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Show Notes: Shannon Frison joined the United States Marine Corps during her time in law school. She spent her second year at officer candidate school and became commissioned as an officer. After law school, she returned to Massachusetts, worked for a year at the TAs office, took the bar, and went on active duty with the Marine Corps. After serving at Marine Corps Air Station, New River, North Carolina, she worked for a litigation firm called Dwyer and Clora before opening a law firm. In 2009, she applied for the bench in Massachusetts and was appointed to the Boston Municipal Court. She then applied again to the Superior Court and was appointed to the Superior Court in 2013 where she stayed until 2024 when she retired from that position and reopened a law firm. The Decision to Join the Marine Corps Shannon was initially an athlete in college but later discovered the judge advocate program in the Marine Corps while taking a firefighters course. She found the Marine Corps offers a physical experience that is not sanitized or lighter training, and lawyers are considered line officers. They go through the full Marine Corps infantry officer training, which is the minimum required for being a judge advocate. Shannon shares her transformation from the Marine Corps to active duty service, stating that she was physically and mentally transformed. She learned about boundaries, limits, and how to lead people effectively. The training in the Marine Corps is designed to push individuals to their limits. Training in the Marine Corps One of the challenges she faced during her training was a 15-foot jump from a tower, which she struggled with for six months. Despite being encouraged by others, she struggled with this mental block and graduated late. This experience made her realize her weaknesses and strengths. She explains how she managed to overcome this mental block. Shannon's experience in the Marine Corps has had a significant impact on her personal growth and development. She has learned to appreciate her limitations and the challenges they present, and has been able to adapt and improve her skills throughout her time in the military. This experience has helped her become a better person and better equipped for her future roles in the Marine Corps. Shannon shares her experience of jumping off a helicopter after completing the swim qualification, which helped her overcome anxiety and mental anxiety. She also shares that her time in Harvard and the Marine Corps taught her that she would not always be the best at everything, as she met many outstanding individuals in those environments. A Career on The Bench Shannon talks about her time as a judge, where she applied to the Bench through an application process. The Massachusetts system of selecting judges mimics the federal system, but it is an application process. People may recommend applicants, and applicants must fill out a long, dramatic application that asks for every detail in their life and legal life. She explains the rigorous vetting process for applicants before they reach the governor's desk, where they meet with their lawyer for further vetting. Once the governor nominates them, Congress and the governor's counselors confirm their nomination to the bench. If they get their seat and commission on the bench, it is a lifetime position and they don't need to do it again unless they go to another court. Explaining The Difference between Courts Shannon discusses her experience working in the Boston Municipal Court and Superior Court, two different courts in Massachusetts. The Boston Municipal Court and district courts handle a variety of cases, including criminal, restraining orders, traffic tickets, and small claims matters. She states that all cases begin in these courts. The Superior Court is a court of general jurisdiction, handling more serious matters such as rapes, robberies, and murders. Judges must do both civil and criminal trials, with each session lasting three months. Finally, Shannon discusses her experience as a judge from 2009 to almost 2020. She has gained more education about law and has learned about various areas of law. She is concerned about her own safety, as threats and assaults are more common in Massachusetts. The court system enforces safety measures for judges, but she has taken steps to keep her address out of the public eye. The Role of Race Bias in the Criminal Justice System Shannon emphasizes the importance of addressing racial disparities in sentencing. She believes that conversations about race should be solidly on the table all the time, especially in sentencing. She emphasizes that the goal of sentencing should be rehabilitation, deterrence, education, and other goals, rather than satisfying the prosecutor's office or victim's family. She suggests that mandatory training on issues of bias would be beneficial, especially at the police level. She believes that more education is needed for officers to better understand the historical and consistent disparities in the criminal justice system. However, she acknowledges that people may become weary of discussing race, and it is difficult to keep it on the table. Finally, she stresses that it is essential to continue pushing for change. She believes that people must believe in the existence of these disparities and work towards changing them. Shannon discusses the need for more training for police officers, specifically in areas such as bias training and soft skills. She suggests that there is a need for more education and training to better understand the psyche of these individuals. A Speaking Career Focused on Law Shannon mentions her speaking career, which includes engagements around trial advocacy, race and bias, and navigating legal careers. She enjoys speaking to law students, undergraduates, new lawyers, affinity law groups, and associations. She also speaks regularly for different Bar Associations in Massachusetts and continues legal education for lawyers. Shannon explains why she decided to retire from the bench because she believes that a job has a season in one's life, and she wants to be part of shaping and advocating for various aspects of society, policies, politics, and culture. She believes that 15 years of her professional life is enough, and it's time to move on and do other things, as everyone is in a lifecycle and should focus on what they aim to do while they are on the planet. Influential Courses and Professors at Harvard Shannon shares her experiences with professors at Harvard, including Martin Kilson, and J. Lorand Matory. Kilson was a government major who taught courses on city development, race, and ethnic groups. Matory, an anthropology professor, taught seminars on Afro Atlantic religions, which taught about non-Christian religions created during slavery. She believes these courses and information have stayed with her throughout her career. Timestamps: 04:24 Career change and military training 14:17 Overcoming mental block in military swim qualification 19:47 Becoming a judge in Massachusetts 27:30 Judicial experience and safety concerns 31:48 Criminal justice system reform and addressing racial disparities 39:46 Police training and community relations 44:07 Judicial experience, identity, and advocacy Links: Website: www.frisonlawfirm.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shannonfrison Website: https://touch.npaper-wehaa.com/baystatebanner/read/content?content_id=4209621
AirTalk is off this week, so we'll be supplying our podcast listeners with reruns of our Southern California history segments. Today's episode is on the Tustin Hangars. If you'd like to suggest a topic for a future SoCal history segment, email it to atcomments@laist.com. Orange County is still in a state of emergency after smoke and debris from the Tustin hangar fire tested positive for asbestos and other toxins last week. Tustin schools remain closed. The fire broke out at Tustin's Marine Corps Air Station early Tuesday morning, irreparably damaging one of two historic blimp hangars there. The hangars were built in 1942 to hold Lighter-Than-Air aircrafts, or LTAs, that patrolled the U.S. coastline during World War II. At 17 stories high, more than 1,000 feet long, and 300 feet wide, the hangars were two of the largest wooden structures in the world. They've been mostly vacant since the base was decommissioned in 1999, sometimes serving as a shooting location for films and commercials. Now, the north hangar (Hangar 1) will have to be demolished completely. The south hangar (Hangar 2) is still standing, but there are no current plans to preserve it. The Marine Corps community is reeling from the loss. Joining Larry to discuss the hangars' history, significance, and the fight for preservation are Brian Delahaut, retired Marine Colonel stationed at Tustin between 1983 and 1995, and Chris Jepsen, local historian and president of the Orange County Historical Society.
Mr. Alan Gottlieb, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) joins us today to pay tribute to the late Sam Slom, who was elected to the Hawai'i State Senate when TRP's producer and host (Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.) lived in Hawai'i. In fact, Dr. Mather recalls passing Slom's campaign or senate office either in Hawai'i Kai or Kahala (I think the Kahala Mall) back in 1996 or 1997. Sam Slom served as Hawai'i State Senator from 1996 to 2016 in East Honolulu and was the only Republican in the State Senate. He was one of the founding Board Member of The Second Amendment Foundation in 1974. Mr. Sam Slom was one of the good Republicans defending the right to keep and bear arms and invididual liberty , and it's an honor to remember him here. Mr. Alan Gottlieb, Founder of The Second Amendment Foundation helps us do just that. We also discuss a bit about the kinds of cases that SAF is involved in, including some recent and famous ones. Recently, SAF won a preliminary injunction against California's arbitrary and capricious 10+ magazine confiscation scheme. Historicallly and famously, SAF won at the US Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller (2008) and representing plaintiff Otis McDonald in McDonald v. Chicago (2010). In that latter case, the City of Chicago spent a million dollars to deprive this black man of his right to self defense absent police protection . If this sounds good to you, become a supporter of this work at https://saf.org/join-saf/ Enormous progress has been made ! The work continues. The first time TRP host Dr. Mather studied the Second Amendment academically was at Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay in 1999 in a required State and Federal Government course for his undergraduate college, Wayland Baptist University Hawai'i. The professor for the course used a textbook that gave scant and misleading information about the history, text, scope, and meaning of the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms. During that time, and a few years before when he saw "Jerry McGuire" (Tom Cruise movie) at Kahala Mall in East Honolulu (the swanky part of "town"), Mather was living downtown at the time, and noticed the office of Sam Slom, Republican elected to the Hawai'i State Senate. Mr. Slom was a Founding Board Member of The Second Amendment Foundation. He served as the only Republican in the Hawai'i State Senate from 1996 to 2016, twenty years ! On The Republican Professor Podcast, what a wonderful opportunity to remember Sam Slom, Mather's time studying the Second Amendment for the first time academically in Hawai'i, and the careful , persistent work of The Second Amendment Foundation. Mr. Alan Gottlieb, Founder of The Second Amendment Foundation, helped us do all that. SAF has won a recent preliminary injunction against the 10+ magazine limit here in California last week . More famously, SAF brought the challenge to DC's onerous registration/home disarmament scheme which they won at the US Supreme Court in 2008 called D.C. v. Heller (2008). We talk about his conversation with Antonin Scalia, what it was like growing up in New York City, why the arbitrary magazine limitation is unconstitutional, how knife laws also should be challenged as problematic under the Second Amendment, and my favorite, what it was like winning the Chicago case called Otis McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) at the US Supreme Court (filed the day they won Heller). Enormous progress has been made since I saw Sam Slom's office in East Honolulu and spoke with him and his team in 1996. The textbooks no longer can afford to give the disfavored Second Amendment short shrift. That has everything to do with the hard , persistent work since then . Glad to be a part of it and to have had the opportunity to document it on The Republican Professor podcast. The work continues. The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment podcast. Therefore, welcome Mr. Alan Gottieb, founder of The Second Amendment Foundation. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. To financially support this podcast, comment on today's episode, or to make a suggestion for a topic or guest for the podcast or Substack newsletter, send an email to therepublicanprofessor@substack.com . We'd love to hear from you. Thanks for subscribing. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack
The United States Pacific Command's AOR (Area of Responsibility) encompasses about half of the earth's surface. It is home to more than 50 percent of the world's population and several of the world's largest militaries. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is supporting a growing presence in the globally significant Asia-Pacific region. Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, USACE commanding general, toured construction at Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan. The construction and international partnership will help maintain security and stability in the Pacific region. Produced by Mary Cochran. Also available in high definition. More information at www.poj.usace.army.mil
In local news, a local adoption program is seeking donations for items to give to students during the holiday season. According to the Watauga Democrat, the Watauga County Schools Adoption Program's goal for donations is to give each student at least $100 worth of items. The adoption program asks for all donations to be turned in by December 2nd, although they will still accept donations afterwards. They also ask for donations to be gift cards, but will also accept anything. Those wishing to donate can send them to 300 Go Pioneers Drive, Boone NC 28607. In state news, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will be making an appearance in North Carolina during the week of Thanksgiving. According to WLOS, the White House announced that the two will be visiting the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina on Monday, November 21st and will be participating in a "Friendsgiving" dinner with servicemembers and military families. This event is part of the White House's “Joining Forces Initiative.” In global news, the world's human population has reached 8 billion people. According to the United Nations, the population reached 8 billion on Tuesday, November 15th. According to the UN, it took 12 years for the population to go from 7 to 8 billion, but will take 15 years, which will be the year 2037, for the world to reach 9 billion. This signifies that the growth rate is slowing down. Today's weather is courtesy of Booneweather.com. Today is a cold but sunny day with a high of 33 degrees and a low of 19.
We talk with Dr. James Giordano, a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center and a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center. In this three-part series, we discuss what are some of the latest developments in brain science and technology related to military applications? These include brain scanning tools, directed energy, trans-cranial magnetic and electrical stimulation, and deep brain stimulation - all of which can be used in military and intelligence operations. How might differing values around the world address the development and use of these technologies? What are the relative costs and the burdens or risks associated with these possible values?Dr. James Giordano is Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, Scholar-in-Residence, leads the Sub-Program in Military Medical Ethics, and Co-director of the O'Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. He is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Brain Science, Health Promotions and Ethics at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences. He served in the Navy as a Naval Aerospace Physiologist, and was the director of the aerospace training center at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. Dr. "G" is a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership.
Sponsor: Click here for Dandy Labs or go to https://www.meetdandy.com/melissa/ Instagram: @dental_digest_podcast Dr. Matthew Chesler is a native of Wayzata, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities. After high school, he left the “frozen tundra” behind for sunnier days in Southern California, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at UCSD and then moved on to USC School of Dentistry for his DDS degree in 2004. During his studies he received a faculty award for excellence in Endodontics. While at USC, Dr. Chesler received a full scholarship from the US Navy. He first reported for active duty to Camp Pendleton where he completed a one year residency in Advanced Education in General Dentistry. Shortly afterwards, he became one of the youngest residents to ever be selected for the Endodontics residency program at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School in Bethesda, MD. He completed the program in 2008 and concurrently earned a postdoctoral Master of Science degree from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. After graduation, he reported to Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i as the Endodontics department head. Lieutenant Commander Chesler was transferred back to the San Diego area in early 2011 where he served as the head of the Endodontics department at Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar. In 2015 he separated from the Navy after eleven years of active duty, but is currently a naval reservist. Dr. Chesler has remained academically active. In Hawai'i he was chairman of the annual Tri-Service Dental Symposium, providing lectures to all Oahu-based dental officers. He is successfully mentoring promising junior officers to follow his training path. Annually, he attends the American Association of Endodontists continuing education program and stays abreast of the latest research by keeping up with multiple endodontic publications. He holds professional memberships with the American Dental Association, American Association of Endodontists, California Dental Association, and the San Diego County Dental Society. Dr. Chesler (“Matt”) and his wife, Trang Chesler, also a dentist, have two sons. Matt's hobbies include 3-putting the greens of various San Diego golf courses, hiking, and posing as potential shark bait when he's scuba diving. His main interest is in all things automotive, where he is doing his best to get his two young sons as car crazy as he is.
In this episode Dr. Chesler will discuss topics related to endodontics and pain management. Instagram: @dental_digest_podcast Dr. Melissa Seibert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.melissa_seibert/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-melissa-ratliff-seibert-dmd-37230873/ About Dr. Chesler: Dr. Matthew Chesler is a native of Wayzata, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities. After high school, he left the “frozen tundra” behind for sunnier days in Southern California, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at UCSD and then moved on to USC School of Dentistry for his DDS degree in 2004. During his studies he received a faculty award for excellence in Endodontics. While at USC, Dr. Chesler received a full scholarship from the US Navy. He first reported for active duty to Camp Pendleton where he completed a one year residency in Advanced Education in General Dentistry. Shortly afterwards, he became one of the youngest residents to ever be selected for the Endodontics residency program at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School in Bethesda, MD. He completed the program in 2008 and concurrently earned a postdoctoral Master of Science degree from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. After graduation, he reported to Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i as the Endodontics department head. Lieutenant Commander Chesler was transferred back to the San Diego area in early 2011 where he served as the head of the Endodontics department at Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar. In 2015 he separated from the Navy after eleven years of active duty, but is currently a naval reservist. Dr. Chesler has remained academically active. In Hawai'i he was chairman of the annual Tri-Service Dental Symposium, providing lectures to all Oahu-based dental officers. He is successfully mentoring promising junior officers to follow his training path. Annually, he attends the American Association of Endodontists continuing education program and stays abreast of the latest research by keeping up with multiple endodontic publications. He holds professional memberships with the American Dental Association, American Association of Endodontists, California Dental Association, and the San Diego County Dental Society. Dr. Chesler (“Matt”) and his wife, Trang Chesler, also a dentist, have two sons. Matt's hobbies include 3-putting the greens of various San Diego golf courses, hiking, and posing as potential shark bait when he's scuba diving. His main interest is in all things automotive, where he is doing his best to get his two young sons as car crazy as he is.
Welcome, listeners, I'm so glad you're here! In today's episode we highlight police K9 officers and the work they do alongside their human partners to keep us safe. Today I bring you along for the ride as I make a few visits to a few different law enforcement agencies. Our first stop is Shelter Island in San Diego, where we chat with a few of the San Diego Harbor Police Officers who have come out with their canines to give a demonstration of the kind of work they do. This episode was recorded mostly outdoors, so please pardon the background noise. Next up, we head to the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar to visit some military working dogs and their handlers who are military policeman. They are doing a training event in conjunction with another local law enforcement agency, and have invited us to tag along. We stand outside of the aviation museum on base, surrounded by a lot of different aircraft. The dogs search under and around each one, sniffing for the scent of explosives, and when they find the source of the scent, they sit and stare at it until their handler joins them and gives them their paycheck …their favorite toy. They get to play with it for a few moments, but then it's back to work. Listeners, thanks for joining me on today's journey. I also want to take the opportunity to say thank you to all of service members who are out there doing their best to keep us safe, and a thank you to the canine service members as well. I was able to photograph the wonderful K9s featured in this episode, and if you'd like to see some of the photos, as well as photos from other dogs featured on this show, just visit our website: herobeside.me. There you will also find our listener feedback survey on the podcast page, and I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill that out, as your opinion is valuable to us and influential to the future of this show. This episode is the last one of season one of The Hero Beside Me Podcast. I want to thank you so much for joining me as I have embarked on this adventure to discover all the professions that dogs can have. We haven't covered them all…it seems like people just keep discovering even new ways for dogs to display their genius…but we've covered quite a few, and it's been a blast. I'm so grateful to have had your company on this wild ride. Please consider signing up for the newsletter so I can let you know about future developments. Whether or not there will be another season is still to be determined, and this is where your feedback would be really helpful. And if you haven't yet, please consider subscribing and rating the show. Thanks again for your listenership, and thank you to all the handlers, trainers and dogs who participated this season. And don't forget to give some extra love to the hero beside you today! On this podcast, we seek to highlight the work being done by working dogs of all disciplines. This show exists in support of its sister photography project on the same topic and of the same name. You can learn more about that by visiting www.herobeside.me.
R Cell's investigation of the Abril house murders continues. Their contacts at the Marine Corps Air Station supply needed information as well as some surprising resources. But when Yuma PD informs them of new developments, R Cell quickly realizes just how Unnatural this case is. (Additional music: https://soundcloud.com/myuu/the-orders-theme and https://soundcloud.com/myuu/nebula)
In this episode, Dr. Cawthra sits down with graduate students, Cynthia Castaneda and Scotty Coyne, to talk about the history of the Orange County Great Park (OCGP), once the home of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. The students talk about developing an interpretive site plan for OCGP as part of Dr. Cawthra's 2018 public history class, and how they incorporated research from COPH's El Toro Oral History Project. Later in the episode, COPH archivist Natalie Navar introduces several clips from men and women stationed at El Toro.
Welcome to the first edition of HBH Highlights that Inspire with me, Abby Bolt where I take a little time to share with you some of the most interesting and inspiring news stories around the world.If you hear of an inspiring headline feel free to send it to me at media@herbrotherhood.comThis particular story has been plastered across this internet this week and it is no secret as to whyWoman becomes first female marine to pilot F-35B fighter jetMarine to pilot F-35B fighter jet A woman who attributes her success to "showing up prepared and working diligently" has become the first female Marine to pilot a F-35B fighter jet.U.S. Marine Capt. Anneliese Satz, 29, of Boise, Idaho, completed the F-35B Basic Course on June 27, the Marine Corp announced in a press release last week.Satz trained for four years, including in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Meridian, Mississippi, before arriving at Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, South Carolina, in July 2018. She took her first flight in the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, the first-ever supersonic short takeoff/vertical landing stealth aircraft, in October 2018.The first flight was done solo — something that Satz said she was prepared for thanks to her training, which included practice time in simulators and written exams.“The syllabus thoroughly prepares you for that first time you take off and for every flight after that, it’s an exhilarating experience,” she said in the press release.The Marines said Satz, who has more than 300 flight hours, will now join a unit called the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, the Green Knights in Iwakuni, Japan.Before joining the Marines, Satz was a commercial pilot flying helicopters. She said her helicopter piloting and training schools helped her live up to her potential.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/woman-becomes-first-female-marine-pilot-f-35b-fighter-jet-n1043176 Arkansas girl jump-starts campaign for female plastic toy soldiersA 6-year-old girl has provided a strong kick to a campaign to create female versions of the iconic green Army men figures after sending a powerful letter to several toy manufacturers. After getting her hands on the 2-inch-tall toy, Vivian Lord of Little Rock, Arkansas quickly realized there are no women figures — not even in the pink set.“I saw the pink ones but [those] aren’t girls and [people] in the Army don’t wear pink,” she wrote in her letter, as reported in Military Times.com.One of the recipients of the letter was Jeff Imel, an executive with Scranton, Pa.-based BMC Toys, who quickly responded with an “overdue update” of an ongoing project to fashion the female figures. “The general concept is a set of female combat toy soldier figures in the style of the plastic Army men from WW2-Cold War era that would blend in with existing figures froBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/herbrotherhood)
Welcome to the next episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast! This week’s interviewee is the mother of one of my best friends. I’ve known this wonderful, kind lady for a little over ten years, and it was really great to get to know her even more. My friend and I always say how alike our mothers are, in their overall positive and upbeat demeanor.About her relationship with her mother: “I was pretty rebellious as a kid—I was the fourth of five kids. So I think by the time I came along, my mom had kind of seen it all, was kinda tired… So I didn’t feel like I had a very close relationship with my mom. It felt like she was kinda checked out.My siblings were a lot older. She started her career—she worked at the telephone company, and she worked the night shifts. Her shifts started at 3 PM and ended at midnight. So after school, I didn’t see her. So I just felt like I didn’t have a really strong or good relationship with her.In high school, we started having a better relationship, which is odd because I think it’s the opposite for a lot of other people. But that’s when we started talking, and learning about each other. And from then on, high school on, I felt like I had a good relationship with her. But not early on.”About her job as a clerk at the Marine Corps Air Station: “I liked working at the Marine Corps Air Station, because I got to meet a lot of Marines, and they were from all over the US. And I was a young thing, so they’d all talk to me. But it was so interesting to get to know all these different people from all these different places. Being in Hawaii is kind of sheltered. Meeting people from Mississippi, for instance, well that was a big deal. Wow, Mississippi! New York! Things like that—it was very interesting for me. I found that I liked talking with the people, and helping them. So that was good.”About one of her biggest challenges: “I think one of them has been knowing that I can’t do everything. That was really hard for me to accept. When I was in my mid-30’s, [when my kids were two and seven], I decided I wanted to go back to school, and finish my undergrad. I had dropped out in Hawaii, to go to the beach, work at the pizza place, all that fun stuff, and I never finished. … I was working a full-time job, and I was supervising about ten people. Up until then, I had never felt any limitations about anything that I could do. So I went back to school, full-time. And I was working full-time.I did it for about a year and a half. Then I crashed. I started having anxiety attacks. … I would stay up til like 1 o’clock in the morning, studying and writing papers. I would sleep til about 4:00, get up and study a little bit, go to work. Drinking coffee, diet coke, because I had to stay awake. [My doctor] said, ‘I think your body is telling you that you’re doing too much.’ I said oh no! I can do this. I have always done this. I can always burn the candle at both ends, I can do anything. I never thought anything would stop me.I mean, looking back on it now, it makes total sense. What was happening was I wasn’t getting enough sleep, I was over-caffeinated, so I on overload. That was a really rude awakening for me. I was 35, and I thought what? Up until now, I was able to do anything I set my mind out to do. How can this be happening to me? And I was really mad at myself and upset.My doctor said, okay I want you to talk to a therapist. I’m like, I don’t need that! He said well, just give it a try. And I’m so glad he said that. Because in talking to a therapist—somebody who will actually listen to you for an hour—it really made me stop and think that wow, you know, I’m really hard on myself. I expect that I can do this, and this, and that… I never wanted to ask for help.So it brought me to the realization that I can’t do everything, that that’s not a bad thing. It’s okay to ask for help. When you’re overwhelmed, it’s okay to step back from it for a bit, and take a break. Until then I’d just been go-go-go. That was the hardest thing for me to accept. … Up until then I expected I could do anything, and I expected everybody else to be just like me. I had to readjust what I thought about myself and what I expected from others as well. So it was a good thing that I learned then, instead of later.”About a failure at the time, and what she learned: “Thinking about work… There were times earlier, when I was in my 30’s, where I was very impatient. … One day, [I got into an argument at work with someone with a strong personality like mine]. We were yelling at each other. That wasn’t my finest moment. Afterwards, my boss talked to me and said, ‘That was very inappropriate. You’re not supposed to yell to get your point across. Yeah, he was mouthing back to you and provoking you, but you have to take the high road, and that was very wrong, the way you handled that.’ So that really hurt, because I still felt I was right, and [the other guy] was wrong. But my boss told me that wasn’t the right way to handle that.After that I felt very embarrassed, I felt like oh I’m a failure, I didn’t handle that correctly. In the heat of the moment, I was yelling at him. But then, because of that, I had to really stop and think and say, you know as mad as I am at him and think yeah I’m right, I have to look in the mirror and say you know, I was at fault. I shouldn’t have done that. So that was really hard for me. Because I just felt I’m right, you’re wrong, shut up. I had to really take a step back and acknowledge that I wasn’t.At the time I was devastated. I was just like oh no, how can I go back to work? I was so embarrassed, how can I face him and everybody who listened to it? But I talked to him. I apologized, and he did too. We came to a better understanding. And then separately, I went and talked to the other people and apologized for my conduct. I wanted everybody to know that I had done some introspection, and that I felt that was not appropriate. I didn’t want them to think oh, it’s okay to go around yelling at people, because she did it.At the time, I felt really devastated, I thought it was the most horrible thing. But now when I look back at it, I think that was good, because I really learned a lot from that situation.”I’ve heard that come up a lot—it’s more important how you damage control afterward. We all explode at different times, but how you handle it after is more important. Cause you have to admit that you did something wrong, which is really hard to do.
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November 7, 1943 - Jack Benny and the gang dodge aircraft tests on location at the Marine Corps Air Station in Mojave, California.
In this Pacific Newsbreak, Marines at Marine Corps Air Station receive an infrequent yet vital training opportunity on aircraft arresting gear, and the 3rd Marine Division Command Sergeant Major returns home to Guam, and explains his family's military service and legacy on the island.
Dr. Paul Homoly, CSP, is a world-class leader in dental education. As a comprehensive, restorative dentist and acclaimed educator for over thirty years, he is known for his innovative and practical approach to dentistry. Paul is president of Homoly Communications Institute, a resource for personal, professional, and practice-building skills. Paul authored the highly regarded books, Dentists: An Endangered Species, Isn’t It Wonderful When Patients Say Yes!, Making it Easy for Patients to Say “Yes”, Just Because You’re an Expert…Doesn’t Make You Interesting and Case Acceptance for Everyday Dentistry. Paul also co-created the iTunes app DDS GP YES. He provides seminars, workshops and consultations on the topics of dental case acceptance, practice development, key opinion leadership, speaking, and practice management. Paul is an active author contributing to dental journals world-wide. Dr. Paul Homoly graduated from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry in 1975. He served for two years as a Naval dental officer at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina. Following this he practiced restorative dentistry for 20 years in Charlotte, North Carolina. During that time he had seven university affiliations and received numerous awards and honors for his service in dental associations and private teaching institutes. During the last half of his clinical career, Paul expanded his work as a consultant and trainer, and since 1986 he has coached dentists, team members, dental laboratory technicians and owners, salespeople, consultants, academicians, and key opinion leaders. Paul retired from clinical practice in 1995 and now devotes his full time focus to training, coaching, consulting and authoring. Paul is a member of the American Dental Association and is licensed to practice dentistry in the state of North Carolina. Today Paul is regarded as one of the top communication coaches, consultants, and speakers in dentistry. Paul holds the highest earned designation in professional speaking – Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) – from the National Speakers Association. Fewer than ten percent of professional speakers are distinguished at the CSP level. He is the first and only dentist in the world to earn this designation. Visit www.nsaspeaker.org/certifications/ to learn why the CSP designation is important. www.paulhomoly.com
“Emerging from the Darkness: The End of the Drug War and the Rise of Recovery” was presented on April 20, 2017, by Dr. Kevin T. McCauley, MD; co-founder of the Institute on Addiction Study; writer of the award-winning DVD “Pleasure Unwoven” and the DVD “Memo To Self.” Not only have the ships for which we have waited for so long appeared on the horizon, some of them have now come into port. Parity. Treatment on demand. Stigma reduction. These once seemingly impossible dreams are today a reality. The White House creates an "Office of Recovery" and speaks openly about a "Third Way" for new policy. States legalize cannabis for - not medical - but recreational use, and create a giant natural experiment that will reveal previous certainties about its dangers as truth or fiction. Films, books, plays, and music put a human face on addiction, changing minds and hearts in the process. But most importantly, people are recovering. As we emerge from the rubble of the Drug War, we can rebuild on the foundation of astonishing brain research that has quietly accumulated through decades of zero-tolerance and mass incarceration. In this lecture, we will stop and realize this moment in history, and compare it to other challenges of health disparity and social inequality. We will review the rising science of recovery and explore concepts of recovery management. We will elucidate this "Third Way," and consider the challenges it entails. We will explore innovative policies, enacted on local and national levels, which hold the promise of preventing addiction before it starts, treating it on a scale never before seen in the US, and re-enfranchising a battered but resilient American demographic. As groups of men and women, formerly living in the shadows, come together, define themselves, and become a people, we should not forget: History is watching. This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a FREE, annual workshop series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For information, please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series. About The Presenter: Dr. Kevin McCauley, MD Kevin McCauley, MD graduated from Drexel University Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992. He entered the United States Navy and received his Naval Flight Surgeon training at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida. He was the flight surgeon for Heavy Marine Helicopter Squadron 363 at Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, California and for Marine Fighter/Attack Training Squadron 101 at Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. Dr. McCauley is the co-founder of the Institute for Addiction Study in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Director of Program Services at the New Roads Treatment Center in Sandy, Utah. He has served as President of the Utah Association of Recovery Residences in Salt Lake City, Utah, working with state and municipal agencies to promulgate best practices for local sober living home providers in order to strengthen the Recovery-Oriented System of Care in Utah. Dr. McCauley served as Director of Le Mont Michel in Sandy, Utah, from 2009 to 2013; helping with the design and implementation of a disease management/ residential recovery support program and also served as director of daily operations of an eight-bed sober living facility including training and supervision of staff, as well as analysis of outcome data. As co-founder of the Institute for Addiction Study, Dr. McCauley wrote and directed two films: “Pleasure Unwoven” about the neuroscience of addiction, and “Memo to Self” about Recovery Management in commercial airline pilots and professionals with substance use disorders. “Pleasure Unwoven” won the 2010 Michael Q. Ford Award for Journalism from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. Dr. McCauley travels between Utah and his home in Honolulu, Hawai`I where he lives with his wife, Kristine. His goals are to help those who wish to better understand addiction topics and to make difficult scientific concepts accessible to all. In his work, he strives to foster the acceptance of people in recovery as full and valued members of society.
Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses the problems with Veteran's healthcare, social security and more with 45th Congressional candidate Col. Greg Raths.Commitment to serve the people, not the political parties or the special interests. Greg lives by conservative principles that have guided him throughout his life and throughout his years of service to our country. However, he believes strongly that everyone has an equal right to their beliefs and that we must find solutions that work for the greater good of our nation. At the core of those principles lies a firm belief in a limited government that inspires trust, and demands accountability.Greg is a passionate leader and defender of national security, economic growth so all can thrive, and move our country forward towards the equality of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. He currently serves on the City Council for Mission Viejo.Greg graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business. He later earned a Masters Degree from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and recently received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science at CSUF.Greg is a long time homeowner and resident of Mission Viejo. He came to Orange County in 1978 as a young First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and was based at the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro.He served 30 years on active duty as a fighter/attack pilot retiring in 2004 at the rank of Colonel. During his years in service he commanded a Marine Corps Fighter/Attack Squadron, Marine Air Group, and served as Chief of Staff of a Marine Air Wing. He is a decorated combat pilot of Operations Desert Storm, Southern Watch and Restore Hope. He has 75 combat missions in the F/A-18 Hornet. He also served for three years as Assistant Chief of Staff and Chief Financial Officer of the White House Military Office from 1996-1999.
Package about the Marines of VMGR-152 flew to Matsushima, Japan to deliver supplies and troops in support of Operation Tomodachi. Video by Cpl. Bradley Hanson. jpearthquake11, operation tomodachi