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The brazen laver in the Tabernacle is just one of many components required to keep the Tabernacle functioning for the Israelites. Join us in this series as we look at each component, the role it plays in the physical Tabernacle and what it may signify in the spiritual and even prophetic arenas. 

The good news is: we can look back to nature for solutions. 

In this episode we speak with Sandra Postel, one of the world’s leading freshwater experts, about how solutions rooted in nature - like cover cropping and river restoration - are key to mending the broken water cycle.

We also speak with Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, a Director of River Restoration for American Rivers, about a demolition project along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvaniad.

She sees dam removal as a critical first step to river restoration. mending our planet's broken water cycle.  

About our guests:

Sandra Postel is an American conservationist, a leading expert on international water issues, and Director of the Global Water Policy Project. She is the winner of the 2021 Stockholm Water Prize. During her years at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC, she was early in adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to water, after having studied geology, political science, and environmental management.

In 1994 Postel founded the Global Water Policy Project. She is also the co-creator of the water stewardship initiative Change the Course, as well as a prolific writer and a sought-after communicator. Between 2009 and 2015, Postel served as Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. 

Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy

Lisa joined American Rivers in 2008 to work with communities, individuals, government, and other non-profit organizations to facilitate the removal of dams that have outlived their useful life. She has been involved in the removal of nearly 100 obsolete dams.

Lisa is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and brings more than three decades of experience in community and regional planning, environmental and resource protection planning, water resource management, project management, community economic revitalization, geology, and hydrogeology to her position.

Lisa was an associate producer for American Rivers’ documentary “Restoring America’s Rivers,” and has completed several demonstration projects using Large Wood Debris for river restoration and aquatic habitat in Pennsylvania.

WE ARE BACK! After a long hiatus, we are back with this throwback episode that we recorded in February! If you like shopping, this episode is for you! We discuss our top 5 stores to shop at in Disney Springs!

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Hafa Adai (pronounced as Half A Day) is the Chamorro version of Aloha.
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Randy managed to be quite the overachiever this week - he visited SIX US National Parks:  Joshua Tree, CA, Great Basin, NV, Capitol Reef, Ut, Mesa Verde, CO, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO, and Rocky Mountain National Parks, CO.

We also discuss the Randy Smythe Road Trip Diet, watch Moose mating, visit the Overlook Hotel from The Shining, discuss how many bodies are buried in the desert near Las Vegas, and even Bubba made a trip to Maine and Boston this week!

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St Georges Basin is one of a handful of trophy flathead fisheries along the NSW coastline and punches well above its weight for large flathead.

In Episode 111 of the Australian Lure Fishing podcast, gun angler and local personality Greg Reid explains how he targets massive flathead using both traditional and cutting edge lure fishing techniques.

Full show notes are available at https://doclures.com/st-georges-basin-flathead-greg-reid/ 

Episode 3: Water Meets Land
As the global water crisis intensifies, the Colorado River Basin is poised to become a model for how to bring together stakeholders representing agriculture, urban areas, and the natural environment. In this episode, we’ve put together highlights and takeaways from the 2019 Journalists Forum (#WaterMeetsLand) – including the importance of considering the central role of land use in the management of a dwindling resource. For more: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/water-planning

Podcast 15
Rebekah Woods
Dr. Rebekah Woods is the President of Columbia Basin College. A fun fact about her is she hates putting
the leftovers into the containers when she goes to a restaurant, or she promised her husband that one
day she would be in a Hall and Oates cover band. Paul and Rebekah met recently at a TC Regional
Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Being a person of faith, she knows that her journey was planned and she knew early on that she wanted
to be a doctor. While in college, she decided she did not want to be in school that long and after her
undergrad, she decided to go to law school. Nobody ever says, “I want to be a higher ed administrator,”
and no one even realizes that these jobs exist. While practicing law, she decided she needed another
challenge and started working on her PhD. It was then that she started learning about community
colleges and their mission. She fell in love with the focus of helping people reinvent themselves. She felt
that she wanted to be a leader in the community college realm. She started to prepare herself for a
presidency and what that would look like and when that day would come. She loves the Tri-Cities and
Columbia Basin College.
She would tell her 20 year old self to relax! Everything is going to work out fine. She just spoke at her
first commencement, and one of the things she spoke about was dreaming big and dreaming small. She
would tell herself not to limit her dreams and aspirations. If someone had told her that she would be a
college president someday, she would have said no way! She was quitet and reserved. Dreaming small
simply is recognizing the innocence of what is truly important, like spending time with your family,
focusing on just sitting down and reading to your child, spending time with your spouse and your
friends. Making those little differences that people may not see or recognize but can really be life
changing for the person that you are with. She is an Introvert by nature, and she can turn it on when
necessary but would rather go read a book by herself.
Her advice to other introverts is that you can do anything you set your mind to. Every field is going to
have certain requirements that may not come naturally to you, but you need to understand your
strengths and your weaknesses. A weakness is just another opportunity to grow. As an “I” you have to
find that time for yourself. Find time to recharge so you can get ready for what is next.
She has the ability to see the big picture and to see what that end goal should look like and to see the
path to get there. She is in meetings all day long; so she has to ask the questions What do you think
about this? Have you thought about that? because she has worked for a micro-manager and it is the
worst leadership style. What is not natural for her is focusing on people: she makes sure that the
assistant that is working with her has an affinity for remembering people’s birthdays, who just had a
child, pay attention to “this”, you should really spend a few minutes talking to XYZ person.
She has quiet time in the morning. When she gets to work, she hits the ground running. She makes sure
that she has her water, her notepads, her phones, etc.
She actually loves routines, and it’s what keeps her sane. There is so much research that needs to be
done in higher education to stay on top: there is a lot of attending conferences, working with mentors.
She has many mentors that pour into her, and she spends time learning what they are doing, a lot of
benchmarking against other institutions that are receiving great results. So being what we want our

student to be, which is life-long learners. She is constantly learning new information and how to apply it
to where she is and what she is doing. On the DISC Profile she is a High C and D. She is very detail-
oriented: she likes things precise and a certain way. She believes this is part of what allows her to see
the path to the big picture. Being able to see the big picture allows her to delegate and play off other
people’s strengths by asking questions. Together they achieve the end goal better than she would if she
was trying to achieve it by herself.
Her greatest challenge while sitting the leadership chair, is staying in balance. There are several types of
balance and the first is work/home life balance--making sure that she isn’t neglecting her marriage,
family, friends, personal time, things that she is trying to do with her church. Maintaining that balance is
something she is always focusing on. There is also balance within her position: identifying what are the
glass balls and which are the rubber balls. So, there is way too much for anyone to do in 24 hours; so it is
important to identify the priorities. What are the glass balls that must get done, and if they don’t, they
will in essence shatter and have long-term negative consequences. On the other hand, the rubber ball,
you can drop it and it will bounce back and catch it down the road.
If you aren’t actually failing at some point, then you aren’t in the game. She had a boss that was a
strategic risk taker. It taught her that when you are in the leadership position, it’s OK to try new things,
and do things differently. Her favorite failure is when she implemented a new computer system at
another institution and it failed miserably. It actually ended up being one of the best experiences for her
leadership because when you have something that impacts so many people that isn’t working, it defines
you as a leader. You are either going to bond with the team to make it work or you are going to crumble
and fall apart. We came together to get the job done and turned it around. It was painful but looking
back it was a positive experience.
She is a huge fan of all the Patrick Lencioni books. The book that boils it down is the 4 Obsessions of an
Extraordinary Executive. Also, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you aren’t over-communicating, then you
aren’t communicating at all. People actually need to hear something 7 times before they actually hear it.
So, if you aren’t sick of communicating, then you are communicating. Make sure that you have your
processes in line.
Grow where you are planted. Since being in the community for 9 months, she has been trying to learn
the community. So, before she even moved here, she called her predecessor and asked him who she
should meet with. An hour later she was done writing and had a long list of wonderful people to meet
with. How can the college be meeting the needs of the community? She is still trying to find what is
going to work for her to meet her personal needs.

Season 1 Episode 2 Tim Griffiths the western coordinator for the Working Lands For Wildlife Program talks about his history with Sage grouse, Waterfowl, his line of labs, hunting in Oregon and Montana and a whole lot about how wildlife management works from the field level to Washington DC. 

Episode Content:​

• Bill's introduction to the nuclear industry through a co-op program at Drexel University.  

• The importance of the design of a power plant and the logistics of its constructibility.  

• The Nuclear Quality Assurance Requirements and the emergence of larger plants.  

• Mitigating concerns, regulatory-driven changes after the Three Mile Island Accident.  

• Prudence Litigation and the financial vulnerabilities within the nuclear industry.   

• An explanation of the Single-Shell Tank Clean-Up Program.  

• A discussion of the United States' departure from the nuclear industry.   

• The Fast-flux Test Facility shutdown and exploring how to use radio isotopes for medical applications, such as cancer therapy.  

• The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and the Traveling-Wave Reactor.  

• Jim's start as an extraterrestrial scientist and coordinator of shuttle activities.  

• Transition to nuclear waste as he moved to PNNL as a geology pair with his wife, Judith.  

• 3 styles of decision making in science policy: ignore science, make it the basis of the decision, retroactively justify the decision with science.   

• Yucca Mountain is the wrong rock, dripping wet and corrosive.  

• WIPP Carlsbad, New Mexico, Permian Basin has perfect salt chemistry.  

•  A comparison between the future of China and the US' nuclear industries.  

• Dilution as a waste mitigation strategy, discussion of Fukishima and Tritium.   

• A discussion of how the media sources portrays expertise.   

• A discussion of grout v. glass vitrification processes.  

• Waste disposal methods, political contentions, and the power of the Constitution.  

In 2017, Basin Street Records celebrated it’s 20 Year Anniversary as an Independent Record Label. The label features the wonderful sounds of New Orleans with artists such as Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield, Rebirth Brass Band, Jon Cleary, Los Hombres Calientes, Jeremy Davenport, Bonerama, and so many more. Founder and Owner, Mark Samuels, started the label in 1997 with the release of Kermit Ruffins - the Barbecue Swingers Live, which was recorded at the history music venue, Tipitina’s. The labels second album, Los Hombres Calientes won a Latin Billboard Award, and the 2012 Rebirth Brass Band album “Rebirth of New Orleans,” brought the label it’s first Grammy win. In this conversation, Mark Samuels shares these and many more stories. You’ll learn how the label started, New Orleans culture, and many lessons on running an independent record label.

To learn more about Basin Street Records, visit https://www.basinstreetrecords.com/.

Keep in touch:
chris.goyzueta@gmail.com
www.makingitwithchrisg.com
https://www.instagram.com/chrisgoyzueta/
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Credits:
Host: Chris G.
Producer: Jason Trosclair
Executive Producer: ONElive Creative Agency  
Music: Emily Kopp

Join my Celtic Invasion of Brittany as I share a live concert from our cottage in Carnac, France. Learn about my next Coffee With The Celtfather and some big Christmas sales. Where would you like to go on a Celtic Invasion Vacation? Post in the comments. Then subscribe to the podcast and mailing list at http://pubsong.net/

Who's Playing in the Pub Today?

4:01 "Star of the County Down"

7:55 "A Pirate's Confession"

11:04 "When She Held Me in Her Arms"

14:31 "Wild Mountain Thyme"

18:52 "Mickey's Jedi Drinking Song"

22:04 "Doctor of Gallifrey"

25:24 "Middle Earth Bragging Song"

28:31 "Soul of a Harper"

32:14 "Come and Be a Pirate"

34:44 "Purple Flower"

38:36 "Men of New Basin Canal"

41:58 "Ride On"

46:23 "Kilkelly, Ireland"

50:59 "Old Dun Cow"

Pub Talk

Welcome of the Pub Songs Podcast. This month, I'm gonna share a live concert I recorded during my Celtic Invasion of Brittany this past summer. But before we get there, let me share a little bit of news.

First, I've been really good about my new show on Facebook. It's called Coffee with The Celtfather. It takes place around 9 am... some mornings. There isn't really a set time or date. I'm trying to do these shows at least once a week. So far, Monday has been pretty consistent. But we shall see.

I also am trying YouTube as well. But the video quality doesn't strike me nearly as good as it is on Facebook. But I am cross-posting some Facebook videos to YouTube in case you are not on Facebook.

If you want to keep these shows going, make sure you Share the Show or drop money in my Virtual Tip Jar. Sharing the show helps expand my audience on Facebook. And of course, tipping lets me know that you really appreciate me making time to bring you good music online as well.

I have a bunch of new CD specials this month. Most are on my Bandcamp page. You can buy one Christmas CD for $20 and get three more. Best of all, these CDs can also be used as greeting cards. I only have a limited number of these album/greeting cards left. So get yours soon.

I sold my first Celtic Heartstring this week. The Celtic Heartstrings are made from the broken strings of my heart... I mean autoharp. I turn them in Celtic knot jewelry. Each one is unique. So I will try and post a new one every week or so.

Finally, there's a Brobdingnagian Bards Christmas special. It includes all of our remaining mass-printed CDs: Real Men Wear Kilts, Nex Monoceroti Per Risibus, Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, Songs of Ireland, A Faire to Remember. You can get those five CDs for just $45 until December 5th. Plus I'll also send you A Celtic Christmas and A Celtic Renaissance Wedding. That's basically 7 CDs for the price of 3. http://thebards.net/

I want to send a Huge thanks to my New Patrons in the Gunn Runners Club: Jan DiMasi, Kimber Grey. Thanks to new Gold Runners Anita Gorrell and LauraMay Sorkin who raised her monthly pledge this month.

Alright. Next summer, I'm leading my next Celtic Invasion Vacation to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. These vacations are pretty incredible. We stay in one location and drive out to see the countryside. I make dinner some nights. I also play music.

Last summer, I recorded one of my concerts in our vacation rental. I'm gonna share that with you this month on the Pub Songs Podcast, in its entirety, complete with all my mistakes.

Let me set the mood. I think it was Wednesday evening. We had just finished up long day of sightseeing on the Celtic Invasion of Brittany, I believe to the Cairn of Gavrinis. That included a boat trip. You can watch a video about it on YouTube and hear my recording of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea".

We were tired, but as we finished eating, I felt it was time to share some music. So I sat down and started playing. Invaders slowly filed into the living room to listen.

Here's my Carnac Celtic Concert.

If you want to find out more about the Celtic Invasion of Scotland, the basic itinerary is now online. We're gonna fly into Inverness. We'll then drive to the Isle of Skye and explore the island, it's history, and hopefully some good legends as well. Find all of the details here.

The Pub Songs Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn. If you enjoyed this episode, please support the musicians who support this podcast, buy their CDs, then share the show. Special thanks to all of my patrons in the Gunn Runners Club. Would you like 5 of my MP3s for Free? Plus get regular updates of what's new. Subscribe to the podcast and newsletter at www.pubsong.net.

I was really pleased to record the presentations at the Buffalo Homecoming celebrations held on March 2, 2017 at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site. The Eleanor Luxton Foundation and Bison Belong co-sponsored the event which was a gala evening with first nations blessings, dancing and drums - and some amazing stories. The return of plains bison to Banff National Park has been a long time coming - more than 130 years.

Bison are not only a keystone species in the mountain national parks, but their absence has been reflected in the very ecosystems that the park was designed to protect.

Ecosystems began to change immediately after the loss of bison, reflecting the absence of this key ecological component of the landscape. When biologists talk about ecological integrity, they are talking about preserving all the components of that ecosystem. For thousands of years, bison were one of the defining characteristics of most western landscapes. The sound of their thundering hooves could be heard for miles and they helped to define the landscape in which they lived. In the end, they were reduced to just 64 animals.

Like a beaver can alter the landscape around it and benefit many other species, so do plains bison re-engineer the prairie and mountain landscape. Bison are aggressive grazers, helping keep trees from encroaching onto grasslands. At the same time they are also prodigious producers of, well buffalo apples. These patties feed massive numbers of insects which, in turn, support ever increasing numbers of insect eating birds.

This reintroduction is about more than just ecology. It combines cultural, historical and ecological values. To members of the first nations of the eastern slopes and prairies of Canada and the U.S., bison were an integral part of their culture and lives, long before the coming of the white man. The west was home to many different tribes, many of which have long been traditional enemies. Despite local animosities, there was always one thing that bound them together - bison. In 2015, eleven different tribes signed a historic buffalo treaty. The signatories include Canada's Blackfoot Confederacy: Blood, Piikani, Siksika, and TsuuT’ina; and in Montana, the Blackfeet Nation, the Assiniboine and GrosVentre Tribes of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Indian Reservation, the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation. Since this original treaty, the three nations of the Stoney Nakoda, the Samson Cree and 10 additional first nations groups from Saskatchewan have also joined in the signing.

In episode 19, I shared a little information on the recent re-introduction of bison into Banff National Park. During this event, you'll hear the stories of the event from the people responsible for doing it. Harvey Locke shares some of the history of the project and of the genesis of the initiative. His passion really sets the scene for this story of reintroduction and renewal. If this project is successful, Banff's bison herd will join only three other wild herds of bison in North America

Parks Canada Employee and author Karsten Heuer was in charge of the project. His presentation details the incredible efforts that were required to pull this reintroduction off. Along with long and very inclusive public consultations and environmental impact assessments, as the project lead, it was his job to coordinate the many moving parts that would be necessary in order to get to the point we are today - a day with wild bison once again roaming their native landscapes in the mountain national parks.

The logistics were daunting. The bison had to first be selected. They were selected based on several criteria. They were disease free, a critical aspect of any reintroduction, but they were also young , giving them many opportunities to produce new offspring during their lifetime. All of the females were pregnant, and they are joined by six young bulls to help keep the herd going.

They are currently being held in an 18 hectare (45 acre) soft release pasture until they've had the chance to give birth twice - giving them time to bond to their new home range prior to being released to a much larger temporary habitat.

Imagine the logistics of this relocation! They loaded the bison into specially designed shipping containers that were attached to a long line and transported by a heavy lift helicopter. Each container held 3 or 4 bison with their horns covered by pieces of garden hose held on with duct tape. They were also tranquilized slightly to help reduce their stress while still allowing them to stand during the transport. Each shipping container also deployed a parachute to provide drag and help prevent them from spinning during their helicopter journey to their new home.

After the last crate was successfully delivered, they crates were kept closed for an additional 30 minutes to give the buffalo time to calm down. When all the conditions were right, the doors to the shipping containers were opened and the bison all emerged into their new home. They'll remain here until June of 2018 when park officials plan to release them to a much larger 1200 sq km or 463 sq mile reintroduction zone.

Along the way, there are lots of performance measures that will help them to reassess the success of the project. In 2022, they hope to be able to come to the decision as to whether long-term bison reintroduction is feasible in Banff National Park. This project is one of the largest of its kind in the mountain national parks. It involved very close consultations with many first nations, environmental and conservation groups. I hope you're as excited about this as I am. Bison have been missing from Banff for almost as long as Canada has been a nation. I can't wait for the day when I first encounter a wild bison in Banff National Park.

I want to especially thank Marie-eve Marchand with Bison Belong for collaborating with me to record the audio for this presentation. Her tireless work towards bringing these majestic animals back to Banff deserves all of our thanks. Special thanks also go out to Karsten Heuer for all the work he and his team at Parks Canada did to pull off this amazing feat of logistics and careful planning. This could be one of the most significant events to take place in the mountain parks for many years to come. Special thanks also go out to Harvey Locke with the Eleanor Luxton Foundation for the great work they do in preserving Banff's natural and human history.

Finally, I want to thank the politicians across the various political lines that cooperated with the project as well as the numerous native elders and counselors that were integral to moving this process towards completion.

Once again, we are all buffalo people.