Mutoro, Antonina Namaemba (2018) Feeding, care-giving and behaviour characteristics of undernourished children aged between 6 and 24 months in low income areas in Nairobi, Kenya. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
•	What are the commonest modifiable risk factors for undernutrition found in children and how does this pattern vary with nutrition status?
•	Do ready to use foods displace complementary foods in moderately undernourished children?
•	Do ready to use foods affect eating and feeding behaviour?
Preliminary studies were carried out to test the feasibility of using observations to assess childcare practices. Caregivers of children aged between 6 and 24 months were recruited in Wagha town, a semi urban area in Lahore, Pakistan and in selected slums in Nairobi, Kenya. A structured observation guide was used to collect information on caregiver child interactions during mid-morning meals in Pakistan and lunch time meals in Kenya. A description of childcare practices in the household, specifically dietary practices, feeding behaviour and hygiene practices were assessed by asking the following questions: Who feeds the child? How is the child fed? What is the child fed and how often? What are the hygiene practices of caregivers?
Thirty meal observations, 11 in Pakistan and 19 in Kenya, were carried out in homes, while 11 meals were observed in day-care centres in Nairobi. Eating and feeding behaviours varied between cultures. Compared to caregivers in Kenya, caregivers in Pakistan offered more encouragement during meals. In Kenya, encouragement was mainly in response to food refusal and undernourished children were more likely to show aversive eating behaviour. Caregivers would respond to this behaviour by either restraining the child or simply leaving them alone. In day-care centres, laissez faire feeding was common as children were left to feed themselves with little or no assistance. Poor hygiene practices were also common, especially in Kenya where caregivers did not wash their hands before feeding their children. Meal observations were not representative as only one meal could be observed and they were also not practical because of insecurity in the slums.
Based on these findings, a cross sectional study carried out in seven health facilities was designed. Caregivers of children aged 6-24 months were recruited from health facilities in two stages. In the first stage, undernourished children (weight for age or weight for length below - 2 Z scores or length for age below -3 Z scores) were quota sampled either from outpatient therapeutic or supplementary feeding programs based on severity and supplementation status between February and August 2015. Undernourished children were recruited from well-baby clinics during growth monitoring. Between July and August 2016 healthy children (weight for age above-2 Z scores) were also recruited from well-baby clinics at the same health facilities. For both groups, child anthropometric measurements were taken and information on sociodemographic, hygiene breastfeeding frequency, meal frequency, dietary diversity, child eating and caregiver feeding behaviour collected using a structured interview guide. Among children receiving ready to use foods, information on child interest in food, food refusal and caregiver force-feeding was also collected for both family meals and ready to use food meals.
We recruited 415 children (54.5% female), over half (58.6%) of whom were undernourished. Caregivers and their children came from disadvantaged backgrounds characterized by low parental education. They also lacked access to basic hygiene and sanitation facilities. There was no association between nutrition status and hygiene as nearly all children came from households that lacked piped water (83.6%) and shared toilets (82.9%). Compared to healthy children, undernourished children were more likely not to be breastfeeding (undernourished 11.5%; healthy 5.2% P=0.002) and to receive plated meals at a low frequency (undernourished 12.2%; healthy 26.2% P=0.002). Diets offered were mainly carbohydrate based and there was no association between dietary diversity and nutrition status.
Close to one third of children showed low interest in food 25.8% (107) and high food refusal 22.5% (93). Force-feeding was also relatively common 38.5% (155). Compared to healthy children, undernourished children were more likely to show low interest in food (undernourished 34.2%; healthy 14.0% P<0.001) and high food refusal (undernourished 30.9%; healthy 10.5% P<0.001); and their mothers were more likely to be anxious about feeding them (undernourished 20.6%; healthy 6.4% P<0.001). Within the undernourished group, 49.4% had either low interest in food or high food refusal or both. Force-feeding was common in both groups, with a non-significant trend towards more force-feeding in the undernourished infants (undernourished 41.4%; healthy 34.5% P=0.087). Children were more likely to be force-fed if they had low interest in food (odds ratio[95% CI] 3.72 [1.93 to 7.15] P<0.001) or high food refusal (4.83[2.38 to 9.78] P<0.001), after controlling for maternal anxiety and child nutrition status.
Children appeared to prefer RUF to home foods which is good for treatment compliance, but it may have a negative impact on intake of home foods. Although a single sachet of RUF appeared not to displace family meals in moderately undernourished children, actual energy intake was not measured in this study and these findings are therefore inconclusive.
Children in slum areas in Nairobi are exposed to many risk factors which puts them at risk of infection and undernutrition and provision of ready to use foods as a treatment option does not address the underlying problem. There is therefore a need for poverty alleviation strategies which will lead to improved access to hygiene facilities and better environmental conditions. Measures to improve access and utilization of safe nutritious foods as well as mother-child interactions during meals are also required. A better understanding of child care practices and underlying factors that influence them is also required for the design of effective and sustainable interventions in this setting.
child care, feeding practices, eating behaviour, appetite, Kenya, malnutrition, undernutrition, responsive feeding, complementary feeding, Africa, ready to use therapeutic foods, children, food refusal, force feeding.


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The 25 Best Places to Shop for Beauty Products
byAugusta Falletta 2 years ago
We all have our favorite stores when picking up our beauty products, but the one downside to consistently visiting the same shops is that you just might be missing out on the best place to buy makeup.
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Considering the time, expertise, and money spent on figuring out which foundation to invest in, shopping for beauty products can be daunting. A better experience, however, totally depends on where the products are being sold. Stores make a big difference and knowing which ones are the key.
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To help you have the most successful makeup buying experience possible, we've rounded up 25 of the best places to shop. Whether you're searching for indie brands, drugstore prices, or monthly delivery services, there's a store that'll make you even more excited to shop for hair, makeup, and skin care products than you ever thought possible.
A version of this article was originally published in May 2015.
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All too often we find ourselves suggesting Asos as the place to shop when our friends can't find the stylish, unique item of clothing they've been searching for to no avail. The site that always seems to have what no one can find in the fashion department mirrors itself in the beauty department, which carries everything from drugstore to luxe, with a good pinch of indie beauty brands thrown in as well.
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The original beauty box that became everyone's favorite way of discovering new products has just as amazing of an e-commerce shop. Whether you subscribe to the monthly Birchbox and you want to buy a full-size product after sampling, or you're just curious about shopping the editor's picks, Birchbox's shop is full of makeup, skin care, hair care, and everything in-between for both women and men. Plus, you'll get points for shopping on the site, and your points will convert to dollars. That's a win-win.
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With over a century of experience under its belt, Cos Bar is stocked with luxury beauty products based on quality, not quantity. For makeup that gives you long-lasting results, fragrances that make a personal statement, and a bevy of home products, head first to this hidden gem.
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Known for their quality curation of products to sell in stores, Bergdorf Goodman's beauty department is like the A-list for cosmetics. Complete with women's products, men's grooming products, home fragrances, and more from all of the most prestigious designers (think Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy), this is one of the best, top-tier places to shop for beauty.
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It may be obvious, but Sephora didn't become one of the best beauty retailers around without good reason. Inside the store, get yourself a makeover with one of the artists and take the products home with you, sign up for the VIB program to earn points for each dollar spent (which turn into product rewards), and online, enjoy three free samples of your choice with each purchase. It's really a one-stop-shop for beauty.
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An apothecary at its finest, C.O. Bigelow began as a pharmacy that grew into the go-to location for unique and unusual beauty products in New York City. Complete with homeopathic remedies and cosmetics brands you'll find just about nowhere else (like Rilastil and Jane Iredale), C.O. Bigelow is one of the best beauty experiences you'll ever have.
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Over the years, Nordstrom has become more and more of an industry favorite when it comes to hair, makeup, and skin care. With brands like Bobbi Brown and Deborah Lippmann, Nordstrom has stepped up their game and become a beauty destination.
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From extravagant and playful, yet inexpensive, bath bombs, to fragrances, makeup, hair products, and more, Lush truly has it all.
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With an easy reorder function that makes forgetting to buy mascara every month impossible and an app that lets you shop from your smartphone, Beauty Bar shines as one of the easiest places to shop for luxury beauty products. Plus, it's on Amazon!
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Remember Beauty.com and Drugstore.com? They both carried pretty great deals on makeup. But little did you know, they both merged with Walgreens for all your drugstore makeup needs.
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Ideal for those of you who love giant makeup palettes and Essie nail polish collections alike, Kohl's in-store and online beauty section is easily a favorite to shop. In the store, the makeup counter allows you to test and experience a product before purchasing; while online, you'll find the full range of products from each Kohl's location. Combining fan favorite brands like Lorac with private label collections from Candie's, Kohl's beauty section isn't one to miss.
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The perfect marriage of beauty products and spa services, Bluemercury brings you a 360 degree experienec when it comes to beauty. Plus, shopping online means you're also getting a dose of specially created content to guide you through using the products, like a guide to ingredients or a tutorial on smokey eyeshadow.
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Clyde's
A true apothecary on Madison Avenue, Clyde's carries a full range of prestige beauty brands and offers full pharmacy services where professionals can counsel you about your well-being. Although e-commerce is not yet available, the in-store experience gives you customer service like you've never experienced.
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A stunning selection of luxe beauty products that are as high quality as they are beautiful, Barneys beauty department is a full-on experience. If you're able to make it to the Beauty Floor in New York City, you'll find counter after counter of the finest, most sought-after products that are found hardly anywhere else. Come prepared for makeup artist-designed products, fragrances that will beg to be your new signature scent, and professionals equipped to help you out of any beauty rut.
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For the nail art lovers of the world, Julep has become a go-to polish destination. With a subscription service that delivers nail polish to your door every month and nail art kits that are worthy of Pinterest and Instagram, Julep makes manicures even more fun than they already are.
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Ricky's NYC
There's nothing we love more than a beauty supply store with a sense of humor, which is half the reason we love Ricky's NYC so much. The other half of that comes from the high quality of products sold, including a full range of nail polish brands, Manic Panic hair color, and Burt's Bees organic products, just to name a few.
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Besides being one of the easiest stores to shop, Target brings you your favorite drugstore brands for a discounted price. Add to that the fact that the store carries Boots No. 7, a UK company with fantastic products that aren't widely available in the U.S., and e.l.f., a brand that really stretches your dollar, you'll never have to twist our arms to shop at Target.
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The unofficial title holder of the place where cool kids shop for beauty products, Urban Outfitters has a beauty section chock-full of hair chalk, bold lipstick, eyeshadow palettes, and more that'll give your beauty bag a seriously fun makeover.
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Though it's technically for professionals in the beauty industry, that only makes us love Sally Beauty more (probably because we can pretend for a minute that we're actually pro makeup artists). Though most of the loyalty cards are for students and professionals, there's another loyalty card for regular ole' customers like us for discounted items. Win!
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Besides the outstanding selection of beauty brands and the quality of customer service in-store, we're particularly fond of the Beauty Replenishment service at Neiman Marcus. The cosmetics equivalent of auto-renew service on your magazine subscriptions, the Beauty Replenishment service makes it impossible to ever run out of your favorite product before having a back-up ready to take its place. Genius.
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If you happen to stop by a Sabon shop in NYC, make sure you walk in for the full-hand treatment (a wash, scrub, exfoliation, and lotion experience that leaves your hands feeling super-soft). Sabon is a must for anyone who loves to indulge in an at-home spa day.
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If we could dream up the perfectly curated collection of beauty products from all around the world, Space NK would be that dream's reality. With both world-renowned and little-known brands, all of which impress customers with their unique products and high quality, it's easy to overspend at Space NK.
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Total Beauty Experience
A full-service salon and retail store, Total Beauty Experience lives up to its name. With salon-quality products, professionals giving expert advice, and new products placed on shelves regularly, this California store is one to bookmark.
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When you need a professional-grade beauty product (be hair-, makeup-, or skin care-related), you'd be hard pressed not to find it at Ulta. With prestige products at affordable prices, Ulta has made a name for itself with good reason.
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If you love Whole Foods for the organic selection of prime food, you'll love Whole Body, the wellness body shop extension of the brand. If you're always on the hunt for natural products that won't irritate sensitive skin, Whole Body will give you enough options to be set for a lifetime. Plus, the Whole Body website is fully equipped with tutorials on smokey eyes, natural curls, and more.
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Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky
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What is going on, everybody?
We are super excited to start our special podcast series where we'll be giving y'all the juicy details of who we are, where we started, what and how it happened.
An author is writing a book about our story and part of that process is recording our story on audio for her to listen to in an interview style format.
So, Jocelyn and I were sitting here recording, and thought how this would be a great opportunity to fill in the gaps for everyone listening to our podcast.
We want to share our story with you, how two normal people from really, really small rural communities in Kentucky went through life, learned about online business, and ended up creating this amazing life that we didn't even know existed a few years ago, and just let you guys in on that.
Highlights of this Prologue
Family background
fun high school days
Walk this journey with us, listen to our story, let it inspire you, and know that you can do this too.
Jocelyn with her super adorable pigtails 😀
If you're thinking, "Wait, is this Anna Jo?" The answer is no, this is Jocelyn. If you're thinking, "Pretty sure Jocelyn cloned herself." Well, that theory kinda makes sense, but… LOL 😀
Shane: Jocelyn was in the band. Jocelyn: I was actually a color guard. Shane: It's the band. Jocelyn: But I didn't play an instrument. Shane: It's the band. Jocelyn: … Shane: Nothing wrong with the band, I'm cool with the band!
BONUS TRIVIA:
Jocelyn is obsessed with computers, and she started with this early 90s computer with 4 MB of RAM & a 256 MB hard drive. Here's an example image and what a 2,400 baud modem looks like. This is waaaaaay before Facebook y'all!
Don't judge me! I was the IN thing back in the day!
I was pretty rad, myself! You young'uns and your fancy, highspeed internet upgrades!
Although we're saving the college days story for next week, here's a picture of what "Ethel" looked like.
This is what the model looked like, memories~
Here are the links to S&J's Our Story podcast series
Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight
Our story – Chapter 2: Welcome to the real world (maybe we should get married?)
Our story – Chapter 3: The worst day of our lives
Our Story – Chapter 4: How a lawnmower and 11 cents changed our lives forever
Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promise Land
You can connect with S&J on social media too!
Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show!
If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week!
Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below!
Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams.
We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let's get started.
What is going on, everybody? This is Shane and Jocelyn here, flippedlifestyle.com, super excited to be back with you for another podcast today. This one's going to be a little different than our normal podcast where we're helping our people take their online business to the next level, members of our Flip Your Life community.
Jocelyn and I actually are having a book written about us. An author is writing a book about our story and a part of that process is we are recording our story on audio for her to listen to, to go through, kind of like in an interview style format.
Jocelyn and I were sitting here recording, and we thought, man, what a great opportunity to fill in the gaps and a lot of you listen to our podcast for online business advice and things like that. But what a great opportunity to share our story with you, how, basically, two normal people from really, really small rural communities in Kentucky over a period of time– we went through our careers, we learned about online business, and we ended up creating this amazing life that we didn't even know existed a few years ago, and maybe just let you guys in on that, and let you walk that journey with us, listen to it, and listen to our story, let it inspire you, and let you know that you can do this, too.
Jocelyn: Today, we are starting out with our early life. A lot of you guys have listened to us on other podcasts and you've heard a lot of our story from the past five years, but what you really don't know is more about us from the past 35 years or more.
Shane: That dated us, Jocelyn, you totally had dated us right there. What we're going to do is we're going to release these every week as we record them and we're going to let them roll out, and this is going to be our story, our journey how we got to where we are, literally, right now today from A to Z. We're going to look back and connect the dots. We were writing an outline for today's podcast and it's mind blowing when we were reading it. We both just stopped, and we're like, "This doesn't even sound real, it doesn't even sound possible," like, it's incredible when you see looking back with 20/20 hindsight how all of the dots aligned and everything, and all the puzzle pieces came together.
What we want you to do is listen to these podcasts. You are going to get a ton of information out of them that is going to help you succeed in your journey, too, and it's going to help you see those dots in your own life, and see how you have all the puzzle pieces right in front of you, and you just have to move them around and connect them together.
Alright, so we're going to jump right into it. You want to start?
Jocelyn: Oh, we were just having a conversation who was going to start, and Shane's like, "You start." And I'm like, "No, you were born first."
Shane: So, this is like those board games we play with Anna Jo and she gets really upset if it's the youngest person first to the oldest person first, so I think we have opened the box to a board game where the oldest guy in the room gets to start off the deals.
My story basically starts in a really, really small-town in Southeast Kentucky. Very much a coal town, we're a railroad town, we have a depot here and basically all the coal that comes through the mountains of eastern Kentucky comes through my little town. That was kind of the industry: the railroad, the coal miners, we had less than 5,000 people in my town as we were growing up. Really, just a very rural childhood. I lived in the city limits, what we call a city– it's not really a city. But I lived inside the city limits. I didn't live out in the country, but a very rural upbringing, not anything remotely related to technology or big business or anything like that.
Basically, the people were schoolteachers, coal miners or they worked at the retail stores, like Walmart or something like that–
Jocelyn: Or maybe at the hospital.
Shane: Or maybe at the hospital. Yeah, things like that. That's the kind of jobs that we would have around here. I'm actually the 4th of five boys. My parents have five kids, huge age differences between us. My oldest brother is 19 years older than me. I've got another brother that is 18 years older than me, and then there was a gap between the middle of all five of us. The next brother up was nine years older than me, and that I have a little brother who is about three and half years younger than me. Huge span of children in my family, and lots of different age groups.
It was kind of weird because when I was born, two of my brothers were not even in the house and one of them was in college. When I was nine years old, he'd moved off. By the time I could remember things and I was a kid, three of my brothers were gone, so it was kind of like I was the oldest, it's me and my little brother. It was just a bizarre kind of family dynamic and that.
Jocelyn: I actually grew up in a small town in Western Kentucky, very flatland.
Shane: Still a coal mine in place though. It's a big coal mine place.
Jocelyn: Definitely, coal mining is the major industry there. I was born in 1980.
Shane: Oh, yeah, I was born in 1978. A child of the 70s.
Jocelyn: Barely. My parents, they were really young when they had me. My mom was just out of high school. Actually come to think of it, I think she was in high school. They started from a very young age, they worked very hard to make sure that we had everything that we needed. I have a sister, she is three years younger than me and we grew up in just a neighborhood, we had a lot of friends who lived next door. They were probably, I would say, maybe 30 houses in this neighborhood. It was the 80s, we all ran around and played together —
Shane: — Rode bikes —
Jocelyn: — Went out at breakfast time, and came in at dinnertime but it is just what we did. I spent a lot of time outside and a lot of time playing. No iPads or technology at that time. I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a time like that.
Shane: It is pretty cool. I think we had similar childhoods growing up because we both grew up in very traditional Southern-type towns, went to church on Sundays, hung out with the neighbors, both of our mom stayed home while our dads worked. It was just like good, slow-paced, southern life before the Internet, before we had all this technology and stuff.
My dad worked really hard, too. He was an insurance agent. He had his little independent office where he sold auto insurance. Had his own business. It was kind of cool I think that was maybe where the seeds of entrepreneurship kind of were born in me because I can remember my dad telling me about jobs he had had. Used to drive to Chicago from Kentucky to work in the steel mills during the week and they would drive back to Kentucky. This was before the interstates, basically, were really in place. He would come back on the weekends to come down here and he always told me about these grocery stores or restaurants or places he worked.
Jocelyn: And he would sleep in the steel mills.
Shane: Under the boilers.
Jocelyn: He's told us about this before. They would drive up there to Chicago, they would sleep in the steel mill, and then they would drive home to Kentucky on the weekends.
Shane: Yup, they'd work there all day, sleep under the boilers at night where it was warm, and then they would get up and work, and they would come home, after they just did that. But I would remember that because he would always tell me growing up, I was like, "Well, dad, why do you do this? Everybody else has a job, what are you doing?" He goes, "Well, I just decided that I would rather be broke and work for myself, and have my time freedom and be able to go to your ball games," or something like that.
That always kind of stuck with me a little bit, and he just said he had worked for other people and he decided it was just better through the ups and downs that they could go at it on his own. That is what he did.
Jocelyn: He's made it a long time. He is still there today.
Shane: Still in business.
Jocelyn: Still doing very well.
Shane: He's 77 years old, and he's still going in every day. He loves what he does. Other than that, he was just very traditional. Grow up, go to ballgames, played baseball in the summer, played basketball in the fall or in the winter, play a little football in the fall. We never really traveled much or did anything. I didn't really know of a lot about I guess the rest of the world other than what you saw on TV or something. Really, until I went to college, the farthest we ever really drove was maybe up to Lexington Kentucky or down to Knoxville. That was the big city for me, 250,000 people that was my New York, I guess, growing up. I did not even fly on an airplane until I was in my 20s. Just a very small-town, sheltered kind of life.
Jocelyn: My dad was a cable engineer. He has been doing that for a very long time.
Shane: He was the cable guy. Climbing poles, and hooking up cable systems and all that good stuff.
Jocelyn: My dad, he is super hard working person. Just something I really respect about him for sure. I can remember that he always worked extra jobs. He was an engineer, super smart guy. People would hire him to do things on the side. I remember he installed satellite dishes and he worked with a guy who did audiovisual type things for a while.
I could remember going places with him sometimes at night like when he would install somebody's satellite or something like that, that would be how we would spend time together a lot of times. I remember those types of things as I was growing up. My mom, she helped us do everything. She helped us with our homework when we came home, make sure we were reading, which really wasn't a problem for us because we loved to read.
Shane: But she probably helped you learn that.
Jocelyn: Oh, of course, she would always work with us and make sure that we had everything we needed for school and take care of all the grocery shopping, and the cooking it, the cleaning and all those types of things that had to be done. My parents, great people, really appreciate everything that they've done for me growing up.
We also did not travel a whole lot. We would go to the surrounding larger towns which in Western Kentucky are not very large.
Shane: There is like, two of them.
Jocelyn: Pretty much. Yes.
Shane: Bowling Green yeah, that is about it.
Jocelyn: Owensboro, we would go places like that. We would do that. We didn't get to take a lot of vacations, far away. We, instead, would go camping. Those are some my fondest memories growing up. We started out tent camping. We had a boat so we would take it on the lake and we eventually were able to get a camper, which was awesome. We had an old black-and-white TV.
Shane: Was it like a pop-up camper?
Jocelyn: No, it was a regular camper.
Shane: That little square thing you hook up to the truck kind of deal?
Jocelyn: It was orange and white, I remember that. We would pull it with this old green and white truck; we called it Alice.
Shane: I think it was the 80s, so weren't all campers orange and white back then with the big stripe?
Jocelyn: Yeah, probably, I don't know. But we would take our camper down to the lake. We would go out and ride in a boat, those were some of my most fun memories growing up. I could just remember going to the campgrounds, we would go to the pool. We would swim in the lake. I was saying we had an old black-and-white TV in the camper, and we thought that was the greatest thing ever because there was no Internet, there was nothing back in the 80s and before when we were tent camping, we just had our books which was awesome, but then when we had this black-and-white TV, we were really high-tech.
Shane: High-tech, all three channels that you picked up on the airwaves. Our upbringing was kind of cool because I would never say we were poor-poor like we were farming for our food or anything. We were middle class. We just did not have a ton of stuff. I grew up in a two-bedroom, one bath house. We, finally, when I was in high school, I think my sophomore year in high school, maybe my freshman year, we built onto our house, and it was the first time I actually got my own room because I had to share a room with my little brother.
But I did get to see our parents as I grew up, they worked so hard, and they built on to their life. I saw the value of how working hard works. My dad had this little bitty office that was seriously– how big do you think that building is? It couldn't be 15 x 15, maybe? It was really tiny. Had this little bitty, tiny office, and for the first 10 years of my life, I could remember going out into that little office after school. My dad would put my Legos up on the shelves.
I loved going into his office, but it was this little bitty room. It was probably about as big as the room we are in right now in our house. I can remember when he upgraded to this bigger space, this bigger office, and I thought, "Man, that was the coolest thing ever," because you could see the fruits of his labor. I remember when we built onto our house, basically my five brothers and their families and everybody came over to this little, bitty, tiny house. We actually had this room we call the back porch. There used to be a back porch on it, and my that mom and dad built walls and made it like a sunroom.
We kind of took it over as the kid room because it was extra space, then we closed in the area that was between the patio in the garage, this big living room. I got a room on the back, and it was cool watching that progression of, we started with very little, and as I got older, things got better because they worked so hard. I think it was cool that I didn't necessarily have everything growing up that I wanted, but we always had our needs met, and I got to see my parents build a life, and I think that that definitely had an impact on the stuff that we are doing now.
Jocelyn: I definitely had a similar situation. When my mom and dad started, like you said they were super young. I can't even imagine my life right now, just the way they had started out versus the way I started out. It is crazy, but they started out, in a trailer, just in the middle of nowhere.
Shane: Stereotypical Kentucky trailer kind of deal.
Jocelyn: Yeah, not too much after that, they were able to get a house. They, later, built a house.
Shane: And when we say built a house, Jocelyn's dad literally poured the concrete, hammered the wood, put on the roof, pretty much built the house the they have now by hand in his spare time, when he wasn't being a cable guy.
Jocelyn: He did a great job on that, and they still live there today. It is a beautiful house, so they have just worked hard and–
Shane: Basically from nothing.
Jocelyn: Yeah, and they've done a great job. They've built on what they had, the same as Shane's dad's insurance agency, and today their life as much different than it was when they started out. It is awesome to be able to have been part of all the transformation.
Shane: There is a great book called out 'Outliers' were it talks about people who took advantage of their unfair advantages. You have the guys like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
Bill Gates, his unfair advantage was he was born into a wealthy family. There were only three or four computers in the 60s all around the country. His high school or his school something had access to one of these supercomputers, so he got to learn it early.
I think, if I remember the book correctly, Steve Jobs, he lived down the street from Hewlett-Packard. He would go tinker in his garage, and that was his unfair advantage. The neighborhood he lived in and the people he had around him.
I think that an advantage that Jocelyn and I had was, we grew up in poor, southern Kentucky town to parents who had to work really, really hard for everything they had, and they did an amazing job modeling that for us. That kind of gave us the foundation that we were able to go forward and say, "Hey, we see something. Let's go get it!"
Jocelyn: And the reason that we start here and tell you guys this is because I think a lot of times, people want to think that, "Oh, look that person has a trust fund," or, "That person– somebody gave them tens and thousands of dollars to get their business started."
Shane: Or they look for a variable, what was their magic pill? What makes them different than me that makes them succeed, and me not, basically?
Jocelyn: We didn't have that. I am just saying we got started all on our own. We certainly had support of a loving family–
Shane: Love, and a loving family. That goes a long way.
Jocelyn: I don't discount that in any way. But we didn't have some like super-privileged upbringing, is what we're trying to tell you.
Shane: We didn't have the financial advantages of some other people. We met people that started a business and maybe someone funded it for them, gave them the money to seed their capital for the first business venture, or something like that. We really literally started from nothing. We started life, just a normal total upbringing. When we were starting our business, which we will talk about later, we had nothing. We had no extra money, no extra time, and all we had were a lot of drive and ourselves. That is kind of the moral of the story is, you can definitely rely on that work ethic and those things you've learned, you know, the lessons of life growing up from your parents, from other people or whatever and turn that into something successful.
While Jocelyn's values and my values are aligned, and we had very similar socioeconomic and regional upbringings, we could not have been two more different people when we were like, growing up. I was a total knucklehead when I was in school. I was a football player and was kind of a troublemaker. I didn't do anything too legal but her mom and dad might have had to pick me up from the local police station once or twice.
Jocelyn: And how many times did you get kicked out of school?
Shane: I actually got sent home from school a few times. I never got expelled —
Jocelyn: You got suspended.
Shane: I got suspended a few times. I like to fight and do some things like that. I was kind of like, gosh, it's so funny. I've literally had former teachers, when they hear what we do now, say, "Are you sure that's you? Are you sure that's Shane Sams?"
Jocelyn: "Is it a different brother?"
Shane: "Is this a different brother? There's five of them. That can't be the same guy." I always tested really high on the test scores, and then I would make terrible grades or I wouldn't do my homework, and I just didn't care about school.
Jocelyn: People got mad because you are part of the gifted program, right?
Shane: Yeah when I was in sixth grade, they put me in this thing called SOAR, which was like our local gifted and talented thing, where you got to take classes at the high school. Here was me, getting on the bus, this knucklehead who just got suspended from something or whatever I was doing in school, and I'd get on the bus to go over to the– oh, where do we go? We went to the middle school to do those classes, and sometimes we go to high school. You see all these other straight A, smart people.
This is how big of a knucklehead I was. Multiple parents literally called and said they did not want me to be in the SOAR program, the gifted and talented thing, because they didn't want me with their kids. That tells you like what kind of idiot I was. I was just like, man, I just hated the structure of school. I hated the rules, I hate following rules even today. It irks me when I am on a railroad track. I can't be on a railroad track. I've got to be out exploring or something like that.
The things that I did love: I love sports. I absolutely loved playing football. I loved media classes. I got to be the producer of our local news show on our high school news program; loved media class, loved editing, love to technology, but from a school perspective, I just hated it. I almost missed graduation because we had to do these portfolio things. We didn't get it done. I just thought it was the stupidest thing in the world. I hated keeping up with it, and I literally almost did not do it, and my mom and I were like the week before graduation, we were frantically trying to get this thing done. Jocelyn was a little bit different when she was in high school.
Jocelyn: Yeah, growing up, I would say– and I know that you long-term listeners, you will totally get this. I was a very high achiever. I have always been a high achiever; I don't know why. I think that part of it is just my upbringing. My parents didn't necessarily pressure me; it's just they always expected us to do our very best. I think honestly, it is just something that is in my DNA, it's just very important to me to always be a high achieving person in anything that I do. Growing up, I wasn't necessarily competitive with other people, I just wanted to make sure that I was doing everything that I could do. I generally made straight As in schools I mean, there were a few times that I got a B, and once even a C in Math. Imagine that!
Shane: Yeah, once again, long time listeners. We are not so good at the adding and subtracting over here the Flipped Lifestyle World Headquarters.
Jocelyn: Yeah, actually, my very first C ever was in sixth grade, and in math, so that was a fun fact about me. And I cried. My parents were like, "What happened?"
Shane: My parents cried for joy when I got C's. "You didn't get a D!" "You didn't fail! Good job, Shane! Woohoo!"
Jocelyn: That is not because you were not intelligent. It was because you didn't apply yourself.
Shane: I just didn't care. I never did homework. Wait until we start telling you about college, and you hear how many times I went to class. I don't know how I have a degree, to be honest with you.
Jocelyn: Back in school, I just followed the rules, I went along with the plan I didn't really cause any problems.
Shane: Jocelyn was in the band.
Jocelyn: I was actually in the Color Guard. I wasn't in the band.
Shane: It's the band. It is the band.
Jocelyn: But I didn't play an instrument. I was in the Color Guard.
Shane: It is the band.
Jocelyn: So yeah–
Shane: Nothing wrong with the band. I'm all cool with the band.
Jocelyn: So, yeah. I was just a very straight-laced kind of gal. Had Shane and I known each other in high school. There is no way. This would have never worked.
Shane: No chance. No, no there is no way. She would have looked at me, and been like, "Who is this loser-jock-guy that won't do anything and won't listen to the teachers and all this stuff?" Yeah, I am so glad. It is funny like the person I became was actually totally different, even when you did meet me because when I was in high school, I had a devastating knee injury. I actually was playing in a football game. I was playing linebacker, and they handed the guy the ball, it was on the three-yard line, and I came running in to fill the gap, to fill the hole that was created because he was going to score a touchdown when they blocked our lineman.
I planted my foot, the guy dove for the end zone. My cleats went into the ground. The guy hits my knee and all my weight falls forward with my foot pinned to the ground. It snapped my ACL and my PCL in half. I've never felt anything like that since, and I hope I never have to again. I fell backwards. He was laying on my foot, and my teammate went to kill him, he hit me instead, and it literally turned my body 360°. My shoulders were facing one goal post, my toe was facing the other and it snapped all the other ligaments in my leg and that moment basically ended my football career.
Over the next couple of years, my first year in college, my last year in high school, I kind of became a different person because I was really down, because I couldn't play the sport that was my identity anymore. But I started hanging around with different people more, I got away from that kind of jock culture a little bit, it kind of humbled me and mellowed me out a little bit. It's funny, like that moment in my life, I always point back to for a lot of different things, but if that had never happened to me, as negative and terrible as it was at that time, when I got to the point where I met Jocelyn, it made me a person that I think that she could accept. I'm kind of glad it happened. Not only would that not have sent me down a career path, which I will tell you more about later, that we are in now, we would not have been the right fit for each other.
Jocelyn: Yeah, I think that's definitely true. But I'll tell you, before we get to where we met, I will tell you a couple other things about my high school career. I think that they are relevant to where we are today. First of all, I told you that I am a high achiever. I always knew my entire life, not even just in high school, but my entire life, I just knew I just wanted something more than what most people in my town wanted. Most people in my town, they wanted to grow up, get a job, maybe have some kids.
Shane: Young, get-married-the-day-after-graduation kind of thing.
Jocelyn: And you know, if that is what you want to do, I don't judge you for it. It's just that I knew that that wasn't what I wanted for me. I wanted something more. I did not know what that something more was, but I just knew that I wanted something more.
Shane: It is also important to remember, too, our environment especially in the rural southern Kentucky, there is really high rates of teen pregnancy. There is really high rates of smoking and drugs and things like that. It's not this sanitized, you know, everybody is walking up and down Main Street environment. You see a lot of people just check out of life. There is not a lot of people trying to go to the next level.
In the entrepreneur community, or when you discover online business, man, you see hustlers, easy grinders, you see people wanting to 10X everything. You see people wanted to change their lives and change other people's lives, and make a difference in the world. We do not see that. We see 80% of our people that we grow up with and settle.
Jocelyn: And that is okay with them, that is cool with them.
Shane: For some of them, they may not want to, but they don't feel like they got the opportunity.
Jocelyn: But it has never been okay for me. I've just never wanted that for my life. In the early 90s, I mentioned before, that my dad is an engineer, in the early 90s, he realized that having a home computer and being online was going to be something super important. I am so thankful that he bought us a PC back in 1993. I was 13 years old, it had a whopping 4 MB of RAM and a 256 MB hard drive.
Shane: That's big time right there, now.
Jocelyn: I have a memory stick right here in my drawer that probably holds a lot more than that.
Shane: The light bulb on our roof probably has more memory. The light bulb in the ceiling right now, like one of those LED lights that you can control from your phone or something probably is more powerful than the computer that you had.
Jocelyn: It might have had 8 MB RAM, I can't remember the RAM exactly, but I know that it did have a 256 MB hard drive, it even had a modem. It would connect to these local bulletin board systems that are also called BBS's. Some of you guys know what I'm talking about. Through a 2400 baud modem.
Shane: It might even fit not even the 56K. You know what I'm saying? Not even your phone modem. I don't even know what baud means what is a baud?
Jocelyn: I think I could, seriously, crawl faster than this transfer data.
Shane: You could write down your message, and run it to the guy on the other end of the bulletin board system and come back.
Jocelyn: I think probably, somewhere on the Internet, there is a simulation of what a 2400 baud would be like. Maybe our VA's can–
Shane: Maybe we can find that.
Jocelyn: –and put it in the show notes for today like what it would look like to load a website in 2400 baud. Of course, at the time, it was just text but there wasn't even like any pictures or anything.
Shane: But just early computers experience like that at the birth of the Internet, basically.
Jocelyn: But I learned to communicate with a computer. We didn't even use Windows. It was like old school DOS operating system, I learned how to use that. That was like invaluable experience for me just as a kid, learning this on my own, I didn't have any instruction manual.
Shane: That was a major investment at that time for your dad and mom who didn't have a lot of disposable income to do that.
Jocelyn: They just recognized that this is going to be something super important, and they went out on a limb and did it, and I am so thankful for that. That is one moment in my life that I think was just critical to my future success. But my very first online experience was on the coal mine BBS. It was a local bulletin board system just where local people would talk, and we logged in there.
Shane: This was pre-Facebook. This was before Facebook, folks, or MySpace or anything like that.
Jocelyn: And we went and met the sysops– the system operators– we went to meet them in person, like we knew them, it was just a good time. If you are on BBSs back in the 90s, it was good times.
Shane: I think I had a similar experience. My dad is old-school. My dad was born in the 40s right after the depression era, and wasn't super into the technology; still isn't today– I'm pretty sure his computer at office was Windows 98 or something.
Jocelyn: He may be using a flip phone.
Shane: He is using a flip phone, and I'm pretty sure he is like still using Paint and stuff.
Jocelyn: Loving him.
Shane: Love the guy. He doesn't even use a computer. He just got one sitting there, and just like, "Yeah, I got a computer. I don't use it, but whatever." I remember when video games really took off, like Atari and Nintendo came out, and all these things. They were really expensive. But at Christmas time, he really wanted us to have these video game things, and he actually told me one time, he's like, "I didn't understand computers, I didn't understand what was going on or what it was, but I knew that this technology you guys needed to know it."
He always made sure we had those things. Not just from a kid perspective, but he wanted us to be familiar with technology, and it was cool because I had friends that had computers. I remember my cousin; his dad was like Jocelyn's dad. He was a postman. He was a post office guy, and he didn't understand really the computer, but he felt like he wanted to give his kids a better opportunity. He was going to buy a car or that computer, and he bought that computer. I'm so thankful that he did it because I would walk up to their house to play Wolfenstein 3-D and learn how to type. But I learned how to use DOS.
I think having some kind of technology background for sure was one of those dots that we connected later and at least we spoke the words, the language and things like that. I'm not saying you've got to have technology background to do that.
Jocelyn: But it didn't hurt.
Shane: We used an unfair advantage there. Hey, we were exposed to that when a lot of kids, especially in our area in Kentucky, were just not being exposed to technology.
Jocelyn: So I spent a lot of my high school days being obsessed with this PC. I mean obsessed. I would start taking programming classes. That is something they offered at my high school which is really kind of unusual. There weren't a whole lot of people in those classes.
Shane: We had typing. We had keyboarding on computers, was the most advanced computer thing you got.
Jocelyn: We learned keyboarding, too. I learned keyboarding in middle school, but when we got to high school, we had a very limited selection of business classes. One of those classes was computer programming. I am like, "Alright, I'm signing up for this." I learned basic, and then I moved on to Pascal, and then started learning some C++ which is actually still used today. Now, do I still remember it? No. For a variety of reasons but anyway. I learned those programming languages, and I started learning more and more about computers and they started getting more and more sophisticated. That was a cool thing about it is that, I just kept up with that and kept learning and kept getting better.
Shane: When you went to college, you were trying to be a programmer at first right?
Jocelyn: Yeah, and I've got some story about that as we move into the college days, but yeah. Honestly, when I was in high school, I counted down the days until I could go out to college. It wasn't because I had a bad home life, I had a fantastic home life, it was just because I wanted something more. I didn't even know what that something more was. I just wanted something more. I was ready to get out.
Shane: And Jocelyn left her hometown. She moved to Lexington to go to University of Kentucky. She was 17 because Jocelyn is really smart, and she like, skipped second grade something.
Jocelyn: I skipped first grade.
Shane: First grade, whatever. She skipped a grade. She was she literally turned 17 in March of her senior year, that summer– can you imagine having a 17-year-old right now letting them do that– would you let your kids do that?
Jocelyn: No —
Shane: Because they will meet bad people like you, Shane, they'll be bad influences like you.
Jocelyn: Yeah, but the thing about it is, you have to remember, back in the 90s– this is 1997, when I moved to the University of Kentucky, people didn't have cell phones. A few people did, but a lot of people didn't even have cell phones. My parents sent their barely 17-year-old daughter–
Shane: In a shoddy car–
Jocelyn: In a 1989 Buick Skyhawk–
Shane: And a 1989 Buick Skyhawk that barely ran. One time we drove Jocelyn's car, it was– what did you call it? Myrtle or Ethel? Ethel. She called it Ethel —
Jocelyn: Hey, I loved Ethel. I cried when I traded Ethel in.
Shane: I do miss Ethel. Ethel was a good old girl. But one time, the muffler broke or fell off or something —
Jocelyn: I'm pretty sure it fell off —
Shane: I'm pretty sure it fell off, like literally. We were driving, and all of a sudden you're like, "Oh, it's a car," and then it goes, wah-wah-wah-wah-wah because it is terrible when the muffler is not on the car. And we're like, "Did the muffler just fall off?" And she's like, "I saw sparks. Yeah, I think so." We had to go back to Jocelyn's hometown for the weekend or something, and I think my car was broken down or something, too. Something was going on, so we drove her car there, and we went all the way back to her hometown, like a three-hour drive with no muffler. That was bad on the ears, that time. Yeah.
It's funny you say that though, because we're about to go to the next phase here, but Jocelyn looks back, and you're so systematic now and process-oriented and things like that, and that experience with the computers that you had, you were drawn to that, like you said, you were obsessed with it. I think about going back to high school. I just hated school, and I think about the things that I did like. I liked to be talking and argumentative, so I really loved history, political science and debate-style classes. Also, I loved those video editing classes.
Anything where I could take my imagination and be creative, and it's funny how we both, even in our business today, if you look at our roles, how you connect the dots, and it gravitates toward those things, you do deal with a lot of the systematic process stuff. Even the technology stuff, you talk to our Infusionsoft contractor, and things like that, where I'm doing more like producing the kids' YouTube channels, and working with our editor to make things sound and look right, and it's funny how some people I think that are listening right now may not be connecting all those little things that you take for granted that you could use to build some kind of epic life and business out of, basically.
Jocelyn: You know, just remember that when you start looking back at things to affirm your life, there are experiences that are beneficial for you as you move forward in your online business, or whatever it is that you are trying to do. You might not even think about it right now, but as you think back, then you just remember, that hey, this experience happened for a reason, and maybe it can benefit me in the future.
Shane: I think that what's really important about that part of our journey, too, and your journey as you are listening to this show is knowing that there is something else, and knowing that you want something else is the most important part of this entire formula, this entire process because you take our parents; our parents– we've already said, they were really, really hard workers– they all built lives out of nothing, basically. They didn't have a lot, but they kept building, kept stacking. They didn't really know outside of our community. They didn't really know there were other jobs out there. They didn't really know there were other things that they might be able to do or grow.
We didn't really know that until maybe five or six years ago, when we started our journey. We just thought it was, this is the way life was. The world told us we need to get jobs, we need to be secure, we need to safe, we need to be stable, we need to prepare for the worst case scenario all the time, and just hang on and wait until retirement or whatever.
But when you make the decision, I want something else. When you make the decision, I would like to model that person, I think I could do that, too. When you look around in your life, and you say, "There's more to this; I can go do this." And you're like Jocelyn when she leaves, when she's 17 to go find out what that is, or me getting frustrated and bored with what I was doing, and saying, "No, I'm going to go out and pursue another career," that's the most important part of this whole thing.
What we're telling you here is: everything in your life, every experience leads you to a moment where you want something more, and then take action to go do that. You have all the equipment, all the tools built inside of you whether you know how to use computers or didn't, whether you played sports or didn't, whatever it is, and you can make something happen out of that if you put all of those puzzle pieces together.
Guys, that's the first part of our journey, the first part of our lives. That's the backstory of how Jocelyn and I grew up, and next week, what we're going to get into is actually going to college, where we met, and how I knew that I was going to marry this beautiful girl across from me on the microphone right now, I knew it. I knew it from the first time I saw her, and she did not quite know it yet; she resisted the magnetic pull of my romance.
Jocelyn: Can you blame me?
Shane: That's what we're going to get into next week. We're going to talk about basically how our lives, our paths crossed, and how we got into our relationship, and how we dated for seven years almost before we got married, and all that stuff that kind of kicked off the journey that led us to where we are today.
As we go through this journey, you're going to learn about how we started online business, how we built our online business, how we made it happen, but what we really want to do is just inspire you. We have so many examples in the entrepreneur community.
You see these young, single millennials, or you see these people that are living in Thailand off of $8.00 a week, or you see these people who work 95 hours a week and they are swearing and they are cussing and they're screaming about how you've got to be a hustler, a grinder, and do this and do that. But we want to just show you our story so that you can be inspired and realize we are just normal people. You are normal people, but you can do extraordinary things when you really set your mind to it, and you really want to flip your world upside down. You want to flip your life, you want to try to live the Flipped Lifestyle, and you want to make a change that not only changes your life, but it changes your family tree, and your kids' lives.
That is the point of these, I hope you are enjoying this. We will be back next week to give you the next step in our journey. Hope that you guys get a lot out of this, thank you for hanging out with us for a little while, and we can't wait to see you again next week.
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Halby's Morsels: ESPN will again megacast college football title game; NFL and NBA voices; 50 years ago
Aqib Talib has been getting good reviews for his couple NFL broadcasts on Fox.
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For the college football championship on January 11th, ESPN is again planning a Megacast as it has done in recent years. Audio options of announcers' local radio broadcasts were among the many features that had lots of enhanced audio and video. Details forthcoming from the network this week. Viewers had a chance to watch the game from different camera angles and more. It made for a fun night no matter your rooting interests.
Its first Megacast of the college title game was in 2014 and the features have been enhanced since.
If Disney gets what it's shooting for in NFL negotiations, a rotating opportunity to present the Super Bowl, we might see something like it on the telecast of the Big Game. To date, CBS, Fox and NBC have stuck to one production.
On November 30th, ESPN announced that its NFL wild-card telecast will be available across five different Walt Disney Company networks, marking the debut of the MegaCast for an NFL playoff telecast.
The game, which will take place either Jan. 9 or 10, will be broadcast on ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, Freeform and ESPN Deportes.
According to ESPN: "ESPN and ABC will simulcast the traditional game broadcast by the team of Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Lisa Salters and John Parry, while ESPN2 and Freeform will produce their own distinct broadcasts with separate crews and ESPN Deportes will air the Spanish-language telecast."
Aqib Talib was added to the Fox roster of NFL analysts this season. He's worked just two games, the second of which was Eagles-Cardinals in Phoenix last week. Two national writers have already heaped praise on Talib. May I add, deservedly so.
Former Boston Globe writer Shalise Manza Young who now pens stories for Yahoo Sports and SI's Jimmy Traina both like Talib's confident tone, one scented by his years in the trenches of football and life. Aqib is not the prototype broadcaster who conforms to a list of fundamental standards. He's not about what's accepted, how to sound and how to fit in. He just lets it spew from his lips.
Young covered Talib when he played for the Patriots and was impressed by his depth and football insights. There's nothing contrived about Aqib's delivery. He's a product of a Muslim home and a minority community. Talib is distinct. He sounds somewhere between a stand-up raconteur and a challenged gladiator. He is not interested in preparing for present day vernacular to please television executives. The man is his natural self.
Traina maintains that Talib is raw and that is part of his appeal. Washington's DeAngelo Hall who does the team's radio reminds me of Talib. Hall too is a bit irreverent. In addition to radio, Hall has done national work for the NFL Network.
Young says, "For decades, we've been trained to believe that live sporting events must be broadcast a certain way. Namely, that they should be called and analyzed by an overwhelmingly white, almost exclusively male cadre of voices."
Writer Shalise maintains that Talib would generally be ignored by potential TV employers as evidenced by the fact that he wore a gaudy suit for his last broadcast. That's where I differ. Let's not mix color and flashy suits in here. Talib might grow into a broadcast star but he won't be the first to succeed who did not embrace convention. How about ESPN's Stephen A. Smith? He only makes $8 million a year.
A little history too. John Madden introduced the language of the field to viewers and grew into the most popular analyst in the 80s and beyond. There was nothing like him before he arrived. He was different. Tony Romo didn't come in polished a few years ago. He came in being himself, instinctive; someone who emoted naturally and predicted plays with precision. Neither Madden nor Romo ever sounded stagged. Similarly, the NHL's Barry Melrose wears tawdry outfits on ESPN. And there is only one Melrose on TV. How about Dick Vitale? He fashioned his own style and has excelled for decades.
Being different and neighborly have worked for decades. Talib brings those elements and more importantly, solid material. He's refreshing.
Is there such a shortage of NFL broadcast talent, be it the experienced analysts or those who show promise? While he gets in no one's way, Fox' Mark Schlereth has a tendency to spew inanities and share limited insight. In his years in the studio at ESPN, he wasn't very enlightening either.
On Saturday, after Tom Brady threw one of his four touchdowns against the Lions, Schlereth used the replay to tell the audience to watch Brady rifle the pass to an open receiver. That was it. Nothing more. There was no explanation of how the receiver popped open or how the Lions might have missed an assignment. Schlereth, 54, spent 12 seasons in the NFL as a guard.
As we close out 2020, we're reminded that 50 years ago Monday Night Football was launched by ABC. Howard Cosell was the dominant personality. He was inflammatory or engaging, depending upon your perspective. One way or the other he helped transform the NFL from a Sunday male afternoon event into a broader prime time audience. The series propelled the league to enormous popularity and America's number one sport. Hard to believe, still no Howard Cosell in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Never accepted why.
NFL Play-by-play voices who missed games this season due to Covid protocols are Kenny Albert, Al Michaels and NFL rookie broadcasters Kevin Kugler and Adam Amin.
James Lofton and Andrew Catalon are terrific. Warm, quick and focused on the field. Time for the team to move ahead to 4th on the depth chart, ahead of Greg Gumbel. James thinks like a coach. I always feel like I'm learning something from him. CBS hired a good one in Lofton a couple years ago.
NBA news:
Sam Farber, 37, is the new radio announcer for the Charlotte Hornets. He replaces John Focke who was dismissed after one season following a racist comment that appeared on his Twitter account last August. Focke himself followed Chris Kroeger who himself was removed abruptly late in the 2018-19 season after less than two years. The Hornets never said why Kroeger was removed. Is it a haunted booth?
Farber, who moves to Charlotte from Orange County in California is well aware of the recent rapid successions of Hornets broadcasters. He hopes to involve himself in the Charlotte community and stay in the area for a long time. The San Jose, California native has done play-by-play for ESPN and Fox Sports West.
While the indomitable Al McCoy returns for his 49th season with the Suns, he'll only do mostly home games. Jon Bloom will call the Suns road games on radio. McCoy is 87. The away games are done from the studio. As long as there are pandemic protocols, team announcers are generally expected not to travel.
On television, Jordan Kent, son of longtime former college coach Ernie Kent, is the new TV play-by-play announcer for the Trail Blazers. He had previously been a studio host for the team's telecasts. The job opened after veteran Kevin Calabro left rather surprisingly after the pandemic shut down the NBA. Kent did the Blazers games played in the Orlando bubble last summer, calling them from the the Portland studio. Jordan played ball at the University of Oregon. Dad Ernie coached there as well as at Washington State.
Consolidation is the name of the game in Orlando. The team closed down its English and Hispanic radio broadcasts, leaving Dennis Neumann (play-by-play), Richie Adubato (analyst) and Joey Colon (Hispanic radio) without jobs. The team has gone to a radio/TV simulcast with David Steele (play-by-play) and Jeff Turner (analyst). Interestingly, Steele was the team's first ever radio announcer when the Magic launched in 1989. I heard a bit of last night's game against Washington. It appears that the TV announcers do virtually nothing to accommodate the radio audience. The radio broadcast is no more than a TV feed. It was almost impossible to follow the game on radio. It's too bad because Steele was excellent as a radio only broadcaster in his early years with the team.
The Kings let go of TV play-by-play voice Grant Napear after he said that "all lives matter," when Doug Christie was on his radio show, discussing Black Lives Matter. Napear was employed by both the Kings and the radio station for which he did the talk show. He was fired by the radio station too. Christie and Napear worked the games together on Kings' telecasts. ESPN's Mark Jones becomes the team's lead play-by-play announcers. He'll have a schedule of missed games due to his commitment to ESPN. Kyle Draper will do the games that Jones misses. Draper did pre and post for the Celtics.
Adam Amin succeeds the retiring Neil Funk with the Chicago Bulls telecasts.
In Los Angeles, Chauncey Billups moves from the broadcast table to the bench as an assistant with the Clippers. Jim Jackson, former Ohio State player who also was on 12 NBA rosters will be the prime color announcer on Clippers telecasts.
With the death of Tommy Heinsohn, Brian Scalabriane becomes the new fulltime analyst for the Celtics' telecasts.
Talking 50 years ago, the big network voices then were Jim McKay, Jack Whitaker, Curt Gowdy, Ray Scott, Chris Schenkel and Howard Cosell. Frank Gifford, Al Michaels, Pat Summerall, Dick Enberg, Don Criqui and Keith Jackson would be names that would grow in popularity in the 70s and 80s. In 1970, the NBA finals were just being televised in their entirety. The NHL on network TV was hardly an afterthought. ESPN wouldn't be born for another nine years.
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David is a 40-year + industry veteran who served as play-by-play announcer for St. John's University basketball in New York and as radio play-by-play voice of the Miami Heat in South Florida. He is the author of Sports on New York Radio: A Play-by-Play History and The Fundamentals of Sports Media and Sponsorship Sales: Developing New Accounts.
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School Bus Accident Leaves Several Injured
On Behalf of Law Offices of Nussin S. Fogel | Nov 30, 2017 | Bus Accidents
School bus accidents in New York City are rare; however, there are roughly 60 per day nationwide. But when a collision happens or a bus leaves the roadway our most vulnerable population (our children) is placed in grave danger. That's a reality that several parents are facing this week after a school bus plowed through the guardrail on a New Jersey highway in Essex County. The bus, travelling on Route 280, slammed into the guardrail at speed and came to a stop half in and half out of the travel lane.
The bus was loaded with young students at the time of the crash. Many were treated at the scene of the bus accident for minor injuries and released to their parents. While police continue to investigate the cause of this terrible crash, news outlets have noted that at least two other cars were involved.
As investigations into several high-profile school bus accidents in and around New York City have concluded, the requirements for becoming a bus driver are limited-sometimes laughable. Indeed, and investigative report by CBS news found that a shocking number of bus drivers have criminal records-including DUI arrests. The investigators found that while 21 states reported that not a single bus driver had prior DUI arrests, at least one such case was found in each of the states.
These are not the type of people most of us imagine being placed in control of our children. How did they get placed in these roles? Many drivers skirt federal regulations. Federal CDL licensing requires a criminal background check if the driver will be crossing state lines. Because most school buses don't travel between states, drivers with checkered pasts remain behind the wheel in New York.
If your child has been injured in a school bus accident in New York City, you may be able to hold the school district, the driver, and the company they work for liable for injuries, damages, and pain and suffering.
Contact the experienced New York school bus accident attorneys at the Law Offices of Nussin S. Fogel today. Call 800-734-9338 or 212-385-1122 for your free consultation.


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Covid Crazies: This Lady Hit An Older Man On Her Flight Because He Wouldn't Wear His Mask While He Was Drinking
By Jane Swift· Dec 27th 2021 · 2 min read
Last Thursday's Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta was reportedly an…interesting one.
Another Covid Crazy has surfaced on social media, once again involving an airplane. This time, a lady, reportedly named Patricia Cornwall, 51, went berserk on an older man on her flight – all because he wasn't wearing his mask while he was eating and drinking (or so his story goes).
The video posted to Twitter opens after the encounter has started. The woman is already upset that the man has his mask down. He says he's eating and drinking – but she doesn't care. He calls her a Karen, which gets a laugh from nearby passengers. She continues to berate him, and the flight attendants gather behind her to try to diffuse the situation. One warns her by asking, "Ma'am, do you want the police to meet you on the ground?" To which she replies, "What about him?" She then continues to tell the man to mask up and insists that the flight attendants tell the man to mask up.
At this point, I feel it incumbent upon me to point out that throughout this entire argument, the angry lady IS NOT WEARING HER MASK EITHER. It's tucked under her chin.
Things get even more heated when the man calls the woman a "b*tch," to which she responds by smacking him in the face. The man then tells her she's going to jail for assaulting him. The woman continues to try to intimidate him while he continues to call her names. She then spits on him, and he says, "Now you're double going to jail." She scratches his face before the flight attendants force her farther down the aisle away from him, all the while insisting that he should "put his f***ing mask on" and that she won't put her mask on until he does.
According to the end of the video, the Atlanta Police Department showed up on the tarmac to handle the situation when the plane landed. TMZ reports that she was "taken to a nearby ADP station, and was then handed off to the FBI." CNN has followed up on the situation, reporting that she is in fact being investigated by the FBI and is facing a federal assault charge. If found guilty of the class A misdemeanor, she could face up to one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
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February 28, 2018 Current affairs Leave a comment GREEN ACRES SRIDEVILATEST NEWS ABOUT SRIDEVI DEATHSRIDEVISRIDEVI ANTIM SANSKARSRIDEVI BODY REACHED MUMBAISRIDEVI CASESRIDEVI DEAD PHOTOSRIDEVI DEATH MYSTERYSRIDEVI FUNERAL MUMBAISRIDEVI FUNERAL UPDATESSRIDEVI MORTALSRIDEVI POSTMORTEM REPORT
Sridevi funeral today, Urvashi, Karan pay last respect: Top 10 developments
The actor passed away late Saturday night in Dubai, where she had gone along with her family for the wedding of her nephew Mohit Marwah
Bollywood icon Sridevi's mortal remains have been kept at Mumbai's Celebration Sports Club, where celebs and fans can pay their last respect to the actor. Actors Arbaaz Khan, Urvashi Rautela and Karan Johar were among the people who paid their last respect to the veteran actor at the club. | Today's Paper
Her mortal remains arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday night and the funeral will take place today at 3.30 pm. Her family announced that Sridevi's body would be kept at Celebration Sports Club in Lokhandwala for people to pay their last respect before it is taken for cremation."On behalf of Khushi, Jahnvi, Boney Kapoor, the entire Kapoor and Ayyappan families, a sincere thanks to the media for your continued sensitivity and support during this emotional moment," a statement released by the Kapoor family said.The actor passed away late Saturday night in Dubai, where she had gone along with her family for the wedding of her nephew Mohit Marwah.Dubai officials handed over the body to her family yesterday after completion of all formalities, which took three days. The Indian embassy in Dubai had worked closely with UAE officials to ensure the process was completed in the least possible time.The actor's autopsy report had led to speculations over her death as the report stated that she died due to accidental drowning and not cardiac arrest as reported earlier. However, Dubai police has now closed the case as no foul play was apparently suspected by the investigators. | Business Standard
Here are the top 10 developments since the death of the legendary actor:
1. Celebs pay their last respect to Sridevi: Filmmakers and actors were among the people who arrived at Mumbai's Celebration Sports Club to pay their respect to the veteran actor. Among the first to arrive at the club were actors Arbaz Khan and Urvashi Rautela. Film producer Karan Johar also arrived at the club on Wednesday morning.
2. Funeral today: Sridevi's funeral will take place at the Vile Parle Seva Samaj Crematorium & Hindu Cemetery at around 3:30 pm. According to the arrangements, the media would not be allowed either inside the club or the crematorium.
3. Fans allowed to pay their last respect: The body will be kept for three hours at the Celebration Sports Club, Andheri (West) from 9.30 am onwards to enable people and her fans to pay their last respect, according to a statement released by her family.
4. Fans jostle for a glimpse: As the ambulance carrying the mortal remains of the actor entered her residence, a number of fans jostled for a glimpse of their favourite actor. Visuals from the site showed fans lining up on both sides of the road leading up to the residence with some even climbing the trees to have a clear view.
5. No foul play: Dubai prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that it was closing the case following the completion of investigations. The agency put to rest all speculations on her death by stating that she had died from "accidental drowning" in her bathtub, after losing consciousness. "The case had been closed," the prosecutor's office said.
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This chapter shows off some more complex association mappings.
The following model of the relationship between Employer and Employee uses an actual entity class (Employment) to represent the association. This is done because there might be more than one period of employment for the same two parties. Components are used to model monetary values and employee names.
And here's the table schema generated by SchemaExport.
Consider the following model of the relationships between Work, Author and Person. We represent the relationship between Work and Author as a many-to-many association. We choose to represent the relationship between Author and Person as one-to-one association. Another possibility would be to have Author extend Person.
There are four tables in this mapping. works, authors and persons hold work, author and person data respectively. author_work is an association table linking authors to works. Here is the table schema, as generated by SchemaExport.
In this section we consider a model of the relationships between Customer, Order, LineItem and Product. There is a one-to-many association between Customer and Order, but how can you represent Order / LineItem / Product? In the example, LineItem is mapped as an association class representing the many-to-many association between Order and Product. In NHibernate, this is called a composite element.
customers, orders, line_items and products hold customer, order, order line item and product data respectively. line_items also acts as an association table linking orders with products.
These examples have been elaborated from the Hibernate test suite. You will find many other useful example mappings in NHibernate own test suite by searching in the test folder of the NHibernate sources.
This case requires mixing column and formula under the <many-to-many> element, which is supported only since NHibernate 5.2.


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Health Care Law Today
By: Foley & Lardner LLP
Nathan A. Beaver
Michelle A. Freeman
Lori A. Rubin
Kimberly A. Yelkin
Taylor Appling
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Continuing Consolidation in Orthopedic Medicine
By Roger D. Strode
Physician consolidation continued on a robust pace this past year, despite, or maybe because of, the Pandemic. Physician-owned orthopedic practices appear to be no exception to this trend. Interestingly, orthopedic physicians, including spine physicians, are among the most independent of all physicians and have long resisted the urge to sell or combine their practices. This desire to remain independent has been supported by the leverage these practices have by reason of their ownership and operation…
Medicare Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder Treatment FAQs: New CMS Reimbursement Requirements
By Jessa Boubker, Sunny J. Levine, Christopher J. Donovan, Alexis Finkelberg Bortniker & Hannah E. Zaitlin
In the 12-month period starting in April 2021, over 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses, a 28.5% increase from the same period the year before. While the opioid crisis has been a declared public health emergency (PHE) since October 26, 2017, overdose deaths remain at an all-time high and have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this epidemic, physicians and other health professionals have called for additional telehealth flexibilities to allow…
FDA Drafts Public Health Emergency Transition Plan: What Device Manufacturers Need to Know
By Jessa Boubker, Kyle Y. Faget, Monica R. Chmielewski & Nathan A. Beaver
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) previously issued emergency use authorizations (EUA) and adopted emergency policies in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to facilitate the availability of key medical devices such as in vitro diagnostic tests, personal protective equipment, and ventilators. To enable an "orderly and transparent transition" when the PHE ends, FDA recently released two nonbinding draft guidance documents addressing: (1) EUAs (EUA Guidance); and (2) medical devices falling under …
COVID-19 At-Home Tests: Do CLIA Requirements Apply and what do Health Care Providers Need to Know?
By Judith A. Waltz & Olivia R. King
Demand for COVID-19 tests, including over-the-counter at-home tests, has soared with the surge of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. However, health care providers, employers, and individuals have lacked clarity on if and how federal requirements might apply to such tests, including the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), which govern most laboratory testing and the operations of clinical laboratories. On November 22, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a guidance…
The COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate: CMS is Ready for Enforcement … in Half of the United States
By Rachel B. Goodman, Kate L. Pamperin & Larry S. Perlman
Despite continuing disputes as to the legality and enforcement of the CMS vaccine mandate for certified providers and suppliers, CMS has indicated it will proceed with enforcement of the mandate in those states where it is not enjoined from doing so with clarifying guidance issued on December 28, 2021. See below for immediate action steps for those currently subject to the mandate. As previously reported, on November 4, 2021 the Centers for Medicare and…
Hospital and Health System Affiliation Transactions: Critical Legal and Business Issues
We continue to see affiliation activity among hospitals and health systems, albeit at a slower pace than previously experienced, likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting slow down in elective care, staffing shortages and a disinclination of some patients to re-engage with their providers. These impacts, we believe, are transitory and will resolve themselves in due course leading to increases in deal volume. The deals we have seen are more "super regional" in…
3D Printing Medical Devices at the Point of Care — FDA Invites Feedback
By Jessa Boubker & Kyle Y. Faget
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a discussion paper to gather feedback that will inform future policies and guidance regarding 3D printing medical devices at the point of care. Amidst COVID-19 supply chain shortages, health care facilities began working with 3D printer manufacturers to print medical devices, e.g., face shields, face mask holders, nasopharyngeal swabs, and ventilator parts from locally-available materials directly at the point of care. FDA is considering how health…
The Proposed Cures 2.0 Act – What You Can Expect
By Devaki Patel, David L. Rosen, Jennifer F. Walsh & Jared B. Rifis
On November 16, 2021, U.S. House Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced the highly anticipated Cures 2.0 Act (H.R. 6000). Among other things, this 173-page bipartisan bill contain provisions to accelerate medical research, increase patient access to novel therapeutics, and remove current barriers to telehealth services. This bill would also create a new agency called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This…
Telemedicine Will Remain Even as the COVID-19 Crisis Recedes; But the Policies That Enabled Great Advances in Telemedicine Should Become Permanent
By Nathaniel M. Lacktman
Three times as many consumers say they plan on continuing to use telehealth services, and more than half of providers view it more favorably now than before. As telemedicine companies stepped up during the COVID-19 (COVID) health crisis, patients and clinicians alike came to value and rely on the model of anywhere care, where an exam, checkup, or therapy session could be performed remotely and safely. Despite the support from consumers, the industry faces policy…
COVID-19 Lab Tests: HHS Withdraws Policy Limiting FDA's Review, and FDA Issues an Updated Policy Requiring EUAs
By Kyle Y. Faget & Nathan A. Beaver
On November 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the withdrawal of the policy established during the previous administration that limited U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ability to require that certain laboratory developed tests (LDTs), including COVID-19 tests, a type of test that is generally designed, manufactured, and used in a single laboratory, receive premarket approval (PMA) or clearance (510(k)), or emergency use authorization (EUA). FDA has historically asserted…


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Edinburgh office market ends year on a high fuelled by tech demand but supply concerns remain
Green light given for more than 100 family homes in historic South Lanarkshire town
Profits in tune as Linn pumps millions into R&D
Linn Products, the venerable Scottish hi-fi brand at the cutting edge of digital audio, has booked a rise in annual profits and vowed to continue investing in research and development.
Friday, 22nd December 2017, 6:48 pm
Updated Friday, 22nd December 2017, 6:56 pm
The Linn Sondek LP12 is regarded by audiophiles as one of the finest turntables in the world. Picture: Linn Products
Latest accounts for the firm, which is based near Glasgow and manufactures nearly everything in house, show that profits increased to £1.39 million, up from some £865,000. That was despite a 6.3 per cent decrease in turnover to £16.93m.
The company, which rose to fame for its Sondek LP12 turntable in the 1970s but has also become a global leader in music streaming technology, pumped more than £2m into research and development with capital expenditure of £1.13m into new factory machinery.
New product launches in the past year have focused on the firm's latest digital-to-analogue conversion technology, its Katalyst DAC Architecture. Initially launched in the flagship Klimax DS and Klimax DSM network music players, the technology is now available in several products and is offered both as new products and as upgrades for existing customers.
During the year, Linn purchased a new metalwork machine that allows it to bring manufacturing of the enclosures for the Klimax product range in-house.
Managing director Gilad Tiefenbrun said: "After another year in a challenging economy we are delighted to have met our strategic goals.
"Highlights include the launch of Katalyst, our new digital-to-analogue conversion technology, which has pushed the boundaries of audio reproduction by making our best performing products even better, and the recent investment in our production capabilities which will ensure we remain at the forefront of audio innovation for years to come."
The accounts for the year to the end of June also show that the headcount remained broadly unchanged at just over 170 people.
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