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Welcome everyone, to the last show we post before getting our animals! We're flying out tomorrow, and we're in Seoul for five days, then we're bringing Spudgy and Meemers home! It's finally happening! I can expect the next few videos to be of us just hugging our animals for a long time. Spudgy at first will be excited to see us, I'm sure, but I think that excitement will wear down after a day. Then he'll start giving us the body language of "ok stop touching me" while we're still sobby and petting him a bit too roughly. I've seen those videos online of soldiers coming home and their dogs freaking out. Spudgy I think is too old to show that much excitement. I just hope he's happy to see us, in any way that he can show. Whoa I started talking about our animals a bit too much in a video that doesn't feature our animals at all.
Ok, let me just talk about how much we love our neighbours. We showed you a clip in which one of them yoohoo-ed us and shared tomatoes with us. Can I tell you right now: those were literally the most delicious tomatoes I've ever had in my life. Korean japjali (sp?) tomatoes were my favorite beforehand, because they tasted like they were salted, and I love salted tomatoes, but these tomatoes we got tasted as tomato-ey as a tomato ever tasted. Imagine eating a grape that tastes like the fake grape candies you might have had as a child: this tomato was like eating candy tomatoes, though I don't think candy tomatoes exist. I need to find out what those tomatoes were, and where I can get more. They're infinitely better than anything we got at the supermarkets here. And the fact that our neighbour shared them so freely with us is amazing. We barely even wanted to share the tomatoes amongst ourselves. Our neighbourhood is great :D
Anyhow, back to packing for tomorrow! We need to bring some souvenirs for Spudgy and Meemers. A bone from a good ramen broth for Spudgy and a fun toy for Meemers. We've seen some cool cat things here for the Meems. I hope they like it!
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yay! lil' meemers is returning! he is such a lazy sweet kitty… some nights i can't sleep so i will watch cat videos to help me doze off. I want a lil' meemrzzz in my life! My wife hates cats but through continued exposure I have brought her to a point that she likes Dr. Meemersworth and if we could have a cat in our home it would have to be docile friendly scottish fold kitty!
Ermahgerd I think I found Demon Dan!!! Dan Tanda Wilkinson
He's on the article that Simon linked to on Twitter a few days ago! Second from left. And he links to S&M as a collaborator on the Super Mario video https://www.youtube.com/user/tandabeats
I feel like such a stalker!
Hey Simon and Matina :D I remember you were on After school Club and running man ^^
Also you have to listen to some One Ok Rock those boys have so much talent! éif youre not too much in the rock style they did a couple and their songs acoustics that are so good. Hearthache accoustic is just awsome ♥
hey simon and martina! please check out my website (fansoop.com), I sub jpop music videos from time to time and the mentioned artists in your challenge is in there. I was like.. "how do you not know ONE OK ROCK!".. a must watch band to check out. Alrighty too-da-loo have a great week!
Uhm I'm going to be that nitpicky fan. Martina's … I mean queen fat fat taco head is actually an octopus. The squid one looks like this ( http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7586/16776215742_6a95eee641_m.jpg). Still you look fabulous as always. Can't wait to see the reunion of you guys, spudgy and meemers!
I wish you the bestest while reuniting with Spudgy and the Meemers. Being without one's fur-kin is tough.
Oh! and I remember your appearances on After School Club and Running Man – had me laughing. Lots!
Tracking an OST from One Ok Rock lead me to k-pop, and then to your channel, so YAY! for J-pop. But wish I could see/hear more of it …
I am SO happy that the 20th has finally come around and that Spudgy and Meemers are finally going to be reunited with you guys! I think hearing that actually made me happier than hearing about the Sailor Moon EVERYTHING (and I LOVE Sailor Moon!)
I'm so excited for all the pictures and videos of you guys getting pet hugs! I can't imagine how hard it was for you two!
When my mom and I went to Korea for about 2 weeks it was the first time we had been away from our cats for that long and it was so hard. After about day 10 we really missed them and kept bugging the cat sitter for photos. And when we got home we just gave them huge hugs for the entire day and they didn't leave our sides. So much feels!
Oh yeah !
Always good to have a long video on monday :) Monday is always a long day… To day was a really bad day.. Uh..
But everything is much better now, thanks guy ^^
God, I love the squid hat, I hope that I'll have the same one day xD It's soo cuuute ! Even if I would look dumb, I'll wear it everyday º^º
Anyway, you appeared on After School Club and Star King (with Super Junior anf F(x), omeiguuud) ! And the YoutubeMusicAward to, it was probably not on tv, but it was pretty huge tho :o
Anyway, see you, lovely youtubers <3
Yay, I got all the j-pop artist names correct! I guess listening to Japanese music for over 10 years has something to do with it. lol Random fact time, Sexy Zone is actually a boy group that debuted when the youngest member was still 11 years old (he is 16 now) so… think about that! (maybe not the best name for them tbh haha) As for other great band names! My favourites are Asian Kung-fu Generation, DaizyStripper, Plastic Tree, Like absolute myself, Aural Vampire and Crazy★shampoo. These are all bands I listen to. :D
I'm glad Martina had fun at the Sailor Moon event! The glowstick dance movements and fanchants are otaku thing, especially guy otakus do that at idol performances as you witnessed. :D
Oh and one last thing, could you please add subtitles when Dan is speaking because I can't never hear what he says. ;^; I keep adjusting the volume when you talk with him. OTL
I can't wait to see how Spudgy and Meemers react to seeing you guys again! I've done that way too many times and I always cry! so I'm waiting for that video near my box of 250 tissues
yeah a 2 hour special on that plz
So excited for the return of my Meemers Oppa I can't sleep or eat.
Well, maybe just the tiniest bowl of tuna. And just a little nap. Followed by a little more tuna. Perhaps another nap.
I'll just get the human to wake me when Meemers Oppa arrives. She can find me asleep with my head in my bowl. Pawsome plan.
Seeing as you only lived in tall apartments before I assumed the animals never had much of a garden? So that'll be a nice change but I guess Spudgy will just be sunbathing in his old age.
and as a lazy person bacon sandwiches are a stable of my diet… might not be the healthiest but hot damn easy quick meal that cannot be beaten.
You're right! Only apartments for Spudgy. We're very excited to see him in our garden :)
I'm surprised I didn't see any comments about the chopsticks thing. Cuz in 4 years in Korea, only when eating alone, I have had very old people take chopsticks out of my left hand and put them in my right. And then I get, like, "instructions" about how the left hand is wrong. Has happened in Seoul… more times than I can count.
I remember you went on Running man, because that was the first time I watched it and then I watched ALLL OF THEM 295 episodes later here I am. You also went on Star King because you met Seper Junior and they were incredibly short. Defining moments in Korean television History guys
Hello Simon and Martina. For the capsule question. You were on guests on staring with super junior and runningman as guest judges for the cooking competition episode with nickhun.
Oh my God, I am a major One OK Rock fan! I think you guys would like them too! As for the question, you guys have been on Arirang: Heart to Heart for an interview, Running Man with Nickhun, Star King with f(x) and Super Junior, and After School Club with Eric and Kevin.
BRAIN FREEZE TRICK: press your thumb up onto the roof of your mouth, curving the rest of your thumb up along the back of your teeth. It'll look like you're super-deep sucking your thumb (oooo, you SO nasty!!). ^_^ this works 100% for me every time (I eat a *lot* of ice cream lol).
Have a great trip & a safe return home with your VIP babies!
You were on Running man where the Running Man members had to make dishes with random ingredients!And Star king where Simon was way taller than the Super Junior members and Amber did a sweet dance!
ok as far as an offical Final Fantasy Fan club in Japan,,idk just check message boards. BUT you will be there for the big FF14 fanfest they have in like Sept. Oct. time frame. its totally crazy with live events and live event streams and the japan one usually last like 2-3 days. So in the words of Yoshi-P "Please look forward to it!!" lol and yes I do play 14. have played since 2.0 launch and played 11 for 9 years so lol. just check around and dont forget the Aorzea Cafe they have there in Tokyo.
Ah! I can't wait to play 14. I have to finish Fallout 4 first, and then finish the Witcher, but FFXIV is next after that!
I'm with you on autocorrect. Spudgy is always pudgy or sludgy. >:|
You guys were on Star King where you guys were suppose to do a skit with the mission impossible theme where you kidnaped suju and f(x) [I think infinite was there too] members and you guys were also in Runningman(yaas) episode 19 where you guys became judges for the food they made xD
I think you guys also appear in Arirang: Heart to Heart for an interview…
saranghae <3
One Ok Rock is my favorite band!!!! I actually have seen them live twice. The first time I got to meet them, take my picture with them, and got an autographed poster. They came to Wisconsin USA of all places! I actually mentioned them in a letter I am writing to you (which I hope to send off this week). They are one of the bands that I am recommending to you. I would say they are more j-rock than j-pop. THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!
P.S. Simon, you look like a "smooth criminal". Ha ha!
ROOOOOOSE! I miss her! <3 Any particular special reason she was visiting y'all? :)
For the question, I only remember Arirang's Heart to Heart, which was your first show, I believe, Star King, and After School Club. There's another one or two probably, but I can't remember now. :P
Rose does more traveling lately. And now that we have a place to stay w it's an extra room, and flights are cheap, she decided to come hang out for a bit :)
That sounds so fun! I'm glad she can visit y'all and it looks like she had fun. :)
Ooh ooh! Question. You guys were really excited about the indie music scene back in Korea, and that was one of my favorite segments on your blog. Have you found good indie artists in Japan yet?
Me believes you guys were on Star King with Super Junior that one time…and maybe the YTMAs? Is that a legit show? If not, I know for sure that you were on After School Club with ya bois Kevin and Eric.
SIMOOOONNNN! THERE'S GOING TO BE A FAN FESTIVAL FOR FINAL FANTASY IN TOKYO!!!! Its in december though… here's the link http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/96dfcd74c41169f7ca976252c69f8ec2aef132f2
HOLYSHITSNACKS! I'm going!
The Pillows did the ending song and soundtrack for FLCL, an older anime series by Gainax (the studio behind Evangelion and Ebichu) from 2001. I think you guys would enjoy them, and the anime as well. It's 6 episodes, weird and symbolic in an awesome way, great to binge watch. I would describe The Pillow's music like Sloan, crossed with Weezer? Jangly rock, melodic, super fun to listen to. Highly recommend both. :D
Martina, you were not the only one that did that Smarties thing. Simon missed out!
Simon & Martina you were on Running Man and Tokyo Live:Abraod in Japan & After School Club where Simon can up with a unique kpop group name it was JizzyMaker witch is the parts of Eric Nam,Jhimin and Kevin names.I LOL so hard,and just one question when are you guise going to have live chats again I miss them so much.
Ya'll were on Running Man wayyyyy back when Lizzy was still a member! You were judges and Martina even got Nichkhun to say Fighting to her Buchan students!
There was also the time you were on Star Kind where tried to kidnap Super Junior and F(x)! This was probably the beginning of the amazing friendship between Ya'll and Amber or should I say Llama. Not to mention Simon just TOWERD over all of everyone
TL;DR Running Man and Star King XD
100% yes I will! I made my first overnight Japanese broth (dashima) in order to make my own miso soup for breakfast, but I'm still working on perfecting the flavours so that I can share the recipes. Once I get my dashima down, I'll be able to share so many more recipes!!! Also, screwing around with making my own okonomiyaki, but still getting to know this weird mountain yam used in a lot of cooking. :) Also, I did get my eyelashes extended in Japan, but almost a month ago, they are really really lasting.
You guys were on Star King with Super Junior and Running Man with Nichkhun(I think) as foreign judges!
Simonnnn even with a beard you're like a naive baby! :P
For the question,I believe its Running man, After School Club, Star King and Arirang TV…. :D


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Canada China agree to extension in canola 'dockage' dispute
Two countries disagree on the level of foreign material in Canadian deliveries.
BEIJING — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says existing dockage rules with China on canola exports have been extended beyond a Sept. 1 deadline as the two countries continue to negotiate a long-term solution.
The two countries disagree on the level of "dockage" – foreign material such as weeds, other crops and detritus – that should be considered acceptable in Canada's canola exports to China.
The Chinese government had given Canada until Sept. 1 to cut the level of foreign material in its deliveries by more than half.
Trudeau made the announcement about the extension in Beijing, where the canola dispute was expected to dominate the trade agenda during his high-level meetings and the G20, which gets underway later this week.
"We're happy to reassure Canadian farmers that (at) the Sept. 1 deadline we will be able to continue with the current regime of canola and we (will) work together very closely towards a long-term solution in the coming days and weeks ahead," he said.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told reporters through a translator that both sides have "shown flexibility" on the issue.
He noted that while China itself is a large canola producer, it has no intention to keep its door closed to other exporters. But he said Chinese producers and consumers have concerns that disease could be imported.
"We believe that both sides will be able to make some mutual adjustments with the larger picture of China-Canadian trade and ties in mind," he said.
International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is part of the delegation travelling with Trudeau, had earlier said the issue is of "absolute importance" to the Canada-Chinese trade relationship.
"As everyone knows, this was something that was a very difficult issue for our canola growers, for our canola exporters and we were very, very pleased to be able to achieve today that Canadian canola shipments can continue," Freeland said.
China's ambassador to Canada, Luo Zhaohui, has stated that Canada has been inflexible and unfair in its approach to talks that began about seven years ago over Chinese concerns about rules for the make-up of canola shipments.
Luo said China buys 87% of its canola from Canada because of its good quality and production. But he warned China can always look elsewhere for the product, if necessary.News from © Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. 2016

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Hey trump:
You're being stupid in your transition.
Just too greedy and too obvious.
You're selling out the country.
You're gonna create a backlash that will tie you up in lawsuits and ruin your re-election chances.
Michael Moore already wants all the Democrat Congress men and women to filibuster you at every turn and to sue you and investigate you for any illegal conflicts of interest.
He will try to stop every action you and Congress take in your first ten days.
Here is a background article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/11/10/time-for-donald-trump-choose-president-businessman/RoIcF8sGNCWfpP3KdYy2EN/story.html
Wise up trump.
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The financial crisis threatening to bring down the economies of Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (the so-called "PIGS" countries) has long-term consequences which will affect whole generations in those nations. But the problems in Spain — high unemployment and immigration woes, regional tensions, and a low birth rate — seem to be combining in a "perfect-storm," making a financial meltdown perhaps even more likely there than in any of the other troubled European Union member-states.Ugh 2:
Spain has always been considered too big to fail and too big to bail. Spain accounts for 8 per cent of the eurozone's GDP and is the world's twelfth largest economy.
But the May elections exposed the true weak underbelly of its economy as the populace rejected the tough austerity measures imposed upon them.
Stuart Thomson, chief economist at investment house Ignis Asset Management, says: "Spain is different from the smaller peripheral economies. Ireland has a banking crisis, Portugal has a private sector debt crisis and Greece has a public sector debt crisis, whereas Spain has a combination of all three."


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Kevin Cuddihy, who has been president of the Univision Television Group, is now president of Local Media reporting to CEO Randy Falco. Cuddihy will now oversee a combined 130 television and radio stations with responsibility for local sales, content, digital, operations, and community relations. Cuddihy is a former WCCO (Minneapolis) AE and WWJ (Detroit) GM. Jose Valle remains president of Univision Radio but now he will report to Kevin Cuddihy, not Falco. Jessica Rodriguez was appointed chief marketing officer, also reporting to Falco. Rodriguez will oversee all UCI marketing functions, including the Univision Agency, a group that oversees a media inventory of more than $500 million across all of Univision?s broadcast, cable, radio, and digital properties, and is responsible for all cross-channel promotions, as well as research and creative services for clients and internal divisions.
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Flori Pyke [00:01:27] Hello and welcome to Episode 58 and you've got Flori with you today. And, I'm super excited to be back on the poddie. It's been a little while because I was in Canada visiting my family which was great but better yet I'm here now. And, I'm really stoked because I get to connect today with the founder and owner of Las Vegas based company, is that right Shannon? The Social Bungalow also known as Your Outsource Marketing Director. So Shannon, is it Lutz [Lootz] or Lutz [Luhts]?
Shannon Lutz [00:02:00] It's Lutz [Lootz]. Good job. Nobody ever gets that. [both laugh]
Flori Pyke [00:02:04] Well, there you go. Welcome. How are you?
Shannon Lutz [00:02:07] I'm so good. I'm so stoked to be here.
Flori Pyke [00:02:10] Yeah. It's really exciting to connect with you. I love connecting with people beyond borders, as well. I just feel like it brings our little internet global world even closer. So, it's great to have you with us. And, before we kind of deep dive into what we're here to chat about today, I'd love for you to just share a little bit more around you, your bio, like what you do, your zone of genius, what you do at The Social Bungalow. Tell us everything.
Shannon Lutz [00:02:37] Absolutely. So, I like to say I'm a business and marketing strategist for online entrepreneurs. So, I help service-based businesses and then coaching practices really starting from the foundation, how are you structuring your program suite? How are you selling your services, how are your income projections looking for the rest of the year for the next year and once all of that is set up, we then market. Because if you tried marketing beforehand, you are going to spend time, money and energy for somebody to come back, be confused and then leave. So, from that point, we kind of back into the strategy from there. So, OK I now know exactly what I'm selling. I'm now showing my ideal client how they can work with me easily. They know their tangible next steps. And, I'm going for organic and paid marketing that's going to lead them into these funnels and going to coach a conversion that's seamless and take less time from the experts themselves so they can actually focus on the business and servicing their clients.
Flori Pyke [00:03:32] OK. Love it. And, so is it namely like service-based businesses or product-based businesses that you work with or a bit of both?
Shannon Lutz [00:03:41] Exclusively service-based. It's only service-based, so anything from somebody that's rolling up their sleeves and writing the copy or snapping the photo, all the way to the person who is just sharing their expertise as a mindset or health and wellness coach.
Flori Pyke [00:03:54] OK. Now, before you and I connected today, even before I reached out to you, I obviously did a bit of stalking on your website. It's like you know creeping around. And, one of the things that really caught my eye was that I saw some mention of the fact that you've worked with the likes of no other than Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. Is that true? [Shannon says Yes!]What? That's crazy.
Shannon Lutz [00:04:25] Yeah. So, I was in the corporate world prior to being an entrepreneur myself and I worked for a fitness franchise. Through that, A-Rod as we lovingly call him [Flori says "A-Rod.Yes"]. He came on board and became a partner. And so through that, I had exposure to his A-Rod Corp which he actually is a really smart business man. Has his hands on tons of different businesses. But through that, I was able to kind of look at his digital marketing and talk to him about his social media and just have event and corporate partnerships with him. So that was amazing. And, then naturally he asked to start dating the best person on the planet ever. [Flori says "Yeah. She's so hot."] Like how did she? I don't even understand. I'm going to tell you a story in a second.
Flori Pyke [00:05:10] Yeah. I'm like I'm excited for that one. Yep.
Shannon Lutz [00:05:12] So with the fitness franchise there was also yoga. So, that was kind of where she came in and wanted to dabble in that. So, I was able to then work with both of them by having my hands in both companies and then in their company. So really truly phenomenal experience. They're really so hard-working and she is so nice. Sometimes she gets a rap for being rude but she's just being a boss bitch. She's showing what's up and how you get stuff done because she is like they say the hardest working woman in Hollywood. But, anyway, so she one time we were actually working out together in a group fitness class and she did go to the bathroom afterwards to clean up and she didn't want to just go in on her own and all of her security team is male. So, she had me come in the bathroom and guard her while she changed. Like I'm not kidding. I saw J-Lo's naked booty. OK. [both laugh]
Flori Pyke [00:06:09] This is crazy. And is it like real? I mean really that thing is like, isn't it insured?
Shannon Lutz [00:06:13] Yeah. Oh, it's insured actually, which is the best thing ever. And, I'm not trying to turn up my nose at her or out her but it definitely was real. And, nowadays, I think it has some support from some injections of sort. But you know, that's her brand. [Flori agrees] And so, she needs to go on marketing herself.
Flori Pyke [00:06:32] Totally and you know what, age gets the best of us. Exactly. I mean that's it. That's her jam, right? So you got to do what you've got to do. Oh my gosh, that is so funny. I love that story. Thank you for sharing that. [laughs] All right. So, today I wanted to really connect with you to tap in to your genius about all things passive income because we've never had anyone on our podcast come and speak to us about this. And, I think especially our audience that we have a female entrepreneur driven audience and a lot of us are mums. So, you know between Anna and I, we have six kids for instance and a lot of our listeners are mums as well. And, regardless of being a mum or not though, I think time is of the essence today. And, the world is moving faster and faster and I think that wherever you can create some sort of leg up to generate a passive income stream so that either you're covering your ad costs or just generating a bit of residual income like you're winning, right? Like there's no negative to that. So, I just thought let's get you on. I'd love to kind of pick your brains on all this. So, the first question that I wanted to ask you just like for all our listeners just to spell it out in layman's terms like what exactly is passive income? And if you can just share a bit more around it, maybe you can just give some examples. That'd be great.
Shannon Lutz [00:07:58] Yeah. Absolutely. So passive income is something in a transaction that occurs through your web presence be that on an actual website or just something that you set up technically that someone can purchase and then roll into a program or course or even a product that you did not have to put the muscle, the time and the energy into selling in that moment for them to obtain it at that time. [Flori agrees] But previously, you would have already created everything set it up, it does take a lot of muscle but after you add one onslaught of hard work to create, you can then sell passively. So that is the ideal scenario being on a Mexican beach with a margarita. [Flori laughs] And then you get a PayPal notification of 1,000 dollars which is actually more like you're looking at which banana isn't brown in the grocery store and then your phone chimes with a thousand dollars. Either way, it's you putting in the actual time and effort in that moment to kind of coach that transaction.
Flori Pyke [00:08:51] OK. OK. I love it. And, is this, you know you mentioned obviously, there's a lot of muscle that has to get put into creating something like this. So, fundamentally, it's like a funnel that you create, right? [Shannon agrees] And, would you say that it's feasible for anyone to create like a passive income stream whether you're service or product-based or is there a particular kind of business that would benefit more from this?
Shannon Lutz [00:09:16] No. I mean even taking it away from business, you could be anyone especially to your audience if not yet in your entrepreneurial journey but they are at-home mums and they love listening to this for inspiration. You can teach somebody how to get your toddlers to sleep at night. You can teach somebody how to grow tomatoes in the garden. You can teach somebody how to program a TV. Whatever it is that is your actual expertise, there is somebody out there that's going to Google it and need it. If there's a low buy in for something simple like that and you don't yet have a big business beneath you, say you priced how to get your toddler to sleep and it is four-part video series that takes them through. They can watch at their own pace and it takes them from the step A and step Z of you being an expert at your toddler sleeping for one hundred dollars. They can create the actual module itself in the videos and then put some marketing around it to easily sell that without actually being in the mix of the sale in the moment.
Flori Pyke [00:10:11] Yeah. OK. I love it. And so I guess to that point, I have a question because obviously I think that we work a lot with female entrepreneurs who are starting out. They come to us with an idea or they're very much in the growth phase. And, for those listeners like is it a good idea to kind of start with setting up a passive income stream and what kind of price level are we looking at to have a successful passive income stream? Because I'm sure that plays a role as well. It'll be harder I would imagine to sell like a 5000-ticket you know product versus like a 200 in a passive income stream. Would you agree?
Shannon Lutz [00:10:50] I would. Yeah. And, I'm going to go ahead and answer the first part of the question bluntly and say no, I will not start creating something passive right at this moment. If you are a female entrepreneur who is building an online business, what I would suggest you do is build with passive in mind so that you can kind of snowball back to your services. So, start by creating say you've got a high-level one-on-one that just involves your expertise and you're really with your hands in somebody's business or your service you're providing. Everything underneath that, build in a way that you can roll it into something passive. So, let's take a course for example, creating a 90-day self-paced program that you provide for clients and then selling it before it exists. So, you're kind of taking that scary step that you think you know what your ideal client needs. So, you pitch it to somebody. They say yes I need that and then you create it in real time with the client. You're actually creating course materials by servicing a real time client and you're getting that feedback in the moment to say this didn't make sense or what do you mean by that. You're getting all of their questions. [Flori agrees] And then from that, you're generating a testimonial. And, now you had and gotten paid to snowball effect create your actual passive course.
Flori Pyke [00:12:04] Yeah. Yeah. No I love that. I mean one of the biggest things that we harp on about in this neck of the woods is very much around research and having those conversations with your target audience so that you can exactly like you're saying you know start to mould your offering better, understand the pain points and pleasure points that even leads to the copywriting that you use. So, that's like totally music to my ears. I also think like to build on your point further, when you are starting out, having those conversations like whenever you're selling a product it's always gonna be so much easier to sell that product or service on the phone. And, even though that takes a bit of muscle when you're starting out like unfortunately, that's just like the way the cookie crumbles. You have to really flex the muscle, get on the phone often especially if it's like a higher-priced service and take those learnings on as you go exactly to your point and then start to weave in that idea of the passive income stream. So, I totally agree with that. And, what about like with respect to like price point of the passive income stream like do you see it as being more of more effective like with an entry price point? Or how would you weave it in? So say that you have like... OK let's use the example right of a five thousand dollar course for the toddler OK. That's like your hero course, right? Where does the passive income stream come into building that funnel?
Shannon Lutz [00:13:27] Yeah. So, I didn't answer the last part of your previous question about pricing. I would start and this is just I don't know exactly what it is that your business is and what you're selling but I'm just going to ballpark some numbers and say go between 97 and 297 for your lower point starting course. Just stay within that sweet spot because under three hundred dollars is psychologically easier to whip out your wallet and pay online for somebody that you especially might have just come into contact with. Once you've actually built a good relationship with them and that can just be again passive. They could be reading your Instagram post. They can be on your email list connecting with you, anything on your website. It doesn't have to be you actually on the phone, then you can price higher. But when you're pricing higher for that say mid-level that's not even your hero 5000-dollar course you still want to make sure that you are priming the pump by creating opportunities for beta engagement. So, you might be offering the first three people to watch this video, opt in to this challenge, enter this giveaway are going to get my course for 200 dollars off or are going to get early bird before other people are going to get waitlisted if you're doing an open and close cart on your courses versus them just being constantly open and passive. And I use the word course as kind of like an anchor point but really it can be program, product or anything. And then that high level hero and if you're pricing it at five thousand dollars, you must have an engaged audience. You could, I mean it would be rare if you just had some sort of a passive funnel that maybe started with an evergreen webinar. So, some sort of previous sort of webinar that people are now watching. And then, when you do a follow up pitch sequence and maybe on the sixth email there was a 24-hour fast action bonus and da-da-da-da for them to convert to this course. Like that would be very impressive if somebody converts to a 5000-dollar hero program with personal touch from you. [Flori agrees] Right. So, as far as pricing goes if we're talking strictly passive and you've pre-set up all of these,I would not go over let's say sixteen hundred dollars. Getting up to 2000-dollar mark without having any touch is really hard to do passively. Now, that's not to say you should not be pricing higher than that for your courses and your programs that you're going to actually sell yourself. And, I say if you are kind of stressed about all of that intake as far as phone calls go, hire a temporary head of enrolment. Hire somebody that you coach as an extension of your team that is going to sit on the phone with every single person and listen to them talk about how their babies cry all night long and the result not the solution of course but the result of the lifestyle and the amazing sleep all night that they're going to have when their baby sleeps on that long from this program.
Flori Pyke [00:16:19] That's right. The transformation, right? That's it. The light at the end of the tunnel. I totally agree. So, you're saying fundamentally like I guess in marketing terms like we can look at it almost as a bit of a trip wire like that the passive income stream is really effective for giving the customer a taster around what it is that you do. They spend a bit of money. They get a good experience with you and then with the view that over an engagement sequence ideally there might be some personal touch points in the mix. You then can upsell them to your core kind of hero product, right? [Shannon agrees] Yeah. OK. OK. Love it. So, we've talked a bit about an example so I think that was really great. Do you have any examples you want to run through in particular that you've set up that kind of gleam any additional insights?
Shannon Lutz [00:17:09] Yeah. So, I kind of frame this around courses so let me... Actually, the client who's a great example. She has a membership option. So, that's a little bit different than a monthly... It sold passively and then it's a monthly re-occurrence and that's awesome. It's a double whammy. It's not just that one time passive. It's completely passive. So, she is a personal trainer and structured three different programs, her highest level is a full body rewire and that is completely one-on-one with her. The mid-level program, so that one is priced at a thousand dollars. The mid-level program has 50 percent premade materials and 50 percent time with her. That is two hundred dollars for round numbers. And then, her lowest level is only twenty-seven dollars a month. And, this is a reoccurring membership that does not involve any of her personal time in the moment. It's just upfront. So, what she did was she created five different meal guides with grocery shopping lists and actual recipe ingredients, everything you need for three, four, five meals a day and then an entire massive video library with coordinating workouts per day and then you also get a Facebook group for support and email support as needed. So, with that you pay 27 bucks a month and you are constantly, you have your built-in personal trainer through her and she's already set up twelve months' worth of these meal plans and these workout guides and video libraries. So, she doesn't have to think about it for a year, technically. So, with that lowest level program... She has tons of high-level programs but that is her money-maker and it's only 27 dollars. She makes 40 to 50 thousand dollars a month just off of the reoccurring sales. It's insane.
Flori Pyke [00:18:48] That's amazing. Sorry, Shannon. Just quickly, with respect to driving that, what tools are you using like as is it namely kind of Facebook ads, Google ads? I'm just interested in exactly from a marketing and digital standpoint. What are the main drivers that you're using to get people into her funnel and then get them into this passive membership?
Shannon Lutz [00:19:09] Yeah. So we use Facebook ads like crazy. That went really well especially for her industry. People are scrolling around and craving that sort of thing that you'll kind of have go across your news feed and be interested in and then you also seek out as well.
Flori Pyke [00:19:22] And, so Facebook ads I totally agree. I'm a huge advocate of Facebook ads. It is also really I mean the main driver of our business and collecting leads and nurturing those leads for that matter in terms of retargeting and what have you. But are there any other tech platforms that you suggest? Because obviously, I mean you alluded to the fact that it takes quite a bit of muscle to set up a passive income stream and I couldn't agree more. So, are there any kind of tech platforms that you recommend to our listeners when considering the setup of a passive income stream?
Shannon Lutz [00:19:58] Yes. So let me double back real quick and say she uses her Facebook ads like crazy. And, then she has a very engaged email list. She's got about thirty thousand on that and has really nurtured them. And so, she constantly gives them out awesome content that has no pitch at the end, no course, no nothing. It is just hey here's how to pop in some squats in your kitchen and they open her email because they have been trained that they're going to get some value for their day from her and they're not just going to be sold all the time. She also has a very and greatly engaged Instagram following which of course helps a ton. She has 1.2 million followers so that is very helpful.
Flori Pyke [00:20:34] Oh my God. Who is this person? And I'm like this is crazy. [both laugh] It's nuts.
Shannon Lutz [00:20:42] But yeah, she's built it over time providing workout value like just awesome awesome content all of the time and people know, like and trust her. And then from there, we do little reskinning of different ways to promote the 27-dollar program. So, we'll do like the Summer Slim Down Challenge, three days of diet meals and beating the bloat. And, you have to do something every day, tag her on Instagram and then you are, like that's your prize is your summer body. But then at the end of it, it's hey if you want more of this, it's just 27 dollars and we'll do that once a month and one big push per quarter. And that is, she'll see these little bumps in her cash influx just from putting a little bit more effort into it. And so, yes passive income when you create your funnels and your marketing ahead of time. It works on its own but that doesn't mean you shouldn't still just find ways to spike it as well as you go. [Flori agrees]. So, she does all of her marketing for her funnels off of ClickFunnels, which of course is a great service. I use LeadPages more so myself but as far as hosting mod
uled courses, programs, memberships, I highly recommend using Kajabi that is spelled as K-A-J-A-B-I for anybody listening. It's very similar to other services like Teachable. They do the same thing where you can upload video and PDF and audio and all the different media formats for a course for example and they will drip it out as you define. So, maybe when someone finishes Module One, they automatically get Module Two or maybe they don't get it until a certain date. Like you can pre-set up the structure of your course and then sync it on the backend that when somebody buys from a website for example, that purchase is telling Kajabi automatically this person is paid and is enrolled, go ahead and send them that welcome email and drip out the first series of content.
Flori Pyke [00:22:31] Yeah. No, I love it. We don't use Kajabi personally but I have a lot of students who do. And, I have honestly heard nothing but great things about Kajabi. Even yesterday I was listening to a podcast of Amy Porterfield and her courses are built on Kajabi. So, I mean obviously, it's like a very strong platform and will get done what you need in terms of building like an online program. So, yeah I think that's such a such a good tip. So Kajabi. What about? And, I spoke about this in an earlier episode actually with a guest like Zapier in terms of connecting like your different platforms. Is that something that you use quite a bit.?
Shannon Lutz [00:23:10] Yes and no. I mean it does have lots of integrations that you could scroll for days down the page of different sites that they sync with but it's so easy in the marketing space to get lost on all of the options. [Flori agrees] So, I like to keep it a little bit simpler. I will use them for getting myself email notifications when I need to be hands on purchases made. So, I really like if this is through Zapier and also if somebody fills out a high-level form that I really want to immediately get back to them on some sort of a questionnaire that they fell into my funnel and now on email 7 they were told to fill out a questionnaire if they were truly interested. I want to know about that. So, that's for example will go from my email to type form to Zapier back to my email.
Flori Pyke [00:23:52] OK. That's cool. That's a good tip. OK. Now, just looping back to one question that I had when you were talking about this fitness expert that you work with. You mentioned that she has a highly engaged email list and that she does these email outs where like she'll send them tips on how to do squats in the kitchen or what not. How frequently is she doing that?
Shannon Lutz [00:24:18] So, she has, I want to say 20 different lists within her email marketing software. She uses Active Campaign.
Flori Pyke [00:24:25] I love active campaign. We use it too. Yeah. It's so good.
Shannon Lutz [00:24:30] So, with that, she has premade sequences for about 20 different lists that take them through a year's worth of content. So, she is already touching these people in all these different points. A lot of times people are on multiple lists so they will hear from her essentially twice a week and then when she's promoting something three and four times a week. Two, four, six, eight so maybe 10 emails a month that somebody will receive and two of the 10 would have something pitchy in it, which isn't always a blunt buy my program. It's more so, enter this funnel that's going to lead you to a sale eventually but it's still going to provide massive value along the way.
Flori Pyke [00:25:09] Yeah, I mean eight to 10 emails a month. When you think about it is quite a lot. However, exactly like you said she has indoctrinated and created this like learned behaviour in her audience that when they get an email from her, this email is packed with valuable tips and content. It's not like sell, sell, sell exactly to your point. So, when you start to create that behaviour you can effectively, you can pop into people's email boxes that often, right?
Shannon Lutz [00:25:37] Right. You want people to turn into advocates for you like they will want to show their friends and forward the email and share every Instagram post you put on your story and say just check her out, she's amazing and you can't do that without really earning their trust by teaching them.
Flori Pyke [00:25:53] Yeah. No, I completely agree. OK. That's an awesome case study for us all to kind of gleam some great insights from not only when it comes to passive income but also just on an email nurturing front because I think those tips are really valuable. I think it can be tricky to get email marketing right because it's one thing to have a big list but if they are not engaged, it's just not worth anything right?
Shannon Lutz [00:26:19] Yup. Not at all. And, I always tell people that your social media is your rented land and your email list makes you a homeowner and until you have that home ownership it is always you know what if Instagram goes down tomorrow. So, running your business exclusively from a social media platform can be very risky and what if your account just got shut down,like that does happen to people all the time and then their businesses are starting over from square one. So, get the people on your list and then treat them right. Nurture them. Give them great content and give them content that isn't just a duplication of what you're posting on social media. Because if they liked your stuff to trade that virtual currency of their email list which people are sometimes more guarded about than their mailing address nowadays, you want to make sure that you're taking care of it and that you're showing them I am here for you and I'm your go-to person even if we don't exchange money.[Flori agrees] I'm still your expert in this niche.
Flori Pyke [00:27:11] Yeah. No, I think that is, it's such a good point that you raise. OK. Fantastic. Awesome. I think those are kind of all my questions when it comes to passive income. Is there anything else you want to cover off that we've missed or a gold nugget that is like glaringly obvious that we haven't spoken about when it comes to passive income that our listeners just need to learn before we start closing up?
Shannon Lutz [00:27:33] I mean we got a well-rounded overview. I would say I would drill down again on what we covered as far as making sure that you are building this with validation along the way so you are not blindly building and then hoping that when you put it out in the world it's going to get promoted like you need to make sure that the community you're building is hungry for this information. And a funny metaphor that I say is you're not always selling them the green smoothie, the spinach in the smoothie. You're selling them the delicious, refreshing, very sugary smoothie because that's what they're searching for. And then, they end up finding them on the flip side that it's packed with protein and antioxidants and all the leafy greens. So, skinning your messaging appropriately, honing your message with attracting the right people and then even just investing that time on discovery calls for example. You might just say "Hey I just want to hop on the phone for 20 or 30 minutes with three people who would be willing. There's nothing in it for you. I just want to pick your brain." And then, write down word for word, how do they phrase things, that's then your sales page copy. [Flori agrees]. So, really really make sure that you have identified that client avatar, you're messaging appropriately and you're validating with them and then building in a way that you can snowball effect it into the course doing your research and then as far as marketing goes I would say that you are not going, you hear about those 32,000-dollar days on launch day and that can absolutely happen for you if you prime it appropriately by first making sure that you're talking about it well in advance and you're then doing a little marketing promotions, a little blast like the beta give away or an early bird, two rounds of early bird making sure you're talking to your list, getting engaged audience, maybe even with Instagram they have that new chat sticker. Go ahead and put the chat sticker up on a story and offer something that's similar to your course and say "hey I just want to geek out over this helpful thing that I'm going to do for you. Enter the chat if you want to talk." Everybody opt in. You've now got let's say 20 different women. You guys are gonna talk, talk, talk. You're spending two hours worth of value on this similar topic and then tomorrow you say "hey ladies just so you know I'm releasing early bird and it's the lowest price it's ever going to be."
Flori Pyke [00:29:41] Yeah. No, I love it. There's so much in that. We actually do like quite a bit of launches ourselves and we recorded a whole episode for our listeners who want to kind of tap into more genius around launching. Episode 19 is definitely worth checking out. But, I think all those points that you raised are so valid because like and this goes back to I mean the way like our program is built is really, it really does echo and resonate exactly what you're saying. Like there's no point in going and marketing to an audience before you have those foundations in place, before you've done your research, before you know your avatar is, before you know the price point that people are willing to pay, before you know your niche you know your marketplace or competitors like that stuff is just so fundamental before you start tapping into your marketing because otherwise it's just money down the drain, isn't it?
Shannon Lutz [00:30:31] Exactly. So, well said and you don't... And, if that sounds overwhelming or daunting like oh my gosh so much to figure out before I can even get to this awesome passive income land. You can make money just in the process of the research. Just it just takes more hands on. So, be open that and create while you make and then boom! You're on your way to passive.
Flori Pyke [00:30:50] Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love it. And I think there's definitely something to be said for all of us service providers who are building their funnels that one of the... I remember chatting with a coach recently and she was telling me you know don't look at your passive income stream so much as necessarily like in some cases it can be a huge money maker. So, like you were saying you know your fitness client but in other cases she said and I think this really resonated with me. It was like just look at this being enough to cover your ad costs. So, you know you're liquidating the money that you're spending on ads and like that's huge because like you know there are times that we are spending like upwards of ten thousand dollars a month. And, if that's covered like winning, you know you're not starting in a massive hole, right? So, like as long as you can just get some residual income building up even if it's not that 40 50 thousand dollars a month but just something like you've got to just start somewhere, isn't that right?
Shannon Lutz [00:31:54] So right. And, even just covering your ad costs. They are now exposed to you. They're in your pipeline and they're probably going to buy something else from you down the road. [Flori agrees] So yeah you covered your ads but you most likely doubled the profit from that person. It's just going to take a little bit more time.
Flori Pyke [00:32:08] Yeah that's right. And, I mean that's so true. Like it goes back to that age old like when it's like I think it's something like you're 10 times to 15 times more likely to get an existing customer to come and buy from you again, right? And it costs 10 to 15 times less to have an existing customer come and buy from you again than to go and acquire a new customer every time. So, you're so right. There's a lot of power in this. So, even if the money is not enormous exactly like right from the outset, the potential there for the lifetime customer value is really large, right? And, then you have someone who's more engaged because they've taken a commitment with you. They've made like a macro commitment. Money has changed hands, right?
Shannon Lutz [00:32:52] Yes exactly. And, anything you put out for free is not going to be taken as seriously as something that they pay for. So, it is you're always going to get more of a raving fan customer by having them opt in even if it's just your lowest level program that covers your ad cost. Absolutely. [Flori agrees] Well said.
Flori Pyke [00:33:08] No. I love it. OK. Wow, so much gold. Thank you, Shannon. [laughs] I love talking this stuff because it's like so... As a marketer, I mean we're like yeah we're just talking my language. I could talk with you until the cows come home. So, thank you. It's been really fun. It's been so much fun.
Shannon Lutz [00:33:29] Yeah me, too. And, I just want to say if anybody is feeling overwhelmed by this, just think about one course, one program, one product that you want to go passive and sit down with a big piece of paper and just put it at the bottom and then write a little arrow up and then write a little arrow up and write a little arrow up and make yourself a little stream that could make sense to you. So, maybe they opt in to your email list because you gave them a free PDF. And, then from there you emailed them a few times and they had the option to go to your mini course and from your mini course, then they were upsold to your hero course and just as simple as that and kind of back pedalling to it with your social media promotions. I mean putting an ad around it but you can just create a four-part funnel to get to your hero product that is very doable and simple and then add onto it as you go. It does not need to be this beautiful mind web right off the bat. Don't be overwhelmed.
Flori Pyke [00:34:22]I think that's really, really good advice to kind of break it down visually for our listeners and I think that to kind of just elaborate on that like with the hero course like when you're drilling down on that like start with that right and then kind of break off a piece of that effectively and start mapping out that mini course that someone might pay for. And the mini course, I think this is really important to state, you want to give a lot of the what without the how, right? Because the how is what you're going to upsell them to in your hero course, right? And then, the lead magnet gives them a bit of a taster in what is contained in the mini course without drawing the curtain fully. So, it gives them a taster, get some kind of warm and then you're up selling them to that passive income mini course which might be priced exactly like around the 97 mark and then you can upsell them to the hero course.
Shannon Lutz [00:35:14] Exactly. And, it's also on another side of that coin, it is educating them with the foundation that they need in order to take your hero course because if someone takes your high level and they spend five thousand dollars with you and they don't actually see results, they're going to want a refund and they're going to be a bad review. They're going to spread the word, word-of-mouth wise to their friends they say don't buy that, it doesn't do anything. And, you know just from the heart side of it want people to have this amazing result. You want to transform lives. [Flori agrees] So, making sure that they are educated properly to step one two three, now they're on four and they can actually be an applicable person to take this course. That's what you want. So, what are the steps? What's the education that they need in order to be there?
Flori Pyke [00:35:52] Yeah. No. Oh so good. Yessss. [laughs]
Shannon Lutz [00:35:58] [Inaudible] throughout the episode. [laughs]
Flori Pyke [00:36:01] I love it. OK Shannon. So, tell us for our listeners, because they're going to want to find more about you, all this genius. Tell us a little bit more around where we can find more about you, where we can go find you on socials. Share all the links, please. That would be awesome.
Shannon Lutz [00:36:16] Yes, I will put myself out there. So, as far as hanging out with me I'm on Instagram. That is my main platform. So, come there. DM me. I go down in the DMs all day. My handle is thesocialbungalow. And, I always have some sort of a freebie in my bio right now if you're listening to this when it launched. It is your daily marketing plan. So, I put together five different tactics to help you put on horse blinders in a very advice-driven saturated online space and just focus on five doable things. How many times to do them and the structure by which to do them every single day for 30 days to see a massive difference in your online business.
Flori Pyke [00:36:51] Love it. That sounds really great. I might have to go check that out. All right. Now, for our listeners, to get your hands on the show notes and learn more about Shannon, you can go to theelevatory.com/podcast. And, Shannon, we normally end with a bit of a parting thought. So, I'm going to hand that over to you whether it's a quote or something to kind of summarise the lessons that we've gone through today. Any insights on what your parting thought is based on what we've discussed?
Shannon Lutz [00:37:18] Love it. I would say that, it's not a quote but, "clarity follows action." So, if you are sitting here spinning your wheels, not sure what you want to do. Just get messy. Make some imperfect action today. Get out there. Do it. Ask the question. Create a freebie. Get people on that email list whatever that looks like to you. Make some action and you will find out so much more through that than you will through mulling it over or asking your significant other what he thinks about it.
Flori Pyke [00:37:45] Yeah. No. It's so true. Like action creates reaction. And, you've got to start somewhere. So, that is so insightful and I think really valid for all of our listeners. So, thank you so much, Shannon. That's been so much fun. And, I'm sure we'll be connecting again soon. To our listeners, that's a wrap. And, remember to always elevate your business game.
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But massage isn't the only thing that I love. I have a lot of interests that have become fairly serious hobbies over the past few years. Cooking, photography, writing and blogging top the list. My current job allows me enough time to pursue these interests (yet another big bonus of working there), and I'm working very hard to grow my skills in all of these areas. I don't know exactly what that means for my future, but I know that expanding my skills and knowledge can only lead to good things — new opportunities.
My next big challenge is the 2011 Food And Light Workshop in Boulder, CO: a two-day food photography workshop. This is a big push for me and one I'm very excited about (when I'm not being nervous about it, that is). I'm basically self-taught when it comes to photography, so getting some real instruction is going to be great. I'm hoping to gain some insight into areas where I have been struggling, and overall I'm hoping to learn how to improve my photography for my food blog, Buried Carrots. I'd really like to build a bigger following for Buried Carrots, and one of the ways to do this is to get picked up by sites like FoodGawker and TasteSpotting. But that requires really good photos. So improving my photography is my first step toward pushing Buried Carrots to a new level.
So that's it in a nutshell: where I work, what I do, who I am and where I'm going — for right now, anyway. I'm focused on pursuing my interests, working hard and following my heart on a path that is leading me toward my "next big thing," whatever that may be. Look for updates (and photos) from the workshop coming soon!


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New Indian Research Station 'Bharati' in Antarctica
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During the Antarctic summer months of the years 2010/2011 and 2011/12, a new research station was built in East Antarctica for the Indian Ministry for Earth Sciences. Design and planning came from the German offices of bof architekten and IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft in Hamburg, Germany.
The complex structural system consists of an enveloping steel structure and a total of 134 special containers integrated to transfer vertical and horizontal loads. The final structural analysis was carried out by the German engineering office KSF in Bremerhaven.
The 'Bharati' research station, which is for the most part a two‑story building, has a floor plan with the dimensions of about 98 ft x 164 ft and is more than 40 ft high. The station was designed for a minimum operation time of 25 years.
The structure is mostly elevated and built on steel columns to minimize the impact of snow drifts. The foundation consists of altogether 83 GEWI piles (injection piles) that were inserted into the rocky underground.
The research station is exposed to extreme wind loading. The dynamic pressure of gust given in the wind report was 2.6 kN/m².
The building is stiffened at the station's front end by diagonal columns arranged in Y‑shape and by a solid reinforced concrete core at the back end.
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The Predator State: A Summary
James K. Galbraith's The Predator State is undoubtedly one of the most important books on the economics of our era. Galbraith sets himself the task, not only of exposing the discredited economic orthodoxies of our generation, but also documenting the economy as it really exists, and setting an agenda for the future. It is a book that desperately need to be listened to. And, even better than all that, it's a fun read. Go out and buy it immediately.
That said, here is a brief, abbreviated summary of the book, to better pull out its themes and spread its message. It is of necessity less clear and less well-argued than the book itself, which I you should actually read if you want to argue, but it should give the gist of things.
1: The Reaganites swept into power on the arguments of economic conservatives: lower taxes, tight money, and an assault on all opponents of market forces (government, regulation, unions). Their views were tried and failed completely. They have no remaining defenders in academia and only slogans and cronies outside of it. There is no longer any vision on the right; the left should leave its defensive crouch and start proposing something new.
2: Friedman and friends said that markets would lead to democracy — that "economic freedom" begets political freedom. But economic freedom isn't what it sounds like; it's not freedom from economic want but instead, as Friedman put it, "the freedom to choose" or, in other words, "the freedom to shop". But control over production is as unfree as in the Soviet Union, with advertising for propaganda, R&D for planning, and Wall Street analysts for government inspectors. "Lines form, under capitalism, every day."
3: Supply-siders argued that a) saving is a public good because it leads to investment, b) America does not save enough compared to other countries, c) saving would be unleashed by lowering taxes on it, d) the resulting investment would spur an economic boom. Every piece of this is wrong: a) in an efficient market, all the benefits from investment are captured by the investor; thus investment cannot be a public good unless markets are inefficient, in which case the government should step in more, b) the correct amount of saving is a policy decision, there's no reason to believe other countries have it right (the Soviet Union had a 40% level of saving right up to its collapse), c) rich people save most of their money anyway (it's impossible to consume that much) and changes in interest rates dwarf changes in tax rates; furthermore, real investment is encouraged by high personal taxes, since this forces people to keep their money in corporations, d) personal saving is less than 1% of GDP; almost all investment comes from corporations or overseas.
4: Milton Friedman claimed that high inflation (it was 10% in the 1970s) was just the result of printing too much money. Reagan's Fed adopted this belief, sending the US and many foreign countries into deep recession. Eventually, the policy was completely abandoned and high inflation has not been seen since. Serious inflation isn't caused by printing money, but by wage-price spirals — the price of oil shot up, causing rising prices to cover oil costs, causing workers to demand higher wages to pay those prices, causing prices to rise even higher, and so on. Today, most prices are set by overseas manufacturers and labor unions are so weak that workers can't demand wage increases. Inflation is dead.
5: Democrats (and some Republicans) repeatedly insist that we need to balance the budget or face fiscal collapse. But the budget is ruled by a simple equation: the total amount the government owes + the total amount the public owes = the total amount we owe to foreign countries. This is simple logic: whatever is not owed within the country must be owed to another country. But the international economy depends on other countries keeping large reserves of dollars (see 14), meaning our trade deficit must be high. As long as this is so, we must either have the government run large deficits or ask people to do so. The budget deficit was closed in the late 1990s because citizens picked up the slack with high credit card spending and home equity loans, inevitably leading to a slump. Balancing the budget is for suckers; Democrats should spend the money on public goods instead, promoting economic growth and thus raising tax revenue.
6: The argument for free trade comes from Ricardo's "comparative advantage" — a clever textbook exercise, but irrelevant to the real world since it assumes constant costs. In reality, either you produce manufactured goods, in which your costs go down as you make more, or you sell off commodities, in which case your costs go up as you make more. With the former, it takes time for local industry to build up the advantage (requiring protectionism). With the latter, you end up like Mongolia, which opened up its animal husbandry market, swelling herd sizes, turning grass into permanent desert, and killing off the entire market. With no other exports, such a country is in big trouble. Ricardo was wrong: diversification, not specialization, is the way to develop — and how every successful country has. Unfortunately, we've forced this broken system on most of the world. (China has escaped, letting state-supported banks fund money-losing new companies until they grow large enough to succeed as exporters. In the mean time, they dump their products on local Chinese, allowing them to have a very high standard of living at very low wages.)
7: There is no trade-off between equality and efficiency. Instead, equality leads to efficiency. Denmark is one of the most equal countries in Europe, and as a result one of the wealthiest. The rest are on a continuum down to unequal and inefficient. Full employment and high wages require companies to make the most of the employees they have, increasing efficiency. Raising the minimum wage doesn't raise unemployment, it lowers it — unemployment and inequality have risen and fallen together since 1920. Higher wages lead to more jobtaking and less quitting. The remaining increase in inequality was caused by stock market giveaways to dot-commers and Bush giveaways to government contractors — which is why it was limited to Silicon Valley and the Potomac, respectively.
8: The US is not a free market. Of GDP, 17% is health care (where experts, not consumers decide how to spend), 16% is housing (subsidized by quasi-public mortgage firms and tax deductions), 15% is federal welfare, 14% is local welfare, 4.5% is military spending, 3% is higher education (paid for mostly by government or conspicuous philanthropy1 and consumed for status and not value). Together, 70% of US GDP is planned; it's just that our facade of a free market makes us less efficient at planning than other countries (especially in health care).
9: In the 1970s, American industry (particularly steel and cars) was being challenged and weakened by Japan. Reagan's assault on inflation (see 4) dealt them a death blow, sending their foreign and domestic markets into deep recession, driving up the value of the dollar (making their exports more expensive than their competitors'), and raising interest rates. In the 1980s the technical staff left for Silicon Valley, and 1990s financial fraud killed off what remained. When new startup founders paid themselves exorbitant salaries from VC money other CEOs rushed to keep up, making them all wealthy enough to become a separate class. They used their new power to prey on the corporations that they ran.2
10: Previously, regulation kept the predators in check — unions, NGOs, and progressive businesses pushed government standards to kill regressive competitors. But newly-wealthy predator CEOs had the Republicans take over and gut regulation. The result is the Predator State, where every new law is a corporate giveaway. Prescription drug benefits for Big Pharma; NCLB to defund and deskill schools (building support for vouchers); and Social Security reform to give workers' paychecks to Wall Street. (Democrats have so far prevented the latter, but corporate-funded think tanks now aim to take them down from inside.) The programs allow further predation; privatizing college loans has led loan companies to bribe student loan officers. It's not that Republican government fails at tasks like stopping Katrina; it's that such tasks of governance are not its goal — opening up New Orleans for Halliburton contracts is.
11: The great liberal economic agenda is "making markets work" — small fixes for market failures. The canonical example is job training to fight unemployment. But job training does not create new jobs, economic growth does; the tech boom was the last time we saw a real decrease in unemployment. Similarly, some Dems propose universal preschool since experiments find kids with free preschool grow up to get better-paying jobs. But those preschools did not create jobs, they just gave their students an advantage in getting them. Universal preschool would give everyone that advantage, leaving no net impact. And creating markets in unmarketable goods (health care, energy, the climate) is doomed to failure. In these industries markets will not work; planning is required.
12: Planning is alleged to have been disproven by the Soviet Union's fall. But it is unavoidable. The market, even when it does work, fails to take into account the wishes of the poor and the needs of the future, since neither can buy things today. New Orleans fell not because of a lack of foresight (it was predicted by the local paper) or technology (the Army knew how to build strong levees) but because we lacked a plan — nobody in power bothered to do anything about it. Similarly, climate change will melt Antarctica and drown New York, Boston, South Florida, Houston, the Bay Area, London, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, and Shanghai. Stopping it requires a plan; an enormous one ranging from elementary school classes to government-funded research centers to a WWII-level restructuring of the economy.
13: Deregulation can have three effects: 1) increasing competition and lowering wages and prices, 2) speeding technological change and increasing quality, 3) creating monopolies and raising prices. Trucking deregulation did 1, airline deregulation did 1 and 2, but telecom, banking, and energy deregulation did 3. Charles Keating donated to the government, leading VP George H. W. Bush's task force to deregulate his industry and allow the Savings and Loan Scandal. Ken Lay was Bush's largest contributor, leading VP Dick Cheney's task force to deregulate his industry and allow the Enron energy scandal.
The solution is to lower CEO pay, raise the minimum wage, and set wage standards in between. Some liberals claim trade is the problem and the solution is to set environmental and labor standards on other countries. These are unenforceable and will be ineffective (companies moving overseas already build clean factories since that's most efficient and no significant exports are made using child or prison labor). Instead, we should set wage standards at home, like Scandinavia, forcing companies to increase productivity and pay fair wages. Wage standards should also apply to undocumented workers; illegal immigration is caused by employers who send recruiters to Mexico for compliant and low-paid workers. Applying wage standards to all will end these abusive practices.
14: Any country that can pay for its imports entirely with exports can organize its internal economy (its people and resources) however it likes. Countries that do not balance their trade depend instead on global capital markets and must play by their rules. But the US is a special case: after World War II (1944) it set up the Bretton Woods system of international exchange, pegging all currencies to the dollar and backing the dollar with gold reserves. But during Vietnam's deficits (1971), Nixon broke the system, devaluing US currency and wreaking havoc on the rest of the world. Reagan's tight money policies (1981) caused so much instability that other countries were forced to build up reserves of US Treasury Bonds in exchange for military, economic, and export security. US bubbles and the Soviet Union's fall make this system less secure than before, but as long as it remains the US can do whatever it likes economically. And it might as well, since economic success will strengthen the system and the policies proposed here will lead to economic success.
Conspicuous philanthropy is like conspicuous consumption, a way for the rich to flaunt their wealth, only far more effective — you can outdo your neighbors simply by adding another zero to the check, the buildings with your name on them live on after you die, and the government gives you a tax deduction. ↩
See the classic Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class for more on predation. ↩


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Partnerships can be helpful to parks and recreation departments. It prevents the duplication of services so that the community receives the needed programs and services, without unnecessary competition. The idea here is to utilize as many resources as possible by being efficient. Collaborate rather than compete. Forming a partnership means building successful relationships. Collaborating with outside groups is not only a way to limit your expenses in regard to resources, staff, and equipment, but it also allows the other company to market your programs and services as well.
There are some important considerations to think of before embarking in a partnership. Use your organization's legal department to review your legal responsibilities and liabilities. Consider the expectations that you want to uphold for your agency's brand. Key questions to ask:
- How long will your partnership last?
- Who will be running the programs?
- Buying the equipment and resources?
- How will you measure success?
- What happens with the partnership dissolves?
- How will bidding continue?
Finding the right partner is essential. Some of the methods for establishing key communication with partnerships include speaker's bureau, public meetings (input/forums), and employee relations meetings. It's important to involve multiple stakeholders in the process. Forming partnerships is typically a long term endeavor – one that influences your customers and establishes a reputation for your agency.
Networking is essential to parks and recreation agencies and professionals for job-related tasks. This might mean partnering with examples of:
- local parks and rec departments
- regional, state and national associations
- YMCA's, other private companies, clubs, outfitters
- school districts
- visitor and tourism bureaus
- professional associations
These kinds of partnerships allow current trends to be shared with staff and customers. These networking methods improve the quality of life in your community because you are constantly improving your services. You can also share your resources with others so that you don't spend unnecessary time and money. Collaborating is team work in action.
To find appropriate contractors or concessionaires…Request for Proposal = RFPs
Possible contract with agency goals and framework for services provided
Concessionaires should include scope of services, agency oversight, and performance standards
Measuring the outcomes:
- report the progress (revenue/expense reports, attendance, issues, etc.)
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — The Crystal Cathedral megachurch has restored the voting rights of its founder, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, on the church's governing board.
Spokesman John Charles said Wednesday that the church, which produces the televangelist show the "Hour of Power," has restored Schuller as a voting member after removing that right earlier this month. The ministry also announced the addition of five members to the board.
The Orange County-based church has been plagued by financial troubles after a disastrous leadership transition and a devastating slump in donations.
It declared bankruptcy last fall and filed a plan to sell its campus and glass-spired sanctuary as it faced $47 million in debt.
Schuller, a pioneering televangelist, started preaching at a drive-in movie theater in Southern California in the mid-1950s and later built the cathedral.
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2, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, , India
3, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-Son, , Japan
Metal hydrides are a promising material for hydrogen storage, given their relatively low cost, abundance and high weight percent hydrogen absorption (e.g. 7.6 wt. % for magnesium hydride). However, to date, commercial application of metal hydrides has been limited by the relatively slow absorption and desorption kinetics, requiring high pressure and high temperature, respectively. A first approach for enhancing the properties of metal hydrides is nanostructuring, with the associated increase in surface area and reactivity that this inherently creates. Pd nanoparticles on Mg nanofilms may increase the efficiency of bulk Mg and offer an attractive alternative to bulk Pd for catalysis and hydrogen storage.
In this work, the diffusion of H in Mg nanofilms decorated with Pd nanoparticles is investigated by DFT using the VASP ab initio simulation package. Models of Pd nanoparticle/Mg film interfaces and their variations, i.e. Pd(H)/Mg(O)Pd and PdH/MgH2, are examined and the specific reconstructions of the nanoparticle/nanofilm interface arising from the strain are deduced. The diffusion path of a H atoms starting from the nanoparticle region and ending deep in the nanofilm region is investigated and the respective diffusion barriers are extracted. The Pd nanoparticle is found to facilitate the diffusion of H in the first layers of Mg. This barrier is even smaller for PdH, suggesting that the diffusion is dependent on the H content of PdHx. Finally, H diffusion is prohibited in MgO for both Pd and PdH, suggesting that the nanofilm surfaces should not be oxidized before the nanoparticle deposition, and significantly suppressed through previously formed MgH2 domains.


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The Serenity is a Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor modified with 4 launchers, 2 for shadow bombs and 2 for heavy proton torpedoes (8 each for ammo) and 2 heavy laser cannons. Its fusial engines had been retooled to burn a special tibanna isotope, designated TibannaX, whose efflux turned dark a millisecond after fusion. The view ports utilize blast-tinting technology. Its shields have been downgraded to make room for a suite of sensor negators.
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I love visiting Buddhist monasteries and exploring their varied shapes, the beautiful paintings with bursts of vibrant colors and the calming silence surrounding it (no matter how crowded it is). Hence my trip to Shangri-La would have been incomplete without a visit to the ancient Songzanlin Monastery or the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery. This famous monastery, also known as 'Little Potala Palace' or Guihua Monastery, is located 5 km away from the city of Zhongdian on top of Fopinshan Mountain. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Yunnan province and is one of the most famous and important monasteries in southwest China.
In terms of its history, this monastery was built by the Great 5th Dalai Lama in the year 1679 AD, during the reign of the famous Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi, and was completed in 1681AD. The main monastery structure built-in Tibetan style has a gilded copper roof similar to the one at the Potala Monastery in Lhasa. The other buildings in the complex are built-in Han Chinese style.
For our visit, we rented a car from Shangri La and post a quick drive reached this huge monastery complex. This is not just a standalone monastery, but a huge complex with the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery, villages of Conggulong and Xiaojiezi (important posts and cargo distribution centers in the old tea-horse trade route), Milk River wetland, the Lamuyangcuo lake and there is an internal bus that ferries you from the entrance to the main monasteryaround. Upon arrival, we bought our tickets and then took the internal bus for the monastery. We first generally walked around a bit soaking in the peace of the place, watching the beautiful landscape all around, reading about the history of the place and generally speaking with the local monks. Speaking with monks here is super fun as they all love India and many of them have been to India too.
The Lamuyangcuo Lake, meaning the Soul of Heaven Fairy Lake, is a holy lake dwelled by the soul of Goddess Bandanlamu. In every important Buddhist ritual, the monks and believers led by the Rinpoche chant sutras and pray around the lake.
We then walked up the 146 steps to the main entrance and explored the six main structures, which included eight monastic colleges. There are also numerous boards around that explain the basics of Buddhism, the history of the monastery and the significance of symbols used in Buddhism. The main gompa (prayer hall) is a five storey Tibetan-style building with the capacity to house more than 1500 monks and a golden eight-meter tall Shakyamuni Buddha statue. On the main altar, butter lamp offerings are lit all year round and funnily there are cold drink bottles placed along with the local currency. There is also a small shop here selling religious stuff blessed by his Holiness the Dalai Lama himself.
This complex also has two main lamaseries, Jikang and Zhacang, both appear as Tibetan-style watch towers and are surrounded by eight sub-lamaseries and dormitories for resident lamas and monks. Photography is not permitted inside the halls and hence I don't have any pics of the beautiful interiors and the huge idols at the alters. But walking around these halls is like entering an art gallery full of vibrant paintings and intricate designs. Though I really wished that I knew more about Buddhism to be able to understand their mythology and these paintings.
I also understand that there are many Buddhist treasures that are stored in this monastery. Many rare Buddhist scriptures written on palm leaves and also scriptures that were used by the great Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the past are still preserved in this monastery.
We walked from hall to hall exploring the complex and chatting with the local monks who happened to be around. There is still some restoration work in progress and hence we not able to access a few halls. We then generally walked around for a long time, spun the prayer wheels, and photographed the fabulous views of Shika Snow Mountain. On the way down the long stairs leading to the main entrance/ exit of the Monastery there were several smaller temples but they are not as magnificent as the main temple halls. Still they are quite interesting and as very few tourists visit them and you can enjoy the surroundings in solitude.
I haven't been able to write a lot about this place as there is not much to see here but everything to experience. And you just have to visit this place to understand what I mean.
Overall a beautiful trip and a must visit if you plan to visit Shangri-La.
Tips for the trip
- Visit close to sunset for some magnificent photography shots of the sun setting against the hills and the temple complex
- This monastery is at quite a height and hence even slight exertion can leave you short of breath.
- To reach by foot, it's a 1 hour walk. However, it's not advisable as the road is narrow, winding and without sidewalks.
- By bus: Take Bus No. 3 heading north and it will bring you to the entrance of Sumtseling Monastery. Fee is RMB 1
- By taxi: A taxi ride from Shangri-La to Sumtseling Monastery typically costs around RMB 20.
- The entrance fee is a donation of RMB 125
- Visiting Hours are – 8.30am – 17.30pm
- Please dress conservatively as it's a place of worship.


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