Podcasts about Massachusetts Avenue

The drug and homeless problem in and around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard that has been plaguing the area for quite some time has not exactly been solved, despite Mayor Wu's efforts. The problem appears to have just moved to the Boston Common as neighborhood residents' express concerns. In a survey of 300 residents done by the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association, 71 percent reported feeling less safe in the area of the Common.Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!

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The area of Mass and Cass in Boston where Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard meet is an area ripe with homeless and drug addicts alike that Boston officials have been tackling for years. Mayor Michelle Wu implemented a three-pronged plan to address crime and homelessness in the area last fall, which has only helped to a degree. Last summer, more than 200 people a day were flocking to the area now, there are about 70-80 people. Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn joined us to discuss.Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio!

Earlier this month, the owner of the Mass Ave sushi eatery Forty Five Degrees celebrated the restaurant's 16th anniversary. Bill Pritt was told he was crazy in 2008 years ago for trying to create a restaurant at the six-lane intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, College Avenue and St. Clair Street. A smart real estate move during the recession gave him ownership of the retail space on that corner, laying the groundwork for future success. After a three-year stint as president of the board for the not-for-profit Damien Center, Pritt is rededicating his energy to what he loves most—the hospitality industry. Earlier this year, he purchased a parcel at 555 Delaware St. with a former Regions bank branch that Pritt plans to turn into a casual dining spot called Harrison's Restaurant. And in May he purchased the building on Mass Ave that houses the Metro Nightclub and Restaurant, as well the business itself. He isn't planning on changing the longtime institution for gay nightlife as much as he wants to spruce it up and improve operations. This week on the IBJ Podcast, Pritt discusses his early years in the restaurant business, which including working the drive-thru at a Steak 'n Shake and eventually buying the Blu Martini restaurant and nightclub at the age of 27. He also digs into the origin story of Forty Five Degrees and the real estate acquisition—and yogurt shop—that helped him succeed. And he serves up details from his plans for Harrison's Restaurant and the Metro. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by Taft.  

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Today's witness Wednesday will be a bit different than usual. Today I am going to read you two blog posts written by Father David Barnes.  He was the Spiritual Director at St. John's Seminary in Boston in 2014 when these posts were written. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston in 1997. The two blog posts were written about a Eucharist procession that took place in 2014 from MIT to Harvard. It was in response to a “black mass” which was to be held that same night and the administration at the college refused to intervene. There are a few reasons I wanted to talk with you about this today. First, there is a Eucharist Procession this weekend right here in Lowell, MA, for anyone who is listening to this and who lives locally. It is on November 26th at 11 am at St. Rita's Parish. The other one is because I have heard this story at least twice over the last month, and I feel it is one that should be repeated. We tend to get scared watching the news. We feel as though evil is taking over, and we can sometimes feel helpless. This story shows us we are not helpless. It shows us good defeats evil. The Lord has already won the war of good vs. evil. He will always be victorious!The First Blog article is titled A Beautiful Night to be Catholic in the Archdiocese of Boston and was written by Father David Barnes on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.  CLICK HERE to go to Father David Barnes' BlogIt's a little after Midnight, and I am just getting in after participating in a magnificent evening.  Hundreds of Catholics joined in a Eucharistic Procession down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge from the MIT chapel to St. Paul's in Harvard Square.  There, we spent a period of time in prayer.  The purpose of the evening was to pray in reparation for a planned Satanic Mass on the campus of Harvard University.  The procession, which passed MIT and Central Square, was a site to behold.  People were coming out of restaurants--some kneeling on the sidewalks, others blessing themselves, and some just staring in bewilderment.  Many of the servers who organized the procession were from Juventutem Boston.  That is the Traditional Latin Mass Community of young people.  They did an impressive job.  It's not easy to keep us priests organized.  The procession ended at St. Paul's in Harvard Square. When we arrived, the church--which I suppose holds about 1000 people--was already filled to capacity. So hundreds of those who walked in procession were left standing on the street outside of St. Paul's. As I looked out at the congregation, I saw many people from my previous assignment in Beverly.  They traveled a good distance to be there.  It makes me proud to have been in a parish of people who love the Eucharist so much that they would come to this event.  In the procession, I saw many students from Boston University (where I serve as Chaplain).  It was so inspiring to see their witness.  The unsung hero of the event, in my opinion, was Fr. Richard Clancy, who is the Chaplain at MIT and who is the Director for Catholic Campus Ministry in the Archdiocese of Boston. He was the one who came up with the idea of a Eucharistic Procession.  Although he doesn't look for accolades, he deserves some today. Tonight, I spent several hours with Catholics from all over the Archdiocese of Boston--young and old, students, married people, priests, seminarians, religious men and women, lay people--who all love the Eucharist.  That's what being a Catholic is.  I'm grateful to have experienced their powerful witness tonight.The second blog article is titled The Harvard Eucharistic Procession Was Beautiful . . . But Now What? This was written on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.  CLICK HERE to go to Father David Barnes' BlogThe decision of a student group at Harvard University to host a "black mass" on its campus precipitated a massive response from Catholics around Boston, the United States, and even the world.  I've heard of parishes all over the United States that held Holy Hours at the time of the scheduled event at Harvard.  As I mentioned previously, I participated in a magnificent Eucharistic Procession from the campus of MIT to St. Paul's in Harvard Square.  Hundreds of Catholics followed the Eucharistic Lord down the main street in Cambridge, where thousands of onlookers witnessed the flock following the Eucharistic Good Shepherd.I'm not always a huge fan of "big events" because I feel like those things can be used as a substitute for true faith.  Sometimes, they feel as though the effort that goes into planning and executing them far outweighs the benefits.  They sometimes feel designed as a publicity stunt or as a way of evoking a strong emotional reaction, but the effects seem short-lived.  Last night's Eucharistic Procession had a different feel.  As I looked about and saw the many young college students from area universities participating, I was touched by their love for the Eucharist and their sincere desire to follow Christ. During the past year, one thing that has really struck me about the college students whom I encounter every day is their Eucharistic Faith.  Quite often, as I am standing outside of church on a Sunday before Mass, I am asked, "Father, do you have time for a quick confession?"  Similarly, for thirty minutes each day before Daily Mass, I hear confessions.  It is rare for there to be a day that nobody comes.  I also noticed this at Mass itself.  At every Sunday Mass, there are young people who come up in the communion line and ask for a blessing rather than receive the Eucharist.  Presumably, having examined their conscience, they do not want to receive the Eucharist until they have received the Sacrament of Penance.I find all of this very striking.  These young people are not scrupulous or legalistic.  They are not tied up in knots.  Instead, they strike me as being young people who simply love the Lord and who want to approach Him and receive Him with devotion and love.  Their love for the Eucharist and the ease with which they approach the Sacrament of Penance is a beautiful witness to Christ and His Grace.  I benefit from their example.All of this comes to mind for me today as I think about the "big event" of the Eucharistic Procession and the blasphemous "satanic mass" that precipitated it.  I am reminded of my own need to deepen continually my devotion to the Eucharist.  These events beckon all of us to examine ourselves and to renew our love for the Blessed Sacrament.  Do I love the Eucharist?  Do I live a life that is coherent with the Eucharist that I receive?  Do I humbly examine myself before approaching to receive the Eucharist?  Do I spend time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and make visits to be with the Lord in the Eucharist?  Do I receive the Eucharist with reverence, or am I distracted, careless, or even willful?  In this instance, the "big event" ought to cause all of us who are Catholic to become more coherent in our lives.  While we were rightly outraged at the intended sacrilege of the Eucharist by others, we ought to make certain that we do not simply become "protesters" in our relationship to the Eucharist. Instead, we ought to become more Eucharistic in our daily life.  This "big event" ought to deepen our desire to grow in Eucharistic intimacy.  We want to make sure that we ourselves are not sacrilegious, blasphemous, or careless.  I think the "big event" of the Eucharistic Procession will bear the most fruit if it is followed by Catholics everywhere examining our own consciences and humbly confessing our sins and receiving absolution.  For me, the Eucharist Procession was an amazing witness of people showing their love for the Eucharist.  In my life, however, the far more powerful and convincing witness of Eucharistic Faith is seeing the daily procession of college students making their way to the confessional. Both of these articles demonstrate how powerful the Eucharist is and also the power of taking Jesus, in Eucharistic Form, to the streets. People recognize and can feel His presence even if they don't know what they are feeling. If you have not participated in a Eucharistic Procession, I recommend you try to find one. They are so powerful, and it is so beautiful to see Jesus processing down the streets. It is one thing to love Jesus in the comfort and security of our churches. It is quite another to love Him out on the streets. I have placed a link to a video of the procession in the show notes. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO If you have a few minutes, I know you will be blessed by watching it. I hope you enjoyed hearing about this amazing event and the effect it had on so many!

Last week, the Boston City Council passed an ordinance banning tent encampments in the city. The ordinance focuses on the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard known as "Mass and Cass," which has become a center for homelessness and drug use in Boston. Under the ordinance, which was originally proposed by Mayor Michelle Wu and passed by the council with some changes, the city can not clear a tent until the people living there have been offered alternative shelter. The rule is set to go into effect this Wednesday, November 1. WBUR Reporter Deborah Becker joins The Common with more on what's expected to happen at "Mass and Cass" this week, and what's next for those who currently live in the area. Greater Boston's daily podcast where news and culture meet.

Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue, part of a new encampment ban across the city. What does that mean for the people who have been living in the area? GBH's Tori Bedford joins Paris to discuss.

Tent encampments at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard can now be taken down by law enforcement, provided that people living there have been offered an alternative shelter space. On Wednesday, the Boston City Council approved the new rule, which was introduced by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu this summer.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins us to talk about the latest at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, the state's decision to cap the number of migrant and homeless families it can house, how she's supporting local Israeli and Palestinian communities, and more.

The Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard area continues to be a public health and safety issue. Boston City Councilors have called upon the Public Health Commission to declare a state of emergency. Dan was joined by Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy.

A year into the job as Boston police commissioner, Michael Cox has witnessed violence in the city and a new proposal for addressing tent encampments at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Today, he's on the show to share his view on the role of policing in Boston.

Listen to the latest edition of Finding Etheridge with Mat Davis, a new series exploring the people and places connected to the Indianapolis poet Etheridge Knight. Mat's guest is poet Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Etheridge Knight's partner and companion during the final years of his life. McKim lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. She recently visited Indianapolis for the unveiling of a new Etheridge Knight mural on Massachusetts Avenue. During the 1980s, Knight and McKim lived together on Mass Ave at the Barton Tower housing project. McKim will discuss her connection to Etheridge Knight, and her latest book “Elizabetheridge: A Memoir in Poetry”.

Listen to the latest edition of Finding Etheridge with Mat Davis, a new series exploring the people and places connected to the Indianapolis poet Etheridge Knight. Mat's guest is poet Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Etheridge Knight's partner and companion during the final years of his life. McKim lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. She recently visited Indianapolis for the unveiling of a new Etheridge Knight mural on Massachusetts Avenue. During the 1980s, Knight and McKim lived together on Mass Ave at the Barton Tower housing project. McKim will discuss her connection to Etheridge Knight, and her latest book “Elizabetheridge: A Memoir in Poetry”.

Boston's City Council is set to take up Mayor Michelle Wu's ordinance that would give police greater ability to remove tents and tarps from the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. We look at what comes next for the area that has become entrenched in homelessness, drug problems and violence.

Grace welcomes Boston City Councilor at-large Erin Murphy to the show to discuss the "zombie apocalypse" situation at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melina Cass Boulevard. Mayor Wu is making moves to end the dangerous tent city, but in a state where everyone has a "right to shelter," will we be responsible for putting these dealers and users up?

This week on Cultural Manifesto, listen to the latest edition of Finding Etheridge with Mat Davis, a new series exploring the people and places connected to the Indianapolis poet Etheridge Knight. Mat's guest will be the poet Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Etheridge Knight's partner and companion during the final years of his life. McKim lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. She recently visited Indianapolis for the unveiling of a new Etheridge Knight mural on Massachusetts Avenue. During the 1980s, Knight and McKim lived together on Mass Ave at the Barton Tower housing project. McKim will discuss her connection to Etheridge Knight, and her latest book “Elizabetheridge: A Memoir in Poetry”. We'll also listen to new releases from two rising stars in the Indianapolis music scene: Taylor Hall and Oltanie Charles.

A massive fire destroys five homes at Minot Beach in Scituate. Massachusetts Avenue is back open after a crash over night. Conflict over the death toll from yesterday's explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania. Five minutes of news to keep you in the loop.

Team Common is taking some time off to rest and recover over the holidays. In the meantime, we're sharing some of our favorite stories from WBUR's newsroom in 2022. Today, we bring you the second part in a series from reporter and producer Lisa Mullins and Lynn Jolicouer. They look at efforts around the Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard area of Boston, also known as Mass and Cass, to get people living there into permanent housing. Today's installment is all about one non-profit's work to help 150 people into permanent housing.  Greater Boston's daily podcast where news and culture meet.

Team Common is taking some time off to rest and recover for the holidays. In the meantime, we're sharing some of our favorite stories from WBUR's newsroom from over the year. We're kicking the week off with the first of a two-part series from WBUR's Lisa Mullins and Lynn Jolicouer. It's the story of one man who finds housing, after years of living in the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston, also known Mass and Cass. Greater Boston's daily podcast where news and culture meet.

Support the Boston Art Book Fair today!   Oliver and Randi sat down with Emily Isenberg, Founder and President of Isenberg Projects, to learn more about her and her team of community strategists, creatives, tastemakers, deal makers, producers and artists – all, as she describes it, “obsessed with culture and driven by insatiable curiosity.  Isenberg Projects is a creative consulting agency based in Boston that specializes in placemaking and community engagement. Founded in 2011—and officially certified as a women owned business in the State of Massachusetts in early 2020—Isenberg Projects has produced hundreds of projects, pushing over 1 million dollars into the hands of the local creative economy.     When: Interviewed November 17, 2022 With thanks to everyone who took part in Boston Art Book Fair 2022! Emily and Oliver reflect on the history of Isenberg Projects and the DIY world of organizing cultural events in Boston.  They reference: Boston Children's Hospital Art Program Fourth Wall Gallery Girls Rock Campaign Boston Caleb Neelon HBS Allston Skirt Gallery (R.I.P.) We fondly remember the retro concept of “Selling out” Emily talks about IP's work with  Studio Allston We talk about art: Tony Goldman (R.I.P.), and Miami's Wynwood Walls LaMontagne Gallery est. 2007 Blanc Permitting: 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston Dining: New York's Outdoor Dining Sheds Baths: Japanese Onsen And Youth: Future Chefs, Youth Pride and Roxbury Youthworks The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan comes up, as does fearlessness, women-led businesses, and social media influencers. Digital Soup

Eliot Community Human Services was tapped by the city to lead efforts to house people from the tent encampment near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

On 23 September 2022, the UK's new prime minister and her chancellor delivered their explosive “mini-Budget”, cutting taxes for the richest in society and increasing government borrowing. Global markets were alarmed – but should the reality of Trussonomics have taken anyone by surprise? In this reported long read, the New Statesman's writer at large Jeremy Cliffe looks at the ideas, institutions and thinkers who have shaped Truss's politics for decades, from a society of free-market thinkers who gathered at Lake Geneva in 1947, to today's libertarian think tanks in Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC, and Tufton Street, London (where many of the current cabinet have worked). Cliffe talks to those who have followed Truss's rise most closely, and who detect the influence of Thatcher, Reagan and even Khrushchev in her thinking. But is her government now too radical even for her former colleagues? And where will a prime minister who some believe “actually wants to destabilise things” go next? Written by Jeremy Cliffe and read by Rachel Cunliffe. This article originally appeared on 28 September on newstatesman.com and in the 30 September – 6 October issue of the magazine. You can read the text version here. If you enjoyed this, you may enjoy “Boris Johnson: The death of the clown” by Ed DocxPodcast listeners can subscribe to the New Statesman for just £1 a week for 12 weeks using our special offer. Just visit newstatesman.com/podcastoffer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Newbury Street's eight block stretch of restaurants, shops, salons, and local businesses will be pedestrian-only from Berkeley Street to Massachusetts Avenue. WBZ's Tina Gao reports:

The Boston Herald reported Thursday that 13 men were arrested in a human trafficking sting in the troubled area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The area has been referred to as an open-air drug market.

Plus, we talk with a former policy director for Boston's Office of Recovery Services about a reported human trafficking sting in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

Steve MacKay spends his time at his day job analyzing data for the Health Authority. And that skill came into play after more than 20 accidents along the residential stretch of Robie Street where he lives. He had noticed some vehicles travelling up to 90km/hr past his home located between Stairs and Columbus Streets. That's just north of where Robie branches off from where Massachusetts Avenue begins. He admits he did go through the formal process of writing emails and lodging complaints with his councillor, Lindell Smith. He and his neighbours also put out green bins to try and slow vehicles down. And after launching a petition and repeatedly posting from his Raccoon at Home Twitter account, traffic calming measures are finally coming. HRM will be installing four-way-stops and crosswalk markings in two intersections along that stretch of Robie this summer. And MacKay is sharing his lessons he's learned along the way.

Porter Square is getting a makeover. The Cambridge City Council voted last Monday to move ahead with a plan to replace some parking along Massachusetts Avenue, including Porter Square, with protected bike lanes. but, as WTBU Correspondent Evan Jimenez reports, not everyone is happy with the changes.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • Involved in large scale whiskey events for more than 16 years, David Sweet has owned and managed large-scale tasting events across North America, England and Australia. He is currently running his own event series – Whiskey and Barrel Nite -- in six cities from coast to coast; • Restaurateur and awesome chef, named 2020 RAMMY chef of the year, David Deshaies has a fabulous new restaurant, L'Ardente, on Massachusetts Avenue, and it is nothing short of spectacular. Everyone's talking about the 40-layer lasagna, but have you had the carbonara?! Chef David is in with his chef de cuisine, Leena Ali; • Joanna Veltri is chief of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development's Americas Liaison Office. Her organization is dedicated to working in rural areas of developing countries to address poverty and hunger. IFAD recently teamed up with Chef Rob Rubba of Oyster fame for its Recipes for Change program. Through this program well-known chefs from around the world draw attention to the impacts of climate change on traditional crops and local recipes in the world's poorest countries and promote ways that rural small-scale farmers can adapt; • Alam Méndez Florián, a native of Oaxaca, is executive chef at Maiz64 on 14th Street Northwest. He and his team turn four kinds of maiz – corn -- into fresh masa daily for the tacos, tamales, and other corn-based essentials.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • Involved in large scale whiskey events for more than 16 years, David Sweet has owned and managed large-scale tasting events across North America, England and Australia. He is currently running his own event series – Whiskey and Barrel Nite -- in six cities from coast to coast; • Restaurateur and awesome chef, named 2020 RAMMY chef of the year, David Deshaies has a fabulous new restaurant, L'Ardente, on Massachusetts Avenue, and it is nothing short of spectacular. Everyone's talking about the 40-layer lasagna, but have you had the carbonara?! Chef David is in with his chef de cuisine, Leena Ali; • Joanna Veltri is chief of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development's Americas Liaison Office. Her organization is dedicated to working in rural areas of developing countries to address poverty and hunger. IFAD recently teamed up with Chef Rob Rubba of Oyster fame for its Recipes for Change program. Through this program well-known chefs from around the world draw attention to the impacts of climate change on traditional crops and local recipes in the world's poorest countries and promote ways that rural small-scale farmers can adapt; • Alam Méndez Florián, a native of Oaxaca, is executive chef at Maiz64 on 14th Street Northwest. He and his team turn four kinds of maiz – corn -- into fresh masa daily for the tacos, tamales, and other corn-based essentials.

Peter Kuttner, Prinicipal Architect at CambridgeSeven, talks about the creation of MBTA stations, focusing on the Porter Square Station. The architects worked closely with engineers, government agencies and community representatives to construct Porter Square Station, which serves both the rapid transit and the commuter rail systems. The goal was to create for this neighborhood a sense of place, and a sense of destination. This visually impressive station is situated 105 feet below ground under the heavily-traveled Massachusetts Avenue.

Concerns are rising around whether people will try to live outdoors again in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard as warmer weather approaches. Meanwhile, family members are questioning whether enough treatment services — beyond housing — are available to help their loved ones.

Does it seem like a CVS or a Walgreen's can be found on every street corner? In Indiana for much of the 1900s, the drug store scene was much different, and dominated by two locally-owned rivals. Hook's Drug Stores opened its first store in 1900 in Indianapolis in what's now the Bates-Hendricks neighborhood, then considered part of Fountain Square. Haag Drug began even earlier, with the opening of a pharmacy in 1876 on Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Indy. The captivating history of these competitors, which included Hook's becoming the country's 12th largest drugstore chain, and the two brothers who founded Haag being accused of bootlegging during Prohibition will be the focus of our show. Although both the Haag and Hook's names had vanished from retailing by the mid-1990s, the legacy of the latter is celebrated at the Hook's Drug Store Museum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Nelson's guest will be Indianapolis civic leader David Steele, a board member of the museum. David has crusaded for a historic marker that will be dedicated later this year on the site of the first Hook's store at South East and Prospect streets.

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott celebrated the impending New Year by answering some questions and sharing some object lessons submitted by Rational Security listeners. They discussed:If you could only have one paid news subscription, which would it be?How do you think the U.S. will respond if Israeli policies towards Palestinians continue to deteriorate?Why does former President Trump's direction to his former associates not to cooperate with the January 6 committee not constitute witness tampering?Why are Tweets not subject to prepublication review?What are the United States' greatest vulnerabilities?What are the odds of a major nuclear incident in the next 70 years?What is the January 6 committee investigating other than the actions of former President Trump and his associates?Do you think the courts or Congress will rein in the executive branch's control over classified information?How will Finland's purchase of U.S. F-35s change the regional security calculus?What do you do to sound good on podcasts?And most importantly: which holiday movie is most relevant to the current state of international relations?As for object lessons, listeners: recommended the "Fat Leonard" and "Orientalist Express" podcasts; endorsed the book "Shorting the Grid" by Meredith Angwin; noted the existence of the iPhone game "Free Assange" by none other than RT (i.e., Russia Today); corrected Scott's mistake regarding what's happening with the long lost musical sequence from "The Muppet Christmas Carol"; recommended adding bourbon to Quinta's easy pie dough recipe; seconded Alan's earlier endorsement of the spaetzle maker; and shouted out Purdue University for the civic education program they recently implemented for all incoming students. Rational Security 2.0 will be back in 2022, but until then be sure to visit our show page at www.lawfareblog.com and to follow us on Twitter at @RatlSecurity. And Rational Security listeners can now get a committed ad-free feed by becoming a Lawfare material supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

12/23/21--On the last episode of 2021, Steve and Lisa discuss their holiday plans that have largely been rearranged thanks to the brutal arrival of the Omicron variant. It's a reality confronting people across Massachusetts, and as folks plan to safely convene with friends and family, the lack of available COVID testing is making that near impossible. With case numbers rising across the country and here in Massachusetts, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu this week announced an indoor mask mandate. Meanwhile, Governor Charlie Baker unveiled a mask advisory, a move that, through the eyes of several public health advocates and political figures in the state, falls short. Joining Lisa to talk about the escalating public health crisis at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard (or Mass. and Cass.) are two reporters who have been following the situation for a while now. Tori Bedford is a reporter for GBH News, Sean Cotter for the Boston Herald. They explain the genesis of the tent city and open air drug market, which all began after the shutdown of the Long Island Bridge in 2014. Now, as the substance abuse, homelessness, and violence increase, and as the months get colder, the demand for adequate housing and resources becomes more dire. In the span of a little over a year, three Boston mayors have tried to adequately rectify the situation-- former Mayor Marty Walsh, acting Mayor Kim Janey, and current Mayor Michelle Wu. Tori and Sean break down each leader's approach and impact, and look ahead to Mayor Wu's plan not just for the immediate future, but for the long-term health and safety of the people who live there.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has set a deadline for removing the occupants currently living in tents at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Mayor Wu wants everyone in the encampment out by January 12th and those most in need transitioning to supportive indoor living to “promote safety” in that area of Boston. The plan is to move them to a homeless shelter in the Roundhouse Hotel. Is this a good plan?

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has set a deadline for removing the occupants currently living in tents at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Mayor Wu wants everyone in the encampment out by January 12th and those most in need transitioning to supportive indoor living to “promote safety” in that area of Boston. The plan is to move them to a homeless shelter in the Roundhouse Hotel. Is this a good plan? Sue Sullivan, Executive Director of the Newmarket Business Association, and Boston City Councilor Frank Baker join Dan to discuss.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the City of Boston on behalf of three people displaced from the homeless tent encampment at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Declaring addiction and homelessness a public health emergency, the city decided to clean up the area around Mass and Cass pledging to find treatment or alternative housing for those displaced. The ACLU says officials have not fulfilled their promise. Whose side are you on?

Treating brain diseases like crime scenes. That's the argument from the new book, "The Brain Under Siege." We'll hear from author Dr. Howard Weiner.

It's for processing people living in the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard with outstanding warrants -- trying to get them off the street, and into treatment.

WBUR senior correspondent Deborah Becker joins us to discuss the latest developments in the public health crisis in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in the South End.

Boston wants to rent out 30 hotel rooms at the Quality Inn in Revere for people currently in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard who are experiencing homelessness and addiction.

It is National Recovery Month and in Boston the opioid epidemic has reached the level of a public health emergency. District 3 City Councilor from Dorchester, Frank Baker, joins Dan to discuss the conundrum of what has become the city's epidemic center, the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Recently the “comfort station” at Mass and Cass, a center for addicts and the homeless to find toilets, handwashing, and tents, was permanently closed. What should be done to assist Boston's afflicted?

It is National Recovery Month and in Boston the opioid epidemic has reached the level of a public health emergency. District 3 City Councilor from Dorchester, Frank Baker, joins Dan to discuss the conundrum of what has become the city's epidemic center, the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Recently the “comfort station” at Mass and Cass, a center for addicts and the homeless to find toilets, handwashing, and tents, was permanently closed. What should be done to assist Boston's afflicted?

As we continue to cover the issues at the center of an historic Boston mayoral election, we check in on the neighborhood between Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. WBUR's Deborah Becker has reported extensively on the issues facing the neighborhood, and joins us to talk about what she observed during her most recent visit.

Harry's guest this week is Jeff Elton, CEO of a Boston-based startup called Concert AI that's working to bring more "real-world data" and "real-world evidence" into the process of drug development. What's real-world data? It's everything about patients' health that's not included in the narrow outcomes measured by randomized, controlled clinical trials. By collecting, organizing, and analyzing it, Elton argues, pharmaceutical makers can it design better clinical trials, get drugs approved faster, and—after approval—learn who's really benefiting from a new medicine, and how. Concert AI, which has offices in Boston, Philadelphia, Memphis, New York, and Bangalore, specializes in providing “research-grade real-world data” and AI-based analytical services to companies developing cancer drugs. Before joining Concert AI, Elton was managing director of strategy and global lead of predictive health intelligence at Accenture, and before that he was a senior vice president of strategy and global chief operating officer at the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research. He's the co-author with Anne O'Riordan of a 2016 book from Wiley called Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies.Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:• Launch the “Podcasts” app on your device. If you can't find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you're on the Search page. 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Thanks!Full TranscriptHarry Glorikian: I'm Harry Glorikian, and this is MoneyBall Medicine, the interview podcast where we meet researchers, entrepreneurs, and physicians who are using the power of data to improve patient health and make healthcare delivery more efficient. You can think of each episode as a new chapter in the never-ending audio version of my 2017 book, “MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market.” If you like the show, please do us a favor and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts.Harry Glorikian: In the world of drug development, there's a tendency to think that the only data that matter are the data that get collected from patients during randomized controlled clinical trials. That's the type of study that drug companies use as the gold standard to test the safety and effectiveness of new drugs and that the FDA uses to make drug approval decisions. But it's just not true. Way before clinical trials begin, there's a ton of genomic or proteomic or chemical data that can go into identifying new drug candidates, as we've learned from many of our previous guests on the show. And today my old friend Jeff Elton is here to tell us about another important kind of data that get collected before, during, and even after clinical trials that can have a huge impact on how drugs are used.It's called real-world data, and it basically means everything about a patient's health that isn't included in the narrow parameters and outcomes measured by clinical trials.Jeff is the CEO of a startup here in Boston called Concert AI that specializes in organizing and analyzing this real-world data. And his argument is that when you pay attention to real-world data, it can help you to design better clinical studies. It can help support the core clinical data that drug companies submit to the FDA when they're applying for approval. And after approval, it can help show who's really benefiting from a new medicine, and how. Jeff has been thinking about the importance of real-world data for a long time, at least since 2016, when he leading predictive health intelligence at Accenture and he published a book called Healthcare Disrupted. The book argued that real-world data from wearable devices, the Internet of Things, electronic medical record systems, and other sources could be combined with advanced analytics to change how and where healthcare is delivered. In our interview, I asked Jeff to explain how Concert AI is helping patients and how the predictions he made in the book are playing out today.Harry Glorikian: Hey, Jeff, welcome to the show. Jeff Elton: Thank you Harry. Pleasure to be here. Harry Glorikian: Yeah, it's been a long time since we've actually seen each other. I mean I feel like it was just yesterday. We were you know, interacting. Arshad was there and we were talking about all sorts of stuff. It's actually been quite a few years and, and, and you have now transitioned to a few different places and, and right now you're running something called Concert AI. And so, I mean, let's just start with what is Concert AI, for everybody who's listening. Jeff Elton: Yeah. So Concert AI is a real-world evidence company. We'll spend a little bit of time breaking that down. We are very focused on oncology, hematology, urological cancers. So we kind of tend to stay very much in that space.And within the real-world evidence area, we really focus on bringing together high credibility research grade data. This usually means clinical data. Genomic data can include medical images combined with technologies that aid gaining insights out of those particular data and that kind of align with our own various use cases.A use case could be designing a clinical study, it could be supporting a regulatory submission. It could be gaining insight, post-approval, about who's benefiting, who's not benefiting. And you know, our whole mission in life is accelerating needed new medicines and actually improving the effectiveness of current medicines out there.Harry Glorikian: So who's like, I don't know, the user, the beneficiary, in a sense, of this.Jeff Elton: So, you know, we like to think we have a very heavily clinical workforce. You know, we always put the patient first. So I'm actually gonna say that a lot of the reason why we're doing things is that we have the benefit to be stewards, combined with provider entities, of focusing on questions that matter for patient outcomes.So the first beneficiary is patients. I think the second beneficiary are biomedical innovators. We're trying to kind of support those innovations. We're trying to understand how to go into the clinic. We're trying to understand how to design those clinical trials to have them be more effective. We're trying to understand how to show that relative to the current standard of care, they offer a range of incremental therapeutic benefit. A lot of medicines become improved once they're actually already approved. And so we actually spend time doing a lot of post-approval research that actually begins to improve the outcomes by beginning to kind of refine the treatment approaches.And then the clinical communities we work very closely [with]. We're a very close working partner with American Society of Clinical Oncology and their canceling program. We're in a 10-year relationship with them that allows us to do work in truly high need areas. We did a COVID-19 registry jointly with ASCO that worked off of some of the data we brought together because it you know, COVID-19 uniquely hit cancer and particularly hematological malignancy patients.We do work with them in health disparities, making sure that racial, ethnic, and economic groups can be the beneficiaries of new medicines and are appropriately part of doing clinical trials, clinical studies. And then we work directly with provider communities who oftentimes are seeing the value of the work we're doing and making sure that for research purposes, we have appropriate access to data, information to conduct that research.Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I want to get into, you know, I think we're going to, I'm going to hit on some of that later, but I just want to make sure everybody's sort of on a level playing field with some of these wonky terms we use. How do you define real-world data and real-world evidence. I mean, I know what the FDA defines it as. I'm just curious. Jeff Elton: Yeah. So yeah. And FDA does have some, they have some publications really there that came out at the end of 2018 that actually began to lay out a framework around that, which I would encourage folks to reference. It's actually a very well-written document.So real-world data is sort of what it sounds like. It's the data. Right. And You know, if you were a clinician, if you were sitting in a clinical care environment, you probably wouldn't be using the word real-world data because those are the data generated through your treatment of the patient. So clinicians sometimes actually kind of pause for a moment to say, what's real-world? It's the things I'm doing. And in fact, you know, real-world data would be structured data in a structured field. It's a lab value that may have come in from the laboratory information system or a drop down menu. Did they smoke or not? Which can be a fixed field in an EMR. All the way over to physician notes, to appended molecular diagnostic reports, to imaging interpretation reports.So all those are forms of data. Now, evidence is a little bit about also what it would sound like. Data are not evidence. You have to actually, and in fact, to generate evidence, I want to have to trust the data. I have to believe those data are an accurate reflection of the source systems they came from. I have to believe they're representative or appropriate for the question that I'm actually trying to address. And then I have to make sure that the methodologies I'm using to analyze something, either comparing the effectiveness of two drugs relative to each other, actually then when I look at that analysis, I'm willing to either make a regulatory decision or a guideline modification.And the intent of evidence is either to support a regulatory decision or something that can inform practice of medicine or nature of treatment. So there's a bar, right, that one has to achieve to actually become evidence. But I think evidence is the right goal by what we're trying to do.Harry Glorikian: So you know, in the past, I mean, because I've, worked with companies like Evidation Health and so forth right there, some of this data was in paper form, right. Not in electronic form. So, what holes in the current system of, say, drug development would better real-world data or real world evidence help fill or, or drive forward.Jeff Elton: Yeah, that's a super good question. And, you know, Harry, you were kind of going back to your, I mean, you were one of the primary, leading individuals around that when the days of personalized and individualized and precision medicine, and even some of molecular medicine kind of came around. In fact, that's probably where you are my first point of interaction.And I come back to that concept because when you, when you're looking at data—and again, not all data are kind of created equal here—when I think about setting up and designing a clinical study, so now I'm with an experimental therapeutic or I'm thinking about moving it in. If it worked in one solid tumor and I suspect that same molecular pathway or kind of disease mechanism may be at work in another one. And so I want to kind of think about doing a pan tumor strategy or something of that nature. When I actually, when I, if I can bring together molecular diagnostic information, aspects of the individual patients, but do it at scale and understand the homogeneity, the heterogeneity and the different characteristics in there, I can design my trials differently and I can make my trials more precise. And the more precise the trials are, the higher the likelihood that I'm going to get meaningful outcomes. The outcomes here that are meaningful is what actually helps medicines progress. It's actually getting those questions to be as narrow and as precise and as declarative in their outcomes as possible.And so a lot of these data can actually be used to help guide that study design. Now, if I also have very rare cancers or very rare diseases—so this would apply even outside of oncology, although most of our work is oncology related—even if I'm outside of that, if I'm in very rare, oftentimes finding, you know, putting a patient on a  standard of care therapy as a control oftentimes may not be in the patient's best interests. And so this notion of either a single arm or having an external control or having a real-world evidence support package, as part of that, may be part of what can occur between the sponsor and actually the FDA, et cetera, for kind of moving that through.But, you know, this has to be done individually around the individual program and the program and the characteristics have to kind of merit that, but these are big deals. So we feel that these are forms of data that can complement what would have been traditional legacy approaches to give more confidence in the decisions being made in the evaluation, the ones actually coming, too.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, I can hardly wait. I mean, maybe it's a dream, but I can hardly wait until we get rid of first-line and second-line and we just say, okay, look, here's a battery of assays or whatever. This is what you should be taking. No more first line or second line. I mean, these are sort of in my mind, I mean, almost arcane concepts from, because we didn't have the tools in the past and now we're starting to move in that direction.Jeff Elton: Yeah. So, Harry, just to, maybe to build on that a little bit. So if you look at some of our publications and things that we presented at this last ASCO, there's work one can do when you look at different features of patient response, et cetera. We're a company, but we also have a very strong data science backbone to what we do. And AI and ML applications. There are features that sometimes you can predict metastatic status. You can predict rate of response. You can predict progression. Now the very fact that I can make that statement kind of indicates that as you started thinking about the paradigm in the future, particularly when I start doing it liquid tumor, biopsies and surveillance mechanisms where I can see response much more rapidly in less invasive ways, you are going to start even over the course of this next five years, I think some of these will start to start influencing practice patterns in some very positive ways for patients, Harry.Harry Glorikian: From your lips to his or her ears. It needs to move faster. But, but it's interesting, right? I feel like you've been on this path for quite some time, like, I want to say since you're at least since your book in 2016, if not before. Jeff Elton: Yeah. So, you know yeah, you and I, in fact, you and I interacted first, I think we were kind of in the hallways, first interaction of what had been the Necco candy factory on Massachusetts Avenue in the Novartis building, where I was working in the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research at the time.And Even prior to that, I think I did my first work back in the days of Millennium Pharmaceutical when it was still a standalone company, doing work in precision medicine and personalized medicine all the way through. And obviously Novartis's strategy was looking at pathway biology and actually using that as the basis of actually understanding where in a pathway system one could actually target and actually understanding that it is a system, it's got redundancy both in a bad, in a positive way. How do we use it to progress new medicines? So there's been an aspect of this that's always been kind of a little bit hard. I think I kind of made a decision to kind of pivot much more to a large scale data-centric, insight-technology-centric approach, and actually at scale, bring some of that back to the biomedical innovators. But yeah, it's been a progression over time and some of this it's a field that I feel, you know, strong passion around and will stay committed to for the duration of whatever my professional career looks like.Harry Glorikian: So can you give us maybe an example? I mean, I know some of it may be confidential. How does the data that you're providing, say, improve maybe drug safety or effectiveness? Jeff Elton: So you know, we're doing a project right now that that's safety related and I'll kind of try to keep it such that it I'm not betraying anybody's confidence. Eventually this will be in a publication, but it's not at the point yet. We're looking at a subpopulation that had severe adverse events, cardiac adverse events in the population. And originally the hypothesis was, it was a relatively homogeneous group. And we brought together some of our deepest clinical data, which means we have many different features of intermediate measures of disease, recurrence, progression, response, adverse events, severe adverse events. And we also brought some of our data science and AI solutions to it. And one of the major insights that came out of that is actually it wasn't a single homogeneous group. One group was characterized by having a series of co-morbidities that then linked to this significant adverse event and the other were purely immunological based.And so therefore actually in both cases, they're screenable, they're predictable. They're surveillable. And monitorable. And so therefore, but the actions would be very different if you didn't know what the two groups are. So in this particular case, we could discriminate that now. Well, we'll take that into more classical biostatistical analysis and do some confirmatory work on that, but that has significant implications on how you're going to kind of screen a patient survey of patients, look for whether or not they exhibit that area, and how you would kind of handle it, manage that. That would improve the outcome significantly of that subpopulation.So that's one example. In other areas, some of our data was actually being used as part of a regulatory submission. It was a very, very rare population in lung cancer. And it was unclear exactly how nonresponsive they were to the full range of current standard of care. And we were actually illustrating that there was almost a complete non-response to all current medicines that were actually used against this particular molecular target because of a sub mutation. And that actually was part of the regulatory submission. And that program both actually got breakthrough designation status, and that actually supported that and actually got an approval ahead of the PDUFA date. So when you start pulling some of these pieces together, they work to again, provide more confidence and interpretation and more confidence in decision-making. And in this particular case, certainly accelerated medicines being available to patients. Harry Glorikian: Oh yeah. Yeah. Drive value for patients and drive value for the people that are using the, the capability to get the product through. So, you know, we're talking about data, data, data. At some point, you've got to turn this into a product or a service of some sort or, or some, or maybe a SaaS as, as, as you guys might look at it, but you've got something called, you know, Eureka Health, right, in your product lineup. Can you give us an idea of what that is? I think it's a cloud-based SaaS product. You call it research-ready real-world data. So I'm just curious how that works. Jeff Elton: Yeah. So we do think.. So if you think about what we're trying to do, we're trying to allow a level of scale and a level of precision and depth on demand in the hands of individual researchers, from translational scientists, folks in clinical development, post-approval medical value and access. Kind of in that domain. And so each of those have different use cases. Each of those have different kind of demands that they'll place on data and technology for kind of doing that.We're trying to move away from the world of bespokeness, because by nature of bespokeness, the question has its own orientation. The data is just unique to the question and that utility later is very low and, you know, in a way, what we'd rather do, what have we learned about what actually kind of create utility out of data, and let's make sure that we're covering the use cases of interest, but let's do it at very large scale. And that scale itself and the data we even represent at that very large scale is in itself representative and actually has significance whether it's on a prevalence basis of sub cohorts of disease or not. Now, the reason why I'm spending so much time developing that is when you put that in the hands of the right people, you're avoiding bias, but you're also giving utility at the same time and so you're actually improving their ability to conduct rapid question interrogation, but also structure really good research questions and have the discipline if I have a good research methods right around that. So we do structure those as products.And so, so actually one of the things we think of is, the work that we do in non-small cell lung cancer is an extremely large data set. It also has high depth on the molecular basis of non-small cell lung cancer. And it's created in a way that actually allows you to make those questions from translational through post-approval medical and doing that.Eureka is the technical environment. It is a cloud environment we are working in, and it actually allows you to do on-the-fly actually insights. So, outcome curves, which are called Kaplan-Meier and a few other measures. I can compare groups. I can compare cohorts. I can ask questions. It's actually exceptionally fast.And so this ability to navigate through a series of questions, its ability to make comparisons of alternative groups of patients on different classes of questions and finally get down to the patient cohort of interest that you may want to move into in the next phase, your research is done a lot faster. Now we took that, and now we're integrating more AI and ML into that. So we now have created probably what's one of the leading solutions for doing clinical study design. So we can optimize different features of that study design. We can actually release lab values. We can change parameters. There's a level of kind of fitness, ECOG scoring. We can actually modify that and show what the changes would be in the addressable patient population, and actually optimize that study design all the way down to the base activity level. And we're basically creating a digital object that's rooted on huge amounts of data. Underneath the 4.5 million records runs inside that particular area.There is no other solution in oncology, hematology that gets anywhere to that depth of information that can reflect, with different optimization, to the endpoint and even reflect statistical power. Now we're integrating in work around health disparities. How do you assure that if it's a disease like multiple myeloma, which may disproportionately affect black Americans, that I'm actually getting adequate representation of the groups that in fact, actually may be afflicted by the disease and actually assure the design of the study itself assures their representativeness actually in that work?Harry Glorikian: This dataset, what are some of the features of it? What is it? What sort of information does it have in it that you would be pulling from? Because my brain is like going on all sorts of levels that you would pull from, and some of it is incredibly messy.Jeff Elton: Yeah. So you are absolutely right. And so there have been expressions in the field of people who do work in real-world data that the real world's messy you know, fields may be empty. Do you know, as an empty field, because nothing got put there where's the empty field, because in that electronic medical record environment empty means it was not true of the state of the patient. That may sound like a nuanced thing, but sometimes empty actually is a value and sometimes empty is empty. And so you start getting into some things like that, which you start thinking about, like, those are pretty nuanced questions, but they all have to do with, if you don't know which it is, you don't know how to treat and move the data through.So back to your question here a little bit. What we actually, the sources of where we bring data from are portions of a clinical record. So, you know, we work under businesses, the work we do is either research- or quality-of-care-focused. And so, you know, we work actually, whether it's with the American Society of Clinical Oncology and et cetera, appropriately under all HIPAA guidelines and rules for how you interact with data around doing that. So I'll put that as a caveat because methods and how you do that security and everything else is super, super important. We have a clinical workforce. These are all credentialed people. Most of them have active clinical credentials. Most of them were in the clinic 10 to 15 years and even still interact on it. So a lot of my people feel they're still in clinical care. It's just happens to be a digital representation pf the individuals that are in there. And we're seeing, whether it's features of notes, depth of the molecular diagnostic information, radiologically acquired images that may show how the tumor progressed, regressed, et cetera, that's in there, any other, the medications, prior treatment history, comorbidities that may confound, actually, response. So all those different features are brought together, but if you don't bring it together consistently, we have tens of thousands of lines of business rules, concepts, and models that we try to publish around about how you bring a concept forward.So if you want to bring a concept forward, want to do it consistently, we come out of 10 different electronic medical record environments, and we're, we're actually interacting with the work of 1,100 medical oncologists and hematologists, et cetera. You have a lot of heterogeneity. Handle that heterogeneity with a clinical informatics team into a set of rules as it's coming forward so that everything comes to the point that you can have confidence in that, you know, in that particular analysis and that presentation.So there's something called abstraction, which is a term applied to unstructured data—and unstructured just means a machine can't read it on the fly. And so we're actually interacting with that, which could have a PDF document or something else. And from that, we use the business rules to then develop something that now is machine-readable, but actually has a definition behind it that one can trust, that one can, that kind of comes from some published basis about why did you create that variable? So I could measure outcomes of interest progression-free survival, adverse events, severe, whatever the feature of interests can. Help me answer the question we try to kind of bring through. So we're usually creating about 120 unique variables that never would have been  machine-readable, in addition to the hundred, that probably were machine-readable when we bring that together. Harry Glorikian: So you're using a rule-based AI system, maybe not just a straight natural language processing system, to parse the words.Jeff Elton: Yeah. So natural language processing gets a little tricky. We do. We have, actually, excellent natural language processing. We'll sometimes use that for pre-processing, but you have to be careful with natural language processing. If it has context sensitivity, and if you're parsing for sets of reliable terms, it can actually be relatively accurate. If I'm doing something like a laboratory report that's so discreet, so finite, and it's so finite with how many alternatives you have with the same concept, it works really well. When you start getting into things that are much more nuanced, you actually start to have a combination of technology with the expert humans to actually have confidence in the ultimate outcome.Now we do have some very sophisticated AI models. Like I'll give you an example. When you're looking at a medical record, usually metastatic status has just done a point of first but diagnosis in cancer care. So if the patient actually progressed and they made through there that they don't update the electronic medical record because they want to maintain what the starting point was when therapy was administered.But a biomedical researcher wants to know it at a point in time. So we have models that can literally read the record and bring back that status at any point in the time of disease progression. Now, would that work up to the grade of, say, for regulatory submission? No, but for a rapid analysis to pull back your question of interest and have it done in minutes, as opposed to weeks or months it works exceptionally well.Harry Glorikian: Understood. Understood. So now you and I both know that clinical trials, you know, are available only to a certain portion of the population really participate for  a whole bunch of reasons. And then if you go down to sort of, you know, equality or, or across, you know, the socioeconomic scale, it, it gets even, it gets pretty thin, right? You guys, I, I think you've been pushing around inequality and cancer care and you have this program called ERACE which I think stands for Engaging Research to Achieve Clinical Care Equality. So help me out here. What is that? Jeff Elton: So we are, as an organization we're super privileged to have a very, very diverse workforce. And you know, men, women all forms of background races, ethnicities, and we really value that. And we've tried very hard to build that in our scientific committee. And I think when the public discourse around kind of equity, diversity, inclusiveness came forward, and you know, as you know, Harry, this has been a unprecedented period of time for just about anything, any of us. I mean, COVID-19 and social issues. You know, things of that nature. It's, it's really been a very, very unprecedented time in terms of how we work and how we interact and the questions.Our organization and our scientists actually came forward to me and said, you know Jeff, we have a tremendous amount of data. We have partners like American Society of Clinical Oncology and some of the leading biopharmaceutical researchers in the world. And we've got technology, et cetera. We want relevance. We really want what to make contributions back and we believe that actually, we can do some research that no one else can do. And we can actually begin to deliver insights that no one has the capability to do. Would you kind of support us in doing that? And so we put together the ERACE program and it actually was named by a couple of our internal scientists.And the program actually now is being collaboratively done. We've done a couple of webinars, with you know, some of our partners and that's included, you know, folks from, whether it's AstraZeneca, Janssen, and BMS, et cetera. It's become something around, how can we rethink how research takes place and actually assure its representativeness for all groups, but particularly in specific diseases. It impacts different groups differently. And so can we make sure it reflects that? Would we be generating the evidence so that they can in fact be appropriate beneficiaries earlier? And a lot of this came from when we looked at aspects of diagnostic activity we could say that, you know, black American women have a higher incidence of triple negative breast cancer and a few other diseases. When we look at patterns of diagnosis and activity, unfortunately, the evidence that we even have is not substantially in the practice of what we're actually seeing sometimes when we begin reviewing our data. And so we began confederating through our own work. We now have actually set up research funding. So we actually now will fund researchers who come in the academic community. If they come up with research proposals that have to do with, you know, health related disparities, whether it's economically based, or if it's racial, ethnically based. Those questions. We've got an external review board on those proposals. We'll provide them data technology and financial support to get that research done. We're doing it with our own group and we're doing it collaboratively with our own kind of biopharma sponsor partners kind of as well. So for us right now, it's about confederating an ecosystem, it's about building it into the fabric about how research questions are framed, research is conducted, clinical trials are conducted, and then actually those insights put into clinical practice for the benefit of all those groups. And so, you know, it's even changing where we get our data from now. So it's, it's like an integral part of how of everything we do. Harry Glorikian: So you saw, I don't want to say an immediate benefit, fooking at it this way or bringing this on, but I mean, you must have seen within a short period of time, the benefit of, of, I don't want to say broadening the lens, but I can't think of a better way to frame it. Jeff Elton: We were surprised how quickly, whether it was academic groups or others, rallied around some of the concepts and the notions. And we were surprised how quickly we were able to make progress in some of our own research questions. And we were pleased and astonished, only in the best ways, that we saw industry and biomedical research, the whole biomedical community, attempting to integrate into their research and the questions that they asked actually different ways of approaching that.And in fact, it's probably one of the most heartening areas. You couldn't have legislated this as quickly as I believe leading industry biomedical innovators decided it was time to kind of change portions of the research model. And you made a, Harry, you made a statement earlier on that. It's not just about kind of us analyzing data. Sometimes bow you find that to broaden actual, say, clinical trial participation, I actually have to go to sites that historically didn't conduct clinical trials. I may need to have investigators that are trusted, because some of the populations we may want to interact with don't trust clinical research and have a long history about why they didn't trust clinical research.So you're changing a social paradigm. You're changing research locations and capacity and capability for that research. So we're now moving research capacity out into community settings in specific communities with this idea that we actually, we actually need to bring the infrastructure to the people and not assume again, that people want to kind of go to where the research historically was conducted because that wasn't working before, you know? Harry Glorikian: At some point, you turn the crank enough, you start to influence, you should be able to influence, you know, standard of care and all that stuff, because if you're missing data in different places, you've got to make sure that we fill these holes. Otherwise we're never going to be able to diagnose and then treat appropriately.Jeff Elton: Generate the evidence that supports actually doing that and do it on an accelerated basis, but also that it gets confidence for those decisions. Absolutely. That's part of our goal. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. So I want to jump back in time here and sort of go back to your your Healthcare Disrupted book. You know, I feel like, you know, we're on the same page because I think the message was, you know, pharma, devices, diagnostics, healthcare, they need to rethink their business model to respond to this digital transformation, you know, which is obviously something in my own heart. I've been sort of banging that drum for quite some time.In particular, you argued in the book that real-world data from EMRs, wearables, the Internet of Things could be combined to change how and where healthcare is delivered. Is there a way in which like Concert AI's mission reflects the message of your book? Can I make that leap?Jeff Elton: I appreciate the way you asked the question and I think if you said our principles and perspectives about that, we need to kind of focus on value and outcomes, and then we're going to be bringing insights, digital cloud, and a variety of other tools to underpin how we work and operate. Absolutely.And in fact, I think, you know, positively. I had a lot of engagement and did a lot of interviews, even as we were putting the book together, which took place over a couple of months ago, it was probably, you've done your own books. Whatever you think it's going to be, it's a lot longer. So I'll leave it at that. I have recovered from the process now, but I think we had a lot of engagement, whether it was with medical community, biopharma, leadership, community, et cetera. And I think that alignment is some of the alignment we have with our partners today. It's actually around some of the same principles.What I couldn't have predicted, in fact, I was a couple of years ago and this probably would have been towards the tail end of 2019, I was already starting to think about, okay, I've recovered from the first writing. How did I do? And what would I say now? And at the time I was beginning to say certain things seem to be taking shape slightly more slowly than I originally forecast, but then COVID-19 happened. And all of a sudden certain things that we kind of had thought about and kind of had put there actually accelerated. And in fact, I think, you know, out of adversity, you'd like to say we bring sources of strength we didn't know we would kind of be beneficiaries of. But out of that, you could argue this concept of say a decentralized trial activity.So we have, let me pick up, you know, I'm one company, but let me pick a parallel company that I have respect for, say, Medable as an example, and Michelle [Longmire] leads that company, it does a very nice job, but that's the idea. Everything could be done remotely. I can actually do a device cloud around the individual. I can do a data collection and run RCT-grade trial activity. Now that doesn't work super well in oncology, hematology, et cetera, where I'm, you know, I'm doing chemo infusion and I have to do very close surveillance, but that concept is an accelerated version and got broader adoption and actually was part of some of the COVID-19 kind of clinical studies and capability. And it's not going to revert back. So actually what happens is you find it has a level of efficiency, a level of effectiveness and a level of inclusiveness that wasn't available before, when it had to do facilities-based only. Now we ourselves now we're asked to accelerate, we bring technologies and integrate them into provider settings for doing retrospective analysis. But actually during that period, not only did we bring our clinical study design tools and use AI and ML for doing that, which led to, we've supported the restart of many oncology studies now, and actually the redesign of studies to be able to move into different settings that they never were in before.And actually now we're beginning to use some of our same approaches for running prospective studies, but from clinically only derived data sources. It's a very different paradigm about how you conduct clinical research. So when you think about this, there are unpredictable shocks, you know, which, you know, some of may have called Black Swan events or whatever you may ascribe to it, that actually are now consistent with everything we did. But actually accelerating it and in a weird way back on trajectory, if you will. But I think, yes, everything we're doing was informed by a lot of that seminal work and research and foundation about what worked in health system and didn't how are people being beneficiaries or not? How do we need to change how we do discovery translational clinical development? And we're very committed to doing that. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I mean, it's interesting cause you almost answer my next two questions. I'm really hoping it doesn't slide backwards. That's one of my biggest fears is, you know, people like to revert back to what they were used to.Jeff Elton: But you know, maybe to encourage you and me. So one of the things, if you take a, let's take a look at a teleconsult. So during COVID-19, HHS opened up and allowed as a coded event, doing a digital teleconsult for kind of digital medicine, telemedicine, and that was put into place on an emergency basis by HHS. And then before the outgoing HHS had that, it's now made permanent. And it's now part of the code that actually will continue to actually be a reimbursable event for clinicians. That was actually super important during COVID-19. What's not that well known is, not only did that allow people to be seen, but hospital systems were really financially distressed because most of their work was informed by kind of, you know, elective procedures and things of that nature. And that couldn't take place. But the teleconsult became a very important part of their even having economic viability, which you can't underestimate the importance of that during a pandemic. Right. So now that's part of how we're going to work. My personal view is, now that people are using digitally screening tools, they have decentralized trials, some of the solutions that we're putting into place, AI-based, bringing RWE as part of a regulatory submission, I don't see anything going back. And the work we're doing is if we can start putting 30 to 50% time and cost improvements and add more evidence around a decision, more robustly than we did before, that's not going backwards at all.Harry Glorikian: Good. That's that makes me. I'm hoping that we're all right, because we've been saying this and beating this drum for quite some time.It's interesting, right? Because I don't think I've gotten over the whole writing thing because I've got a new book coming out in the fall. So you know, I, I couldn't help myself. I hope, you know, we. We're able to give the listeners sort of a view of where this whole world is changing, how data's changing it.I mean, I've had the pleasure of talking to people about digital twins and that sort of data. And I believe that this, we're gonna be able to make predictions, as you say off this data almost proactively. It's interesting because I do talk to some people who are in the field that look at me strange when I say that, but after working with different forms of data in different places for so long, I can see how you can look at things predictively and sort of, you know, decide what's, you know, see what's going to happen almost before it happens for the most part, if you have a big enough data set. Jeff Elton: So we do a lot of prediction thing in the AI and ML world. And we predict, you can actually be relatively accurate on who's going to adhere and not adhere. You can begin to look at the biological response to being placed on a new therapy and understand whether that response is kind of in a direction that, that patient's going to remain on that therapy, or you need to discontinue to be placed on a new therapy.And you're right. And in fact, some of these features…well, the question, we use it from generating insights to design and hopefully improve outcomes, et cetera. That's a rapid process. I mean, I've seen things in the last three years in setting up Concert AI that would have taken me a decade to have seen in previous methods. But we're still not as fast and as effective as we can be.And the very fact that I can in my digital laboratory, if you will, create AI/ML to predict whether that patient is going to be discontinued or continue on to that course of therapy. Some of that needs to be brought into confidence tools that can start to inform parts of practice as well. They're not ready for that. They have to ascend to that. But when you look at these, some of these, whether it's coming in as software, as a medical device, sets and solutions to augment, are going to add a huge, huge amount of utility. And you're finding a lot of interest, even biomedical innovators are looking for predictive tools, too, complement their medicines.And you know, we're doing a couple of things that would be definitely considered in a more confidential area around doing that right now. And I have to tell you I've been so pleased and it's just for me, it's so, so catalyzing of our energy to be brought into this, to see people willing to reshape the paradigm about how they do things that actually will reshape how medicine's delivered and care provided too. Harry Glorikian: Oh yeah. I mean, look, ideally, right, I think every physician wants to give the patient the optimal therapy. Not pick the wrong one and have to redo it again. But, but I think a lot of these tools are also gonna lend themselves to adjudication.Jeff Elton: Absolutely. Harry Glorikian: Right? And that is a huge paradigm shift for everybody to wrap their head around. And I think we're going to get pushback from some people, but I can't see how you don't end up there at some point. You can see where it's going. You know, what's going to work, here's the drug. And if it doesn't work, here's the data to show [why] it didn't work.Jeff Elton: Well, and actually and Harry, to your point, right now you're thinking about how payers authorized the treatment that's proposed by our clinician for super expensive medicines. Right? But if I'm an oncology, I can tell you right now that claims data as a single data source can't tell you much about whether that patient responds, whether they're being treated according to NCCN ASCO guidelines or not. So you're wondering what's the basis of that. Whereas I can actually look at the data and I can understand how that patient presents and I can see what's actually the intended treatment. And you can immediately say that perfectly makes sense, given how everything's matched up and I can continue to kind of say what that response is it consistent with what I would have hoped for placed in that patient on that specific treatment. So to your point, this is going to change all sorts of things.Harry Glorikian: I love it when it changes on that level, it just makes me all happy inside. So, Jeff, it was great catching up with you. I hope when this pandemic is open, we can get together in person and you know, have a beer. Maybe we'll even bring Arshad because I think he's been working in this whole data area with a number of companies for a while now. Jeff Elton: Yeah. Would love it.Harry Glorikian: Excellent. Jeff Elton: All right. Harry Glorikian: Thank you.Jeff Elton: Thank you too.Harry Glorikian: That's it for this week's show. You can find past episodes of MoneyBall Medicine at my website, glorikian.com, under the tab “Podcast.” And you can follow me on Twitter at hglorikian.  Thanks for listening, and we'll be back soon with our next interview. 

If you've ever been inside the historic Chatterbox Jazz Club on Massachusetts Avenue downtown, you have a pretty good idea why it didn't reopen at 50% or even 75% capacity. It's so tiny, the restrictions would have meant only about 20 patrons could be inside at any given time. And owner David Andrichik said that's a recipe for losing more money than being closed completely.  But now that Marion County health officials have eliminated all pandemic restrictions, the Chatterbox is about to reopen for the first time in more than 15 months.  Andrichik talks with podcast Mason King about what it will take to reopen the bar, what the closure has cost him and what he's been thinking about while he's been waiting. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by First Person Advisors, a subsidiary of NFP.  

Artifact Cider Project Soham Bahatt and Jake Mazar co-founded Artifact Cider Project in 2014. The cidery was originally located in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, then moved out towards Boston and eventually back to western Massachusetts. Today, Artifact has two locations, a Tasting Room and production facility in Florence and one in Cambridge.  Soham Bahatt at Artifact Tasting Room and cidery in Florence, Massachusetts 1. What kind of scale are we looking at [for the size of a cidery]? 2. What are our goals? Artifact's Plan to Become a 100 year old Company Soham looks at the question of  "What does it take to grow a 100 year company?" Make sure the cider is good Make sure we are listening to our customers Don't out grow our suppliers Artifact Equipment Tips  Baseline equipment and strategy tips for a small scale cidery start up Focus on sourcing your raw material, which for a cidery is apples Equipment IBC tanks are used widely in the industry for start ups and ongoing ferments Tri clamps - don't cheap out on quality Decent pump - all makers in this series stress the need to have a quality pump Bottle by hand. Canning can come in later as it takes a bit of capital to get this jump started Don't worry about a filter - use the luxury of time and let the cider settle to gain clarity Equipment that Soham doesn’t like? Filter - plate and frame is a pain in the butt Artifact used a lenticular filter for a while and now has a Cross Flow Filter Contact Artifact Cider Project Website: https://www.artifactcider.com/ciders 2 Locations The Cellar in Florence 34 N. Maple Street, Suite 15, Florence, Massachusetts 01062 (617) 544-3494 The Station x Central Square 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (617) 714-4076 Mentions in this Chat Fermentis by Lesaffre -This week's Q&A with Kevin Lane from Fermentis: Q: Can I use a "beer yeast" or "wine yeast" in my cider? Ria's CiderCon2021 Notes from the Virtual Conference 2021CiderCon | Day 1 2021CiderCon Day 2 Notes 2021CiderCon Day 3 Help Support Cider Chat Please donate today. Help keep the chat thriving! Find this episode and all episodes at the page for Cider Chat's podcasts. Listen also at iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher (for Android), iHeartRadio , Spotify and wherever you love to listen to podcasts. Follow on Cider Chat's blog, social media and podcast Twitter @ciderchat Instagram: @ciderchatciderville Cider Chat FaceBook Page Cider Chat YouTube

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Mornings on the Mall 06.12.20 Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese Guests: WaPo's Dana Hedgpeth, Tom Fitton, Julio Rosas in Seattle and Bret Baier 5-A WORRY TROLLING OF SECOND WAVE OF CORONAVIRUS: Two hairstylists who had coronavirus saw 140 clients. No new infections have been linked to the salon, officials say No cases of coronavirus have been linked to two Missouri hairstylists who saw 140 clients last month while symptomatic, county health officials said.  Both stylists worked at the same Great Clips location in Springfield. The clients and the stylists all wore face coverings, and the salon had set up other measures such as social distancing of chairs and staggered appointments, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department said this week. Of the 140 clients and seven co-workers potentially exposed, 46 took tests that came back negative. All the others were quarantined for the duration of the coronavirus incubation period. The 14-day incubation period has now passed with no coronavirus cases linked to the salon beyond the two stylists, county health officials said. During the quarantine, those who did not get tested got a call twice a day from health officials asking whether they had symptoms related to Covid-19, said Kathryn Wall, a spokeswoman for the Springfield-Green County Health Department. "This is exciting news about the value of masking to prevent Covid-19," said Clay Goddard, the county's director of health. DOJ BRINGS HAMMER DOWN ON MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD... KERRI KUPEC: NEW: DOJ Letter “During a crisis it is important for people of faith to be able to exercise their religion. Montgomery County has shown no good reason for not trusting congregants who promise to use care in worship the same way it trusts political protesters to do the same.” (LETTER) 5-D --  JUDICIAL WATCH ASKS BOWSER TO PAINT MESSAGE ON DC STREET Judicial Watch Asks DC Mayor for Permission to Paint ‘Because No One is Above Law!’ on Capitol Hill Street Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has asked Mayor Muriel Bowser for permission to paint its own message on Washington, D.C., streets, after the mayor allowed “Black Lives Matter” to be painted on a road leading to the White House before “Defund The Police” was added by protesters. Judicial Watch asked Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine for permission to paint “Because No One is Above the Law!” on a Capitol Hill street. “Mayor Bowser made a decision to turn D.C. streets into a forum for public expression. Judicial Watch seeks equal access to use this new forum to educate Americans by painting our organization’s motto and motivation, ‘Because No One Is Above the Law!,’ on a Capitol Hill street,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. The conservative group said it is prepared to sue, if their request is denied, on the basis of “viewpoint discrimination.” “This rule of law message is timely, as it is a reminder that rule of law applies to – and protects – all Americans," Fitton said. "If we are unlawfully denied access and face viewpoint discrimination, we are prepared to go to court to vindicate our First Amendment rights.” D.C.’s liberal mayor had "Black Lives Matter" painted in bright yellow letters on the street that runs into the White House amid the ongoing protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. Floyd died in police custody on May 25 after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 8 minutes. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-group-asks-dc-mayor-for-permission-to-paint-their-own-message-on-street 5-E - STARBUCKS BANS EMPLOYEES FROM WEARING BLM TAGGED CLOTHING According to an internal bulletin obtained by BuzzFeed News, store managers had been contacting senior leadership on behalf of employees who wanted to wear BLM-related attire as protests continued to sweep major cities and small towns across the country. In response, management, according to the memo from last week, argued that wearing clothing and accessories highlighting Black Lives Matter could be misunderstood and potentially incite violence. The bulletin pointed employees to a video, which has now been removed, in which its VP of inclusion and diversity explained that "agitators who misconstrue the fundamental principles" of the movement and could use them to "amplify divisiveness." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/starbucks-is-now-very-pro-black-lives-matter-but-it-wont?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc 6-A -- MILLEY APOLOGIZES: Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley says it was 'mistake' to appear with Trump in Lafayette Square Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Thursday expressed regret for accompanying President Trump during a photo-op last week at Lafayette Square amid protests, calling the decision “a mistake” – in the latest sign of friction between the White House and the military over the response to racial unrest. Milley made the remarks during a remote video speech to graduates at National Defense University, advising young officers to “always maintain a keen sense of situational awareness.” “As senior leaders, everything you do will be closely watched,” he said. “And I am not immune. “As many of you saw, the result of the photograph of me at Lafayette Square last week. That sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society,” Milley continued. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” He added: “As a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that I have learned from, and I sincerely hope we all can learn from it.” Thursday was the first time Milley addressed the visit to Lafayette Square since the incident earlier this month. Milley did not address the issue of renaming the 10 U.S. Army bases named after Confederate generals – after President Trump made clear a day earlier he would not support such a discussion – but acknowledged the U.S. military’s “mixed record on equality.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joint-chiefs-chairman-milley-says-it-was-mistake-to-appear-with-trump-in-lafayette-square 6-B/C -- BIDEN NEWS: NYT: Biden says Floyd’s death is having a bigger impact than the King assassination Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Thursday that the killing of George Floyd in police custody had a larger effect globally than the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. "Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Mr. Biden said at a roundtable event in Philadelphia. Mr. Biden noted that “television changed the civil rights movement for the better,” and added that the prevalence of cellphones today had “changed the way everybody’s looking at this.” 'Uh With Uh I Don't Know:' Joe Biden Appears To Lose Train Of Thought During Coronavirus Roundtable Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to lose his train of thought Thursday, during a coronavirus roundtable discussion hosted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign. The roundtable was organized to discuss safety measures as most of the U.S. reopens for business. “You know the rapidly rising umm uh in with uh with I uh don’t know,” Biden said at one point during the event. 6-D -- INTERVIEW - DANA HEDGPETH - WASHINGTON POST - discussed the DC area loosening restrictions around the DC area today and Monday. MARYLAND - MD GOVERNOR HOGAN LOOSENING RESTRICTIONS TODAY, MOCO LIKELY TO REOPEN NEXT WEEK:  Hogan announces wave of reopenings, including day cares and gyms, as region lifts more restrictions in Maryland. Montgomery County plans to move to Phase 2 of reopening next week.  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced Wednesday that the state’s day cares, gyms, malls, school buildings, casinos and amusement parks can reopen within the next 10 days — an extension of its Phase 2 reopening. Restaurants will be able to offer indoor dining with 50 percent capacity. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D) said Wednesday that the state’s largest jurisdiction will probably enter its next phase of reopening next week — a timeline he said was “in the same ballpark” as the District and Prince George’s County, neither of which has made an announcement — but Elrich did not provide a date. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/montgomery-maryland-virginia-coronavirus-phase-2/2020/06/10/968a2440-ab06-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html - PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY REOPENING ON MONDAY: Prince George’s County will enter next phase of coronavirus recovery on Monday, loosening more restrictions. Indoor restaurant dining and retail store operation will be allowed in Prince George’s, both at 50 percent capacity.  Maryland’s Prince George’s County announced Thursday it is moving toward its next phase of reopening, part of a collective shift toward looser pandemic restrictions in the Washington region that some health experts warn may be happening too quickly. Prince George’s County executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) said declining rates in new covid-19 deaths, hospitalizations and coronavirus infections support moving to a second phase of reopening Monday — when, among other things, restaurants can offer dine-in service and swimming pools can open, both with social distancing restrictions Prince George’s officials said the second phase of reopening will mean restaurants can offer dine-in service and retail stores can stop limiting operations only to curbside service, provided those businesses limit customers to 50 percent of capacity. Outdoor pools — both public and private — can open at 25 percent capacity, but indoor pools will remain closed, officials said. Parks can reopen and youth sports teams will be able to begin practicing in groups of 10 or less. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-maryland-prince-georges-virginia-dc-phase-2/2020/06/11/0b88bd34-abe7-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html NORTHERN VIRGINIA REOPENING  - Northern Virginia to ease coronavirus restrictions Friday; Northern Virginia and Richmond will move to the next phase of shutdown recovery starting Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced, as data shows the novel coronavirus appears to be slowing its spread across the region. The looser restrictions include opening restaurants for indoor dining at half capacity and allowing gyms and fitness centers to reopen indoors at 30 percent capacity. Most of Virginia entered Phase 2 earlier this month, but Northern Virginia and Richmond were granted delays because they had been hit harder by the pandemic. In addition, Northam (D) said Virginia students will return to school in the fall if the state continues to limit the spread of the virus. Phase 2 of the education reopening plan allows for in-person teaching for prekindergarten through third-grade students, students with disabilities and students who are not fluent in English. Strict social distancing protocols must be enforced; on school buses, just one child may be assigned to each seat, Northam said. School assemblies and other large gatherings are limited to 50 people; school clubs and extracurricular activities may be reinstated as long as students follow social distancing guidelines. Student-athletes are permitted to resume practices, so long as they keep 10 feet away from one another and disinfect shared equipment, such as helmets and uniforms, between uses. Northam sounded confident the state will be in Phase 3 in time for school to open, but officials said that will depend on current favorable trends continuing. Local schools may impose tighter restrictions if they need to. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-to-ease-coronavirus-restrictions-friday/2020/06/09/95033ee4-aa58-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html 6-E -- HOLLYWOOD GETS PREACHY Sarah Paulson, Kristen Bell, Aaron Paul and other white celebrities are slammed for 'tone deaf' I Take Responsibility PSA video that smacks of 'white guilt' By BRIAN GALLAGHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Three months after Gal Gadot and other celebs caught backlash for their video singing Imagine, another group of white celebs are facing backlash for another PSA. Confluential Content, a production company that produces OWN's Black Love and Sony's The Perfect Guy, teamed up with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a video called I Take Responsibility. The two-minute video features white celebs such as Sarah Paulson, Aaron Paul, Aly Raisman, Ilana Glazer, Stanley Tucci and many more taking responsibility for perpetuating racism in their lives, vowing to take action, which has drawn backlash from many on social media. The black and white video begins with Sarah Paulson saying 'I take responsibility,' followed by Aaron Paul and Kesha. Bethany Joy Lenz added that she takes responsibility, 'for every unchecked moment,' while Kristen Bell added she is responsible, 'for every time it was easier to ignore it than to call it out for what it was.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8412825/Sarah-Paulson-Aaron-Paul-team-NAACP-Responsibility-PSA-video.html 6-F -- IT’S OFFICIAL: GOP CONVENTION IN JACKSONVILLE RONNA MCDANIEL: We are thrilled to hold @realDonaldTrump's acceptance of the Republican nomination in the great city of Jacksonville! Not only is Florida his home state, it is crucial to victory. We look forward to bringing this great celebration and economic boon to the Sunshine State! Republicans pick Jacksonville, Florida, as convention site for Trump to accept nomination The move to the crucial battleground state comes after the committee was at loggerheads with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, whose was reluctant to ease COVID-19 restrictions. The Republican National Committee announced Thursday that it had selected Jacksonville, Florida, as the site where President Donald Trump will accept the party's nomination after bailing on Charlotte, North Carolina, over coronavirus restrictions. "We are thrilled to celebrate this momentous occasion in the great city of Jacksonville," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. "Not only does Florida hold a special place in President Trump's heart as his home state, but it is crucial in the path to victory in 2020. We look forward to bringing this great celebration and economic boon to the Sunshine State in just a few short months." The move to Florida, a crucial battleground state, comes after the committee was at loggerheads with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, whose was reluctant to ease COVID-19 restrictions.  The convention is scheduled for the week of Aug. 24; Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. There is still a plan to hold all convention business in Charlotte because of contractual obligations between the city and Republican National Committee. Jacksonville is one of the largest cities in the U.S. to be led by a Republican mayor, Lenny Curry, the former head of the state's Republican Party and an ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has eased restrictions in the state. DeSantis said in a statement that he was "honored" to host the convention. Curry called it "a huge win" for the city. Others have also noted that despite nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, Trump's acceptance speech, which traditionally occurs on the final day of the convention, falls on the 60th anniversary of one of Jacksonville's most horrific events during the civil rights movement — Ax Handle Saturday. Sixty years ago, several members of the NAACP's youth council participated in a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter and were later chased through the streets of downtown Jacksonville by a mob of 200 white people, who attacked them with ax handles and baseball bats. Trump's campaign and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/rnc-picks-jacksonville-florida-convention-site-trump-accept-gop-nomination-n1230326 7-A -- SEATTLE: Trump tells Fox News he won't 'let Seattle be occupied by anarchists' President Trump told Fox News' Harris Faulkner in an exclusive interview Thursday that his administration is "not going to let Seattle be occupied by anarchists." https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-seattle-occupied-anarchists-straighten-it-out 'I'M ANGRY'... Seattle Police Chief Says Abandoning Precinct ‘Was Not My Decision’ Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, in a Thursday address, told officers that it was not her decision to abandon the East Police Precinct located in what protesters are now calling the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” The “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” formed after the Seattle Police Department evacuated the East Precinct Monday giving way for protesters to set up barricades, and signs near the Zone’s entrance that read, “You are now leaving the USA.” After days of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Seattle police boarded up and left the East Precinct building Monday night – and then a crowd of protesters set up barricades in the surrounding area, declaring it an “autonomous” and “cop-free zone.” Images of the barricades show hand-written messages including “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and “You are now leaving the USA.” “You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision,” Best said in the address. “You fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stand on that line. Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community.” “Ultimately the city had other plans for the building and relented to public pressure. I’m angry about how this all came about.” WARLORD PATROLS CHAZ... “We are the police of this community now!” ... “We got to the point where addressing the point physically was the best way to get our point across.” ... The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Has Already Had Its First Incident Of Self-Appointed-Police Violence (VIDEO) The denizens of this new experiment in police-free living were probably envisioning a utopia full of peace and community love. Instead they got a new self-appointed police force led by a rapper named Raz Simone. Early this morning someone posted a video clip to Reddit which shows Simone and a group of people confronting a graffiti artist. Things escalate and eventually the tagger is assaulted by someone in the group and has his phone taken away. [...] tl;dw: Man was tagging over someone else’s art, Raz and group approach and separate him from crowd, chasing him for two blocks. He begins to film them with his phone, they take it from him. He tries to get it back and they attack him, kicking him in the head and breaking his glasses. At one point, Raz threatens to shoot the man. They then begin to gaslight him that it was all his fault. Audio only for most of the end, because woman in Raz’ crew filming puts the phone in her pocket while the stream continues. TUCKER: ‘Not a Big Deal, a Brand-New Nation Within Our Own Borders’ (VIDEO) “[S]o CHAZ is a nation without leaders. It is a flat system. It is anarchy. How long can it continue? Probably not very long. Anarchy isn’t built to last. In the end, the strong always dominate the week. And, in fact, it’s already happening. It took barely a day for the nation to get its first warlord, and it was quite a promotion for him. Just a week ago, Raz Simone was an up-and-coming rapper. He was also a super host for Airbnb. Now, he has a monarch. In videos taken within CHAZ, Simone is seen patrolling the area with his allies. They have guns. They’re declaring ‘we’re the police now.’ In one clip, the monarch’s men assault a citizen of CHAZ for spray painting graffiti inside the zone. Just like the mafia, CHAZ doesn’t put up with nonsense like that in their own neighborhood.” ‘Closest I’ve Seen To Our Country Becoming A Lawless State’: Seattle Police Union President Rips Mayor’s Defense Of CHAZ (VIDEO) Solan wondered whether the surrender of one police facility would eventually mean others, including the precinct “which houses the 911 call center,” which would stop all police service in the city. “So where is the reasonableness here?” he asked. “Where is the safety of the reasonable community of the city of Seattle? To me, that is absolutely appalling, and I am embarrassed being a Seattle resident to even talk about this.” Reacting to the defund the police movement, the police union chief noted that success in this area would mean lack of much-needed training, which would eventually mean a decline in the “quality” of “police service.” After Carlson played a clip of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan describing the protesters as engaging in “patriotism” rather than “terrorism,” Solan said officer morale “is the lowest I have ever seen in my career.” No Police, Extortion Of Private Businesses: Inside The Latest On Seattle’s Downtown ‘Autonomous Zone’ Seattle police say they are not responding to calls for assistance while armed protesters operate checkpoints and have declared a portion of the city as “cop-free” and an “autonomous zone.” The area is called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) by the forces who have occupied it, KOMO News reported Thursday morning. Antifa-affiliated groups and armed members of the far-left John Brown Gun Club seized control of the neighborhood, according to the City-Journal, which also reports that they set up barricades with a cardboard sign declaring “you are now leaving the USA.” President Donald Trump has called the activists “domestic terrorists” and has urged Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to deal with the problem in her backyard,  Durkan told Trump Thursday to “to go back to your bunker.” Trump urged both the Washington governor and mayor to “take back your city NOW.” 7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - TOM FITTON - President, Judicial Watch Judicial Watch Asks DC Mayor for Permission to Paint ‘Because No One is Above Law!’ on Capitol Hill Street Seeks Equal Access to New Free Speech Forum After DC Government Authorized Painting of Political Slogan on DC Street (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it has formally asked District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Attorney General Karl Racine for permission to paint “Because No One is Above the Law!” on a Capitol Hill street (Independence Ave, SW between 2nd and 4th Streets SW). The Judicial Watch message would be the identical size and coloring of the DC Government’s “Black Lives Matter” political message on 16th Street NW. On June 5, 2020, after days of protests and riots in Washington, DC, Mayor Bowser authorized the painting of “Black Lives Matter” on 16th Street NW, and later allowed “Defund the Police” to be painted alongside it. “Mayor Bowser made a decision to turn DC streets into a forum for public expression. Judicial Watch seeks equal access to use this new forum to educate Americans by painting our organization’s motto and motivation, ‘Because No One Is Above the Law!,’ on a Capitol Hill street,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This rule of law message is timely, as it a reminder that rule of law applies to – and protects – all Americans. If we are unlawfully denied access and face viewpoint discrimination, we are prepared to go to court to vindicate our First Amendment rights.” 7-E -- POLICE GET CALLED ON MARYLAND FAMILY FOR STUDENT HAVING A BB GUN IN THE BACKGROUND OF HIS ONLINE CLASSROOM VIDEO: 'I felt violated': Police search Maryland house over BB gun in virtual class BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) – A Baltimore County family is warning other parents after they say police were called to their house over something that happened during a virtual school lesson. The incident is raising concerns over privacy and safety in the era of online learning. As a Navy veteran with four years of active duty, Courtney Lancaster has extensive knowledge of guns, how to use them and how to store them. Her 11-year-old son, who owns BB guns, is a boy scout in fifth grade at Seneca Elementary School. “He's just a very intellectual child, but he's all boy as well. He loves to be outside and play and ride his bikes and that sort of thing,” Courtney told Project Baltimore. In his pursuit of becoming an Eagle Scout, Courtney says her son has learned how to shoot a BB gun and an airsoft gun. He’s also taken three levels of archery lessons. His mother says he stores his bow and guns on this wall in his bedroom. It’s never been a problem until June 1, when police pulled up outside her house. Courtney says she was home with her son who’s been doing virtual learning since schools shut down in March. “So, I answered the door. The police officer was, he was very nice. He explained to me that he was coming to address an issue with my son's school,” Courtney told Project Baltimore. “And then explained to me that he was here to search for weapons, in my home. And I consented to let him in. And then I, unfortunately, stood there and watched police officers enter my 11-year-old son's bedroom.” Courtney was told someone had seen the guns in her son’s bedroom during a Google Meet class on his laptop. “I thought, this is outrageous. This is despicable,” she said. “I had no idea what in the world could this be over? BB guns never even once entered my mind. How many 11-year-old boys have BB guns?” According to emails Courtney later exchanged with a school administrator, a screenshot was taken during the online class. The principal of Seneca Elementary was notified. Courtney says she was told the school safety officer then called police. “I felt violated as a parent, for my child, who's standing there with police officers in his room, just to see the fear on his face,” she said. Courtney says the police officers were in her home for about 20 minutes and found no violations. No laws were broken and no dangers present. They left without any further action, but Courtney wasn’t done. Since that day, she has written school administrators, the superintendent and the school board, demanding answers. She says the principal initially compared bringing a weapon to a virtual class to bringing a gun to school. She was also told she could not see the screenshot of her son’s bedroom, because it’s not part of his student record. “It's absolutely scary to think about,” Courtney said. “Who are on these calls? Who do we have viewing your children and subsequently taking these screenshots that can be sent anywhere or used for any purpose?” Project Baltimore reached out to Baltimore County Schools requesting an interview. We received this statement, “Our longstanding policy is to not debate individual circumstances through the media. There are multiple ways for families to share concerns with us. In general terms, the safety of students and staff is our chief concern, whether we are meeting in classrooms or via continuity of learning.” Courtney says she understands the safety concerns, but no one called her first before involving police. “There's no more trust. There have just been a series of lies and just no cooperation,” she said. Now, she worries about the future of virtual learning without clear policies in place. “So, what are the parameters? Where are the lines drawn? If my son is sitting at the kitchen island next to a butcher block, does that constitute a weapon? It's not allowed at school, right? So, would my home then be searched because he's sitting next to a butcher block,” Courtney said. “I feel like parents need to be made aware of what the implications are, what the expectations are.” https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/i-felt-violated-police-search-maryland-house-over-bb-gun-in-virtual-class 8-A -- CRAZY PROTESTERS Glass Found In Pizza Delivered To South Carolina National Guard Soldiers While They Were Protecting DC... Two National Guard soldiers found pieces of glass baked into a pizza they had ordered to their Washington D.C. hotel, the Post and Courier reported.  A Department of Defense report said that the South Carolina National Guard soldiers ordered pizza to the Marriott Marquis Hotel in D.C. while they were deployed to assist police in handling the George Floyd protests, according to the Post and Courier. The soldiers used UberEats to order the food from an unnamed restaurant. They noticed the shards of glass in the cheese and dough before they started eating, the Post and Courier reported. BOSTON GLOBE: Berklee College of Music says it is “deeply sorry” for allowing Boston police officers to use the school’s restrooms Berklee College of Music says it is “deeply sorry” for allowing Boston police officers to use the school’s restrooms, following the downtown protests on May 31 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. And the school says it will not happen again. In a joint statement Wednesday night, Berklee President Roger Brown, chief financial officer Mac Hisey, and public safety chief David Ransom said the college had heard expressions of anger and betrayal from their community, after giving Boston police officers, who were staged at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street, access to the Back Bay school’s restrooms. “Boston Police of course have jurisdiction over the roads and other public spaces around our campus, but not inside our buildings,” Berklee officials said. (Like many colleges, Berklee has its own public safety department.) “The decision to allow them into our facilities was ours,” the statement continued. “This was not a formal decision by the institution, but an informal one, made on the spot.” 8-B/C -- INTERVIEW - JULIO ROSAS - TOWNHALL.com - IN SEATTLE TOPIC: Describes The Scene From The “Autonomous Zone” In Seattle The recently dubbed 'Autonomous Zone' is a section of a Seattle neighborhood where police officers have effectively abandoned the area due to violent clashes with demonstrators calling to 'Defund the Police'. Protesters have taken control of the area spanning six blocks.  - Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11: My latest report from the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone“: Things are getting dangerous for people who are accused of wrongdoing. In one instance, an accused thief was surrounded by a crowd and interrogated, with one person brandishing a bat in his face.  https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1271166157412634624 - Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11: Jun 11: Protesters called the fire department about the dumpster fire. https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1270968437179740160 Cracks Are Starting to Appear at Seattle's 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' By Julio Rosas| @Julio_Rosas11|Posted: Jun 11, 2020 3:35 PM Seattle, Wash. — In a shock to no one, days after Seattle's government gave the area around the city's East Precinct to protesters following days of unrest, there are tensions within the loose coalition of people occupying the area and evidence they still are relying on city's services to help the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone." While the zone has been relatively peaceful, it took less than 48 hours for an armed local, a rapper by the name of Raz Simone, to start "policing" the area with firearms. This led to a tense confrontation with a tagger that resulted in an alleged assault of a streamer who recorded the interaction. The problems have not stopped there. In addition to still utilizing the city's power, water, and porta-potties, the occupiers called the Seattle Fire Department after a dumpster fire was started just outside the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" as it threatened to set a nearby building on fire. Without the presence of police in the area, things can be dangerous for people accused of wrongdoing. In one instance, a young man was accused of stealing a phone from another protester. A crowd quickly surrounded him and tried to interrogate him, with one individual brandishing a baseball bat in the man's face. The accused thief was clearly frightened and explained he did not steal anything, to which the crowd asked why did he run away. The situation was resolved after it was discovered the phone was never stolen, but it only came after the man was able to once again run away from the crowd. President Trump has tweeted that if the city of Seattle or Washington state refuses to get the situation under control in the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," then the federal government will have to step in. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/06/11/cracks-appear-capitol-hill-zone-n2570461 8-D -- 8:35 AM - INTERVIEW - BRET BAIER - Anchor of "Special Report" on Fox News Channel weekdays at 6 pm and author of the latest book "Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II" TOPIC: News of the day 8-E -- CONFEDERATE STATUES AND MONUMENTS DEBATE IN VIRGINIA AND CONGRESS: - Citing dangers to protesters, Northam urges them to stop pulling down monuments  At least three Confederate statues have been taken down by protesters in Virginia since demonstrations began in late May, and with at least one person getting severely injured in the process, Gov. Ralph Northam urged protesters to be safe and let the local governments handle the monuments’ removal instead. “I know these statues are causing a lot of pain, but pulling them down is not worth risking someone’s life,” Northam said at a press conference in Richmond. On Wednesday night in Portsmouth, protesters began by throwing paint and tagging graffiti onto the statue honoring the Confederate dead. Gradually, they began beheading the four figures, hitting them with tools and removing a rifle and sword from their arms. One of the figures was pulled down using a tow rope and fell onto Chris Green, who was standing underneath it. Green was taken to the hospital, where he is being treated for life-threatening injuries, according to the Virginia State Police. Also on Wednesday, protesters in Richmond took down the statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, on Monument Avenue, the Washington Post reported. The statue was towed away by a truck a little before midnight. https://www.pilotonline.com/government/virginia/vp-nw-northam-confederate-statues-protests-20200611-vp2beakov5ai7okndnesbchzz4-story.html - Man injured when Portsmouth Confederate statue fell on him is fighting for his life.  Gov. Northam encourages protesters to let statues be removed 'the right way'  Chris Green, who had been trying to get people out of the way when one of the four Confederate statues on the monument in Portsmouth fell on him Wednesday night, is in stable condition, according to state police. Green, 45, was with hundreds of others who rallied around the statues Wednesday after the City Council put off taking action on removing the monument in a meeting earlier that night. Demonstrators beheaded the four statues and pulled one down with a tow rope. When the statue came down, Green was under it.He remains hospitalized in stable condition, Sgt. Michelle Anaya, spokeswoman for Virginia State Police, said Thursday night. Portsmouth Police asked state police to investigate the man’s injuries. Whether any charges are filed from the incident would be determined by the commonwealth’s attorney, Anaya said. Green lost consciousness after his head was cut open. Protesters first took a knee and then began to disperse as Green was taken to the hospital. https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-man-injured-20200611-3mp5z4smffanni7qr4dxkpja34-story.html   ============================================================ Mornings on the Mall Podcast - 2020-6-12 [00:00:00] 5:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [01:00:16] 6:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [02:00:27] 7:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [03:00:38] 8:00 am - Mornings on the Mall

Five men were shot, one fatally, at a residential complex on Ames Street. Around the same time, one person was shot and another stabbed on Massachusetts Avenue. WBZ NewsRadio's James Rojas reports.

Five men were shot, one fatally, at a residential complex on Ames Street. Around the same time, one person was shot and another stabbed on Massachusetts Avenue. WBZ NewsRadio's James Rojas reports.

"You know where I was on VE Day? I was in Washington DC. The streets were so crowded the buses couldn't run" Rather than listen to us talk about WWII, we interview three people about their experiences in the war.Ann Fuqua, who worked at the Navy Department in DCMona McNeese, whose husband was a Japanese POWWaldo Beck, a Marine pilot stateside on VE Day waiting for orders to the Pacific. These interviews were recorded on Zoom and flip phones, so the quality isn't always the best. We've included the transcript below.Support Tour Guide Tell All on our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall or follow us on twitter @tourguidetellComments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.comYou're Listening To: Becca GrawlAmateur Sound Editing: Canden ArciniegaTranscriptions: Rebecca FachnerIntro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HeroINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS:Rebecca Grawl (RG): But I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions about WW2, what you remember, what it was like and if you remember VE Day, which was May 8?Ann Fuqua (AF): You know where I was on VE Day?RG: Where?AF: I was in the city of Washington, DC, the streets were so full of people the buses could not run.RG: wowAF: I watched a big bottle of alcohol of some kind start way down the street and passed it hand by hand down the street til it was all cold.RG: What were you doing in DC?AF: I worked there for the Navy Department.RG: Oh wow, what did you do there, can I ask?AF: uhh, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but the funny thing about it is that, uhh, when we went there to work, they told us, the people that we worked with, we never talked about that, we never talked about what we did, it all stayed inside that building and you know, I think that’s what happened, we didn’t have people checking us out or anything, we just did it.RG: Well of course, during war time, you had to keep everything hush hushAF: yeah yeahRG: What was it like living in DC during the War?AF: well, I like all the museums of course, we made it a point every weekend we spent it somewhere in a museum, but when we went out to the museum, but when we went out to the museum, it was all full of servicemen from everywhere. At the end of the day, we had to go to the museums together, and they’d buy their lunch, we’d buy our lunch and when the day was over, they went their way and we went ours. It was different.RG: There were a lot of service members kind of coming through DC on their way to and from?AF: Oh yeah. Well, you see, they had a big marine base there, they also had a big navy base there, and so we saw a lot of them. Some of them had already been overseas in action, and some of them, MOST of them had already been and had come back to Washington for some reason, I don’t know what.RG: DO you remember things like; was there a lot of rationing in DC, where you had to ration food and supplies?AF: Yes, we did. The navy department found us a place to live when they hired us, they told us they’d find us a place to live. And we lived with, it was a grandmother, a daughter and her daughter. Three generations in the house but yet they found room to rent a room to us.  We hadn’t been there long and the grandmother approached me one day and she says “ Girls, I know you’re not eating your supper” right, and she says “If you will write home and get your ration books I’ll cook your meal at nighttime for 25 cents.” So course, we wrote home and got em mother didn’t need em and she was so proud, we could not have give (given) her a gift of any kind that was as good as our ration books. And she did cook, she was a great cook, yeah. So that was the only way it bothered us, we didn’t need gas, we didn’t need anything. She got our ration cards and we enjoyed it.RG: Where we you from originally?AF: (unintelligible), Mississippi RG: Oh excellent.  So was it a big change, moving to the city of DC?AF:  (Laughs) oh yeah, the furthest I’d been away from home was about a hundred miles away to Memphis and that was it.  We rode up on a Pullman train and spent the night on the train and it was the first time I had ever seen the link sausage, that was the first time.  They served them to us for breakfast, and oh I thought that was the best thing that I had ever had. Yeah, it was greenhorns going up there.  Another one of my classmates went the same time as I did, and both of us was just as green as grass.  We didn’t know anything, but we learned. RG: If there was one thing you wanted young people today to know about WW2 or understand about that time in our country, what would you want them to know or to remember?AF: Well, see I was in high school and we had a lot of men that was drafted out of high school, cuz when they turned 18, you know they could draft them.  And I think what sticks with me now is they took those kids that had been just like me, just here, and that’s all, and they left here as boys, you might say but then when they came home they were men after they had fought through all of that. So I think that was about the biggest thing. And I don’t know as it really hit me til after it was all over. But that was kinda sad, it just took their youth away from them.RG: That’s really interesting.  Is there anything else you want to tell me about the war, about your experience during that time?AF: I think one of the things that hit me the hardest, was when they opened up the concentration camps in Germany that they made pictures and they put them on boards almost as big as plywood, blew em up big, and set them at a lot of the entrances.  They had them there at the Navy Department as we went in, that was sad. Now, I mean, with all the bombings and everything else, that was one of the saddest things that I saw. It was awful and of course they were blown up, they were bigger than what they really were but it was awful.RG: I find it interesting that they actually had them for you guys to see at the Navy Department so that people would know of the atrocities and would know what had happened.AF: They did. They even had the one, you know the Japanese had the little plane that one person, it was a bomb really, and one person sat in that plane and when he dove his plane into a ship, he went too, it was suicide, I think maybe they called them suicide bombers.  They got one and they parked it in front of the Navy Department, and there his shoes was, down on the floor and they were made out of steel or something, and they were bolted to the floor, so they meant for them to stay with it.  It was, it was a pretty big thing.RG: Well, I really do appreciate you taking the time to share a little big about your experience, I’m a tour guide here in DC and we are preparing some videos and some information to share online with some of the students that can’t come to DC that would normally come this time of year to go to the WW2 and the Holocaust museum and those thingsAF: Well there is one other thing, while I was up there, I worked on Massachusetts Avenue, you know it was Embassy Row. I worked in Lars Andersson’s mansion, which now is a museum, but they had everything taken out of it.  I was the receptionist and none of the statues and none of that was there. But I worked there for a long time while I was there, and my grandson went back later, he lives up there now, and they were having a tour, so he got there one day just in time as they were having a tour group go through and so as the guide was talking about, and he told them, he said you know, my grandmother worked here during World War 2 and she says in all the years that I have been a tour guide, you are the first person that knew anybody that worked in this building, and of course now they’ve got it fixed up, the tapestries and all that in there.RG: Yes, I sometimes take groups along Embassy Row and I’ve seen that building and its hard to image it as an office or a work site, but I know during World War 2 that was very common, a lot of these buildings were converted into government.AF: It was a beautiful building, you went out back and there was a big garden out there in the back, you know, we used to went out there and ate our lunch every day.RG: Not a bad place to go to workAF: (Laughs) It wasn’t much work to it, I just answered the phone and checked everybody that came in. But that was quite an experience.  Well, its been a pleasure to talk to you.RG: Miss Ann, it has been so nice to speak to you, I so appreciate you sharing your experiences.  You know this year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the war and there was supposed to be a lot of celebrations to honor all those men who served and of course with the virus we can’t do that, so you being willing to talk online let me record you, I really appreciate that.  I’ll email Gloria anything we use that includes what we talked about.AF: Ok, well I tell you what it was quite an experience.  It was quite an experience.  But I wouldn’t take anything apart, but I just don’t want people to forget what those men went through during World War 2. You take now, they can get on computer and see em and hear from them all time, if we heard from them twice a month we were lucky.  All we knew is if they had a new york address they were in Europe, if they had a California address they were in the South Pacific and that’s all we knew.  We just didn’t know very much. RG: A very important time.  Well, thank you so much Miss Ann, please stay safe, please thank Rhonda for setting up the call for me.AF: I sure will, cuz I don’t know a thing about this kinda stuff. RG: Well thank you so much, you stay safe! AF: ok, bye! -----SECOND INTERVIEW WITH MONA MCNEESE---- RG: Hi, So I’m Rebecca, I’m with a company in DC called Free Tours by Foot and we’re talking to a few people about their World War 2 experience, and your son thought that you might like to talk to me for a few minutes.MM: Well, (unintelligible) information, my husband didn’t talk very much about what happened to him and its true now that I probably forgot, but id be happy to help in any way that I can.RG: Of course, well can you tell me a little bit about where your husband was from and where he served?MM: Well, he was from, you want to  know where he was from? RG: Yeah, was he from Mississippi like you?MM: He was from Quincy, Mississippi.  Q-U-I-N-C-Y.RG: And did he volunteer, was he drafted?MM: He volunteered, very young.RG: Did you know him then, or did you meet him after the war?MM: I knew him after the war in 1945RG: And do you know what branch he served in? MM: He was in, I don’t know if they called it the cavalry but that’s what he started out, riding horses wherever he was stationed at, but anyway he was in the army to start out with. And I don’t know if at that time they called it the Army Air Corps or if it was just the Army, because in 1947 the Army Air Force split and you either had to go into the Army of the Air Force and he chose the Air force at that time.RG: now during World War 2, how old were you during the war? MM: How old was he? RG: I was going to ask how old you were during the warMM: I was 15, well now lets see.  In 41 I was 11 years old.  I was born in 1930.RG: DO you remember what life was like on the home front during the war?MM: Well, it was hard, but it wasn’t compared to what other countries went through.  They rationed.  Do you want to hear what they rationed at that time? RG: Sure yes.MM: We could not get nylon hose, and shoes was hard to find because of the leather they used, you know and they couldn’t kill horses.  I reckon they (unintelligible) shoes, I don’t know why, but anyway, you had to have a coupon to get shoes.  We got it seems like 2 coupons a year for shoes and sugar was rationed.  You had to have coupons to get thee ones, sugar and nylon hose and lets see what else, I forgot.  There were probably other things that were rationed but I can’t remember what it was.RG: And do you remember, were you able to get a lot of news about the war, were there letters or was a lot of it hard to find out about what was going on?MM: We couldn’t, we were poor people, farmers growing up and we didn’t get a newspaper and most of the time we had a radio and sometimes we were tenant farmers so we moved around from house to house and sometimes we wouldn’t have electricity so we didn’t always have a radio, but we did most of the time and that’s the way we got our news.RG: Tomorrow will mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day when the war was won in Europe, do you remember VE Day back in 1945. Can you tell me what you remember about that day or about that time?MM: Well, all that I can say is that is just very happy it was over and thankful that, we were just so happy that man had made it through that we knew that there was a lot that was killed, but we knew that my husband was stuck in these prison for 39 months. Now I didn’t know him at that time, I knew him after he got back home.RG: SO he was held a Japanese prisoner of war, did he ever talk about that?MM: No, not at all.  He didn’t talk about any of that.  You know they didn’t get therapy when they come home like they do now.  You know, if something happens to them they give them therapy, they just always told them just try to forget what had happened to them. And they just, I just hear different things, he was on Corregidor Island when he was captured and then a plane ride with their commander and he was captured near them.  DO you need all this?RG: No, this is wonderful.MM: Anyway, they stayed on that island and I’ve read, I’ve got a book on it, they ate everything, all the leaves off the trees and they ate all horses over there.  They were defending Pearl Harbor but they were on horses to get around on that island and they even had to kill the horses to eat them and they said one day about a mile from there they had ate the leaves off the trees, worms, every insect that they could find, any insects.  It was bad.RG: And you said he was held for 39 months.MM: uh huh. When he was liberated he weighed 105 pounds, he was 5 foot 10, probably he was mainly skin and bones.  Now the Japanese came in there and got him or got him captured and I don’t think they carried him by boat. How they got him to Formosa and I think they have changed the name of Formosa, now its something else.  Anyway, he just about starved to death.  But he didn’t hold it against them, the Japanese, because he said  they were starving to death too.  So, just something they had to go through withRG: What a kind person to be able to not hold it against someone like that, that’s really lovelyMM: Yeah, you have to forgive people and he thinks a lot of the Japanese people. He said they fought them, but they were just like what he did, they taught to do that, they had to kill and were taught to kill Americans and American were taught to kill them and they couldn’t blame the ones that was fighting. But he just didn’t talk about it, he just tried bury all that, what we got out of him, you usually had to pick it out of him, ask him questions.RG: I know that many of the men from World War 2 they didn’t want to talk about their experiences, which is why I appreciate you sharing what you know and what you remember.MM: Well, he just tried to keep it all to himself and it was the wrong thing to do.RG: We are doing this project to try to create some material for students and teachers this year, since this year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the war and many of the commemorations aren’t going to take place because of the virus so is there anything you would want young people today to know about the war, to know about the men who served, or about what it was like in the country?MM: Well, it… I really don’t know how to put it into words, you just, every week you would hear of one of your neighbors children getting killed, their son and some of them would be in the navy and some in the army, some of them would go down on a ship and some just fighting and it was so sad, you know, for this to happen and all of us too we would get word that some of our neighbors son would get killed and we had a Christian teacher at that time and she would always have us stand and have prayer and it was, it was hard to know that those people that had given their lives.RG: Absolutely.  Well I’m so appreciative Miss Mona of your time, and of you speaking with me today.  I talked with your son yesterday and I know that your husband has passed on, and I’m sorry to hear that and it sounds to me like he was a real hero, so I really appreciate you talking today.MM: Well, I’m sorry I can’t give you… I forget things, some of its my age and some of it is just my head RG: Everything you shared with me is wonderful information and I think going to be very valuable to young people who maybe don’t have anybody in their family from this generation any more to talk to, so I really appreciate it.MM: Well, I appreciate you for doing this. -----THIRD INTERVIEW WITH WALDO BECK----WB: Hello?RG: Hi is this Mr. Beck? Hi this is Rebecca Grawl I’m with Free Tours by Foot, I wanted to talk to you about World War 2.WB: Yeah Donna told me you did. You know its interesting, she said you wanted to know about the end of the war, and I don’t know much about the end of the war in Europe, so I will tell you what I do know, whatever your questions are, but I was sitting out at El Centro, California waiting for orders to go to the South Pacific, and so we were more interested in the end of the Japanese conflict than the European conflict, although we were very excited when it happened, but we were not a part of the celebration, if that makes sense.RG: well that’s fine, I would love to hear about what the experience was like for you during the war.WB: You’d like to hear about what now?RG: Well, I’d like to hear about what your experience was likeWB: Oh, well, it was not exactly as I intended it, you know, I graduated from Corpus Christi in 44 and I thought I was going to ask for torpedo bombers and I don’t know what else, but instead of what I asked for, I got instructor duty so I spent the next year as a flight instructor at Bunker Hill, Indiana, and when I finished that they said: well you’ve forgotten everything you knew about operational aircraft so they sent me back to Pensacola and that’s when they put me in twin engines which was transports, mostly, AB wise and things like that so I ended  in a transport squadron in El Centro that had orders to go overseas to the Pacific when they dropped the bomb on Tokyo and so that put everything on hold and so we just sat there for a couple of months before they finally gave us orders to go home.  Which was interesting, but one of the interesting things that, when I was at Bunker Hill, the British did not have air superiority over the British Isles and so as a result they couldn’t train the young men to (unintelligible) and so what happened, they sent em over to us and so we had British cadets over at Bunker Hill and what we did is teach em to fly …. And then we sent em back to England and but put them in spit bus to go fight the Germans, and our bombers that were going over Germany.  I had several good friends that were flying B24s and B29s over Germany, bombing. And it was a long drawn out experience for all of us and all of us were hoping and praying that the thing would get over before we got wiped out, you know.  Another interesting thing that has nothing to do with me but we lived in Fredericksburg and I was at Hampton Sydney and I spent 2 years and then the draft was breathing down my throat and so I left and went to Washington and signed up for the navy flight training program.  But AP Hill which was a mammoth training ground in almost a whole county in Virginia right near Fredericksburg and the 29th division was maneuvering at AP Hill and I think I was at Hampton Sidney when it happened but mom and dad lived on College Avenue and they said that they released the entire division for a weekend R and R and Fredericksburg got completely wiped out of food, every restaurant was cleaned out, there was nothing to eat in the whole town and so my dad, who was with the chamber of commerce at the time, as well he’d had a bakery, but he and the mayor went down and talked to the commanding general and he promised him he would only let a battalion at a time come to Fredericksburg or get out on leave but that it was the whole town was just covered with soldiers.  (unintelligible) But anyway, I don’t know a lot about, we were all as happy as we could possibly be, but we were not a part of the celebration because we were all concerned with the Pacific war which if I remember correctly, was about six months later.RG: Yes sir, later that summer. WB: yeah anyway, it’s a lot of interesting memories, I tell ya.  I don’t know whether there is anything I could tell you that would be different or interesting.RG: Well, what you’ve told me already has been interesting, I actually went to college at Randolph Macon Women’s CollegeWB: So did my wife.RG: I know Hampton Sidney very wellWB: anyway, my wife, you may know her. My first wife went to Mary Washington and she died, we were married 40 years and then I married Joanne and she had gone to Randolph Macon in Lynchburg and ended up going University (unclear) Medical College and getting her PhD in microbiology, I think.  Anyway, I’m trying to think what year she was there, it would have been in the late 60s that she was at Randolph Macon.RG:  I graduated in 2007.WB: 2007, oh so you’re a kid, that’s interesting.  Well she’s also Randolph Macon, and some of her class are trying to get together this summer, I don’t know if it will happen.  Course, Hampton Sidney we met Randolph Macon girls all the time.RG: that was still the case when I was there, we went to Hampton Sidney for formals and mixers.WB: Yeah it was fun.  After the war I couldn’t go back to Hampton Sidney, cuz I was married and I had a kid, so back to college was out of the questions, so I never did graduate.  There are 3 things in my life that I think made an impact and one is the boy scouts and the second is Hampton Sidney and the third is the Marine Corps. Those are the 3 things that have reacted and helped me all my life.RG: Could you tell me a little bit about what it was like when you were in college but before you joined up, was there already rationing of food, was all the talk on campus about the war?WB: Rationing was a beginning, the heavy rationing was beginning about the time I left to go into the service which was…. 1941, maybe.  And rationing was already, my wife worked at the ration board and they issued little books of tickets, butter was rationed you could get a pound of butter about every couple weeks.  All meats were rationed and cigarettes were rationed, course nobody worries about that today, back then it was a pretty serious thing.  Gasoline was rationed, you couldn’t get but 5 gallons a week of gas and so there were just lots of things that were just rationed.  You had to have a little book, you got a coupon in the book you had to give the merchants the coupons in exchange for whatever you wanted.  See I was at Bunker Hill, Indiana and my wife’s aunt was a Lucky Strikes smoker, a heavy smoker and so she would send me a tinker toy, you know one of those little round tinker toy boxes full of cookies and it was just the perfect size for a carton of cigarettes and I would go to the exchange and buy cigarettes for something like a dollar twenty a carton, I think a pack is about triple that amount now.  I’d buy the cigarettes and stick them in the tinker toy box and send them back to her and so we had a good exchange going there for quite a while, I got cookies and she got cigarettes, but they were rationed and we didn’t have any problems at all getting stuff like that at the commissary and in the navy exchange, but everybody else was having a problem. RG: Did you have any flying experience before you joined up with the flight training?WB: No, no I didn’t.  As a matter of fact, I was concerned about my ability because I as a youngster, I had a tendency to get car sick and I was afraid that if I got started, but it was an option that I tackled you know, I didn’t want to be drafted and the opportunity came for me to join the navy air training program so I found out years later that as long as I was a pilot, if I was a passenger I still had a tendency to get a little woozy but as long as I was a pilot, I was ok so it was an interesting thing.  But anyway, you know in 1944 I was 14 years old and the world jamboree was in Bloomenthal, Holland for boy scouts, and I don’t know why they did but my mother and father worked to let me go and of course, there were no flights across the Atlantic then, there were only boats and so I went to New York on the train, our whole troop which was 22 boys from Richmond and Fredericksburg and we went to New York caught the Berengaria which was a five and a half day trip. To England and we spent the night in England, and the next day we took a little boat over to Holland where the jamboree was. Anyway and when we went after the jamboree we went into Germany and at that time you could see the effet of the German preparation because little kids, 14 and 15 years old were marching in the street and so it was inevitable, we knew what was going on.  That was in 1937.  But anyway it was an unbelievable trip for a 14, well all of the kids were 14, 15 years old in our troop.  But we had a great time, it was a wonderful experience. But that was before…RG: I’m sorry, I was just going to ask if you stayed in the service after the war in the pacific had ended?WB: Well, you know I got out of the Marine Corps after World War 2 and came home and about, 5, 6 years later, I got a registered letter.  The Marine Corps doesn’t discharge you, they release you from active duty, but no I did have to go back and the same squadron and everything.RG: So a lot of the men you went back with, same squadron, they had also served in World War 2 or been active in World War 2?WB: Yes. And I spent three more years and then I joined the reserve unit when I got home after that and so I got 26 years, which allowed me to get a little bit of retirement income from the Marine Corps, which is great.RG: Have you had a chance to come to DC and see the Marine Corps Memorial?WB: I’ve seen the one at QuanticoRG: Oh excellent.WB: yeah its Quantico, its just off US 95, I haven’t been to Washington for a long time.RG: Well, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me, Mr. Beck, is there anything else you would want to share, we are hoping to share this with students, young people so they can maybe understand World War 2 a little better, so is there anything else you’d like to share with me?WB: You know, I think the thing that young people should realize that its just everything isn’t easy and you know everything is not a piece of cake.

THE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS IS NOW LOCATED AT 161 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, 4TH FLOOR.All of our podcasts live at lifeaid.buzzsprout.com.Follow us @berkleehealthandwellness for wellness-related events, info, updates, and giveaways!Career/Academic Wellness Check-In Questions:Do I feel optimistic about my academic program?Do I feel optimistic about my career goals?Do I seek out experiences that are related to/have relevance to my academic and professional goals?Am I able to balance my time and energy between my academic and professional development and other things I enjoy?Do I feel my academic program and my career goals align with my passion as a creative artist?The Writing Assignment that Changes Lives via NPRThe Career Center is located at 921 Boylston Street, 1st Floor.Make an appointment with a Career Advisor here.Read more about Internships.Find ways to connect with alumni.Explore Career Communities. Academic Advising is located at 939 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor, accessible via the 3rd Floor of 921. Schedule an appointment with your Academic Advisor here.Search here for your Berklee Major Grid.Berklee Study AbroadAlternative Spring Break: Industry Tours and TripsGet a side gig at Berklee through Student Employment.Written, produced, edited, and music by Elizabeth ZinnRecorded and engineered by Tony BrownInterviews conducted with Kristin Snyder, Kathryn Hencir, and Haley Clay

Beauty is one of the things that makes life lovable. When you’re surrounded by something beautiful like art, you tend to appreciate life more. It brings healing and a sense of euphoria. Our guest today is Judy Romatelli, an artist who creates works in glass. She is the owner and founder of Periwinkle Art & Glassworks, a place where you can learn and make art with others who are passionate about discovering new things. In this episode, she shares how she turned her stained glass hobby into a platform that teaches both children and adults how to work and enjoy creating art, especially glass. Judy also talks about how art helps in elevating one’s quality of life and how art is helping her love her life more!   Episode Highlights The reason why Judy started Periwinkle Art & Glassworks How art is a tool to improve people’s life Combining science into the arts Expressing your feelings through colors Appreciating every moment and opportunity that comes up on your way   Where to reach Lisa Medora: Judy Romatelli Periwinkle Art & Glassworks  586 Massachusetts Avenue, Acton, MA, 01720, United States 508.341.4740 | judy@periwinkleglassworks.com   Want to hear more about how you can live a life you love? We would like to invite you to subscribe to the podcast on your preferred podcast platforms to get updated on the latest episodes. Please don't forget to share it with a friend so you can help them live a life they love too! Let us know what part you love the most by leaving a review and remember that life is a precious gift! + Apple Podcasts + Google Podcasts + Spotify + CastBox © Community Chiropractic of Acton | 282 Central St Acton, MA

Did you know that our bodies were designed to heal by itself? We just don’t know how to engage with our healing capacity when we are sick and in pain. Our guest for today is Angela Noelle Martin, a licensed Acupuncturist, Wellness coach, and a clinic owner.  In this episode, she’s going to share how acupuncture helps in treating physical pain. She also talks about how her back pain led her to choose the path of becoming an acupuncturist and how she is currently helping others in their health problems!   Episode Highlights What compelled Angela to become an acupuncturist How Angela overcome her fears with needles The key to creating a life you love Ways in which Angela is helping people with their health problems How Angela is loving her life   Where to reach Angela Noelle Martin: Angela Noelle Coaching and Acupuncture 525 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 5, Acton, MA 01720 Phone:  617.824.0910 Email:  angela@acupuncturebostonma.com Know more about Angela and her work here. You can also check patient testimonials here! Want to hear more about how you can live a life you love? We would like to invite you to subscribe to the podcast on your preferred podcast platforms to get updated on the latest episodes. Please don't forget to share it with a friend so you can help them live a life they love too! Let us know what part you love the most by leaving a review and remember that life is a precious gift! + Apple Podcasts + Spotify + CastBox © Community Chiropractic of Acton | 282 Central St Acton, MA

Join us today as we talk about yoga with Julie McKay! Julie is a passionate yoga instructor, with a desire to help her students live mindfully and live a life they love through mind-body discipline. She grew up on the coast of Maine and now lives happily with her husband and children in Stow. Originally a dancer, she taught dance to children for 20 years until she fell in love with yoga. In this episode, Julie shares how she fell in love with yoga, how she became a yoga instructor, and yoga lessons from Revolution Community Yoga. She will also give tips on ways to love your life! This conversation with Julie reminds us to be more resourceful, especially when times are tough and you’re trying to figure things out. At the end of this episode, Julie encourages you and me to try something new that you can lean on when everything gets rough, and who knows, maybe you like yoga too like her!   Episode Highlights How Julie started doing yoga and how she became a yoga instructor The Revolution Community Yoga The best part of Julie’s job Julie’s tips on how to love your life every single day Overcoming struggles Trying something new   Where to Find Julie McKay Revolution Community Yoga www.yogaacton.com 537 Massachusetts Avenue, Acton, MA 01720 978.274.5596 www.facebook.com/juliemckayyoga   Resources mentioned in this episode: Revolution Community Yoga   Want to hear more about how you can live a life you love? We would like to invite you to subscribe to the podcast on your preferred podcast platforms to get updated on the latest episodes. Please don't forget to share it with a friend so you can help them live a life they love too! Let us know what part you love the most by leaving a review and remember that life is a precious gift! + Apple Podcasts + CastBox © Community Chiropractic of Acton | 282 Central St Acton, MA

Consuelo Poland is creating a commotion in the Indianapolis creative scene with the Ruckus Makerspace. Her artistic background began when she used drawings to communicate with her new family after being adopted from Guatemala. Her natural talent led her to the Kendall College of Art and Design, where she earned a BFA and continued her education to obtain a welder's license. She arrived in Indianapolis as the Ruckus Makerspace project was beginning and was recruited to lead the organization. Three years later and Ruckus has outgrown its creative capacity and space, so it's opening a new location just off of Massachusetts Avenue. To fulfill her passion for communicating between the White and Latino communities, Consuelo also leads the Latinas Welding Guild and speaks on behalf of her community. Grab your welding mask and light up your torch as we learn about the support available for creatives in Indianapolis, how to accurately value your work as an artist, and how the Ruckus Makerspace has the resources for your next big idea. Drink deep of the culture that surrounds you this week with Consuelo Poland of Ruckus Makerspace. Visit the Ruckus Makerspace website here!  Review the episode on iTunes, Twitter, and Facebook! Join our community on Patreon! What We Tasted...Hotel Tango Whiskey Check out our sponsors for this episode: Hotel Tango Artisan Distillery - hoteltangowhiskey.com  Facebook - @hoteltangowhiskey Instagram - @hoteltangodistillery Twitter - @hoteltangoindy LinkedIn YouTube 2nd St Creative - A small shop you can trust with your big ideas.http://2ndcreative.comhttps://www.instagram.com/2ndstcreative/ https://twitter.com/2NDcreative https://www.facebook.com/secondstreetcreative Drink Culture Website: https://www.drnkcltr.com Drink Culture Newsletter: https://www.drnkcltr.com/newsletter/ Drink Culture Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/drnkcltr Drink Culture Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drinkculturepodcast/ Drink Culture Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drinkculturepodcast Drink Culture YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrw7Fqfw4ZORgZMPJKio-A

Global Tennessee talked with Nashville native Sam Denney and the road he took from Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University to the fast-paced environment of the Brookings Institution, a world-renowned public policy think tank in Washington, DC. We discussed his work in Germany at the Budestag (Parliament) and scholarship at the Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. Learn about the path from Music City to Massachusetts Avenue and the inside workings of one of the premier think tanks that shapes important policy in the nation's capital. Also hear Sam's take on hot topics around the world, especially European Union politics, and life in Washington.

Cambridge City Councillors Alanna Mallon and Sumbul Siddiqui keep us up to date on all things Cambridge: single use plastic ban, Massachusetts Avenue bike lanes, Massachusetts seal and flag, Affordable Housing Finance 101 workshop, Baby U graduation, and the Annual May Community Bike Ride. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.

The Massachusetts Avenue bridge was closed to traffic for a time on Thursday after a fire broke out in a homeless encampment under the bridge on the Boston side of the Charles River, State Police said. Subscribe to WCVB on YouTube now for more: http://bit.ly/1e8lAMZ

We changed up our production schedule to bring you updates on the bus rapid transit (BRT) pilot. On Oct. 9, Arlington launched their BRT pilot running from Lake Street to Alewife Brook Parkway along Massachusetts Avenue. As part of the pilot, five bus shelters along Mass. Ave. were decorated by local designers. Why was public art included in the project? What's the inspiration behind the installations? We talked with the designers and local officials to find out.   Have a question? Fill out the survey and your question might get featured on an upcoming episode: https://bit.ly/2qmMGZN

We changed up our production schedule to bring you updates on the bus rapid transit (BRT) pilot. On Oct. 9, Arlington launched their BRT pilot running from Lake Street to Alewife Brook Parkway along Massachusetts Avenue. How's the pilot doing one week in? Plus, hear from local officials at the kick off of the BRT pilot.   Have a question? Fill out the survey and your question might get featured on an upcoming episode: https://bit.ly/2qmMGZN

We changed up our production schedule to bring you updates on the bus rapid transit (BRT) pilot. Oct. 9, 2018 marked the first day of a month-long BRT pilot running from Lake Street to Alewife Brook Parkway along Massachusetts Avenue. We talked to bus riders about what their commutes are like and what they hope the BRT pilot will do. Plus, we checked in with Director of Planning and Community Development Jenny Raitt to see how the first day went. Have a question? Fill out the survey and your question might get featured on an upcoming episode: https://bit.ly/2qmMGZN

Roman Rojas of Eastsidepunks had an amazing conversation with singer/songwriter Sharin Toribio.  A little about Sharin.  Tampa, Florida native and student vocalist Sharin Toribio began performing at age six, composing at age nine, and earning awards and accolades in her teens. When she was 20, she was diagnosed with stage IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She survived seven months of chemotherapy and clinical trials and today is cancer-free. Shortly after Toribio recovered, she decided to study music full-time and in 2009 she enrolled at Berklee, where she has been a voice principal and where she will graduate this week with a degree in music business/management. Her musical influences come from country music, Latin pop, and gospel music, and she cites several vocalists as models, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Lauryn Hill, Juan Luis Guerra, and Martina McBride. She released an EP, Quiero, in December 2011. Toribio has a song featured on the college’s latest release, Music Production and Engineering Projects 2013, which features 18 tracks recorded by Berklee students at the college recording complex at 136 Massachusetts Avenue. Download more music and read the liner notes from the disc at Bandcamp.

In this episode, Warren Adler talks to his son David and talks about life in Washington D.C. during the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. To raise his family, Adler put his novel writing career on hold and earned his living selling his talent for writing. He got his foot in the door as the PR chief for the Jewish War Veterans of America and then later as an entrepreneur of one of Washington’s premier Advertising and PR agencies, Warren Adler LTD. From his shock at seeing the realities of segregation to protesting against the American Nazi Party at the base of the Washington Monument, Adler’s riveting cautionary tale. Instead of writing novels, he was creating stories in the form of marketing campaigns to sell real estate communities in Washington, Virginia, and Maryland. He even named iconic Washington buildings including the “Watergate” that became the symbol of corruption in Washington and The Foxhall on Massachusetts Avenue. Adler jumped into Washington life by attending the inaugurals of Dwight Eisenhower and describes what the custom of the procession were attendees at the balls grabbed arms and promenaded in front of the presented themselves to the President. He also spoke of how he and his wife sat in the box near the family at the Kennedy inaugural and witnessed the pride of President Kennedy’s father Joe watching his entire clan marking the highlight of his life. As an ad agency entrepreneur, Adler explains how he launched the Georgetown Inn Hotel.  He explained the strategy of creating the highest level of luxury to accommodate the elite community who were planning on protesting development in their neighborhood. The ultra opening included all of Washington society and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. From the Georgetown Inn success, Adler meets Lyndon Johnson’s Fixer Bobby Baker who was entering the hospitality business who was launching the Carousel Motel in Ocean City Maryland and hired Adler to orchestrated the opening event which included a caravan of Washington celebrities and Vice President Johnson. The event worked so well it also turned Baker into a suspicious celebrity, leading to his downfall and prison.

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Today on No Limits, the trend of adaptive reuse in Indianapolis. What are the best ways to not only mix the new with the old, but to repurpose longtime structures into new uses? How do developers and users work to hit the buttons that make projects inclusive instead of restrictive? Recently the Riley Area Development Corporation reopened one of Indy's oldest industrial buildings to micromanufacturing, called North Mass. Our guests will be RADC Executive Director Eric Strickland and Amy Minnick Peterson, the owner of the home decor shop Decorate on Massachusetts Avenue.

Today I am sharing my conversation with three inspiring women from the Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP). Rebekah Williams is the MAP Youth Education Director, while Ingabire and Mariama are two teenagers who work with Rebekah at MAP. This interview was a lot of fun to be a part of, and we discuss many important topics such as youth engagement in climate justice, school lunches that accommodate student dietary needs, and how agriculture must be a part of the climate conversation.

"The firecrackers go all over the place. . .one of those photographers that just drove around, his name was Bill Beall, a nice guy, he took a picture when I was talking to the child, the child was with his mother. His father was in the military and was out of the country." ~Maurice Cullinane Andy Ockershausen: We are delighted, exceptionally delighted, in Our Town to have a special guest that I've known for more years than I hate to admit but he's a special man, Maurice Cullinane, former Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department, who is a native Washingtonian. Maurice Cullinane - Retired, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Andy Ockershausen: Maurice Cullinane was a Navy veteran, got out of the Navy in 1951 and became a cop or a policeman as we call them now but when he grew up they were cops and they were great and things were different but they really weren't, Cully.Your years in the force saw a lot of changes, a lot of things happen. They were tumultuous in the seventies and I recall people saying this is great, we've settled all the problems now and look what we're facing. 1977 Hanafi Siege Andy Ockershausen: Cully was the first police chief to face the so-called terrorists, Hanafi Muslims, and I don't know what year was that Cully. 77? Maurice Cullinane: 1977. Andy Ockershausen: And they were doing serious, serious threat to our city. Maurice Cullinane: Actually, they came into the B'nai B’rith at ten-thirty in the morning seven gunmen they took a hundred and twenty some hostages there. Andy Ockershausen: At the B’nai B’rith? Maurice Cullinane: At the B’nai B’rith and I went up and was trying to talk to them, find out what that was their complaint and we were just yelling up and down the steps and I got notified several hours later that they took over the Islamic center up on Massachusetts Avenue. There was three gunmen in there and so we went back and we had a command center setup because we were having so many demonstrations and I tried to talk to them and then they took over the district building and that's where shots were fired. A young reporter, his name was Maurice Williams, was killed and… Andy Ockershausen: Was he the only fatality? Maurice Cullinane: He was the only fatality during the whole time but the Marion, who, Marion Barry, who was later then called the mayor for life, he was shot, he was on the council at the time, and he was shot and the bullet hit him in a place that would have killed him but the bullet bounced off of the walls before it hit him and it was spent (Note: It is reported on Wikipedia that "The gunmen also shot D.C. Protective Service Division police officer Mack Cantrell, who died a few days later in the hospital of a heart attack.") A: And he was not a target then it was an accident almost? M: They were just shooting at random it was something, just an unusual situation. Back in 1973 the black Muslims had been attacked up on 16th street and there was a fellow, his name was Hamaas. This wasn't actually his name, he could have changed it legally I don't know, but his name was McGee. He was 54 years old and he had been in the Army and he got discharged for mental instability and he was with the black Muslims. The black Muslims just appeal to a very small number of blacks because they were advocating . . . A: very militant group M: they were extremely militant and he was not so he dropped out of black Muslims to be in just an orthodox Muslim but he did it with the letter that irritated the black Muslims and they came in 1973 to a house that was owned by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and they killed five of his [Hasaam's] children, one of whom was just months old, 2 to 3 months old, and they killed a total of seven people and so the homicide squad came and locked them up. They came from a Mosque up in Philadelphia but it was really a cover for a bunch of criminals and they locked them up and they convicted them and all them went to jail fo...

The Metropolitan WInd Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley, Conductor and Music Director This is a podcast preview of our next concert, which will be on Sunday, May 5 2013 at 2:00 pm in Lexington MA, in Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue. The Music Director will give a pre-concert talk at 1:30, in which the Matthew LaRocca, the composer of the piece to receive its world premiere, will join him. The concert will feature the brand new work Arctic Voices, by LaRocca; an appearance by 12-year-old trumpet wunderkind Geoffrey Gallante (performing a work written by Buckley); and works by Ticheli, Grainger, Gordon Jacob, film composer Rossano Galante, and Robert Sheldon. This podcast includes brief interesting discussion about and excerpts from the pieces on the program, all narrated by Buckley. Enjoy!

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley Conductor and Music Director This concert by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will take place on Sunday, March 3, 2013 in Lexington MA, in Carey Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, at 2:00 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk by the Music Director at 1:30. The concert will feature Vittorio Giannini's famed Symphony No. 3 for concert band, one of the great wind works of the 20th century. Additional works will include: Shocker's beautiful Green Places for solo flute; Boysen's rousing (and very Irish!) Kirkpatrick Fanfare; Ive's hilarious Country Band March; Persichetti's wind classic, Masquerade; and Frank Ticheli's energetic and exciting Vesuvius. The podcast includes brief interesting discussion of and excerpts from each piece. We hope it will encourage you to come to our concert if you live near enough!

The red brick of old Georgetown, the streetcar lines of Tenleytown and the eclectic and stately homes of Cleveland Park -- the neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park -- were the setting for the remarkable history of the United States capital. Amid the gardens of their Friendship Estate, the McLean family held lavish parties until they were laid low by the rumored curse of the Hope Diamond, and it was the fashionable residences of Woodley Park that attracted the senators and Cabinet members of the 1920s and 1930s. From the history of Georgetown College and American University to stories of runaway slaves seeking protection at Fort Reno, historian Mark N. Ozer charts the evolution of the storied neighborhoods of the nation's capital in "Northwest Washington, D.C.: Tales from West of the Park" (The History Press, 2011). Mark N. Ozer is a former professor of neurology at the Georgetown University Medical School and is currently a study group leader at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University. There he has lectured extensively on the history of most of the great cities of the world. He has translated this interest in a series of books on Washington. The first, "Washington, DC: Politics and Place," was followed by "Massachusetts Avenue in the Gilded Age," published in 2010. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5572.

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley Conductor and Music Director This concert by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will take place on Sunday, March 4, 2012 in Lexington MA, in Carey Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, at 2:00 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk by the Music Director at 1:30. The program will be based on a concert the MWS will perform at the annual convention of the Association of Concert Bands (ACB) in April, 2012. The program will include three major works: Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy; Frank Tichelli's Blue Shades; and Mari van Gils' transcription of Gershwin's An American in Paris. Also included in the program will be: James Kessler's Hudson River Rhapsody for solo oboe and wind band, Elana Lorance, soloist; Keith Wilson's transcription of Hindemith's March from "Symphonic Metamorphosis"; Massenet's Castillane, from Ballet Music from "Le Cid"; and Eric Whitaker's October. The podcast includes brief interesting discussion of and excerpts from each piece, plus at least one interesting extra you definitely won't anticipate and almost certainly will not have heard before!

Nelson Urban Acres Nelson Urban Acres is bringing fresh produce closer to home. They are a multi-plot urban farm in Nelson, British Columbia that launched into operation in 2009 based on the SPIN farming model. Co-founders Paul Hoepfner-Homme and Christoph Martens are working backyard gardens within the city using low-impact, organic farming techniques to grow fresh produce. This year they have been growing a variety of vegetables throughout the season for Nelson's community markets. Deconstructing Dinner checks in with Paul to learn of the challenges and opportunities learned from trying to make living as an urban farmer. Massachusetts Avenue Project The Massachusetts Avenue Project hosts the Growing Green Program, a youth development and urban agriculture program about increasing healthy food access and revitalizing the Buffalo community through urban farming, healthy nutrition, environmental stewardship and social enterprise. In addition to its urban farm, Growing Green also hosts a youth enterprise, a farm to school initiative, a mobile market and runs various workshops related to urban agriculture. Guests/Voices Paul Hoepfner-Homme - urban farmer, Nelson Urban Acres (Nelson, BC) - Paul is 28 years old and was fortunate to grow up in a gardener's oasis uncharacteristic of the norm in suburban Oakville, Ontario. His mother, a passionate gardener, transformed the lawns into a thriving landscape consisting of native plants and shrubs, vegetables and berries. Being raised in this environment gave Paul an early appreciation for what grows out of the ground. During university he developed a passion for sustainability when he read the novel Ishmael, and upon completing his computer science degree he made it his mission to learn how to live sustainably. This passion led him to enroll in a 7-month internship at Everdale, an organic farm in Ontario, where he gained valuable skills and knowledge in operating an organic vegetable farm. In 2008 he moved to the Kootenay region of British Columbia and took a Permaculture Design course in Winlaw where he gained a deeper understanding of growing food in relationship with ecosystems. Diane Picard - executive director, Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) (Buffalo, NY) - Diane has been with MAP since 1997. She was instrumental in opening the Neighborhood Outreach Center in 1998 and she currently directs Growing Green. She received a Masters of Social Work from Boston University, specializing in Program Planning and Community Organizing. Her undergraduate degree in International Agriculture and Development from Cornell University prepared her to teach agriculture and art at a rural secondary school in Botswana, where she served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1986-1988. Diane is devoted to grassroots community-building as a means of making positive change.