Podcast appearances and mentions of John Connelly

On this episode, renowned historian John Connelly from the University of California, Berkeley, talks with us about the growth of fascism from democracy, the roots and justification narratives of anti-semitism in Germany and elsewhere, and the development of nationalism in modern history across Europe. Thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and Director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his BSFS from Georgetown University, an MA (in Russian and East European Studies) from the University of Michigan, and a Phd from Harvard University. His scholarship focuses on the history of East and Central Europe, with special concern for problems of religious and ethnic identity in multinational space. He has published Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education (Chapel Hill, 2000),From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard UP, 2012), and From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton, 2020), and is at work on a history of democracy in Europe, 1076-present.. https://history.berkeley.edu/john-connelly PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 1, 2023 at the 2023 ASEEES Convention at the Philadelphia marriott Downtown. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! PRODUCTION CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce SlavX Editorial Director: Sam Parrish Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Beat Mekanik, Kevin Bryce, Makaih Beats, Ketsa, Broke for Free) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: John Connelly.

Welcome to a crucial installment of "OT Helpdesk," where we embark on a deep dive into the art of test-taking. In Part I of our series on test-taking strategies, Dr. John Connelly and Joseph illuminate the path to success by introducing clinical reasoning within the context of answering board exam questions.Uncover the power of applying the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) and The Wingman Process to enhance your clinical reasoning skills. This episode serves as a compass, guiding you through the intricacies of understanding and employing these frameworks effectively.But that's not all – we also dissect the nuances between remediation, compensation, and adaptation intervention techniques. John and Joseph provide real-world examples, offering a comprehensive review that will not only bolster your exam preparation but also enrich your understanding of these critical concepts in occupational therapy.Stay tuned for valuable insights, actionable strategies, and a roadmap to mastering the art of clinical reasoning on your journey to becoming a certified occupational therapist. Subscribe now to "OT Helpdesk" and empower yourself with the knowledge that sets the foundation for success.

On today's episode of the Shame List Picture Show, Michael is joined by community and labor organizer John Connelly to discuss NORMA RAE. The post The Shame List Picture Show S7E17 — NORMA RAE (1979) feat. John Connelly appeared first on Cinepunx.

In this episode of "OT Helpdesk," we invite you to unwind and destress with us. Dr. John Connelly guides you through a soothing journey of relaxation techniques tailored for board exam preparation. Relaxation is a fundamental element in maintaining focus and mental clarity while navigating the demands of your occupational therapy board exams. Join us as John unveils the secrets to harnessing the power of progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and autogenic training.Discover how these techniques can be your allies in reducing anxiety, enhancing concentration, and fostering a calm, resilient mindset as you prepare for the boards. John's expertise and soothing guidance provide the perfect toolkit to help you stay cool, collected, and confident throughout your exam preparation journey.Tune in to "OT Helpdesk" and equip yourself with relaxation strategies that can make a profound difference in your success. Subscribe today and immerse yourself in a world of tranquility and empowerment as you work towards your board exam goals.

In this pivotal episode of "OT Helpdesk," we dive into the latest changes on the horizon for the NBCOT exam set to take effect in January 2024. Join Dr. John Connelly and Joseph as they meticulously dissect the modifications based on information provided by the NBCOT website.The heart of this episode lies in a comprehensive review of a sample case scenario focusing on strokes. John and Joseph explore each possible answer, delving into the intricate world of clinical reasoning. They articulate the rationale behind their choices, sharing insights that can empower you on your journey to excel in the NBCOT exam.Stay tuned for an insightful discussion that will not only prepare you for the evolving exam format but also sharpen your clinical reasoning skills. Subscribe now to "OT Helpdesk" and join us as we navigate the ever-changing landscape of the NBCOT board exam. 

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the "OT Helpdesk" podcast! In this exciting kickoff, your hosts, Dr. John Connelly and Joseph, are thrilled to introduce themselves, share their passion for occupational therapy, and provide a comprehensive overview of the game-changing resource – OT Helpdesk.Dr. John Connelly, a seasoned occupational therapist and educator, brings his wealth of experience to the podcast. With a deep understanding of the ins and outs of the field and a commitment to helping aspiring occupational therapists succeed, he's here to guide you on your journey.Joseph, the brains behind OT Helpdesk, joins Dr. Connelly to discuss the inspiration behind this invaluable resource designed to help you conquer the challenges of board exam preparation. Discover how their combined expertise and dedication to the occupational therapy community led to the creation of OT Helpdesk.In this episode, you'll learn:What drove Dr. Connelly and Joseph to pursue careers in occupational therapy.The pivotal role OT plays in enhancing the lives of individuals across the lifespan.A sneak peek into the comprehensive board exam preparation product, OT Helpdesk, designed to empower students and professionals to excel in the field.How OT Helpdesk can be your ultimate companion in achieving success on your journey to becoming a certified occupational therapist.Get ready to embark on an enlightening and empowering journey with "OT Helpdesk." Subscribe now, and stay tuned for future episodes packed with insightful discussions, expert interviews, study tips, and everything you need to thrive in the world of occupational therapy.Join us, and let's explore the endless possibilities that the world of occupational therapy has to offer!

Content Warning: Suicide In this episode, Dan wants to talk about a topic that is frequently intertwined with addiction, so much so that he sees it consistently in his mental health group and receives DMs about it daily: suicide in men. He is joined by John Connelly who talks about his own experience of almost taking his own life, what led him to that decision and what they both agree needs to change. KEY TAKEAWAYS On the outside everything appeared normal about John's life. He had a loving family, a good childhood and a stable home life but he felt numb most of the time. Men need to be given knowledge and education on the reality of life and what depression and other mental struggles can feel like. If we can teach people, men especially, to speak up when they are struggling with their mental health it would save a lot of lives. There is immense pressure on men by society to be ‘strong' and alongside that many men feel they can't be open about when they are feeling down or lost. If you struggle with addiction or mental health difficulties, it can only take a couple of life events to push you to the edge. If you can recognise when you are vulnerable you can get support and/or look to protect yourself. John recognises that if he had reached out before the death of his grandad, he would have had support in place to stop him from going further into the depths of depression. The difficulties John has been through he is now grateful for, he is now using his journey to help others. BEST MOMENTS  "I was gonna do it, I was gonna end my life” “I have always been a very insecure, self-conscious, shy person” “We need to speak about it more, we need to educate more” “I'm so thankful that these things have happened to me, I now understand so much more” "Everything that's led to now that's just made you who you are today" VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.facebook.com/groups/menandtheiremotions/ CONTACT METHOD Instagram Facebook Twitter ABOUT THE HOSTS Daniel O'Reilly Daniel O'Reilly is one of the UK's Largest Influencers, a comedian, actor, musician, viral video star and social influencer. With a portfolio of businesses Daniel enjoys a busy lifestyle mixed with business and pleasure. Daniel is a father to two beautiful girls and enjoys spending quality time with them and his wife Shelley. With 2022 being a busy year, Daniel sold out his O2 stand-up show, released his British movie 'The Last Heist'  and is currently preparing for the upcoming release of his other film 'Miss The Kiss'. Daniel is a creative through and through, with a passion to strive in everything he does. Daniel is looking forward to the release of his podcast 'Menace 2 Sobriety' in 2023, his long-term position on GB News, Headliners, and the growing slate of films in the works with his production company, HYPRR.  Kirk Norcross Instagram “My name is Kirk Norcross, I'm 34 years old, I had a pretty good run, a TV career which I can't even remember hardly any of that, drugs consumed my life I always used drugs like an addict but I didn't use them all the time until my fiancé split up with me for no reason and never gave me a reason and I was so upset, hurt and confused. I started using drugs to self-medicate to shut my brain down to stop thinking and then spiral turned and turned and turned until I was like a wrecking ball everywhere I went every penny I had went on drugs, my whole life revolved around drugs I tried recovery a couple of times and kept relapsing then I lost my due to suicide, and it was like something clicked in my head that I need to step up to the plate and be the man that my father wanted me to be, and from then on, I've been so as of today's date I am 583 days sober haven't touched any drugs or alcohol or any other mind-influencing substance since then.”   Menace 2 Sobriety, podcast, actor, comedian, sobriety,sober, story, years sober, consequences, behaviour,alcoholism, drug addiction, denial, insecurity, fear-driven,rock bottom, sober, rehab, suicidal, addict,realization, struggle, addiction, rock bottom, denial,curiosity, hope, denial, gratitude, self-awareness,behaviour, guilt, shame, emotions, gratitude,self esteem, gratitude, sober life, drugs, confidence,sobriety, ego, drinking,Sobriety Podcast #wedorecover # recoveroutloud #addicitonrecovery #addiction #recoverytok #sobriety #sober #sobertiktok #sobertok #soberlife #sobercurious #soberliving: https://www.instagram.com/dappersinstagram/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In part two of this two-part episode, retired agents Phil Torsney and Tommy MacDonald review how, during the unresolved fugitive investigation of James “Whitey” Bulger, they altered their investigative strategy by focusing a public media campaign, including a national 30-second Public Service Announcement, on photos they had acquired of Bulger's female companion, Catherine Greig. Bulger had served as an informant for the FBI for several years. His FBI agent handler, John Connelly, was charged and convicted for revealing to Bulger that he was about to be indicted for RICO by the Massachusetts State Police and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Federal prosecutors later filed a superseding indictment and, in addition to the initial racketeering charges, tried and convicted Bulger for nineteen murders. Torsney and MacDonald gathered the evidence that finally led to the dramatic capture of Bulger and Greig by agent Scott Garriola in the LA Division. Phil Torsney served in the FBI for over 29 years. Tommy MacDonald served for twenty-five years. Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles: https://jerriwilliams.com/283-phil-torsney-and-tommy-macdonald-whitey-bulger-fugitive-hunt-part-2/   Buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JerriWilliams Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here. http://eepurl.com/dzCCmL  Check out my FBI books, non-fiction and crime fiction, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold. https://jerriwilliams.com/books/ 

Retired agents Phil Torsney and Tommy MacDonald review how they were selected for a special assignment in Boston to work the unresolved fugitive investigation for James “Whitey” Bulger, a long-time FBI Top Ten Fugitive and Boston organized crime boss who had been in hiding for sixteen years with his girlfriend Catherine Greig. Bulger had served as an informant for the FBI for several years. His FBI agent handler, John Connelly, was charged and convicted for revealing to Bulger that he was about to be indicted for RICO by the Massachusetts State Police and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Torsney and MacDonald gathered the evidence that finally led to the captured of Bulger and Greig. Phil Torsney served in the FBI for over 29 years. Tommy MacDonald served for twenty-five years.   Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles. https://jerriwilliams.com/282-phil-torsney-and-tommy-macdonald-whitey-bulger-fugitive-hunt-part-1/ Buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JerriWilliams Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here. http://eepurl.com/dzCCmL  Check out my FBI books, non-fiction and crime fiction, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold. https://jerriwilliams.com/books/

It's been nearly a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and we've since become accustomed to tragic reports and gruesome images of the war.  But there's another side of Ukraine—its complicated history and rich culture—that's seldom seen by Americans.  On this episode, we're joined by Megan Buskey, author of Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return.  Using family history as a window into broader dynamics within Ukraine, Buskey touches on a number of topics, including memory, migration, and the war's impact on young Ukrainians.  For further reading:  John Connelly explains what makes Ukraine different Kathryn David on Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church Adrian Bonenberger on Ukraine's Orthodox spirituality

“Why don't you think for yourself?” NUCLEAR ASSAULT, the crossover thrash titans hailing from NYC featuring the aggro bass thunder of Dan Lilker (formerly of Anthrax and S.O.D.) alongside the punishing riffs & brutal lyrical commentary of John Connelly, graced metal with an uncompromising attitude and visceral urgency that combines old-school thrash themes with New York hardcore aggression, resulting in an East Coast crossover thrash sound so desperately needed (and welcomed) during the late 80's and early 90's.    It's time to partake of some “far beyond decently” recorded thrash greatness while deciding whether to style your downstairs into “braids, cornrows, or ‘fros” as you bear witness to a brilliantly executed “Black Album Reference” regarding “the prior episode(s)” and JOIN US for a well-deserved INSIDE THE METAL memorial dedication to the “wall of sound” that is NUCLEAR ASSAULT.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “Now it's a party…” #airhornASMR #thisepisodesclinkyoftheepisode #SinEater / Some side notes regarding #akkadakka / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #liverjuice , a few #BobRossRocks and a perfect segue into #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #StillFireBrewing #MidnightVoyage (Cool album cover…) #buttonrubASMR / #sevenpointninepercentABV #stout without the usual aftertaste #wellwrittendescriptionASMR / “It reminds me of when I was married…”   (04:26): #thevoicemailsegment ***GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** The return of The Post and some feedback regarding #TheMushroomChronicles as well as a perfectly executed #wellplayed #BlackAlbumReference / “I felt a little dirty after that…” / There's no #thrashflaccidity here… #wevenotgonesoft #wearegettinghardagain / Some excellent book recommendations, especially if you're a fan of #KISS / “The make up and the show and the fire and the blood…” / Rock & Metal #autobios are some of the most captivating reads ever! ***What's YOUR favorite Rock and/or Metal autobiography? *** “Is listening to a book on tape technically still reading?” / Rock & Metal #autobiographies / The book in question is Runnin' with the Devil:  A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen (Noel Monk and Joe Layden) / “There's still time, man…” / #itsnevertoolate / #FledglingVaginas with special guests: #AssTrash/ ***WE'LL PLAY YOUR SHIT-TAH!!!*** send it to us via IG or FB or via email at metalnerdery@gmail.com / “This is from Bob…no band name provided in the email” INDOCTRINATE (NOTE:  The band in question is actually #AngelusApatrida) / #farbeyonddecently   (14:53): #TheDocket NUCLEAR ASSAULT (R.I.P.) and some #tangentionalality to #bolth #StormtroopersOfDeath #SOD and #Anthrax / Co-found or Co-find? / A rather abbreviated (yet potent) body of work (quality over quantity) / The super-aggro Dan Lilker bass is what gives #NuclearAssault an extra edge / #prettytypicalgross / #hehim and the vocal stylings & riffage of John Connelly/ “It sounds like #Testament used to come through town in the 80's like #Pantera did in the 90's”    (20:44); “Game Over” (1986) #cokelinesaplenty SIN (“Its like this, but completely different”) / BETRAYAL (Now THAT is an #oldschoolthrash riff!!!). / Very bass centric / “Somebody's #vibrator is going off…” /    (24:07): “Survive” (1988) BRAINWASHED #readthoselyrics / “There's definitely an injection of balls in the mix department…” / #analogymadnessASMR / F# (that's F Sharp, not F Hashtag, btw) / GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (#LedZeppelin) / “I do what I can…my ass does the rest…” #markthetime    (28:50): “Handle With Care” (1989) / “Hamburgers are nothing more than #flatearthmeatballs…” / NEW SONG #killeropener #aggrothrash / WHEN FREEDOM DIES & CRITICAL MASS (***definitely go check out the #musicvideo and #readthoselyrics***) #FollowMe / #aggrobass / A quick analysis of John Connelly's voice / F Natural (or F*) WAKE UP / “A massive boner of sound” (#wallofaggro)   (35:56): “Out of Order” (1991) / “Never got the whole #Nirvana thing…” / “You never ‘kill' #themetal…”/ SIGN IN BLOOD (kinda “Hit the Lights” -ish at the intro) / PREACHING TO THE DEAF (Definitely sounds like early 90's thrash)    (41:28): “Something Wicked” (1993) SOMETHING WICKED #allthecokelines #killeropener / “maybe that was their ‘Pre-Load'…” / CHAOS (definitely slower and groovier) / “Hints of the dude from #MollyHatchet…”    (46:11): “Third World Genocide” (2005) / “Sometimes we learn things too…” / #killeropener #titlay THIRD WORLD GENOCIDE / “Braids, cornrows or a butthole fro?” / PRICE OF FREEDOM (“It's still better than #Poison”) / “I'm not against that…” / Push past your #comfortzone and embrace new things / #futureepisodeideas / Tales from the #triptapes / LONG HAIRED ASSHOLE ( that sound is either a #jewsharp or a #jawharp) / “PCP seems like a #conspiracytheory” / #QuaaludeChronicles / “I guess Ludes were too good…”/ #untilthenext ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!*** #thelastword / ***PLEASE SUPPORT METAL NERDERY PODCAST  AND VISIT THE UNDERGROUND BUNKERPOON GIFT SHOPPE AND PURCHANDISE SOME MERCHANDISE FROM metalnerdery.com/merch / #outroreel

We look back at the contributions of John Connelly, the long-time National Fisheries Institute leader, who passed away at 61 years old. Plus, we discuss Washington State's ban on finfish netpen farming.

Ken and Matt talk about their magic in coming together to make Hindsight for Heavy Metal's Virus. Matt Medney and John Connelly's new novel Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is available now. Download today at Audible.com!

John Connelly discusses his work life work life balance between his legendary band Sevendust and Projected. How does he know which band he is writing for? Manage his time and get away? Brock covers all that and a pineapple pizza. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this Matrix on Point event, recorded on March 15, 2022, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars discussed the Ukraine-Russia War conflict and its implications. Panelists included John Connelly, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor in the Department of History; Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Quantedge Presidential Professor in the Department of Economics; Gérard Roland, the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science; and Katerina Linos, the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor of Law. Daniel Sargent Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley, moderated.

22-year-old John Connelly was found laying on his back in the parking lot of his Toronto apartment complex on December 9th, 2001. John was a 3rd-year Pharmacy student at the University of Toronto in the midst of getting ready to write exams. He had just ended things with his fiance but his friends and family are adamant that he was enjoying life and happy. The police immediately ruled his death a suicide. There are some shocking details about this case I am going to discuss, including the fact that 12-13 minutes after being declared VSA- the paramedics arrived on the scene to find John to have a strong pulse... Listen through to hear more details about the case and how BADLY the Toronto Police *In my opinion,* botched this "investigation". https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/sons-suicide-was-actually-murder-and-toronto-police-bungled-probe-family-alleges-in-12-5m-lawsuit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/connelly-family-toronto-police-lawsuit-dismissed-1.5046581 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_IS0fKAFBw&t=294s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk6zUNhB2eY&t=682s

It's been three weeks since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky continues to plead for Western aid, the situation in his country is deteriorating as the Russian army bombards cities, hospitals, evacuation routes, and other civilian targets.  How did we get here? And which historical parallels can shed light on what's happening now in Ukraine? On this special episode, historian John Connelly, professor of history at UC Berkeley and an expert on east central Europe, shares his insights. For further reading:  “What Makes Ukraine Different,” John Connelly “Putin's Apocalyptic Goals,” Piotr H. Kosicki “The Orthodox Response to Putin's Invasion,” George E. Demacopoulos

Full Transcript: Joining Carol Pankow in the VRTAC studio is Felicia Johnson, Commissioner of the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, and Lindy Foley, Director of Nebraska VR. Today we are discussing how Felicia and Lindy prepared for the RSA monitoring process, what they experienced, and what they learned. They will share how they see monitoring as a continuous improvement process and an opportunity for growth.   The VRTAC for Quality Management has partnered with CSAVR to co-facilitate a community of practice for the cohort of agencies monitored each year. Over the past three years, we have found that much can be learned by those who are going through monitoring simultaneously sharing their experiences with each other. We provide tools that help you prepare for both the fiscal and programmatic aspects of the review.   You can find out more about VRTAC-QM on the web at: https://www.vrtac-qm.org/ Please stay up to date by following VRTAC-QM on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @VRTAC_QM   About VRTAC-QM Partnering with State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (SVRAs) to enhance service delivery and maximize outcomes through quality program and resource management. The purpose of the VRTAC-QM is to provide training and technical assistance that will enable State VR agency personnel to manage available resources, improve effective service delivery, and increase the number and quality of employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities. The VRTAC-QM provides TA and training in VR program and performance quality management, fiscal and resource quality management of the VR program, and general quality management of organizations. You can request technical assistance from the VRTAC-QM by contacting your TA Liaison directly, contacting any member of the Center you wish, or by filling out the information on our main websiteand clicking on submit. While on the main website, join our mailing list to receive updates on training and new activities occurring within the Center.   Full Transcript:   Manager Minute - Monitoring: Surviving and Thriving Before, During, and After the Process   {Music} Speaker: Manager Minute brought to you by the VRTAC for quality management.  Conversations powered by VR, one manager at a time, one minute at a time. Here is your host Carol Pankow.   Carol: So welcome to the manager minute, I am so excited to have Felicia Johnson, commissioner of the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, and Lindy Foley, director of the Nebraska VR General Agency. Thank you both for joining me in the studio today. Well, Felicia, you've been in your position since June of 18. And when I looked you up, actually, you served as the interim commissioner for the whole year prior. So how are things in South Carolina?   Felicia: Things in South Carolina are going very well. You know, if things are continuing to change, we have experienced a lot these last few years, but we continue to move right along. No complaints.   Carol: Glad to hear it. Lindy, you also started as a director just a few months before Felicia back in March of 18, and you had some big shoes to fill following Mark Schultz as he went to be the commissioner of RSA. How are you?   Lindy: I've been very well. Thank you, Carol, and I appreciate the opportunity to spend some time with you, both of you this afternoon.   Carol: Awesome. Well, today we're discussing the 107 monitoring process, and I had the good fortune to work with both of you and your team through this latest 2021 RSA monitoring cycle and with RSA just releasing the list of agencies being monitored this past Monday. You can be a good help to this new group. For those of you who are listening to this podcast, the VRTAC for Quality Management has partnered with CSAVR to co-facilitate a community of practice for the cohort of agencies being monitored each year. We have found over the past three years that much can be learned by others going through monitoring. At the same time, we provide some tools that help you to prepare for both the fiscal and programmatic aspects of the review. And additionally, the VRTAC for Quality Management can help you through the process as you are participating in the visits with the RSA team. This is especially helpful if you're anticipating needing some follow up after the review is complete. So now to you two, both of you had such a great approach to this process, so I wanted to have this discussion. I know monitoring was a topic at the CSAVR Leadership Forum, but I wanted to dig in a little bit more to help those colleagues out there who will be experiencing this very soon. Whether it's this year or next, everyone's going to be reviewed at some point. So let's go. We realize that every agency is structured uniquely, which ultimately may impact the entire monitoring process. So it's important for us to get a feel for how you operate. So tell us a little bit more about your agency and a little bit about you. And on average, you know, like, how many customers do you serve, how many overall staff do you have and how many people are on your leadership team? And Lindy, I'm going to kick that over to you. Lindy: Ok, great. Thank you. So in Nebraska, we have two VR agencies, so a quick shout out to our partners at the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Nebraska VR is actually located within the Department of Education, and something which might be a little unique is that we also have the Assistive Technology Partnership, or ATP, within the department with us. So this really allows us in this organizational structure to work to our advantage to leverage opportunities and partnerships with our schools to expand the way that we look at special education and even kind of some cool stuff with career and technical education and the opportunities, of course, with assistive technology and the impact that that can make for our clients and also businesses, we currently have about 7200 cases open. We are coming out of an order of selection, so we want to get back to the numbers we once were serving prior to 2017, but we're making some progress there, so that's exciting. We've got 12 field offices across the state and 1 administrative office here in Lincoln, so a total of about 200 staff and you mentioned leadership teams just real quickly. We have a policy and implementation team which consists of staff who we call program directors. So individuals who help us to write policy, conduct our case reviews, organize training, oversee the financial operations and quality assurances. The other half of that team are our office directors who help to supervise our field offices. I also include in that leadership team, our client assistance program director, and he meets with this leadership group often to help us provide input. And then finally, but certainly not least, the leadership team that I'm referring to also includes our agency's assistant director. I also want to make a special mention to another leadership group within Nebraska VR because they were instrumental in our monitoring process as well. We refer to that group as the Leadership Council. Those are staff from a variety of roles in Nebraska VR from across the state. They're nominated by their teammates as being recognized leaders in our agencies, and I meet with them quarterly. They advised me on a variety of topics, whether that's the culture of the agency. See our mission and values and then, of course, compliance and monitoring activities and ways we could prepare for our monitoring visit. So a couple of different ways that we look at leadership and that infrastructure within our state.   Carol: I love hearing about that Leadership Council. I will  have to follow up on that at another time. Very interesting. So Felicia, how about you? How are you all organized?   Felicia: Ok, we're organized a little bit differently. We do like Nebraska. We have two separate agencies, so we have the blind agency and course. I'm at the South Carolina general. We are an independent commission, so we are not under any other departments. We have a board of commissioners, seven individuals that represent each of our districts within the state, and we own and operate all of our CRps. We do not contract out very many services, actually. We just began contracting out services when I started as commissioner around 2018, and those services were specific to pre-employment transition because we were still working our way through that. So being that we own and operate all of our community rehabilitation programs, that makes us unique and we're staffed a little differently. We have 31 offices throughout our state and we have 26 what we call job readiness training centers. Some offices have some offices because the county is so big, but each main office has a job readiness training center partnered with it. And what that is is a community rehab program where individuals with functional limitations and barriers to employment, they come and they do what we call contract work. We partner with businesses throughout our state over four hundred and they bring training opportunities in the form of work tasks to our centers for us to produce and send back to these businesses. And then they sell and all of our consumers make at least minimum wage. At least there's no sub minimum wage in any of our centers. We do an assessment, thorough assessment of them. When they enter the program, we set goals and objectives for every single consumer, which is individualized based on their functional limitations and employment objectives. They work towards those goals and objectives. They have at least monthly meetings with their counselor and a member of the job readiness training team to see how they're progressing towards those objectives. And we also begin job search and placement opportunities for them while they're in training. We also own and operate an inpatient 28 day comprehensive evaluation program. We have a center actually on this campus where I'm located, where our consumers with severe significant physical, disabling conditions come for a 28 day comprehensive evaluation to help them see what their strengths are with their barriers are and then how we can help them to adjust to those barriers and identify appropriate job opportunities for them. So when they go back to their home area, their local areas, their counselors and the rest of the team can help to find employment opportunities in the fields that we may have recommended. And we have an inpatient rehabilitation facility, which most folks don't have a recovery center is what we call it for our consumers who struggle with alcohol and addictions issues, which also impacts their ability to obtain and maintain employment, but can mask symptoms from maybe pain and other disabling conditions. So we own and operate a 28 day inpatient addictions recovery center. South Carolina General houses our state's disability and determination services department, so we adjudicate and review all claims for citizens who are applying for disability benefits. And as far as our staff goes, our staffing patterns have significantly changed from when I started in this position. Right now, we have just under 1,000 employees. When I first started in this role, we had over 4,900. We've noticed a lot of attrition, especially during the pandemic, with folks who are eligible for retirement and now coming out of the pandemic into the great resignation. We're seeing a lot of folks changing their career objectives, but that's fine. We're in the process of just revamping the way that we provide services. We've learned a lot with using technology, and we're going to continue to use technology to make sure we serve our consumers as far as consumers go. We have about just under 1,300 active consumers that we're working with. That's a little lower than before the pandemic as well. And our executive team, I think that was the last part of the question. I have 14 members on my executive leadership team. All of my executive leaders, our department heads. So our director of consumer services, director of human resources, director of Planning and programming, now director of field operations. All directors are members of executive staff and we meet once a month to strategize and plan for the agency. And that's pretty much South Carolina general.   Carol: That is complex. I remember during the monitoring process when you were explaining to the team, I'm like, Wow, you both have a ton going on. So I know people had not been monitored for some time, and I just wondered when was the last time your agency was monitored prior to that? 2021 monitoring? And if you don't mind sharing, how did that previous monitoring go for the agency and Lindy, I'm going to kick that to you.   Lindy: Ok, great. Thank you. So the last time that Nebraska VR was monitored was in 2012, so it had been a while. That's why we kind of kept expecting each year that we would be on the list. I was with the Department of Education at that time, but I was actually with the Office of Special Education and did a lot of work with transition at that time with the counterpart in VR. So I was kind of an outside looking in at the VR monitoring. Then later I'll describe we had a core group of people within our monitoring process and three out of the four. Me being the only one had been through RSA monitoring before, so it was obviously great to have their experience and expertise through that process. So I asked them, how did this compare to the previous the 2012 visit? One very obvious difference was just within the last few months, of course, are 2021 visit was all virtual, so that had some benefits, but also maybe some fewer opportunities presented. So in 2012 RSA was on site, they could interact more. They did interact more with our staff, visit field offices and maybe had more of an opportunity to even hear from some of our partners. I think one thing that stood out to just a different time, right, and where we were with providing services, I jokingly said, Tell me, you're being monitored without telling me you're being monitored. I mean, the binders and the paper that my staff gave me when I said, you know, let me learn about what the last process looked like and what we were working on. Oh my goodness, it was so overwhelming. So we still have those binders from 2012. But fortunately, this time sent so much of it was streamlined and was electronic. We were able to be, I think, much more efficient in that process. So those were some of the differences that stuck out. And we've had a very good rapport with our RSA team and some of them have been the same since twenty twelve. So very fortunate to have that historical perspective from our RSA partners from then to now.   Carol: That is good to hear. How about you, Felicia? What do you know about the monitoring? I know you weren't there, but I wonder if you'd heard?   Felicia: Yeah, I was with the agency, but I was out in one of our field offices as an area supervisor. Back then it was around 2010, and from what I understand, the process went well. For the most part, I just kept hearing that they had a difficult time understanding our job readiness training centers and how they operated. That was the feedback I recall back then, and that led to some changes being made in the operation of those centers. But that's what I recall.   Carol: I know when I was at Minnesota Blind, we had had a monitoring in eleven, so they came back in ‘19. And when I looked at that report, when I came in ‘13 and I went, Oh my gosh, like my vow was that we are not going to have a report like that again because it wasn't good at all. So that that was my quest, right when I came in the door. So one other fact about my background is I was a CARF Surveyor for several years and CARF, the national accreditation organization. I always think about it like providing the Good Housekeeping seal of approval for various rehab programs and facilities throughout the country. My agency was also accredited, and so all the surveyors came from the field and you would agree to perform at least three surveys a year. And the philosophy I really liked that I learned from CARF training was that you always wanted to be prepared, like, don't just get ready for the CARF review every three years when they're going to come like you want to always be in this kind of constant state of being ready for a visit at any time. So I just want to talk about that philosophy a little bit more. When you both started back in ‘18 was the idea of monitoring on your radar as you dug into your work. And if it was, what did you do to prepare? Felicia, I'm going to kick that to you first.   Felicia: Ok. Absolutely. When I first stepped into the role, we knew that we were overdue for monitoring, and we kept hearing that the monitoring schedule was thrown off because of WIOA. But we knew we were overdue because it had been over 7 years, so we actually started praying that we would not be called at that fall conference. Actually, this is during my interim term fall of 2017 when the conference was here in South Carolina. We were all like, Lord, please don't let them call South Carolina general because we were not prepared. I was brand spanking new. We had just gone through some interesting times in our agency, and we just didn't need that at that time, but we did start preparing in ‘20. We had our planning and program evaluation department. They started to develop reports based on the 2018 and 2019 MTAGs, and they began reviewing some of the published 107 reports for trends so we can get an idea of what was being looked at. We started having monthly meetings in our executive staff teams to review some of the data trends and walk through some of those impact questions we identified who are subject matter experts would be based on some of the things that we saw in the MTAG and in the published reports. We want to make sure that we had supported employment covered because we knew as an agency that was something that we needed to work on our fiscal. We wanted to identify who our subject matter experts would be for fiscal matters, pre-employment transition services, so forth and so on. So we kind of started in 2019 and into ‘20 is when we really said, OK, guys, we know we're going to get called. So we really started to get intense in 2020 with making sure that we had everything lined up and we were regularly reviewing the MTAG and always looking for other states published reports. Then, of course, the pandemic hit. And so that just pushed everything to the side and we were just trying to survive as an agency. But once we started working our way through that, we had a kick off meeting and we introduce everyone to 107 monitoring and what it was and who our subject matter expert teams would be. We started to have some planning sessions and had each team develop a 107 monitoring to do list for their respective departments. We had meetings planned and scheduled every single month to make sure that everybody was on the same page. This was actually we picked back up during the towards the pandemic. Well, I guess the middle of it because we were sent home, I believe the end of March, March 23rd, but were reopened back. I want to say July the 6th. We continue to work, but we didn't have people teleworking for very long. So once we started migrating back into the offices, we got right back into it in 2021. Then the new 2021 MTAG came out. So we were like, Dang it, but we went through that MTAG and we started working our way through there. We quickly noticed that it had been overhauled to focus on more data and performance than the previous MTAG. No problem. We shifted and we made sure that we went through that step by step. And then we also tried to identify any deficiencies that we knew that we had in our agency. Like, we knew that our policies were outdated. We knew that we needed to update policies. We knew that maybe we need to take a closer look at some fiscal processes. We knew that we need to take a closer look at support, employment and how we were doing that. So we knew where our struggles were and we want to make sure we jumped in front of them and had a plan for asking for technical assistance. So we lined all of that up. So I would say that we spent close to 2 years preparing, thinking every single conference that we were going to be called for monitoring, so we were well prepared or as prepared as I think we could have been under the circumstances.   Carol: That sounds really good. I know I did a similar thing to that with our team. I kept thinking every year they're going to call our name. I just was waiting. They're going to call our name. Then finally, your name gets called. It's like, Oh, finally, but I know what you mean. And having to pivot at that, monitors will change, but that sounds really good. How about you, Lindy, what did you guys do?   Lindy: Well, as I mentioned earlier, we knew we had to be on the short list just because it'd been quite a while since we'd been monitored. So we in 2019, we did start really trying to review and best understand the monitoring technical assistance guide of the MTAG. So what we did and it's been revised, of course, a bit since 2018, but we took that leadership group, our policy staff as well as our office leadership, and we divided up into work groups, which matched then the areas of the MTAG. So we had a group related to VR services and pre-employment transition services. We had a supported employment group and then, oh, by far the most popular, the fiscal and data. That's kind of a joke, but we did get people who volunteered to be a part of that work group, too. And so I thought that was very meaningful and we got good feedback from staff, the teams they met at their own pace. Each work group took the time to go through each of the questions within the MTAG. We had one of our data staff go through and best understand the data tables within the MTAG to make sure that he could actually recreate the data that within those tables. So when it came time, if there were any questions about reporting or consistency that we were well informed about what data went into those tables. So each workgroup got their data tables, they went through their questions. They helped us to identify if there were questions that we struggled to answer. We knew that we needed to flag those questions and then bring them back to the whole group so we could talk about any impact on revision to policy. Or perhaps it was a training and implementation issue that we needed to talk through. I appreciated having that time. Our staff, I think in general, prefer to be proactive, even though we know in our work there's not always that that luxury. But I think that gave us time to really think and reflect on the questions without it feeling rushed, as if maybe what we would have done if we would have done it after we'd been called, after our name had been announced for monitor. So I think that that really did work well, it also created kind of a new level of buy in that I didn't actually expect at the time, of this leadership. They better understood if they were questioning a certain area of our policy, they'd get out their rigs. They'd look in the comments they would alongside of the policy people. They wanted to know why we were being asked those questions and to make sure that we were doing everything within our services to make sure that we could answer that confidently. Again, I think that worked out very well. One other thing I would mention to, in addition to preparing ourselves kind of emotionally there was a component to I was very intentional about calling this process a self-assessment process with the MTAG. I felt like if I was using that type of language, it helped to give the message that this was about continuous improvement. This was a meaningful activity that we can both celebrate our successes, but also identify some challenges and some changes that we would need to make. So again, I think just having that intentional dialogue about how we were referring to those activities was something that we took pretty seriously. So back to the whole notion of this being a continuous improvement process, and I know we'll maybe get into this a little bit later, but we're not done with the MTAG. I think it was a great exercise that we went through in 2018. We revisited it in 2020 one and we'll do it again in a year or two to see how we're doing against those data tables and to see the progress we've made against those questions. So I'm excited that we continue to look at the process and we've found a way to hold ourselves accountable and to take time to celebrate the progress that we've made going through the MTAG.   Carol: Well, Lindy, you teed us up for my next question and both of you are so prepared, and I really think that that topic of preparation helps us transition into the overall sentiment around the monitoring process. And Lindy, you spoke about this, like talking about it in a different way, continuous improvement, you know, words like monitoring, auditing and reviews. They often have a stigma attached to them, and people will usually regard that as some sort of a gotcha moment, and it causes dread in the monitoring process. So I wondered, Lindy, you talked a little bit about your messaging, Felicia, I'm going to kick this one to you. What did you do in communicating to kind of alleviate some of that tension associated with the monitoring process?   Felicia: Well, we did have a kickoff meeting because my executive team either were not with the agency the first time that we were monitored or were not in the roles that we're in now. So for us, we needed to educate a good many folks on 107 monitoring with that was so we had the kickoff meeting introducing 107, but we also were very deliberate and couching it similar to Lindy as an opportunity for us to assess our program, to identify where we're strong and to also identify where there are opportunities to improve. And I'm the type of person that if I'm doing something wrong, I want to know immediately so I can jump on it and correct it. And if there were things that were happening in the agency that we were doing out of, maybe practice, but we should not be doing it that way. I really wanted to know and my team wanted to know so that we could get it right, so we were actually looking forward to it. Only 3 members of my executive team had been with the agency the first time we monitored, and I think 2 of them had minimal involvement. Very, very minimal. We were ready for it. We had been talking about it for years and when we got the call or saw the email because we saw our name in an email, we were ready, we were excited, we were ready to get it over with.   Carol: I want to put an exclamation point at the end of what you all just said because that is great, especially people listening. And if you're one of the directors and your name was called, definitely think about that whole messaging piece. And I really think that's important to not go into it with that fear factor, like you're just assessing, let's get through it. So going to speak about when your agency's name was announced for monitoring and you all were in the email. I know some people had it happen during a CSA conference. What was the very first thing that you did and why? And Lindy, I'm going to go to you first.   Lindy: Ok, well, I remember it was a Friday afternoon and it was an email that came out as Felicia had mentioned, and I had just gotten done doing a final walkthrough because we had just moved out of our administrative office in which we'd been located for about 45 years. So I'm not sure if it was a relief to move on to something else or what, but that's no joke. But I went home that evening and poured myself a tall, cold glass of milk and really tried to reflect in a weird way. There was some relief there, and I think it was. It's just that anticipation of not really knowing. We knew it was coming, but just not knowing when, and I think seeing our name in that email and knowing that it was coming soon then put a little bit more control into then putting our actions into motion. As far as timelines and we've been practicing, we'd been looking and preparing since 2018. So we'd been through the dress rehearsal and we were ready to make our performance. So I did reach out to a core group of staff who I knew would be going through every step of the monitoring process with me when I called and talked to them that Friday afternoon. Their response was pretty much the same. Ok, we've got this, and that's exactly the type of attitude that I think we all went into our monitoring with just that positivity and the confidence. I think that that was all part of being able to pace things in the way that we did that. When the time did come, we would be prepared. It wouldn't be a panic and there'd be some excitement there too. And I think there was.   Carol: I love that. I love that. How about you, Felicia? When you read that email on a Friday afternoon, I'm sure it all came at the same time ...What was the very first thing you did and why did you do that?   Felicia: Well, the first thing I thought to myself was about time, and I forwarded forwarded it to all of my executive team. And I just said, It's time, guys. And what we had done in all of our prep was I identified a 107 monitoring lead. I have been very fortunate there is a member of my team. She is currently still my director of policy and internal controls. She will be leaving the agency at the end of this month. But fortunately for us, she was here during that time and she organized it all. Once she got the email from me, she started setting up regular meetings, emailing data tables and documents, putting binders together for everyone. So she really led the entire process and did a phenomenal job. So we were all on pins and needles. So when that email came, we were just like, Let's go, we got started right away.   Carol: That is awesome. And I'm giving a shout out to Denise because I know your staff and I never saw anything quite like it, and I sat through several of the different monitorings. But boy Denise was. She was organized to a level I had never seen before. That was something. It was a work of art. Actually, it was pretty amazing. It really was.   Felicia: I call Denise my unicorn, and I told her when she told me she was leaving the agency, I'm going to have to build another unicorn.   Carol: No, honestly, I know when she let me know, I'm like, Oh my gosh, I said, I bet, Felicia said. Yikes, holy smokes. She really did a good job. Yeah, so I know you both talked a lot about how you kind of approach this review with your staff. What did you do about communication? Because obviously you have kind of your core groups that are helping to prepare and get that going. So how did you keep like the whole group and the field sort of involved? So they didn't think this was some big, huge mystery. And Lindy, I'll go to you first on that.   Lindy: Well, I think for us it was I can kind of describe it like a like a target, like 3 circles of communication. So the inside circle, the smaller circle. There were 4 of us who, as I mentioned earlier, involved in really every type of precession, every phone call on every email. And so that group was obviously very involved in any type of communication with RSA. The 2nd circle was really that policy group that I mentioned earlier. They had done so much work to prepare to make sure that our policies and staff were at a place and a comfort level consistent with the tag that group ordinarily meets. Often for a while they were meeting quarterly. But then in response to more of our continuity of operations plan due to COVID, we actually move to monthly. So we were able to really keep that team informed all along the way, and they had good questions. They were curious to see where we were in the process, whether it was policies being submitted, initial questions that we were being asked, keeping them informed of the agenda. Perhaps they had a particular programmatic area or something that their office was really doing well. So they were curious about what RSA, how RSA was framing that two week time with us. And then the outer circle, of course, was with our staff, our field staff. And to me, it was a balance of keeping them informed and engaged while also not overwhelming them with the process. I don't know if this is different from state to state, but RSA did not ask to interview our field staff. We did have some programmatic or some of our program directors that were involved during our actual visit and could respond. I'm thinking one particular area was pre-employment transition services, but really it was that core group of people that had the meetings with RSA. One thing that we did was we uploaded the MTAG into Microsoft Teams. Our agency has been using Teams now for a while and. There's a function within Teams, of course, that you can create channels, so we had a channel dedicated to our monitoring process with the MTAG being uploaded, people that were a part of that channel could go in and add notes. They could go in and encourage one another if they knew that there was a topic coming on in that particular day's agenda. There were times that because we didn't have a big team of people meeting with RSA, a question might come up during conversation. We could put a really quick Teams chat in and we had the answer within just a few minutes because that leadership team was really on call during that visit. So I think the communication came in a lot of different ways. The piece that I would say also is the communication doesn't end, right? So this isn't intended to be an episodic process. So even though we don't have our draft report yet and we're not certain what will be included in our monitoring report, our assistant director and I have gone out to all of our field offices as part of our team tour or something we do twice a year. We talk to them about monitoring. We shared knowing that everything can be put in a report. We shared what RSA said that they were pleased to see some areas that they identified as innovative, and we wanted our staff to be able to hear that good news too. We could pick up on maybe some of the questions during our visit, maybe things that we might see in our draft report. I don't know that any of those were real surprises. But again, back to that messaging, I didn't want staff and I don't want any of the staff at Nebraska VR to think that if something is written in a report that we've done something wrong, it's an opportunity for us to improve and to build. And so I think that communication, as long as it's about continuous improvement and not a gotcha that feels a little bit different, we can relate to it a little bit better with always striving to be at our best for our clients and businesses.   Carol: I think definitely the review is different with it being virtual than when they're on site, when they're on site, they're definitely talking to staff and so many more people are involved. So you both did not get the benefit of having that with more staff kind of engaged throughout that process. And I did add your tip, Lindy, to our tip operation sheet that I've just been revising and sending it to CSAVR on Monday for the new group with all the different tips we have because I love that I wrote that down about the Teams and using that to help with communication and just organization. So Felicia, how about you with the communication?   Felicia: We did things kind of the same kind of different when I say kind of different. We had all of our executive team involved in every meeting for the most part and all of our subject matter experts that were not a part of the executive team, for example, our young lady over supported employment services. So I think altogether on every single call, we had approximately 35 participants. The majority were in listen only mode, but we did have a ton of folks on the call for several reasons. For one, I think everyone on the call, like I said, only two folks on the executive team were here and minimally involved in the last monitoring. So we used it as an opportunity to learn for all executive staff or our subject matter experts. We wanted them to learn about the process. It used to be a big secret in our agency, so we wanted them to know that this isn't something punitive. It's an opportunity, as Lindy said, to learn and for continuous improvement of our program. Part of those 35 participants were members of the VRTAC QM, who I cannot think enough. A team member was on every single call and then even had a follow up session with us after every single call to provide feedback and answer any questions and help us prepare and process for the next call. We did have some field staff interviewed virtually. They wanted to speak with some of our counselors, our general counselors and our pre-employment transition counselors, so they were involved in calls with RSA. We selected several of our field office supervisors to participate on the call. They were listening for the majority of the time. But if RSA had a question that was specific about programmatic operations in the field, we would ask one of the supervisors, You know, can you chime in and explain to RSA how you do this in your area or how this works in your area, which was good for them to have that opportunity to communicate their program with RSA and to get a feel for how the 107 monitoring process works? We also provided updates to our board on a regular basis. Our board chair actually participated in every single call she listened in. So that was good for her to see how the process went. We talked about gave status updates during our field supervisor meetings that the director of field operations has on a monthly basis. So we provide an update because, like I said, my staff is slightly under a thousand folks, so we can have everybody involved, but we let the leadership team in the middleman. Gave updates, and then they would trickle those updates down the line to folks in the field.   Carol: So both of you are underscoring the importance of communication. So again, for those of you listening that are going to be going through this review at some point. Communication, communication, communication. So I know you both were just incredible at figuring out this process and how you worked through it. I just wanted to ask each of you, what are the top 3 things you did throughout the process that you would recommend to your colleagues across the country as they're going to get ready to go for monitoring? And Felicia, I'm going to ask you that first.   Felicia: Well, those are three great ones. So I would underscore everything that Lindy just said. So I guess just to add a little bit more to that, I would say, think about what you want the monitoring visit to mean to your agency and then message that if you want it to be seen as a continuous improvement process, if you want it to be seen as an opportunity for growth, make sure that it's messaged in that way. Number two, seek out opportunities during the onsite visit to celebrate innovation and best practice. I felt like we kind of had to work this in whenever we could. It felt like we used the full time every day to the very last minute. So there were times that I felt like I probably just need to let the questions play out. But for the sake of knowing how hard our staff work, really seeking out times to say, Could we take a moment? And I'd like to just share with you some innovative things we've done surrounding pre-employment transition services? Or can I help celebrate what we do in supported employment and the work with our providers? And so I think being really intentional, even if you're the one that's driving that conversation to celebrate the success and innovation, I think that that's really important. And I know our RSA team was open to that and appreciated it as well. And then the third one is just to identify those champions in your agency and to give responsibility to those champions to be very clear and specific about what everyone's role is during the process. The more specific you can be about those roles, what approvals look like, who needs to be a part and what steps. We just found that the more confident we all were with carrying out the responsibility and making sure that things were done in a timely manner. So I'd say that those were 3 important pointers that we would offer from Nebraska.   Carol: Well said So Lindy, how about you? What are your top three recommendations?   Lindy: I will say, and it's not just because this is your podcast, but I really think that getting the VRTAC-QM involved was very, very helpful, especially if you've got a new leadership team who has not experienced one or seven monitoring. I would definitely recommend that that support and guidance and feedback I felt was very beneficial to our team here. Definitely study the MTAG and review monitoring reports from other states, even if your monitoring doesn't go step by step through the MTAG. Ours did not, but the fact that we studied that MTAG for so long, we were able to identify key questions in which departments should answer that question. We've picked out keywords and figured out if they ask this question or if they make this statement, then the data department needs to answer that question. So just studying that MTAG and looking at other reports to kind of get a sense of what the hot topics are. I think that will be helpful. And then identifying those subject matter experts for your agency who can answer those questions at that time that will alleviate having to respond with a Oh, I'm not sure. Let us get back with you now. There's nothing wrong with that, but I just feel like the more prepared you are, the better. You're able to answer those questions when they come about and those subject matter experts who live and breathe those topics are the best ones to have in the room to answer those questions for you.   Carol: Well, said both of you. Well, I know as we're winding down, I did want to find out at the end of the day, how do you think this process is making your agency better? Did you walk away from the table with anything really good that you believe is going to perfect the recipe of what you're cooking up? And Felicia, I'm going to ask you first.   Felicia: Hey, well, ours is probably very simple. Like, there were times during our visit that our team would say, Is there any type of questions that you have or is there technical assistance that you're seeking? And I think sometimes we get just so caught up into our day to day work that we don't always take the time to reflect like we should about asking RSA questions or thinking about what that technical assistance could look like. So I think just the extra ingredient that this added to our process to is just making sure that we know that we're not in it alone and that we have a lot of partners that we can reach out to lean on. So just something that we were able to reflect on during the process, but then also afterwards.   Carol: Lindy, I'm going to kick it to you for the last words.   Lindy: Yeah, I did feel like we learned some things and we did walk away with ideas to make our agency better. It did help us to provide confirmation on the things that we're doing correctly and things that are going well. And also help to identify issues within our agency that we could improve what we walked away with, actually, RSA gave us a very good recommendation on how we could enhance what we do in our job readiness training centers in a way that could set the stage for it to be an actual model for all other agencies to follow. So that's something that we've been working on, and we also walked away with a better understanding of RSA push for using data to make those data driven decisions as we plan and operate our VR programs. Those were two very specific things that we walked away from monitoring with, and we have started putting things in place to follow through with those recommendations. And also, we kind of got a sense in our exit meeting what we would see in our final report. We don't have it yet. We're expected to have it by the end of the month, but we went ahead and started working on the things that we felt RSA might address in the report based on some of the questions that they had during the 107 monitoring process.   Carol: Well, I know John Connelly and I will both probably be inviting you two to come back to the new cohort just to share some words of wisdom, too, as we get the new group kicked off and rolling. And I sure appreciate your time chatting with me today about the important subject of monitoring, and I wish you the very best now and forever, and hope that today's conversation will spark further conversations about surviving and thriving before, during and after the monitoring process. Thank you both so much.   Lindy: Thank you.   Felicia: Thank you.   {Music} Speaker: Conversations powered by VR one manager at a time, one minute at a time brought to you by the VRTAC for Quality Management. 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This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Matt , John and Ben discuss "Foundation", Space Travel, and everything else in the universe. Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AIADA board member and Ohio auto dealer John Connelly joins the Beltway Talk podcast to discuss his career as a criminal-lawyer-turned-auto-dealer, the value of advocacy, and why he needs fellow dealers to pay attention to Washington's latest scheme to single out certain EVs for special tax credit treatment. Connelly highlights why it matters to lawmakers when dealers speak up and what he likes about being a dealer.

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Matt and John discuss if we are entering the real Star Wars Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. The guys discuss Li-ion batteries, climate change, and everything in between. Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. The trio is back together to discuss all things Loki and the spread of misinformation. Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Matt and Ben talk about the impending Space Race and more! Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us in our Discord soon!NEWSSUPERMAN: THE MOVIE director Richard Donner dies at 91DC Comics announces SDCC Comic-Con@Home 2021 scheduleSomething is Killing the Children getting TV adaptation‘Faust': Animated Series Based On Comic In Works At Sony Pictures Television From Matteo PizzoloMarvel announces 'Death of Doctor Strange' getting spin-offsBatman The Long Halloween Special coming this OctoberDC to launch new Human Target title by Tom King and Greg SmallwoodAHOY Comics announces Lunar distribution dealSegment: Heroes Don't Do That - Do they though? Do heroes listen to the Beastie Boys?Our Top Books of the WeekDave:Mamo #1 (Sas Milledge)Immortal Hulk #48 (W: Al Ewing, A: Joe Bennett)Nathan:The Swamp Thing #5 (Ram V, John McCrea)Justice League Infinity #1 (J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker, Ethen Beavers)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - Batman: The Adventures Continue - Season Two #2 (Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Ty Templeton)Dave - X-Men #1 (Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave:  The Silver Coin #4 (Jeff Lemire, Michael Walsh)Nathan: The Silver Coin #4 JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow #4 (Christian Ward) Nathan: Sinister War #1 (Peach Momoko)Segment: Interview: Matt Medney interview CEO of Heavy Metal and writer too!Matt Medney, thank you for joining us on the AIPT Comics podcast [pause for hello], I wanted to start by asking about your original plan for Heavy Metal when you became CEO in January 2020 and how the pandemic affected that plan?Let's jump back in time a bit: What was your entry point to Heavy Metal as a fan of the format?For listeners who don't know, what is your day to day like as CEO?I've always been curious about Heavy Metal and how it's curated since it collects comics, but interviews and other types of content too. What is the process like to put together the magazine? Dan Fogler was on the show a few weeks ago and he let us know his Brooklyn Gladiator series is set to shoot as a film, can you talk about that project or any other Heavy Metal Projects destined for film or TV?Switching gears to your upcoming works, you have Dark Wing: Unstable Elements on the way collecting the five-issue series. What do you hope readers will take away from the series now that it can be read in one sitting?I read that the concept for Dark Wing came to you when you were producing a rock concert. What was that “aha” moment like?What does a script for this series look like? There are so many moving parts and bits of future gadgetry in every panel - what is the collaboration process like with German Ponce?You're a busy guy with Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Edition coming out July 27th, which you co-wrote with John Connelly. This new edition has planetary guides and some gorgeous art too, what goes into expanding on a book with visual materials like this and how long has it been in the making?Coming out August 11, you have The Adventures of Adrienne James, which you co-wrote with Bruce Edwards, what's your elevator pitch for this one?Getting a chance to read the first issue, it's a bit of a break out, how do you approach making a break out feel new when we've seen it so often in other media?What comics are you reading right now?Off Topic Top Shelf: Matt Medney - bike riding - coffee geek grind coffee (crescent city brew) Existence Equation

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Schools, aliens, the future and everything in-between. Join Matt and Ben on the scifi journey of education Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Matt & john dive deep into the realities of an alien invasion on this episode of PTSISF Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. What makes a supersoldier? Matt, John, and Ben discuss the genomic and metabolic calculus that would go into making a human super-strong or super-abled. In particular, they weigh in on the realistic costs of altering the human genome. From Roy Batty to Bucky Barnes to Khan, we're sure your favorite tortured superhuman hunk is featured here. Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com. Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney; aerospace engineer John Connelly; and President of the Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. Seems about 2021, right? Oumuamua, a suspiciously thin and straight-flying object, is still passing through our solar system. The CIA is set to release a report on UFOs. SpaceX was given a contract from NASA to handle the next moon landing (hastily suspended at time of pub!). Matt, John, and Ben discuss these recent headlines and ask - where the blazes are we heading? So sit back, put on your thinking cap, and enjoy Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide. Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Superman & Lois, weekly on the CW. And it's also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt and John sit down for a duo cast without Ben for this special Putting The Science in Science Fiction. John's epic promotion at Lockheed + the wonder of space travel and the future of humanity, in this science leaning fiction episode! Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is also brought to you by Superman & Louis weekly on the CW This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On this special episode, we hear the gang's Wondercon panel as they discuss the best and worst in Science Fiction movies and what makes great sci-fi ships great! Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is also brought to you by Superman & Louis weekly on the CW This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the episode, Matt, John and Ben dive into the weapons of science fiction, the energy uses and more in this Smorgasbord of science fiction 2 part episode!  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is also brought to you by Superman & Louis weekly on the CW This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the episode, Matt, John and Ben dive into the weapons of science fiction, the energy uses and more in this Smorgasbord of science fiction 2 part episode!  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is also brought to you by Superman & Louis weekly on the CW This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the episode, the gang sits down with Brendan Columbus, Creator of Savage Circus and son of writer / director Chris Columbus. The gang talks about their favorite moments in science fiction and how the evolution of science in fiction has guided the last 3 decades of film making!  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is also brought to you by Superman & Louis  HE'S DEFEATED THE MOST FORMIDABLE SUPERVILLAINS KNOWN TO MAN. NOW...THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SUPER HERO FACES THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE...PARENTHOOD. TUESDAYS ON THE CW... FROM THE CREATORS OF THE FLASH.. COMES THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW SERIES... SUPERMAN AND LOIS! AS IF RAISING TEENAGERS ISN'T TRICKY ENOUGH,CLARK AND LOIS WORRY ABOUT WHETHER THEIR SONS WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE TRUTH ABOUT CLARK'S IDENTITY...AND WHETHER THEY TOO WILL INHERIT HIS KRYPTONIAN SUPER POWERS THE KENT FAMILY'S MOST AMAZING ADVENTURE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! CATCH SUPERMAN AND LOIS. TUESDAYS ON THE CW OR STREAM FREE NEXT DAY ON THE CW APP! This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the episode, the gang sits down with Darick Robertson, Creator of Transmetropolitan and Co Creator of the Hit Series “The Boys” which is now an Amazon Prime TV Franchise.  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com   What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro WonderWerk is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On this episode, the gang sits down with Adam Frank, Adam Frank is an American physicist, astronomer, and writer. He is the leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun, and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. A self-described “evangelist of science,” he is also committed to showing others the beauty and power of science, and exploring the proper context of science in culture. His scientific research has focused on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution. Currently, his work includes studies of exoplanet atmospheres and astrobiology. You can also find Adam on Netflix's “Alien Worlds” Episode 4. Learn more about Adam's work @ https://www.adamfrankscience.com/ Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com   What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On this episode, the gang sits down with Science Marketer and Sci-fi Magazine Senior Contributor and Sci-fi Historian Jeff Berkwits. The history of comics, sci-fi, fantasy and horror as the gang navigates the finer points of geek fandom history.  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com  What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http://megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow.  On the episode, the gang sits down with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew & A.I Data Scientist as they dive into the science of his novel and the A.I. Takeover.  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com  What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. In the battle of the cosmos, the gang explores the validity of FTL drives (Faster Than Light) versus Warp Engines and everything in between in this cosmic odyssey of the ultimate question: are we destined to travel amongst the stars? Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to MeUndies.com/Dreamer to get 15% and free shipping on your first order. This is a special offer for our listeners, Go to HELLOTUSHY.COM/COMICS for 10% OFF! Get 10% Off at Betterhelp.com/DreamerComics with Discount Code "Dreamer" Matt Medney and John Connelly's new novel Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is available now. Download today at Audible.com! Go to ConvertKit.com/comics to help build your brand as a writer and creator today!

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the sophomore episode, the gang sits down and discusses the validity of metals throughout fiction and how those interpretations could be applied to actual science. What is possible in the universe, what is likely and how fiction has had fun with metals such as Vibranium, Adamantium and more!  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper This episode is brought to you by Warner Archive: http://warnerarchive.com What is the Warner Archive? Warner Archive is the part of WarnerMedia that brings you rare and hard-to-find movies, TV shows, animation and classic cinema to Blu-ray Disc and DVD. With over 3500 different releases currently in print, these discs are for collectors, physical media fans or anyone looking to explore the depths of the world's largest entertainment media library. This episode is also brought to you by Aethon Books: http://AethonBooks.com Aethon Books is committed to publishing the next generation of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Aethon exists to not only deliver standalone genre fiction, but complete series, promising never to leave you waiting for a conclusion like some of those other guys. Having teamed up with talent like Lou Diamond Phillips, Nathan Fillion, and numerous bestselling authors, Aethon guarantees there's something for everyone.  Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly is the co-author of Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance. Here’s a teaser of what you can expect from it, taken from THE B.K.U: There is no Drake equation. There is no question on sentience. The galaxy is alive, filled with life, the only issue, us humans aren’t invited. The Galactic Star Alliance...

John Connelly is the co-author of Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance. Here’s a teaser of what you can expect from it, taken from THE B.K.U: There is no Drake equation. There is no question on sentience. The galaxy is alive, filled with life, the only issue, us humans aren’t invited. The Galactic Star Alliance...

Chris Carter talks about his adventures in building GlobalComix from the ground up and learning to code to build the online global platform where creators and readers can connect via their content. Get 10% Off at Betterhelp.com/DreamerComics with Discount Code "Dreamer" Matt Medney and John Connelly's new novel Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is available now. Download today at Audible.com! Go to ConvertKit.com/comics to help build your brand as a writer and creator today!

Ken and Matt talk about their magic in coming together to make Hindsight for Heavy Metal's Virus. Matt Medney and John Connelly's new novel Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is available now. Download today at Audible.com! Go to ConvertKit.com/comics to help build your brand as a writer and creator today!

In Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance, an illustrated novel co- created & written by Matthew Medney (Heavy Metal Magazine CEO & NYU adjunct professor) and John Connelly (Lockheed Martin Aerospace Engineer), humankind acknowledges the vastness of time, the cyclical nature of civilization, and the obscurity of our own history.  If our galaxy is so full of sentient life, why has no one said hello? We thought of a simple, logical reason: no one wants to. Stepping back and casting an objective eye on ourselves, it seems painfully obvious that humans lack a fundamental respect for our planet and for each other. We possess extremely short memories and long grudges, and the likelihood of receiving alien tools to hasten our expansion seems downright foolhardy. The Galactic Star Alliance has been alive and well for millions of earth years. Hundreds of thousands of sentient worlds and trillions of beings walk, run, and crawl across the many home worlds of the Alliance. This revelation led to many questions: How is faster-than-light speed travel possible, and could cohesive, interstellar civilizations exist without it? Is it conceivable to govern a coalition not of different countries, but of different species? Each question led to another and each answer built our world, piece by piece until it spanned thousands of answers and millions of light-years. As for the title, from where would our judges watch us? ________________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

This bi-monthly podcast features Heavy Metal CEO, Matthew Medney, Aerospace Engineer John Connelly & President of The Columbia Space Center, Benjamin Dickow. On the inaugural episode, the gang sits down and discusses the validity of time travel throughout fiction and how those interpretations could be applied to actual science.  Sit back, put on your thinking cap and enjoy, Putting The Science In Science Fiction, Where Fiction & Science Collide.  Matthew Medney & John Connelly's hard science fiction novel “Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the “Hard Science Fiction Novels” Grab your copy today! https://linktr.ee/beyondkuiper Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Technical Producer: Mike Sgalambro Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, John Connelly, Benjamin Dickow, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Putting The Science In Science Fiction is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Explore the depths of your curiosity, with Aerospace Engineer John Connelly, Columbia Space Center's, Benjamin Dickow and CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, Matthew Medney as they bring scientists, entertainers and authors on a journey of discovery.   This is..Putting The Science In Science Fiction, where fiction and science collide. Hosts: Matthew Medney, CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine, John Connelly, Aerospace Engineer, Benjamin Dickow, President Of The Columbia Space Center. Executive Producers: Matthew Medney, David Erwin, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith WonderWerk is a Heavy Metal Entertainment & DIGA Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly's new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav's other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar with old stories about the region and novices who are seeking introduction to this vast laboratory of European modernity. Passionate, erudite, and insightful, the book pursues answers to the central question of Eastern European history: why does nationalism persist as the organizing principle of political life in a region where it has produced such tragedies? Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc; the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics throughout the region. John Connelly is a Professor of History at the University of California Berkley who works in the fields of modern Eastern European social and political history, the history of education, nationalism studies, and the history of Catholicism. Vladislav Lilić  is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place and persistence of quasi-sovereignty in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Vladislav’s other fields of interest include the socio-legal history of empire, global history of statehood, and the history of international thought. You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John was a 22 year old uni. student, when we was found in the parking lot of his apartment building, having fallen from the roof. Police saw this as a classic case of suicide, but to the parents, there was to much evidence that he didn't fall on his own accord. Was it suicide, or murder, and were the police just to lazy to look at the evidence and open an investigation? You tell me what you think.Facebook Listener Group: A Sinister PlaceInstagram: @sinisterpodcastcanadaTwitter: @sinsistercanadaSupport: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sinister

This week we welcome one of Branson’s favorite entertainers, Rick McEwen! There earliest Rick McEwen can remember singing was at Beulah Church of Christ in Cullman, Alabama. He started playing music when he was 13. Self taught with help from my Cousin's the Hart Brothers.. three chords and a prayer from his Mother. Rick was praying to get a gig soon and “mom” was praying he’d get out of her sewing room. He moved to Nashville in Nashville,Tn. where he toured with The Blackwood Singers, Vasser Clements, and spent two years with Earl Scruggs. He began singing demo's for a few producers in Nashville, one in particular Alan Reynold's ( Garth Brooks, Crystal Gayle, Don Williams, Kathey Matea ). This led to him working with The Dillards (the Darlin' Family on Andy Griffith TV Show) and touring The U.S., Canada, Mexico, England. Moved to Branson in 1984. His first Branson job was in the 4,000-seat amphitheater, Echo Hollow, at Silver Dollar City. The show operated five seasons. During that time Rick helped produce over 120 live radio shows, national cable TV special, and performed before 1.7 Million over the next five years. Following that he was with the 7th founding show in Branson, the Ozark Jubilee and the featured male vocalist and bass guitar player. Rick spent one year as lead singer for the Ozark Mountain Boys where he opened for many of his heroes: Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Jerry Reed, Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, Connie Smith, Johnny Russell, John Connelly, Asleep at The Wheel, Mason Dixon, Mike Snider, and many others..... He then joined the Jim Stafford show for over 14 years. In 1991, Eureka Springs beaconed him to make the short trip down the highway to perform with the Ozark Mountain Opry. In his spare time he played on recordings and help produce projects for an IMAX Theatre and Movie Short. This led to working with Andrew Belling ( Disney Productions) on a Disney Theme Park Music Project for The Enchanted TiKi Hut Ride. In 1993, his relationship with Andrew and Rodney Dillard landed his a bass playing spot in the Mayberry Revisited Network special, hosted By Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. He was asked to play with The Dillard's on The Mayberry Cast reunion show at The Opryland Hotel.... These many years later he is also a veteran of the Country Tonite show and Penny Gilley TV show on RFD. The past seven season he’s been a part of the Marty Robbins Tribute in Branson. In 2020, Rick started a Tribute to Kenny Rogers and My Great American Songbook Show as well as running shotgun on the “Nashville Roadhouse Live Show”. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Star Theater Box Office: 417-693-4432, or visit: BransonStarTheater.com. Choices Concert Hall can be contacted by calling: 417-320-6242, or ChoicesConcertHall.com.

Syd gets into the Gangs of New York while Jenn tells the story of the infamous Whitey Bulger and former FBI agent John Connelly.  

What is a people? What is a nation? Why do some peoples insist that nations must be synonymous with their particular group of people? And why are others content to be simply part of larger nations composed of many peoples? These are some of the questions that John Connelly addresses in his new book From … Episode 149: Edges Are Interesting, or, a History of Eastern Europe Read More » The post Episode 149: Edges Are Interesting, or, a History of Eastern Europe first appeared on Historically Thinking.

  What is a people? What is a nation? Why do some peoples insist that nations must be synonymous with their particular group of people? And why are others content to be simply part of larger nations composed of many peoples? These are some of the questions that John Connelly addresses in his new book […]

Today on SC@L digested PhD student Blaise Louis interviews Dr John Connelly from the Institute of Bioengineering from Queen Mary University of London. They talk about how he uses bioengineering tools and biomaterials to study the biology of how cells manage the process of homeostasis and the tissue maintains itself, and what happens when these processes are disrupted. They also talk about the future of biomaterials and how Dr Connelly is starting to use more complex 3D models of the skin for his research and what that means for understanding how whole tissues function. For more information about Dr Connelly's work follow this link: https://www.bioengineering.qmul.ac.uk/people/?j.connelly

On MN #006 we get into the many splendored thing that is known and loved as THRASH!We discuss some of our favorite thrash bands, albums and show memories from The Golden Age of Thrash and get into some provocative discussions about cover songs, the evolution of a band’s sound and of course, Milley’s ever growing tour schedule. Be sure to check us out on the Inter-webs:MetalNerdery.comFacebookInstagram Visit MetalNerdery.com for more on this episode and other episodes.  0.00: Intro.31: An Important Message from Metal Nerdery/THRASH!1.06: THRASH!!!1.31: Adam’s montage of metal : Municipal Waste, Kreator (NOT Qreator!), Destruction, Possessed, DBC3.14: Nuclear Assault interesting factoids/Forbidden/Sacred Reich4.11: Metal Church?/Nevermore/Voivod?5.50: Coroner/Flotsam & Jetsam (No Place for Disgrace in the tone department)7.24: Gwar?/Death Angel (Humanicide) and their resurgitation/Death Angel-Anthrax-Slayer show memories/Adam feels like a kid again10.04: Sodom, Destruction and Kreator (NOT Qreator!!): the Big 3 of Germany?10.38: Best name ever!/Matt’s determined to connect Les Claypool to Destruction/Matt offers a formal retraction to Adam; I apologize unreservedly.12.00: Metal Nerdery Best Thrash Album picks/Testament “The Legacy”/Matt uses big words/Practice What you Preach/The Gathering (w/ Dave Lombardo…and loads of thrash awesomeness!)/Low/Demonic14.44: Anthrax-Among the Living (timeless thrash classic)/Side 2/The Horror of ADI?17.03: Megadeth-Rust in Peace/Peace Sells19.00: Metallica: Master of Puppets/Kill ‘em All, and Bill’s provocative perspective sparks discussion about these 2 albums22.49: FUCKING SLAYER: Reign in Blood (28 minutes of pure thrash goodness!)25.46: Sacred Reich (another underappreciated kick ass thrash band!!!): Heal/New Sacred Reich album (AWAKENING) coming soon!!!28.22: Exodus: Pleasures of the Flesh (Deranged/Chemikill)/ Fabulous Disaster/I like a nice salad30.30: Overkill: Years of Decay/Under the Influence/Consistently thrashy/Killbox 13/Road trip memories33.57: Death Angel: A Learner’s permit for Ultraviolence/ Act III & Discussion/Veil of Deception/Room with a View/Discontinued/Show memories from the Death Angel/Forbidden show in ‘90/Center Stage38.15: Forbidden: Twisted into Form and Bill’s Unpopular opinion39.05: Sepultura: Beneath the Remains/Chaos AD/Roots41.05: Nuclear Assault/Show memories (w/Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King)/What’s John Connelly screaming about?42.27: Kreator (NOT Qreator!), Milley (NOT Mille!) gives a tour update (and his love)43.25: Annihiliator: Alice in Hell/Jeff Waters/show memories w Annihilator, Wrathchild America and Testament/Kreator and the metal workhorse power of Mille/Milley’s pasta empire46.08: COC: Blind and the continued evolution of COC to Deliverance and Wiseblood (and the shag carpet and the wood paneling)/No Cross No Crown51.55: The dilemma over cover songs/Type-O-Negative’s unorthodoxically ass kicking way of doing covers53.33: S.O.D.: Speak English or Die/M.O.D.54.59: Venom: Black Metal and other similarly named albums/Goddamned Gallows show memories57.43: The Accused/D.R.I. (Four of a Kind/Thrash Zone/Crossover)59.28: Death (Scream Bloody Gore/Leprosy)/The Godfather of Death Metal/The Lord of Rock/Individual Thought Patterns and the more Progressive element of Death/Sound of Perseverance1.03.07: Coroner: No More Color/Mental Vortex/Grin/The Voyce of Ron Royce

Music Industry’s Matt Medney & Kyle Perrin investigate and interview the entertainment industry’s most interesting people and debate your favorite topics including Music, TV & Film, Technology, Coffee, Pop Culture & More.

Join us as we take a walk through NME.com’s 20 best 80’s metal albums and have a few laughs while we are at it.Going through NME.com’s 20 best 80’s metal albums - we run our mouths about everything from Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Carcass to The Cult, Ministry and Mudhoney with a few side tangents thrown in for good measure.MetalNerdery.comFacebookInstagramVisit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this and other episodes. BANDS DISCUSSEDJudas PriestAC/DC MOTORHEAD KILLING JOKEIRON MAIDENVENOMMETALLICA EXODUS CELTIC FROST (BATHROOM BREAK) MEGADETH SLAYER THE CULT BATHORY NAPALM DEATHMUDHONEYDEATHMORBID ANGELGODFLESHMINISTRYCARCASS  Intro:24: Shaman Drummer:44: What are we talking about?1:11: an explanation1:31: The 20 best (?) Metal albums…1:54: Modern metal and the 80’s2:13: Priest!3:05: AC/DC and the debate4:18: Matt’s impression of Brian Johnson/Tom Keifer4:36: Motorhead5:16: Show memories6:21: …and the list takes a turn…”what is metal?”7:13: The Maiden’s Back in Black…(sort of)7:50: Nicko and Clive, Jake and Yngwie8:36: What’s that Jake?8:53: The True voice of Maiden10:26: Venom and production quality11:49: Lightning, Puppets and the Two-Fecta12:14: Exodus, the great grandfathers of Thrash Metal and The Little Four13:49: Adam has doubts…14:04: Texodus and Estament?15:08: Celtic Frost, breaktime16:00: Whaddya mean… there’s no drug tracker!?17:52: REIGN IN BLOOD!!!19:30: …and the follow up that can’t get loud enough!!21:12: The Cult ain’t metal, stop it!22:30: Bathory…or Blind Dog Quorthon23:13: Napalm Death and really LONG Progressive grindcore songs24:23: fun with song titles by Mudhoney25:00: Death: progressive death metal26:49: Trey Azogthoth and Morbid Angel27:33: Godflesh accidentally invented WHAT!?28:53: Carcass and Intellectual Inspiration30:10: Questionable list…double or nothing…20 Best Thrash Metal albums of all time?31:27: Overkill’s South of Heaven32:40: John Connelly’s Theory of Nuclear Assault34:10: Kreator and Mille Petrozza…35:21: …and Milley Patrohzahh from Qreator (NOT to be confused with Mille Petrozza from Kreator)35:48: The “Black Sabbath” of Thrash: Metallica and Kill ‘em All!!38:11: Call Alex Jones: It’s The Riff Conspiracy39:50: Voivod…and Piggy (and Milley…)40:49: Justice for Jason’s bass mix on “Justice”…remix redemption45:50: Good news for the future…kids who dig metal!46:41: Sepultura Beneath the Remains : The next wave of metal48:14: The Legacy and the fabled COTLOD:50:03: Milley Patrohzahh …and Louie Clamente…on 96:4!50:49: Louie and other Testament drummers53:13: Among…the Anthrax53:43: Bill was a fortunate child54:03: Matt burps in a way that would make Manowar proud, and Anthrax goes through changes56:19: Rob Caggiano and his strange departure from Anthrax57:50: Peace Sells:::59:49: Exodus and Rob Dukes…1:01:38: Dark Angel / Gene Hoglan1:02:29: Kreator (NOT Qreator)1:04:14: Rust in Peace…a thrasterpiece! Vs Peace sells…1:06:12: Just imagine what Megadeth COULD have sounded like!1:07:53: Bill’s preferred remix of Peace Sells1:08:22: The first Metallica purchase for all of us…required listening1:10:33: Slayer Reign in Blood/poor tape trading decisions/leaving “The Rock Show”:1:14:08: Outro

S.U. Week of Nov. 5th - Nov. 12th - 1. Week 9 was not one of my best in the Westgate contest. 27 - 16 - 1 currently leaves me a 1/2 a game out of the money (pending Tenn.) 2. The leader in the contest must be using algorhythms to have a 80% ATS record after nine weeks. 3. Just because Whitey Bulger killed many people while a civilian, doesn't mean prison officials should have allowed him to be beaten to death while in incarcerated. 4. I had my own dealings with Whitey Bulger / FBI confidant, John Connelly, in the 80's. Listen for details. 5. I have a conundrum: Should I vote for a third party candidate even if he has no shot of winning? According to a Hartford Courant poll, many people should truthfully answer the questions before determining who you vote for. We don't need a secret ballot anymore as Facebook zealots abound everywhere with their true feelings being shown. Polls should be eliminated to give voters a better chance to validate a third party's candidacy.

Welcome! Dr. John Connelly developed a revolutionary approach to help people quickly let go of traumatic memories. Dr. Bruce Stafford, LCSW, discusses the what and the why of the technique and how he uses it in his hypnotherapy practice to resolve trauma in a few hours. We'll Learn:   What Rapid Resolution Therapy is Techniques used during a session Why it works so quickly What messages do we give the brain to help it change Why it works even without the person talking about the traumatic memory Stafford's research on resolving sexual trauma and changing lives in 2-3 hours   See more about Dr. Stafford at https://brucestaffordcounseling.com or at 407-648-9118. Learn about Dr. Connelly and his technique at http://www.rapidresolutiontherapy.com   See Show Notes at http://www.drlizhypnosis.com/episode38   Thank you for tuning in! Please subscribe to auto-download new episodes to your listening device.   After you listen to a few episodes, please consider leaving an honest rating and review of the podcast. --------- See more about Dr. Liz and get Free hypnosis files at http://bit.ly/drlizhypnosis Podcast Page:  http://bit.ly/HM-podcast   Twitter:  @DrLizBonet #hypnotizemepodcast Instagram:  @DrLizBonet YouTube:  DrLiz-YouTube FB page: http://bit.ly/2eZ9rjG   Dr. Liz's book: http://amzn.to/2gE08FJ

Episode 6 of TeK Talk features Ashish Haruray, a certified Collibra Ranger, and John Connelly, a senior data governance professional, discussing standing up data governance programs. They talk about the upfront strategy, the Collibra platform as an example, and data governance program and tool considerations.

John Connelly is the former President of First National Bank of Leesport and the former President of the Ringgold Band. It was during his tenure that the Ringgold Band purchased a facility they call home. He learned to play clarinet in the 6th grade. After a 30 year hiatus from music John found a creative outlet In the Ringgold Band, renewed his musical talents and is still playing today!

On the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, John Connelly, author of “From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965,” and David Nirenberg, author of “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition” explore the character of medieval anti-Judaism and the historical changes within Catholic Christianity prior to the mid-twentieth century. They also assess the significance of the Council and its impact on Catholic and Jewish relations to the present. John Connelly is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley and David Nirenberg is distinguished professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at The University of Chicago. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 25433]

On the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, John Connelly, author of “From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965,” and David Nirenberg, author of “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition” explore the character of medieval anti-Judaism and the historical changes within Catholic Christianity prior to the mid-twentieth century. They also assess the significance of the Council and its impact on Catholic and Jewish relations to the present. John Connelly is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley and David Nirenberg is distinguished professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at The University of Chicago. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 25433]

On the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, John Connelly, author of “From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965,” and David Nirenberg, author of “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition” explore the character of medieval anti-Judaism and the historical changes within Catholic Christianity prior to the mid-twentieth century. They also assess the significance of the Council and its impact on Catholic and Jewish relations to the present. John Connelly is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley and David Nirenberg is distinguished professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at The University of Chicago. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 25433]

Father Frizzell interviews Dr. John Connelly, Professor of History at UC Berkeley, about his book, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, and the pioneering work of Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher and Karl Thieme.

A book talk with author John Connelly, UC Berkeley, History. Discussant: Paul Lerner, USC, History.

Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott Today's guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of The Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot's and The Anchor's websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links. Today's topics: Death of the oldest pastor; retirement plans; $1 million for Catholic schools; Project Rachel; Episcopalian converts; assault on religion; the bishops of Boston Summary of today's show: Greg Tracy joins Scot and Susan to discuss the news of the week in the Pilot and the Anchor newspapers, including a new retirement offering for archdiocesan employees; the death of the Archdiocese's oldest pastor at 96; a $1 million gift for Catholic schools; another Project Rachel testimonial; Episcopalian converts coming into the Church en masse; the federal government's assault on freedom of religion; interesting statistics on abortion rates; and A new series on the bishops of Boston. 1st segment: Scot asked Susan how her four-day week is going and she said a four-day week after a three-day weekend is just like having a six-day week to catch up. The religious education office has been having workshops all over the archdiocese to train parish leaders to do confirmation preparation. The goal is to ensure that parish confirmation preparation is uniformly high quality. Susan also shared the Joseph Anthony Abbott, her grandson, was born today to her son and daughter-in-law in Los Angeles. Another grandchild is due on February 4, which would make 8. Scot also wished his niece, Molly McDermott, a happy 5th birthday. 2nd segment: Scot said a big story in the Pilot this week is that 3,000 archdiocesan employees in the Pastoral Center and in parishes and schools will have a new 401(k) plan. While employees have a pension plan, younger employees will have a smaller payout at retirement and putting some away for themselves now is a good idea. Greg said a large readership of The Pilot are those who work for the Archdiocese and so it's a significant story. The reality is that the Archdiocese began the switch from a traditional pension plan to a 401(k). Most organizations have made the switch because they have become very expensive as people are living longer and Social Security isn't expect to cover everyone in the future. So the Archdiocese has selected a new model for retirement. There is currently a 403b plan, which is similar to a 401k, which was additional voluntary contributions, but did not include contributions from the employer and the 403b was spread over all kinds of vendors and plans. The 401k has all the benefits of the 403b but is much more portable and well-known. Scot noted the obituary in this week's Pilot for Msgr. Stanislaus Sypek who died this week at age 96 and was still an active pastor, not retired. He was ordained in 1943. They reviewed his long career of service to the Church. Also, Fr. Clyde Leonard died this week at 84. He was ordained in 1964 at 37 years old. That was unusual at the time. Fr. John Connelly, pastor of Sacred Heart, Newton, is the oldest serving pastor at 89 years old. The State Street Foundation made a large gift to the Campaign for Catholic Schools of $1 million for the benefit of Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy in Dorchester and Mattapan. Greg attended the press conference and noted that the kids from the school will remember their whole lives how the people in the State Street Bank building cared for them enough to support their education. The State Street CEO said it's an investment in the community. A good educated workforce benefits the entire business community. Catholic education has an immense success rate and is a good place to invest. Scot noted how the former mayor of Los Angeles has begun a campaign to raise $100 million for Catholic schools there. Scot also noted the preparation for the Lenten launch of the “Why Catholic” program that follows up the Arise program. It is a 4-year journey through the Catechism, with 4 twelve-week sessions. It encourages small-group formation, which helps build community within parishes. 3rd segment: Scot said over the past few weeks the Pilot has published moving anonymous testimonials from women who've had abortions and received healing through the Project Rachel program. Susan said it's beautiful testimony, not just to the love of God, but also to the work of our Pro-life Office. Scot said it hit him in the gut to hear how she said she felt unlovable and unforgivable by God. Scot noted that Bishop Hennessey says in the Light Is On For You videos that nothing you have ever done is too big for God to forgive. Greg said it was striking to see how the woman's mother, who pressured her daughter to get an abortion, was herself reconciled to God as well. 4th segment: Scot said Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC, received an entire Episcopalian community into the Church, including their pastor who is beginning his formal studies toward ordination. This is seen as a precursor to the declaration of an Ordinariate in the US, which is somewhat equivalent to a diocese covering the whole country. In the past, Episcopalians who converted to Catholicism have had the pastoral provision that allowed them to use a particular Anglican-use liturgy that preserves the traditions of their faith while incorporating them into Catholic belief and practice. Greg said these incorporations have happened in bits and pieces, but in 2009, Pope Benedict formalized the process by which entire communities can enter the Church together. In the military services, there's been a push to have chaplains officiate at same-sex marriages. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Archdiocese said this won't happen with Catholic chaplains or Catholic chapels, but other chaplains are concerned. The Archbishop said the federal Defense of Marriage Act should prevent such impositions on chaplains in federal service. Scot said Fr. Roger Landry wrote his editorial in the Anchor this week on Archbishop Timothy Dolan's recent list of five ways that the federal government is mounting an assault on religious freedom, including mandates for insurance to pay for contraception, sterilization, and abortion; forcing the bishop Migration and Refugees Services to provide “reproductive services” in order to continue to receive government contracts; pressure on Catholic Relief Services in a similar vein internationally; the Justice Department attacking the Defense of Marriage Act as bigotry; the Obama administration taking a position against the “ministerial exception” before the Supreme Court; and a push to redefine marriage in the states with pressure from above. Scot said people often tell Catholics not to impose their faith on others, but that's exactly what's happening in the other direction. He said people need to be vocal in order to not give the impression that the majority agree with these impositions. Another article shows that married women are much less likely to have abortions. The abortion rate among cohabitating women was 59 percent, formerly married and not cohabitating was 31.8 percent, women who never married and not cohabitating was 28.1 percent, and wives was 7.7 percent. In cohabitation, the future of the couple is uncertain and this it's hard to be able to welcome new life with generosity. Greg said there's been a societal shift in that marriage is no longer about family, but it's just about love and romance. They are part of it, but not the complete picture. Scot said there is a new series of articles on the bishops of Boston, starting with Bishop John Cheverus from his birth in France. Greg said the 100th anniversary of Cardinal O'Connell becoming Boston's first cardinal comes up on November 11 and was the motivation for this series.