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Shirk, rest & play. "7th Most Essential podcast in the world." (Esquire magazine) "Top 50 Podcasts to Listen to in Lockdown." (Sunday Times) "Genial babble... about nothing." (David Hepworth, The Guardian) "It'll never catch on." (Half-life) Living and loafing in South London with Dulwich Raider and Dirty South from leading slacker website, Deserter. It's only once a month, so don't get your hopes up.
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Richard Piet, known to terrestrial radio listeners in Southwest Michigan for years as the genial host of an informative and engaging interview program, brings The Richard Piet Show worldwide with this podcast! A show about "rides, people and smart talk," Richard is a fan of cars and interactive discussion focusing on a range of topics. In 2021, Richard established Livemic Communications, adding opportunities for purposeful exposure through informational, customized podcast series. Businesses ...
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Since its launch on 24th July 2020, Broken Oars Podcast has grown into the world’s best podcast about rowing, rowers and all things related to the art, practice and magic of moving a boat backwards down a river using an oar. Episode by episode, your genial hosts Dr. Lewin Hynes (the Southern One) and Dr. Aaron Jackson (the Northern One) have been joined for in-depth and revealing conversations with Olympic and world champions, elite coaches, world-leading sports scientists, journalists and c ...
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Genial Cover art photo provided by Efe Kurnaz on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@efekurnaz
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Book-a-Week is a weekly podcast in an author-interview format featuring new books on architecture and cities published in the last five years. Every week young scholars from the fields of architecture, urbanism and design research will interview authors of recent books on diverse topics from architectural history, design theory, and ecological thinking to urban studies and anthropology. Each episode is imagined as a reflective, genial conversation on the book, its context, significance and r ...
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A podcast focused on writing, writers, and all things literate and literary.
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This is a story about life. This is a story about light. This is a story of how some men are the product of their lives, and some are the prisoners of the choices they have made. This is a story about sin. Joseph Leighton is on the cusp of adulthood, his university days stretching before him with the luxury of rose-tinted foresight. David Leighton is Joseph's father, a grumpy, vicious sour man. Or is he a snake-hipped guitar god, with a shot at the big time? John Leighton is Joseph's grandfa ...
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Marijuanera: A Podcast for Potheads. Light Up. Tune In with creator and host Mala Muñoz @mala_munoz 🎙🌹 Marijuanera is where comedy and cannabis meet the Locatora Audioverse. SUBSCRIBE and Follow Locatora Radio @locatora_radio and Mala Muñoz @mala_munoz across social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram and Tik Tok. Marijuanera is a Locatora Production. Visit http://LocatoraRadio.com for more Meet the Marijuanera team 🤩 Created by Mala Muñoz Music Supervisor- Chrisol Lomeli Trailer Mu ...
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Engage with this unique podcast - each week one of our team of experts will explore from one to three favourite and impactful apps or platforms for learning and teaching. Sometimes we'll add downloadable resources and guides too.What makes this different is the way we use neuroscience and learning design models to explore and assess the value of the app to teaching and learning. We also include adult learning - the training game in particular - to the scope of our content and recommendations ...
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Community Matters dropped by the Charitable Union October open house, where Executive Director Teresa Allen and her team greeted visitors to show them where they work best serving Calhoun County's underserved. As we learn from Teresa in this discussion, it's as much about recycling as it is about helping those who need it. Episode Resources Charita…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Longtime Calhoun County Commissioner Steve Frisbie eyes the 44th District Michigan House seat currently held by Democrat Jim Haadsma. Frisbie, a Republican, is a paramedic by training and holds a management position with Batt…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. First elected in 2018 back when it was the 62nd Michigan House District, Democrat Jim Haadsma was reelected in 2020 and 2022. Now the 44th Michigan House District representing northern Calhoun County, Haadsma, an attorney, po…
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(Candidate Interview) Calhoun County District 1 Commissioner Seeks Reelection: "People not Politics"
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. First elected in 2018, Rochelle Hatcher has been the Calhoun County commissioner representing District 1 - mostly the cities of Battle Creek and Springfield. Hatcher joins Community Matters to talk about the issues she sees a…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Seeking a second term as the Battle Creek City Commissioner in Ward 3, Patrick O'Donnell talks about a passion he has to be helpful to residents. In this visit with Community Matters, O'Donnell cites some practical examples. …
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Former Calhoun County Sheriff Matt Saxton, now the executive director of the Michigan Sheriff's Association, wants to add "county commissioner" to his resume. Saxton, a Republican, joins Community Matters to talk about his mo…
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With uniform lower court decisions behind it, the Committee for Marshall-Not the Megasite lawsuit in Marshall now headed for the Michigan Supreme Court is not impressive enough for justices to take up the case. That's the opinion of attorney Richard Lindsey, a member of the legal team for the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance (MAEDA) - th…
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A repaving and bridge replacement project along I-94 in Calhoun County will be largely completed when the Michigan Department of Transportation packs up this fall. MDOT spokesperson Nick Schirripa tells Community Matters the project originally was expected to stretch into 2025, though some finishing work will continue. Episode Resources Mi-Drive co…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Tony Iovieno, a Democrat, shares his motivation for seeking the District 3 seat on the Calhoun County Board of Commissioners. He also emphasizes what he calls the "families first" focus of his campaign. Episode Resources Mich…
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Remember when the term "audio visual" - A-V for short - meant things like overhead and filmstrip projectors?! Today's A-V is a whole lot different, as we discuss in this episode of the Little Blinking Light podcast with Roger Ferworn of AE Tech Design. Episode Resources AE Tech Design website Book an Appointment with AE Tech Design AE Tech Design, …
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Miles for Memories volunteers Sherii Sherban and Cassandra Lucas-Moore discuss two events coming in October 2024. One of them is a familiar favorite meant to help inspire movement – a bit part of the Miles for Memories mission. The other mixes food and fun, gala-style, to raise funds for the dementia education organization in Calhoun County. Episod…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Regis Klingler, a self-described non-politician, joins Community Matters to talk about his candidacy for Marshall City Council. Never having run for office before, Klingler discusses his motivation after his active role in th…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Republican Dan Strowbridge, who served previously as a county commissioner, talks to Community Matters about why he wishes to return in District 4. A retired police officer and current member of the Pennfield Charter Township…
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Broken Oars Everything Changes and Technology Changes Everything Series: A Formula for a New Art, the Urban City and Victorian Hypocrisy #3
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After a week away in the North Yorkshire Dales recuperating, your favourite Northen One returns with part three of this autumn's deep dive into art, paintings and songs about poo. In this episode, we'll talk and learn all about how William Frith's work spawned a craze for 'representative' scenes of modern life, why the term post-modernism is adoles…
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(Candidate Interview) Marshall Councilman Ryan Traver Discusses Bid for Reelection: "We're Far from Done"
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. Incumbent At-Large Councilman in Marshall Ryan Traver is finishing his current term on the council, one that was not unfamiliar when he was most-recently elected. Traver served as a councilman from 2009-2011. In this special …
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(Oaklawn Health Matters 4) Early Detection, Advances in Mammography are Key in Monitoring for Breast Cancer
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This episode of Oaklawn Health Matters focuses on breast cancer and the key role mammography plays in early detection - a key component to treatment. Julie Holley, lead technologist at the Oaklawn Women's Diagnostic Center, discusses key technological advancements which have improved the process of mammography. She also discusses the importance of …
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Our Wiggly Tail update takes us back to the Humane Society of South Central Michigan where we find Executive Director Jessica Gilbert and Rocket - a wirehaired terrier. Now, you might be inclined to think Rocket is full of energy, based on his name. If you thought so, you would be right! Click to hear about Rocket - and about available dog training…
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Community Matters expands its usual local conversations to include some with candidates running for various offices in 2024. In this episode, Battle Creek Vice-Mayor and At-Large Commissioner Sherry Sofia talks about her tenure on the commission, her view on pressing issues and why she wants another term. Episode Resources Michigan Voter Informatio…
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Four Battle Creek-area school boards - including that of the Battle Creek Public Schools - are looking to their counterparts nearby to share information and knowledge. That's the word from Eric Greene, president of the Lakeview Schools Board, who joins Community Matters to talk about what the panels hope to gain from the collaboration. Episode Reso…
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Mini-magazines - known as "zines" - have begun to permeate as a means of promoting various endeavors. Now, there's one that's debuted in downtown Battle Creek. It's an effort to promote what's happening in downtown, where a growing energy can be felt. Former Battle Creek Enquirer reporters Nick Buckley and Annie Kelley say it's also a love letter f…
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Miles for Memories volunteers Sherii Sherban and Cassandra Lucas-Moore discuss two events coming in October 2024. One of them is a familiar favorite meant to help inspire movement - a bit part of the Miles for Memories mission. The other mixes food and fun, gala-style, to raise funds for the dementia education organization in Calhoun County. Episod…
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Those living with dementia - and their caregivers - will very likely encounter a time when adherence to prescribed medications becomes a challenge. Perhaps it's remembering what to take when, if a medication has actually been taken, or if it's actually working. Ali Hamad with Battle Creek's Luxcare Pharmacy joins this episode of Creating Dementia S…
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In this episode:Pub Quiz 1AvignonDartmoorKernel BirthdayClapton v Lewisham BoroLounging at the PromsTap room crawlPub and Beer NewsCrisp NewsDrug NewsBurger NewsOther NewsPub Quiz 2Book CornerReaders' Letters- Jessica Pegula and the ultimate Deserter animalBum DosserSocial Media Scene由Deserter
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Broken Oars Everything Changes and Technology Changes Everything Series: Frith and Capturing the Scene #2
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Your favourite Northern One returns, with the second episode in our Autumn Series of truth and knowledge bombs about stuff that all happened 170 years ago. In this episode, he sing songs about badgers before expanding on the ideas explored in the first episode in the series. Then, he talked about Turner. In this he talks about William Frith and the…
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The good news? COVID-19 infections in summer 2024 mirrored those of the previous year, meaning there was not a notable increase in the average number of cases. That's the word from the Calhoun County Public Health Department. While updating the local COVID situation, Calhoun County Public Health Officer Eric Pessell takes an opportunity to talk abo…
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The Veterans Administration Battle Creek health care center is working alongside its counterparts across the country to engage with vets who may be having suicidal thoughts. Amanda Briggs coordinates local engagement efforts prompted by the national COMPACT Act, which passed in 2021 but only began ramping up in fall 2023. She talks to Community Mat…
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(Creating Dementia Solutions 39) Caregiving: Challenging Behaviors May Not Be What They Seem
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Those caregiving for an individual with dementia can attest: Sometimes their behavior is challenging. As we learn in this episode of Creating Dementia Solutions, sometimes that behavior isn't meant to be a problem. In fact, it might be really all about something else. Episode Resources Miles for Memories website Miles for Memories technology Sherii…
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(Community Matters 101) BREAKING: Marshall Committee Takes Referendum-Zoning Case to Supreme Court
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Community Matters has learned that the attorney for the Committee for Marshall - Not the Megasite has filed an application for leave of appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court. Not unexpected, the move is the last potential opportunity for the committee to get a court to see things its way as it relates to a potential referendum about the planned Fo…
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In our continued effort to bring you, the BrokenOars viewer and listener, valued information, the Southern on has spent the last five weeks mildly toxifying himself in pursuit of a faster ergo score. There are numerous substances that promise a legal method to greater performance and in this video takes a wonder through a few of them and examines o…
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Broken Oars Everything Changes and Technology Changes Everything Series: Turner and the Fighting Temeraire #1
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Hullo, Can't sleep? Me neither. The Northern One returns with a follow-up to last year's Summer Shorts series. Inspired by a chat with a medical friend about the advances in technology in their career, your favourite Northern One takes a spin through representation in art. As everything in modern Britain is a footnote to the Victorians, in much the…
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Following the retirement of longtime Battle Creek City Attorney Jill Steele in 2024, the search was on to find her successor. After some years as an assistant city attorney in Flint, William Kim accepted the same post in Battle Creek. Now, he joins Community Matters to talk about his view of municipal law, the importance of interaction with the cit…
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Ahead of another fall campaign push for charitable giving in Calhoun County, Community Matters host Richard Piet sits down with Chris Sargent, president and CEO of the United Way of South Central Michigan. The discussion centers around how the United Way stretches a dollar, especially when charitable giving has been down in recent years. Episode Re…
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Video surveillance has become much easier to obtain and operate. But, as Roger Ferworn from AE Tech Design tells us in this episode, there are definite considerations to establishing such a system. Will it function the way you expect and need? Will you be able to obtain certain footage easily? How can AI help? Episode Resources AE Tech Design websi…
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Broken Oars: Episode 5759. Robin Parisotto, the on / off test protocol, doping in sports, and the fallacy of testing regimens
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Did you miss us? Of course you did! We're back with Robin Parisotto, the scientist behind the on / off EPO test to discuss the history of doping in sport, why testing regimens are set up to show there is a testing regimen rather than to create clean sports, and why clean sport will never happen in the current systems. Apart from British rowers. We'…
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As students head back to the classroom for the 2024-25 school year, Battle Creek Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kimberly Carter is echoing the importance of attendance. Carter also reflects more on the effects of the Bearcat Advantage program, which covers tuition for Battle Creek Public Schools graduates. Episode Resources Battle Creek Public S…
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Calhoun County is in good financial health and the latest professional audit and strong credit rating prove it. That's the word from Board of Commissioners Chair Derek King. The county reported a "AA" credit rating as issued by S&P Global Ratings, saying it "affirms the county's financial stability and ongoing commitment to responsible fiscal manag…
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In its first "Drive 4 UR School" test drive event since the COVID-19 pandemic, Lakeview Ford in Battle Creek will connect Lakeview Schools robotics students with cash from Ford. The concept is simple: Show up, test drive a Ford and Lakeview Schools gets either $20 or $70. Why the difference? It depends on which car you test drive. Click to listen f…
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Gray and white with tiger cat features, Chai the Domestic Shorthair seemingly did not have an easy life before she was brought to the Humane Society of South Central Michigan. But, as we learn in this Wiggly Tail update, that's all behind her now - and she's ready to land anew on all four paws. Episode Resources Humane Society of South Central Mich…
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It's a question that is asked frequently: Could a person have a genetic predisposition to dementia? In this episode of Creating Dementia Solutions, Miles for Memories Founder Sherii Sherban talks about her own family history with dementia - and what she sees as an alternative to the heredity conversation. Episode Resources Miles for Memories websit…
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For the 13th time, Battle Creek's Community Inclusive Recreation (CIR) is readying for the annual Kickball Classic fundraiser, sponsored by Lakeview Ford Lincoln. Set for September 22, 2024 at Bailey Park, the tournament-style event brings teams formed by local businesses and organizations together with CIR participants. The teams play in front of …
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(Community Matters 98) Fresh off City Attorney Search, BC Commission will seek new City Manager
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Now that Battle Creek City Manager Rebecca Fleury has announced her intention to retire at the end of 2024, city commissioners will undertake a search for her successor in 2025. Commissioners have already gotten some footing on an executive search, having spent the summer of 2024 looking for a new city attorney. Mayor Mark Behnke and Vice-Mayor She…
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Construction crews were busy all summer working on building upgrades and other projects at Pennfield Schools buildings. That has saved some money overall on the projects, according to Superintendent Stephanie Lemmer. Lemmer joins Community Matters to offer her viewpoint, just days before students in her district were coming back for the 2024-25 aca…
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Battle Creek City Manager Rebecca Fleury reached her ten-year anniversary in the position and decided to call it a career. In her first interview since announcing her retirement, Fleury reflects with Community Matters on her tenure, her future along with some perspective on what makes a strong city manager. Episode Resources City of Battle Creek we…
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(Community Matters 97) Targeting Human Trafficking in Calhoun County, Organization Founder Shares her own Story
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Robin Bolz, founder of UnSilenced: Battle Creek Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, has no reservations sharing her story about abuse when she was a child and adolescent. That story includes resilience and the key involvement of one person who helped her turn her life around. Now, she wants to be that person for others - and wants to show the communi…
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Peckham Pints with William Blake, Pompey, Pisci, Goose and Ned. Have you got a pipe? (Aug 24)
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In this episode:Pub Quiz 1A month of musicPompey day cancelledA funeralA month of sportPub & Beer NewsCrisp NewsDrug NewsOther NewsPub Quiz 2Desert Island CrispspspsReaders' LettersBum DosserSocial Media Scene由Deserter
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After the glory and the dream that was our crowing achievement (talking to Sir Matthew Pinsent), Aaron and Lewin return in typical Broken Oars fashion. That's right. We watch Olympic races and talk about them as they're happening and then post the episode after the Olympics has finished, but before the Para Games begins. Oh, and it looks like Podbe…
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The Battle Creek Community Foundation is observing its 50th anniversary with a block party outside its offices in downtown Battle Creek. The event is set for August 21, 2024 from 4-6 PM. BCCF President and CEO Mary Muliett and Vice-President Clovis Bordeaux visit Community Matters to invite listeners personally - and talk about the fun planned, as …
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Two more "Services on the Go" events are planned for the summer of 2024 in Battle Creek. The events are meant to provide a chance for residents to engage with city staff about any number of issues or subjects, including such things as code enforcement and community policing. The City of Battle Creek spokespersons Jessica Vanderkolk and Eric McClure…
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