Underway in Ireland

Fran Curry chatted with Bernie Goldbach on Tipp Today when President Joe Biden landed in Ireland. Bernie shared some of the experiences he had while supporting Presidential missions.00:01 Music by Kila01:17 Comfort pallets inside the support cargo aircraft01:55 Compartments of communications03:45 Preliminary conversations before the visit 04:34 Grease the skids with private conversations 06:37 Five star modular kits inside the cargo aircraft 00:08:30 On-board flying hospital 10:12 The Beast is on board 10:38 Using frequency-hopping communications11:38 Secret Service site surveys 12:16 Carrying weapons into sovereign countries 14:10 CIA DIA NSA Secret Service15:59 Vulnerable during the walkabouts 17:46 Follow #littlebitoftipp and underway.ie 18:00 Music by Kila recorded in Clonmel

I want to write three high quality items every week. That means carving out three blocks of time and occupying three spaces where I can write those pieces. I'm seated under a large oak tree making these plans. Any thoughts? I'm @topgold on good social networks.

Dylan (10) is a big fan of local jockey Rachel Blackmore and he is deeply interested in what it takes to create a winning horse. More on my blog https://bit.ly/minellachampion

Ireland will increase funding for public transport as well as increase parking fees, hoping for fewer private auto miles and more EV usage.

I'm watching four different types of birds enjoy the feeders hanging in our back garden as I munch on the first strawberry I've harvested from one of our window boxes. I need to share more about our back garden during another audiomo segment and on https://underway.ie because there are plenty of stories associated to the images of our back yard space that I've shared inside https://bit.ly/flickrashgrove

Marking a rite of passage for Dylan (10) by reciting the names of his classmates. See more #audiomo at https://twitter.com/hashtag/audiomo00:22 Dylan https://flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/5123121805202:44 Backing track by Kila02:57 Images at https://flickr.com/irisheyes 03:03 Find Bernie https://twitter.com/topgold

Bernie Goldbach and Professor Anthony O'Halloran join Fran Curry on Tipp Today to discuss the fall-out of Election 2020. For more details see https://www.tippfm.comSee Bernie's ballot travel from Tipperary to Pennsylvania at https://bit.ly/votefromireland

Tikincor and Carey's Castle and Sandybanks and Holy Year Cross.

We are starting a project with teenagers and will watch as they imagine what their lives would have been in the 1800s in County Tipperary, Ireland. The cover art is the Old Guard in the middle of the town of Clonmel.

Unhappy with low gain on a previous recording, I've turned off pre-processing and told my HoQ MP3 Android app to use both mics on my Samsung Note 9 when recording. I wonder if the episode description might push out as part of the syndicated audio served by Anchor. If you have suggestions, please DM me via http://twitter.com/topgold or email [email protected] -- thanks! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

We had some adventures whe inboxing Christmas gifts. I learned I must do better when logging my Moleskine items. The family learned old tech like Chromecast works well with the new UHD TV. My daughter learned fake nails and greasy hands can hurt an iPhone's screen. And I am very satisfied with our new slow cooker, a too-sharp Wunsthof knife, and some entertaining induction lights. If you want to share your unboxing please hit me up http://twitter.com/topgold or via [email protected] and we can continue the conversation.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

I made Christmas dinner for 10 people and half was uneaten. My Note 9 and Chromecast served more than 100 clips to the in-law's TV. Dylan (8) is deep into his Nintendo Switch and Mia (12) is happy with a free iPhone 8. I hope you have a happy holiday season. You can share with me http://twitter.com/topgold or reach me [email protected] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

Using a Sennheiser Memory Mic with Spreaker Studio.

Recorded on a blustery September evening while walking our dog in Marlfield Wood, County Tipperary, Ireland. See other night photos from Ireland by scrolling through the Flickr album at https://flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/48800648953/in/album-1194196/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

The day Georgie from Perth met Paul from Cork in Ireland.

Dylan (8) is getting very competent with his new bicycle. Here's proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf52lUtnG9M You can also see our growing evidence of Irish Cycling Adventures along the Suir Blueway at https://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/albums/72157700319896651Reach @topgold on all good social networks.

Currently frustrated by @FlickrHelp who are inundated by Pro Users who cannot log into Flickr. Plus @diegomccloud calls in. You can have your say by pinging @topgold on all good social networks or by leaving a comment on http://insideview.ie Send in a voice message:https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

What if you're an American renting a RH drive and then heading across Ireland's motorways and back roads? Bernie @topgold gives his opinions because @JenaferE and Lisa Marie plan to spend holiday time in Ireland during the summer of 2019. Then @BarbaraKB and Dewuan shares his Noteworthy thoughts. You can dial into Bernie @topgold on all good social networks or read more on Underway.ie unless you simply want to Google for "Bernie Underway in Ireland". Send in a voice message:https://anchor.fm/topgold/message

I work with a lot of creative people on the Clonmel Digital Campus and know they have high autonomy needs. I've also figured out some of their best innovation is a collective result. My students need a little consideration from the Irish government so they might be able to earn more than 4500 euro a year without losing their education grant. Some of my students work behind the bar on weekends. Other students who are based in Dublin are baristas in the coffee culture of Ireland. Some analysts believe Irish coffee shops have reached a saturation point. Nearly all of the Sunday papers in Ireland covered the law suit Brenda Romera has launched against the University of Limerick, alleging UL damaged her reputation concerning her running (or not running) UL's Masters programme in game design. Another creative woman, Sinead Gleeson, has released a collection of essays called Constellations: Reflections from Life. I'm reading it at the moment and highly recommend it. You can see more about these topics by subscribing to Underway in Ireland or by reading my Underway.ie blog.

Details at http://congregation.ie

Bernie @topgold interviews @magsamond about her Third Space and gets suggestions that enhance teaching and learning. Get shownotes for episode 7 of Congversations from Ireland at https://www.insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-1807.html and catch up with more Congversations by subscribing to https://www.spreaker.com/show/3263384/episodes/feedHere's what's on the show:00:25 The handle @magsamond01:19 Images of round tables03:08 Johnson’s Theory of Cooperative Learning05:11 Cooperative learning and artefacts.07:22 We need to teach people to listen07:57 Third Space of Magsamond 10:28 Google Keep as a Third Space12:28 Bianca, a Digital Champion16:09 Digital literacies for teachers 18:14 Advice from DermotCasey19:30 What is Mags reading? 19:43 Hans Rosling Factfulness and Raymond Williams Keywords21:53 #cesicon22:42 @Pamobrien is next

Listening to students from Clonmel Presentation School discuss artefacts they have in their homes.

I'm starting to eat less red meat, even though I feel less patriotic making that change in my diet. The kids really enjoy fine cuts from our local butcher but they also hear the United Nations saying the single biggest thing people can do to limit harm to the environment.

Catching up with Ireland's Youth Media Team in #feilte2018

Interesting numbers from sources in Sunday newspapers in Ireland on the 9th of September 2018.

Trying to consolidate my working files in portable digital storage. Adding a 4TB My Passport Ultra to my wishlist because our broadband speed will drop significantly below 20 Megabits per second.

Watching small post offices close in Ireland. But you need people--not just elderly people seeking a social interaction at a post office counter--in small towns to keep _all_ of the little town's life blood flowing.

Russia is using diplomatic cover to bring spying and transmission equipment into Ireland. Image from Reuters.

Remembering the 71 people who died 30 years ago during Europe's worst airshow disaster. "Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd. More at http://www.insideview.ie/2018/08/my-personal-flugtag.html

I haven't mowed much this year. And we're moving, maybe to a mountain road.

Thinking about many of my favourite walks in Ireland. Up Croagh Patrick in the fog. Along the eroded cliffs from Greystones to Bray. Shuffling miles after work from the DART. Getting my first hiking boots for treks up the Sugarloaf Mountains. Enjoying the colour purple in the Knockmealdown Mountains. Seeing topless Germans on Achill Island. Smelling lovely aromas at night in centre city Dublin. Lifted by the smell of hops in Kilkenny's laneways. Sucking on raspberries along the boreens of County Tipperary. Walking through Burgagery Lands in Clonmel on the way to work. And marveling at long boats in the River Suir while walking the Blueway.

After a week at the top of the charts on Anchor v2, I decided to move across to version three. And Eli Garf is coming with me! I heard from Maria Humphreys and Paul O'Mahony so I put them into this episode as well. A lot of people are talking about where podcasting is headed, so I recapped Tom Webster's Medium article that answers that question. And I've included Auf dem Wasser zu Singer by Franz Liszt as well as Zoe Keating's "We Insist" from her excellent "One Cello x 16" collection. You should buy both of them too. If you want more than me babbling, you should head over to http://insideview.ie where this episode features in a blog post.

Bernie experiments at @omaniblog's request by using iOS11 to hear both audio and video content before repurposing that content as MP3 uploads to Anchor. No Waves were harmed during this experimentation with Limor, Anchor, Converter+ and Voice Record Pro (in cover art).

Here Comes @topgold on Anchor v3

I've been listening on Anchor since its first release on iOS and I miss the social audio dimension that attracted me to the Anchor platform. So nowadays, I'm spending most of my time on Spreaker (where I'm topgoldie) and on http://limor.ie (where I'm http://twitter.com/topgold). I remember Anchor's heyday, with daily content from @askavie and @ileane and although their voices can still be found online, they come to my ears via my podcatchers. I don't want to ignore people who call in, so I've cobbled together several recent calls from http://soundcloud.com/techauthoritypodcast and http://anchor.fm/fryedoreo and http://anchor.fm/firemanrich, and http://anchor.fm/maria-humphreys because they're worth sharing from my earbuds to yours. If you get all the way to the end of this clip, you'll hear @freakyfwoof in the background. If you want to catch up with me, look for @topgold on all good social networks.

We shared several country homes with our four American cousins. The four kids insisted upon having swimming pools so http://maryborough.com obliged right away. Brilliant sunshine greeted us during our four hours among the wildlife at http://fota.ie but a high point of the trip for the kids had to be meeting their cousins, seeing our two rehomed cats, and hanging out in our attic. The kids enjoyed crawling around historic places like Cahir Castle in the cover art. A significant part of our good times happened because of homes we found on http://airbnb.ie and self-catering easily cut seven hundred euro off the cost of this week-long Irish holiday. But no matter what, if we're hosting friends in Ireland, we're recommending the Cork International Hotel as their point of departure. We've always had a top class experience with the staff and the child-friendly facilities there.

With @donegangardens in County Tipperary

While walking in County Clare at sunset low tide.

Fanfare Piston captured Busking in City Centre Cork.

Mia (10) has created a small Moleskine notebook full of numbers and letters related to Ireland. The little book is designed to help Mia's cousin navigate numbers and letters that might be different than what Star sees in her native Oregon.

Dylan (7) shares his excitement about Longfield in Clonmel and Mia (10) explains the ice cream card.

It's nice to see how search-friendly Anchor Podcasts have become.

My personal experience is that fewer people are listening on Anchor since v3 dropped onto their handsets.

In the west of Ireland at the Foynes Air Show watching (and hearing) aircraft from the past and present. I remember flying the DC-3 and several moments from my formation flying days came back to me as the airshow unfolded overhead.

Even though our marquee blew down, we're happy to see the rain return to Ireland.

Reintroducing my Beyerdynamic MCE86SII mic and wondering if it actually records directly into Anchor. It worked with Spreaker at https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15340534

Avoiding meat and dairy is the single biggest way to reduce my impact on Earth. Research published in the journal Science shows even the very lowest impact meat and dairy products still cause much more environmental harm than the least sustainable vegetable and cereal growing. "A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use, and water use", says Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK.

Remembering the proud Manor graced by Knocklofty House.

I HAVE SPENT three years listening in the wings as some of my lifelong friends politely talked about how they were making, creating, and sharing open source Drupal services. On the 23rd of July 2018, I jumped into the deep end and created http://www.underway.ie powered by Drupal 7. I'm deeply appreciative of Ruth Maher, Tim Kirby, and Jochen Lillich for offering a well-lighted pathway during my journey back into MySQL, PHP, Javascript, and content development.