35 Burst results for "Thirty Degrees"
Scuba Shack Radio
Wet Notes - 7-18-21
"This is what notes here on scuba shack radio for sunday. July eighteenth two thousand and twenty one first up. Today is an update on the upcoming boston. Sea rovers clinic. Historically the clinic was held in the early part of march just before the start in the northeast dive season. The show actually happened in march. Two thousand twenty just before the country shut down it was probably the last scuba diving show before cove. It wasn't possible to conduct the clinic in march. Two thousand twenty one as we were still at a high point of covy nineteenth spread infections so the decision was made to move the show to the first weekend of october in two thousand twenty one fall in massachusetts. That should be pretty neat. Tickets are on sale now for the boston. Sea rovers to day clinic in danvers massachusetts. Right now the early bird special is still available. You can attend the daytime. Saturday and sunday clinic along with the saturday night. Film festival for seventy five dollars. You can pick and choose your options and that's a pretty good deal. Don't wait check out the boston. See your oversight for all the details and get your tickets now now. Here's something new to help you with your fish identification. It's something called name that fish dot com name. That fish dot com was created by a guy named jake easterling and he is the co founder of a company called scuba. School botox mission is to reduce the cost and time requirements to monitor coral reefs by using artificial intelligence autonomous underwater vehicles and citizen science. I guess and of course this work. Jake developed a database of fish and came up with the idea of taking people's underwater video footage and identifying fish in the video. If you go to the name net fish dot com website you can view short video on what the finished product looks like. Jake also has assured Tutorial on how to make a submission the site says it will accept dot m. p. four emo v dot j. peg in png files. Max file. Size is one hundred megabytes and must be at least seven hundred. Twenty p or higher processing time is one to five days the more fish more processing the rare species. The longer it takes to verify and if your quality isn't that good don't be don't need more time to process. There's a little bit of disconnect on pricing. Jake says into in his short tutorial that you can set any price you think is best but there's also a button that says it costs three ninety nine in any event. Why don't you just go out and take a look at name. That fish dot com. I recently hadn't really interesting email. Come across my desk a few days ago and it was from reef divers. If you're not familiar with reef divers they operate with the clearly came in resorts. Cobol coast on grand came and the little cayman beach resort and the beach resort. They're known for their valet diving. Well reef divers is expanding our operation in the caribbean to turks. Keiko's now they are partnering with east bay resort on south. Keiko's it looks like they plan to be up and running there by late. August east bay resort sits on a mile long beach and boasted. Every room has a beach view. To get south goes she'll need to fly into providence jalis and then you can take either a short air hop over or board the ferry. It's not that long of a ride resort officer an all inclusive option. That seems pretty good reef divers outstanding operator in the caymans so sure that you can look forward to superior valet service from nemo turkson. Keiko's as well so many places to go diving. What it dilemma. Just about every week. Get an update from michael light. Any contains various tips and tricks for better underwater photography plus they also provide some product updates but also in this email is some other interesting information last week. They introduced me to an organization called washed ashore and the articles title said using discarded plastic to save the ocean. Now washed ashore. It is a five. Oh one three or c three nonprofit arts and environmental education organization aimed at bringing to light the world's plastic pollution problem. Well how well washed ashore started by angela ponzi who is a lifelong lover of the ocean and after the death. Her husband from a brain tumor. She turned to the ocean for healing. What she also found was that the ocean needed healing as well so she turned her artistic talents into creating sculptures. That are marine-related using the plastic. That is washed up ashore and they do some spectacular sculptures. I was also amazed by the fact that they have over fourteen thousand volunteers. Working with washed ashore. These are not small sculptures. Either you can check them out at washed ashore and take a look at some of their work. You will be amazed well. I'm sure that we've all heard about the billionaires who are competing to go into space amazing stuff for someone who grew up at the start of the space race in the nineteen sixties. But there's also another race going on and that's the race to build the world's deepest pool at the top of the list. Right now is deep dive. Dubai located in nod al sheba. Which is fifteen minutes from downtown dubai. It's an amazing sixty meters deep. That's one hundred ninety seven feet and contains fourteen million liters of water or three point. Seven million gallons. The pools constant thirty degrees celsius or eighty six degrees fahrenheit. It is team doesn't abandon sunken city. Now that's pretty cool. They have an onsite hyperbaric chamber restaurant gift shop and dive shop. Put this in perspective. The other deep pools around the globe include. Why forty in italy at forty two point one five meters deep spot in poland at forty five point four meters and there's either one coming online or it's online and crom cornwall england. That's called blue vis at fifty meters deep. I wonder if there's some kinda limit on just how deep can build a pool. I'm sure we'll be amazed and finally today. Here's another message in a bottle story. this time. It comes from michigan. It seems that jennifer dour the owner and operator of nautical north family adventures of scuba snorkeling. Glass bottom boat company was cleaning a windows on her glass bottom boat in the cheboygan river when she spotted the bottle inside. The bottle was a message from ninety. Five years ago it read will the person who finds a bottle return his paper to. George morrow cheboygan michigan until where it was found. The message was dated november. Nineteen twenty six. Jennifer posted this on social media and george morrow daughter michelle who's now under seventies reached out michelle indicated that her father was probably eighteen years old when he put the message out. There sounds like the battle didn't travel very far. However now i wonder just. How many messages in bottles are out there. Well that's it for this edition of wet notes here on
The Mason Minute
Hotspot (MM #3767)
"The Maisonette with Kevin Nation, it's always fascinating to me. How certain words kind of evolved over the course of time growing up, when I heard the word hotspot, it usually revolved around the highest temperature in America. Usually around Death Valley somewhere in California. Then, of course, when the internet came about, when we started having Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi, places were found it to be hot spots. You don't hear much about either of those two things anymore, even though they are still technically hotspots. Because right now, hotspot is a place where a spike in covid-19 infections is happening. Tennessee, has been a big hot spot, of course, Alabama, Mississippi, all hot spots right now in covid-19 infections, especially with the Delta variant, but I want to go back to a time when we're talking about public Wi-Fi, or we're talking about the warmest place in America, of course, that's not a good thing either with Death Valley being what warmer than it's ever been before running around a hundred and thirty degrees each day hotspot is evolving. But yet those three hotspot issues don't seem to be evolving themselves and that's kind of scary dead.
The Mason Minute
Hotspot (MM #3767)
"The Maisonette with Kevin Nation, it's always fascinating to me. How certain words kind of evolved over the course of time growing up, when I heard the word hotspot, it usually revolved around the highest temperature in America. Usually around Death Valley somewhere in California. Then, of course, when the internet came about, when we started having Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi, places were found it to be hot spots. You don't hear much about either of those two things anymore, even though they are still technically hotspots. Because right now, hotspot is a place where a spike in covid-19 infections is happening. Tennessee, has been a big hot spot, of course, Alabama, Mississippi, all hot spots right now in covid-19 infections, especially with the Delta variant, but I want to go back to a time when we're talking about public Wi-Fi, or we're talking about the warmest place in America, of course, that's not a good thing either with Death Valley being what warmer than it's ever been before running around a hundred and thirty degrees each day hotspot is evolving. But yet those three hotspot issues don't seem to be evolving themselves and that's kind of scary dead.
Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"Health related for you. Your family members friends society in general. Whatever you want go ahead. Yeah so. I guess i'm gonna point my question to the words that are coming out of everyone's mouth every five minutes but i'm just now recovering from and that's why i'm not on the camera today. I've been asleep for like week. And i think i want to say a week and a half now. Everybody assumes cove it. I didn't go get tested because it is flu season. I am in cleveland. Ohio where it is raining and thirty degrees every day. I've been asleep or fourteen to fifteen hours of every every day for the past week and so now is will. You need to get the kobe vaccine might get to have fun conversations with my my mom. My god mom..
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
Rainstorms Bring Relief as Europe Suffers Summer Heat Wave
"Brought a much-needed cool down to parts of western europe over the weekend as the continent's sweltered under its first summer heatwave. Dozens of people were reported drowned as they sought relief from the heat. Forecasters predicted further downpours. Moving east toward poland which has seen five days of unusually hot weather. Germany's national weather. Service said temperatures in the west and north of the country dropped from over thirty degrees celsius over the weekend to about twenty degrees. After a night of heavy rain off. The days of soaring temperatures france was lashed by violent thunderstorms that sent a bell tower crashing to the nave of a village church in central france. The storm also talk through vineyards and flooded homes and public buildings. At least fifteen people drowned in poland over the weekend which was also the hottest so far this year with temperatures reaching thirty five degrees centigrade. Rescuers say the most frequent causes of drownings recklessness overestimating one swimming abilities and going into the water after drinking alcohol in total more than a dozen people have drowned in germany over the past week. Moscow has also been hit with a heat. Wave with temperatures spiking above thirty degree centigrade. On sunday. russia's weather agency warned that the unusually hot weather with temperatures seven centigrade to ten centigrade higher. The normal is likely to persist in the russian capital and the surrounding region. Through friday greece's national meteorological service has forecast temperatures between thirty eight and forty one degrees centigrade from wednesday through sunday when temperatures in the north of the country. Us a receipt slightly. Although it's common temperatures to hit the forty centigrade range in the summer in greece it's unseasonal to have such hot weather this early in the year.
Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Podcast
"The point i was positive for a left ear canal. The with a very typical presentation delayed onset with less than thirty seconds of that Slowly ended and the patient reported numerous symptoms due to the fact that he had a traumatic accident We assume that there may be multi canal involvement and wanted to test the other canals. The patient was more than willing to Dust them he was comfortable with them all the staff members into position so we also went on to test the right bush year canal which he was in negative for Which made sense with its complaints of rolling to the left however to cover all bases. We also wanted to check horizontal canals and modified the rule tests in a similar way. Where instead of just rotating head on the neck. We use a body churn so we had the patient go from long sitting to sue find with the bed flat this time and then the head of the bed with actually elevated to thirty degrees to really agenda and the patient was rolled onto their side. Forty five degrees at which point. He was clearly positive for left horizontal canal canal this described by the tropic misdiagnose. We saw which was worse on the left. So we very similar testing principles that you would typically us. We had to modify the movement to not allow for any spinal movement and use the body in the bed and the multiple clinicians to achieve the appropriate positions in relation to gravity. Sounds great. so how did you end up deciding how to treat him in. What was your process in determinated which canal a tree in which order. And just how you're going to do that. Given his restrictions so is the biggest complaint was rolling to the left Was what made him feel the worst Given the fact that he had a positive post ear canal a horizontal canal. We decided to treat the post. Aereo canal i We had more staff members present and It was we thought it was best to attack that one. So we rolled him through a very similar maneuver where the same exact of the de lemberg bed to thirty degrees as the initial testing position and rolled him through the same positions as addict hall. Pike but as we stated before instead of using the head to roll on we just roll the whole body and we use three people to help them sit up at the end to achieve the position that he needed and it was as if a regular typical treatment where new symptomatic through many of the rolling positions he was not and then at the end. We waited until symptoms resolved. He was agreeable to do this again in the same session for the left and when we laid him back on the second time the actually Did not have symptoms anymore. We decided to stop for the day and let him rest and give them some instructions about Not laying down for the next few hours and that we would continue to assess as bbb but that we're only going to treat the post ear canal that day so the next the next.
The Relaxed Dog
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Relaxed Dog
"Kobe definitely takes more of a. This is my house dominance thing. I mean he's a dachshund so he's not going to be he's not overly dominant but he lets them know where his spot is and where his toys r. or his pillow is When he goes over to other dogs homes he's definitely in the curiosity mode and kind of plays by their house rules More than ever they are over here. but He always finds the most Cushion ever that he can find. We call it he. No kobe loved. Softness is what the kids are kids. Stay a lot and it's true. If there are three pillows on the floor and one by itself in two or stacked on top of each other he will go and sit on top of those two pillows that are stacked on top of each other so he can have most softness so during sort of out about what sort of environment disease look usual. Sort of luck walker outside space. Look so we do go on walks throughout the week Not every day and he and as kobe has aged He has started to develop a some back problems. you can tell it's it's sore and nothing has there's no been no slipped disc or anything degenerating at this point. He's just getting older right. And so you can kind of tell that long walks aren't exactly his thing anymore and we're trying to protect his backing and keep him healthy So he will go out into our backyard and on our back deck and lay in the sun and just lay there. He loves especially now. It's getting warmer here. And finding sunshine is one of why when he's not finding the softest place to sit he is trying to find sunniest place to sit and warm himself up and go out in the tall grass or on the concrete even in hill kind of move himself and can't self regulate the temperature as he's se sunbathing in some basking But when we go on walks He's still very interested in in everybody coming alongside and when we meet other people you know he. He doesn't bark Actually just comes up to them and asks for attention and Is is always greeted others. I'm very enthusiastically and Has never known stranger Even when we're out out in about traveling us so you mentioned the enjoys a bit of sun. Biking flipped that. And how is he in the winter there. And how bad does he hates it. He is not know puppy at all this past winter. We had about a week of wind chills minus thirty degrees fahrenheit. Well for some nights and he was very displeased and so he would Giving him to go out with I would have to keep..
Sci-Fi Talk
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"It's the same with our guys like we can you know somewhat each other's minds and when we fight like we know exactly what to fix went to change in get on time with each other so it's always a pleasure doing it so much fun because we're able to raise our our fight choreography and our action sequences to the next level because of that history and connection james you had to shoot this winter and i say that i was just thinking through a production standpoint. I go men must've been cold out there but the snow really works actually does work. The elements were tough. You know like there were many nights. Where my dp's arms. Were just kind of up in the air and on like what's going on inside. Everything's dying every checkered down right now. Batteries are dying. Lights are dying and then also you know the cabin. We shot at a remote location snowmobile access only so we had to take trips up there early in the morning and i remember a few days. It was like minus thirty degrees celsius. I don't know what that is fahrenheit but it's cold it's cold if jerry whole you know. It was like one of those days where we should've questionably probably shutdown of some reason. We all brave the cold. And it's hard to function that at that temperature let alone do action sequences so it was challenging. But i think the visual aesthetic of the snow sort of Made it worthwhile. We grew up in northern ontario. And it's known for its winters so you know we. We love the beauty of it now. There is digital accent this. But i love the way you used them. James talk about that. And chris talk.
Boomer & Gio
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"Don't know baseball. You are a nydia pay. You are judging. Don't know what anything you know. Swat still gonna tell me. Look a judgment on the season. After one game is thirty degrees in weather ramos. Show ignorance fairweather idiots. Have a great day everybody boy. We've all been there. Yeah but that was great. That was actually pretty funny. Yeah no i mean you know that guy is what probably conservatively sixty five years old jerry. After seeing that video. I yeah i would say. That's probably about right not as thirties. That's for sure no so. Let's just could be older than that. But i'd say conservatively early sixty five years old. And he's still screaming at people like that. I thought to myself. I said man if i get the sixty five and i'm still yellen about baseball like that. It sixty five into the camera you know. That's a pretty good career. He's was he was upset. And there's no question about it you stupid. Do you think that guy calls back today. Probably tried calling back right. Then that night it caught me off about sacrifice buns you might be right Elsewhere phillies and braves got started from citizens bank park game. Went two extras were philly. Wins jones ready and his bench.
Boomer & Gio
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"Don't know baseball. You are a nydia pay. You are judging. Don't know what anything you know. Swat still gonna tell me. Look a judgment on the season. After one game is thirty degrees in weather ramos. Show ignorance fairweather idiots. Have a great day everybody boy. We've all been there. Yeah but that was great. That was actually pretty funny. Yeah no i mean you know that guy is what probably conservatively sixty five years old jerry. After seeing that video. I yeah i would say. That's probably about right not as thirties. That's for sure no so. Let's just could be older than that. But i'd say conservatively early sixty five years old. And he's still screaming at people like that. I thought to myself. I said man if i get the sixty five and i'm still yellen about baseball like that. It sixty five into the camera you know. That's a pretty good career. He was he was upset. And there's no question about it you stupid. Do you think that guy calls back today. Probably tried calling back right. Then that night it caught me off about sacrifice buns you might be right l. swear phillies and braves got started from citizens bank park game. Went to extras. Were philly wins. Jones ready man. His bench.
The Dr. Susan Block Show
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Dr. Susan Block Show
"Okay. No more babies. Yea not to do that anymore. Okay so that's one of the things that i was thinking about and i feel so bad. Yeah i talked about it a lot last week. Think me to talk about. I need to talk about it because it affected me deeply as it did deeply because they call us they call us the the radicals lefties they call us all these names and these right wingers all these people with these strange hats on that are red and all you people walking around with guns hanging around you know that if a guy wanted to kill you you could never ever employer weapon against them. I know that's why right. That's why they shoot them too far away. Because if if i'm this close to him he can't he's not gonna shoot me with his gun hanging over his last week on. Fdr we were just pretty raw after the georgia. Spa shootings the massage parlor massacre and we talked a lot about the three different forces converging to make that happen which seemed to me to be guns. God and sex addiction -nology. I'm glad you left out. The pizza would be racist right now. I know you love pizza. Adding who not gonna shoot you. You can't be italian and not. There's a song that could kill you because the cholesterol no when the moon it's your i like a pd so doesn't kill. You would burn your face. You would get thirty degrees especially for it was royal. He'll steal the key. Don't throw pizza. Anyone okay please. don't do this. Don't do this into pizzeria. Said on his instagram is robert aaron long. He said that he was into. I don't remember the order. But something like guns pizza and family. And god and yeah. He didn't mention that he also went to masseuses. And that was probably the most healing thing that he did. And and he killed the most healing thing in his life. And i feel that his whole community was complicit the crab apple first baptist church. Those are pretty rotten apples. Not just one rotten apple but the whole bushel and these so called treatment centers for a bogus disease. Check dam scams gam scam. We're gonna talk about scams and spam and a little while because it's almost april fools day so don't be fooled by the scams out there and our man in the scam. Harry sapien has a binder full of scams. Right here things. harry. I think harry has a scam faddish. Anyway there's a binder full of scabs sort of like mitt romney's binder full of women that he had back when he lost against obama but in any case There's a lot of scams out there. So be careful..
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"Come on star right now like like my mother's ceo always think office. Jesus i want to say this. Good morning taller kings and queens out there chairs. it is a turned up tuesday. Everyone that is tuesday march thirtieth twenty twenty one nineteen minutes after the hour. Welcome to the sean hobby morning. Show featuring j cole's barbie cologne week each one started right. Why not only place on earth where you get your morning star right on the turnpike tuesday. That chat room is wide open or please call in seven zero nine two six nine five zero radio dot com iheart radio. Show have you on the show. Dot com fam- radio station disturbed by comedy world radio special. Thanks to all our affiliates out there in the country we appreciate you for helping us pay our bill or major podcast platforms and this morning or social media. That's facebook please. Like our business page chevy show featuring waco team business pays once you like the page. You'll be notified. Monday through friday ten. Am when we go are no seven. Am when we go live. We'll have our group show. Harvey show feature wakeup teen group. Page one of the hottest pages on facebook hundreds of members Each week and we growing and growing. And we want appreciate you guys for that only place on earth we get your morning started right. Why barco on talked up tuesday. Good morning to you and mining. God bless blass. And it's good to see you and your scarf again. How you get off my scarf. I'm doing well sean. How are you doing okay. Here in bethlehem where we work as latino from it's thirty degrees right now. The highest gonna be sixty four. Today's going to be sunny and strasbourg. Thirty degrees Sixty three will be the high end sunny as well. Thirty six knock new jersey sixty one for the high end is going to be sunny and new york city. It is forty five degrees. it can be sunny today. the high will be sixty one in atlanta. It is fifty degrees clear. Seventy four the high but Some clouds around was gonna rolling around twelve pm. It's going to be partly cloudy. But no chance no precipitation in the forecast as of now and atlanta star in miami. Seventy seven degrees eighty two high partly cloudy but cleared by three pm in chicago. Forty eight degrees sixty four will be the high Partly cloudy with even showers in la fifty. Five degrees seventy nine for the high partly. Cloudy inquiry cleared by ten am in louisville in. It's forty five degrees. I'm sorry forty three degrees right now. Clear as of now the high will be seventy five The clouds going to in around twelve pm. And then we'll have some rain on overnight rain so if you have to be our overnight shift. Please be careful in rochester. Thirty four degrees. It is clear now but the clouds go to roland late afternoon And they will have may might have a chance of a little rain. But that's the way for you all was like where you are right. be cologne. Come until you live from the show. Having monitoring featuring j. we get you started right exactly only place on earth where you get your morning. Starting right only place on earth. We get this love. We're have front-page news with cine. J s to the w. n. y. That will be at the top of the hour at nine. Am you don't wanna miss a front page. Knows where we give you the news locally nationally globally and how i love it from the hood so you stay tuned for that. If you don't mind end before that when we come back after the break we have the morning buzz. One thing we do guarantee on this show each and every morning your head will be buzzing before nine. Am god bless you see hash and there will be some harvey. Has you guys stay too. So guys don't go nowhere when we come back. We are going to shout out. The chatroom was heart sat in chattanooga. Hey on turned up tuesday Liken shared sean show featuring waco team. We definitely appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for spending your morning with us Get your beverage ready. Get you tea coffee. Whatever you drinking this morning you might on this show. You might need a glass of wine early in the morning but what we do is.
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"Here. Bc was going here in bethlehem we broadcast live till you from now. It is thirty degrees going to hire thirty. That's going to be thirty today Cloudy is a drizzle going on annoying rains but a we are under a ice winter. Weather advisory are from six pm until ten. Am tomorrow morning. please be careful if you're out and about we are going to have an ice storm tonight guys so please stay home. That's weird safe at and strasbourg. Twenty eight degrees thirty four. The high cloudy and a light rain also going on on and off today and around six. Pm this the we will have an ice storm as well and they are under advisory from six pm until six. I'm sorry six. Pm this evening until ten am tomorrow morning and north new jersey. Thirty degrees thirty four for the high cloudy with light rain as well and same iced visory from six. Pm this evening until ten am tomorrow morning. In new york city. Thirty two degrees thirty six would be the high clouds rain in Cloudy today as well right now. and same We are under a winter storm advisory for isis. Ac from six pm until ten am tomorrow morning. Forty-three in atlanta forty five for the high rainclouds from rain on and off Throughout the day and miami seventy seven degrees eighty two four. The high end partly cloudy today and chicago. It is three degrees. The high will be nineteen and they are also under a winter. Storm advisory is going to snow there and So please be careful if you were out in the ballots. Going snow pretty much. All day and in los angeles is fifty two degrees the highest going to be sixty six today in. It's going to be clear. In louisville it is nineteen agreed twenty. Three four of the high is snow in there right. Now it's going to stop around ten up from a couple a couple of hours but it's going to pick back up again around noon. It's going to snow for the remainder of the day. So please be careful if you were out in about nineteen degrees in rochester. Twenty seven for the high. This cloudy right now but it's going to snow around three. Pm this and they are also under a winter storm reid retail. Please be careful out and about half of the. You all wasn't like where you are. Where below coming to you. Live in a show featuring sidney j will you get you want to start right job bobby clone where you get your morning started right. Rea- have a front page news with a sydney j s to the. Wnyc can't deny that. Be around the nine o'clock hour we'll give you the news locally nationally globally and you know. I love it from the hood so you stay tuned for that on a motivational monday here. On president's day weekend we also have the morning. Buzz one and i guarantee you before nine. Am this morning. Your head will be buzzing. I am motivated to have people has buzzing this morning barbie cologne with you. Have their visas. Harvey houses boy. Y'all stay to.
That’s Wild Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on That’s Wild Podcast
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The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"You for this opportunity. Once again mr shawn harvey. I really appreciate you. Good morning to everybody. We're in bethlehem pennsylvania where we're broadcasting from it is currently eighteen degrees it is going up to a high of twenty seven degrees so it's going to be a cold one today and it's going to be snowy over the weekend so you guys definitely wanna get some salt and bundle up this weekend and get some new shovels. If you're as messed up from the last night we had Is currently twenty one degrees in new city going up to a high of thirty degrees and it is going to be mostly sunny most of the day so bundle up in rochester. New york is currently ten degrees going up to a high of nineteen degrees and there is currently flurries happening. Probably until mid morning. It looks like and it's gonna continue over the weekend so charlotta rochester stay warm. It is currently fifty seven degrees in atlanta going up to a high of fifty seven degrees And it is going to be rainy most of the day so you guys make sure you have your umbrellas in orlando. It is currently sixty six degrees going up to a high of eighty four and it was going to be cloudy today. It looks like some thunderstorms over the weekend. So look out for that In los angeles it is currently fifty four degrees. Going up to a high of seventy and it is currently raining right. now it'll probably taper off Into the morning. So that is the way that i have for you. Let us know what the weather is. Like where you are semi. This is n. e. j. with john. Everyone show my exactly. We have the Thanksgiving have the morning buzz. Everyone and you know that there with the morning. Buzz if you guys are here before nine. Am your head will be buzzing. We could definitely guarantee you that so stay tuned as well see what else yes. Yes and then the nine o'clock hour. I'm gonna have front page news with sonny j i will let you know what's going on locally and nationally globally so make sure that you guys stick around for that so we have harvey's houses sports as well.
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
"Doing. And for gosh sakes you know really. Don't ski above slopes that are angled greater than thirty degrees. That's that's that's danger territory. Anyway i don't know why i'm digressing but mt split ski says can't believe they don't charge for this being the best cycling training podcast. They're unbelievable how much good actionable information each episode contains. Thanks for putting this out. There guys hashtag. Yeah can't believe they don't charge for this a we just love talking about ways to help you ride your bike faster so all right. Let's talk about relationships.
Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQ Podcast for Everyone!
"thirty degrees" Discussed on Dyking Out - a Lesbian and LGBTQ Podcast for Everyone!
"Kate winslet who like okay. We know like first shirt that she's straight but even though i don't know heavenly creatures and ammonites worry how can ever be sure. I mean there's no way to know the loon. Thirty degrees one night and kate was the loser. Shit like we. Don't we have no idea how let's start out together. You saw hi and welcome to diving.
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"How you doing today how how i have made it as here in bethlehem guys we work has live till you right now. It is twenty seven degrees the highest me thirty nine today. It's clear right now But this evening we will have low snow flurries facilities. Be careful if you're in a roller still slippery so please be careful in strasbourg. Twenty seven degrees thirty nine for the high in clear thirty in newark new jersey. Forty one for the high and Mostly cloudy right now but The clouds are going to clear out. And maybe a little sun peeking through a little bit in atlanta. It's thirty degrees. Fifty four for the high fair in miami is fifty degrees. I'm sorry. Atlanta is thirty degrees. Fifty four will be the high end in. Miami is fifty degrees seventy two for the high and fair in chicago. Thirty degrees right now. Thirty six for the high partly cloudy with snow sometime later in the evening and los angeles. It's fifty two degrees is sixty six. We'll be the high and mostly cloudy and louisville to eight degrees forty three or four behind and some snow and rain mixed today. So if you're out about please be careful and rochester it. It's twenty three degrees thirty seven. We'll be the high in clear with snow. A rain snow mix. Sometimes even best weather half you are wasn't look like where you are coming to. You live from the show every morning. Show featuring cine jay we get. You started right. Gets you wanna start right. Only the place on earth where you should want to start right. We're have the front page news with sydney. As to the why can't deny at the nine o'clock hour we'll give the news locally nationally globally and you know the way i like it from the hood so you wanna stay tuned for the news and lord knows we have a lot news talk about and we also have The morning buzz. And i guarantee you each and every morning one thing we do guarantee on the show that your head will be buzzing so please stay tuned for that barbie. And there'd it'd be some harvey house the split. Y'all stay tuned back dale. We're.
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"Again today I hope everything's working well view good to see you. It's going to be saying what's going on guys here. In bethlehem we broadcast live from. It's thirty degrees today right now. The high will be thirty four today. It is cloudy and we are under a winter weather advisory until about four. Am this morning. Starting until about four am wednesday morning. it's going to rain and snow. We're going to have a little winter. Makes we our accumulation. Maybe between one up to three inches is going to be very slippery. Also you have to be out. Please be careful. So you get your own for your houses your homes and just be careful in strasbourg. Twenty eight degrees thirty two for the high end the same whether they may get a little more because he had a higher elevation cloudy with Accumulations of up to three inches. They may start around ten. i'm nine. am this morning hours down this way. Support around ten. Am this morning and knock new jersey thirty degrees thirty six. Hi cloudy with a a winter. Weather advisory also Snow and ice mix accumulation of up to three inches today. Please be careful if you're out and about in new york. Three thirty four degrees thirty four for the high cloudy with Arranged mix also and there's mae star eleven am Newark and new. York-based may start round. Same time eleven. Am with same as up to three inches of accumulation in atlanta sixty three degrees sixty eight. We'll be the high cloudy and raining all day today. In miami seventy two degrees the highest going to be eighty one and clear. I wanna be in miami right now. Oh and chicago is thirty degrees. Cloudy with a snow up to three to five inches day. And it's going to be very windy so please be careful with high thirty two in los angeles thirty to thirty nine degrees. Fifty seven will be the high and clear in louisville. It's forty five degrees. Cloudy and fifty will be the highest today twenty rochester. Thirty four high cloudy with snow anywhere from three to five inches today. So please be careful. If i'm about and get your snow gearing year if you don't have to be out in these histories please stay home. That's the way for your wasn't looking like where you are coming to. You live mishari heavy mortar. Shell feature cine j. Will you get started right. Exactly thank you look we get. You started right..
The Family Vacationer
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The Family Vacationer
"And i would say the phoenician resort is again another one of those staples to the valley is another really great property with some kids programming in a separate area for a kids pool. They have a whole clubhouse with Different games will tables table hockey. That sort of thing awesome so scottsdale are really good kind of home base for visiting other parts of the state. So can you talk about like some of the other things at the state has to offer because you know people think typically think of desert when i think of but a lot more to it. Yes there's actually seven. Different ecological systems here in arizona. So to your point people they probably just see the news in july and it's hundred fifteen plus and thank god. We believe in live there. I can assure you it's a difference in all fairness but it is not that hot only today today. seventy so. it's it's a pretty nice day out but so yeah because again to that really close proximity to the airport Scottsdale zavantem destination to hub and spoke out so we are located almost dead center in the middle of the state. And for those of you that have not been out west We are big states out here so from from scottsdale you can head up to sedona which is kind of that magical land with great hiking in those red rocks and vortexes gets two hours north two hours north as well but just a little bit more to the east is Prescott and jerome. So those are kind of those old west towns. It was actually the territorial capital before arizona became a state and then four hours. North of scottsdale is going to be the grand canyon Do it in a day trip. We we do have some clients that will we've got some companies that do private tours or drive up there yourself. There are a few properties One thing i will say about the grand canyon is that if you're not hiking it doing more than one day is probably good. But then through the sowell's we've got tucson which is out to our staff of us Tim stone which is about three hours so really a lot and then and then in between lots of different cool little towns like bisbee and Like yeah like i mentioned around. So lots of lots of really unique places here in arizona in honestly everywhere you go is just a little bit different Even here in the valley phoenix versus scottsdale. Even though we share a border are very different. Phoenix is going to be more of that. Urban feel and scottsdale is going to be more of that resort resort type vacation. More of the the luxury and the lounging. If you will. I was telling dan earlier. My family two of my favorite family vacations involve the state of arizona. Both times we use scottsdale az home base. We had a good friend that i grew up with went to the university of arizona so we went out of two time. Went down to bisbee. Did the the mining now yet little mining deal there in the town was so eclectic with you know the goods that they had to sell their and then then we drove up to sedona the pink jeep tour which was one of the. That's one of the my most favorite memories of any trip that i've taken. That was just so much fun. I did get a sunburn that lasts about three months though so the sun was very hot that day but then we got into flagstaff. It wasn't a thing. Yeah but we drove up to flagstaff and it was like seventy two degrees in summer time so i mean it was you know we joked in the open about you know people ask to arizona even have four seasons where you can almost get it just driving from the south all the way to the north so yes as a matter of fact up in flag. They'll start getting snow in the grand canyon to starting in october through potentially april or may so i do like to mention that as well For those that have not been hairs on 'em they just think oh. The whole state is dry and hot and all of that good stuff. It's not and the man. Yeah as a matter. The northern rim of the grand canyon is closed for six months out of the year because they get so much snow So damn things like that. You definitely need to keep in mind when you're coming out to visit Because the weather in the valley here in scottsdale is perfect in the winter on. That's kind of the time of year. We live for the huck tober through may where and the exact opposite as you as you move up. North near flagstaff. You can go skiing and all of that. So yeah and that's good to know when you're packing too. Because we did not packed correctly we i think i just said shorts and a tee shirt and that's all i packed. Well that was fine during the day but at night it got a little chilly. Especially we goodness. When we're in flagstaff. I think i had to buy sweatshirt because i was not prepared. Yeah well and that is another thing because we are in this northern desert so the snoring desert is a little different than most desert's It's actually the greenest desert in the world We have two rainy seasons typically With and summer. And when i say rainy seasons you know we're talking up a total of maybe thirty as a year so but because we are in the sonoran desert the temperature can drop up to thirty degrees between the day the nighttime and that's true in the summer to So when you see those crazy temperatures it actually down quite quite a bit. Just the yeah. You're absolutely right. You do have to pack layers. That is true. I have to give a shout out. One of my favorite restaurants that i've ever visited was little abner steakhouse i think. It's right outside of tucson and it is did it doesn't look like much but man it's so cool and they cook right in front of you. The the menu was basically right in front of you. Do you want steak chicken. I think we're ribs. And they just been these huge slabs meet and throw it on the grill right in front of you and you got the you know the desert. It was amazing so that was a good deal. Well here comes my awful pun for the show but speaking of homebase the cities also a good home base for baseball. Eleven families for the cactus league spring training baseball. So can you talk a little bit about what that time of year is like in the area and some tips for families that are wanting to take in as much of it as possible. Yeah absolutely so as you mentioned we are home to the cactus league. So it's just arizona in florida that our homes to spring training. We actually have more more teams here in arizona than florida. There's thirteen stadiums. I'm we're home to seventeen teams The pretty bring training here in the valley is that Though seventeen teams the furthest away the stadiums are as forty five minutes to an hour. So you could potentially see you know a.
The High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour
"thirty degrees" Discussed on The High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour
"The ball players just just the way it is and then it's very very competitive. You do not have that type of life in the nfl. We have you know the nf l. Pa has negotiated Limits on practice times. So you can't keep the players on the field all the time. He's gonna have a supportive staff around him. I watched the press conference day in the orders. This glowing about his acquisition here. And you know bogging general managers. There's three of them. I like that will be forthcoming. He'll have a hand in pick your the after mentioned earlier. Show and you know. Favorite among is a favorite among us just on naval. Oh would be. Trent baulky Jerry reese name is being thrown around there. He ran the giants a few years ago. And jerry is one of my all time favorites. He grew up in western tennessee. About thirty miles. South of me in west kentucky. And stop yolly who. Who's a very modest guy In does not get enough credit For his role and building the patriots and champion said that they are. He's going to get the right kind of help. You said it got cap space. They got draft picks. They gotta coaching. He's put together pre-game staff. I think a lot of people would like to be in jacksonville. Florida where it was sixty nine degrees today bulky about sixty nine here wisconsin. We had a bunch of wet snow. But i'll tell you this jacksonville. Y'all wanna win. You put baulky in higher trends baulky idiots going to make it He's gonna make it happen for. I believe with the organization right. Now it would just be a promotion Farrell understanding that correctly. And i think urban meyer likes of quite a bit too so he might make the transition urban meyer as smooth as possible. I'm i'm like wait. I'm liking this higher for jacksonville. In and i don't often say that but i'm saying on the show this evening. Let's get into some F- f- pc playoff challenge to talk here with With the rams match night but who actually covers the packers for The athletic actually tweeted this out today. Cooper kupp is listed as questionable for that rams packers divisional playoff. That is going off saturday afternoon. He's got inflammation in his neat He probably will not be inactive. I think we'd all be shocked if he was indeed inactive for this game against green bay with everything on the live In last week's game against the seahawks got nine targets. He caught four of them for seventy eight yards. And you have Jared goff who has an injured thumb in not. i mean. it's probably thirty degrees right around. Thirty degrees at kickoff tomorrow at lambeau. That's probably not optimal If cuts out you look at jefferson and reynolds farrell from a divisional playoff To the fcc. Plant charles to standpoint. You can't really feel. Good about starting cooper kupp. You're even to be contrarian and the competition right you know. I've got my Lineup put together for this competition..
Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast
Introduction to Cob: The Ancient, Natural, Tiny House Building Method with Dave Olsen
"Am here with dave olsen olsen completed. A cobb workshop led by younto evans in nineteen ninety-six and has had mud and sour dough on his hands ever since he began hosting natural building workshops in two thousand seven began instructing the revolutionary fast cobb mixing and building methods in two thousand nine and turned fifty in twenty thirteen based on off the grid. Sketti island he also hosts an apprenticeship. That goes well beyond natural building. Helping people develop responsible and environmentally sustainable lifestyles with enjoyment and ease. Dave has been very fortunate to have worked with many of the leading. Cobb builders of our time and to have a dynamic cobb and bicycle loving daughter and dogs dave olesen. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me either. Yeah it's great great to have you here. I feel like we've been following each other for years and years And we've we've traded some email so it's great. I'm actually getting to see your face for the first time here on the zoom. Yeah thank. i'm so glad to finally connect directly likewise like why so we're going to have to start with with the real basics. What is cop well. Cobb is a mixture of sand clay and straw that you mix together with water. So it's a it's a very simple Creation some people might say that. It's you have to have a specific ratio of each of those ingredients. I don't the the one ingredient. That's unbelievably flexible. As the cly or should you can have as little as five to ten percent. I don't know exactly how little you can go. And all the way up to one hundred percent though. The smallest amount is the amount that is needed to make the sand stick together. And the and the straw okay. So and when you say percentage you're referring to the percentage of the clay in soil the material that you're using to actually build the walls. 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It's like a thermal battery so when there's heat in the air around it it will absorb that heat and Old it basically until the era rounded is cooler than the cobb and which case than it releases eat so it really moderates the temperature especially of the inside of the building that of any building. That's made out of cobb. So and that's what. I'm just enjoying in our climate here. We have a climate where in the extreme parts of the summer. It's quite warm. It can get up to thirty degrees celsius and probably over one hundred degrees fahrenheit and it's never uncomfortably hot inside our home ever doesn't matter how hot it gets outside in the winter. We we don't have a deep freeze At all so not makes building foundations here easier but It still gets to be about raising and between zero and ten degrees celsius all winter. And so and it's very humid so it's still quite cool in terms of human living and so we have a rocket. 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The Savvy Psychologist's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Mental Health
Harness Light to Defeat the Winter Blues
"The winter blues can sap your energy disrupter sleep and destroy your concentration but turns out. There's a simple key a secret weapon if you will to defeating it and that's light. Welcome back to savvy psychologist. I'm your host. Dr wu and every week all help you meet. Life's challenges with evidence based research a sympathetic ear and zero judgment today. We're gonna talk about the magic of late for your mental health. Especially in the winter months winter can be beautiful time of holiday. cheer gorgeous. Snowshoes escapes and fun activities like sledding and skiing but even with all this fun. Some people can't help but experience. The winter blues their mood takes a dip in the fall and winter. Even when life is otherwise going well and for about three percent of people this mood downturn is so severe that they have something called seasonal affective disorder. They not only feel blue but they also experience loss of interest in things that they usually like unusual tiredness or sluggishness trouble sleeping a tendency to overeat and gain weight difficulty concentrating and thinking clearly and even feelings of hopelessness or sometimes even having suicidal thoughts. So why does this happen. And is there a way to beat these seasonal blues and seasonal depressive episodes. The secret might lie in light. That's right this free resource that comes from our son. Plants rely on soaking up light to make food and grow but it turns out that we animals need light to our biology is so wrapped up late. That are metabolism mood. Thinking are all affected. So here's some things to know about. Why light is important for mental health and how to harness it for better health and happiness especially in the winter months first thing to know. Is that our mood is intimately tied to light the winter blues and seasonal affective disorder. Don't just happen to people because they don't like winter. There's actually a biological reason for winter. Depression and here's a clue. The people most susceptible to winter induced depression are those living far from the equator. And that's because living. Farther away from the equator means you get even fewer daylight hours in the wintertime and because there's less daylight during fall and winter. The body's circadian rhythm gets disrupted. Late is the single most powerful factor in tuning the spotty clock and with less and less of it as we move from fall to winter the body's natural rhythms can become less robust. So that's bad news for your mood. Metabolism cognitive functioning and many other body systems that play a role in depression. It's also possible that less sunlight leads to a drop in serotonin of brain chemical that's for regulating moot. So the good news. And that's the next thing to know. Is that by artificially adding light to our lives. We can actually combat the winter blues. Numerous studies have shown that something as simple as using light box can decrease symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. Ideally you want a full spectrum light source such as the light box designed for this treatment by even a very bright ball from the hardware store can help so. The standard treatment involves using the light for about thirty minutes each morning if it has a brightness level of about ten thousand lux or for about one to two hours if it has a brightness level of twenty five hundred bucks for comparison ten thousand locks is on the low end of ambient daylight whereas an overcast. Day is about one thousand bucks to avoid hurting. Your eyes don't stare directly into the lake instead. Have it off set about thirty degrees from gays and about two feet away. You can have your breakfast check email or enjoy morning. Podcast like the savvy psychologist. Perhaps while you have your box on bright light therapy improves your mood. By regulating your circadian rhythms and increasing serotonin. What's especially great about this treatment. Is that it can be easily combined with medications or other treatments without interfering or introducing side effects. There are studies showing that bright light. Therapy can be combined with taking an antidepressant for an extra boost. Even people with year round depression. We talked already. About how bright light can improve your mood and decrease symptoms of seasonal affective disorder and also just general depression year round. Now let's talk about how it not only helps with the winter blues but also would sleep and daytime fatigue so when it comes to sleep bright light. Therapy may have an even more direct effect often. Those with depression especially seasonal depression also have later krono types meaning that they are biologically wired to want to sleep and wake later than the average person this means. They're dealing with a double whammy during winter. They have both a depressed mood and a harder time getting in the morning. Luckily doing bright light therapy first thing in the morning can help to shift night. Owls biological clocks earlier improving how they sleep at night. And how alert and refresh. They feel in the morning.
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
Lunar Water is More Abundant Than Previously Thought
"Astronomers have discovered that water maybe far more abundant on the moon than previously thought water is is already being detected on the permanently shadowed floors of craters neither Luna polls with some never reaches and signatures for hydroxy polls that he's molecules made up one hydrogen and one oxygen atom has been detected on the lunar surface now, and you study reported in the Journal. Nature Astronomy is confirmed that water molecules comprising one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. Good outage to uh-huh has been found in lunar regular. Even sunlit areas of the Moon, the observations were made by Sophia the stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy a converted Boeing seven, four, seven SP airliner fitted with a two point seven meter infrared reflect telescope. The observatory which is operated by Nassar and the German Aerospace Centre de la was able to detect the molecules in the Moon Southern Hemisphere Safiya Project Site Alexandra Roy from dealer says scientists have been looking for water on the moon ever since the first lunar rocks were brought back to earth in the nineteen sixties. However evidence it's been hard to come by the first confirmation of Luna, water came in two thousand and eight from this moon. Meteorology Mabuhay aboard the Indian Chan One spacecraft which detected frozen on the shaded floors of Doc. Paula. Craters Sophia was able to identify the mistake fingerprint of water molecules in the mid infrared range at a wavelength of six micrometres in the vicinity of the the crater in the moon southern fear, and that raises some interesting questions where did the water in these non polar regions come from and how come it can persist in these areas without an atmosphere surface temperatures can read something like two hundred and thirty degrees. Celsius hot enough to cause water to evaporate under the hate of the light of Sun. Now, it's possible that micrometeorites which are. Constantly falling onto the lunar surface I carrying small quantities of water which deposited the lunar rocks during collisions. In the process, the water becomes enclosed in tiny glass bead like structures in the ground. Another idea involves a two stage process in which hydrogen from the solar wind riches the lunar surface combined with hydroxyl molecules on the ground to form water molecules. The data required by Safiya indicates that most of this water being detected so far lies within the substrate covering the lunar surface. Now, we're not talking about much Roy estimates. It's about the. Equivalent of a three mealy milliliter. A can of drink spread a resurface area, the size of a football pitch in reality, it means the moon still dry than the desert's of earth, but the quantity of water that's been discovered could still prove important future missions to the moon severe. We'll now observe the moon sunlit surface during different. Luna faces to investigate this water phenomenon in greater detail sinus that this will open up a new insight into where the water on the moon comes from how it's stored and how it's distributed across the surface. Meanwhile a second study also reported in the journal Nature Astronomy modeled areas of the lunar surface cast in permanent shadow finding that these so-called cold traps contain at least twenty percent of all the water is on the moon it seems small scattered. Cold trips are scattered across the lunar polar regions and could provide accessible water resources which could be used for drinking for making oxygen for breathing and making oxygen and hydrogen for rocket fuel. One of the study's authors. No, but Shraga, offer from the Planetary Science Institute says Future Lunar Rovers may have a hard time driving into date dot craters. With extremely low temperatures but smaller cold traps would be far more accessible. He says approximately ten to twenty percent of the cold trap area for water is fantasy contained within microcode traps must witcher less that a major across the discovery changes sciences perspective of water on the Moon, which until now is focused on the largest water as was situated within the broadest deepest craters at high latitudes astronomer. Johnny Horner. From the University of southern Queensland says these latest discoveries of water on the moon will play a major role in the autumn missions returning humans to the lunar surface in twenty twenty four. Ways, you can look at of them that he's much more general and the people took much. It's what really shattering this myth, the Walter Scott in the innovest, which is something that's been a bit of bath mindset. A couple of decades since got my career Walter is everywhere. It's just it's Walter ice rather than liquid. Well, what we found over the last decade of so it's the most lessons that we look the more West finding. Walter, in it never imagined, we're announcement of Wall Toronto Mercury it will not last thing to look what we're finding. The. Central Time there is Walter. The colts of the mode have been confirmed on the mall, the compound as more water than people my. Locations way will be able to access that won't actually from a technology on down the line I'm not hungry exciting locations, the future of kind of human space exploration particularly from the point of view I've going places and then creating your own fuel back to go on from that, which if you do that, it says a huge amount of because if you only continues feel. You've lost fueling. To take with you for whatever future and he wants to attack the problem is that launching prevented big Strong gravitational. You've got much better as well. So every time you wanted few, you've been going to use more fuel to launch fuel. So you have this kind of runaway way.
This Week in Travel
Welcome to the USA
"Hottest temperature perhaps ever recorded certainly the the best the highest verify temperature on the planet earth was this week in death valley in Furnace Creek. Where they got a temperature of one hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit or I think it was fifty four point one degrees, Celsius. Which is Crazy to hunt. Every. So often they have these these heat waves that come through valley, and so there was always a news team there and they try to fry an egg in a frying pan. Just. Left out in the Sun. And I just before we got on I was watching CNN try to do this and it actually didn't really work. They had like a black frying pan and they cracked an egg and like some of the white parts of the egg started to cook and that was it. Needs to get harder than I think. Maybe we we cook we cook eggs on the honor of cars in the outback Australia. Come on. That's the whole. On the WHO'D I believe that I absolutely believe that that is something that that would be done in the outback and lift game devali come on. In. Don't. Live up to your name. Here's the question. Gary. Is EVERY TIME You know a record like this sat I mean it's like, okay, that's interesting. But is there a larger context? You get half the people out there? Who will say, Hey, look it's global warming. It's hotter than it's ever been. Or is it just that every? So often the earth rotates a certain way in a cloud goes a certain direction or a butterfly flaps, its friggin wings or whatever, and it's just happens to be really hot I mean. Is this one of those things that happens in everybody has to make thing out of it will one way or the other. I think you look at average temperatures if you wanNA global warming just so you know we talk about this being the hottest temperature. As far as I could tell, the hottest temperature ever recorded was in death valley and one hundred and thirty, four back in one thousand, nine, hundred, thirteen. So I can't quite figure out why everybody's reporting. This is the highest temperature ever and then even sometimes in that article saying since. Like, you can't be ever. In the same article let yeah. Yeah, that's that's why we used to have something called journalism was actually check out those facts but I think just things that you've always been into journalism even where the person writing the headline is not the person writing the story. Right, there's a reason. It's because the temperature is was not really well verified in. There was a lot of doubt because it was nine thirteen and there were other temperatures in the region that kind of put it in doubt and there were other high temperatures. Like there was one in Libya from like over one hundred years ago and another one from. Iran that were both called into question. Because of the readings and the Russian judge. Exactly. Like there, there are all these records for the oldest human and the tallest human. Sure. And if you go back in time, there are people that claim Oh there were nine feet tall and they live to be two hundred years old and then you check up on, it's like bowel not really and I think a lot of it is that that we just have better. Ability to measure the stuff now, and so this temperature is if if if it's not the highest, it's certainly the highest that they can verify to a great deal of certain. Some curious that hundred and thirty degree day. What was the low for the day on? Fifteen. Oh, probably, much lower than that because death valley is so arid. Yeah. So here, for instance, we're doing of really close to one hundred degrees. Our lows are going to be probably in the sixties. It's extreme. Yes. That's pretty typical for us because we just don't have the humidity and death valley even a little less humid than we are. Yeah I've actually experienced temperatures close to this twice. In Australia. In Ethiopia in the depression, which is a lot like death valley, and then once in Australia I was. visited. Who in the middle of the summer and it was close to fifty degrees. Celsius it was. Right he'd it wasn't bad if you're in the shade and had a fan on.
This Week in Travel
Welcome to the USA
"Whole over WANNA. Welcome to another episode of this week in travel. My Name is Gary coming to you from the lovely state of Wisconsin where I have nothing but beer cheese and brought were since I have arrived. And that is legally the only thing you can eat here we've been or not. That chuckling voice you hear in the background coming from the land of smoke Mr Chretien. It's not just smoke also smoke fire and really hot but other than that. It's a lovely time to be in California. You don't say really in California you'd have flares. Wow. We have guest we had over the last three days. I just saw the number I. Think it's ten thousand different lightning strikes. Ten Thousand Eight, hundred, and forty, nine in a state that tends to get one thunderstorm every three years. So that's a little unusual for us. So you're making up for lost time. That is correct I believe it's also possibly the end of days that is. We're expecting frogs next. It's twenty twenty. I. Think those guys are going to get nailed with just a massive earthquake. This year I was one of the Salton Sea and they said, you know that's the kind of one of the anchor points of San Andreas fault so could happen. It. would be the capstone in this year. It would just you know. I. Think I things that could happen. But yeah. Well, speaking of which the man will go into the sea when that earthquake happens Mr Spud Hilton. From San Francisco. He's he's technically on the North America Plate. The senator is just misses San Francisco. At thank you for Thanks for pointing that out that that is great comfort. Father had a theory that everything from the San Andreas Fault East would fall into the Pacific Ocean. Your father was rather unsuccessful land speculator is this. Yeah. He he hopes trade I think that was pretty much the deal so We're doing okay here in San Francisco but I'll tell you sky is never been a well, not never been hasn't been this color in a couple of years put that way. It reminds me of the last time I was in a in New Delhi. They were burning the fields. It's it's that sort of thing. I'll here. It's just nice. It's like in the seventies everyday and it's just it's just really nice. Panther Schools? In all seriousness there they had a vote wants to what to put on the license plate in one of the options was. Which I really supported. Packer fans you'll ever that I'm sure our guest. This week are two of the most all American. American people I know of America's Tim Tamsin Meat Pies. Gene Craig Makepeace. From. Why Travel Pod? We're doing pretty good. We actually in Raleigh north. Carolina and we had north quite last week. Yeah own tropical storms earthquakes we got it all. Tony Warnings Yeah we're pretty. Steady. Well. I have a theory that everything evens out in terms of like bad weather. So like California you may you know have earthquakes But. Other than that. It's just really nice So you have it very nice and then you have these punctuated really bad things and here it's just kinda crappy like every year and that sort of what evens it out. So. I. Think it all. It's just in what sort of dose you get it. But yeah expose you guys didn't sign up earthquakes when he went to North Carolina. Now, we're expecting nine hundred. Ninety trimmers you know luckily, we're actually on insight forty on the way to the bank so we didn't feel anything. We escaped with a couple of hours best leave. Well. Let's go to our first news story while we're on the subject of. Extreme weather. the hottest temperature perhaps ever recorded certainly the the best the highest verify temperature on the planet earth was this week in death valley in Furnace Creek. Where they got a temperature of one hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit or I think it was fifty four point one degrees, Celsius. Which is Crazy to hunt. Every. So often they have these these heat waves that come through valley, and so there was always a news team there and they try to fry an egg in a frying pan. Just. Left out in the Sun. And I just before we got on I was watching CNN try to do this and it actually didn't really work. They had like a black frying pan and they cracked an egg and like some of the white parts of the egg started to cook and that was it.
The RV Podcast
Overnight RV Parking at churches
"Everybody welcome to another edition of the podcast. This is episode three away and we are your guide, the freedom and funding through RV travel no matter what kind of an Rv you have whether it's a motor home or A. Trailer a tent. Maybe you're just dreaming about getting an RV someday. Well, listen up because this podcast is for you here. We talk about getting out there enjoying God's amazing. Meeting interesting people, Boondock King Mooch dot game, discovering fun places, and always using the right gear in technology to enhance the RV lifestyle. So Welcome, we are very honored that you chose to put us in your ears this week. Where we got lots. Lots of information for you this week besides. Our interview coming up about this new service that lets our ears overnight in church parking lots. You know they're always a little bit further away from the interstates not so noisy not so brightly lit. I think you'll find this really neat to service to especially when you realize the services free and the Churches there might be a little fee, but it's very little. We also got nuts RV news of the week an interesting question if you ever worried about mice getting in your RV's we're GonNa talk about that and get a lot of crowd sourced wisdom about it and our friends the Burkitt's stop by with. Another great off the beaten path report but I my lifelong traveling companion and my bride Jennifer. I'm a deer Hello Michael Well. We're about ready to hit the road again. This time we're going to be cruising around southwest Michigan exploring some out of the way campgrounds and one of my think is located on a great little inland lake. We're GONNA CHECK OUT I'm looking forward to see I am too because the weather is perfect. The heat that we have had in the mid West has been replaced by beautiful blue skies and temperatures in the low to mid seventies today and lack of humidity. No humidity Kinda cool. At night we can sleep at the windows open instead of the air conditioning on the RV but I think the heat is coming back for the weekend. Yes I think it is I know really have the heat out. West Holy Cow. If you looked at the study death valley, I think set a world record ever hundred and thirty degrees. Can you imagine that? I wouldn't want to be there. We wasn't a hundred and fifteen. Yeah we've been I think we were even up close to one hundred twenty and when we were in. Bahrain in the Middle East one time. And that was pretty miserable. A lot of our military folks stay up there. Yeah. Southwest. Michigan's where we're headed, and then we're going to go down to Elkhart Indiana the RV capital of the world. And we're going to work on a little project based on one of you or ideas. My idea was that we get some netting to keep both from trying to push his way in the front between the two of us. If you've been watching our videos, you see that Bo are Norwegian elkhound is used to Kinda stand between the two seats and the sprinter based lay down. Yeah. He could actually lay down in there. Well, it's not quite so roomy in the cab between the two seats in our new. Ford Transit based Wonder Lisa Travel Vans unit so Kinda. Then this battle, he wants to push his way there he can't. He can't turn A. Good it's just a total safety has and we get dirty looks from him all the time and he's mad at me for taking a seat. So we're going to he likes to be the COPA. So we're going to Jennifer has an idea and we're GonNa, we'll tell you more about it. We'll. We'll do a video on it if it works. If it doesn't work, we'll just pretend we never had brought this up but with a metal gate that we. And and it was kind of bulky and you don't want that banging around and figuring something soft won't scratch anything or damage any get some challenges because it's gotta get mounted just so but. We're working with some friends and we'll. We'll tell you all about that as we get as we get down there. But that's that's our plans for this week hitting the road and doing some camping in some fun stuff and working on Jennifer's idea you know you might have come up with a real solution that they ended up selling who knows yeah we could call it the Jennifer. The bonus most people put their dog in a crate and. A crate though now, but he's a harness and you know and just attach him securely back there. So don bounce around but but first step F is to get him from going up front and trying to push his way in. We're also really excited we're. Planning an extended trip to Michigan's peninsula. But we're going to kind of wait a little bit everybody's camping right now last hurrah before school and work in the fall and whatever that's going to look like during this pandemic gone for controversy that's out there what's open? What's not but I have never heard of so many people I've been talking to that are going to go up to the upper peninsula. I know we have to stop talking about. And Yeah Everybody's Oh. We're going. Oh, that's out. Now you've had your chance come on. It's our turn last governor gave you a certificate for promoting tourism, all their Michigan Yeah Yep I'll actually we got that from a friend of ours who worked in the governor's office, but the governor signed. Yes, so So camping in southwest Michigan visit to Elkhart. That's another media agenda, and then I think right after Labor Day in the crowds hopefully because EPI- is very crowded right now. Hopefully, the crowds diminish a little bit after Labor Day and then we're going to. Spend as much time maybe till first frost up there. So September little bit October we're going to get up and have a lot of fun up in the UP. We've not been up there for about a well not. Since January winter camp out. So we're anxious to get up and have some fun
AP News Radio
Death Valley's brutal 130 degrees may be record
"The world meteorological association says reports of a very high temperature reading in the US are legitimate Sunday in Death Valley California the temperature reached one hundred thirty degrees Fahrenheit if solid dated it would be the highest temperature on earth since nineteen thirty one the measurement was at the aptly named furnace creek Claire Nellis with the world meteorological association says the disputed all time record is one hundred thirty four at the same spot in nineteen thirteen another run at a hundred and thirty degree fell from an height plus temperatures in Death Valley remains possible Randy serve any who coordinates the organization's extreme temperature team describes being in Death Valley in this kind of weather is being enveloped in a thick hot blanket of air with no relief hi Matt Donahue
AP News Radio
Death Valley's brutal 130 degrees may be record
"The world meteorological association says reports of a very high temperature reading in the US are legitimate Sunday in Death Valley California the temperature reached one hundred thirty degrees Fahrenheit if solid dated it would be the highest temperature on earth since nineteen thirty one the measurement was at the aptly named furnace creek Claire Nellis with the world meteorological association says the disputed all time record is one hundred thirty four at the same spot in nineteen thirteen another run at a hundred and thirty degree fell from an height plus temperatures in Death Valley remains possible Randy serve any who coordinates the organization's extreme temperature team describes being in Death Valley in this kind of weather is being enveloped in a thick hot blanket of air with no relief hi Matt Donahue
Monocle 24: The Briefing
beirut explosion latest news
"Some exercises in perspective the IRA bomb which severely damaged Canary Wharf in London in Nineteen ninety-six was estimated at just over one ton of ammonium nitrate Timothy McVeigh's bomb which demolished a federal government building in Oklahoma City in nineteen ninety-five was just over two tons of the same material. The boss which erupted in Beirut's port on Tuesday was estimated at two. Thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of ammonium nitrate. One of the biggest peacetime non nuclear explosions in history as Bhai. Route begins the barely imaginable task of cleaning up and is understandably enough growing tear gas was fired yesterday at protesters near the parliament building I'm joined. Now by Lila Milana, Allen France twenty four's correspondent in Beirut Leyla. First of all, you have been visiting the port which was the epicenter of the explosion. I can't begin to imagine where you would even describe such scene but I'm going to ask you to have a crack at doing that the scene is as you say, almost indescribable does smoke still rising from the charred MBA's off. Destroyed packing crates destroyed shelving and it says every kind of. Utility things you'd expect to see in shops. Twisted. Washing machines on the floor items from pharmacies because this of course port, this is the one thirty functional in Lebanon imposed everything and everything was stored than in the center. You have the remains of these enormous grain silos that carried the grain for the majority of the country completely destroyed and parts of them. Still collapsing there you have a aid workers desperately trying to dig people of rubble that's thirty meters deep, and the conditions are horrific temperatures of thirty degrees baking hot sun. The air is thick and brown the smell acrid burning metal and plastic. It really is post-apocalyptic and this goes on for over a mile. Entire poor is just smoking twisted metal and daybreak. Nash. have. You got a clear sense of how widespread the damage across Beirutis. How far can you go from the blast without seeing broken windows? So it. was about nine kilometers where we're still doing things like breaking windows the impact of it and having people. That's it really has spread incredibly far, and it's an uneven spread as well because. What's happened is that the grain ciders positioned in a certain way which meant that it protected half of the city of West Beirut, which historically has in many disasters. Conflicts actually born the brunt of of problems in Beirut and actually deflected the majority of the blast towards the East and the south, which is why a famous areas like Gymnasium Ohio Asha fear completely The buildings there obliterated and one of the concerns now is a lot of. Buildings the older buildings in Beirut the few buildings left in the east of in pre-civil war, which were much loved already, quite delicate on the point of collapse yesterday as people were trying to clear the streets constantly civil defense volunteers trying to pull people back away from these buildings with balconies hanging down stone starting to crumble because of course, that's a huge dangerous. People are still sifting through rubble trying to find loved ones that buildings could. New Buildings that had not yet collapsed could collapse on top of the other issue is that the new builds a lot of them are concrete and speaking to an engineer what can happen with concrete is that with a shockwave blast like this concrete cracks easily under pressure and so that can be in tunnel cracks there that you don't know about in can't be seen from the outside, but the make the building unstable and because there's really been. Very, little help from the government with people trying to go back into their homes, clear up and see what they can retrieve and whether their homes are still livable. Many people going back into very unstable buildings and some living there because they have no other former shelter. So a real risk of further injury as buildings might potentially collapse over the next few days very similar to the aftermath of an earthquake, which is what this is compared to. A among the people who was serving the damage in Beirut yesterday was of course, President Emmanuel Macron of France undertaking a extraordinary spontaneous visit. How is that being received? I mean, it's it's understandable enough that Lebanese politicians don't want to interact at a personal level with the public at the not only for their own safety but is it being regarded as strange that the first high profile politician to to take a walkabout should be the president of an entirely different country? Well, it is strange, but it's not being regarded as strange. I was down on the street yesterday when McCone was was walking through glad-handing the crowd I mean, he really was you know playing up to it and was supposed to be going to Baabda Palace, the Presidential Palace to meet with politicians and delayed that for an extra hour on the schedule to stay with Lebanese people in the streets of course, playing up very much. The fact that he was there to see them he'd said before the visit my main priorities to go and be with the people of Lebanon. And extend, solidarity's to them, and then after that I will be dealing with the political varieties speaking to them. So in the streets, he was absolutely mobbed by people he's hugging people shaking hands with them people coming up tim saying, please don't give those politicians any money that corrupt criminals we don't trust them and he responded to one woman I know you don't trust them graffiti everywhere saying don't give one. Euro. To those Michael help us. So he really did make himself as I say a man of the people yesterday I spoke to a couple of young women afterwards. WHO said to me? That man was more of a leader to us in fifteen minutes than any of our politicians have been where all day no one has come to see us where are they wears the help and later in the day after a lot of commentary that. The. Obviously. Lebanese politicians feeding quite shamefaced one. The justice minister did come down to the streets to try and speak to people clearing up and she had water thrown in her face and chanting protest. Immediately, they're not welcome and that people absolutely fading that the government has no interest in safety in their health in their wellbeing and their ability to rebuild hiding away from them as everybody marshals together to try and get things. Back to nothing like normal but something livable at least just to follow that up finally, regular listeners may recall that you and I were speaking on Monday talking about the resignation of Lebanon's foreign minister and that seemed like a pretty big story at the time He's probably ruin his timing at this point but have you seen or heard anything in terms of actual messaging attempts to help or anything from the alleged government of Lebanon or d you kind of assume that they've all got to the point where they just realized the games up nobody really wants to hear from them anymore. It's quite extraordinary. There is honesty nothing happening in terms of that what the government is doing a lot of finger pointing at each other and previous administrations about who's to blame for this they've put everybody associated with the report under house arrest and saying that they're going to find the perpetrators. But of course, everybody's saying somebody else's the perpetrator on what we know so far it seems that for six years has been ongoing negligence at the highest. Level where a several reports were were built up by the head of the port and have customs sent to the government center the Prime Minister's Office the judiciary about the fact that this was a ticking time bomb and something has to be done completely ignored. So the government is going on about this investigation saying they'll find responsible meanwhile three hundred, thousand people in Beirut homeless, five, thousand injured hundreds still missing, and honestly all you can see on the streets is volunteers. The. Lebanese. breath volunteers, obviously with their ambulances civil defence wanting tears, young people armed with spades and rooms marching down the street just going into people's homes into buildings and sweeping up what they can and moving onto the next one cleaning up themselves. They all said to me of course not here we wouldn't expect anything else from them with the only people who can help ourselves and today international aid. Groups coming in different countries, sending their own firefighters medical support in, and still a complete absence of the Lebanese government anywhere except the poor area learn Milana Allen in Beirut thank you very much for joining us.
Learn to Code with Me
From Glassblower to Software Developer using Free Coding Resources with Michael Pimentel
"And we're back in today's episode. I speak with Michael, Pimentel. Michael Story is fascinating worked in the glassblowing industry specifically for film sets for nine years before he started teaching himself how to Code. And what makes him even more? Interesting is the fact that he doesn't have a college degree. Anti never went to a coding bootcamp. He is entirely self-taught. and. That is exactly what we're GONNA be talking about today. How he taught himself to code. WOW, working fulltime. How guys first job in tack and how he got more roles in the tech industry as time went on. If you tips for staying motivated while learning how to Code. This episode is for you enjoy. Hey. Michael. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. It will on six February I'm real excited to talk with you. You have like interesting. Self taught experience in. That's what I would like to dive into I. Could you share with us how you got started in software engineering? Absolutely so kind of Story kind of goes back to a few years ago when I was working for a company that made life for the film industry now working there as a manufacturer glassblowing really interesting work. Kind of working in a manufacturing type of shop warehouse, loud, working on a lay, that spun in a really hot environment I was there for a really long time and things just. Kinda didn't progress in terms of career. Wise and financially it was just really typical I live in California and California being one of the most expensive place live. It just wasn't sustainable. married and I have a child and that it just wasn't something that I could maintain so it kind of motivated me to start thinking I need to. Probably either go back to school or another another route career choice so i. can you know build to support and have a career that can provide general finance, support and everything like that, so it kind of led me to back to. My interest in computers and everything like that, so I started to do some online, searching and everything like that and it. Brought me to software development coding, you know some booming career choice that is really big right now and everything like that was like okay. Maybe I should go back to school for that, but at the time it really wasn't the best option I went acted. As a couple of glasses time, that's what I could afford at my community college, and then just got really difficult to maintain a full-time job and take one or two classes, and it got really expensive, because my wife was what was going to school in college and everything like that, so it was really difficult for us to support both less going especially you know. Not really knowing what I wanted to do. So I I did a lot of searching and I came across recode camp and recode camp. You know like when you get on their landing page. It's like learning one to code for free and always people learn this way and I was like wait three. This isn't make sense. This will usually scams off there. Start off Rian. Then you have to pay something and everything like that and you know to my surprise actually was free, and then so I started I jumped right in, and just started to go to the curriculum, and it sparked my interest and I was like. Wow, this is really cool. It's it kind of. Goes about in a way that. Gets you interested really quickly? You know with hd Mounsey assassin how you can get feedback on the webpage really quickly. Let's kind of how it started because I. Just I just couldn't go. That route was a canoe into school because it was just really expensive and I already had like a car loan, I couldn't get like student loan. It was just wasn't really practical. It's like cave. Do put myself some really extreme debt that I don't know if it's GonNa lead to something. That's GONNA pay in the end so I had to find another option and looked like learning to code on my own free resources when that resource beginning with recode camp was was the route I took. Awesome so I, want to backtrack a little bit to your. Your work before you got into coding, so you you okay? You said he was a manufacturing role. I haven't made notes that you were a glass blower which anti note that is for movies today shows. Definitely. What is it glasses? Sure okay, so a glass blower, typically like of someone like Google glass large usually someone that takes some raw material which consists of the materials, t make glass essentially depending on what what the? The. End Product is going to be different types of glass. Of course so basically you take them in you hit Heaton furnace, or with a really hot torture claim so that it becomes like in this malleable state, and then you shape it essentially so what I did there? We work on a leave, and we basically built like the light bulb globe. It's spun on a lathe and then you would really. Really hot with a hydrogen oxygen burners, two thousand degrees, and then you shape it based on certain dimensions so basically they would take that, and then we'd have a filament type that would basically you know, have some kind of chemical reaction than light up base off whatever the the fixture needed you know for the filming, so the specific light that they made there was an Hmo which is like a chemical. Name that I really don't know all the details into it, but it basically replicates the color of the sun so like if you see like on film sets, use those lights that kind of are the background that make everything look real, daytime and night-time filming. Those are the lights that we made when I worked there we're one of the few American companies still made them like with our hands, still as opposed to a machine meaning making them in a in a warehouse somewhere. But in a sense, essentially, that's what it was. We were just making them with a glassblowing. That's what I did while working there while I think nine or ten years. We Really, oh my goodness. Wow so start I'm surprised. It was that long because for people. Listening to this show were actually speaking through video so I can see you so I'm like. Wow doesn't look like he can hold a John. Young so young to have a job for that long. Then start another career. Okay? Wow, that awful. How did you get into that? Because that feels very niche, you're essentially making bulldogs. That camera crews in production crews are using on the sets of TV shows I mean. We were chatting before we recorded you live in California. I know like the entertainment industry is. In the movie industry in all of that is obviously very prominent out there is that kind of how that happened or It's interesting so actually the reason why I got into it is because my dad worked in that industry or like thirty years, and I had come out of working at John Juice and I was their. First job actually was working as a team member workup to insistent manager, and then eventually needed to make more money, because I got married at a really young so I. My dad ended up helping me getting the job there and you know I just ended up staying there for a really long time, but it's really how I got into. It was as my dad was in that industry longtime. He had connections and everything like that. Dot It. Did you go to a trade school or anything for glassblowing? No I actually just learned on the job. And still to this day is one of the most difficult things that I've ever done. Physically I for almost anything that can compare it to I think. Programming is its own challenge, but is like the hardest physical. Thing I've ever had to learn because it was like. If you don't do it right the first time, then you ruin it. So there's no going back and fixing it once. You kind of ruin it because the glass that we would work with you'd have to mix it with metals, and then once it's kind of melted to a certain point, you can't go back in extract those materials out of the glass, so it's Kinda ruined. If you don't do it, right is probably there really nerve, wracking or when I did that job. Yeah Wow, it also sounds like it could be dangerous if you're working as really like high temperatures. Absolutely I got burned really bad third degree burns I have degree burns like all my arm from it, but yeah, it was. It's definitely. Was I'm just curious. Did that have any role in your decision to look for a new job like I? Know you mentioned like the financial side, but were there other things, too? Yeah absolutely a that part being okay, so the big part, actually a aside from like the financial reasons that it just didn't pay that much. It was the work environments. It is in the Central Valley of California which in the summertime gets you know triple digits consistently and the warehouse that it is done is basically like a garage. It doesn't have an air condition. It doesn't have any of those things so the environment itself was. was just really really taxing. There's been a couple of times when I had gotten heat exhaustion, I got sent home because of it because like say it's one hundred, three, hundred ten, even outside inside that shop where you'd be working is a hundred twenty one hundred thirty degrees, and it was just unbearable is the if you've our to look back on some old twitter posts? I probably have pictures of like a thermometer in the area. And it's just like maxed out because it was just so hot, but yeah, that's that's probably WANNA be. A motivating factors to wanting to look for another job. It got to point where I was like. I need to get out of here. No matter what this job is just killing me physically, and you know a lot of other reasons you can imagine in an environment like that the people that you tend to work around kind of like really. Not The best work environment because you know on a lot of stress and you know tend not to get along very well when they're under a lot of stress is mentally and just everything that came along with that job, so it just became kind of like a hostile work environment as well so it was like a lot of. Factors that Kinda came into me like I have to get out of here you to find something else you know. Yeah well I mean that definitely makes sense. There's a few other people or one that is coming to mind that. We had on the show in a previous season. Whose name is Josh Camp? And he was a hope I. Stay this right a horse I think it's a horse fairer fairer, hope, number news right, but he would change the hooves on horses, which could also be really dangerous. Obviously, a horse kicks you and I believe it was an injury that ultimately led him to. You know look for other work in in what will link to that in the show notes for people listening now 'cause it. Was You know a few years back when we had on the show and any other episode, I believe it could have had a few where there was someone with a moron. Sick physically dangerous or physically labor job, and that's kind of what led them to to make a pretty big pivot because I can like working for you as a glass blower in those in that environment, physical Super Super Hot. It's totally different from working as a software engineer. And when you started coding, you mentioned using Free Co camp in other free resources. Were you still working fulltime as the glass blower and you are learning outside of that? Yes I was so I would I had a fulltime job there, and because of the heat I would work really really early hours I try to go in his earliest possible as three in the morning. Get off at noon or whatever it was Leonard Twelve so that time that I would get off of course I'd already so exhausted. Matt jobs so I have to go home and sleep a little bit and then. The thing with those interesting with that is. It was hard for me to be going having a fulltime job like that. Maybe some people can relate to that. You know like a maybe just a fulltime job in general is exhausting, but this job probably pushed it because of the environment itself the hostility behind it. That kind of gave me more motivation to be like you know what I'm really tired right now. And I'm not really motivated to to learn coding complete, foreign and difficult, but when I get off work the way I did time, so you know wanting to leave that place so bad that it was just that extra boost motivation for me to learn and study and just do everything I needed to do to succeed in it on just because it was just so bad. I got desperate. Really desperate I just remember that I tend to forget that, but then when I do remember I'm like wow, it helps me to be like really grateful. You know to where I am now, and it was really hard working fulltime job in learning, because I did learn while working there probably about a year and a half, maybe almost two years I was learning. And There was there were times when I would make huge progresses, but then. At the same time thinking like is this really possible? How do people get a job doing? It's like yeah. I can build a website, but there's more to it you like. Is this all I need to get a job type thing you know But Yeah! It was it was hard and I. Don't want to say like Oh yeah. It's super easy because it. Wasn't especially having to work fulltime job in it's all I could just you know. Take days off now and everything like that. I had to work. But yeah. It was difficult. So you were. Doing ice, you said for like one and a half two years where you were doing boom things at the same time. appleaday mentioned this earlier, but you. Free Co camp. Did you use any other resources or you mentioned Community College? Were you taking classes there? Yeah so additional to recode camp so the there's a lot of other things that I did that helped me so free code camp opened up at the time. I haven't camp while, but at the time had lake. Away that you would join and beat up and it was through facebook. It was like face, looking need groups or something, and it was like find a recode camp. Meet up because I. Guess they had like an umbrella. Recode camp meet ups that you can join, and you would basically type in your city in order find the nearest one that was that was organized and everything like that, so I found one in my city and it was you know a few people apartment that would meet up in so I joined that group and I reached out on their. Pre Cochem does a really good job with trying to connect people, so it's like hey, introduce yourself in post on there, so that people can no, no your journey Cetera so i. did that and I ended up meeting up with the organizers of that? Meet Up. We met at starbucks talked about you know everything on learning this and that where you and Rico camped up thing so eventually, I got more involved in that met more people that were learning as well and then now it. Kinda led to Terry member Oh the Mita. Dot Com meet up. There was also the recode. KEMP MEDIA DOT COM for our area that was attached to that facebook group. And, he was like yeah. I just started this. Meet up group, so we can kind of be more broad for people that don't have facebook. We can just Kinda grow up there and he was like you WanNa, help me with that because you know. He was maintaining full job as well, and he needed someone to Kinda. Fill in that gap where he couldn't. You know sounds like yeah. Sure I could definitely help with that, so I helped him. kind of on the organization's portion of that. meet up and like. Hey, let's try to meet. Kind of swap the weeks you know will be on a Saturday one week and then. I'll take the next every type of thing we'd be out of starbucks. And then someone posted on the meet up of feed. Like hey does a hack upon coming up, you guys should come reach out and you know I think it was free, and it was in our area, so I went to the hacker thon and myself in a couple of other people that were in that group, and then we ended up a or ended meeting a few other people at that meet up. That were real professional programmers. At the thoughts I introduced myself to them and everything like that met some really really nice. And probably the most helpful in kind person was actually the the organizer of that Agathon. When. I met him and everything like that. He gave me his contact information in and said Hey, we should get together sometime. I'm Cha and he was a professional programmer, running his own business and everything like that, so eventually I stayed in contact with him, and I met up with him, and I told him my journey and what I'm trying to do, super supportive of us all about helping people in my situation, you know like make connections, and even even help them with an internship and everything like that, and that's Kinda weird kicked off actually where it went from me trying to learn to me, actually making connections in potentially those connections leading to jobs. That was huge. Actually so this person that ran out. Pakistan also ran his on meet up. and His name was a little bit more. Mature he had a organized large meet ups and organised like a speakers where he would teach people how to get started with a new technology and all that stuff you know, so. This percent met up with them, and they're willing to like. Hey, you WANNA work on a project with. Wow real project like that's what I need to experience with a project, so I met with him or opt in some of the people that worked with him, and he ended up working with a lot of other guys that or just people in general men and women that were like kind of doing their own thing that a little bit more advanced as As programmers they're building girl websites starting their own software business in lake, a consulting and everything like that. That's where kind of took off. Is that connection? You know I to a upon met some people, and then it led to more people that we're kind of in the same boat as me, and if they are more advanced, they're willing to help me. By struggled with something and everything like that. It was really a douse like typical in me being successful. Yeah that is a great story and Other interviews I've been doing this season. We invite the guests on, and we think they have a really interesting transformation. Story is kind of like who I've been really Trying to get on the show this season and every single person that I've interviewed so far and there's been you know. Handful have all. Had this like really awesome Lake County. Component to their story and men like Kinda. Showing how supportive the tech community is in in various ways, and it sounds like you found that you know through this. Through connections through other connections with more experienced people in the field that helped catapult you forward in the they were able to help support you in various ways and maybe help if you're stuck as you said, build your first project and I think that's really cool I. Think it's really good for beginners to hear that because I know when I first started out in probably you, too. I would imagine it can be really intimidating and feel like very overwhelming, and you can feel really alone, and it's like it's almost. I haven't experienced like trying to break into other industries, but in a lot of ways I feel like even though texts seemed really intense in really hard I mean it is, but there's just such kind and helpful people like a friend, totally random side story, but she's not intact. She was trying to break into. The entertainment like film like Moodley TV shows. and. She had to work at an unpaid internship for like a year in really like claw her way up. She actually does really awesome. producing on really awesome documentaries now but. It was like really hard, very competitive very very. Very like you know and I feel like the tech community is so different from that like it's. People are Super Helpful yeah definitely. I've heard that as well. I'm not sure if it's if it's like the demand in this industry that were like trying to get into maybe people, maybe a logical gotten to it, and they kind of see you know all the hard work that. It takes. I, guess that they want to help other people as well or like coming from something like my background and everything like that. They kind of want to help people as well, but yeah, I noticed that as well as a lot of really helpful people, even before I started going through the ups and everything I joined twitter, and that's when I found like just like a free code cannot co Newbie A. PODCAST are their Hashtag in general dislike just to get help and everything like that, and when I when I reached out that way, just random people that were professionals judgment like hey. I think I'll struggling with. Like centering Adib or CSS, something something kind of silly. You know I needed help with it and some random person was like. Hey, Gimme, your hub Repo albeit with that was like. Wow, some random person that realize but more Santander worked at Microsoft or something like that and are willing to help I didn't even know this person but yeah, definitely noticed that about the industry's is a lot of willing people to help you regardless. Of Your background and everything like that. Yeah another guest I. Literally just had on the podcast said that she had so many breakthroughs. A CAITLIN for people listening to the show and in episode Caitlin. She was talking about how she had so many breakthroughs on twitter asking for help in people that she didn't even know. Offering to help her in various capacities, I feel like twitter is such a good. Well, it's funny. Because social media like every platform kind of has its own. Little like corner or whatever it could be really good for certain things and I feel like asking for help. Like in that way. Twitter is awesome because people will jump in people. It's almost like a forum, but it's not, but people are very like. Communicate unlike you know instagram or something, which is mostly about the photos and it's. It's not the same kind of. Environment just different. Anyway, it's it's interesting. Yeah so switching gears a tiny bit I would like to hear about how the new ended up getting your first full-time real position. Yeah absolutely. So it was when our meet up grew so when I met this person a friend. His name is nate a probably. Give him recognition there because east been so huge in my in my career as a friend and generally slow parental today we kind of joined are meet ups and we grew into this big. Meet Up. And it was like three hundred people. We grew to over three hundred people, and then we. He had connections with someone that was really involved in trying to grow the tech scene in the Central Valley of California. Washable, probably think though in California. It's like tech everywhere. Tech is huge, but that's really isolated towards like Silicon Valley Bay area, and when you go to the outskirts where I live, it's like farms and orchards in just really like farmland in. The outskirts of all the techie over the hill and there's all the big central. Silicon Valley everything like that, but out here it's it's completely different. There's still a lot of factories out here and everything like that, so tech isn't the big thing out here, so he was trying to person. He tried to basically bring tech out this way like hey companies. There's a talent out here as well so he was a part of that big that this big movement. That's still going on today so anyways. We ended up getting a space with his help, and he supported he. He got funding for it and we moved our meet up there. And, we were able to go reach out to the computer. Science professors ask some of the community colleges. They are able to come out. We reached out to people that talk computer science in the high schools I reach people on facebook I went out trying to like introduce myself to all these people, so we can grow all his these groups that are people better in software or coating to hey, come to this, Mita because we can all grow with the tech in the valley, so we had this large event whereas kicking off are merging of our beat ups, and we had I think. Over one hundred fifty people like almost two hundred people from professors in computer science to high school teachers in computer science to people, learning and everything like that so I went up there and I was speaking in front of it, and I was basically motivating other people that were in my position like hey. You guys? Should really you know? I was trying to leaning towards free code camp like if you guys want to learn to cope because those people that were like thinking about it, you know not really that much into it, so I kind of wanted to focus on those people because that's where they had the experience of coming from so was like. Hey, you know it's not that hard to get into it. There's some really really great resources that are free. That doesn't cost anything you know. MEET UPS like this a lot of great connections here and people willing to help you. If you're struggling every twenty five solves talking. They're all that and at that. Meet up was a few other. That worked at companies nearby when Consulting Agency the the banks have some of their software people out in the Central Valley as well and a couple of of the people that were there were friends with my friend, nate, a one that have basically helped me out and everything that always connections. He introduced me to one of guys there and he said Hey his company's hiring. I want you. I want to introduce you to Michael and this is after all is kind of getting already getting. Getting experience with building some projects and everything and my friend was like. Yeah, he knows what he's doing now. He he's employable. He's definitely has experience with building front, and back and software and everything so introduced me to a friend of his name of Josh and he worked for a company that basically did consulting for like probations, law enforcement software. They did software for E N NJ Gallo, a lot of big companies, so they're really established there around for like twenty years so I met with him. And then he was like where we're actually looking for someone. More junior developer is like Amir number. We eventually had coffee. Just Kinda. Talk and everything like that and we just hit it off. We kind of our personalities. Kind of you know He. We liked hanging out and everything like that, so that kind of started like a friendship, you know. We talked for about a year and. And you'd help you with stuff like that and I was like. Hey, and he's like our company is kind of in the middle of Lake, you know hiring, but they kinda. Put a freeze on that everything like that, so after about a year when I. When I met him, he finally called me up one day, and the funny story is that I was getting to a point. In in learning how to Code and currently working where I was almost ready to give up, because it felt like I was putting effort and then. I wasn't getting any any reward from like. If I was applying everywhere and I wouldn't get any kind of response to resume. I reached out to people to help with resume all these things. Did I did a lot? Maybe not everything that could have just because I didn't know, but I felt like I was getting any hits on my resume or If I. DID GET A call. It was like you know I didn't know how to do some kind of algorithm that I didn't learn or memorize or whatever it was, so I was getting really discouraged, almost going to be like. Maybe I do need to go to school at unity at degree. Maybe I need to just join a boot camp or or joint something that is going to make me be more appealing to employers so I was looking. and. Just kind of getting really discouraged at that time. But the funny thing is that I got a call for my friend Josh and he goes. Hey, we have this contract coming up. We need to hire a developer and I've been talking to my boss about you and we'd like to bring you on. He's like. Of course we'll interview you and everything like that and he's like. Are you interested in? He's like. Like I'm almost one hundred percent, sure they've we bring you on because you know like I know you and I know your work, and I can help you and everything like that and I was like. Are you kidding me? And when he told me that I was thrilled, I was actually really scared. Same time this is reality is like real software coding. In, part of me was going to say no like I do this. This is too much like the difference between working on side projects that you know like whatever no one's really going to care about versus working on software that people use so I. I got really scared. I even once. My wife and I was like I. Don't know if I can do this like I'm GonNa. Quit my job and I go do this and then I fail. I can't go back to that job. I can't do that, you know. This is a big decision. You know I've been here for nine years or whatever it was. So ultimately, my my wife convinced me and was like you need to do this. People don't get good things unless they take some kind of risk. Regardless, you should try you know. So I call it my friend. I told him I concerns and Josh was like you know you're just trying to scare yourself out of. It Dude so just take it from me. I'm going to be there to help you, so don't worry us to take this. Just, take it you know and I was like. Okay, let's set up the interview and everything like that and goes all right, so set the interview and. They hired me. And that was basically it I started there with no professional experience. It was all because of someone was willing to help me know again back to that. You know this industry is always really helpful people that are willing to take a chance on you and help me help you and everything, and and and of course there's a lot of challenges you know working in in actually writing real software and everything like that, but in the long run it really helped me in was just huge into getting my job, and then after that first job. Of course, my resume after that just everyone always cared to look at it. You know I I didn't have nearly as. Much difficulty looking for next role after that I think it's like once you get your first job regardless of its junior level, or whatever in in this industry it kind of goes downhill OCTA that you actually get considered. You know you'll get your resume looked at. You'll get that first interview and everything like that. Yeah Wow, so. How long did you work there at the first job? And then what what kind? You don't have to get like super detailed, but like what kind of work redoing essentially. There year, so I started off working on a back end actually of in node framework, or on the no runtime. Basically, the contract was migrating some. It's funny because I went from like barely learning it in writing mostly front end to writing some back in code and the PRI, the contract was basically taking some old enterprise services that were written in Java and then rewriting them on no gs lambda, so that that was what I was doing for like the first four months and after that contract and they moved on to another. Another project and it was more full stack. It was job script. It was using angular on the front end no on the back end and some sequel server, but I got the rightful stack of front end back in using Java javascript note and everything like that. It was really fun. 'cause I got to work on two different big projects there and I learned so much. That's where my whole stack experience kind of took off I got I got to learn so much and the people that I worked with worse huge. It was just I can't even express how thankful I am to people that I work with there and I still am friends with them. That helped me explained things a broke things down. And having been able to understand these other languages. Yeah Wow and I know you recently got a laid off due to cove in nineteen. was that from this same employer or was this another job you had gotten after leaving that company? Another story so I was there at that company for about a year, and then towards the end my wife and I found out. We're GONNA. Have Child and so I needed to. That company was great for it was actually a bump in salary than I currently made up. My Company the light, Bulb Company, but it's I still needed to. I needed to progress I needed to move on and grow my career, and financially so I started to look I started. You know I even asked my boss at the time. I was like Hey I have a child, the ways or any chance that I can move up or anything like that, and you give me feedback, and it was like yeah, definitely, in whatever amount of time so I took that and say okay, that's CREPE. should start looking in see by even get my resume considered now that experience so I started to look, and then I got hired at a start up in the bay area and Silicon Valley. And I was there for almost a year way so i. don't want I. Don't want to interrupt you, but was at working remotely or you move there. I actually had hybrid role, so I would go into the office like an hour and a half commute two days a week. And then worked from home the other days, but yeah, it was a there. I got a taste of the whole silicon valley. Feel of how software companies ran, and my skills went up even higher because of that environment, but yeah, so I was there for about a year and It was a startup that wasn't able to get another round of funding, so actually we all. They started laying people off. fortunately they didn't lay the soccer team like right away, but since we found that out, we started to look all the engineers that worked at that company, or like Oh they're not getting. Funding is a good chance. They're gonNA lay people off, so we all started looking and I got hired at the Credit Union and I. was there for about a year? or about a year exactly actually, and due to the pandemic and everything like that they started to kind of restructure, reorganize everything and effected a lot of teams, including my own team and We're a part of that layoffs will. But yeah, it was. It was kind of something that I. Could. Imagine obviously has affected a lot of people everywhere, and it feels like it's just one of those times. That no-one can have planned for, but yeah. I've been a part of that have been affected by that as well. Yes, so justice like for myself in the listeners, so you basically had three different jobs like intech at this point in each for about a year. Give or take, so you essentially now have like three years of like fulltime software engineering experience. And the most recent position that you've got furloughed related offer a Is that a credit union? And what were you doing there so? It's interesting. 'cause you've such like different experience like from like like a consulting firm to a tech startup to credit union like I imagined that the experiences at each one were quite different like the environment of in the way people work in south. Absolutely so. Go working at a credit union, it's a pretty large credit union and the way things are done there as opposed to the other companies that I worked at. Worse it significantly different so look the startup that I worked at. They were pretty large. Start up there actually around for ten years they had employed over three hundred people. The engineering team was fifty engineers people and. They operated like they were a big tech company and everything like that, so but at the same time I had the experience of being able to shift. To project same time like there's times when I was working on a mobile APP and one for one sprint I'd be working on a whole two weeks on a mobile APP, and then I'd be pivoted to work on their web APP, clients. Front end code, and then after that I'd be working on some hardware code completely different working on a proprietary algorithm that needs to be converted in red on a mobile APP. It was different stuff all the time, and it was really exciting, but also really nerve wracking because of the context, switching a lot and learning new languages at the same time. So that was I learned a lot by lot of the fast paced stuff at that start up, and then when I got to the Credit Union. There was a little bit more relaxed because those only one product that I worked on essentially. Korb, inking APP and there I had a team of eight engineers that were dedicated for this core banking APP. I got brought on as a senior engineer there, and then that that role kind of pivoted towards a lead developer. I was on that project for about four months. And then my a boss. Promoted to the lead developer of that team so essentially there was a lot different roles because for one it was one project, and it was a mobile APP. I had experience with mobile APP at the other company, but not to this extent, it was just a huge mobile APP. And the primary, the primary objective being handling with people's money was probably a significant factor to the change of of like a importance of the application that part probably. At a lot to the stress when I worked knowing that you're working on something that deals with people's money and five hundred thousand active members so that was a big learning experience. And I do. I learned a lot of new stuff learned new languages learned how to do a lot of things that you wouldn't typically do web development, but yeah, it was a lot of differences in structure, probably a lot of different departments that you have to work with before you can get approval in changing something like maybe typically and. Change some piece of code that would maybe look slightly different, because it just makes more sense while at the Credit Union. It wasn't that simple. You had to get a lot of approvals and a lot of test. Writing to make sure lingers securer in a rented to different avenues. You know which was different. Yeah, that yeah makes dealing with financial information. You know sensitive data, and all that would be quite different. I imagined so now that your you by the time episode airs, you could already be in a new job, but. Being active in your job search now. What kind of company aiming to work out? What do you want to stay in like? The financial industry are trying to go back to a startup or maybe a consulting firm that you get to work all these different projects. Yeah, what were you? What did you like the most I guess? Let's see. Probably a ideally would wouldn't stay in the financial industry just because. All the little differences in how delayed development can be due to all those hoops. You have to jump through, but probably most fun I had was. Working in consulting agency. Because working so many different things. Different projects everything like that, but a lot of them had their own pros and cons. You know in terms of like. What I would prefer probably something that is more established due to. More stability just because of everything. That's going on right now. I've heard a lot of people have lost their jobs regardless of the industry even in software I would probably prefer stability. If I could choose regardless of the industry but Yeah. It's probably it's probably more geared towards that. You know what I can find that it is more stable and everything like that. I do have a few other avenues in alert. You know companies that I'm going through right now so I am confident that something will end soon. That's probably the good part is that they're still a high demand for software engineers and everything like that, so there's a lot of good a good places that are hiring right now and everything like that. But. They do specific Yeah Yeah Gotcha so I'm. Kind of jumping around here, but I really wanted to ask this question, and it goes back to your glassblowing experience. I was wondering if there was anything from that or your position before a Jumba juice that you. Were able to transfer or in some way to you in your job, your new job as a software developer. Probably the thing that. I don't know if it helped me, but there's a few different things probably so working probably in an environment that required me to have a lot of perseverance, probably aided to my benefit, and in general and just work ethic. It helps me To be able to deal with probably stresses and deadlines Challenges in my current role because I dealt with that a lot on any. Of can can relate to that. Is You know working in a place like that or just any kind of work that requires them to give a little bit extra is required, just laken. Succeed or do well their job. It probably just helps helped with those areas in work ethic to work hard enduro ally and everything like that but also know what I want going forward, and what I don't want in a career or or next role. Also of a big part of that. Working at that company helped me in was. Probably having difficult conversations with my employer I had a lot of those at that company and it prepared me to be able to deal with those difficult situations. A lot better at all night, other roles a and what I mean, my difficult situations, probably dealing with difficult people another one being having a conversation with your superiors about compensation You know asking for what you feel like. You deserve and everything like that I've had a lot of those, and they didn't go so well at that company that I feel really confident and know how to approach those types of people or Whenever those conversations need to happen, you know. It can be difficult for a lot of people, but I think have so much experience with it that it's. It's kind of more fluid and how to do in the right way. It's aided a lot in that in in my career going forward. Yeah that makes sense and like. I, I can only imagine like the stressors you deal with being in an environment with the glassblowing like Super Hot. You said you were sent home from heat exhaustion, the stress like literally the physical danger bringing yourself. It's like working from home as a software engineer or star office in Silicon. Valley is like the stress level would be so much less like the. They compare Cinderella the stressors you're dealing with compared to maybe like the ones at the other place. Yeah, like whole other scar accord whole other thing, right? We are like running at time and there's one last question I want to ask before we wrap this out and it's just if you could share any like final advice to people listening right now. Who are just starting out? Maybe they were where you were like. You know four or five years ago. Whenever whenever you got your start. What advice would you give them? All. Let's see so I. Think for one perseverence when things feel like it's difficult, it may be difficult at first, but the more and more you do it in the more and more you practice. You'll eventually understand it some complicated things that I. That I could not have imagined when I first started of doing I'm able to thoroughly explain. They seem like almost simple. Now I think the more and more you do it. The the more natural feel, and it'll be really simple. Just just keep on doing it and things easier. also in your journey and learning. It's really important to try to reach out to people to make connections go to meet UPS ask questions. Because those are going to be the areas where where you're gonNA find a connection that can help you find that career and ultimately successful in in this career field. But those are probably the two biggest ones is. Now I know it's hard at first, but it gets easier, and it gets fun on the challenges they start to face. Get really exciting, and it's really rewarding. Ultimately you know all hard work will pay off as long as you just keep to it. And it will pay off so yeah, awesome, great advice in a great way to end this interview. Thank you so much again for coming on. Where can people find you online? Yeah absolutely. Probably a mitre twitter, a twitter handle is mit p. j are eight eight. Or my website is just a my name, my first name Michael or implemental. Dial my personal, Mitchell my last name.
On The Ledge
Helping houseplants cope with a heatwave
"Can be a bit of a short. Can you get a sudden burst of sunny days and high temperatures here in the UK, for the last few days it's been getting up to thirty degree Centigrade, which is, she says looking if I can't tell you what that is. Fahrenheit because it's actually off my chart. I'm thinking about ninety degrees. Fahrenheit probably, but much ought doesn't go that high. It does occasionally get this hot in the. UK doesn't happen that often. Often but when it does, we do struggle to cope, because we're not really set up for this kind of heat, and this is a time when we need to be paying extra attention to our house plants, because if you live in a climate where it's regularly getting up into the thirty s then you and your applauds a more acted, but if you're in a climate wet, it isn't the usual practice then. Everyone's undergoing a little bit of shock. So. It's worth checking out your plants checking in with them regularly and making sure that they can make it through this period. Things can account for well. If you've got very hot sunny days. The plants that are in your sunny windows. Maybe I'd to cope in spring in March or April with the amount of light. That's coming in through those windows. Come this periods. And the power and intensity of the sun, and the duration of the sun round the Solstice, the longest day of the year is going to be greater, so is worth having a look at your parents, and just considering some of them might need to be moved a meter or two away from the window, or the whatever the light source may be. That's a skylight, the sun coming through the windows, going to be more powerful at this. This time of year. So think about that unmoved any points before they get the chance to be sunburned. They certainly won't be badly affected by having a few days in a little bit more shade than usual and it major save them from unsightly marks, which could be going Straw yellow or brown patches. Those kind of things can indicate sunburn in mind. Also terrariums can suffer in this really hot weather. Imagine they are like a greenhouse. That is your house, so they can get incredibly heart, and if you've got any shaft of light, the mind becoming through more intense light than they used to, the plants can start to get dangerously hot, so do think about moving terrariums Tutu Cooler locations. Just keeping an eye on what's going on inside, you might need to take a little bit more or perhaps a bit less, but just make sure that they are not turning into a boiling colder that your plants won't appreciate and certainly if you're using the lovely, who must pop technique for propagating cuttings on. Contact from somebody recently, who said what's happening all? My who has popped cuttings just turn into Mersch and I said suspected that the listener had been putting these on really sunny windowsill on the cuttings cutting just cooking, so make sure if you've got a propagation station. Yes, it looks very nice on your windowsill, but think about moving it somewhere out of the sun, because those cuttings will really struggle in this hot weather particularly if they haven't got much of a root system established yet. The other thing to be aware of is that your plants maybe thirstier than usual. Why is that well? When a plant is in hot temperatures, the light intense, and the light intensity is higher than the rate of transpiration increases. That's the rate at which the plant is losing water through its leaves by the water, evaporating through the STA Marta the holes in the surface of. Of the leaf, and it will be drawing up more water from the roots and pulling that through and the high temperature and light intensity, then the more the plant will transpire, so it's going to need more water. How can you slow the rates of transpiration? Well, if the partly surrounded by really humid air, then slow it down, so you can miss your plants more. If you. Move them outside. Bear in mind. The extra wind will also caused transportation to increase. If you put your plants outside again, they might need more water, but just make sure there was enough water around. Those roots of the plant doesn't end up wilting because that will be the end result if your leaves are allowed to get into that situation where there just isn't enough water to supply the rate of transpiration. That's happening if you do come across any parts that have wilted just first of all, make sure that it's not a question. Question of over watering as it can be, implants will, but if they're really draw around the roots, he needs to take emergency act action. get them into the shade. Stick their pot into a bucket or tray of water. Run lots of water over the root ball. Because once that will get super dry. It becomes hydrophobic, so it pushes away water, and you'll need to defeat that by giving you a really good. Soak gift up could soak for an hour or two, and it should recover provided. It hasn't been led to go too far. So do check plants even plaza think well watered them every few weeks. You will find that they will need more water at this time and CACTI and succulents. You've got CACTI and succulents. You will find that they will drink a good amount during this time as well. My CACTI and succulents right now, getting rewarded at least once a week, and especially if they're in terra cotta port, which is evaporating moisture too, so ignorant. Your CACTI succulents because they will need water to.
The Leader
Britons will be able to holiday in France, Spain and Italy from NEXT WEEK
"The UK could get foreign holidays back to selected destinations, but travel John the Simon Calder, his not impressed. And Bournemouth beach they partied in thirty degree heat like social distancing didn't exist. Be Two meters, or what with mitigation? It's like the Mediterranean, said the weather to remind us of what we're missing out on. At least for now it's report. The government's being busy signing up deals with countries like Spain and Italy that a let British people travel there without having to go through quarantine. Perhaps as soon as July fourth, it could be a lifeline, an industry that feared it could lose up to twenty billion pounds, but travel John Simon calder. His not convinced joins me now this as the so-called air bridges, just a rumor. What do we actually know about what's happening? We know that this is an extraordinary episode in government by League. It's now I think eight weeks since dominic. Cummings came back from his to <hes> Dharam and saw that the judgment was in some disarray and unpopularity over the number of. Deaths and decided that. It was time for an eye catching <hes> policy and he decided that quarantine would be the right way to go, even though of course at that stage, the rate in the UK, thank goodness was declining and only international medical is. There's no point. In current in on a blanket basis. When you're in decline and Sarah lots the other countries around the world, and set the around Europe, since we've just had neak after leak after leak, and some of them almost comedic say that we got the Communist announcement on the tenth of May and then immediately we got to kind of the CAN. It's actually an official government announcement. Saying well, of course, this doesn't apply to France and then that was quietly withdrawn. And then we have on this morning and I make it six days to July millions of <hes> policymakers and hundreds of thousands of the travel industry work workers simply do not know if foreign holidays will take place this summer. It is an extraordinary state of affairs and. All I know is what I'm hearing from various rumors in the industry, some of them when employees some of them pure guesswork, but not. Is that on Monday the? Department of. Transport will announce. A list of. Eight or ten destinations that you can travel to probably starting on the fourth of July, and probably the Foreign Office will change of guards against Auburn. Essential Travel, but we know that from older lakes we have been given a very very difficult guidance, so the countries that are on this list include places like France Spain. Italy! Greece, all popular tourist destinations for dealing anymore actually go Simon de think that the fears over Luna virus abated so much that people will willingly Kevin Aeroplane and head off to a tourist hotspot. Far Safer Agree Thailand in the zoos of Portugal which has nil rate at the moment sauce safer than you would in them, and while the government's insists that policy is informed by the science. The scientists aren't spoken to say this is the most Balmy thing. We've ever heard of the best way to get the rates down in the UK a get. The prevalence in the UK is for millions of people to go on holiday veto, less dangerous places, and so the government's move. Who's actually had counterproductive? Silently will increase the number of cases inside the gifts in the UK, but since it's a political stunt rather than serious policy. That's just I was gonNA say seeing consequences it was. Pretty foreseeable or anybody, he sorted through. There will serve NEPEAN and I. It will be much minister people going abroad. I, think trump ripley. <hes> the majority of people thinking just leave it so twenty twenty. And the still a very substantial minority who would love to go abroad and are simply. Profoundly frustrated at the way that the government has had will eight weeks decided to bring this dominate. Cummings decided to bring in and. We still apparently going to see a weekend of frantic phone calls between different governments you. You really couldn't make it up, it is. Often covering travel for a thousand years and have never ever seen. Government causing so much grievous. To the industry, most time traveled to skits only. It's <hes> did a great holidays. Fantastic value make lots of money creates loss of jobs and the government. Let's. Let's say Bieber at the moment. The government is <hes>. If sex out to to as much damage as possible to the UK traveler district, it's difficult. See how they could have done any more than I do now it's. It's it's. Shameful but secondly just tragic for the people in the travel industry <hes> desperately trying to rebuild and say jobs and assigned thing for the people who will die they county councillor in more responsible for tourism tells me. He's really worried that it will call us home because people will stay out they'll. Take, an infection oval the boldly government. Decisions during this crisis, this is. Probably the most damage
The Leader
Britons will be able to holiday in France, Spain and Italy from NEXT WEEK
"The UK could get foreign holidays back to selected destinations, but travel John the Simon Calder, his not impressed. And Bournemouth beach they partied in thirty degree heat like social distancing didn't exist. Be Two meters, or what with mitigation? It's like the Mediterranean, said the weather to remind us of what we're missing out on. At least for now it's report. The government's being busy signing up deals with countries like Spain and Italy that a let British people travel there without having to go through quarantine. Perhaps as soon as July fourth, it could be a lifeline, an industry that feared it could lose up to twenty billion pounds, but travel John Simon calder. His not convinced joins me now this as the so-called air bridges, just a rumor. What do we actually know about what's happening? We know that this is an extraordinary episode in government by League. It's now I think eight weeks since dominic. Cummings came back from his to <hes> Dharam and saw that the judgment was in some disarray and unpopularity over the number of. Deaths and decided that. It was time for an eye catching <hes> policy and he decided that quarantine would be the right way to go, even though of course at that stage, the rate in the UK, thank goodness was declining and only international medical is. There's no point. In current in on a blanket basis. When you're in decline and Sarah lots the other countries around the world, and set the around Europe, since we've just had neak after leak after leak, and some of them almost comedic say that we got the Communist announcement on the tenth of May and then immediately we got to kind of the CAN. It's actually an official government announcement. Saying well, of course, this doesn't apply to France and then that was quietly withdrawn. And then we have on this morning and I make it six days to July millions of <hes> policymakers and hundreds of thousands of the travel industry work workers simply do not know if foreign holidays will take place this summer. It is an extraordinary state of affairs and. All I know is what I'm hearing from various rumors in the industry, some of them when employees some of them pure guesswork, but not. Is that on Monday the? Department of. Transport will announce. A list of. Eight or ten destinations that you can travel to probably starting on the fourth of July, and probably the Foreign Office will change of guards against Auburn. Essential Travel, but we know that from older lakes we have been given a very very difficult guidance, so the countries that are on this list include places like France Spain. Italy! Greece, all popular tourist destinations for dealing anymore actually go Simon de think that the fears over Luna virus abated so much that people will willingly Kevin Aeroplane and head off to a tourist hotspot. Far Safer Agree Thailand in the zoos of Portugal which has nil rate at the moment sauce safer than you would in them, and while the government's insists that policy is informed by the science. The scientists aren't spoken to say this is the most Balmy thing. We've ever heard of the best way to get the rates down in the UK a get. The prevalence in the UK is for millions of people to go on holiday veto, less dangerous places, and so the government's move. Who's actually had counterproductive? Silently will increase the number of cases inside the gifts in the UK, but since it's a political stunt rather than serious policy. That's just I was gonNA say seeing consequences it was. Pretty foreseeable or anybody, he sorted through. There will serve NEPEAN and I. It will be much minister people going abroad. I, think trump ripley. <hes> the majority of people thinking just leave it so twenty twenty. And the still a very substantial minority who would love to go abroad and are simply. Profoundly frustrated at the way that the government has had will eight weeks decided to bring this dominate. Cummings decided to bring in and. We still apparently going to see a weekend of frantic phone calls between different governments you. You really couldn't make it up, it is. Often covering travel for a thousand years and have never ever seen. Government causing so much grievous. To the industry, most time traveled to skits only. It's <hes> did a great holidays. Fantastic value make lots of money creates loss of jobs and the government. Let's. Let's say Bieber at the moment. The government is <hes>. If sex out to to as much damage as possible to the UK traveler district, it's difficult. See how they could have done any more than I do now it's. It's it's. Shameful but secondly just tragic for the people in the travel industry <hes> desperately trying to rebuild and say jobs and assigned thing for the people who will die they county councillor in more responsible for tourism tells me. He's really worried that it will call us home because people will stay out they'll. Take, an infection oval the boldly government. Decisions during this crisis, this is. Probably the most damage
The Big Story
How workers are fighting for their rights in a dangerous gig economy
"I was doing my grocery shopping at ten thirty last night and by doing my shopping. I mean I was picking things out on an APP that somebody else would get for me at the grocery store the next day and delivered to my front door and if for some reason I couldn't get a spot on that APP INSTA- cart and I guess we'd probably have ordered delivery for dinner using another APP that relies on another person to pick things up at the scary world and bring them to me. Yes I feel guilty about that but not enough to stop using these APPS and doubt that I'm alone in that right now we're relying on workers and the GIG economy more than ever and their job is far more dangerous than ever and most of them. Don't get hero pay or have job security or benefits. Some of them will have been fighting hard to change that and some of them have even one including a group here in Canada. The provinces Labor Board has ruled out food door couriers more closely resemble employees rather than independent contractors creating a groundbreaking precedent for others in the GIG economy. So today will tell you their story and we'll also tell you what happened right after that historic victory and we will do that as soon as. Clare. Who is just back from vacation gives us an update on covid. Nineteen this weekend Clare. Welcome back where did you go? Hey Yeah I took a few days off last week but didn't go anywhere. Obviously the furthest I went was to the park down the street. I am just glad that you came back. And before you update us. Can you explain to listeners? When will hear your updates now? Because we're changing that alphabet. Yeah will you know? I think we're kind of over the initial shock of Covid nineteen down the world and we've been hearing the phrase new normal lot so there will be fewer news updates at the top of the show from now on basically a couple times a week will update you on anything big happening with COVID. Nineteen in Canada. So yes you'll still get the news you need but maybe not every day and of course if God forbid a second wave hits and things do go downhill we will then be right here going down that hill with you every day and speaking of a second wave Clare. Let me guest as your report. Today involves some idiots in Toronto. Who were doing their best to make that happen this weekend. Yeah well that was what everyone was talking about this weekend. Because it was nice and warm out in Toronto and people wanted to go out so there were these huge crowds at Trinity Bell Woods Park on Saturday. Thousands of people were there with practically no physical distancing the city of Toronto. Call this dangerous behavior saying that. This threatened to undo all the work done over the past ten weeks so on Sunday. The World Law enforcement officers in the park and making sure that people were keeping that two meter distance. This is happening. As the number of cases of Covid nineteen is actually going up in Ontario and perhaps coincidentally two weeks after Mother's Day in Alberta the cities of Calgary and burks joining the rest of the province in allowing bars restaurants and hair salons to open today and there will be more restrictions lifted for those cities in particular on June first and in Quebec their concerns about an upcoming heat wave a minimum of thirty degrees Celsius for three days. Starting tomorrow the concern is people in long term care homes who don't have air conditioning. A long term care homes as we know have been hit the hardest throughout throughout this pandemic in Canada especially in Quebec so the Quebec Council for the protection of patients says. It's ready to go to court on this one as of Sunday evening. Eighty four thousand six hundred and ninety nine cases of covid nineteen in Canada with six thousand five hundred and fifteen deaths. I'm Jordan Youth Rawlings and this is the big story. Sarah much heads. Ida is the work and wealth reporter for the Toronto Star. She frequent guest on this podcast and now she has a podcast as well. Her new show is hustle. It's about the David versus Goliath battle. For Workers Rights in the GIG economy and episode two drops today Hazara high. You told us about this podcast when we had you on a couple of months ago and you've been putting the whole thing together. I guess well. The landscape has been shifting dramatically. So why don't you just kind of take us way back to the beginning and tell me about the GIG economy and food aura in particular When you first began this project which is a little over a year ago. Yeah that's right. It's sort of the May year anniversary of reporting on this story and there is really being so many twists and turns over over the course of the year. Some of which we sort of new would come a big battle at the Labor board an effort to try and unionize food aura careers. And then some that were just totally unanticipated. Obviously picked the pandemic being the major one there. So it's been a. It's been a really interesting. Year of following wet was really a unique kind of first attempt to change working conditions for workers in the GIG economy. Which I think is a word that we're all familiar with and we're so used to using APPs to get an uber left or order a meal to our doorstep but you know often. We don't interrogate what is happening behind the scenes. And so that was sort of the inspiration for taking a deeper dive into what the realities of this kind of work are like a new followed a group of food or careers for a year. Just tell me about them. I mean who are they? How did they meet? What are they like? Yeah so Fidora careers are really a diverse group of workers in the city. You know we've all probably seen them on their bikes with a big pink Fedora. Bag on the back or food or a jacket But they're not just cyclists. They're also drivers who go around the city delivering meals and I think a lot of people kind of assume that Workers doing this kind of job are often like young college students especially downtown a lot of the folks that you'll see on their bikes are are younger people but the reality is that the workforce when. I started meeting. Carriers was so much more diverse. You know a lot of drivers who are working in more suburban areas. Are you know New Acadians? Were supporting their families and haven't been able to find work in in their field. You know it's people who really do this as a full-time job is their career. Really They've been doing it for years And I think that the kind of overwhelming feeling that I sort of got from from talking to careers over. The course of the past year were just the fears and concerns around the protections on the job and a sense that this is a job that has really kind of fallen through the cracks that disentitlement workers from a lot of supports that many people take for granted. I think most fundamentally is a job where many express expressed just feeling like. There was a lack of respect and and one career Chris Williams who was involved in the Union drive. Kind of summed up why careers started organizing and trying to change that the broader issues around health and safety wages and dignity. And all those kind of stem from this other issue which is Fidora's misclassification of their couriers calling them. Independent contractors instead of employees or dependent contractors and that misclassification allowed them to avoid taking any responsibility for carriers. You talked about that kind of the goals of forming a union and one of them with dignity. Why is that so important? It's the hardest issue to define by in some ways. It's the most important careers have value. And I think it's the most important because that's personally by the way I think it's the most important because I think it's the one that justifies everything else like. That's why wages are important in many ways for me is because it's hard to live a dignified existence if your wages are two or uncertain if you don't know whether you'll make your daily quoted today or not and obviously health and safety connects to dignity because it's hard to be now when you're wearing constantly about your health you know it takes a toll it takes an effect. I want to explore that a little bit more but I I find the idea that we can talk about. These jobs is having fallen through the cracks kind of crazy. 'cause can you give me a sense of the scale of the GIG economy and Canada because it's everywhere right? Yeah anything I think