is something that the arts and culture community does. That's like how we articulate new vision for a world that is equitable and sustainable and that everybody has access to on footing. And were in a moment where i feel very bit of cautious optimism. That might be possible. Even though i'm on some level in a trade that does not breed optimism so at the same time. You have to have this vision of okay. What does it look like. This is moment where the arts are not simply an instrumental thing. It's not sort of an instrumentality to deliver a particular message. But it's actually about transforming how you'd think and observing what it's and what is actually not that pretty and you need to see a thing before you can repair as we go so that's my hope and my sense is also everyone that i've talked to beyond the arts in the house of the world's rotter world is everybody sees it. That's actually been the benefit of the end is going. Oh my god. This wasn't actually great for you. Know maybe the good old days were so good or they were very good for a very small people. Second best maybe third-best Where we go from here. Let's just kinda get on with it really. i can score with. I realized i'd like to underscore take for granted but as we're talking about rebuilding and building back we're talking about building back better and because things were so drastically altered we do have an opportunity in the arts to create much more equitable and differently operating sector and institutions and relationships between artists public's so it is scary in some ways because there's so much that was laid waste but it's actually a moment of enormous possibility at it's been very exciting to see leadership coming to the fore during this period of thank you catherine and for sharing both vital arts and the northern california community land trusts work today. We'll make sure that listeners. Have your contact information websites social media so they can follow both vital arts and the northern california committee has worked to support artists families especially during the covid nineteen or still going on and get engaged in support your mission in providing housing and support so please both of you stay safe and healthy out there as we continue to work our way through this very strange new normal. That's it for this episode of voices of the community. You've been listening to the voices of the executive consultant for vital arts. Catherine reasoner and the executive director of the northern california land. Trust i in winters to find out more about vital arts and to participate in the opportunity loan fund go to vital arts dot. Org to find out more about the northern california land trusts affordable housing community facilities current housing opportunities the community co ownership initiative and sb ninety-one housing assistance. Senate bill please go to. Nc l. t. dot org to hear other voices working with our artists community on a local level. Please listen to our interview with justin and kareem at project artisan in episode forty nine and our one hour special interview with joaquin on the san francisco office of economic and workforce developments work to support our arts economy in episode fifty seven on a state level we hear from julie of californians for the arts in episode sixty six about their efforts to secure both funding and political will to help our arts community. Please tune into k. F. p. one or two point five fm on july first at eight thirty am to listen to next week. Show to hear from miracle messages about their miracle. Money pilot program to help bring stability to our announced community through direct cash transfers and its impact. 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"I i think every single question that i may have had and folks. I reached out to asking for questions ahead of time has been addressed and i know a number of folks are on the on the session right now hearing you talk and again hearing i'm gonna say the truth in in your words and the way that you presented yourself and presented the story because again it resonates with you and you have a personal connection to to the healing piece so again. I think that is has definitely helped with the message I'm keeping this link on screen right now. So folks can go to that hopefully register at and get those consultations go in between nine thirty and two thirty on the third. Go talk to jennifer. Go have some cookies and cakes. And some don't i may come in just just for the food I'll coming into screen too but Yeah that's that's good stuff outside of the that actual event because A spot here. Because this is elaine carmichael. Do you have a list of maybe resources. That folks not in the northern california region could possibly go to for just pa information right Off and if you don't have him with you right now. We can put those into a a list of the documents that i'm a put together for this session so actually very simply you could go to our website. Very simple. It's my vascular dot com. Www dot my vascular dot com and we have locations in texas and we have locations in arizona right now but we will be expanding. We will be expanding We we love what we do and we know that it's Pd is definitely something that a lot of folks don't realize this is very very crucial to know about reason being is we talk about you. Know all the other things. We talked about diabetes and cholesterol and heart diseases and things like that but allow doctors do not talk about the lower extremities and what happens is we want to prevent amputation. That is our number. One goal is to reduce amputations because let me be very honest. What happens is when these diseases get critical and you go to the doctors a lot of times because it's old school. All they know is surgeons and they'll send it to the and say well. You know you have to get the amputation..
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"Release today from one of the medical Orgnisations and they were saying telehealth is here to stay irregardless of when everyone gets to jab in their arm right telehealth is is become incredibly successful. It's become incredibly Efficient for the physicians and for the patients as well and again dismissed the statement that you may about again. Don't necessarily you don't pay a co pay to set an appointment with your doctor with your position over the phone. They can do video. They can do audio appearance one on issue it's encrypted so it's very private and very secure definitely. Don't shy away from booking a appointment with your health practitioner and getting whatever needs to be looked at Let me ask you about pa. Get get back to pd specifically and in terms of how it affects people Men women who different Ethnicities disgracing those types of things. Will it are there. Is there any data around again. How maybe maybe Affects different types of folks. Well so for example. When when i was telling you before about a symptomatic so women have less symptoms than men do. But but it's more prevalent in men and the reason being is they have larger muscles in their legs. So with that said is you know the the. There's no blood flow to the legs in the tissue starts to deteriorate and they'll fill it quicker because the tissues in the muscle are you know are collapsing in their cramping. And that's when you get the result of crowns now for women. Women don't have as many symptoms or none at all and so for example if a woman did have Symptoms equal to a man would be a sore on the leg or on the foot. That just doesn't go away so say for example Maybe you've gone. You've gone to the beach. We wanted to get out of an out of your home. You know you just need to breathe some air and you go to the beach and you happen to step on piece of glass by accident in k. And then you go home and you clean it up but then after a couple days you see that it's really not healing and then after maybe in another couple of weeks you see it's kinda like it's kind of looks infected but you're going on putting all you know my cortisone on their you know everything looks good but it's really getting worse.
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"Just take care of ourselves from a wellbeing side back pains foot pain chest pain things. That really shouldn't be something that's commonplace. And i think. What would what i keep harping on for again for the audience is watching right. Now if you're in that particular state if you are having issues if you feel something that doesn't feel right you know your body better than anybody else won't Go have taken a look at yet even right now. When everyone's gotta wear masks and everybody's gotta be six seven feet apart. That is no excuse for not going in having whatever ails you. Correct it or investigated. Check it out. Don't don't walk around hurt all day. That is just not a good look. So i'm glad we're on so this was the implant. I'm glad for an. I are kind of meeting in the middle right in terms of our messages. And we've got some comments that are that are also ringing true to to this message. Let me let me let me elaborate on that. Because i do know that Last year you know the put a lot of fear of folks going to the hospital in what happened was because A lot of you know community members didn't go to the hospital. They had critical problems. We've had we. We not only had folks pass away from covid. There was it was a across the board of heart disease or things factor because of diabetes. And it's because they were afraid to go to the doctor. Now let me say the greatest thing is if you're not going to go into the office thus fine because we'll eventually get you into the because what happens when you have a telehealth call you can get on the phone with your doctor and saying you know what unreal in filling. Good now would they'll do is they'll ask you a series of questions based on that. It's either okay. You know what by by what you're telling me you should go to the emergency. And if they're going..
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"What we're used to so it's kind of like you know we're in a comfort zone sometimes and just by getting proper education but it's not even proper education it could be reducing those things that are not good for you still enjoy them because we all like cake right. Definitely i may have some tonight and would you know. It's just minimizing in because in awe and all essence folks love. We love food. We love and there's just varieties of food. You know it could be southern food. It could be latino mexican food. It could be japanese and sushi. You know but everything's always in moderation so with that said if you're aligning that with walking or even if you're in your chair and you're moving your legs while you're watching tv. It's consistently moving that bode flow to create the the absolute like optimum bodycare. Because a lot of folks think that they have to be athletes. A lot of folks think that they're going to have to go. Climb a mountain in order to be you know this health guru but that's not true if you're even just moving your arms up and down and you know and just back that while you're while you're watching tv you or while you're while you're reading moving your feet or even if you're going up and down the street on your block a couple of times. It gradually improves. Because you'll feel better. You'll breathe better and say. Wow i could do two more steps which leads to more blocks which could lead to more miles and then it just all works out so moderation moderation for food and then as much as your body can take as far as walking just moving. A little bit is very very important. So that's interesting. And i guess i'm gonna put myself in your shoes. Is that probably the harder conversation that you have with folks telling them to change their mindset or changed your activities right. I'm i'm gonna Analogy is it hard to teach the old dog new tricks. Sometimes when when again. You've gone twenty thirty years however of being one way one mindset you. You've grown up a certain way you've eaten certain type of food or whatever the case may be and you've gotten sedentary again i mean. Is that the hardest thing to change when you have clients. Patients come in to tell them you gotta do this or else. These are the negative consequences of of of these inactions. That you're having where you know that applies to life in general and the reason why i say that is there's always the good and then there's the bat and we'll we're excited you know it's like okay you know we're going to go and have a celebration and we're gonna joy this great food right then you go to the doctor on monday and they said you're not feeling so good you got a tummy ache and they're like well. What did you eat this weekend. Oh man we had this like just a buffet of food and we had drinks and things like that and they're like well you know mr or mrs smith. Here's.
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"I've had to family members. Pass away with amputation. In had they known that they had the proper care vailable to them then they probably would still be here today. So my mission here. Today is the how a little fun. But also show the education that we have available vascular institute to reduce those worries and reduce those risks. So that you and family members and friends and associates can all live Happily and healthy and thrive appreciate that That your story proves that what you're doing resonates with you mean something to you right. You're you're not just out there doing at a job that this actually has personal meaning for you. So i hope that really resonates with the folks that are listening as well and i hope. They are comfortable with typing in a question. So so we can address those Because this is this is critical and and again We were talking about during the pre show. There could be apprehension to going and looking out for yourself. Why right now. Maybe because you know the pandemic him because you don't want to go into a hospital and no let's be franken and let's. Let's get focused here. There are folks that are still timid and apprehensive of getting the vaccine. So there's a lot of pause at when it comes to getting medical care primarily again. I'll talk about the african american community. And i want to make sure that we Address that and talk to some of those fears some of those concerns talk folks away from a some of those fears. The some of those concerns in actually move forward. Were getting getting taken care of so absolutely yes and and again. I really appreciate your time today because the value is very purposeful. And i'm very passionate about sharing this. Because i do. I do honestly want everyone to get a little little piece of what is simple is a simple procedure. Very simple and we do. We will reduce the fear and the emperor hanshin and evening. Zaidi tested fantastic. We we've got a handful of questions here that go through and again they touch on the subject. But i'm sure folks will chime in as well. So i think let. Let's start here right it kind of a high level because again you a lotta times we will hear something and we think it means something else and then that causes hesitation we we think we got cad. We've got coronary artery disease as opposed to peripheral artery disease Walk us through. Exactly what p. a. d. is in is it similar to see eighty so our body is composed of arteries and veins arteries. You know they shift blood you know to the heart and away from the heart in veins create oxygen to move through your body to create the Advantageous space so that we can thrive in in in our body and we walk and talk and do all these things for with our heart our heart and keeps us moving in group in the difference is peripheral arterial. Disease.
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"James here from hicks new media infotainment news. I am thrilled today to be joined by jennifer balch. Czar jennifer is the sales account manager at the vascular institute of northern california. Today is really the first of a two part series where we'll be going to talk about and provides some education on pd peripheral artery disease. Listen your health is critical and cannot be taken for granted will discuss warning signs. We'll talk about treatment options and most importantly answer any questions. You may have about this disease. But before we get started with the discussion. I wanted to share a short informative video about this. I'm only fifty one but my legs are killing me if you experienced discomforting her legs when walking or climbing stairs. Don't ignore it. You may very well have peripheral artery disease or a build up of plaque in the arteries that reduces blood flow to the legs and feet. Pd cardiovascular disease that can lead to stroke heart attack. amputation even deaf. But if i had it. I know it right. Perhaps but while pd has a number of symptoms it can sometimes be mild and suggest some other costs. These symptoms are often missed. There might be painful. Cramping numbness or weakness or a weak pulse in your legs or feet source. That won't heal or other symptoms unfortunately. Pd is very common condition. So if you're over fifty or if you have diabetes or if you smoke you are at risk for peripheral artery disease see your doctor. Because that's a risk. You don't wanna live with fantastic fantastic. I apologize here. We may have lost a little audio during the middle of that. I've got too many screens going tastes. Then you know. I told you before we started got two screens over here and i got four screens over here. I am just not everyday is like groundhogs day again. Like i said when. I forget some things but jennifer. How are you doing today. I am fantastic james. I appreciate you invited me onto your show. How are you today. i'm hanging in there. You know i'm. I'm blessed and i am glad that i believe we have a number of folks joining live. Who can definitely benefit from the conversation. I think we all can benefit from the conversation. But but again i think that this res- will resonate deathly with the audience. Today in the folks that are listening everyone to be listening to a replay and can take some action on it. So i tell you what before we get started. Tell the folks a little bit more about the. Give us the elevator pitch on you. Tell us who you are flew. I am a reward road warrior. So i am out everyday visiting local cities of sacramento carmichael. Plastic county mos- out all over all the counties and my goal is primarily to help folks reduce the risk of amputation. And i'm very very passionate about not.
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"Former President, Trump is happy with the structure of his upcoming impeachment trial. Brian shook reports in a statement. Trump and his legal team praise Senate Republic. It's for standing strong for due process. Trump adds that the structure will allow his team to outline why they believe it's absurd and unconstitutional. Toe hold an impeachment trial against the private citizen, the House impeach Trump for inciting the violent mob that stormed the U. S Capitol last month. As for the Senate trial, a debate on the constitutionality of the proceedings will happen Tuesday with opening arguments starting Wednesday. I'm Brian shook daughter Newsome toward the Mass vaccination center at Petco Park Monday, praising San Diego County for leading the state and distribution. The governor says other counties in California are way behind where they need to be. But San Diego with several sites, including pet go downtown is an example of success. The first county first city put a site together like this successfully clues. You inspired others, all throughout the state of California. Including the L. A Dodgers, including folks in Northern California, Levi's stadium, Santa Clara With 40 Niners play, they'll be opening their mass vaccination site Cal Expo in the number State Fairgrounds have now done thing. Same unless the month the Petco side alone distributed more than 100,000 vaccines. Jack running Google News. An investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant shows the pilot was disoriented in cloudy conditions. It also found he did not follow his training and was under what they said was self induced pressure to complete the flight. National Transportation Safety Board met today to release its findings. The NTSB is recommended aircraft carry a flight.
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"Kfbk. Body Today. Arena times this morning, tapering to a shower or two this afternoon will be breezy, as well with a high of 56 to 60 a street evening shower mostly cloudy overnight with patchy fog forming the 42 44. There is a falling tomorrow morning. Otherwise, clouds and sunshine with the high of 55 to 59 a macula others. Joe Lundberg News 93.1 kfbk. Currently it is 52 degrees in Sacramento with rain and clouds. And that is our lead story this half hour get ready for wet and snowy week this week. Northern California. Expecting more rain, More snow kfbk Jody Guerrero has the report. Over the holiday weekend. Three separate storm systems left widespread showers in the valley and light snowfall in the mountains. National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Matthews says A stronger system is coming in today with conditions light, heavy rain, heavy mountain snow and some gusty winds. The weather Service issued a winter storm watch that lasts until 4 a.m.. Tomorrow they weren't of potentially hazardous travel conditions over the Sierra Nevada and in Sacramento. Matthew says the storm should dissipate tomorrow, but another smaller system is forecast. For Wednesday. Jody Guerrero News 93.1 KFBK Santa Clara County is reporting massive wait times at local emergency rooms. KFBK zero L belong with detailed County Health Department said on several occasions this past week. Ambulances have waited up to seven hours to get a patient into the emergency department, the department said extended away times are largely due to the significant volume of patients at hospitals. County has 691 patients.