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Bleav Host Robert Land asks the Rockets Beat Writer (from '80-'95) Robert Falkoff about his memories of the Rockets Championship seasons (Hakeem's MVP season, how Clutch City was born, beating the Knicks, Sam Cassell, Rudy T, OJ Simpson & more). Falkoff also wrote 'Dreamland' (a book chronicling the '94 title run) & Rudy T's bio 'A Rocket at Heart'. This conversation is with original Co-Host RG Seal. (5:29) '94 Championship run (9:44) Did Rudy T nearly decline Rockets Head Coach job? (12:44) How big was '93 playoffs in Rockets history? (15:39) Why was Rudy perfect for Rockets? (17:45) How huge was the trade that didn't happen? (Horry/Bullard) (25:03) How important was Sam Cassell? (28:40) How did Clutch City moniker happen? (33:35) Utah Jazz infamous Clock stoppage? (35:28) How crazy was OJ Simpson mess during Finals? (37:12) Rockets locker room & Houston scene after '94 Championship (40:02) Was Rockets title legit without Michael Jordan? (43:16) Hakeem's Growth towards MVP (45:55) Houston Post shut down in middle of Clutch City (48:20) Hakeem dominates David Robinson & Shaq (51:30) Hakeem makes amends for Georgetown Ewing & Clyde NC State (54:18) Clutch City developed coaches (55:15) '86 Ralph Sampson Shot & what happened to potential dynasty Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple & iHeart X @HSTPodcast #clutchcity #rockets #hakeemolajuwon
Financial Freedom for Physicians with Dr. Christopher H. Loo, MD-PhD
If you're struggling with business operations that feel chaotic and inefficient, this episode is for you. We sit down with expert Errol Allen, a seasoned operations consultant, to explore how to bring clarity, structure, and efficiency to your day-to-day operations.Whether you're a startup founder, solopreneur, or a growing company battling internal friction, Errol offers proven strategies to help you create order. He walks you through how to implement standard operating procedures (SOPs), identify inefficiencies, and reduce miscommunication through strategic process documentation. If your current systems feel messy or outdated, this episode helps you discover where and how to start fixing them.Errol explains how poor team handoffs, a lack of training tools, and unclear roles contribute to operational bottlenecks. With insight from years of corporate experience at companies like Geico and Houston Post, he shares how to overcome employee resistance, improve workflow automation, and elevate your customer experience. His step-by-step framework will help you turn recurring problems into reliable systems that support your long-term business growth.✅ This episode answers common search questions like:How do I fix chaotic business operations?What's the first step to building SOPs?How can I automate tasks without breaking my processes?Why are my employees resistant to documentation?How do I improve cross-department communication?This is more than theory—it's a practical roadmap from someone who's helped businesses just like yours. If you've Googled any of the above questions, this podcast will give you clear answers and tactical steps to streamline your business.00:00 - Intro & Welcome Errol Allen 01:05 - What is an Operations Consultant? 02:10 - Common Problems in Business Operations 03:45 - What Causes Chaos in Growing Businesses 05:00 - How to Begin Process Documentation 06:30 - Importance of SOPs & Team Handoffs 08:00 - Leadership Commitment to Documentation 09:10 - When & What to Automate 10:35 - Employee Resistance to SOPs: Why & How to Overcome 12:00 - Benefits of Documentation: Training, Morale, CX 13:45 - Connect with Errol AllenTo check out the YouTube (video podcast), visit: https://www.youtube.com/@drchrisloomdphdDisclaimer: Not advice. Educational purposes only. Not an endorsement for or against. Results not vetted. Views of the guests do not represent those of the host or show. Click here to join PodMatch (the "AirBNB" of Podcasting): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/drchrisloomdphdWe couldn't do it without the support of our listeners. To help support the show:CashApp- https://cash.app/$drchrisloomdphdVenmo- https://account.venmo.com/u/Chris-Loo-4Spotify- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christopher-loo/supportBuy Me a Coffee- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chrisJxClick here to check out our bookstore, e-courses, and workshops: https://www.drchrisloomdphd.com/shopClick here to purchase my books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PaQn4pFor audiobooks, visit: https://www.audible.com/author/Christopher-H-Loo-MD-PhD/B07WFKBG1FFollow our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/chL1357Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/drchrisloomdphdFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereal_drchrislooFollow the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3NkM6US7cjsiAYTBjWGdx6?si=1da9d0a17be14d18Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://substack.com/@drchrisloomdphd1Subscribe to our Medium newsletter: https://medium.com/@drchrisloomdphdSubscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6992935013231071233Subscribe to our email list: https://financial-freedom-podcast-with-dr-loo.kit.com/Thank you to all of our sponsors and advertisers that help support the show!Financial Freedom for Physicians, Copyright 2025
For the ultimate in flood and storm damage services, reach out Empire Home Builders (281-330-8285)! More details at https://generalcontractorsnearmehouston.com/ Empire Home Builders City: League City Address: 1898 Louisiana Ave. Website: https://generalcontractorsnearmehouston.com/ Phone: +1 281 330 8285 Email: gabrielb@empirebuilderstx.com
News, updates and discussion on the last few weeks. Ringo Starr has a new country album. A very nice stream (both video AND audio) of Paul McCartney in Buenos Aires. Answers to some of our questions regarding John and Yoko on Mike Douglas, and a bit of "Lonnie's Scrapbook", mostly a couple of pieces from the seventies (and the Houston Post) covering John and Yoko's trip to Houston in 1971 (while dealing with custody and visitation rights over Kyoko Chan Cox), 1979, and how things were finally settled in the early nineties!
Bleav Host Robert Land revisits a classic interview (from '16) with iconic Houston Post & Chronicle Sportswriter Mickey Herskowitz. Mickey remembers the early Astros, Colt 45's, Buffs, Oilers & Rockets days. He explains how he brought the Rockets to Houston, how Houston nearly stole another franchise before the Astros arrived & shares anecdotes about his time with Nolan Ryan, George Blanda, Bud Adams, Cesar Cedeno, Jimmy Wynn, Guy V. Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mantle, Howard Cosell and UH vs. UCLA in the Game of the Century. (:40) Robert & Stephen grew up with Herskowitz (4:26) How Herskowitz fell in love with baseball & started at Houston Post (8:10) Remembering Houston Buffs (1st Pro Baseball in Houston) (10:16) How did Houston try to steal an MLB franchise before Astros? (17:44) Memories of 1st Colt 45's game (Astros Begin!) (21:02) Memories of George Blanda, Bud Adams & the early Houston Oilers (29:14) Early Astros Characters & Stories (33:59) How Great was Jimmy Wynn? (35:02) How Talented was Cesar Cedeno have? (36:20) Mickey Mantle Memories (42:58) Nolan Ryan Memories (44:28) How did Herskowitz bring the Rockets to Houston? (47:55) Game of the Century: '68 UH vs. UCLA Memories (49:40) Guy V. Lewis Memories (52:16) '72 Olympics in Munich & Howard Cosell (59:15) Muhammad Ali Memories Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple & iHeart X @HSTPodcast #nolanryan #muhammadali #mickeymantle #astros #rockets #oilers #elvinhayes #kareemabduljabbar
When examining the topic of otherworldly influences on human affairs, we must journey into the most ancient past of history and the deepest ares of the psyche. Those littles voices in our heads, often seen as the angel or devil on our shoulder should be recognized as a sort of intuition, or perhaps a better word is the daemon, i.e., the spiritual piece separate and between from organic life and divinity. We do things termed superstitions naturally because they make us feel as if we have control over some unseen dimension, though in other cases it is this other world said to exert itself directly over human affairs. Which causes the other to move? Take our custom of disease management today with needles, pills, and medical terminology, and compare it to the use of crosses, consecrated water and bread, and latin texts in exorcising a demon. It is exercise after all that keeps us healthy, a condition we are said to lose if we were happened upon by a demon in and ancient and more recent times, or a microbe in very contemporary times. Whatever the conditions, the dream world seems to bleed over into waking reality, against encouraging us to ask which is real - perhaps both. The experiences of the shaman are precursors to the details of human interaction and pact making with angels and demons, fairies and little people, and in contemporary times beings from beyond our world. From the dream world and mind into heaven and hell, and eventually elfland and spaceships. The UFO phenomenon as it stands is as ancient as shamanic practices. In the distant past humans saw stars, lights, angels, etc., and as time ticked away, we began to see pillars, shields, chariots, baskets, and boats. Before we can jump straightaway to flying spaceships there is critical necessity in addressing the 1896-1897 airship sightings across the United States. Such sightings began in San Francisco in November, 1896, and although they ceased by early 1897, countless reports suddenly were documented across the country in other major cities, though sometimes there were rural sightings. In the most common cases, large crowds witnessed the event, which included turbine wheels and glass windows behind which people watched the inhabitants below. The ships would drop anchors and rope, and display characteristics of classical UFOs, i.e., abrupt altitude and speed changes, hovering, and displaying powerful lights. According to a Houston Post article from April 26, 1897, quoting man named Mr. Frank Nichols, who had the opportunity with speak the crew of the ship. This what was described: “The ship or car is built of a newly-discovered material that has the property of self-sustenance in the air, and the motive power is highly condensed electricity.” It is certainly convenient that despite the historic use of silk to produce an electrical charge, or maybe even the Baghdad Battery, the first electric transmission line in the United States was constructed in 1889. The 1890s were ripe for electric innovation but it still took until after World War I for even half of the country's homes to have that magical light. Over the ensuing decades, and after much hype about Foo Fighters, Ghost Rockets, and even etheric discs, and of course the Roswell sacred site, Sputnik 1 was launched into space - October 4, 1957. Then on April 12, 1961, the Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first human to reach space, followed closely by the first American, Alan B. Shepherd, on May 5, 1961. As we approached the famed lunar year of 1969, planning to invade another planetary body or moonlit, there was an explosion of what is clearly unconscious projections of our own subconscious fears of otherworldly terrestrials stepping foot on our planet. This fear of the unknown and both the military and entertainment promoting of the same, led to the modern UFO myth today of flying spaceships invading our world. We must therefore consider one of the final arguments made by Jacques Vallee in Passport to Magonia:“This makes the study of such objects infinitely broader than the simple investigation, in scientific terms, of a new phenomenon; for if the appearance and behavior of the objects arc functions of our interpretation at any particular time in the development of our culture, then what chances can we have of ever knowing the truth?”-FREE ARCHIVE & RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secret-teachingsTwitter: https://twitter.com/TST___RadioWEBSITE, BOOKS, RESUBSCRIBE YEARLY: http://thesecretteachings.infoPaypal: rdgable@yahoo.comCashApp: $rdgableBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tstradioSUBSCRIBE TO NETWORK: http://aftermath.mediaEMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.com
EPISODE 1846: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Major Garrett, host of the AGENT OF BETRAYAL podcast, about the Robert Hanssen, the FBI spy and weaver of a web of liesMajor Garrett was named CBS News' chief Washington correspondent in December 2018. As chief Washington correspondent, Garrett reports for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. Garrett is also the host of "The Takeout," a weekly multi-platform interview show on politics, policy and pop culture available on CBS News Streaming, top radio stations across the country and all podcast platforms. From 2012 until 2018, Garrett served as the Network's chief White House correspondent. While covering the White House for CBS News, Garrett reported extensively on presidential actions to confront ISIS, Ebola, nuclear negotiations with Iran and U.S.-European efforts to confront Russia in the standoff over Ukraine. On domestic issues, Garrett reported on the Obama administration's handling of the health care website rollout, numerous policy failures at the Veterans Administration and the president's ongoing efforts in 2014 to address racial strife and criminal justice reform. He has traveled with the president to Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In 2015-2016, Garrett spent 16 months on the road covering the Republican presidential campaign, including every GOP debate, both major party conventions and every day of the general election. During the transition, Garrett broke numerous cabinet appointments, including Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Garrett has covered every major domestic and foreign policy story of the Trump administration. Before joining CBS News as chief White House correspondent, Garrett was a fixture during CBS News' coverage of Campaign 2012 through a partnership with the National Journal, where he was chief White House correspondent. He co-hosted the network's coverage of the 2011 South Carolina Republican Primary debate alongside "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Scott Pelley and offered analysis for every 2012 general election presidential debate. Prior to National Journal, Garrett was the chief White House correspondent for Fox News. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered two presidential elections, Congress, the war in Iraq and other major stories. Before joining Fox News, Garrett was a White House correspondent for CNN during the administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Previously, he was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, where he reported on Congress and the impeachment of President Clinton. He was a congressional reporter for The Washington Times (1990-95) and the newspaper's deputy national editor (1995-97). Earlier in his career, Garrett was a reporter for The Houston Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Amarillo Globe-News. Garrett is the author of four books: "Common Cents," with former Rep. Tim Penny (D-Minnesota) Little, Brown Publisher, 1995; "The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics," St. Martin's 1999; "The Enduring Revolution," Crown Forum 2005, and "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride," St. Martin's, 2018. Garrett graduated in 1984 from the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and political science. A native of San Diego, California, he lives in Washington, D.C. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
SynopsisOn today's date in 1955, Leopold Stokowski gave his first concert as the new music director of the Houston Symphony — or, as Stoki pronounced it, the “Hooston Symphony.” It was a major cultural event in those days. NBC even televised a bit of the famously white-maned conductor rehearsing the Texans in a brand-new work that Stokowski had commissioned for the occasion: the second symphony of Alan Hovhaness, subtitled Mysterious Mountain.At the time, Hovhaness explained his subtitle as follows: “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man's attempt to know God. Mountains are symbolic meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” The new piece proved to be a terrific success for all concerned. The next day, the Houston Post's music critic wrote, “The real mystery of Mysterious Mountain is that it should be so simple, sweetly, innocently lovely in an age that has tried so terribly hard to avoid those impressions in music.” For his part, Hovhaness once said, “Things that are complicated tend to disappear and get lost. Simplicity is difficult, not easy.”Before his death in 2000, Hovhaness would complete 67 symphonies.Music Played in Today's ProgramAlan Hovhaness (1911 – 2000) Symphony No. 2 (Mysterious Mountain) - London Symphony; John Williams, cond. Sony Classical 62729
Kathleen McElroy was tapped to lead a new journalism program at her alma mater—Texas A&M, a university that boasts the largest student body in the entire country. Her experience included decades at the New York Times and a reputation for promoting diversity in the workplace. With fanfare usually reserved for college coaches and athletes, McElroy's signing ceremony took place in the center of the campus not too far from a prominent former Confederate general's statue—Lawrence Sullivan Ross. But the university buckled under backlash. A watered down job offer fell apart and was ultimately rejected after powerful individuals close to A&M expressed opposition over her previous work in diversity. Consequently, a forthcoming state law banning diversity measures at public colleges has only added more political fuel to a controversial fire. So did it take a million dollar settlement for regents to get the result they eventually wanted all along? Join us as I SEE U host Eddie Robinson talks candidly with UT-Austin's Journalism Professor, Dr. Kathleen McElroy. She opens up about her quest for encouraging young students to pursue journalism in helping them find their own unique voice in becoming accurate, unbiased storytellers. McElroy also explores how growing up in Third Ward, Houston provided a sense of empowerment that would essentially shape her into the celebrated woman she is today.
Host Robert Land asks Houston Post & Chronicle sportswriter Dale Robertson about his 46 years covering Houston sports. Robertson talks about Hakeem Olajuwon, Rudy T, Clutch City, Earl Campbell, Bum Phillips, JJ Watt, Dan Pastorini, Phi Slama Jama, Clyde Drexler, Bud Adams, Gordie Howe, Guy V. Lewis, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, John McEnroe & so much more. Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, iHeart, Google & Apple Tiktok @HoustonSportsTalkRobert Twitter @HSTPodcast @ShaunBijani #hakeem #jjwatt #earlcampbell
The podium finishers from Monster Energy Supercross at Houston talk about their nights in the audio version of the post-race press conference. The Racer X Exhaust Podcast is hosted by Jason Weigandt and sponsored by Yoshimura and the WD-40 brand.
In Pulitzer's later years, he became embroiled in a heated legal battle with the U.S. government after his papers printed allegations that Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were connected to shady dealings regarding the Panama Canal. Research: “SUPREME COURT ENDS PANAMA LIBEL SUIT.” New York Times. Jan. 3, 1911. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/04/104853177.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 Topping, Seymour. “Biography of Joseph Pulitzer.” The Pulitzer Prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/page/biography-joseph-pulitzer “Was Slayback armed?” St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Oct. 15, 1882. https://www.newspapers.com/image/571093643 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. “The Story of Panama: Hearings on the Rainey Resolution.” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912. Accessed online: https://books.google.com/books?id=t8Q-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CThese+stories+need+no+investigation+whatever.+They+are+in+fact+wholly+and+in+form+partly+a+libel+upon+the+United+States+Government%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s “Panama Secrets.” The Indianapolis News. October 20, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/37283610/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 “Mr. Alonzo Slayback.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Oct. 13, 1882. https://www.newspapers.com/image/137816694/?terms=slayback&match=2 “Died in Cairo, Egypt.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 11, 1896. https://www.newspapers.com/image/138232467/?terms=Slayback “Francis Recalls the Killing of Col. A.W. Slayback.” The St. Louis Star and Times. October 14, 1910. https://www.newspapers.com/image/204769546/?terms=Slayback Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Bounty System". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Jul. 1998, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bounty-Syste “Standard Oil's Monopoly on the Panama Canal.” Omaha World-Herald. Nov. 1, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/860064239/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 Vile, John R. “United States v. Press Publishing Co. (1911).” The First Amendment Encyclopedia. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/609/united-states-v-press-publishing-co Morris, James McGrath. “Pulitzer.” Harper Perennial 2010. Peirce, Clyde. “The Panama Libel Cases.” Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 33, no. 2, 1937, pp. 171–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27786879 “Extracts from the Will of Joseph Pulitzer.” The Pulitzer Prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/page/extracts-will-joseph-pulitzer Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Joseph Pulitzer". Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Pulitzer Csillag, Andras. “Joseph Pulitzer's Roots in Europe: A Genealogical History.” American Jewish Archives. http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1987_39_01_00_csillag.pdf “Panama Canal Charges.” Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana). Dec. 19, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/212864982/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “Cromwell – Who? What? Why?” The Houston Post. November 1, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/94892307/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “The Inifinitude of Graft.” The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.). Oct. 21, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/62741584/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “Indianapolis News Put in Ananias Club.” Indianapolis Star. Dec. 7, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/118619631/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 “Roosevelt Bitter in Scoring Editors.” Indianapolis News. Dec. 7, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/37311537/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joseph Pulitzer is one of those pivotal figures in history, and his influence continues right on through today. Part one of this two-parter covers his early life, right up through his rivalry with William Randolph Hearst. Research: “SUPREME COURT ENDS PANAMA LIBEL SUIT.” New York Times. Jan. 3, 1911. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/04/104853177.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 Topping, Seymour. “Biography of Joseph Pulitzer.” The Pulitzer Prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/page/biography-joseph-pulitzer “Was Slayback armed?” St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Oct. 15, 1882. https://www.newspapers.com/image/571093643 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. “The Story of Panama: Hearings on the Rainey Resolution.” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912. Accessed online: https://books.google.com/books?id=t8Q-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CThese+stories+need+no+investigation+whatever.+They+are+in+fact+wholly+and+in+form+partly+a+libel+upon+the+United+States+Government%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s “Panama Secrets.” The Indianapolis News. October 20, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/37283610/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 “Mr. Alonzo Slayback.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Oct. 13, 1882. https://www.newspapers.com/image/137816694/?terms=slayback&match=2 “Died in Cairo, Egypt.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 11, 1896. https://www.newspapers.com/image/138232467/?terms=Slayback “Francis Recalls the Killing of Col. A.W. Slayback.” The St. Louis Star and Times. October 14, 1910. https://www.newspapers.com/image/204769546/?terms=Slayback Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Bounty System". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Jul. 1998, https://www.britannica.com/event/Bounty-Syste “Standard Oil's Monopoly on the Panama Canal.” Omaha World-Herald. Nov. 1, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/860064239/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 Vile, John R. “United States v. Press Publishing Co. (1911).” The First Amendment Encyclopedia. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/609/united-states-v-press-publishing-co Morris, James McGrath. “Pulitzer.” Harper Perennial 2010. Peirce, Clyde. “The Panama Libel Cases.” Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 33, no. 2, 1937, pp. 171–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27786879 “Extracts from the Will of Joseph Pulitzer.” The Pulitzer Prizes. https://www.pulitzer.org/page/extracts-will-joseph-pulitzer Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Joseph Pulitzer". Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Pulitzer Csillag, Andras. “Joseph Pulitzer's Roots in Europe: A Genealogical History.” American Jewish Archives. http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1987_39_01_00_csillag.pdf “Panama Canal Charges.” Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana). Dec. 19, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/212864982/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “Cromwell – Who? What? Why?” The Houston Post. November 1, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/94892307/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “The Inifinitude of Graft.” The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.). Oct. 21, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/62741584/?terms=panama%20canal&match=1 “Indianapolis News Put in Ananias Club.” Indianapolis Star. Dec. 7, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/118619631/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 “Roosevelt Bitter in Scoring Editors.” Indianapolis News. Dec. 7, 1908. https://www.newspapers.com/image/37311537/?terms=%22Who%20Got%20the%20Money%3F%22&match=1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Club Q Shooting -- Arden Eversmeyer Passing -- Texas Pride Impact Funds 5 year anniversary -- Juan Palomo Part 2 We discuss the life and times of Arden Eversmeyer, Houston activist. Jean Arden Eversmeyer, known as Arden (1931-2022) founded both Lesbians Over Age Fifty (LOAF) and the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP) and was a mayoral appointee to the Houston, Texas Agency on Aging. After retirement, she dedicated her efforts to ensure that older lesbians have access to community resources and that their unique life stories are recorded and celebrated. Arden Eversmeyer died in Houston TX on 14 November 2022.Then we speak with Ron Guillard, executive director of Texas Pride Impact Funds. Texas Pride Impact Funds exists to propel the LGBTQ+ movement in Texas by supporting nonprofits that help thousands of our citizens across the state every day. Our work strengthens community organizations and their leaders, mobilizes donors and funders, inspires giving, and actively secures our LGBTQ+ community's future for generations to come.Guest: Ron Guillardhttps://txpif.orgFinally, we have the second part of an interview of activist Juan Palomo. Juan R. Palomo was born in Grafton, North Dakota to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Crystal City, TX, spending much of his first 20 years with his family on the migrant farm worker trail to midwestern states. He moved to Houston In 1990 as a columnist for The Houston Post, to write three columns per week, with free reign to develop content. Palomo had been with the Post nine months when Paul Broussard was murdered during a gay bashing incident (July 4, 1991). Palomo was horrified, even more so, when Broussard's mother said she was unable to understand why someone would murder her son. Palomo concluded it was because people like him remained silent. He wrote, "I feel a special responsibility to speak out because I have this forum and, more important, because like Paul Broussard, I am gay." The column ended: "I didn't know Paul Broussard, but silence does equal death and I have a responsibility to ensure that Houston does not forget him, or how he died, or why." Guest: Juan Palomohttps://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/banner1990b.html
World AIDS Day -- Activist Juan Palomo -- Hunny PhillipsWe speak with CEO of AIDS Foundation Houston about his work at the organization and the upcoming World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day is a day to raise awareness about HIV and remember the community members and loved ones we have lost to AIDS/HIV. Houston ranks 11th in the nation for new HIV transmissions. Over 26% of those new transmissions will be diagnosed with AIDS, and there are 29,643 people living with HIV in the Greater Houston Area.Guest John Huckabyhttps://www.worldaidsdayhouston.orgThen we speak with activist Juan Palomo. Juan R. Palomo was born in Grafton, North Dakota to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Crystal City, TX, spending much of his first 20 years with his family on the migrant farm worker trail to midwestern states. He moved to Houston In 1990 as a columnist for The Houston Post, to write three columns per week, with free reign to develop content. Palomo had been with the Post nine months when Paul Broussard was murdered during a gay bashing incident (July 4, 1991). Palomo was horrified, even more so, when Broussard's mother said she was unable to understand why someone would murder her son. Palomo concluded it was because people like him remained silent. He wrote, "I feel a special responsibility to speak out because I have this forum and, more important, because like Paul Broussard, I am gay." The column ended: "I didn't know Paul Broussard, but silence does equal death and I have a responsibility to ensure that Houston does not forget him, or how he died, or why." Guest: Juan Palomohttps://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/banner1990b.htmlFinally we speak Hunny Phillips about her work in the community and the LGBT Marriage club. The LGBT marriage club ensures that the world knows Love is Love. The organization helps build strong relationship foundations by acting as a resource hub dedicated to providing counseling, events, and fellowship dedicated to the LGBT+ community.Guest: Hunny Marie Phillipshttps://www.facebook.com/TheLGBTMarriageClub/
Synopsis On today's date in 1948, Maestro Efrem Kurtz led the first subscription concert of the newly reorganized Houston Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra was founded in 1913, but after struggling through the “minor” disruptions of two World Wars and the Great Depression, the symphony's 1948 season marked its rebirth as a major player among American orchestras. Since then, the Houston Symphony's roster of conductors has included some of the greatest: Leopold Stokowski, Sir John Barbirolli, André Previn, to name just a few. For its 1948 debut concert, the new Houston Symphony commissioned and premiered a new work by Aaron Copland—a concert suite adapted from his latest film score. Copland had gone to Hollywood early in 1948 to write the music for the cinematic version of John Steinbeck's novella, “The Red Pony,” and spent ten weeks writing about an hour's worth of music for the new film, which was scheduled for release in 1949—so that meant his 1948 concert suite from “The Red Pony” debuted even before the movie. The Houston Post's review called Copland's suite “clean, joyous, ingenious and irresistibly spirited,” and correctly predicted “Mr. Copland's ‘Red Pony' has grand little gaits, and will stand playing again—here and in a lot of other places.” Music Played in Today's Program Aaron Copland (1900-1990) The Red Pony Suite Dallas Symphony; Andrew Litton, cond. Delos 3221
Our host, Dr. Fethke, dedicates this episode to a remarkable college classmate and friend at a time when she needs everyone's support. This person is none other than Maria Ressa, the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, recognized for her tireless efforts over the past three decades to champion Freedom of the Press in the face of overwhelming obstacles. In the words of the Nobel Committee, Maria Ressa received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Russia's Dmitry Muratov for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."In order to do justice to Ressa's cause, Dr. Fethke has invited a very special and highly knowledgeable guest, Professor Kathy Kiely. She is the Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. She has worked more than four decades as a reporter and editor for regional and national newspapers as well as online and multimedia publications. She has been recognized for her passionate support of transparency, free speech and education. After a long career covering politics in Washington, Kiely moved into the classroom full-time because, she says, universities are the laboratories that will discover the formula for making fact-based journalism viable again. Kiely has covered regional and national politics for a number of news outlets, including USA TODAY, the New York Daily News, the Houston Post, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press. She served as an editor for WAMU, Bill Moyers, the Sunlight Foundation, Bloomberg Politics and helped coordinate the National Journal's campaign coverage with CBS News. She also served on the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents and on the boards of the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Daily Princetonian. She holds a master's degree from American University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She is the inaugural Press Freedom Fellow for the National Press Club‘s nonprofit Journalism Institute.Prof. Kiely is a well recognized advocate of Journalistic Freedom who believes that Maria Ressa's voice is at an extremely high risk of being silenced by those in power in the Philippines who are threatened by the integrity and truth of her work. Kiely has commented that the Nobel Peace Prize given to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov is a warning that across the globe, “forces of darkness and intolerance are on the march… Journalists are the canaries in the mine shaft.In this episode, Prof. Kiely teaches us why Freedom of Speech and Health are intrinsically linked. Dr. Fethke and Prof. Kiely review the rationale behind the U.S. Consititution's 1st Amendment protecting free speech and a free press. She then clearly reviews the evolution of digital and social media, with its pros and cons. She defines the concepts of Misinformation and Disinformation, clarifying why the latter is so dangerous to us all. She explains that the Nobel Committee has specifically recognized Maria Ressa because she has led the way for us all to understand the impact of Disinformation and is actively working on solutions to regain the integrity of facts and bring the truth back to journalism. Kiely stresses that the battles that Maria Ressa and her journalist team at Rappler are fighting in the Philippines are critically relevant to the Global pursuit of democracy. As Kiely reminds us, “My father fought in WW2 to defend and help establish a free Philippines. We must never forget that Maria Ressa's defense of Freedom of the Press is a part of our fathers' legacies. To do so would be a dishonor to their cause and memory.”LINKS:House: https://www.house.gov/Senate: https://www.senate.gov/Post office (where you can look up ZIP+4 to get House member's name: https://www.usps.com/
Juan R. Palomo is the author of Al Norte (Alabrava Press 2021). Born in Grafton, North Dakota to migrant-worker parents, Palomo grew up in South Texas and several midwestern states. He received a bachelor's degree in art education from Texas State University and a master's in journalism and public affairs from American University. He was a reporter, columnist, and editorial writer for The Houston Post; he covered religion for the Austin American-Statesman; and he wrote a column for USA TODAY. His poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, The Sonora Review, The Account, and others. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/072379dd-2857-497c-88ab-ae4e6db2eeaf/Juan-20Palomo-20Poems.pdf (Read "The Day They Do Not Show Up" and "Life & Death in Marathon, Texas") https://juanzqui.com/ (juanzqui: Views and Ramblings by Juan Ramon Palomo) https://infrarrealistas.org/al-norte-by-juan-r-palomo-a-homage-to-a-family-drifting-in-colors (“Al Norte by Juan R. Palomo is an Homage to a Family Drifting in Colors” by Anthony Isaac Bradley in Infarrealista Review) https://www.acentosreview.com/may2017/juan-palomo.html (“Speed Queen, North Dakota 1983” and “Noise” at Acentos Review ) https://theaccountmagazine.com/article/palomo-two-poems-17/ (“A Shy One” and “His Future” at The Account) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org. https://the-beat.captivate.fm/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)
Juan R. Palomo is the author of Al Norte (Alabrava Press 2021). Born in Grafton, North Dakota to migrant-worker parents, Palomo grew up in South Texas and several midwestern states. He received a bachelor's degree in art education from Texas State University and a master's in journalism and public affairs from American University. He was a reporter, columnist, and editorial writer for The Houston Post; he covered religion for the Austin American-Statesman; and he wrote a column for USA TODAY. His poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, The Sonora Review, The Account, and others. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/072379dd-2857-497c-88ab-ae4e6db2eeaf/Juan-20Palomo-20Poems.pdf (Read "The Day They Do Not Show Up" and "Life & Death in Marathon, Texas") https://juanzqui.com/ (juanzqui: Views and Ramblings by Juan Ramon Palomo) https://infrarrealistas.org/al-norte-by-juan-r-palomo-a-homage-to-a-family-drifting-in-colors (“Al Norte by Juan R. Palomo is an Homage to a Family Drifting in Colors” by Anthony Isaac Bradley in Infarrealista Review) https://www.acentosreview.com/may2017/juan-palomo.html (“Speed Queen, North Dakota 1983” and “Noise” at Acentos Review ) https://theaccountmagazine.com/article/palomo-two-poems-17/ (“A Shy One” and “His Future” at The Account) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org. https://pods.knoxlib.org/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)
Part 2 of 2. After moving back to her hometown of Paris, Texas at age 80, Mary Searight quickly became a beloved resident. Mary shot straight, had seemingly endless tales to tell, and always took care of the places she lived through philanthropic gestures. But 8 years after coming back home, when she was 87 years old, someone brutally raped and beat Mary Searight to death in her home. The investigation, though diligently worked, was getting nowhere. When elderly couple Bessie and Grady Alexander were slain just two weeks after Mary's murder, the Paris Police theorized a possible connection. But when evidence revealed the killer of the Alexander's through DNA, testing on Mary Searight's case stalled.If you have any information about the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, please call the Paris, Texas Police Department at (903)784-6688Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastCommunityImpact.com, The Paris News, The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Post, The Fort Worth Record, LamarCounty.org, MooreFirm.com, Moore & Searight Family Records, and Court Appeal Documents were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForMaryMooreSearight #Paris #ParisTX #Austin #AustinTX #Texas #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved
Mary Searight came from a family of great means and influence in Texas law and state government. Her husband, too, came from a prominent Austin, Texas cattle ranching family. After he died, Mary spent 30 more years on their Austin ranch before realizing she could no longer handle the responsibility of raising cattle and keeping up with the land. Though moving back to her hometown of Paris, Texas seemed ideal, Mary Searight's choice to do so turned deadly.Part 1 of 2 If you have any information about the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, please call the Paris, Texas Police Department at (903)784-6688 Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastCommunityImpact.com, The Paris News, The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Post, The Fort Worth Record, LamarCounty.org, MooreFirm.com, and Moore & Searight Family Records were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForMaryMooreSearight #Paris #ParisTX #Austin #AustinTX #Texas #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved
Episode 27 of Paranormal Stories. This week the books are 'Soul to God: A Soul's Journey Over Many Lives' by Michael Kramer and 'Alien In The Mirror: Extraterrestrial Contact Theories & Evidence' by Randall Fitzgerald.Randall Fitzgerald 'Alien In The Mirror: Extraterrestrial Contact Theories & Evidence'For independent-minded readers, those who want all of the theories and supporting evidence to make up their own minds, Alien in the Mirror brings refreshing clarity and sanity to a topic long shrouded in smoke and mirror confusion.Encyclopedic in its scope and mind-expandingly rich in its detail, this book is destined to be a classic, written by an investigative reporter, Randall Fitzgerald, who has studied the alien contact phenomenon for over five decades.All aspects of this controversial subject are comprehensively covered—ancient astronaut theories, UFOs and UFO occupants, contactees and abductees, the ideas of skeptics and debunkers, and the SETI science program and its detractors. Each of the five sections open with new findings and stunning revelations from the author's own thorough investigations.Alien in the Mirror is quite literally a condensation of information from hundreds of books. It represents the most authoritative and complete guide to the realm of extraterrestrial contact, theories and evidence, ever compiled. It presents a fascinating definitive history of the phenomenon, giving readers objective and essential information that challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about our consensus reality.As the legendary theorist and scientist Jacques F. Vallée writes in his Foreword to Alien in the Mirror: “This book will stand as testimony to a well-traveled road of investigation and wonder. We should acknowledge it with gratitude, not only for its neat classification of complex events, but for the hope it gives us of a long-delayed, much welcome re-awakening of the true spirt of science after seventy years of slumber.”BioRandall Fitzgerald's ten books (and more than 50 books as a ghostwriter) have been pioneering explorations of a wide variety of topics, reflecting his diverse interests and an insatiable curiosity cultivated by 35 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. For two decades he was a Roving Editor for Reader's Digest and also wrote investigative feature articles for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.He began his journalism career at 19, as a general assignment reporter for The Tyler Morning Telegraph, in Tyler, Texas. While in journalism school at the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a political reporter in the state capitol bureau of The Houston Post and spent a semester as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., working as press secretary to a U.S. Congressman. In August 1974, the week that Richard Nixon resigned as President, he became an investigative reporter for newspaper syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, in Washington, D.C. He received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in 1975 to investigate the Mafia and CIA connections of the publisher of The National Enquirer by going undercover as a reporter for the tabloid. His first book contract came from Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, based on his Enquirer investigation. His second book appeared in 1979, from Macmillan, The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters, the cover of which was immortalized in Ron Howard's extraterrestrial-themed film Cocoon. During 1978-80, he co-edited Second Look magazine, devoted to articles about the search for extraterrestrial life, the nature of consciousness, and the origins of civilization. He edited articles from some of the biggest names in science and science fiction---Isaac Asimov, Stanislaw Lem, Sir Fred Hoyle, Paul Davies, Sir Roger Penrose. In 2003 and 2004, he was a Senior Editor of Phenomena magazine, founded by former Hollywood studio executive Jeff Sagansky.Two of his books, Lucky You! (2004, Citadel/Kensington) and The Hundred Year Lie (2006, Penguin/Dutton) were Amazon.com bestsellers. Lucky You! was the first book to examine the link between intuition and luck in games of chance and got distribution in Spanish, Japanese, and Korean editions. The Hundred Year Lie, about the impact of synthetic chemicals on human health, was also published by Beijing University Press in China, where it has been a perennial seller.Based on his Lucky You! book, he was selected in 2005 as the media master of ceremonies for the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Las Vegas, on behalf of the Fremont Street Experience, a collection of 10 casinos, including the Golden Nugget, along with the city of Las Vegas, giving live television interviews to dozens of local television stations nationwide. He has been a guest on ABC's The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Dr. Mehmet Oz Show, The Michael Smerconish Show, Court TV, CBS' 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20, BBC and PBS Radio, and hundreds of other television and radio shows, including four appearances on The Coast-to-Coast radio show with George Noory.https://alieninthemirror.com/https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Mirror-Extraterrestrial-Theories-Evidence-ebook/dp/B09X874R4P/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1649265119&sr=1-4Michael Kramer 'Soul to God: A Soul's Journey Over Many Lives'At 12 years of age, a powerful spiritual force lifted me out of my body into a world of extreme light, profound love, and bliss. My life goal became to understand and duplicate that experience at will. Guided by an inner presence I began my life study of Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Zen, Taoist and New Age thought in search of answers.At 13, memories began surfacing of my past life as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, who taught his students the aggressive, dispassionate sport of debate, to logically challenge everyone, including oneself. Challenging religious dogma did not endear me to the Jesuit Brothers at my all-boys, Catholic High School. I was labeled a rebel who challenged religious logic and authority.Thus began my life path and conflict, rejecting traditional thought in search of an all-inclusive wisdom that made sense—that included all religions and sciences, and led to my goal of God Realization. Soul to God is the story of my Soul's journey over many lifetimes, of the miracles and revelations that led to the Divine.BioMichael R. Kramer spent 34 years as a spiritual leader, teacher, public speaker and spiritual counselor. He retired from his business in international graphic design, to focus on supporting the planetary evolution taking place. Michael is living in San Diego California. Soul to God is his first book.https://www.amazon.com/Soul-God-Souls-Journey-Lives-ebook/dp/B0B46HTH13/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655324756&sr=8-1https://soultogod.com/https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/pastlivespodcast
This week I am talking to Randall Fitzgerald about his book 'Alien in the Mirror: Extraterrestrial Contact Theories and Evidence'.For independent-minded readers, those who want all of the theories and supporting evidence to make up their own minds, Alien in the Mirror brings refreshing clarity and sanity to a topic long shrouded in smoke and mirror confusion.Encyclopedic in its scope and mind-expandingly rich in its detail, this book is destined to be a classic, written by an investigative reporter, Randall Fitzgerald, who has studied the alien contact phenomenon for over five decades.All aspects of this controversial subject are comprehensively covered—ancient astronaut theories, UFOs and UFO occupants, contactees and abductees, the ideas of skeptics and debunkers, and the SETI science program and its detractors. Each of the five sections open with new findings and stunning revelations from the author's own thorough investigations.Alien in the Mirror is quite literally a condensation of information from hundreds of books. It represents the most authoritative and complete guide to the realm of extraterrestrial contact, theories and evidence, ever compiled. It presents a fascinating definitive history of the phenomenon, giving readers objective and essential information that challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about our consensus reality.As the legendary theorist and scientist Jacques F. Vallée writes in his Foreword to Alien in the Mirror: “This book will stand as testimony to a well-traveled road of investigation and wonder. We should acknowledge it with gratitude, not only for its neat classification of complex events, but for the hope it gives us of a long-delayed, much welcome re-awakening of the true spirt of science after seventy years of slumber.”BioRandall Fitzgerald's ten books (and more than 50 books as a ghostwriter) have been pioneering explorations of a wide variety of topics, reflecting his diverse interests and an insatiable curiosity cultivated by 35 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. For two decades he was a Roving Editor for Reader's Digest and also wrote investigative feature articles for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.He began his journalism career at 19, as a general assignment reporter for The Tyler Morning Telegraph, in Tyler, Texas. While in journalism school at the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a political reporter in the state capitol bureau of The Houston Post and spent a semester as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., working as press secretary to a U.S. Congressman. In August 1974, the week that Richard Nixon resigned as President, he became an investigative reporter for newspaper syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, in Washington, D.C. He received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in 1975 to investigate the Mafia and CIA connections of the publisher of The National Enquirer by going undercover as a reporter for the tabloid. His first book contract came from Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, based on his Enquirer investigation. His second book appeared in 1979, from Macmillan, The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters, the cover of which was immortalized in Ron Howard's extraterrestrial-themed film Cocoon. During 1978-80, he co-edited Second Look magazine, devoted to articles about the search for extraterrestrial life, the nature of consciousness, and the origins of civilization. He edited articles from some of the biggest names in science and science fiction---Isaac Asimov, Stanislaw Lem, Sir Fred Hoyle, Paul Davies, Sir Roger Penrose. In 2003 and 2004, he was a Senior Editor of Phenomena magazine, founded by former Hollywood studio executive Jeff Sagansky.Two of his books, Lucky You! (2004, Citadel/Kensington) and The Hundred Year Lie (2006, Penguin/Dutton) were Amazon.com bestsellers. Lucky You! was the first book to examine the link between intuition and luck in games of chance and got distribution in Spanish, Japanese, and Korean editions. The Hundred Year Lie, about the impact of synthetic chemicals on human health, was also published by Beijing University Press in China, where it has been a perennial seller.Based on his Lucky You! book, he was selected in 2005 as the media master of ceremonies for the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Las Vegas, on behalf of the Fremont Street Experience, a collection of 10 casinos, including the Golden Nugget, along with the city of Las Vegas, giving live television interviews to dozens of local television stations nationwide. He has been a guest on ABC's The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Dr. Mehmet Oz Show, The Michael Smerconish Show, Court TV, CBS' 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20, BBC and PBS Radio, and hundreds of other television and radio shows, including four appearances on The Coast-to-Coast radio show with George Noory.https://alieninthemirror.com/https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Mirror-Extraterrestrial-Theories-Evidence-ebook/dp/B09X874R4P/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1649265119&sr=1-4https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast
This episode features excerpts from an oral history conversation between Marjorie “Marj” Paxson and Jean Gaddy Wilson recorded in 2007 for the National Women and Media Collection's 20th Anniversary. Wilson talks with Paxson about her career in media, her role in the establishment of the National Women and Media Collection (NWMC), and her views on the state of journalism for women at the turn of the 21st Century. About the Guests: MARJORIE “MARJ” PAXSON Marjorie “Marj” Bowers Paxson was born on August 13, 1923, in Houston, Texas. She attended Rice University in Houston for two years, where she worked on the student newspaper, the Thresher. In 1942 Paxson transferred to the University of Missouri and graduated in 1944. While at the University of Missouri, she worked on the Columbia Missourian. Over the course of her journalistic career, she held various reporting, editorial, and publishing positions at the United Press, Associated Press, Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Philadelphia Bulletin, Idaho Statesman, Chambersburg Public Opinion, and Muskogee Phoenix. Paxson was also named editor of Xilonen, an eight-page daily newspaper published for the United Nations World Conference for International Women's Year held in Mexico City in 1975. She retired in 1986 and continued writing a column for the Muskogee Phoenix until 2004. In 1987, Paxson donated $50,000 and her personal papers to help establish the National Women and Media Collection at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (now administered by the State Historical Society of Missouri). Marjorie “Marj” Paxson died on June 17, 2017. JEAN GADDY WILSON Jean Gaddy Wilson is a professional consultant who has spoken on five continents and who spent fourteen years as a Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri. She is a co-author, along with Brian S. Brooks and James L. Pinson, of the journalism textbook Working With Words: A Handbook for Media Writers and Editors. She is the founder of New Directions for News, an innovation think tank, at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and her work led to the founding of the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) and the International Women's Media Foundation. She co-founded the National Women and Media Collection (NWMC) with Gannett publisher Marj Paxson and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (now administered by the State Historical Society of Missouri).
Randall Fitzgerald On UFO'S And More ! Randall Fitzgerald's ten books (and more than 50 books as a ghostwriter) have been pioneering explorations of a wide variety of topics, reflecting his diverse interests and an insatiable curiosity cultivated by 35 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. For two decades he was a Roving Editor for Reader's Digest and also wrote investigative feature articles for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He began his journalism career at 19, as a general assignment reporter for The Tyler Morning Telegraph, in Tyler, Texas. While in journalism school at the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a political reporter in the state capitol bureau of The Houston Post and spent a semester as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., working as press secretary to a U.S. Congressman. In August 1974, the week that Richard Nixon resigned as President, he became an investigative reporter for newspaper syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, in Washington, D.C.
Randall Fitzgerald began his journalism career at 19, as a general assignment reporter for The Tyler Morning Telegraph, in Tyler, Texas. While in journalism school at the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a political reporter in the state capitol bureau of The Houston Post and spent a semester as a Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., working as press secretary to a U.S. Congressman. In August 1974, the week that Richard Nixon resigned as President, he became an investigative reporter for newspaper syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, in Washington, D.C. For two decades he was a Roving Editor for Reader's Digest and also wrote investigative feature articles for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal...He is the author of several books on varying topics including health, luck and alien encounters.Fitzgerald has appeared on ABC's The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Dr. Mehmet Oz Show, The Michael Smerconish Show, Court TV, CBS' 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20, BBC and PBS Radio, and hundreds of other television and radio shows, including four appearances on The Coast-to-Coast radio show with George Noory.Websitealieninthemirror.comBooksAlien in the MirrorLucky You!:Proven Strategies You Can Use to Find Your FortuneCosmic Teat TubeThe Hundred-Year Life
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter). William Sydney Porter wurde als Sohn eines Arztes geboren. Seit seinem 16. Lebensjahr war er in verschiedenen Anstellungen tätig (Verkäufer, Cowboy, Bankangestellter). Der Unterschlagung für schuldig befunden, flüchtete er nach Honduras, kam aber wegen der Krankheit seiner Gattin wieder zurück und saß eine mehrjährige Haftstrafe im Staatsgefängnis von Ohio ab. Am 24. Juli 1901 wurde er entlassen, trat eine Stelle als Journalist der Houston Post an und gehörte bald zu den bestbezahlten Schriftstellern der USA.
On Monday's Houston Matters: There have been four million COVID-19 cases in Texas since the beginning of the pandemic. That news comes as booster shots become available for some 60 million older or at-risk Americans who received the Pfizer vaccine. We discuss those and other developments with Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Also this hour: This week, the PBS series American Experience presents Citizen Hearst, a two-part biography of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. In conjunction, we reflect on Houston's newspaper history by talking with some former writers for the now-defunct Houston Post. Then, veterinarian Dr. Lori Teller answers your pet care questions. And we get an update on Houston sports.
LOS ANGELES (Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021) – Playing the first of two games in four days, the LA Galaxy fought back to earn a 1-1 draw against Houston Dynamo FC at Dignity Health Sports Park on Wednesday night. Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez tallied his 11th goal of the season, while Dejan Joveljić notched his second assist for the Galaxy. Wednesday's match marked the 33rd MLS regular-season meeting between LA and the Houston Dynamo, with the Galaxy trailing the series 11-12-10. In 15 all-time regular-season meetings against Houston at Dignity Health Sports Park, the Galaxy have posted a 6-4-5 record. In the last seven meetings between LA and Houston at Dignity Health Sports Park dating back to March 21, 2015, the Galaxy hold a 3-1-3 record.
With the passing of Houston Astros pitching legend J.R. Richard this week, Host Robert Land shares his conversation with Richard a few years ago. Richard remembers striking out Willie Mays 3 times in his very 1st Astros, his high school basketball days, his feelings towards the Astros organization and so much more. Plus, Houston Post and Chronicle reporter Kenny Hand describes what it was like to find out J.R. Richard was homeless and Richard's close friend Enos Cabell explains what it was like to watch him pitch.Subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple, the Google podcast app or the Tunein app. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for questions, suggestions or comments. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @HSTPodcast
We had a delightful conversation under the Joan of Arc Statue on W. 93rd Street in Manhattan with Evelyn Kanter -- NYC TV news reporter and guide book writer – about her new book 100 Things to Do in New York City before You Die. Ms. Kanter has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She was the consumer reporter on WABC-TV “Eyewitness News” and before that on WCBS Radio reporting on rip-offs and best buys. She has written for the New Times, Post and Daily News, as well as The Houston Post – and has rubbed elbows with Peter Jennings and Walter Cronkite and other notable broadcast greats. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Internationally known operations consultant, speaker, author and customer service expert Errol Allen provides practical advice and solutions garnered from over 25 years of hands – on experience. He possesses a multi-faceted perspective of organizations through the various positions held during his corporate tenure with companies such as ADT Security Systems, TCI Cablevision, The Houston Post, Excel Communications, e-talk and GEICO Insurance. From the phone to the field, Errol has serviced customers himself and understands that a “systems” orientation is crucial to providing excellent customer service. He assists his clients by facilitating interdepartmental process improvement projects to insure efficient service delivery to both internal and external customers. As a “hands-on” consultant, Errol takes an active role with clients, from riding along with field personnel to spending time with customer service personnel as they take customer calls. He maps out his clients' work processes and creates procedures manuals. He also helps with identifying customer centered key performance indicators and the internal processes that impact indicator results. Errol also develops and implements simple solution tools that clients utilize to improve the level of service provided inside and outside of the company. Errol shares his operations and customer service expertise as a contributing writer for The Houston Business Journal and Small Business Today Magazine. In his quest to acknowledge the receipt of great customer service, Errol personally awards his “Now That's Customer Service! Award to deserving employees or companies. An avid blogger, his articles have been published in several online publications including Yahoo Small Business Advisor, Customer Service Manager, Customer Experience Magazine of the UK and Young Fabulous and Self Employed. He has also participated as a workshop leader at the University of Houston's Small Business Development Center, the Houston Community College Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Alumni Program, the Houston Association of Realtors and with the Service Corporation of Retired Executives (SCORE). Get your copy of Errol's book – “Keys to Delivering Amazing Customer Service!” For more information about Errol go to https://errolallenconsulting.com/errol-allen/
With the passing of Rockets former owner Charlie Thomas, former Rockets beat writer Robert Falkoff joins Host Robert Land to share memories of Thomas. Falkoff talks about how Thomas helped built Clutch City and how he had to make 2 major trades with implications as big as the James Harden deal. Falkoff also hits on the coin flips that Thomas won which led to Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson. Subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple, the Google podcast app or the Stitcher app. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for questions, suggestions or comments. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @HSTPodcast
At the Fourth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas: Protests and Civil Rights on Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Zoom, the panelists engaged in a wide ranging discussion over lessons to be learned from the past work of civil rights leaders for the activists of today. The panelists were Peniel E. Joseph, author of THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Linder, President of the Austin NAACP, Reginald Owens, former Chair of the Journalism Department, Louisiana Tech University, and Brandon K. Winford, author of JOHN HERVEY WHEELER: Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights. Peniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Dr. Joseph is also the author of WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, DARK DAYS, BRIGHT NIGHTS: From Black Power to Barack Obama, and STOKELY: A Life. Nelson Linder has served as the president of the Austin NAACP since 2000. He has won numerous awards for his civil rights activism including the Austin Urban League Whitney Young Award, the National NAACP Rupert Richardson Award, the University of Texas at Austin Dr. James Hill Community Circle Award, and the Austin Community College Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018. Reginald Owens was formerly the Chair of Journalism at Louisiana Tech University where he retired in 2016. He began his professional career as a police reporter at the Houston Post and later worked as managing editor of The (Houston) Informer, the third oldest black newspaper in the nation, and was a founding vice president of the Houston Association of Black Journalists. Brandon Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a historian of the late nineteenth and twentieth century United States and the African American experience, and his research focuses on the relationship between civil rights and black capitalism.
At the Fourth Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas: Protests and Civil Rights on Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Zoom, the panelists engaged in a wide ranging discussion over lessons to be learned from the past work of civil rights leaders for the activists of today. The panelists were Peniel E. Joseph, author of THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Linder, President of the Austin NAACP, Reginald Owens, former Chair of the Journalism Department, Louisiana Tech University, and Brandon K. Winford, author of JOHN HERVEY WHEELER: Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights.Peniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Dr. Joseph is also the author of WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, DARK DAYS, BRIGHT NIGHTS: From Black Power to Barack Obama, and STOKELY: A Life.Nelson Linder has served as the president of the Austin NAACP since 2000. He has won numerous awards for his civil rights activism including the Austin Urban League Whitney Young Award, the National NAACP Rupert Richardson Award, the University of Texas at Austin Dr. James Hill Community Circle Award, and the Austin Community College Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018.Reginald Owens was formerly the Chair of Journalism at Louisiana Tech University where he retired in 2016. He began his professional career as a police reporter at the Houston Post and later worked as managing editor of The (Houston) Informer, the third oldest black newspaper in the nation, and was a founding vice president of the Houston Association of Black Journalists. Brandon Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a historian of the late nineteenth and twentieth century United States and the African American experience, and his research focuses on the relationship between civil rights and black capitalism.
On this episode of the pod, Rob sits down with Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the College Writing Program & University College, Dr. Deanna Benjamin. We talk about Dr. Benjamin's roles in advising current students and highlighting the work of young writers all over the WashU campus in her role as Co-Chair of the McLeod First-Year Writing Prize, an annual prize that recognizes student writing that addresses race, gender, and/or identity. We talk about her love of her students and delve into discussing her past life as a thespian working on stage lighting, her undergrad studies at University of Houston and grad work at Arizona State, and her work as a copy runner and copy editor for the Houston Post newspaper that allowed her to literally say "stop the presses!" on one occasion.
On today’s date in 1955, Leopold Stokowski gave his first concert as the new music director of the Houston Symphony—or, as Stoki pronounced it, the “HOOSTON Symphony.” It was a major cultural event in those days. NBC even televised a bit of the famously white-maned conductor rehearsing the Texans in a brand-new work that Stokowski himself had commissioned for the occasion: the second symphony of Alan Hovhaness, subtitled “Mysterious Mountain.” At the time, Hovhaness explained his subtitle as follows: “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man’s attempt to know God. Mountains are symbolic meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” The new piece proved to be a terrific success for all concerned. The next day, the Houston Post’s music critic wrote, “The real mystery of Mysterious Mountain is that it should be so simple, sweetly, innocently lovely in an age that has tried so terribly hard to avoid those impressions in music.” For his part, Hovhaness once said, “Things that are complicated tend to disappear and get lost. Simplicity is difficult, not easy.” Before his death in the year 2000, Hovhaness would complete 67 symphonies.
On today’s date in 1955, Leopold Stokowski gave his first concert as the new music director of the Houston Symphony—or, as Stoki pronounced it, the “HOOSTON Symphony.” It was a major cultural event in those days. NBC even televised a bit of the famously white-maned conductor rehearsing the Texans in a brand-new work that Stokowski himself had commissioned for the occasion: the second symphony of Alan Hovhaness, subtitled “Mysterious Mountain.” At the time, Hovhaness explained his subtitle as follows: “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man’s attempt to know God. Mountains are symbolic meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” The new piece proved to be a terrific success for all concerned. The next day, the Houston Post’s music critic wrote, “The real mystery of Mysterious Mountain is that it should be so simple, sweetly, innocently lovely in an age that has tried so terribly hard to avoid those impressions in music.” For his part, Hovhaness once said, “Things that are complicated tend to disappear and get lost. Simplicity is difficult, not easy.” Before his death in the year 2000, Hovhaness would complete 67 symphonies.
Today we are joined by Susan Chadwick, environmental advocate and Executive Director of Save Buffalo Bayou, and Bob Freitag, expert on hazard mitigation and floodplain management, to discuss -Houston flooding-the USACE Interim Report (2020) on trying to manage flooding by altering Buffalo Bayou and Cypress Creek-floodplain management-modern science vs. old thinking about streams and floodplains-the nature of streams-how streams interact with geology, tides, flora, ecology, and climate-strategies for managing flooding -cost-benefit analyses of different strategies-benefits of modern, scientific, natural strategies over those of old, constrained strategies-what has worked elsewhere in the country and the world, and how some places are "rewilding" streams and discovering the deep, varied economic value of free "ecological services"About Susan: Susan Chadwick, a writer and journalist who grew up on Buffalo Bayou, is the president and executive director of Save Buffalo Bayou. She was the art critic for the Houston Post from 1985 until it closed in 1995.More about Susan, her work, and her contact info, at:a. https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-chadwick-66502a3b/b. www.SaveBuffaloBayou.orgc. https://www.facebook.com/SaveBuffaloBayou/About: Bob Freitag is Senior Instructor Part-time and Director of the Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning and Research (IHMP). The University of Washington Institute for Hazards Mitigation is an interdisciplinary academic Institute housed in the Department of Urban Design and Planning within the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. http://mitigate.be.uw.edu) He is the past Executive Director of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (http://www.crew.org/) and past member of the Association of State Floodplain Managers’ Board of Directors. (http://www.floods.org/) Bob is also a Certified Floodplain Manager. He has published many articles and written courses for FEMA and others concerning hazards mitigation and floodplain management, and was lead author of “Floodplain Management: a new approach for a new era” (Island Press 2009). Before coming to the University, he had a 25-year career with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) serving as Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO); Public Assistance, Mitigation and Education Officer. Prior to FEMA he was employed by several private architectural and engineering consultant firms in Hawaii and Australia, and taught science as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. Freitag received his Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Washington. Contact Bob here: http://urbdp.be.washington.edu/people/robert-freitag/His book Floodplain Management: A New Approach for a New Eraby Bob Freitag, Susan Bolton, Frank Westerlund, Julie Clark: https://www.amazon.com/Floodplain-Management-New-Approach-Era/dp/1597266353Contact Michael:1. ccerppodcast@aol.com2. http://www.goldams.com 3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/ 4. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1152144714995033/Join us at CCERP on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1152144714995033/Show notes:1. Effect of and damage caused by Hurricane Harvey: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/harvey/final-report-shows-harveys-impact-on-harris-county-by-the-numbers/285-5620169322. 2019 disasters and their costs: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article239153533.html3. US Army Corps of Engineers' "Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries Resiliency Study, Texas:" https://www.swg.usace.army.mil/Portals/26/BBTnT_Interim_Report_202001001_Final_1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0VI6q_U1Td_J3YXUwE3yMgwOKF3qsa0-BbZa8nRhIjZKKDiWg95823bcA4. Vermont flooding in Irma: "The Connecticut River Watershed Council and The Conservation Law Foundation have joined together to step back to look at why Otter Creek in Rutland leapt up as Irene struck, increasing in flow by nearly 20 times in the space of a little more than a day, while downstream in Middlebury the river rose much more gradually, and more safely." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucb-Y8iipng&fbclid=IwAR1g9l0tePGJxV3fj1xfrpWvtxKKTTaV84TXzQp3bh4CQT1ipOjkLebXHJg5. Rewilding Europea. https://rewildingeurope.comb. https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/europe/stories-in-europe/restoring-free-flowing-rivers-in-europe/c. https://europe.wetlands.org/publications/ecosystem-services-and-river-restoration/d. https://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.showFile&rep=file&fil=LIFE09_INF_UK_000032_LAYMAN.pdf6. The importance of Beaversa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4t8h8nchfMb. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/620402681/the-bountiful-benefits-of-bringing-back-the-beaversc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnXLllzi60d. https://www.aswm.org/aswm/aswm-webinarscalls/3355-2020-past-beaver-restoration-webinar-series#beaver17. Of the Mississippi River, "Mark Twain noted in 1883 that 'ten thousand river commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, go here, or go there, and make it obey.' From: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/mississippi-national-waterway-trump-infrastructure-river-enviorment-a8266366.html8. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M. Barry: https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Tide-Mississippi-Changed-America/dp/0684840022/9. A tree, depending on factors such as age and species, can absorb 20-250 gallons of water per day, more or less. At , say 400 trees per acre in a forest, that is 8,000-100,000 galleons of water per day. See, for example:a. https://www.lsu.edu/botanic-gardens/research/trees.phpb. https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/H636/c. https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/34466/PDFd. https://www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/10. Klamath River Restorationa. http://www.klamathrenewal.orgb. https://www.nfwf.org/programs/klamath-basin-restoration-program c. Salmon River: http://srrc.org11. Land subsidence from water dischargea. "Land Subsidence From Ground-Water Pumping" by S. A. Leake, U.S. Geological Survey: https://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/anthropogenic/subside/b. "Texas Gulf Coast Groundwater and Land Subsidence:" https://txpub.usgs.gov/houston_subsidence/home/index.htmlc. "Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California" by B. E. Lofgren and R. L. Klausing: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0437b/report.pdfd. "SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA:" https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/06SanJoaquinValley.pdf12. David Suzuki Foundation: https://davidsuzuki.org13. Ecosystem Valuationa. "The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital"by Robert Costanza, et. al.: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/9476/Costanza%20et%20al%20%20Nature%201997%20prepublicaton.pdfb. "Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?" by Robert Costanza, et. al.: https://www.robertcostanza.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017_J_Costanza-et-al.-20yrs.-EcoServices.pdfc. TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaAEfERGyO8d. Robert Costanza talk "Flourishing on Earth: Lessons from Ecological Economics:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZkTlVPgqG4e. "Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services – Professor Robert Costanza:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4F3M1b1bdI14. Association of State Wetland Managersa. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Assiation+wetland+managers&t=osx&ia=webb. their floodplain functions videos: https://www.aswm.org/watersheds/natural-floodplain-function-alliance/1790-webinars.htmlc. ecosystem valuation: https://www.aswm.org/wetland-science/planning-design/ecosystem-service-valuationd. links to science on floodplains, wetlands, restoration, etc.: https://www.aswm.org/wetland-science15. Tides and riversa. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/when-rivers-and-tides-collideb. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015RG00050716. Food Forestsa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJFL0MD9fcb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_m_0UPOzuIc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjUsobGWhs8d. https://projectfoodforest.org/what-is-a-food-forest/e. https://www.wildhomesteading.com/food-forest/17. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484/18. Learning environments and domains: "kind" vs. "wicked"a. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-media-psychology-effect/202010/the-success-equation-our-wicked-worldb. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experience-studio/202007/experience-kind-vs-wickedBios courtesy Susan Chadwick and Bob FretagImage from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanJacinto_Watershed.png
BYU vs Houston: Post Game Show
Andrew Allegretta, Jimmy Ordeneaux and Gus Kattengell bring you a little post-game chatter after Tulane fell at Houston on Thursday night (10/8). Up next for the Wave: Home vs. SMU on Friday, October 16th at 5:00 pm CT. Coverage on the Tulane Sports Network (104.1 FM, TuneIn Radio) begins at 4:00 pm CT.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
With this week being the 40th anniversary of the Stroke that ended J.R. Richard's destined Hall of Fame run, Host Robert Land listens back to his conversation with Richard a few years ago. He remembers his very 1st Astros game, his basketball days, his feelings towards the Astros organization and so much more. Plus, Houston Post and Chronicle reporter Kenny Hand describes what it was like to find out J.R. Richard was homeless and Richard's close friend Enos Cabell explains what it was like to watch him pitch. Subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple, the Google podcast app or the Tunein app. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for questions, suggestions or comments. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @HSTPodcast
There's more to baseball than what fans see and hear on the field. Oftentimes, our eyes and ears of the ballpark come from our favorite broadcasters, photographers and reporters who cover this game each day and every day, with or without games being played. Brian McTaggart is a fan favorite who has been reporting, traveling and writing about the Houston Astros for 17 seasons and is the author of "100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." Broadcaster Steve Sparks catches up with the MLB.com reporter to see how he has been spending his time during the ambiguous 2020 season. McTaggart shares stories of growing up in Pasadena, spending his childhood at the Astrodome, writing for the Houston Post, attending U of H, covering the Little League World Series, Rice baseball and watching his favorite athlete, Hakeem Olajuwon. Episode 28 with McTaggart covers a lot of baseball but it takes us off the field for a few adventures as well.
There's more to baseball than what fans see and hear on the field. Oftentimes, our eyes and ears of the ballpark come from our favorite broadcasters, photographers and reporters who cover this game each day and every day, with or without games being played. Brian McTaggart is a fan favorite who has been reporting, traveling and writing about the Houston Astros for 17 seasons and is the author of "100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." Broadcaster Steve Sparks catches up with the MLB.com reporter to see how he has been spending his time during the ambiguous 2020 season. McTaggart shares stories of growing up in Pasadena, spending his childhood at the Astrodome, writing for the Houston Post, attending U of H, covering the Little League World Series, Rice baseball and watching his favorite athlete, Hakeem Olajuwon. Episode 28 with McTaggart covers a lot of baseball but it takes us off the field for a few adventures as well.
Has it already been 4 years since the world lost Muhammad Ali? Host Robert Land looks back at his interview with Houston Post and Chronicle columnist Mickey Herskowitz, who shares several unforgettable personal stories from his 5 decades of covering Houston sports. Herskowitz was there at the recruiting office in Houston when Ali made the decision not to fight in Vietnam. Mickey drove through Harlem with Ali and gives us his incredible firsthand accounts of Ali's legend. Subscribe to us on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher and Tunein. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for questions or comments. Like ‘Houston Sports Talk’ on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @HSTPodcast
For our Throwback Thursday, we look back at the '86 Rockets Finals run on the 34th anniversary of Ralph Sampson's buzzer beater against the Lakers (that put them in the Finals). Host Robert Land brings in former Houston Post beat writer Robert Falkoff to look at the build and the implosion of the '86 team, including the drug scandals and the injuries. Plus, Robert Reid joins us to give his perspective on what happened to Sampson, along with his memories of the '81 Finals run. Subscribe to us on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher and Tunein. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for questions or comments. Like ‘Houston Sports Talk’ on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @HSTPodcast
Luggage By Kroger has been recognized as one of 2009's top true crime thrillers with honors from five different national book competitions. The scorecard: * True Crime Silver Medal from the 2009 IPPYs * True Crime Bronze Medal and Finalist for Book-of-the-Year from the 2008 ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Awards * True Crime Runner-Up in the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards * True Crime Finalist in the 2009 USA Book News Awards * General Nonfiction Runner-Up at the 2009 New York Book FestivalIn this true crime memoir, former Houston Post reporter Gary Taylor recounts his true-life fatal attraction involvement in the trail of violence that has dogged Texas attorney Catherine Mehaffey Shelton for nearly three decades, prompting coverage by newspapers, TV, movies and even Oprah Winfrey. Now Taylor invites readers to grab a seat on the wild ride of an obsessive relationship: erotic beginning to violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. The result is an adventure odyssey of self-discovery through an encounter that nearly cost him his life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom where today’s guest is… Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News and one of the hardest working journalists in the world today. Major and I discussed everything from how nerve-wracking it is to ask questions in front of the world in the WH press briefing room, to his spats with Barack Obama to being in the Oval Office with Donald Trump. It truly was a fascinating conversation and below is a post-game of everything we talked about. But first, my picks of the week followed by some personal news… Enjoy! 🤓Picks of the WeekJoe Biden — Pressure is building on the Democratic nominee, who so far has remained silent pertaining to an alleged sexual assault from 1993Louis Theroux — The greatest documentarian to have ever lived has a podcast! His first guest is Jon RonsonTiger King — I finally caught up to the hoopla and my god this show is fucked up. But also my god everyone must watch itPersonal NewsToday is my last day working on the visuals desk at The Guardian. It’s been an incredible two years at the UK’s foremost news source and a dream come true working for my “hometown” paper I grew up reading. So it was incredibly tough to leave but I’m thrilled and blessed to be joining The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Here’s to the next chapter! Like Me, PleaseBefore you read on, please like this edition of Inside The Newsroom by clicking the ❤️ up top. That way I’ll appear in clever algorithms and more people will be able to read. Cheers.Major 👇Who is Major Garrett?Major graduated from Mizzou in 1984 with degrees in journalism and political science. He’s been CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent since 2012, and before that made stops with multiple outlets including the Amarillo Globe-News, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Houston Post, The Washington Times, U.S. News and World Report, CNN, the National Journal and Fox News, making him truly one of the most non-partisan reporters in America. And putting him over the top giving him rockstar status, Major also appeared on the Late Show with the legendary Stephen Colbert…As you’ll discover from the podcast, there may not be a harder working political reporter today. Major is also the author of four books — Common Cents, The Enduring Revolution, The Fifteen Biggest Lies in Politics, and Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride — and host of two podcasts for CBS — The Takeout and Debriefing the Briefing. Many of you may know Major from his courage to ask presidents the toughest questions, and there’s no better place to start than with Barack Obama…Major vs ObamaMajor’s highest profile moment came in July 2015, when he asked then President Obama a tough question that rattled even the usually unshakable Obama. After signing off on a nuclear deal with Iran that reduced the amount of uranium — used to fuel nuclear weapons — stockpiled by Iran, Obama faced an hour of questions by reporters on the specifics of the deal and the decisions he made to get the deal over the line. One of those questions came from Major, who challenged the President on why he didn’t include the release of four American hostages held by the Iranians as a condition for the deal. Below is the encounter and Major’s take on the confrontation.But that wasn’t Major’s first run-in with Obama. In June 2009, Iran was once again the topic of contention, this time as it pertained to Obama placing his administration on the side of the grassroots protestors against the Iranian regime. Then working for Fox News, Major explained in the podcast that reporters from the wire services — the AP, Bloomberg, Reuters etc — are routinely the first to be called upon by the President, but on this day, Obama picked Major to ask the first question. Major had to begin the press conference by asking about the most important issue, so after reading back several of Obama’s statements, Major simply asked “What took you so long?”, referring to growing pressure over previous weeks for Obama to pick a side. Let’s just say Obama wasn’t too happy.Everything’s Different With President TrumpPresidents and the media have had feuds since politics began in America, but I’m not breaking news by asserting that reporting in the age of Trump is different to anything journalists have experienced before. Major has covered the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and Trump, and emphatically said he’s never covered a president so combative as Trump, and that includes his two run-ins with Obama. In normal circumstances, political reporters from different networks rarely offer feedback to their peers, often keeping to themselves and concentrating on the task ahead. But the Trump administration has altered that, and we may never have seen a White House press corps proverbially stand so close together with reporters from rival outlets often supporting one another in the briefing room amid the barrage of attacks from the man at the front.What’s the Point of Political Debates?Major has moderated three major political debates in his career, most recently the Democratic South Carolina debate in February. The amount of dedication and preparation that goes into each debate is admirable, often taking weeks to research and practice every question and every scenario. If you’re like me, you’ll devour every single minute of every single one of the billion political debates the RNC and DNC hold every presidential cycle, especially if it involves Republicans screwing up walking to the stage when their names are called. God damn it gets me every time. But once the dopamine has run out, you’ll question the actual motive of having so many damn debates. Between June 2019 and March 2020, the DNC held an insane 13 debates, with at least 10 candidates on the stage at one time in the first seven. Apart from boosting ratings and the millions of dollars generated in fundraising, the debates do actually have a practical purpose. Just ask Michael Bloomberg.After weeks of sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in TV ads, Bloomberg took to the stage for the first time in Nevada. At the time, Bloomberg’s poll numbers were surging to 16 percent and he looked like a legitimate contender, but that ended exactly 14 days later thanks to Queen Elizabeth Warren, who rolled Bloomberg’s racist and sexist temperament into a ball and flicked him away like a bogey. If you look close enough, you can actually see Mini Mike’s soul leave his body.Laughs and takedowns aside, do political debates actually make a difference to voting habits? How on earth is 30 or 60 seconds, often with grown adults shouting over one another, enough time to discuss solutions to real issues? In my opinion it’s not, and the scientific evidence largely agrees that noticeable changes in polling and voting after debates are hard to identify. 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Today we are joined by Susan Chadwick of Save Buffalo Bayou for a discussion of our local area, its history, the importance of natural creeks and bayous, what you can do to keep things wild and natural, and the natural beauty around us. Enjoy! (Oh, my cat Prince adds some dialogue, too!)About Susan: Susan Chadwick, a writer and journalist who grew up on Buffalo Bayou, is the president and executive director of Save Buffalo Bayou. She was the art critic for the Houston Post from 1985 until it closed in 1995.More about Susan, her work, and her contact info, at:a. https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-chadwick-66502a3b/b. www.SaveBuffaloBayou.orgc. https://www.facebook.com/SaveBuffaloBayou/Contact Michael:1. ccerppodcast@aol.com2. http://www.goldams.com 3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/ 4. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1152144714995033/Join us at CCERP on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1152144714995033/Show notes:1. Buffalo Bayou: a. http://www.savebuffalobayou.orgb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bayouc. https://web.archive.org/web/20130403174413/http://www.hcfcd.org/L_buffalobayou.htmld. http://www.savebuffalobayou.org/?page_id=48502. Cypress Creeka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Creek_(Texas)b. https://web.archive.org/web/20130403160508/http://www.hcfcd.org/L_cypresscreek.html3. Braes Bayou (aka Brays Bayou)a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brays_Bayoub. https://web.archive.org/web/20130403125818/http://www.hcfcd.org/L_braysbayou.html4. Native plantsa. Purple Passionflower: https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PAIN6b. Prairie Nymph: https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=HELA6c. Natives database: http://www.txsmartscape.com/plant-search/d. Native and adapted: http://counties.agrilife.org/harris/files/2011/05/houstonplants.pdf5. Aristotlea. "To summarize: Aristotle’s philosophy laid out an approach to the investigation of all natural phenomena, to determine form by detailed, systematic work, and thus arrive at final causes. His logical method of argument gave a framework for putting knowledge together, and deducing new results. He created what amounted to a fully-fledged professional scientific enterprise, on a scale comparable to a modern university science department. It must be admitted that some of his work - unfortunately, some of the physics - was not up to his usual high standards. He evidently found falling stones a lot less interesting than living creatures. Yet the sheer scale of his enterprise, unmatched in antiquity and for centuries to come, gave an authority to all his writings."It is perhaps worth reiterating the difference between Plato and Aristotle, who agreed with each other that the world is the product of rational design, that the philosopher investigates the form and the universal, and that the only true knowledge is that which is irrefutable. The essential difference between them was that Plato felt mathematical reasoning could arrive at the truth with little outside help, but Aristotle believed detailed empirical investigations of nature were essential if progress was to be made in understanding the natural world. " Read more: https://galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/lectures/aristot2.htmlb. "The Greeks cast their science from first principles, without troubling to examine the natural world. Aristotle changed everything." Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/02/the-lagoon-armand-marie-leroi-aristotle-reviewc. Great BBC show about the book:i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8ortM4M3oii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e12pbSHrzAs6. Gabe Brown a. the 8" figure: https://social.shorthand.com/PaintedMtCorn/jCPnGp7QYM6/plant-and-grow-rich-chapter-2b. his book Dirt To Soil: https://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Soil-Familys-Regenerative-Agriculture/dp/1603587632c. In episode 63 of the Peak Human Podcast, Gabe says his soil can infiltrate 30” of rain in one hour!! Listen here: https://overcast.fm/+Na3jvm6yM/40:10 (Or find the episode here: https://www.peak-human.com/ and tune in at about 40 min 10 sec.)7. Wolves and the Lamar River in Yellowstone: https://www.pbs.org/strangedays/episodes/predators/experts/yellowstonewolves.html8. All about Alligatorsa. https://www.zooamerica.com/animals/american-alligator/b. https://wildlifelearningcenter.org/animals/northamerica/american-alligator/c. https://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/nature/alligator.htmd. https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Reptiles/American-Alligator9. Brazos Bend State Park -- where you can see Alligators! :)https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/brazos-bend10. No, Alligators are not that dangerous to humansa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_Statesb. http://crocdoc.ifas.ufl.edu/publications/factsheets/Alligator%20Attack%20Risk%20Comparison%202019.pdfc. "The total number of alligator deaths per year in the U.S. is unclear, according to alligator experts. However, it is thought to be far smaller than the toll from spiders, which kill around seven people each year in the United States. Cows kill about 20. Dogs, known as "man's best friend," kill an average of 28. " (from https://mashable.com/2016/06/15/alligator-attacks-florida-orlando-rare/)d. "[F]rom 1999 to 2014, 921 people died in the United States from encountering hornets, wasps or bees, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During that same time span, nine people died from crocodile or alligator attacks, and 78 people died from attacks by other reptiles. ...Meanwhile, 486 people died from dog attacks and 1,163 people died from attacks by other mammals, such as cows or horses. About 4.5 million dog bites occur each year." (from https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/17/health/animal-attacks-statistics/index.html)e. "Alligators are opportunistic carnivores, preferring to go after readily available and easily overpowered prey. The reptiles generally don’t attack for reasons other than food and rarely pursue humans. ... In fact, alligators tend to be naturally afraid of humans, but they may lose that fear—and associate humans with food—when people feed them. For this reason, it’s illegal in the state of Florida to feed wild alligators." (from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/06/alligator-attack-toddler-disney-world-grand-floridian/)Bio and image courtesy Susan Chadwick.
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In the summer of 1907, two bodies turned up in different sections of Oklahoma, shot, presumably robbed – and with their ears cut off. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another mystery.” McAlester Daily Capital, August 2, 1907. “Black Hand in Oklahoma.” Drummond Herald, August 15, 1907. “Brutal murder in box car.” Parsons (KS) Daily Sun, July 29, 1907. “Bury body held 5 years.” St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat, April 29, 1912. “Charles Gunreth is a victim of murderous organization.” Oklahoma Post, August 2, 1907. “Crawford is yet alive.” Tuttle Times, August 9, 1907. “Crime is fixed on Tuttle man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, August 2, 1907. “Crimes committed by the same persons?” Chickasha Daily Express, August 7, 1907. “Ear snipped body again identified.” Wichita Beacon, December 20, 1911. “Ear snipper up again.” Chickasha Daily Express, March 20, 1908. “Ear snippers are believed to be in custody of officers.” Oklahoma Post, September 9, 1907. “Earless body is unidentified.” McAlester Daily Capital, August 3, 1907. “Ears severed from the heads.” Jasper (IN) Herald, August 9, 1907. “Earlsboro man is discharged.” Shawnee Daily Herald, September 18, 1907. “Expect more arrests in Gunreth mystery.” Oklahoma Post, September 14, 1907. “False arrest suits in murder mystery put off.” Daily Oklahoman, April 22, 1910. “Find body of murdered man.” Oklahoma News, March 18, 1907. “Firm under sweating.” Ardmore Morning Democrat, September 11, 1907. “Five men arrested, two are discharged.” Chickasha Daily Express, July 30, 1907. “Frantz offers reward.” Daily Ardmoreite, August 12, 1907. “Fryrear returns.” Tuttle Times, August 16, 1907. “The Gunreth murder.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, March 25, 1908. “Identification now complete.” Hobart Daily Republican, April 1, 1907. “Identity of dead man brought to light.” Hobart Daily Republican, March 22, 1907. “Indian may have committed the crime.” Oklahoma Post, August 2, 1907. “Isabel boy not victim.” Wichita Daily Eagle, August 23, 1907. “Isabel items.” Barber County Index, September 4, 1907. “Maintain innocence.” Chickasha Daily Express, September 11, 1907. “Man found in Elk Creek.” Roosevelt Record, March 22, 1907. “May be murderers of unknown man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, July 29, 1907. “May catch ear snippers.” Chickasha Daily Express, December 26, 1907. “May have been Tuttle man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, August 1, 1907. “May have murderer.” Chickasha Journal, July 30, 1907. “Most brutal murder committed.” Chickasha Daily Express, July 29, 1907. “Mummy is positively identified.” Chickasha Daily Express, December 21, 1911. “Murder case still a mystery.” Oklahoma City Weekly Times, August 9, 1907. “Murder growing mysterious.” Cement Courier, August 9, 1907. “Murder mystery grows complex!” Hobart Daily Republican, July 20, 1907. “Murdered in car.” Fort Smith (AR) Times, July 29, 1907. “Mysterious ear clipping baffle Oklahoma officials.” Greensboro (NC) Daily News, October 27, 1907. “Mysteriously disappeared.” Tuttle Times, August 2, 1907. “Not able to solve.” Shawnee Union Gazette, August 3, 1907. “Officers have right clue in big mystery.” Ardmore Morning Democrat, September 18, 1907. “One more victim of band of thugs.” Muskogee Daily Phoenix, August 2, 1907. “Sees his sister among the dead.” Oklahoma Post, September 1, 1907. “Still unidentified.” Daily Ardmoreite, August 20, 1907. “Theory of Gunreth murder revives old seduction story.” Oklahoma Post, August 7, 1907. “Three Tuttle men arrested.” Chickasha Journal, August 1, 1907. “To call special grand jury.” Chickasha Journal, August 5, 1907. “Two men found dead with ears clipped off.” Houston Post, September 3, 1912. “Unknown man murdered in Frisco box car.” Chickasha Journal, July 29, 1907. “Waters of Big Elk reveal ghastly crime.” Hobart Daily Republican, March 18, 1907. “Wilbur Gunreth's mother fails to identify body.” Oklahoma Post, August 3, 1907. “Will offer reward.” Vinita Daily Chieftain, August 5, 1907. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58663849/johnny-robinett https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69091681/wilbert-olin-gunreth
As promised, I’m adding more episodes to provide updates on the Prop B saga, the race for Houston Mayor, and the podcast itself, so thanks for listening.If you haven’t already, catch up on all six original episodes of the podcast to hear the story of the decades-long war between the city of Houston and its fire department. Listen to find out where it all began to where we are now.On this updates episode we’ll take a look at the Fire Union’s no-confidence vote in Fire Chief Sam Pena, the first televised mayoral debate, Prop B money being recouped from firefighters that resign or retire, even more questions surrounding Hurricane Harvey relief funds, and the latest controversy Turner find himself in, this time surrounding his connection to a man given an internship with the city that pays $95,000 a year.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
It’s now the summer of 2017 and Sylvester Turner is a year and a half into his four years as Houston’s Mayor. Senate Bill 2190 is inching closer to being inked into law, despite strong objections and literal protests at the State Capitol by the both Fire Union and the Firefighters Pension Board. The bill, which Turner helped author, would overhaul Houston’s unsustainable pension system but would most adversely affect the retirements of firefighters. Fire Union President Marty Lancton was leading the Union’s resurgence by not only helping to halt the bill, but he was also sparing with Turner for a new contract for the department. It was a perfect storm; retirements and pay for firefighters were at stake and Lancton, fueled by the Union’s never-before-seen momentum, was squaring up against the city’s most capable Mayor ever. For years, the heavyweights traded blows and eventually, Turner would land one of the biggest haymakers to the fire department any mayor ever has. But Lancton and the Fire Union would prove that they were ready for the big time, and they went right back to trading blows, making never-before-seen moves in their fight against the city.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
As Houston’s 62nd Mayor, Sylvester Turner was responsible for leading the city through many national news worthy events, some remarkable, some odd, and many tragic. Turner’s years as Mayor were also dotted with suspect political and business dealings, with one opponent even calling it “the most corrupt administration” in the last 40 years. And the controversies didn’t end there. Turner initially earned the endorsement of the Firefighter’s Union. But, like many Mayors before, the relationship between Turner and the Fire Union quickly soured when he reneged on a campaign promise that earned him their endorsement to begin with. In doing so, Turner would deliver a devastating shot to the foundation of the department and trigger a new era of battles unlike any others in the decades-long war between city of Houston and its fire department.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
It’s about 10 pm on November 6th, 2018 and the final Proposition B votes are being collected from around the city. Prop B was a ballot measure created by the Fire Union that would give firefighters equal pay with police officers of corresponding rank and years of service.That night, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner remained vocally steadfast in his stance that if Prop B passed, there would be hundreds of layoffs of firefighters and police officers and a reduction of services. He likened the pay parity initiative to a storm, saying “when you see a storm coming, you have to begin to make preparations.” For the Fire Union and its president Marty Lancton, this night was decades in the making but the last few years had been particularly eventful, more so than ever before. Pension reform that drastically reduced the retirements of firefighters, consistently stalled contract negotiations, years of Prop B legal battles, an acrid relationship with city leaders, all on top of unacceptable fleet and station conditions had left the rank and file of the fire department beaten and tired. Morale was fading fast. So, the passage of Prop B would not only be a remarkable legal victory for firefighters, but it would also be a momentous morale boost. By almost 11 pm, the majority of votes had been counted and the outcome had become clear…So, would voters side with Turner and vote against Prop B for fear that it would bankrupt the city and comprise public safety, or were they certain that pay parity was within the city’s financial means and vote to give firefighters the raise they had gone without for the last eight years? And, more than that, if Prop B did pass, would Turner honor the will of the voters and fully implement Prop B immediately or would he continue to fight it by taking legal action against it? And would he actually layoff hundreds of firefighter if it passed?And if it didn’t pass, what would Lancton and the Fire Union have prepared and how would that affect their strength in further negotiations as they continued to work without a contract?---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
After a devastating vote by City Council that approved the laying off and demoting of hundreds of firefighters to pay for Proposition B, there was still ongoing mediation to attend to. If a resolution wasn’t reached, Democratic Judge Tanya Garrison would then be the lone voice in deciding the validity of Prop B. The Fire Union’s options were dwindling as mediations seemed more superficial and obligatory than an opportunity to make a deal, especially given that layoffs and demotions were already approved. So the Fire Union’s hope then seemed to lie with Judge Garrison and the upcoming election season, as a new crop of Mayor hopefuls, sought to take down the incumbent. With the recently approved layoffs and demotions, Prop B still tied up in court, and a heated mayoral race, there looked to be no end in sight, in war between the city of Houston and its fire department.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
In 2015, Sylvester Turner had his sights set on becoming Houston’s next Mayor. This would be his third attempt at doing so over the last 25 years, so Turner knew he would need an edge this time, in order to finally win. And, Turner himself had a bit more of an edge, and he certainly wasn’t the same man that ran for Mayor in 1991. To know Sylvester Turner, we must not only look at his journey during that time, but we must know his story even before that, in order to fully appreciate who he has become and what kind of city leader, he might be.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
Houston Mayors and city leaders have been at odds with the Houston Fire Department and its Fire Union for about as long as anyone can remember, even including the most senior Houston firefighters. The relationship could best be described as dysfunctional, marked by deep-seeded distrust, developed over decades of mutual denigration.Neglect of fire department infrastructure, incessant pay disputes, and a lack of innovation have all led to the slow rotting away of what should be a department that stands as a shining example among the rest. Instead, the third largest fire department in the country has just limped along, its broken pieces slapped back together with duct tape, and the relationship with city leaders left in tatters.The last four years of this war have, by far, been the most eventful, the most heartbreaking, and the most contentious.But where did it all go wrong and who’s to blame? To find out, it takes an closer look at the last four decades and an investigation to find out who fired the first shot in the war between the city of Houston and its fire department.---Don't forget to leave us a rating and a review! Also, make sure to hit that subscribe button to stay up to date on the story as we add more episodes!Twitter: @TTFHoustonFacebook: @ThroughTheFirePodcast fb.me/ThroughTheFirePodcastEmail: ThroughTheFirePodcast@gmail.comSource Credits:ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, AP Archive, New York Times, KHOU, KPRC, KTRK, KRIV, KRBE, HTV Houston Television, NPR Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post, Houston Press, Texas Monthly, WPRI, SylvesterTurner.com
Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Freireich on his involvement with combination chemotherapy. TRANSCRIPT: 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. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Welcome to Cancer Stories. I'm Dr. Daniel Hayes. I'm a medical oncologist and a translational researcher at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. And I've also had the privilege of being the past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. I'm privileged to be your host for a series of podcast interviews with the people who founded our field. Over the last 40 years, I've been fortunate to have been trained, mentored, and also, frankly, inspired by these pioneers. In fact, it's my hope that, through these conversations, we can all be equally inspired by gaining an appreciation of the courage, the vision, and the scientific understanding that led these men and women to establish the field of clinical cancer care over the last 70 years. In fact, by understanding how we got to the present and what we now consider normal in oncology, we can also imagine, and we can work together towards a better future for our patients and their families during and after cancer treatment. Today, my guest on this podcast is Dr. Emil J. Freireich, who is generally considered one of the pioneers of combination chemotherapy. Dr. Freireich is currently the Ruth Harriet Haynesworth chair and distinguished teaching professor in the Department of Leukemia at the Division of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was raised in Chicago during the Great Depression, the son of Hungarian immigrants. Dr. Freireich attended the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago starting, unbelievably, at age 16. And from there, he also received a medical degree in 1949. He completed his internship at Cook County Hospital and his residency at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. He then moved to Boston, where he studied hematology with Dr. Joseph Ross at Mass. General. And then he went to the NIH in 1955, where he stayed until he moved to MD Anderson a decade later. And there he still remains. He and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute, Drs. Jim Holland and Emil "Tom" Frei, were the first to demonstrate that administering concurrent combination chemotherapy, rather than giving it sequentially with each episode of disease progression, resulted in complete responses in childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia. And that paper was first published in the now classic paper in Blood in 1958. In the mid-1960s, they ultimately developed the VAMP regimen. And that was reported in 1965, with really, in my opinion, the first cures that we'd seen with chemotherapy in an advanced cancer of any sort. This work was the groundbreaking basis for the subsequent cures of advanced Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, adult leukemias, testicular cancer, and, in my opinion, the striking results of adjuvant combination chemotherapy in breast and many other cancers. Dr. Freireich has authored over 500 peer-reviewed papers, numerous reviews and editorials. He's edited 16 different textbooks. And he's won too many awards and honors for me to even begin to list. But in particular in 1972, he received the Lasker Award, America's most highly regarded medical honor. And most importantly to me, frankly, is that he proceeded me as president of ASCO in 1980 to 1981. Dr. Freireich, I'm sorry for the long introduction. But your career is pretty substantial. Welcome to our program. Thank you. I have a number of questions. And to start with, I know, as I said, you grew up in Chicago during the depression and that you entered college at the age of 16. And I think our listeners would love to hear more about those circumstances. That's pretty unusual. And I've actually read about some of your childhood. You want to tell us more about that and how was it you chose medicine in the first place? I was born 1927 of to immigrant Hungarians. I had an older sister three years older. And they had a Hungarian restaurant in Chicago. And 1929, when I was two years old, there was a big event in the United States. They lost their restaurant. My father died suddenly, I believe of suicide, but not proven. And my mother, tough mother, went to work in a sweatshop. She worked 20 hours a day. She had two children. She found an Irish lady who worked for room and board only, no salary. Her name was Mary. So Mary was my ex officio mother. And I grew up, as you pointed out, in a ghetto community. I spent my life stealing things, hubcaps and windshield wipers, and avoiding getting crushed by the roving gangs. When I finished elementary school and when I went to a ghetto high school called Tuley, T-U-L-E-Y. In Tuley High School, I majored in typing and shorthand. My mother thought I could make a living as a secretary. I was prepubescent, short and fat. And I was a frequent victim of my colleagues in school. When I was very young, I can't tell you when, about eight or so, I developed tonsillitis. And we had in our little ghetto community one of these Tree Grows in Brooklyn physicians. His name was Dr. Rosenblum. And he took care of people in the ghetto for favors. My mother made him goulash. Dr. Rosenblum came to your house. He didn't have an office, because we didn't have any transportation. So my mother called him. And I had tonsillitis. He came and looked to me. He was wearing a suit and tie. I'd never seen that. During the depression, all the men wore coveralls and dirty pants. And he looks very elegant. He had a suit and a tie. He looked in my throat, and he said to my mother, the treatment for tonsillitis is ice cream. I always remember Dr. Rosenblum, because my mother had to go out and buy ice scream. And it's not bad treatment. It actually cools off the hot throat. So when I went to high school, taking shorthand and typing and getting beaten up by the bigger guys, a professor appeared like Dr. Rosenblum, suit and tie, young guy, PhD. Came to a ghetto high school to teach physics. Physics fascinated me. So I worked very hard in physics. He had a contest. I did a project on the Bernoulli theorem. And the classic project is a jet of water. You put a ping pong ball in it. And the ping pong ball stays in the jet, amazingly. That was because of Bernoulli. What happens when the ping pong ball goes off to one side, the fluid goes faster on the other side. It reduces the pressure, and that pushes it back in the stream. And that's the principle of airplanes and so on and so forth. So I won first prize. And he called me to his office. He said, Mr. Freireich, you should go to college. I said, what's college? He said, well, there's-- [LAUGHTER] He said there's a place down south of here called the University of Illinois where you can get advanced studies. What do you want to be when you grow up? So I thought a minute, and I said, I want to be like Dr. Rosenblum. I want to be a family doctor. He said, well, you have to go to college first. So I said, what do I need to go to college? He said you need about $25, which in that day was a lot of money. So I went home, and I told if it was my mother, my professor wants me to go to college. And I need $25. My mother, she's hardened in the depression, working in sweatshops. And she said, OK, I'm going to get $25. She asked around in the little Hungarian ghetto community. And we found a lady who had lost her husband and had an insurance policy. And so she had money. And she distributed it to her colleagues in the ghetto community for good causes, wonderful lady. So my mother dressed me up in a borrowed suit. And we went to see Mrs. so-and-so. And she patted my head and gave my mother $25. It's an incredible story. In fact, I'm struck by the fact that one of the founders of our field was a juvenile delinquent stealing hubcaps. Oh, yeah. I did that to hubcaps and windshield wipers and everything you could take off a car. I got a ticket on the Illinois Central Railroad, $6. I got off the Champaign-Urbana. And I said to the guy, where's the university? He said, over there. I went over there. I said, where do you register. They said, over there. So I went over there. And I said, I'm Freireich, and I'm registering for college. The guy said, where's your transcript. I said, well, they told me at the high school that they would send everything they needed. He said, we've never had a student from Tuley High School. I was the first to go. I was the first Tuley student to go to college. And he said, OK, I'll register you. And I'll write the university, and I'll get your transcript. I presume you're qualified. So how much is registration? $6! So I'm down to $13. I'm getting pretty poor. So I registered. And then I said, where do I live? He said, there's a list over there. And I went over there. I found the lady who lost her husband. She rented his bedroom for $6. And then I had to figure out how to eat. And I asked my friend the registrar, where do I eat? He said, go to work in one of these rich sorority houses. You get free meals. So I waited tables in a sorority house. I got good grades. When I had to elect a language, I took German, because at that time, all the science was in the Festschrift. The Germans had invented the chemical industry. And my advisor said, that's good for you if you want to be a doctor. So I took German. My professor in German, he taught stage German. And he read the role the first day. And he came to my name and he said Freireich, [EXAGGERATING "CH" SOUND] because, he said, Americans can't say. [EXAGGERATED "CH" SOUND] Everybody called me "Freireish." But he called me Freireich [EXAGGERATING "CH" SOUND]. And our book was called, Ich lerne Deutsch, I'm learning German. So "ich" was important. Freireich was important. I got an A in German because of my great name. And I did well in physics. And everything was accelerated during the war. So the university had three semesters a year instead of two. There was no summer. And the requirements for medical school were dropped from three years to two years. So two years is four semesters. So at the end of the first year, I was eligible for medical school. And my physics professor said, you better apply, because all the guys coming out of the military want to be doctors. So I said, aw, damn, I'm having such a good time scrubbing floors and smoking and getting along with good looking girls. He said, you better do it. So I applied. And I was accepted. So I had to leave the beautiful campus of Champaign-Urbana and go back to the ghetto of Chicago where my mother and my sister were living. And I couldn't figure out where I was going to get the money to pay for medical school. I had a friend who had had polio. Polio was rampant in those days. And I said to him, how do you get money to go to college? He said he gets money from the state, rehabilitation. And he said my rehab guy is coming to see me tomorrow. Why don't you come and see if you're eligible? So the rehab guy came. He said, what's wrong with you, Freireich? I said, I had a broken leg in college. He said, OK, fill in the forms. And I became a ward of the state of Illinois Department of Rehabilitation. From that point on, they paid all my tuition, all my supplies, all my microscope rentals, and so on. So I went to medical school free thanks to the State of Illinois Department of rehabilitation. So I went to Chicago. And a bunch of us sat in the room for the opening introduction. And the dean of the medical school came in. His name was Andrew C Ivey. I don't know if you know the name, famous GI physiologist. And Dr. Ivey said, you guys are lucky to be in medical school. There were 20 applicants for everyone accepted, 20. Isn't that's amazing? Because all the guys who were medics in the military realized that being a doctor is a soft job. So they all wanted to be doctors. But they didn't have as good an academic career as I did. So anyhow, I went to medical school. I did pretty well. It was complicated, medical school. I had to ride the L in Chicago. It cost a nickel. And I lived at home. And I rode the L in the morning. And I walked to the university campus. I attended classes. I walked to the L. And I went back home. And I did that for four years. And then, as I said, I graduated number six in the class. And I graduated. And I had to decide where to do an intern. I wanted to be a family doctor like Dr. Rosenblum. So I interned at Cook County Hospital. Cook County Hospital was an abattoir, terrible place. In that year, 1949, the two most prominent diseases were tuberculosis and polio. So my first rotation was the TB ward. That was horrible what you had to do to those men. 90% of them died. Then my next rotation was infectious diseases. And that was all children in iron lungs who were doomed to die. So I started off pretty badly. And then I got to the good things like surgery. I delivered a hundred babies. I did the ear, nose and throat. So I did everything. And I felt ready to go into practice. And then I got to internal medicine. Internal medicine was not like OB and all that stuff, not mechanical. It was intellectual. You had the worry about the blood flow to the kidney. And you had to get diuretics and blood and stuff. So internal medicine fascinated me. When I was on-call, I would admit 20 new patients a night, 20. And one guy I admitted was very interesting. He was a learned guy. And he was dying of heart failure. And I had to figure out how to treat him. And I admitted him. And when I got done, exhausted in the morning, I went to make rounds. And I didn't see him. And I said to the nurse, where's Mr. so-and-so. She said, don't worry about him. He's gone. I said, where did he go. She said he goes into the death room. Cook County Hospital, the problem was they had too many patients for the beds. And the head nurse made rounds every day. And the sickest patients went to the death room. And I went in there. And I found my patient. And I said to the nurse, I want my patient on the ward. I'm a young squirt. How old was I? I was 19, I think. So the next day, I get a call from the hospital director. He says, Freireich, I think you better leave County. I said, what do you mean? I'm having a good time. I'm learning everything. He said, you don't know how we operate. The nurses run the ward. And you make trouble. And that means you've got to leave. Uh-oh. So I said, well, the only thing I can do is get a residency in medicine and learn all this complicated stuff. So next door was Presbyterian Hospital, which had the Rush Clinic. Have you heard the rush clinic? They were a bunch of famous guys. I made rounds with Roland Woodyatt, the first physician in the United States to use insulin. I made rounds with-- I forgot the name of the cardiologist who described coronary artery disease. He was the first to recognize the association between chest pain and myocardial infarction. So these guys were great. And Olie Poll, who taught me EKG-- And I was going along fine. But again, the chair of medicine was a Harvard import, S Howard Armstrong. And he had a teaching service. And all the house staff wanted to be on the teaching service where they learned stuff. Private doctors, of course, were offended. So they descended on administration. And they fired the chair of medicine. Armstrong was fired. The house staff teaching service was disbanded. And Armstrong tried to tend to his house. He called me in. He said, Freireich, what do you know about medicine? I said, Dr. Armstrong, you got a wonderful department. I learned EKG. I learned diabetes. I learned heart. I learned everything. The only thing I don't know anything about is hematology, because the guy who teaches hematology is a jerk. Armstrong said, don't worry, Freireich. Go to Boston, that's where the new medicine is coming from Europe. And he gave me letters to the three great hematologists in Boston, Bill Dameshek, Joe Ross, and Dr. Israel, who was a clotter. So I took everything I owned. I put it in my 1946 fastback, broken down Oldsmobile. And I drove to Boston. When I got to Boston, I met Dr. Ross. The guy in the lab who was the chief was so Stuart Finch. I think he just retired. And I collaborated with a young man named Aaron Miller who worked at the VA hospital. And my project funded. Dameshek gave me a job but no money. Israel gave me a job, no money. Ross gave me a job and paid me $5,000 a year, wonderful. So I became a hematologist. I worked on the mechanism of the anemia of inflammation. I studied patients with rheumatoid arthritis. And we had radioisotopes. So I was able to study the iron metabolism and the binding to transferrant. And we did experiments in dogs. And we worked out the mechanism of the anemia. The biggest hematology group in the country, the Wintrobe group, who wrote the textbook, had proven that the anemia of inflammation was due to a failure to incorporate iron into heme. And we found that that was false. When we put the ion on transferrant, it went right into heme. The difficulty was the reutilization of iron from hemoglobin to new heme. And we proved that in dogs. We did experiments with turpentine abcesses in dogs. So I was on a roll. I was doing Nobel laureate stuff. I mean, I gave a paper to the AAP. I gave a paper to the ASCI. I was doing well. And one day I got a letter. You are drafted into the army as a private. If you don't want to be a private, you can become a second lieutenant if you accept the assignment we give you. So I told Ross, I'm leaving. I got to go. I tried to finish up all my experiments. I told my wife we're in trouble. We didn't know what we'd do. We had one baby, one-year-old. She was pregnant with our second child. I didn't tell you the story about my wife. What happened is the head nurse in the clinic, like me, she came for a visit to Boston. They broke into my car and stole her luggage. And so we became attached. And we got married. And we've been married 65 years. But anyhow, she got a job at Mass. General. I had a job at Mass. Memorial. We had enough money to live. And as I say, she got pregnant, and we had babies. And I got this letter that I'm drafted. So I said to my wife, we have to go to the Army. The next morning, I get a call from Chester Scott. Keefer, who you already mentioned-- Dr. Keefer was the physician in charge of the penicillin distribution during the war. He was a very famous infectious disease doctor. He was a brilliant teacher and respected and loved by everybody. When Eisenhower was elected president, as you probably know, like all Republicans, he wanted to decrease the size of the government. So he decided to combine three cabinet departments, Health, Education, and Welfare, into one. That was obviously going to save positions and money. And he appointed Oveta Culp Hobby, who was the publisher of the Houston Post newspaper. She didn't know anything about health. She didn't know anything about education or anything about welfare. So what she did was she hired three people as department heads. And she picked Dr. Keefer to be head of health. Dr. Keefer would not give up the dean of the medical school. So she agreed to have him do both jobs. He was dean of the medical school and Secretary of Health. And he called me to his office. And we all respected Dr. Keefer. You dressed up in a new coat and clicked your heels and said, yes, sir. He said, Freireich, Dr. Ross says you're doing good. Thank you, sir. Have you ever heard of the National Institutes of Health? No, sir. There's a place in Washington where they have a hospital out in the country. And they can't staff it. So we have to send young people who are drafted there. If you go to the public health service, you don't have to go in the army and get shot during the war. Yes, sir. He picked up the phone. Fred, I have a doctor Freireich in my office. He'll be there tomorrow morning. Bye. Thank you. I went home. I told my wife, I have to go to Washington. I got in my car, drove to Washington, 200 miles in a broken down car. I got there. I found the guy at the HEW. He said, Freireich, you have to go to NIH. So go out here and take the bus. It takes you to the clinical center. Before the war, they decided to put a clinical center in the campus of the National Institutes of Health, which were all basic science institutes. There was no medicine. So here was this hospital, and they couldn't staff it. So they took all the draft dodgers. They called us yellow berets. And they staff the NIH with guys right out of their training. So anyhow, I got in my car and drove out there. Where's NIH? There. Who do I talk to? There, you go there. I talked to all the clinical directors. No one needed me. I got to Gordon Zubrod, who had just come from St. Louis University. He was an infectious disease guy. Do you know Gordon Zubrod? Yeah, I actually met him a couple of times with Dr. Frei. Good, yes. Actually, I'd love to hear this story. Dr. Frei has told me the story, your first day at the NCI when you, quote, "found your office." Can you tell us about that one? Yeah. So anyhow, Dr. Zubrod said, what do you do, Freireich? I said, I'm a hematologist. He scratched his head. And he said, I'll tell you what, you have to cure leukemia. I said, yes, sir. You know I'm in the military, so you have to do what you're told. He said, your office is on the 12th floor. I went up to the the 12th floor. I walked along, looked for a name. I came to room that said Emil Frei. I said, isn't that like the damn government? They can't even spell my name. So I walked in. And there was a tall, skinny guy with no hair. I said, sir, you're in my office. He said, your office is next door. I'm Frei. You're Freireich. And we've been friends for a lifetime. He told that story to us many, many times, I'm going to tell you. He thought that was hilarious that this guy walked into his office and said, you're in my office. And he said, no, you're in my office. The other thing I want to talk about then, as you moved on, what made you and Dr. Frei and Dr. Holland decide to go at combination therapy? I think it was based on the infectious disease stuff. Correct, totally. At the time, we had three drugs, 6-MP, methotrexate, prednisone, 48, 53, and about 54, something. Each individually gave some responses. They lasted six to eight weeks. And the children all died. So the world's authority on hematology, Max Wintrobe, wrote a review. And he said, these drugs are simply torturing these children. And they don't do anything. Dameshek wrote editorials in Blood saying they're just killing children. So we were not very popular. But Zubrod came from infectious disease. And Tom Frei was infectious disease. And they had just discovered that in tuberculosis, if you use sequential streptomycin PAS, they became resistant to both drugs. If you gave them simultaneously, their effectiveness was prolonged. So combinations of agents were more effective than the sequences. So Zubrod said, why don't we do the same thing for cancer? We'll do 6-MP and methotrexate in sequence. And we'll do them in combination. To do the combination, we had to work out the doses. Dave Rolle did that in mice. 60% of two immunosuppressive drugs make one. And we gave 6-MP and methotrexate concurrently and in full dose sequentially, that is until they failed, we gave the other one. And the study was called Protocol 1. Jim Holland had gone to Roswell Park. And he agreed to join us. So we became the first acute leukemia cooperative group, Holland at Roswell Park, Frei and Freireich at MD Anderson. Freireich treated the children. And Frei protected Freireich from the rest at NCI and from Zubrod. Zubrod trusted Frei. So if I needed to do anything radical, I'd talk to Frei, and he'd talk to Zubrod. So we were a great team. That was really the start of the cooperative group set, right? That would be CALG, the cancer and leukemia group, is that right? That was the first cooperative group in the country. That's incredible. The cooperative group had to two institutions, Roswell Park and MD Anderson. Who tried to block you on these things? I know it must have taken a lot of courage to put all these drugs together. You mentioned Wintrobe. But were there others who were fundamentally opposed to using combinations? Oh, I'm getting to that. So with the first study, Protocol 1, Russell Park and MD Anderson, children received 6-MP and methotrexate simultaneously and in sequence. And it turned out that Protocol 1 was published. The combination had more frequent remissions and longer duration. So we were onto something. Next we did the prednisone. Prednisone's not myelosuppressive. We could do full-dose prednisone with 6-MP, full dose prednisone with methotrexate, same result. In every instance, the combination was superior to the sequence. So one day I'm sitting in my office. About once a week he'd come around and look. He came in one day. He said, Dr. Freireich, this ward is a mess. Everything is full of blood, the nurse's uniforms, the curtains, the ceiling. Well, anyhow, I was taking care of my bleeding children one day when a guy from Eli Lilly showed up. I think his name was Armstrong. And he said, we've got a new drug that was founded by-- you know who that was. Let me see his name. Mike Black. He discovered it in mice, periwinkle extract. Periwinkle had 80 alkaloids. And they screened them all against mice. And this one was active in one kind of mouse leukemia. But it wasn't active in L1210. So he said, we have this drug. And we offered it to Dr. Farber at Dana Farber. And we're going to offer it to you if you want to do it. I said, wonderful. So I wrote a protocol. And Zubrod said, but this drug is not active in L1210. And we know that the drugs active in L12101 leukemia are active in human leukemia. So this drug cannot be studied. Aha, time for Emil Frei III. I went to Tom. I said, look, Tom, vincristine is not myelosuppressive. As a single agent, it causes 80% complete remissions. I want to vincristine to 6-MP and methotrexate. Zubrod says no. Frei said, leave it to me. He talked to Zubrod. I told Zubrod, these children are dying. I've got to do something. So they approved it. And we did decide the VAMP. We knew prednisone was not myelosuppressive. We could add it to 6-MP and methotrexate, full dose. We knew this dose of 6-MP and methotrexate. Vincristine turned out to be not myelosuppressive, CNS toxicity. So we designed the VAMP drug. Then we said, let's let Holland and the other members of the cooperative group join so we can get this done quick. The cooperative group refused. Jim Holland refused. He wanted to do them one at a time, prednisone, 6-MP, methotrexate, vincristine, prednisone, vincristine, and so on. It would have taken us five years. We went through the same thing with MOPP. They wanted to do it one at a time. So we had to do it alone in the cancer institute. So Frei went to Zubrod and said, why can't we do it? Zubrod said, if you say it's OK, you can do it. Frei was chair of the group. And I'm not going to put my patients on the group. So Frei had to resign. Holland became the chair. And Frei was an advisor. So we started out with VAMP. We had 98% remissions. The remissions lasted about six weeks. We realized that they weren't cured. So we said to the parents, this treatment was toxic. It was full-dose 6-MP and methotrexate. And the parents said they're going to risk their children's life, but we're going to do what we called early intensification. That is, the children in complete remission would get full-dose induction therapy, never done before. And I met with the parents every morning and went over each child to be sure that they were with us. The parents were wonderful. We had solved the bleeding problem with platelet transfusions. We'd had white cell transfusions and so on. And they went along with us. So we did early intensification. We did it in about 12 patients. Two of them almost died, very severe infection on the brain. But we saved them. So we knew this was dangerous. But they all relapsed. Median duration remission was about eight weeks, even though we did early intensification. So MC Li had cured choriocarcinoma. I don't know if you know that story. MC Li and I were residents at Presbyterian at the same time. We were good friends. I was his advisor on this strategy. He measured chorionic gonadotropin in the urine. And he knew that as long as there was gonadotropin in the urine, they weren't cured. So he kept treating them. So we decided to follow the Li model. And what we did was we did early intensification, which they all survived, fortunately. And then we did intermittent reinduction. Every four to six weeks, we'd bring them in and give them another course of treatment. And we did that for a year. And then we stopped. And then we watched them. And that's when we found 20% of the patients were in remission at, I think, 18 months. Never been reported before. And I did report that to AACR. I've seen the AACR abstract. And I would love to know what was the energy in the room when that was presented. Did people stand up and throw rotten tomatoes at you, or did they stand up and applaud, or everything in between? No one applauded. Everybody was incredulous. The people in the group didn't believe it. Most people thought we were lying. If it wasn't for Frei, I'd have never gotten away with it. Let me ask you another question. Dr. Frei told me that the first patient you gave platelets to, you had to sneak out at night and do it. Is that true? He said there were people who did not want you to give platelet transfusions. The platelet transfusions were a bigger fight than the chemotherapy, because everybody knew that platelets were not the cause of it. Dr. Brecher had studied patients in the war from radiation injury. He had dogs that he completely phoresed, zero platelets. And they didn't bleed. So obviously, platelets were not the problem. The problem was a circulating anticoagulant. And I did experiments in the lab and proved that that was false. But anyway, the platelet transfusions are what made all of this possible, because the children all died of hemorrhage. And once we had platelets, we could treat them with the chemotherapy. Is there a story behind the first patients who got platelet transfusions? Again, Dr. Frei told me that-- Oh, boy, that's a wonderful story. I actually published it. This was a young man who was bleeding to death whose father was a minister. And since it was proven that platelets were not important and there was a circulating anticoagulant, I decided that the only way to arrest the hemorrhage was to do an exchange transfusion like you do in eritroblastosis fetalis. So I said to the minister, if you bring me 10 healthy volunteers, I want to do this experiment on your son. And he was desperate. His son was a beautiful 8-year-old boy. His name was Scotty Dinsmore. How do you like that? [LAUGHTER] Scotty Dinsmore was bleeding to death. And he arrived the next morning with 10 volunteers. And I sat down in the treatment room. And I did an exchange transfusion with 50 cc syringes, 50 ccs from Scotty in the trash can, 50 ccs from the donor in Scotty. And we calculated I had exchanged three blood volumes to get to where the concentration was detectable. And when I finished this four-hour procedure, bending over my back with syringes and volunteers, his platelet count was 100,000. And is bleeding completely stopped. So we thought we'd made a breakthrough, but we were smarter than that. We watched him every day and did a platelet count. And we found that the platelet lifespan was four to six days. And when the platelets got below 10,000-- we had done a retrospective study, and we knew what the threshold for bleeding was. And he started bleeding again. So it was obvious that it was not an anticoagulant. I did experiments in my lab. I took the serum and mixed it with the plasma and so forth. So we proved that it was platelets and not an anticoagulant. And then we had to figure out how to get platelets. And Allen Kleiman in the blood bank and I worked together to do platelet phoresis. We took the unit separate platelets, put the blood back, volunteer donors. And we proved that platelets stopped the bleeding. And we published that, a great paper, citation classic. I was going to say for the young folks. And I asked Dr. Frei this too when I was at the Dana Farber. Did you ever doubt yourself? Did you think, we need to quit doing this? This is more than we can handle. I know Dr. Farber was widely criticized in Boston for-- Oh, boy. He studied vincristine at the same time we did. Yeah. So did you ever say, maybe we should set this whole system down and give up? No, I was never intimidated, because Dr. Zubrod gave me orders, cure leukemia. So I was going to do it. Yeah, my impression from talking with Dr. Frei is Gordon Zubrod was the sort of unsung hero in all of this. He is. He is. He had the courage to back a 25-year-old guy and his resident to do things that were potentially insane. We could have gone to jail for what we did. We could have killed all those kids. That's what Dr. Frei-- Dr. Holland has told me the same story. So we owe you a great debt. So let me ask you. When you were the president of ASCO, in those days, what made you decide to run for ASCO? It was still pretty early in the early 1980s. Well, that's a very good story. I'm a pioneer in that regard too. When you became a cancer doctor, you had to join the AACR. AACR was dominant. I joined the AACR. I sent my papers on platelets and chemotherapy to AACR. They accepted all of them. But they put the clinical papers on Saturday morning. When I gave my first paper at AACR, the chairman of the session, my wife and my son were the only ones in the audience. Nobody stayed till Saturday morning. So I got mad. I said, I'm discovering things, and I can't present them at AACR. No one's listening. So we said, let's form a society that is clinical oncology and meets the day before AACR the clinical scientists who want to go AACR don't have to go to two meetings. So we organized a plenary meeting the day before AACR began. In the first session, we had a lecture on CML from-- I forgot who the talker was who is treating CML, Berechenal or someone. Karanovsky? I don't know. So we had lectures, not papers. And we did that for a couple of years. And then AACR knew what we were doing. We were totally cooperating. But we hired a manager. And we started a scientific exhibit. So we had lots of money. And AACR needed money. And we were rich. So I got a call from the president of AACR. And he said, we don't want to continue to meet at the same time, because all of our doctors want to get these free samples. And they go to your meetings, and they don't go to our meetings. So we're separating from ASCO. I said, that's terrible, because the ASCO doctors all want to go AACR. He said, sorry, we can't take you anymore. I forgot who was president at the time. So ASCO had to separate from AACR. They separated from us. Most people think we separated from them. They separated from us. You were there at the very start. So I really appreciate your contributions to the field. And I appreciate your taking time today. And I appreciate all the things you did to help all the patients who've now survived that wouldn't have if you hadn't. Thank you very much. Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or a review on Apple podcast or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org.
Dylan Ferrandis, The 722, DeanO, and a post race track discussion with DV, the 722, and Chiz
Some speculative crimes that may be by the same killer. Three crimes are described, the murder of the interracial Casaway family in San Antonio, TX; the Hills in Ardenwald, OR; and the Cobles in Rainier, WA. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215903375210815&type=3&uploaded=12 San Antonio “Claims he is innocent,” Austin American-Statesman, August 14, 1911. “Five in family killed while asleep,” San Antonio Express, March 23, 1911. “House in which tragedy occurred appears gloomy,” San Antonio Express, March 25, 1911. “M'Williams held in jail,” Houston Post, August 17, 1911. “Mystery deepens,” Victoria Daily Advocate, March 27, 1911. Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States (1908). “Person crazed,” Victoria Daily Advocate, April 1, 1911. Ruby B. Casaway. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134658370/ruby-b_-casaway “Says he killed Casaway family,” Victoria Daily Advocate, May 30, 1911. “Texas news,” Austin American-Statesman, August 10,1911. “Two brothers located,” San Antonio Express, March 31, 1911. “White suspected,” Victoria Daily Advocate, March 25, 1911. “With a smiling face defendant hears evidence,” San Antonio Express, August 15, 1911. Ardenwald “A reign of terror at Ardenwald,” Salem Capital Journal, June 16, 1911. “Attorneys admit Harvey employed them after crime,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911. "Fiend uses axe to murder family of five,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 9, 1911. “Harvey family record bad; case of state in brief,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911. “Much evidence against Harvey not yet divulged,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911. “Mulatto may be murderer of 4, belief of police,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 10, 1911. “Murder and suicide,” Salem Statesman Journal, June 12, 1890. “Nathan Harvey is dismissed; will be rearrested,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 26, 1911. “Nathan Harvey may be Barbara Holtzman slayer,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911. “Neighbors recall strange actions of Nathan Harvey,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911. “Posse on trail of man seeking an unused road,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 21, 1911. “Reward of $2875 for conviction of Hills' murderer,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911. “Series of crimes for 20 years in Harvey's family,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911. “Stories agree up to about an hour before murders,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911. Thatcher, George A. Why Some Men Kill: Or, Murder Mysteries Revealed. Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective Society, 1919. Rainier “Did insane man slay couple?,” Tacoma Times, July 12, 1911. “Fiend confesses,” Roseburg (OR) Review, July 25, 1911. “Rainier butchery proves parallel to that of Hills,” Oregon Daily Journal, July 12, 1911. “Sheriff Mass of Clackamas to go to Rainier, Wash.,” Oregon Daily Journal, July 16, 1911. “Slain with axe while asleep,” Seattle Star, July 12, 1911. “The Cathey boys in limelight,” Corvallis (OR) Weekly Gazette-Times, July 21, 1911. Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma.
Steve and Alex talk with Errol Allen about the importance of having systems and procedures in place in order to maximize the efficiency of how your business runs. When you flow chart how you step through specific tasks in the office, inefficiencies can be pinpointed and fixed. Training your employees properly allows you to hold them accountable for their performance. This also reduces turnover because employees have a clear understanding of what is expected. Documenting procedures is the key to properly train staff so they perform their tasks correctly every time. Task manuals show them exactly how to do their job. This also ensures that all clients receive the same experience and level of service regardless of which employee they are working with. Guest: Errol Allen of EA ConsultingInternationally known operations consultant, speaker, author and customer service expert Errol Allen provides practical advice and solutions garnered from over 25 years of hands – on experience. He possesses a multi-faceted perspective of organizations through the various positions held during his corporate tenure with companies such as ADT Security Systems, TCI Cablevision, The Houston Post, Excel Communications, e-talk and GEICO Insurance. From the phone to the field, Errol has serviced customers himself and understands that a “systems” orientation is crucial to providing excellent customer service. Hosts: Steve Rozenberg – Co Founder of Empire Industries LLC, investor, speaker.Alex Osenenko – President and CEO of FourandHalf
BYU vs. Houston: Post-game Locker show interview with McKay Cannon
BYU vs. Houston- Post-game interview with Assistant Coach Lee Cummard
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We look back on the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century when UH defeated UCLA on January 20th 1968 in the Astrodome. Over the years on our show, we reminisced about the game, the atmosphere & the man behind it all, Cougars Head Coach & Naismith Hall of Famer Guy V. Lewis. You’ll hear past interviews from UH Legend Don Chaney, Houston Post & Chronicle sports writer & editor Mickey Herksowitz (who covered the game), Chronicle Cougars beat writer Joseph Duarte and Robert Jacobus, who wrote the book "Houston Cougars in the 1960’s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense & the Game of the Century”. Email Info@HoustonSportsTalk.net for comments or questions.
Guests Nicole Ridley, CEO of LCMS Housing Support, Rev. Roosevelt Gray, Director of Black Ministry for the LCMS Office of National Mission, Deaconess Kim Schave, Director of Project and Policy Administration for the LCMS, and Rev. Dr. Steve Schave, Director of Urban Ministry for the LCMS Office of National Mission, share stories from their journey to Houston to see how the church and organizations can help those in the underserved neighborhoods of Houston recover after the destruction of Hurricane Harvey.
Peter Schaad and Paul Dolan recap the 'Caps and Dynamo from BC Place.
The sky's not falling here, we promise! We go in depth on what went wrong and what went right. We also take a look ahead to what awaits the Sooners.
Bleacher Report's Brian McDonald and Houston Post & Chronicle longtime reporter Mickey Herskowitz share their memories of the Greatest of All Time. Mickey authored Howard Cosell's biography and he remembers their special relationship. Herskowitz also met Ali several times and helped Ali write his account of Muhammad's legal battle with the government over his refusal to fight in Vietnam. We talk about a memorable scene in Harlem and a skill Ali had that surprised everybody.
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Mickey spent over 50 years as a sportswriter and editor for the Houston Post & Chronicle. He tells stories about the Colt 45's, Astros & Buffs early days, Bud Adams, George Blanda, the Game of the Century and how the Rockets came to Houston. Herskowitz, who authored over 30 books, shares inside stories on subjects Nolan Ryan, Mickey Mantle and Howard Cosell.
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Enjoy the best of our Oilers interviews over our show's 1st two & a half years. You'll hear from Dan Pastorini, Hall of Fame DE Elvin Beathea, Pro Bowl LB Robert Brazile, Spencer Tillman, Pro Bowl DE William Fuller, the Chronicle's John McClain & Dale Robertson, Oilers Radio voice Tom Franklin, Jerry Trupiano and Houston Post columnist Kenny Hand. The stories go from the classic Luv Ya Blue Bum Phillips era to Jerry Glanville to Buddy Ryan & Jack Pardee.
She was the wife of a former governor, publisher of the Houston Post, a noted philanthropist, and proudly served her country in World War 2. She was also the second woman to ever hold a cabinet position in the United States. She lived a fascinating life of service and responsibility to the people of the Lone Star State.
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Peter Houston speaks to ArabZONE after the final whistle at Stranraer.
Major Garrett is a White House correspondent for National Journal and also contributes to 2012 Decoded. Prior to National Journal, Garret reported for Fox News, where he was the Chief White House Correspondent. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered Congress, two presidential elections, the war in Iraq and many other issues of national importance. Before joining Fox News, Garrett was a White House correspondent for CNN, covering Presidents Bush and Clinton. Prior to that he was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, where he reported on Congress and the impeachment of President Clinton. From 1990-1995, he was a congressional reporter for The Washington Times, and from 1995-1997, he was the newspaper's deputy national editor. Earlier in his career Garrett was a reporter for The Houston Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Amarillo Globe-News. Garrett has also authored three books. His third, The Enduring Revolution (2005), was recently voted one of the best non-fiction political books of all time by readers of Chris Cillizza's Washington Post "The Fix" blog.
SPONSORED BY: The New Era Times ~ An Online Newspaper for the Dawning of a New Era Robert's guests are Rita Mills & Peggy Sue Skipper, co-founders of The New Era Times and sponsors of a series of 8 shows that can be heard Thursdays 9:-10pm EDT here on BITEradioME. Tonight we'll discuss their spiritual co-creation of the newspaper. Peggy Sue Skipper, Co-Founder of The New Era Times, is the author of three books: The Art of Conscious Evolution, Love Signs, and her latest Ancient History Beyond the Veil. Peggy is also the video host of "The New Era Connection" where she interviews a wide spectrum of authors about their metaphysical books. Peggy Sue Skipper is also an Intuitive Hand Analyst, who decodes a person's fingerprints to help them understand their unique Life Process which includes the Life Purpose and Life Lesson. Rita Mills, Co-Founder of The New Era Times Rita Mills' passions are the First Amendment, books, and literacy so it is understandable that her career would take its charted path. She left The Houston Post, a major metropolitan newspaper, on the '90s to become the Managing Editor of an academic book publisher at the University of Houston. She has owned The Book Connection since 1996 where she is a book publishing consultant and packages book projects for publishers. She has a small publishing company where she focuses on children's picturebooks. For more information visit http://www.tnetimes.com/
Grab a seat on the wild side of an obsessive relationship, from its erotic beginning to its violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. Gary Taylor, a former Houston Post reporter recounts his personal, true-life fatal attraction involvement in the trail of violence that dogged texas attorney Catherine McHaffey Shelton for nearly three decades, prompting coverage by newspapers, magazines, 48 Hours, American Justice and even Oprah. The result is a tooth-grinding, genre-bending tale that blends memoir with murder mystery and legal procedural with psycho-killer in an adventure odyssey of self-discovery that nearly cost him his life. LUGGAGE BY KROGER-Gary Taylor
Richard Cook is a former federal government analyst who was one of the key figures in the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. In 1985, he went to work for NASA as the lead resource analyst for the space shuttle solid rocket boosters, external tank, and Centaur upper stage. Cook’s first assignment led to his writing a memo on engineers’ concerns that flaws with the solid rocket booster O-ring seals could cause the shuttle to blow up. In 1986, after the Challenger disaster, he disrupted a NASA cover-up when he provided his memo, along with other documents on the hazards of the O-rings, to the New York Times. His disclosures paved the way for revelations by engineers from Morton Thiokol, Inc., about how they opposed the launch of Challenger the night before lift-off. Called to testify before the Presidential Commission at an internationally televised public hearing, Cook stood his ground when his experience and competence were challenged. He continued to contribute to the investigation during interviews with Commission staff and the NASA Office of Inspector General and in meetings with Senator Ernest Hollings, who was trying to raise issues before the Senate on whether there had been White House pressure to launch Challenger. In addition to extensive interviews with the media after the disaster, Cook published articles in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Space and Security News, and the Houston Post; gave a press conference with the Institute of Space and Security Studies, where he said that the Presidential Commission had been created to cover-up the role of the White House in the launch decision; and wrote a report which he submitted to the U.S. Justice Department with a request for a new investigation. In 1991, he was the recipient of the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government, sharing the award with Roger Boisjoly of Morton Thiokol. Before joining NASA, Cook worked as an analyst for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, where he received extensive training in federal government operations. He then worked for the Food and Drug Administration and next served in the Jimmy Carter White House under Esther Peterson, special assistant to the president for consumer affairs. He also taught history at the Field School, a private high school in Washington, D.C. Cook left NASA to become an analyst with the U.S. Treasury Department in 1986. There he developed and taught training courses on policy analysis and led project teams on financial policy and organizational restructuring. He authored Challenger Revealed- An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age in 2006. He retired from the federal government in January 2007 and works today as a writer, lecturer, and consultant. His website is richardccook.com. Cook graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He resides in College Park, Maryland. One of his areas of interest has been the monetary system and he has written a series of articles about the current financial crisis including- Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A., Has the Battle for America Begun?, and An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the United States. He spoke recently on Will We See the End of the Empire in Our Time? at the Building a New World Conference". His forthcoming book is entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform and he can be contacted regarding the book at economicsanity@gmail.com. Richard spoke about the current crisis we're in, particularly what is not reported in the press or widely understood by the public about money creation, debt, and credit and the financial shenanigans that are impoverishing the country. He also oferred his ideas for monetary reform, including the abolition of the Federal Reserve, national control over the creation of credit and a citizen's dividend. DownloadRichard C. Cook's website is: http://www.richardccook.comSource: We The People Radio Network (WTPRN)Aired: 6/03/08 12:00 AMThis podcast is an aggregate of audio files freely available online. Please visit the original source and subscribe to the host website.
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