Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Nichols

In this special edition of CPM Customer Success, host Andy MNA welcomes Mark Nichols, Sales Director at OneStream Software, for a behind-the-scenes look at the OneStream Splash Conference. With Nashville as the backdrop, Mark discusses what makes Splash a can't-miss event for finance and accounting professionals. Listeners will hear Mark's career journey from Hyperion to OneStream, his perspective on the unique culture that drives customer success, and a deep dive into what attendees can expect—from targeted tracks for FP&A, accounting, and executives, to immersive demos on OneStream's unified platform and practical AI innovations. You'll also learn how: Splash helps prospects validate OneStream as a strategic solution Existing customers expand platform use cases like forecasting and reconciliations Sensible AI is driving better forecast accuracy without overwhelming finance teams To network effectively with peers, consultants, and OneStream leaders (costumes encouraged!) Plus, get a preview of Nova Advisory's customer spotlight with Morton Salt, and tips on post-conference follow-up to build a solid internal business case for OneStream adoption.

The province is increasing the minimum wage on April 1st to sixteen dollars an hour. Is that enough? This morning we spoke with Mark Nichols of Workers Action NL to find out more.

Someone once said that “a man that's never experienced the brutality of war, can never truly understand the meaning of peace”. While that might be debatable, one thing is for sure. War changes you. For Mark Nichols, at least one aspect of his experience in combat has changed him for the better. It helped him see the true meaning of life. It all clicked for him when he stepped off the plane with his unit upon their triumphant return from the Gulf War we know as “Desert Storm.” Seeing his comrades reunite with their loved ones and experiencing the intensity of that emotional moment changed his life forever. We're pleased that Mark will give us a sneak peek into this experience today and more valuable insights into the world of driveaway trucking in this episode of the Six-Figure Trucker.Show Notes:Welcoming Renaissance Man, Mark Nichols back to the show (1:04)A National Guard Veteran of the Gulf War (4:08)How combat experience changed Mark's perspective on life (10:13)Mark's journey to Driveaway Trucking (12:56)When the Owner is a Trucker himself, it's a Game Changer (14:50)Expert advice for Winter Driving! (17:45)Keep Trucking, Mark! The Six-Figure Trucker is a weekly podcast about driveaway trucking brought to you by Norton Transport. For more information or to subscribe, please visit Six-FigureTrucker.com.

We're riding shotgun with another fascinating guest on today's episode of the Six Figure Trucker. Actually, fascinating doesn't do it justice. Before taking his seat behind the wheel of Driveaway, Mark Nichols experienced life as a combat veteran, published journalist, and ballroom dancing instructor. Bet you didn't guess that last one! But, it's true, and this part of the story gets even crazier. As you'll hear in our conversation, Mark once leveraged his dancing talents for an opportunity to grace the Opryland stage alongside Dwight Yoakam at the CMA Awards! We're simply amazed by the fascinating lives of the men and women of driveaway trucking. Tune in today to hear Mark's story and glean valuable insights into Driveaway Trucking from this 7-year veteran of the open roads. Show Notes:Mark's colorful background in the Military and Journalism (1:13)Venturing into the world of Podcasting (5:40)The sights and sounds of 7 years in Driveaway (10:49)Becoming a Ballroom Dancing Instructor (16:55)On Stage with Country star, Dwight Yoakam (25:06)Sage advice for Driveaway Drivers (31:12)Keep Trucking, Mark! The Six-Figure Trucker is a weekly podcast about driveaway trucking brought to you by Norton Transport. For more information or to subscribe, please visit Six-FigureTrucker.com.

In today's episode I am joined by Nina Walker, a performance nutritionist who oversees the nutrition support for British Curling. The bulk of this episode outlines the key elements of a well-fueled curler, and introduces you to the concept of a Performance Plate. Nina recommends focusing on your nutrition year-round; using  the off ice season to practise timing of meals around training, practices and games.   If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these: Episode 06: Basic nutrition for curlers Episode 07: Mark Nichols on all things training, nutrition & curling camps Episode 49: Limbo time and types of rest   To stay as up-to-date as possible, make sure to join the Empowered Performance newsletter and to follow me on Instagram at @empoweredperformance   All mentioned resources are available in the show notes on my website at www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast   Apple description (500 words)   To stay as up-to-date as possible, join the Empowered Performance newsletter & follow on Instagram at @empoweredperformance Show notes & resources found here: www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast  

In 2023, The Blackletter Podcast host Tom Dunlap held many enlightening interviews in his mission to demystify law and business principles. As guests shared their insights, they each concluded their interviews by providing their top takeaways regarding the key foundations of business and law. On this special 2023 recap episode, we have gathered the fundamental elements of advice shared by each guest throughout the year's fascinating conversations. Listen in to gain real expert advice on the principles of law, business, and life.Career success through planning, persistence, and patience.Marc Fava, an attorney who works as an ombudsman and Vice President for Boeing Corporation, discussed how planning, persistence, and patience can help people achieve success in their careers. Mark shares examples of these elements within his own life, including how purposeful planning, persistence, and patience led to him getting work from American Airlines two years after his initial rejection.Career advice, compliance, and having fun in the workplace.Mark Nichols, the Chief Counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration, discussed the knowledge that he gained throughout his career to mentor and how he uses it to advise and lead other veterans and attorneys. Nichols advises young professionals to think about their careers in five-year increments and pursue relevant experience to be competitive in their industry.Reaching out for help to achieve business success.Jennifer Morris, a former attorney for the CIA with law experience inside the government and businesses, discusses the importance of reaching out for help to achieve business success and shares how small businesses can seek help from organizations like the Small Business Administration and consultants to address compliance issues.Business success factors, risk management, and leadership.Tracy Pilone enlightens listeners on how her company, Element 84, leverages innovative strategies in satellite data, allowing for transformative business practices. Throughout this, she covers principles like risk balancing and risk management. She also provides her key advice and insights for managing teams, highlighting the importance of being cognizant of risk tolerance levels and planning accordingly.Leadership, planning, and resource management for a nonprofit organization. In this segment, former Army officer Gordon Sumner discussed the changes he had to make to succeed with his nonprofit organization, Veterans Moving Forward. Gordon emphasizes the importance of buy-in, flexibility, and resource allocation in organizational planning. He discusses how team input can be a valuable resource for leaders and emphasizes the importance of seeking input from team members while still maintaining a clear decision-making process.Entrepreneurship, execution, and goodwill.Aleko Bravo Greenberg shares how his entrepreneurial experiences offered lessons about starting a successful business, including the importance of innovative strategies, transformative decisions, and execution to getting things done rather than perfecting a product. He and Tom go on to share their thoughts on the value of goodwill and maintaining connections with people who want to see you succeed, both within and outside of the company.Building and leveraging a professional network.Jason Levin, founder of Ready, Set, Launch, advises listeners on ways to achieve their business pursuits by discussing concepts from his book, "Relationships to Infinity: The Art and Science of Keeping in Touch." Covered themes include gratitude practices, people's "Bermuda keep in touch Triangles," and commonality. While people...

Mark Nichols and his wife, Christi, had been married for three years when an evening out took a dark turn. Leaving their two children with a babysitter, they went to a bar. Mark returned after midnight, paid the sitter in cash, and things took a strange twist. Usually, it was Christi who handled the payment, and she did it with a check. The babysitter later claimed she didn't believe Christi came home with Mark.The next day, Mark reported Christi missing, stating they argued until 2:00 a.m. before he went to sleep. He woke up at 7:00 a.m., realizing Christi was gone. Instead of immediately reporting it, he took the kids to Christi's grandmother and spent two hours supposedly searching for her. However, no one in town reported seeing him.Mark moved out the day after Christi's disappearance, selling their belongings and vehicles. Christi's purse and suitcase were later found at an Interstate 80 rest stop in March 1988, with all the contents intact, as if intentionally placed to be discovered.Christi, facing marital problems and alleged abuse, had met with a divorce attorney two days before disappearing. She sought custody of her children and expressed a desire to end the marriage. Mark's version of events differed significantly, and his polygraph results were inconclusive.The unsettling discovery of trace amounts of Christi's blood raised suspicions. Mark claimed it was menstrual blood, but analysis disproved his statement. Despite these red flags, Mark currently lives in Arkansas with his third wife, and foul play is suspected in Christi's disappearance.Join us as we unravel the mysterious disappearance of Christi Nichols, a quiet and dedicated mother whose case remains unsolved to this day.research by www.haleygrayresearch.comHaleyGrayResearch@gmail.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're involved in Learn to Curl programs or find yourself in a coaching role helping fresh curlers navigate the curling world this episode is for you: Tips and tricks to help you help them get the most out of their first few years. In this episode I go into detail on a few priorities that I hope coaches can find the time to sneak into their programs, practices & coaching session. This is not an episode telling you how to run your LTC, but rather outlining some key curling principles that can sometimes be forgotten to focus on. If you are new to curling, coach, or know someone who is new to curling give this a listen and share it with them. This is a 3-part series; with episodes directed at coaches and teammates coming soon.   Make sure to check out the show notes for more information on The Better Brushing Practice Plan   Some other great episodes to check out: Episode 66: Considerations for 1st year curlers -part 1: for athletes Episode 05: It's all in the hips Episode 07: Mark Nichols on all things training, nutrition and curling camps   To stay as up-to-date as possible, make sure to join the Empowered Performance newsletter and to follow me on Instagram at @empoweredperformance   All mentioned resources are available in the show notes on my website at www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast  

EP 601: Epic Elk Stories with Mark Nichols This week's podcast features a special guest, Mark Nichols, who is a beloved figure among our listeners and a masterful storyteller. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mark to celebrate his 63rd birthday and to delve into some truly incredible elk hunting tales from the […]

On the night of December 10, 1987, Christi Jo Nichols went missing after she and her husband Mark Nichols hired a babysitter for their children. Mark claims Christi went to sleep after returning home, but she was never seen again.  Thank you to Haley Gray with Haley Gray Research for your help in researching this episode! Thank you to our sponsors! Real People. Real Flavor. Real Hydrating. Now Sugar-Free. Grab your Liquid I.V. Hydration Multiplier Sugar-Free in bulk nationwide at Costco or get 20% off when you go to LiquidIV.com and use code MOMS at checkout.  Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code MOMS at lumedeodorant.com/MOMS! #lumepod New merch! Check out Moms and Mysteries Threadless! You can also get new episodes a day early and ad free, plus merch and more at Patreon.com/momsandmysteriespodcast Listen and subscribe to Melissa's other podcast, Criminality!! It's the podcast for those who love reality TV, true crime, and want to hear all the juicy stories where the two genres intersect. Subscribe and listen here: www.pod.link/criminality  Check-out Moms and Mysteries to find links to our tiktok, youtube, twitter, instagram and more! Make sure you subscribe and rate our show to help others find us! Sources: Sources: N/A, “Christi Jo Nichols”, Unsolved Mysteries, retrieved 2023 Mortensen, Ellen, “UPDATE: Christi Jo disappearance…”, The Gothenburg Leader, 2020 N/A, “Christi Jo Nichols”, NamUs, retrieved 2023 Graham, Frank, “Unsolved murders…”, North Platte Bulletin, 2004 Mortensen, Ellen, “Someone knows something…”, The Gothenburg Leader, 2020 Hendee, David, “Gothenburg woman's disappearance…”, Omaha World-Herald, 2012 Winter, Abe, “State Patrol tries…”, Omaha World-Herald, 2007 Thomas, Fred, “2 more to aid…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1988 Thomas, Fred, “Mother seeks leads…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1988 N/A, “500 volunteers sought…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1988 N/A, “Christi Nichols fund…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1988 N/A, “Family says help…”, The Associated Press, 1988 Koopman, John, “Crew of 300…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1988 N/A, “Television show could…”, The Associated Press, 1988 N/A, “Woman gone 1 year…”, The Associated Press, 1988 N/A, “Volunteers find new…”, The Associated Press, 1989 Kreifel, Bill, “Case of missing…”, Lincoln Journal Star, 1989 N/A, “Kin of woman…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1989 N/A, “Recorded phone call…”, The Associated Press, 1990 N/A, “Patrol vows to solve…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1990 Thomas, Fred, “Family seeks grand jury…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1994 Hammel, Paul, “Aunt hasn't quit…”, Omaha World-Herald, 1997 Thorsen, Leah, “Gothenburg's 15 year…”, 2003 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wow, It is June already, how is this possible? Doug and Kevin dive a bit deeper into O2-YS as Doug was with Mark Nichols for a few days and Kevin is 3 weeks into applying O2-YS with his application two. They touch on watering and the absence of rain, moisture meters and other cultural practices that may help get us through our hot, dry weather so far this season. Instagram ⁠⁠⁠turf_nutrition_mangmt_podcast⁠⁠⁠ Doug Gray: Instagram @turf_trade dgray@theturftrade.com www.theturftrade.com Kevin Salters: Instagram @rootdevelopmentllc Facebook Root Development LLC The Lawn Care Life Conference, a two day event hosted by Jason Creel and Paul Jamison at Mathews Manor in Springville AL. This is a two day event and all your meals are included! It is limited capacity so please let folks know it's first come first serve, the first 300 to register get to attend. Once it's sold out, it's sold out.  https://www.lawncarelife.com/conference Spraye.io CRM systems for the turf manager of any size https://spraye.io The Landscaping Bookkeeper- https://www.gulfcoastbk.com Sheila Chaplin, CFP® Reliable Tax & Business Services-screliabletax@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rootdevelopmentllc/message

Welcome to a riveting new episode of Leading in the 21st Century on Teachers Talk Radio! Join us as we delve into the ever-evolving world of professional development and growth for teachers. In this episode, we're going to explore a variety of exciting topics, ranging from fun facts about professional learning to a thought-provoking interview with a CPD expert from Education Scotland. Listen as Rona Grant, a seasoned education professional who has held various leadership roles in the field of English teaching and literacy development, shares her passion for life-long learning teaches us about the role that middle leaders will play in shaping the future of professional growth.  Not only this, but you'll gain further insight into what the future has in store for educators who engage with the life-long learning process. So, tune in to the podcast to hear first-hand insights from our distinguished guest on the challenges and opportunities facing education today, and how we can work together to create a brighter future for students and teachers alike!

This is a MUST listen show where Doug and Kevin have the privilege to speak with Mark Nichols from Organisan Corporation. Mark discusses and explains his all natural product O2-YS. This is a natural surfactant made from Chitosan and Yucca that has amazing benefits to not only turf but all botanical species. Mark's knowledge and vast experience is infectious and our conversation will pump you up for the 2023 season! Instagram turf_nutrition_mangmt_podcast⁠ Doug Gray: Instagram @turf_trade dgray@theturftrade.com www.theturftrade.com Kevin Salters: Instagram @rootdevelopmentllc Facebook Root Development LLC Mark Nichols www.02yscorp.com http://www.organisancorp.com markn@organisancorp.com Spraye.io CRM systems for the turf manager of any size https://spraye.io The Landscaping Bookkeeper- https://www.gulfcoastbk.com Sheila Chaplin, CFP® Reliable Tax & Business Services-screliabletax@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rootdevelopmentllc/message

This week, the TTR team attended the educational technology show known as 'BETT' and the great and good came to visit us at the TTR stand. If you couldn't make it but wanted to, we've put together our highlights from the show! Tom Rogers, Poppy Gibson, John Gibbs, Lianne Lax and Mark Nichols provide the interviews. TTR were on stand with Newline Interactive, providers of top class services and solutions fit for the modern school or college. On our BETT podcast, you can hear conversations with: Michael Rosen (Poet and Author), Amy Storer (HT), Richard Jones (HT), Jason Kaiser (Computer Science teacher), Magdalena Hegarty (Science teacher), Andria Zafirakou MBE (Art Teacher and winner of the Global Teacher Prize), Mark McCourt (Consultant and author), Cat Scutt MBE (Director of Education and Research at the Chartered College of Teaching), Ian Wallace (Deputy Head of the IT faculty at Exeter College), Paris (student at Exeter College, esports academy), Atul Rana (Maths Tutor), Richard Selfridge (Primary teacher and data expert), Daniel Hill (Regional VP, Instructure), Kelly Felstrum (Coding Teacher), Adam Lee (Speaksee), Michael Cornwell (E-Learning Manager at Farnborough College), Mark Jowett (Creative Director of Sound Ideas), Gary Beckett (Newline Interactive), Dave Godfrey (Maths Consultant), Sven Hoober (CEO of Fiction Express), Matt Tiplin (VP, ONVU learning), (Regional VP, Cypher Learning) Nadim Saad (Happy Confident Company), Ian Ridsdale (Fortinet), Salena Worrall (Skilledin)  

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Join us for the latest episode of Leading in the 21st Century, where we explore the fascinating world of STEAM education! Host Mark Nichols is joined by a dynamic STEAM educator with a unique journey spanning from Alaska to England. Together, they discuss the importance of educators as custodians of the digital age, and the role of project-based learning in shaping the future of education. Get ready for an inspiring conversation as our guest shares her transformative STEAM high school experience, her diverse career path, and her passion for teaching the brand-new T Level in Engineering. Discover how she's helping to shape the Future School through innovative teaching methods and a focus on real-world problem-solving. Whether you're an educator, student, or simply interested in the future of education, this episode is not to be missed! Tune in for a captivating discussion on the future of STEAM education, and get ready to be inspired!

Mark is joined by Dan Fitzpatrick to discuss the latest trends around teaching using Artificial Intelligence tools.

Explore the latest updates, humorous insights, and educational innovations with me as we explore the digitalisation of education with me, as I share with you a guide to developing a robust policy frmaework for your instituion. There'll be thought-provoking discussion, plenty of interesting facts and imaginative storytelling that will keep you hooked till the very end!

Welcome to Leading in the 21st Century, where we explore the latest trends and advancements in education! Today, we delve into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the classroom. From personalised learning, bridging the skills gap, to ethical considerations, we will discuss the many ways AI is shaping the future of education. A must-listen show for any educational leaders who are serious about navigating this difficult landscape.  So sit back, grab your coffee, and join us as we explore this cutting-edge topic and learn how we can prepare for the AI revolution in education. Let's get started!"

In this candid conversation TAG husbands, Lee Matthis & Mark Nichols, get real about how supporting Candice and Debbie has impacted their lives. They share stories of vulnerability, uncertainty, and advocacy and provide insight into some of the unexpected silver linings that have come from the challenging journey. If you are caring for or living with someone with AGS or another chronic condition, this episode may provide a fresh perspective, some much-needed encouragement, and a little bit of laughter. Cheers!

In today's episode I am joined by Kyle Turcotte who shares his learnings from working with Canada's top athletes; with both Olympic and Paralympic dreams.   We touch on the importance of setting realistic goals, ensuring you're moving really well and training all year round.   Reminder that the 4th annual Holiday Reset starts Dec 27, 2022 & the goal setting party is happening Jan 4th 2023. Sign up for both in the show notes.   Don't miss out on these past episodes: Episode 07: Mark Nichols on all things Training, Nutrition and Curling Camps Episode 37: Jill Officer on Being Yourself and Trusting the Process Episode 43: Innovation and Attention to Detail, with Paralympian Jon Thurston   To stay as up-to-date as possible, make sure to join the Empowered Performance newsletter and to follow me on Instagram at @empoweredperformance   All mentioned resources are available in the show notes on my website at www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast

Welcome to Episode 97 of the Think UDL podcast: Community is the Key to Accessibility with Mark Nichols. Mark Nichols is the Senior Director of Universal Design and Accessible Technologies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Mark's team has had great success in implementing accessible learning materials campus-wide with the help of many offices and fellow advocates on campus. In today's conversation, we will talk about how to create a culture of accessibility, how he has been able to improve and think systematically about accessible materials at his university, and the various tools, ideas, and programs Virginia Tech is employing to help students achieve their goals and succeed in their academic pursuits. Mark mentions Virginia Tech's C. A. L. M.  campaign which stands for Choose Accessible Learning Materials in which his team introduces a new accessibility idea periodically on campus with the slogan, “Keep C. A. L. M. and use accessible slides…” (or PDFs or some other tool). He would be happy to share the templates they used if anyone would like to borrow this campaign or learn more. Just reach out to Mark via email which is linked on our resources page for this episode at ThinkUDL.org. Thanks so much for listening to this conversation.

On this episode of SOLID, Brandon sits down with his good friends Mark Nichols and Ken Purdy. Mark and Ken both led distinguished careers in law enforcement, serving as S.W.A.T. officers, and K9 handlers. Mark and Ken were both extremely influential in developing Police K9 procedures that are widely used all over the state of Utah and the U.S.

In episode #469 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mark Nichols. He is an organizer with the Workers' Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, which brings together workers in low-wage, precarious jobs to support each other and to fight collectively for decent work for all. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/06/radio-low-wage-workers-organizing-in-newfoundland/

Mark Nichols and Katie VanDoren of the Vanguard Brass Team talk about the planning and concepts they use to build a culture of success.

On Thursday, we learned that the NL government will be increasing the minimum wage. It will happen in gradual stages, of 50 cents at a time. By October of 2023, the minimum wage in Newfoundland and Labrador will be $15 an hour. For several years now, groups such as Workers' Action Network NL -- formerly known as "$15 and Fairness NL" -- have been calling for an increase. Mark Nichols is an organizer with the Network. He was also one of five members on the province's recent Minimum Wage Review Committee.

This week, we present Small Talks VI! “Small Talks” are short clips recorded with a previous guest that highlights one strategy or one idea in seven minutes or less. In this episode of Small Talks, we hear from Andy Smidt, India Ochs, Lory Chrane, Mark Nichols, and Tali Kellerstein!    Before the interviews, Chris and Rachel discuss Chris's “design challenge” he helped create for some 5th graders to help figure out how to attach 3D printed AAC keyguards (i.e. overlays) to AAC devices without needing to remove the case (for warranty reasons). Chris talks about how this authentic problem got the students really excited, and he shares lots of great online resources for getting started with 3D printing keyguards (see links section below).    On this episode:  

Sorry for the delay in posting it turns out the flu makes you not want to edit a podcast. This week Easter and Brown discuss the disappearance of Christi Nichols, wherein Mark Nichols was the lone person of interest. They also review Mark Adams and his escape from San Quentin prison. Easter apologizes for her voice in this one and Brown is just here to drag Mark Nichols through the mud. Enjoy! Additional Notes: 00:00 - 4:19 - Introduction 4:19 -  Christi Nichols Unsolved Mysteries Preview 7:25 - Christi marrying Mark Nichols 8:13 - Christi's mom, Connie, talks about her daughter 13:15 - Mark talks about the town's gossip 16:57 - Law enforcement believes this is a case of foul play 19:50 - Mark recounts the only fight EVER between him and Christi 22:02 - Doctor Carol discusses Christi's trip to the ER 23:23 - Debbie Fredrickson, Christi's cousin, talks about the abuse Christi suffered 28:20 - Christi meets with a divorce lawyer 30:07 - Christi, Mark, and their children went Christmas shopping December 10th 33:17 - The Nichols' babysitter recounts how strange the night was 35:40 - Christi's grandmother talks about Mark leaving the children with her 38:00 - Mark drives around town looking for Christi 40:44 - Mark moves out the day after Christi is considered missing 43:19 - A final plea from Christi's family 47:20 - Mark Adams Unsolved Mysteries preview 49:42 - Robbery reenactment 50:39 - Mark Adams was accused of being the triggerman 52:43 - San Quentin description 57:47 - Why San Quentin was different from other prisons 59:31 - June 10th 1986, Mark's escape 1:03:52 - 2 years since Mark escaped 1:04:19 - Mark Adams Update 1:07:47 - Next Weeks episode 1:10:31 - Outtakes 1:12:04 - National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233) Plugs: Please subscribe and leave us a review! Your support might actually fix Easter's voice.... Find all of our information on https://linktr.ee/therudeandtheprude Resources: https://www.thehotline.orghttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Christi_Nicholshttps://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1999/may/15/jury-awards-23-million-for-slain-san-quentin-prisoner-state-settles-for-25-milliion/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-girlfriend-Prison-guard-bragged-of-killing-3057877.phphttps://www.ranker.com/list/famous-inmates-at-san-quentin-state-prison/treadlightlyAnything said about teaching in this podcast is purely satirical and is not based on any real person or event. A Rude, A Prude, and an Unsolved Mystery is for people 18 years and older. *Listener* discretion is advised.

An unbelievable Brier has come to a close and Kevin and Warren share their thoughts on Team Gushue winning the championship while playing short-handed. The guys place their picks for the women's worlds with Canada's Kerri Einarson looking like a favourite to win, plus they also analyze Jennifer Jones's team splitting up at the end of the season and what's next for them. In our Hot Rocks Topic, Kevin and Warren weigh in on why teams should consider having an alternate on hand at all times. Team Mouat all release the rock the same, should Canadian teams be doing the same? Kevin takes a crack at that in this week's Mailbag segment. Email us your questions to insidecurling@gmail.com and you could win a free e-copy of Warren's book Sticks and Stones if we answer your question on the show.  Kevin takes us back in Storytime when teammate Dan Petryk tried (and failed) to beat jet lag. Team Gushue third Mark Nichols joins us during his final day of quarantine to discuss his Brier experience, falling ill with COVID-19 just before the playoffs, watching his team win short-handed, why they didn't have an alternate player and what Curling Canada could do to ensure younger teams are provided opportunities to compete. Nichols also looks ahead to the men's worlds with some familiar faces from the Beijing Winter Olympics in the field. This podcast is produced by Amil Delic and Warren Hansen, recorded and mixed by Andrew Holland, and hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome. Production support by Jonathan Brazeau and Griffin Porter.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates. 

In this episode, Susannah and Sarah discuss shopping behaviour in the run up to Christmas, before focusing on the luxury retail sector as HL's Sophie Lund-Yates gives her assessment on the outlook on some of the biggest brands in the category. Plus, HL's Head of Investment Research, Emma Wall talks to Mark Nichols, manager of the Jupiter European Fund about the enduring appeal of luxury goods.This podcast isn't personal advice. If you're not sure what's right for you seek advice. Investments rise and fall in value, so investors could make a loss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming off a successful victory at the Canadian Curling Trials, gold medallist and two-time Olympian Mark Nichols stops by to chat about his team's preparation for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. We begin featuring sports that you will see and hear about at the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games. This week we kick things off with para snowboarding! The US government is threatening a diplomatic boycott of the Olympic Games. How will this affect China as we creep closer to the games, and other countries follow suit? Plus, the 108th Grey Cup match-up is set between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. For the first time since 2013, the Hamilton Tiger cats have the chance to win the Grey Cup on their home field. Will that play to their advantage?

As the playoff picture becomes clearer at the Canadian Olympic trials, Kevin and Warren give their thoughts on how things are shaking down in Saskatoon. While over in Lillehammer at the European Championships, it is Scotland leading the way on both the men's and women's side while a usual contender has stumbled. Leading up the trials, Kevin chatted with a pair of top teams vying for the chance to represent Canada at the Olympics. Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols as well as Brad Jacobs and Marc Kennedy spoke about how they are preparing to be at peak performance when it came time to compete at the trials.This podcast is produced by Warren Hansen, mixed by Andrew Holland, and hosted by Kevin Martin, Warren Hansen and Jim Jerome. Production support by Amil Delic.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

Mark Nichols is back! We talk about returning to normal band in Texas, lessons learned from Covis, and how Mark fell into Drum Corps, not once, but twice! The Global Bandroom is brought to you by Kaleidoscope Adventures. Find out how to Travel Beyond Expectations at www.mykatrip.com Links: SVG 2021 - "Wait For Me:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOVcUniWuc

In today's episode I am joined by The Golf Strength Coach, Nick Buchan. We talk about the importance of assessment, and working to increase the number of movement options you have to make skill development easier and more efficient. The need for both golfers and curlers to move well is paramount to success. Nick gives us 3 movement keys for improving rotation and overcoming our innate right side bias.   To stay as up-to-date as possible, make sure to join the Empowered Performance newsletter and to follow me on Instagram at @empoweredperformance   All mentioned resources are available in the show notes on my website at www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast Did you miss these gems? Check out past episodes covering topics like: Knee pain, Basic Curling Nutrition, How to Breath for Curling Performance, and featuring guests like Mark Nichols

The Texas law prohibiting most abortions is giving rise to a number of other states enacting more restrictions. Mark Nichols is a professor at OHSU and a practicing physician who has been providing abortion services for 40 years. Anuj Khattar is a family practice doctor in Washington and travels out of state on a regular basis to provide abortions where access to the service is low. They join us to share their experience and tell us how policies in other states are likely to affect patients and providers in the Northwest.

For more than three decades Producer and Designer, Mark Nichols, has worked in themed entertainment as a producer and/or designer for companies including Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Parks, GES Branded Entertainment, and ITEC Entertainment. 

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The presenter is James Thurston, G3ict, who is joined by Chris Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherts.  SPEAKER: Please welcome James Thurston and Chris Misra.  James is the Vice President for G3ict, where he leads the design and implementation of new worldwide advocacy strategies and programs to scale up G3ict's global impact. G3ict is the global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies promoting the rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Digital Age.   Chris is the Vice Chancellor and CIO at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.  At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, information technology plays a crucial role in many key areas, including but not limited to student success and engagement, research competitiveness, and multi-modal education.   Today they will be looking at how leveraging accessibility and inclusion can provide an adaptive and accessible multi-modal IT ecosystem to support campuses. Chris will review findings, digital inclusion gaps, next steps for improvements at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and more!   JAMES: Our goal with this session is to share with all of you some detail about how the U Mass approach to being more accessible, more inclusive through technology. Through its technology assets and deployments and Chris and I over the next hour want to surface and share with you, I think, what are some valuable and actionable experiences from U-mass, that will hopefully apply to your own accessibility journey in your higher education institution. This particular session is the third in the IAAP higher ed series. It's also the first of the next three sessions, which relate to, and are sort of sourced from, G3ict's work with universities and higher education institutions, using our smart university digital inclusion maturity model tool. And I'm just going to briefly give you a little bit of information on that, just so it will make a little bit more sense as Chris and I start to have a conversation about our work with Chris and what Chris has been leading and driving there at the University of Massachusetts model. The smart university digital inclusion maturity model tool, it's an assessment tool and a benchmarking tool. And it's really to help universities better understand how their digital transformation, how they're using technology, how their use of data is either supporting accessibility inclusion of people with disabilities or potentially presenting barriers to the inclusion of people with disabilities, including faculty, staff and students. And even, really, the broader community where the university might sit. So, the tool itself, the assessment tool, it's made up of 28 variables, we call them enablers, and they define what it really means to be an inclusive smart university. They enable accessibility and enable inclusion. These variables, or enablers, contribute to the university's building up the capabilities that we know support greater inclusion in accessibility at a university. And these capabilities, and with the tool we're able to look at the role of things like leadership, the existence of a digital inclusion strategy or not, we look at the accessibility of the university's engagement channels, how it's pushing information out, getting information back, are those accessible, we look at things like the culture of diversity, is the university employing people with disabilities, is it training on disability and accessibility. We look at things like procurement, what systems does the university have in place to make sure that its investments in technology and its deployments of technology are accessible. So, a whole range of issues that we know are pretty critical to a university becoming increasingly accessible, increasingly inclusive. And, of course, we do dig into technology and data, which are the backbone and the life blood of a smart university. And the way that we use these variables, these 28 enablers, these 18 capabilities, is in a three-step process. That is pretty straightforward. We do some analysis of documents, I.T. strategies, digital inclusion strategies, budgets, accessibility statements. We do some analysis of those. We make available to the university an online self-assessment where they sort of write themselves across these variables. And then we actually do an expert site visit where we curate a team of global experts on inclusion and accessibility and bring them in to engage with the university, dig into some of these variables, and hopefully, at the same time, provide some help and assistance on pain points, issues that the university might be experiencing. And then the final step is we deliver a road map, which includes a set of scores for each of these variables and a set of priorities and recommendations for moving forward. So, if you're at a level 2 on a scale of 1 to 5 for procurement, these are the kinds of things you might think about doing to get to levels 3, 4 and 5. So pretty straightforward. The process with U Mass, we'll be talking -- jumping in with Chris in just a minute. We, I think, started that process last spring and sort of did the site visit, I think, in early summer this past year. And in that process, we reviewed probably more than 20 documents, these budgets, these strategies, these org charts, policy statements. We talked with more than 40 U Mass faculty and staff over ten different listening sessions. And then we delivered the road map. And in the road map, U Mass, I think, had real relative strengths in the area of leadership and other areas identified where there's an opportunity to really make some steps to have some improvements in the capabilities and ultimately in the accessibility and inclusion there. So that's a little bit of a background on how G3ict came to be working with U Mass. I thought it might be useful to sort of frame our conversation. And with that, I'm really excited now, and I've been I've been looking forward to this discussion, Chris, for quiet a while, of jumping in with you and hearing a little bit about the U Mass Amherst journey, where you are, where you're headed but maybe we can start, if you can tell us a little bit about the University of Massachusetts Amherst, give us a general sense of the university and how you're deploying technology there. CHRIS: Sure, thanks, James. So, U-Mass Amherst, for those of you who aren't familiar with Massachusetts geography, I grew up in Massachusetts, so I know, we're about 90 minutes west of Boston, 175 miles north northeast of New York City. It's a relatively rural area, but it's a significant institution. We have about 24,000 undergraduate students, about 7,500 graduate students. About 1,500, instructional faculty. Largest state institution in New England, research one, $233 million, $1.3 billion budget, big. 1500-acre campus, which is the biggest thing is trying to find your way around the campus. Our journey of accessibility came about really through just conversations and advocacy within the campus in terms of this has to be a key responsibility for us. Our technology platform is really very traditional, higher education. We migrated many of our services to the Cloud, excessive use of Zoom recently, Google, exchanging out platforms, and the challenge with the campus of this size is really just managing the breadth and depth of both a campus and a highly decentralized institution. JAMES: Great, thanks, Chris. We probably started having conversations about a year ago, actually, just as we were coming into the pandemic and universities, in particular, I think, we're scrambling to try to figure out, okay, how do we fulfill our mission in this environment. Can you talk a little bit about sort of what that looked like as we were coming into the pandemic from a CIO perspective, the kinds of things that you were thinking about and needing to take steps on? CHRIS: Sure. There were sort of two interesting aspects. I mean, aside from it's amongst the longest days of my career in the past and probably ever going forward just in terms of how do you migrate an institution that size to an online education. We made a very early determines, we were one of the early schools who decided to go remote, we thought it would be two weeks, we took a double spring break. We quickly ramped up the technology portfolio. We were fortunate that we already had tools like Zoom, we had pretty good practice of online education, fairly robust online education school, but not a lot of digitally native capacity to teach instructionally remote. So, there's really two principal areas of impact. There's a principal area of impact in academics, and the impact in administration. Since we extended out the spring break for an extra week, we actually had two weeks to figure out how we were going to do these academics. But that meant we had to move the administration into an online world in a very short order of time. From the basic things, how are we going to pick up the mail to how are we going to communicate, how do staff meetings work, and recognizing that institutionally we were a face-to-face campus, our staff meetings were face to face, our one-on-one meetings were face to face and we had to comport all of that. So, the social change was actually significant, and that led quickly to substantial change in the academic side as well. We saw increases of -- astounding increases in Zoom utilization. One of my favorite statistics on Zoom utilization is in the first week of -- I'm sorry -- in the first day of the first week when we brought our academics online, we used more Zoom time the entire month previously. So, each day in April, we used the same number of Zoom hours in the entire month of February. And that pace continued through the balance of the spring semester. JAMES: Chris, I remember that data point as well. And I often use it myself because I think it is a really easy, compelling example of this accelerated digital transformation. Can you talk a little bit about where -- how accessibility fits into I.T. and into the university in general? I know, you've got a really great I.T. strategy, accessibility is embedded in there. I don't think that there's a specific digital inclusion or necessarily accessibility strategy, but maybe a little bit about strategy and organizational structure, just so we understand how accessibility fits in. CHRIS: Absolutely. So, we've actually been fortunate from an I.T. perspective, we've had staff supporting accessibility but a very modest staff. I think when James did the assessment, we had a single staff member, at a high point we had two staff, and we're in the process of transitioning that as well. So, our overall accessibility strategy comes multi fold. My team is responsible for the information technology, and that's across the board. That means we support students' technology use in the classroom, we support faculty's technology use, we provide general technology use for administration. We do not have responsibility for accessibility accommodations per se, we have a disability services team on campus, it's organized in our student affairs area. So, really, it's a key partnership working between student affairs, working with my central I.T. organization. I will say from a maturity perspective, though, we had staff, it was very much more about boutique service, solving discrete individual accommodations, and it hadn't crossed the line of being generalizable to most of our day-to-day normal use of population technology. It was very much targeted at a subset population that had self-disclosed a need for an accommodation. JAMES: And I know as part of this conversation, we'll get into a bit later, a discussion of these issues of silos and coordination and collaboration, which we had a lot of conversation about when we were working with you. So, maybe we can jump in now a little bit into this sort of notion of accelerated accessibility that happened for U Mass for sure but probably for most universities around the world because of the pandemic and what that looks like. And how -- maybe start with a little bit about how does the university deploy technology assets that are accessible and really are working for everyone, and what did it look like to have this sort of intensified effort to include a focus on accessibility as you were becoming more and more -- using technology more and more to do all of your services, both administrative and academic and teaching? CHRIS: Sure. So I'll say the structural change that really occurred was, I think, originally we treated accessibility as meeting the needs of identified individuals who had to have accommodations and making sure our web content was accessible, doing basic accessibility reviews, it was basic, W3CG, not a lot of detailed work and it was not invested across the board in terms of we had a lot of natively accessible tool set but it was really natively delivered accessible tool set, there wasn't a lot of work and push for us to drive an institutional priority around making sure our content was natively accessible, except where there was either liability or like I say, a dedicated accommodation. As we went into the pandemic, that really had to pivot because we realized, we no longer had the mechanism, we couldn't deploy a notetaker for a student in a classroom because there wasn't a classroom. We couldn't make point by point accommodations on either technology or use case basis. So, we had to start generalizing. We were fortunate that we were in the midst of a transition of our strategic plan, so we were actually at a point of making that type of pivoting. Of identify digital inclusion as a core property going forward. And, so, we had a lot of the substrate work, but I'd say the pandemic really drove us to recognize it wasn't solely about a compliance obligation but much more about reaching our community where they're at. JAMES And as you were making that shift, were you -- some of what we had talked about in the past, when you were in the middle of all this, is there some -- much like what you would probably do on the security side of your work, any sort of risk rating system, and trying to make these decisions about where are we going to prioritize and focus first and those types of decisions when it comes to accessibility? CHRIS: Absolutely, yeah. So, one of the things, for me, I consider fortunate is prior to my role as a CIO I've been in a number of roles at U Mass. I came from a very technical background. But I spent many years in a security role. So, I was responsible for information security at the organization. Within the information security field, it's very much a derivative of risk management field that works very heavily on risk and concepts like maturity models play very heavily there. So, when you're assessing implementation of controls to mediate security risk, you have to assess what is the cost of control, what is the value, what is the return. The easiest way to assess that is against a maturity model so I had a lot of familiarity with the concept of maturity models. One of the things that made me very excited about the engagement of G3ict was the application of this discipline-type technology of applying a maturity model to a domain like accessibility because I had not seen that done before, but I had a lot of experience.   What's nice about that, it gives you an abstract way of measuring your progress, although there can be a metric and a rating, it also talks about where you are legitimately relative to your peers but what steps you can take, and gives you a better mechanism to start prioritizing resource allocations. So, as I moved out of information security, into a CIO role, I changed from being responsible for compliance to be responsible for budget, priority and allocation. So being able to have a document like a maturity model that can help guide investment and show return relative to cost was a better framework for us to make ongoing decision making and I felt more at home in that security field, like oh, we know this is a high risk, let's apply a resource here, even if the resource is fairly modest, it's going to get us significant return against that issue. JAMES: Can you -- if you're able, can you talk a little bit about some of those areas where you were making decisions at the time in this accelerated period of focus on accessibility in addition to a lot of other things? Where you are identifying risk and taking some steps specifically around improving the accessibility of your technology assets? CHRIS: Sure. And in some cases, what's interesting with the technology assets is our first task, because we are technologists, is let's just fix the technology.  What it really came down to in many cases it's about the business process as well. So, when we started going through the assessment process, we realized the first and foremost, we have a 24,000 student population moving remote. We had to get in front of the faculty and instructors to explain why this was relevant. So, it wasn't so much about, hey, don't put a poorly scanned PDF up on your website, we'd already been providing those types of instructions, but it really had to pivot to, is your course content accessible natively. And in that case, it is still digital accessibility, but it may be, have you applied alt tags to your PowerPoints, have you made sure you're not doing poorly rendered PDFs, is your content screen reader able. It was these sorts of things that are actually technology related but it was about the business process behind it. What we did, we formed a working group between my team, our university library, our center for teaching and learning, and our instructional designers, we call our ideas group, it's a big long acronym I can never remember, but we put those together as ideas is the support resource, faculty primary interact with. Library is a resource that provides a lot of the supplementary external materials, I.T. is a lot of times the bridging infrastructure. So, it was really about forming a coalition within campus, identifying priorities, it was helped inform by the maturity model where those risk areas are, and providing guidance, which wasn't just apply technology, but help individuals creating content to make the content accessible natively, because the incremental cost to them was much smaller than us throwing lots of money at making the technology do it for them. JAMES: You touched on a really important point that I think would resonate with any university around the world, which is the sort of decentralized structure of universities, we'll dig into that more deeply in a minute. But I'm just wondering, as you were partnering, and leading this accelerated digital transformation during the pandemic and focus on accessibility as part of that, how was that received? I recall in part of our conversations, for example, there was, with the faculty, there may have been some incentives around going digital, maybe even going digital and accessible at the same time. But, in general, how would you say this accelerated accessibility was received? CHRIS: So I would say it was received well. I was actually somewhat surprised at how well it was received. Those of you who have been at universities, especially in large universities, they're very decentralized power structures, recognize that change comes slowly. The ship turns slowly, as we like to say, right? It will get there eventually but it turns slowly. I was tremendously impressed with the empathy and the caring shown by the faculty and the instructors involved in supporting students at a distance, but they recognized an individual obligation. And, really, our role as technologists was to reduce that barrier to them to make their content accessible. So, there was some financial structure incentives, as we went into our subsequent semester that helped faculty teaching online to build hybrid instruction. What we did, we developed a series of standards to make sure as our content went out, it met these standards, that was sort of the condition of the incentivising. So rather than make it a big deal, like hey, you all have to do accessibly, it was really embedded into an existing incentivization structure, but we added the accessibility obligations as additional compliance checks to go to an accessible by default role. I was concerned about the uptake we'd see from faculty, you but I was very surprised. The other thing with decentralized higher education, as much as the ship turns slowly, once everybody gets where you're going, they generally get on board. So, we took this more adapt to the culture of the campus, adapt to the change culture of the campus, and tie into those change mechanisms that are effective, that's what really helped us be more successful, I believe, that and the empathy of the faculty and the instructors. SPEAKER: The International Association of Accessibility Professionals membership consists of individuals and organizations representing various industries including the private sector, government, non-profits, and educational institutions. Membership benefits include products and services that support global systemic change around digital and the built environment. United in Accessibility, join I.A.A.P. and become a part of the global accessibility movement. JAMES: So, maybe take a little bit of a step back, but still thinking about the deployment of accessible, inclusive technology assets. Can you talk a little bit about your thinking, U-Mass' thinking and approach to incident management? How do you remediate issues, how does that happen? And then the other piece that I'd love to hear a little bit more is about testing, when it comes to accessibility, automated user testing? CHRIS: Sure.  So, two-fold. On the testing piece, we've employed students both in our help desk and our accessibility office to do some of the testing. We actually are just launching another program to do more broad usability testing, which includes accessibility testing, working in concert with some faculty in our writing program. They tend to have a good degree of expertise in there. So, the other advantage of a higher education institution is students are fresh, motivated, focused and quite inexpensive labor and they like the work. It's great experience, it's great value to them, it's great value to us institutionally. So, we've really tied into that, this is something we've done for many, many years, tie into a workforce that's motivated, it's interesting. We've definitely seen the awareness of our student body around accessibility issues is much greater in the last five and ten years than it has been previously. I've been asked about making sure content is accessible from a course perspective, I've been -- there's been a shift and the challenge is, that shift isn't necessarily as strongly perceived at the faculty that are instructing them because they tend to be a little bit older. So, using the students to help motivate that work has really helped improve the accessibility piece of it because we've embedded the testing more into the core processes when we role out new applications, whether it's a PeopleSoft application or a new web application, we're commissioning that testing as part of launches of applications, as well as new web properties. JAMES: Chris, Mark Nichols is asking a question. If the standards that you're talking about, before content goes out, or even other standards that you're looking at and testing on really to -- related to accessibility, are they in-house standards or are you using global standards like WCAG? CHRIS: They are in-house standards developed off WCAG. But I will get James and Yulia a link afterwards. We posted up our academic standards and it referred to those suggestions, it was built off of WCAG. One thing, just amongst everybody here, accessibility is not my first language. I'm an info set guy, I was a technologist, I was a Linux assist Admin. I know the acronyms, I know the space, but it's not quite my domain of expertise, I'm fortunate to have well-trained staff who understand this both on my team and the disability services team so we can absolutely share those standards. They're academic standards we posted for the fall semester for 2020. JAMES: So, Chris, I know, as I recall from our previous conversations and work, there were sort of nine legacy platforms that you guys had deployed. And I'm wondering if over the course of the many months since we've worked together, how you're thinking about incident management has changed or evolved or how you're approaching that and dealing with that, how much of an issue -- accessibility issues have become in this accelerated period? CHRIS: I mean, the challenge has been, before -- I believe we started talking about the accessibility review before the pandemic. I had high hopes that we would be able to make significant progress in some of our core administrative systems in the shorter term. And then the pandemic hit and next thing I knew, we were running COVID testing sites for the western part of the state. We were running vaccination programs. We were one of the earliest vaccination programs for first responders. So, unfortunately, a lot of the resources I'd have to help make accessibility improvements to our core applications really got put aside for new application deployment. What I will say, we've been strong about implementing accessibility standards for the new applications as we roll them out. So, at this point my hope is to get us back, likely as we refactor some of our applications to do a more detailed review. It's definitely a goal, it's an asserted goal, it's part of the road map and strategy going forward. It's just with the pandemic, the resource allocation tipped everything so sideways. I'm a little further behind than I hoped to be there. Legacy platforms, we haven't made as much progress as I was hoping to. We've certainly made progress. What we've made significant progress in is in the awareness and the accountability that accessibility is an issue that has to be accommodated at deployment or at refresh for an application. That was a huge improvement that we hadn't been able to make as successfully in the past. JAMES: You've shared, at least with me, what I think are some really interesting facts about how you as a CIO had to evolve into using technology to support a dramatically increased public health role of the university for the state during the pandemic, which is pretty amazing. There's another question from Peter, who decides the threshold for compliance? It's never 100%. CHRIS: And, so, again, this is where I'm going to go a little bit on my information security soap box, right? The definition of compliance is just bending the wheel to another. So, yeah, it's never 100%. It's not going to be 100%. Really what we do is use a risk-based model, understanding where the risk is. Usually that started historically, with either liability of the institution or legal accommodation requirements. That's a barrier to cross, that's a legal obligation to cross, but it's really not meeting this notion of digital inclusion as a core value of the campus. So, the threshold is really handled generally on a case-by-case basis. There isn't an arbitrary threshold. What we focus on, these are the recommendations to make your course content accessible, to make your web property accessible. These are the standards. From a web property perspective, we do actually have a compliance check less, we actually have a team inside our university relations group that will run through both automated testing and some hand-based testing to look at, does the content render in a screen reader, does it provide appropriate alt image tags and things like that. My goal with compliance is always making sure that we're investing the right amount of resource to ensure that we meet the largest degree of population as effectively as we can. Information security is a risk management game. Accessibility and compliance become a risk management game. And it's hard sometimes to think of it in those terms, but one of the challenges, I think, that I've seen working with some of my staff is, staff come with a tremendous degree of accessibility concern are passionate, profound and focused. The challenge is also balancing those resources against the other resource needs of campus, right? How much time can I spend on ensuring my web properties are accessible if, at the same time, I have to take those same resources to allocate them to make sure we're setting up a COVID vaccination clinic. It's really a continuum of resource allocations. For me, thinking about how can I make sure there's always a guarantee of resource allocation towards accessibility, recognizing that that might not be core to our mission. What can be core to our mission is deploying accessible applications on an going forward basis. But our core mission is instructing students, performing research, being a land grant institution. We always have to balance that resource allocation to make sure we're moving the ball forward in these different fronts, but serving, first and foremost, what is it we're core here to do, instruct students. Accessibility is a component of that, but it can't be the dominating component. It has to be an absolutely key component, but the dominating is us delivering students with a path to their future. JAMES: Thanks, Chris. Before we go on to the next topic, briefly, if you can talk about thinking about your staff, the technology staff at the university even more broadly, perhaps, the skill and training on accessibility and how you think about that and approach that. CHRIS: Yeah, I think there's three aspects of that. So, the first aspect was, we've had some staff transition, in our accessibility staff. Making sure we have the appropriate professional training for folks who are doing the accommodation work or engagement and consultation work. That's always been a fairly straightforward, that's an institutional investment. That makes good sense. Where the real value we've seen, both from a leadership perspective, raising accessibility as a topic of concern at senior levels at the institution. So, raising this concept, our provost is fluid with the concept of accessibility, right? He's not going to go out and do a WCAG review, but he gets the concept that he can instruct his Deans that this is going to have to be a key component of the content their faculty deliver on a go forward basis. From a training perspective, there's a lot of low-cost effort that we can put in place to raise accessibility on the radar from a leadership perspective, discuss it with a broad team of not just executive but operational, manager and cross-functional teams, we've also been very successful in engaging our students about accessibility conversations, what does that mean to you. Because my concept of accessibility is how big is the font is, a student's concept of accessibility may be how does it render on a cell phone. That's a very different problem set, depending on what technology you apply to that. It doesn't have to be, but we need to collect those voices in terms of understanding what that means and a lot of that does not involve a lot of out-of-pocket cost. JAMES: And just one more question, then we'll move on to one of my favorite topics, which is sort of collaboration across departments. From Kathy, how do you decide what to test? Do you do spot checks of certain course websites and more checking of applications used by larger populations? CHRIS: Sure. So let me break up the administrative from the academic side of things. So, from the administrative side of things, we actually have a review process for our web properties in conjunction between our I.T. team and our university relations team that's responsible for our web properties. So, there's actually a checkoff evaluative process for our core web properties. I'm fully confident there's probably some research lab websites or some individual P.I. websites that were created by word press that probably don't meet the testing. We focus on the high-visibility targets to make sure the information that's most relevant to a large population gets out there. From a course perspective, we do have a couple of very large enrollment courses. We tend to focus most of our resources on ensuring the platform is accessible natively. There is always compliance issues, right? There's always some faculty member that wants to take their PDF from 1982, turned it 10 degrees and scan it and hope it will work. We do spot checks, especially on the large enrollment course, but generally we focus on ensuring the platforms are natively compliant, and then providing strong guidance to the faculty to ensure they have the guidance and parameters of what are those steps that they can take that's relatively die minimums, relatively incremental burden for them but provides a more inclusive experience natively. JAMES: Thanks so much. Now let's shift gears a little bit, Chris, and get into the issues of collaboration, coordination, working across departments at a big university on a big campus. One of the things -- one of the other things that stuck in my mind that you said early on when we started working together was how at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, there are some really amazing, I give you full credit for this term, these pockets of heroic effort. Which I think will resonate with anyone who's doing work in the accessibility field, any kind of organization, that there are really good practices happening in parts of the university. And I think some of the ones that had come up, U Mass were around UDL, instructional design, and some other areas that the Assistive Technology Center, some really good resources and practices. But siloed and not scaled because they are siloed in departments. And even some departments, I think, that may have been a little ahead of others in terms of academic departments in terms of their approach to inclusion and accessibility. I know that since we last worked together, and during this -- these last several months, the accelerated accessibility period, that you've done some work on greater collaboration and coordination. Can you talk a little bit about that, including maybe some description of what it felt like before taking some improving steps? CHRIS: Sure. I mean, for those of you who have spent time, and this is true of both large and small higher education, but higher education tends to be a very siloing structure, at least in my experience. There's a couple of exceptions but there tends to be a lot of belief that faculty are experts in their domain, by virtue of experts in their domain, that there's a lot of notions of self-rule, self governance and that sometimes extends out to administration. I will avoid pining too deeply on that. But there are some challenges that come from that. There's communication, there's logistical challenges. What you end up seeing is subcultural development about, this is important. And what I've observed, and I've seen this both in technology fields as well as accessibility is and let me take it out of the accessibility domain, my email team for many years thought they delivered the best email application out there. They understood how it worked, nobody else understood how it worked but it made a lot of sense to them, and they thought they were doing great. And, so, within their minds, they were providing heroic effort but the impact from a user perspective was not the heroic effort they thought it was going to be. I've observed similar challenges within accessibility at the campus as well. There are these pockets of brilliance, pockets of heroes that are out there working with good empathy this. The challenge is, they don't always have, or they have not been provided the degree of leadership to have these conversations more broadly. So, why is it that one of the very small questions that came up had to do with a resource allocation around providing captioning for course materials for students that had defined accessibilities -- defined accommodations and it became this substantial issue that the costs were decentralized out to each of the departments? And many of our departments, by virtue of being academic, tend to run on very thin budgets. So, when we stopped this conversation, we went into the pandemic, said, what is the net budget impact can here? I can't remember what the number was. Let's say it was $40,000 across the campus. You know, when I brought it up to the right degrees of leadership, they're, like, we're arguing over this? $1.3 billion budget. Don't get me wrong, $40,000 is real money but that's not the thing we should be arguing. By virtue of us decentralizing decision making to that being 40 decisions of $1,000 each, it became much more difficult to get the resource allocation. So the key observation I'd say is, clearly articulating why this is important, clearly articulating that when we marshal our resources collectively, we can make changes that don't seem so big when you're working in a larger context and it really involves that collaboration between and amongst groups and I've actually been very pleased, I think, going through the review with G3ict, certainly delivered us a road map, it certainly delivered us a maturity model, it gave us a sense of where we sat, but it actually opened up conversations amongst teams that have worked and sat together for many, many years but those conversations weren't as effective. You know, we always joke, my background, like I said, is information security with auditors. If the audit doesn't tell you what you want to know, you did something wrong, right? I will say, I have been very pleased with James, had a very objective, and the team he brought in was excellent, but it told us what we wanted to hear, you've got some pockets of brilliance but there's some coordination, there's some logistics, alignment you need to do. Having a third party assert that brought more credibility to this notion of accessibility than any empathetic call from staff on campus could have. JAMES: Thank you for that, Chris. And I think to your credits, and we've done a good number of these reviews of universities and of smart cities as well, I think one of the things that you did was pretty courageous, I think, you involved an enormous number of people from both the academic side of the university and the administrative side in a large number of conversations. I think over these ten conversations that our expert team had with your university community, there were 200 participants, 40 unique individuals, I think, but they were heavily attended, some of the discussions were quite passionate, I will say, because the passion was there. Can you talk a little bit about where -- recognizing and wanting to make even more progress on collaboration and breaking down some of these silos and amplifying some of these heroic efforts. Either where some of these -- what are some of these pockets that you would love to see replicated and I'd also be curious to hear a little bit about what are some of the groups that can help promote this kind of collaboration? We had talked, in particular, in our conversations with U Mass, the faculty Senate actually had been pretty engaged on these issues of accessibility. There is an academic advisory committee, I think, on accessibility. Are there any sort of areas that or groups that can help you as the CIO promote this collaboration? CHRIS: Yeah, you know, that's a great question, James. One of the key things, and one of the things that I found sort of helpful to me in my career, both in the CIO role I'm in, and previously in the information security role, is identifying those governance structures and where they have efficacy. That's one of the things that I've observed at least in some of the accessibility staff I've worked with. They have passion, they have technical focus, they have deep empathy and deep caring, but they don't have the experience with how universities govern themselves or what the governance structures are, where decision authority really rests. It's great to think, you know, I've had staff that think I have all sorts of decision authority, I have responsibility for my $30 odd million of budget, but sort of the extent of the responsibility I have, I have responsibility for standards, as we get into decision making, I have to tie into bodies like our faculty Senate, I have the information technology advisory council, some of these academic advisory councils. We have other both faculty and administration, leadership groups, task forces that are focused on the shared governance structure of universities, we have administrative focus units. So working with accessibility teams to identify where those power structures exist, how change occurs in an institution, and how you can be effective at making this case amongst all the other many cases, that was one of the key things, which again, I was fortunate to have a lot of this experience in information security, I observed many of my peers in information security, other institutions, come in and try to win the day of information security solely on technical merit. Like, well, we're going to go to this, we're going to spend another $100,000 on this new antivirus thing, because it's incrementally better than this other thing. And quite honestly, when you're making that case to a CFO or to a Chancellor or Provost, that's $100,000 for a technical thing I don't understand. Whereas, if you can turn it into a conversation about, either mediating institutional risk, delivering institutional benefit, understanding how change actually occurs on a campus, when you make that case in business terms, it becomes more rational and plausible amongst the thousand other things the Provost or the Chancellor or the CFO has been asked in the last day. So that's the key transition for me, how do you find those power structures, how do you identify those governance structures, how do you make it a business value proposition, not solely a technical or empathetic proposition. JAMES: That's actually a perfect segue, Chris, into a topic that I know you feel passionately about and that we recognize as well in our assessment tool, the maturity model is really pretty critical to an increasing commitment and capability on accessibility, inclusion. And that is what we call, you know, the business case for accessibility. Moving beyond, particularly here in the United States, every university has a legal requirement to be accessible and inclusive, in other countries as well, but you and I are sitting or standing here in the U.S. today. But we'd like to sort of move the conversation beyond risk avoidance and legal compliance to what is the business case? As you say, the why or the value proposition, of accessibility. Based on your experience, either over the past year as a result of or as part of this assessment, or just in general, can you talk a little bit more about that, that key issue of how you are trying to tap into the why and the value proposition at U Mass? CHRIS: Absolutely. So, one of the key value conversations we have on a regular basis, and this is not a conversation unique to U Mass, it's not a conversation even unique to the northeastern United States, but within the United States, there is a significant decline coming in college-age students in the coming years based off of just changes in birth rates, patterns like that. What you're seeing is increasing competition within the field for high-qualified students, you've seen this manifest through, U Mass was deeply involved in the closure of mount IDO, we actually took over parts of the campus, we inherited some of the students from there, you know, recently, I know Becker college in Worcester announced that it is intending to close as well. One of the key things that drives university budgets is attracting, retaining strong students to maintain competitiveness. And if the population is shrinking, one way from a business value perspective is to make sure that you're delivering a natively accessible education to appeal to as broad a population of students as possible. If we are, by virtue of not providing accessible content, unintentionally excluding some arbitrary percentage, say, even 5% or 10% of our students. That's 10% of a student population that will not become paying students, high-quality students. We're excluding a portion of our population that could engage. And that's based on a conjecture of 10%. If the conjecture is much higher, we could be unintentionally avoiding potential population when we know there's going to be restrictions in that. So from a very raw perspective, if budgets are driven at institutions through a combination of both undergraduate, graduate tuition, and research education, if we're not strongly positioned, meeting the market demand, and that can either be meeting market demand because there's a growth or being more competitive and approachable to a larger population, if there's a reduction in that student -- potential student population. We are not tied into the strategic mission of the institution to provide our role as a land grant, to provide instruction to residents of the commonwealth and to create a workforce for the commonwealth. We have over 250,000 living alumni from U Mass, vast majority of them stay in Massachusetts. At U Mass, we graduate more students than the top eight private institutions from the state of Massachusetts combined. That means we're tied deeply to the workforce. So, if we cannot find a way to make our content accessible and approach that, we're not only risking our own potential economic future, but we're actually risking issues of workforce development and long-term competitiveness of the state potentially. JAMES: Yeah. A couple thing in there that I would love to follow up on. One is, you've talked about the role of students, the diversity of students as a driver for the competitiveness of U Mass in fulfilling your many roles as a land grant state university. As you're thinking about the why and the value proposition, are you having discussions or thinking about, we certainly discussed this as part of our engagement, the technology assets you're deploying, the accessibility of them, it also impacts faculty and staff, is that part of the calculus as well? CHRIS: It absolutely is. Because, again, that same, you know, rubric holds, as we remain a competitive institution, we have to be competitive in our hiring practices. And that means approaching as broad a population of the available talent pool out there. If we are not delivering natively accessible experiences, whether that is directly instructional or it's, you know, pedantic as H.R. forms, right, everybody's got to do an H.R. form somewhere, but if we're delivering, and we've had our challenges in the institution of three copy, carbon forms that, you know, our vice Chancellor of human resources loves to say, he shut off the last -- he got rid of the last typewriter not that many years ago, right? There's clearly some substantial issues that we've had. If we're not competitive with the potential workforce, both at the highly skilled faculty level, at the highly skilled technical level, but at all levels of the organization, we're going to potentially compromise the available resource pool as well. So, again, if it comes back to business case, I see a compelling business case to make sure accessibility is core to our digital transformation because it allows our long-term access to a larger candidate pool. With the move to remote work, we're having very serious conversations, what does that mean, long term, right? We've had staff working remotely, we're going to struggle, like every other public and private institution is now, what does it mean for workforces returning, if the pandemic slows as we're hoping? Would we accept this notion of more broad remote work? Does that increase our potential labor pool? Those are all interesting questions that are going to have to be worked out. But if we cannot position our institution to be natively digitally inclusive, we're excluding a portion of our population that may have accessibility accommodations that we're just turning our back to from the get-go. And that's a challenge. That's a loss both to us and it's a loss of potentially high talented, high-skill individuals that could make this university stronger. JAMES: So, Chris, I would imagine that with your expertise and experience in the information security space, you've sort of tackled this issue of the value proposition, the why of security. How is the starting conversations, advancing conversations about the business case, the why and the value proposition, of accessibility, how is that being received? Where is it being received well, where is it a bit more of a struggle? CHRIS: I'd say it's being received well at the high level when I talk about this notion of making sure we're finding the most accessible pool, we're making -- ensuring we're going to remain competitive, tying to workforce. I think the value proposition, executive level, is very strong there. We've always been very successful at the value proposition at a very operational level, for our students and our staff that are providing accessibility accommodations, who are working with students on a one-to-one basis, for our help desk who are taking calls. Where the challenge is, and I think we've had a path to move forward, is for people who do not have either the high-level strategy, do not have the day-to-day blocking and tackling is trying to make the value proposition of why is this one more thing they should do, why should you take ten more minutes to ensure accessibility, alt image tags, why should you take two more minutes to turn on the captioning features in Zoom or PowerPoint? So, I ended up teaching again this fall, I taught for many years at U Mass, I took a number of years off. When I taught this fall, I taught entirely remotely, I taught entirely by Zoom. Zoom's native captioning feature wasn't there. So, I elected to use PowerPoint, use Office 365, turn on the captioning when I lectured. I use Zoom to record the lecture. And it put the captions into it. It's not perfect. It wasn't great.  But the cost to me was thinking to do it, clicking a check box on Office 365 on PowerPoint and making sure I hit play and record. So, the incremental burden to me of applying captioning to course content, and I've taught this course material for 20 years, this is the first year I did that. So, there is two minutes of clicking, it took me about ten minutes going through each of my slide decks to apply alt image tags. That investment of my time as an instructor is absolutely worth it to make sure that content is more accessible. And that's the value proposition I think we have to hit that middle portion of the population, if we can move that population, the impact is going to be tremendous. SPEAKER: With the adoption of WCAG 2.1 in many countries, there is an increased demand for web developers, designers and other professionals with knowledge of web accessibility standards and guidelines. With this growth comes the need for an objectively verified level of expertise. The Web Accessibility Specialist exam will provide individuals and employers with the ability to assess web accessibility competence. Complete the WAS and CPACC exam to earn the special designation of Certified Professional in Web Accessibility! 

This week, Chris interviews his long-time colleague, Mark Nichols, an AAC/AT Specialist who is the Senior Director of Universal Design and Accessible Technologies at Virginia Tech. Chris and Mark talk about the differences and similarities between higher education and K-12 for universal design and AT, the types of technologies that are often very useful in higher education, how to determine how much a university supports inclusion and assistive technology, and more!    Before the interview, Chris shares memories and thoughts about the late, great Joy Zabala with his wife, Melissa Bugaj. They talk about the importance of Joy's SETT framework, the impact Joy had on AT, and Melissa and Chris's personal relationship with Joy and how she influenced their personal life.    Key ideas this week:  

Join host Chester Moore as he talks speckled trout tactics with DOA Lures founder Mark Nichols. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join host Chester Moore as he talks speckled trout tactics with DOA Lures founder Mark Nichols.

In today's episode I am joined by World Champion & Olympic Gold medalist Mark Nichols.   We touch on our mutual passion for working with others, educating ourselves and taking care of our mind and body so that we can compete and play.   Mark shares his learnings from decades of curling success, his own perspective on behaviour change, nutrition and curling specific fitness.   If you want to learn more about the #1 curling fitness influencer on IG & why he loves and enjoys the process along the way, you won't want to miss this episode.   To stay as up-to-date as possible, make sure to join the Empowered Performance newsletter and to follow me on Instagram at @empoweredperformance   All mentioned resources are available in the show notes on my website at www.empoweredperformance.ca/podcast

Find out where the bite will be in this weeks Action Spotter Podcast. Do you have a question about fishing in your area? Email rick@floridasportsman.com and we'll answer your questions on the air! Download for the best tips of the trade right in your pocket, any time, anywhere. Subscribe to get notified when a new episode drops each week. Follow us on social media for daily fishing reports, we may even share yours!    Outline of this Episode [01:38] Tropics Report [5:06] Northeast Report [8:56] East Central Report [15:21] Special Guest, DOA Lures founder Mark Nichols [20:28] South Report [26:47] Keys Report [31:35] 10,000 Islands [34:46] Southwest Report [40:25] West Central Report [44:20] Big Bend Report [50:35] Panhandle Report [58:34] Florida Wrap Up   A BIG thanks to each of our sponsors, without whom we would not be able to bring you these reports each week Yamaha Outboards Shimano Fishing D.O.A. Lures Tournament Master Chum Fishing Nosara / Nosara Paradise Rentals Young Boats  Want your brand to reach thousands of potential customers each week? Contact us via rick@floridasportsman.com to see how you can become a sponsor or advertise on other Florida Sportsman outlets.   Connect with Florida Sportsman Facebook Instagram YouTube Website

Join us as we say goodbye to 2020 with our new monthly podcast. Every month we'll be sitting around with band directors, planning an imaginary concert and maybe (definitely) have a drink or two! This months programme is called "A 2020 Christmas" and I'm joined by Gail Brechting, Mark Nichols, and Andrew Jordan as we plan the only Christmas concert most of us will be able to this year!

Mark Nichols $15 & Fairness Community Organzier-Province-Wide Poll In Favour Of Raising Minimum Wage by VOCM

In episode 130 of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast president, Dr. Ricky G. Ford, to the podcast as Kollmeyer and Ford sit down to discuss what is happening at the college. In this week's update, Dr. Ford thanks the members of the Computer Center -- Greg Smith, Ron Smith, Mark Nichols, and Sarah Street -- for their tireless effort that they have put in over the last week to make sure instruction was not sacrificed as the college experienced some Internet issues. Ford also thanks the faculty and staff for the time they have put in to make sure that the students at Northeast get a quality education no matter what. Ford talks about the three recommendations from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges' virtual visit to campus and how Northeast will adjust to those recommendations by March 1. With the calendar turning to October, Ford talks about the season-opening win for the Tiger football team and gives an athletics update of upcoming football games such as this week's Saturday date at Mississippi Delta Community College and homecoming on Thursday, October 15. Ford also discusses how the college's Division of Workforce and Economic Development is helping with various projects around the college's five-county area. Kollmeyer and Ford both hit some important events coming up such as Priority Registration Day on Friday, October 30, the Campus Country Showtime on Thursday, October 8; Run with Ricky (a virtual 5K) that goes from October 15-October 31, and the weekly Food with the First Lady video cooking series that's released each Thursday. 

Christi Jo met Mark Nichols when she was 19-years-old, they got married and had two children. Rumors began swirling that the couple was having marital problems and Mark was allegedly abusing Christi. Mark discovered that Christi was meeting up with an abuse counselor and divorce attorney, which made him very angry. On December 10th, 1987, Mark and Christi took the kids out for pizza and to see Santa. Later that night, they got a babysitter and the couple went out to the bar. Christi went missing and Mark's behavior was very sketchy. This case is unsolved and is classified as a homicide.Drinking The Cool AidLeave a review: RateThisPodcast.com/coolaid

What is it about the drum corps experience that drives young people around the world to dedicate their lives to a moment, that while fleeting, will endure in memories for years to come? In Episode 3, Keith looks at what makes a great performer or performance. Special guests include: Marching Arts Education podcaster Tim Hinton, Crossmen drum major Lydia Marshall, Santa Clara Vanguard brass caption head Mark Nichols, former Boston Crusaders drum major Thompson Vou, Bluecoats drum major Payton Grunzke, and former Blue Knights member and podcast co-producer Mallory Anderson.

What is it about the drum corps experience that drives young people around the world to dedicate their lives to a moment, that while fleeting, will endure in memories for years to come? In Episode 3, Keith looks at what makes a great performer or performance. Special guests include: Marching Arts Education podcaster Tim Hinton, Crossmen drum major Lydia Marshall, Santa Clara Vanguard brass caption head Mark Nichols, former Boston Crusaders drum major Thompson Vou, Bluecoats drum major Payton Grunzke, and former Blue Knights member and podcast co-producer Mallory Anderson.

What is it about the drum corps experience that drives young people around the world to dedicate their lives to a moment, that while fleeting, will endure in memories for years to come? In Episode 3, Keith looks at what makes a great performer or performance. Special guests include: Marching Arts Education podcaster Tim Hinton, Crossmen drum major Lydia Marshall, Santa Clara Vanguard brass caption head Mark Nichols, former Boston Crusaders drum major Thompson Vou, Bluecoats drum major Payton Grunzke, and former Blue Knights member and podcast co-producer Mallory Anderson.

Keith Kelly takes the reins of the Field Pass in his special edition series, “Finding Drum Corps.” In Episode 1, Keith talks through his introduction to the drum corps activity and learns more about the drum corps origin stories of a bevy of special guests including: Mark Nichols, Oisin Molloy, John DeNovi, David Glasgow, Dan Acheson, John Meehan and Mallory Anderson.

Keith Kelly takes the reins of the Field Pass in his special edition series, “Finding Drum Corps.” In Episode 1, Keith talks through his introduction to the drum corps activity and learns more about the drum corps origin stories of a bevy of special guests including: Mark Nichols, Oisin Molloy, John DeNovi, David Glasgow, Dan Acheson, John Meehan and Mallory Anderson.

Keith Kelly takes the reins of the Field Pass in his special edition series, “Finding Drum Corps.” In Episode 1, Keith talks through his introduction to the drum corps activity and learns more about the drum corps origin stories of a bevy of special guests including: Mark Nichols, Oisin Molloy, John DeNovi, David Glasgow, Dan Acheson, John Meehan and Mallory Anderson.

As the COVID-19 outbreak unfolds, increasing experience with the disease has allowed much to be learned. Dr Mark Nichols joins Todd on the podcast to discuss the updated COVID-19 guidelines from the Australia-New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS).

Mark Nichols, the Brasss Caption Head of Santa Clara Vanguard joined me in my in social distancing office in Ireland in mid-March to chat about his work and the Drum Corps strategies he's applying to the rest of his teaching during this challenging time. The interview was recorded just prior to the cancellation of the DCI 2020 season, but lots of the topics are still very relevant and helpful to music teachers everywhere. We'll check in with Mark and the team again very soon!

Christi Jo Nichols was a loving 22 year old mother to her 2 young children. She was also trapped in an abusive relationship at the hands of her husband Mark. She had been taking steps to leave him with her children when on the night of December 10, 1987, the couple left their two children with a babysitter while they went out for the night. By the next day, Christi Jo Nichols would be a missing person. Suspicion would immediately fall on Mark Nichols due to his abusive behavior and his own accounts which didn't corroborate with the accounts of others. Many in law enforcement believe that Mark is responsible for Christi's disappearance, but 32 years later, Mark has never been charged in connection with the disappearance, and no trace of Christi Jo Nichols has ever been found. Sources for this episode: https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/christi-nichols-marked-for-murder UPDATE: Christi Jo disappearance, 32 years later | News | gothenburgleader.com https://unsolved.com/gallery/christi-jo-nichols/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-shwartz2/message

In this episode, I catch up with Mark Nichols who has turned into a bit of a mentor all through the podcast. I love these conversations as I could sit and listen to stories and life advice from guys like Mark all night. Mark, who might be the best storyteller I have ever had on […]

In this episode, Sean and Scott talk about championship Sunday at the Brier. They talk about Saskatchewan's bronze medal, Alberta's third consecutive final loss, and Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols' incredible performances. They also break down the week that was in Kingston and talk about whether the 'best field ever' lived up to the hype.

In this episode, Sean and Scott talk about championship Sunday at the Brier. They talk about Saskatchewan's bronze medal, Alberta's third consecutive final loss, and Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols' incredible performances. They also break down the week that was in Kingston and talk about whether the 'best field ever' lived up to the hype.

In this episode, Sean and Scott break down Sunday's action from the Tim Hortons Brier. They talk about the crazy finish to the Northern Ontario-Manitoba game, a big day for Team Canada, and Brendan Bottcher's perfect game. We also hear from Alec Bedard, Kevin Koe, B.J. Neufeld, and Mark Nichols.

In this episode, Sean and Scott break down Sunday's action from the Tim Hortons Brier. They talk about the crazy finish to the Northern Ontario-Manitoba game, a big day for Team Canada, and Brendan Bottcher's perfect game. We also hear from Alec Bedard, Kevin Koe, B.J. Neufeld, and Mark Nichols.

In this episode, Sean and Scott break down Sunday's action from the Tim Hortons Brier. They talk about the crazy finish to the Northern Ontario-Manitoba game, a big day for Team Canada, and Brendan Bottcher's perfect game. We also hear from Alec Bedard, Kevin Koe, B.J. Neufeld, and Mark Nichols.

How secure do our smart lightbulbs have to be, and how does DOD cybersecurity research improve consumer devices? Which wireless protocols are leading the industry, and what's most exciting to telecommunications experts?Join RIoT Underground for a special episode with Spanalytics—including Spanalytics founder Mark Nichols and Senior Product Engineer Mike Smith—for a discussion about IoT, wireless protocols, security, hardware prototyping, and more. The Spanalytics team includes engineers and programmers with decades of experience who have been working in the world of DoD. They employ leaders in the field of Bluetooth application development and wireless device evaluation. Learn more at spanalytics.com.Support the show (http://www.ncriot.org)

Jordan and Ryan investigate Canadian sports, and find Olympic gold, grueling feats done for the good of humanity, and a loudmouth with louder suits. (Also, We still The North!) The CBC’s “Biggest Moments in Canadian Sports History” list (https://tinyurl.com/y6dedyqw) was a great source of info for this episode. You can see every Hockey Night In Canada opening in this video (https://youtu.be/Y6WE3z_—HU, or https://youtu.be/Y6WE3z_—HU?t=348 if you just want the one we played on the show). For more on The Hockey Theme, check out its Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hockey_Theme). For more on the Donovan Bailey Fastest Man controversy, check out the related section of Bailey’s Wikipedia article (https://tinyurl.com/yyoz2u59) and the Bailey-Johnson 150m race article (https://tinyurl.com/y5n6cmky). This CBC article (https://tinyurl.com/y4g75s2r) revisits the Gushue rink’s win. Apparently, Mark Nichols didn’t have a 100% accuracy, but he did have a 97% accuracy, so let’s call it a rounding error. This video (https://youtu.be/lMf2fAXPS1Q) shows Henderson’s Summit Series winning goal and the (very 70s) reaction. Don’t forget to check out the Coach’s Corner Transcribed videos we used, “No Time Left” (https://youtu.be/4FFq6bblau0) and “Tyler Toffoli” (https://youtu.be/9bZkONoi15E). If you liked them, here’s the channel page (https://tinyurl.com/y2f48ezs). Thanks to The Motorleague(https://www.themotorleague.ca/) for our theme song “North America”!

What’s up ladies and gents, welcome to the podcast. Today I have a bit of an out of the box podcast for you. Last year, my buddy Mark Nickols joined me on the podcast to BS about elk hunting but we never got around to talking about is other passion him and I share which […]

On tap this week: No beer with karaoke in Utah, The scientific benefits of drinking beer, Graffiti mystery in Akron, Biodegradable coolers, More proof that millennials are beer snobs, and sooo much more! Broadcasting from Creekwood Grill with special guests Mark Nichols and Josh Samples.

In this episode Capt. Tim Wilson interviews Capt. Mark Nichols of D.O.A. Lures about the incredible and innovative lures he designed over the years. For more information on Capt. Mark Nichols and D.O.A Lures visit: www.doalures.com For all your fishing news, tips and other resources visit: www.coastalcarolinafisherman.com

On Nov 29, 2018, my mother had an interview with Mark Nichols at Perkins Restaurant. After waiting several hours for him to arrive to work, she was told by Sara about a 2-hour waiting rule..and if she did not leave, the police would be called and she would be put out. She was there for an interview. Sara called police and had my mother removed... #blackwhileinterviewing take a listen --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thearc/support

Welcome to the podcast, this week we are giving you an extra special dose of Wapiti. Today I am joined by Ty Leary and someone that Ty introduced me to Mr. Mark Nichols. I first met Mark at the Rocky mountain elk foundation banquet when Ty introduced me. Ty told me right out of the […]

Shakespeare returns to the Bloedel Reserve on July 13 for another glorious outdoor production: Romeo and Juliet! One of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies, ROMEO & JULIET centers on a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families that disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force the young lovers to grow up quickly — and fate causes them to take their own lives in despair. In this podcast, director Kate Carruthers tells us why this play is so powerful (and shares some of the coincidences surrounding this production). We also hear from BPA technical director Mark Nichols, who explains how the set design for the Bloedel sheep meadow reflects the themes of the play. And Romeo and Juliet themselves (Gavin Michaels and Keara Dooley) share some reflections on what it means to be young and in love. The play runs from July 13 to July 29 with a pay-what-you-can preview on July 12; picnics and set up for picnics will be allowed in the meadow after 6:00 p.m. For more information about the play and performances, please visit the BPA website at https://www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org/collections/theatre/products/romeo-juliet.

Two Sherlock Holmes plays, a bit of musical theater, and an original play composed by the BPA Theatre School teens will all be featured in the school's Spring Sendoff, June 7th and 8th at 7pm. In this podcast you'll learn about these shows and more as BPA's new education director, Pete Benson, tells us about the school's summer plans. Pete is ably assisted by Nobelle Wilkinson-Bennett, who'll be playing Rapunzel's prince in Into the Woods in August. August performances of Into the Woods and Willy Wonka, plus an exciting new tech team class led by BPA's new Technical Director, Mark Nichols -- there's a lot to look forward to in this year's summer program at the BPA Theatre School. For more information or to register for the Tech Team, visit the BPA website at Bainbridgeperformingarts. com -- and don't miss the Spring Sendoff, June 7th and 8th! Credits: BCB host: Diane Walker; audio tech: Chris Walker; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker.

From BCB... https://www.bestofbcb.org/wu-311-barn-artists-at-bac-in-november/ Two of Bainbridge's premier art organizations, BARN and BAC, are collaborating to bring you an exciting November exhibit. In this informative podcast, Lindsay Masters, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts' Executive Director, and Mark Nichols, Bainbridge Artist Resource Network's Executive Director, tell us about each of their organizations and how their missions are synergistic. Their collaboration will be exemplified during the month of November, when BAC will serve as the public gallery for 42 artists who have honed their artistic skills at BARN. Some have never exhibited their artwork in public before, but all have met the standards of the jury for this exhibition. Listen here as Lindsay describes the jurying process for the beautiful BAC gallery and tells us about the many additional offerings and services provided by BAC, from art classes for seniors and opportunities for local BI students to demonstrations at nursing homes, on ferries, and beyond. Mark Nichols talks about the new BARN, which includes 11 different studios for very different artistic endeavors, including Book Arts, Electronic and Technical Arts, Fiber Arts, Glass Arts, Jewelry Making, Kitchen Arts, Metal Arts, Printmaking, Woodworking & Small Boat Building, Writers, and Media Arts.  All these offerings will be housed within BARN's soon-to-be-completed building, off New Brooklyn Road, near the Fire Station.   We're all looking forward to this new 25,000 sq ft building -- especially the Commons area where artists can relax, have a cuppa and share ideas! More information about each organization can be found at bainbridgebarn.org and bacart.org. Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor: Diane Walker; social media publisher: Diane Walker.

In this 20-minute podcast, board member Catherine Camp of the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) interviews BARN's first executive director, Mark Nichols, who was hired one month ago after a nationwide search. Mark joins BARN on the eve of its exciting planned move in early 2017 from its existing facilities for artisans and their studios in Rolling Bay to a magnificent two-story building now under construction at the site of the former Christmas tree farm off New Brooklyn Road. Mark recounts his multi-faceted professional career -- ranging from creative roles in themed entertainment organizations like Disney, to international arrangements for a traveling exhibition, to a leadership role at a community theater center -- and many other roles in between, often in the role of producer. In response to Catherine's question about Mark's vision for the future of BARN, Mark describes it as a place where community and intergenerational activity will thrive, and as a "third place" that offers opportunities for encounters and creativity beyond what is found at our two other regular "places" -- home and work. Mark tells personal stories of transitioning from a busy career to a decision to research an ideal community destination and then to move across the country to Bainbridge Island. He talks about finding what he and his wife came for -- an engaging community. He offers anecdotes about finding dedicated Bainbridge residents at a candlelight winter vigil at the Japanese-American Memorial, then as a volunteer producing stage sets for BPA productions, and eventually being invited to serve on the BPA board. Catherine encourages us to learn more about the many creative activities, classes and studios at BARN by visiting the BARN website. Credits: BCB host, audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters

In this 20-minute podcast, board member Catherine Camp of the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) interviews BARN's first executive director, Mark Nichols, who was hired one month ago after a nationwide search. Mark joins BARN on the eve of its exciting planned move in early 2017 from its existing facilities for artisans and their studios in Rolling Bay to a magnificent two-story building now under construction at the site of the former Christmas tree farm off New Brooklyn Road. Mark recounts his multi-faceted professional career -- ranging from creative roles in themed entertainment organizations like Disney, to international arrangements for a traveling exhibition, to a leadership role at a community theater center -- and many other roles in between, often in the role of producer. In response to Catherine's question about Mark's vision for the future of BARN, Mark describes it as a place where community and intergenerational activity will thrive, and as a "third place" that offers opportunities for encounters and creativity beyond what is found at our two other regular "places" -- home and work. Mark tells personal stories of transitioning from a busy career to a decision to research an ideal community destination and then to move across the country to Bainbridge Island. He talks about finding what he and his wife came for -- an engaging community. He offers anecdotes about finding dedicated Bainbridge residents at a candlelight winter vigil at the Japanese-American Memorial, then as a volunteer producing stage sets for BPA productions, and eventually being invited to serve on the BPA board. Catherine encourages us to learn more about the many creative activities, classes and studios at BARN by visiting the BARN website. Credits: BCB host, audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters

Always creative, thought provoking and application-oriented, Mark Nichols challenged us to honestly consider if we believe God can use each and every one of us.

As the first Keynote speaker on the second day of the 2010 International Blended Learning Conference, this trans-continental presentation comes from the Univeristy of Queensland in Australia. Mark Nichols is an e-learning specialist, and discusses a number of different issues related to blended learning.

Here it is! The second live show recorded at Rafa's Lounge in Echo Park. It was a fantastic audience with some poignant letters and some eyebrow-raising ones. Mark Nichols and Julie Lewis opened the show with original songs and Mark continued to improvise on the piano along with the letters.Darrell Kunitomi, a native Angeleno who has worked for the LA Times for 35 years read a letter from his Uncle Ted. His Uncle was a volunteer fighting for the Americans during WWII. He wrote letters to his family imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Wyoming.Christine Lakin, former child star and working actor reads letters of support from her Grandmothers and a letter from an actress to her "talent".Todd Duffey, best known as the annoying waiter from the cult film "Office Space" reads some interesting fan mail.Eric Weston clearly loves his cats and is dedicated to their well-being as is evidenced by his eccentric letter to the Litter Kwitter Cat Company.Jayne Entwistle, Producer of "To Whom It May Concern", reads a letter to none other than David Lynch!Subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a letter or if you're in the neighbourhood, come on down to a live show.

Captain Keiland Smith and Cpatin Blake Smith discuss the new gear at DOA.  Mark Nichols is a long time friend of Awesome fishing Radio, making multiple apearances. It was great to see Mark at the show. Hope you enjoy this special segment.  ICAST 2012 Mark Nichols

Part Three at the Tampa Tribune Outdoor Expo, the DOA booth is filled with some of the best Captains of inshore fishing in Florida, all users of DOA products.  Perhaps it is the charismatic leader of DOA, Mark Nichols, or his philosophy of producing quality fish-catching lures.  In this interview with Captain Keiland Smith, you … … Continue reading →

Mark Nichols, vice president of Markel's Accident and Health Programs, says self-funding, short-term medical, limited benefit and stop loss plans are more appealing to employers looking to controlling health care costs than ever before.