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Episode 557 Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. founded the Modern Art Music Movement and pioneered modern art gonzo journalism. An award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter, he directed the acclaimed film "Crackhead Jesus: The Movie." Victor attended prestigious institutions such as Brooklyn Technical High School and the United States Naval Academy, and he has shared the stage with music industry titans who have collectively sold over half a billion albums.

Episode 540 Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. founded the Modern Art Music Movement and pioneered modern art gonzo journalism. An award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter, he directed the acclaimed film "Crackhead Jesus: The Movie." Victor attended prestigious institutions such as Brooklyn Technical High School and the United States Naval Academy, and he has shared the stage with music industry titans who have collectively sold over half a billion albums. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaeldecon/support

Special Guest: Atlanta Pediatrician Dr. Lester A. Freeman, M.D., F.A.A.P. discuss Shoulder Dystocia and Erb's Palsy Points covered  What is Shoulder Dystocia and Erb's Palsy Shoulder Dystocia and its Risk Factors Erb's Palsy as a Potential Complication Prevention and Management Strategies   Biography Dr. Freeman was born and raised for part of his childhood in Harlem, New York City, but relocated to Laurelton, Queens where he spent the rest of his formative years. Ever since he was five years old, he wanted to become not only a physician, but a pediatrician. He was always interested in medicine and did well in math and science. Dr. Freeman graduated from one of the most prestigious high schools, not only the state of New York, but in the United States, Brooklyn Technical High School. He graduated from New York University and graduated from UNDNJ-Rutgers Medical School and did his pediatric residency training there, as well. He has always sympathized with the most vulnerable amongst us, that is, the children. Dr. Freeman's goal is to make sure they get the best pediatric care possible. It's a lifelong responsibility that he fully enjoys yet takes very seriously.    Dr. Freeman has desired to be a pediatrician since the age of 5. One year during the Christmas season, Dr. Freeman's father asked him a question he had never been asked before, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” He looked away confused until his father pulled him close and whispered in his ear, “doctor or lawyer?” Dr. Freeman yelled, “DOCTOR!” His father cheered, and then asked, “What kind of doctor?” Reflexively, he answered, “A baby doctor—one that takes care of kids!” Every year, his father would ask him that same question until it stuck. Dr. Freeman's motivation stems from his fundamental love for both children and pediatric medicine. His daily goals include educating his patients and their families about pediatric health, and inspiring as many children and adolescents as he possibly can to become interested in pursuing a career in medicine.” Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tlcpediatricsllc/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/1566269787036372/freeman-lester-dr-tlc-pediatrics/Support the show: http://www.cooleyfoundation.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pessy J. Sloan is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education of Daemen University. Dr. Sloan earned her Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University in 2000. She teaches graduate courses in both early childhood and childhood special education. Prior to joining Daemen University, Dr. Sloan held various teaching positions in the undergraduate and graduate education field. She has many years of experience as a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist (CBT), school psychologist, psychoeducational evaluator, and researcher. Her primary research areas are gifted students and STEM education (with particular focus on women in STEM fields) and she is a passionate advocate for gifted education. Dr. Sloan published a number of journal articles and presented her research at international, national and state conferences. You can reach her at DrPJSloan@hotmail.com and/or 516-652-9583. References Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 1. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535137 Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 2. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535138 Sloan, P.J. (2020). Increasing gifted women's pursuit of STEM: Possible role of NYC selective specialized public high schools. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 43(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353220912026  Sloan, P.J. (2018). NYC selective specialized public high schools and honors college STEM degrees: A previously unexplored relationship. Journal of Advanced Academics, 29(4), 304- 320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932202X18778816  Book Jolly, J. L., Treffinger, D. J., & Inman, T. F. (2021). Parenting gifted children: The authoritative guide from the National Association for Gifted Children. Routledge Parents and Teachers Support Organization National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): https://nagc.org Enrichment Opportunities While Attending Yeshivas Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY): Grades 2-12: Online programs: Real-time, self-paced, session-based, and individually paced courses that fit individual learning styles and schedule. https://cty.jhu.edu Hollingworth Science camp: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/hollingworth/sciencecamp/ Gifted NYC Schools The Hollingworth center, Teachers College, Columbia University (Preschool) Hunter College Elementary School  The specialized high schools in New York City, original three: Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School. _________________________________________________ This week's episode is sponsored by Toveedo! The Jewish videos your kids love, all in one happy place. Use code JOWMA10 for $10 off at ⁠⁠https://toveedo.com/⁠⁠! _________________________________________________ • Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org • Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  • Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  • Follow us on Twitter!www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  • Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg • Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

ABOUT JACKÉE HARRY Vivacious, witty, and completely unforgettable, Jackée Harry was born to entertain.Born Jacqueline Yvonne Harry on August 14, 1956 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and reared from the age of nine in Harlem, New York, by her mother, Flossie, Jackée landed the lead role of the King in her school's production of The King and I at the tender age of fourteen. Upon graduation from New York City's High School of Music and Art with a distinction in Opera, Jackée attended the University of Long Island, where she earned her B.A. in education. Jackée began her career as a history teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School but left after two years to pursue acting. She studied at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side and made her professional acting debut in 1973 in Richard Wesley's Goin' Through Changes; not long afterward, she made her Broadway debut in A Broadway Musical as Melinda Bernard. Other Broadway performances include The Wiz, Eubie!, and One Mo' Time. In 1983, Jackée made her first television appearance opposite Morgan Freeman in the daytime soap operaAnother World. A year later, she landed her iconic role of Sandra Clark on the NBC sitcom 227. As the breakout star of the series, Jackée became the first African American to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and was also nominated for a Golden Globe. Her performance on227 inspired NBC producers to create a television pilot for her entitled Jackée. After departing from 227 in 1989, she starred opposite Oprah Winfrey in the critically acclaimed adaptation of Gloria Naylor's novelThe Women of Brewster Place. In 1991, Jackée joined an all-star cast led by Della Reese when she played the role of Ruth 'CoCo' Royal in The Royal Family. From 1994-1999, she starred as the adoptive mother of Tia and Tamara Mowry's characters on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister, winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for two consecutive years in 1999 and 2000. Jackée also made guest appearances onAmen, Designing Women, Dave's World, Hollywood Squares, 7th Heaven, and That's So Raven, before joining the cast of Everybody Hates Chris in 2006. Hollywood success did not lead Jackée to turn her back on theater; in 1994 she returned to the stage as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill followed by stints in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide and The Vagina Monologues. In 2003 she played the role of the Madam in The Boys From Syracuse on Broadway. Jackée also performed before sold-out audiences across the nation in the stage play The Cleanup Woman, which is called "one of the highest grossing gospel stage plays of all time" and fronted an Off-Broadway limited-run of NEWSical: The Musical.Beyond acting, Jackée is a vocal champion of healthy living, education, and philanthropy. She is proud to be a spokesperson for the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, and a Global Ambassador to the Women's International Center. The National Congress of Black Women presented her with the "Woman of Substance" Award in 2010.In addition to recurring roles on Let's Stay Together, Baby Daddy, Girl Meets World, and The Cool Kids, Jackée starred on the CW's The First Family and OWN'sThe Paynes. She was nominated for a Nollywood and African Film Critics Award for her role in the motion picture The Man in 3B. In 2019, Jackée participated in a groundbreaking reimagining of Norman Lear's The Jeffersons, which garnered more than 22 million viewers. In 2021, she rejoined the world of daytime television as real estate mogul Paulina Price on Days of our Lives. Larger than life and twice as funny, Jackée continues to entertain and inspire in a way that permanently cements her place in the American cultural landscape. ABOUT DAYS OF OUR LIVES ON PEACOCK For the past 58 years, Days of our Lives has remained a staple daytime drama. It has weathered political and societal shifts since the mid-1960s and proudly introduced its first Black family, the Grants, in the mid-1970s. Its female heroine, Valerie Grant, shared daytime's first interracial kiss in 1977. Today, Black stories continue to be front and center, addressing societal issues including healthcare, family and career. Today's cast includes James Reynolds, with Jackée Harry, Raven Bowens, Elia Cantu, and features Lamon Archey and Sal Stowers as "Eli" and "Lani" respectively, who were the couple in the show's first Black wedding.https://jackee-online.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JackeeHarry https://www.twitter.com/JackeeHarry https://www.instagram.com/JackeeHarry https://www.youtube.com/c/JackeeHarryOfficialBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.

Monya Bunch is a seasoned attorney and certified DEI leader, who currently serves as WilmerHale's Director of Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI). Monya's legal background includes over ten years of private law firm practice, in addition to serving as in-house counsel at a brokerage services firm. In addition, Monya served as an adjunct professor at the Howard University School of Law and the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and has been recognized by Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Magazine as a “Rising Star” and profiled in Washington Lawyer magazine. She recently received Diversity Journal's Black Leadership award, which honors individuals who are trailblazers in their field and promote diversity and inclusion. Monya earned a J.D. from Howard University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Law Journal, an M.P.A. from the University of Hartford, an undergraduate degree from Hampton University, and Georgetown University's Executive Certificate in Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Management. Monya was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and is a proud graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. Learn more about Monya LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/monya-m-bunch-battle-esq-she-her-51b9473/ Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to: Sukari Pinnock Fitts MSOD, PCC, Program Director Georgetown Executive Certificate in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Management The ALFDP community (Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals) Ronald C. Machen, Chair, Litigation/Controversy Department Music: Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States ⁠License⁠ Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International ⁠License --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/si-suite/message

Monya Bunch is a seasoned attorney and certified DEI leader, who currently serves as WilmerHale's Director of Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI). Monya's legal background includes over ten years of private law firm practice, in addition to serving as in-house counsel at a brokerage services firm. In addition, Monya served as an adjunct professor at the Howard University School of Law and the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and has been recognized by Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Magazine as a “Rising Star” and profiled in Washington Lawyer magazine. She recently received Diversity Journal's Black Leadership award, which honors individuals who are trailblazers in their field and promote diversity and inclusion. Monya earned a J.D. from Howard University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Law Journal, an M.P.A. from the University of Hartford, an undergraduate degree from Hampton University, and Georgetown University's Executive Certificate in Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Management. Monya was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and is a proud graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. Learn more about Monya LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/monya-m-bunch-battle-esq-she-her-51b9473/ Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to: Sukari Pinnock Fitts MSOD, PCC, Program Director Georgetown Executive Certificate in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Management The ALFDP community (Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals) Ronald C. Machen, Chair, Litigation/Controversy Department Music: Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States ⁠License⁠ Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International ⁠License --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/si-suite/message

Searching for a job in science or in another field is often a daunting task with plenty of challenges, both expected and unexpected. In this week's episode, each of our storytellers embark on a job hunt that is anything but straightforward. Part 1: To get funding for grad school, Hakim Walker needs to pass a lie detector test. Part 2: In order to keep up the facade of living the American Dream, Xavier Bettencourt applies for a job as a science educator. Hakim Walker was born in Brooklyn, New York to a large family of Jamaican immigrants. A graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, he studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Boston University, and was among the first in his family to attend college. He worked as an admissions officer and research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before earning his Ph.D in Mathematics from the George Washington University in 2017. Currently, Hakim is an instructor and residential advisor at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in the Department of Mathematics. He is also a faculty mentor for the Emerging Scholars Program, which supports disadvantaged Harvard students who wish to pursue careers in STEM. Among other things, Hakim enjoys traveling (especially road trips), card and board games (especially chess), and educational science channels on YouTube (especially Vsauce). He also loves writing puzzles, poetry, short stories, and dialogues. He is a two-time TEDx speaker, and he has performed and lectured at various venues and campuses around the country. For over two decades Xavier Bettencourt has been bringing laughter to the Sacramento and Bay Areas. An improviser, comedian, drag artist, storyteller and fashionista, Xavier's true passions are bringing joy and love to others, and building and growing the queer performance spaces that are truly needed today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Age is a main factor when determining cancer care. In this ASCO Education podcast we speak to one of the top leaders in treatment for older patients who has also credited mentorship as a foundation for his career. Dr. Hyman Muss describes his childhood in Brooklyn, serving as a general physician for troops in Vietnam (6:18), the doctor who influenced his choice of hematology and oncology (7:48) and creating one of the first geriatric oncology fellowships in in the country (21:58).  Speaker Disclosures Dr. David Johnson: Consulting or Advisory Role – Merck, Pfizer, Aileron Therapeutics, Boston University Dr. Patrick Loehrer: Research Funding – Novartis, Lilly Foundation, Taiho Pharmaceutical Dr. Hyman Muss: None More Podcasts with Oncology Leaders  Oncology, Etc. – Devising Medical Standards and Training Master Clinicians with Dr. John Glick Oncology, Etc. – Rediscovering the Joy in Medicine with Dr. Deborah Schrag (Part 1) Oncology, Etc. – In Conversation with Dr. Richard Pazdur (Part 1) If you liked this episode, please follow the show. To explore other educational content, including courses, visit education.asco.org. Contact us at education@asco.org. TRANSCRIPT Pat Loehrer: Welcome to Oncology, Etc., an ASCO Education Podcast. I'm Pat Loehrer, director of Global Oncology and Health Equity at Indiana University.  Dave Johnson: And I'm Dave Johnson of Medical Oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. If you're a regular listener to our podcast, welcome back. If you're new to Oncology, Etc., the purpose of our podcast is to introduce listeners to interesting and inspirational people and topics in and outside the world of Oncology. We have an inspirational guest today. Pat?  Pat Loehrer: If you ask anyone who's achieved any level of success and how they've achieved it, most likely they'll mention a number of people who've influenced them along the way. Quite often, these people reflect on their mentors, and after a certain time of accomplishment and reflection, they begin to mentor others. This is very much what our next guest has done. Dr. Hyman Muss has been a mentor to me and to Dave, and he's one of the most outstanding, wonderful people in the world, and we're so excited to have him today.   Dr. Hyman Muss served in the US Army in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He's an experienced Clinician Scientist, the Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professor of Geriatric Oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Director of Geriatric Oncology Program at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Program. His interest in education and research is focused on cancer and older patients, and he is internationally recognized in this area. He's been the co-chair of the Alliance Committee on Cancer and Older Adults and won the BJ Kennedy Award from ASCO in Geriatric Care. His particular interest in research expertise is in the care of breast cancer patients, with a focus on the management of women who are of older ages. He's had a major interest in breast cancer survivorship and long-term toxicity of treatment and also served as the co-chair of the Breast Committee for the Alliance Group. He serves as a mentor for medical students, medical residents, junior faculty, and more recently, his Geriatric Oncology fellows. He served on the Board of Directors of the ASCO Foundation and on the ABIM, the American Board of Internal Medicine, where both Dave and I were privileged to work with him and witness his leadership and his deep breadth of knowledge.  Dr. Muss, thanks for joining us today. Dr. Hyman Muss: What a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. My mother would have loved the introduction.  Pat Loehrer: Well, speaking of that, tell us a little bit. You grew up in Brooklyn, so tell us a little bit about your parents. Your father was a dentist, I think, and your uncle was a general practitioner. So give us a little bit of the early life of Hy Muss. Dr. Hyman Muss: So I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I was born and bred there. I went to Brooklyn Technical High School. I almost went to Brooklyn College, but I came back and went to Downstate Medical Center, which was just terrific. My tuition was $600 a year, but that's another story. My parents lived in the same neighborhood. My dad was a dentist, so we knew all the people. My uncle was the GP. You came into their office, sat down, and they saw you anytime, day or night, almost 24/7, something we're probably not going back to, but they had a profound influence on me. My uncle, as a GP, used to take me on house calls in Brooklyn when they were done, and he had an old Buick with MD plates. And I would go into these families, and they loved him, and they would give me ice cream and things. Maybe that's what made me a doctor. But it was a terrific and indelible experience. I had terrific parents. In those days, doctors and medical people usually lived in the same neighborhoods as their patients, so they really knew their people well. It was a terrific upbringing. I got to love medicine and have never had a look back. Dave Johnson: So your inspiration for a career in medicine obviously started at home. Tell us more about your formal education. You mentioned your high school education. What about college? And shortly thereafter?  Dr. Hyman Muss: Yeah, well, I went to Lafayette College. I was not the best high school student, but I had good college board scores or whatever they called them then. And I went to Lafayette and I thought I was going to be a chemist, a chemistry major. But I took enough premed courses and I spent a summer in a lab building cyclic ketones. And everybody was outside sitting on the lawn of the campus. And I was in there with all these distillation apparatus, and I said, “I don't think I can do this the rest of my life.” So I applied to medical school, and I got into several medical schools. But my father at that time was dying of metastatic bladder cancer. He had been a heavy smoker, and he was still working as a dentist. He worked until the day he unfortunately died. But I got into Downstate. We lived in Brooklyn, and my uncle, the GP, said, "Hy, you need to come home and help take care of your dad." I'm an only child, so I did. And I had a wonderful experience at Downstate.   Several years ago, I was listening to NPR and heard that one of my professors had won the Nobel Prize. Dr. Furchgott in physiology, one would have never thought. And I had a wonderful education and subsequently got into what was then Peter Bent Brigham in Boston, did my internship and residency there, joined the army and medical school, so I wasn't drafted, it was a program then. And then after first year of residency, I went to Vietnam, worked with an artillery battalion, a mystical experience, but no regrets. And then subsequently came back and did hematology and oncology at Brigham and at what was then the Jimmy Fund and Sidney Farber Cancer Center. And Tom Frei had just come. And I did hematology with a guy named Bill Moloney in Boston at Harvard. I'll tell you, a wonderful man. He was like a surrogate father. My dad had died by then, and I just feel I've had every opportunity to have a wonderful education and terrific mentors along the way. Dave Johnson: So we want to ask you about both of those gentlemen, but I would like to just, if I may, drop back to your experience in Vietnam. What was that like?  Dr. Hyman Muss: Well, I was 27 years old and I was put as the doctor for 500 men in artillery. My job was to take care of the general health of the troops. Fortunately, we didn't have many casualties. It wasn't a front war like my uncle, who was a GP actually in World War II, landed in Normandy about a week later and went all through World War II as a doctor. But Vietnam was an unusual war, there wasn't really a front. So my experience was I would go out to fire bases, which were units of about 100 men in the jungle, go out three days in a week in a helicopter, do sick call, check people. I dealt with really alcohol problems, unfortunately, a lot of drug problems. You had young people with really not a lot to do during the day, nothing much to do, and no real goal of being there. I did that for a while, and actually, the reason I got the Bronze Star was because I set up– It was nothing like standing in front of a machine gun. I'm not that kind of brave guy, but I set up a drug amnesty program so I got a lot of support from our regular field people to do this, so we didn't have to keep sending kids home with dishonorable discharges. And I learned a lot. I think we were reasonably successful. I learned a lot about artillery. I think overall it was a great experience in my life. Dave Johnson: Tell us how your interest in hematology and oncology originated. Where did that come from?  Dr. Hyman Muss: When I was an intern at the Brigham, Dr. Moloney was a very famous Harvard professor. He had studied war casualties after Hiroshima, he was one of the people that found the Philadelphia chromosome in CML. He was a guy that rounded on every single one of his leukemia patients every day. So I was an intern. So in those days I would go and see all the hematology people rounding because all the acute leukemia patients and all the serious cancer patients were right on the floors, right on the wards. We had 17-bed wards, and then we had some private rooms. And he loved what he did. And before I left for Vietnam, we didn't have Ara C and daunomycin. So every leukemia patient I saw died. This is '68 to '70. Yet we tried all these different regimens. Occasionally you got someone who did well for six months, a year. But his bedside manner was absolutely wonderful to me. He knew all the patients. He'd ask them about where they lived in Boston. His humanism was terrific, and yet I loved the diseases he treated. The stakes were high. We didn't have good treatment, and I decided that that's probably what I want to do.   So when I was in Vietnam, I applied and got back in the Hematology Fellowship and came back and did that. I saw Ara C and daunomycin. I gave the chemotherapy to them, and he'd say, "Go up and treat Harry Smith with Ara C and daunomycin." I had the syringes in my pocket, guys. Forget about hoods and mixing. And I'd go up and treat them and the marrow would be gone within four or five days. I did a bone marrow. They published their regimen in the New England Journal called COD, C-O-D because they also gave vincristine. So it was cytarabine, vincristine, and daunomycin, the COD regimen. It fit Boston. And I saw it was like the emergence of cisplatin after Larry Einhorn. You saw people that never survived going into remission and I saw some remissions in AML and it cemented it.  About my second year of residency, we had a child. I was running out of money. I was being paid $6,000 a year and I had the GI Bill. I went into Dr. Moloney and he talked with Dr. Franny Moore, who was head of surgery at the Brigham, and they made me the Sidney Farber Research Fellow, doubled my salary and I had to go to the Jimmy Fund and see cancer patients. And it so happened that was when Tom Frei came to Dana-Farber. And so I started rounding with Dr. Frei and seeing those patients. And I think the first day I walked in, I knew I wanted to do more than just leukemia because I saw groups of patients with every disease. We treated everybody with CMFEP, it didn't matter what cancer they had. And I just loved it and said, "My God, there's so much we can learn. What a great career." And so that got me into the oncology portion.   And then I was offered to stay at Harvard. They were going to make me an assistant professor, but they wanted me to do lab work. And I knew my personality, it just wasn't for me. I worked with a lovely guy named Frank Bunn, one of the world's great hem guys in his lab, and he's still a close friend in his 80s. And he told me one day, he said, "Hy, I don't think the lab is for you." And he actually helped me get my first job at Wake Forest University, which turned out to be wonderful. So that's how I ended up with my circuitous in HemOnc. And it's really from great mentors, it's from Bill Moloney, it's from Tom Frei, Dave Rosenthal, tons of wonderful people along the way that not only taught me a lot, but they seemed to love what they do, which is a gift in life to love what you do and love the people you're doing it with. They instilled that in me. Pat Loehrer: From there you went to Wake Forest and there's a couple of colleagues down there, I believe, that inspired you, Charlie Spurr and Bill Hazzard, who was the founding founder of geriatrics. Tell us about that experience and how'd that shape your life.  Dr. Hyman Muss: I was looking for a clinical job and I looked at Rochester, and I got snowed in one night in Wake Forest, and I said, “Where's the contract?” And I signed it. And my mother, who was living in New York City, didn't know where North Carolina was. My mother was from a family, was born over a candy store in Greenwich Village, and said, “Where are you going?” And then I showed her where it was, and she says, “They're going to kill you down there.” And it turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. My wife Loretta, who both of you know so well, we got out of our VW with our dog and our daughter when we moved here, and VW bug, by the way, not a van, and she cried. It turned out it was one of the best opportunities.  Charlie Spurr was an iconic oncology leader. He actually did some of the early work on nitrogen mustard in Chicago during the war, the first chemotherapy drug. He was a terrific leader. He had patients programmed in on those IBM punch cards. He had little cards for the protocols, CMFEP, CMF, AC on little laminated index cards. I learned so much from him, and he was to me, great leaders and great mentors morph from things they do themselves to teaching other people, and whose brains have the ability of having the same dopamine shot when you see one of your fellows or young faculty present a wonderful study as you do. And your brain isn't saying, “I wish I was up there.” It's saying, “Isn't this so cool that this young man or woman or fellow or medical student is doing such a wonderful job?” And I had something to do with providing the soil for this seed to grow. That's the kind of guy he was. And so it was wonderful there.  And as I moved on, we got a new Chief of Medicine, Bill Hazzard. And I still hear from Bill on rare occasions, but Bill was one of the first geriatricians in the United States. He wrote the textbook, and his wish was that all the faculty and all the specialties get involved in a geriatric project. And so I had all those little index cards, and I looked and saw how many older people with metastatic breast cancer we'd given chemotherapy to. And these were little protocols, nothing like the protocols today, no 50-page consent forms, 50 pages of where your data is stored. They were like, here's the treatment, here's the dose mods. And I looked at those 70 patients with one of our residents, Kathy Christman, she may be retired now, but in any event, we wrote a paper and showed the old people did as well as the young with breast cancer. And we published it in JAMA. And it's one of the few papers in my career, I got no reviewers. They accepted the paper. I got no reviewers. So because I'm from Brooklyn, and my English is not what it should be, I had my friends read it to just make sure I didn't say anything egregious. But it got published and the next thing I know, my friends in medical oncology in the state were calling me. They said, “I got a 75-year-old woman here.” I'm saying, “Guys, I just wrote this paper. I really don't know anything about older people.” But slowly, with Bill Hazzard and others, I got more and more interested. I started reading about Geriatrics and I ended up making it a focal point of my career. It was kind of happenstance. And Bill was a wonderful mentor.  And then as I subsequently moved on, I worked with terrific people like Harvey Cohen, Lodovico Balducci, and Martine Extermann, all of them heavily involved with ASCO over the years as well, and B.J. Kennedy. They were wonderful to work with. And BJ was inspirational because BJ would get up at an ASCO meeting and he'd say when he saw the age cut off, he'd say, “How come you didn't let old people on that study? There'd be 1000 people in the audience.” And so he really was a great mentor. And I had the bittersweet opportunity of writing his obit for JCO years ago and kept up with his family a few years, but he was a wonderful man. Dave Johnson: I'm just reflecting on the fact that today, patient registries are sort of mainstream, but certainly in the ‘70s, ‘80s, even into the ‘90s, having a list of patients with a particular disorder seemed almost novel in many respects. And to have that was a godsend.  Dr. Hyman Muss: It was a godsend. I still remember those little file cards. And he called it the Oncology Research Center and it was a godsend. And you've got to remember, this is like ‘74, ‘75, it's a long time ago. Dave Johnson: So many of our listeners may not be as familiar with Wake Forest as they are with Duke and North Carolina, the other medical schools located there. But you were at right at a point where I mean, it was one of the top oncology programs in the country at that time. Still is, I don't mean to diminish it, but there was a who's who of people there at the time. And you were also involved in creating, I think, one of the first cooperative groups of sorts. It was the Piedmont Oncology Group. Tell us about that.  Dr. Hyman Muss: Oh, yeah, well, that brings back memories. So the NCI at that time wanted to get more, I think, rural and other smaller places involved in research. And they put out an RFA to form like regional cooperative groups. And we formed the Piedmont Oncology Association, the POA. We actually did well for a few years. We wrote some really good studies. We got one or two New England Journal articles. I worked with all the people, mainly in the community, community docs who would go on, and put people on the protocol. I mean, I looked at all the X-rays and scans in a lot of these patients myself as part of the studies we did. And it turned out to be a wonderful organization and it's still run today by Bayard Powell, who is one of our terrific fellows who's the head of Oncology at Wake Forest.  But after a while, we just couldn't compete with CALGB, of which I was a member of also, and ECOG and SWOG, even North Central Group, which was kind of formed in a similar venue, eventually merged. So we did a wonderful job for a while but the truth is we just didn't have the manpower to write studies for every disease site. So eventually we kind of petered out as a clinical trials group. But it's been maintained for educational programs and it's really served as a good resource for a lot of good education for the community oncologists who give most of the care in this country in the state. So it's been good. I think Pat kind of exceeded us with HOG, the Hoosier Oncology Group, which was in a similar vein. But it was a great experience and it was all Dr. Spurr, who thought of doing this and built it.  Dave Johnson: Certainly, it was inspirational in many people in and outside of Wake Forest. So with such an idyllic life, what in the world possessed you to move north to Vermont?  Dr. Hyman Muss: Well, you get this urgent life. You want to be a leader, you want to be a chief. Now, I tell younger people, if they love what they do, don't do it. So I got a wonderful opportunity at the University of Vermont to go up there and be Head of HemOnc. Chief of Medicine was a terrific guy, Burt Sobel. The university at that time, at one time it had a wonderful Oncology program. It had a federally funded cancer center with Irwin Krakoff and Jerry Yates, two other iconic guys. I don't know what the politics were but it had lost a tremendous amount of faculty, especially its clinical faculty, and they needed to rebuild it. And I went up and I thought, “Well, I'm in my 50s. This is going to be a great opportunity. If I don't do it now, I may never get the chance.” So I went up there and actually, it was a great opportunity. We hired terrific people. We got CALGB and we participated. We had actually a very good accrual for a small place and we had a very small but very effective cancer center. So it turned out to be a really good experience.  I worked with wonderful people. I recruited some wonderful people. But over time, the issues of the business of medicine, all the issues that happened, I'm saying I'm kind of losing my focus on clinical care and clinical trials, which I love to do. I don't need to tell either of you. I mean, Dave, you've been chief and department chair and Pat has run cancer centers. After a while, the administrative tasks just were so overwhelming and I didn't enjoy them, that I said, “I've got to get back in some type of more clinical focus.” And that's when I decided to look around and fortunately found what's turned out to be a dream job at UNC.  But it was a time of life. Maybe my ego got in the way of my logic. I don't regret it. I met and I think we rebuilt a wonderful clinical program. But you realize some of the resources of big places with-  we never had the research infrastructure to hire a lot of people and get big programs going on and great translational programs, just didn't have the funding. But it was great, and I have no regrets. And I learned how to tolerate the cold weather. And I have a lovely daughter, Sarah, who still lives up there. So we get back occasionally. And I've kept up with a lot of the people there. There are some wonderful people at UVM.  Pat Loehrer: From there, though, you were pulled down to North Carolina, where you've, again, built an incredible breast program there is outstanding. But you've created a Geriatric Oncology program, one of the first geriatric fellowships in oncology in the country. So tell us a little bit about that and what you feel may be your legacy is there at North Carolina.  Dr. Hyman Muss: Well, I had the opportunity over the years when I was at Wake, really, I got to know Shelley Earp, who's our cancer center director. I think maybe you were close to him, Pat. The longest surviving cancer center director on the planet, or among them. And we were good friends. And North Carolina's legislature actually gave the University of North Carolina substantial funding to improve cancer care in North Carolina, not just research. And so I had talked with Shelley about maybe moving, and because of the generosity of the state, really, he was able to really get me going, start a Geriatric Oncology program. And what I wanted to do was develop trials. As Dave says, I built a registry in 2009 here for older cancer patients using geriatric assessment. I have 2000 patients, which has been a resource for all types of faculty and fellows, and students to write papers. But I was able, with the support, to do things like this right from the get-go. And plus, I joined probably one of the best breast groups on the planet with Lisa Carey and Chuck Perou, and Larry, terrific people, Claire Dees. I had great luck in doing this, so I was able to really focus, get great support from my colleagues to build studies focusing on older people.  And then I had the great fortune of meeting Ned Sharpless, our prior NCI director. And Ned is one of the world's great aging biologists. And I don't mean aging as an adjective, he's really been a master on why we age, the biology of aging, cell senescence. So Ned taught me all about cell senescence and the mechanisms, especially the gene expression p16, which is like our own CDK inhibitor. And so I was able to start using his lab, collect samples, treat people with chemotherapy, follow them off with geriatric assessment. It was a great opportunity to do that here, and we got a lot of studies going and we showed what the pediatricians have known for years, that chemotherapy dramatically ages people, not just children, but adults. But it also allowed me to work with my colleagues in lymphoma and lung cancer to do little studies along the way.  And we eventually then built a T32 program. We got a T32, which we're kind of completing now our first five years to train oncology specialists in geriatrics. So the way we do it is they can be surgical oncologists, GU, we had a GYN oncologist, medical. With their HemOnc training, they do a year where they work with the geriatricians, so they go on geriatric inpatient service for a month and they really learn about older people. And part of it is a project. So we've been able to build that and develop a lot of programs with that. And I should say we've been very successful with mentorship and with ASCO support for things like YIAs, the late and great Arti Hurria, who absolutely an amazing woman. Some of her legacy at ASCO, the YIAs, and things. We've been successful in applying for some. So we've been able to build a whole spectrum of med and hematologists. We have an interest in Myeloma and AML focusing on older people. We've been able to build a whole team approach, including translational projects related to older people. And it's just been a great opportunity, and hopefully, my legacy here will be, too, and I'm working on it.  We have a wonderful guy, Bill Wood, who is very effective and has built this incredible coaching program to continue this legacy. Like many of us in this field, we are bothered because we all know the stats, we all know that first slide of the demographics of cancer, and yet it's been very hard in our culture to provide a lot of the services and build the clinical trials we need to best care for older people. It's still a major problem in this country. So as I cut back on my clinical care, I'm going to still advocate to try to improve the care of older people. Do geriatric assessment, build it into your clinical programs, get your hospitals to support you, convince them, build business plans, et cetera. And hopefully, that'll be my ultimate legacy, that we've made greater awareness of the older people, other than the usual stats, and we're really trying to care for them in a much more global sense, in a much more holistic sense than we've done. I hope we'll be successful. It's a slow haul, but we've got lots of great young people coming up through the pipelines, ASCO has been a great player in this. Many of you know people like Supriya Mohile and William Dale, Heidi Klepin, people, the next generation that's going to keep building this. So I hope the legacy will be that we get more buy-in, more interest, more trained people in other oncology-related subspecialties RadOnc, SurgOnc that will really focus on the care of older people. Dave Johnson: I don't think there's any doubt that that will be a part of your legacy Hy, but I think your legacy will be much broader than the world of geriatric oncology. Your mentorship leadership, your clinical skills, your educational capabilities, all of that will certainly last for many, many years in the future.  Well, I don't want to bring up a touchy topic, but you yourself are geriatric and we're wondering what your plans are for your semi-retirement. I recognize you're not retiring, but what do you like to do outside of medicine? Dr. Hyman Muss: I'll tell everybody who's interested in hearing this. On Tuesday, I had my 80th birthday.  Dave Johnson: Congratulations.  Dr. Hyman Muss: And I think I'm one of the most blessed guys. I'm pretty healthy. I married up -  my wife Loretta, who both of you, Pat Loehrer and Dave Johnson, know well.  Dave Johnson: Yeah, you definitely married up.  Dr. Hyman Muss: Yes. It's really carried me most of my life. She's great and so she flew up our three kids and we celebrated and I'm very fortunate. I have the enthusiasm and strength to do more clinical medicine. But I think the time has come for me to cut back my clinical medicine, so I'm going to do that in June. The hardest thing I've done is say goodbye to so many of my patients here.  We've been blessed. We have a lovely family. We're pretty close. I'm never bored, probably you two know well, I love to do things like fishing, outdoor stuff. I've really gotten into woodworking, so I'm not going to be bored. But there will be a small piece out of me when I walk out of that clinic in June. I know that and my two close psychiatry friends think it's going to really be a hard fall, but I don't think so. I still have some grants. In fact, I'm working with a fellow in City of Hope, Mina Sedrak, who's been very involved in ASCO, too. We are hoping to get an R01 looking at senolytic drugs that may prevent aging, and exercise in older women with breast cancer to see if we can reverse the trends of chemo. So my brain is still on that stuff, but the clinical care is going to be tough.  I had a note and for some reason, we talked about so many things. I wanted to mention that one of my great opportunities was joining the CALGB and then the Alliance and getting the support of Dr. Schilsky, Rich Schilsky, who's been one of the icons of ASCO to build cancer in the elderly working group with Dr. Harvey Cohen at Duke. And Harvey is one of the world's great geriatricians. And using that to get studies done, to incorporate studies with Arti Hurria on geriatric assessment, and really have it as a place where a lot of younger investigators could get started on a career in geriatric oncology. And that was really a great opportunity. It was kept on by Dr. Bertagnolli, who now is our NCI director, and I think was really the first group to really give good support for this. Dave Johnson: So we want to thank you very much for being our guest today.  We also want to thank our listeners of Oncology, Etc. This is an ASCO Educational Podcast where we talk about oncology medicine and much more. So if any of our listeners have an idea or a guest they would like for us to interview, please email us at education@asco.org. To stay up to date with the latest episodes and explore other educational content, visit ASCO's website at education.asco.org.   Thanks again for being our guest, Hy.  Dr. Hyman Muss: My pleasure. Thank you so much. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.  

Lessons From a Lender   We have Russian immigrant, Mark Abramovich on the show teaching us all about lending from the perspective of a lender. Mark is a hard money lender and direct lender and breaks down exactly what he looks for in a deal to lend on. He also shares how to protect your funds if you decide to become a private money lender and act at the bank. Throughout his journey from Russia to the US, he believes there is no substitute for putting in the hard work which is why he's so successful today!   Mark is a Lender, Investor, Speaker who graduated with honors from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1997, followed by a Bachelor of Industrial Design (combining Art with Engineering) degree from Pratt Institute in 2001. For almost 20 years Mark used his creativity, and learned engineering discipline and skills, while designing digital dental equipment. He has been awarded numerous patents for design and technical innovations. Having invested in real estate since the early 2000's, in 2018 Mark "formally" brought his creativity to the world of real estate, leaving Dentsply Sirona, and founding MIRS Group, LLC. His focus is on lending, and the vitally important deal analysis and deal structure. Mark is a husband to a spectacular wife, and father to two wonderful boys. He enjoys travel with his family, and get-togethers with friends. His favorite leisure activities are reading, chess, and swimming with his sons. Social Media Links:  https://rumble.com/user/MIRSGroup https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-abramovich-mirs/ https://www.youtube.com/@markabramovich7566 Website: www.mirsgroupllc.com   To learn more about Jen Josey, visit www.TheRealJenJosey.com To join REIGN, visit www.REIGNmastermind.com To join HomeSchooled by Tarek, visit https://go.homeschooled.co/schedule-strategy-session?el=jenjosey

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Jane Adams is an American political activist having lead nationwide political initiatives limiting government regulatory expansion. She is focused on preserving American constitutional rights from corruption, seeing them as the only means of protection from government negligence, oppression, and tyranny.     Jane Adams was born and raised in New York City with a professor and doctor for parents. She demonstrated special abilities at a young age, reading and writing in two languages by the age of 4, and was enrolled into a New York Montessori school where she was diagnosed with Asperger's, a high functioning form of autism. Identifying her disability early allowed the family to overcome challenges that otherwise may have been overlooked. Jane is active in policy advocacy that promotes autism awareness.     Jane attended Roman Catholic school throughout her formative years and during middle school took extracurricular courses at St. John's University majoring in Biology and Computer Science.  Jane declined a Catholic High School scholarship and instead accepted an invitation to Brooklyn Technical High School, an elite magnet school.      An international youth leadership program took her abroad for global policy studies, and becoming immersed in humanitarianism she continued traveling on her own. Armed conflict erupted during her stay in Burma and Jane returned to the US. While working in software programming and product development, she was recruited by Sony, but soon left the company to pursue her political ambitions.|JaneAdams| • Twitter → https://twitter.com/iLoveJaneAdams• Website → https://janeadams.us/|CONNECT WITH JAKE|• Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jakegallen/• Twitter → https://twitter.com/jakegallen_• Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/JakeNGallen• Linkedin →  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-gall...|FOLLOW AND SUBSCRIBE THE PODCAST|• Website → https://www.jakegallen.com/• Youtube → Subscribe to this page• Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...• Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7hQdRAz...• Google Podcasts → https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR...• RSS Feed → https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1005154.rss• Website → https://solo.to/theguestlistpod• Media Host → https://theguestlistpod.buzzsprout.com/#NevadaPolitics #bitcoin #nv1candidate

Ethan and I talk about his new book- "Future Titans." What advice stood out to you the most? Time Stamps: 4:06 - Why Did You Call it Future Titans? 5:30 - Chapter 1 13:45 - Chapter 2 24:30 - Chapter 3 37:10 - Chapter 4 44:50 - Chapter 5 47:50 - Chapter 6 1:00:30 - Chapter 7 1:22:10 - The Process of Creating the Book as a 16 Year Old You can find Ethan Castro's book here: https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-TITANS-Actionable-Inspo-Teens-ebook/dp/B09FKHCL5G Want to support my work? You can donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/danielidfresne Daniel Idfresne is a seventeen-year-old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show, where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

One of the greatest problems we face in the battle we are fighting against woke culture and the perpetual victim mentality is that not enough young people are getting involved in a meaningful way. Striving for a more meaningful and civil discourse among those who have differing thoughts and opinions is not particularly fun or exciting, for most people, especially those of the younger generation. That is one reason I was so excited when I was able to make contact with this week's guest.Who is Daniel Idfresne?Daniel Idfresne is a first generation American whose parents immigrated here from Haiti. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School. Daniel began to notice a trend among his peers recently where they were denouncing their white privilege online, updating their bios with gender pronouns and posting links to all kinds of different social justice causes. Daniel wanted no part of such divisive things, as he's a proponent of equality and pluralism. In school, Daniel noticed another trend where identity politics was becoming the norm. Classroom debates were dominated by a single point of view, and many would self-censor to avoid being demonized by those with the woke mob mentality. He'd had enough. Daniel did not want to live in a world focused on dividing us, or a world where people could not have honest discussions about what they thought. This is when Daniel found out about, and became involved with FAIR, (the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism). This later prompted Daniel to form a club (FAIR at School), a genuine safe space, where students could feel free to discuss ideas in a way that didn't just fit in to the typical social media posts.I am honored to have as a guest on this week's DTH podcast Daniel Idfresne to discuss a little bit about his background, the woke mob mentality and how FAIR at School is looking to make civil discourse fun for his generation. Daniel is a profound young thinker who's been featured, whether in person or print in the NY Post, Fox News, Bari Weiss' substack and more. Daniel has also recently been named a fellow at The Douglass Society. I hope you'll give a listen and share this with your contacts to help energize and inspire more young people to become involved like Daniel.What have you done today to make your life a better life? What have you done today to make the world a better place? The world is a better place if we are better people, and that begins with each of us leading a better life. Be kind to one another, be grateful for everything you've got, and make each and every day the day that you want it to be!Please follow The Derate The Hate podcast on Facebook, MeWe, Instagram, Twitter . Subscribe to us wherever you enjoy your audio. Please leave us a rating and feedback. Send me a message on any media platform or subscribe directly from our sites. Let us know about someone you think should be on our podcast, and if we book them for a conversation, I'll send you a free gift! Not on social media? You can share your thoughts directly with me at wilk@wilksworld.comI look forward to hearing from you!Please check out our affiliates page by clicking HERE!

Today Emmett and I talk about the state of our schools and how we can incentivize a culture of conversation. Tune in to episode 10 of the Daniel Idfresne Show to hear our thoughts. Time Stamps: You can find Emmett Gardner here: https://twitter.com/EmmettGardner2 https://www.instagram.com/emmettcgardner/ You can find Students Unite here: https://twitter.com/Students_Unite_ https://www.instagram.com/_studentsunite/ https://www.parentsunite.org/students-unite Want to support my work? You can donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/danielidfresne Daniel Idfresne is a seventeen-year-old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show, where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

Today Brent and I talked about the importance of the apolitical in America. Can they help stop the woke? Tune in to episode 9 of the Daniel Idfresne Show to hear our thoughts. Time Stamps: 00:00 Opening Monologue 04:00 Meet Brent! 11:27 Brent's Time at Columbia 22:30 Freedom of Speech is not Valued by the Woke 28:24 Brent's Strategy for Fighting the Woke 32:30 Subjective Truth and Power 49:50 Preserving Gifted and Talented Programs 48:26 FAIR: The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism 1:00:00 When the Political Becomes the Personal? 1:12:42 The Case for Saying No Go watch Brent's work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwjnpbBUigWcv_QuLMhVaA Want to support my work? You can donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/danielidfresne Daniel Idfresne is a seventeen-year-old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show, where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

*THERE IS AN ECHO FOR THE FIRST TWO MINUTES* Today Sofia Puccio and I talk about obesity in America and how to fight it. You are listening to Daniel Idfresne. Time Stamps: 2:20 Introducing Sofia 3:30 Questions for Sofia 8:22 Is Obesity America's Most Pressing Issue? 10:40 What Causes Obesity? 13:00 Social Factors that Lead to Obesity 30:00 Bigger is Better Here in America 33:15 Meat Won't Make You Stronger?! 35:20 Sugar and Processed Foods 39:40 Can You Eat Unhealthy Foods and Not Become Obese? 45:00 Mental Health and Obesity 49:00 The Body Positivity Movement Daniel Idfresne is a seventeen-year-old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show, where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

Today Simona Balagula and I talk about the rise in antisemitism in recent months. You are watching the Daniel Idfresne Show. 2:45 Introducing Simona Balagula 10:20 History of Antisemitism 13:40 History of Zionism 24:36 Is Zionism Colonization? 26:52 Is This a Religious Conflict? 28:08 Antisemitism 29:42 Antisemitism Spreads More Online 34:04 Watering Down Cultural Norms Leave Room for Hate 36:26 Dogmatic Hatred Against Jews Masked as Moral Relativism 42:08 Simona's Predictions on Anti-Semitic Attacks 43:48 Is Zionism Terrorism? 46:05 Antisemitism and News Coverage 50:43 Simona's Final Remarks Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daniel-idfresne-show/id1543975391?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rcvNLd8n1x3MzHCERR9F2 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

Today Evan Ross and I talk about the dangers of one party rule. You are watching the Daniel Idfresne Show. 4:30 Introducing Evan Ross 10:48 An Elitist Bubble 12:30 Critical Theory 19:30 Big City Big Taxes 33:00 One Party Rule: Bad Policy 50:30 Corruption 1:15:05 The Future Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Push nuance. Stay skeptical. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daniel-idfresne-show/id1543975391?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rcvNLd8n1x3MzHCERR9F2 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

Today Noelle Fichett and I talk about the ideological propensities of the coastal elites and the implications of them in contemporary society. You are watching the Daniel Idfresne Show. 2:40 Introducing Noelle Fichett 12:30 Prevailing Attitudes in Coastal Cities 27:00 A Lack of Community 35:50 Ideological Individual Propensities 50:20 Cultural Implications 1:03:05 Can Cities Return to Normal? Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old conservative born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

In this episode of Brooklyn Legacy, Laz recounts his memories of the infamous Decepticons, and their "Cybertron" headquarters. This is a boots-on-the-ground tale, not the misinformation you'll get from the corporate media.Watch Part 1 HERE & Part 2 HEREListen to Laz's Hip-Hop podcast The Super Facts Show here.Follow St. Laz on Instagram here.Listen to St. Laz music here.From Wikipedia: "The Decepticons were a street gang or street organization that thrived from the late 80s through the early 90s. Their members were teenagers and young adults ranging from the age of 15 to their early 20s. The gang was most prominent in Brooklyn, but at their peak, the group consisted of multiple branches, or legions, all across New York City. In an interview with former Decepticon "General Steele", it is mentioned that there were legions of Decepticons in Clinton Hills, Flatbush, East Flatbush, and Bed Stuy Brooklyn, Harlem, Manhattan, and parts of Queens. Steele references in his interview how the Decepticons were all over the place in patches due to the group's upbringing. The legions would initially begin as a formation of a bond of bullied kids who needed strength in numbers. The original group of Decepticons started in Brooklyn, New York with three boys from two different schools. Two of the boys, who went by the names of Cyclonis and Rumble, went to Bushwick High School, and the other, called Megatron, went to Brooklyn Technical High School. They formed their bond in order to make sure no one would harm them. As those founding fathers found more people with common mindsets in the two schools they went to, their numbers grew, and soon after their small group morphed into a feared gang."

Lou Ferrigno is an American actor, fitness trainer, fitness consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for his title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Sinbad of the Seven Seas and Hercules, and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queen sand the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man. Lou Ferrigno was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Victoria and Matt Ferrigno, a police lieutenant. He is of Italian descent. Soon after he was born, Ferrigno says he believes he suffered a series of ear infections and lost 75 to 80% of his hearing, though his condition was not diagnosed until he was three years old. Hearing loss caused Ferrigno to be bullied by peers during his childhood: “They used to call me ‘deaf Louie, deaf-mute’, because of my hearing and because of the way I sounded.” Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves as one of his role models. Because he could not afford to buy weights, he made his own using a broomstick and pails which he partially filled with cement.  He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves. Ferrigno’s other personal heroes as a child were Spider-Man and the Hulk. Ferrigno attended St. Athanasius Grammar School and Brooklyn Technical High School, where he learned metalworking. After graduating from high school in 1969, Ferrigno won his first major title, IFBB Mr. America. Four years later, he won the title IFBB Mr. Universe. Early in his career he lived in Columbus, Ohio and trained with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1974, he came in second on his first attempt at the Mr. Olympia competition. He came in third the following year, and his attempt to beat Arnold Schwarzenegger was the subject of the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. The documentary made Ferrigno famous. These victories, however, did not provide enough income for him to earn a living. His first paying job was as a $10-an-hour sheet metal worker in a Brooklyn factory, where he worked for three years. He did not enjoy the dangerous work and left after a friend and co-worker accidentally cut off his own hand one day. Following this, Ferrigno left the competition circuit for many years, a period that included a brief stint as a defensive lineman for the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League. He had never played football and was cut after two games. Ferrigno left the world of Canadian football after he broke the legs of a fellow player during a scrimmage. During the competition, Ferrigno at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) weighed 268 lb (130 kg) in 1975, and 315 lb (142 kg) in 1992. Ferrigno competed in the first annual World’s Strongest Man competition in 1977, where he finished fourth in a field of eight competitors. In the early 1990s, Ferrigno returned to bodybuilding, competing for the 1992 and 1993 Mr. Olympia titles. Finishing 12th and 10th, respectively, he then turned to the 1994 Masters Olympia, where his attempt to beat Robbie Robinson and Boyer Coe was the subject of the 1996 documentary Stand Tall. After this, he retired from competition.

Today Maxim Smith and I talk about indoctrination in schools and its effects on different levels of society. You are listening to Daniel Idfresne. 3:35 Meet Maxim Smith 13:35 What is Indoctrination? 34:40 The Process of Indoctrination 45:40 Effects on the Individual and Groups 54:40 Effects in Culture Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old free thinker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daniel-idfresne-show/id1543975391?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rcvNLd8n1x3MzHCERR9F2 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80MTI1MWVmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

Dr. Lester Freeman, M.D., F.A.A.P. - born and raised for part of his childhood in Harlem, New York City, but relocated to Laurelton, Queens where he spent the rest of his formative years. Ever since he was five years old, he wanted to become not only a physician, but a pediatrician. He was always interested in medicine and did well in math and science. Dr. Freeman graduated from one of the most prestigious high schools, not only the state of New York, but in the United States, Brooklyn Technical High School. He graduated from New York University and graduated from UNDNJ-Rutgers Medical School and did his pediatric residency training there, as well. He has always sympathized with the most vulnerable amongst us, that is, the children. Dr. Freeman's goal is to make sure they get the best pediatric care possible. It's a lifelong responsibility that he fully enjoys, yet takes very seriously.  Dr. Freeman has desired to be a pediatrician since the age of 5. One year during the Christmas season, Dr. Freeman's father asked him a question he had never been asked before, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” He looked away confused until his father pulled him close and whispered in his ear, “doctor or lawyer?” Dr. Freeman yelled, “DOCTOR!” His father cheered, and then asked, “What kind of doctor?” Reflexively, he answered, “A baby doctor—one that takes care of kids!” Every year, his father would ask him that same question until it stuck. Dr. Freeman's motivation stems from his fundamental love for both children and pediatric medicine. His daily goals include educating his patients and their families about pediatric health, and inspiring as many children and adolescents as he possibly can to become interested in pursuing a career in medicine.” Support the show: https://theanswersandiego.com/radioshow/8349 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Ethan Castro and I talk about what it means to have human will and saying no in different levels of your life. Say no in your personal life so you can say no in societal places. You are listening to Daniel Idfresne. 4:35 Meet Ethan Castro 13:15 Saying No in Personal Life 27:10 Saying No to Friends 39:15 Saying No to Authority 55:56 Saying No to Cancel Culture 1:12:00 Saying No to a Polarized Climate Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old conservative born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

My first novel involves the bittersweet journey of a young, idealistic, naïve attorney who takes on the role of academic dean at a for-profit business school in New York City in the late 1980s knowing very little about the industry. Unable to accept the way things are, he immediately launches into a personal quest to change lives for the better in an environment where only the bottom-line matters. Hard work and an entrepreneurial spirit quickly propel him to professional success, but at a deep personal cost in the process as he learns critical life-altering lessons about himself, about leadership, about for-profit and not-for-profit higher education, and about love. The novel is fiction based on my own experiences as academic dean of a for-profit business school as a newly minted lawyer in circumstances quite similar to those of the protagonist and in a similar frame of a bit more than a year. The novel offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the for-profit education industry that only a former insider could write. Beyond the drama, tension, humor and conflicting love stories of the narrative, the novel raises some very real, compelling and little discussed issues about the failings of both for-profit and traditional non-profit public and private institutions in meeting the needs of students who need meaningful job training or retraining in a reasonably short time to provide meaningful work and a living wage for themselves and their families. For economic and political reasons, public institutions such as community colleges and schools of technology have largely abandoned what was once a primary mission of providing workers with meaningful skills in the trades and office support positions for business and industry and have largely become feeder schools for baccalaureate programs that often do not provide the skills employers need. It is very expensive to provide the labs and equipment needed to train students as mechanics, machinists, plumbers, electricians, welders, and a host of other blue collar professions that provide good jobs, high pay and the opportunity for individuals to build their own businesses. Educating students in the liberal arts, humanities and the social sciences, on the other hand, generally requires minimal resources and no costly labs by comparison. Liberal arts degrees can also lead to rewarding careers, though usually only after many years of study. And in the professions, graduate degrees are likely to be a requirement for employment and/or advancement. I was one of the fortunate students who could have studied any career of choice with no concern about having to feed a family or keep a roof over my head thanks to very supportive parents. But I know were that not the case that my training at Brooklyn Technical High School that besides college-level coursework in the liberal arts, math and sciences provided me with significant tools in electronics, electricity and mechanics that would have made me highly employable in any of these fields out of High School at two or three times the starting salary I could have commanded with my B.A. in Queen's College's English Honors Program with high honors designation four years later. My dad as a world-class machinist/mechanic earned more than twice my salary when he retired, though I was a tenured professor in the SUNY system at the time. In the past two decades, certain segments of public and private non-profit education and for-profit education have come to mirror one another in their common failings--something that is touched upon in this novel but I will fully explore in a planned sequel that will also be fiction based on my experience as both a professor and administrator in non-profit public and private institutions. Hire Lernin' is now available in hardcover, paperback and eBook versions at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/victor-d-lopez/message

We sit down for a candid conversation with CEO and Founder of The Boreland Group Inc.,  JENNEFER WITTER Jennefer Witter is the chief executive officer and founder of The Boreland Group Inc. (TBG – www.theborelandgroup.com), an 18-year-old boutique public relations firm headquartered in New York City. The agency specializes in women-led and minority-owned businesses as well as grassroots non-profits. It was selected by TheStreet.com as one of five national, Black-owned businesses “making a buzz”. Jennefer was named one of the nation’s “10 most successful black CEOS and entrepreneurs” by MadameNoire Magazine, and her company was recently recognized as one of 12 black-owned businesses to be “loved by its community and beyond” by ThriveGlobal (https://tinyurl.com/y7k4a6hw).Jennefer is an active public speaker, with presentations to military, trade and academic organizations on implicit bias; gender-based workplace conversation; and public relations, communication and professional growth topics. Venues include TedX Albany: The Pentagon; The Brookings Institution; Pennsylvania Conference for Women; the Virginia Business Conference; The Sea Service Leadership Association’s Annual Symposium; Vital Voices Global Ambassadors Program; The Durst Corporation; Ellevate Network; Columbia University; American University and Fordham University. Jennefer was the keynote speaker at Brown Brothers Harriman’s “Women’s Summit” and Women in Cable Telecommunications DC/Baltimore Chapter. She is a featured speaker with Never Stop Learning, a boutique speakers bureau. Jennefer is the author of “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed,” published by HarperCollins. She has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, the Associated Press, TheStreet.com, Bloomberg Radio, MarketWatch Radio Network and WJLA. Her articles have appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, Medium, HuffPost and numerous small business publications. Previously, she was the public relations expert for Inc.com TV and a contributor to AOL Small Business. Jennefer is a passionate advocate for women in the workplace. She is an active member of Ellevate Network, a global networking organization for professional women, and serves on the advisory board for Women inPower, a 92nd Street Y-led venture that seeks to support and promote senior-level professional women to C-level positions. She is a mentor to many women in various professional fields. Jennefer was formerly a vice president at Ketchum, an award-winning global communications firm. There, she launched a sub-practice that generated one million dollars in revenue in its first year. She represented numerous corporations from Silicon Valley start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, including IBM and FedEx. Jennefer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications (Print Journalism) from New York City’s Fordham University. While at Fordham, she worked at WFUV Radio, which was then student-run. She produced and hosted the weekly black public affairs program, “Out Front.” Jennefer received a Regents Diploma from Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the country’s premier STEM schools, graduating with an A average.  

Karina Popovich is an inspiring young leader in STEM and 3D printing. Wi3DP has launched a Youth Initiative with her as Head of Education & Policy. Currently, a sophomore at Cornell, Karina has a passion for entrepreneurship, business, engineering, and is only getting started... Topics Include: 0:00 – Intro –New York - fall weather 2:47 – Harnessing energy towards positive action – Youth initiatives Wi3DP 3:45 – Brooklyn Technical High School - https://www.bths.edu/ ( https://www.bths.edu/ ) – educational digital design program – 3D printing – entrepreneurship 5:37 – Sophomore year at Cornell – freshman during the pandemic 6:02 – Re-wiring your personal digital network – mindset of college motivation – PPE - Wi3DP youth program 8:32 – Makers for COVID-19 – PPE program – February/March flashback 11:33 - Distributing 3DP - PPE in NYC – trends 14:07 – MakersforCOVID19.com - open-source resource 15:30 – Wear Alpha clothing line – new opportunities – social impact 3D printing – Wi3DP Youth Program initiatives 17:44 – Youth Program with Women in 3D Printing – STEM - 3D printing curriculum creative lens 22:57 - Exploring economics and marketing at Cornell – working to combine and improve skills 25-17 – Who do you want to be when you grow up? - Beauty of exploring multiple interests 26:42 – How Katrina got started in 3D printing - $200-$300 printer collection – chocolate 3D printing – cheers to the future! Karina Popovich - https://bit.ly/38FVsby Youth Program with Women in 3D Printing - http://bit.ly/3nOpgsN Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/alldigitalam9283/donations

Today I am going to give you the full rundown on postmodernism – first we'll revisit the Enlightenment and modernism's essentials, run through the historical developments of postmodernism, and examine postmodern strategies in our politics and culture. You are listening to Daniel Idfresne. 4:03 Modernism's Essentials 12:43 Postmodernism's Essentials 18:30 Historical Developments of Postmodernism 22:00 Four Key Propositions 22:45 Rousseau: The Basis for Leftist Thought 42:00 Four German Collectivists on the Right 51:42 Fichte and the Socialization of Education 1:04:43 The National Socialists vs the Marxist Socialists 1:10:00 National Socialism is Defeated; Enter Marxist Socialism 1:20:30 Socialism's Failure 1:24:12 Socialism's Response to Failure 1:44:17 Postmodern Strategy and Politics Daniel Idfresne is a sixteen year old conservative born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently on the Public Forum Debate team and Philosophy Club at Brooklyn Technical High School. Watch as Daniel tackles news regarding politics and culture. Tune in to the Daniel Idfresne Show where he makes philosophical connections to political and cultural occurrences today. Push nuance. Stay skeptical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedanielidfresneshow/support

This week my guest is Hannibal Collins of @ficofinesse. Hannibal shares his journey from Brooklyn Technical High School to becoming self-employed in the pandemic. Follow him @ficofinesse and fix your credit! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ebony-tyler6/support

Marquis Smalls was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.  He then graduated from The Pennsylvania State University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree […] The post Marquis Smalls: Believe In Yourself After The Death Of A Parent appeared first on Open to Hope.

The Permission of the Mind Howard Ben Tré Using methods learned in his metal-foundry class at Brooklyn Technical High School, Howard Ben Tré pioneered the art of casting molten glass long before YouTube tutorials and Facebook casting groups existed. His hands-on technical innovations changed what was possible in cast glass and allowed Ben Tré to create career defining monumental sculptures that could survive the rigors of outdoor installation. Among Ben Tré’s public commissions are the award-winning installation of fountains and seating created for Post Office Square Park in Boston; the plaza and sculpture for BankBoston’s headquarters in downtown Providence; an interactive fountain for the hall of the renovated Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston; the pedestrianization and street scheme redesign of Warrington Town Center in England; and plazas with sculpture/fountains and landscaping for Target Corporation Headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Whether casting glass for public spaces or personal series, Ben Tré found inspiration in the geometry of ancient ritual objects and historical architecture. His Wrapped Forms (1998 - 2000) evoke the relics and customs of Asian ritual while Lightness of Being (2008) juxtaposes fragility and strength, masculine and feminine. As light is transmitted, diffused, and refracted through the dense glass mass, Ben Tré’s sculpture takes on a mysterious life of its own. Sections of the glass were treated with gold leaf either on the surface or by installing gold leaf covered lead bars within the glass matrix, adding to the magic.   Public and personal work plays off one another, sparking new ideas and forms. In fact, they emanate from the same source— Ben Tré’s desire to use art to bring people together in our collective humanity. Whether viewed in a public square or a private gallery, his cast glass returns us to the realm where utopian visions and social ideals don’t seem so foolish. Ben Tréreminds us that if we give our minds permission, anything is possible.     Ben Tré’s work is included in numerous private collections in the US, Europe and Asiaand in more than 101 museum and public collections worldwide, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice. He has been featured in 54 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including a ten-year retrospective organized by the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, that traveled nationally, and a retrospective exhibition at the Glass Art Museum in Toyama, Japan. Other one-person exhibitions of sculptures and drawings include those organized by the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice; the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University; the Toledo Museum of Art; and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949, Ben Tré received a B.S.A. from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, in 1978 and a M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980. He is a three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a three-time recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. His achievements in the visual arts were recognized by the First Annual Pell Awards for Excellence in the Arts (1996), the Artist Award of Distinction by the National Council of Art Administrators (2005), and the Aileen Osborn Webb Award (2006). His public art has been recognized with awards by the Providence Preservation Society for Urban Design (1998), the British Council for Shopping Centres for Town Centre Environment (2002), and the Royal Town Planning Institute for Best Urban Design Project (2002). Currently 40 years of drawings, works on paper, lecture notes and a number of sculptures in the Ben Tre’ collection dating back to 1977 are being assembled and archived for research purposes.      

This week Kelly Mena, Stephen Witt and Tom Russotti sit down with Yvette Buckner, Managing Director at Tusk Strategies about the Education Equity Campaign aimed at increasing diversity in NYC's specialized high schools (SHS). In recent months, the eight elite schools have come under fire for their lack of diversity particularly their low rate of black and Latino students. SHS include Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn. In March, Stuyvesant offered only 7 out of 895 slots in the freshman class to black students.

Karina Popovich is a high school senior at Brooklyn Technical High School and an incoming freshman at Cornell University. Karina is pursuing a career at the intersection of Computer Science and Business. While facing a number of challenges in the tech world as a female and first-generation college student, she created an organization, Connect with Tech, to provide underrepresented students with the opportunities to explore STEM. For all of her work in CS and STEM education she has been honored by the Malala Fund and received the Regional Affiliate NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award. She was also recently selected to be 1 of a 100 Amazon Future Engineers. Feel free to connect with Karina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-p-ba4827126/ www.karinapopovich.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/compilher/support

On this week's episode of [Un] Correct New York, Stephen Witt, Kelly Mena and Tom Russotti talk about the controversial Specialized High School Admission Test (SHSAT). Recent data revealed that low numbers of Black and Latino students were accepted into New York City's eight elite schools including Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Technical High School, has many parents worried about the lack of diversity and access to a quality education across the five boroughs.

his week, we're presenting stories about the struggle to find friends. Science can be a lonely job -- but it can also connect us to others in ways we'd never imagine. Part 1: Feeling isolated in her new job as a particle accelerator operator at Fermilab, Cindy Joe finds comfort in the friendship of her unconventional pet. Part 2: Patrick Honner starts to doubt his lifelong love of math when graduate school becomes a lonely experience. Cindy Joe is an engineering physicist working with several of Fermilab’s experiments studying neutrinos, tiny particles that might hold the answers to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. A first-generation college student, she grew up dreaming big in the back of her family’s Chinese restaurant in a small town in Arkansas. While obtaining her bachelor’s degree in physics, she also became a licensed senior reactor operator at Reed College’s nuclear research reactor. She then moved to even bigger machines, working as a particle accelerator operator in Fermilab’s Main Control Room for seven years. Cindy is deeply passionate about science outreach, and has spoken to audiences from elementary school to members of Congress. A 2-time presenter at Fermilab’s Physics Slam and a contributor to PechaKucha Night Batavia, she currently lectures in Fermilab’s Saturday Morning Physics program for high school students. Note: See our website for footage of Professor Snailworthy, as well as the full video of our show at Fermilab! Patrick Honner is an award-winning mathematics teacher who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has taught everything from introductory algebra to multivariable calculus, and currently teaches calculus, linear algebra, and mathematical computing at Brooklyn Technical High School, where he also serves as instructional coach. Patrick is in his fourth Math for America Master Teacher Fellowship; he is a New York State Master Teacher; a Sloan award winner; and a Rosenthal Prize honoree. And in 2013 he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Patrick writes about math and teaching for Quanta Magazine, the New York Times, and on his blog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marc Williams, ACS, ALB, witnessed an unspeakable tragedy at three years old, when two intruders broke into his home, and murdered his thought-to-be-father. The son of an illiterate, single mother who could not help him with his homework, Marc rose above his struggles, and went on to earn a master’s degree in speech communication from New York University. He left a job as an assistant principal at Brooklyn Technical High School to become the principal and turn around an underserv. . . See the complete description at The Toastmasters Podcast

Born and raised in Queens, Taranveer is a senior undergraduate who comes from an immigrant family. We talk about how unprepared High School leaves for your College, and subsequently how unprepared College leaves you for the real world. Outside of finance, education, and funny commentary, he teaches us more about Sikhism. Taranveer has been a devout Sikh since middle school. He discusses the practices, teachings, and ideas behind the religion. Last but not least, he talks about how he found his love for rap during his daily commutes to Brooklyn Technical High School. Age: 21 Education: Computer Engineering Occupation(s): Undergraduate Passion: Rap

Robert Christopher Riley hails from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn (NY), but has deep Caribbean roots, as he was raised by his Trinidadian mother and grandmother while having a father from Barbados. Riley is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School (‘98) where he earned a Regents diploma before attending Lehigh University (’03) in Bethlehem, PA., for his B.A. in Theatre. While attending Lehigh, Riley was cast in the role of ‘Walter Lee’ in the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” and later went on to co-write along with Kashi Johnson (his professor and mentor), “Untold Truths: Why We Always Sit Together”. The play, which was about the minority experience at predominately white institutions of education, received rave reviews and was performed nightly before sold-out audiences at the Touchstone Theatre. After graduation, in the fall of 2003, Riley accepted a full-scholarship to Ohio University’s MFA-Acting Program. While completing his degree (’06), he was cast in several independent films as well as numerous commercials and print ads. Riley continued his career by doing voiceover work for Verizon, the NFL and Rockstar Games, to name a few. Most recently, in April 2012, he was cast as ‘Terrence Wall’ (a series regular) in VH1’s “Hit the Floor”.

Wayne Barclay was born on the Caribbean Island of Jamaica and migrated to the Brooklyn New York at the age of 5. He gained entrance into Brooklyn Technical High School which is the largest high school in the United States specializing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. While at Brooklyn Tech he played Varsity Football and ran Track. While at Tech he won multiple New York City Championships; he was also a member of two Nationally Ranked relay teams that took first place at the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia.   Wayne went on to attend Rutgers University on a track scholarship and he graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting. He went to work on Wall Street with the brokerage firm Dean Witter Reynolds where he worked for a few years before leaving to become a tax auditor with the NYC Department of Finance. Consequently Wayne ended up in Florida where he worked for ExxonMobil as a controller for one of their Lubrication divisions. His dream of one day owning his own business materialized and he and two partners opened an office services company in 1999 called Inter-Office Solutions. In 2002 the partners decided to go their separate ways and Wayne with the help of his wife started Blue Digital a printing company located in the Miami Area. Blue Digital has transformed itself and specializes in printing for the construction industry. Wayne is proud of the direction the company has taken and has given God the glory for its success. Blue Digital has been blessed to work on projects such as the Miami Marlins Ball Park and currently the Miami Dolphin Stadium renovations. Our services include Small and Large format printing, promotional products, Scanning and Document management. We are a certified SBE enterprise and currently working on our 8a certification.

(RIGHT CLICK THE IMAGE TO SAVE THIS EPISODE TO YOUR COMPUTER) A new Case File focuses on actor, voiceover artist, and professional whistler Guerin Barry.  Guerin talks about his role on The Bionic Woman as the voice of the Alex 7000 computer in the episode, "Doomsday is Tomorrow".  In addition, he talks about his time with the group Sha Na Na, his appearances in various movies and television shows, his career as a professional whistler, plus a whole lot more. Comment on the episode here or write abionicpodcast@gmail.com. Guerin Barry was born in Manhattan and raised in Sunnyside Queens. He went Brooklyn Technical High School and then attended Pratt Institute for architecture. But left to go to work at a radio station in Vermont. From there, he went to Boston to study acting at the Leland Powers School of Radio, Television, and Theatre. By the time he finished acting school he was married and had a son and became a film editor for prominent Boston TV news station, WBZ. His TV work continued in New York as a producer and director for six years before he returned to acting and studied with Milton Katselas while working at an advertising agency. He ultimately moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1975 to pursue acting full-time. Stage work led to work in commercials (he famously embodied the character of the Mercury Grand Marquis) and supporting roles in movies and guest-starring roles in television (Quincy, Simon & Simon, Step by Step), including the soft-soaked voice of "Alex 7000," the Master Computer who gives who threatens to destroy the world unless Jaime Sommers can stop him in the sensational Bionic Woman two-parter, "Doomsday Is Tomorrow." Guerin's unique voice talent also gave life to the original Dr. Theopolis in the iconic Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He was even up for the voice of K.I.T.T. in Knight Rider but lost to William Daniels. He was also the unseen voice of the "Salem Strangler" on the popular daytime soap, Days of Our Lives. In the 80s, Guerin started a 50s band and played locally for six years, which led to an additional four years touring the globe with the acclaimed 50s rock and roll group, Sha Na Na. When he returned to Hollywood, he focused heavily on voiceover work. He's recorded a dozen audio books, and he's also found himself in the peculiar field of talking toys, for which he is the voice of thousands. Recognized as a "Professional Whistler," Guerin has whistled for many composers of TV, documentary and feature film music, promo music, music libraries and pop recordings. He also whistles live with jazz musicians. He is "On Pitch and On Time." He has whistled for the TV series, LA Law, episode titled "Whistle Stop." He is the only polyphonic whistler in the world, capable of producing two, specific and different notes at the same time. Guerin's voice can also be heard in the popular video games, War of Warcraft and Starcraft. He's appeared in Reeve Carney's music video for "Love Me, Chase Me." And he's currently the deep bass voice of the Doo-Wop group, Dukes of DooWop. Links Facebook page Twitter IMDB page You Tube Channel Dukes of Doowop Facebook Homepage   Venice Beach Freakshow Facebook Homepage