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In this episode, Tracy sits down with the PCMA Canada East Chapter Canadian Innovation Conference organizers, Natalie Marino, CMP, DES, Heather Reid, and Erica Orecchio, DES, to discuss how they managed the dietary needs of more than 250 attendees at the conference.  They talk about the challenges of accommodating dietary restrictions and the importance of providing inclusive and transparent food options at events and conferences. Here are three key takeaways from our conversation: 1️⃣ Accessibility is crucial: Accessibility should be a top priority and not an afterthought when planning events. From site visits to discussing dietary requirements with event venues and chefs, transparency and forethought can ensure that everyone's needs are met. 2️⃣ Embrace technology: Using QR codes and event apps can revolutionize how we provide information about food choices to attendees. QR codes can eliminate the need for printing physical menus, allowing for real-time updates and easy access to allergy-friendly options. 3️⃣ Sustainable choices matter: Consider incorporating locally sourced ingredients, reducing food waste, and giving back to the community by donating excess food to homeless shelters. We can create safe, sustainable, and inclusive experiences by thinking critically about food and beverage choices. A huge thank you to Nathalie, Heather, and Erica for sharing their insights and expertise. You can listen to this thought-provoking episode on my podcast, "Eating at a Meeting," which is available NOW on Youtube and later on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms. Don't forget to stay tuned for our next episode, where we'll be diving into contract law and the management of dietary data. As always, thank you for your support, and I hope everyone had happy Thanksgiving!

Message Date: July 23, 2023 Scripture: 1John 4 Speaker: Tom Lambshead What do we mean when we say that God IS love? In this message, our friend Tom Lambshead, AGC Regional Director for Canada East, draws from his experience with Christians who don't understand love, to help us know and love the God who IS love.

Thank you to today's sponsors!Xplore - High-Speed Internet with Unlimited Data for only $49.95/mo! Invasive Species Centre - Protecting Canada's land and water from invasive speciesColeman Canada - The Outside is Calling, Answer the Call.Power-Pole- Total Boat ControlThis week on Outdoor Journal Radio, Ang and Pete are joined by wildlife researcher and Wild Pig expert, Tore Buchanan!First, however, some housekeeping was in order. Topics discussed included: AI; desk banging; black spot disease; eating worm-ridden perch; why everything starts with birds; Melanosis; new news; renting crown land in New Brunswick; Fish'n Canada East; stocking beans; handsome names; dating Ang; graphite rods; and understanding rod power vs. action.With that out of the way, Tore joins the show to talk about Canada's emerging wild pig problem. Topics discussed included: the difference between pigs and boars; how they got here; escapees; opening fences; underestimating a pig's cold tolerance; walking your pig; why they are a problem; how they threaten our wild turkeys; why Ontario banned wild pig hunting; pig predators; pig attacks; how the government traps them;  where the meat goes; what the USA is going; and much more!To never miss an episode of Outdoor Journal Radio, be sure to like, subscribe, and leave a review on your favourite podcast app!More from Angelo and Pete:► WEBSITE► FACEBOOK► INSTAGRAM► YOUTUBE

Tyrone lands the Canada Equipping time reminding us of the type of leaders we must strive to be, following and exampling Christ in every way.

Tyrone lands the Equip time with a key message for all church leadership, that we follow Christ and lead as He would

Marcus reminds us of the mission and the calling of God upon every generation, as the hour is urgent.

Paul shares a significant word drawing us back to the 'Source' of all that God has, His Spirit.

Brenden reminds us of our greatest focus, our greatest delight our greatest love...Jesus Christ.

Mark points us back to the 'plumb line' we're to not only build by, but to stay focused upon as we move forward, avoiding the 'drift' of the modern church.

Dan talks about going deeper into God's Word and the essential nature of it for every believer.

Paul speaks into how we step out into the calling of God, in the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

Minda opens the book of Isaiah and reminds us of God's promises and goodness, as He calls us into the unknown.

Tyrone helps us to see what God is doing in the midst of our times, the signs of His Kingdom and power advancing His plan, in spite of circumstances.

Tyrone spends some time with the elders and leaders from churches in the region, encouraging, challenging and spurring them on in this great calling.

Maureen was born in Toronto but when her father decided to purchase a pub in his hometown of Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim, she along with her six siblings experienced what it was like to grow up as a child in Ireland.  At the age of 19, Maureen decided to come back to Toronto and has been living here ever since. Dancing is her passion and she chairs the Comhaltas branches of Toronto and Canada East. Maureen is at the heart of the Irish community in Toronto and this podcast would not have been complete without a chat with her. Bain taitneamh as. 

There are certain stories that are legendary in their own right. They are bigger than a single individual and affect the sport in a major way. The Nations 80 Cup was an event that laid the groundwork for the direction lacrosse would take in the future. It featured 5 teams from around the world travelling to British Columbia for the first truly international box lacrosse festival. Australia, Canada East, Canada West North American Natives and the USA . It would lay the groundwork for the first FIL sanctioned World Indoor Lacrosse Championship in 2003, and also the beginning of the Iroquois Lacrosse National Team program. Members of the five teams and knowledgeable spokespeople tell the story from their own unique perspectives. Join Dave Evans (Australia), Stan Cockerton, Wayne Colley and John Dalgliesh (Canada East )Frank Nielsen, Greg Thomas and Dan Wilson (Canada West), Jeff Gill, Lewis Mitchell and Dave White (North American Natives) and Craig Moore (USA) in a wide-reaching retelling of this major world tournament.

Today Lowell goes over why the Energy East pipeline is/was so important and why it's so devastating to Canada that it was not built. Why is Canada, one of the world's most oil rich countries having to import oil at all? If we had the pipeline we could be selling to Europe right now, and they wouldn't have to deal with Russia. We take your calls from across Canada and the USA today and hear from you via Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Twitch. NOTE: Lowell is away Wednesday, but back Thursday at 2pm ET on www.BlastTheRadio.com

On this Azure Centric Podcast, we are talking about the newest Azure features announced during this week. Marcos Nogueira and Andrew Lowes bring their point of view on these new Azure features: • Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes • Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability • Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region • Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience • General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics • General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics • General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway • General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight You will find videos about Microsoft Azure Technologies, Microsoft Certifications and Technology in general on this channel. The Podcast series is a very informal conversation with different guests. The Azure Concept series is where we bring the real-life experience of using Azure Technologies on the field. Don't forget to subscribe and make sure to hit the like button and share this video if you enjoyed it. Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/azurecentric Twitter - https://twitter.com/azurecentric Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/azurecentric LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/azurecentric SoundCloud - https://bit.ly/acsoundcloudpodcast Google - https://bit.ly/acgooglepodcast Apple - https://bit.ly/acapplepodcast Spotify - https://bit.ly/acspotifypodcast YouTube - https://bit.ly/azurecentricyoutube #AzurePodcast #AzureCentric #AzureUpdates

As it comes down to the final five, Andrew Al-Khouri and Andy Hay are still competing in CTV's Masterchef Canada Season 7 - Back to Win. They discuss Sunday night's episode and the friendship and rivalry they've cooked up as the two Nova Scotia contestants attempt to win the title and 100-thousand dollar prize. (NOTE: Some potential Episode 9 spoilers ahead)

Maria Flikkema directs proposal development for IBI Group. With a primary focus on the Canada East region, she has managed large scale proposals across the firm globally and provides strategic direction to proposal teams outside of the Toronto headquarters. Overseeing all aspects of proposal activities, including management of proposal deadlines and progress, and directing the Canada East proposal team, Maria is also responsible for developing a wide variety of customized marketing materials for new pursuits and contract renewals. Having been with the firm for more than 12 years, Maria has a proven track record delivering winning, multi-million to -billion dollar proposals under challenging deadlines for both public- and private-sector clients.

In this episode we speak with Bonnie Lemaire, an illustrator with fifteen years of experience in indie publishing. In that time, she’s illustrated A TON of books. How many? We’ll let her tell you.Bonnie also discusses how she guides writers through the illustration process and balancing multiple projects at once.Her enthusiasm for the work is infectious.Bonnie mentions the Facebook group “Children's Book Authors and Illustrators: Publishing, Marketing and Selling”, and is a member of the Canada East chapter of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Her work can be seen on her website, www.bonniella.com.Our music is by www.scottholmesmusic.com.

Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, forwards] Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, backwards] Ken - "Do something that you knew was you" Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, backwards] Lemon Jelly - "Nice Weather for Ducks" - Lost Horizons Moondog - "What's the Most Exciting Thing" - Moondog 2 [Layers] David Lynch - "Some people love to be lost" Donald Swartz - "TWX in 12 Bars (Wall $treet Week theme)" [Layers of teletypes] Donald Swartz - "Opening to Wall $treet Week (with Louis Rukeyser)" [Complete with intro narrator] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Loops] Logan Lerman - "There is so much pain, I don't know how to stop noticing it" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower One-Minute Vacation - "Ducktown TN - Yard Birds (Ducktown TN 3/31/08)" - One-Minute Vacations Field recording - "Buenos Aires birds" Field recording - "Morning birds" One-Minute Vacation - "Sam the Bird (Cohasset MA 3/24/08)" - One-Minute Vacations Live phone call [and Ken breaths] Ken - "You can ask for anything (Boundaries monologue)" [over Liz Phair live looping. Thank you for taking care of yourself] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Continued live looping atmosphere] Ken - "You can stay for as long as you want (this is the last chance)" [You don't have to leave the moment. You don't have to leave this dream.] Live phone caller - "Someone said Canada" [(East coast)] Ken - "That's what happens" Live phone caller - "In Canada (it's beautiful here today)" [(West coast) (I love everything about Canada)] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Loops] Ken - "Identification" Live phone caller - "Rich in Washington (suddenly I'm falling)" [Mouth open wide but no sound. With live stream looping] David Mitchell, Robert Webb - "Potatoes aren't vegetables" - Peep Show, season 7 episode 5: Seasonal Beatings [With live stream looping. "Potatoes aren't veg. (Uh, yes, they are.) Oh. Um, are they? Uh, I mean they kind of are. But not really. (Well, what else are they?) Are you sure potatoes are veg? Aren't they... not earth, but like salt? I mean tomatoes are fruit and potatoes are... bread? No. I mean, they're wheaty. They don't go in the drawer in the fridge, so, yeah? They're not exactly cabbage, are they? I mean, they're brown. They're nice!"] R.E.M. - "Daysleeper" - Up [Loops] Emma Watson, Logan Lerman - "What did you want? You can't put everybody's lives ahead of yours" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower Claire Danes - "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty space in your heart" - My So-Called Life Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet - "This is it, it's gonna be gone soon. What do we do? Enjoy it." - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Emma Watson, Logan Lerman - "Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing? We accept the love we think we deserve" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Loop] Def Leppard - "Promises" - Euphoria [Loops] Stevie Wonder - "He's Misstra Know-It-All" - Innervisions [Loops] Kathryn Beaumont - "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, and everything would be what it isn't" - Alice in Wonderland Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness" - Surviving Desire Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly, Hal Hartley - "Television makes these daily sacrifices possible, it deadens the inner core of my being" - Trust Hal Hartley - "No matter what I achieve, I always have this irritating sensation of emptiness and futility" - Ambition [I want the image I have of myself and myself to become one] Hal Hartley - "When two images or sounds are juxtaposed in a relationship that is not concrete..." - Ambition Katherine Hepburn - "All my life I've stayed at parties too long, because I didn't know when to go" - Summertime David Huddleston - "Are you surprised at my tears, sir? Strong men also cry. Strong men also cry." - The Big Lebowski La Dusseldorf - "Rheinita" - Viva [Loops] Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Aktivitat [Loops] Vangelis - "Chariots of Fire theme" - Chariots of Fire [Loops] The Lovin' Spoonful - "Me About You" - Revelation: Revolution '69 Lemon Jelly - "Nice Weather for Ducks" - Lost Horizons The Brothers Johnson - "Strawberry Letter #23" - Right on Time [Loops] Magnapop - "Snake" - Magnapop or Rubbing Doesn't Help [Loops, taking over atmosphere] Ken - "All we have are memories (I don't know what I want)" [Everyone tries in the ways they know how. Something is always going to hurt. Something is always going to go well.] Live phone caller - "Broken, drowning (you can't know nothing)" Magnapop - "Snake" - Magnapop [Loops] The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops] Ken - "Forever making the same mistakes, reinventing the wheel" [Mostly over War On Drugs In Chains loops, and a little over Magnapop Snake loops] The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops] Ken - "Identification" The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops on out] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/78602

Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, forwards] Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, backwards] Ken - "Do something that you knew was you" Dave Matthews Band - "Crash" - Crash [Loop, backwards] Lemon Jelly - "Nice Weather for Ducks" - Lost Horizons Moondog - "What's the Most Exciting Thing" - Moondog 2 [Layers] David Lynch - "Some people love to be lost" Donald Swartz - "TWX in 12 Bars (Wall $treet Week theme)" [Layers of teletypes] Donald Swartz - "Opening to Wall $treet Week (with Louis Rukeyser)" [Complete with intro narrator] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Loops] Logan Lerman - "There is so much pain, I don't know how to stop noticing it" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower One-Minute Vacation - "Ducktown TN - Yard Birds (Ducktown TN 3/31/08)" - One-Minute Vacations Field recording - "Buenos Aires birds" Field recording - "Morning birds" One-Minute Vacation - "Sam the Bird (Cohasset MA 3/24/08)" - One-Minute Vacations Live phone call [and Ken breaths] Ken - "You can ask for anything (Boundaries monologue)" [over Liz Phair live looping. Thank you for taking care of yourself] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Continued live looping atmosphere] Ken - "You can stay for as long as you want (this is the last chance)" [You don't have to leave the moment. You don't have to leave this dream.] Live phone caller - "Someone said Canada" [(East coast)] Ken - "That's what happens" Live phone caller - "In Canada (it's beautiful here today)" [(West coast) (I love everything about Canada)] Liz Phair - "Shatter" - Exile in Guyville [Loops] Ken - "Identification" Live phone caller - "Rich in Washington (suddenly I'm falling)" [Mouth open wide but no sound. With live stream looping] David Mitchell, Robert Webb - "Potatoes aren't vegetables" - Peep Show, season 7 episode 5: Seasonal Beatings [With live stream looping. "Potatoes aren't veg. (Uh, yes, they are.) Oh. Um, are they? Uh, I mean they kind of are. But not really. (Well, what else are they?) Are you sure potatoes are veg? Aren't they... not earth, but like salt? I mean tomatoes are fruit and potatoes are... bread? No. I mean, they're wheaty. They don't go in the drawer in the fridge, so, yeah? They're not exactly cabbage, are they? I mean, they're brown. They're nice!"] R.E.M. - "Daysleeper" - Up [Loops] Emma Watson, Logan Lerman - "What did you want? You can't put everybody's lives ahead of yours" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower Claire Danes - "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty space in your heart" - My So-Called Life Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet - "This is it, it's gonna be gone soon. What do we do? Enjoy it." - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Emma Watson, Logan Lerman - "Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing? We accept the love we think we deserve" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Loop] Def Leppard - "Promises" - Euphoria [Loops] Stevie Wonder - "He's Misstra Know-It-All" - Innervisions [Loops] Kathryn Beaumont - "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, and everything would be what it isn't" - Alice in Wonderland Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness" - Surviving Desire Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly, Hal Hartley - "Television makes these daily sacrifices possible, it deadens the inner core of my being" - Trust Hal Hartley - "No matter what I achieve, I always have this irritating sensation of emptiness and futility" - Ambition [I want the image I have of myself and myself to become one] Hal Hartley - "When two images or sounds are juxtaposed in a relationship that is not concrete..." - Ambition Katherine Hepburn - "All my life I've stayed at parties too long, because I didn't know when to go" - Summertime David Huddleston - "Are you surprised at my tears, sir? Strong men also cry. Strong men also cry." - The Big Lebowski La Dusseldorf - "Rheinita" - Viva [Loops] Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Aktivitat [Loops] Vangelis - "Chariots of Fire theme" - Chariots of Fire [Loops] The Lovin' Spoonful - "Me About You" - Revelation: Revolution '69 Lemon Jelly - "Nice Weather for Ducks" - Lost Horizons The Brothers Johnson - "Strawberry Letter #23" - Right on Time [Loops] Magnapop - "Snake" - Magnapop or Rubbing Doesn't Help [Loops, taking over atmosphere] Ken - "All we have are memories (I don't know what I want)" [Everyone tries in the ways they know how. Something is always going to hurt. Something is always going to go well.] Live phone caller - "Broken, drowning (you can't know nothing)" Magnapop - "Snake" - Magnapop [Loops] The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops] Ken - "Forever making the same mistakes, reinventing the wheel" [Mostly over War On Drugs In Chains loops, and a little over Magnapop Snake loops] The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops] Ken - "Identification" The War On Drugs - "In Chains" - A Deeper Understanding [Loops on out] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/78602

Episode 81 -  Kristine Andali is to CrossFit what Rocky Balboa was to fictional American Boxing in the 1980's and 1990's. She lives the famous line from Mick to Rocky “It ain't about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep movin' forward!” Kristine narrowly missed the CrossFit games in 2014 when she finished third in a region that only took two athletes to the games, Canada East. The two women who finished ahead of her, one by mere seconds went on to take 1st and 4th respectively at the 2014 Games. The next year, 2015 Kristine was poised to get herself to (At the time) Carson California to compete at the CrossFit Games. But she tore her achilles in training. Fast forward to 2016 and she is the number 3 seed in the entire state of California, everyone knows this is her year… Until she tore both shoulder labrums on the regionals floor at the same time. 2 years and four surgeries later Kristine is finally back to getting in the mindset of competing again. With just one month of training she is sitting in the top 100 in the Northeast Region as this was recorded. She is on the comeback trail and this is the first interview of more than we have planned to document the mindset and the 2019 return of Kristine Andali. Kristine can be found at: @kristineAndali

This week on the Heads 'N Tales podcast we hear from Marco Dapkey who is a survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and has recently qualified for the CrossFit Regionals (an absolutely incredible feat). Marco's interview has been broken up into two parts.  In part one (Episode 73) we learn about Marco’s cancer diagnosis, which caused him to miss his highly anticipated senior season of high school football.  We also talked about the treatment process and the struggles of watching his team succeed without him.  To end the episode, Marco took us through his attempted comeback to football only to receive yet another sign that football might not be in his cards. As I have mentioned in many of the previous podcast episodes, CrossFit was a great outlet for me in my transition to life after sports.  Marco obviously felt the same connection to the sport and has excelled to an elite level.  For those of you wondering what CrossFit is, what the regionals are and why you should care, the video below will explain. To put it in simple terms, CrossFit is a high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise.  You don't necessarily need to compete in CrossFit, and I would venture to guess that most people who consider themselves "CrossFitters" don't.  For athletes who miss the feeling of competition, there are plenty of opportunities to get your fix in the sport.  The video above explains the general gist of the CrossFit Games, but the specifics have changed slightly since this video was published.  It is now actually much more difficult to qualify for regionals because only the top 10 men and 10 women from Asia, Africa and Latin America, 20 men and 20 women from Canada West, Canada East and all U.S. Open Regions, and 30 men and 30 women from Australia and Europe are invited to compete.   In 2016, 324,307 participants from 175 countries participated in the open, further proving how difficult it is to qualify for regionals.   We will save the rest of the CrossFit talk for part 2. Before Marco found CrossFit, he was captain of his football team at Neshaminy High School where he played safety and outside linebacker.  There was lots of hype going into his senior season with the prospects of Division 1 scholarships and a state title.  As the team began to wrap up their spring strength and conditioning program at the end of Marco's junior year, he started feeling sick.  This feeling started off with a cold that had him coughing and wheezing and no matter what he did, he couldn't seem to kick it. He eventually came down with swelling in his throat and a lump in his cheek.  Each of these symptoms came about over a span of 3-4 weeks.  All the while, Marco was suffering his way through practices and training sessions like any competitive athlete would have done.  Marco recalled that a week before he was diagnosed with cancer his team was testing their lifts before the start of summer training.  Despite feelin

This week on the Heads 'N Tales podcast we hear from Marco Dapkey who is a survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and has recently qualified for the CrossFit Regionals (an absolutely incredible feat). Marco's interview has been broken up into two parts.  In part one (Episode 73) we learn about Marco’s cancer diagnosis, which caused him to miss his highly anticipated senior season of high school football.  We also talked about the treatment process and the struggles of watching his team succeed without him.  To end the episode, Marco took us through his attempted comeback to football only to receive yet another sign that football might not be in his cards. As I have mentioned in many of the previous podcast episodes, CrossFit was a great outlet for me in my transition to life after sports.  Marco obviously felt the same connection to the sport and has excelled to an elite level.  For those of you wondering what CrossFit is, what the regionals are and why you should care, the video below will explain. To put it in simple terms, CrossFit is a high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise.  You don't necessarily need to compete in CrossFit, and I would venture to guess that most people who consider themselves "CrossFitters" don't.  For athletes who miss the feeling of competition, there are plenty of opportunities to get your fix in the sport.  The video above explains the general gist of the CrossFit Games, but the specifics have changed slightly since this video was published.  It is now actually much more difficult to qualify for regionals because only the top 10 men and 10 women from Asia, Africa and Latin America, 20 men and 20 women from Canada West, Canada East and all U.S. Open Regions, and 30 men and 30 women from Australia and Europe are invited to compete.   In 2016, 324,307 participants from 175 countries participated in the open, further proving how difficult it is to qualify for regionals.   We will save the rest of the CrossFit talk for part 2. Before Marco found CrossFit, he was captain of his football team at Neshaminy High School where he played safety and outside linebacker.  There was lots of hype going into his senior season with the prospects of Division 1 scholarships and a state title.  As the team began to wrap up their spring strength and conditioning program at the end of Marco's junior year, he started feeling sick.  This feeling started off with a cold that had him coughing and wheezing and no matter what he did, he couldn't seem to kick it. He eventually came down with swelling in his throat and a lump in his cheek.  Each of these symptoms came about over a span of 3-4 weeks.  All the while, Marco was suffering his way through practices and training sessions like any competitive athlete would have done.  Marco recalled that a week before he was diagnosed with cancer his team was testing their lifts before the start of summer training.  Despite feeling like hell and unknowingly having cancer, he ended up power cleaning 285 lbs and squatting 485 lbs. Marco said he almost fainted after the squat and knew in his gut that something was seriously wrong.  Eventually his symptoms got so bad that he needed to be taken to the hospital after having difficulty breathing.  After a slew of tests, X-rays and a bone marrow biopsy the doctor confirmed that he had cancer. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia to be exact (just like our Episode 24 guest, Dan Exter).  With dreams of playing college football and winning a state championship the first thing he asked his doctor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was could he play football.  After learning about the treatment process he realized football was not an option and that news was the only thing that made him cry throughout the whole process. As a football player, you often feel invincible so the question of how could this happen to me quickly consumed Marco's thoughts, especially because no one had an answer as to why he got cancer.  Fortunately, the treatment protocol for Marco's cancer had a strong track record, but it was going to be a long road. Marco's treatment plan of action was as follows: Stay in the hospital for a month, or until the cancer has been proved to be in remission. Leukemia is a blood cancer, so he had tumors everywhere. He was on a lot of steroids, "not the good kind" to suppress the tumors. Over the next six months Marco received out patient treatments once a week. Felt really sick Lost his hair Suffered from a pulmonary embolism  The last leg of his treatments included 2.5 years of maintenance where he got chemo treatments once a month. This is the phase that he was able to start getting his life back together. Marco #7 Despite having a lot of positive support throughout the process, once football season rolled around, Marco struggled mentally and emotionally.  Being a team captain, Marco wanted to be at every game, but didn't want to show any inclination of weakness. He remembers mentally putting himself into the plays and couldn't help but think about what could have been.  He also struggled to fight off the jealousy he felt when his teammates were out there on the field even though he still wanted them to succeed. Marco says that being unable to play that season still haunts him every so often.  I feel your pain brother. Despite the down times, Marco was always about quickly turning negative thoughts into positive ones.  Marco's cancer was a pediatric cancer and he was inspired by the young kids receiving treatments at CHOP.  He reminded himself that the younger kids, who didn't have the opportunity to develop the mental toughness he was able to forge over his years of playing football, had it worse than he did.  We begin to transition into part 2 of Marco's story by talking about how he ordered P90X when he got home from CHOP because of all the infomercials he watched in the wee hours of the morning when he couldn't sleep.  After getting home and eager to put some of his muscle back on, Marco remembered trying to do five pushups in the first workout and was out of breath.  He quickly realized he wasn't quite ready for that yet, but started back up with the regimen when he entered maintenance phase of chemo. P90X was especially beneficial because it allowed him to workout in the safety of his own house to avoid infection. As mentioned earlier in this post, the maintenance phase of Marco's treatment lasted for 2.5 years.  Marco decided to attend West Chester University (WCU) so he could continue his treatments at CHOP.  It didn't take long before Marco got the idea to walk on to the WCU football team because one of his high school teammates was playing there.  The doctors told him he could pursue this goal while receiving treatment.  Marco was actually recruited by WCU in high school but did not go after the opportunity because of his dreams of playing Division 1. The WCU coaches remembered Marco and had him filming practice to start out.  Eventually he started doing some drills but felt slow and lacked motor control.  However, he worked his butt off over winter break and was finally getting back in the swing of things.  The WCU coaches were also making note of his significant improvements.  Unfortunately, Marco ended up breaking his foot playing pick-up basketball with some friends and came to the decision that maybe he wasn't meant to play football. Stay tuned for next week's episode for part 2 of Marco's story where we focus on his transition to life after football. WHERE CAN YOU FOLLOW Marco dapkey? INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK Download Episode 73 : iTunes | Stitcher | SoundCloud Permalink

Returning to the podcast is Vincent Geloso of Texas Tech University. Our topic for this episode is anthropometric history, the study of history by means of measuring humans. Doing serious historical research into the distant past is difficult work, because the further you look back in time, the less information you can access. For the 20th century we have wonderful thing like chain-weighted real GDP. Going back further, we have some statistics, lots of surviving physical evidence, and loads of documents and writings. Going further than that, we're left with the odd scrap of thrice-copied surviving manuscripts and second-hand accounts from people who lived centuries after the events they describe. And going even further than that, we have just bones and dilapidated temples with the occasional inscription. Anthropometric history allows us to look into the distant past at what economic historians like Vincent hope might be a good measure of different populations' health and standards of living: their heights. People who have healthy upbringings with lots of access to food tend to be taller than people who don't; that's why modern humans are much taller than they were a thousand or even a hundred years ago. Vincent has contributed to this literature with his latest co-authored paper, The Heights of French-Canadian Convicts, 1780s to 1820s. The abstract reads as follows: This paper uses a novel dataset of heights collected from the records of the Quebec City prison between 1813 and 1847 to survey the French-Canadian population of Quebec—which was then known either as Lower Canada or Canada East. Using a birth-cohort approach with 10 year birth cohorts from the 1780s to the 1820s, we find that French-Canadian prisoners grew shorter over the period. Through the whole sample period, they were short compared to Americans. However, French-Canadians were taller either than their cousins in France or the inhabitants of Latin America (except Argentinians). In addition to extending anthropometric data in Canada to the 1780s, we are able to extend comparisons between the Old and New Worlds as well as comparisons between North America and Latin America. We highlight the key structural economic changes and shocks and discuss their possible impact on the anthropometric data. Listen to the full episode for our fascinating discussion of this branch of historical research, including the so-called "Antebellum puzzle," the anomalous observation that American heights decreased in the years prior to the Civil War even though the economy was apparently growing rapidly. We also discuss the heights of slaves in the American South, who were taller than their white counterparts despite being oppressed as slaves.